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{ www.dailyprincetonian.com } BEYOND THE BUBBLE

Chris Christie reaffirms support for Trump

By Marcia Brown Associate News Editor

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie reaffirmed his support of the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump on Tuesday, despite calling himself “obviously disappointed” about Trump’s “indefensible” comments about sexual assault in a recently unearthed 2005 video.

Christie is an ex-officio trustee of the University.

He made the comments about the “Trump tape” on Oct. 11 on WFAN, a New York radio station. The tape surfaced at a particularly difficult time for Christie, who, like Indiana Governor Mike Pence, has hitched his political fortunes to the Trump campaign in the face of a difficult, even hostile, political climate in his home state.

Addressing the extent of the problems Christie faces in New Jersey, The Washington Post Editorial Board called out Christie last week as one of the most “widely reviled” governors in the United States, citing recent testimony in the federal trial of the Bridgegate defen-

dants that indicated Christie had knowledge of the Bridgegate scheme as it transpired. A Sept. 20 Rutgers-Eagleton poll, conducted before the first presidential debate, showed Christie’s gubernatorial approval rating at an all-time low of 26 percent.

While Christie’s woes at home have been a constant during his time on the Trump campaign trail, the decline of support for Trump since the first presidential debate and the acceleration of this decrease in support following the Oct. 7 release of the “Trump tape,” has put Christie in a particularly difficult political bind on a national scale.

According to The New York Times, over 160 Republican leaders — have abandoned their support for Trump since the tape’s emergence, either out of principle or out of concern for their reelection bids. However, Christie, an unpopular lame duck governor who has spent the better part of the last year working on Trump’s campaign, including overseeing debate preparation and heading the transition team, finds his poSee CHRISTIE page 2

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ACADEMICS

New Wilson School grants to fund quantitative projects

By Coco Chou Contributor

New funds in the Wilson School will be available for students and faculty who devise innovative and quantitative research proposals, in particular those involving education along with cross-disciplinary intersections, according to Wilson School officials.

The Overdeck Family Foundation, founded in 2011 by John Overdeck and Laura Overdeck ’91, seeks to maximize children’s potentials by funding innovative projects with quantifiable results. It has given $1 million to the Overdeck Education Research Innovation Fund. These funds will benefit University members in the 2016-17 and 2017-

18 academic years, distributed in two types of grants: the $5,000 or less for rolling basis and from $5,000 to $200,000 for annual consideration.

This year, proposals for $5,000 to $200,000 are due by Nov. 16.

In late November, selected projects will be invited to submit full proposals due January.

The Overdeck Educational Research Innovation Fund will be considered first for proposals that align with the focuses of supporting caregivers in children’s development, preparing exceptional educators, discovering innovative and effective school systems and models, and stimulating students intellectually both in and out of school.

“I think that the Overdeck

gift will help bridge the two, the policy and the practice,” Christopher Campisano, director of the University’s Program in Teacher Preparation, said. “To be a scholar is to both engage in the research, in the policy study, but at the same time is to use that somewhere, there has to be a value placed upon the application… and education is absolutely that field.”

The Overdecks have been contributing to the University before sponsoring this new fund, including their endowment of the Bilodeau-Overdeck Scholarship for Math/ Science Teaching. This scholarship covers the costs for students who need to continue into a ninth semester, See FUND page 3

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

Former U. student convicted of drug possession released early, not re-enrolled

By Simone Downs Contributor

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In Co-ops, students cook a variety of food, including pasta.

Former University student Julian Edgren was released early after being sentenced to five years in prison following a drug possession arrest in January 2015. However, he has not been re-enrolled in the University, according to University Spokesperson John Cramer.

Julian Edgren, a University junior at the time of the incident, was taken into custody on Sept. 28, 2015 following a drug possession offense on Jan. 6 of the same year. He was originally

charged with 13 counts of possession and attempt to distribute controlled substances and prescription drugs; he pleaded guilty to all charges.

On Nov. 13 of last year, Edgren began a five year sentence in prison on one count of distribution/possession of 5-99 units of prescription drugs. However, on March 24 of this year, Edgren was released from prison after serving only four months. His sentence was shortened as he was released by court from the Garden State Youth Correctional Facility.

A media representative from the Mercer County Prosecutor’s office could not be reached for an interview as of press time to elucidate the circumstances surrounding Edgren’s early release.

The original arrest occurred after police intercepted Edgren while he was picking up a package from Frist Campus Center — a package that contained seven grams of ecstasy. Edgren also had five grams of hashish, 55 grams of marijuana, 60 Adderall pills, and approximately See RELEASE page 3

LECTURE

Espinosa discusses influence of religion and race in 2016 election contributor

Although secularist theorists argue that religion will become less relevant in political discussions as society progresses, issues of religion and race will continue to be important factors in the upcoming election and

beyond, said Gaston Espinosa, a visiting fellow in Religious and Public Life at the University and a professor of Religious Studies at Claremont McKenna College, in a Wednesday lecture.

Espinosa considered the question of whether the vast majority of Americans want less talk about religion in politics

and feel indifferent about the religious beliefs of their presidential candidates.

He noted that recent studies show that religion in America — particularly Christianity — is in decline. He discussed how, despite this, studies from organizations like the Pew Research Center show that religion is still

an influence in a majority of voters’ decisions.

A majority of Americans say that religion is an important part for their life, he said. He explained a study showing that more than 50 percent Americans feel that the candidate they vote for should share their religious beliefs, and nearly

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half of Americans also say that churches should express views on politics.

He added that the studies showing a decline in religion fail to take into account that “nones,” or people who have indicated they do not belong to any religion, are often misclasSee LECTURE page 4

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THIS SIDE OF PRINCETON:

SPACES

STREET led by editor Andie Ayala ‘19, looks into the idea of “SPACE” on campus The e ver-elu sive “space” is a word spoken into a great ex panse of hopes and fears and delusions : “safe spaces,” “inclusive spaces,” “open spaces,” “green spaces,” “learn ing spaces.” In th is space, word s f loat a rou nd abst ract ly, a l most effor t lessly, seem i ngly w ithout the weight of any grav it y; appearing to be a distant glimmer of an idea, a once bright and assu ring light, wh ich — w ithout much def in ition — easi ly fades into obscu rit y.

Com ing to Princeton, it’s tempting to feel as though the rhetoric su rrounding the term “space” stretches the word out, magn i f ies it, and tacks it onto wel l-designed brochu res and anony mous inv itations. Yet the question remains — how do you com fortably situate you rsel f w ith in the incredibly abstr use concept of “space,” especia l ly when you happen to ex ist in a territor y that has been occupied and claimed by an endless sea of others, and wh ich has been upheld by an impregnable and deeply rooted h istor y?

In the process of inter v iew ing various members of the Un iversit y, one th ing has become clear; the question of space is an issue that is pertinent to al l members of the Princeton com mun it y.

Since the Black Justice League protests were held in Nassau Hal l, numerous articles, conversations, and com m ittees have emerged to reevaluate and discuss the meaning of “inclusive spaces” on campus.

