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Associate Street Editor investigates pumpkins, stained glass and campus sculpture; Staff Writer Jacqueline Levine checks out “La Vie en Cello”; and Street Editor Lin King explores an “Unfamiliar Street” in Taiwan. PAGE S1-S4

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Q&A: J. Matthew McInnis, Iran expert

By Abhiram Karuppur contributor

American Enterprise Institute resident fellow J. Matthew McInnis spoke on current affairs in Iran at a Wednesday lecture. After the event, McInnis sat down with The Daily Princetonian to discuss the Iranian nuclear deal and Iran’s relationships with other world powers.

Daily Princetonian: With the signing of the Iran Deal, what do you expect to see in terms of economic development in Iran and its neighbors?

Matthew McInnis: I think that Iran is going to get an initial inf lux of cash that’s been sitting overseas under sanctions. So, the biggest thing that they are going to get first is cash, specifically in terms of investments between 20 and 30 billion dollars. But the real advantage for them is all the potential for warcraft investment, and frankly, it’s not going to be as lucrative as they initially expected. Partly this is because the Supreme Leader in general is still concerned about too much Western inf luence. They are still concerned about foreigners sitting on corporate boards and more multinational company structures. They are unsure how to balance the economic and political repercussions of investors from the West and East Asia. Everyone’s very eager to find out how much money they’re going to make, but I think they’re going to find it much more difficult than they expected.

The rules are not going to be very pleasant, and a couple of problems foreign companies are going to have is that Iran is very adept at taking other people’s technology, reverseSee Q&A page 1

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South African multimedia artist William Kentridge is the 2015-16 Belknap Visitor in the Humanities. He delivered a public lecture titled “O Sentimental Machine” on Wednesday afternoon in McCosh 10.

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

U. administration explains DPS rifle policy change

By Christina Vosbikian staff writer

The decision to make rifles available to sworn Department of Public Safety officers reflects national best practice about how to keep campus secure right now, DPS Executive Director Paul Ominsky said.

“We wanted to come up with a specific protocol for emergency response,” Ominsky explained, adding that getting an armed responder to the scene quickly is key to the safety of the community.

The new policy was announced at the Council of the Princeton Univer-

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ing officers, so the officers will not wear handguns.

He said he proposed this policy change a while ago, and that it has been under discussion for a few months.

“We continually refine and review our plans, and although we have a very safe campus, the national protocols have really evolved,” he said.

University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 deferred comment to Executive Vice President Treby Williams ’84.

Williams noted that a national specific protocol change for active shooter situations was one of the See RIFLES page 2

LECTURE

Iran foreign policy expert explains nation’s stance

News & Notes

By Abhiram Karuppur contributor

Rutgers University at Newark named most diverse college

U.S. News & World Report ranked Rutgers University at Newark the most diverse institution among national colleges this month, Fox News reported.

To create the list, U.S. News measured the likelihood of encountering undergraduates from other racial or ethnic groups by considering the total proportion of non-international minority students and the blend of groups on campus for 2014-15.

The racial categories were black or African American, Hispanic, American Indian, Asian, Pacific Islander, white (non-Hispanic) and multiracial. For students who did not identify themselves as belonging to any these groups, U.S. News used the classification of non-Hispanic whites.

Every ranked school has a diversity index ranging from 0 to 1, which indicates the greatest diversity. Rutgers at Newark scored 0.76, followed by Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Mich., and St. John’s University in New York City.

The University ranked 44th with a diversity index of 0.65.

sity Community meeting on Monday

by Ominsky. The policy gives sworn DPS officers – who were trained for 26 weeks in the New Jersey State Police Academy – access to rifles in the event of an emergency.

The only emergencies in which rifles will be accessed by DPS’s sworn officers would be in the event of an active shooter incident or if someone is brandishing a firearm on campus, Ominsky said, adding that DPS will have a policy and procedure for defining such emergencies.

“In both of those situations, time matters,” he said.

Ominsky noted that DPS is not arm-

COURTESY OF EE.PRINCETON.EDU

Vincent Poor GS ‘77 will step down as dean at the end of the year.

Dean of the engineering school to step down

By Betty Liu contributor

Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Vincent Poor GS ’77 will be stepping down at the end of this academic year, according to Poor.

Poor, who has been in his current position since 2006, was dean during the establishment of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, the Center for Information and Technology Policy and the renaming of the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education after a donation from Dennis Keller ’63 and his wife, Constance Templeton Keller.

The end of the 2015-16 aca-

demic year marks the end of his second five-year term as the dean of SEAS. Poor explained that he has chosen this time to step down because the completion of projects such as the Andlinger Center and the implementation of the new strategic plan for the department indicates a logical junction for a change in leadership.

University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 appointed Pablo Debenedetti, former vice dean of SEAS, to chair the search committee to find Poor’s successor. Eisgruber said Debenedetti was chosen to chair the committee due to his familiarity with SEAS, See DEAN page 4

Iran’s foreign policy actions come from its insecurity and desire to uphold its unique ideology, American Enterprise Institute’s resident fellow J. Matthew McInnis said at a lecture on Wednesday.

“Iran is something that can be understood. It is not a black box,” McInnis said, explaining that it is possible for the American government, and the public, to understand why Iran behaves like it does.

McInnis served as the senior expert on Iran at the U.S. Cen-

tral Command from 2010 to 2013, and worked with General David Petraeus GS ’85 ’87 and General Ray Odierno to increase the government’s awareness of Iran’s military capabilities. He worked at the U.S. Department of Defense for 15 years, working on regional security and counterterrorism in the Middle East and East Asia prior to joining AEI. McInnis said Iran’s antiWestern stance stems from the last 200 years of its history.

“Over the last 200 years, Iran has lost a lot of territory to imperialist forces,” McInnis said.

Iran’s lack of military

strength causes it to view powerful countries like the United States and China with fear, all the while projecting an image of confidence, he said.

