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News & Notes Gov. Christie leaves quiet car after passenger complaints

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie exited an Amtrak quiet car after passengers complained to the train conductor that Christie had been screaming at his security detail and into his phone, CNN reported.

Christie is an ex officio trustee of the University.

Alexander Mann, a passenger, said that Christie was on a work call for five to 10 minutes despite signs that instructed riders to refrain from loud conversations or phone use.

While one passenger indicated that the governor was asked to leave the area, another recalled that Christie exited of his own accord upon learning that he was in the quiet car.

According to Christie’s spokesperson Sam Smith, Christie had not meant to board the quiet area.

Smith said that Christie left once he realized his mistake and spent the rest of his time on the train in the café car.

Smith also apologized to all patrons of the quiet car who were offended.

HEATHER GOLDFARB :: STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

The Fall Arch on Oct. 24 featured a capella groups including the Nassoons, Tigerlillies and more.

Former Princeton Triangle Club accountant Thomas John Muza was sentenced to three years in prison last Friday for embezzling nearly a quarter of a million dollars from the theater company by Superior Court Judge Timothy P. Lydon in Mercer County.

Muza was unavailable for comment.

The Princeton Triangle Club, founded in 1891, is the oldest touring collegiate musical-comedy troupe in the United States.

After a 20-year tenure at the world-touring group, Muza was dismissed in November 2013 when the club observed suspicious discrepancies and expenditures in its financial records. The club’s internal investigations revealed that See ARREST page 2

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

STUDENT LIFE

U. hosts memorial for Nash GS ’50 and wife

Demand exceeds supply at USG coat giveaway

By Myrial Holbrook contributor

The University mathematics department hosted a memorial service Saturday for John Nash GS ’50, a long-time professor at the University and winner of the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, and his wife, Alicia Nash.

Nash and his wife died in May in a taxi accident on the New Jersey Turnpike, at the respective ages of 86 and 82.

Colleagues, friends and family of the Nashes were invited to share their remembrances.

University Vice President and Secretary Robert Durkee ’69, delivering a speech by University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83, said that even people who would not ordinarily take an interest in the life or death of a mathematician felt a personal connection to John and Alicia Nash, and people around the globe felt a personal loss when they died so suddenly.

“Through the magnificence of John’s achievements, their shared courage

in the face of his illness and the many unexpected turns in their remarkable lives, John and Alicia embody for millions of people both the exhilaration of human aspiration and the sorrow of human tragedy,” Durkee said on Eisgruber’s behalf.

Louis Nirenberg, professor of mathematics emeritus at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and, with Nash, co-winner of the 2015 Abel Prize, said that Nash was always looking for the next problem to solve and coming up with novel solutions.

“Whatever of his work that I read … I always had the feeling, gosh, I would never have thought of that,” Nirenberg said.

Professor Nash left an impact not only with his work as a mathematician, but also with his teaching, family friend of the Nashes James Manganaro said. Manganaro, who was one of Nash’s calculus students in the academic year of 1957-58 at MIT, said that the most striking thing about Nash’s math class was See MEMORIAL page 3

By Shuang Teng contributor

At least 100 people went to the coat giveaway hosted by the Undergraduate Student Government on Thursday, scheduled to begin at 8:30 p.m., but only 50 to 60 coats were available, University Student Life Committee chair Kathy Chow ’17 said.

“People showed up … an hour before the event was supposed to start, so it was very difficult to keep track of what people were doing,” Chow said. “We made it very clear that you should not take coats until 8:30, but the problem was that there were so many people that it was difficult to keep track of what was happening, so people took the coats earlier

than the start time.”

USG and USLC members tried to regulate and organize the event, but ultimately the demand made it too uncontrollable, USG president Ella Cheng ’16 said.

Cheng is a former staff writer for The Daily Princetonian.

Sam Bernstein ’19 and See COATS page 3

LECTURE

STUDENT LIFE

USG senate talks possible revision to allow students to ‘un-P/D/F’ U. courses

By Do-Hyeong Myeong associate news editor

The Undergraduate Student Government senate discussed possible changes to the pass/D/ fail policy at its weekly meeting on Sunday.

USG academics committee chair Ramie Fathy ’16 said his committee met with the Committee on Examinations and Standing to discuss the P/D/F policy revision proposal. He said the proposal contained offering students the option of “un-P/D/ F-ing” a course — to enable students to use lettered grades and credits for the course they had previously opted to be graded on a P/D/F scale — in case they decide to use the course to fulfill departmental or certificate program requirements later on.

However, the proposal got pushback because some on the committee were concerned that students would be using the policy for grade management, he explained.

USG president Ella Cheng ’16 noted that the such disagreement between students and faculty might be the result of

different perception of the P/D/F policy between the faculty and the students. Cheng explained that faculty members see the P/D/F option as ideally being used to explore a subject that one never studied before.

“The problem is that it’s not functionally how it works with students,” she said. “Students often also use it for grade management, which is — you’re a pre-med, you are in a really hard class, and you may not do well.”

Cheng is a former staff writer for The Daily Princetonian.

The senate also approved the appointments of Class of 2018 senator Rachel Park ’18 and UCouncilor Pooja Patel ’18.

