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ACADEMICS

ORFE sees jump in sophomore class

By Michael Granovetter

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In Opinion Ye Eun Charlotte Chun discusses being #1 and the Editorial Board explores dining options.

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Such spikes have occurred in the past, Bogucki added. For instance, the Class of 2011, the largest ORFE graduating class to date with 66 concentrators, originally consisted of 87 rising sophomores.

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ORFE concentrators are seniors while 65 ORFE majors are juniors.

However, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Peter Bogucki noted that these statistics are “dynamic numbers.”

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The number of students declaring operations research and financial engineering as their major has recently experienced rapid growth, shooting above computer science.

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

The Internet’s “sexiest” now politics professor

By Loully Saney staff writer

Town looking into use of private schools, churches as emergency reception centers

a year after hurricane sandy, Princeton is negotiating the use of private schools and churches as reception centers in case of weather emergencies, the Princeton Packet reported.

Two weeks ago, Emergency Management Director Robert Gregory wrote letters of request to private schools for use of their spaces. In event of emergency, residents can congregate at these centers to seek shelter, charge phones and receive updates from the town. Additionally, the locations of these premises will provide a more convenient location for residents living further from downtown. In the aftermath of Sandy, residents in affected areas sought shelter in the gymnasium at John Witherspoon Middle School.

Councilman Patrick Simon told the Packet that consolidation and the relocation of the University Medical Center at Princeton to Plainsboro have changed Princeton’s circumstances, and that this year is a timely year for a reexamination of the town’s emergency protocols.

23 freshmen run for class council

the candidates for election to the Class of 2017 class council have been announced, according to the USG website. Voting begins on Oct. 1.

The candidates are: Nusrat Ahmed, Michael Cox, Aleksandra Czulak, Femi Fadairo, Scarlett Grabowska, Lorena Grundy, Deana Hamlin, Anne Haque, CJ Harris, Kelly Lau, Luke Li, Erik Massenzio, Austin Pruitt, Josh Roberts, Edwin Rosales, Rose Serrano, Mohamed Shalan, Chris Shin, Nathan Suek, Andrew Sun, Jay Wilson, Susanna Yu and Jeremy Zullow.

OMAR WASOW politics professor

Omar Wasow became an assistant professor of politics this fall to teach students on race and identity. But before he joined the Princeton faculty, he spent his time before a different sort of audience: Oprah Winfrey’s.

Wasow spent a decade as an Internet analyst, giving talks on cyberspace and technology. He co-founded BlackPlanet, a social networking site, appeared on Newsweek’s list of “fifty most influential

people to watch in cyberspace” and spoke on radio and television shows throughout the early years of the growth of the technology industry.

Most notably, Wasow guided Oprah Winfrey as she learned how to use the Internet and participated in a 12-part series on her 2000 show, “Oprah Goes Online.”

“For a dozen years, I was just having a ball,” Wasow said.

Since then, Wasow has made frequent return visits to Oprah’s show, including a 2010 visit during which he demonstrated how to use the iPad. Wasow grew up in the heart of Greenwich Village in New York City, attending Stuyvesant High School, where he was president of the student union, and later Stanford University, where he chose an independently-designed

major in race and ethnic relations.

His graduation from Stanford in 1992 coincided with rapid developments of the Internet and growth of the technology industry. The World Wide Web had been invented just a few years earlier, and Wasow said that he had already developed a strong interest in the field. As a teenager, Wasow said he spent a great deal of time on online communities called “bulletin board systems.” With this background, he created his own community in 1994 called New York Online for New York residents.

Wasow began to receive press for New York Online, and eventually built websites for the New Yorker, Samsung, Pfizer and the College Board, among many others. By 1995, Newsweek had pegged him as one of the 50 most influen-

tial people to watch in cyberspace, and two years later, he was asked to appear on MSNBC as a commentator on the Internet. “[The MSNBC position] led to basically a career as a regular on air tech analyst that would help explain trends and technology to a mass audience,” Wasow said, referring to himself as a “gadget guru.”

In 2001, Wasow co-founded a social-networking site for African-Americans, BlackPlanet.com, which currently has over three million users.

The site offers African-Americans discussion forums on everything from politics to romance.

The popularity of BlackPlanet and Wasow’s television appearances caught the attention of Winfrey’s producers, who asked him to audition for the show, Wasow said. He

shot the initial 12-episode series of “Oprah Goes Online” over a three-day weekend.

“She was exceedingly decent, really great to me,” Wasow said of Winfrey.

