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Zwicker wins state seat after close race

By Kristin Qian staff writer

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Presidential candidate Ted Cruz ’92 (left) has recently risen in the polls, while Chris Christie has fallen.

Polls show support rise for Cruz ’92, fall for Christie

By Zaynab Zaman staff writer

New Jersey governor and ex officio University Trustee Chris Christie’s support has decreased in the four latest national polls predicting the Republican nominee for president, while Texas Senator Ted Cruz ’92 has seen a sharp increase in popularity.

Christie has consistently wavered in polls, peaking at 3 percent in midSeptember, according to Huffington Post opinion polls. However, starting from the beginning of October, Christie has steadily declined in the polls, reaching 2.3 percent by early November.

Cruz polled steadily around 6

percent throughout September and most of October, but his numbers quickly increased around late October to early November. Currently, he is polling at approximately 9.4 percent, according to the Huffington Post.

Fox Business, the sponsor of the Republican debate on Nov. 10, has stated that candidates must average a minimum of 2.5 percent in the four latest national polls to participate in the fourth prime time GOP debate.

Due to his low poll numbers, Christie was not able to participate in the Republican frontrunner debate on Tuesday. Instead, he participated in the undercard debate at 7 p.m. the same day, along with former Arkansas governor Mike Huck-

abee, former Senator for Pennsylvania Rick Santorum and Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal.

Neither Christie’s nor Cruz’s campaigns responded to requests for comment.

Christie and Huckabee both polled at an average of 2.25 percent in the four latest polls, according to CNN.com.

Associate politics professor Paul Frymer noted that Christie appears to be in a tougher situation than Cruz because Senator for Florida Marco Rubio is surging in the polls.

Frymer noted that Christie also received some criticism for accepting support from President Barack Obama following the aftermath of See REPUBLICAN page 2

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Head of Science Education Andrew Zwicker became the first Democrat elected to represent central New Jersey’s 16th Legislative District on Monday.

Zwicker narrowly won his New Jersey Assembly seat by beating incumbent Republican Donna Simon by 78 votes, or 16,308 to 16,230 votes. Simon has served since 2012 in the position, which was created in 1974.

Each district has two representatives, and Jack Ciattarelli, the Republican incumbent in District 16, will join Zwicker in the New Jersey Assembly.

Zwicker was formally announced as the winner on Monday afternoon, when provisional votes were counted in Middlesex County. Provisional ballots are cast by voters who have some problem establishing their eligibility, such as a missing name or lack of proper identification.

Zwicker is a fellow of the American Physical Society and editor of the APS Forum on Physics and Society’s newsletter. He is also a lecturer in the University’s Writing Program and works as a faculty advisor for freshmen and sophomores

in Rockefeller College.

“I am happy, and I’m very proud of the tremendous campaign we ran,” Zwicker said. “I am humbled by the trust that people have given me. I’m excited to get to Trenton and try to help make New Jersey a better place to live and raise a family.”

Initially, Zwicker said that he did not think he would win — he even gave a concession speech on election night. However, he retracted the speech, after it became apparent that there was a possibility of making up the difference.

Simon can ask for a recount until Nov. 18. If she does not, Zwicker will be sworn into office in Jan. 12, 2016.

Zwicker’s past efforts to run for office have proven unsuccessful. He obtained the Democratic nomination in 2013 to replace former U.S. Representative Rush Holt, who served New Jersey’s 12th congressional district including Princeton, but did not win.

Only 23 percent of District 16’s 143,404 registered voters went to vote on Tuesday. The district has covered Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and Somerset counties since being redrawn in 2011.

Prior to that year, Princeton was in District 15.

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Mousavian: Iranian expert, former diplomat

By Abhiram Karuppur contributor

Seyed Hossein Mousavian, a research scholar in the Program on Science and Global Security at the Wilson School, originally studied engineering, but he is probably most known for playing an important role in the 2003 and 2015 negotiations around Iran’s nuclear program.

His career plans changed during his undergraduate years at Sacramento State University.

“It was in 1979, two months before the Revolution, that I got one semester break in order to go back to my country and see what was happening,” Mousavian said, describing when he returned to Tehran and witnessed thousands of people protesting in the streets against Shah Mohammad Reza

Pahlavi.

“Practically two months after my arrival, the Revolution was over and the Shah had left the country. I was involved in politics inside my country during and after the Revolution,” Mousavian said.

This experience led him to pursue a career in international relations and diplomacy.

Mousavian has been a visiting research scholar at the University since 2009. He also serves as a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials, a panel of nuclear weapons experts that receives support from the University.

“Dr. Mousavian deserves as much credit for the 2015 Iran deal as do the key U.S. negotiators,” codirector of the Program on Science See MOUSAVIAN page 3

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Seyed Hossein Mousavian is a research scholar known for his role in the negotiations around Iran’s nuclear program.

ACADEMICS

Grand Challenges Program promotes global sustainability contributor

Since its launch in 2007, the Grand Challenges Program has been addressing global environmental issues through interdisciplinary approaches, while providing research and learning opportunities for undergraduate students.

The program is managed by the Princeton Environmental Institute, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the Wilson School and many other departments partici-

pate in the programs, Dean of SEAS Vincent Poor GS ’77 noted.

The initiative features three platforms: Climate and Energy Challenge, Development Challenge and Health Challenge. The Climate and Energy Challenge focuses on climate change, non-fossil energy sources and other environmental detriments on the energy system. The Development Challenge focuses on alleviating the issue of poverty in Africa while attempting to conserve the continent’s

biodiversity and supply of natural resources. The Health Challenge focuses on developing methods for the treatment and prevention of HIV/ AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other global infectious diseases.

Funding for research is provided primarily by gifts from the University directed to Grand Challenges as well as programmatic funds that the various units have.

Dean of the Wilson School Cecilia Rouse noted that the strength of the University

in approaching questions such as health arises from its practice of multidisciplinary thinking.

“Grand Challenges combines Princeton’s strength in the natural sciences and the social sciences to try to address important issues,” she said.

Poor explained that Grand Challenges is unique in that it was conceived as a program that would be cross-disciplinary, and very heavily oriented towards undergraduate student participation.

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Columnist Nicholas Wu explains how free speech has become a straw man in the protests at Yale and columnist Devon Naftzger justifies a career in finance.

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“Vertically, Grand Challenges goes from freshmen to postdocs, and horizontally, it goes across all the disciplines,” Poor noted. “It’s not only a research program; although that’s important, Grand Challenges is also designed to have a strong educational component.”

Robert Socolow, professor emeritus of mechanical and aerospace engineering who used to run the Climate and Energy Challenge from the inception of Grand Challenges, See CHALLENGE page 4

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“Christie might be seen as more of an insider,” he noted.