USG vice president Aleksandra Czulak ’17 said that Park was selected for her strong leadership skills and understanding of issues that affect studentathletes.

U-Council chair and Mental Health Initiative Board chair Naimah Hakim ’16 explained Patel was selected for her experience and her project ideas on issues of sexual assault.

“As you all know, the WeSee USG page 3

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Sylvia Nasar, author of the John Nash biography “A Beautiful Mind,” detailed his life story in a lecture.

Pulitzer-nominated biographer lectures on story of Nash’s rise, sudden fall, recovery

By Paul Phillips news editor

While literature features many stories about the meteoric rise and sudden fall of a remarkable individual, the life of University professor and Nobel Prize-winning economist and mathematician John Nash GS ’50 is extraordinary because it also had a third act of recovery, biographer Sylvia Nasar said in a lecture Saturday.

Nasar’s lecture occurred on the same day as a memorial service for Nash, who battled paranoid schizophrenia and whose work in game theory won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1994. Nash and his wife Alicia died in a taxi accident in June.

Nasar’s 1998 biography of Nash, “A Beautiful Mind,”

was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and was made into a film of the same name in 2001.

Nash was born in 1928, grew up in Bluefield, W. Va., and was a peculiar, solitary and intellectually precocious child, Nasar explained. He attended Carnegie Institute of Technology for his undergraduate degree, graduating in 1948 with a B.S. and M.S. in mathematics. Nash then attended the University, earning a Ph.D. in 1950 with a dissertation on non-cooperative games.

Nasar noted that the letter of recommendation he got from his professors at Carnegie Tech simply said: “This man is a genius.”

Despite Nash’s “beautiful mind” and good looks, Nash was not especially well liked by his classmates at the Uni-

versity, Nasar said. She noted that classmates considered him weird and haughty and that he avoided books and classes on principle.

“He was always seen working inside his own head,” Nasar said.

Nasar explained that during the 1950s Nash’s peers considered him a “bad boy,” as by the age of 30 he had become a full professor, was singled out by Fortune magazine and had gotten a glamorous and intelligent woman to fall in love with him. Alicia de Lardé, whom Nasar described as an “El Salvadorian princess,” married Nash in 1958.

Nasar added that despite de Lardé’s looks and stiletto heels, she possessed a steely resolve.

“As it turned out, she See LECTURE page 2

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Muza allegedly was writing checks from the club to himself. Muza was also subsequently removed from his position as general manager of McCarter Theatre.

Following multiple internal investigations aided by the Department of Public Safety, Muza pleaded guilty to a secondary degree theft by unlawful taking as he admitted to having stolen around $240,000 from the club between January 2008 and February 2013.

The Division of Criminal Justice indicted Muza on June 2, 2014.

The New Jersey Attorney

General’s Office did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Acting Attorney General of the State of New Jersey John Hoffman said in a press release from the Office of the Attorney General that Muza stole nearly a quarter of a million dollars from the club over the course of five years.

According to the release, Muza paid $200,000 in restitution at the sentencing hearing.

Princeton Triangle Club president Tori Rinker ’16 and Chairman of the Triangle Board of Trustees Marc Segan ’77 deferred comment to a Oct. 23 press release.

In the release, Segan said that the club believes justice

has been served and that they are very pleased with the announcement of Muza’s sentencing.

According to its 2014 IRS tax-exempt return records, the club has net assets of $670,682 and gross receipts of $183,487. Its total expenses in 2014 were $130,197.

Muza had been paid around $4,000 dollars per year as the club’s accountant,.

Director of the Division of Criminal Justice Elie Honig said in an official statement that with this prison sentence, the division is sending a strong deterrent message that white-collar crime does not pay.

Honig did not respond to a request for comment.

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would need all the mettle that she had,” Nasar added. “Beneath this shiny surface of John Nash’s life lurked chaos and confusion: a neglected illegitimate son, a secret lover and an ambivalence toward his new marriage and toward his new wife’s pregnancy.”

Signs of mental instability came to light soon after Nash’s marriage, Nasar said.

She noted that one time Nash claimed that a New York Times article contained subliminal messages from aliens in another galaxy. After a highly anticipated Columbia lecture degenerated into a bunch of non sequiturs, Alicia Nash decided to see psychiatrists about her husband.

John Nash was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and for a very long time it looked as though he would

not recover, Nasar said. She noted that he could no longer teach and was repeatedly hospitalized, chased out of stores and coffee shops and avoided by former colleagues.

“By the age of 40, everything that had made his life worthwhile to him was lost,” Nasar said.

She noted that, ironically, Nash’s earlier work became more and more important and recognized in various fields just as he sank deeper and deeper into poverty, illness and obscurity.

Eventually, after 30 years, Nash woke up, Nasar said.

She noted that the recovery was not due to modern drugs, but was instead caused by the natural process of aging, the support of people close to him and his own struggles to manage his delusions. Nash then won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994.

The hero of the story of John Nash was Alicia, Nasar said.

“She set out to marry a golden boy she was sure would become famous one day, but only a few months after they married her girlish notions of romance were shattered by his illness, and she responded with great courage, compassion, warmth and dignity,” Nasar said.