“They don’t have the capacity to take over Iraq, Afghanistan or Turkey,” McInnis said, adding that Iran uses proxy forces, like Hezbollah, to help it spread its unique ideology throughout the Middle East.

Iran’s goal is similar to those of the Soviet Union and China during the 1970s and 1980s, but it “hasn’t gone through a ‘Deng Xiaoping’ moment yet,” McInnis noted. Additionally, See LECTURE page 3

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The University Jazz Vespers Ensemble performed at the the University Chapel on Wednesday night.

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elements that brought about the University’s proposal.

According to Ominsky, DPS often conducts drills with the Princeton Police Department, which it also consulted regarding response protocol. The organizations work together regularly, he said.

“We hope we never have to have officers access the rifles, but we need to prepare and to train our staff,” Ominsky said. ”This is a preventative measure.”

PPD Sergeant Steven Riccitello deferred comment to University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua.

Ominsky noted that in many situations where safety is important, student input is not involved.

“The safety of the University community is the administration’s top priority,” Ominsky said. “There are times when administrators will act on behalf of the community for that purpose, so we did not consult with students.”

Williams, who noted that her role gives her responsibil-

ity for overseeing safety on campus, said she and Ominsky worked closely together along with many other people across the institution to develop the rifle policy.

“As Executive Director Ominsky said, this measure that we’re using here has been under careful consideration,” Williams said. “We think it’s limited in the appropriate way and addresses what could be a very significant and severe situation on campus, which we hope never occurs but nevertheless we need to be prepared for.”

In 2013, former University President Shirley Tilghman said guns had no place on campus.

“We have in place a number of measures that will ensure that if there is a risk … police can rapidly have the appropriate response without having our own police officers armed,” she said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian.

In response to Tilghman’s statement, Ominsky said, “Times have changed and the best practices have evolved.”

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engineering it and using it in better ways than the original intent. They’re very good at this, but they want to become as self-sufficient as possible … If sanctions come back, they’re extremely vulnerable … They want to be able to take as much as they can during this window when [Barack] Obama is still president. They are confident that sanctions will not be coming back for now, and they are trying to strike deals and get intellectual property and other proprietary information from major international companies to get their technology and know-how. Iran is very smart, and they know how to take that and use it for themselves so they can produce the stuff on their own. The other thing is that there are going to be capital controls being placed on investment because of this fear of what would happen if sanctions came back. So, I think that, for those companies in particular that Iran is looking for, like energy companies, they will be offered to form long, 20-30 year deals. Theoretically, the deals would be

grandfathered if sanctions came back, so there’s going to be a lot of pressure to get those kind of deals. Any kind of deal that makes them a quick dollar is going to be very attractive, so that’s kind of the approach Iran is going to be taking, because they very much want to stand on their own two feet economically. At the same time, they’re going to end up in a situation where the growth is not as fast as they would have wanted because they have so much to modernize, and I think they are underestimating how hard this is going to be.

DP: Iran recently launched a surface-to-surface missile on Sunday. Do you think the United Nations will find Iran in violation of the nuclear deal? What are the implications?

MM: They’re not in direct violation of the U.N. sanctions, but are in terms of the spirit of the sanctions, at least in terms of the requirements adopted by the nuclear deal. However, that deal only goes into effect on Oct. 19, so there might be a reason why they launched it before then. Once the new terms come in, the resolution that was passed in July

to adopt the deal changed the language of ballistic missile launches. Now, it says that they have to refrain from launching missiles that are designed to carry a nuclear weapon, so of course Iran has an easy loophole there.

Not only are they not forbidden anymore, they are just being told to not do it as opposed to ‘you cannot do it.’ They can always argue that they don’t intend to put a nuclear weapon on the missile, so they are not in violation of anything. They intend to push the envelope as far as they can, but what is interesting is that they are deciding to do it based off the old resolutions. I think they are sending a very strong message that they don’t see the UN resolutions as legitimate. That’s why they can reject the resolution with moral standing.

The deal that was signed in Vienna, they look at that deal as something they are beholden to. They look at the U.N. resolution that adopted it as less binding, because it was passed by the U.N. Security Council, of which Iran is not a part. Their signatures aren’t on it, and even though they were part of the negotiations, they only see what they sign as bind-

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Iran is currently struggling to convince its neighbors and its people to embrace its system of government, he said.

Quoting Henry Kissinger, McInnis said, “Iran can’t decide if it’s an idea or a state, and it’s struggling to determine that now.”

McInnis said Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wanted the “Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action” nuclear deal signed by Iran, the United States and other members of the United Nations in July. The deal lifted the economic sanctions from the United States and the European Union, and allowed Iran to enrich Uranium in limited quantities. Once the deal expires, Iran would have the ability to resume developing a nuclear arsenal.

While Iran had been trying to obtain a deal since the early 2000s under the Ahmadinejad regime, the current situation in the Middle East finally made the

deal a possibility.

Iran does not currently have a reason to develop its nuclear program, since the Arab Spring, compounded with the rise of the ISIS, has already put the Iranian nuclear program on hold.

Iran has resigned itself to maintaining control over Syria while fending off ISIS, rather than furthering its nuclear capacity.

According to McInnis, if Iran were to grow its nuclear stockpile, the United States and its allies would escalate, leading to a Cold War-type scenario.

“Iran realized that developing nuclear weapons would put them in a state similar to North Korea,” McInnis said.

The deal also offers Iran a relief from sanctions, which is beneficial not only from an economic standpoint, but also from a military one. By putting their nuclear weapons program on hold for 10 to 20 years, Iran stands to gain from greater export revenues.

McInnis pointed out that the United States might have given up more than what was necessary to accomplish the deal.

“Once Iran knew that the U.S. was open to giving them the right to enrich Uranium, they became much more keen on making a deal,” McInnis said.

Domestically, McInnis attributed the current instability in Iran to the classical nationalists that exert a certain amount of influence in Iranian government. These “Persian chauvinists” want to project a sense of Persian superiority and dominance, while the Supreme Leader and others in the regime want to unite the Middle East under the banner of Islam. But because Iran is the only theocracy in the region, it has no neighboring allies who support its style of governance.

