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U. to pay $18M in tax settlement

By Jessica Li Head News Editor

The University reached a settlement with a group of Princeton homeowners who sued to challenge the University’s property tax exemption status, the University announced in a press release Friday. The settlement entails for an $18 million contribution from the University to the town and town residents over the course of six years.

The settlement, which leaves the University’s property tax exemption intact, comes just before the trial in the courtroom of Tax Court Judge Vito Bianco which was set to begin on Monday. The University previously stated it was prepared to go trial.

The agreement stipulates that the University will contribute $2 million per year in 2017 and then $1.6 million per year for the five years thereafter to a fund that will help abate the property taxes of homeowners who qualify for a homestead benefit under New Jersey law.

To be eligible for homestead rebates under current laws, the applicant must be a state resident, have paid taxes on the property, and the property must

be the applicant’s primary residence. The rebate also has a general gross income requirement of no more than $75,000, and no more than $150,000 for senior citizens or disabled individuals.

The University also agreed to continue its annual voluntary contribution of $3,480,000 to the town in 2021 and 2022, after the current voluntary contribution agreement ends in 2020.

Finally, the University agreed to make three contributions of $416,700 to the Witherspoon Jackson Development Corporation from 2017-19.

Even though it comes after a series of defeats for the University on rulings as to motions filed with the Tax Court, the settlement is significantly lower than earlier estimates that the University could be liable for as much as $40 million in annual property tax liability. Bianco had previously ruled against a Morristown hospital in a nonprofit tax exemption case that appeared to be similar to the one filed against the University.

In describing reasons for the settlement, University Vice President and Secretary Robert See SETTLEMENT page 3

STUDENT LIFE

U. affiliates reflect on LGBT Center anniversary

By Audrey Spensley contributor

The University’s LGBT Center celebrated its tenth anniversary on Oct. 14 with storytelling by five alumni, followed by a reception. The Center is the sixth oldest of its kind in the nation and one of only fifty nationwide to have over two full-time staff.

The event began with narratives from the 1970s, when resources for LGBT students on campus were virtually nonexistent.

“I was so excited and so naive,” Abby Rubenfeld ’75 said, regarding her expectations of the queer community at the University, “It was not an at-

mosphere friendly to LGBT people. The word ‘transgender’ was not even used.”

Rubenfeld arrived at the University in 1971, the third year of coeducation. As a sophomore, she was elected the first female president of the student body.

“I was validated by winning the election, but there was no validation and acceptance of who I was,” Rubenfeld said.

The Gay Pride Alliance, the University’s first LGBT organization, was founded in September of 1972 by Arthur Eisenbach ’74 and Judith Schaeffer ’74. The Alliance’s primary goal was to provide social opportunities for gay See LGBT page 2

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The five newly elected Class of 2020 officers posed together.

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While the overall number of crimes decreased in 2015, number of reports for domestic violence went up.

Number of crimes drop, reports on domestic violence rises

By Katherine Wang contributor

There were 69 crimes reported on the University’s main campus in 2015, an overall decrease from the 77 crimes reported in 2014, according to the 2016 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report released on Oct. 13.

The number of burglaries decreased, dropping from 32 to 24 cases. Motor vehicle theft decreased as well, from 14 to 9 reports, while the number of reported arson cases remained at one.

Arrests due to liquor law violations numbered at one for 2015 and none for 2014. There were nine arrests attributed to drug abuse violations, up from last year’s eight.

As a result of the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, or the Clery Act, signed in 1990, all colleges and universities that participate in federal or financial aid programs are required to disclose information about crime on and near their respective campuses. The University’s annual report measures reports to Public Safety rather than investigations of findings of sexual misconduct.

The Clery report listed seven rapes and three fondling offenses, down from 2014’s report of eight rapes and four fondling offenses. There was also one case of aggravated assault reported in 2015, up from last year’s count of zero.

The University also conducted the “We Speak” survey in 2015 on the subject of attitudes of sexual misconduct, through which the University also collected statistics on sexual misconduct on campus.

Despite the overall drop in reports, counts of domestic violence increased from six to 13 over the past year.

By the Clery definition, domestic violence means physical or sexual violence between people when a certain relationship exists, including current or former dating relationships, current or former spouses, current or former household members, have or having a child together, See CRIME page 2

STUDENT LIFE

STUDENT LIFE

Class of 2020 elects five officers to USG

USG holds meeting on mental health, budget

By Samuel Oh Contributor

The Class of 2020 elected its class officers last week, choosing first years Nitish Jindal ’20, Serge Priam Nsanzineza ’20, Dylan Mittag ’20, Ben MusokeLubega ’20, and Alaa Ragab ’20 as its five officers for Undergraduate Student Government.

The race had 29 candidates running for the five positions.

Voter turnout was around 53.6 percent, with 703 students casting their votes out of a class numbering 1,312 individuals. Mittag won the most votes, with 239 ballots to his name. Jindal came in second with 185 votes, Ragab had 149 votes, Nsanzineza received 146 votes, and Musoke-Lubega won the fifth spot with 138 votes.