She noted that while the Nashes did divorce in 1963, Alicia Nash never gave up on her husband, and agreed to help him after he wrote her a letter. After a 38-year gap, the Nashes remarried.

Nasar said that while John Nash’s third act should not have ended the way it did, it was a great act.

“We may not see the likes of John Nash again, but his story will live on,” Nasar said.

The lecture, entitled “John Nash: the story of a beautiful mind,” took place at 4:30 p.m. in McDonnell Hall, and was organized by the University mathematics department.

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Speak survey [results] just came out, and had a lot of alarming numbers,” Hakim said. “It’s really great to have leadership around this topic in particular.”

Patel is a former staff writer for the ‘Prince.’

The senate approved revisions in Honor Constitutions proposed

by U-Councilor and Honor Committee chair Dallas Nan ’16. Nan explained that the objectives of the revisions are to eliminate repetitive clauses, clarify committee practices in specific circum-

stances, rearrange the sections of the old draft for increased logical flow and readability, and create subsections within each article for easier access to specific knowledge.

Hakim said that the Mental Health Initiative Board will be collaborating with mental health boards at other Ivy League schools, including the University of Pennsylvania’s mental health group, which is working on an Inter-Ivy mental health conference, and the Dartmouth mental health chapter.

Undergraduate Student Life Committee chair Kathy Chow ’17 presented the results of Thurs-

day’s coat giveaway, noting that over 100 students came to the event for around 50 to 60 coats.

The senate also approved a funding proposal from U-Councilors Jacob Cannon ’17 and Brandon McGhee ’18 for five roundtrip buses to Washington D.C. and Boston for Thanksgiving break, instead of starting with three buses and requesting additional funding if they need to add a bus as usual.

Social Committee chair Simon Wu ’17 said that his committee will work on a Lawnparties infographic and develop a Frequently Asked Questions list concerning Lawnparties.

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his precise use of the English language.

“You had to go to Nash’s class with a pocketful of colored pens,” Manganaro said.

“John would come to class and extract a box full of colored chalk from his jacket pocket. He would then present freshman math with crystal clarity and with a flickering of his Southern twang.”

John David Stier, Nash’s son, said that the Princeton community was extremely important to his father.

“Here is the place where he was always accepted, never criticized and was allowed to be himself,” Stier said of his father’s experience at Princ-

eton.

Stier added that the prizes Nash won during his academic career, including the Nobel Prize and the Abel Prize, would never have happened if not for the courage of Nash himself and the support of friends such as mathematics professors Joseph Kohn, Edward Nelson and Harold Kuhn.

“With friends like these, at this great university, it was impossible for my father to stay in the darkness forever,” Stier said.

Nash was born in 1928 in West Virginia, and earned a doctorate from the University in 1950 with his dissertation on non-cooperative games, which won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1994. He was diagnosed

with paranoid schizophrenia in 1959, and continued to battle it for several decades afterward. His life, discoveries and struggles with mental illness were chronicled in the biography “A Beautiful Mind” by Sylvia Nasar and in the film of the same name released in 2001.

“The worldwide legend of John and Alicia will endure as a unique story of struggle and redemption, and the personal memory of John and Alicia will live on in the hearts of this community among those who fortunate enough to know have known them as individuals, as colleagues, as friends,” Durkee said on Eisgruber’s behalf.

The memorial service took place at 6:00 p.m. in the University Chapel.

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Andrew Inoue ’19 said they arrived at Campus Club before 8:30 p.m. and found that there were no coats left. Inoue added that he arrived at 8:25 p.m. and people hoping to get coats were already leaving the building empty-

“The problem was that there were so many people that it was difficult to keep track of what was happening, so people took the coats earlier than the start time.”

Kathy Chow ’17

handed.

“I was told that at 7:30 people were coming in wanting coats,” Bernstein said.

“I think they should have a policy that they don’t give out anything until the time that the event is supposed to start.”

Cheng said that demand far outstripped supply.

“In a way it was difficult for me personally to hear about the amount of peo-

ple who showed up and had to be turned away because there weren’t enough coats,” she said.

Chow noted that one of the main problems with the event was that USG and USLC did not foresee the demand for the coats, and in fact were not sure people would even come to the event.

“There’s no way we can predict the amount of demand because we can’t identify and we also don’t want to identify students who are in need because we don’t want to create a stigma,” Cheng explained.

Chow noted, however, that the giveaway was successful in that many people attended and got coats that they needed.

Cheng said that the USLC is currently talking with administrators and staff about the possibility of their donating coats, so that the responsibility of donating coats to fill the need will not not be limited to students alone.

The USG office will have a box in which people can donate their coats starting Monday, Chow said, adding that if students would still like a coat, they can email her and she will help them get one. USG plans to open the box up not only to students, but also to staff and faculty, she added.

Chow added that she is

working on investigating emergency funds at residential colleges, explaining that although she is unclear on how the emergency funds work, she believes that students could possibly use these funds for coats.

“I’ve heard a lot of anecdotes about people who have used it or have heard of someone else who did,” she said. “Part of my project is to clarify if those funds

“People showed up … an hour before the event was supposed to start, so it was very difficult to keep track of what people were doing.”

Kathy Chow ’17 even officially exist and if so what the policies are for getting them.”

