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Princeton town to make Bicycle Master Plan

By Betty Liu staff writer

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Students performed the Me Too Monologues, a student-produced centerpiece of the Mental Health Week, on Jan. 8.

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

Temporary affinity rooms assigned

By Samvida Venkatesh staff writer

The University has assigned temporary affinity rooms in the Fields Center to the black, AfricanAmerican, Latinx, Asian, Asian-American, Arab and Middle-Eastern student communities, Vice President for Campus Life W. Rochelle Calhoun said.

Work on more permanent architectural changes to the Fields Center will begin in the summer, Calhoun said, adding that students would hopefully be able to use the new space beginning in fall

2016.

Calhoun explained that the University assigned the temporary affinity rooms because students were dissatisfied with the way the Fields Center was structured as a formal presentational space rather than a space with a comfortable community feel. She said that discussions over the need for affinity rooms began a year ago, and the University had decided that some currently available rooms would be identified for use immediately, and spaces would be incorporated into the architecture of the building in the

longer run.

Leaders of various student groups on campus met with Calhoun and Fields Center Director Tennille Haynes last month to select rooms and decide how they would be decorated and what they would be used for, Calhoun said.

Haynes declined to comment.

Myesha Jemison ’18, board member of Princeton Caribbean Connection, and member of various student groups including the Black Student Union and the Princeton Association of Black Women, See FIELDS CENTER page 4

The township of Princeton is in the process of creating a comprehensive Bicycle Master Plan to create a connected network of bike facilities throughout the town, Princeton Mayor Liz Lempert said.

This plan is being funded by the New Jersey Department of Transportation and the town will be working with the consulting firm WSP, Parsons Brinckerhoff to develop the plan.

Representatives from the New Jersey Department of Transportation did not respond to requests for comment.

WSP, Parsons Brinckerhoff program manager for the Bicycle Master Plan Peter Kremer explained that as part of the plan, the firm is currently conducting a survey to gather community input regarding the Bicycle Master Plan. The 22-question

survey is available online and asks for demographic information, biking habits and preferences for biking facilities, Kremer said.

“We want to get as much information as we can about people, the routes they use, the kind of facilities they prefer, what are some of the kind of improvements they think might help them get around safer,” Kremer explained.

Different facilities mentioned in the survey include off-road bicycle paths, on-road separated bicycle lanes, on-road standard bicycle lanes and roads with shared lane markings. Kremer noted that 300 responses have already been recorded and that the survey will be open until the end of January.

WSP, Parsons Brinckerhoff is also working with the University to develop the bicycle plan, the University’s Director of Community and Regional See BIKES page 4

TAP CATS

ACADEMICS

U. professors launch Microeconomic Insights, website for economic findings staff writer

Microeconomic Insights, a website developed by University professors and professors from other institutions worldwide, including Harvard University and the London School of Economics, was launched last week.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies, a London-based organization, will be hosting the website.

IFS research director and University College London professor Richard Blundell, who serves

on the website’s editorial board, noted that the website aims to provide summaries of new microeconomic research for the public domain, in a way that is not affected by political and ideological viewpoints.

University professor of economics Stephen Redding, who also serves on the website’s editorial board, said that the editorial board, comprised of economics professors from several institutions worldwide, would manage the website’s content by seeking out new economic research

papers and working with their authors, as well as professional journalists, to distill the findings into a clear, more easily understandable summary.

“We would hope that through these new methods, policy makers would get a better sense of what the effect of their policy would be,” he said.

Redding explained that the website offers a unique perspective on microeconomic research, especially because it focuses on distilling research that includes See MICRO page 3

USG to work on Lawnparties acts transparency staff writer

The Undergraduate Student Government is working to set up a bike share program on campus, U-Councilor Ethan Marcus ’18 said at the last senate meeting of the semester on Jan. 10.

Marcus explained that at a December meeting of the Bike Share Program Task Force, Director of Parking and Transportation Kim Jackson talked about how the University has applied to a grant from

LOCAL NEWS

Princeton Historical Society opens Farmstead museum

By Claire Lee staff writer

STUDENT LIFE

By Katherine Oh

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The Tap Cats, the tap dancing group on campus, performed the show “Metamorphosis” this past weekend in the Frist Performance Theater.

New Jersey to have publicly available bikes around campus. The contracted company is Zagster, a venture-funded startup company based in Massachusetts that designs bike sharing programs, according to Marcus.

