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Wednesday september 11, 2013 vol. cxxxvii no. 64

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In Opinion

Rebecca Kreutter discusses the pressure of a Princeton degree, and Benjamin Dinovelli examines cheating at Ivy League schools. PAGE 6

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Visit our website for an interactive look at the Class of 2017’s geographical diversity.

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

Woody Allen to speak at U. on Oct. 27

Spitzer ’81 loses race for NYC Comptroller

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University manuscript curator Don Skemer, Allen’s gifts began with a suggestion from his friend Laurance Rockefeller ’32, a major philanthropist of the University. While Allen was visiting the Rockefeller family’s estate in Pocantico Hills, N.Y., Rockefeller suggested Allen donate his papers to the University, Skemer explained. “Woody Allen said, ‘I don’t know what to do with my old scripts,’” he said. “And Laurance Rockefeller said, See VISIT page 4

News & Notes

Prolific filmmaker Woody Allen will be speaking on campus on Oct. 27 in an event hosted by Friends of Princeton University Library. His visit is the latest marker in an ongoing relationship with the University, to which he been donating his personal papers since 1980. Allen is an Academy Award-winning director and screenwriter, most recently directing the film “Blue Jasmine.” According to

U. takes top spot in U.S. News rankings

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Just in time for classes to start, Intersections reminisces on its favorite anthems of the summer to help you through those late-night study sessions.

Princeton topped Harvard on the U.S. News & World Report’s 2014 ranking of America’s best colleges and universities, a year after the two tied for first place in the 2013 rankings. With Harvard now second on the list, the two universities have led the list for 11 years in a row. Yale was ranked third, followed by Columbia. Stanford and the University of Chicago are tied for fifth, and Duke, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania take a three-way tie for seventh. Dartmouth and the California Institute of Technology rounded out the top 10. Ivy League schools all made the top 20, with Brown and Cornell ranking 14th and 16th, respectively. U.S. News ranked schools on the basis of a range of factors that include class size, SAT scores, peer reputation, alumni giving rates and selectivity. For the 2014 rankings, the publication adjusted its methodology to ref lect changes in the state of college admissions and the postgraduate environment. Students’ high school class rank carried less weight, as fewer schools are including the mark on transcripts. Other changes in ranking factors included a reduction in the importance of the peer assessment score and an increase in weight of graduation and retention rates. The ranking of the top three liberal arts colleges was unchanged, with Williams College in first, followed by Amherst and Swarthmore.

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tion this year do not have an advantage applying the next year. Rapelye explained that the University misses approximately three states every year and this fact is unavoidable. Tessa Myren ’17 is the only student in the Class of 2017 from South Dakota and is the only student, according to Myren, to apply to and enroll to Princeton from her high school in three years. She explained that students are encouraged to attend in-state colleges by school counselors, family members and even the governor. “There was a little bit of a feeling of pariahnSee GEOGRAPHY page 3

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

By Patience Haggin

On the Blog

New Jersey and California together contributed to over 27 percent of the total Class of 2017, while four states — Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming and Iowa — contributed no students. International students made up 12.6 percent of the Class of 2017 and came from 54 countries, according to Princeton Residential College Student Facebook. The University’s Undergraduate Admissions Office dispatches several admissions officers abroad every year to attract applicants from around the

world. In visits that average two weeks each, these admissions staff members reached 25 countries over the 20122013 academic year and are scheduled to visit 31 countries this coming year, according to the Admissions Office. The pool of international applicants for admission to the University has increased 93.5 percent over the past eight years, according to the Admissions Office. According to Dean of Admissions Janet Rapelye, these numbers do not affect the consideration of applicants the following year; students from states without representa-

By Danny Johnson staff writer

DON SKEMER :: COURTESY OF RARE BOOKS LIBRARY

This is the early draft of Hannah and Her Sisters from 1986 by Woody Allen. LOCAL NEWS

Atheist group threatens lawsuit over 9/11 memorial By Allison Kruk staff writer

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Freshmen from Rockefeller College walk in the Pre-Rade, celebrating the start of their undergraduate Princeton experience.

