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Julia Case-Levine remarks on the importance of clarifying consent, and the Editorial Board suggests reforming large-scale event ticket distribution.

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News & Notes Harvard secretly photographed students in lecture halls last spring

A study conducted by Harvard on classroom attendance last spring by secretly photographing 2,000 students in 10 lecture halls last spring came to light Tuesday night at a faculty meeting.

During the meeting, Harvard’s Vice Provost for Advances in Learning Peter Bol remarked that the Initiative for Learning and Teaching installed cameras to record attendance, and pictures were scanned by a computer program to count the number of empty and occupied seats.

Bol said the study was not meant to identify any individual, and the lack of prior notification was intended to avoid bias, according to The Boston Globe.

Bol said that the study went through the university’s review board beforehand.

The students whose images were captured were not notified until this Wednesday afternoon, and some students and faculty said the research was an invasion of privacy.

“You should do studies only with the consent of the people being studied,” Harvard computer science professor Harry Lewis said in an interview with the Globe.

In an interview with the Harvard Crimson, Harvard President Drew Faust said that she will have the case reviewed by a panel that oversees the newly established electronic communication policies.

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STUDENT LIFE

Lewis Center for the Arts launches art-based community initiatives

By Charles Min staff writer

The Lewis Center for the Arts has launched a series of outreach initiatives in its attempt to engage the Princeton community through the arts.

The initiatives, which include campus activities and “breakout” trips in collaboration with the Pace Center of Civic Engagement, are an attempt to allow University students to utilize their creativity as a means of civic engagement, according to the Lewis Center’s outreach website.

“We want to bring the University students with at-risk kids in town and Trenton or Newark through the Lewis Center,” Fanny Chouinard, special outreach projects manager for the Lewis Center, said. “We want to the engage the community, especially children, through the arts, whether it be drawing, painting, creative writing and theater.”

One of the Lewis Center initiatives includes an upcoming screening of student-made documentary films on environmental preservation in Kenya. The films will be screened at the Arts Council of Princeton on Nov. 13 in collaboration with the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.

The Arts Council of Princeton

is a nonprofit organization that supports visual, performance and literary arts.

Chouinard noted that the screening already has a large audience, which includes many kids participating in the Arts Exchange program in Trenton.

Arts Exchange is a program sponsored by the Arts Council that aims to provide art instruction and meals to children of lowincome families.

The Lewis Center is currently looking to recruit students from assistant professor in the Program in Theater Brian Herrera’s CWR 340: Autobiographical Storytelling class, taught in spring 2014, to offer the children an introduction to Kenya and how the film was made.

Steve Runk, director of communications at the Lewis Center, explained that he and his colleagues wanted students who took the storytelling course to help children understand the documentary by putting it in simple terms.

Another ongoing effort by the Lewis Center has been collaborating with Triad House, a residential group home for teenagers with emotional and behavioral challenges.

Triad House allows for a safe and inclusive environment for youth of different sexual orientations, religion and ethnicities.

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Former NYT executive editor defends leaks

By Pooja Patel contributor

Journalist leaks are in the public interest and do not necessarily pose a major threat to national security, former executive editor of The New York Times Jill Abramson argued at a lecture Thursday.

Abramson, who started her career as an investigative reporter for Time Magazine, spent 17 years in senior management at The New York Times, becoming the first female managing editor in 2003 and later the first executive editor. She was fired from her position as executive editor in 2014.

Abramson said former University President and President of the United States Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, “is very relevant to

my topic tonight” in reference to the Espionage Act, which he signed into law in 1917 and limited freedom of speech during World War I. Laws similar to the Espionage Act have been revived in the post9/11 world to prosecute leakers and journalists who publish stories based on classified intelligence, Abramson said.

One leak noted by Abramson was the Times’ courageous decision to publish the Pentagon Papers, a collection of classified documents that chronicled the history of the Vietnam War and were commissioned by the Pentagon in 1971.

The report included false history, false justifications for the war and false reports of progress.

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Adin Walker ’16 is working on a project to introduce the children at Triad House to Shakespeare plays, adapting the works to a language so they can be easily understood by children. Participating students will have about 10 workshops at the Triad House, where they will work with teens on theater, Shakespeare and other exercises.

A performance is expected to take place on campus at the conclusion of the 10 workshops.

“I’m interested in finding new ways of imagining and re-imagining Shakespeare, and exploring these new ways together with the youth at Triad House,” Walker said.

Walker explained that he first approached Chouinard after an initial call for volunteers last semester. Since then, they have been working to adapt a Shakespeare play for children so that the children can understand what Shakespeare is about.

The Lewis Center is also interested in collaborating with the Pace Center to add a creative element to the Center’s already established volunteer opportunities.

“They’ve heard that we have students at the Lewis Center who are interested in doing volunteer opportunities and reaching out to the community utilizing the See LEWIS page 3

Princeton will have to reexamine at least 11 cases of sexual misconduct, all of them adjudicated internally by the Faculty-Student Committee on Discipline during the past three academic years.

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced on Wednesday that it had found the University in violation of Title IX. As part of its resolution agreement with OCR, the University agreed to reexamine all cases, including acquittals, brought before the Committee in the past three academic years.

In that time period, 11 cases of sexual assault were brought before a subcommittee of the Committee on Discipline that deals with sexual assault, according to the University’s annual discipline reports.

Students were found responsible of sexual assault in seven of those cases.