According to a ‘Prince’ article at the time, du ring the in itia l comprom ise, the adm in istration decided to “designate fou r rooms in the Fields Center for u se by cu ltu ral groups, and prom ised to have members of the BJL involved in a work ing group to discuss the v iabi lit y of form ing black aff init y housing.” A mong these in itiatives, the Carl A. Fields Center Renovation Project Steering Comm ittee as wel l as the Campus Iconography Com m ittee were born.

Br iana Ch r istophers ’17, who was part of the Fields Center Renovation Project Steer i ng Comm ittee, described how the center partnered w ith the Isometric Studio to conduct student focus groups. She said that the student discussions u ltimately helped def ine the the Fields Center as a space where students cou ld feel at home. Ch ristophers noted that since the renovation, the space

ANDIE AYALA::STREET EDITOR

A room at the Prospect St. entrance of the Carl A. Fields Center which was renovated over the summer of 2016.

has been transformed th rough the w riting on the wal ls, the fu rn itu re, and the pictu res that constantly rem ind people of the pu rpose of the space.

In response to student feedback, the f irst f loor and entr y ways were redesigned to ex press certain sentiments, as seen in the w riting on the wal ls that read “We’ve Been Here,” “We’re Here,” and “We’re Loved,” thus celebrating the h istor y, the cu rrent ex perience, and the hope of diversit y on campus.

With in each of these spaces there a re pict u res and quotes from national f igu res of various eth n icities and backgrounds, as wel l as students from Princeton itsel f who have ex pressed ideas about the role of diversit y on campus.

Last yea r, Chase Hom me yer ’19 worked for Jarrett Drake, the Un iversit y digital arch iv ist, on a project cal led “A rch iv ing Student Activ ism,” and since then has become a st udent member of the Campus Iconography Com m ittee.

Hom me yer stated that, look ing for ward, she th in ks there shou ld be more ways in wh ich students are able to leave their mark on campus spaces, as a way of recording student presence and h istorical change.

She com mented that “time and time again students have broken dow n the rigidit y of the Un iversit y in various ways th rough activ ism,” as demonstrated th rough the repercussions of the BJL pro-

The first floor lobby of the Office of Religious Life located in Murray-Dodge.

tests. Howe ver, Hom me yer remarked that each time students cha l lenged the stat u s quo at Princeton, “it seemed as though they had to reinvent the wheel, because there isn’t a continuous stor y of student life on campus” or a “legacy of students who have broken the mold of t rad itiona l arch itectu re and space creation.”

“Sometimes at Princeton, people equate the word ‘man icu red’ w ith the word ‘beautifu l’... I th in k I wou ld prefer campus if it were a little bit more w i ld, and that cou ld come from letting students have a little bit more of a v isual impact on it w ith art or graff iti,” Hom meyer added.

In a sim i lar vein, the Vice Provost for Institutional Equit y and Diversit y, M ichele M inter, said she hopes that spaces on campus are able to change often th rough the prom inence of active student roles, in order to real ly al low students to be the ow ners of the places that they occupy. Minter added that creating space doesn’t necessari ly have to require erasing the past, but rather, can manifest itsel f as an additive process directed towards en riching v isual cues on campus.

Minter remarked that, for her, an inclusive space “is about ever yone feeling that they belong and that they can be authentically themselves and feel that they can be treated fairly and w ith respect.”

The Executive Vice President of Princeton and cu r rent co-chai r of the Campus Iconography Comm ittee, Treby Wi l l iam s, shared how th is year’s efforts to evaluate campu s por t rait u re, publ ic spaces, and h istor y represent “the f irst time we’ve had a central mu lti-constituent com m ittee that is considering these issues [about space] in the abstract.”

Accord i ng to Wi l l iam s, the com m ittee is focu sed on how spaces can be en livened in order to ref lect the “d iversit y of ou r com mun it y, prov ide v isual cues and represent nuanced inter pretations of Princeton’s h istor y.”

Wi l liams noted that th is is an especial ly critical time in the h istor y of the Un iversit y, becau se there is a sig n i f icant campu s plan n ing effort dedicated to how the school w i l l be bu i lt in the nex t ten years, w ith in the frame

of a th irt y-year v iew.

In addition to the renovations in the Fields Center, w ith in the past year other spaces such as Mu rrayDodge, the LGBT Center, and the Women’s Center were transformed to welcome students of different backgrounds and identities to the Princeton campus.

Dean Matt, the associate dean of the Off ice of Religious Life based i n Mu r ray-Dodge, com mented

creations made by queer people.

Judy Jar v is, the director of the LGBT Center, emph asized the necessit y of cu ltivating “ brave spaces,” such as the dialog ue faci litated after the v igi l for Terence Cr utcher and Keith Lamont Scott, in order to accom modate for diversit y w ith in the campus com mun it y.

She ex plained that to for m spaces that are f u l ly inclu sive, we have to ack nowledge that the har m cau sed by the h istorica l presence of racism, sex ism and other forms of discrim ination on th is campus is real. As a resu lt, she stated that we have to bui ld “t r u st w ith in com mu n ities so that we can share authentical ly and v u lnerably w ith each other.”

Professor Pat r icia Fer nandezKel ly of the sociolog y depar tment, who teaches cou rses on u rban st udies, said that w ith in her discipline, “space may be seen as v isual representations of the way in wh ich resou rces are distributed in a societ y,” such that “space itsel f produces for m s of inequalit y in the larger societ y,” wh ich are general ly “a resu lt of ineff iciencies in policies.”

In effect, she stated that she was supportive of but remained war y towards, the formation of “safe spaces,” because they have the potentia l to “contribute to more segregation along class and

Photographs and writing of students displayed on the walls of the Field Center.

that since being temporari ly situated in Green Hal l,“It’s been real ly remarkable com ing back to th is space.” He noted that the Off ice a l lows variou s rel igiou s com mun ities to feel at home, by prov iding fu r n itu re that ser ved the needs of different faith-based groups, such as bath room faci lities for Muslim foot wash ing ritua ls, a Hindu sh rine room, an Orthodox Ch ristian altar, among other featu res.

Josh Faires ’19, who worked w ith the LGBT center over su m mer, noted that part of the transformation of the space included modif y ing the logo, wal l color, and art pieces w ith in the center to ref lect

income lines.”

With in the realm of arch itectu re, Professor Stan ley A l len stated that space is a paradox ical subject. According to h im, although we are respon sible for creating the physical str uctu re, “it’s the negative space, the void that these wal ls def ine that real ly counts.”

In th is way, he believes that “perhaps the primar y responsibi lit y of the arch itect u re is to create public space : places where people come together to exchange ideas.”

Ultimately, A l len com mented, “Space is an abst ract concept, but it becomes real when spaces are occupied by people, meeting, tal k ing and exchanging ideas.”

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This Side of Princeton: CYCLAB

UNIQUE DORMS ERIC ZHAO Contributor

Just l ike the st udents hou sed w ith in them, Princeton dorms are im mensely diverse. Across campus, one can f ind a whole range of di fferent ly-sized rooms : singles, doubles, triples, quads, t wo-f loor quads, quints, and so on, unti l the 11-person suite in Wi lson Col lege.

