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U. announces new supercomputer to aid plasma physics and fusion research ON CAMPUS

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Traverse was financed by the University, and it will be used both by graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty at the versity, said that his group of researchers now uses a new, more efficient mathematical construction, called a deep neural network, which uses machine learning to compute the classical mechanics forces in any number of arrangements that share the same statistical probability. Researchers derive the interaction potentials from density functional theory, which considers the quantum mechanics of the atoms in their ground states. “Having access to that kind of machine at Princeton will allow us to do this work on our code and experiment with the capabilities offered by this architecture,” Car said.

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Volunteer firefighter program celebrates 10 year anniversary By Sruti Chitluri Contributor

About a mile away from the University, nestled next to Dependable Cleaners and Tiger Garage, lies the fire station. The building has a brick exterior, interrupted by three large garage doors and the words “Princeton Fire Department” sprawled across its outside. The fire department and the University are uniquely connected through the volunteer firefighter program, which recently celebrated its 10-year anniversary. Director of the Department of Emergency and Safety Services for Princeton Bob Gregory was the University’s first fire marshal and was involved in the creation of the program, also known as the Princeton Fire Department Associate Member Program. According to Deputy University Spokesperson Michael Hotchkiss, last year, volunteers responded to 185 fire calls. When asked to describe the typical qualities of a vol-

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unteer firefighter, Gregory paused before saying, “It’s in people’s genes. They get the fire bug.” Some newer volunteers go to probationary training before becoming full-fledged volunteers, while others join the force with more experience. However, all volunteers share some common characteristics. “They are service-oriented. They like serving the community and helping people,” Gregory said. While volunteers can be full-time students, most are University employees who have a scheduled duty day. The interlocking of the University with the fire department is an important factor in the flourishing of the program. Gregory added that the fire department is grateful for the support of the University. “The University and town like to work together for the betterment of the community. There’s great appreciation on both sides,” he said. Such sentiments of unity See FIREFIGHTERS page 2

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Traverse has a similar architectural structure to Summit, the most powerful supercomputer in the world, housed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Traverse is a 1.4-petaflop system, making it capable of 1.4 million billion floating-point calculations per second. It is on the TOP500 list, a ranking of the 500 most powerful supercomputers based on standard tests. Panagiotopoulos and Car noted that Traverse will soon be overtaken by more powerful supercomputers. Car predicted that exascale systems, which would be capable of a billion billion calculations per second and function 1,000 times faster than petascale ones, will

be built in the next few years. He noted that PPPL will likely be able to use technology developed at Oak Ridge. What sets Traverse apart from the previous HPCRC clusters is its architecture — described by Car as “a hybrid architecture that consists of CPU [central processing unit] and GPUs [graphics processing units].” The clusters were built by IBM, and the GPUs were supplied by Nvidia, which sells GPUs for many personal computers and gaming systems. Car said the first exascale supercomputers will share a similar architecture to Traverse, meaning that the work required to adapt the researchers’ current algorithms to

Traverse will remain useful. Traverse will help PPPL model the movement of plasma in its tokamak NSTX-U, the largest of its kind in the world, to better understand how to control the plasma on a millisecond timescale. PPPL was founded in 1951 and has been working, among other projects, to create a viable fusion reactor potentially capable of generating virtually unlimited energy. Traverse was financed by the University, and it will be used by graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty at the University, as well as PPPL, which is managed by the Department of Energy.

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

Sallie Kim ’86 threatens Betsy DeVos with jail in student loan debt case By Marissa Michaels Staff Writer

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is in trouble with University alum Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim ’86 of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. On Monday, DeVos visited Judge Kim’s court over a lawsuit against the Department of Education’s continued collection of student loan debt from students who were defrauded by Corinthian Colleges. Judge Kim lifted the previous stay on the lawsuit, meaning that hearings in the next few weeks will determine if DeVos will face sanctions. “I’m not sure if this is contempt or sanctions. I’m not sending anyone to jail yet, but it’s good to know I have that ability,“ Kim said, according to The Washington Post. “I’m most concerned with helping the people who were harmed by this — this problem that the government created.” In a spring 2018 ruling, Judge Kim issued an injunction forbidding the Department of Education to continue collecting student loan debts from 16,000 former students of Corinthian Colleges.