Marcus noted that there are still some details to be worked out, including whether users would have to pay for bike use, and more publicity will come in February.

In addition to bike sharing, the USG is also working to offer new

bus routes, Campus and Community Affairs chair Michael Cox ’17 said. Cox said that USG president Ella Cheng ’16, Class of 2018 Treasurer Yash Patel ’18 and Class of 2018 president Chance Fletcher ’18 are involved in the project, and that a potential route would be one from Forbes College to the Engineering Quadrangle. Cox explained that the group is currently analyzing what the peak times would be for each possible route.

“We’re trying to make sure it See USG page 2

The Historical Society of Princeton, an organization founded in 1938 dedicated to interpret the town’s history, reopened its museum on Jan. 6 at Updike Farmstead, a farm building on Quaker Road about five miles from the University.

The Historical Society had previously been located at Bainbridge House.

Curator of Collection and Exhibitions for the Historical Society Izzy Kasdin ’14, who oversees collections management for the organization, said that now that the Historical Society has moved out

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Outgoing Editor-in-Chief Anna Mazarakis says goodbye to the paper, and the Editorial Board argued for raising the dining allowance for students on financial aid.

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of Bainbridge House, it has been able to reunite its entire collection in one place for the first time ever in its existence as an institution.

Executive director of the Historical Society Erin Dougherty did not respond to requests for comment. Director of Programs and Visitor Services at the University Eve Mandel declined to comment.

“We’ve reunited this in a different off-site facility that is local, so it’s exciting to have all these materials in one place in a new, beautiful facility,” Kasdin said.

She noted that the Farm has been open in the past, but only periodically. It will now See HISTORY page 2

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doesn’t take longer than walking,” Cheng said.

Cheng is a former staff writer for The Daily Princetonian.

USG vice president and incoming president Aleksandra Czulak ’17 explained that the sophomore class has recently received a packet for upperclassmen eating options.

Class of 2018 senator Paul Draper ’18 said that he thinks sophomores were not aware of what they are getting into with regards to upperclassmen dining options, and the USG worked on a robust document to provide that information at an earlier date.

Also regarding eating options on campus, U-councilor Lavinia Liang ’18 said she has been working with U-council chair Naimah Hakim ’16 and U-councilor Dallas Nan ’16 to discuss co-op accessibility on campus.

“The co-ops on campus right now offer limited options — there are lots of students who want to join,” Liang said.

Czulak said that administrators will vote on whether to schedule

finals before or after winter break.

Czulak explained that academics chair-elect Shannon Osaka ’17 has suggested lobbying professors so that they become aware of what students want, in terms of scheduling final exams before or after winter break.

Nan said that it is important for the USG to present an idea that the student body is behind.

“I think there are at least some professors in support of a calendar change,” Hakim said. “That might be something to look at as we try to garner support and publicize.”

Cheng noted that the new pass/D/fail policy will be implemented in the coming semester, although some details about which classes will have the P/D/F option still need to be ironed out.

Hakim, who is also a co-chair of the Mental Health Initiative Board, said that the recent Mental Health Week was a success, with high senate participation. He added that he thinks the January schedule, rather than the March one, allows students to become mindful and thoughtful about mental health earlier in the year.

Social committee chair Simon Wu ’17 said that his committee has

been working to collect ideas from the student body on Lawnparties acts.

“I really enjoyed doing tabling – a lot of people came by, asked questions,” Wu said. ”We printed out a list so people could see how much each person [artist] costs and took suggestions.”

Wu added that the senate constitution should allow for flexibility such that the incumbent social chair has the authority to book an act before the new chair takes over if necessary.

Cheng also noted that the USG is currently looking to provide more funding opportunities for club sports, the social committee and Projects Board. An increased budget will allow for better Lawnparties acts and more engaging events, Cheng said.

Czulak noted that the senate is working to organize an executive summary of senate accomplishments during the past academic year which will be accessible for students.

“I’m looking to make it a much more visual, concise report than before,” Cheng said about the endof-the-year report the USG is putting together.

be used regularly as a permanent, primary museum, she said.

“The benefit of the move, and the way that we’ve reunited all of our materials is that the way we are storing them now is better than it’s ever been,” Kasdin said.

“When people do ask questions, we have the ability to access pretty much anything in our collection very easily, and so it happens the behindthe-scenes work a lot.”