The election began at noon on Monday, Oct. 10 and closed at noon on Wednesday, Oct. 12.

Results were announced noon of Oct. 14.

The newly elected members expressed a mixture of surprise and a deep sense of honor in reaction to their election.

“I was surprised,” Nsanzineza said in an interview Saturday. “At first I was simply interested in getting into the political life on campus but now I’m willing to think more about the social challenges and more interested in bringing our class together this year.”

Musoke-Lubega agreed, saying that he could describe his appointment as class officer as a surprising and happy moment.

“I didn’t expect to win and the candidates were all very competitive,” he said. “They were good candidates and would have made good officers.”

“I was deeply honored,” Ragab said. “The fact that people trusted me with this responsibility is so big to me. I met so many people during the campaign, and I made many friends. I’m looking forward to meeting more.”

All officers noted that they based their campaign strategy on class outreach and making rational, yet attractive promises and proposals.

“Something I really emphasized whilst campaigning is not to assure anything that was beyond my authority or ability as a class officer,” Mittag noted. “Instead, I look forward to translating the enthusiasm from the election into my service as class officer and deliver on the wishes of our class moving forward.”

Some freshmen voters, however, said they were personally familiar with only a few of the 29 candidates running.

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Today on Campus

The Editorial Board argues that Women’s Center events should be more inclusive to conservative women, and contributing columnist Leora Eisenberg condemns antitheism. PAGE 4

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The Undergraduate Student Government discussed mental health programming and the Senate budget in their weekly meeting on Oct. 16.

Mental Health Initiative Chairs Sarah Sakha ’18 and Nathan Yoo ’17 presented a series of updates to projects that are being implemented this year.

Sakha is an associate opinion editor for The Daily Princetonian.

Yoo described the results of MHI’s Mental Health Weekend, which was designed to “raise awareness of the board and the resources on campus.”

Yoo indicated that the weekend events were relatively light, and that MHI is reserving heavier discussion for their main Mental Health Week program, which will occur Feb. 19-25, 2017.

Sakha said that MHI is hoping to add a Peer Nightline program in the spring.

Peer Nightline will be a Princeton-specific phone line which students can call from 9 p.m. – 2 a.m. and talk with student volunteers who are trained in specific areas.

“Oftentimes, it is easier and inspires greater empathy if you’re talking with someone who knows what you are going through first-hand,” Sakha said.

Sakha also explained that MHI has been working closely with Princeton’s Counseling and Psychological Services in See USG page 3

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and caregivers for people with disabilities.

“Given that the range of these relationships is so broad and that many of these relationships do not involve other Princeton community members, caution should be taken when attempting to draw any conclusions between two years of data,” John Cramer, University director of Media Relations, said.

A separate sex discrimination and sexual misconduct discipline report for 2015-16, however, lists a total of 13 sexual misconduct cases, including two cases of reported rape, two cases of sexual assault, three cases of sexual harassment, three cases of intimate relationship violence, and one case of stalking. It lists no reported cases of domestic violence in the context of intimate relationships.

The disconnect is in part attributable to the fact that both statistics were measured by reports rather than investigations and findings of sexual misconduct, explained Michele Minter, vice provost for Institutional Equity and Diversity.

“Data from the We Speak survey suggests that only a small percentage of sexual misconduct incidents are reported at all, either to Public

Safety, the Title IX Office, or confidentially to the SHARE [Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education] office,” Minter said.

The results from the 2015 We Speak survey will be released in November.

Even when sex offenses are reported, many of them are reported to confidential counselors, which is why overall statistics often understate the frequency of offenses.

In 2015, 29 sexual offenses, two domestic violence offenses, six dating violence offenses, and eight stalking offenses were reported via these means. These figures are not only an increase from the 28 sexual offenses, two domestic violence offenses, one dating violence offense, and five stalking incidents reported confidentially in 2014, but are also a difference from the statistics reported in the University’s Clery crime statistics.

The University decided to include only reports required under the Clery law after inquiries arose on the issue from federal agencies, as well as other third parties.

Although the reports made to confidential counselors were not published on the annual Clery report, the University believed that it was important for the campus community to be provided with as much information as possible in regards

to campus crime, according to the Clery report. It also included figures on appropriate University websites and in the body of the annual Clery report.

The University is committed to focusing on individual cases behind the statistics and not the numbers themselves, Cramer and Minter said.

“Even one incident is too many, and Princeton is focused intensely on training and programming around prevention, bystander intervention and support services, which may encourage more victims to come forward and report these incidents,” Cramer said.

The SHARE office is one such resource, providing students who are dealing with incidents of interpersonal violence and abuse with crisis response, support, advocacy, education, and referral services.

“Princeton, like other universities, experiences cases of sexual misconduct. And we, as students, can choose to take part in improving the environment by helping our peers, being active bystanders, and watching out for what goes on around us,” said Nicholas Wu ’19, a SHARE Peer advisor.

The Department of Public Safety did not respond to requests for comment.

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and lesbian students on campus.

“In May 1973, the group held a ‘queer dance’ … it drew a crowd of over 300 people,” LGBT Center Director Judy Jarvis said. “It was covered by The New York Times.”