“He’s the best Internet teacher in the world because he was able to teach me how to surf the Net and I am truly technologically challenged,” Winfrey told People magazine in a November 2000 article that named him “Sexiest Internet Executive.”

After over a decade working to bring the Internet to the masses, Wasow turned his attention inward. His roots in New York had given him an interest in identity that he wanted to further explore, he explained.

“I was on TV and making good money and in the center of the most important technological transformation to See WEB page 3

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Marzouki asks for patience in Tunisia

Q&A: Marzouki, president of Tunisia

By Angela Wang staff writer

Post-revolution turmoil in the Middle East is a natural effect of creating new democracies, not a sign that the Arab Spring was unsuccessful, Tunisian president Moncef Marzouki argued in a lecture about the challenges facing his country’s new democracy on Thursday afternoon.

Observers of the Arab World should be patient before drawing conclusions about the success of the Arab Spring because revolutions take time to effect change, he noted.

“Democracy is a process; it’s continuous experimentation,” Marzouki said in an exclusive interview with The Daily Princetonian before the lecture.

“Experimentation is going on everywhere in the Arab world with different paces. In Tunisia, we are trying to do our best to set up this democracy, but it’s not easy at all.”

In the course of his lecture, Marzouki emphasized that the problems Tunisia faces — such as dealing with entrenched government officials and judges loyal to the old regime — are not an effect of the country’s Islamic religious orientation or Arab culture, but rather are problems that any new democracy encounters.

Indeed, he explained, four laws govern the course of revolutions, including Tunisia’s.

First, “all revolutions come with a price.” Second, “those who initiated the revolution do not always benefit from it.” Third, “all revolutions give birth to counterrevolution.” And finally “not all revolutions succeed, and most require a lot of time before they achieve their goals.”

He said that it would take decades and decades before the success of the revolution in Tunisia could be assessed accurately.

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By Angela Wang staff writer

Before delivering a public lecture on Thursday afternoon, Tunisian president Moncef Marzouki spoke briefly with The Daily Princetonian about the challenges he faces as president and the reasons for his visit.

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Tunisian president Moncef Marzouki gave a public lecture about democracy on Thursday afternoon at Richardson Auditorium.

The Daily Princetonian: What would you say right now are the greatest challenges to your presidency?

What steps will you take to strengthen the new democracy?

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At the same time, administrators in the ORFE department attribute the dramatic increase in ORFE concentrators to a greater interest in financial work among students. “[The increase] is not surprising because ORFE has always been popular,” Department Chair Jianqing Fan explained, adding, “The financial market has increased. They need more quantitative people to work in that area.”

While he noted that it is often difficult to predict trends in the department, Fan stated that, based on historical data and the increases in the size of the engineering school as a whole, he expects that the department will be able to retain approximately 80 of the new concentrators in the class of 2016.

ORFE Departmental Representative Alain Kornhauser noted that while the increase in concentrators “is substantially larger than spikes we’ve had before,” the department has not introduced any changes that would explain this increase.

“It’s not that we had a different promotional process with respect to this class,” he explained. “We think that the department is an improving department, but we haven’t made any drastic changes that would correlate with this.”

Kornhauser added that the state of the American economy might have also impacted the appeal of the department.

“Financial engineering wasn’t responsible for the financial crisis of 2008, but its name was possibly tarnished a little bit,” he said. “But now it’s no longer 2008.

Some of the memories of that are somewhat gone. We’re back to normal.”

But Kornhauser noted that no

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one can definitively determine whether such a causal relationship exists. He explained that it is more likely that the ORFE department has become a more attractive major for students pursuing the applied math certificate, or for students generally interested in analytical and leadership skills.

Charlie Wu ’16 explained that he chose ORFE as a concentration because it allows for greater flexibility in his schedule than other majors. However, at the same time he said he is considering switching his concentration to computer science, which he explained has similar academic requirements.

Wu added that he believes in other cases, some students might have financial motivations for pursuing an ORFE degree.

“People sort of think that ORFE majors make a lot of money,” he said. “I don’t really know, though, because that’s not a factor for me.”

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Above: Princeton Farmer’s Market boast cup-by-cup Small World Coffee. Below: Delicious mushrooms tempt passersby.

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“We do politics, not miracles,” he said of politicians’ task in the meantime.

Marzouki also noted key differences between Tunisia and other Arab Spring countries, such as Egypt, that allowed Tunisia’s revolution to unfold in a relatively successful and peaceful fashion. He explained that Tunisia is a small, predominantly middle-class, homogeneous country with a strong civil society.