Cheng noted that the availability of University funding for projects such as this one can be ambiguous and unclear.

“We’re working with the University to try to push them to think about other ways that they can support students who really need this resource for the winter,” Cheng said.

Protest

by Grace Jeon :: Photo Editor Students for Prison Education and Reform held its annual 7 x 9 performance protest on October 23rd and 24th. 7 x 9 is an annual event that seeks to raise awareness on campus about the use of solitary confinement in carceral facilities across the country.

Participants occupied a 7 x 9 foot “cell” - the average size of a solitary confinement cell - which was outlined with tape in front of Frist Campus Center and at East Pyne Courtyard. Each participant occupied the space alone for an hour, and the performance lasted for a total of 23 hours - representing the 23 hours that individuals are confined to their cell (for the remaining hour, people in solitary are sometimes allowed in a slightly larger, yet still isolated space).

An honorable committee?

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he Honor Committee is an enigma to many students. As a freshman during orientation, you walk into Dillon Gymnasium, sign your name under the Honor Code and think nothing of it until the night before your first paper is due. Then, you try to remember the right wording for this complex but highly specific phrase that affirms that you have not cheated or plagiarized on the assignment.

Throughout your first year you diligently write that pledge at the bottom of all your papers and exams, but then, on an otherwise unmemorable Friday evening, you receive a call from someone on the Honor Committee asking you to come up to their meeting room on Nassau Street. The unidentified person on the phone doesn’t tell you whether you are being investigated or of if someone else is in question. When you tell this person that Friday at 9 p.m. isn’t exactly a great time and that you are in the middle of something, you are told that being unwilling to come to report immediately will not look good for you or anyone else involved.

So you rush up to Nassau, prepared to defend your innocence against some alleged academic crime you know nothing about. When you get there, the Honor Committee, most of them sophomores no older than you, assembles. To your relief, they inform you that you are not the person under investigation, and that they simply want to ask whether you saw anything suspicious during one of your recent midterms. Your heart is still racing but you assure them that you saw nothing and walk over to Thomas Sweet’s for some muchneeded comfort food.

The Honor Committee and the investigations it carries out are an opaque process to most students. The Honor Committee is distinct from the Committee on Discipline. The Honor Committee deals with exams and in-class infractions, while the Committee on Discipline handles work done outside the classroom, such as homework, takehome tests, most COS assignments, etc. But most of us know little about either of these committees until we have already been suspended or survived by the skin of our teeth. This wouldn’t be a problem if the Honor Committee didn’t hold so much power and if the effects of their decisions weren’t so serious. As one student put it, “They have quite a bit of power and can really ruin lives with a wrongful suspension.”

The punishment scale is severe. If a student is acquitted after his or her trial, no record of the investigation is placed on the student’s transcript.

If the Committee deems that there are “extenuating circumstances” for the incident, the student will be placed on academic probation, which will become part of the student’s permanent Princeton record. However, if the student is found guilty of violating the Honor Code, the punishment is either a one-, two- or three-year suspension, or permanent expulsion in the case of a second offense.

Obviously, such suspensions would seriously impact any student’s experience at Princeton. But more important, perhaps is how the Honor Committee’s decisions can impact a student’s prospects after graduation. Unlike other top universities like Stanford and Harvard, Princeton’s policy is to keep a suspension on the student’s transcript forever. At Princeton, a year-long suspension isn’t enough to “pay for the offense.” The consequences aren’t contained within the Princeton bubble. The student will have that black mark on his transcript for every job or graduate school he ever applies to.

I do not argue that the suspension policies need to be changed. College students live on the edge of the real world, but are not fully in it yet. In the real world, cheating and getting caught cheating have very serious consequences. Insider trading is punishable with prison sentences, and plagiarized phrases are grounds for immediate termination of a journalist’s career. Subsequently, the consequences at college – the halfway house, in a way – should be in line with the intermediary position it occupies. Mistakes should be punished severely and students who cheat shouldn’t be coddled; but a minor academic infraction shouldn’t constitute a reason to end a student’s hopes for a successful career. I think the current system toes that line well.

However, if we are going to have students hand out punishments with decidedly professional consequences, then the students who are endowed with this power, the students in charge of those affairs, must exude the full standard of professionalism. The Honor Committee can’t keep calling students at 9 p.m. on a Friday and scaring them into coming up to Nassau. One student under investigation for copying code in COS 126: General Computer Science complained to me that the Honor Committee was unprofessional and slow to respond to emails with information that was necessary for him to prepare for his hearing. The same student also stated that one of his appeals was entirely ignored.

This is not an indictment of any given member of the Honor Committee, or even the committee as a whole, but simply a reminder for those who wield this power to understand the significance and seriousness of their position and to ensure that they act accordingly in light of that responsibility.

The Honor Committee needs to do everything in its power to assure the student body it seeks to serve them, not just police them. We need to return to the days when we knew we wanted the Honor Committee because we value the learning that takes place at Princeton and don’t want it cheapened by academic dishonesty.

Luke Gamble is a sophomore from Eagle, Idaho. He can be reached at ljgamble@princeton.edu.