However, the organization continued to encounter opposition from much of the student body.

“The group’s posters were regularly torn down soon after they went up,” Jarvis said.

According to Jarvis, in 1985 the University refused a donation by Dick Limoges ’60 intended to fund gay and lesbian activities on campus in 1985. In response, Limoges and Shawn Cowls ’87 held an alumni meeting which established the ‘Fund for Reunion,’ a nonprofit separate from the University that aimed to connect gay and lesbian alumni.

“In 1989, GALAP [Gay and Lesbian Alliance of Princeton] held an event called Gay Jeans Day,” Jarvis said. “If you supported gays and lesbians, you wore jeans on that day.”

On a campus where jeans were a clothing staple, the event became extremely divisive. Although student reactions were mixed, the event helped GALAP gain attention and publicity.

“GALAP was no longer a lonely hearts club,” Jarvis added, “but a campus force. Everyone knew who they were.”

The transgender movement, however, was still nonexistent. Many undergraduate students didn’t have the terminology to describe their gender orientation.

“At the time, there was no community to connect with or explore,” Melody Maia Monet ’93 said.

Monet lived in a single dorm her junior and seniors years so she could dress according to her gender orientation when she was alone.

“I was hiding my identity, literally, under my clothes,” she said.

While Suman Chakraborty ‘97 was attending the University, President Bill Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act, Ellen DeGeneres came out as lesbian, and the AIDS epidemic continued to take lives, he said in his presentation.

“So much was happening outside campus gates and

we felt like we experienced it in our own way here,” Chakraborty said.

Chakraborty said he came out his first semester and experienced contradictory reactions to his identity. By his senior year, he served as the president of the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Alliance. The Tory ran a column commenting on his sex life.

“I don’t know whether to laugh or shake my head,” Chakraborty said. “But I’m not angry anymore.”

“Despite my ambivalence about my experience here, I’m grateful for the journey the University started me on,” he added.

Wade Rakes ’02 thanked the Center’s staff for their support throughout his time as an undergraduate.

“I’m beyond grateful, because I know it wasn’t easy,” Rakes said. He also emphasized the potential that the Center holds to help others going forward.

“We have to do the work for the people who are here, but also for the people who aren’t here, for a variety of reasons,” he said.

When Fiona Miller ’09 arrived at the University from Tucson, Ariz., she was unsure about her sexual orientation.

“I recognized [starting college] as an opportunity to reinvent myself,” Miller said. The LGBT Center, which moved to its current location on the third floor of the Frist Campus Center in 2005, helped her to do that.

“There were so many resources,” Fiona Miller ’09 said.

“They made it so easy to get involved.”

Debbie Bazarky was hired as the University’s first full-time LGBT student services coordinator in 2001. She founded the LGBT Center in 2005, and its official opening was in October 2006.

Bazarky received an honorary degree from the University in 2013.

“When I started, my goal was to have ten students in each year be out. Then we would have forty out students which, at the time, was an unimaginably large number.”

Bazarky said. “Now, about 50 students a year who attend the University were already out of the closet when they applied.”

Throughout her tenure, Bazarky was able to spend about four times the budget for the center through cosponsoring and donations.

“We have been on the cutting edge,” Bazarky said. “We were one of the first universities to support asexuality. We have more LGBT and queer related courses than ever.”

The alumni stories were followed by a group reception at the LGBT Center in Room 246 of the Frist Campus Center.

“I was deeply moved by the personal stories and the real strength of the individuals who forged a path,” Vice President for Student Life W. Rochelle Calhoun said.

“There were really great personal narrative experiences,” LGBT Center Program Coordinator Andy Cofino added. “It was really powerful to hear individual stories, as opposed to the strictly historical.”

Many of the attendees agreed, saying that they found the strength of the storytellers both inspiring and encouraging.

“It showed progress and how they kept trying,” Brandon Ward ’20 said.

“I appreciated the emphasis on today,” Andy Zheng ’20 added. “It encourages us to make progress and make a difference.”

Looking forward to the next ten years, the Center’s staff hope to build on the foundation that has been established.

“The alumni who were back were fantastic and shared vulnerable things,” Jarvis said. “[The Center] wants to continue to have programming that challenges and excites students.”

“One of my goals is for the Center to become too large to fit in the Frist 246 space,” she added. “I want to have gender inclusive housing and gender neutral bathrooms throughout campus.”

“We are committed to continuing to focus on intersectionality and to keep building on our foundation,” Cofino added.

“Lots of the big institutions, like Princeton, wait for culture to change and wait for the end of the change to take action,” Miller said. “But the University took a stand first and waited for the culture to catch up.”

The event took place 4:30 p.m. at Princeton University Art Museum.

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ficers so early in the year, Zach Bampton ’20 observed. “I think in the first year officers will do about as well as anyone, considering that we don’t know anyone besides what their Facebook posts, memes, and Snapchat filters say. For next year we’ll have a better understanding of actual quality because we will see how they’ve done, and be able to judge their contenders based on work experience.”