“The dialogue never stopped; the dialogue is going,” he said of the Tunisian public’s behavior during the revolution. “The political dialogue that stopped in Egypt is going on all the time in Tunisia.”

One challenge that still lies ahead for the Tunisian government is collaboration with parties who promote opposing ide-

ologies, he said.

“We have to work with the opposition,” Marzouki said. “We have to distinguish between the wide spectrum of the opposition and work once again with the moderate part of the opposition.”

In a moment of levity, Marzouki said that his youngest daughter, Nadia Marzouki ’06 had warned him to treat his audience nicely.

“She told me to be very careful, speak very loudly, don’t be too aggressive with the students,” he said, joking.

Marzouki concluded his lecture by describing his vision for an international constitutional court that could evaluate the constitutions for newly formed democracies. If such a court were to be created, he said, it could model its criteria on those in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and determine whether new democracies’ plans for the structure of their governments were fit to be implemented.

“Don’t expect it during my lifetime, but if mankind would have this instrument to prevent dictatorship in 20 years, in 50 years, you will see it and remember me and say, ‘Hey, he was a good guy,’” Marzouki said, joking.

The Arab Spring movement began in Tunisia in December 2010 after a fruit vendor set himself on fire in protest of the country’s corrupt and oppressive dictatorship. Following the overthrow of long-time president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Marzouki returned to Tunisia after several years in exile to work as a human rights activist. He was elected as the republic’s president in December 2011.

Marzouki visited the United States primarily to participate in United Nations meetings on Wednesday and was scheduled to return to his home country on Friday to deal with what he called “a very difficult situation in Tunisia.”

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happen to society in decades, but at a certain point I realized it wasn’t enough,” he said.

Wasow moved to Harvard University in 2005, where he completed his Ph.D. in African-American studies and political science, followed by an M.A. in government and statistics.

He says he chose to move on from his work in Internet research towards academia because there were questions related to identity that could not be understood otherwise.

Wasow said that while he was

in college between 1988 and 1992, New York had the highest homicide rates in history, a fact that began to dominate his life. He said he was constantly worried and thinking about why there was so much violence in the city.

For him, the best way to find answers to questions on identity and violence was to engage with such issues in a scholarly way. “As much as I loved technology and social media, I realized there were questions that weren’t going to get answered in a startup,” he explained, referring to his work with BlackPlanet.

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experimentation, and you have to face a lot of difficulties everywhere. When you set up a democracy, you will face new problems. For instance, now you will see what happened in Egypt. A lot of people thought that Arab Spring would last years and years, and in fact it didn’t last more than one year. So experimentation is going on everywhere in the Arab world with different paces.

In Tunisia, we are trying to do our best to set up this democracy, but it’s not easy at all. For instance, I’ll just give you an example: When you believe in the independence of judiciary and you have to deal with corrupted judges.

And, you know, judges will feel that your independence of judiciary means to be independent toward the government but not all the political parties, so how do we

to his scholarly life, he said.

He explained that the connection between his current work in academia and his work in Internet research overlap in some ways, but in many ways

“There is still a part of me that is an entrepreneur that wants to take good ideas and implement them.” omar wasow

stand apart.

“In some ways my work in the Internet technology was about the marriage of thinking about identity and thinking about the ways that you could build successful business around identities,” Wasow said.

While at Harvard, Wasow met his wife Jennifer Brea ’05 at a political violence workshop. Brea and Wasow were married in 2012, and they moved to Princeton after Wasow received a research fellowship at the University.

“I was a little hesitant to move back where I went to college,” Brea said. She explained, however, that she loves living in the suburbs despite her ini-

tial hesitation. At the conclusion of Wasow’s fellowship, he was hired for the following academic year.

“I was enthusiastic about hiring him and communicated that to the hiring committee,” politics professor Ali Valenzuela said.

Valenzuela explained that he developed a relationship with Wasow because of their similar research interests in perspectives on political science and the role of race and ethnic identity.

“In the classroom, Wasow jokes a lot and goes off on tangents in a typical professorlike fashion,” Valenzuela said.

Moving forward in academia, Wasow said that he

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deal with that? But I’m going to talk about this during the lecture. Those problems are very, very old. They are, I would say, structural and you have every time to find a new solution for old problems.

DP: What are your plans here? Are you going anywhere else?