University spokesperson Martin Mbugua said that the same administrators who originally reviewed and decided the outcomes of these cases will not be re-examining them. He said that

other administrators will be assembled and placed on panels for this purpose.

Mbugua explained that the process is ongoing and that the administration will go through every case carefully. The target date for the conclusion of the reexamination process is February 2015.

“At this time, it’s too early to tell what that process will determine, or any action or steps that will be taken” Mbugua said.

Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Students Victoria Jueds, who is the secretary to the Committee on Discipline, declined to comment.

Title IX coordinator and vice provost for institutional equity and diversity Michele Minter was away from her office and said she was unavailable for comment.

A spokesperson for the OCR did not respond to a request for comment.

Title IX is part of the United States Education Amendments of 1972 and states that no person can be excluded or discriminated by any “educational program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.” The OCR concluded See TITLE IX page 3

LECTURE

Cornel West GS ’80 discusses challenges for Black population

By Katherine Oh contributor

African-American studies professor emeritus Cornel West GS ’80 discussed problems facing the present-day Black population in a lecture on Thursday, saying that Black people need to confront the injustice against them by refusing to give in or compromise early, and turning to love and justice rather than anger.

Eddie Glaude Jr., professor of religion and African-American studies and chair of Center for African-American studies, and Imani Perry, professor of African-American studies, joined West for the conversation.

West was recently detained by police during a scuffle at the Ferguson Police Department.

West said that the truth about life as a Black person in the United States is too often hidden because Black Americans are too scared to take a risk by telling it. Besides, he explained, various

media organizations today lack the commitment to truth they ought to have.

West said that these “corporate media, oligarchs and plutocrats” are primarily White, and the few Black people among those ranks have assimilated to the capitalist and white supremacist culture.’

According to West, institutions like the University still have a lot of “catching up” to do with regard to race.

“Never has any Ivy League institution, with all of its greatnesses and all of its blindnesses, been on the cutting edge on the struggle for justice,” West said. “They catch up, because it takes a while for an institution, with such longevity of white supremacy, anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism, given the vision of those grand Presbyterians who started the place.”

West emphasized the importance of fighting for freedom in this context, saying that activists should not give in or compromise See WEST page 3

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Romeo and Juliet premieres this weekend. Look for more coverage in next week’s Street section.

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to prosecute the Times, President Richard Nixon obtained an injunction against the paper, she explained. This eventually led to the Supreme Court’s landmark decision, New York Times Co. v. United States, concerning prior restraint.

Abramson also described how the Times held a story involving the National Security Agency for a year in 2004. The story disclosed a classified wiretapping and data-mining program, and publication was halted after President George W. Bush told then-Times executive editor Bill Keller and publisher Arthur Sulzberger that the paper “would have literal blood on its hands if it published the story.”

Abramson explained that Edward Snowden later decided to approach The Guardian rather than the Times with his story because he was angry with the paper for holding off its previous NSA story.

The Snowden leaks were very important for the public to know about, Abramson said, adding that she was anxious and sad that the Times was not the newspaper publishing Snowden’s leaks.

Abramson also said that she would receive phone calls from Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, asking her not to publish stories.

On one specific occasion, the Times published a story but withheld several details upon Clapper’s request, only to find a day later that a competitor of the Times published the same story which included all the details.

“I ended up feeling burned,” she said, “I decided to withhold information that would have made our story stronger and compelling, and it appeared elsewhere.”

Abramson added that, following the incident, she met with Clapper to inform him that if she were to consider a request in the future, she wanted it to come directly from the Office of the President.

“Here I was in his office giving

him a constitutional lesson, quoting Madison and Jefferson, and reminding him that the founders of our country … felt that journalists were a protection over excesses of centralized government,” she said.

Abramson said that in the eight cases of prosecutions concerning leaks in the past two administrations, the individuals were all whistleblowers who worked for the government and felt it was their duty to inform the public of illegal government power.

She concluded with the statement that the public is certainly better off knowing about the government’s secret and large-scale eavesdropping.

“Has the publication of these stories actually harmed national security?” she said. “I don’t think the Obama administration or the British government have really presented any compelling evidence that shows these stories have harmed national security or pose a threat.”

The lecture, titled “In Defense of Leaks: Why a Free Press Matters More in the Age of Terror,” took place at 5 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium. It was hosted by the University Press Club and co-sponsored by the Wilson School, the Council of the Humanities and the Women’s Center.

News & Notes Tiger Inn to remain open throughout investigation into photo scandal Tiger Inn is expected to remain open while its Graduate Board and the University conduct separate investigations into allegations that a TI officer distributed a picture of a female student performing oral sex on a male student within the club’s dance floor. The photo was allegedly distributed to the TI membership email distribution list.

TI Graduate Board president Hap Cooper ’82 confirmed Thursday that the club will remain open and on tap

throughout its investigation.

The club had also been open for members on Wednesday night and for members and pass-bearing non members on Thursday night.

If the photograph was taken and circulated without consent, the incident can be classified as a third degree crime under New Jersey privacy laws.

“It is an ongoing investigation, so it would be premature to talk about any actions until that process is complete,” University spokesperson Martin Mbugua, told The Daily Princetonian on Tuesday.

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arts,” Runk said. “But I think what we’re trying to do is make more of those opportunities available, and we’ve been building these partnerships with social service organizations through the area so that our students can work with them and bring out their talents. Students want to do it and the community can benefit from it.”