Looking to the future, McInnis noted that Russia’s incursion into Syria could pose a major threat to Iranian dominance, as Iran doesn’t have a very positive view of Russia or the United States.

The lecture was organized by the American Enterprise Institute On-Campus, and took place in Oakes Lounge in Whig Hall at 6:30 p.m.

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ing. They’re going to look at what we think is a binding resolution and are going to care less. You’re going to see a continuing approach that will annoy us, but they don’t think we’re going to do anything about that, like pass new sanctions. If we push back, they’ll pull back, but if we don’t push back, they won’t let up. They’re testing us in a way.

DP: China and Russia are Iran’s largest buyers of oil.

Do you think they’ll have an increasing inf luence in determining Iran’s military and economic future?

MM: Well, certainly, I’ve talked about tonight that they’re in a kind of new relationship with Russia that is going to become very problematic in the long-term, in my opinion, where they’re going to be increasingly beholden to what Putin wants to do in the region. That’s going to have certain advantages for them. They’re going to be able to have greater ability to resist the United States, resist Saudi Arabia, resist Israel. But they’re also going to be, I think, more compromised in what they want to do, because they’re going to have to accede to Russian interests at times

when they may not want to.

With China they don’t have as much of a strategic alignment per se, but they do obviously have a lot of interest in Chinese military capabilities, military weapons, as they do with Russians, and in particular, over the years the Chinese have been more and more hesitant to sell stuff to Iran. Because Iran has its history, as I was talking about on the economic front, of taking their technology and ripping it off and using it in their own stuff, and so the Chinese got really annoyed with that … the Russians, they’re going to sell some stuff to the Iranians, but they don’t want to arm Iran to the teeth. It’s just like the reason Russia, in the end, didn’t want Iran to get a bomb. I think actually they were sincere about that. The reason why the P5+1 held together so long is because the Chinese and the Russians don’t actually want a nuclear bomb, because that’s a real problem, because they can’t manage it, they can’t control it, it’s disruptive … China and Russia, they’re going to increase their cooperation with Iran, but … I don’t expect this to become some grand new version of NATO inside Eurasia.

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his understanding of the University and its interests, as well as his sterling reputation as an engineer.

Applications for the position will be accepted until Nov. 13, and the search committee expects that a new dean will be in place by July 1, 2016, Debenedetti said.

Debenedetti explained that the committee, in looking for Poor’s successor, is searching for someone who both has an exceptional record in teaching, research and administration, and is also a visionary.

“We’re looking for someone who can articulate the compelling vision for the fu-

ture of the school and inspire faculty, students and alumni in the realization of that vision,” Debenedetti said.

Eisgruber said that he hopes the new dean will have a good understanding of the values that matter to engineering at the University, which he said combines a great engineering school with a liberal arts context.

Poor said he plans to take a one-year sabbatical after stepping down before returning to teach in the electrical engineering department at the University. He added that he will spend the fall semester at the University of Cambridge working on the social analysis of networks, and that in the spring, he will return to the United States to work with colleagues on

the West Coast to tackle problems of energy efficiency in the smart grid.

Poor said that he will miss working with the alumni and administration, as well as his highly dedicated and skillful staff in the dean’s office, to tackle the broad issues facing the University. He said that as dean, he is in a position to look at these issues, whereas as a faculty member he would be more concerned with his own research.

He added that he looks forward to getting back to teaching as well as being more involved in the day-today activities of his research.

“I’ll be happy also to be back in the electrical engineering department, which is my academic home here at Princeton,” he said.

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America’s unhealthy obsession with the common lawn

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once heard this place described as an oasis of incredible passion and intimacy — a place to seek clarity like you’ve never seen and aimlessness you never wanted to know was possible. A place to fall in love, develop a much finer sense of how people feel, and experience a spectrum of pure, unadulterated emotion.

This perception of Princeton has always resonated well with me, but still, I worry.

With the opportunity to experience life so fully comes the challenge of striking an emotional balance. It’s this dichotomy that makes me so incredibly grateful for my friends, and it’s the reason they refuse to give up on me when I’m in a funk for days at a time.

Naturally, friends will seem to “use” you. They’ll lean on you through an indefinite crisis of theirs, existential or not.

They’ll leave you feeling like you’re carrying the burden of the friendship — it’s not true. Good friends are always there for each other. Somewhere down the road, they’ll be around when you need their support.

This is what deters me from keeping relationship scorecards on campus.

There’s just one irony: our friends here set a pretty high bar.

We are accustomed to being at the forefront of academic achievement, to running toward the finish line and breaking through the satin ribbon at the end — why stop now? After all, this mindset has carried us all the way to Princeton. Imagine how far it can take us after life in the Bubble, upward on the corporate or academic ladder.

Reality check: Princeton is an exceptionally humbling place. We are among some of the most brilliant minds of our time.

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alifornia is now in its fourth year of a record-breaking drought. Call it climate change, call it the result of an abnormally persistent high pressure ridge, call it the wrath of God for all I care, but California and much of the western United States is dry.

Luckily for us, there is no shortage of water in Princeton. Half of the water supply in New Jersey comes from groundwater, which is regularly replenished with rain. Just recently we all got a taste of Hurricane Joaquin and the simultaneous nor’easter that brought a couple days of continuous rain to the East Coast, which must have filled the underground aquifers nicely.

This all means that the University, as opposed to other universities further west, does not really have to worry about water usage. But we should.

There is no excuse for wasting water, even if we have enough at the moment.

Theoretically, I could go to Wawa, buy a loaf of bread and throw it in the trash can. Of course I won’t, since everyone recognizes how much of a waste that is.

People on meal plans do not purposely dump food into the compost bin, even though they could, since we all recognize that wasting is bad.

It’s really as simple as that. Wasting is bad. Yet water is an incredibly wasted resource. For some reason we have decided as a culture that an integral part of “natural” beauty is the lawn. Lawns came to America with the British. That

is the biggest part of the lawn problem.