Cruz has traditionally stood apart from the Republican party, so he would not receive the same criticism for collaborating with the current government.

Frymer explained that the largest problem facing both candidates is that they are eclipsed by other candidates still in the race.

“Both of them just have louder, more successful versions of what they are promoting and crowding them out, so I think their success would be if they could stick around long enough for some of those people to leave,” Frymer said.

Cruz is currently predicted to have a 13 percent chance of becoming the Republican nominee for President, according to the CNN live political prediction market.

This percentage places him in third place among the Republican hopefuls, behind Rubio and Donald Trump, and ahead of Ben Carson.

A recent CNN article explained that some Republicans predict that the last two GOP candidates for the Republican nomination will be Cruz and Rubio. Both candidates had strong showings in the most recent Republican debate, according to the

article.

Fryer predicted that Cruz could become one of the final two candidates, adding that Rubio will appeal more nationally but might lose to Cruz within the Republican Party itself.

Carson is doing well but also experiencing difficulty, Frymer noted. He added that Cruz might end up being the last person standing among the far right, considering that Trump may not be a very stable candidate.

“If Trump were to drop out, it would certainly help both of them,” Frymer said.

He explained that the elimination of Trump from the Republican race would allow Christie to play up some of the strengths Trump currently overshadows. Frymer noted that Cruz would also have significantly better chances if Trump dropped out. However, due to Trump’s consistently high polling numbers, it is unlikely that he will do so in the near future.

Frymer also explained that though he believes Rubio is the more appealing candidate nationally, it is very unclear if he will win the nomination from the Republican party.

“Depending on how many primaries are left, Cruz could potentially have a great deal of success against Rubio,” he explained.

The next Republican debate will be in Las Vegas, Nev. on Dec. 15.

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and Global Security Frank von Hippel said. “Mousavian helped explain the thinking of Iran and made it clear there was more than one stream of thinking.”

Harold Feiveson GS ’72, coprincipal investigator at the University’s Science and Global Security program, noted that since Mousavian has lived in Iran and the United States, he has been able to experience both nations’ policy.

“In understanding the Iran point of view, he adds a very valuable element of understanding what’s possible and what should be done,” Feiveson said.

Education and Early Career Mousavian studied at the Iran University of Science and Technology, Sacramento City College and Sacramento State University, where he obtained a Bachelor of Science in engineering in 1981. In 1998, he received a master’s degree in international relations from the University of Tehran and a Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Kent in Canterbury, England, in 2002.

He completed his postdoctoral work at Durham University in the United Kingdom.

In 1980, Mousavian assumed the role of editor-in-chief of the Tehran Times Daily, an Englishlanguage international paper published in Tehran.

After the Revolution, the original editors of the newspaper fled the country and there was no one to manage the paper. Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, the head of Iran’s judiciary at the time and a member of the Council of Revolution of Iran, asked Mousavian to fulfill the role.

“It was practically the first experience I ever had on journalism, but because I had studied in the United States and knew English,

they wanted me to go to the paper,” Mousavian said.

Diplomatic Career In 1983, he was appointed chairman of the Parliament Administration Organization by thenSpeaker of the Parliament Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who later became President of Iran. In 1987, Mousavian became the Director General of West Europe at the Foreign Ministry of Iran, handling interactions between West Europe and Iran.

In 1990, Dr. Mousavian was named Iran’s first Ambassador to a united Germany, arriving three days after the reunification.

He helped release two German hostages held by Hezbollah from 1990 to 1993 and contributed to the largest humanitarian exchange of hostages between Israel, Hezbollah, Iran and the Western powers.

“The German chancellor was the mediator, and on the Iranian side I was the contact point,” Mousavian said.

As the principal negotiator in the exchange, Mousavian met with the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, for four hours in Syria.

Nasrallah agreed to the exchange, so Mousavian put the chancellor of Germany in touch with him.

As a result, a German delegation managed to finalize a deal with Hezbollah, Syria and Israel in Lebanon.

In 1997, following the murder of four Iranian dissidents at a Berlin restaurant in 1992, German investigators who thought the Iranian government might be complicit in the attacks asked for Mousavian to be recalled to Iran.

The Iranian Embassy in Germany did not respond to a request for comment.

From 1997 to 2005, Mousavian was head of the Foreign Relations Committee of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council under President Mohammad Khatami.

He obtained international recog-

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in the newspaper is about how money has corrupted politics and how people no longer have a voice,” Zwicker said. He added, however, that the statement is not true.

“This was genuinely a grassroots campaign where I had no independent money put into my race,” Zwicker said.

He explained that he built up a network of volunteers and knocked on tens of thousands of doors.

This win is an indication that democracy still works and that every vote genuinely and truly matters, he said.

The Princeton College Democrats worked hard, spending weekends knocking on doors and helping with his campaign, Zwicker said.

“I came to them early saying, ‘You have an opportunity to change an election,’ ” Zwicker said. “No one predicted that this could happen.”

Zwicker noted that independent voters and moderate Republicans voted for him.

Across New Jersey, Democrats won four Assembly seats.

Democrats now hold their largest majority in the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature since 1979, at 52 of 80 seats.

Democrats also dominate the upper house of the Legislature.

“This was the shocker of the night,” Patrick Murray, Director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, said of Zwicker’s win.

Although Murray said he knew that there was a potential for a Democrat to win at some point, he did not expect a Democrat to win this district so soon.

Republicans neglected to vote at a much greater rate than Democrats did, which helped Zwicker, Murray said.

He added that New Jersey Republicans feel like legislators have been excessively appeasing New Jersey governor Chris Christie. Republican voters are unhappy with how Christie has controlled the party and how legislators are not standing up for themselves. As a result, there was a low Republican turnout in this election, Murray explained.

Zwicker had strong support from Princeton, according to Murray.

“Zwicker would not have won if he weren’t a hard-working candidate,” Murray said. “He really did go out there, knock on doors and talk to voters …

This was a real testament to his fortitude.”

Zwicker said he looks forward to trying to make a difference on behalf of every constituent in the 16th district.

“My obligation is to represent everybody,” he said.

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nition in 2003, when he was the spokesman for Iran during its nuclear negotiations with the European Union and the International Atomic Energy Agency.

“We told them clearly that Iran was open for a comprehensive, transparent nuclear program and we didn’t want anything beyond a non-proliferation treaty,” Mousavian said.

Iran also was willing to accept limits on enrichment and reprocessing as confidence-building measures, he said.

“The Europeans understood our position and were willing to make a deal, but the United States was opposing the legitimate rights of Iran under the non-proliferation treaty,” Mousavian said.

