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Report suggests William Bowen GS ‘58: calendar change, President who opened doors new distribution

By Jessica Li

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By Jessica Li head news editor

Claire Lee associate news editor

In a report issued Thursday morning, the Task Force on General Education made six recommendations pertaining to undergraduate teaching that span from mandating foreign language studies regardless of prior proficiency to changes in the academic calendar.

According to the report, the task force is recommending that the fall term start earlier and conclude in December. Under this new calendar, students would complete their final exams before winter break and have the opportunity to participate in a three-week “January term.” During this term, the University will offer both credit-bearing courses and notfor-credit co-curricular experiences for students, such as Princeternships and independent work opportunities. This January term would be optional for all students.

According to Deputy Dean of the

College Elizabeth Colagiuri GS ’99, most calendars are approved four years in advance, and if the calendar changes are to be implemented, they will not be for the next school year.

“If our recommendation is approved, we would hope to implement [it] sooner than after four years. But it will not happen next year because of a number of logistics we have to work through,” she said.

USG Academics Committee Chair Shannon Osaka ’17 said that when the committee found out that the general task force had been charged with assessing the academic calendar, the academics committee wanted to help out.

Osaka said that the committee codesigned a survey during the 20142015 school year with the Graduate Student Government and the Office of the Dean of the College to assess student opinion on the current academic calendar.

“The winter break was only two weeks long, so a lot of students were See CALENDAR page 3

After marching through Prospect Avenue with the rest of the 1986 P-rade procession, former University president William Bowen GS ’58 weaved through the crowd in search of one female alumna whom he had asked to stay behind. When he finally found Sally Frank ’80, he offered to walk her back to the main campus, past the eating clubs that Frank had sued for shutting women out of their bicker processes.

The subtle yet highly visible statement Bowen made on that occasion is emblematic of his leadership and legacy at the University. In an emailed statement to the ‘Prince,’ Under Secretary of Education Ted Mitchell described Bowen as a thoughtful and bold innovator who left a legacy as a champion of women, minorities, and the poor.

“Bill was only 38 when See BOWEN page 2

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Bowen employing his analytic skills in his administrative role.

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NEWS & NOTES

2016 Election: Where U. donors have donated to Group files

lawsuit related to U. investigation

By Daily Princetoniuan Staff Students for Fair Admissions filed a lawsuit against the United States Department of Education on Thursday related to the Department of Education’s investigation into the University’s admission practices concerning Asian-Americans.

The complaint, filed in the federal district court in the District of Columbia, alleges that the Department of Education has failed, contrary to its obligations under the Freedom of Information See LAWSUIT page 3 LECTURE

The graph above shows how much major University donors donated to each candidates during the past three election cycles.

By Sarah Hirschfield contributor

During the 2016 presidential election cycle and the two previously election cycles, Carl Icahn ’57, Bill Frist ’74, and Peter Wendell ’72, three major University donors, have contributed thousands of dollars to Republican candidates and super PACs, or political action committees with close ties to Republican campaigns, according to Federal Election Commission reports.

Meg Whitman ’77, another major University donor, donated against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 election cycle. Other major donors such as Den-

nis Keller ’63, Nancy Peretsman ’76, Robert Scully ’72, and John Scully ’66 have mixed contribution records over the past few election cycles.

Independent expenditure committees, informally called super PACs, can raise and spend an unlimited amount of money, although they cannot directly spend in support of a particular candidate.

Icahn funded the Carl C. Icahn Laboratory at the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrated Genomics.

Frist’s family funded the Frist Campus Center. Wendell, along with his wife and his friend, donated

towards the construction of Wendell Hall in Whitman College. Keller and his wife funded the Keller Center, formerly the Center for Innovation in Engineering Education. John Scully donated towards the construction of Scully Hall. Peretsman and Robert Scully funded PeretsmanScully Hall, which houses the Department of Psychology.

According to an FEC report, Icahn contributed $33,400 as part of a joint fundraiser to the Republican National Committee on June 23. He donated a total of $5,400 to Donald Trump for President, Inc. and $50,000 to Trump Victory, supporting the Republican

presidential nominee, on the same day.

Icahn, a business magnate who has partnered with Trump in the past for business ventures, announced last year via Twitter that he planned to start a super PAC with an “initial commitment of $150 million” to end corporate tax inversions. Icahn donated another $500,000 to Trump’s fundraiser for veterans in January. Icahn recently made headlines after closing the Trump Taj Mahal, an Atlantic City casino with a history of financial issues. Trump criticized Icahn’s decision to close, but Icahn continued to support Trump.

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In Opinion

Today on Campus

The Editorial Board remembers the legacy of Bill Bowen; columnist Bhaamati Borkhetaria pens a satirical ovation for Watters’ World; and contributing columnist Tom Salama talks Dr. Dre, politics, and compromise. PAGE 4

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Dyson gives advices on future

By Samuel Garfinkle staff writer

World-renowned theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson shared a lifetime’s worth of wisdom about the future while dining with 30 members of Princeton Envision.

