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Mark Milley ’80 (left) and James Heckman GS ’71 will receive the University’s top honors for alumni.

Today on Campus

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8:30 a.m.: The AALIMSPrinceton Conference on Islam and Human Capital will feature researches on human capital in the Muslim world. Robertson Hall Room 016.

General Mark Milley ’80, chief of staff of the U.S. Army, and James Heckman GS ’71, a Nobel Laureate in Economics who is a University of Chicago faculty member, will receive the University’s top honors for alumni at Alumni Day on Feb. 20.

Milley will receive the Woodrow Wilson Award, while Heckman will receive the James Madison Medal.

Milley and Heckman did not respond to requests for comment before press time.

The Woodrow Wilson Award goes annually to an un-

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Oct. 30, 1962 Cap & Gown Club and Ivy Club, refused to approve the Interclub Council’s proposal to consider accepting freshmen into eating clubs.

Milley ’80, Heckman GS ’71 win awards dergraduate alumnus whose career exemplifies the idea of “Princeton in the Nation’s Service.” The James Madison Medal goes annually to alumni of the Graduate School who have had a distinguished career, made contributions to graduate education or have an outstanding record in public service.

Milley, who was a member of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps while at the University, graduated with an A.B. in politics. He has been deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, Panama, Haiti, Herzegovina, Somalia and Colombia, and served on the operations staff

of the Joint Staff and as a military assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Defense.

Heckman received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Colorado College in 1965 before enrolling at the University for his Ph.D. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2000 for his work on analyzing selective samples and evaluating public policy. He has served on the University of Chicago faculty since 1973.

The winners of the 2015 Alumni Day awards were Queen Noor of Jordan, formerly Lisa Halaby ’73, and Martin Eakes GS ’80.

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News & Notes Scudder ’05 named next New Jersey State Treasurer

New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie named Ford Scudder ’05 as the next New Jersey State Treasurer, according to a press release on Tuesday.

Scudder is the chief operating officer of Laffer Associates, an economic research and consulting firm based in Nashville, Tenn.

One of his most well-known projects include a crosssectional analysis of policy variables on past 50 years’ economic performances of all 50 states.

In the release, Christie explained that he believes Scudder’s insights on fiscal and tax policy solutions, along with his management experience, will help him effectively manage the state’s finances and foster New Jersey’s economic growth, relieving the burden of New Jersey taxpayers.

Scudder will begin his tenure on Nov. 9.

The release noted that aside from Scudder holding a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University, the Scudder family has a long history in the Princeton area dating back to 1600s.

Christie is an ex officio trustee of the University.

The Princeton Class Confessions page on Facebook allows first generation and low-income students to anonymously share testimonies or ask questions about their experiences, Princeton Hidden Minority Council co-chair Brittney Watkins ’16 said.

The page was started by the Hidden Minority Council on Oct. 18.

The page proposes to encourage conversation about the issues that these students face, and to make them feel comfortable in their presence here on campus, Watkins added.

Matthew Taitano ’18, the technology chair of the Hidden Minority Council who started the Facebook page, explained that first generation or low-income students can write their responses on a Google form anonymously, which the technology committee then reads through to ensure that they are appropriate, and subsequently posts publicly on Facebook.

The page has averaged about 100 likes per day, has reached about 27,000 people and is continuing to grow, Taitano said.

“I didn’t think it would have such a great impact in such a short amount of time,” he said.

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Watkins explained that the 1vyG conference, which is intended to help first-generation students celebrate their identity, helped inspire the page. Other schools such as Columbia and Stanford presented their own Class Confessions pages during the conference, and the Hidden Minority Council saw the potential of using such a tool to address the stigma toward first generation and low-income students that exists at the University today, Watkins added.

“I saw that it had a really big impact on their campuses, and I thought that it was important to See CONFESSIONS page 2

Politics professor emeritus Sheldon Wolin died on Oct. 21 in Salem, Ore. He was 93.

Emeritus history professor Arno Mayer, a colleague and close personal friend of Wolin’s, said that Wolin could be described in three ways: a teacher, a scholar and a public intellectual.

“He was, in the Jean-Paul Sartre sense, a critical individual,” Mayer noted.

Wolin taught at the University from 1972 to 1987.

Prior to coming to the University, he taught at UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz,

Oberlin College, Oxford University, Cornell and UCLA. Wilson School professor Stanley Katz said that, while he remembers Wolin as shy and private, Wolin had a profound effect on the undergraduate and graduate students who shared his progressive political beliefs.

Andrew Polsky GS ’84, a professor of American politics at Hunter College who wrote dissertations under Wolin’s guidance, said that Wolin’s guidance forced his students to think at a deeper level, which made him an extraordinary dissertation adviser.

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Cruz ’92 participates in CNBC GOP debate

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Republican presidential candidate and U.S. Senator for Texas Ted Cruz ’92 and New Jersey governor Chris Christie discussed government responsibility, tax reform and climate change at the Republican debate hosted by CNBC on Wednesday.

Cruz garnered attention on social media for attacking the CNBC moderators, saying that they were more interested in “cage match[es]” than policy issues and that their behavior demonstrates why so many Americans distrust the media. He added that by contrast, the media fawned over the Democratic candidates during their debate.

“The men and women on this stage have more ideas, more experience, more common sense than every participant in the Democratic debate,” Cruz said.

“That debate reflected a debate between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks.”

CNBC debate moderators were John Harwood, Becky Quick and Carl Quintanilla.

Christie said during the debate that the government has stolen from and lied to the American people about Social Security. He said that while the government has told Americans their Social Security money is in a trust fund, the trust fund only contains IOUs for money the government spent

a long time ago.

Christie added that he, unlike many of his political contemporaries, has a plan for managing entitlements and that former U.S. Secretary of State and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton wants to increase Social Security taxes.