Ultimately, the deal fell through, and after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected in 2005, tensions began to escalate as Iran expanded its nuclear program and the United States imposed sanctions.

Both the E.U. and the International Atomic Energy Agency declined to comment.

From 2005 to 2007, Mousavian served as the Foreign Policy Advisor to the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran. He then served as the vice president of the Center for Strategic Research for International Affairs under Hassan Rouhani in Tehran from 2005 to 2008.

Mousavian said he was the deputy to Center for Strategic Research chief Hassan Rouhani, who later became President of Iran in 2013.

In 2007, two years after the election of Ahmadinejad, Mousavian was arrested and jailed for allegedly providing classified information to Europe without government permission.

“It took me a year to be cleared of espionage charges,” he said.

“But, nevertheless, because I was opposing Ahmadinejad’s foreign and military policies, the court deprived me of a diplomatic post

and I left Iran in 2009 as a result,” he explained.

Inside the Ivory Tower In 2008, Mousavian attended a conference in Beirut and met Wilson School professor Daniel Kurtzer, who was a former U.S. Ambassador to Israel.

“We had dinner together, and Dan told me that he would welcome me if I decided to go to Princeton University,” Mousavian said.

Kurtzer was able to get Mousavian to join the University in 2009 as a result of a collaboration between the Wilson School and the Liechtenstein Project for Self-Determination at the University.

Kurtzer was not available for comment.

Mousavian also chose to leave Iran because Ahmadinejad won re-election in 2009.

“I knew that if I wanted to stay in Iran, I would have to sit at home, so I decided to go to Princeton,” he said.

While at the University, Mousavian has authored numerous articles and books about Iran and the United States, including “Iranian Nuclear Crisis: A Memoir,” which compares the Iranian and Western perceptions of the crisis.

“It was the first book ever that explained the Iranian point of view and contains a package I proposed for resolution of the nuclear crisis,” he said.

He also wrote “Iran and the United States, An Insider’s View on the Failed Past and the Road to Peace,” which contains both the Iranian and Western points of view on Iran’s history.

“This was again the first book that explained the Iranian perspective on the United States and the history of Iran-U.S. relations after the Revolution,” Mousavian said.

The book enables the reader to compare both perspectives and decide who is right and wrong, Mousavian explained. It also con-

tains a roadmap for peace between Iran and the U.S..

“Dr. Mousavian has been an invaluable addition to the Princeton community,” Research Scientist at the Program on Science and Global Security Zia Mian said. “He offers a uniquely informed and engaged perspective about Iran, Iran-U.S. relations and Middle East politics that commands attention around the world.”

During the 2015 Iran nuclear negotiations, Feiveson said Mousavian would talk regularly with the Iranian negotiators, like Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, and several American negotiators.

“He played a very valuable role in the negotiations,” Feiveson said.

Currently, Mousavian is giving interviews, attending seminars and writing articles to promote his roadmap for peace.

“Frankly speaking, there is no time for me to relax, as I have to go to many conferences inside and outside the United States,” he said.

For example, he sat on a panel in Abu Dhabi alongside General David Petraeus GS ’85 GS ’87 last Friday.

Feiveson and von Hippel said Mousavian is a great asset for the University, and that his personality makes him very easy to work with.

“He comes across as very fairminded, and he understands the points of view of Western countries,” Feiveson said.

Von Hippel noted Mousavian’s enthusiasm, openness and energy, saying that those qualities make it a pleasure for his colleagues to work with him.

“He is always ready to share with colleagues and with students his deep knowledge and understanding of policy making processes and diplomacy between Iran and the United States, Europe and the Middle East on nuclear issues and regional security,” Mian said. “His door is always open to those who want to learn about and understand these issues.”

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said that a significant part of Grand Challenges is the involvement of undergraduate students through internships through which about 100 students are funded over the summer to participate in ongoing research.

Socolow explained that, as director of the Climate and Energy Challenge, his job was to stimulate initiatives on the part of the faculty that combined the undergradu-

ate experience with research enhancing their research involvement with the themes of climate and energy.

He explained he put in a lot of effort to promote new undergraduate courses and stimulate faculty members to take on projects that would involve students.

Socolow explained that he identified faculty members who made proposals to make a new course or to enhance a course and would find a way to mentor undergraduate students.

“The mission doesn’t stop,”

he said. “Bringing undergraduates into research is always important. The field of climate and energy is evolving so we also want to keep the curriculum fresh, so that job just continues.”

He explained that the world will benefit primarily by the things students do over their careers and lifetimes, stimulated and enabled by the curriculum and research opportunities.

“Sustainability is going to get bigger and bigger. We are very active creatures on a small planet, climate will continue to change,” he added.

Elie Bou-Zeid, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering who participated in the Climate and Energy Challenge, said that undergraduate students participated in his research by looking at the data the team produced and using them for course projects. He said the support of Grand Challenges was “really instrumental in

getting us to start on projects that otherwise would have been difficult to get.”

Bou-Zeid conducted research on optimizing the performance of turbines through changing their configurations and on modeling polar and nighttime atmospheric boundary layers.

CEE assistant professor Kelly Caylor participated in the Development Challenge by researching how climate variability affects ecosystems in the context of human livelihood in central Kenya.

Caylor explained that undergraduate students are a big part of his research group, as a lot of funding that goes toward Grand Challenges is directed to these undergraduate research initiatives. He noted that there are many opportunities for undergraduates to get involved and develop their own projects in his fieldworks and lab works.

Ecology and evolutionary biology professor Andrew Dobson, who participated in

the Health Challenge of Grand Challenges, explained that he had worked with both undergraduate students and graduate students in pursuing his research.

He said that through Grand Challenges, many seniors have completed their theses on research associated with Chagas disease, which is an important but largely neglected tropical disease in south and central America that he studies.

Dobson said that he hopes in about ten years’ time, the research that is being completed by the Health Challenge will make a “huge difference.”

“Efforts in tackling issues in energy and climate have grown enormously in the period of time that Grand Challenges have been in effect, so the momentum from that is going to affect the future,” Poor said. “It’s been a catalyst for getting research going, and it’ll definitely continue to be that way.”

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Clamoring for a job in finance Devon Naftzger

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Anna Mazarakis ’16 editor-in-chief

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139th managing board news editors Paul Phillips ’16 Ruby Shao ’17 opinion editor Benjamin Dinovelli ’16 sports editor Miles Hinson’17 street editor Lin King ’16 photography editors Natalia Chen ’18 Sewheat Haile ’17 video editors Leora Haber ’16 chief copy editors Caroline Congdon ’17 Joyce Lee ’17 design editors Austin Lee’16 Julia Johnstone’16 prox editor Rebekah Shoemake ’17 intersections editor Jarron McAllister ’16 associate news editor Do-Hyeong Myeong ’17 associate opinion editors Jason Choe ’17 Shruthi Deivasigmani’16 associate sports editors Sydney Mandelbaum ’17 Tom Pham ’17

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his month marks the beginning of a season where blazers are the fashion and résumé-filled folders are accessories. We rush around in groups wearing business casual attire to attend nightly information sessions hosted by big banks and consulting firms. While interest in the financial industry is undeniable here, we rarely stop and consider: why, after a few years into our Princeton education, do most of us want a job in finance to begin with?