Dyson urged Americans to plan more on a macroscale and to be careful about misestimating the impact of solar energy and robots. For the short term, he advised students to see the value of ignorance, be wary of the Ph.D. system, and See DYSON page 3

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he was named president of Princeton, where he helped lead the institution into the era of coeducation — something that we take for granted amid our majority-female campuses across America today. His dedication to affirmative action and equality for all lifts his name as a role model and beacon of hope for those who follow in his path,” Mitchell noted.

After taking office, Bowen made it a priority for the University to break away from the notions of exclusivity, elitism, and privilege that it had been associated with for two centuries, Frank said. According to University Vice President and Secretary Robert Durkee ’69, not only was Bowen instrumental in reforming the residential college system and forging the way for an inclusive financial aid program, but he was also an unyielding proponent of a more colorful and genderbalanced university community.

Yet not everyone was enamored with the University’s emerging new look.

During Bowen’s first days in office, his progressive ethos attracted vehement opposition from a small but fiercely vocal collective of alumni and students. Prolific in words and bountiful in budget, the Concerned Alumni of Princeton established Prospect magazine, which soon became a widely circulated campus publication. With the singular mission of fighting progress in the admission of women, CAP often openly and aggressively challenged Bowen’s initiatives in its columns, describing coeducation as a blight that plummeted the University’s academic standards. In a ‘Prince’ feature published in 1983, Thomas Jones ’72, an outspoken CAP founder and member, described Bowen as having presided over a period when the University began to walk “the path of mediocrity … [becoming] just another state university.”

“It was a challenging agenda; he had to overcome concerns of the faculty and the student body. It took deftness to make progress in ways that in fact expanded diversity that received acceptance,” Durkee said.

Despite opposition, Bowen consistently and steadfastly refuted voices of bigotry against a gender that couldn’t have called Princeton home a few years prior.

As Durkee recalled, Bowen spent numerous hours communicating with alumni of earlier years about the changes on the University’s campus. In addition to his persistence in keeping women in the admissions picture, Bowen also cared profoundly about women’s

lives on campus, according to Frank. From introducing salad bars at dining halls to installing curtains in every room of Pyne Hall — the dormitory reserved for women at the time — Bowen put forth a streak of unprecedented initiatives, small and large. He was also receptive to the suggestions of women on campus, placing locks on bathroom doors and dormitory basements, which were not properly secured at the time. More significantly, Bowen accepted the petition of Frank and other students to establish a women’s studies certificate.

“These are not things that a group of men in ’69 would’ve thought of,” Frank said.

When Frank’s lawsuit against Tiger Inn and Iv y Club went up to the Supreme Court, Bowen expressed support for Frank’s initiative amid a pool of mixed reactions from other administrators.

“He knew that this was out of my love for Princeton, that I was trying to make the University better and not to destroy it,” Frank said.

Bowen showed similar commitment to increasing racial diversity on campus.

In his tenth commencement address, Bowen said to the incoming freshmen class that “we must set high standards for ourselves and for our community — being clear, for example, that any racial slurs or innuendoes are unacceptable.”

In what was perhaps Bowen’s greatest contribution to affirmative action, he co-authored a book with former Harvard University President Derek Bok. The book, titled ‘The Shape of the River’, was first published in 1998, and presented a data-driven argument for affirmative action, especially at high-powered and selective institutions.

The same book was referenced in Claude Steele’s Whistling Vivaldi, the preread for the Class of 2019, which expanded arguments for affirmative action into a book that discussed racial divisions and stereotypes in a much broader context.

Though he may have left the presidency in 1988, Bowen’s work has held great sway with the University community to this day.

Bowen’s earlier works about the positive impacts of affirmative action were cited by Warren Burger in the landmark Supreme Court case Regents of the University of California v.

Bakke. The case established race as a constitutional factor in college admissions.

Nonetheless, Bowen also stood his ground when it came to questions of freedom of speech, especially controversial speech.

In the latter half of 1973, Whig-Clio announced that it would host a debate on the inheritability of intelligence. The debate would fea-

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Bowen talking to his students in the ECON 101 precept he taught even when he was the President; Bowen sitting on a chair on his porch just days before stepping down, talking to the Daily Princetonian.

ture Roy Innis, head of the Congress of Racial Equality, and William Shockley, a Nobel prize-winning physicist and outspoken white supremacist. Yet, despite a barrage of student protests, charged slogans, and bomb threats, the debate took place. As then Professor of Sociology Marvin Bressler noted, the university must be a forum for all opinions.

A similar situation transpired when the People’s Front, a student organization, staged a sit-in in Nassau Hall, demanding that the university to divest from companies that did business with South Africa.

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Bowen in his office talking to a person in New York over phone.

en responded that though the University stands in solidarity with students who condemn apartheid, such a decision would have minimal impact on South Africa and only negative financial impact for the University.

Frank, who also partook in the sit-in that year, said that on this note, her impression and appreciation of Bowen’s decision changed significantly over the years, especially after she graduated.

“It was different when I was out there protesting,” Frank said, “but later, I felt that he really was thinking about what’s best for the university.”

