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

Campus Life VP Calhoun joins U.

By Marcia Brown contributor

W. Rochelle Calhoun, who started as vice president for campus life in September, explained that she puts in a special effort to get to know students because while her job is centered around students, her office is in Nassau Hall and students don’t go to Nassau Hall just to hang out.

“I’ve really spent many of my afternoons and evening … going and visiting student groups,” Calhoun said. “I feel like the major part of my job is to be connected with students, and that helps me to really understand how I in my role as an administrator can have at the center of my work the interests and needs of students.”

Calhoun comes to the University from Skidmore College, where she worked for seven years as Dean of Student Affairs, and she worked at Mount Holyoke

for more than a decade before that in a series of positions relating to student life, including college ombudsperson and director of diversity and inclusion.

She graduated from Mount Holyoke in 1983 with a double degree in theater and politics, and got her Master of Fine Arts in theater in 2001 from Columbia University.

“A creative leader, she has enormous capacity to engage in a warm and productive way with students,” Executive Vice President Treby Williams ’84 said.

“She came across to me as very authentic in her desire to express students issues and concerns.”

As vice president of student life, Calhoun will use a 300-person staff and a $49 million budget to manage a number of organizations on campus such as the Pace Center for Civic Engagement and the Department of Athletics.

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Vice President for Campus Life W. Rochelle Calhoun began her term at the University in September.

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BEYOND THE BUBBLE

West GS ’80 to organize police brutality protest

Woodrow Wilson returns back to the University from his summer vacation in Scotland. It was reported his health appeared to have improved and that he would resume his lectures later that year.

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News & Notes Princeton ranked best college town of 2015

Princeton has been ranked the best college town of 2015, according to financial technology company SmartAsset.

According to the company’s 2015 study, Princeton’s violent crime rate is second lowest within college towns, and its property crime rate is third lowest. The town’s average discretionary income is also the highest among college towns at $85,697.

Princeton is also a relatively affordable location to live in despite its proximity to both New York City and Philadelphia, two of America’s largest cities, the study said.

The company annually ranks college towns based on factors such as unemployment rate, violent crime rate, property crime rate and average discretionary income.

Kearney, Neb., home to University of Nebraska – Kearney was ranked as the second best college town, and Cambridge, Mass., which has both MIT and Harvard, was ranked sixth.

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The Princeton Animal Welfare Society hosted the Humane League Presentation in Frist Campus Center.

LOCAL NEWS

AvalonBay construction halted due to on-site contamination

By Caroline Lippman contributor

Housing developer AvalonBay began removing covered piles of contaminated soil from its construction site on Witherspoon Street in Princeton on Tuesday.

The contamination had stalled construction on the 280-unit AvalonBay apartment complex since its discovery through environmental testing in August and September. Construction resumed last week, according to AvalonBay Senior Vice President for New Jersey

Ron Ladell.

According to Municipal Engineer Robert Kiser, whose department is monitoring the removal of the contaminated soil, the material is being hauled to Bethlehem, Pa. Kiser estimated that it will take two to three months for all of the material to be removed from the site.

Mayor of Princeton Liz Lempert explained while AvalonBay is responsible for moving the piles of contaminated materials, the process will be regulated by the New

Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and monitored by town municipal staff.

According to the Avalon Bay website, the apartment complex is scheduled to open in the spring of 2016. Lempert remarked that she has not heard from Avalon Bay whether this is still the expected completion date.

Ladell said that the delivery of the apartment units is tentatively scheduled for the third quarter of 2016.

“Beginning of last week, they See AVALONBAY page 3

Cornel West GS ’80, a former African American studies professor at the University, and Revolutionary Communist Party member Carl Dix are organizing #RiseUpOctober, a march with a goal to end police brutality against black individuals and seek justice for police murder victims.

The event’s organizers have invited 100 families of victims of police killings to take part in the march, Dix said. He added that other advocates of social justice Eve Ensler, Jamal Joseph, Rev. Stephen Phelps and Gina Belafonte are also organizing the event.

West did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

The march is the culmination of three days of protest and speeches, Dix said. The full program begins on Oct. 22 with a commemoration in Father Duffy Square in New York City to celebrate the National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation. Marchers will gather the following day to advocate for the shutting down of Rikers Island, one of the nation’s largest state penitentiaries, through non-violent direct action.

The march will take place Oct. 24 in New York City at Washington Square Park.

West, who has published books on social justice such as “Race Matters” and “Democracy Matters,” helped to found the University’s Center for African American studies and was arrested in August when he was demonstrating outside a courthouse in St. Louis on the oneyear anniversary of Michael Brown’s death.

West previously collaborated with Dix in publicized statements regarding social justice and a campaign against the New York Police Department to end the “Stop and Frisk” policy.

“I see a need to build resistance against the horrors that are being brought down,” Dix said.

“Dr. West, Cornel, has shown that this is something that he wants to do, and since we want to do the same thing, we have no problem working to do it together. We at times go at it in different ways but that’s actually the strength and not a weakness.”

Dix added that is important to continue protesting because the violence has not stopped.