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The for-profit college system closed in April 2015 after being caught practicing fraud and predatory lending. The lawsuit argues that the Department of Education’s actions in continuing to collect payment violate a form of federal loan forgiveness known as “borrow

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defense to repayment.” The rule means that “Borrowers may be eligible for forgiveness of the federal student loans used to attend a school if that school misled them or engaged in other misconduct in violation of certain laws,” according to the Department of Education’s website. See DEVOS page 1

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The University’s High-Performance Computing Research Center (HPCRC) has acquired a new supercomputer, named Traverse, which will aid research at the University’s Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), as well as other University programs. The addition joins six other computing clusters: Tiger, Dell, and Perseus, which are the largest and reserved primarily for faculty, as well as Nobel, Adroit, and Tigressdata, which are available to students. All the clusters are housed in a building on the Forrestal campus, about three miles from the main campus. Supercomputers require high amounts of energy, and HPCRC typically uses 1.8 megawatts of electricity and is equipped with backup generators. The clusters can also overheat, which requires ventilating them with cooled air. The facility is efficient enough to have earned a LEED Gold rating. Thanos Panagiotopoulos, the chair of the chemical and biological engineering department, said that Traverse will allow Princeton’s Chemistry in Solution and at Interfaces (CSI) lab to model the interactions of a few hundred molecules at a time. “We do problems involving very large-scale calculations that connect quantum mechanics with … the collective properties of water and aqueous solutions,” Panagiotopoulos said. The simulations usually last only on the order of a few picoseconds but can help CSI understand the atomistic dynamics of various materials. Roberto Car, director of CSI and the Ralph W. *31 Dornte Professor in Chemistry at the Uni-

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and gratitude are echoed by town mayor Liz Lempert. “The community is extremely grateful to the University for stepping up in this way and investing in the program,” Lempert said. “It’s a program that the University is rightfully proud of and the municipality is as well. I hope it continues to grow and flourish in the coming years.” In an email to The Daily Princetonian, Hotchkiss expressed the University’s appreciation of its employees who

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participate in the program. “Thanks to these volunteers, both campus and town benefit from improved emergency response times during the work day and an additional, fully staffed fire apparatus responding to calls,” Hotchkiss wrote. In the 10 years of the program, the number of volunteers has grown and the program itself has evolved. Recently, the department has decided to transition into employing a combination of paid and volunteer firefighters. According to Lempert, the plan is to bring on six full-time, paid employees. The hiring process is in progress.

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............. The rule, which was created in the mid-90s and has been adjusted multiple times since, has not been used often, but applied to the closing of Corinthian Colleges. Harvard’s Project on Predatory Lending reports that since the initial injunction was issued in 2018, the Department of Education has requested incorrect loan payments from about 16,000 students, 3,289 students had given the government unnecessary payments because of the solicitation, over 1,000 students paid debts to the department involuntarily through grazed wages and tax refunds, and others had worsened credit scores because of the situation. Forbes reported the astonishment of Judge Kim at the behavior of the Department of Education. “At best it is gross negligence; at worst it’s an intentional flouting of my order,” Kim said. Judge Kim was also frustrated by how relaxed the

department was in executing her initial orders. A couple of emails were sent to debt collection companies to halt the loan collection, but The Washington Post reports that no clear instructions were given, leading to the wrongful payment of thousands of students. Not only did the department violate the injunction, but Kim found that they also violated privacy law. In 2017, when dealing with Corinthian Colleges’s closings, the Education Department ignored the “borrow defense to repayment” rule and decided what percentage of an individual’s student loans to forgive by comparing the income of Corinthian students to those from other vocational schools. Judge Kim ruled that the Department of Education’s use of Social Security information in the process violated privacy laws. Kim has given both sides two weeks to compile arguments on sanctions. DeVos and the Department of Education’s lawyers argue that sanctions are unjust because the department was acting in “good faith.”

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No. 8 field hockey clobbers Columbia 8–1 By Molly Milligan

Senior Sports Writer

Playing against the Brown Bears (1–6–2 overall, 0–1–1 Ivy League) in Providence, R.I. this Saturday, men’s soccer (6–3–1, 0–1–1) faced 110 minutes of adversity. The Tigers conceded a 13th-minute goal to the lower-ranked Bears, earned four yellow cards in the span of 18 minutes, lost two starters — one to a red card, the other to injury — and suffered through an excruciating double overtime. Even senior forward Danny Hampton’s 87th-minute goal was not enough to energize the Tigers: the game ended in a 1–1 draw. Princeton junior forward Kevin O’Toole took the first shot of the game, at 11 minutes in. Less than three minutes later, the play took a turn for the worse, with Brown’s Jackson Goebel converting a long cross into the box and scoring the first goal of the game, assisted by Austin Lind. With the Bears ahead by one, Princeton began to fight back. The 25th minute saw three shots in eight seconds by first-year forwards Daniel Diaz Bonilla and Walker Gillespie and junior midfielder Frankie DeRosa, but Brown’s