“This is for the guy, you know, who owns a landscaping business out there,” Christie said. “If someone’s already stolen money from you, are you going to give them more?”

Christie is also an ex officio member of the University’s Board of Trustees.

Cruz said that he agrees legislators in Washington need to honor promises made to seniors, but he added that younger workers feel that Social Security will not there for them in the future.

Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee said that while politicians have lied to the American people about Social Security, one particular thing they haven’t mentioned is that Social Security money is the American people’s money, and the government has no business stealing from them.

Christie said that if he became president, he would make an attorney general who would enforce the law and make justice more than just a word. He noted that during the Obama administration, General Motors was not prosecuted for an ignition switch See DEBATE page 3

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Plaintiffs in Prop 8 case discuss same-sex marriage

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Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, two of the plaintiffs in the landmark Hollingsworth v. Perry case which legalized same-sex marriage in California, discussed the benefits of same-sex marriage in a lecture Thursday.

The Hollingsworth v. Perry case was filed against the creators of Proposition 8, a 2008 California proposition that banned same-sex marriage.

Stier said that many experts have argued for the benefits of marriage for same-sex couples, including the psychological impact of being able to use the term “husband” and “wife.”

“The tradition of marriage really means something,” she said.

“The difference between a ‘husband’ or ‘wife’ and ‘domestic partner’ is actually huge, and when you don’t have access to that word,

it’s an important social experience for people and an important aspect of a person’s psychological well-being.”

Perry, who worked for the federal government in early childhood education, also noted that Proposition 8 prevented Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender citizens from reaching their full potential in quite the same way that not having quality education prevents children from growing up to reach their full potential.

“The reason that the two seem highly aligned in my mind is letting children grow up to reach their full potential … As an early childhood advocate, I believe that there are similar limitations placed on children that bar them from receiving a quality education. Without that, it’s very hard to reach your potential,” Perry said. “One of the reasons I think I’ve worked in both [issues] and See LECTURE page 3

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Kris Perry (left) and Sandy Stier, the plaintiffs in Hollingsworth v. Perry, spoke on campus on Thursday.

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Q&A: Kris Perry, Sandy Stier, plaintiffs in Proposition 8 case

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Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, two of four plaintiffs in the Hollingsworth v. Perry Supreme Court case, sat down with The Daily Princetonian before a lecture on Thursday to discuss the importance of civic engagement, their daily lives after the case and why they don’t necessarily view themselves as activists in light of LGBTQ+ awareness.

Daily Princetonian: Why did you agree to come to the University today?

Kris Perry: Well, the combination actually, for me, was the unique invitation — both the political group and the [Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender] group together. We’re interested in both, and we felt that the case was influential for both. We are also new to the East Coast and we’re sort of exploring, and it seemed like a great opportunity to also get to see Princeton.

Sandy Stier: We’ve done a few conversations at other colleges, and they’re always great audiences, and I feel like it’s so important to understand these legal and/or political processes and work on both sides of a team. Especially in an era where we see so much political polarization in the media constantly, it’s important for young people to understand that there are different ways to get the job done. We have this bipar-

tisan legal approach, and we had a bipartisan team and we were successful and it’s an example of how that has been successful, and we hope that people will learn from this and try to use this approach in other areas, as well.

DP: What kind of obstacles were you faced with on your journey to the California Supreme Court?

SS: Just the not knowing. You never know the outcome, and we didn’t always have the full support of the LGBT community either. Not everybody agreed that it was time for a legal approach, and because of that, it created a sort of division between [LGBT organizations] and our team.

While we understood those divisions, we also had the right team to move forward and be successful.

KP: The biggest obstacle was worrying about not winning.

The beauty of being in a case like this, people look to you for your story and they want your story to resonate, but we could have also been associated with the case that didn’t win.

DP: What has life been like for you two since Proposition 8 was struck down?

KP: It’s been as busy as ever. Our youngest boys finished high school and went to college right after the ruling. Sandy and I

started packing up our house in Berkeley and have since moved to Washington, D.C., which is a big adventure for us in our early fifties.

SS: It’s also really changed our friendship circles. We’ve become more involved with people who are working on these advocacy issues, and it’s really opened our eyes to the importance of that work, and we probably have a deeper appreciation for civil rights than we did before.

DP: You’ve said before that you don’t view yourselves as activists. Why is that?

KP: Because we’re not. In my opinion, an activist is someone who dedicates basically all of their time, whether it’s professional or personal time, to a cause that they feel deeply passionate about. We were plucked out of an ordinary life. We still hold onto it, and it’s what makes us the happiest, the life we had before the case. We can be activists in this “once in a while,” but it isn’t an “all the time.”

SS: I wouldn’t have called either of us activists before we came to the case. We were mothers, I’m a public service worker in healthcare, Kris was a public service worker in early education, that’s what we were. We weren’t leading anything, we were participating.

DP: Legislation like Proposition 8 only gets stricken down thanks

to people like you. How important would you say it is for every citizen to get involved in these movements around them?

KP: Civic engagement, being an informed citizen, and frankly, being a voter, in my mind are very important responsibilities we all have as citizens. The Prop 8 case is a perfect example of not enough engagement on the part of enough people. We had become passive in California about these kinds of issues and we took them for granted. We lost! It was a wake-up call. I think voters … should be thinking really hard about ways to protect the things they don’t want to lose.

SS: What everybody can do is have an opinion at the dining room table, respond to somebody on the bus, to speak their truth and stand up and support people who you feel need to be supported. I think every voice matters a great deal in the microclimate of where you live, and the voices that get elevated to the federal level are important.

I mean, the President reads letters from constituents, and he responds to them. Every voice matters, much more than we think.

DP: In what other areas of LGBTQ issues would you like to see improvement?