Chouinard added that the Lewis Center hopes to have other volunteer opportunities in the arts available to students. She explained that the Lewis Center wishes to incorporate the arts more into Pace Center programs and use the programs as a basis for the Lewis Center’s new programs.

The Lewis Center is also looking into a partnership with the Eastern Service Workers Association, a group in Trenton that provides food and medical services for the poor, Chouinard said.

The organization assists resident with medical services and legal counseling in cases where housing and living utilities are shut off, and the Lewis Center is currently looking to recruit creative writing and theater students to help write statements to help the residents voice their cases in hearings.

The new outreach initiative has a wide range of events scheduled for the near future, Chouinard noted, including a creative poetry workshop in collaboration with the University’s creative writing faculty.

According to Chouinard, the Lewis Center also expects to have an open studio for visual arts students to display their works and allow the public, along with children from at-risk families, to meet with the students to discuss their art.

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“I don’t believe in being polite in public when a person’s children are being shot down,” West said. “I don’t believe in being polite in the face of rights being violated.”

When Glaude brought up the question of what it means to “live the life of the mind,” West responded that, while an academic focuses exclusively on highly specialized forms of knowledge, an intellectual takes these specialized forms of knowledge one step further to benefit the pubic.

West stressed the need to step outside of the academic bubble and form “an organic link with organized struggle.”

The panel also discussed what it means to be human. West identified honesty, decency and virtue as the three main values that individuals should strive to uphold, explaining that it is important to have a sense of higher goal, moral and spiritual standing. He said he lamented that society is on a decline because this standing is now

the road less taken.

Glaude similarly emphasized the need to constantly reach for a higher goal. Keeping the question in mind, of who one takes oneself to be, will provide a constant “central gravity to bring [one]self back into alignment,” Glaude said.

West acknowledged that racial tension is a plight shared by many ethnic minorities, not just Black Americans. Black rage, however, is often perceived to be a more significant threat to society than the rage of other ethnic minorities.

“Black rage could bring down the curtain on the American democratic experiment,” West said.

West said that, in the centurylong fight for Black rights, some Black people have “turned on each other, themselves, their souls, hearts, minds and bodies.”

While the instinctive response might be hatred or revenge, West said that love and justice should play a central role in the pursuit of black rights.

The event, titled “In Conversation with Dr. West,” took place at 4:30 p.m. in McCosh 50 and was sponsored by the Center for African American Studies.

Wednesday that the University did not provide a prompt and equitable response to complaints of sexual harassment.

In the 2011-12 academic year, one student was given disciplinary probation for verbally engaging in sexual harassment, according to that year’s disciplinary report.

For the 2012-13 academic year, there were seven infractions and three students penalized. Specifically, there was a disciplinary probation for a “significant act of sexually inappropriate conduct that created a demeaning and threatening environment,” in addition to a suspension and a withheld degree for two cases of nonconsensual sexual assault.

This past year, three students

were held responsible for sexual misconduct cases; two suspensions and one expulsion.

The suspensions were for an “egregious act of sexual exploitation” and nonconsensual sexual assault, respectively. The expulsion, which was the most severe penalty given in the past several years, was for an assaulter who deliberately targeted a victim and took steps to isolate her from peers who could help before assaulting her.

Also included in the report was a graduate student’s disciplinary probation for sexually inappropriate conduct, though that was not included in the total number of sexual misconduct cases.

As part of the resolution agreement, the University will institute a number of new measures in the next academic year, including training staff to recognize and report incidents of sexual ha-

rassment, as well as holding information sessions for students designed to create awareness and understanding of sexual misconduct.

The University also launched an overhaul of its sexual assault policies over the summer in anticipation of the OCR’s determination.

As part of the review, the University decided to lower the standard of evidence from “clear and persuasive” to “preponderant of the evidence,” give both complainant and accused the right to appeal and implement a panel of professional investigators to replace the FacultyStudent Committee on Discipline in sexual assault hearings.

For every measure, the University will provide the OCR with a description of the measures and evidence that they have implemented.

These updates will continue until Oct. 15, 2017.

The importance of clarifying consent Julia Case-Levine

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t Princeton, where students are responsible for completing extensive educational courses on sexual assault before even enrolling in classes, and where student-run organizations dedicated to combating assault on campus abound, characterizing consent remains a touchy and controversial subject.

Although sexual assault victims don’t always say no, they also don’t always exude enthusiasm and affirmative interest. I have encountered peers who have shared this specific experience with me.

In a culture where men are lauded for procuring large numbers of sexual partners, too often the objective becomes to convince partners to engage rather than to honestly verify interest. Instead of seeking out a “yes,” the goal becomes to avoid a “no.”

California and New York made history last month with their unprecedented legislation of affirmative consent. Both states plan to implement affirmative consent rules in state-funded schools that underscore that sex is only consensual when both parties have actively said “yes,” These new rules aim not only to challenge how sexual assault is handled in court, but also to shift cultural norms to emphasize sex as mutually agreed upon and instigated.

Opponents of the new policy question how officials plan to legislate verbal consent. Will students face scrutiny for failing to verbally ask permission every time things escalate?

It’s important to remember that cases where both individuals are clearly interested typically aren’t the ones brought to the disciplinary board. Affirmative consent policy is about more than necessitating verbal cues. It’s about creating an environment where both parties are enthusiastic, willing participants. It’s about changing cultural norms to prioritize positive sex and reforming campus standards.