It’s not that most of us grow up dreaming to be bankers. Instead, pursuing a career in finance is the surest way for our risk-averse generation to achieve what we want: success. The trajectory to success is evident in the career paths of so many alumni before us, which makes the cycle even more compelling.

At some point in our growth at the University we let other people’s definitions of success pervade our own opinions, which isn’t inherently negative. We learn that the type of work people respect is the kind that is challenging and rewarding, and that’s what some of us want out of a career. We go into finance because we are ambitious, not just in the attractedto-prestige sense, but because we love a challenge, and banking provides the perfect outlet.

After the rigor we are used to at Princeton we need a stimulating job that makes an impact and demands a lot from us even though we’re young.

Working over 100 hours a week in banking (including weekends) definitely fulfills that requirement.

It’s no easy task to sift through infinite financial data and organize massive spreadsheets all day in hopes of giving your client sound advice.

Banking is rewarding in other ways too: it is a job that has a large impact and helps to accomplish great things, like helping companies raise funds for all kinds of beneficial purposes. Without banks facilitating initial public offerings and other methods of raising capital, many companies could never see their innovative ideas reach fruition. Technol-

associate street editors Harrison Blackman ’17 Jennifer Shyue ’17 associate photo editors Gabriella Chu ’18 Grace Jeon ’17

ogy companies such as FireEye needed funding to expand their cybersecurity services just as biotech companies like Juno Therapeutics needed funding to further their cancer cell-killing CART research.

Investment bankers help make all of that possible.

Yes, in exchange for hard work and long hours, bankers can expect to be compensated appropriately for their sacrifice. As a result, financiers are often associated with greed and selfishness. While one cannot deny that the salary is attractive to Princetonians, I don’t think the nuanced motivation to earn money in the industry is selfish at all. On the contrary, working in finance is often our quickest, least risky method to “do our part” and give back what we feel we owe. Sometimes that comes in the form of paying back student loans, but it’s also something less tangible. We have to pay back those who gave us the opportunity to attend such a well-respected school.

For some, we want to give back to our parents who made an expensive investment in our education and who aren’t getting any younger. For others, we want to give back to our institution, which, simply because of its reputation, puts pressure on us to live up to the school’s prestigious alumni. (However, to be fair, that may be self-inflicted pressure). There’s an emphasis on giving back by donating to the school, which will make it possible for other ambitious students to have this educational opportunity.

The name of our school alone opens a lot of doors for us, fair or not, and we often feel the pressure to do something with that name.

Even before we walk out FitzRandolph Gate at graduation, we have to position ourselves to make the most out of the opportunities provided to us.

While some may find their calling in medicine or academia, others believe they can make the most impact on their families, others and themselves through finance. The financial sector may have its problems, as any industry does, but we shouldn’t be so quick to judge those who find value in it.

Devon Naftzger is a politics major from Lincolnshare, Il. She can be reached at naftzger@princeton.edu.

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Find your place in the movement Azza Cohen columnist

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hen hip-hop artist T-Dubb-O gets on stage, it’s like he was born there. The stage is where he proclaims his truth in verse as he makes eye contact with each and every fan and he tells us, “I don’t want a Trap Queen/ I’d rather have a Coretta.”

T-Dubb-O is one of the leaders of Hands Up United, a collective of politically engaged minds building toward the liberation of oppressed Black, Brown and poor people through education, art, civil disobedience, advocacy and agriculture. He came to my class last spring to speak, in an effort to mobilize students who live far away from his hometown of St. Louis, Mo., the center of the new Civil Rights Movement. I was also able to meet him again on a Breakout trip, a weeklong trip during fall break during which students engage with domestic social issues by meeting and working with local community leaders.

The Hands Up United team is fiery, smart and young (one of their leaders is 16 years old).

Its methods of organizing are rooted in past liberation movements — it runs a Books & Breakfast program similar to that of the Black Panthers — while constantly creating new standards of mobilization for the #BlackLivesMatter movement that is more reflective of a digital era. The team taught us many lessons to share with fellow students, but the most prominent lesson was also surprisingly sim-

ple: each and every person has a place within the movement.

The reasoning? Liberation is tied together.

As long as Dalits are oppressed in India, as long as Palestinians are forced to live under occupation in the West Bank, as long as Black women and men walk in fear of the police, we are all oppressed. Because, at the end of the day, American liberation is tied to global liberation.

Beyond the fiscal system that knots together our economies, or the political system that binds together our world leaders, or the technologies that make the world seem quite small, there is a more human reason to believe that we all are connected.

If this feels far away, let me put liberation in a Princeton lens: as long as 1 in 4 women experience sexual misconduct at Princeton, as long as African students see their cultures appropriated by a group recognized by the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, as long as low-income students are harassed by other students, we are all oppressed. As long as our intentions are anything less than respect, we are all oppressed.

There are certainly deep differences in forms of oppression. Police brutality and microaggressions clearly will not impact people the same way, but they are both forms of oppression. Some forms of oppression are more continuous, more unrelenting and more immediate. Some are subtler, piercing away at an individual over time. But the point is not to rate oppression on a sliding scale, ranking which ones are the worst and pushing the rest aside.

Instead, we should remember and celebrate the

unity of humanity in resisting all its forms.

St. Louis is a unique place, where racialized segregation and violence has a particular past and present. However, the point is that wherever you are, whoever you are, you must imagine a better world, too. It is not just enough to focus on the places that are experiencing the worst forms of conflict or oppression. Every place has an opportunity for improvement. It is up to us to locate and correct it; it is up to us to find our place and take it.

But how does one find one’s place in the movement? The leadership team at Hands Up United had different answers to this question.

Hands Up United Director Tara Thompson suggested traveling, if you can. By traveling, one can recognize the parallels in both systems of oppression and methods of liberation across city, state or country borders. Co-founder Tory wants us to reflect on where you might be most effective, “on the streets, or in the seats,” he called it, referring to participating in either protesting or politics. Director Rika Tyler urged us to analyze our solidarity in finding ways to help your own community, and in doing so, help hers.