In an emailed statement to the ‘Prince,’ the National Endowment for the Humanities described that throughout his life, Bowen grounded his work in the belief that the humanities should be accessible not just to the elite, but to all, especially women and minorities.

“The National Endowment for the Humanities mourns the passing of William G. Bowen, a distinguished humanist and social scientist who transformed the academic landscape,” the statement reads.

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Bowen at his vacation home on the New Jersey shore, writing a memo.

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upset by that, so there was a USG referendum about changing the calendar and as part of that referendum,” Osaka said. “A lot of people wrote in comments, saying ‘I don’t like having a two-week winter break and I wish that finals were before winter break.’”

Osaka noted that this was the first time that USG gathered comprehensive evidence showing that the majority of students were unhappy with the current calendar.

“What we learned from the survey is that around 75% of students really want this to change, particularly students who live really far away or have difficulty traveling home multiple times during the winter,” she said. “I think that students feel that it would be helpful for mental health and wellbeing where they feel like they feel able to relax and don’t feel like they need to be studying.”

Osaka added that USG will send out a survey this weekend on the different parts of the recommendation.

“Students should definitely fill that out if they have strong feelings one way or the other, so that we can communicate that to the task force as well,” she said. “It’s been a long time coming in that Princeton has looked at this issue multiple times over many decades, but we’re really starting to see momentum toward having a change.”

Another recommendation of the task force is to encourage departments to create for-credit, writingintensive seminars for third-year students. These discipline-specific courses would require graded work, but would not replace the graded junior paper assignments. Additionally, the task force encouraged departments that currently require two JPs to consider consolidating the two assignments into a single spring JP that counts for two units of credit. Though the task force recommended against permitting dual concentrations, it encouraged departments to consider offering “formalized joint or mixed concentrations.”

Currently, departments have the discretion to mandate not-for-credit junior seminars for concentrators.

Colagiuri and Associate Dean of the College Rebekah Massengill GS ’09 noted that, though they had not heard of specific negative comments about current non-credit-bearing junior seminars, they believe that any courses of this nature should be credit-bearing.

The recommendations further support requiring both A.B. and B.S.E students to take at least one course that explores the “intersections of culture, identity, and power” and at least one further course with international content. The report noted that courses in the former category would not just “probe diversity,” but explore aspects of race, gender, indigeneity, and other aspects of cultural identity. The courses with international content may explore topics such as trade, globalization, and cross-border conflicts.

“Last year’s conversations on campus definitely influenced the committee’s considerations,” Cola-

giuri said.

According to the report, the task force had invited student organizations including the Black Justice League, the Open Campus Coalition, and Princeton Latinos y Amigos when deliberating the recommendation.

Moreover, the task force recommended requiring foreign language instruction for all A.B. students, regardless of existing proficiency. The report states that those who have sufficient Advanced Placement credit or native fluency would be required to take at least one 200-level or above course in the acquired language or an introductory course in a new language.

“Internationalism has been a central value for the university, particularly in terms of the competency and skills we want students to gain.

Learning that new language is not just about translation, but also the skills needed to enter into a different cultural view,” said Massengill.

Colagiuri further noted that as a part of the strategic planning process, the University may begin to offer less commonly taught languages.

Along with this new requirement, the report also recommended that undergraduates have flexibility in choosing the area of emphasis in their distribution courses. Though the distribution areas have not changed, the report recommends that students take one course in each area and pick three areas to take a second course in.

The report also recommended the creation of “sophomore signature” courses that explore topics in public health, environmental conservation, global migration, and other social issues.

The task force is chaired by Dean of the College Jill Dolan. Students may submit comments and reactions to the report until Nov. 25.

According to Colagiuri, during the public comment period, members of the task force will schedule public town halls for students and faculty to provide feedback. The task force is currently collaborating with the USG to host the public forums, Colagiuri said.

She further noted that after collecting community input, the task force will report feedback to other University administrators, including President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 and Dean of the Faculty Deborah Prentice. The administration will subsequently issue endorsements of certain recommendations and determine the speed with which to proceed.

The recommendations that have received the endorsement of the administration will be passed through to standing faculty committees for a vote, Colagiuri said. She anticipates that the Faculty Committee on the Course of Study, which handles curriculum and academic requirements, as well as the Committee on Classrooms and Schedule to become involved.

Finally, with approval from the standing committees, the favored recommendation will go to the general faculty for a vote, according to Colagiuri.

“The soonest we can anticipate any recommendation to reach that point is during the April 2017 faculty meeting,” Colagiuri added.

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Icahn did not respond to requests for comment.

In March of last year, Frist contributed $50,000 to Right to Rise USA, a super PAC created to support Jeb Bush. Three months later, he contributed another $2,700, this time directly to Jeb, Inc., according to FEC reports.

Frist served two terms as the Republican Senator from Tennessee, serving as majority leader for one.

Since retiring from politics in 2007, Frist has supported a number of politicians in Tennessee, spending over $10,000 in contributions, according to FEC personal donor reports. In 2006, the FEC found that Frist’s 2000 Senate campaign committee violated federal campaign finance laws. Frist took $1 million out of the campaign and put it in the stock market, only to lose it, according to The New York Times; this loss forced Frist to take out a loan to cover the loss, but he did not report this debt to the FEC. Frist paid the FEC a $11,000 fine, according to a New York Times article.

