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Oct. 23, 1979 The Residence Committee passed a compromise system for charging students who require university assistance to enter their locked dormitory rooms. There would be no fine for the first two lockouts in any academic year, a two dollar charge for the third lock-out and a three dollar cost for all subsequent lockouts.

News & Notes Penn employees allowed to take two free classes

The University of Pennsylvania allows Penn employees to take up to two free classes at Penn, The Daily Pennsylvanian reported on Wednesday.

These classes can be in either liberal and professional studies or in other fields, and enable these employees to learn more advanced career skills or work toward a degree.

Charlotte Merrick, a communications officer in the Penn School of Engineering and Applied Science, explained that young professionals are most likely to take advantage of these free classes.

She added that many people get master’s degrees in their spare time, often while also working full time jobs.

Many employees taking classes alongside undergraduates have felt the drastic age difference, especially because they are also often older than the professor. Merrick explained that these classes uniquely allow young people to interact with older employees, which can be an interesting experience.

“It was weird at first, but now I really like it,” Merrick said to the DP.

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The Interclub Council and Community Service Interclub Council will host Trickor-Feed on Oct. 29 to raise money and non-perishables for the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen, ICC president JeanCarlos Arenas ’16 said.

In order to gain access to an eating club other than one’s own, students will

need a Trick-or-Feed sticker on their PUID in addition to the club’s usual entry requirements, Arenas said.

Students can get stickers from tables at Frist Campus Center or outside Bendheim Center for Finance, where the donations will be collected.

Although the donations are optional, students are strongly encouraged to donate money, non-perishable

food items or hygienic products to this cause, Arenas explained.

Arenas is a former chief copy editor for The Daily Princetonian.

The ICC reached the decision to organize the food drive in collaboration with the CSICC as part of a larger effort to give back to the community, CSICC co-chair Cason Crane ’17 explained.

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The Davis International Center Advisory Board will dissolve and its roles will be taken by the International Student Association of Princeton and International Center leaders, previously known as International Orientation leaders, DICAB president Audrey Chebet ’18 said.

Chebet said that DICAB would continue to play its role on campus until February 2016.

Valeria Ibarcena ’17, an intern at the Davis Center, explained that the roles DICAB currently plays are being transferred to IC leaders and ISAP. She noted that these responsibilities included maintaining a presence at the Student Activities Fair, hosting World Wide Welcome and the Bridging Cultures Dinner Series, and organizing the Flag Parade at the Annual Communiversity Festival.

The “Taste Of” Series, which exposes Princeton to underrepresented cultures on campus by presenting their music, art, food, costumes and history, will be taken over by ISAP, she said.

The decision was made to eliminate competition between international student organizations that serve the same student population, Chebet said.

She explained that focus groups led by former DICAB

social chair Tai Hirose ’15 and assistant leader for International Programs at the Davis Center Lesley Robinson talked for the past six months about restructuring the international organizations on campus. The group realized that DICAB and ISAP both catered to the same student population by organizing events to get international students together and expose American students to the international presence on campus, Chebet said.

Hirose was not available for comment, and Robinson deferred comment to Ibarcena.

Chebet said that the transition would result in increased funding and help organizations to organize and manage events better, noting that the funding DICAB used to receive will be distributed between ISAP and IC leaders.

She added that DICAB has only 15 members whereas the IC leaders will likely number about 25, so IC leaders are better equipped to organize and manage events.

Ibarcena added that ISAP would also be advertised on the Davis Center’s Facebook page and in the weekly newsletters, thereby reaching more international students.

Despite increased responsibilities and commitments, many of the IC leaders are willing See ISAP page 3

ACADEMICS

Keith Devlin, ‘Math Guy’ on NPR, visiting math professor

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Visiting professor of distinguished teaching in the math department Keith Devlin said that, during his childhood, he did not intend to go into mathematics as a career.

“In elementary school, I was particularly bad at math. I was the worst kid in the class,” he said.

However, Devlin, who is currently teaching MAT 195: Introduction to Mathematical Thinking, has authored over 80 papers and 32 books, including “The Millennium Problems” and “The Language of Mathematics,” and was recognized in 2003 by the California State Assembly for his

contributions to mathematics and its relation to logic and linguistics. Devlin currently serves as a senior research scientist at Stanford, where his research revolves around intelligence gathering for the U.S. government and creating platforms for furthering mathematics education.

Devlin also serves as an executive committee member for MediaX and the executive director for the Human Science and Technologies Advanced Research Institute, and is also a fellow at the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Mathematical Society.

“Everyone finds professor Devlin to be inspiring to work with,” associate departmen-

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tal representative of the math department Jennifer Johnson said, adding that Devlin’s research is unlike anything else that is being done at the University.

Academic Career Devlin explained that MAT 195 is designed to teach students to apply mathematical principles to everyday situations. He noted that he designed the class to be a flipped lecture, in which students watch a lecture before class and then discuss the material or give presentations during class. He added that he had already taught the class at Stanford, and that his course was the first-ever massive open See PROFILE page 3

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Keith Devlin is a visiting professor in the math department.

Q&A

Ellis, CEO of GLAAD, Q&A: Charles Swift ’88, Hearst Magazines vice talks acceptance, equality president of strategy and marketing operations in LGBT community

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By Sarah Kim staff writer

Sarah Kate Ellis, president and CEO of Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, discussed the difference between equality and acceptance in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in a lecture on Thursday.