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Improve event ticket distribution

ne of the best parts of being at Princeton is the prominent speakers the University attracts. Most recently the University community received a visit from the Dalai Lama on Oct. 28. However, the Dalai Lama’s arrival also shed light on the University’s cumbersome ticketing system, which currently requires students to wait in line at Frist Campus Center during inconvenient time blocks on weekdays, including during scheduled class time. This leads to several problems. The first issue is that, in certain cases, students have to choose between tardiness or absence to a class and waiting in line for a ticket to a promising lecture. While the administration has attempted to mitigate this issue by allowing students to present a maximum of one other prox to get a ticket for a friend, for large-scale events, the student interest is often so great that there are simply too many students with proxes for the few who are actually available to stand in line.

This leads to a second problem that arises from the current ticket distribution system: the resale of originally free tickets. In wake of the high demand for Dalai Lama tickets, hundreds of ticket exchanges via the Free and For Sale Facebook page and email listservs were initiated among students, despite the ex-

plicit no-exchange policy found on the back of the ticket. While it is arguable that some of these sales were justified given the amount of time spent waiting in line, the only defense of the Office of Religious Life’s, which sponsored the event, was to send out warning notices to those they discovered selling tickets.

If the University wishes to preserve the integrity of free campus lectures and the no-resale policy, a better model for ticket distribution is needed.

The Editorial Board proposes that, for future large-scale event ticket distributions, the University use an online lottery system. Such a system would allow all students to request a ticket online during a finite period of time.

If the event is oversubscribed, a lottery would be initiated, and only the students randomly selected would be issued tickets. Another benefit of this system is that tickets could be issued to individual students, eliminating the possibility of exchange or resale.

Instead, if students can no longer attend an event they requested a ticket for, they can cancel their request on the online system, and the ticket could be reissued via the lottery. While there is a risk that the ease of getting a ticket through a simple request online would cause more negligence in attendance and/or canceling, it is typical to have

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wait lines outside of popular events to guarantee all seats are filled.

In theory, the prevalence of smartphones on campus would allow the University to issue online tickets–potentially with code to be scanned upon arrival at the event. This would be much more convenient for most students and would have the added benefit of helping to cut back on paper waste. For those who do not have a smartphone, they would have the option of printing the ticket out. The Board urges the University to test this ticket distribution method on select large-scale events such as the upcoming lecture by Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan ’81.

The following proposal would protect the integrity and efficiency of University-sponsored events. More importantly, the proposed system would allow more students a fair opportunity to learn from and be inspired by the leaders and scholars the University is fortunate enough to host.

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Although sexual assault victims don’t always say no, they also don’t always exude enthusiasm and affirmative interest.

The University’s own policy already emphasizes affirmative and active consent. According to section 1.9.3, “Consensual sexual activity happens when each partner willingly and affirmatively chooses to participate.”

However, no single, all-encompassing definition of how this consent is to be expressed exists within the student body.

Some students say they look for consent through body language, while others state they prefer to give consent verbally.

Opponents of verbal consent argue that “asking” ruins the moment: It’s unnecessary; You already know where things are leading from non-verbal cues; Movies and TV shows popularize consent given through body language; Ryan Gosling isn’t stopping mid-make out to ask Rachel McAdams permission.

However, in reality expectations are a bit different than Hollywood would have us believe. In a study reported by the University of Arkansas, only 10 percent of female students stated they gave consent through body language while 61 percent of male students said they inferred consent through body language. Additionally, 51 percent of female students stated they gave consent verbally while only 9 percent of male students said they received consent that way.

Because individuals have varying expectations–and as these statistics imply, miscommunication happens fairly frequently–maybe it does make sense to ask. There are times when attaining consent solely from presumed physical cues might not be sufficient.

Of course, the real aim of affirmative consent legislation is to promote a culture in which each partner is attuned to the other’s interest; how they get there may vary. What’s important is to cultivate awareness of the importance of actively looking for the “yes” and of expressly asking when there’s uncertainty.

Nobody wants to have sex reluctantly.

Nobody wants to engage in intimacy simply to avoid name-calling. Conversely, nobody should want to have sex with someone who’s grudgingly consented. If you’re not concerned with whether your partner’s enjoying it, what are you thinking about?

Julia Case-Levine is a freshman from New York, N.Y. She can be reached at juliacc@princeton.edu.

Climbing life’s ladders Bennett McIntosh

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ikipedia has an entire page dedicated to listing important people who graduated from the University. There are so many politicians who would be listed on that page that the “Politics and Government” section gets its own page. The “U.S. Congress” subsection of that page is similarly privileged. Princeton is good at producing politicians. You could say that Princeton alumni make good leaders.

This is unsurprising. Anyone who comes to Princeton is, by necessity, able to navigate the often byzantine college admissions process; the necessary skills and assets translate easily to political campaigning, or climbing through the ranks of businessmen, consultants and financiers. Navigating social, academic and professional hierarchies — from the Street to Wall Street — comes easier to us. But does the preponderance of Princeton alumni at the top of these hierarchies actually show effective leadership, or is it something more nuanced?

No doubt we are effective climbers, but I fear we stumble when it comes to making something of the positions we have found ourselves in.

More than anything else, the Office of Admission accepts students on the basis of their ability to “play

the game” — to convince the right people of their academic worth and potential. This isn’t to say academic ability plays no part in it — indeed, it is far easier to demonstrate such ability when you actually have it — but it is not the only factor. Ambition, charisma and a drive to overcome hardship will also push an application toward success, and this is as it should be. Less ideal are environmental factors — those that come with a lucky birth. Families with the income to fill transcripts and resumes are an invaluable asset in this game, moreso if they hold a Princeton diploma already.