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Trick-or-Feed

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ccording to the latest announcement by the Interclub Council and the Community Service Interclub Council, Princeton’s 11 eating clubs will participate in an initiative called ‘Trick-or-Feed’ during this year’s Princetoween, which falls on Oct. 29. In order to enter an eating club on Thursday night, students must have a special Trick-or-Feed sticker which can be acquired at Frist Campus Center or the Bendheim Center for Finance.

To receive their sticker, students are highly encouraged to make a donation to the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen to help provide meals for the homeless. The Editorial Board applauds this community-oriented decision by the ICC and urges students to take it seriously by giving what they can to the cause.

Moreover, the Board supports the voluntary nature of the initiative.

While a mandatory payment could exclude or coerce students who are not able to give, the proposed method of collecting donations at sticker stations strikes a balance between inclusivity and helping the community.

Outside of Princeton’s Orange Bubble, homelessness and hunger are very real problems affect-

ing many people and families that make the stress of midterms week pale in comparison. This is a global problem, but it also exists right here in Mercer County, where there are an estimated 43,760 individuals who do not have secure access to food, according to Feeding America, an anti-hunger nonprofit. The total number for New Jersey is over 1,100,000.

At Princeton, where many students have the luxury of eating their meals in elegant mansions on Prospect Avenue, students should keep those who are less fortunate in mind. The disparity is especially intense on a party night like Princetoween, when many students spend large amounts of money on alcohol and single-use costumes.

The Trenton Area Soup Kitchen is a worthy cause that serves nearly 5,000 meals per week throughout the year, getting by largely on donations and volunteer time.

According to its mission statement, TASK also “offers programs to encourage self-sufficiency and improve the quality of life of its patrons,” showing its commitment to addressing the root problems behind poverty and hunger.

If 1,000 Princeton students gave only $3 each, the donations would

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cover an entire day of operations for TASK. The Board believes that the best way to support TASK’s operations is to give money when picking up a sticker or online via Tilt. Cash donations are preferable because they allow food banks like TASK to optimize their inventory and minimize labor costs.

Obviously, one event is not a substitute for increasing our commitment to civic engagement and does not solve the problem of hunger, but it is certainly a start and an opportunity for reflection for everyone. The Board commends those members of the Community Service Interclub Council who work to integrate Princeton’s social scene with a genuine awareness for social justice and encourages them to do more to create a sense of social responsibility that has a lasting impact beyond the revelry of Princetoween and the festivities of Truckfest. These recommendations will help the University foster a greater awareness towards problems off-campus.

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The (only) paths to Princeton

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t any given university, there are bound to be a few majors and pre-professional tracks that attract more students than others. It only took the first few days of my freshman fall to determine which of those were Princeton’s. If someone in the liberal arts school wasn’t pre-med, they were probably in the Wilson School (admittedly, I started out in the latter before landing on politics).

A disproportionate number of engineers were typically either in the operations research and financial engineering or computer science departments.

There’s nothing wrong with any of these majors. In fact, some of my best friends fit the bill.

These departments provide students with tools that are necessary to thrive in some of the United States’ most important job sectors — health, technology and any sort of policy-making, all of which are critical for societal advancements.

My fear, however, is that the University makes going down other paths more difficult.

The first time I realized I was taking the path less traveled was my sophomore year. I received an email — maybe from Career Services, maybe from the Pace Center — advertising “Alternative Careers Paths After Princeton.” Alumni who had chosen

careers in places like the nonprofit sector, Broadway or art curating returned to campus to discuss their professional trajectories. I had been well aware that performance and curating was on the off-beaten path, but nonprofits surprised me.

It continued like this for a while. Jobs listed on TigerTracks rarely included anything that wasn’t tech, banking or consulting. Career fairs weren’t much better. There would be a tech fair almost every other week, but only two a year dedicated to nonprofits. Anything related to consulting was discussed frequently, but if I wanted advice on pursuing a doctorate, I had to reach out to professors and Google.

Obviously, the companies that do visit campus do so because they want Princeton graduates. They send representatives to recruit because they know students are ready and skilled enough to enter these fields. But perhaps if the University were more receptive towards other professions, New Jersey nonprofits might send their representatives. Perhaps undergraduates interested in academia could meet with graduate students in a setting formalized and promoted by the University as fervently as other careers.

I had grown accustomed to the University’s tendency of overlooking important professions until my roommate started applying to law school. I have no doubt that, in the end, she’ll

have her pick of the universities to which she applies. But Princeton has not been her greatest champion during this application process. At the beginning of the semester, the longtime prelaw advisor retired with little warning from the University to students. Rather than seeking a replacement, Career Services has provided “law school experts to meet with students in the interim while cross-training the entire counseling team with prelaw advising capacities for the future.”

The scheduling process for meeting with the currently employed expert is a tedious one, where the number and length of times to meet is limited, especially considering that the best time to submit applications is this semester.

Law is not a small profession.

Tens of thousands of students apply to these programs each year. And yet, after speaking with my other roommate who is pursuing medicine, it is clear that the resources dedicated to law and medicine are not equal.

The first sign is that the Office of Health Professions Advising actually exists. They have an office in 36 University Place, with both drop-in hours and WASS appointments available. There is professional staff dedicated specifically to this office, as well as peer advisers who are trained by the office.