“Regardless of our generational differences or our life experiences, there are things that bind us together. One of the things is the need for acceptance,” Ellis said.

Ellis explained that acceptance does not mean changing who you are, assimilating or going along to get along.

“Acceptance means Americans come to understand us, value us, for exactly who we are, for our uniqueness,” Ellis said. “Acceptance should be innate, a birth right, no different from life, liberty and happiness.”

Ellis drew the line between equality and acceptance, and claimed that there is a stark difference between changing the law and truly changing the hearts and minds of Americans.

Although Ellis agreed that the Supreme Court ruling on marriage equality was a win that gave the community a sense of accomplishment and protection See LECTURE page 3

Charles Swift, vice president of strategy and marketing operations for Hearst Magazines, home to Harper’s Bazaar and Cosmopolitan, sat down with The Daily Princetonian to talk about his career in the media industry and the evolution of media in the age of the Internet.

Daily Princetonian: How would you describe your time at Princeton?

Charles Swift: Spectacular.

I loved it here.

DP: What was your toughest challenge as a student, and

how did you overcome it?

CS: Good question … Nothing was really thought of as a challenge, it was always an evolution. I think Princeton is hard when you get here, and you learn to deal and you learn to cope. Part of the whole experience is teaching you how to solve problems, how do you get better and survive in this world. So I guess the biggest challenge is, I guess, the first day is figuring Princeton out and how do you make a success out of it. The overcoming was the living experience at Princeton.

DP: What inspired you to

join the media industry?

CS: It was an accident. I really don’t think of myself as someone in the media industry. I’m a functional, sort of a marketer by function. I did marketing in the financial services area, I did marketing for folks like Columbia House. I did marketing on the legal side … Ultimately it was about going to Hearst.

So what I loved about American Express was that it was a very large, huge company with great resources that allowed me the opportunity to explore and do great, amazing things as a businessperson. And what I loved about See Q&A page 2

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“We are always looking for new and creative ways to integrate service into our daily lives at Princeton,” he said.

The councils decided that Oct. 29 would be the best night for the charity drive since all of the eating clubs will be open for Princetoween, providing a rare opportunity for a coordinated inter-club donation effort, Arenas said.

“This enables us to create a university-wide engagement event that will bring together a large portion of the Princeton community and do something for a great local cause,” he explained.

Arenas noted that the ICC had originally planned to make the donation a mandatory requirement for accessing the clubs on Princetoween night, and exempted

club members from providing the five-dollar donation or non-perishable items.

However, upon further review, the ICC and CSICC decided that the donations would be made optional to all students, he added.

“We decided that the spirit of the event would be better served by an optional donation of any amount,” Arenas said. “Our goal for this event is for Princeton to engage in a campus wide effort to make a significant impact on a local charity.

We thought that an optional donation was the best way to achieve that.”

Katie Moreas ’19 said that she thinks the event is a great way to raise a lot of money.

Vincent Xia ’18 said that he thinks the idea of collecting donations is great, and that the ICC should be able to raise a lot of money because Princetoween is one of the most popular nights of the

year.

Princeton Hidden Minority Council co-chair Dallas Nan ’16 said that although he recognizes that the charity was for a good cause and the donation is optional, the charity dynamic, especially for ICC’s original plan where donations would have been mandatory, would have affected those students — upperclassmen in particular — who lacked the financial resources to join an eating club in the first place the most.

Crane said that thus far, the decision to implement Trick-or-Feed has met a considerable degree of support.

“Princeton is a university where there is a strong emphasis on serving and helping others, and we expect that members of the community will see this as another great opportunity to give back in their everyday lives at Princeton,” Crane said.

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Columbia House was that it was a small, private company that afforded the opportunity of doing more, you could invest more in the long-term.

Hearst is sort of that great blend. We’re this huge media company, but we’re a family business … We don’t have sort of the scrutiny of Wall Street and wondering what we’re doing every month. By the same token we’ve got this huge cash reserve that allows us to invest in the future unlike any other company in America, I think.

DP: Since you graduated from Princeton as an engineer, how do you integrate those skills in the communications industry?

CS: There’s sort of this concept of the explosion of big data that you keep hearing about every day. And so it’s like the data geek’s time has finally come. And engineering is about problem solving but understanding how information can be used to solve problems. How do I use information and data to help make decisions, ultimately?

What we’re trying to do is use the same skills I used as an engineer to solve the same problems that drive all this new tangled communication that we have in the world available today. It’s about this one-to-one marketing. At its core it’s driven by information.

DP: What are your favorite and least favorite parts of your job?

CS: My favorite part is just coming to work every day.

I mean, getting back to the previous answer, Hearst is a wonderful place to work.

And the investment and innovation is really spectacular, and that’s the great part.

I think the least favorite work is there’s so many things and the world is changing so fast that it’s hard to get on top of everything. So you gotta stay focused, and that’s one of the big challenges because you can’t go after everything …

The favorite thing is coming to work every day.

DP: How did Hearst evolve as a company in the age of the Internet?

CS: Well, I like to think that we’re defining how the media world is evolving …

Hearst in many ways .. has the opportunity to invest in a lot of startup companies.