Frist was not available for comment.

Wendell, a venture capitalist, while supporting both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney in the 2012

election cycle, donated to only Republican candidates John Kasich and Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie this cycle.

Christie is an ex-officio trustee of the University.

Wendell did not respond to request for comment.

Whitman, president and CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, donated $100,000 to Our Principles PAC, an anti-Trump PAC in 2016. In 2012 election cycle, she donated to Romney.

She said in an interview with the New York Times in August that she would be voting for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in this upcoming election, calling Trump a “demagogue.”

While FEC records show that Whitman contributed over $150,000 to Christie’s presidential campaign and super PAC late last year, Whitman joined John Bellinger ’82, a Legal Adviser for the State Department during the Bush administration, who, as a conservative, spoke out against Trump earlier than most.

Bellinger called Trump a “danger” to national security in December of last year in a Lawfare article.

John Scully, managing director of a private investment firm, has donated to both Republican and Democratic candidates in past election cycles, but this year has donated only

to Clinton’s campaign. His contributions total $32,400.

John Scully declined to comment.

Peretsman and Robert Scully show a mixed record of supporting Democratic and Republican Candidates in 2008, although Peretsman’s $35,400 contribution to Obama’s campaign stood out compared to smaller donations to other candidates. Likewise, Keller, CEO of DeVry University Inc., has shown a mixed record of support. In the 2008 cycle, Keller contributed $750 to John McCain and $1250 to Obama. In 2012, Keller donated $1000 to Romney’s campaign.

Peretsman did not respond to request for comment. Keller did not respond to request for comment.

Super PACs must report all donors to the FEC, which makes contributions available to the general public.

Despite the promise of transparency, individuals and companies can stay under the radar by donating to super PAC shell companies or nonprofits, where contributions are either hidden or not required to be disclosed, respectively.

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Act, to produce documents related to the Department’s investigation into the University.

The investigation ended in September 2015 with a determination by the Department’s Office of Civil Rights that “there was insufficient evidence to substantiate that the University violated Title VI,” which prohibits racial discrimination in programs receiving federal assistance.

SFFA is run by Edward Blum, who unsuccessfully attempted to persuade the Supreme Court earlier this year to find that the University of Texas’ race-conscious admissions program violated the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution.

The decision upholding the University of Texas’ program, known as Fisher II, prompted a June 23 statement from President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 praising the Court’s decision, saying

that “[p]olicies like the one approved by the Court today are critically important to Princeton University and institutions of higher education across America.”

In announcing Thursday’s complaint, Blum called on the University to end its affirmative action policy. SFFA had previously sent the University a letter in March 2015 advising the University of its supposed legal duty to preserve admission files.

Thursday’s complaint, regarding the Department of Education’s obligations under the Freedom of Information Act, alleges that the Department has not responded in a timely manner to SFFA’s request for public records.

Regardless of the legality of the wait time, SFFA’s experience does not seem to be out of the ordinary. A congressional hearing examining Freedom of Information Act issues in June 2015 revealed that “[t]he lack of timeliness in response to requests was one of the biggest concerns coming from the testimony.”

Despite setbacks to numerous attempts to challenge the legality of various affirmative action programs, SFFA is currently pursuing a lawsuit against Harvard University.

In connection with that lawsuit, U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs asked Harvard to disclose “academic, extracurricular and demographic information of its applicants,” according to the Yale Daily News.

It is unclear if SFFA intends to use the documents related to the University in connection with its lawsuit against Harvard or if it is exploring an action against the University, among other potential purposes.

In May, separate from SFFA, over 100 Asian-American organizations filed a new complaint with the Department of Justice and the Department of Education alleging that Brown University, Dartmouth College and Yale University discriminated against Asian-American applicants.

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pursue what they love.

“I have the big advantage of having grown up in a town that was 2,000 years old, surrounded every day by monuments of the past,” said Dyson, referring to his hometown Winchester, England. “So we naturally thought in terms of a thousand years — a thousand years backward into the past and a thousand years forward into the future. And that is somehow lacking in the United States.”

His words seemed to resound with the members of Envision, a student group focused on building the longterm future through the advancement of rapidly developing technologies, including nanotechnology, nuclear

fusion, genetic engineering, space development, virtual and augmented realities, and artificial intelligence.

When asked about technology with the greatest future impact, Dyson called solar energy “not a game changer” and “grossy overrated” by its proponents for economic reasons.

Instead, he predicted that artificial intelligence would be the technology to fundamentally change the global economy and outcompete humans for jobs. Dyson then called for humanitarianism as a solution.

“Machines are convenient slaves — they work 24 hours a day, they never complain, they don’t get tired, and you don’t have to pay them,” said Dyson.

“How do you compete against that? But where humans will be essential, of course, is in helping other humans. We are social animals and we need

each other.”