“In fact, if anything, it’s intensifying and there are attempts by the authorities to suppress the protests both through mass arrest, targeting of people viewed as leaders of the protest with heavy charges and also trying to demonize the protesters,” Dix said.

Yoselin Gramajo ’16, who has See PROTEST page 2

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

U. to launch new website summer of 2016 including new design, content

By Jessica Li staff writer

The University will launch a new website next July, according to Christian Knoebel, Digital Manager at the Office of Communications.

The project will be completed in collaboration

with the University’s Office of Information Technology, with each department leading different initiatives, Knoebel said. He noted that the Office of Communications is also in the process of hiring an outside design firm.

OIT did not respond to multiple requests for com-

ment.

The website will be revamped in content and format, Knoebel explained, in order to increase accessibility and improve information organization for different visitor demographics.

The University’s current website was designed

in 2008 and has information dating back to 2004, he said.

“The current website uses a design that is difficult for people to find the information they want.

We want a website with a contemporary design, and moreover, we want a usercentric site,” Knoebel said.

“We put information in such different places that it’s really hard [to search].

You don’t build a site for its own sake, you build it so the users can get the information they want.”

The Office of Communications is also considering archiving some of the See WEBSITE page 3

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Williams explained that Calhoun reports to her, but the technical appointment is to the cabinet, so University President Christopher Eisgruber ‘83 reviewed the input and evaluation from the search committee and made the final decision to hire Calhoun.

English professor Jeff Nunokawa, who served on the search committee that selected Calhoun, said he thinks she has a lot to offer the University.

“I’ve never heard anyone speak with such kind of acuity – I haven’t in the past year and I’ve heard a lot of people talk about it – about the activism that was so much at the center of our campus last year, that flowered last year.

Not just on our campus but across the country,” Nunokawa said.

He noted the University saw numerous protests last year in many ways precipitated by the Black Lives Matter national movement.

Calhoun said she recognizes the importance of these issues and University students expressing them in protest form, much like on other campuses. She added that she sees protests as a learning opportunity and she values the integrity of the protesters.

“It’s important to have the right narrative around protests as well,” she said.

Calhoun’s office will be deeply invested in working towards more diversity, equity and inclusion, she said.

She added that thanks to the results of a task force on diversity, she will be following the recommendation to hire an administrator in her office to focus on these issues.

“We’re at an inf lection point on campus on a lot of these issues,” Williams said. ”So we’re very excited [Calhoun has] joined our campus at this moment.”

Williams explained that finding Calhoun involved an extensive national search process involving resume reviews and written materials. After a national search and coordinated efforts between the administration and a search firm to identify candidates around the country, an iterative process whittled down candidates to fewer than five. Search committee members, other campus colleagues and groups of undergraduate and graduate students not on the committee interviewed the finalists.

Williams said that one of the difficult things about finding a vice president for student life is that the ideal candidate is someone who can connect with students but is also a very organized

administrator.

“There are significant and complex organizational pieces that are under vice president of campus life, so finding someone who can embody the student voice on campus but can also provide sophisticated organizational skills is what we were looking for,” Williams said.

Nunokawa said she was hilarious in her first interview and utterly thoughtful in her second. He also said that her desire to be a part of student life as a warm and effusive personality was evident to the search committee.

“She is, first of all, super funny, in a way where funny is about being honest,” Nunokawa said. “People can be funny as a way of distracting you from the truth and people can be very funny in a way of getting you to the truth in a way that’s not too threatening but to real truths, to hard truths and she’s very good at that.”

Calhoun noted that she double-majored in politics and theater during her undergraduate years at Mount Holyoke and believed politics to be a logical choice. She added that she found politics to be awful and decided not to go to law school.

“Politics was practical, but theater would get me through college,” she said.

Calhoun said that her theater background informs many of her ideas about her

work, the way she is in the world and the way she understands other people in the world. More than that, it ingrained itself in her adept organization skills, she said.

“As a director, I’m very organized but also I am deeply moved by people’s lives and I think that also speaks to working in an environment when you’re working with people’s lives all the way,” Calhoun said.

She explained that she was first introduced to administrative work while she was getting her MFA in theater from Columbia, during which time she also did administrative work alongside the head administrator.

She noted that the students began to call her ‘co-dean,’ and said that this circuitous route led her to administrative work first at Mount Holyoke, then at Skidmore and now at the University.

Williams said the selection committee saw her background as illuminating for her role at the University, because as Calhoun described, when theater is at its best, it takes a stance and gives the audience a new understanding of the world.

Calhoun said commitment to others’ lives will guide her administrative work.

“Diversity and inclusion is important in every single unit in campus life and that absolutely includes Pace and we look forward to more

support and more expertise in the area for sure,” said Kimberly de los Santos, executive director of the Pace Center.

Joshua Woodfork, Calhoun’s former colleague and Vice President for Strategic Planning and Institutional Diversity at Skidmore, noted that Calhoun’s experience with diversity issues is expansive. Calhoun noted that she currently serves as a steering committee member for the Saratoga Springs Community-Wide Conversation on Diversity and worked both at Mount Holyoke and Skidmore on committees and strategic initiatives towards greater diversity and inclusion.