KP: Well the Equality Act, which is pending right now, would do a lot to address the remaining

issues I have surrounding employment protection, housing protections and childcare protections that frankly so many couples, even if they’re married now, do not have as individuals.

It’s the next frontier of LGBTQ+ rights, and included in that, I think, is the protection of transgendered people and that I believe, is the same effort around full equality. We need to get basic civil rights in place and then we need to protect them, probably forever.

SS: The issues that I work on somewhat through my work is issues facing youth. Gay youth represent about 40 percent of the runaway and homeless population in America. We need to help them reach their full potential. They’re being kicked out of their homes and being bullied at school, then dropping out of school, even being forced out of school because school is not a safe place for them. It’s something we have not been successful at solving.

DP: How do you propose that we bring about these improvements?

KP: We can do a lot at the policy level to establish that identity politics are bad politics. We shouldn’t be dividing people based on some trait or some characteristic, and instead we should be looking to create equality and fairness for all groups. Policy

makers are in a unique position to do that. Voters put them there and keep them there. We should be doing more to keep these people accountable because we put them in these positions of trust and to see that we put them there to protect all of us and if I’m not protected, there’s lots of people who aren’t protected.

SS: I think that for anybody, on a college campus or a high school campus, if you take the safety and well-being of your fellow students seriously and make that a priority, that’s what has to happen. I mean, you’re not going to have rape on campus as much if men turn to other men and say “no.” The way to reduce bullying is for the general population to not put up with it. So everybody has a responsibility to protect their LGBT students and anyone who is vulnerable in any way.

DP: How did it feel to finally get married legally?

KP: Oh yeah, there’s that! The getting married part has always been the point, and it’s been great. So much of what we worried about and didn’t have yet is over with, and we’re enjoying all the good things that come from feeling settled and secure.

We waited so long and fought so hard, it’s great.

SS: The most fun thing, though, is seeing the young couples.

That’s really fun.

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bring that to Princeton as well,” Taitano said.

Taitano added that he decided to spearhead the page itself because he had always been interested in the area of technology and the role it plays in social interactions.

According to Dallas Nan ’16, co-chair of the Hidden Minority Council, the council had previous-

ly set up a similar campaign that publicized statements from students describing situations when they felt marginalized due to their economic status. He noted that while this photo campaign had identified the names and presented pictures of the speakers, there is also great value in the anonymity of this new Facebook page, as it allows low-income students to speak about their experiences without feeling ashamed of their identity, all the while ensuring that people

who might make low-income students uncomfortable do not feel condemned for their actions.

Rae Perez ’19, who applied to the University through the QuestBridge scholarship program, said that she has not yet felt directly stigmatized by members of the University community. However, she added that the wealth that exists on campus is quite evident, and that she thinks that the page is a great way to address the real pressure that exists on campus for

students to be of a certain standard of economic class.

“Sometimes I do feel uncomfortable when people say things like, ‘Oh, it was only a hundred bucks,’ ” Perez said.

Watkins noted that the Class Confessions page is one of the many ways that the Hidden Minority Council is facilitating conversation about first generation, lowincome students. She explained that, in accordance with council events, there has also been a din-

ner for first-generation freshmen students, and that there are plans to host workshops on financial aid and lectures on class and culture.

Watkins added that, while members of the first-generation, low-income community as well as faculty, administration and the Undergraduate Student Government are beginning to start more conversations about the issues faced by low-income students, the Hidden Minority Council and the Class Confessions page intend

to influence the broader student body to actively think about the circumstances others come from, and the struggles they face.

“So I think one thing that we really have to keep striving to do, and the Class Confessions page is really one way to do that, is to help influence the broader student Princeton culture, in thinking about how to accommodate these students and what policies can be implemented in doing so.” Watkins said.

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working with people who care about both [issues], is because we see that the future really is in children having access to a high quality early education,” Perry added that bipartisan involvement is very important in issues like LGBT rights and early childhood education.

The couple explained they didn’t actively seek to strike down Proposition 8. They explained that actor Rob Reiner asked them to participate in a campaign against Proposition 8, and they initially agreed to this engagement thinking that they would be passive components of the case. However, as they went into the case, they found that they would be more active in the case than they thought they would be, Perry explained.

“The first thing we did, of course, was to talk to each other and decide what we thought it

might be and how big a part of our lives it might become. We thought it would be a summary judgement issue,” Perry said. ”However, [in] the second court appearance we went to, Judge Walker, chief trial judge in San Francisco, said he wanted a full trial and a full representation of the facts … That’s where we became front row participants.”

The legal battle was challenging on the couple and their children, Perry noted. It took over four years, with many days spent in court testifying and many days spent waiting to hear rulings.

“We were getting older and more tired,” Perry said. “In a weird way, everything was changing but we still weren’t getting married, because there was a stay after the other side would appeal.”

Perry said that media and art could be used an effective means to inform and persuade the public.

The couple noted the recent dramatizations and documentaries about case, including HBO docu-

mentary “The Case Against 8” and a play titled “8.” The documentary won awards at Sundance Film Festival, and the play featured many famous actors, including George Clooney and Jamie Lee Curtis.

“What’s really great about a civil rights case or a social change issue is there’s sort of a tipping point moment in this simultaneous effort of the court strategy, legal strategy and the public opinion strategy,” Perry said. ”Now, this is really effective on the public opinion side … The whole world wants to watch [famous actors and actresses do it], so Google donated a whole live stream production of the L.A. premiere and … millions of people watched it live that night.”

The lecture, titled “Citizen Activism and the Battle Against Prop 8,” took place in Whig Hall Senate Chamber on Thursday at 4:30 p.m. The event was arranged by the American Whig-Cliosophic Society and was sponsored by the LGBT Center.

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Politics professor emeritus Sheldon Wolin died in Oregon on Oct. 21 at the age of 93.