When I think on it, I’ve had this conversation about lacking career diversity multiple times.

While some of my friends are able to go to a standard career fair and find numerous employers of interest, there are others who simply cannot. Maybe the greatest defense of this bias is that the University responds to campus needs. If the need is there, the University will respond accordingly.

I don’t find this to be true.

Very few students enter college knowing which profession they will actually enter. The University plays a critical role in whether or not the need exists by playing into the preconceived notions that each new class has.

Any profession that is expected and well-represented will draw large crowds because they are those things. This feedback cycle helps push students down certain avenues because all others appear rare, unimportant or don’t appear at all.

Bringing in diverse organizations and employers portrays the different yet equally moving paths we can take after graduating. Even creating double-major programs lets students genuinely delve into different topics, rather than a strictly complementary certificate that provides surface-level understanding. It is not enough to tout a holistic liberal arts education if all roads provided are narrow and lead to limited destinations.

Lea Trusty is a politics major from Saint Rose, La. She can be reached at ltrusty@princeton.edu.

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fans certainly had reason to be pumped up early in the game. Just over five minutes into the contest, Princeton’s freshman forward Mimi Asom did what she does best — find the back of the net.

Getting control of the ball off a long pass up the field from sophomore defender Katie Pratt-Thompson, Asom forced her way past one defender and sent it beyond the outstretched arms of Harvard’s Lizzie Durack. It was Asom’s 10th goal on the season, good for second in the league.

The Crimson, however, were not a team to die quietly. Following Asom’s goal, Harvard managed to tie the game up just seven minutes later, seeming to neutralize a golden opportunity for the Tigers to make a claim for the league title.

One of the great strengths of this Tiger team, however, is maintaining resolve in all situations.

“When they got the tying goal, we came together after they scored and everybody calmed down and relaxed,” Lussi said. “The momentum did shift, but we knew we were not going to lose this game.”

Lussi stuck to those words and indeed, as she’s done time and time again this

season, put it upon herself to lift the team up. The Ivy League’s leading goalscorer found her chance in the second half of the game. In the 57th minute, Lussi took the pass from Asom, and as two defenders rushed in to crowd her, fired a shot into the left corner of the goal. Durack was helpless against the shot as Lussi gave her team the lead for good.

Lussi has been the focal point of the Tigers’ offense this season. However, despite her ability to handle double coverage and swarms of defenders, she consistently points out that it’s the play of the team — defenders to midfielders to forwards — that sets her up for opportunities.

“I think that a lot of times, with teams scouting us, they look to the main players …

I’m going to get doubleteamed a lot, [but] how I score doesn’t just start from me,” Lussi said. “It starts from our defense, playing to the midfield getting us the balls.”

The improvement of the team defense points to a vast leap in the Tigers’ play from last season. The Tigers’ ability to score has not been a question — just as with this year, the Tigers led the league in goals during the 2014 season. However, the defensive line had serious issues — the Tigers were last in the league in goals

allowed per game, at nearly two per contest.

This season, and the win streak, however, has shown a different side of the squad.

During their last five games, the Tigers have allowed just .6 goals per game.

“From last year to this year, we have not let as many goals in, and that just shows that the character of the backline, and even other people who aren’t starting backline, can come in and keep the same pace of the game,” Lussi said. “It just shows that the communication of the backline is so key.

Sean, even from the beginning of the season, focused on defending.”

With the tiebreak advantages over Harvard this victory, the Tigers find themselves one victory away from clinching an NCAA bid. With two matches left, their chances at a tournament appearance are determined solely by their own play. “[An NCAA bid] would honestly be amazing — for the entire team, for Sean, for the entire coaching staff,” Lussi said. “But I think we’ve beaten Harvard — and it was an amazing win, and we’ll remember that win for the rest of our lives — but that game’s done, we’ve got to move on … It’s a busy week but we just need to stay focused and calm and positive … [and] keep it going.”

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cause I could run the middle early in the game,” Nussbaum explained. “I was then able to get the ball to the hitters. Passing started everything off and balanced the offense.”

While the Tigers began this season at the rock bottom of Ivy League standings, by last weekend, the Tigers had earned a four-way tie with Brown, Columbia and Penn for fourth place in the league. This weekend’s victory along with Cornell’s upset over Columbia further dis-

tanced the Tigers from the Lions and Quakers. Brown and Princeton now stand behind the league triple threat of Harvard, Dartmouth and Yale.

To shed light on the Tiger’s rise from the bottom, Nussbaum said, “I think the main thing we stressed in practice was aggressiveness. In practice we were a bit more timid and scared of mistakes. Coach [Sabrina King] emphasized a more aggressive attitude — playing to win instead of playing to lose. We are now a lot more composed and confident, even playing with swagger.”

Looking ahead, the Ti-

gers will actually play each of the top three teams in an upcoming two-week home stand. Victories over these top squads would make for an unbelievable season turnaround.

Despite the pressure, challenge and high stakes, Nussbaum did not waver and the confidence showed through.

“Because the Ivy League is so up and down, it’s anyone’s title. It’s important for us to focus on our side of the net — we have the talent and chemistry,” Nussbaum said.