England’s climate is great for lawns.

America’s is not. And yet, this country has an obsession with them.

How much of an obsession? A recent NASA study estimated that there may be more than than 70 million square miles of turf grass in America. That is 140 acres of grass per person, more than three times the next largest crop, corn. Just imagine the water needed to maintain all of that.

Actually, you don’t have to, since the same NASA study did. Their estimate was 73-95 billion cubic meters per year.

That number is so absurdly oversized that it is hard to understand how big it is. For reference, that is about one Olympic-sized swimming pool of water dumped onto American lawns per second. It is five times the flow rate of the entire Hudson River.

Many lawns are never used for sports or relaxing, and could easily be replaced by more water efficient plants. A large part of the grass in America is just filler space anyways, like highway medians and the berms in front of sidewalks.

That grass could be replaced by virtually any other plant, preferably one native to this continent and adapted to this environment.

College campuses are often filled with grassy areas, and the University is no exception. We all benefit from our lovely green spaces, but the University needs to consider the impact of maintaining all of those acres of grass.

I am not saying that the University has to abandon the Ivy League look and tear out all of the quads. Those quads are used for all sorts of productive ac-

tivities, from setting up Reunions tents to playing frisbee to just relaxing. That said, we need to stop thinking of grass as this material that just sits around and does not cost anything.

Perhaps some of those grassy spaces could be replaced with other plants that use less water. Maybe some of the sports fields could be replaced by artificial grass, which obviously needs no water at all. At a bare minimum, types of grass that need less water could be phased in and watering the lawns could be reduced.

I’m not sure what the best way to balance our desire for lawns with their huge impact on water resources is, but the current American balance is not reasonable. At a time when a huge part of the country is in drought, dumping so much water onto the ground is absurd. Every household needs to have a serious discussion about its use of grass and the water it requires.

The University also needs to be having that discussion. In general, it is committed to sustainability. There are compost bins in the dining halls, LED lights in many of the buildings, and all of the toilets have a low-flow flush option. Considering how committed Princeton seems to be to environmentalism, rethinking our grassy areas is just the next logical step.

At the very least, Princeton should probably turn off their sprinklers during hurricanes, something that I noticed they failed to do during Joaquin.

Beni Snow is a freshman from Newton, Mass. He can be reached at bsnow@ princeton.edu.

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Despite these challenges, I couldn’t imagine Princeton without the presence of these incredible minds. They’ve challenged me to reshape my perception of normalacy, pushing my limits to accomodate a larger physical and emotional space.

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Often, this realization inspires and motivates us to try new things. It’ll sway us to join a South Asian dance group, run anything upward of a half marathon or stage a political campaign for the Undergraduate Student Government senate. Other times, it fuels an engine of self-deprecating sentiment. It makes us question whether we’re clever enough to speak in the classroom, diligent enough to lead on the court or wise enough for the Office of Admission to have made the right decision.

I’d be remiss to claim this mentality only exists on campus, behind some definitive boundary. The only physical borders to Princeton I’ve ever seen are the Jewish community’s new eruv and the Alumni Association’s temporary Reunions fences.

This mindset proves toxic the second you reckon with the notion of Princeton, and any attempt to uphold it jeopardizes your perception of self-worth.

Despite these challenges, I couldn’t imagine a Princeton without the presence of these incredible minds. They’ve challenged me to reshape my perception of normalcy, pushing my limits to accommodate a larger physical and emotional space.

They’ve allowed me to grow vicariously through their semesters abroad, their independent work on a barren glacier or their fellowships dedicated to preservation of New York’s Sixth Borough. They’ve made Princeton a place with which everybody is familiar, a place you’ll assuredly never experience again.

Why is this important?

There’s usually far too much in my head to organize my train wreck of thoughts.

Perhaps I’m trying to convince you to be a good friend, attentive and present. Perhaps I’m suggesting you shamelessly selfindulge, vying to experience emotion at every crossroad on campus. In any regard, don’t mindlessly wander down a path that someone successful has already laid down.

Explore every temptation, but stay the course.

Yoni Benyamini is an operations research and financial engineering major from Roslyn, N.Y. He can be reached at yb@princeton.edu.

In defense of passes and lists Colter Smith columnist

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n Oct. 4, senior columnist Marni Morse wrote a column in The Daily Princetonian titled “Open parties: Making eating clubs slightly less restrictive.” In her column she argues that eating clubs should do away with passes and lists and instead be always either members only or PUID. In this column I will attempt to refute the points she makes.

Morse’s primary argument is that passes and lists are bad for school unity and split the school population by dividing where people are able to go out to on weekends. In actuality, this is not a problem that occurs very often. Underclassmen are not affiliated with a club and do not have to worry about their club affiliation splitting them up when they go out. Often underclassmen will go together to the PUID-only clubs. The only thing that can split up underclassmen is if one gets a pass and another does not, and even then, they still have the choice of staying with their friend or going to the club.

Many upperclassmen are in clubs, however, but this usually doesn’t prevent them from partying with their friends. Friends in

different clubs can always party together at PUID clubs. Furthermore, if one of them is in a passonly club and wants very badly to go there for the night, he can always give a pass to whichever friends he wants to come with him. This is the entire reason that passes exist. It is quite rare that underclassmen find themselves unable to party with friends because of passes or lists.

More importantly, however, Morse seems to misunderstand what the eating clubs fundamentally are. The eating clubs are not subsidiaries of the University. They are private institutions. They are privately owned, privately run and paid for by their members. Therefore, their purpose is not to serve the University, but rather to serve their members. If the members of a club decide that what’s most enjoyable for them is to invite the entire school to their parties, that’s wonderful. However, if they decide that they would rather have a greater measure of control over who comes into their club house, trashes their basement, drinks their beer and hurls all over their bathroom f loors, that is also their right.