Kasdin said that because there is now more space, she is looking forward to the society being able to put on programs and exhibitions that

“The benefit of the move, and the way that we’ve reunited all of our materials is that the way we are storing them now is better than it’s ever been.”

Izzy Kasdin ’14, curator

have many more components than were present at Bainbridge House.

The research function of the Historical Society is operating very similarly, as is its mission, she added.

“We’re still the same institution and we intend to interpret Princeton’s history in all of its variety and different stories,” Kasdin said.

She added that she hopes the Historical Society continues to do interpret the University’s history in an interesting, accessible and multi-media fashion for all types of audiences. Kasdin noted that despite the fact that the Historical Society is

in a different place, its mission to effectively interpret Princeton’s history continues in the family, just like it did in Bainbridge House.

University Art Museum Director James Steward explained that, regarding the future use of Bainbridge House, the idea is to sustain the character that the Bainbridge house has had while the Historical Society occupied it. He explained that the house will encompass some gallery space on Nassau Street as well as a variety of mixed-use spaces in which community groups could have meetings and young visitors can do hands-on artmaking activities.

Steward added that he imagines a satellite of the museum store and the second and third floors of Bainbridge house as office space for the museum’s education department.

Steward said the Bainbridge house is going to undergo about a year’s worth of historic restoration work.

The building has some accumulated maintenance challenges that the University is investing in repairing because of the fact that it is one of the oldest buildings in Princeton. Steward said it is going to be closed for over a year while that work is done.

“I emphasize the degree to which that really is a historic preservation project,” Steward said. “The building has been important to the history of this community.”

Steward noted that the Bainbridge house had been home to the Historical Society for a number of decades.

He said that he hopes that in the new Quaker Road location, which itself is also a historic facility, there would be opportunities for further collaboration between the University and the Historical Society. He added that what form that collaboration might take he could not speculate on.

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complex structural or technical elements or that requires a lot of mathematical precision and analysis.

“It can be very hard for someone who is not working within academic economics to fully understand the subtleties of all of those aspects of the research,” he explained. “Yet the research can have very clear and important implications for policy, and sometimes those implications can get lost because of the sort of barriers of people understanding the technical economic material.”

One of the concerns driving the website’s creation was that economic insights in the media did not always reflect or accurately convey the best research,

University of California, San Diego economics professor Roger Gordon, a member of the editorial board, said.

Gordon noted that the publication process for each of the website’s stories includes the research paper’s authors drafting a non-technical summary of their findings and then working with professional writers and journalists who can further adapt the authors’ work to make it more understandable for the website’s readers.

“As academics we’re used to writing to each other,” he added. “And so we’re not willing to rely on ourselves to put together something that would be accessible to a much broader audience.”

The goal is to publish one new article each week, he noted.

UCL economics professor Orazio Attanasio, another member of the editorial board, explained the

website will address the microeconomic aspects of several public policy issues, including tax systems, pension systems, regulation of different industries, design of welfare programs and development programs in different countries.

Redding explained that the editorial board has chosen papers to summarize that they find particularly impressive or noteworthy on the research frontier. Northwestern University economics professor Robert Porter, an editor of the website, said that the board will also look to cover research that has already been published. “[The editorial board] essentially has its antenna up to try to uncover research that might be worth some publicity, where there’s the understanding that that research has already gone through the journal editing process,” he explained.

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University economics professor Uwe Reinhardt, who is not on the editorial board and was not involved in creating the website, said that the website draws attention to the idea that the discipline of economics should be a way to explain complicated relationships and interactions that people may not see on their own.

He noted that it is economists’ duty to understand these important relationships and then explain them to the people who make decisions and shape public policy.

According to Reinhardt, who has written over 200 columns explaining economic concepts for The New York Times, a challenge of writing about economics for the general public is that people do not always behave according to textbook economic theory.

“To actually make the right assumptions about human beings

so that you don’t peddle to the wrong theory is very important,” he said.

He added that for a website like Microeconomic Insights, a concern would be whether the editorial board consists of economic purists, or if they will take into account people’s decisions like behavioral theorists. He said that he hopes the writers for the Microeconomic Insights website would write having in mind the reader and consumer, not what their academic colleagues think about it.