Navigating these and other hierarchies comes easily to Princeton students, and we are well rewarded for it. With a median mid-career salary of $121,000 Princeton ranks 6th in Payscale.com’s national rankings of earnings potential. Princeton social science majors, earning $155,000 at mid-career, are the best-paid social science majors in the country. Especially when working directly with people, Princeton students climb this (monetary) ladder extraordinarily well. At the same time, only 46 percent of Princeton alumni felt that their work makes the world a better place. This was well behind the leading school by this measure.

Thomas Jefferson University, at 84 percent, and even other Ivies; – Harvard and Yale alums find meaning around 60 percent of the time.

Although Harvard and Yale’s numbers are nothing to be proud of — four in 10 alumni don’t think their job improves the world — Princeton’s

score here is particularly striking, for a university which prides itself on educating students for work “in the service of all nations.” It seems Princeton succeeds in this measure with less than half of its students.

With so many alumni in leadership positions, how can we fail to serve as the University has supposedly taught us? The answer, I fear, lies in the very skill that defines us all: the ability to rise through well-established hierarchies.

Consider finance: Michael Gibson, writing in Forbes Magazine, complained earlier this year that more than a third of Princeton students (and similar numbers from Harvard) go straight to finance jobs upon graduation. Worse, they tend toward the large companies, dampening dynamism and rewarding behemoths in an industry in desperate need of more creative destruction and fewer corporate juggernauts.

Gibson, and Jonathan Lu in his column, Nerdsniping, sellout style, blame a career office interested in providing safe and conventional success for their charges and boosting quantitative placement metrics.

However, the problem extends beyond finance to that field full of leadership positons — politics. Ted Cruz ’92 was criticized for his hollow and pointless “filibuster” against Obamacare last year, a speech clearly calculated to advance his own ambitions.

More embarrassing for Princetonians, it later surfaced that, at Harvard Law School, he had refused to study

or associate with anyone educated outside Harvard, Princeton and Yale, shunning even those from “minor Ivies.” I see nothing more in Cruz’s calculated political moves and desire to associate with only the conventionally successful than a calculated move to climb his chosen hierarchy.

And in my own field, science, a tenured professorship hardly carries the pay of a banker or the power of a congressman, but the associated independence and security make it a nearequivalent in academia. And it is the path I have set my eyes on, reading up on the key to climbing through graduate school, post-doc and adjunct until reaching the top, with nary a wellinformed thought toward other paths.

The Peter Principle states that “in a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to their level of incompetence.”

That Princeton students are particularly good at rising doesn’t mean that they won’t eventually reach their level of incompetence, where we cannot hope to fulfill Princeton’s values of service. Focusing on the climb isn’t leadership, and definitely isn’t service.

While the Career Services can, perhaps, help to avoid this by providing a fuller and more fulfilling slate of options for us, it can only help so much.

We, University students and future alumni, must actively search for vocations which, contrary to our tendency to climb, encourage us to serve.

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

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15.4), and assists overall and per game (42, 2.8). The Tigers are also ranked sixth in the NCAA for assists per game and 14th in average points per game. Senior goalkeeper Darcy Hargadon has also played a large role in the Tigers’ success this season, playing 1,083 of 1,410 minutes in goal.

Lussi has posted an unbelievable goal-scoring season, registering a double brace two weeks ago against Harvard to add to a hat trick earlier this season against Brown. Lussi has notched a total of 18 goals this season, the most of any player in the Ivy League and the thirdmost in the NCAA, leaving

her with more goals scored in her combined freshman and sophomore years than any other player in program history. Lussi also leads active players in career goals with 28 and has the fifthhighest number of career goals scored by a player in program history. Saturday’s game presents Lussi with yet another opportunity at a record, as she is only two goals shy of breaking the Princeton record for most goals scored in a single season, a record which is held by the team’s assistant coach, Esmeralda Negron ’05. Lussi is averaging 1.2 goals and 2.54 points per game, the second and third-highest in the NCAA, respectively. Lussi also leads the Ivy League in shots taken (76) and total points (38).

Lazo enters her last game as a Tiger on track to win her fourth All-Ivy League honor.

A well-rounded and consistent talent, Lazo is having a great season, ranking highly in both the Ivy League and the NCAA. Lazo leads the Ivy League in assists with 10 this season, registering two in the game against N.C. State earlier this week. She is also ranked second in the Ivy League in both goals (7) scored and points (24), and is in eighth place in the NCAA for assists per game, averaging .71. Lazo has 26 career assists, placing her in a tie for the Princeton career record in assists. Lazo is also in sixth place on the Princeton all-time career goals list with 27 goals, just behind teammate Lussi who is in fifth place with 28. Lazo is

also in fifth place on the Princeton all-time career list for points earned with a total of 80.

During her coaching career, Shackford’s teams have won six Ivy League titles and received eight NCAA tournament berths.

Gregoire, Stella and Larkin have all become into important players in the offense over the course of

this season. All three freshmen have assisted on at least six goals, and Gregoire and Stella have both scored once.

Gregoire is in second place in the Ivy League for total assists (7), and Larkin and Stella are tied for third with six assists. All three players are ranked in the top 100 of one category in the NCAA: Gregoire in 69th place for total assists, and Larkin and Stella in a tie for 53rd place with .43 assists per game. Three of Larkin’s assists were in the game against N.C. State, making her the first Tiger since 2010 to accomplish the feat. Sophomore midfielder Nicole Loncar also has played well of late, scoring her first two career goals last week against N.C. State.