MM: No, I’m going back home tomorrow. We have a very difficult situation in Tunisia, like all Arab countries, because we have very difficult transition period.

So I just come here to participate in UN activities and I have to go tomorrow back home.

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may pursue further research in exploring the relationship between social media, race and politics. He will be teaching POL 346: Applied Quantitative Analysis in the spring.

In addition to his teaching and research, Wasow remains on the board of the Brooklyn Excelsior Charter School, which he founded in 2003.

“Over time I could imagine being involved in some kinds of research projects that are more applied where we are trying to do interesting research and make a difference in Trenton or Newark,” he said. “There is still a part of me that is an entrepreneur that wants to take good ideas and implement them.”

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Emmy-nominated Filipina journalist Maria Ressa ’86 presents the different ways terrorism can spread through social media, based on experience investigating Al Qaeda for CNN.

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The dining-option schism

he successful (or unsuccessful) conclusion of fall bicker reminds us that the central element of Princeton’s social experience is defined by our communal eating options.

Whether on the Street or elsewhere, meal times offer us a break from our work, a chance to see friends and time to meet new people. For the first two years on campus, the required meal plan allows students to foster friendships within their residential college. However, come junior year, the dining model changes — students join eating clubs, co-ops or become independent. Students who can afford the added cost of eating clubs are able to continue this traditional communal mealtime experience. However, this benefit is not extended to every student: the roughly 30 percent of students who do not or can not join eating clubs are missing out on an integral part of the Princeton experience; they often do not have the same opportunity to expand their social horizons.

In order to bridge this dining-option schism, the University should strive to make the residential college dining options more accessible to upperclassmen. As an effort to lessen the socially stratifying effects of the eating clubs, the University should encourage upperclassmen to utilize the residential college dining halls.

This can be achieved by making the meal plan options more flexible and by better developing a sense of identity within the colleges. To be clear, we are not advocating the people abandon their eating clubs or condemning the club system; we are merely suggesting that the clubs be complemented by more extensive dining options.

As it stands, upperclassmen without a meal plan are given two swipes a week at residential dining halls.

This very limited access makes the residential dining halls seem uninviting to upperclassmen — it is clearly not designed to encourage exploration or intermixing of individuals from different classes and tends to be used now by groups of friends for reasons of simple expedience. If upperclassmen were offered the chance to purchase — or exchange for — more swipes a week, this would make the dining halls more

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upperclassman-friendly. This would also make it easier for independent/non-eating club members to interact with their classmates more regularly and without extensive deliberate planning. At present, Dining Services makes this scenario impossible with an inflexible meal plan set of options; the cheapest dining option is the 95-block-plan, which costs $3,225. Shared meal plans — which offer upperclassmen more dining hall meals in exchange for eating club meals — are in very limited supply and are usually only available for seniors. There should be, for example, a meal plan that gives upperclassmen 5 meals a week, for a reasonable extra fee. Recently, the University announced a plan that allows upperclassmen the ability to convert their 2 extra meal swipes into a flexible block of 30 meals for $200 a semester. While this represents a step in the right direction, it is inadequate to seriously encourage upperclassmen to make more frequent use of dining halls.

In addition to making the dining options more flexible, the university should seek to use meal times as an opportunity to expand the sense of identity within residential colleges. For example, following a model used frequently by Whitman College, all residential colleges should institute semi-frequent “college nights” in which dining halls are restricted to current or former members of the college. In order to attract upperclassmen, the colleges should further consider making these meals of a higher quality than typical nights. The sense of shared identity derived from this type of initiative, perhaps integrated with a “theme” of celebration or shared activity, would encourage relationships across classes and social groups. Such a change in University policy would incur minimal cost, allow currently disenfranchised independents some context for a broader shared experience, and in general serve as a first step to unify a campus that continues to be perceived by some as fragmented and isolating. More communal, less restricted dining options within the residential colleges could only broaden Princeton’s social experience without dampening the small-community feel created in many eating clubs.

inishing at 21 hours and 19 minutes, Sen. Ted Cruz ’92 may have broken the record for longest campaign announcement speech in history. This past Tuesday, as the University celebrated the 100th birthday of famous past Princeton student F. Scott Fitzgerald, another alumnus, Senator Ted Cruz, made tidal waves in the press.

While Cruz did not actually announce a presidential run or even allude to his future political ambitions, it is clear that what went on was merely narcissistic play, lacking any connection to his stated goal of ending Obamacare.

