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Today on Campus 1 - 5 p.m.: USG, SHAB, PHA and ACC start off Stay Health Week with a therapy dog study break.

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Sept. 30, 1985 The Whig-Cliosophic Society voted to ban X-rated movies from its film series, adopting an antipornography stance.

On the Blog Leonard DiCaprio is rumored to play Woodrow Wilson in upcoming biopic.

On the Blog

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The Princeton Garden Project held a bonfire in its garden at 79 Alexander St. on Friday night.

ACADEMICS

Shapiro GS ’64 says complacency threatens U.

By Elizabeth Paul staff writer

The University’s high standings on rankings such as U.S. News and World Report does not mean Princeton should not pursue experimental teaching methods, former University President Harold Shapiro GS ’64 explained in a Sunday afternoon discussion on the challenges facing the future of higher education on Sunday afternoon.

Four current and former college presidents, including Shapiro and former University Presidents Shirley Tilghman, discussed the expansion of online courses, financial difficulties and inadequate rating systems. Rebecca Chopp, president of Swarthmore College, and Carmen Twillie Ambar, president of Cedar Crest College also participated. The panel was moderated by retired ABC News anchor and University trustee Charles Gib-

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son ’65.

The greatest threat to Princeton is becoming too complacent in light of its high ratings, Shapiro, who was president between 1988 and 2001, warned. “Nobody’s good enough to have so much self-confidence,” he said.

“People who are maybe not number one … have a lot more reasons to want to change and have less at risk when they want to change,” he said.

Panelists also discussed the prospects for higher education in the face of rising costs.

“Our greatest weakness is the financial sustainability issue,” Chopp said. “How can we afford a high quality product and bring down tuition, protect our endowment?”

On the other hand, Tilghman expressed concern for the declining funds universities can draw on to conduct the “cutting-edge

research that has propelled the American economy.” While she said she does not believe that funding for research has reached a crisis point yet, Tilghman explained that diminished funding has pressured scientists to behave more conservatively and discouraged a new generation of scientists from pursuing science as a career.

“More and more of the responsibility of research is See EDUCATION page 3

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

Kennedy ’77 discusses benefits of ‘positive’ discrimination in new book

Music critic Alex Lee pits ‘Yeezus’ against ‘Magna Carta Holy Grail.’

News & Notes

By Paul Phillips staff writer

Turkish president’s appearance cancelled

president abdullah Gul of the Republic of Turkey cancelled his Friday noon talk on campus, an email sent by the University communications staff at 7:26 a.m. on Friday confirmed.

The lecture he was scheduled to give, titled “The World in Transition and Global Challenges Ahead: A Turkish Perspective,” was cancelled due to a change in the president’s schedule, according to University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua.

The cancellation of the lecture coincided with a Sept. 27 assassination attempt made on Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose official motorcade reportedly came under fire while the prime minister’s security officers were scouting a travel route, according to the global intelligence firm Stratfor.

Gul gave an address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Sept. 24, where he stated that military action against Syria should only be taken as a last resort if diplomatic efforts to convince President Bashar al-Assad to surrender chemical weapons prove unsuccessful. He appeared on the “Fareed Zakaria GPS” program on CNN stating that “military action is the last resort” and made similar remarks in an interview with Foreign Affairs magazine.

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The occupants of a four-person suite in Rockefeller College’s Holder Hall have been relocated twice after reporting bed bug infestations on Sept. 13 and Sept. 27, according to a student from the affected suite.

In the first incident, two roommates contacted the Rockefeller College Office on Sept. 13 after they woke up with bites and “saw clusters of bed bugs” under the mattress in their bedroom, said the student, who was granted

anonymity to freely discuss the situation.

An exterminator confirmed the presence of bed bugs in one of the bedrooms of the quad following the report of the first incident, University Spokesman Martin Mbugua said.

Rockefeller Residential College Adviser Rohan Bhargava confirmed that all four residents of the suite were affected and that the exterminator determined there was a bed bug infestation.

All four students in the suite were relocated to alternate single See INFESTATION page 2

KELSEY DENNISON :: STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

The Chinese Student Association distributes mooncakes outside of Frist.