We should treat parties at pass and list clubs the same way we treat any other party – only those who are invited should come. If any one of us were to have a party for our friends and out of no-

where a bunch of drunkards we’d never seen before showed up and demanded entrance to our room and access to our booze simply on the grounds that they are Princeton students, we’d call them insane and give the Department of Public Safety a quick ring. Eating clubs are no different.

I believe that we at Princeton have gotten so used to the idea of massive parties with free beer every weekend that we have forgotten how incredible of a concept this is at all. The fact that nearly every Thursday and Saturday night I can simply walk up to one of five mansions and f lash my PUID at a bouncer and will therefore gain entrance to a huge party full of free alcohol is unheard of in nearly every other university in the entire world. It is by no means a right, but rather an extremely lucky privilege, and we have no right to demand it of the other six clubs.

One more point I would like to address is that destroying passes and lists could lead to overcrowding on particularly popular nights. In her original article, Morse mentions this problem and attempts to refute it by claiming that her sister goes to Dartmouth and has told her that frat parties there are sometimes open to the whole school but don’t have this problem. However, we can find on this very campus evidence that overcrowding would

be a problem without passes and lists. This past weekend was Capmandu, a very popular night at Cap & Gown Club. Even though one needed a pass to get into this party, it was still incredibly crowded to the detriment of all involved. We also see this same problem occur every semester at State Night, Tiger Inn’s biggest night, and Tower Underground, Tower Club’s biggest night. A few weeks ago, Terrace Club held one of its raves. Even though the club allows revelers into a huge portion of the building, it was nonetheless so full that one could barely move, and the club was forced to go members-only at multiple points throughout the night. Overcrowding is already sometimes a problem at both PUID clubs and pass clubs, and would be even worse without passes and lists.

Passes and lists help control big parties and create better experiences for those already inside. More importantly, however, we must remember that the clubs are not the University, but private institutions, and as such are here for the service of their members. One’s desire for a fun night out does not give one access to that which someone else pays for.

Colter Smith is a computer science major from Bronxville, N.Y. He can be reached at crsmith@princeton.edu.

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PUMPKIN & GLASS SCULPTURE ON PRINCETON’S CAMPUS This week, Associate Street Editor HARRISON BLACKMAN stumbles upon a sculpture - and goes on a journey that leads him to discover the role of modern sculpture on Princeton’s campus.

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t was after class when I stepped out of the ScheideCaldwell House and was confronted with the pumpkin.

Seated in between the picturesque crossroads of Scheide-Caldwell, Chancellor Green and Henry House was this enormous sculpture of a gourd cloaked in black and brass-gold polka dots. Like some sort of magical occurrence, it appeared to have sprouted in a spot where I had most certainly had lunch just a few weeks before.

Questions possessed me. Where did the pumpkin come from? Who had designed it? Was it a gesture to the harvest season, the time for hot apple ciders and feasts among relatives?

To answer these questions, I began with the pumpkin, but ended with a deeper investigation into the sculpture of Princeton’s campus. To start, I contacted James Steward, director of the University Art Museum.

“Our primary goals are to place art in the path of everyday life on campus; to continue enriching the visual environment of the campus; [and] to incorporate art in the context of the architecture and landscape of the campus,” Steward said in an email interview, also emphasizing a desire to acquire work from the best contemporary artists and juxtapose them with the work of past masters.

Incidentally, the pumpkin sculpture is the work of a contemporary master. After my initial encounter with the pumpkin, I found my first clue as to the artist’s identity from a website forwarded by a friend,

who gave me the name of the artist: Yayoi Kusama. As you scroll down Kusama’s uber-modern home page, you can find the small icon of a pumpkin nearly identical to the one by Scheide-Caldwell. Fascinated, I searched further. When I found an article from “AnOther” titled “Yayoi Kusama’s Pumpkin Obsession” a massive image of the same style of pumpkin-art loaded before me. It was unmistakable — this was the pumpkin I sought.

Yayoi Kusama, as I learned, is an 86-year old artist, a preeminent Japanese artist and part of the avantgarde movement. According to the “AnOther” article, Kusama suffers from hallucinations and obsessions, and found that one of the ways to cope with them was through her art.

The AnOther article quotes from her autobiography, in which she states, “I would confront the spirit of the pumpkin, forgetting everything else and concentrating my mind entirely on the form before me.”

One mystery was solved — and ironically, the pumpkin of my fascination happens to have been the coping mechanism for a brilliant artist’s illness. But how did this work of art find its way to Princeton?

According to Steward, Kusama’s “Pumpkin” is on a short-term loan from alumnus Bill Fisher ’79. A quick search on Forbes Magazine reveals that Fisher is one of the heirs of the Gap fortune and currently the managing partner for Manzanita Capital, a private equity firm based in the United

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Outdoor installation by Doug and Mike Starn, identical twins and New York-based artists.

Kingdom. “[The pumpkin sculpture] was installed in early September, at a site chosen for the intimacy of its scale, the dynamic relationships with Joseph Henry House and the ScheideCaldwell House, and the fact that it’s an area that doesn’t yet have a public art presence,” Steward said.

The pumpkin’s origin explained, I realized I had more questions about campus sculpture, especially in reference to the project in front of the Art Museum, its summer construction and progress obscured — like many things Princetonian — by a massive tent. As school resumed, it was unveiled, revealing six panels of stained glass that stand in front of the art museum like translucent dominoes. Designed by Mike and Doug Starn, Beacon, New York-based artists and identical twins — the sculpture will be on display for an indefinite period of time, unlike some of the more temporary exhibitions that have occupied the museum’s front lawn.

“We originally invited the Starns to campus to consider making something for another site, but they became fascinated by the site in front of the Art Museum,” Steward said. “We had been working on several commissioning ideas for the front of the Museum for a few years, and so the time was right.”

Like the pumpkin or many of the works of art on campus, the sculpture was intended to be experienced from a pedestrian perspective.

“The work has been described as ‘an outdoor chapel of glass’, through which viewers are invited to walk,” Steward said. “Part of its beauty, I think, is in its scale, and the way in which these heavy panels lean into and are propped by each other, but without obvious means of sufficient support.”