Porter noted that the website only just launched recently and that its impact remains to be seen. Redding noted that they will publicize the website’s content with social media tools such as Twitter, as well as sharing articles via email with a contact list including members of the Wilson School.

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Affairs Kristin Appelget said.

“We want to see how cycling fits into the future of the University and make sure that the linkages between the surrounding town and passing through the University work,” Kremer said.

Kremer said that the firm has met with Kim Jackson, the Director of Transportation and Parking Services at the University. Appelget said that Jackson represents the University in a steering committee comprised of community members and municipal staff.

Jackson deferred comment to Appelget.

“It’s great that the town is doing this master planning process,” Appelget said. “I think that it is at a very opportune time given that the University is also in a campus planning process.”

Lempert explained that there had been a general recognition that the University needed to have a bike master plan, and that this need came to the fore when the town started doing a road repaving project on Hamilton Avenue in 2015. There was a debate about whether or not to put in bicycle paths along Hamilton Avenue during the project, Lempert said.

Lempert explained that any bike path implemented on Hamilton Avenue would have been isolated, as there were no plans to how it would fit into a larger network. She said that the bike plan would help the town in terms of decision-making, because the town can simply use it as a reference in doing future road projects instead of having to go through a big de-

bate on all road projects.

Deanna Stockton, assistant engineer at the town’s engineering department who is working on the project, did not respond to requests for comment.

Students at the University have also been encouraged to participate in the discussion for the Bicycle Master Plan. Members of WSP, Parsons Brinckerhoff have sent the survey to Undergraduate Student Gov-

“We want to see how cycling fits into the future of the University and make sure that the linkages between the surrounding town and passing through the University work.”

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The Fields Center has assigned temporary affinity rooms to several student communities for use next year.

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ernment president Ella Cheng ’16, who forwarded it to members of the student body earlier in December.

Cheng said that USG is not directly involved with the project.

Cheng is a former staff writer for The Daily Princetonian.

Charles Copeland ’19 said that a bicycle master plan would be nice. He added that he has not had many reasons to bike beyond campus, but the implementation of more bike paths and bike lanes would make him feel safer and possibly add an incentive to bike more.

said that most groups are using the rooms as a relaxed hangout space, and as a location for meetings. Courtney Perales ’17, diversity chair of Princeton University Latinx Perspective Organization said that each room would serve as a safe space for students belonging to that community.

“Sometimes you just want to be in a space with others who have the same cultural background. You don’t want every small thing you say to be analyzed and debated, as often happens in other common spaces on campus,” Perales said, regarding the need for a safe space.

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Jemison added that the room for the black and African-American community would incorporate black culture in the way of artwork and posters of black and African-American people. Perales said that while decorating their room, the Latinx Perspective Organization will keep in mind that Latinx students have been at the University for a long time and have not been recognized.

Calhoun explained that while the rooms were assigned to a few communities, the spaces are still open to students from all cultures.

“The Fields Center is a place where a lot of cultures interact, but it is still one where people should feel deeply comfortable in their

own culture,” she said.

Briana Christophers, ’17, co-president of Princeton Latinos y Amigos, noted that that the purpose of the affinity rooms was not segregation between different groups among the student body.

“These spaces will help make the Fields Center more representative of the students it serves while also giving students of color the agency to design a space that represents their experience and identity, as the Third World Center did decades ago,” she explained.

Christophers said that the cost of restructuring the Fields Center has not yet been discussed as architectural planning is still in progress.

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Raise the Dining Allowance for Students on Financial Aid

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ollowing reading and final examination period, the most pressing event for the University’s sophomore class is making the decision of where to dine as upperclassmen. We are all familiar with the various options for upperclassmen dining: eating clubs, co-ops, residential college dining hall meal plans and independent dining. With nearly 70 percent of upperclassmen claiming membership in one of the 11 clubs on Prospect, there is a significant amount of social pressure placed upon underclassmen to join an eating club during sophomore year. The Board understands this social pressure and encourages the University’s Office of Financial Aid to increase the upperclassmen dining allowance, which is currently set at $2110, to a higher figure in order to prevent financial constraints from impeding students’ access to eating clubs. The Board similarly encourages a smaller increase in the dining allowance for students in their fourth semester at the University.