STUDENT LIFE

USG Academic Committee to discuss final exams

Affirmative action is a “positive” form of discrimination, according to a new book written

by University Trustee Randall Kennedy ’77 that was released by Pantheon Books this month. In “For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action and the Law,” Kennedy, a Harvard Law School professor, suggests that reverse discrimination — or discrimination in favor of minorities — could be an effective way to rectify past injustices against marginalized groups.

With the book, Kennedy joins the controversial public discourse surrounding the legal status of affirmative action. The topic was made even more contentious after the Department of Justice and Department of Education released guidelines

RANDALL KENNEDY ’77 University Trustee

on Sept. 27 supporting voluntary use of race in admissions decisions to ensure diversity in higher education. The guidelines were developed in response to the Supreme Court’s decision in its most recent affirmative action in education case, Fisher v. University of Texas (2008).

Kennedy could not be reached for comment by press time.

“The children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the immediate victims of segregation are indirect victims in that they have been demonstrably

injured by the racial injustices visited upon their ancestors,” Kennedy writes in the book, explaining that the past wrongs committed by whites have had far-reaching and harmful consequences for the social status of the descendants of minority groups who were formerly subject to legal segregation.

He argues that affirmative action is the continuation of a democratic impulse in race relations that has been gaining in scope and momentum since the Civil War. Referring to proposed drafts of the 14th Amendment, he notes that its framers did not intend to create a color-blind Constitution; instead, they aimed at justice for newly-freed slaves.

Kennedy also writes critically about several court decisions against affirmative action, See RACE page 4

STELLA ART STARS

By Anna Mazarakis staff writer

The USG Academics Committee will discuss the concerns expressed by students and faculty regarding fall semester final examinations with the Committee on Examinations and Standing on Friday, USG members decided at a weekly meeting on Sunday night. Academics committee chair Dillon Sharp ’14 said the discussion would include the issues of take-home tests, rescheduling exams and exerting pressure on professors to meet grading deadlines.

“This won’t be a sweeping thing like an all-or-nothing. We will be addressing each issue as is, and how that committee wants to move forward with our recommendations is their choice,” Sharp said. “There are some things that can be done very easily. There are some things, such as a f lexible system, that will take a lot more work from the back end to actually make happen.”

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MARY HUI :: CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

The Stella Art Club makes posters. The club offers studio hours in the Wilcox Art Studio, providing art supplies and music for students of all experience levels to take a break and explore their creative side.

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Exterminator called to room in Holder Hall

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KATIE WOO :: CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

The Brentano String Quartet, which is in residence at the University, rehearses for its Sept. 27 performance at Richardson Auditorium.

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rooms in 1915 Hall, Butler College, throughout the first extermination, the student said.

Before relocating to single rooms in 1915 Hall, the four occupants of the suite had to wash their clothing and place all their books and laptops in a heat box for four hours, the student explained.

Other personal items were shipped out and fumigated for seven days.

“It was really stressful for classes and such,” the student said.

Although the four students were allowed to move back into their room on Sept. 23, the two roommates who had initially found beg bugs in their bedroom reported another incidence of the vermin on Sept. 27, the student said.

All four students were again relocated to the same singles in 1915 Hall and are waiting for the College Office to notify them that they may return to their suite, the student said. The student added that the college office told the suite’s occupants to bring enough clothing for seven days.

Rockefeller College Director of Student Life Amy Ham Johnson did not respond to requests for comment.

Mbugua said the room would undergo the same extermination process and that the students’ belongings would again be heattreated to kill the bed bugs. He did not specify whether the second incident constituted a new infestation or whether the bed bugs had

survived the first round of extermination.

“I do not want to blame the exterminators for the need to relocate twice,” the student said. “I know it was not a mistake on our parts. It could just be that the initial problem was more serious than what they originally thought.”

While Mbugua said that the suite in Holder Hall constituted the only case of a “confirmed infestation” of bed bugs, he also said that another, unrelated case of bed bugs was recently reported in Forbes College.

Bed bugs are considered to be “a public health pest” by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, according to the EPA’s website.

Bed bugs tend to feed on blood, “causing itchy bites and generally irritating their human hosts,” according to the EPA. The EPA website suggests that the best way to identify a possible bed bug infestation is by looking for physical signs, like spotted bedding and the presence of larvae and eggs on bedding. Bite marks on the skin are a “poor indicator of a bed bug infestation,” according to the EPA website.