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“I think that if you look at the ranks of leading scholars of political theory today, you would find a remarkable number who trained under Sheldon Wolin at Princeton and Berkeley, so he had a great inf luence on a generation of scholars,” Polsky said.

Polsky noted that Wolin’s book “Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought,” which explored the theory of historical political thought, was responsible for important discussions of the use of power in the state.

Both Polsky and Katz described Wolin as intensely learned and serious, saying that he balanced this erudite comportment with a kindness and dedication that led his students to be fiercely loyal to him. One such student was professor of government and law at Lafayette College Joshua Miller GS ’84, who said he heard about Wolin during his time at Santa Cruz and consequently followed him to Princeton to pursue his graduate degree under the tutelage of Wolin.

“Wolin was a legend, sort of a leader of political theory for those of us who were doing it in Santa Cruz,” said Miller.

Miller said that Wolin’s ability to foster warm, intellectually close relationships with graduate students as well as his extensive knowledge of and interest for politics, books, elections and new ideas were what made him such an important mentor.

Katz said he remembered Wolin as an intensely political figure who committed himself wholeheartedly to the study and theory of politics that led to engagement, and the way that this could improve the world.

“He really tried to call the field and call the world back to a consideration of the deep values that underlie political life and the ways in which those values can really challenge power structures that are taken for granted today,” politics professor Melissa Lane noted.

Katz noted that Wolin was a source of leadership and wisdom for progressive students who, in the 1970s, had fewer role models and men-

tors.

“He was a public intellectual at a time when there weren’t so many public intellectuals at Princeton,” Katz said.

In the post-Vietnam era when many intellectuals became anti-political, Wolin did not succumb to such discouragement and never gave up on politics, he added.

Mayer noted that Wolin eschewed academic honors and refused many proposed awards, including the Nobel Prize for Literature as well as appointment to the Sorbonne in Paris.

Mayer and Wolin were leading voices in the initiative amongst faculty to divest from firms that supported South African apartheid in the late 1970s, he said.

“The faculty cannot assume that the moral and education issues raised by divestiture will go away; and hence it cannot assume that it best serves the ends of either education or morality by unquestioning acquiescence,” Wolin and Mayer wrote in a letter to the chairman published by The Daily Princetonian on March 22, 1979 in response to former Dean of the Faculty Aaron Lemonick’s advisement that proposed strikes by professors to promote divestment should not take place.

Political science professor at Berkeley Wendy Brown GS ’83 noted that Wolin’s work was deeply rooted in the exploration and study of canonical texts by thinkers such as Machiavelli and Tocqueville, and that their works could illuminate the current study of political theory. As a teacher, his specific method was profoundly inf luential in inspiring his students to become meaningful contributors to society.

“He was building understandings of public life, political life and citizenship,” Brown said.

Wolin’s article “Political Theory as a Vocation,” published in 1969, crystallized for his contemporaries the elements of studying political theory, political science professor at Hunter College John Wallach GS ’81 said, an undergraduate and graduate student of Wolin, said. “ ‘Political Theory as Vocation’ was something that was deeply rooted in the history of Western political thought and critical thought and philosophical thought that always addressed the actual

concerns of citizens in collectivity,” Wallach said.

Wallach described him as generous and dedicated to political criticism of a searching kind that could have had the potential for pessimism. Despite this, Wolin never ceased in his work to optimistically promote the search for a better society, he added.

Wolin contributed frequently to the New York Review of Books during the 1970s and 1980s. He was a founding editor of the political journal “democracy,” which was published from 1980 to 1983, at which point financial support was pulled from the project.

“This journal was meant to, in some ways, revive a tradition of American political radicalism,” political science professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Nick Xenos GS ’84, who was a graduate student under Wolin and a managing editor at the journal, said.

Xenos is currently curating a collection of essays developed in conversations with Wolin, which will be published by Princeton University Press next year.

Wolin’s other published works include “Hobbes and the Epic Tradition of Political Theory,” “Tocqueville Between Two Worlds: The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life” and “Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism.”

Wolin was born on Aug. 4, 1922, in Chicago, Ill. and grew up in Buffalo, N.Y. He attended Oberlin College but after two years joined the Army Air Forces, serving as a bombardier and navigator in World War II. He returned to Oberlin to earn his bachelor’s degree in 1946 and received his Ph.D from Harvard University in 1950 on English constitutional thought.

Wolin was a member of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Foundation for the Humanities and was honored as a Fulbright Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow.

He was married to Emily Purvis Wolin for 67 years.

She died in 2011.

Wolin is survived by his daughters Deborah Wolin Olmon and Pamela Wolin Shedd, as well as his grandchildren Kari Olon and Ian Wolin Shedd.

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defect that resulted in 124 deaths.

“The fact is that this Justice Department under this president has been a political Justice Department,” Christie said. “It has been a Justice Department that decided that they want to pick who the winners and losers are.”

Noting that he is proposing the lowest personal tax rate of any of the candidates on the stage, Cruz said that the Tax Foundation has shown that his plan will help the economy make 4.9 million jobs, increase wages over 12 percent and stimulate 14 percent growth.

“Growth is the answer,” Cruz said. “And as Reagan demonstrated, if we cut taxes, we can bring back growth.”

Other candidates also discussed their tax plans. Former neurosurgeon Ben Carson said that he would create a proportional tax system based on tithing, where everyone would pay a flat tax of about 15 percent on their income and deductions and loopholes would be eliminated.

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina said that the tax code, which is currently around 73,000 pages, should be cut down to around three.

When moderator Harwood noted that Christie, unlike many of his Republican colleagues, has said that climate change is undeniable, Christie said that the government should address climate change by investing in energy because doing so would make solar energy affordable and available to businesses and individuals.

Government intervention and

government taxes, he said, are not the solution.

“For God’s sake, don’t send Washington another dime until they stop wasting the money they’re already sending there,” Christie said.