defense deftly saved them all. By halftime, Princeton was outshooting Brown 8–4. The second half opened with another string of challenges for the Tigers. A red card in the 54th minute saw the departure of sophomore forward Truman Gelnovatch, shortly followed by the substitution, due to an injury, of first-year defender Gen Lucas for sophomore defender Alex Charles. The blow seemed to provide Princeton’s defense with some strength; in its wake, senior goalie Jacob Schachner made two exceptional saves that kept the possibility of equalizing well within reach. Sophomore midfielder Ryan Clare sent Brown keeper James Swomley leaping to make a save in the 75th minute. This tussle came to a head in the 86th minute, when Hampton’s free kick — and first goal of the season — brought the score to 1–1. Princeton dominated in overtime, outshooting the Bears 10–3. Diaz Bonilla’s 90th minute near-miss and O’Toole’s 102nd-minute shot, which bounced off the frame, were among several attempts by the Tigers to get ahead. But at the end of overtime, the score remained the same.

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Julianna Tornetta maneuvers past a Columbia defender.

All in all, Princeton outshot Brown 28–12 over two regular halves and two overtime periods. The Bears out-fouled the Tigers 21–17; this generated four yellow cards and one red card. The draw leaves the Tigers second from the bottom on the Ivy League standings. Head coach Jim Barlow ’91 believes the team fought val-

iantly. “We controlled most of the second half, wound up with a number of good scoring chances, and limited [Brown] to only a few. I was really proud of the effort and thought we deserved another goal.” They will be looking to improve upon their offensive. In the words of Barlow, “For all of our possession lately, we

need to start scoring more.” Princeton returned home to face Lehigh (8–3–1, 4–0–1) yesterday and will play Columbia (3–4–3, 1–0–1) on Oct. 19. Last time the Tigers met the Lions, Princeton walked away with a 2–1 win. A repeat performance could boost Princeton’s flailing Ivy League performance.

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Men’s soccer falls short in doubleovertime, draws 1–1 with Brown By Sreesha Ghosh Contributor

lespie and junior midfielder Frankie DeRosa, but Brown’s defense deftly saved them all. By halftime, Princeton was outshooting Brown 8–4. The second half opened with another string of challenges for the Tigers. A red card in the 54th minute saw the departure of sophomore forward Truman Gelnovatch, shortly followed by the substitution, due to an injury, of first-year defender Gen Lucas for sophomore defender Alex Charles. The blow seemed to provide Princeton’s defense with some strength; in its wake, senior goalie Jacob Schachner made two exceptional saves that kept the possibility of equalizing well within reach. Sophomore midfielder Ryan Clare sent Brown keeper James Swomley leaping to make a save in the 75th minute. This tussle came to a head in the 86th minute, when Hampton’s free kick — and first goal of the season — brought the score to 1–1. Princeton dominated in overtime, outshooting the Bears 10–3. Diaz Bonilla’s 90th minute near-miss and O’Toole’s 102nd-minute shot, which bounced off the frame,

were among several attempts by the Tigers to get ahead. But at the end of overtime, the score remained the same. All in all, Princeton outshot Brown 28–12 over two regular halves and two overtime periods. The Bears out-fouled the Tigers 21–17; this generated four yellow cards and one red card. The draw leaves the Tigers second from the bottom on the Ivy League standings. Head coach Jim Barlow ’91 believes the team fought valiantly. “We controlled most of the second half, wound up with a number of good scoring chances, and limited [Brown] to only a few. I was really proud of the effort and thought we deserved another goal.” They will be looking to improve upon their offensive. In the words of Barlow, “For all of our possession lately, we need to start scoring more.” Princeton returned home to face Lehigh (8–3–1, 4–0–1) yesterday and will play Columbia (3–4–3, 1–0–1) on Oct. 19. Last time the Tigers met the Lions, Princeton walked away with a 2–1 win. A repeat performance could boost Princeton’s flailing Ivy League performance.

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Danny Hampton scored Princeton’s only goal against Brown.