Woodfork also noted that Calhoun had to respond to a protest at Skidmore last year, explaining that a group broke off from the larger protest and interrupted the academic exposition in one of the academic buildings, and students on Yik Yak responded with racist and discriminatory remarks.

The administration called a meeting about diversity on campus in response, and Calhoun spoke at the meeting, Woodfork said. He said she understood that sometimes you have to put your foot on the neck of an institution to advocate and push for change but that she reminded students that they had made their impact and they had finals coming up.

“Rochelle is not just funny and humorous. She uses her intellect and humor in a particular way to make people feel included and connected and she’s terrific,” Woodfork said. “It was a big loss at Skidmore and we feel it every day, but we couldn’t be more proud she’s going to make contributions elsewhere.”

Moreover, Woodfork said, Calhoun is especially equipped to handle sexual assault and misconduct issues on campus because she was very compassionate and knowledgeable about the federal regulations involved.

“She always reminded us that every one incident is a person’s life,” he said.

Calhoun said she sees Skidmore and the University as similar in the nature of their protests but Mount Holyoke and the University as more alike, steeped in tradition and surrounded by incredibly loyal alumni.

She said that in many ways, she not only has returned geographically closer to her alma mater but she also is encountering another similar institution and one in which she fell in love with.

She added that what ultimately compelled her to come to the University was an attitude of service to this nation and all nations.

“I was coming to a privileged institution that understood its responsibility,” Calhoun said.

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been working to mobilize University students for the protest, said she has seen racial violence and social justice become a prevalent topic of discussion among students over the past year.

“I think it’s time for Princeton

students to step up and become part of the movement towards making that change and I don’t know how long it will take and I don’t know what it will take but if we all use the voice we have and use the privilege that we have, then it’s a good step in that direction,” she said.

Kellen Heniford ’14, who is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in

history at Columbia, is the student volunteer for the protest who got in touch with Gramajo to inform her of the movement.

Heniford said she recalled noticing increased interest in racial issues among students during her time at the University. She noted that early on, she felt her peers to be apathetic toward such issues but that the protests held in the

2014-15 academic year on campus surprised her in their widespread support and popularity.

“When I saw pictures of people protesting outside Frist, a huge group of people doing speeches and talking about the Black Lives Matter Movement, I was shocked because I felt like that never would have happened while I was there,” Heniford said.

Heniford said that this change was due to a group of students who were persistent in their efforts to encourage conversations about social justice and racial violence on campus.

Gramajo noted that she had formed the Black Justice League rather organically in 2014, adding that it has been a while since so much activism happened at

the University and that activists on campus are trying to figure things out as they go.

“Students have to make an important contribution to any serious movement for significant change in society because students are in a position where they can come to know a lot about what society is like,” Dix said.

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more dated information, he added.

Knoebel noted that the initiative is partly a response to technological changes. Particularly, OIT, as well as many other peer institutions, will shut down the current website system in 2019 and transition to a new technology for modernization.

To survey frequent University website users, specifically the features and functions they access, one optional pop-up question

“This is an open and transparent process, and we really want people in the University community to contribute to us and have a sense of ownership of the website.”

Christian Knoebel was programmed when users access the site, Knoebel explained. The question asks users to identify themselves as one of the nineteen possible audience groups, including prospective students, alumni and cu r rent u ndergraduate students at the University. According to Knoebel, the survey, which was launched on Oct. 1, has already had over 1,250 participants who have used the site approximately 9,939 times since Aug. 1.

“The number ref lects a desire among the University to see the website improved,” Knoebel said.

To further gather input from the University community, an advisory committee, composed of students, faculty and representatives from various administrative offices will soon be formed. Knoebel noted that he and his team will reach out to stakeholders with unique needs through individual conversations in the coming months. Stakeholders are also encouraged to submit ideas to the initiative’s blog.

“This is an open and transparent process, and we really want people in the University community to contribute to us and have a sense of ownership of the website,” Knoebel said.

“We don’t presume to know all the answers and so we will be working very closely with users of the site.

What it’s not going to be is a bunch of people sitting in a closed room and asking ourselves, ‘What do we need to do? ’ ” Knoebel said that many areas of improvement for the new site are yet to be determined.

“We are filled with questions, and we have a few answers but need a lot more,” he said.

Undergraduate Student Government IT committee co-chair, Zachary Liu ’18, a computer science major, said that he is excited about the design refresh.

“It’s a great opportunity to get students and faculty more involved with OIT and more engaged with online campus resources,” he said.

Though the Office of Communications plans to launch the website before the next academic year, the new site will not include all planned features, especially the search function, Knoebel said. He said that rather, the website will be continuously renovated based on needs of different users.

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actually resumed construction with their masons on site, constructing the elevator shafts and the staircases,” Kiser said.

The construction will continue as the contaminated materials are removed from the site, and after a certain point, the framers will come back and continue to construct the main portions of the building, Kiser said.

Town Council President Bernard Miller explained that he expects the several-week-long break in work to affect the projected completion date.