Other candidates were real estate magnate Donald Trump, U.S. Senator for Kentucky Rand Paul, U.S. Senator for Florida Marco Rubio, former Florida governor Jeb Bush and Ohio governor John Kasich.

The CNBC debate for less popular candidates at 6 p.m. featured Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, U.S. Senator for South Carolina Lindsey Graham, former U.S. Senator for Pennsylvania Rick Santorum and former New York governor George Pataki.

The debate, hosted by the University of Colorado Boulder, began at 8 p.m. on Wednesday.

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s you’re reading these lines, other students are celebrating the survival of midterms week. You have solved equations, discussed complicated theories, held conversations in foreign languages and lived to tell the tale. Congratulations! But what does it mean to “survive” an exam?

About a week ago I talked to a friend, asking him how he was doing. “Not great,” he said.

“I’m really stressed about my econ class.” But this friend loves his econ class. Why would he be stressed? “It doesn’t matter how much I love econ,” he explained. “What matters is what grade I get on the exam.”

His response seemed intuitively wrong.

When we face an exam, even in a field we truly love, our stress sometimes eclipses our enjoyment of the subject matter. Clarifying his thoughts, he explained that his post-graduation prospective career opportunities hinge on good grades. I understand this concern: we live in a world that values objective measures of worth. However, I take issue with the way Princeton seems to encourage its students to view examinations.

Any one of the more than 450 students currently enrolled in COS 126: General Computer Science can attest to the great joy experienced last week when told there would be no assignment due during midterms week. But not only that! In an email, computer science professor Robert Sedgewick informed us that we would have no lectures and that one of our precepts would be cancelled. To all students who had numerous other exams and projects on their minds, this seemed like a blessing. However, I was left wondering if this decision made any pedagogical sense.

Educational experiences of all forms benefit greatly from a continuity in the acquisition of different parts of the material studied. The different concepts, especially in computer science, all compliment one another. A break in this continuity might, then, harm the quality of the educational experience. In the case of COS 126, the instructors were molding their class around the examination schedule, instead of the other way around. And this is not an isolated case. Throughout this past week I heard people talking about skipping class to prepare for exams, favoring a good grade over the learning experience.

We have only 12 precious weeks of learning during each of our eight semesters at the University. I don’t know if you’ve ever tried to calculate how much money each class hour is worth, but I have. While the exact price may vary depending on the course load, it is an indisputably large sum. I feel pretty uneasy about giving up such class time just to survive another test. When exams start interfering with the actual learning process, isn’t it time to examine the examination process?

The issue here seems to be the definition of examinations. “Exam,” the way the word is used now, evokes fear in hundreds of students, who immediately link their numerical grade with their future job prospects. But shouldn’t an examination be viewed more as an opportunity for a student to inspect oneself and the material at hand? An examination should be an exciting learning opportunity. The exam should serve learning, instead of learning serving the exam.

In my freshman seminar on philosophical argument mapping, we hand in weekly problem sets. When my professor referred to this week’s problem set as our “midterm,” she said it would not be weighted more heavily in our final grade. This problem set, like all others, is meant to serve as just another stepping-stone in our learning process. Why would this stepping-stone be more important than the ones we experienced the weeks before?

If midterm exams aren’t learning opportunities, then why do they exist? To tell us how much we know? I believe that all students have survived enough assessments of all sorts, just to get here, that we already know how to assess ourselves without the help of a number or a letter.

In an ideal world, exams would be incorporated more seamlessly into the learning process. There wouldn’t need to be an entire week devoted to studying for, and surviving, examinations. Not because we would eliminate assessments, but rather the exams would be integrated into the structure of each class when appropriate, instead of being held at an arbitrary point during the sixth week of the semester. Perhaps, then, people wouldn’t spend this week greeting one another with beaten down or sympathetic expressions. Perhaps, then, we would not need to offer tea and cookies as a way to console those who have been avoiding human contact in the hopes that self-sacrifice will appease the grading gods.

If exams are part of the learning process, and we like learning (why else would we be at Princeton?), then the end result of this kind of change would undoubtedly be reduced stress and higher grades. We shouldn’t strive to survive our tests, just as we don’t strive to merely survive our time at Princeton. Just as we are encouraged to view every day at Princeton as an educational experience that should bring us joy, we ought to view our exams as an opportunity to learn, grow and be happy.

Iris Samuels is a freshman from Zichron Yakov, Israel.

She can be reached at isamuels@princeton.edu.

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Winter gear On Sept. 20, the Undergraduate Student Government’s University Student Life Committee and the Princeton Hidden Minority Council hosted a winter coat giveaway at Campus Club. The USLC had collected between 50 and 60 coats to distribute during the giveaway; however, according to USLC chair Kathy Chow ’17, at least 100 students arrived at Campus Club between 7:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. to claim coats.

Students reported arriving at Campus Club when the event was scheduled to begin at 8:30 p.m. to find no coats left for collection. The Editorial Board applauds the organizations and individuals who organized the event for their good intentions and notable effort; however, in light of logistical challenges and demand which outstripped supply, the Board recommends improvements to future winter gear collection and distribution drives. Accordingly, the Board also calls on the University community to contribute to future winter gear collection efforts.

The primary challenge associated with this year’s drive was the lack of supply given the immense demand for coats. An interest form with a mandatory completion requirement to claim a coat would be a good metric to measure demand; however, USG simply gathered coats before the event with no clear estimate of student demand. Now that USG has a more comprehensive notion of demand, it is clear that need among students is such that any subsequent distribution drive should be much larger. To increase the supply of coats, USG should more actively

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and effectively publicize coat collection initiatives. Chow reported that the coats distributed at this year’s drive were collected last spring; for many, though, it was ambiguous that coats collected during last year’s end-of-year clothing drive would stay within the Princeton community this winter. The Board believes that USG should dedicate additional resources towards emphasizing to students that coats collected will benefit other Princetonians because this creates a unique incentive to donate. USG should take advantage of email listservs, social media, and other platforms to better publicize the drive to the student body. Eating club involvement can be productive as well, especially due to the abundance of unclaimed coats left in club coatrooms during the winter months. Finally, donations should be solicited from students, faculty, and staff alike.