“While I’m disappointed more people didn’t vote, I have no objections to those elected,” Bampton said.

The new Freshman Class Officers also noted the voter turnout of 53 percent, and the lack of familiarity much of the class had with the newly elected officers. “[Voters] get busy, they forget, or it’s just not on their mind. I was kind of expecting the low turnout,” Ragab added.

“I think there are lots of demands made on freshman students. Many of us come from many diverse places. Many of us find Princeton so much more rigorous than anything we’ve ever done in our lives. So I think it is so important for us to take time off and come together as a community.”

“My biggest concern is to get the class to come out to

USG sponsored events, and get more involved in our community,” Nsanzineza said. “Possibly by creating smaller groups and have our class get more invested in the icebreaking events that we plan.”

Despite their differences, all five expressed an eagerness to begin working as team for the Class of 2020.

“I could not have asked for a better group of fellow elected members,” Mittag said.

Mittag listed a number of planned activities, such as large scale study breaks, free food, and class gear to bring the Class of 2020 together.

“Everyone has been very considerate, eager, and full of vision. I can’t wait to finally get together and work as a team,” Jindal added.

All five members planned social events ranging from small study breaks and distribution of class gear to large class-wide occasions that appeal to everyone’s tastes.

“Class unity and coming together are very important,” Musoke-Lubega added. “It’s something that we, the officers, will really focus on this year.”

Jindal, Mittag, MusokeLubega, Nsanzineza, and Ragab will attend their first meeting with USG on Tuesday, Oct. 18.

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Durkee ’69 noted that the University believed it to be a better judgment to help lower-income homeowners and preserving the diversity of the town than to incur the legal expenses in pursuing the trial.

“We found a solution. We found a formula that met with our goals to help the less economically well-off homeowners, and one that met the University’s goal of making social progress,” Bruce Afran, counsel for the plaintiffs in the case, said. He explained that the initial goal of the suit was to ensure more proportionate taxation responsibility in the town so that lower-income residents are not unduly burdened.

“We can’t become a preservation for the upper-middle class and the elite,” he said.

Previously, Durkee and other University officials said that the probability of a settlement was fairly low. In an interview with the ‘Prince’ immediately after the settlement, Durkee explained that the University “couldn’t have seriously considered the settlement without an agreement that reflects the interest of both sides.”

According to Afran, both sides began actively pursuing a settlement in the case about one month ago. Durkee confirmed this timeline, and noted that the conversation about a settlement was the reason behind postponing the trial, which was originally scheduled to begin on Oct. 6.

“The University worked very, very hard with us to make this solution happen,” Afran said.

He noted that during the process of drawing up the settlement, both sides often had daily meetings.

Afran also noted that prior to the finalization of the settlement, his side was prepared to go to trial with more than 1,400 exhibits of instances in which University buildings were used for commercial activities. Similarly, the University has previously noted that it had an extensive list of witnesses including University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83, University Treasurer Carolyn Ainslie, and Vice Provost for Space Programming and Planning Paul LaMarche.

Afran also noted that this is the first time any university has created a private fund to directly help disadvantaged homeowners in the local community, and that this fund could be a model for other higher education institutions.

Durkee explained that the University has a long history of helping to provide affordable housing in Princeton.

According to Durkee, between 1990 and 2005, the Uni-

versity contributed well over $1 million to the borough and township for affordable housing. Additionally, the University has donated the land to the Housing Authority to support Karin Court, one of the town’s low-income housing developments. Furthermore, the University has created 56 units of publicly available affordable housing in connection with the development of Merwick Stanworth.

The University also cofounded Princeton Community Housing, an affordable housing initiative, Durkee explained.

He also stated that it is highly likely that the University would have negotiated a renewed agreement with the town entailing at least a $3.48 million per-year contribution for years 2021-22 without the settlement.

The newly created private fund will be managed by a thirdparty non-profit organization.

Both sides will collaborate in the next five months to formalize the fund, Afran said. Durkee noted that this aggregate fund of ten million dollars mostly comes from the discretionary budget that otherwise would’ve been spent on litigation. According to Afran, this fund will give payments averaging $2,000 a year per family that qualifies.

He also noted, however, that this group of home owners that qualify for the fund have been declining rapidly since 2013.

“No politician in New Jersey has ever delivered something like this to those in need,” Afran said. He also explained that concentrating a smaller sum on the targeted beneficiaries would create greater impact than potentially winning a higher amount in trial to be distributed to everyone in the municipality.

The plaintiffs agreed to withdraw the outstanding complaints as a part of the settlement. However, Afran said that the plaintiffs are not closed to the possibility of renewing the litigation if the University does not continue the fund after the six years specified in the agreement.

“For its size, the University is now doing more for the community,” Afran said, “but we may come back in a few years if we see that things aren’t going in the right direction.”

In September, a legislation was introduced in the New Jersey legislature that prohibits individuals from challenging tax valuations and exemptions of properties other than their own. University officials previously denied that the University had lobbied for the bill or was involved in its introduction.

“The settlement leaves the University’s tax exempt status in place as it was. This status is justified by the nature of the University — that it is a nonprofit, educational institution,” Durkee said.