“I think it’s going to be difficult for them to make that up,” he said.

He added that if Avalon Bay does not encounter any future problems, construction should continue to progress.

The delays largely came from environmental remediation at the construction site earlier this fall.

EcolSciences, Inc. conducted re-

medial site investigations in late August and early September and prepared a report for submission to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. According to the Sept. 21 report, samples of site material contained levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and traces of metals that exceeded the NJDEP Residential Direct Contact Soil Remediation Standards.

Of the 280-unit complex, 56 apartments will be designated affordable housing.

“I do think it’s going to be an attractive place for graduate students and even for recent grads who are sticking around the area who might be working locally, trying to start a business, who really love it here and want to try to stay,” Lempert said.

On the other hand, opponents of the AvalonBay construction criticize the project’s scale, which will be the largest development in Princeton.

“The sheer size of the development and its proximity to a smaller scale neighborhood has been chal-

lenging, difficult, and controversial,” Lempert said.

However, she noted that despite the controversial aspects of the AvalonBay construction, Princeton does need more apartments and affordable housing, so the complex will fill a need in the community.

Sarah Major, manager of housing services at the University, noted that housing in the town of Princeton tends to be expensive for graduate students.

“If you go a little bit outside of Princeton, you’ll save quite a bit of money,” she said.

She said that while some graduate students may apply for affordable housing, like the units that will be available in the AvalonBay development, the rents may be too high for graduate students at AvalonBay because of high competition for low-to-moderate income housing in Princeton.

“It’s usually a waiting game with affordable housing. You might put in an application and it might be six months until you’re notified that an apartment is ready, or maybe it’s

longer, so I think it’s frustrating to try and wait.”

However, she also expressed that University graduate students tend to find the kind of off-campus housing they are looking for by using the resources on Princeton’s offcampus housing website.

Avalon Bay has not yet provided the town with information about the market rates for the new apartments, according to Miller. Ladell said prices will be available a few months prior to the opening of the units.

Miller said that Avalon Bay will also select an outside agency to determine who qualifies for the affordable housing units.

He also noted ongoing litigation about what the affordable housing needs are for the Princeton community.

“We have a number of affordable units in addition to the affordable units in the Avalon Bay building, and in the pipeline,” he said, adding that he expects that the town will be required to build more affordable housing units in the future.

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Expanding the University is not a viable solution

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n the past year, there have been quite a few stirrings about expanding the University, with relatively little public discussion about it or what it means. However, before the University takes action on expanding, I’d like a little more discussion on why we shouldn’t.

President Eisgruber ’83 first mentioned the idea last fall when he suggested that the University can and should expand, either by expanding Forbes College or by building an entirely new residential college. Last September, he floated the idea by alumni, asking them to donate in order to “give that gift [of a Princeton education] to more students this year.”

In response, Christian Wawrzonek ’16 wrote a column advocating for this expansion to take place. He highlights numerous problems in higher education and deftly argues why there must be an increase in access to highly selective and high-caliber universities. Yet, his proposed solution to specifically increase the University, although indisputably well-intended, is too narrow-minded.

Let me start by saying that I agree with most of the points surrounding this size problem among high-caliber schools. I sympathize with students who deserve to be at these high-caliber universities but simply do not get in because of size limitations. I don’t think I was or am any better than my magnet high school peers who applied and did not get in. These schools could likely be filled tenfold and not run out of amazing students to fill their classrooms. As Wawrzonek said, “plenty of other equally qualified students are missing this opportunity.” And it’s true that colleges have done little or nothing to accommodate for the increase in the collegeaged population and therefore the increase in the high-achieving college-aged population.

But expanding the University too much to meet this demand would rob it of its unique character and value. It isn’t the “exclusivity” itself that makes Princeton. Rather, it really is the practical manifestations of that which help make Princeton and its peers special. It’s the small class sizes. It’s the access to amazing faculty. It’s the ability to participate and lead extracurricular activities. It’s being able to recognize a quorum of people when you walk into a room. These things would be lost if the University continued to expand, hurting both the current and the proposed increase of students. Maybe this change will not occur if we only add another hundred students, but if the trend continues, Princeton and its peers like Yale, which is currently expanding, will begin to lose some of the qualities that make them such amazing places.

In the end, the University will likely prioritize this characteristic and will not expand so far that those qualities would be lost. (For one, it might risk its #1 U.S. News & World Report ranking.) This means that expanding is simply a Band-Aid for a larger societal problem which Princeton and its peers cannot solve independently through expanding just a bit here and there. Even Wawrzonek admits that increasing the students at the Ivies and their peers would only be a short-term solution to a larger problem in higher education.

To be honest, the simple answer is that we need more high-caliber universities. And while that may seem extreme, it isn’t. New colleges are built when demand exists — for example, after World War II, when the GI bill increased the number of college-bound students. Given that we now have both a need and a demand for high-caliber universities to accommodate the abundance of intelligent high school graduates, it seems reasonable to me that new schools be created. Creating a new college that provides the same level of education and resources and the same experience as Princeton does now is just as good of a solution that would not hurt Princeton’s value, which ultimately hurts both the students that would be here anyway and the additional students.