The University currently determines the increase in the financial aid dining allowance by surveying the eating clubs to ensure that the upperclassmen dining allowance “is in line with the average cost of a club meal plan,” not accounting for social dues. Although an increase in this allowance would mean that the Office might need to take into consideration social fees, this decision is justified because the single-figure annual cost of being a member of an eating club is the sum total that students and their parents must financially maneuver, not a meal expense and a separate social expense. The two expenses are not mutually exclusive in respect to payment and they should not be mutually exclusive when determining how much aid to grant to students. Moreover, an increase in the dining allowance of second semester sophomores is needed because students who join clubs sophomore spring are responsible for paying dues upon admission. Postponing joining a club until junior fall is not always a viable option for students who are financially constrained, because several clubs reach capacity in the spring and do not accept new members in the fall.

While some may find it strange to say that the University should support independent institutions, the Board finds it necessary. With the vast majority of upperclassmen being members of these clubs, they are an integral part of campus life. Being unable to join a club can severely strain relationships due to separation from friends or teammates. Although there are other less expensive alternatives to membership in a club such as joining a co-op, remaining on the residential college dining hall meal plan or dining independently, these options should exist only for students who select them for reasons other than financial constraints. Additionally, no student should be compelled to take on debt to finance his or her upperclassman dining plan due to social pressure.

The Board recognizes that fully covering eating club expenses appears to generate incentives for eating clubs to raise their dues, but we believe that there can be two strong checks against this. First, there exists a natural barrier in the form of students who are not on financial aid. These students represent a sizable portion of eating club members and will surely contest rate hikes. Second, the Office of Financial Aid could limit the allowance not to exceed 120 percent of the average annual cost of all eating clubs or the cost of the most expensive eating club. This system would force dues to remain in line with what they are today.

Over the past few years, Princeton has made great strides in attracting students from lowincome backgrounds to apply. While it is noble to welcome and accept students from various backgrounds and walks of life, it is still necessary to take the next step by creating a dining system that avoids segregating students by income level. Whether or not this outcome is intentional is beyond the point of discussion.

Rather, the Board urges the Office of Financial Aid to reconsider the current standard dining allowance for upperclassmen and question whether or not the sum suffices in removing the financial barrier between upperclassmen and partaking in an expensive and exclusive dining culture.

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

Thomas Clark ’18 abstained from the writing of this editorial.

Paul Draper ’18 recused himself from the writing of this editorial.

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he walls of The Daily Princetonian newsroom at 48 University Place are lined with books of our community’s shared history. Each book holds one year’s worth of issues of the ‘Prince,’ and in them you can find columns, articles and photographs that document snapshots of the University’s history all the way back to our founding in 1876.

In the next week, the outgoing 139th Managing Board of the ‘Prince’ will add to this collection, officially recording the papers from this past year in print to our newsroom and digitally to our archive at theprince.princeton.edu.

I first wrote to you nearly one year ago, in the pages of our first issue, to introduce the 139th Managing Board. I wrote about the academics, activists, actors, artists and athletes who make up the community of Princeton, and I detailed our role as the archivists in the community. Today, I write to you in the pages of our last issue to elaborate on our role a bit more and to say goodbye.

At the ‘Prince,’ we not only seek to inform the Princeton community about what’s happening on campus today, but we also aim to accurately portray what Princeton was like during our time here as part of the first draft of Princeton’s history. Community means a lot at Princeton, and the members of The Daily Princetonian are honored to serve the community by keeping it informed of what is going on and by keeping a historical record of what happened during our time here.

In the past year of reporting on campus, we have learned a lot about the Princeton community and about community in general. From the Hose Bicker referendum to the Black Justice League sit-in, the Open Campus Coalition counter-petition to the Big Sean protests, the work of the Mental Health Initiative to the Hidden Minority Council, the Princeton community has shown that it wants to be an inclusive one.

Such events have caused us to reflect on the role of the ‘Prince’ in the community. While the ‘Prince’ encourages inclusivity, and we constantly advertise for our readers to join us, our place in the community has always been more complex. Individually, we take the same classes, we eat at the same eating clubs, dining halls and co-ops and we belong to the same student organizations. Yet, as archivists, we also have to play the role of unbiased outsiders in the community.

This is how it should be since the ‘Prince’ is an

independent organization on campus. Our independence means that we receive no funding from the University or the Undergraduate Student Government, which allows us to honestly report on what is happening at the University without fear of being shut down. We pride ourselves on our independence, especially in the last year when nonindependent newspapers faced funding cuts for publishing certain stories. We continue to operate due to advertising sales and we do not report to anyone at the University other than our own alumni Board of Trustees.