Due to the evident need for coats in the community, the Board believes that a need also exists for other cold weather gear. Accordingly, the Board urges USG to better publicize the need for boots, scarves, gloves, and mittens, in addition to coats.

Like coats, these items can be donated by students, faculty and staff; however, the residential colleges are in a unique position to satisfy demand as well. Specifically, residential colleges should consider giving away pragmatic clothing that can be worn as layers to keep students warm during colder months. This year, the Mathey College fall giveaway was a windbreaker-style rain jacket. On stormy days, campus is

dotted with students wearing these jackets to stay dry. Other residential colleges should follow suit to alleviate the burden on students to outfit themselves for East Coast weather.

Expansion of the drive to include boots, scarves and other cold weather gear will exacerbate logistical problems unless pragmatic distribution policies are implemented.

Following Chow’s recommendations offered at Sunday’s USG meeting, the Board urges the organizers of a future event to seal the room in which gear is located well before the start of the event. Students should be allowed to access the gear in a more organized manner, perhaps by allowing waves of five to 10 students to enter the room on a first-come, first-serve basis. Because it will be impossible to implement these policies before USG has collected sufficient coats for another distribution night, the Board commends Chow and the USLC for attempting to meet short-term demand with an email solicitation and waitlist system.

In conclusion, the Board is strongly in favor of the continuation and expansion of a winter gear drive; however, logistical improvements to distribution procedures are necessary for the drive to fairly and efficiently provide students with coats.

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

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was born and raised in Colorado, a state best known (until it legalized marijuana) for its natural beauty and outdoors culture. But the high elevation which is the epitome of my home state’s beauty is its limitation: the Rocky Mountains’ fall hues are limited to conifer green and aspen gold, missing the rich and warm reds and oranges of their lower, eastern cousins. Arriving at Princeton, I had heard of and seen pictures of New England’s changing foliage, but my only voyages east of the Mississippi had been in spring and summer, so my freshman fall here was my first real exposure to this new palette.

The trees on Goheen Walk seemed to join a chromatic chorus with the orange of my wardrobe and the orange chairs and pillars in Icahn as if to say, “Here is the new color scheme of your new life.”

I still enjoy these transient colors three years later, though I know now they announce the specter of gray, icy winters and, this year, time’s swift rush toward my graduation. But the advent of fall also corresponds with that worldlier specter, midterms — and the corresponding pull indoors,

to libraries and computer labs. Notwithstanding jokes comparing falling leaves to falling GPAs or poetic souls proposing that the ravens (why are there so many ravens?) gather to feast on our dying dreams, the stress of midterms can only withdraw us from our beautiful setting and decrease the benefits we derive from it. Unless, that is, we explicitly act to prevent this. We need a break. So it’s a good thing we’re starting one tomorrow!

My senior fall has been wonderfully, horribly busy, which is just what I needed to regain my footing at the University after a term abroad.

But when you add the looming job search and thesis work to the traditional load of classes and extracurriculars, the world quickly shrinks down to immediate concerns, and it gets harder and harder to look up.

The fall colors serve as a reminder to linger. So do late-night discussions with friends, probing mysteries of the world no class can qualify us to address. And I am reminded, too, by Sunday night mass with the Episcopal Church at Princeton — which I attend not for any faith in the God of Israel or loyalty to the Christian faith of my childhood, but because the incense and stained glass and hymns allow me, force me, to take a step backward and remember where I am.

My journalism professor, a visiting professor who commutes down from New York, observed early this fall a peculiarity of the University: for all our beautiful outdoor architecture and scenery, the gothic courtyards and vibrant gardens, students are loathe to spend time outside, not studying but living. This is consistent with the sense that I get of our lifestyle compared to other campuses I’ve visited, but it was nonetheless jarring to have this confirmed by an outside observer. Perhaps this phenomenon is related to another peculiarity of Princeton students she noticed when we turned in our first assignments: the paper’s minimum length was 1,500 words, with a target of 2,000, so of course everyone in the seminar wrote 3,000.

The vernacular, exasperated reply to such overexertion is “do less.”

But as fall break begins, perhaps the proper reaction is “do more.” Do more than just work. Do more this break than just your commitments — do something for yourself. Not hedonism, but something that will help you remember who you are, now, not what you’re trying to be when you graduate. Fall break at Princeton was conceived of as an opportunity for protest and political involvement in the run-up to election day, an act which put numerous University de-

cision-makers on Nixon’s enemies list. In that spirit, I hope we can do something that reminds us of our place in the world beyond the Bubble.

A project. A passion. A protest. I’m dropping everything to go camping.

Yes, these four years are an investment in our future, but if I’ve learned anything from my adventures and misadventures, it’s that it’s an investment in our whole selves — not just as a bundle of skills and knowledge, but as people. It’s unsurprising, then, that many of my fondest memories of these four years will be the beauty of the places to which Princeton has brought me: biking from village to village through the mountain-rimmed bounty of Bohemian farmland on my International Internship Program, sleeping next to chuckling creeks year after year on Outdoor Action, tramping through England’s pleasant pastures while studying abroad, watching the sun set over Pacific waves when the Princeton University Band followed the football team to San Diego, Calif.

Perhaps these moments won’t be the most important in terms of getting me where I’m going, but they’re critical parts of who I am.

Bennett McIntosh is a chemistry major from Littleton, Colo. He can be reached at bam2@princeton.edu.