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Juan José López Haddad

Contributing Columnist

When I was 16 years old, I painted a portrait of Isaac Newton and hung it in my room. Every night that I would have to study for math or physics, I looked up at it for inspiration. As one of the great minds of the Scientific Revolution, his image motivated me to strive in those subjects to finally become a physics major. The portrait still hangs in my dorm today, and while it got me through high school physics, it doesn’t quite have the same effect now that I’m in college. Princeton has an unusual portrait problem. Recently, the University unveiled four new portraits of distinguished alumni and faculty, with the intention of hanging them in “prominent places” around campus. But portraits are rarely featured in important or popular spaces around campus. Sure, you might have seen one or two, but they’re always tucked away in corners that receive little traffic from students, and they often depict donors (frankly, rarely inspiring figures) who do not attest to the diverse and accomplished legacy that this institution really has. Princeton should be conscious about the message it sends through its iconography, and the first step to this is to make it more accessible, and to show faces that matter in places that matter. The newly unveiled portraits are important dedications, but they have been placed in completely irrelevant locations that will not promote these inspiring members of our campus community. The portrait of Alan Turing, the father of computer science and an important figure in LGBTQ+ history, will be hung in the atrium of Lewis Library. One would think that such an

important figure deserves a place more suitable than the bleak walls of a building whose architecture doesn’t really favor wall fixtures. Why can’t we place him in a prominent place in the Rocky-Mathey Dining Hall, in the Fine Hall lounge, or in one of the frequently-visited common rooms around campus? Another portrait, of Carl A. Fields, namesake of the Fields center and the first African-American administrator of the University, will be relegated to a minor entryway in Morrison hall, sharing the fate of Paul Wyse’s excellent but underappreciated portrait of the transformative Toni Morrison. Despite being housed in the building which bears her name, her visibility is reduced — though I suppose she will now enjoy the company of Dr. Fields. When I was talking to one of my friends, an exchange student from Oxford, he told me about the wealth of iconography spread around his college, and not just in dark narrow hallways of obscure administrative buildings, but in the spaces where students lived and spent most of their time. The dining hall of Hertford College is covered with illustrious figures of its past and present, such as a prominent portrait of William Tyndale, the first person to translate the Bible into English. These ever-present faces are an important aspect of the daily life of Hertford students; they are not only fixtures in the wall, but they live in the community and remind students of what they can achieve. Almost all portraits currently existing in the University are either tucked away in the Faculty Room of Nassau Hall (which is not open to students), misplaced in obscurity, or simply depict subjects who have contributed nothing

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A portrait of Toni Morrison, commissioned several years ago, is displayed inside Morrison Hall.

beyond a monetary gift. Portraits are a powerful form of art. As a portrait painter, I have contemplated such questions, which go beyond pure artistic skill, when creating one. Portraits possess a fundamental essence and potential for communication, which far supersedes words: the face of wise figures from the past, the way they look at you, how their eyes seem to shine as if they were about to reveal great secrets to you. These are the great and deliberate effects

that portraits have on us. University students in the search for meaning in our work — meaning that goes far beyond getting a profitable job or a stable position — need to see the faces of those who have found that meaning. When we have seen their faces, we will learn their stories, and their portraits will be a permanent reminder of the careers they undertook, the barriers they crossed, the people who stood in their way, and how they prevailed.

We all need inspiration, and while these portraits may not move and talk like the fabled images at Hogwarts, they can certainly speak to us in a more fundamental, transcendental way. They stand before us as witnesses of their triumph, and they offer us a chance to share that destiny. Juan José López Haddad is a sophomore from Caracas, Venezuela. He can be reached at jhaddad@princeton.edu.

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Taylor Jean-Jacques’20 BOARD OF TRUSTEES president Thomas E. Weber ’89 vice president Craig Bloom ’88 secretary Betsy L. Minkin ’77 treasurer Douglas J. Widmann ’90 trustees Francesca Barber David Baumgarten ’06 Kathleen Crown Gabriel Debenedetti ’12 Stephen Fuzesi ’00 Zachary A. Goldfarb ’05 Michael Grabell ’03 John Horan ’74 Joshua Katz Rick Klein ’98 James T. MacGregor ’66 Alexia Quadrani Marcelo Rochabrun ’15 Kavita Saini ’09 Richard W. Thaler, Jr. ’73 Abigail Williams ’14 trustees emeriti Gregory L. Diskant ’70 William R. Elfers ’71 Kathleen Kiely ’77 Jerry Raymond ’73 Michael E. Seger ’71 Annalyn Swan ’73