Hargadon will play her final game in goal as a Tiger on Saturday, sporting a save percentage of .673 on 37 saves so far this season. Hargadon has started in every game she has played this season.

Other Tiger goalkeepers who

have seen playing time include sophomore Hannah Winner and freshman Gudrun Jonsdottir, who have 11 and three saves, respectively.

The Quakers have scored a total of 16 goals this season for an average of 1.1 goals per game, compared to Princeton’s 2.2 average. The Penn women’s Soccer team has a save percentage of .756, with goalkeeper Kalijah Terilli in fifth place in the Ivy League with a save percentage of .776 on 45 saves. Terilli has played 1,103 out of a total 1,419 minutes. Goalkeeper Katherine Myhre has a save percentage of .600 on 6 saves and has played 316 minutes so far this season. Forward Juliana Provini leads the Quakers offensively with three goals and two assists, and is followed in scoring by forward Anna Estep and midfielder Kaitlyn Moore with two goals and one assist. Midfielder Erin Mikolai leads the Quakers with five assists.

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opposing keepers more often than Kirby. Her seven goals on an efficient 22 shots lead all Princeton players.

Statistically, both of this contest’s goalkeepers rank just inside the league’s bot-

Quaker forward Alexa Hoover, recipient of four Ivy League Rookie of the Week awards, leads the conference with 13 goals. tom half. Princeton junior Anya Gersoff, who has started in 15 of her side’s 16 contests, has allowed 2.62 goals per game with a save percentage of 69. Senior Allison Weisenfels has likewise started in 15 games, compiling a 8-7 record with a goal against average of 2.26. She has managed 86 stops with a save percentage of 71.1.

The Quakers’ forward Alexa Hoover, recipient of four Ivy League Rookie of the Week awards, including this

past week’s honor, has been sensational in her first year.

Her 13 goals tie her for the league lead, while her 29 total points stand as the conference’s third-best mark. Limiting Hoover’s shooting, which finds the cage an impressive 73 percent of the time, will be a priority for the Tigers.

No player has won four Rookie of the Week awards in one season since 2003, when Princeton’s Allison Nemeth ’07 accomplished this feat.

Nemeth, a former assistant coach for both the Tigers and the Quakers, went on to be named that season’s Rookie of the Year.

In her final year, captain Alex Iqbal has emerged as one of the Quakers’ standouts.

Her 51 attempts, only six of which have found the back of the cage, lead the team. Worthy of note, Iqbal scored one of the season’s only hat tricks in a 4-1 win over Harvard.

The Tigers are not, as the cliché goes, in control of their own destiny. An NCAA tournament trip has become commonplace for this outstanding program. And yet, as college sports will make evident time and time again, nothing can be taken for granted.

What has been a wild Ivy League season will conclude this weekend. You can catch the Tigers on Bedford Field at 12 p.m. or on the Ivy League Digital Network.

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“Kimbo,” as she is called by her teammates– is down-to-earth and has a great sense of humor.

“She has a pair of sassy pants that she likes to pull out here and there,” McDonnell said.

Looking forward into the season, McDonnell said she believes that any team has a great shot.

“The Ivy League is very tight,” McDonnell said. “Any weekend, any team could win.”

RIT is in the process of integrating into Division I. It was a Division III school for many years, and McDonnell’s freshman year was the first year RIT competed DI. This, however, says nothing about RIT’s experience. Last season, RIT won its division, but was not able to compete at NCAAs because there is an NCAA ruling which states that teams that are moving into DI cannot compete at NCAAs for their first two years. Therefore, this will be the first season in which RIT is eligible to make a run at the NCAA title.

“RIT doesn’t have any big names, but they are a hard-

working team. Hard-working teams are often harder to beat than talent,” McDonnell said.

While RIT is not in the same division as Princeton, this game will affect the Tigers’ record and their ranking in the NCAA. While the game will not affect Princeton’s record in the Ivy League,it will set the tone for the rest of the season.

A better record will garner the Tigers greater respect when they face other opponents. “If you know a team is a big opponent, you sit back on your heels a little more, and this little bit of confidence can make or break a team,” McDonnell said.

On the whole, however, the women’s ice hockey team is a fast-skating, hard-working group that has a great balance between veterans and fresh talent, and has the potential to be a championship team.

The team’s great dynamics and good health have helped the Tigers maintain high spirits.

Going into this weekend, there is no doubt they will put forth their very best efforts. “At the end of the day, it’s the team that makes more mistakes that’s going to lose. It’s really a game against yourself,” said McDonnell.

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replied, “[They have] big strong forwards, and they like to work the puck down low.”

Fogarty stressed that his team will need to prevent Cornell from causing traffic in front of the net and to constrain the Big Red’s shots to the outsides of the ice.

Colgate, Fogarty’s alma mater, will arrive at Baker Rink with nine games under its belt, boasting national pedigree as the No.4 ranked team in the country. The Raiders are the consensuspick to win the ECAC in the preseason coaches and media polls. Fogarty called Colgate “an excellent team,” saying that his squad will have to play to its best ability to compete.

The Orange and Black will

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Senior forward Cameron Porter has managed an outstanding 29 points on 13 goals and three assists.