In creating the commission, the Starn brothers utilized a glass-dyeing technique developed in Germany, a process that Steward considered to be reflective of the typology of Princeton’s campus, recalling gothic architecture in front of a modernist-designed wing of the Art Museum.

“This contemporary version of stained glass — its techniques are both old and completely new — certainly finds a historic context when we consider the history of stained glass in the Gothic and Gothic Revival movements, or the rich collection of stained glass in the University Chapel,” Steward said.

While Kusama’s “Pumpkin” and the Starns’ work are new, I also found myself interested in Beverly Pepper’s “Thetis Circle,” the sculpture by Whitman College installed last fall.

“We sited this work near Whitman College because it, too, was an area largely lacking in public art — apart from the tapestries we recently commissioned for the dining hall,” Steward said.

Sandra Bermann, the Master of Whitman College and professor of comparative literature professor, said reception to the piece has been positive.

“I think people like it,” Bermann said. “I’ve heard a lot of people ask, ‘Well, what is that sculpture? It’s beautiful, or it’s surprising’ … It’s a beau-

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‘Pumpkin’ by Yayoi Kusama, located between Scheide-Caldwell and Henry Houses.

tiful place for a large sculpture.”

Dean of Whitman College Rebecca GravesBayazitoglu added that the juxtaposition of the modern with the neo-gothic style of Whitman provided an interesting balance.

“For me that’s the crucial thing, is that interplay between varied and contempoLIN KING :: STREET EDITOR rary statue and organic form and ‘Thetis Circle’ by Beverly Pepper in front of Whitman College. buildings that were built to look as though they had angles and props to obscure some been built in the 1920s,” Graves-Baya- of the modern art on campus. This zitoglu said. made me think — what does it mean The interplay between modern to insert modern sculptures into an and traditional appeared again and architectural landscape so cloaked in again, from the discussion of the traditional forms? pumpkin to the stained glass to “Context can be understood as reso“Thetis Circle” — and it reminded nance, but also as point and counterme of the tension between Princ- point,” Steward said. “Consider, for eton’s campus as portrayed in the example, the Henry Moore near West media and its modern, eclectic fabric College and Nassau Hall. The legacy of of styles. Having recently re-watched the campus informs us, not because the 2001 film “A Beautiful Mind,” new works of public art should look concerning the life of the late John like what we inherit from the past, Nash GS ’50, I had observed that the but perhaps because they can also filmmakers employed clever film magnify it.”

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ASK THE SEXPERT This week, we discuss the internal (“female”) condom.

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Dear Sexpert, My boyfriend and I have been using condoms for a while, and we’re interested in trying another method of contraception. The female condom seems the most appealing to me, but I really don’t know much about it.

Can you tell me about it? How does it work?

— Internally Curious Dear Curious, Congratulations on recognizingUsing a male (or external) condom is a great way to promote your sexual health, as condoms lower the risk of both pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Infections. Luckily for you, the internal, or “female,” condom offers the same level of protection.

The internal condom is a non-reusable pouch that is designed to fit comfortably in the average sized vagina, which is 3-6 inches long. Like its “male” counterpart, also known as the external condom, the internal condom can also be used for anal intercourse (which is why “internal” is a more suitable name than “female”). The internal condom, like the external condom, catches your partner’s sperm, but instead of being worn on the penis, it can be inserted into the vagina or anus right before intercourse.

Some women prefer the internal condom because it makes them feel more in control during sex, and some men prefer it because its width makes it feel as if nothing’s there. Unlike the external condom, the internal condom is made of polyurethane or nitrile, so it

is ideal if you or your partner has a latex allergy. It can be used in conjunction with spermicide or other birth control methods.

However, never use it with a male condom, because the friction could cause them both to tear.

To use the internal condom, apply spermicide or lubricant to the outside of the closed end of the condom, and squeeze the sides of the inner ring together. Then insert it into your vagina, like a tampon, and use your index finger to push it as far as the ring can go; when you can’t push any farther, that means it has reached your cervix. Remove your finger and allow about an inch of the condom to hang out of your vagina. If you experience any pain or discomfort after insertion, the ring might not be properly in place; just remove and try again.

Some users of the internal condom like their partners to insert it for them, as it can be very pleasurable. The outer ring (the one hanging out) prevents the condom from slipping all the way into your vagina. The condom may move from side to side during intercourse, but don’t worry — that’s normal. However, your partner needs to make sure that his penis stays inside the condom (otherwise, you’re both losing STI and pregnancy protection). When the sperm has been caught, squeeze the outer ring and twist the condom closed, then gently pull it out of your vagina and throw it away. The internal condom is not reusable.

You can get internal condoms at several places. On campus you can get them at University Health Services for free at the

front desk or at the LGBT Center. You can also order them on Amazon: a 15-pack costs about $29.

If the internal condom sounds appealing to you, or if you have any other questions about contraceptives, we strongly encourage you to make an appointment with Sexual Health and Wellness at UHS to discuss which method would be the best fit for you. The clinicians can help you decide on a form of contraception, and teach you how to use it properly, so it can provide the most protection.

We also strongly encourage you to include your partner in your experimentation with the internal condom. Trying something new is both exciting and a break from routine, so communication is key. (Also, it is important to ensure that you are using the condom correctly). Check in about how the new method feels: Does it need some adjusting? Is it irritating?

Should you try a new kind of lubricant? The more comfortable your communication about your bodies, the better the sex — no matter what contraceptive method you’re using.

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Mine is called Zhongxiao East Road — specifically, Section Four.

Many “roads” in Taipei function as avenues do in New York: long enough to almost traverse the entire city. They are therefore often parceled into “sections,” of which Zhongxiao has a total of seven.

Section Four is known for being in the heart of Taipei’s ever-bustling East Shopping District, with a mixture of old and new attractions that draw crowds of all ages.