Dyson has a long and accomplished career. He worked on quantum electrodynamics with physicist Richard Feynman, designed safe nuclear reactors producing medical isotopes for research hospitals, and contributed to pure mathematics, statistical mechanics, biology, and solidstate physics. Dyson also has a lifetime appointment at the Institute of Advanced Study.

Additionally, Dyson authored several books and dreamed of concepts such the Dyson tree, a genetically engineered plant that can grow inside a comet, and the Dyson sphere, a structure that encompasses a star and captures its entire power output.

When asked about the root of his success, Dyson gave some unusual advice: He emphasized the value of igno-

rance.

“My most important and best work was done when I was at Cornell University at 23 years old. I was more ignorant then than I’ve ever been since.

My best work was done when I was most ignorant. Best to learn as little as possible, then do as much as possible, and then learn afterwards.”

Despite holding numerous awards and teaching positions, Dyson never completed his Ph.D. and critiqued the system as narrowing.

“I think the Ph.D. system is thoroughly bad for the health.

It destroys a lot of young people. I lost three of my young associates because of the Ph.D. system. One committed suicide and two of them ended up in mental institutions. So it’s really destructive — what the Ph.D. system does is keep you from doing anything useful

for about ten years and wastes the best years of your life.”

After the dinner, Dyson had a one-on-one conversation with Envision Vice President Claire Adair ‘19, in which she asked about “how to build intentionality in one’s own pursuits.”

Dyson’s response was simple. While proud of his work, he attributed his success to a love of physics instead of an external obligation to accomplish something noble. Eventually, he said, somebody else could have done what he did in physics, but only he could have raised his children.

“A musician doesn’t make music because he will change the world,” Dyson said. “He makes music because it’s beautiful.”

The event took place 5:30 p.m. Friday at Mathey Private Dining Room.

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Watters’ World AKA Talking to the Stupid People Bhaamati Borkhetaria columnist

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tupid people are incredibly entertaining. So entertaining, in fact, that The O’Reilly Factor regularly sends out Jesse Watters to discover new kinds of dumb people to feature in a segment called Watters’ World. Sometimes Watters is unable to locate people with an IQ lower than his, but fear not! He manages to make his segment funny anyway, through videoediting, a healthy degree of white, male condescension, or, as a last resort, some very funny racism. After all, he is a selfdescribed “political humorist.”

Recently, he has come under fire for the “Chinatown Edition.” It seems that people didn’t realize that his attempt at rehashing every Chinese stereotype in the book was just a “light piece.” In the segment, he went to Chinatown and asked people about the election. Along with election questions interrupted by random racist movie clips featuring Chinese people, he also asked people about “light” things like “is it the year of the dragon?” or if he should bow because he is in Chinatown. The upbeat Chinese music in the background really gives gravity to the importance of Chinese opinion on the election. Jesse Watters understands that minority opinions are important — that’s why he asks a random Chinese American civilian to have China “take care of North Korea.”

This wonderful gem of political humor is one of many. Perhaps we here at Princeton remember the segment that Watters filmed on our own campus.

Unfortunately, when his questions, meant to ridicule our student body for being too sensitive, were given intelligent, thoughtful answers, he had to struggle to make his segment funny.

A mix of hilarious comments like “I bet you’re called ghetto all the time,” “I suck my thumb [when I get upset]” and “You can’t say broad, that’s offensive to women” helped salvage the piece. Add in some funky editing that manipulates what the students say and the characteristic random movie clips, and the segment is ripe with political humor.

The cherry on top is when Watters points to a student’s afro and asks if it is “black privilege.”

It’s hard to understand why liberal satirists don’t get half as much criticism about their segments as Watters does. After all, only recently, the writers of Trevor Noah’s The Daily Show maliciously tricked the audience into learning more about the political histories of Mike Pence and Tim Kaine by having a correspondent on the show go out and talk to people on the streets of New York. Only later in the segment was it revealed that the people on the street who gave intelligent responses to questions like “Who is Mike Pence?” or “Who is Tim Kaine?” were actually experts in the field who had a vested interest in educating the public about who they were voting for. The Daily Show didn’t get any criticism on their Wattersesque segment because the liberal media is biased and only sensitive to offensive comments by conservatives.

But Watters knows that being funny means you have to offend some groups of people. That’s why he chooses a new demographic to offend in every video.

In the guise of a regular interviewer, he ridicules the unsuspecting whether it is in the World Trade Center Mall, in Philadelphia, or my favorite, on Coney Island with Sports Illustrated swimsuit models. Everywhere he goes, he highlights how little people know about issues of national importance.

You often find Watters covering Republican events. Some might say it’s because he belongs to a conservative news show. I, however, believe that he only goes to find people who will give him stupid responses. Watters believes, somewhere deep down, that the real crazy is in the party that has given its endorsement to the funniest clown to ever walk this Earth. Watters must realize that people who support the God Emperor of Cheetos for president are already funny without any added punchlines.

Bhaamati Borkhetaria is a sophomore from Jersey City, New Jersey. She can be reached at bhaamati@ princeton.edu.