I know what you may be thinking; I realize I am making this seem a lot simpler than it is. It takes a lot of resources to create a prestigious university out of the blue. But it has been done before. Stanford for example, was created as a prestigious university from the start, and this was achieved with the help of financial resources and advisors brought in from other prominent universities of the time. And were society to agree that this is a need we must remedy, it can be done.

One might say that a new university wouldn’t have the same prestige or name recognition as Princeton, and thus would be less valuable and not as beneficial to students. But the truth is, if the new university truly does match Princeton in its education and life standards, we as a society should value it as an equal. The age of a university shouldn’t be the only determinant for its value. Reasonable people will recognize this once they graduate.

Princeton and its peers should be encouraging and aiding the creation of such schools.

Though this takes more of a coordinated effort and will, it would be a more sustainable solution to the problem of limited resources at current high-caliber universities than incurring costs to students by expanding.

Marni Morse is a politics major from Washington, D.C. She can be reached at mlmorse@princeton.edu.

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EDITORIAL

Marni Morse columnist

Opinion

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Expanding co-op eating options

arlier this month, students circulated a petition to bring a new co-op to campus. This echoed the efforts of a similar petition distributed in 2014 that called for a new vegetarian co-op. Co-ops, seen as an economical alternative to dining options such as eating clubs, have become increasingly popular in recent years. In light of this petition, the Editorial Board calls for the University to provide the space and resources for the creation of a new co-op.

Currently, the University’s four co-ops — 2 Dickinson Street Co-Op, Brown Co-Op, Real Food Co-Op and International Food Co-Op — provide students with an alternative dining option that includes several unique benefits. First, co-ops are popular for their affordability. In a co-op, students can pay as little as $550 per semester. Compared to $6240 per year for an unlimited dining hall meal plan and even higher prices for eating clubs, co-ops give students a more affordable option. In addition, co-ops foster a sense of community since members regularly cook and eat together. Compared to large eating clubs or residential colleges, the relatively small size of a co-op facilitates interaction between its members.

Furthermore, co-ops are an attractive option for upperclassmen who want to join a community, but who are excluded from eating clubs due to the

selective bicker process or the high cost. Finally, co-ops like 2D that cater to vegetarians and vegans give more options to those with specific meal preferences.

For all these reasons, co-ops have become increasing popular. Currently, all of the co-ops have extensive waitlists. And while the University should address this demand, there are a few drawbacks that must be noted. First, the University must find a suitable space for a new co-op. On one hand, an off-campus co-op like 2D would require the University to purchase or rent property. This raises the question of funding and whether students would be expected to financially contribute. On the other hand, an on-campus co-op like Brown would require the conversion of an existing kitchen space or the construction of a new one. Few kitchens on campus currently have the seating and storage capacity to accommodate a co-op.

Furthermore, since many residential colleges have a limited number of kitchens, the University would be taking this resource away from other students.

These factors, however, do not outweigh the benefits of establishing a new co-op. First and foremost is the large student demand for an additional co-op. Not only are there long waitlists for each of the co-ops, but also, in the first two weeks of the petition, the organizers gathered more

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than 300 signatures. By establishing a new co-op, the University can accommodate the needs of hundreds of students. Furthermore, a new co-op may also take pressure off of the room draw for Spelman Hall. Every year, the Spelman draw is a popular option for students who want the convenience of their own kitchen. Yet, the limited number of rooms in Spelman leaves many upperclassmen without a convenient way to cook their meals.

Thus while property values in Princeton may be high, a new co-op would be a valuable investment for the community.

The Editorial Board urges the University to either purchase an off-campus building or repurpose an existing space for a new co-op. As an affordable and inclusive dining option, a new co-op would further the University in its goal to make campus a welcoming space for all students. While it may be more financially feasible to repurpose or construct a kitchen space on campus, an off-campus building like 2D would accommodate more people than a kitchen as well as give students a place to live, hang out and socialize in.

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

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he professor had already begun her lecture when I barged into Blair Hall T5, several minutes late for the three-hour seminar.

Mouthing a quick apology, I found the last seat around the circular wooden table, and fumbled for my copy of Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment.” A typical freshman, I had gotten lost on my way to class and was now sitting quietly — embarrassed and perspiring after three flights of stairs — trying desperately not to draw attention to myself.

But I had no such luck. Though my entrance was met with some quiet giggling, it quickly escalated into a hearty round of laughter, with one unsuspecting freshman boy at the epicenter of the joke. It was then, as I looked around the room, that I realized what was so funny: in a three-hour-long discussion-based seminar, I was the only boy in a class of fifteen.

Throughout the course of this first week, I puzzled at the irony of my situation. Scholarly articles and news reports rightfully highlight the dearth of female students in STEM classes and majors, particularly noting this inequality in computer science. Even my gently used copy of the Princeton Pre-read — Claude Steele’s “Whistling Vivaldi” — points

toward the threat of underperformance when students of a certain identity lack critical mass. Very common instances of this, Steele explains, are female college students in math and science tracks.