It has, for this reason, maintained my loyalty in all stages of my life.

My acquaintance with Zhongxiao began in the first grade, when I attended elementary school on the cusp of Sections Four and Five, and would stroll down Section Four, munching on traditional egg cakes and gawking at the colorful pens and manga in Kingstone, a massive chain bookstore. Years later, I would be returning for the legendary nightclub OMNI, formerly Luxy, and cheap clothes from street vendors.

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The area is clustered with some of the best restaurants in the city, from dumplings à la Sichuan, China to traditional soup noodles from the south of Taiwan. None are fancy, and all are clean and affordable, even for college students. The street also produces some of the most famous desserts in the country, including Ice Monster, an extremely popular shaved-ice joint with a specialty in mango, as well as Dongqu Fengyuan (“East District Tapioca”), a longtime pilgrimage destination for Taiwan’s famed sweet tapioca ice.

In recent years, the street has been sprouting more foreign imports than ever, but not of the ubiquitous and unattainable Paris-Fashion-Week boutiques.

Instead, the sidewalks provide an extensive line-up of what is commonly known as “affordable fashion” from all around the world, including Uniqlo, Zara, Forever 21, Aldo, Mango (Spain), GU (Japan), SPAO (Korea) and other mid-range options with spacious, sometimes multi-story storefronts.

If you’re not so into wearing the mainstream, fret not: Zhongxiao’s Section Four also spreads into many tributaries — smaller alleys and lanes that, for blocks on end, are seamlessly lined with smaller restaurants and shops with more East Asia-specific goods. To one side of the street is my favorite shopping district: an intricate

network of independent street-style stores that sell the latest Japanese, Korean and Hong Kong imports from unknown brands and young aspiring designers, along with Taiwan-designed and manufactured goods that have shockingly good quality for the cost. These are dotted with equally hip cafés, bars, beer houses and Japanese-style izakayas. (Note: underclassmen, rejoice — the legal drinking age in Taiwan is 18.)

In addition, Section Four is bookended by larger institutions of vastly different natures: to one end, across from some of Asia’s famous cat cafes, is the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, with a historical building where tourists gather to watch the ceremonial changing of guards and vast gardens that include a

fountain show that plays by the hour. Meanwhile, on the other end there are two massive department stores called Sogo, one of the most popular hotspots for families and businesspeople.

This brings me to perhaps my favorite thing about downtown Taipei: There are very few districts explicitly designated for residential, business or consumer purposes. Rather, everything tumbles together into one giant brew of life. Even on a street as commercialized as Zhongxiao East Road, edgy bar-lounges can be found neighboring ancient electronics shops run by elderly couples; the largest 24-hour bookstore in the world is just down the road from decades-old noodle shops. Like the rest of the country, this street is a warm, welcoming mesh of the big and the small, the traditional and the original.

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ALL STRINGS ATTACHED: LA VIE EN CELLO JACQUELINE LEVINE Staff Writer

Student groups are created for a wide variety of compelling reasons at Princeton, but what better excuse exists than “Yale has one, so why don’t we?”

Yale’s preeminent all-cello rock ensemble Low Strung was established in 2005, followed by Columbia’s String Theory Cellos in 2011. Street sat down with the president of Princeton’s recently established La Vie En Cello, DG Kim ’18, to discuss his role as president, the group’s brief but exciting history and the ensemble’s short- and long-term goals. Kim is a cellist and conductor, as well as a student in the electrical engineering department.

He plays in the Princeton University Orchestra, runs Rockefeller College’s Classical Music Hour and serves as music director for the Princeton

Chamber Orchestra. Founding La Vie en Cello was just the icing on the cake of Kim’s overflowing list of commitments.

La Vie en Cello is officially recognized by the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students and is working toward becoming a Princeton Arts Council-recognized group as well, in order to participate in events such as Tiger Night. Kim started gauging interest in the group this past March and found a great deal of enthusiasm and curiosity from members of the PUO cello section. A good amount of research about competing groups at other universities was required in order to get this project off the ground.

Kim had a Skype call with the president of Columbia’s String Theory Cellos, during which he asked for advice and recommendations for starting a similar group at Princeton. Last year, String Theory Cellos was dismantled after all of its members graduated,

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leaving a significant void for La Vie en Cello to fill, as one of two Ivy League cello ensembles. Yale’s Low Strung tours around the world. Kim noted that touring is one of the group’s longterm dreams, and said he intends to push the ensemble to perform one arch and one more formal concert each semester, in addition to many small gigs and special events.

The potential popularity of an allcello ensemble on a college campus might be questionable intuitively.

Cello is typically a classically inclined instrument, making occasional appearances in rock and pop bands. At Princeton, while tickets for dance and a cappella performances almost always sell out, classical music groups have significantly smaller audiences.

To resist the classical stereotype, La Vie en Cello maintains a wide range of repertoire, including classical, but also featuring jazz, rock and pop music. Kim humorously pointed out that there is something about a large group of bulky instruments on stage that draws attention. He recounted the ensemble’s rehearsal for their arch performance, which drew substantial attention from passersby.

A performance of Meghan Trainor’s “All About That Bass” arranged by Kim is featured on La Vie en Cello’s highly polished website in the form of an exciting and even sentimental music video featuring several of the group’s 14 members, 13 of whom are members of PUO. Kim explained that the ensemble strives toward a high level of approachability by performing in the arch setting and maintaining a relaxed, fun-loving performance demeanor.

Musically, an all-cello ensemble is advantaged in many ways. The cello has a deep sound, but can pose as a treble instrument, and can most definitely soar as a solo instrument. A cellist can successfully produce sounds

ranging from percussive beats, to harmonic accompanying riffs, to flowing melodic lines. While the cello can serve all of these very different musical functions, the blend of an all-cello group can still be sublime when isolated from an 80-piece orchestra, completely together and poised. A musical ensemble made up of entirely cellos also poses some interesting challenges to both performers and audiences.