On Sept. 30, the current fiscal year ends, and a government shutdown will follow unless a new spending resolution is passed before then. Earlier this week, the House had passed a bill that would continue to fund the federal government. Included in the bill was a provision that would defund Obamacare, weeks before enrollment for benefits begin.

In response, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called for a vote to strip that provision and re-send the bill back to the house.

However, before the Senate could vote to start debate on the resolution, Cruz took to the senate f loor. Attempting to stall the bill, he proclaimed that he was ready to “speak in opposition of defunding Obamacare until I am no longer able to stand.”

Now I’ll admit, there are valid arguments for and against Obama’s healthcare reform bill, passed in 2009. Cruz’s disapproval of Obamacare is not a reason for chastising. That being said, wasting 21 hours and 19 minutes of f loor time is.

This is no “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.”

The filibuster serves to protect minority rights in the face of supermajorities. However, unlike the lone statesman pitted against the establishment, Cruz is not trying to “Love thy neighbor,” but rather is pushing against a bill that would continue to fund the federal government, preventing a government shutdown.

What’s even more painful is that Cruz knew ahead of time that procedural rules would force his speech to end Wednesday afternoon. Unlike a real filibuster, it had zero chance of succeeding

.................................................. from the beginning. Rather than attempting to accomplish a significant policy achievement, he was merely rallying his base. And it is this very concept, that I feel, defies what it means to be a Princetonian.

Not only do his actions f ly in the face of most of the other members of the Senate, such as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who called Cruz’s 21-hour speech a “big waste of time,” but Cruz’s actions also go against the views of many other Republicans including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Whip John Cornyn, who thought he had taken the wrong approach. His desire to push forward, even when it is almost unanimously agreed upon that his actions are merely a waste of time, is unsettling.

The motto “Princeton in the nation’s service and in the service of all nations” alludes to a social responsibility to benefit not just ourselves, but those around us. While there may be different ways to achieve this end, the motto should especially hit close to home to those in public service. Granted no two students think exactly alike, and many, if they are ever in public service, will believe that there are different ways to better society.

Yet with achieving zero personal major legislative accomplishments, causing more partisanship in the Senate, and trying to shut down the government, I fail to see how Sen. Cruz has so far best served our nation.

Instead, in his speech, he compared his Ye Eun To begin, it’s important to recognize fellow Republicans to the complacent Neville Charlotte Chun the differences in cultural perceptions Chamberlain of the 1940s, who allowed Nazi senior columnist of tertiary education, especially for Germany to expand in inf luence, and made international students who have parents comparisons to Star Wars with “the Empire had just gotten back from the who have never attended college in the being the D.C. establishment.”

Street, clothes crusted in heavUnited States. Many countries forego While the Star Wars reference may be en-knows-what, when my moththe “holistic” qualitative admissions somewhat amusing, I fear that this kind of er calls me from Korea at 4 a.m. It process found in the United States in rhetoric and political approach is only further took me a moment to figure out exactly favor of strictly quantitative admissions, fueling the acidic and unf lattering environment what she was saying; it was a mixture which many deem more egalitarian. The that has plagued Washington, D.C. in the past of hyperventilation and uncharacterChinese, for example, claim that having several years. As Princeton students, who may istic squealing, and my interpretation admissions based off of standardized one day be in similar situations of power, I was not particularly enhanced by my testing alone allows for students of think we need to not only be aware of what is own state of consciousness. The fact that all backgrounds and talents to attend happening, but also recognize the toxicity of such a firebrand approach — and if ever put in my mother never gets excited and looks the university of their choice. While that situation, serve beyond our own interests. like she’s calling the Secret Service even most Americans would balk at such Beyond the political buzz and media when she’s ordering pizza made this a a sentiment, it’s one I understand and headlines, two days later, the sun is still rising particularly bizarre experience. Had I could argue for, despite my personal and the spending bill is still being looked at in not known any better, I would’ve guessed convictions against it. the same light that it had been looked at before. she’d won the lottery; in reality, she’d just The degree to which rankings are It appears that the only thing that has truly seen this year’s U.S. News and World Reeven desired shows a huge cultural gap changed is Ted Cruz’s reputation. port list of top U.S. colleges. between the international mindset When Woodrow Wilson gave his speech, Let me pause here and disclaim that and the more domestic one. Many East titled “Princeton in the Nation’s Service,” my mother is neither overly obsessive Asian public schools have been known which would eventually become our unofficial nor a “big mother” figure who knows to publish ranks of students based on school motto, he highlighted the “spirit of more about what goes on in Princeton their grade point averages and test scores service” as what would “give a college place than I do.