Despite our outsider status, we cannot do the work we do in a vacuum, so we try to work with the community as best as we can. You have sent us tips about events happening on campus, you have written letters or guest opinion columns, you have agreed to be interviewed for articles and you have done enough interesting things this past year that we have been able to print a paper with actual news in it every day. We have a responsibility to do everything we can to make sure we are telling the story right, and it is because of working with you that we are able to do so.

129 issues after I first wrote to you, I now want to say thank you for working with us and reading our paper this past year. Today, the 139th Managing Board passes the torch over to the 140th Managing Board, and we know that the newspaper will continue to live on in greatness under their leadership.

I hope you will continue to work with the ‘Prince,’ and perhaps even join us, over the course of the next year.

My year as Editor-in-Chief has certainly been the most challenging experience of my life, and I have a community of people to thank for their role in also making it the most rewarding one. This paper would not have been printed without the community of 28 editors who sacrificed a lot to make the ‘Prince’ a better organization and the 200+ writers, photographers, copy editors, designers and staff who helped produce content every day. I am so glad I had the opportunity to work with all of you and have the honor to be able to call you my friends.

Thank you to my team, and to the readers who have supported us this past year, I hope you will all stay in touch.

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Princeton the Contrarian Imani Thornton columnist

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ometimes it’s okay to be a contrarian, particularly when it involves pop culture or Canada Goose jackets.

Until this year, I didn’t consider my university to be a contrarian. I attended Princeton because of the opportunities we could afford each other and not because I had an overwhelming desire to attend a university that, in at least one regard, enjoys being the odd one out. While I often enjoy the idiosyncrasies that many of my Princeton peers hold dear, the academic calendar is not one of them.

Of all the Ivy League universities, Princeton is the only one that has finals for undergraduates in January and post-winter break. According to a 2012 Daily Princetonian article about altering the academic calendar, “the University discussed and rejected the possibility of altering its schedule” in 2007. The rationale for this may be similar to that of discussion, and later rejection, for a longer winter break this year: there are logistical issues and many of these calendars are created years in advance. It is difficult to change something as static as a calendar, but how is this impacting Princeton students’ academic performance?

For me, January is a month that might as well not exist at Princeton.

Most student organizations do not meet for the length of the month and going to the Street or being otherwise social feels like a betrayal to our studies. At any given moment, the thought of all the work that I’ve let pile up since midterms ruins any good interaction I’ve had that doesn’t pertain to school work. Of course, this is what I’ve signed up for as a student and surely most students across the country feel this way about finals regardless. However, the difference here is that the month of January is the finals battleground, and with it, there is a month lost.

Again, this is not a new conversation. The Task Force on General Education has raised some interesting points in this regard, including, but not limited to, distribution requirements of general education, diversity and culture and even potentially computer science. Academic calendar concerns even reached the Undergraduate Student Government elections, including elected academics chair Shannon Osaka ’17, whose major campaign proposals consisted of calendar changes and the pass/D/fail election policy. Many students are concerned that the current academic calendar does not allow students — some of whom only go home for winter break — to properly enjoy their time away from campus.

For me, the biggest concern is that of the lost month of January. In the Julian calendar, January is a month of beginnings. In fact, it is named for the god Janus, of beginnings and transitions. While a few of us may find finals week in January to be a refreshing start to the new year, it seems that there are very few reasons to maintain a piece of tradition just for the sake of it. Princeton has a notoriously short academic year — 12 weeks per semester — and while I assume no one is asking for more work to stack upon the great loads we already carry, I wonder what we miss with such a short academic calendar and a finals week post-winter break.

As we have seen from debates surrounding Woodrow Wilson that such moves away from what is “traditional” are often met with unwarranted controversy, it seems that the University also maintains tradition that is no longer en vogue. With such questions arising about the academic calendar, we must ask ourselves how we can progress toward a school for which we can all be proud, while maintaining values that sets this school apart from the rest.

Imani Thornton is a sophomore from Matteson, Ill. She can be contacted at it4@ princeton.edu.

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simply ready to let the Tigers run roughshod over them on their home court. Despite falling behind by as much as nine in the early goings of the second, the Quakers would respond with a run of their own to get the game level at 49 with just ten minutes to go. From there, it seemed it would be all Penn.