Dorms cou ld have AC, hot water d ispen sers, or ju st a great v iew. It cou ld have been in habited by a hund red, or on ly a few students prior to th is year. Dorms can deeply in f luence a student’s li fe on campus, affecting ever yth ing from their dai ly routines, to friend groups, to classes chosen.

One un ique dorm is the eightperson suite, wh ich can consist of either fou r doubles or fou r singles and t wo doubles that are attached to a spacious com mon room and a private bath room. Nebi l Ibrah im ’20, who lives in one of these dor m s, bel ie ves that there are more positives than negatives to liv ing w ith seven room mates.

He noted that although “th is is a n ice space for com munal work because you have maybe th ree or fou r people work ing on the ex act same pset” he wou ld “def in itely go somewhere else to study.”

Add itiona l ly, Ibrah im said that one of the d rawbacks of the suite is the fact that they al l have to share one bath room. He ex plained that he had prev iously been to an eight-person suite du ring Princeton Prev iew, wh ich had t wo bathrooms. “I had the same ex pectation, but then I looked at the f loor plan,” he added.

“You real ly get a net work that you can rely on and you also meet a lot of people from d i fferent places,” said Charles Kw itchoff

’20 who a lso l ives in an eightperson suite. He shared that th ree of h is seven room mates are international st udents, com ing from Brazi l, Sri Lan ka, and Uk raine.

Kw itchoff also mentioned that he has a private bath room and said, “we have to clean it and that’s a bit of a pain.”

Meanwh i le, 230 P y ne Hal l, the sma l lest dor m on campus, is a single measu ring 82 square feet.

P y ne Hal l was the f irst inter war dorm bui lt to add ress the growing popu lation on campus in 1922, and is also where the 2nd smal lest and 4th smal lest singles are located, wh ich take up 84 and 88 square feet, respectively. As an added note, the adjacent printing room is the ex act same size, but also featu res an ex tra w indow.

Ju stinas M ick us ’18, who cu rrently resides at 230 P y ne Hal l, said that he didn’t actual ly have the worst d raw time but said that he chose the room becau se he wanted to have a single in the bui lding. He noted that he wou ld ideal ly live off campus, but added, “P y ne is one of the most beauti fu l bui ldings, especial ly in the spring.”

No matter what we th in k of ou r dorms, it’s clear that they are un ique spaces that can affect ou r dai ly lives, and even ou r futu re plans.

In regards to h is eight-person suite, Kw itchoff added, “I th in k it’s a little too much.” He said that when con sider i ng spaces nex t year, he wou ld like to have a quad or a single.

On the other hand, Ibrah im noted, “I feel l ike after hav ing an eight-person su ite, hav ing a single wou ld be ver y lonely.” He added that at th is point, he hopes to have another eight-person suite or get a quad in the year to come.

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VINCENT TANG

CONNER JOHNSON Contributor

Princeton has a way of war ping — maybe even mor ph ing — my perspective of the world around me. Greek colum ns like those of the Parthenon work their way into my dai ly wa l k to class, accompan ied by a peppering of famous statues and Nobel lau reate professors.

I’l l never forget my f irst foray into the magn if icence of Princeton as an eager 14-year-old, overcome by the ridicu lous perfection that seems to ooze out of ever y nook and cran ny of each arch itectu ral mar vel on campus.

It was then that my idea of a pristine Princeton was tr u ly solidif ied. Ever y space on campus was its ow n iteration of what perfection shou ld look l ike —from the quarter-saw n oak paneling in East P y ne to the angu lar ex actness of I. M. Pei’s venerated Spelman apartments.

It is th rough th is lens that I amble th rough life here inside the Orange Bubble, always osci l lating bet ween the perfect and the pristine, often never f inding a comfor table place for my imperfect sel f.

The much-referenced idea l of “effor t less perfection” seem s to

This Side of Princeton: J STREET SADIE HENDERSON Contributor

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Once again, the ever-ecstatic voice of Why Are You Still Here? echoes over the speakers, congratulating me on having made it to midnight at the J Street Library for the fourth time this week.

Having been a proud resident of Wilson College for over a month now, there are a few facts about J Street Library of which I am certain: 1) it has extremely comfortable chairs 2) it is scarily quiet 3) someone is always asleep on the blue velvet couches, and 4) the entry way to J Street is where homework goes to die (this last observation being most evident on the day my roommate told me, “I’m going to J Street,” only to return 4.7 hours later after having accomplished absolutely nothing- for more information contact Janette Lu ‘20) Let it be clear, when I say J Street, I’m either referring to the library, where homework has a potential to thrive, or the entry way, where most unassuming frosh congregate.

Take Michele Montas ‘20, for example, who describes her experiences studying by J Street entryway, saying, “Literally, I can’t shut my mouth, because as I walk up that ramp to the door I always see somebody, and spend the next three hours telling them every detail of my life.”

In contrast, when Vanessa Moore ‘20, who tends to study inside of the library, was asked why J Street was such an unproductive space, she exclaimed, “What?! I get so much done in J Street! ” (To any of those who question her statement, let it be known that she is, in fact, a dedicated member of BSE program).

It should also be noted that outside of J Street is the area known as Wilcox Commons. All that I need to say about that is that anyone who can actually get work done should

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A photo of a student outside of the J Street library in Wilson Residential College.

really be commended, because how can you get any work done when all you can ever hear is the eternal ping pong game downstairs?

Personally, in my studies of the J Street library I have found that it is not the study space itself that is the problem, but rather the people whom you study with (my dear zee group and OA friends, I love you, but I regret to say that I just cannot study with you in the J Street library anymore- we have yet to actually make it into the library one day).

It’s a struggle every day. Every time I walk through the doors into Wilcox the common area seems so much more inviting than the silent

space past those glass doors.; I have to make a critical decision: right or left? Right to studiousness and productivity, or left to entertainment and the very real potential for free food?

At Princeton, we try and — gasp — we occasionally fail. But at Princeton, after we fail, we eventually prevail (or at least, that’s what every upperclass student has told my roommate who is currently taking COS126).

Through trial and error, we will find our study spaces, our study buddies, and perhaps even the will to turn away from the Wilcox commons. Let us all just hope that that day comes before midterms.

f ind a cozy dwel ling in ou r ivor y towers, both spatial ly and metaphorical ly, as we d rift past ou r Oly mpic medalist neighbors and Google intern ing classmates, often wondering how they can exude such a quiet bri l liance.

It can be a chal lenge then, to f ind a place here that lifts that pressu re off of ou r tex tbook-laden shou lders. Luck i ly for me, there is one such place on campus.At f irst glance, the Cyclab cou ld come off as an unorganized intersection bet ween chaos and mayhem, where entropy seem s to be increasing just a bit faster than normal.

Sit u ated bet ween and below t wo residential col leges — Rock y and Mathey — the Cyclab benef its from a state of relative anony m it y among many, yet also a cu lt follow ing amongst some, a l low ing for a space that doesn’t compel you to be at you r best.