Some people make music, some people write, some people shout in the streets, and some people lead from their seats. As a white person, my place is not at the front. But there are a million other places in every movement — so get behind leaders you believe in. Today is your legacy for tomorrow’s human rights.

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

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f you are a user of any kind of social media right now, debate over the protests at Yale is probably impossible to avoid. It has even made the front page of Reddit, crowding out the usual stream of cat photos and memes. For those who may not follow the news as closely, Yale has been the site of protests about racial intolerance in campus life. Much of the news coverage has situated around the protests in the debate over free speech on college campuses. Yet, we need to step back for a second and view these protests in isolation.

What has happened at Yale does not fit cleanly into the narrative about free speech that has been put forward by national news media.

One of the most linked-to articles floating around on Facebook about the protests is one published by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education as a primer on the protests and the illiberal threat they pose to individual free speech rights. It’s a highly problematic piece, given that FIRE is not a news outlet, but rather a nonprofit with the mission to “defend and sustain individual rights at America’s colleges and universities,” according to its mission statement. Here is an organization with a clear partisan goal that seized this story to fit its narrative and immediately attempted to discredit the voices of the protestors. We need to avoid that kind of knee-jerk reaction at all costs; nevertheless, the debate over free speech has become the dominant narrative.

Daniel Drezner, a politics professor at Tufts University, wrote about the need to view this debate in light of “local knowledge.” If one were to simply view the video of Silliman College Master Nicholas Christakis arguing with students at the college, without any knowledge of the overall story at Yale, then the clip fits very nicely into a story being told about the “coddling” of college students, as columnists wrote in the Atlantic a few weeks ago. Drezner, unfortunately, still falls into the same trap as many of the other columnists who have written about this debate. He argues that “One of the purposes of college is to articulate stupid arguments in stupid ways and then learn, through interactions with fellow students and professors, exactly how stupid they are,” which labels the arguments of the students as “stupid” and ignores their merits.

I am not saying that arguments advanced by those like Drezner and FIRE have no merit at all. There is a real debate to be had over free speech in the context of liberal arts education. Fellow columnist Beni Snow wrote in defense of the Christakises about the debate over free speech, and to a certain degree, I agree with him. Often, the debate over free speech is carried out to a logical extreme. I recently attended a Model United Nations conference that simulated crises in the Middle East, and many of the updates about the crises actually carried trigger warnings as a way of protecting delegates who would otherwise have been made uncomfortable by the updates. That practice is utterly absurd; a Model United Nations conference aims to closely model real world events and to give warnings about the events and allowing delegates to exclude themselves from proceedings if they feel threatened defeats the purpose of the simulation. Alas, columnists such as Drezner and Snow are falling victim to one of the major pitfalls of opinion journalism by attacking straw men, a logical fallacy that involves debating with a conception of an argument rather than an argument specifically expressed by a person.

This debate at Yale is not about free speech. It is about the legitimate grievances of many of the protestors, and those need to be addressed in isolation from the debate over free speech. The complaints about Halloween costumes are merely proxies for deeper issues of racism on campus. There are incidents of illiberal intolerance, but those should not detract from the overall narrative. The minute the free speech debate is brought up, it instantly casts the students’ arguments in a way that is not conducive to rational debate.

We need to recognize the legacies of institutionalized racism that many schools in the Ivy League carry and work to take the steps necessary to rectify the evils of the past. There is some very real pain behind the protests at Yale. The Black Student Alliance at Yale, among other groups, published a list of demands for the Yale Administration, and those demands have received precious little media attention. Are some of the demands extreme? Certainly. But rather than further vilifying the protestors as “stupid college students” or “social justice warriors,” let’s work towards a more constructive reconciliation process, and that starts with a reframing of the debate in the context of local issues at hand rather than the national narrative of illiberal liberalism.

Nicholas Wu is a sophomore from Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich. He can be reached at nmwu@ princeton.edu.

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by Vincent Po :: Staff Photographer The no. 18 field hockey team has dominated this season, clinching the outright Ivy League title, and will play its first game of the NCAA tournament against Maryland on Saturday at Syracuse. This year is the Tigers’ 11th consecutive conference title and 20th NCAA tournament, just three years after the Tigers’ first national championship.

Women’s soccer hopes to dominate in NCAA

by Stephen Craig :: Staff Photographer The women’s soccer team has had notable success of its own. The Tigers will play in their own NCAA championship tournament, also on Saturday and at home against Boston College. This comes after the Tigers (13-3-1 overall, 6-0-1 Ivy League) finished the season on top of the League, ranked 24th in the NSCAA national poll, the first time the Tigers have been ranked since 2005.

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IN THE SERVICE OF ALL NATIONS In honor of Veteran’s Day on Nov. 11, Street dedicates its issue to the Princeton community’s personal, intellectual and historical relationship with war. We spoke to four current students who have served or plan to serve in the military about their experiences there and how they’ve informed their times on campus.

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hen they were in the military, Max Kim ’16, Michael Liao ’17 and Ann Thompson GS began each day hours before the typical college student gets out of bed. Kim, who spent 25 months between his freshman and sophomore years in the Republic of Korea Air Force, would wake up at 6 a.m., report for roll call and go for a 30-minute jog before reporting to the logistics command office where he worked.

Liao, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps for five years before starting at Princeton in 2013, generally rose at 5 or 6 a.m. for an hour of physical training with his unit — except when he was deployed to the field, in which case, he said, “you’re essentially on call 24 hours a day, and you just try to work in your sleep and chow schedule as you can.”

Thompson, who got out of the U.S. Army in August after four years as a military intelligence officer, had to be up in time for physical training at 6 or 6:30 a.m., followed by formation and an hour and a half of working out; on deployment in Afghanistan, she would be reading reports and setting the day’s agenda for herself and her soldiers by 7 a.m., seven days a week.

On training days, a senior cadet in Princeton’s Army ROTC battalion whom we spoke to (who asked that her name not be used as a precautionary conf lict-zone safety measure) is also starting training by 6:30 a.m. The cadet will be joining the Army after graduation; like Thompson, she hopes to be a military intelligence officer.

Just because the three veterans are no longer in active

service doesn’t mean they’ve left those early mornings behind, however. When asked how their military experiences have inf luenced their time on campus, all four students agreed that discipline has translated to skills that are important in an academically demanding environment like the University.

“Time management — that’s a challenge that every student has to face here, but you have a fair skill at it, having to deal with it in the military, especially if you’re a leader of troops,” Liao said. “You have to incorporate that, otherwise you’re going to flounder in the military.”

At the University, because of the “mental atrophy” from the five-year gap in his education, “sometimes I need to struggle more over subjects and assignments that may come more naturally to my peers,” Liao wrote in a post-interview follow-up email. “[B]ut I always try to compensate … by being proactive in working ahead whenever possible.”