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order to make them more student-friendly.

One of changes enacted allows students to schedule their first CPS appointments online, rather than in person. However, Sakha also indicated that the current wait time for a CPS appointment is typically around three weeks, and that MHI would be pushing for the addition of more counselors.

USG Treasurer Hunter Dong ’17 presented the Senate’s September budget. The allocations included an increase in the Wintersession budget, which Dong said was due to the previous year’s success. Senate task forces, especially one for the promotion of women’s leadership, received extra funding due to their expanded scale.

Dong indicated that the current social budget was relatively low, and that his committee was planning to raise the student activities fee. The student activities fee is currently $75 for freshmen, sophomores, and juniors, and is slightly higher for seniors to accommodate a greater vari-

ety of senior programming.

Dong explained that increasing the student activities fee would allow for a greater variety of acts at Lawnparties. He noted that this year’s budget request for Lawnparties was lower than those of previous years. However, he maintained that the Lawnparties budget still constituted the vast majority of the Senate’s social spending.

“There’s a lot more we would like to do, but it gets cost prohibitive pretty quickly … The price of [musical acts] increases at a much faster rate than our budget,” Dong added.

The changes to the student activity fee would only be marginal, and would leave the fee on par with comparable institutions such as other Ivy Leagues, MIT, and Stanford, Dong said. He also affirmed that any changes would not affect students on financial aid.

USG Chief Elections Manager Sung Won Chang ’18 presented the results of the Fall 2016 Senate Election. In total, five candidates were selected as Class of 2020 government officers. Chang noted that student participation in the election was

much higher, on both the candidate and voter side, than in last year’s election, with 29 candidates and 703 voters this year compared to 16 candidates and 538 voters last year.

U-Councilor Pooja Patel ’18 presented an update on the Cultural and Ethnic Studies Task Force. Patel explained that the task force’s goals would be “understanding issues with current curriculum, and what each group would ideally like to achieve.”

She added that current task force members would be contacting specific student cultural groups, such as the Asian American Student Association and the Latinx Collective, to search for new additions.

The USG Senate voted in Katherine Leung ’20 as a first-year representative in the Honor Committee. Honor Committee Chair Carolyn Liziewski ’18 stated that the interview process consisted of both personal questions as well as in-depth studies of hypothetical situations. Liziewski said that Leung’s impressive analytical skills and articulate thinking resulted in her gaining the position over 10 other applicants.

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Yes all Women’s Center

ince women first enrolled as full-time undergraduates at the University in 1969, female students have made tremendous contributions to our community. As women continually strive to improve their standing on campus, the Board finds the Women’s Center deficient in its role in this effort, because we believe the Center is neither as inclusive nor as effective as it could be. The Board urges the Women’s Center to refocus its programming to emphasize core issues directly affecting the undergraduate experience that are more inclusive of a politically diverse female student body, as well as of all genders. We further propose the Women’s Center solicit greater input from students in order to facilitate more representative programming.

The Women’s Center must have clearer, more appropriate priorities that better correlate with the student experience. The third full week of classes alone featured extensive Women’s Center programming on sex: “Developing a Self-Pleasure Practice” (Oct. 5), three separate sessions titled “Sex with the Lights On” (Oct. 4-6), and “Yoga for Better Sex” (Oct. 6). These events were advertised with posters that included questions like “Where is the male g-spot?” and “Anal is his favorite thing – what’s yours?” While the Board supports the Women’s Center’s freedom of expression, such crass publicity crosses beyond provocativeness in a manner that may be off-putting to many students, of all genders, and deter them from participation in Center activities.

Furthermore, by over-emphasizing issues related to sexuality at the expense of other valuable programming, the Women’s Center could harmfully reduce Princeton women to their bodies. There may be a place for such events on campus, but with limited time and resources, the Women’s Center ought to prioritize high impact events that encompass the full range of interests Princeton

women have, such as pursuing leadership opportunities or seeking career advice. It is surely a case of misplaced priorities that it is not until tomorrow, Oct. 18, in the fifth full week of classes, that the Women’s Center is hosting an event called “Elect Her” (with the last election-related event, “Let’s Elect Her,” happening nearly two years ago on Dec. 15, 2014). It won’t be until Nov. 10 that the Center is hosting an event called “How to Identify and Respond to Sexism in the Workplace.”

In addition, when promoting these events, we believe the Women’s Center should make a particular effort to reach out to, and be more welcoming of, male students, a critical improvement as men are invaluable partners in promoting gender equality.

In addition to being generally unappealing to many students from a variety of backgrounds, the Women’s Center’s programming is particularly unrepresentative of the political diversity among Princeton women.