Now I, quite inadvertently, found myself on the flip side of that scenario. While my particular circumstance does not seem exceedingly consequential — especially compared to the worryingly unequal ratio of women-to-men in STEM classes — I still worried that my lack of critical mass would affect my participation in class.

Thankfully, the course quickly found its own natural rhythm, and I’ve been happy to see my token masculinity has gone largely unnoticed. Topics of conversation remain practically indistinguishable from other co-ed English courses I’ve taken, and as with many of my classmates, I look forward to class on Wednesday afternoons. Yet, there are still times when I have an odd and hard-to-place feeling of awkwardness when discussing certain topics. For instance, I sometimes refrain from speaking on certain topics — like the fact that nearly every male in Dostoevsky’s novel seems morally bankrupt — and when I contribute, I try to avoid points that may seem stereotypically male. While these racing thoughts are largely senseless, especially considering how warm and inviting the class has been, there are times where I wish the class were more balanced. A nagging question remained: is this gender imbalance in my seminar an anomaly at Princeton, or is it a microcosm of a larger

occurrence?

I first considered the possibility that the gender distribution in my class came from random selection. Now, I’m not a math whiz — hence my enrollment in an English literature class — but the odds that such a 14-to-1 ratio of female-to-male students can occur randomly seems unlikely. (To throw more numbers into the mix, my 11 consecutive years at an allboys schools and the zero interactions I have had with girls before tenth grade equates to one very interesting situation.) Another possibility is that the subject matter favors female participation.

Yet the seminar’s content, focusing on “Crime in the Great Novel,” seems rather gender-neutral — after all, who can’t get behind 600 pages of a 20th century Russian novel like “Crime and Punishment”?

I then considered the possibility that gender imbalance in my seminar was a symptom of a larger ongoing trend. A breakdown by The Daily Princetonian of the Class of 2016’s majors by gender found some compelling evidence. According to the article, the most gender-imbalanced disciplines of the graduating class had a significant level of disparity — with art and archaeology at 92.9 percent female, psychology at 87.3 percent and Comparative Literature at 81.3 percent. Male-dominated majors showed similarly troubling levels of disproportion, particularly in mathematics (86.7 percent male), philosophy (77.8 percent) and A.B. and B.S.E. computer science (77.3 and 76.3 percent, respectively). These numbers prove to

be far more gender-skewed than the national average. According to a National Center for Education Statistics report from 2011-12, some of the more imbalanced areas for bachelor’s degrees, such as philosophy (69.6 percent male), mathematics (55.8 percent male), comparative literature (72.1 percent female) and psychology (76.6 percent female), are still less divided than they are at Princeton.

The numbers seem to speak for themselves: across these majors, gender ratios are far from balanced at the University, making my personal situation not an anomaly but rather a relatively common occurrence.

At the end of the day, it’s important for students to take the classes and choose the majors that interest them — after all, I’m really enjoying my seminar, regardless of its gender composition.

Yet, if we are to take anything from the recommendation of President Eisgruber ’83 for summer reading or from the visit by Claude Steele, it seems that we could benefit from classes and majors with smaller gender disparities. That means encouraging more male students to explore the art and archaeology department as well as having more female students in philosophy and math. These steps seem vital not only to allow all perspectives to be shared across all departments but also to cultivate a school and classroom setting conducive to learning.

Paul Kigawa is a freshman from New York, N.Y. He can be reached at pkigawa@ princeton.edu.

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for Copeland and Tornetta, and also for the team overall. It certainly helps that players like senior striker Teresa Benvenuti and sophomore striker Ryan McCarthy have been setting up their teammates and rewarding the aforementioned strong off-ball movement.

However, a player any opposing team has to have on its radar is freshman back Nicole Catalino. She’s not only second on the team in goals scored but has also showed signs of the clutch gene in her short time at Princeton. In the team’s most recent game against Columbia, she came up big with the game-tying goal with just over three minutes to go and the game-winning goal in overtime.

These strong performances will be crucial not just against Brown but also against the Orange (130, 4-0), ranked no. 1 in the NCAA as of Oct. 13. While its ranking might be daunting,

Syracuse has had to fight tooth and nail to defeat the Tigers in the past — it took them two overtimes to finally vanquish the Tigers in the teams’ meeting during the 2014 season.

One of the great benefits of Princeton’s schedule is that the team have already gotten ample experience playing against the best the NCAA has to offer. The Tigers opened their season against current no. 5-ranked University of Virginia and no. 3-ranked University of North Carolina and had to do battle with no. 7-ranked Maryland just a few games after. As the Tigers hope to translate regular season success into postseason accolades, they have to test themselves against such teams in order to get the best knowledge of how to improve when the real season begins.

The contest against Brown will begin Saturday at 12 PM and can be viewed on the Ivy League Digital Network.

The game against Syracuse will commence at 3 PM on Sunday.

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Consistently the cream of the crop in the Ivy League, the Tigers intend to uphold their reputation in their first game this weekend.