There, deep in the bowels of upcampus’ ancient arch itectu re, lie tires and tubes, grease and gears, and a hodgepodge of tools that you cou ld stare at for a thousand years and sti l l not u nderstand quite how they work. But, beneath the layers of dirt and grime, th is space on campu s is more l ike home to me than any archway or tower cou ld ever be.

Some of my fondest memories

of g row i ng up i n sm a l l-tow n Pen nsylvan ia are days spent helping (read: watch ing) my dad f ix up wh ichever car inev itably needed attention that day.

I remember wal k ing back and forth bet ween the workbench and the car wh i le tr y ing not to forget if it was an A l len or a Ph i l lips that he had asked for. Watch ing gears lu rch back to life and listen ing to ex planations about how alternators work was always a h igh light of my wekends.

A nd now, at Cyclab, I get to relive that ex perience as I tr y to unstick someone’s gears or maybe even just help them pump up a tire. Wal k ing into Cyclab, you don’t feel like you’re trapped in you r Chem istr y lab, where one m ishand led chem ical cou ld lead to disaster; rather, you’re inv ited to t w ist and t u r n, to pu l l and push, unti l you r bike is cr uising off into the sunset in one piece.

There, h idden bet ween Rock y and Mathey, ju x taposed again st the paragon of Princeton perfection, there is a space for m istakes.

These m istakes, however smal l or large they m ight be, help me learn w ithout the pressu re of “effortless perfection” and that’s the best k ind of space I cou ld ever ask for here.

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Q&APRINCETON MAIL SERVICES @ FRIST JIANING ZHAO Contributor

The Street went behind the scenes to talk to the people who sift through and organize all of our packages; from last-minute textbooks and halloween costumes to refrigerators and dorm decorations.

We sat down with part-time mail carrier Darla Garrison to hear about the inner workings of the Princeton Mail Services.

Daily Princetonian: When and how did you first start working at Mail Services?

Darla Garrison: I’ve been working here for two and a half years.

After retirement, I was looking for a part time job to gain a little extra income. I found out through a website that Princeton was hiring for a mail carrier, so I applied for it [the position]. After five interviews, I got the job!

DP: Five interviews! Everything at Princeton is so selective.

DG: Yeah … I’m the shortest one here, and it takes a lot of effort to get to the top shelf ... *laughs* But I’m ok! I use the ladder a lot. They should probably set a height requirement for this job …

DP It’s alright. That’s what the ladders are for.

DG: That’s what they say.

DP: So is Mail Services what you expected it to be like?

DG: Nah, I had a whole different picture in my head about a mail carrier – they will be driving a truck and delivering packages to the dorms. That’s not how Mail Services is ...*laughs* DP: Are you happy about that?

DG: I’m very happy, because I don’t wanna wear that little hat and

drive that little thing …*laughs* So I got to Mail Services, and I enjoy it tremendously. TREMENDOUSLY. DP: What do you enjoy the most working at the Mail Services?

DG: The student interaction.

Young students come in, all excited, sometimes they don’t know their mailbox number … but you get to learn things about them. You see certain ones who are familiar, and you know their first names; they light up because you know their first names, and I just love that.

Especially when you are older and you have the youth around you … it makes you feel young.

DP: So how exactly does Mail Services work?

DG: What happens here is, we get the packages from the United States Postal Service – they come in in the morning, we label them for the students, we verify other information, and then we send out emails to the students to come pick up packages.

DP: Have you encountered problems with students when they fail to get their packages?

DG: A lot of the times the students get frustrated because when the postal service says online that “your package has arrived,” the package is actually still sitting in a hamper in the post office – the post office consider the package delivered when it’s put into a hamper. And that’s frustrating for the students because they really don’t understand how it works.

They probably think to themselves that we are harboring their packages and not giving it to them…

You know when they receive things from home or order something online, they are anxious to get it. So we try to explain to them, especially the new students. And when we do,

they are alright with it, and they are generally very respectful.

DP: How many packages do you receive on a daily basis?

DG: Normally on a heavy day, we may get two thousand. On a regular day, five to seven hundred. On a light day, around four hundred.

DP: When are the heaviest days?

DG: In the beginning of the year when students come in, August to October, it’s very heavy. We get couches, refrigerators, beds, futons, bicycles, TVs… Everything from home. It’s hectic. Now it starts to slow down.

DP: Do you ever feel bored doing the same thing over and over again for years?

DG: No, never. If you come to my window, I’m always playing some music. We are always alive and happy! And it’s important to be accurate. A lot of times the packages will come with a nickname, or a middle name that we don’t have on record, or a parent’s name, so we need to double-check and verify. A lot of details get into these packages, so it doesn’t get boring at all. And they just keep coming! *laughs* DP: Are you happy that there’s a stationary office, or do you think it will be nicer to go around the campus and distribute the packages?

DG: No, I like when they come to me…*laughs* I love that part.

DP: Would that have more interaction with students though?

DG: Actually no, I’ve seen the mailman come, and he just goes to certain offices. He’s kind of invisible. While at the window, there’s personality, there’s a face, and it’s more one-on-one. I like that! I like to have fun. You do have to pay attention, but I like [the Mail Services] to be…exciting!

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Darla Garrison pictured working amidst the familiar shelves of Princeton Mail Services located at Frist Campus Center.

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ASK THE SEXPERT This week, we discuss sex toys.

Dear Sexpert, I’ve heard of dildos, but what sex toys are there that stimulate the penis? Any that work for masturbation and sex?

— Looking to Try Something New Dear Looking to Try Something New, Great question, and you’re not alone: approximately 50% percent of Americans (both male and female-identified) report having used a vibrator, according to two national surveys published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine.

There is a tremendous variety of sex toys — many of which can stimulate genitalia in multiple ways. These products come in a number of different shapes, sizes, and materials, and target different areas of the body for stimulation.

Not only can these toys work for masturbation, but they can be used during sexual play with a partner. This wide variety of options makes it possible to experiment and explore which sex toys work best for you personally.

For masturbation, trying a sex toy can be a new and exciting alternative to using one’s hands. Some people also use sex toys to help them better understand what they enjoy sexually.

Different pressures and intensities and varied materials and textures may provide more pleasure than others and preferences vary from person to person. As a result, there are many different toys to choose from.

If you’re looking for a toy that simulates penetrative sex, you may want to try a masturbation sleeve or a stroker, a toy made of silicone or a rubber-like material that fully encompasses the penis.

If you want to stimulate a different part of the body, there are prostate massagers, such as butt plugs, dildos, and anal beads. These toys specifically target the prostate (also known as the “male g-spot”) and may produce a more intense kind of pleasure than what they typically would have from just stimulating the penis. Just remember that any toy that you’re using anally should have a flared base to it, to prevent complete insertion into the rectum.

There are also penis pumps and cock rings, two toys designed to assist in making an erection harder and slightly bigger for a longer period of time by trapping blood in an erection.

Penis pumps are round plastic tubes that surround the penis and pump air out from inside the cylinder. Cock rings, as their name suggests, are

rings made of leather, plastic, silicone, or metal that go around the base of the penis.