Kim echoed Liao’s appreciation of time management skills, which Kim cultivated while in the ROK Air Force. “I wake up at 7 a.m., even now, and I go to the gym every morning,” he said. He also added that his two years in the ROK Air Force helped him become more “mentally and physically mature,” and he is more motivated in the classroom than he was in his freshman year.

The students have gained new perspective in other areas as well. In international relations and policy classes, “having a background in tactics and the military, and looking to the future as a military member — I think it gives me a unique perspective in the sense that

it really challenges me to ask questions and be really active about what the country’s doing, why it’s doing it,” the ROTC cadet said.

“I think the perspective part is big,” Thompson said. “Certain things just don’t really faze veterans in the same way.”

She added that the leadership experience she gained from positions that had her overseeing over 100 personnel and millions of dollars’ worth of equipment was invaluable.

“It’s almost ridiculous to say it, but I kind of despise the person I would have become if it weren’t for the military,” Liao said. “I think I would have had much less bias toward action, would have been much less decisive and assertive.”

These students’ reasons for joining the military are much more varied. For Kim, as for all South Korean men, military service in the ROK Armed Forces is a requirement for citizenship. Liao, on the other hand, signed up for the U.S. Marines — a choice of branch he made “because it seemed to be the toughest branch,” he said over email — and originally intended to attend college before serving. After his high school graduation, however, in part because of the ongoing “War on Terror” and in part because he “needed to take a sabbatical from academia,” he decided to go into the Marines first.

The senior cadet first thought about joining the military when, as a middle-schooler, she attended a cousin’s graduation from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. “From that day on, I was like, ‘I’m going to go to West Point,’ ” she said — and she almost did. “I saw [the military] very much as an opportunity to have more of an effect with my talent,” she

added, “as a way of to do more than I could do by myself.”

Thompson, too, framed her decision to join the military as a way to make an impact.

“I wanted to serve in some way, especially during a time of war,” she said. “I felt like I’d had a lot of opportunities given to me by virtue of being an American citizen, as cheesy as that sounds. I wanted to give back in some small way, if I could.” When she began her undergraduate career at Stanford, she decided to give ROTC a try and ended up sticking with it all four years, commissioning in the Army after graduation.

The path forward also looks very different for these four students. Kim, an economics major, does not plan on returning to military service.

“In Korea, since everyone does military service, it’s not a profession that people pursue,” he said. “It’s a bit different compared to the American military, where if you’re a military veteran, or if you serve in the military, people respect you.”

Thompson, who is working toward her Master in Public Affairs at the Wilson School, is eager to explore other work in public service, perhaps in the U.S. Department of State.

When asked if he would return to the Marines, Liao was open to the possibility: “There are aspects of the job that are really terrible, and you swear you’re never going to go back, but then there’s other aspects like the brotherhood, [and] being compensated for being physically fit isn’t a bad deal either… I think the brain selectively remembers the good parts.” At the same time, as an electrical engineering major, he is also interested in moving to the Bay Area or to Texas

to work in computer architecture. The cadet, a Near Eastern Studies major who speaks Arabic, French, and some Persian, is commissioning in the Army; she hopes to eventually deploy to the Middle East.

Right now, Liao is the only undergraduate at Princeton who is a veteran of the U.S. military. Among graduate students, there’s still only a small population of veterans or active-duty officers, mostly concentrated in the Wilson School. Liao would like to see that change.

“A lot of people in the military [have] sort of established a glass ceiling for themselves, thinking, ‘Well, Princeton’s an Ivy League school, so that’s probably out of my league,’ or ‘My G.I. Bill’s not going to cover that,’ ” he said. “You’ve got to somehow motivate people in the service right now to look more at this school.”

Thompson agreed: “It’d be nice to see more veterans on campus, especially in the undergrad population. I think it’s valuable having the ROTC program here,” she said. “It fosters more engagement between cadets and civilians.”

The ROTC cadet, who has noticed she receives more attention when she walks around campus in uniform, echoed what Thompson said. Sometimes, she gets interesting remarks about the significance of being female in the military — but mostly, she said, “I see it as an opportunity to have a conversation with people, get to know people.”

“That’s one of the things I love about Princeton, the wide variety of people that are here, and getting to know all of them,” she said. “It’s almost an excuse to do so, so I think it’s a good thing.”

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UNFAMILIAR STREET Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, Japan LIN KING

Street Editor ‘Unfamiliar Street’ is a column series in which we take you around the world and introduce you to a cool STREET far from the well-trod gravel of Prospect Avenue. first learned about the bombing of Hiroshima in the ninth grade. We were assigned John Hersey’s “Hiroshima,” a long-form article that follows six survivors as they navigate the horrific aftermath of the atomic bomb. The article told of a city completely leveled, of all-engulfing fires, of dying infants, of severed breasts, of burnt skin melting off of faces and limbs. The images made a deeper impression on me than did most things from my high school education. I thought I knew about Hiroshima — what had happened, what had followed.

This fall break, I had the opportunity to visit Hiroshima for the first time with ART 429: Visual Japan, Past and Present.

Prior to our trip, my professor had assigned Hersey’s book as well as the first volume of “Barefoot Gen,” a renowned autobiographical manga of one survivor’s childhood after the bomb.

I had thought myself prepared for the descriptions of suffering and of gore — prepared, albeit in a cursory sense, for the “facts.”

Nevertheless, the Hiroshima

examined the rainbows of cranes, we found ourselves surrounded by a group of Japanese elementary schoolchildren. At their teacher’s cue, the children began to recite pledges: pledges to be good to their parents, to value their friends, to recognize the importance of the people in their lives. This was followed by a song, one of the lines being, “The lives of my country’s peoples and other countries’ peoples are worth the same.” Behind them, LIN KING :: STREET EDITOR older children salute the statue and hold mo- View of the A-Bomb Dome through the monument arch of the Memorial Cenotaph. ments of silence.

The remaining road arch that, when looked through design’s intention for visitors to the museum is no less satu- its center, aligns the Flame, to look back on all these monurated with such explicit saluta- the Children’s Peace Monu- ments seems intuitive. Yet the tions to peace — from the Peace ment and, all the way across distractions were endless: the Flame, lit in 1964 and which will the river, the A-Bomb Dome — sprawling crowds of visitors continue to burn until every the building closest to the hy- (despite it being a regular weeknuclear weapon in the world is pocenter of the explosion that day), the songs, the potent symdestroyed, to the Peace Foun- remained partially standing. bolism of each monument and tain, erected in honor of the The Dome has been kept in its the schoolchildren approaching burn victims’ requests for wa- half-ruined state for 70 years foreigners with their field trip ter, and finally to the Memo- now, and stands as a symbol for assignment, nervously asking rial Cenotaph near the center of reflection on the nation’s cata- in English for people’s homethe park. The Cenotaph, which strophic memories. towns and “peace messages” in holds the names of all those In hindsight, when approach- exchange for paper cranes. killed by the bomb, is covered ing a straight-edged boulevard Whatever the reason, the imby a saddle-shaped, concrete with an arch in its center, the age through the arch came as a shock. It is a shock that, even after writing all this, I have yet to fully digest. What does it mean to maintain a ruin as a ruin, a gaping wound in a healing city? What does it mean to condemn violence with images of the most extreme violence?