And we invest a significant amount in startup compa-

nies. The most famous of them is a small, little sportscable company that we invested in called ESPN – so Disney doesn’t like us by the fact that we are the minority owner of ESPN. But all our investments actually afford us some insight into just how the world’s evolving while we protect the actual company; their rights are private, you can’t share them. It does allow us to continue to explore and make bets on where the world’s going, and so we get to try everything. So we actually were some of the original investors in E Ink — what became the Kindle.

We invested in a company — I forget the name of it — that made a very early predecessor of the tablet. While that didn’t come to bear, what that did was teach us how to build and program our content in a tablet form, and so we were way ahead of the game in terms of when the iPad did finally come to bear … We’re always trying to invest in the “new,” and so much of our time and energy is looking to where the world’s going to be in five years, and what are we doing today to be a part of it. Most recently, for example, you think about what’s going on with Snapchat. So, Snapchat has decided to partner with a couple people — we’re one of the few media companies that they’re partnering with.

So while your pictures may only last a few seconds, Cosmopolitan will live forever on Snapchat.

DP: How do marketing campaigns geared toward young people differ from those geared toward older generations?

CS: Really, it’s the medium on which you communicate to them, so I think marketing in its core is all about understanding what is the emotional hook that’s gonna convince you to take action — the action is typically to buy something. The emotional hook for an older audience is different from the emotional hook for a younger audience. And also the medium on which they’re able to listen to that emotional message is different. For an older audience direct mail lists are sort of the triedand-true traditional way to get them. For someone in your generation, you probably don’t know what a piece of mail looks like. You all are having channels, so back to Snapchat. So for us, Cosmopolitan isn’t doing direct mail to talk to them, they’re using Snapchat to talk to the

customers.

DP: What do you see yourself doing next?

CS: Next, to continue to explore whatever this world of media and information is going … For me what’s next anyways is retiring soon … I think I just saw that 90 percent of Americans have three mobile devices they connect with on the internet … The challenge is, as a marketer, I wanna talk to a person. The problem is now these people are hiding behind all these devices. And so, the big puzzle right now is: How do I translate this representation of you on multiple devices? … I have to figure out how to stitch you all together so I can create a consistent message. Because, in order to be a successful marketer, I wanna make that message consistent to you and relevant to you.

DP: What kind of advice would you give to a student trying to enter the media business, or just business, today?

CS: You know, look, at its core creativity and content still is king. I mean there’s all this ad technology and all the world’s changing rapidly … Newspapers are challenged and magazines are challenged, and look at it now television is challenged. It’s going away. Web display advertising is equally challenged. You’re not using your laptop, you’re not using your desktop, you’re not browsing anymore. Fifty percent of all people coming to our websites now are coming through a smartphone or some sort of mobile device. All of these are different channels and so I think the advice is to recognize that – it’s actually the same advice I got from a professor in my freshman year of math here – which was, at the end of the day, learn to learn … Ninety-nine percent of what you learn today in Princeton will be irrelevant by the time you become my age. But what won’t be irrelevant is the idea of learning.

And having this thirst and passion to learn, and that’s really immediate in many ways because content really is king. Just create the content. Hearst’s success is that … at its core, we create content. And that’s just about channels that we can bring to bear. So I would say to anybody entering: be open to trying everything and anything, and realize, don’t squelch the creativity. That’s going to ultimately pay off.

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online course in mathematics.

Johnson explained that the University’s mathematics department reached out to Devlin to teach after University mathematics professor Manjul Bhargava GS ’01 and several mathematics graduate students had already done so. Johnson said that Bhargava, who was familiar with Devlin’s work from his time in college, asked Devlin to come to the University and share his knowledge with students.

Bhargava did not respond to a request for comment.

Johnson said that the math department wanted to explore teaching a math course aimed at non-math and non-engineering people, and asked Devlin to teach the course at the University.

“We thought it would be interesting to see how this course would work here with Princeton students,” Johnson said.

Devlin said that he had also taught the course in spring 2013-14, and that after teaching it for the first time at the University he realized he had to tweak certain aspects of the course to orient it more toward the liberal arts. He noted that while he was able to present the material to University students the same way that he could present it to Stanford students, who are more “techie,” he had to experiment with making the class more interactive.

Students and colleagues said they find the course and Devlin to be fascinating. Johnson said that Devlin is a very down-toearth, intelligent and friendly person.

“His flipped lecture style works and should be the model for most quantitative college courses,” Julie Kwong ’16 said. ”Professor Devlin is teaching a class unlike any other I’ve taken here thus far.”

Anne Merrill ’18 said she finds Devlin engaging and inspiring both in and out of the classroom.

“He led us gently into a new way of thinking about mathematics, and then has pushed us to keep going,” she said. ”MAT 195 has captured the way I look at the world and turned it into an abstraction.”

Devlin explained that he first went to Stanford in 1987 when he was invited to join the Center for the Study of Language and Information, where he helped write theories to determine how information can be conveyed between computers. He left Stanford in 1989 to serve as chairman of the mathematics and computer science department at Colby College, and left Colby in 1993 to work at St. Mary’s College of California.

“The Maine winters were too cold for me,” Devlin said.

Devlin said Stanford contacted him in 2001 and asked him to take over CSLI. He ac-

cepted and has been there as a senior researcher ever since.

Devlin explained that his research interests in the 1980s dealt with the field of artificial intelligence and information, and that he had set out to write theories to determine how information could be conveyed between computers.