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for the team to get ahead of itself. However, Chow remarked that another one of the team’s strategies for success this year is a simple one. “[It’s about] taking each game one at a time,” Chow said. It remains grounded by the fact that it currently shares the firstplace ranking with the Harvard Crimson.

Last year, the Princeton women’s soccer team was plagued with many injuries that prevented some top players from competing. However, the team has managed to stay relatively healthy this year, and the players who were injured at the onset of the season are recovering just in time for the four consecutive conference games coming up.

“[We] just want to make sure that everyone is able to work their hardest and give their all.”

Chow said.

On Wednesday, the Tigers

“[We focus on] maintaining cohesion on the field and playing at the level [we] were taught to play at.” haley chow,

Junior defender

played at home against Lehigh and beat the Mountain Hawks 2-0. Junior forward Tyler Lussi scored her 38th career goal, which puts her in fourth place on the program’s all-time scoring list, only one goal behind third-place Emily Behncke

’06. She also now leads the Ivy League in scoring, with a total of ten goals this season. Lussi, who’s already been featured this year as an Ivy League Player of the Week, is a definitive force to be reckoned with. Not only does the Orange and Black have the top Ivy League scorer on its team, but also the leading assister, Jesse McDonough. She has had a total of six assists this season, two of which have been to Lussi.

With a winning streak and four crucial conference games coming up, the team can’t help but look ahead to the NCAA tournament. The team hopes to maintain its chemistry on the field and hopefully place first in the Ivy League for an automatic bid in the tournament.

Saturday’s game is at 7 PM at Roberts Stadium and will also be available to watch on the Ivy League Digital Network.

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of passes both short and deep, and they’ve got three receivers who are among the top 5 in the Ivy League.”

Against this offense, which averages 480 yards a game and over 391 yards through the air, Surace presents a defensive unit whose emphasis this week has been on assignments and creating a tough environment for the passer.

“The more we can get disruption on [Marcus Fuller], get him to throw the ball quicker than he wants to, deflect his passes, any of those things, [the better],” Surace said. “And then we have to execute our coverage responsibilities — we can’t be like we were earlier last week and then a couple times later, not in the right areas in our zone coverages.”

Surace also has the Princeton offense, which has averaged over 45 points per game while under normal weather conditions and presents a dangerously well-rounded attack — with over 216 yards passing and 231 rushing yards per

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game. Although Tigers are currently missing senior running backs DiAndre Atwater and Dre Nelson, Surace believes that the offensive system will continue to thrive until the pair are able to return to play.

“They’re both great players, but fortunately they have short-term injuries and they’re progressing extremely well,” Surace noted. “The next guy has got to go in, and we’ve had a great attitude about it. If DiAndre is not in, then it’s Joey Rattigan or AJ Glass or Charlie Volker — the next guy goes in and they’re all great football players, so they try to do what they do best.”

Junior quarterback Chad Kanoff shares Surace’s confidence in Princeton’s offensive strength, highlighting the Tigers’ offensive line as he expressed anticipation for this weekend’s contest. “[Brown] plays hard, so we’re expecting a dogfight,” Kanoff said. “We play really hard and we’re practicing really hard. Offensively, we’ve got a really good O-line: we’ve got three to four seniors who’ve been around here for awhile and they’re really good play-

ers.”

A win on Saturday would move the Tigers to 2-0 in the Ivy League and a commanding 5-0 record overall. Princeton emerged victorious in the two schools’ last meeting, 27-16.

The second Ivy League game and the historic significance of the team’s undefeated record in and out of conference may have generated a significant amount of excitement, but Surace has emphasized the importance of staying grounded and maintaining absolute focus on the moment.

“The guys [on the team] today — they could care less [about their record],” he explained. “They know that the best you can be right now is 4-0 and that Brown is a terrific opponent and that our preparation has to be great.

You know, we respect the tradition, but it has nothing to do with Saturday at noon when we play Brown. What we have to do is be prepared, we have to execute our responsibilities, we have to play hard, because Brown’s going to do that. We just have to be one play better.”

Kickoff will take place at noon on Saturday, Oct. 17.

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“This is one of those games that has the chance to be a classic game because both teams execute so well,” Surace said. “[Brown is] a physical team, they play hard, they play the game the right way, all those things. They’re throwing the ball as well as any team — in fact, I believe they’re the no. 2 pass-ranked team in the country. Their skill guys are all back from last year, their quarterback Marcus Fuller is completing a high percentage See FOOTBALL page 5

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Despite facing injuries, recent play still leaves the Tigers with much confidence for this weekend’s contest.

AROUND I V I E S THE

In 1995 and 2006, the Princeton Tigers started their season 4-0. In both years, they also claimed the Ivy League title.

Now, it’s October 2015 and Princeton is 4-0 again after routing Colgate 44-20. The Tigers (4-0, 1-0 Ivy League) smothered the Raiders (2-4, 1-0 Patriot League) with 556 yards of total offense and four touchdowns from sophomore

quarterback John Lovett, while their defense blocked two field goals and held Colgate firmly at bay.