The Quakers went on a 15-4, and up 64-53 with 3:38 to go, seemed

on their way to a victorious Ivy League opener.

The Tigers, however, had other ideas. They whipped up a timely 13-2 run, sparked by clutch plays from Bell, Weisz and Cannady, who made the game-tying jumper with 20 seconds to go. Penn’s Darius Nelson-Henry was unable to sink the game-winning basket, giving the fans an extra five minutes to a thriller of a basketball game.

Even after having lost what seemed to be a decisive lead,

Penn still seemed the likely winners early on in the overtime period, scoring the first five points to push the score up to 71-66. The Tigers would come back once again, using the free throw line to full effect. Behind clutch offensive rebounding leading to second opportunities and strong shooting from the stripe, particularly from freshman guard Myles Stephens, the Tigers went on a decisive 7-0 run to seal the game. Indeed, Princeton’s only points in the entire overtime period would

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team in Canada. The Tigers relied heavily on Stearns and senior outside hitter Zach Shaw for the first match, who posted 14 and nine kills respectively on the day. The Tigers would fall behind early in the first two sets and find themselves unable to work back up, succumbing 16-25 in both contests. In the third set, however, they would make a dent in Laval. A back-andforth affair, tied at 21 apiece, ultimately fell the Tigers’ way

due to some clutch hitting from Shaw and senior middle blocker Alex SchindeleMurayama.

Schindele-Murayama is an associate copy editor for The Daily Princetonian.

The final set of the match was a thriller, with Princeton fighting back from 15-19 down to tie the set at 25 apiece.

While a clutch kill from Stearns brought the Tigers within one point of tying the match up, Laval went on to take the next three to seal the set and the match in its favor.

For the second match of the doubleheader, the star would

be sophomore outside hitter Kendall Ratter, who starred on offense with 10 kills on the day and had three digs for good measure. His efforts were aided by freshman outside hitter Corry Short with nine kills.

Despite their strong showings, however, Laval would grind the Tigers down to earn the win in three sets — 22-25, 21-25 and 21-25.

After their trial by fire against high-ranked foes, the Tigers will travel out west for Intersession for a road trip through California, opening on Monday, Jan. 25 against the UCLA Bruins.

come from the line, as Stephens, Cannady and junior guard Stephen Cook contributed to put the Quakers away.

With the Penn game in the books, the Tigers will play their next game against Bryn Athyn College, now riding a three game-winning streak. Following that, they will play solely other Ivy League schools from thereon out — their next game against a member of the Ancient Eight will take place in Providence on the 29th, against the Brown Bears.

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While the semester may be winding down, the women’s basketball season is in full swing, as some of the teams are beginning to get their first tastes of Ivy League play. Based on performances so far, this year’s battle for the crown could very well prove to be a dogfight down to the very end.

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(10-2 overall, 1-0 Ivy League): The 2014 league champions have made a strong statement to the rest of the league with their recent victory over Princeton at home. They’ve been able to maintain success despite not putting up stunning offensive numbers. The work, as one can imagine, has come primarily on the defensive end — the Quakers have held opponents to just above 50 points a game this season, best of the Ivies. Credit has to go to Michelle Nwokedi and Sydney Stipanovich (2014-15 Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year), first and third respectively in rebounding among Ivy League players.

(12-2): The squad from Providence will enter Ivy League play on a high note after taking a 90-35 laugher over Rhode Island College on Wednesday. It points to what has been a strong offensive showing for the Bears this year, who finished second to last in the league last year and have established themselves nicely in the early going. The offense certainly benefits from their strong shooting behind the line — Brown is currently the top three-point shooting team in the league this season, sinking them at a 35.6 percent rate.

(10-4): It’s an excellent start so far for the team that finished dead last in the Ivies last year. As the Lions prepare to determine who’s the dominant Ivy of New York State — they open league play against Cornell at the end of the month — they know that forward Camille Zimmerman will be essential, ranking top 5 in points, rebounds and field goal percentage. She headlines the offense that currently ranks just behind Princeton in points per game.

(8-6): It has yet to get started in league play, but the Big Red knows it will continue to rely heavily on scoring dynamo Nia Marshall if it wants to break out of mediocrity in the league. She’s come out with a bang in her third season in the league, topping the Ivy League in points per game. The Big Red will certainly need her strong output, with the team in seventh place scoring wise among the Ivies.