Additionally, rings that vibrate can be placed at the base of the penis to stimulate the testicles and/or the partner during penetration. As with most new things, using a new toy is not necessarily intuitive — do some research to learn about proper use and any potential risks.

As when engaging in any sexual activity, using lubricant is a good idea for maximizing comfort and enhancing the experience. Be sure to review your toy’s material, to ensure its compatibility with different lubricants.

Water-based lubes are safe with any sex toy material.

Oil-based lubes should not be used with toys made of rubber, PVC or latex. Silicone-based lubes should not be used with silicone toys. Most toys come with product labels explaining the material, and manufacturer recommendations. For more on safety and materials, check out: http://kinseyconfidential.org/resources/sextoys.

When purchasing a sex toy, it’s helpful to keep in mind the size of the toy, its texture, how intensely it vibrates, and what control options it has. Also keep in mind that you get what you pay for — some toys that cost less can be made with lower quality or even less safe materials. Toys made of silicone, stainless steel, or glass are ideal because they are hypoallergenic and can easily be cleaned without damaging the toy.

It is also important to wash sex toys with mild soap and water before and after every use to prevent the spread of bacteria and infections. In many cases, internal or external condoms can also be used to cover the toy for single use; just be sure to use a new condom for each partner, if the toy is being shared by multiple partners.

You can learn more about the various sex toys available and receive more personalized advice about what you may like by talking with a knowledgeable sales representative at a local sex store.

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This Side of Princeton: DINKY BAR & KITCHEN ESIN YUNUSOGLU Contributor

For many of the current undergraduate students, the stone building across from the McCarter Theater, has gone unnoticed until this August, when it opened its doors as the Dinky Bar & Kitchen. The building used to be the waiting room for the New Jersey Transit’s Princeton University Station, commonly referred to as “The Dinky” since 1918.

In 2013, it was moved 460 feet south as part of the University’s Art & Transit project. Although many students know of this change, little is known about the emblematic and historical significance that the Dinky had on the university. The ‘Princeton Branch of New Jersey Transit’, or the ‘Dinky’ as it is commonly referred to by Princetonians, connects Princeton station to Princeton Junction. It is actually the shortest scheduled commuter rail line in the United States.

The original train made its first trip in 186, which covering just 3 miles in 20 minutes. Originally, the station was located right below the steps of Blair, but when following noise and smoke complaints from students in the dorms, it was moved to where “The Dinky Bar & Kitchen” is now located in 1918.

The Dinky is where one of the few “crime scenes” in Princeton’s history took place in the Dinky. On the day of house parties in 1960, three members of Cap&Gown Club came to the station on horseback, fired off a couple of shots, stopped the train, and picked up four

girls from the train. Once the students took the girls back to Prospect, they explained that it was all a prank.

Although its hard to imagine the university tolerating an action like this today, there actually was no disciplinary action against the students, other than general shock and disapproval of the administration. Moreover, the University made sure to keep the students’ identities hidden from the press. Even though nothing was actually “robbed”, the incident was later referred to as “The Great Dinky Robbery” and was the last of similar train incidents in the US history.

In 2011, a petition by the locals was signed against the project of moving the Dinky 460 ft. south. The petition stated, “the current location is welcoming to the public and easily accessible.

The proposed plan would change this by taking the station out of the public square and moving it to the campus garage area, away from the street and separated from the town center.”

The petition also stated that the Dinky was a beloved landmark of Princeton, and urged the University to “honor this history, tradition, and legacy.”

These concerns definitely played a role as The Dinky Bar and Kitchen was being designed, since the interior decor makes an effort to remain attached to the historical significance of the building.

The industrial style of a train station and the historical links with the original purpose of the building is maintained in the Dinky Bar. In fact, parts of the original structure, such as the wooden wall panels, and the metal

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The interior of the previous Dinky station was completely renovated during the last academic year to become a restaurant.

chandeliers are preserved. The board that used to show the train schedules is now used to display the menu and even the leather chairs with metal pins resemble old train seats.

The Dinky Bar & Kitchen is owned by Fenwick Hospitality Group, the same group that owns Agricola Eatery on Witherspoon Street. The first words that appear on the Dinky Bar’s website as the description are “A Casual Bar in Princeton, NJ.” The restaurant features communal bar tables and soft jazz music that plays in the background. According to waitress Madison Negron, the new restaurant is a preferred place for locals to have a drink or finger food, before or after a show at the McCarter Theater.

However, for the university students, it is not one of the cafés on or around campus that could be a casual

meeting or study spot, mostly because prices are high for the typical student budget. Moreover, it is also not a conducive environment for sitting down and writing a paper for hours. Although it does provide an easy escape from the “Orange Bubble” for students when they want to treat themselves every once in a while.

According to the waitress Negron, though the Dinky Bar is located on campus and, at most, a ten-minute walk from any dorm building, it is one of the few places where the number of locals exceed the number of Princeton students at any given time.

“I went there to celebrate with a friend when she got her first paycheck from her on campus job, and I got a new job,” Mitashee Das’19 said.

Although it has a big bar section, The Dinky Bar & Kitchen also offers a

range of small dinner plates and cheese platters, which makes it available for students of all ages. A waitress listed the “Crispy Sesame Chicken Wings” and the “Grilled Fish Tacos” among the most preferred items on the menu. The prices of plates range between $11-$21.

Upon her second visit to The Dinky Bar & Kitchen, Audrey Ou’19 said: “I find the ambience to be like NYC, really different to the other places that are available on Nassau. It’s kind of like a busy bar area that is nice to go to. For the food I like the choices of meat - I think the chicken wings are decadent.

Easily shareable portions make it wonderful for a catchup with friends.”

The repurposed Dinky station of the past century is now connecting Princeton students and community members not by an actual train, but by a quick dinner experience.

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Clinton: ‘You know, with prior Republican nominees for president, I disagreed with them. Politics, policies, principles.

But I never questioned their fitness to serve. Donald Trump is different.’

Clinton: “It’s just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country.”

Trump: “You’d be in jail” Trump: “This was locker room talk. I’m not proud of it. I apologized to my family and I apologized to the American people.

Certainly I’m not proud of it. But this is locker room talk. You know when you have a world where we have ISIS chopping off heads ... where you have so many bad things happening, this is like medieval times.”

Clinton: “Donald Trump is different. I said starting back in June that he was not fit to be president and commander in chief. And many Republicans and independents have said the same thing. What we all saw and heard on Friday was Donald talking about women, what he thinks about women, what he does to women. And he has said that the video doesn’t represent who he is. But I think it’s clear to anyone who heard it that it represents exactly who he is.”

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Trump: “And I’ll tell you what. I didn’t think I’d say this, but I’m going to say it, and I hate to say it. But if I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation, because there has never been so many lies, so much deception. There has never been anything like it, and we’re going to have a special prosecutor.”

Clinton: “OK, Donald. I know you’re into big diversion tonight, anything to avoid talking about your campaign and the way it’s exploding and the way Republicans are leaving you. But let’s at least focus.”

Clinton: “He never apologizes to anyone about anything. He owes the President an apology. He owes our country an apology and he needs to take responsibility for his actions and his words.”