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Despite the Quakers’ streakiness, the Tigers know better than to underestimate their nearby rivals. It was just last year that the Quakers staged a two-goal comeback in Philadelphia to eliminate the Tigers from a shot at the Ivy title. With

the proven ability to compete with strong teams, Penn poses a high threat that the Tigers know they will have to be ready for on Saturday night, with a potential NCAA berth on the line.

“Once again, this is a mustwin game,” junior forward Nico Hurtado said. “We’ve gone seven games in a row unbeaten, but we have to make

sure we win these last two. We have great momentum coming off a great win in D.C. Penn has a really good attack like us, so I expect it to be a high-scoring game. Our season last year ended with our loss to Penn, and we don’t want that to happen again.”

Game time is set for 7 p.m. on Saturday evening at Roberts Stadium.

have to play sound, smart hockey in order to enjoy success this weekend. Fogarty is optimistic, saying, “We believe with our strategy and our game plan we have an opportunity to win.” The skipper stressed improving the “quality of the mistake” committed by his team. “We don’t want to give that mistake up right in front of our net, [but] rather make [it] occur in the offensive zone,” he noted. Ambrosia, sidelined this weekend by a lower-body injury, stressed that his team needs to focus internally and play within Fogarty’s system. “We want to focus on ourselves,” he said. “We have systems that we want to make sure that we nail down. We have to shoot the puck a lot, create traffic [and] get guys in front of the net. I think that’s how you score goals, especially against a team like

Cornell.”

In his first year at the helm of the hockey program, Fogarty is passionate about attracting crowds to Baker Rink this winter and is starting the home season by targeting two of Princeton students’ passions: free gear and free food.

Friday’s home opener will be a “whiteout,” with students receiving free white Princeton hockey T-shirts to wear as they support the home side.

There will also be free pizza for students after the second intermission. “We want the balcony to be loud and to drown out the Cornell band,” the head coach said with a smile.

While their classmates enjoy free food and new apparel, the men’s hockey team will embark on the difficult journey that is the ECAC schedule, excited that hockey season is upon us once again.

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Julie Shackford to coach final regular season game

By Sydney Mandlebaum staff writer

The women’s soccer team’s final game of the season this Saturday promises to be an exciting one, filled with numerous opportunities and milestones: the potential to finish in a tie for first place in the Ivy League; the final game for a legendary and record-setting head coach; the chance for a sophomore to break the single-season record for goals scored and for Tiger players to lock down the Ivy League titles for most points, goals and assists; and the team’s honoring of nine seniors. The game, against Penn, will be played in Roberts Stadium at 3 p.m.

Princeton (7-5-3 overall, 3-2-1 Ivy) is currently in third place in the Ivy League standings, close behind both first-place Harvard

(9-4-2 overall, 4-1-1 Ivy) and second-place Dartmouth (84-4 overall, 3-0-3 Ivy), with each team having one game left to play this season. With a combination of a Princeton win, a Harvard loss and a Dartmouth tie or loss, the Tigers would find themselves in a two- or three-way tie for first place in the final standings.

Saturday’s opponent Penn (7-5-3 overall, 2-3-1 Ivy) is currently sixth in the Ivy League but has won its past two games against Lehigh University and Brown. The Tigers likewise are coming off consecutive wins against Cornell and North Carolina State University.

Princeton head coach Julie Shackford will be looking for her 203rd win with the program on Saturday, as her 20th and final season with Princeton comes to a close.

During her coaching career,

Shackford’s teams have won six Ivy League titles and received eight NCAA tournament berths, including an NCAA semifinal appearance in 2004.

The Tigers’ offense has been a scoring machine this season. Sophomore forward Tyler Lussi and senior defender Lauren Lazo have been dominating on the field, leading the Ivy League and ranking nationally in multiple offensive scoring categories. Freshman midfielder Vanessa Gregoire and classmates defender Natalie Larkin and forward Beth Stella have also led the offensive push this season, helping the Tigers field a formidable offense. The Tigers lead the Ivy League in goals overall and per game (33, 2.2), points overall and per game (108, 7.2), shots overall and per game (231, See W. SOCCER page 6

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Freshman forward Mikaela Symanovich will look to punctuate a strong rookie campaign this weekend.

FIELD HOCKEY PREVIEW

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Season finale set for Saturday against Quakers Ivy League championship

within reach for Princeton

By Andrew Steele sports editor

This weekend will mark the end of field hockey’s regular season, the first campaign since 2004 during which the Orange and Black has amassed a losing record.

Princeton (6-10 overall, 5-1 Ivy League) will take on its ultimate Ivy League opponent in Penn (8-8, 3-3).

These two teams have met a total of 42 times, with the Princeton, having won the past nine matchups, holding an overall series lead 24-153. Last season’s contest saw the Tigers trounce the Quakers in Philadelphia. All-Ivy forward Michelle Cesan ’14 scored a brace en route to a 5-1 decision which yielded an Ivy League championship for Princeton.

A postseason berth still remains within the realm of possibility for Princeton.

Should the Tigers top their local rivals, and should Harvard upend Columbia in Cambridge, Mass., head coach Kristen Holmes-Winn’s side

By Jack Rogers associate sports editor

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Senior back Cassidy Arner will play what may be the final game in her impressive four-year career.

would stand alone at the top of the table and secure its 11th consecutive Ivy League championship.

Senior Captain and midfielder Sydney Kirby, recent-

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ly selected to play in the National Field Hockey Coaches Association Division I Senior game, has been consistently impressive for the Tigers.