Devlin’s research since 2001 has focused on intelligence gathering and teaching mathematical concepts to a general audience. He explained that he had served on the National Research Council, a committee to advise the President of the United States on mathematical education, and that the CIA and the Department of Defense contacted him after Sept. 11 to improve their intelligence gathering.

“They were looking for a symbiosis of human intelligence and mathematics,” he said.

His work for the CIA consisted of studying the achievements of retired intelligence analysts and using mathematical methods to prepare future analysts for their jobs. This work served as the inspiration for his courses at Princeton and Stanford, he said.

Outside the Ivory Tower Devlin said that outside of academia, he appears as the “Math Guy” on NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday. His most recent appearance was a discussion about the International Mathematical Olympiad. He explained that after University math professor Andrew Wiles proved Fermat’s Last Theorem in 1995, NPR began looking for a mathematician to appear.

Representatives at NPR did not respond to a request for comment.

“They wanted someone who could explain a really complicated thing on a Saturday morning radio program,” Devlin said.

He explained that they found him because he was serving as the editor of the Mathematical Association of America’s monthly newsletter. His publication, which was sent to newsrooms, led to his appearing on many news shows explaining recent advances in math, he said.

Devlin said that he enjoys his appearances on NPR. “After the show, I got a lot of exposure,” he said.

Devlin also served as a math advisor for the CBS crime show NUMB3RS during its first two seasons from 2005-07.

NUMB3RS is about a mathematician who uses math to help his brother, an FBI agent, solve crimes. Devlin explained that when he learned that a mathematics-based crime show was going to be filmed at the California Institute of Technology, he contacted the producers and asked how he could contribute.

Devlin explained that his job on the show was to make sure that the mathematical con-

cepts were presented correctly.

These mathematical concepts included the mathematics behind image enhancement, he said.

Devlin ended up co-authoring the book “The Numbers Behind NUMB3RS” with Caltech professor emeritus Gary Lorden, who served as the chief mathematics consultant for NUMB3RS. “Keith can really beautifully do justice to the scholarship of mathematics,” Lorden said.

“He really understands the way mathematical disciplines work and the historical concepts behind the discipline. We made a great team.”

Representatives at CBS did not respond to a request for comment.

Organizations founded by Devlin while at Stanford include MediaX and H-STAR. Devlin said that he co-founded MediaX in 2002 to help businesses understand how to take advantage of newly emerging social media.

“MediaX became the node that connected industry to Stanford University when it was about social science research,” Devlin said.

He said that H-STAR, which he founded in 2006, has a similar mission to MediaX but links universities together instead of linking universities to industry. H-STAR receives funding from the government.

College Devlin said he originally wanted to go into space research one year before he started high school, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik. However, he became acquainted with the study of calculus for the first time at the age of 16 and found it to be a powerful tool in terms of calculating the motion of planetary objects.

At that point, he said, he decided to drop physics in favor of mathematics.

“That just blew me away,” Devlin said.

Devlin received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Kings College London in 1968 and his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Bristol in 1971, where his focus was on logic and number theory and that his Ph.D. dissertation was in logic.

He explained that he started collaborating with researchers in the United States after college because of the amount of research in the country. He then traveled throughout Europe and North America for several years, and eventually returned to England to work at the University of Lancaster from 1977 to 1987.

Devlin said he has been taking advantage of his time at Princeton, adding that he likes biking and walking around the surrounding areas and exploring Princeton’s shops and restaurants.

“I’m really enjoying it. I’m living in a bubble, and it’s a really nice bubble,” he said.

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to take on the additional responsibilities and continue their work, Cydney Kim ’17, an IO leader from Canada, said.

Kim is a member of the Editorial Board of The Daily Princetonian.

“Perhaps the only challenge is with varsity athletes, for whom IO was appealing as it was a one-time commitment at the start of the year. But we are trying to work around

that,” Byung Cheol Cho ’18, an IO leader from New Zealand, said.

Cho added that IO leaders often become the face of international students on campus to incoming international freshmen and that extending events throughout the year would foster better connection.

“It’s great that they will be holding more such events through the year – it’s a good way to stay in touch with the people you meet in your first hours and days at Princeton,

and it does take you home a little bit,” Oscar Holmes ’19 said.

Sohee Hyung ’16 said that she welcomes the change as it would allow the organizations to hold events for international students more frequently.

“I think that having monthly events is definitely a good initiative to bring internationals together,” Hyung said. “Some people like to share their experiences with other internationals and this will help that happen.”

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under the law, she also said that it was merely a benchmark, not the finish line. She used the attack that happened in Manhattan a month ago as an example, saying that a pair of women – mother and daughter – were insulted with homophobic slurs because people assumed they were gay.

She agreed that while there was more LGBT representation on higher corporate positions than there used to be, only one “out” CEO was named on the list of Fortune 500 companies. She also noted that 40 percent of homeless youth are LGBT. Among other statistics and examples, she noted that nearly 50 percent of Americans and one in five allies felt uncomfortable about LGBT people.

Caitlyn Jenner came out in front of 20 million people on MTV, she said, yet 20 transwomen were murdered this past year. Just last week, a transwoman named Ashley took her own life, she added.

“You cannot legislate acceptance,” Ellis explained. ”What

[GLAAD does] is we build acceptance through telling people stories. What our job at GLAAD is to shape a national and often global narrative through the media.”

For example, in dealing with Jenner’s coming out, GLAAD worked closely with the media, from her interview with Diane Sawyer to the premiere of her E! Docuseries, she said.