“It doesn’t matter who we go against. Focusing on playing our best game no matter what happens.”

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on the cross for the score, Bowkett’s second on the season. The Tigers could walk off the field proud after the first half, having secured a 2-1 edge.

They would come right out of the gate just as strong.

Just over a minute into the second half, senior forward Tom Sanner took the pass from Colvin and found the back of the net for the 10th time this season.

While Harvard was ultimately unable to make a comeback — scoring just once more, in the 89th minute — one certainly can’t fault them for lack of trying. The Crimson were keeping the defense and Hummel honest, forcing 19 shots total on the day compared to Princeton’s seven.

“I think one of the most important things that I was able to bring to the game

was taking away the aerial threat. In the first and second half, they were serving in so many balls, and I felt comfortable coming off my line, and snagging some balls out of the air. That sort of sets the tone,” Hummel said. “They have to think twice about every ball they serve in, and that leads to errors … I think [that] me establishing and maintaining control of my box and making sure I was aggressive and strong off my line helped to give the defense a little bit of confidence and sort of took away a big part of their game.”

With the win, Princeton moves to fifth place in the league, as three games remain in the season. With league leaders Dartmouth standing at 4-0 in Ivy League play, multiple events would have to go the Tigers’ way for them to earn a share of the league title, as they did in 2014 season.

While the odds of earning

an automatic NCAA bid are slim (and chances of an atlarge bid unsure), the Tigers continue to build off their success in hopes of finishing off the season as strongly as possible.

“If everybody goes 4-2-1, we have a share of the league [title], but that’s so unlikely to happen. You have to have a serious conversation with yourself about what … it means to be a team, what does it mean to be successful team,” Hummel said. “We all kind of came together and said ‘We have a chance of getting to 11 wins and winning out the last six games.’

That would be considered a successful team.”

“You have to look around, and play for the people around you.” Hummel explained. “[The game showed] what moral character the team has here … As a senior, it made me feel so awesome to have those guys step up and play for me, and me playing for my brothers.”

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the Crimson offense tallied a prolific 647 yards compared with the 293 yards of the visitors.

Facing a deficit of 35-7 with the third quarter coming to a close, Princeton began a drive under some pressure. Junior quarterback Chad Kanoff, the Tigers’ starter, connected with Lovett on a 44-yard strike to get within the Harvard red zone. An untimely holding penalty, however, put Princeton in a difficult first-and-17.

Kanoff dropped back on third down, faced pressure from Harvard’s pass rush and threw an interception to Harvard’s Asante Gibson in the back of the end zone.

The Crimson moved the ball

with efficiency on the ensuing drive before Seitu Smith’s three-yard touchdown run effectively finalized the 42-7 result. Both teams managed only a single first down during the game’s final 11 minutes.

Superior play on both the offensive and defensive line proved to be one of key factors in Harvard’s win. Strong protection allowed Hosch, the Crimson’s senior signal caller, to lead a passing attack that averaged 10.6 yards per attempt and saw two 100-plus yard receiving efforts — junior defensive back Samuel Huffman managed the game’s lone sack on a first quarter fourth down. On the other side of the ball, Princeton’s ground attack proved ineffective against a solid defensive front, averaging just 2.2 yards

per carry.

Ivy champions in 2014, the league-leading Crimson have had a red hot start to their title-defense. Hosch and company have averaged an untouchable 43.8 points per game while the defense has allowed an average of 7.8 points per contest. Their next contest, a Friday night matchup with likewise undefeated Dartmouth, will be an important test for both teams.

The Tigers, on the other hand, have had some difficulties establishing an offensive rhythm against their league opponents. Next week’s matchup with Cornell, which has amassed a 0-6 record, should allow the Orange and Black to hone their efforts in anticipation of the final stretch of Ivy League play.

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Tigers fail to avenge last year’s defeat to Harvard

By Andrew Steele senior writer

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Women’s soccer moves to 12-3 on the season and 5-0 in Ivy League play with a convincing win at Harvard.

Women’s soccer beat Harvard in Boston

By Miles Hinson sports editor

The race for first in Ivy League women’s soccer just got a new frontrunner.

This Saturday, the Princeton women’s soccer team (12-3 overall, 5-0 Ivy League) pushed itself even closer to an automatic NCAA bid, defeating reigning Ivy League champion Harvard in Cambridge, Mass. With the victory, the Tigers maintain not only a perfect record in

league play, but also extend their winning streak to double digits at 10 straight. It’s the longest winning streak for the team since 2012, the last year the Tigers went to the NCAA Tournament.

With just three games before the end of the season, the Tigers and Crimson (7-71, 4-1-0) went into this match tied for first in the league, with both teams knowing that the winner of the league could very well be decided in Cambridge that day.

For the second consecutive year, Princeton football was outmatched by longtime rival Harvard. Competing on Boston’s Soldiers Field, the No. 15 Crimson (6-0 overall, 3-0 Ivy League) managed 42 points, including three unanswered third-quarter touchdowns, against the Tigers (4-2, 1-2), whose lone score came on a pass from sophomore quarterback John Lovett to fellow sophomore signal caller Nick Peabody.