Starting in all 16 of her team’s

games, she has tallied a team high 16 points on six goals and four assists.

Only junior forward Maddie Copeland has beat See F. HOCKEY page 6

After taking down American University (10-4-3 overall, 4-2-2 Patriot League) 2-0 on the road on Wednesday afternoon in its final non-conference game of the regular season, the men’s soccer team (9-3-3 overall, 3-1-1 Ivy) moves into its penultimate match of the regular season on Saturday evening, and the stakes cannot be higher.

With just two Ivy League matches remaining for each team in the conference, the Tigers stand atop the conference standings, tied with Dartmouth with a total of 10 points. Harvard and Penn follow with eight points, and Columbia and Cornell have seven and six points, respectively. While Brown and Yale only have five points and one point, respectively, the next two games present a number of possibilities for a majority of the teams to capture the

Ivy League title, along with an automatic berth to the NCAA tournament.

The squad of head coach Jim Barlow ’91, in its final regular season home game, will have an especially crucial battle on Saturday evening, as the team hosts Penn (6-7-2, 2-1-2) in a matchup that has enormous implications for the Ivy standings. The Quakers’ sub.500 record reflects the team’s streaky nature over the last two months. While the team has recorded impressive victories over Cornell and Dartmouth, it has struggled to execute against the conference’s weaker members. In its last two Ivy games, the Quakers played to a 1-1 draw against Brown on Nov. 1, and less impressively played to a 1-1 draw against Yale. That game made Penn the only one of five Ivy opponents that Yale (1-11-3, 0-4-1 Ivy) has not lost to so far this season, and just one of four teams that Yale has not lost to through 15 games.

See M. SOCCER page 7

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ECAC conference play begins Tigers take on non-conference opponent in home opener for Princeton men at home

By Christine Kong contributor

By Mark Goldstein contributor

With thermometers dropping and daylight fading, winter is in the air and with it the return of men’s hockey to Baker Rink. The Tigers (0-1-1) will play host to Eastern College Athletic Conference foes Cornell (0-1-1) and Colgate University (6-2-0) on Friday and Saturday nights at 7 p.m., initiating conference competition for the 2014-15 season.

The hockey squad opened play last weekend, competing in the Liberty Hockey Invitational against Yale and Merrimack College. In their season opener, the Tigers played to a 2-2 stalemate against a Yale team just a season removed from a national championship.

Junior co-captain Mike Ambrosia called the performance a “great team effort,” with the Tigers playing strong hockey and taking a 2-1 lead into the third period. The Tigers did not fare as well in their second game of the weekend, losing 6-1 to a seasoned Merrimack side that had already competed in six games.

This weekend’s matchups will provide another stern test for the Tigers as they attempt to improve upon last year’s disappointing 6-26 campaign (4-18 in ECAC play).

Ivy foe Cornell, which started the year ranked No.18 in the nation, possesses size and physicality. Asked to describe the challenge posed by the team, head coach Ron Fogarty See M. HOCKEY page 7

This Friday and Saturday, women’s ice hockey (3-1 overall, 2-0 ECAC) will face Rochester Institute of Technology (5-3-2, 0-1-1 College Hockey America) in a double header. The Tigers are feeling confident after their wins against Colgate University and then No. 6 Cornell last weekend. Unlike other teams the Tigers face, RIT is a rather unknown opponent. The last time Princeton played RIT was two years ago, when they won their division. From what the Tigers know, RIT is a formidable team, but the depth and talent of Princeton’s roster has a great shot at coming out with a win.

In addition to taking on RIT, the Princeton men’s and women’s ice hockey teams are joining forces to sup-

port “Stick it to Cancer,” a fundraiser for colon cancer research, on Saturday. The fundraiser was coordinated

by Fiona McKenna and her friend at RIT, whose father passed away from colon cancer a year ago from this weekend. The teams’ goal is to raise $5,000 for colon cancer research. There will be various games and activities at the halftime intermission, and baked goods will be sold for the cause. Fans can also donate at the rink or online.

Admission to the women’s game will be free to the public, and free to students for the men’s game.

Since it has been two years since the Tigers have faced RIT, the coaches have been spending a lot of time analyzing their opponents’ game film to get a sense of their playing style. The

women have been practicing with a great sense of purpose in preparation for this weekend.

“We’re trying to get a sense of their systems – their power plays, penalty kills and forechecks,” junior forward Jaimie McDonnell said. “Different teams have different styles.

Some are less aggressive, and others will go full force at you on the defensive end.

There are two ideologies, and a coach will look at a team’s strengths and decide which is better. A team with fast skaters can send two players out strong, but a team that’s stronger defensively will hang back a little more.”

The Tigers are really clicking this year, and with the incredible depth of the team, it’s hard to pick players to sit out. “Freshmen to seniors are all playing well. It’s a lot easier

to see when offense is rolling.

We scored nine goals this weekend, but our defense is just as strong. They’re the unsung heroes,” McDonnell said.

A couple of Tigers who stood out last weekend were freshman forward Kiersten Falck and junior goalie Kim Newell.

Falck had a goal, and Newell had multiple saves. “When things were falling apart, Kim kept everything together,” McDonnell said.

Newell, who has been a starter since her freshman year, was invited by Hockey Canada to attend the 2014 National Women’s Team Fall Festival, which is an evaluation opportunity for the team that will represent Canada at the 2015 International Ice Hockey Federation Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship.

Despite her accolades and phenomenal ability, Kim– or See W. HOCKEY page 6

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