Ellis noted that one of the United States’ greatest cultural exports, Hollywood blockbuster films, perpetuates discrimination. She said that the only LGBT content in films reaching countries where LGBT people are criminalized are defamatory and treating members of the LGBT community either as the butt of the joke or the punching bag.

She said the homophobic attitude reflects one of the models that the Hollywood studios follow to attract moviegoers. GLAAD is putting in effort in driving storylines and practicing “casual inclusion” of LGBT people in television series and Hollywood films, to add nuances and depth to the characters, Ellis said.

She also explained the dangers of social complacency and de-

fined it as the “enemy of social progress.” GLAAD is commissioning a study on complacency, she noted.

“Did Loving v. Virginia end racism? Did Roe v. Wade end the attack on women’s reproductive rights? Did the Supreme Court ruling on marriage ruling end homophobia or transphobia? It didn’t … Our complacency study will help to keep our allies engaged and involved,” she explained.

Now, GLAAD is looking at solving job discrimination and the issue of gendered bathrooms, Ellis said. GLAAD will continue to do proactive work, creating campaigns like Freedom for All Americans, because unlike in the past, the community has a voice and a platform, she added.

“The community must take on a new frontier, to the possibility of true acceptance,” she said.

The lecture took place at 7 p.m. in Betts Auditorium and was cosponsored by the Lewis Center for the Arts, the LGBT Center, the Program in American Studies, the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, the Program in Media and Modernity, and the Women’s Center.

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s fortunate students at the University, we are thrown into a “melting pot” of cultures. Our classmates may have grown up halfway around the world and for some, English is not their first language. There are students who grew up in racially homogenous neighborhoods and students who come from areas that may not even have immediate access to grocery stores.

There is a wide range of students here at the University and that’s the point, isn’t it — to provide everyone here with a wide range of experiences that can make each of us better future leaders?

For the class of 2019, University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 chose “Whistling Vivaldi” as the Pre-read book, and I did not enjoy it; not that it matters.

No number of Pre-read books, highly renowned or not, is going to entirely address the social issues we have on campus.

For starters, how many of us even read our Pre-read books? Let’s assume that the selected Pre-read book had the magical remedy to give everyone the understanding they need to become less bigoted members of campus. From a highly informal sampling, I know several of my peers who either did not finish this year’s Pre-read or didn’t bother to read it at all.

The fact that students did not read “Whistling Vivaldi” or “Meaning in Life and Why it Matters” is not the issue here.

What matters is how we can truly address the social issues on our campus — everything from lapses in the way we understand how history plays a role in current socioeconomic and racial tensions to the intersectionalities that impact many on a daily basis — in a way that is permanent.

We should expect more of each other and even ourselves than spending a day or two on a 256-page research account that is quickly forgotten in a matter of weeks.

In the fall of 2017, University of California, Los Angeles will institute a controversial diversity requirement that will “substantially address racial, ethnic, gender, socioeconomic, sexual orientation, religious or other types of diversity.” While Princeton and UCLA have quite a number of differences, there are similar patterns within both schools concerning the marginalization of a wide range of minorities. Several other universities, including the University of Washington, have instituted similar diversity requirements. As Princeton prides itself as a university that welcomes people of all backgrounds, is it time to institute a diversity requirement of our own?

If you were like me when you entered the University, there were a few things that you knew about different cultures that you had mostly garnered from television, the Internet, social media and books. For me, there remain several questions that I continue to ask my roommates about their cultures, nuanced things that I never thought to search on Google. While my friends were generous in offering such information, the truth of the matter is that they are nobody’s textbooks and indeed none of us are. The University wants us to learn from each other in positive and meaningful ways, but this puts a burden on us all. Such knowledge should not entirely rely on whether our friends want to tell us about their cultures and our friends should not be considered mouthpieces for these complex identities. While our peers are invaluable, to expect such knowledge from them is both infeasible — indeed, many of us are afraid of asking questions that may be deemed insensitive to our peers in the first place — and irresponsible. It assumes too much and expects too little.

The University’s Task Force on General Education, chaired by Dean of the College Jill Dolan, has begun to address such calls for action, with questions on its website such as, “How should issues of diversity and culture be integrated into the general education curriculum at Princeton?

Should we include a ‘diversity requirement,’ as the Special Task Force on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion urged in their May 2015 report?” It is a good sign that the University has begun to think about these changes. While the committee has not yet published a report addressing such questions, it is imperative that the Task Force find ways to integrate diversity into the studies of the University as soon as possible. If the University decides to implement a diversity requirement, it will demand that students analyze and question the delicate fabric of our current diverse world. Although this is not an impeccable solution, with any luck existing classes at the University will not hesitate to correct students’ misconceptions and begin to answer hard questions the way perhaps our friends or a Pre-read book cannot.

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

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Imani Thornton

contributing columnist

Opinion

Friday october 23, 2015

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ach day, engineering students make the long trek from their residential colleges to the Engineering Quadrangle for class. Students often have classes from morning to afternoon, sometimes with no more than 30 minutes between each class. Given that the closest dining hall — the Center for Jewish Life — is at least 10 minutes away, many students with meal plans are left with insufficient time before their next class to eat lunch. As a result, many students elect to spend their own money at the E-Quad Café. The Board believes that the University should support students who cannot easily access dining halls during lunchtimes and recommends that the E-Quad Café accept late meal swipes during normal lunch hours.