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team’s mental strength and energy, despite back-to-back losses, and noted that maintaining such energy and focus on the field would be a key factor for victory on Saturday.

“Obviously it’s a long bus ride home [from Harvard], and there’s a lot of disappointment anytime you lose, but on Sunday, win or lose, you’ve got to keep moving forward,” Surace said. “We’ve got a group of seniors, veteran players with a lot of pride, and we’re one full-pad practice into the week, but our guys came out flying around the field and it looked like the first day, when we started

“We’re just going to prepare the way we always prepare against any team. Be ready for whatever they throw at us and stick to our responsibilities.” max lescano, football

camp. Our guys came out, they had a lot of energy, we’ve had terrific practices, and that’s fun to watch. And if we keep doing that at a very high level, it gives us a chance to be suc-

cessful.”

Princeton has won its past two matchups against Cornell.

A win would take some of the sting out of recent setbacks inconference and move the Tigers to 2-2 in the Ivy League and 5-2 overall.

However, senior defensive back Max Lescano downplayed the significance of the team’s overall record as a factor for the game ahead.

“We’re just going to prepare the way we always prepare against any team,” he stated.

“Be ready for whatever they throw at us and just stick to our responsibilities, our fundamentals, and hopefully if we do that, then we’ll play the game and we’ll come out with the victory on Saturday.”

JACK MAZZULO :: SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

The men’s soccer team hopes to continue its high scoring ways this weekend against the Big Red.

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Ivy League play and biggest win of the season so far, the men’s soccer team seeks to maintain its momentum as it takes on the Big Red at Roberts Stadium this Saturday.

Princeton (7-4-2 overall, 1-2-1 Ivy League), while struggling to get going early on league play, brought one of its strongest performances last Saturday by taking

down league-leading Harvard Crimson (7-5-2, 3-1) 3-2 on the road. As it prepares to take on the Big Red (3-101, 1-3), it hopes to continue what has been a strong offensive performance on the season. The Tigers lead the league in goals at 25 and have three of the nine top goal scorers in the league: senior forward Tom Sanner at 10, senior midfielder Brendan McSherry at 4 and fellow senior midfielder Nico Hurtado at 3.

The Big Red leaves much to

be desired in said category, having scored only 7 total goals on the season. Indeed, the team has failed to find the back of the net in five of its last seven contests.

The Tigers, moreover, hope to continue their recent history of wins against the men from Ithaca, having not lost to Cornell since the 2012 season.

The Tigers are set to begin play at 4 p.m. The game can be watched on the Ivy League Digital Network.

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seniors on the team include striker Teresa Benvenuti, striker Maddie Copeland, back Saskia de Quant, back

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With six games to go in the season, the Tigers are two games out of a share of first place in the Ivies.

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hitting percentage, taking a larger role on the court and helping the Tigers to their recent successes.

The matches against Dartmouth (9-8, 6-2) and Harvard (10-8, 6-2) may prove particularly challenging for the Tigers, who fell to both teams early on in the season, when the Tigers were 0-3 in the Ivy

League and had yet to pick up the momentum they’ve carried through their last five games, of which they have won four. Harvard, which shared last year’s Ivy League title with Yale, delivered a decisive 3-0 win in Cambridge, while the Dartmouth Big Green felled the Tigers at 3-1, with the Tigers winning the first set before Dartmouth narrowly won the second, and went on to win the final two. Both teams have strong

players that may prove challenging for the Tigers to defeat; Harvard’s Corinne Bain is one of the top players in the league, and is one of the main contenders for Ivy League Player of the Year, while Dartmouth’s Emily Astarita leads the Ivy League in kills, with 3.98 kills per set.

The Tigers will take on Dartmouth on tomorrow at 7 p.m. and Harvard on Saturday at 5 p.m., in Dillon Gymnasium.

Kate Ferrara, goalie Anya Gersoff and midfielder DebiMichelle Jantzen.

This graduating class represents the final remnants of the 2012 national championship team. In their four years together, these six seniors

have contributed to Princeton’s 25-1 Ivy League field hockey record.

With Senior Day, Ivy League dominance and the season home finale all on the line, Saturday’s game won’t be one to miss.

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Tigers look to right ship against Cornell

By Nolan Liu contributor

After roaring to a 4-0 start, the Tigers have dropped backto-back games against Ivy League opponents, including a 42-7 loss to rival Harvard last week. Now 1-2 in League play, the squad looks to even up their conference record as they face off against winless Cornell.

After dropping a heartbreaker to Brown (4-2 overall, 2-1 Ivy League) two weeks ago, 38-31, the Tigers (4-2, 1-2) faced a tough reception at Cambridge for the second year in the row. The League-leading Crimson (6-0, 3-0) punished their visitors with strong play on both sides of the ball, scoring on five consecutive drives in the second quarter and picking off senior quarterback Chad Kanoff later on to seal the defeat. The Tiger offense has been somewhat hobbled by injuries of late, with senior running back DiAndre Atwater still out and senior wide receiver Seth DeValve injuring himself again this past week.

Princeton will look to bounce back against a less formidable opponent as it takes on Cornell. The Big Red (0-6, 0-3 Ivy League) have yet to taste victory this season and has averaged just over 15 points a game. Nevertheless, Princeton coach Bob Surace ’90 pointed out several strengths in the opponent’s attack scheme, highlighting the Cornell passing game in particular. “[Cornell’s] had some really tough breaks — early in the season in particular, they had games they were in control of and just didn’t get to win,” Surace noted. “But they have a quarterback who is throwing the deep ball exceptionally well, so they’re going to take their shots deep.”

Against this gunslinging offense, which averages 13.6 yards per catch, Surace emphasized that disruption and focus on assignments would be key for the Tiger defense.

“Turnovers are key — last week we really did a good job getting the ball out [of Harvard’s hands],” Surace said.