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CLINTON: I want to be the president for all Americans, regardless of your political beliefs, where you come from, what you look like, your religion. I want us to heal our country and bring it together because that’s, I think, the best way for us to get the future that our children and our grandchildren deserve.

TRUMP: Well, I actually agree with that.

I agree with everything she said...

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[WHEN ASKED WHAT THEY RESPECTED ABOUT ONE ANOTHER] Clinton: “It is very important for us to make clear to our children that our country really is great because we’re good.”

Trump: ‘She complains that Donald Trump took advantage of the tax code. Why didn’t you change it when you were a senator? The reason is that all your friends take the same advantage I took.”

Clinton: “I respect his children. His children are incredibly able and devoted, and I think that says a lot about Donald.”

Trump: “She doesn’t quit. She doesn’t give up. I respect that… She’s a fighter.”

UNFAMILIAR STREET: Route 141, Costa Rica CAMPUS PICKS VIRAJ DEOKAR Contributor

As we neared our destination, the grand sight came into view — Volcán Arenal. The volcano towered above all else, and its rocky, conical shape created a striking juxtaposition against the smooth green brush that filled the landscape.

As the car continued, the landscape transformed from forest to fields to homes, before the town finally came into sight. From the bright buildings to the vibrant townspeople, a rush of color filled the scene. We had arrived.

This past March, I was fortunate enough to travel to Costa Rica with my family. It was my first time traveling to Central America, and I had heard much about the magnificent Costa Rican climate, nature, and culture, so I naturally couldn’t wait to escape the dreary early spring of Boston, Mass.

The high point of the trip was my stay in La Fortuna, a small town situated just outside one of Costa Rica’s premier volcanos. Here, we spent much time exploring the national park and rainforests, but some of the most memorable moments came from the simple experiences along the streets of La Fortuna.

Route 142, the main street of La Fortuna, cut through the center of town and functioned as the town’s heart from which small alleyways and avenues broke off from. Small restaurants, shops, and hotels ran along the sides, and a stream of tourists and townspeople always filled the empty spaces. A small park and church lay at the center of La Fortuna, and a sports complex and school were located a few minutes’ walk away from the town’s center. Despite the simplicity of the town, there was a unique story at every corner.

The church and park were the town’s social center, where one could often find students eating a picnic after classes or couples taking a stroll late in the evening. This locale represented the lifestyle and aura of La Fortuna — easygoing and relaxed. Further up

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Route 142 towards the restaurants and shops, there was an open market on the weekends. Farmers from the local fields and forests brought in fresh fruits and vegetables, and the town center had a hustle-bustle liveliness to it then.

Among the more curious things in town was a car equipped with a large speaker on its roof. This car drove around town blasting radio advertisements, and its presence seemed common since it had a company name on its side doors and was present every day.

Once, next to a restaurant, I saw a man fixing a brightly colored car straight out of the 1960s or 70s. The man didn’t seem to be a mechanic by trade, but with the help of some of his friends, he got the engine working. Such resourcefulness and craftsmanship were common to see in the town.

The tourist shops often had souvenirs made in the town itself, and there was a jewelry store where shop-owners handmade the items. The townsfolk were also very amiable and open to dis-

cussion. My family and I had countless conversations with our cab drivers and guides about their lives and ours. Although La Fortuna is a tourist town, their openness towards other cultures and outsiders was nonetheless amazing.

The town also had a symbiosis with its natural environment. Animals, particularly birds, were spread throughout the town, and there was noticeable evidence that the townspeople had made great efforts to be energy efficient and environmentally conscious; recycling was infused in every possible location, and litter was nowhere to be seen. This characteristic exists largely because La Fortuna was formed with a perspective that the natural environment is a real jewel.

The verdant surroundings and exotic wildlife felt part of the town, and the grand presence of the volcano always seemed to be the center of attention.

The volcano was always in sight and felt like a protector of the lands below,

even though it had, within it, the power for great destruction. Until 2010, Volcán Arenal had been one of the most active volcanos in the world. But it has become much more dormant since then. Today, you can still see smoke coming out of the top, or visit the site of its latest eruption, where lava has since turned to rock.

Past the town, Route 142 continues towards the volcano and into the landscape. Its path maintains the connection between man and nature, which is so prevalent in La Fortuna. From the ever-present wildlife and greenery to the resourcefulness of the townspeople, the surrounding environment is infused into all parts of life in La Fortuna. As the road continues, you draw away from the lively streets and the fascinating people who traverse them.

The buildings become miniscule, and the colors fuse into one bright speck.

Soon, La Fortuna and the volcano vanish from sight, but it still feels like you never left.

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U. earns 0.8% investment gain to the $22.2 billion endowment, a tragic $570 mi llion decrease from last year.

And the yelling continues...GOP declares Gov. Mike Pence vp-debate winner 90 minutes PRIOR to the debate Hurricane Matthew kills at least 39 in the US and causes deadly flooding in NC, VA, FL, and SC. 1500 left stranded in NC.

BEL PRIZE IN F. DUNCAN HALDANE WINS NO LANCE TO GUEST PHYSICS - UNCANNY RESEMB ST SPRING? PHY104 PRECEPTOR FROM LA

Federal Appeals cour t rejects a Native American tribe’s request to block construction of Dakota Pipeline email White supremacist group sends an LEFT to U. with the subject line “NO CHILD WHITE - VOTE TRUMP!”

Princeton’s LGBT Center is celebrating it’s 10th anniversary and it’s a mustattend event. Countless alumni (i.e.

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It’s Latinx Heritage Month, so what better way to celebrate than to go to the Princeton Latinx Association’s’ 2016 Fall Gala? Great food, fun music and dancing, and performances by Mas Flow Dance Company and Ellipses Team Members.

Keynote speaker Diane Guerrero has been on shows such as ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK and JANE THE VIRGIN. Formal attire is required and doors will open at 7:30 PM.

MUSIC THE 103RD ANNUAL PRINCETON VS. HARVARD FOOTBALL CONCERT Richardson Auditorium Next Friday, 7:30 PM-10 PM

A tradition that’s over 100 years old, and a rivalry that’s almost older than this country - this event is always heavily antipicated. The concert will take place on Princeton’s campus this year. Musical offerings will vary from traditional choral repetoire from both glee clubs to Princeton and Harvard football medleys! Go to support your fellow Tigers!

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In stark contrast to their start last season, the women’s volleyball team opened the Ivy League season with a five-game winning streak. Their latest victories include two sweeps against Columbia and Cornell. This impressive start has sent the Tigers to the top of the table. Yale and Columbia are tied for a close second with four wins apiece. These five conference wins have also extended the team’s winning streak to nine.

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litical future more inextricably bound up with the fortunes of the Trump campaign than the average Republican governor or member of Congress.

“I still support [Trump], you know, but certainly you take some time to think about that when you’re going through this, but what I would say is that again, you know anybody who hears that video was disturbed by it and offended by it and as well they should be,” Christie said on WFAN Tuesday in response to the tape. “I’ve known him for a long time, and I’m really upset by what I heard, but in the end, this election is about bigger issues than just that.”