As it stands, students either spend their own money or are left waiting until late meal at 2 p.m. Students have to choose between going hungry during their afternoon classes or spending money outside the amount allocated to a University meal plan. Since all underclassmen are required to buy a meal plan — the University specifically requested an exemption from a New Jersey state law that made this illegal — Dining Services should take all steps necessary to ensure accessibility to meal options.

While the bagged lunch program does offer some relief to students unable to access the dining halls, it is hardly fair to expect students to accept the same offerings every day just be-

cause of their choice of major or classes.

The offerings in the E-Quad Café change daily. They include a hot lunch option — something the bagged lunch option never includes — and a constantly changing slate of sandwiches. These options are much closer to the choices students eating in dining halls have than the limited options for variety in bagged lunches.

Some might be concerned that the E-Quad Café would not be able to handle the increase in students. While lines will certainly be longer, the café could handle the increase. The tables surrounding the café have ample sitting room, even at peak hours. Furthermore, students looking for a snack would be deterred by the use of a late-meal swipe, limiting the number of students that take advantage of this change.

Any increase in customers would occur around lunchtime and would be limited to students looking for a meal.

However, this increase may still require the preparation of greater quantities of food. Given that students are required to purchase a meal plan, the Board believes it is the University’s responsibility to make the necessary staffing and facilities changes needed to serve the café’s expanded customer base.

Some may argue that expanding dining options in the E-Quad could isolate engineering students from the rest of the underclassmen population. We believe that this is unlikely for two reasons. First, this would only affect stu-

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dents who have limited time for lunch — students who have long lunch breaks are more likely to make the walk to meet their A.B. peers at other campus dining facilities. Currently, students with limited time for lunch are not even going to dining halls. Second, the use of a late meal swipe could compel students to try making the 10-minute walk to the CJL or even the 13-minute walk to Wilcox Hall. Furthermore, students that take advantage of the E-Quad Café at lunch will still eat dinner at the residential colleges.

Engineering students must choose from getting a limited variety of bagged lunches, spending hundreds of additional dollars a semester or going hungry when faced with a short lunch break between morning and afternoon classes. The Board believes that the University should increase access to meal plan swipes by accepting meal swipes at the E-Quad Café. Though this change may require logistical changes to E-Quad Café staffing and modifications to its point-of-sale system, we believe that these changes are necessary to give all students the opportunity to use the meal plans they are required to purchase.

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Azza Cohen columnist

H

e made us laugh and made multicolored sweaters cool. He donated to universities and loaned his art collection to the Smithsonian. Bill Cosby is a legend to us for many reasons.

Some celebrate him for overcoming television’s racial barriers: his role on the “I Spy” TV series made him the first African-American to co-star in a drama series, winning three Emmy awards for his performance.

Some celebrate him for his comedic talent, from his Grammywinning comedy albums to his book “Fatherhood,” which provided an entertaining take on raising children.

Some celebrate him for his work with educational causes through the Hello Friend/Ennis William Cosby Foundation that helped provide more than 1.3 million books to 13,000 underserved classroom libraries across the country.

But now, William Henry Cosby Jr. has been accused of multiple counts of sexual assault. In wake

Revoking his degree of these news, universities across the country are grappling with how to handle the honors they have bestowed upon such a controversial figure.

Specifically, Cosby has dozens of honorary degrees and honorary class memberships awarded to him for his commitment to education and his fame as an entertainer. Princeton is among them, awarding him an honorary membership to the Class of 2001 when he came to the University as Class Day speaker.

Universities hold special positions to speak out against injustice, as institutions with an ethos of promoting a better world through education. Divestment campaigns, for this reason, are continuously brought forth to university administrations.

Is it the job of a university to take a stand? In my opinion, absolutely.

First, the actions a university takes reflect its values. So far, over 46 women have publicly come forward with accusations of sexual assault from Cosby, with 35 of them sharing their stories through a New York magazine piece that

came out this summer. Some argue that women who accuse men as famous as Cosby of sexual assault are seeking money or notoriety, but this is a ludicrous suggestion. Who would ever willingly chance such public shaming for a lie? This insinuation is an insult to the bravery of these women and to the silence of those who cannot or choose not to speak up. If the value of a university is gender equality and a culture of safety, a university must revoke an honor to someone who has continuously, deliberately and viciously violated this.

Second, universities must uphold integrity for their degrees.

Honorary degrees and class memberships are awarded to those who are exemplary in their dedication to public service, often specifically to education. An honorary degree and a class membership is both a symbol and a stance. By giving Cosby an honorary degree, a university celebrates him in a specific, special way. By giving Cosby honorary class membership, we are welcoming him into our community.

So far, Tufts University, Goucher College, Lehigh University,

Fordham University, Marquette University, Baylor and Wilkes University, the University of San Francisco and Brown University have revoked his honorary degrees. Although he has not been convicted of a crime, he resigned from the Temple University Board of Trustees.

President of Brown Christina Paxson said in a statement about the revocation that: “It has become clear by his own admission in legal depositions that became public this summer that Mr. Cosby has engaged in conduct with women that is contrary to the values of Brown and the qualities for which he was honored by the University in 1985.”

What will Princeton do with Cosby’s honorary class membership? At a university where inappropriate sexual behavior has affected an alarmingly high 1 in 3 women according to the recent WeSpeak survey, it is my hope that it is seen as the right thing to do for Princeton to take a public stance.