The American Atheists, a nonprofit atheist advocacy organization, has threatened to sue the town of Princeton if a proposal to erect a memorial featuring a steel beam with a carved cross salvaged from the World Trade Center comes to fruition. Princeton Fire Department Chief Roy James said he conceived the idea to construct a 9/11 monument in Princeton three years ago after acquiring a piece of wreckage from the attacks. Workers clearing the wreckage at Ground Zero inscribed a cross into a steel beam as a way of commemorating the victims, he said. James said he plans to build the memorial in front of the Battle Monument at the intersection of Nassau Street and Route 206. The project will require $100,000

in funding, which he said he is seeking from private donors. Because the desired land is state property, James said he will also require state authorization to build the monument. However, the state has said that the memorial would conf lict with the existing monument in honor of those who died in the Battle of Princeton during the Revolutionary War, according to Mayor Liz Lempert. James said he is currently in the process of appealing that decision. The atheist group has argued that if the memorial were to be built on public lands, it would violate the constitutional separation between church and state. The group has requested that the beam be placed in a public “free speech zone” that accommodates memorials See CROSS page 4

Eliot Spitzer ’81, who left the New York governor’s mansion in disgrace after a prostitution scandal, lost Tuesday’s Democratic primary for Comptroller of New York City in a tight race against current Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer. With 92 percent of precincts reporting, The New York Times called the race for Stringer, who received 51.8 percent of the vote. Spitzer received 48.2 percent of the vote. The comptroller wields considerable power as the city’s chief fiscal officer, managing the investments of $140 billion in municipal pensions and exercising the power to audit city agencies, according to Reuters. Stringer is expected to cruise to victory in the general election on Nov. 5, becoming the second-most powerful official in the city and launching what could turn out to be a successful political comeback. In a May 2011 interview with The Daily Princetonian, Spitzer spoke about second chances for those whose actions have cost them the public trust. “I think the American public believes in comebacks, whether it’s sports teams or individuals,” he said at the time. Following his resignation, Spitzer spent the next five years preparing for this comeback attempt, hosting political talk shows for CNN and Current TV, writing for the online magazine Slate and teaching at the City College of New York. See SPITZER page 3

LOCAL NEWS

Public Safety arrests freshman for alleged possession of drugs By Marcelo Rochabrun associate news editor

An enrolled undergraduate student was arrested Sunday night by the University’s own Department of Public Safety after he was allegedly found in possession of illegal drugs in a room in Holder Hall. Public Safety has rarely arrested students for drug possession or any other offense, instead issuing what the University calls a judicial referral.

Joseph Gauvreau ’17 was charged with drug possession after Public Safety received “information about possible drugs in a room,” according to University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua. Mbugua explained that Gauvreau consented to the search of his room. “The officers found a plastic bag containing a drug,” Mbugua said, although he noted he could not specify the type of drug alleg-

edly found at the moment because it has not yet been tested. Mbugua did not specify the quantity of the drug allegedly found. Gauvreau did not respond to a request for comment. According to the latest annual crime report published by the University under the Clery Act, which governs University law enforcement record-keeping, 56 students were given internal judicial referrals in 2011 after having been al-

legedly found in possession of illegal drugs. That same year, four individuals were arrested by Public Safety for drug possession, although it remains unclear if any of them were students. Mbugua explained that the decision to arrest or not to arrest a student found in possession of drugs depends on the specific situation. “Those decisions are made on a case-by-case basis based on a number of factors, including the type or quantity

of the drug,” he said. Judicial referrals are handled by the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students through the Faculty-Student Committee on Discipline. These cases are not criminally investigated by Public Safety and are not considered public records. Only members of the University can be processed through this internal system. “When persons who are not members of the UniverSee DRUGS page 3

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