The agency recommends that exterminators use non-chemical treatments, such as the application of excessive heat or coldness, or chemical treatments, such as pesticides, to exterminate bed bugs.

In March 2009, The Yale Daily News reported an incidence of bed bugs that occurred in a suite around Valentine’s Day weekend.

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A panel of University students share their experiences with visiting high school students at the Creative Arts and Humanities Symposium.

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landing on the shoulders of the university, and yet fewer and fewer dollars are going to them,” Gibson noted.

Another effect of diminished research funds can be seen in the decline of published work in the humanities, Chopp explained, because university resources are being directed toward the hard sciences. Since reduced funding makes it more difficult for faculty to publish, it is now harder for Swarthmore to decide which faculty members will receive tenured positions, she said.

“Trends in higher education [are] forcing our faculty to be less expansive, less exploratory, less adventurous in the kind of research they are doing,” Chopp said.

As the president of a tuition-dependent women’s college, Ambar explained that Cedar Crest College

JENNY JIANG :: CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Shirley Tilghman discussed the challenges of higher education wth current and former college presidents.

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Restaurant Week will likely take place during the second week of November, according to campus and community affairs chair Trap Yates ’14. The weeklong event gives students the opportunity to eat at restaurants on Nassau Street at a discounted rate.

Yates is a former associate Street editor for The Daily Princetonian.

This year, some restau-

rants will maintain the $25 fixed price offered in previous years, while other restaurants will offer a $15 fixed-price option instead or offer both price options.

New participating restaurants will also likely be added to the event.

A funding request of $1,600 for the University Student Life Committee was passed. The money will fund 10 free fitness classes, punch card giveaways and a Glow Party, according to a proposal presented by Greg Smith ’15. The request passed with

a vote of 22 members in favor and one abstention.

Patrick Thompson ’14 and Jack Mazzulo ’16 were approved as the new co-chairs of the USG movie committee, which chooses the free movies that play at the Garden Theatre on weekend evenings.

Sunday’s meeting was the first for new Class of 2015 senator Mariana Bagneris, who was appointed to the position last week in order to fill the seat vacated by Deana Davoudiasl, who is taking the semester off.

faces a set of challenges different from those faced by Princeton, which is funded by its $16 billion endowment.

“We cannot ignore student choices. We have to be responsive to how students want to be educated, trying to keep the core of who we are,” Ambar said. As a result, Cedar Crest College has increased its use of small online courses taught by full-time faculty, she explained.

While a public university president was not on the panel, Tilghman said the rising price of higher education is spurred by defunding at the state level, which drains public institutions of the resources needed to provide quality education to students.

“The number of students we serve in this panel is miniscule, miniscule compared to the number of students being educated at the great state institutions, and they’re the ones who are under immense financial crisis,” Tilghman said.

Faculty tenure itself may face an uncertain future in American universities, the panel participants said. They all agreed that Americans generally disapprove of the idea of tenure.

Tenured positions are valuable to a university because they encourage committed faculty to contribute to the “shared government” of the university, rather than merely serving short-term interests, Ambar said.

“For me, the rationale for tenure is that it frees scholars to be risk-taking and bold in what they do,” Tilghman said, alluding to the example of mathematician Andrew Wiles, who spent seven years working on nothing but the oncethought-unsolvable Fermat’s Last Theorem.

The discussion took place in Friend Center 101 at 4 p.m. It was part of the Princeton Adult School 75th Anniversary Celebration Conversation, “Higher Education: Past, Present, Future.”

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arguing that the justices in each case had not taken into account the historical mistreatment of minorities. He cites Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978), in which the Supreme Court decided that the use of racial quotas in admission decisions was unconstitutional, and the more recent Fisher case, in which a white female student sued the University of Texas at Austin, alleging that the university discriminated against her by rejecting her on the basis of her race.

Although the Fisher decision did not declare affirmative action unconstitutional, it explained that affirmative action programs need to pass “strict scrutiny” tests proving that race is truly the only means through which a given school can diversify its student body.