Azza Cohen is a history major from Highland Park, Ill. She can be reached at accohen@princeton.edu.

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Friday october 23, 2015

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In their pursuit of the Ivy League titles, the men’s and women’s soccer team will have tough games this weekend.

Women’s soccer team to stay atop Ivy League standings against Harvard SOCCER

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This weekend’s game will be a big one for the women’s volleyball team as it looks to climb up in the rankings.

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Quakers is particularly important for the Tigers’ position in the league. At the moment, Princeton is tied with Penn, as well as Brown and Columbia, for fourth place. A win would propel Princeton to third, within striking distance of secondplace Harvard (9-8, 5-2) and Yale (10-6, 5-2).

The match will also mark the beginning of the second half of the Ivy League Conference. The Tigers have now faced all their Ivy League rivals once and will

prepare for a second round in the coming weeks. However, now with a month’s experience in the Ivy Conference, the Princeton squad is confident that it can finish the season on a high note.

In fact, after weathering an early storm, the Orange and Black appear ready to compete for a NCAA bid.

While Princeton is still a long way from the top of the table, the team is optimistic that the season will present it with the opportunities it needs for a successful season.

“We have progressed a lot.

Our chemistry as a team, playing for each other, has

definitely developed and become stronger throughout the season,” Peterkin said.

“We are definitely a different team both in terms of style and chemistry.”

But at the moment, Princeton is simply focused on preparing for Penn.

“Penn has always been a big rival since they are our travel partner. And so we only have one match this weekend, so I think we will have a lot of rest and focus just for one team,” Peterkin said. “We can expect to really focus on them specifically and go in there and give them what they gave us.”

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minute to bring the Tigers level and send the game into overtime; the second came in the 108th minute to give the Tigers a hard-fought victory.

McSherry, for his part, has been no slouch at all, as he is third in the Ancient Eight in the same category at four goals. Indeed, the Tigers as a team have been able to score in bunches this year, as they lead the league in goals with 22.

Women’s Soccer As the end of the regular season draws closer, the women’s soccer team has poised itself in prime position to grab an NCAA bid.

The Tigers have put themselves atop the Ivy League standing and remain perfect

in league play. This weekend, however, features arguably the most important game of their season as they take on the Harvard Crimson, the only other team with a perfect Ivy League record.

Princeton (11-3 overall, 4-0 Ivy League) has been surging more now than it has at any time in recent memory.

With their victory over Columbia last weekend, the Tigers pushed their win streak to 9-0, the longest streak since 2012 (which was also the last time they made the NCAA tournament). With just three games left in the season, all of them Ivy League games, their destiny is in their own hands.

It was clear after last season that the Tigers had more than their fair share of offensive weapons on this team. However, few could have expected the level to which this team has per-

formed in terms of scoring this year. Three of the top five scorers in the Ivy League represent the Orange and Black — junior forward Tyler Lussi, freshman forward Mimi Asom and sophomore midfielder Natalie Larkin.

Sophomore midfielder Vanessa Gregoire has shown off her talent at setting up her teammates all season, as she leads the league in assists per game.

The Crimson (7-6-1, 4-0), however, certainly has not been in off form itself — it will come into Saturday’s contest having won its last five games. A booming Tigers offensive will come up against what has become a rock-solid defense — during its win streak, the Crimson has held opponents to an average of .2 goals per game.

Game time is set for 1:30 p.m. and is available via the Ivy League Digital Network.

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“The biggest thing is making sure that we’re in the right spot as a unit — that we know our responsibilities as a whole, and we can cover and what not,” Arends asserted.

“We came out flat [to start last week’s game], and I was kind of surprised because this year at least we haven’t had that flat of a start this year.

So I think a huge thing for us is coming out really fired

up and prepared and really having a really physical first series whether on offense or defense.”

The team is no stranger to wild finishes at Cambridge; in their last visit in 2013, the Tigers stunned Harvard, 5148, in a triple-overtime win.

The similarity in the Tigers’ circumstances entering both games is uncanny: Princeton also headed into that contest 4-1. After snapping the current Harvard win streak two years ago, the squad went on to steal a share of the Ivy League Championship; a win

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this Saturday would also put the Tigers back in the driver’s seat with regards to the Ivy League standings.

However, Surace does not consider the team’s current status a significant factor for the upcoming game.

“When the ball’s kicked off, nobody’s really thinking about that,” he stated. “At the end of the day, let’s control and be great at what we know we can do — our assignments, our techniques, our effort, our physicality, our competitiveness. Let’s be great about those things.”

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Friday october 23, 2015

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Tigers, Crimson to duel in Cambridge over the weekend

By Nolan Liu contributor

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The football team will face off against Harvard in Cambridge after last week’s tough game against Brown.

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

After a tough loss to Brown this past weekend, the Princeton Tigers hold a 4-1 record as they travel to Cambridge on Saturday to face Harvard in the traditional meeting of rivals. For Princeton, the stakes couldn’t be higher.

The Tigers (4-1, 1-1 Ivy League) came up just short against Brown in a hardfought struggle. Although the offense battled hard and even managed to tie the game at 24 going into the fourth quarter, the Bears (3-2, 1-1 Ivy League) picked off senior quarterback Chad Kanoff in Princeton’s final two drives to preserve a 38-31 win.