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Remembering Bill Bowen (1933-2016)

ast week, we learned of the passing of Bill Bowen *58, a renowned economist who served as president of Princeton University from 1972 to 1988. The Board hopes to honor and recognize Bowen, whose tenure turned Princeton into a more inclusive and financially healthy institution, one that would offer more opportunities to students over the decades that followed. Bowen’s efforts to create the residential college system, add four academic departments, fundraise prolifically, and staunchly defend freedom of expression have improved Princeton for the better. Following Bowen’s passing, the Board encourages students to re-examine the ideals of academic rigor and inclusivity that inspired these reforms, and consider how these ideals can further be actualized in the coming years.

A first-generation college student who graduated from Denison College in 1955, Bowen charted an unusual path to Princeton. It was perhaps his relatively humble background, as the son of a Cincinnati calculator salesman, that bolstered his commitment to diversity on campus. Throughout his career, including after leaving Princeton to become president of the Mellon Foundation, Bowen was a proponent of affirmative action and financial aid. As president, he fought to recruit more low-income and minority applicants and reduced the importance of legacy in admissions.

As he explained to the New York Times upon leaving office: “The objective was to make this place as open as it could be to the widest array of talent … I worked to keep Princeton independent, hiring people on their merits, not on their point of view, pedigree or religion.”

Bowen understood that a culture of elitism and social exclusivity, both in admissions and faculty hiring, undermined the University’s ability to be a bastion of productive research and discussion. The creation of the residential college system made a campus previously dominated by exclusive eating clubs more welcoming to students from all backgrounds.

Bowen’s instinct for reform was coupled with excellence as an administrator. When he took office in 1972, the school’s finances warranted radical saving measures such as cutting staff and mowing the lawns less frequently. Bowen brought Princeton to a position of financial strength by making expenditures more structured and transparent and establishing the Princeton University Investment Company to manage the endowment. During his tenure, the endowment tripled and a major fundraising drive achieved almost one-anda-half times its goal. The improved financial health of the University allowed for significant expansion in multiple areas. Under Bowen’s leadership, the University was able to create departments of comparative literature, molecular biology, computer science, and electrical engineering, and expand the faculty by 63 percent. In addition, the University acquired new property, including the Forrestal

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erhaps Dr. Dre puts it best when he sings, “What’s the difference between me and you? You talk a good one but you don’t do what you’re supposed to do.” This refrain gets repeated in many different capacities. Most notably, political opponents always criticize one another for being “all talk, no action,” and the trend more than continued in this election and primary cycle.

In light of that, many prefer having elected officials or hired representatives that are principled to a fault, unwilling to stray from their beliefs in the spirit of compromise. As a result, some representatives pointlessly argue for their own values, then if it does not result in anything meaningful, pat themselves on the back for not “selling out” their opinions.

It is such a mentality that often manifests what people hate most about politics, or more accurately, bureaucracy: nothing can get done with this mindset. People need to compromise. Without compromise, nothing works as it should.

If we consider a world without compromise, particularly for the most contentious issues we would reasonably expect gridlock in government.

With neither side conceding an inch, no headway can be expected, yet each side can walk away feeling proud that they did not abandon their principles.

Suppose one extreme had a slight majority — enough to get a vote passed, for example. Without the need to compromise, the vote that passes will be perfect for the majority but utterly appalling for the slight minority. It reminds me of the idiom that great strides should not be taken through slight majorities.

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In a modern context, one of Bowen’s most meaningful accomplishments was his lifelong defense of free speech on campus. The New York Times reports that Bowen told them in 1987 that, “We don’t invite people here because we agree with them … The right question, well phrased, can be far more effective than preventing people from speaking.” More recently, Bowen delivered the 2014 commencement address at Haverford College, after former University of California at Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau withdrew in the face of student protests. At a time when multiple commencement speakers were being protested, Bowen characterized Mr. Birgeneau’s decision not to deliver the commencement address as a “a defeat, pure and simple, for Haverford — no victory for anyone who believes, as I think most of us do, in both openness to many points of view and mutual respect.”

The Board admires Bowen’s commitment to freedom of expression, particularly in light of ongoing debates about free speech on this campus and our own repeated affirmations of the importance of open expression. We encourage today’s Princetonians to continue to apply Bowen’s rigorous defense of this University as an intellectually stimulating environment rich in diversity of viewpoints and to always seek to challenge opposing views, even those one finds reprehensible, rather than seek to shut them down on face.

Additionally, in 2015, Bowen challenged another popular campus activist strategy, that of calling for divestment from objectionable causes. In an op-ed for the Washington Post, he contended that “[t]aking an institutional stand on political issues of many kinds threatens the primary educational mission of the university, which is to be avowedly open to arguments of every kind and to avoid giving priority to partisan or other political viewpoints. The university should be the home of the critic — indeed, the home of critics of many different persuasions — not the critic itself.” This mirrors the Board’s stance on a recent campaign at Princeton.

During our time at Princeton, we have witnessed many national tensions erupt on campus, forcing the University community as a whole to grapple with issues of diversity and inclusion. Bowen showed that it is possible to make campus more inclusive for people of different backgrounds and different viewpoints without compromising the fundamental neutrality of the institution itself. Bowen’s work has come to an end after over fifty years, but his contributions remain relevant as we chart a path forward.