Stanley Katz, professor of Public and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School, noted the difficult political situation in which Christie finds himself.

“His lifeline to the press, really, is Trump. Nobody takes him seriously anymore as Governor of New Jersey,” Katz said.

“The atmospherics of [Bridgegate] were terrible… Now, it’s worse because he’s being much more directly accused of being involved.”

Katz added that Christie will be in an acute bind if Trump loses the election, saying that his decision to focus on Trump’s campaign at the expense of his governorship over the last year will not appeal to anyone except a core of Trump supporters in the future.

Sofia Gallo ’17 noted she did not think that there was a compelling reason for Christie to stop endorsing Trump, citing the fact that anyone who has endorsed Trump has known from the beginning that he has been prone to making comments of a similarly provocative nature.

Gallo added that she has mixed thoughts on the larger question of the compatibility of voting for Trump as a conscientious conservative.

“What keeps me from completely not voting for Trump is the Supreme Court and the fact that one of the two major

candidates will win,” Gallo explained. “As a conservative, we do need, I think, judges on the Supreme Court who will leave social issues up to the states.

I’m not even sure that Trump will do that, but he probably will more than Hillary.”

Gallo added that she still found it difficult to support Trump but did not consider abstaining from voting as an option because she considers voting a civic duty.

“I think if we want to help people understand what conservatism is as a political philosophy more than as just, ‘This is what a politician happens to be saying,’ then I think it’s really harmful for us and for people who are conscientiously conservative to advocate for Trump, because the things he [says] violate a lot of what I think are core conservative principles,” Gallo explained. “For those of us who take conservatism seriously as a coherent political philosophy about government, it’s really hard to still support a politician when he’s not actually following those principles… [but] not voting is sort of a way to avoid taking responsibility for the election and the future.”

Jahdziah St. Julien ’18, however, said that Christie’s choice to continue to stand by Trump is concerning because, despite the exodus of other Republican officials from the Trump camp, the allegations of sexual misconduct were still not enough to dissuade Christie from supporting Trump. As to the larger election, St. Julien said that it was still “a shock to the system” that a candidate who made remarks like Trump’s could continue to garner significant support from the American people.

Princeton College Republicans have maintained a position of neutrality on Trump.

Christie’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The third presidential debate will be held on Oct. 19.

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half an ounce of liquid LSD on his person at the time.

This arrest was preceded by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s discovery of a package addressed to Edgren that shipped from Hong Kong. This package was part of an operation that began in December 2015.

Customs and Border Protection then contacted the University’s Department of Public Safety and the Mercer County Narcotics Task Force, leading to the surveillance of the package which resulted in Edgren’s arrest.

Police followed up with a warrant to search Edgren’s dormitory, where they found psilocybin, drug paraphernalia, and marijuana cookies. The total amount of drugs found in relation to Edgren amounted to around $3,000.

Prior to his arrest, Edgren had no criminal record or history of violence.

Edgren was a member of Terrace Club. In November 2015, members of the club circulated a petition based on Edgren’s history as a non-harmful member of society to reinstate him as a student of the University.

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dent but was banned from campus; following being taken into custody, Edgren was no longer enrolled in the University. The circumstances around his status change is unclear.

The University Policy Concerning Use of Illegal Drugs as detailed in “Rights, Rules, Responsibilities” states that penalties for these acts will be administered by the appropriate offices, which in the case of an undergraduate would fall on the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students.

The policy does not specify that cases of arrest would lead to immediate expulsion, but notes that the penalty would range depending on the degree to which violation of the policy adversely affects the well-being of the community or the fulfillment of the University’s educational mission.

Additionally, it states that the association of the University with the violator of the policy could be made contingent upon satisfactory participation in a drug abuse assistance or rehabilitation program.

Cramer declined to comment on whether or not there is a chance for Edgren to be reinstated now that he is no longer in custody of Mercer County.

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or need to suspend employment, in order to do their practice teaching before being certified as educators.

“I see [the new fund] as the bringing together of educational policy and practice,” Campisano said. “The two reinforce one another.”

This new research fund does not simply focus on education, but also encourages multidisciplinary intersections, preferably with intersections among areas such as economics, psychology, sociology, politics, and sciences, according to Campisano.

“For me I think [the opportunity] can satisfy my passion for both the social science aspect of Woodrow Wilson School but as well as [my passion for] the medical field,” Andy Zheng ’20, a potential Wilson School major, said.

Zheng added that he looks forward to the opportunity presented to him as an incoming student of the major.

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“There’s this question about the rise of the nones,” he said.

“Are nones really all atheists?”

Only 24 percent of people who indicate that they have no religion truly have no sort of belief in God or spiritual and religious practice, according to Espinosa.

Espinosa noted that religions such as Islam, Evangelicalism, and Mormonism are on the rise. Other fast-growing sects include independent, non-denominational religious centers, especially in Latin-American communities.

Latino communities, he said, are growing rapidly across the

United States and are already the largest minority in 25 states. By 2100, only 40 percent of the U.S. population will be white, while 33 percent will be Hispanic.

“Racial populations are growing more rapidly than people realize and are offsetting others,” Espinosa said, adding that even in historically more conservative states, such as Georgia and North Carolina, racial minorities are a growing share of the electorate.

Presently, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are demonstrating awareness of this shift through their campaign trail strategies, he added.

“Clinton has made a calculated decision to use religion as a vehicle,” Espinosa explained.

He referred to her visiting

and praying at historically black churches as a part of her campaign and compared it to Trump’s recent visits to newly established black churches in an effort to connect to both racial minorities and religious leaders.

Espinosa said he foresees race playing an increasingly important role in a post-Obama America given the decline of the white electorate, and religion playing an increasingly important role due to the presence of religion in some form in a vast majority of Americans’ lives.

The lecture, titled “Race, Religion, and the 2016 Election,” took place at 4:30 p.m in Dodds Auditorium. It was sponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions.

Opinion

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The key lies in ditching the keyboard Maha Al Fahim

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HE PROFESSOR strolls back and forth, waving his hands around as he speaks on the subject of his passion, 100 percent invested in the lecture.

In front of him, rows of students are typing notes on laptops. This is the front view of a University lecture hall.

The view from the back is a different story. There is a slope of laptop screens flashing bright with Facebook, soccer matches, memes, and pictures of cats.

The professor of WWS 370: Ethics and Public Policy is attempting to create a different environment in its lecture hall. To combat the distraction that laptops bring to multitasking students and to those around them, he issued a no-computer policy in lectures and precepts. Of course, students with special needs will receive accommodations. The class syllabus reads, “No computers: Research now supports what common sense has long suggested: that note taking by hand tends to promote deeper understanding than the use of laptops. In addition, laptop multitasking has become increasingly distracting to teachers and students. We believe that students generally will do better in the class — that your performance and grades will be improved — if we ban electronics in the classroom and precepts, which we are doing this year.”

Thus, the mission of this policy is twofold: one, to cultivate student understanding of the course by having students take notes in a more productive manner, and two, to combat distractions caused by multitasking.