How does one teach children to categorically promote “peace,” almost as a motto, and why don’t we see this more often?

I have long been told that Hiroshima is a place that every person in the world should visit.

In this sense, seeing it in person was somehow both underwhelming and overwhelming; I was not shaken to tears, like many have reported, but I was certainly shaken, and thoughtful, and will continue to be for LIN KING :: STREET EDITOR — the cliché is not used lightly Left: the path leading up to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, featuring the Cenotaph. Right: the statue at the top of the Children’s Peace Monument. here — the rest of my life.

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Peace Memorial Park took me by utter surprise.

The “street” I am writing about today has no name. It is a straight path, wide enough to be a boulevard in any large city, that leads from the northeast entrance of the over 1,300,000-square foot park to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. The long series of monuments begin at the northern end with what is known in English as the Children’s Peace Monument (the Japanese literally translates to “Statue of the Children of the Atomic Bomb”).

The statue, which depicts a girl with a large origami crane above her, is based on the true story of Sadako Sasaki, a bombing victim who was only two years old in 1945 and suffered from no long-term symptoms until 1954, when she developed leukemia and died just one year later. Sadako’s belief that she would be cured if she folded 1,000 paper cranes became the origin for the now-universal connotation of peace found in paper cranes.

Nowadays, Sadako’s statue is surrounded by thousands of paper cranes sent from all around the world, enclosed in an enclave of glass cases. (Some of the recycled cranes have been made into postcards that act as entrance tickets to the museum.) As we

SOC 250: The Western Way of War

CONFLICT AND SOCIETY THROUGH THE CENTURIES VICTORIA SCOTT Senior Writer HARRISON BLACKMAN Associate Street Editor

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ociology professor Miguel Centeno’s course, SOC 250: The Western Way of War, is an iconic course on campus. While the class is listed as a Historical Analysis distribution requirement, The Western Way of War is not simply a history course: according to the course registrar, the class offers a “historical and analytical overview of war focusing on the origins and consequences of organized violence, the experience of battle, the creation and behavior of warriors and the future of such conflicts.”

The course is also one of the most popular lecture courses on

campus, with 282 students currently enrolled.

“P​ut simply, war is seductive,” Zoë Rose Buonaiuto GS, a second year Ph.D. candidate in the history department and preceptor in the course, said in an email statement. “It has been such a central part of human history and societal change. In our collective historical consciousness, war dominated the 20th century in an unprecedented scale.”

What, then, does the phrase “Western way of war” mean? In Centeno’s class, the “West” of the title is broadly defined to include parts of the classic Middle East, medieval and modern Western Europe, post-18​th century North America and post-­Meiji Restoration Japan. As for the concept of a Western way of war, much of the ideas in the course are derived from or motivated by Victor Davis Hanson’s 1989 book, “The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece.” In his book,​Hanson argued that the “Western way of war” is unparalleled in its effectiveness compared to non-­ Western war strategies, an argument that is one of many that the COURTESY OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY course examines. WhethProf. Miguel Centeno, Sociology Professor. er this particular form of

military conflict is a significant characteristic of Western Civilization is one of the many contemporary questions that motivate the class. “[Twenty-first] century warfare­­[from] 9/11 on­­has already differentiated itself, and I think students recognize they are bearing witness to an important period of change,” Buonaiuto said.

Part of the central attraction to students taking the course, however, are Centeno’s lectures.

“Professor Centeno’s lecturing style really makes the course come alive,” Buonaiuto said. “His enthusiasm is palpable in lecture, and he makes the material relatable and accessible, despite the horror.”

Centeno’s style derives from a mastery of the material and a willingness to engage in a simultaneously meticulous, and but less scripted way.

“I have taught the course enough times (10+) that I feel confident about covering the material and this allows me to be spontaneous in my lecture including discussion of latest scholarship I have read,” Centeno said, in an email statement. “It’s the best of both worlds: tried and true, but always evolving.”

The course’s reading list is

diverse and spans thousands of years, ranging from ancient Greco-Roman cultural touchstones such as Homer’s “I​ liad” and Virgil’s “A​ eneid,” to​ Thomas E. Ricks’ work on the U.S. Marines, “M​aking the Corps.”

“The syllabus is full of classics, but I’m most drawn to ‘T​ his Republic of Suffering’​

by Harvard historian and president Drew Gilpin Faust,” Buonaiuto said. “The book is a model for my own research on World War II military casualties, and I look to it often for inspiration.”

Students are drawn COURTESY OF AMAZON to the course for a variety of reasons. Victor Davis Hanson’s 1989 book provides some Madelyn Baron ’18 de- of the basis for the course of the same name. cided to take the class to learn about conflicts in the course can be useful in many Middle East. contexts.

“I wanted to learn more about “I think [the class] slows the conflict in the Middle East them to do two things: study a which will be learning about fascinating social phenomena last,” Baron said, in an email with which they are not familstatement. “I also have a military iar, and use this to discover unfamily and wanted to see what derappreciated aspects of their other perspectives on that are.” own lives and experiences,” In all, Centeno believes the Centeno said.

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PRINCETON AT WAR Princeton has been a campus integrally linked to America’s wars. In celebration of Veteran’s Day, we take a look back at moments from the Daily Princetonian archives during the two world wars. And yes, it’s true: Hitler rejected the Triangle Club.

AUGUST 15, 1945: The University celebrates Japan’s surrender and the official end to the Second World War.

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DECEMBER 9, 1920: U.S. President and former president of Princeton, Woodrow Wilson, class of 1879, is named the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

OCTOBER 31, 1917: Princeton students awarded with the French cross for their work in the Verdun sector.

MAY 9, 1945: Bells tolled for V-E Day, but University activities did not cease as they would for V-J Day three months later.

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OCTOBER 11, 1941: After the Triangle Show was pre-emptively banned from Nazi Germany for its anti-Nazi skits, the Triangle Club contacted Adolf Hitler for permission to tour the country out of curiosity. They received an “emphatic ‘no’” in response.