While the advantages of an all-cello ensemble listed above make sense in theory, they are extremely difficult to achieve. Reaching an ideal balance between the percussive rhythms, accompanying motives and melodic lines is a difficulty that Kim and the other members of the group work tirelessly during rehearsals to overcome by taking tempos way down, and listening to one another with incredible concentration and intensity, watching and mimicking each other’s fingers and bow strokes when necessary. A skillful arranger can also help alleviate balance issues that arise for a homogenous instrumental group. Kim has been arranging for the ensemble with the aid of other group members.

I was lucky enough to see a brief performance by La Vie en Cello during Rocky’s Classical Music Hour one Friday this October. After hearing an exciting rendition of La Vie en Cello’s signature piece, “All About that Bass,” I am convinced that this organization is only at at its very early stages of potentially widespread popularity.

Within five minutes of the performance, countless heads had turned and a huge audience was gathered to listen, all fascinated by the strange visual prospect, many dancing and even lip-synching. So take a study break tonight around 10 p.m. and make your way to Blair Arch for not just another arch sing, but something new and refreshing: a cello arch. Let’s show Yale’s Low Strung who’s boss!

Q&A Working through the knots in ‘Gidion’s Knot’ Interviewed by

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This week, Theatre Intime’s “Gidion’s Knot” closes out the last three performances of its two-week run. Written originally by Johnna Adams and directed on campus by Victoria Gruenberg ’16, the show features just two actors, Ugonna Nwabueze ’18 and Hope Kean ’18. Street sat down with Gruenberg and Nwabueze to talk about what it was like to be put on this short but emotionally high-stakes play. This Q&A has edited and condensed for clarity.

Daily Princetonian: Tell us about “Gidion’s Knot”.

Ugonna Nwabueze: The way that I’ve described the plot is that a woman’s son commits suicide after he’s suspended from middle school — so it’s a two-woman play, and the setting is a classroom during a parent-teacher’s conference where [the mother is] talking with the teacher, and she’s trying to figure out what happened.

DP: What drew you to the show?

Why were you interested in doing it and being part of it?

Victoria Gruenberg: I was an educational policy concentrator in the …

Wilson School, and I transferred to the English department. I’m really interested in political theater, and I went to a professor and said, “I really want to work with a political play.” He handed me this. I also felt it was going to be a huge challenge because the script is written [in a] way I’ve never seen any script written: It’s got lines, but it’s

also got pauses marked with ellipses, so you’ll have someone say a line, and then you’ll have “Heather,” ellipses.

“Corryn,” ellipses. “Heather,” ellipses.

And you have to figure out what is supposed to happen there, and why the characters are pausing, and what they’re doing instead of talking. Those were both big things for me.

DP: It sounds like there’s a lot of very strong emotion in this play.

Ugonna, how did you as an actor get into character for that?

UN: It was definitely difficult. There were times where I didn’t want to do certain emotional scenes because it was just extremely draining. Also, the character that I play, Corryn, is very out there, and so just channeling her — it’s actually weird, because it was only the night before opening night, at the dress rehearsal, that I finally figured her out; it clicked. And I’d been working on this since the summer.

That should tell you how difficult this character was.

DP: How did having just two actors make the experience different from other plays you’ve been in or directed?

UN: You’re feeding off of each other and you’re building off of each other.

Victoria mentioned energy. Energy is so, so important, and so when you have only two people filling up the space, there’s a lot of energy required by each person to fill that up. That is definitely so different from a bigger ensemble.

VG: I got very lucky because Hope and Ugonna actually have a relationship as human beings — they know each other as students. I didn’t know that when I was casting them, but I

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could tell that on stage, they had a good chemistry for the characters.

UN: It’s funny because we didn’t know each other before. And I think Hope was very crucial in that, because there was a time after practice — this is late at night; she goes, “No, we need to work on our chemistry; come to the Chapel with me.” And she made us stand there looking into each other’s eyes for 15 minutes.

DP: Has being part of this production made you think differently about these big-ticket issues that it touches on?

VG: I think it actually hits some of the issues that you’re not expecting. I picked it originally because I thought it was going to be about the education system, which is something I’m very concerned about, but at the end of the day, it has a lot more to do with people.

It comes down more specifically to just, what do you when your world sort of flattens? I feel that the play ends up coming down to a line that Corryn has, actually, which is: “Cut it, or figure it out.” She’s talking about a Gordian knot presentation that one of the student does, and when we’re faced with these giant conflicts, do we cut ourselves off from it? Or try to work ourselves back out into a straight line? And it’s not a woman-only show.

By far and away not. But it is really nice to watch two empowered women onstage, especially of minority races.

That, I think, is a really, really important image that we don’t see enough on campus.

“Gidion’s Knot” will be showing on Thursday and Friday at 8 p.m., and Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. in the HamiltonMurray Theater.

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EVENT ‘ARTS VS. DISEASE’ Taplin Auditorium Saturday, 7 p.m.

If you’re bummed out by the fact that you never manage to get into to those performing arts extravaganzas — featuring every singing, dance, instrumental, slam poetry and comedy group on campus — that are hosted for the frosh, then you might want to take a gander at Arts vs. Disease. Featuring 17 groups, including some we didn’t know existed, this particular arts extravaganza has one up on those twice-yearly Universitysponsored shows — all proceeds from the $5 ticket go toward the health organization designated by the group voted best-inshow by audience members.

MUSIC ‘AN HOUR WITH IDAN RAICHEL’ Taplin Auditorium Monday, 8 p.m.

For one single hour on Monday, Israeli musician, composer and producer Idan Raichel will be on stage at Taplin Auditorium. If you don’t know who he is, you can go armed with this knowledge: He speaks — or at least sings — in four languages (Hebrew, Arabic, Amharic and Tigrinya), has performed with artists from all over the world (Ethiopia, Yemen, Colombia, Rwanda, Sudan and more.) The event is co-sponsored by Tigers for Israel, Dorobucci, the International Students Association of Princeton, Koleinu, the Princeton African Students Association and Umqombothi.