(11-4, 0-1): After going nearly two full calendar years without a loss to an Ivy League team, the Tigers had to come back down to earth eventually. Despite the differences from last season’s unprecedented success, the women of Nassau have shown their talent — they boast the league’s highest-producing offense at just above 73 points a game and continue to dominate the boards with just under 47 a game.

They also have continued to be one of the league’s most efficient teams, shooting 43.2 percent from the field. With a consistently productive senior core guards Michelle Miller, Alex Wheatley and Amanda Berntsen and forward Annie Tarakchian, this team still looks to be a threat to head back to the Big Dance for another year.

(9-7): As the Bulldogs prepare for their Ivy League opener against Brown next Saturday, they must count their lucky stars for the emergence of Nyasha Sarju this season. This senior guard, having not averaged more than 7.3 points per game in her first 3 years, has been putting up 16.3 points (second highest output in the league) per game on a stunning 49.7 percent shooting clip.

(6-8, 1-0): The Crimson has been on the wrong end of a multitude of close games so far, with four of its eight losses by four points or less. A win over the Dartmouth Big Green to kick off league play is just the positive note it needs to get back on track as it tries to be competitive in the race for the no. 1 spot.

(5-12, 0-1): This team that has not finished in the top four of the Ivy League since the 2009-10 season opens up the year still trying to find its way. The Big Green has not been able to find the touch this season on offense, putting up the league’s lowest scoring mark at 51.6 points per game — almost ten points below Cornell’s 61.3 points, who ranks seventh in the category.

The efforts of the Big Green’s Lakin Roland should not go unnoticed, as she is one of just two Ivy League players to rank in the top 5 for both points and rebounds. But if she wants to make her team competitive again her senior season, she’ll have to drag along a team where not another player is breaking the ten points per game mark this year.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Tigers come out victorious in overtime thriller at Penn

By Miles Hinson sports editor

Another year, another thrilling victory for the men’s basketball team against Ivy League rival, the University of Pennsylvania Quakers.

On Saturday afternoon, the Tigers (10-4 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) opened up league play with a win in the Palaestra in a game that came down to the wire. They would need extra time to ultimately come out on top, coming away with a 73-71 victory in overtime. The win also pushes the Tigers’ winning streak against the Quakers to

four, going back to the 2013-14 season.

The game was as back and forth as it gets, with neither team proving able to break away from the other up through the end of the game. An early sixpoint edge taken by Penn (6-8, 0-1) was answered resoundingly by a 17-4 run by the Tigers, who would ultimately enter halftime holding that seven-point edge.

Particularly impressive through the first 20 minutes, and indeed the game itself, was sophomore guard Amir Bell.

Bell, who has held a spot in the starting five since his freshman year, exploded in the first half,

nailing a trio of three-pointers en route to 17 points, already nearly doubling his season pergame average of 9.5. Bell’s offensive showcase came at just the right time, as the Tigers as a whole had struggled to find the range in this game. In particular, junior forward Henry Caruso, junior guard Spencer Weisz and freshman forward Devin Cannady — the Tigers’ three leading scorers heading into this one — went 3-11, 3-11 and 3-12 respectively on the game.

After ceding the lead by the end of the first, Penn was not See M. B-BALL page 7

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Princeton pulled ahead in overtime via clutch free throw shooting.

MEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Men’s volleyball falls in 3 contests to open season

By Miles Hinson sports editor

The men’s volleyball team had a difficult weekend to open up the season, falling in its first three contests against Ohio State and Laval on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday respectively.

The Tigers (0-3 overall) opened up their season by hosting one of the best teams in the United States. The Buckeyes (2-2) held the no. 6 ranking in the NCAA heading into Tuesday’s contest. The Tigers

struggled to match the Buckeyes hitting-wise, as the men from Columbus would post a 34.7 hitting percentage to the Tigers’ 18.2. Senior outside hitter and four-year starter Devin Stearns led the way on offense with nine kills, followed by sophomore middle blocker Billy Andrew, making his first start on the job, with seven.

The following matches would take place on the Tigers’ home floor against the Canadian university Laval, the sixth-ranked men’s volleyball See M. V-BALL page 7

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The Tigers started the season hosting strong competition such as Ohio State and Laval University.

Stat of the Day

28 points Amir Bell scored 28 points to lift the Tigers over the Penn Quakers on the road.

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