The gridiron rivalry between these teams stretches back to 1877. Princeton currently holds an all-time series lead of 54-47-7.

The game’s first play seemed to hold a great deal of

promise for the visitors. Harvard returner Andrew Fischer received senior Nolan Bieck’s kick before reversing the ball to teammate Justice SheltonMosely. Shelton-Mosely fumbled the ball, which was recovered by Princeton senior defensive back Max Lescano.

Although taking over on the 50-yard line, the Tigers’ offense was unable to capitalize on the early opportunity due in part to consecutive false start and holding penalties.

Princeton suffered a further disadvantage on that opening drive. Senior wide receiver Seth DeValve, having only just returned to action, suffered an injury that would keep him out of the contest’s remainder. His absence along with that of senior running back DiAndre Atwater has

dampened the dynamism of Princeton’s offense.

Through 15 minutes of play, the scoreboard remained static at 0-0. Just under two minutes into the second quarter, Harvard’s Scott Hosch punctuated a 67-yard drive with a touchdown run. Princeton’s offense responded with their best effort of the game — the Lovett-Peabody connection came at the end of an 11-play, 70-yard drive — while the Orange and Black defense held strong by denying a fourthdown conversion and forcing a three-and-out in consecutive outings.

The Tigers were not able to maintain this stout form after that point. Five consecutive Harvard drives ended in touchdowns. On the day, See FOOTBALL page 5

“Going into the game, we were all very excited — we knew what was at stake. But at the end of the day, we knew it was a game, we’re having fun, we’re playing with each other [and] being very positive,” junior forward Tyler Lussi said. “I think that, in that moment, everyone was so excited, even [head coach] Sean [Driscoll] had so much energy and was getting us so pumped up.”

Both the Tigers and their See W. SOCCER page 5

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For the second consecutive season, the Tigers could not beat Harvard as they fell 42-7 in Boston.

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Women’s volleyball defeats Penn 3-1

By David Liu staff writer

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Men’s soccer were great against Harvard, as they defeated the league leaders 3-2 for their first win.

Men’s soccer upsets Harvard 3-2 to claim first Ivy League victory of the season

By Miles Hinson sports editor

On paper, the odds were against them. The men’s soccer team, winless in league play, battling on the road against Harvard, one of two teams still perfect against their Ivy League foes.

The Tigers, however, are not ones to back down from a challenge.

The Princeton men’s soccer team (7-4-2 overall, 1-2-1 Ivy League) picked up their first win in league play this year, upsetting the Crimson (6-5-2, 3-1-0) 3-2 this past Saturday. With the victory, the Tigers have won back-toback games for the first time since late September.

An emphasis for the

game, and indeed, throughout the season, has been exhibiting 90 minutes of intensity. In the games against Dartmouth and Brown, the Tigers had one small defensive lapse that allowed a goahead goal in the opening minutes (Dartmouth) and a game-tying goal in the final minutes (Brown).

The Tigers were the ones to come out strong, as freshman forward Jeremy Colvin made a strong run past multiple Tigers’ defenders for the first score of the game, picking up the second goal of his career.

“It was a great goal. The most telling and revealing part of that goal, and [that] was indicative of the entire game, was that it was an op-

portunity that we got on a counter. We knew what their game plan was,” senior goalie Ben Hummel explained.

“They commit numbers forward. [We thought] if we could counter them and get off that, then we [could] break them and down that attack.”

The Harvard squad, however, did not stay lying down. With continued aggressive play, they forced a penalty kick in the 18th minute, which the Crimson’s Jake Freeman converted into their first score of the game.

Princeton would respond come the 40th minute, as junior midfielder Vikram Pothuri hit sophomore midfielder Daniel Bowkett See M. SOCCER page 5

Surging back into Ivy League competition, women’s volleyball (9-8 overall, 4-4 Ivy League) proved their dominance in a 3-1 victory over rival Penn (9-1, 3-5) this past Saturday. The Tigers not only avenged their homeopener loss to the Quakers but also rose to fourth in the Ivy League standings.

Coming into Saturday’s game, the rival Quakers had the confidence of stealing Princeton’s home-opener. In the late September matchup, Penn won in four regrettably close sets, with an average point margin under four points per set. In turn, Princeton invaded the Palestra on Saturday with hopes of avenging the previous loss on the Quaker’s own court.

In the first set, Princeton stumbled to a rough start, quickly falling into a 6-0 hole. Following a crucial timeout, however, the Tigers proved resilient. A balanced effort between freshman middle blocker Nnenna Ibe, senior right side Kendall Peterkin, and junior middle blocker Brittany Ptak would even the score at 13-13. Several Penn errors later, the Tigers came away with a victorious first set.

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Women’s volleyball move to .500 in Ivy League play after beating Penn.

Unfortunately, the second set would slip away from the Tigers, who gave up a late 2220 lead. Penn concluded the set on an impressive 5-0 run to even the match.

With the game in contention, Princeton proceeded to rebound from the regretful second set loss. With the help of freshman setter Claire Nussbaum, Peterkin

and junior outside hitter Cara Mattaliano combined for 21 kills in the final two sets alone, finishing off the Quakers.

The game’s star, Nussbaum accumulated a matchhigh 48 assists and three service aces by the end of the match.

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