She also rarely fixates on as a means of encouraging hard work in the public annals of the nation.” In light admissions statistics or grades, so you and competition. Quantitative criteria of this, Wilson must be rolling in his grave, can understand my surprise at her are favored over qualitative, and any knowing that Senator Cruz — blessed with the enthusiasm.

However, after hanging widely acknowledged resource like U.S. power to make a meaningful difference — has up the phone, I began to realize just News and World Report will be clung to just wasted 21 hours and 9 minutes working how significant Princeton’s “new” without a second thought. for the betterment of himself, rather than the ranking was from the perspective of There is also the issue of rankings nation. international students, and just how big being the only gauge of what many of of a push this could be for Princeton’s these universities are like for certain Benjamin Dinovelli is a sophomore from Mystic, Conn. He can be reached at bjd5@princeton.edu. global prestige. applicants. While I was fortunate

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enough to have a mother who attended an American university, there are many other international students whose parents have little knowledge of what American college is “suitable” for their child. Personal accounts of friends and alumni are limited, especially in areas where only a few leave to study abroad and fewer return to share their experiences, making virtual college profiles the main source of information.

So what does it mean to the world that Princeton’s monopolizing #1 (and not Harvard)? Princeton’s international prestige is starting to skyrocket in circles that formerly overlooked it. It seems all too familiar that I would return to Seoul and have people know about all the UCs but have never heard of Princeton. A big reason for this is our lack of professional graduate schools, making it difficult for those with undergraduate degrees from other countries to study at Princeton.

Furthermore, despite the relatively high percentage of international students here on campus, the absolute sum is quite small, and the number returning to their home countries to spread word of Princeton even more negligible.

However, with the release of U.S. News’s college rankings, this has already begun to change. The “shock” of Harvard being pushed down the list has triggered a series of reports not only spreading the news, but also raising awareness about the institution as a whole. Korea’s three

main television broadcast stations KBS, SBS, and MBC held extended programs focusing specifically on Princeton’s research institutions, and even hinted at the rise of a liberal arts education, a radical change in tune from Korea’s usual emphasis on STEM fields. Just today, I ran into a large group of Korean students who had come from Jeolla Province, a district not known for sending students abroad, and especially not to Ivy League institutions. When I asked them how they had gotten to know about Princeton, they grinned and pulled out their Galaxy phones to show me a translation of the U.S. News college rankings.

I could go on forever about various responses I got from my friends abroad after this year’s rankings were released, including a highly questionable email from a Jordanian friend I hadn’t heard from in over two years. Point being, while college rankings are always more a source of amusement for us than anything else, they have larger international implications for those who have limited opportunity to gauge for themselves what Princeton is like. So in a sense, being #1 isn’t just a Hurrah Hurrah in the Crimson’s face, but an opening of doors for the rest of the world to get to know us a little bit better.

Ye Eun Charlotte Chun is a sophomore from Seoul, South Korea. She can be reached at ychun@princeton.edu.

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the weekend. We can’t give up soft goals.”

FGCU (0-5-1) will visit Penn Friday night before heading to Princeton on Sunday afternoon. The Eagles have had trouble building off the momentum of last season, in which they went 11-5-3 and qualified for the NCAA Tournament.

Sophomore midfielder/forward Felipe DeSousa and junior midfielder/forward Santiago Echeverri will be the two primary offensive weapons that the Tigers must shut down if they want to close

out September with a win.

Together, the two Florida natives have combined for six goals and 12 points to date.

Having played four of its last five games on the road, Princeton will to return back to Roberts Stadium for three of its next four games.

Playing before a home crowd could provide the exact atmosphere the Tigers need to start rolling before the Ivy League season commences.

“We’re really excited to be at home and be in front of the fans,” Miller said. “Our game on Sunday is on ESPNU, too, which is also big for us. It’s really important for us to get these two wins before going into the Ivy

League season. The level of urgency is as high as it gets.”

“Everything’s coming together, we’re definitely improving,” Sanner said. “But we need to get the wins.

We’ve dominated some teams and some stretches, especially during the Georgetown match. These wins are important more for getting our mind right and getting a winning mentality right before the Ivy League season. It’s just about finding a way to win.”

The Tigers kick off against FIU Friday at 7 p.m. Game time against FGCU is set for 4 p.m. on Sunday afternoon.

Both games are at Roberts Stadium.