With a pristine record and a win against Columbia already under their belts, the Tigers look to bring their goal of an Ivy League Championship one step closer to reality as they square off against Brown (22, 0-1). When asked about the game, Coach Bob Surace ’90 praised the Bears’ aerial attack and anticipated a fierce matchup Saturday.

Ivy League soccer is beginning to hit full swing, as many teams from the Ancient 8 will play the third of their seven league games this coming weekend. It’s a dogfight as usual, and many questions remain before the season is over.:

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Dartmouth (6-3-1 overall, 2-0 Ivy League): The Big Green picks up right where it left off last season, as it follows up an NCAA bid with a perfect start to league play. A stalwart defense has been this team’s calling card so far as it’s allowed just .80 goals per game on the season and has yet to give one up in Ivy League play.

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Harvard (4-4-2, 2-0): Last year’s third-place finishers are making a strong case for themselves to kick things off. Besides their wins against intra-league foes, they’ve shown that they can hold their own against the best of the NCAA, having brought (then) no. 23-ranked Southern Methodist and (then) no. 9-ranked University of Washington to ties.

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Brown (6-4-1, 1-0-1): A goal in the 86th minute against Princeton keeps the Brown Bears out of the loss column and in the thick of the race as they take on aforementioned leader Harvard this weekend. For their high standing and for the tie against the Tigers, they have superstar freshman Jack Hagstrom to thank. The rookie put in the game-tying goal in the 85th minute, his fifth on the season, as he ranks second in the league in goals.

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Columbia (6-3-1, 1-1): While the Lions have cooled down after an impressive 4-0 start, they remain steady in the league, as they look to put the woeful seventh-place finish in the 2014 season behind them. They haven’t had any standout performers so far — no player on the roster has scored more than 2 goals so far.

Princeton (5-3-2, 0-1-1): It’s amazing how little moments can drastically shape a season. One defensive lapse against Dartmouth, and allowing the last-minute goal against Brown, and the Tigers find themselves having to do some major climbing. However, this team has shown they have talent in spades, especially on the offensive end. Two of the top five Ivy goal scorers rep Nassau Hall — senior forward Tom Sanner and senior midfielder Brendan McSherry.

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Penn (2-7-1, 1-1): The Quakers’ win against Cornell has been a lonely bright spot, as it’s been rough outing after rough outing so far. While the team opened the season against tough foes, fans must worry whether the initial six-game losing streak sets the tone for the season.

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Cornell (2-9-1, 0-2):Finding the back of the net has been a challenge for them to say the least. The Big Red is pulling up the rear in scoring, as it’s scored only five times so far this season and has failed to score in eight of its 12 games on the season.

Yale (1-9, 0-2): If the season so far has been any indication, another winless Ivy League season could very well be in the Bulldogs’ future. If they want any chance at redemption, they’ll have to fix some glaring problems on defense. They’re dead last in the league in goals allowed in on the season at 25 — no other team has let in more than 17.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Field hockey to begin Women’s soccer seeks ninth straight victory first half of 4-game stretch away from Bedford Field

By Claire Coughlin contributor

By Miles Hinson sports editor

The Tigers defended their home turf as well as any of their fans could have asked for. Now the field hockey team is taking its talents up north as it takes on the Brown Bears and the Syracuse Orange for some weekend showdowns.

No. 19-ranked Princeton (6-4 overall, 3-0 Ivy League), tied with Penn for first in Ivy League standings, hopes to repeat its success against the Bears (6-6, 1-2), a team whom it thrashed 4-0 at Bedford Field last year. If the Bears want to have any chance of winning, they’re going to have to pick it

up offensively — they’re ranked seventh in the league for goals scored per game.

Princeton, for reference, is ranked second in the category for the Ivies and 12th for the nation.

As the Tigers look for their eighth straight victory in league play (going back to the 2014 season), they’ll look to the usual suspects for that success. Senior striker Maddie Copeland and freshman striker Sophia Tornetta have both excelled this year. But, as anyone on this Tigers team will tell you, off-ball movement and converting off corners has been absolutely key to scoring production, both See FIELD HOCKEY page 5

For the first time since 2012, the Princeton women’s soccer team is on an eight-game winning streak. The team looks to continue this streak as it matches up against the Columbia Lions this Saturday at Roberts Stadium. After losing to Columbia in a close game last year, the team is definitely looking to redeem itself.

The Columbia women’s soccer team will travel to the Orange Bubble on Saturday with only one conference victory under its belt against Brown.

Given that Princeton demolished the Bears in a 4-point shutout last Saturday, the Tigers remain optimistic that their streak won’t be ending anytime soon.

According to junior defender Haley Chow, the key to Saturday’s game is keeping both intensity and togetherness at

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The women’s soccer team currently stands with Harvard as the top teams in the Ivy League so far.

high levels for every minute of play. “[We focus on] maintaining cohesion on the field and playing at the level [we] were taught

to play at.” Chow said.

One of the team’s strongest facets is its defense, which Chow believes has played a crucial role in the team’s many

shutouts this season. With a first-place ranking in the Ivy League, ten victories total, and four shutouts, it would be easy See W. SOCCER page 5

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