At first, this policy was met with some resistance from students. Some students argued that they wouldn’t be able to keep up with the professor if they are deprived of their laptops because typing is faster than writing by hand. However, faster does not mean better.

New research shows that students who take notes by hand outperform those who type.

Writing takes longer than typing; this compels us to write only the essential points, forc-

ing us to process what we hear. We can also take notes in the margin and draw diagrams and other visuals that would take ages to do on a computer, for most of us, anyways. One student who has converted from typing to writing shared, “I used to mindlessly type the professor’s every word as fast as possible. But when final exam time came around, I found that I could not recall anything I typed. So I had to re-write all my notes by hand to memorize them. That was time wasted that I could have saved if I’d started out by hand-writing my notes in the first place.” This directly contradicts the notion that typing is faster, as typing takes up more time in the long run.

The second counterargument students bring up is that, without laptops, they must print all course materials and bring them to lecture. This wastes a lot of paper, and the printed documents are heavy to carry around and messy to refer to. I agree — the environmentalists will cringe and the backs of some students will crack. However, I find there to be something incomparable about the feeling of paper; the ability to highlight, to scribble frantically and draw on the margins, to mix our mark with the author’s words, making the paper something of our own. Compared to the digital copy, the printed document is much more tangible. It allows us to feel a closer connection with the author’s arguments. So yes, printed documents are weight on our backs, but when exam time comes around and we are more familiar with the documents, they remove a burden from our shoulders.

Of course, there are some people who are just more comfortable with a laptop, with the familiar feeling of a keyboard under their fingers.

I think of my 14-year-old brother who finds it odd to hold a pencil in his hand. I think of the generation of students who has grown up cradling iPads, getting bedtime stories from eBooks, finding playmates in the form of screens, toys in the form

of buttons. A policy banning computers in class would encumber them.

These people may counter that we’ll be working with computers for the rest of our lives, so why not start now? However, learning how to work with technology also means learning how to find balance in using it.

The second part of the policy is combating distractions. Some say we will always find a way to get distracted if we are bored.

To quote David Mendelsohn, “You can force people to hear and look, but you can’t control whether they listen or learn.”

At least, though, no laptops mean no clacking keyboards sounds that can impede some students’ ability to hear the professor from the back rows. My friend described the typing sound you hear in McCosh 10 whenever a professor says a sentence with dense terminology, “It’s like rain pouring down the lecture hall.”

Regarding the distracting element of laptops, one thought runs through my mind whenever I see that slope of internet-browsing screens: I think of the thousands of students vying to sit at our very seats, to listen, for even a minute, to these world-class scholars. And we were once one of those students too. We’ve been anticipating this moment for a long time. Now that we’ve attained it, why not live presently in it? Now that we are sitting at these special seats, why do what anyone on a couch at home can do?

I acknowledge that students have diverse work ethics and that a blanket ban on laptops may incommode some. Nonetheless, defenders of the pen and paper may have a point. To those who type out their notes, why not try your hand at handwriting? I’ve heard stories of many pleased converters.

Maybe then we can appreciate a professor’s attempts to reel in his students.

Maha Al Fahim is a sophomore from Vancouver, BC Canada. She can be reached at mfahim@princeton.edu.

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The psychology of success Luke Gamble COLUMNIST

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UE TO how much success we’ve experienced and the praise that often comes with it, many of us have the tendency to associate our self-worth with that success and praise. We confuse innate value with our skills or jobs or good looks. Instead of being “Luke who happens to write and has good test-taking skills,” in my mind, I become “Luke the writer and the testtaker.” The operative identity has switched from a person to a skill, from an unchanging essence that endows you with worth and value and purpose to an arbitrary set of skills you ironically have very little control over.

At school, this often exhibits itself as a paralyzing fear of low grades. We become the kings and queens of the “Type A” personality. We try to control that and many other aspects of our lives as if our very identities depended upon it. Part of us really does believe that if we were to lose that skill or attribute, we would somehow lose the very core of our essence. A failed test is not just

an F, it’s a big “Failure” written all over the transcript of your life, a trauma we feel justified to revisit years after the actual impact of the low grade.

When we operate with this exhausting fear for failure, this constant need to perform, we live in what Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck calls a “fixed mindset.” In a fixed mindset, natural traits can’t be developed or grown. You have a given amount of brains or talent that defines how you are going to do in life.

As a result, you constantly have to prove your worth.

It’s not enough to become — you have to be, right now.

As Maria Popova writes, “striving for success and avoiding failure at all costs become a way of maintaining the sense of being smart or skilled.” Our approach to our studies shifts from an emphasis on learning and growth towards mindless, exhausting sprints to avoid failure or low grades. What could be a fruitful four years of genuine growth descends into seemingly endless grunt work and to-do lists. We read because

we’ll have to write a paper on it or take an exam on it. We try to see how many books we can get through before class instead of slowing down to see if a book can get through to us. A precept goes from being an engaging conversation to yet another area where we might say the wrong thing and look dumb.

The activities we take part in are largely the same, but conflating ourselves with our grades and skills — adopting a fixed mentality — renders our time an entirely different experience.

Other students display a less stressful, but equally tragic, expression of the fixed mentality upon getting to Princeton: they choose to check out. They rationalize this by concluding that if you don’t try, then the failure to succeed won’t reflect poorly on you. If you don’t put forth effort you can say you would have succeeded, but that you’ve been investing your efforts elsewhere. More often than not this “elsewhere” amounts to little more than what Jack Bryan referred to mockingly as his “FIFA and napping skills” in his Opinion column. They

don’t fail in their endeavors, but that’s because they never really had any ambitions at all.

It’s a safety mechanism for the same identity crisis the “Type A” perfectionists experience.

I came into Princeton very confident about my writing skills, but freshman year I received a lot of unsatisfactory marks on my essays. Unfortunately, I didn’t absorb the criticism. Upon receiving an essay back from a professor, I would immediately flip to the back page looking for a letter grade.

If I received anything below an A-minus I wouldn’t even read the comments. I assumed that if a professor had a problem with my work then it was due to some inherent bias or personal beef with my argument. It got so bad that I started writing all my papers the night before they were due so that I could always either blame the teacher or the fact that I had written the entire paper in one night.

I wasn’t really interested in learning or growing. What I really wanted was a pat on the back and affirmation that I was all I thought of myself — ef-

fortlessly brilliant. I missed out on a lot of valuable criticism, humbling, and eventual improvement because of it. Now I keep every essay I get back and look over the comments several times a month, making sure I’m making progress on my various weaknesses. What I should have done was to not worry about what sort of writer I was, but to look towards the writer I wanted to become.

Real learning can happen when we stop worrying how we are perceived, when we stop worrying so much about how we are performing right now, and when we begin to invest our effort into becoming the people we want to be after graduation. Then we can begin to view “failures” not as evidence of being damned to a life of unintelligence and mediocrity but as, Dweck writes, “a heartening springboard for growth and for stretching our existing abilities…”

Luke Gamble is an English major from Eagle, Idaho. He can be reached at ljgamble@princeton.edu.