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Chiefs. Senior defensive lineman Caraun Reid, an NFL prospect looking to fill Catapano’s shoes, had a big game last season against the Hoyas, registering six tackles, a sack and a blocked

kick. Reid has made the AllIvy League First Team each of the past two seasons.

Despite mistakes against Lehigh, the Tigers’ secondary is promising. Head coach Bob Surace ’90 is starting two sophomores, cornerback Anthony Gaffney and Arends, who last year split the Pink Baker award as the

top freshmen defensive players on the team. Gaffney last season twice won Ivy League Rookie of the Week, while Arends led all Princeton underclassmen with 44 tackles. Arends moves from cornerback to strong safety this year.

The game kicks off Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m. in Washington, D.C.

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to Penn State while Connecticut squeaked out a 4-3 overtime win.

“UConn is currently number one, so it will be a true test of our hard work this week,” Cesan said.

“They are overall a dynamic and athletic team, so I think that we will be a good match up.”

Benvenuti continues to lead the charge up front for the Tigers this season, netting six goals and add-

“The UConn team has tremendous speed on the front line.”

Sophomore teresa benvenuti highest goals per game average in Division I field

hockey.

Also making big contributions offensively for Princeton are junior striker Allison Evans (four goals, three assists) and Cesan (two goals, four assists). Overall, the Orange and Black has had impressive and consistent offensive outputs, outscoring its opponents 19-14 and outshooting its opponents 103-49.

After a weekend with major implications for the rest of the season, the Tigers will resume Ivy play, hosting Columbia on Oct. 4.

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After 1-point loss, Tigers travel to nation’s capital in search of their first win

By John Bogle staff writer

This weekend, the football team will travel down to Washington D.C. to take on Georgetown. Both teams will be looking to bounce back from disappointing results last week — Georgetown (1-3) lost big to Brown 457, while Princeton (0-1) lost a shocker at home in which Lehigh came back to score 26 points in the last 21 minutes for a 29-28 win.

Despite the tough loss, there were many positive takeaways for Princeton fans, most notably the impressive play of sophomore tailback DiAndre Atwater.

After battling injury for much of last season, Atwater started off his 2013 campaign with an explosive opening performance in which he tallied a career-best 111 yards and two touchdowns on just 13 carries.

The rest of the offense also impressed against then-No. 22

Lehigh. Senior receiver Roman Wilson racked up nine receptions for 168 yards and a touchdown as he caught passes from both junior quarterbacks, Connor Michelson and Quinn Epperly. The dual-quarterback attack served Princeton well, as the two combined to complete 25 of 40 passes for 310 yards and a touchdown.

Given Atwater’s impressive showing and the two interceptions thrown by Michelson against Lehigh, Princeton may look to the ground more against the Hoyas. Atwater should be looking forward to facing a Georgetown defense against which he ran for 92 yards — the most individual rushing yards of any Tiger in 2012 — on 15 carries, including a 53-yard touchdown run, his first collegiate score.

“Both defensively and offensively we were aggressive and came out in the first half ready to go. The fast starts are critical,” sophomore strong safety Matt

Arends said of the Georgetown game. “Biggest thing was making plays to finish the game. We didn’t make the plays we needed to in order to win. It all comes back to finishing.”

Princeton’s defense certainly has something to prove against the Hoyas after a second half versus Lehigh which saw them cede 26 points and 18 first downs.

Granted, the Tigers defense also held that same team to a measly three points and 27 yards rushing in the first half, but they cannot afford a similar lapse against Georgetown. Princeton fans may recall that in last season’s matchup, Georgetown drove 72 yards on 15 plays late in the fourth quarter to set up a field goal that proved to be the game-winner.

But the Tiger defense has the talent to perform at a high level, even after losing star defensive end Mike Catapano ’13, currently with the Kansas City See FOOTBALL page 5

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Sophomore DiAndre Atwater ran for two touchdowns against Lehigh last weekend.

FIELD HOCKEY PREVIEW

MEN’S SOCCER PREVIEW

No. 1 UConn poses major challenge

By Beth Garcia senior writer

This weekend, the No. 12 field hockey team will take the field in two important games. Princeton (4-2 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) will host Ivy League rival Yale (2-4, 0-1) on Friday evening at 7 p.m. on Bedford Field. On Sunday afternoon, the Tigers will face a tough test on the road against undefeated and No. 1 UConn (7-0). Last weekend, the Tigers split their two games, defeating Dartmouth 7-1 before falling 4-0 to Syracuse the following day.