In the upcoming game, the Tigers will need a win if they are to remain in contention for the Ivy League Championship. However, they face an opponent who has proved all but unstoppable thus far.

Harvard has cruised to a 5-0 record, winning each of its games by an average of 36 points and drubbing its previous two Ivy League opponents (Brown and Cornell University) by a combined score of 93-30. When questioned about the nature of Princeton’s challenge, Coach Bob Surace ’90 emphasized

not only the momentum that the Crimson holds going into the contest but also the incredible record posted by Harvard’s defensive unit.

“They’re playing exceptionally well,” he said.

“They’re undefeated, 5 and 0, and they haven’t given up a touchdown in three games, so that certainly there is a great challenge.”

Harvard’s numbers may seem invincible and the Tigers appear to be still reeling from the loss to Brown, but Surace believes that the adversity his squad has faced has rendered them all the more fit for the challenge.

“I talked to the team yesterday, and I told them to put that emotion, to put that anger, frustration, whatever it is with not playing our best game last week — put that into our preparation this week,” he said. “Our effort and physicality are just tremendous. I can’t ask us to hit any harder or run harder or run faster; they’re doing that.

Let’s just be 1 or 2 percent better.”

For junior quarterback John Lovett, the loss last week also serves as a motivating factor as the team looks to face a still stronger oppo-

nent.

“Against Harvard, coming off of a loss, we definitely don’t have a good taste in our mouth right now,” Lovett said. “We’re ready to come out and fight as a team on Saturday.”

Princeton’s own offensive unit has demonstrated power and scoring ability thus far, with much of the scoring effort spearheaded by Lovett.

After leading the Tigers in rushing and receiving in last week’s game, the sophomore emphasized the importance of group success as a tool for overcoming the Crimson defense.

“That’ll be the biggest thing — to really stand firm as a team and go out there and compete to the best of our abilities,” Lovett said.

On the defensive end, the Tigers will have to find a way to corral a Harvard attack that has overwhelmed previous opponents and that currently averages over 44 points a game. Teamwork was again emphasized as a key factor by senior safety Mark Arends, who also reflected on the importance of a strong start when discussing Princeton’s approach to the game.

See FOOTBALL page 5

SOCCER

Ivy League play continues for volleyball team

By David Xin contributor

On Saturday, the Princeton women’s volleyball team will travel to the Palestra for a rematch against rivals University of Pennsylvania.

The Tigers (8-8 overall, 3-4 Ivy League) will be looking to avenge an early season loss to the Quakers (9-10, 3-4), who beat Princeton three sets to one in Dillon Gymnasium.

Fortunately for Princeton, the team has progressed drastically since the beginning of the season when it first adopted the new 6-2 format. The Tigers’ loss to Penn was the beginning of a three-game losing streak to start the Ivy League Conference. Since then Princeton has returned in full swing, winning its next three games against Columbia, Cornell University and Brown before falling to Yale. Defeating Penn this weekend would be a testament to the team’s improvement during the season.

“I think when we first played them, it was the first game of the year, we took a different line-up running a 6-2, so there were a lot of new things we were still getting used to,” senior

right-side hitter Kendall Peterkin said. “And I think we were really focused on how they were playing and a big part of volleyball is focusing on how our team is playing on our side.”

Despite the early season loss, the Tigers are confident they can reclaim victory on Penn’s home court.

Indeed, last year Princeton handily defeated the Quakers at the Palestra in three sets. The Tigers managed to maintain a double figure victory in each set. This year Princeton will be heading into the game with a revenge mentality using their defeat as motivation to silence a spirited home crowd.

The key to the Tigers’ success this weekend may lie in their defense. “Penn is kind of a frustrating team: they are very good at defense, but if we can force them to make the mistakes so they will give us the point rather than us getting the points, it will really help us,” Peterkin said.

Princeton will need to stay focused on their own game, rather than focusing on the opposition.

In addition to being significant for team morale, the match against the See V-BALL page 5

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Both soccer teams will have their hands full as they head north, seeking the Ivy League title, to face off against Harvard this weekend.

Tough battles ahead in Cambridge for soccer

By Miles Hinson sports editor

Men’s Soccer Fresh off a thrilling double overtime victory in defending its home turf against West Virginia, the men’s soccer team looks to gain its first Ivy League victory this weekend. The Tigers prepare to make the trip up north to take on the Harvard Crimson in Cambridge, Mass. this Saturday.

After a season that saw them share joint first place in the final Ivy League standings, the Tigers (6-42 overall, 0-2-1 Ivy League) have had trouble finding their footing through the first three games of league play. With only four games left in league play, the Tigers have but few opportunities left to move themselves up the ladder to try and gain an NCAA bid.

Taking down Harvard,

however, is certainly going to be no easy task. The Crimson (6-4-2, 3-0) stands in a position the Tigers know well — tied with Dartmouth at the top of the league. It also comes into the game at Princeton on a major hot streak, having won its last five games.

As the Tigers attempt to start the second half of their Ivy League campaign anew, look for them to continue to lean heavily on senior

forward Tom Sanner and senior midfielder Brendan McSherry to make threats up the field. Sanner has been in star form all season as he leads the Ivy League in goals on the season, with nine total.

He was the man of the day as he found the back of the net twice in the Tigers’ game against West Virginia, both crucial goals for his team.

The first came in the 86th See SOCCER page 5

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