“We knocked the ball out a bunch, and we got to keep

doing that. We’ve got to get back to playing well on third downs. We’ve got to do a great job physically, because I don’t know another team that’s got 220-, 225-pound backs like Cornell does.”

Although the Tigers will still feel the absence of Atwater and DeValve in their offensive game plan, Surace stated that he did not believe such injuries would put a damper on the teamwork and mentality of his offense.

“If guys are out, you get the next guy prepared,” Surace said. “We’ve got to do a great job at that, and it’s not ideal — these guys work so hard and sacrifice so much, so at a personal level it really stings to see them out — but at a professional level, we have a lot of really high-end guys and hopefully we can get to see them play. So we’ve just got to get the next guy prepared — and in some cases it’s a young guy — and we’ve just got to get them the ball and put them into positions where they can be successful.”

Surace also praised his See FOOTBALL page 5

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A 42-7 defeat at the hands of Harvard will leave the Tigers itching to get back out on the field this Saturday.

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Women’s volleyball faces critical weekend at home against league foes

By Sydney Mandelbaum associate sports editor

The women’s volleyball team has a big weekend ahead, with four home matches over the next week that will either make or break their chase for the Ivy League title. The Tigers (9-8 overall, 4-4 Ivy League) will face off against Dartmouth and Harvard this weekend before taking on Yale and Brown the

next. These four teams stand between the Tigers and the Ivy League title.

Just last weekend the Tigers dominated at Penn, winning 3-1. Senior right side hitter Kendall Peterkin had 22 kills for .354 in the match, with 10 digs and four blocks, and was named Ivy League Player of the Week as a result. Peterkin has also garnered first-team All-Ivy honors twice, and the match against Penn marked her 14th 20+ kill match of

her career. Freshman setter Claire Nussbaum also played notably well and set some personal records, serving on a 12-0 run, while notching 48 assists and 21 digs to receive recognition of her own as Ivy League Rookie of the Week.

But the Tiger roster extends deeper than that, with junior outside hitter Cara Mattaliano and junior middle blocker Brittany Ptak, who is ranked second in the Ivy League for See VOLLEYBALL page 5

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The women’s soccer team can point to an improved defense and a scorching offense for its recent success.

Both soccer teams hope to continue winning streaks

By Miles Hinson sports editor

Women’s Soccer On the verge of clinching its first NCAA bid in three years, the women’s soccer team looks to remain hot as it hosts the Cornell Big Red at home on Saturday.

The Tigers (12-3 overall, 5-0 Ivy League) have won their last 10 games and are coming off their biggest win of the season, a 2-1 victory on the road against league rival Harvard to solidify themselves as the top Ivy. Aiding Princeton in its quest for the Ivy League crown has been a prolific offense, which tops

the league in both goals and assists. The team is fifth in the NCAA for goals per game on the season at 2.67.

As Cornell (9-2-4, 2-21) looks to halt the Tigers, much of the attention will have to go to the duo up front, junior forward Tyler Lussi and freshman forward Mimi Asom. Lussi, already the third highest goal scorer in Princeton women’s soccer history, makes a strong case for a second season as the league’s Offensive Player of the Year, with a league-leading 12 goals on the season.

Asom, for her part, has put together one of the league’s most impressive rookie sea-

sons and stands second in the league for goals scored at 10. The Tigers can also boast having some of the top assisters in the league: sophomore midfielder Vanessa Gregoire, junior midfielder Jesse McDonough and sophomore defender Mikaela Symanovich are the top three in this category for the Ivy League, at 7, 6 and 6 assists respectively.

The game is set to kick off at 1 p.m. and can be viewed via the Ivy League Digital Network.

Men’s Soccer Fresh off its first win in See SOCCER page 5

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After facing NCAA’s best teams, field hockey returns home to face Cornell, honor seniors on Saturday

By David Liu staff writer

Zeroing in on the penultimate weekend of the 2015 field hockey season, the Tigers (8-6 overall, 5-0 Ivy League) will face Cornell (105, 4-1) at home on Saturday.

Although No. 20 Princeton controls the top Ivy League spot, a win for the streaking Big Red would even the two teams atop the conference rankings and blemish the Orange and Black’s longstanding undefeated Ivy League record.

While Princeton has typically played the role of underdog this season, the Tigers will be placed on the defensive on Saturday. With an unusually difficult out-of-conference schedule, the Tigers have spent many weekends this season facing steep uphill battles against top NCAA

teams such as No. 1 Syracuse, No 2. Connecticut and No. 3 North Carolina. On Saturday, however, the Tigers will have to protect home field and an impeccable Ivy League record from visiting Cornell.

Historically, Princeton Field Hockey has dominated Cornell. Over the past seven years, Princeton has won seven straight games over the Big Red, with a cumulative scoring margin of 33-6.

Last year, the Tigers won by a score of 3-2. With 10 consecutive Ivy League Field Hockey Championships, Princeton remains the team to beat in the conference.

Meanwhile, Cornell returns hungrier than ever to dethrone the dominant Tigers, and the Big Red has reason for confidence. Just this past weekend, Cornell defeated both Dartmouth and Lehigh, outscoring its oppo-

nents combined by a margin of 13-1. This year, Cornell has already broken school records for points and assists in a season, previously 131 and 41, respectively.

Despite the Tiger’s dominant record over Cornell, the latter has narrowed the gap this year. Comparing the two teams in national rankings, the two Ivies are neck and neck offensively with Princeton ranked 14th and Cornell 16th in points per game. It’s on the defensive end that the Big Red have distinguished themselves. Cornell currently ranks 5th in shutouts per game — tallying seven this season alone — and 9th in defensive saves.

Adding to the pressure, Saturday also mark Princeton’s annual Senior Day in which the team honors its graduating class. The six See FIELD HOCKEY page 5

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