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In Opinion Ye Eun Charlotte Chun discusses “Nuevo” East Asia, and Spencer Shen evaluates what makes a good professor. PAGE 6

In Street

By Anna Mazarakis

A Love & Lust on intoxication and a survey of Princeton’s dance groups. PAGE S1

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Today on Campus 8 p.m.: Theater professor Brian Herrera performs ‘I Was the Voice of Democracy,’ a hilarious and heartbreaking memoir piece. 185 Nassau Street.

The Archives

Sept. 19, 1989 Roger Kingsepp, a student at Wesleyan, filed a class-action lawsuit against Princeton and 11 other private colleges, accusing them of fixing tuition prices.

On the Blog Amy Garland explores the emotional EP by FKA twigs.

News & Notes Palmer Square Post Office building to be sold

the palmer square location of the Princeton Post Office has been placed on sale, a year after the United States Postal Service first announced plans to sell the historic building. The Postal Service has occupied the 11,500-square-foot building since 1934. Last year, the financially struggling Postal Service announced plans to leave the building and relocate to another site downtown. The building, which is listed as a historic site on the New Jersey and national registers, contains a controversial 1939 mural that shows Native Americans kneeling to European colonists. The plot is being sold by real estate firm Charlie Bravo Romeo Edward. A representative told the Town Topics that the firm has already received multiple bids, including one from Palmer Square Management, which manages other tenants on Palmer Square. Potential plans for the space include a restaurant, retail shop or gallery. There is a slim possibility that the post office may remain in a small area of the building, if the space were divided up for multiple purposes.

Alumni criticize universities, calling them slow, old-fashioned

three highly-placed university alumni spoke openly against the conventional college education system in a public discussion hosted by the New America Foundation. Eric Schmidt ’76 and Anne-Marie Slaughter See NOTES page 2

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HORIA RADOI :: STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Students attending the Campus Rec Expo participated in training in Dillon Gym.

“After having severe depression my freshman year that resulted in failing a class, I am so scared to go back to school. I feel like I’ve tried everything from counseling to medication and at this point I feel hopeless. FML.” Expressing a sentiment that, according to data from the 2011 Committee on Background and Opportunity report, close to half of Princeton students have admitted to feeling, this Aug. 15 post on Princeton FML hit home for several of the site’s readers. Of the many commenters who responded, one — who went by “’16” on PFML but who later adopted the

pseudonym “PFMLer16” — ″ started a lively discussion by telling an incredibly detailed story of having “blown” freshman year, which PFMLer16 wrote was highlighted by academic and social difficulties. The rising sophomore suggested forming a support group of people who felt the same way, named the “People who Blew Freshman Year Club.” “I didn’t really want to share my story,” PFMLer16, who was granted anonymity due to the nameless nature of both PFML and the new group, said. But, while feeling “pretty miserable” over the summer, PFMLer16 checked PFML every day and decided to comment after reading a post that seemed all too familiar. See PWBP page 3

LOCAL NEWS

Town is developing immigration resolution By Warren Crandall Senior writer

A Princeton town council subcommittee is in the process of developing a plan that would clarify local law enforcement’s role — or lack thereof — in the enforcement of federal immigration laws. Heather Howard, the Princeton Council’s liaison to the subcommittee developing the resolution, said it would clearly differentiate the role of local police from that of federal immigration officials. The reso-

lution would inform members of the Princeton community that local law enforcement officers do not conduct immigration checks during their daily enforcement of state and local laws and do not participate in immigration raids conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. “We’re drawing a line and saying our priority is enforcing state and local laws,” Howard said. “It’s not our responsibility to enforce … immigration laws.” The council subcommittee

is working with the Princetonbased Latin American Legal Defense and Education Fund. LALDEF Executive Director Martina Juega said the resolution would help stand up to efforts by federal officials to involve local police in enforcement of immigration law. “[The federal government] is misspending and misapplying resources in this country … by engaging local police department in immigration enforcement activities,” Juega said. Currently, ICE, which did not respond to a request for com-

ment, has the ability to ask that local law enforcement officials detain immigrants who have been picked up or stopped for a wide range of criminal offenses both large and small. If the request — called a “detainer” — is granted by local police, the immigrant in question is held while ICE decides whether or not to pick them up and charge them with immigration violations. Howard and Juega both explained they believe this melding of local policing and immigration enforcement

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is detrimental both to public safety and to the peace of mind of Princeton’s growing immigrant community. The resolution would signal Princeton law enforcement’s refusal to cooperate with detainers issued for immigrants who have only committed minor legal violations, they said. “These [detainers] are the kinds of situations that we do not want our police department to be involved [in],” Juega said. A staff attorney at New Jersey See IMMIGRATION page 2

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U. distributes credit cards to all RCAs By Daniel Johnson staff writer

COURTESY OF CASON CRANE

Cason Crane ‘17 climbed Mount McKinley in July as the last mountain of his Rainbow Summits project.

Crane ’17 climbs Seven Summits on gap years, raises $133,920 for Trevor Project By Seth Merkin Morokoff staff writer

While the start of college is a milestone for most, Cason Crane ’17 had already passed seven others before arriving at Princeton. Crane, who graduated from high school in Connecticut in 2011, deferred his admission for two years in order to climb the Seven Summits — the highest peak on each of the seven continents — as part of The Rainbow Summits Project, an initiative he designed to contribute to efforts against teenage

suicide among LGBTQ youth. His fundraising efforts have yielded $133,920 in donations to The Trevor Project, a national organization focused on providing suicide prevention services for queer youth, according to The Rainbow Summits Project website. “I was really lucky to have the opportunity to do this project,” Crane said. “I started out with very little experience. I’ve learned a lot in the past year, but I’ve also learned how much more there is to learn.”

Crane said he first decided to climb the Seven Summits in February 2012, while on his first gap year in between boarding school and Princeton. His interest in climbing began with a spring break trip to Mt. Kilimanjaro with his mother at age 15. Years later, after a string of high-profile suicides by gay youth, including Rutgers student Tyler Clementi, Crane explained that he decided to dedicate a second gap year to The Trevor Project cause. On his list were Mt. Everest in See CLIMBER page 3

In addition to their yearly training before students arrive on campus in the fall, the University’s residential college advisers learned they would be participating in another University program this year — a credit card initiative. Rather than dealing with reimbursements for study breaks or keeping track of University cash advances, each RCA has been given a new Universityissued Bank of America credit card by the Office of Finance and Treasury. Previously, RCAs received a cash advance from the Office of Finance and Treasury deposited to their personal bank account. Throughout the year, each RCA then kept a record of his or her purchases, submitting receipts to the appropriate college office. Receipts were then generally reviewed at the end of the semester. Including RCAs in the University’s credit card program is part of a plan to move away from cash advance systems, according to Suzanne Bellan, the associate director of financial services at the Office of Finance and Treasury. “In general, we’re thinking about ways that we can have more effective processes for people on campus, including RCAs and other people that engage in buying and paying for University activities,” Bellan said. RCAs will now make purchases using University credit cards in their own names. Purchases are logged in the University’s online “Works” system, where RCAs record a description or justification for the purchase. College office staff then review See RCA page 4

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