Princeton’s seven goals against the Big Green (1-4, 0-1) was its highest-scoring game of the season, and the Syracuse game was the only time the Tigers have been shut out this fall.

“It was disappointing to lose against Syracuse this past weekend, but I think that losses like that teach us valuable lessons,” senior midfielder/striker Michelle Cesan said. “Syracuse is a top-notch team and we were lucky to play them so early in the season. We have a lot more games left to show what we are capable of, and I have no doubt that we are going to turn our season around this weekend against Yale and UConn.”

“We have made some positional changes that have made a big impact on the natural f low of the game,” sophomore midfielder/back Teresa Benvenuti said.

“We have also rededicated ourselves to utilizing every minute at practice in order to reach our full potential as a team.”

Last weekend, Yale suffered a 3-2 loss to Harvard in their opening Ivy League competition, but then earned a 3-2 win against Vermont to turn its momentum around. Yet to win a road game this season, the Bulldogs will be out to tally their first away win of the fall on Friday night.

When the two teams last met in 2012, the Tigers blanked the Bulldogs 8-0.

“This week we have really cranked up our intensity in

Princeton looks to rebound at home

By Jack Rogers staff writer

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Coming off a stinging 0-4 loss to then-No. 5 Syracuse, the No. 12 field hockey team hopes to rebound against both Yale at home and No. 1 UConn on the road. Friday’s game against the Bulldogs will be the Tigers’ Ivy home opener.

practice, and I am excited to see how it looks on game day against our next Ivy League competitor, Yale,” Cesan said. “It was exciting to open up our Ivy League season against Dartmouth, and we are hoping to keep an undefeated Ivy record.”

Princeton went 7-0 in the Ivy League last season on its way to a 21-1 regular season that saw the Tigers win their first-ever NCAA championship.

“Every Ivy League game we play is important in securing

the Ivy League Championship, so we are excited to play this weekend against Yale,” Benvenuti said.

Sunday, the Tigers will face one of the fiercest competitors in Division I field hockey: Connecticut. Undefeated so far, the Huskies will face Villanova on Saturday before hosting Princeton the following day. Last year, the Tigers outscored the Huskies 4-1 to break the team’s 16game win streak.

“The UConn team has tremen-

dous speed on the front line,” Benvenuti said. “It will be detrimental to our success if we allow them space to use their speed. Technically, we match up well against the UConn team, so we must rely on our structure and press to gain the advantage.”

The Tigers and Huskies have faced two common opponents in the first three weeks of the season. Against Fairfield, Princeton won 4-3 and Connecticut won 4-0, and the Tigers fell 4-3 See F. HOCKEY page 5

Despite losing four of its first five games this season, the men’s soccer team will look to stay undefeated at home this weekend as it hosts a pair of teams from the Sunshine State. The Tigers (1-4) will kick off against Florida International University Friday night, then host Florida Gulf Coast University on Sunday afternoon.

The Tigers’ record belies the improvements that the team has made in recent weeks. Princeton’s 3-0 loss to Fairleigh Dickinson three weeks ago was the result of disorganization and inefficiencies that did not show in a close 3-2 loss to No. 12 Georgetown last Sunday.

“1-4 isn’t a great record, but we’re happy where we are as a team,” sophomore defenseman Josh Miller said. “After the Georgetown game, we know we’re good enough. The soccer we’ve played in the last couple of games has been so much better than the soccer we played in our first game. We just need to finish out and get results.”

FIU (2-4) comes into Friday on a twomatch slide, with losses to Florida Atlantic and North Florida in the last two weeks.

Again, however, the record does not tell the whole story — every loss the Panthers have suffered to date has been by one goal. Junior midfielder Roberto Alterio and junior forward Quentin Albrecht present the biggest combined threat for the Tigers. The international duo — Alterio is from Argentina and Albrecht from Germany — has been good for a combined six goals and 14 total points in the Panthers’ first seven contests.

Having blown hard-earned leads in their previous two games, the Tigers understand the importance of strong defense going into the weekend.

“Not giving up soft goals is a big thing for us,” Miller said. “The fact that we competed really well against Georgetown, but that they still managed to find a way to score on soft mistakes, is something we need to buckle down on. We need to make sure that our final pass in the final third of the field is good.”

“The biggest part for us is staying focused,” sophomore forward Thomas Sanner said. “Before other games like Loyola and Georgetown, it was mostly tactical stuff. But the mental side is the big focus going into See M. SOCCER page 5

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