Where are all the women? Part two

405 — only 32 percent — are women. Only 26 percent of full professors are women. As of last year, only 162 of the 862 tenured faculty Madeleine Marr contributing columnist members were women, or 19 percent. Most U.S. four-year colleges hired Earlier this semester, female applicants for I published part one of merely one-third of a series outlining the their faculty positions systemic causes for in 2013; Princeton falls the gender inequality in the middle of the among Princeton’s fac- highest-ranked univerulty. While Princeton is sities for gender parity not the worst example in hiring. of gender discriminaStudies have shown tion in academia, the that male gatekeeplack of female faculty ers in the academy are serves as a stark re- more likely to provide minder that the Uni- resources and mentorversity must do more ship to male, rather than erect monuments than female, underor paste QR codes to the graduates. In one exsidewalk to remedy this periment, scientists problem. were asked to hire and Where are all the pay an undergraduate women? They are left lab assistant based on behind by institutions fictional resumes. The that fail to acknowl- scientists were more edge their serious bias likely to offer the potowards the model of a sition and additional “male genius.” mentorship to male For those who have applicants, despite the not read my previ- identical resumes of the ous articles, I will re- male and female stuiterate the context for dents. They also gave this series: as of 2017, women a lower salary according to Prince- — 88 cents to the dollar. ton-provided data, of Another study found 1,252 faculty members, that referees asked to

write letters of recommendation for applicants to medical school positions tended to write shorter and less keen letters for female students. Those letters were also less likely to include comments on the quality of their research. Finally, a study on “feeder labs” led by elite principal investigators (PIs) found that feeder labs led by male PIs, which often produce assistant professors, were significantly less likely to hire female postdocs. While female postdocs made up only 31 percent of elite labs’ workforces, they represent 48 percent of postdocs in female-led feeder labs and make up more than 50 percent of science PhDs. Though this bias may be less subtle than other obstacles to female advancement, it remains largely unaddressed outside of feminist academia. While Princeton cannot deny the numbers, it has yet to take concrete steps to address even the most basic forms of discrimination in academic

hiring. Forty-four major law firms and 55 corporate legal departments have publicly implemented the Mansfield Rule, which “measures whether law firms have affirmatively considered women and attorneys of color — at least 30 percent of the candidate pool — for leadership and governance roles, equity partner promotions, and lateral positions.” Princeton has no such policy in place. A study published in the Harvard Business Review found that “when there was only one woman or minority candidate in a pool of four finalists, their odds of being hired were statistically zero. But when we created a new status quo among the finalist candidates by adding just one more woman or minority candidate, the decision makers actually considered hiring a woman or minority candidate.” They acknowledge the counterargument of reverse racism, but point to the fact that women are more likely to have

college degrees and are hired at a higher rate in blind auditions. Princeton has instituted neither a university-wide blind application nor an applicant pool diversity policy. These solutions are popular even within traditionally conservative fields, and they can only benefit the University by expanding the pool of talented academics working on campus. Hiring more women will benefit female students, ultimately improving Princeton’s reputation, as more female students go on to have successful careers. I want to believe that Princeton is only a slow-moving system, not a malicious one. I hope that by pointing out where the University can do better, the administration will prove that it wants to — and will take the steps to make those intentions a reality. Madeleine Marr is a junior from Newtown Square, Pa. She can be reached at mmarr@ princeton.edu.

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Former Princeton basketball star Devin Cannady signs contract with Brooklyn Nets

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Princeton basketball star Devin Cannady signed a contract with the Brooklyn Nets.

By Jack Graham Head Sports Editor

Former Princeton men’s basketball star Devin Cannady signed a contract with the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets, the team announced on its website Tuesday night. Cannady is one of the most prolific scorers and

three-point shooters in the history of Princeton basketball. Prior to leaving the team during the 2018–19 season for personal reasons, he climbed to fifth on Princeton’s all-time scoring list with 1,515 career points and was third on Princeton’s all-time three-pointers made list with 268.

In his four years at Princeton, Cannady played in 104 games and was a key part of the 2016–17 team, which went undefeated in Ivy League play, won the inaugural Ivy League basketball tournament, and participated in the NCAA tournament. He was also a second-team All-Ivy League

selection as a junior in 2018, after leading Princeton in scoring with 16.7 points per game. Last season, Cannady served a three-game suspension after he was arrested for allegedly attempting to punch a Department of Public Safety officer in Wawa.

Cannady played for the Oklahoma City Thunder in the 2019 NBA Summer League. The Nets have yet to release the terms of his deal, but the vast majority of undrafted free agents begin their careers in the G League, the NBA’s minor league.

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