The Women’s Center has a long history of hosting politically charged and overwhelmingly liberal events, including “Truth and Power: #BlackLivesMatter Documentary Screening” (Mar. 24, 2016), “Battling Abortion Stigma: A Student Speaks Out About Her Story” (May 8, 2015), and “#BlackLivesMatter with Co-Founder Alicia Garza” (Feb. 23, 2015). The Board here takes no stance on these issues themselves and believes such events are important to host at Princeton, but not by an organization intended to be inclusive of all Princeton women, irrespective of political viewpoint. The Women’s Center cannot support all female students when its programming is so politically homogeneous that women who hold different opinions on contentious issues, like abortion or police relations, may opt out of involvement with the Center altogether. Politically diverse programming is essential to be inclusive of all female students and in the spirit of Princeton’s intellectually open environment.

The issues the Board has identified above

could be remedied in part by the Women’s Center seeking and incorporating more input from students. While the Center has student workers and hosts focus groups for feedback, these opportunities are not welladvertised and information about them does not appear on the Women’s Center website.

By contrast, the Carl A. Fields Center has a prominent Fellows program for “student leaders [to] contribute to the mission, vision and pillars of the Center.” The Women’s Center should mimic this high visibility model by having information about applying to be a student worker on its website and should include an easily accessible feedback form online. As well, the Center should ensure its student staffers represent a culturally and politically diverse group of Princetonians.

Another wider-reaching initiative would be to disseminate a survey for student insight and ideas that would capture input from across campus.

To effectively achieve its goals, the Women’s Center must operate in a politically diverse and inclusive manner. Conversations about political issues of particular importance to women are beneficial to Princeton, but not when organized in a manner that highlights only one viewpoint by a program that ostensibly seeks to support Princeton women across the political spectrum. A Women’s Center that welcomes undergraduates of all political backgrounds and genders and prioritizes programming on important issues beyond sex at the beginning of the year will best be able to support female Princetonians, and the Board strongly encourages the Women’s Center to implement our recommendations accordingly.

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The right to be religious

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Do-Hyeong Myeong ’17 editor-in-chief

Daniel Kim ’17

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES president Richard W. Thaler, Jr. ’73 vice presidents John G. Horan ’74 Thomas E. Weber ’89 secretary Betsy L. Minkin ’77 treasurer Michael E. Seger ’71 Craig Bloom ’88 Gregory L. Diskant ’70 William R. Elfers ’71 Stephen Fuzesi ’00 Zachary A. Goldfarb ’05 Joshua Katz Kathleen Kiely ’77 Rick Klein ’98 James T. MacGregor ’66 Alexia Quadrani Jerry Raymond ’73 Randall Rothenberg ’78 Annalyn Swan ’73 Douglas Widmann ’90

EDITORIAL BOARD chair Cydney Kim ’17 Megan Armstrong’ 19 Allison Berger ’18 Thomas Clark ’18 Paul Draper ’18 Daniel Elkind ’17 Theodore Furchgott ’18 Sergio Leos ’17 Carolyn Liziewski ’18 Connor Pfeiffer ’18 Ashley Reed ’18 Jack Whelan’ 19

Leora Eisenberg

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amily gatherings suck because someone always mentions God. The food is mediocre, the family overbearing, and the relatives argumentative. There is an abundance of cheek-pinches, sloppy kisses and hugs I don’t want. I grin and bear it, though, because these people are my family, and they want the best for me.

Except for when it comes to the yearly “God-Is-Dead” argument. My cousin assumes the role of Nietzsche and announces that God (or religion) is dead. She announces that theists, myself included, are intellectual sellouts. I have nothing to offer to any familial discussion because I believe in God. My values must be skewed. I must be living in a different century. I must not have a brain.

“So, Leora,” she begins, “didn’t you get the memo that God isn’t real?”

In the beginning, I used to cry.

My face would turn red. I would get flustered. I would turn to my neighboring family members and send a silent plea for help, but they generally left me to fend for myself. They are all from the former Soviet Union, and although they weren’t wholly antagonistic to my theism, they couldn’t wholeheartedly support it.

And every year, at least once, my cousin would ask the same question, and I gave her the same response. She would rail on the religious community for its abuse of human rights, its anachronistic values, and its proselytization. She renounced her Judaism, and claimed to be better for it. I would generally say how religion helped so many to find purpose and meaning — but, mainly I would cry. Religion was, and is, an integral part of my life, and to see her reject it in my name, as well as in hers, was heartbreaking.

As I got older, I would leave. She would start berating my God, and I would get up from the table. But once, I decided to show her the hypocrisy of her claims against my faith in religion.

“Berating people for their religion is a progressive value?” I asked.

She didn’t understand.

“Trying to convert people out of religion isn’t a form of proselytization?”

She began to speak.

“Intolerance isn’t a relic of a bygone era?”

Her love of atheism and her opposi-

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tion to religion didn’t make her a good person, just as religion doesn’t necessarily guarantee a person is a good one.

The exchange between my cousin and me highlights a common dialogue in society today, in which the anti-Theists oppose the Theists on the grounds that religion is, simply put, bad. But it’s not so simple. After all, religion fundamentally drove only ten percent of the 1800 major wars in history.

That is not to contend that the ten percent has not been problematic. Take a look at history; take a look at the news. However, religion is hardly the sole cause for problems in society — lust for power, political ideology, and corruption have also fed the flames.