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The value of compromise lies not only in getting more results, but also in producing more meaningful discourse. So often, it seems as though people cannot be convinced of anything, that their views are their views and nothing can change them. But if those same people found themselves in a room full of others with opposing viewpoints, where they had to defend their opinions and were given the opportunity to challenge those of others, at worst, everyone would leave the room better informed and more understanding.

And Americans are starting to re-realize the importance of compromise and meaningful dialogue. One Wall Street Journal poll suggested that, as of 2014, the ability to compromise was becoming an increasingly important criterion in a person’s assessment of a political leader. That fact led to a drop in the favorability of the Tea Party, a political party based on maintaining conservative values at all costs.

But there is no follow-up poll that reflects present-day attitudes, and the meteoric rise of Donald Trump throughout this past year says a lot about many Americans’ perspectives. Trump claims to be a champion of the downtrodden, and although he is sometimes made to face facts, he is utterly uncompromising when it comes to a great many of his proposals. Despite social backlash, concerns about efficacy, and pragmatic questions over its practicality, Trump stands by his border wall plan and maintains a substantial following.

This suggests that there is still a group

of Americans that values what they would call “value-based politics.” One of Trump’s main issues with Hillary Clinton is that she is a Washington insider who will do whatever it takes to get ahead politically, not a politician with iron-clad beliefs.

The principal positive element of compromise is that oftentimes it would be impossible to reach decisions without it. Yet even when a decision-making majority could theoretically be formed without compromise, its possibility still promotes intelligent discourse. We do not need any more people trying to be “true” beacons of liberalism or conservatism because their beliefs are often held for the sole purpose of representing a cause, not representing that particular belief.

Since all issues worth discussing are not black and white, more nuance in discussions can never be seen as a bad thing.

The way to fix “talk[ing] a good one but [not doing] what [we’re] supposed to do,” is not to blame the people preventing us from doing what we’re supposed to do, but to talk less of a good one. We should embrace the idea that we will likely need to compromise. So take less of a lofty “holier-than-thou” stance and make an honest attempt to find common ground with those across the aisle or debate stage or dining room table, and we will all be surprised at what we can accomplish.

Tom Salama is a freshman from Bayonne, New Jersey USA. He can be reached at tsalama@ princeton.edu.

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back Dalton Banks, who leads the Iv y League in both yards passing (1,495) and touchdowns (12). For Princeton, which has at times struggled defending the pass this season, limiting Banks’ impact will be crucial to victory. Banks also leads the Ivy League in interceptions, a trend the Princeton defense will undoubtedly hope to continue.

The following week, Princeton will return home to face the rival Penn Quakers, who boast an undefeated record in Iv y League play. As a result, a win against Penn will be essential for Princeton to move up in the conference standings. Penn’s offense

is anchored by quarterback Alek Torgersen, who has thrown 12 touchdowns and only two interceptions, and receiver Justin Watson, who leads the Ivy League in receptions, yards, and touchdowns, no small feat. The matchup to watch, then, will be between Penn’s high-powered offense, which has averaged 408.7 yards per game and Princeton’s stout defense, which has held its opponents to 335.7 yards per game. Princeton will also be looking to avenge last year’s overtime loss at the hands of Penn.

While most students enjoy a relaxing fall break, Princeton football will play two important matchups against Iv y League opponents, with position within the conference standings on the line.

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loss almost certainly would greatly decrease Princeton’s standing.

The first of the Tiger’s two games in Cambridge, Mass., will be played against MIT. On Oct. 2 at DeNunzio Pool, the Princeton team conquered the Engineers 117. Sophomore driver Matt Payne even set a programrecord eight assists during the contest. If the Tigers continue to play with the aggressive offensive tactics displayed in their last win against the Naval Academy, their prospects for the MIT game look excellent.

Far less certain, however, is the outcome of the game against No. 10 Harvard later

that same day. The Crimson roster features attacker Joey Colton, who has won the NWPC Player of the Week award twice already this season, and goalie Antony Ridgley recently won the NWPC Defensive Player of the Week award for the second time.

The showdown between Ridgley and Princeton junior goalie Vojislav Mitrovic, who was awarded Defensive Player of the Week in September, should be captivating. The Harvard match should be close and intense, with neither team displaying a clearcut advantage over the other.

If the Tigers can pull off a second victory, not only will vengeance be served to the Crimson, but their national ranking will likely also increase as well.

Following a busy day in

Cambridge, Princeton heads to Providence for a match with No. 10 Brown. Though the Tigers dominated the Bears 11-7 earlier this season, Brown has steadily increased its CWPA ranking with a winning streak that has lasted for 10 games so far, including victories against several California teams, which always seem to top the charts each season. In addition, Brown also beat Harvard in September by a twogoal margin, signifying that the Tigers may have a much more difficult time defeating them this time around.

Nevertheless, the versatility and depth that Princeton displayed in its last matchup with Brown predicts an even closer game than the Harvard match the day before.

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home game.