MARCH 14, 1950: The 1950s saw a movement for people to “adopt” war orphans through remote financial support of $15 a month. James M. McCoy ’52 was only 20 when he became an honorary foster parent. Princeton undergraduates interested in adoption were encouraged to contact the Foster Parents’ Plan for War Children headquarters in New York City.

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his weekend, the Princeton Triangle Club will present its 125th musical comedy, “Tropic Blunder.”

The show concerns the recipients of an all-expenses-paid island vacation, who have just so happened to win a soda company’s contest. When the island turns out to be cursed, Triangle’s particular brand of musical comedy ensues. To talk about the nauticalthemed adventure, Street sat down with Tori Rinker ’16, the president of Triangle. “Tropic Blunder” will run Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. in McCarter Theatre.

Daily Princetonian: How does Triangle choose the theme of the show?

Tori Rinker ’16: Our writers work under the supervision of two writing professionals, Pete Mills and Jeremy Desmond. The writers workshop and brainstorm and come up with different ideas for what the show could be this year. And once they decide, they write material for the show and

they’ll pitch it and sort of do a read-through of a draft of the script at Reunions of every year. Everyone in the club who’s there, plus the trustees, will get feedback, saying this worked, this didn’t work, and then they’ll take the summer to revise it and go from there.

DP: What was challenging about this particular production?

TR: I think what was different and exciting for us this year was that it was a book show, in that in the past it has been a musical upon a review, where it’s sort of like [Saturday Night Live] — there are sketches here, songs here, sketches here. In this one, the writers did a really wonderful job of having an entire plot the entire show, every single step. It was a little different from a plot, because it means we’re playing actual characters, we’re not sort of just copping

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DP: What is the difference between the fall and spring shows?

TR: The fall show is also a musical, it’s just the audience is more college-centered as opposed to everyone — family, friends, uncles, cousins — and just the way the schedule is. The spring show is a little more fun because it is a different audience which means we can get away with a little raunchier stuff. We do our staff transition at the end of January. So it’s kind of nice that everyone gets a show underneath their belt.

DP: Are there any scenes we should look out for?

TR: I love that there is a love story in this show. We haven’t had a love story in a couple years. I’m really excited, there’s this pop star character that was kind of based off Miley Cyrus. We just rehearsed that number, and the costumes, the dancing, the music — that’s the most fun for me because I’m also in it but I think it’s going to come together pretty well. Also the kick-line is scheduled as well. It’s also very colorful, the kick-line is.

DP: [The kick-line is] pretty essential.

TR: Yeah. It’s what we do.

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ness of cock rings for these issues. Before trying a cock ring for any of these reasons, it would be best to consult a medical provider. Such problems can be due to psychological, behavioral or physical issues. Stress related to school or anxiety about performance (in and out of the bedroom) can negatively impact sexual performance. Behavioral causes, such as smoking or excessive alcohol consumption and underlying medical conditions (diabetes, cardiovascular disease, certain medications, etc.) can also contribute to erectile problems. Sexual Health and Wellness at McCosh Health Center has great clinicians who are willing to answer any questions you and your partner may have.

As you explore your options, it’s important to continually talk to your partner about what is best for you both, as any decisions regarding your sexual relationship should be made together. Best of luck finding that perfect cock ring!

— The Sexpert

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HEADLINERS AND HEADSHAKERS headlines you didn’t read this week DAILY PRINCETONIAN STAFF

Whig-Clio Tiger statues vandalized yet again, as sacred guardians of Cannon Green, the Tigers demand sacrifice in retribution

of IRS at Cruz ’92 proposes dissolution annual presidential debate, proposes instead tribute of insincere folksiness

Trick-or-Feed raises $7,601, collects 760 non-perishable items, and 76 slightly creased Ivy passes on Princetoween

UMatter, TigerTransit to provide nighttime weekend bus service, with a monorail in the pipeline

Analysis shows Frist, MurrayDodge most popular places for free food distribution; proves that learning R was good for something

Princeton Neuroscience Network e approved as official, 24/7 neuro servic dedicated to finding missing or malfunctioning brains

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“Casino Royale” is better than “Spectre”

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But “Skyfall” is the best Yet there will be donuts

In a James Bond-themed dance

I’m confused

Live music, free food But James Bond and donuts

Also, Sam Smith sucks They better play Adele, (hello) When the sky falls, we’ll stand together

CAMPUS PICKS THEATER PRINCETON SOUTH ASIAN THEATRICS PRESENTS “THE TRUMP CARD” Wilson Blackbox Thursday, 8 p.m.

Friday, 5 p.m.

Saturday, 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.

A few reasons why PSAT’s “The Trump Card” may be the best publicity campaign by student groups this semester: it has a topical component, and it poses Donald Trump in a position of meeting non-white foreigners who are, gosh forbid, successful. Adapted from Anubav Pal’s 2009 mockumentary “The President is Coming,” six young Indians vie to meet the President of the United States who, in what PSAT calls a “dystopian future,” is none other than Mr. Trump. Sounds like a foolproof recipe for funny!

DANCE EXPRESSIONS DANCE COMPANY PRESENTS “APEX” Frist Performance Theatre Friday, 9 p.m.

Saturday, 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. eXpressions hasn’t, as far as we can find, explained the theme of its fall show, “APEX,” beyond an excellent pun about “reaching new heights.” From what we gather from past eXpressions shows and the promotional photos and videos, however, you can expect superhuman feats of flexibility, coordination, grace and some badass choreography. Buy your tickets early for a free eXp shot glass or some treats. Don’t miss out!

MUSIC PRINCETON UNIVERSITY GLEE CLUB PRESENTS “PRINCETON-YALE FOOTBALL CONCERT” Richardson Auditorium Friday, 7:30 p.m.

What better way to celebrate homecoming than to boo Yale in a respectful, culturally sophisticated way in the beautiful Richardson Auditorium? None that we can think of. Join the Princeton and Yale Glee Clubs for the 102 yearold tradition of the pre-game concert, featuring traditional choral repertoire from both groups as well as the Princeton and Yale football medleys. Don’t forget to bring your ‘Kale’ signs.

DANCE THE PRINCETON HIGHSTEPPERS PRESENT “HIT ’EM WITH THE BEATS” Richardson Auditorium Saturday, 8 p.m.

For the fifth year, HighSteppers will be hosting “Hit ‘Em with the Beats”, an annual step competition featuring teams from all over the Northeast United States. This year, the competition will include Temple University’s Ladies of Elegance, SUNY Albany’s Organized C.H.A.O.S., the Howard University Step team, Delaware State University’s iStep and REVELution Step, a collegiate team based in the D.C. area. The show will be one night only, with Princeton’s own HighSteppers opening and closing the event with their own sets.