Religion certainly has, within itself, plenty of issues, including many that my cousin mentioned. But if atheists judge theists for their lack of progressivism, chide them for their intolerance, and seek to convert their God to no God, aren’t they just as bad?

While I understand the merits of atheism, I choose to benefit from the merits of religion, and I ask that my atheist peers accept that.

Most of them do. But with the rise of “militant atheism” (an atheism whose adherents force their beliefs on others), which can be found in academic and in popular literature, I find myself having the same discussion that I have at family gatherings.

America is, undoubtedly, becoming more secular. In 2014, 22.8 percent of Americans identified as religiously unaffiliated, up from 16.4 percent in 2007, but that doesn’t mean that most Americans are right or wrong. It just means that we have different beliefs that should be respected equally. If we pride ourselves on our inclusiveness and diversity, shouldn’t that extend beyond race and color, to a mutual respect of religion or lack thereof?

Personally, my religion has 613 commandments, and I keep as many as I can. But I’ve thought about what my cousin told me, and I do not proselytize, demean, or abuse anyone in the name of my God. I ask my atheist friends to do the same in the name of no God. Leora Eisenberg is a freshman from Eagan, MN. She can be reached at leorae@princeton. edu.

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Football claim three Tigers on 11-game winning streak game winning streak after sweeping Bears and Bulldogs FOOTBALL Continued from page 6

repeat performance. However, he was not the only quarterback delivering for the Tigers: Kanoff went 16 for 23 over the course of the day with 185 yards and one touchdown through the air. Defensively, Princeton forced two interceptions from Brown quarterback Thomas Linta and held the visitors to only 148 passing yards and 52 yards on the ground.

With this convincing victory, the Tigers have now won three straight as they head toward the heart of

their season. And while Brown has yet to win a conference game, Princeton’s upcoming opponents have seen far more success. The Tigers are currently tied for first place in the Ivy League with Harvard and Penn, and will face both teams in the next three weeks — Harvard this coming weekend and Penn on Nov. 5. Both games, along with other conference matchups against Cornell and Dartmouth, should prove huge tests for a squad that has already shown great potential.

The Tigers will kick off against the Crimson on Saturday, Oct. 22, at 1:00 p.m.

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long to increase their lead to 6-0, with Tornetta dribbling down the base line to play the ball in to Quirk, who played it to Caro to finish it off. McCarthy then scored again with an assist coming from Quirk, and the final goal by Caro, for her second hat trick of the weekend, came from a pass by freshman Taylor Nolan,

who got her first collegiate career assist. Caro finished up by saying, “I was fortunate enough to have two hat tricks this weekend but I really couldn’t have done it without my team. Both of these wins were complete team efforts, back to front.”

The Tigers finished the game beating Towson 8-0 and out-shooting them 440. They will face Harvard on Saturday, Oct. 22 at 12 p.m. for arguably their biggest game of the season so far.

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Devon Peterkin’s 14.

A similar story played out for the reigning champions in their game against Yale (12-4, 5-2 Ivy) on the following day. What was expected to be a close match between the first and second place teams of the tournament turned out to be an one-sided fixture as the Tigers swept the Bulldogs. The O’Connell and Mattaliano duo once again bagged an astounding 13 and 10 kills with the help of Harris’ 33 assists.

“Incoming freshmen have been a really integral part

of our success this year,” said Mattaliano. “The freshmen play a huge role – they came in with a lot of fire and intensity and really created roles for themselves. They have contributed so much to our success, both on and off the court.”

Mattaliano also attributed this season’s success to the team’s mentality and work ethic, saying they “have really contributed so much.

Playing with intensity and passion every single point has been a huge part of our success.”

As the only undefeated team in the Ivy League, the co-captain also addressed the team’s future directions

for the second half of the season. “Last year, a lot of our success was from our underdog mentality. Once we started winning, we were just going for it. That’s something we were still able to maintain this season. Now, we are not going to play as if we are in first place. We’re going to play every single point to prove that we can do this. We’re going to play like the underdogs.”

The Tigers hope to continue their momentum this Friday and take a step closer to their goal of winning the tournament and advancing to the NCAA as they host the Quakers in their eighth game of the season.

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{ www.dailyprincetonian.com } WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Women’s Volleyball secures flawless first half of the season

By Jay Lee Contributor

After two convincing sweeps against Brown and Yale this past weekend, the Tigers have now defeated every team in the Ivy League this season.

The Princeton Tigers (13-3, 7-0 Ivy) landed a monumental achievement this weekend as they clenched their 19th consecutive set this season in their latest game against Yale.

Princeton stands undefeated in the Ivy League and have claimed a 3-0 sweep in every game so far, with the exception of the season opener against Penn (3-2).

This year’s season start is almost the polar opposite of last year’s, where the Tigers went a shaky 3-4 in the first half of the season but mag-

nificently converted their record into a 10-4 first place finish. There is no doubt now that if Princeton continues at this rate, a second Ivy League title and a spot in the NCAA are very realistic possibilities awaiting it this season.

In their game against Brown (4-13, 2-5 Ivy) on Oct. 14, Princeton took a total of 40 kills against the Bears’ 28, and made a total of 6 aces.