With the season entering the home stretch, Princeton and the rest of the Ivy League will be watching closely to the scoring race. Currently senior defender Greg Siefert leads all Ivy League players

with nine goals this season.

He will look to continue scoring to bring home the scoring title for his team, as he leads the league by one goal over Penn’s Alec Neumann.

Seifert’s teammates, as well as his coaches and fans, are all hoping he brings home the scoring title, since he has worked so hard throughout the year.

Something else to look for is the final games of freshman midfielder Benjamin Martin’s season. He has had one of the best performances of any freshman across this Ivy League this season. He looks to be back next year as a cornerstone for the Tigers as they will look to move on from the departure of a large senior class.

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Football to embark on crucial stretch of Ivy games over Fall break

By Jack Graham contributor

The Princeton Tigers will continue their Iv y League schedule over the next two weeks, facing Cornell (3-3, 1-2 Ivy) this Saturday and Penn (4-2, 3-0 Ivy) on Saturday, Nov. 5.

Princeton hopes to rebound from last Saturday’s painful home loss against Harvard, in which the Tigers battled back from a 14-0 deficit to force overtime in dramatic fashion, only to fall after Harvard quarterback Joseph Viviano scrambled for a short touchdown run in overtime. The loss will provide a serious barrier to Princeton’s hopes of earning this year’s Ivy League title, but the team’s next two games

against conference foes still carry serious stakes.

This weekend, Princeton will go on the road to face the Cornell Big Red, which will look to put an end to its three-game losing skid. Last Saturday, Cornell was defeated by Brown, a team that Princeton recently trounced 317, in a fiercely competitive double overtime matchup.

In its most recent three games, Cornell has struggled to contain the run, allowing an average of 208 yards. Princeton’s leading rushers, senior Joe Rhattigan and sophomore Charlie Volker, both running backs, and junior quarterback John Lovett, will look to capitalize on this weakness. Offensively, Cornell is commanded by quarterSee FOOTBALL page 5

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Water polo to play important conference matches

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Men’s water polo will face off against Harvard, MIT, and Brown.

The men’s water polo team heads north during break to take on MIT and No. 10 Harvard on Nov. 5 and also No. 10 Brown on November 6. All three schools are members of Princeton’s conference, the Northeast Water Polo Conference. The Tigers currently hold an impressive 4-1 record in league play, having lost only to Harvard by a single goal in early October.

These games mark the end of regular season competition for the Princeton men; all following matches will be championship tournaments.

Princeton currently sits at No. 13 in the nation accord-

ing to the most recent Collegiate Water Polo Association poll, having fallen from a season’s best of ninth after a disappointing loss to Bucknell University last week.

A series of victories against Harvard and Brown particularly would increase Princeton’s ranking, perhaps allowing it to crack the top ten yet again. A motive for victory against Harvard may well be retribution. Over the past several years, neither the Tigers nor the Crimson has had a decisive upper hand in competition. Princeton lost to Harvard during the Ivy League Championships in 2015, but later beat the Bostonians on the way to a CWPA Championship

title. This pattern of play has continued into 2016; Harvard defeated the Tigers on Oct. 2 by just one goal scored with a minute remaining on the clock. This season, the Brown squad was handily defeated 11-7 by Princeton on Oct. 1, but since then, the Brown Bears’ ranking has improved from 15th to 10th. Brown currently holds a 10-game winning streak; the team’s last loss was to Princeton.

Though the Tigers have bested the Bears in the past, they should not overlook Brown’s recent successes. MIT is not ranked by the CWPA poll, so a win against it would not result in any real increase to Princeton’s ranking, but a See MEN’S WOPO page 5

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Men’s soccer looks to finish season strong in final set of games

By Chris Murphy contributor

The 2016 men’s soccer season has almost drawn to a close. With only three remaining games in the regular season, the Tigers will look to use fall break as a momentum builder, winning some of their final games and building momentum for the rest of this year.

The Tigers currently sit seventh in the Ivy League Standings with a league record of 0-3-1. However, in each game that they have played this year, they have been competitive, forcing teams down to the wire and never backing down.

“I think this team has showed a lot of heart over the season,” commented senior goalkeeper Josh Haberman.

“We have fought in every game and we showed that we can compete with any team any given day.”

While hopes for a regular season championship may be gone, the Tigers still have lots to prove over the final weeks of the season.

Princeton’s final three games are against Cornell, Penn, and Yale, all of whom also sit toward the bottom of the league standings. Princeton can still make a rapid climb up the standings with some wins over these final three games.

Princeton will travel to Cornell this Saturday, Oct. 29. The Tigers will then have a full week to rest, recover, and prepare for their final home game of the season against Penn on Nov. 5.

For many of the Princeton players, the game against Penn will be a bittersweet moment. It is most likely the last time these seniors take the field, many of whom have had great careers and lifelong memories made at Roberts Stadium. These seniors include: keepers Steffen Seitz and Josh Haberman, midfielders Vikram Pothuri, Brian Costa, and Bryan Windsor, and defenders Patrick Barba, Greg Seifert, and Mark Romanowski. All of them will step on the field for one final regular season See SOCCER page 5

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