Once again leading the attack were senior co-captain Cara Mattaliano and freshman Maggie O’Connell with 13 and 12 kills, respectively.

Freshman setter Jessie Harris also displayed stellar performance, making 37 of the team’s 39 assists. Mattaliano also played a pivotal role in the team’s defense with 19 digs, followed by freshman See W. VOLLEYBALL page 5

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The Tigers have won their last 19 sets, beating all their Ivy opponents on route to a perfect first half of the season.

FOOTBALL

Princeton cruises past Brown at Home

By Nolan Liu associate sports editor

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The team will look to continue their winning-streak in their game against Harvard.

Junior quarterback John Lovett passed for two touchdowns and rushed for a third as the Princeton Tigers (4-1, 2-0 Ivy) cruised to an easy victory over Brown (1-4, 0-2 Ivy).

Princeton kicked off the scoring early, with senior quarterback Chad Kanoff uncorking a 33-yard bomb to senior wide receiver Isaiah Barnes for the first score. Brown failed to respond, and the Tigers soon extended their lead to 14 when Lovett engineered a second scoring drive and capped it off with a touchdown pass to senior wide

receiver James Frusciante.

From there, the Tigers seemed to score at will.

Lovett, again proving his worth as a dual-threat quarterback, tossed a second touchdown to Frusciante to open the second quarter and continued to punish the Bears, both on the ground and through the air.

Brown never put together a successful scoring drive in the first half, and Princeton would give itself an imposing 28-0 margin heading into the half as Lovett ran into the end zone for his third score of the game.

As the second half opened, Princeton only increased its control of the game. The Tiger defense

continued to punish Brown, and freshman kicker Tavish Rice tacked on a 32-yard field goal that extended the home team’s lead to 31. Although the Bears ultimately put together a 68-yard drive and scored a touchdown to deny the Tigers a shutout with a minute remaining in the fourth quarter, they never posed a serious threat over the course of the 31-7 victory.

For Princeton, the game was a near-perfect showing for both offense and defense. After an explosive outing at Georgetown where he also accounted for three touchdowns, Lovett delivered an even more stunning See FOOTBALL page 5

FIELD HOCKEY

Caro leads Princeton effort with two consecutive hat tricks this weekend

By Grace Baylis contributor

On Saturday, Princeton beat Brown 5-1 with senior captain Cat Caro scoring three points against the Bears. In the opening two minutes, Caro converted from a short corner to give the Tigers an early lead and set the tone for the game.

Caro then came up with another goal 20 minutes in from a short corner shot by freshman midfielder Maddie Bacskai. Junior striker Ryan McCarthy then found space and played the ball to her teammate, junior Rachel Park, who remained calm in a one-on-one situation with the Brown goalie and pushed the Tigers to a 3-0 lead. Along with her assist, McCarthy scored a stellar backhand just minutes before the half, making sure the Tigers out shot Brown, 13-0, at the half way point.

Despite being up 4-0, Princeton came out strong in the first ten minutes of the second half. The Tigers’ intensity dwindled

at times, which cost them a goal, their first and only goal they have conceded in Ivy League play. Freshman goalkeeper Grace Baylis found herself faced with a two-on-one situation and the Brown forward pushed it past her into the goal. Head Coach Carla Tagliente called a time out for the Tigers and the response seemed to be immediate from Princeton, who won the ball back and continued to attack Brown’s circle. Caro got the final goal of the day to complete her hat trick. With a diving pass from McCarthy, Caro picked up the ball and pulled the goalkeeper wide to then backhand it past her at the near post. Finishing the game with a 27-2 shot advantage, the Tigers beat the Bears, with the final score 5-1. “We went in wanting to focus on ball movement and finishing, and I think we made great strides in both those areas,” said Caro Princeton then took on Towson on Sunday, celebrating ‘Friends of Jaclyn Day’ with their young guest,

Tweet of the Day “No longer an athlete, but some habits die hard.

Like accidentally take a four-hour nap” Lisa Boyce(@ rolls_B0YCE), swimming

Moo. This is a yearly event where the Tigers celebrate a great charity that supports young children with brain tumors. The Tigers dominated Towson from the off, scoring a total of eight goals in the game and conceding none, with Caro again getting herself three, taking her total goal tally this year up to a career record of 13.

In the first five minutes, McCarthy def lected the ball past the Towson goalkeeper on a pass by freshman Carlotta von Gierke, and within ten minutes, Caro doubled the league off a short corner.

Sophomore Sophia Tornetta and junior Lexi Quirk both scored within six minutes of each other, both with def lections off the goalkeeper.

Quirk then came up with the assist for von Gierke, who calmly backhanded the ball in the cage to take Princeton to a 5-0 lead at half time.

Quirk set a personal best in the game with a goal and two assists.

As the Tigers came out for half time, it did not take Caro See FIELD HOCKEY page 5

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No. 11 Princteton has rebounded with two wins after a close loss to Duke.

Stat of the Day

28 points Senior Cat Caro posted 28 points this season after two hat tricks this weekend--a career high.

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