“For Discrimination” also acknowledges the arguments against affirmative action. Ken-

nedy notes that although the initial beneficiaries of affirmative action were economically disadvantaged, the current beneficiaries of affirmative action are more privileged than their predecessors. Kennedy also explains that affirmative action sometimes causes people to view admissions decisions in terms of race, noting that he sometimes receives calls from law partners asking if his African-American students are highly qualified.

Furthermore, Kennedy writes about how affirmative action affected his own life, acknowledging that “racial considerations explain in part why I was honored ahead of others,” but adding, “I do not feel belittled by this. Nor am I wracked by angst or guilt or self-doubt.” Kennedy adds that he tries to maintain equanimity in assessing his record, knowing that his race has both helped him and hindered him. Kennedy notes, for example, that he believes affirmative action played a role in his admission to Princeton and other elite

institutions that he attended.

Richard Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at the think tank The Century Foundation, said he was impressed by Kennedy’s honesty in writing about the affirmative action issue. “Many supporters of affirmative action tend to downplay the way that it works in practice,” Kahlenberg said. “He confronts directly the weaknesses of affirmative action, acknowledges them and nevertheless argues in support.”

However, Kahlenberg added that he was less impressed by Kennedy’s dismissal of classbased affirmative action, which, in Kahlenberg’s view, achieves the benefits of affirmative action without incurring the drawbacks.

Peter F. Lake, a professor at the Stetson University College of Law who researches issues of affirmative action, explained that he enjoyed reading “For Discrimination” because he was interested by the fact that the book was written by someone who came of age during the civil rights movement.

“So much civil rights writing has been oriented toward people who were part of the Freedom Riders movement,” Lake said. “I think there’s actually a unique perspective from someone who was relatively young at the time when separate-but-equal laws were still being enforced.”

Kennedy has been a professor at Harvard Law School since 1984 and in 1998 was inducted into both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

After graduating from Princeton in 1977, he attended Yale Law School and won a Rhodes Scholarship before working as a law clerk for Thurgood Marshall.

Lake explained that the issue of affirmative action and Kennedy’s particular views will become even more relevant in light of the DOJ and DOE guidelines published in response to the Fisher decision.

“Randall Kennedy and Richard Kahlenberg have surely now staked out significant territory in the modern discussion of affirmative action,” he said.

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Gul’s campus lecture was to be co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Studies.

Mercer County judge orders state to allow gay marriage same-sex couples may legally marry in New Jersey beginning Oct. 21, a Mercer County judge ruled on Friday.

The decision overruled Governor Chris Christie’s veto of a gay marriage bill in February 2012. The bill, which was passed by the state legislature, would have legalized same-sex marriage in New Jersey. Samesex civil unions have been recognized by the state since 2006, but Judge Mary Jacobson of the State Superior Court said Friday that same-sex marriage must be allowed in order for couples to have equal protection under the law.

“The ineligibility of samesex couples for federal benefits is currently harming same-sex couples in New Jersey in a wide range of contexts,” Jacobson wrote in the ruling.

The verdict follows a June Supreme Court ruling that struck down the Defense of Marriage Act and granted federal benefits to married samesex couples only in states where gay marriage is legal.

Christie’s opponent Barbara Buono called the ruling ”a tremendous victory for everyone who believes in equality.”

State Representative Rush Holt said the decision came after years of discrimination, injustice and legal uncertainty. “Superior Court Judge Mary Jacobson’s decision is both legally and morally sound, and I congratulate Garden State Equality on this victory,” Holt said in a press release.

Christie has said he will appeal the ruling.

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Ambassador Barbara Bodine speaks in Whig Hall about the Middle East and North Africa.

ASAWARI SODHI :: SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Rohina Malik acts in her one-woman play ‘Unveiled,’ about what lies beneath the veil in a post 9/11 world.

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four in the half. Princeton managed to put in five during the second half, but LBS scored seven times to preserve its lead for a final score of 11-7. Hoffenberg led the team with two goals.

It did not get easier in the next game, when Princeton took on No. 2 USC (12-1). The Trojan defense stifled the Tigers’ prolific attack, holding them to just two goals in each half. Meanwhile, the Trojans scored eight goals in the first half and piled on 14 in the second to win 22-4. Freshman utility Jovan Jeremic was one of only two Tigers to score, with three goals.

The Tigers bounced back in the next match against La Verne, holding the Leopards (0-12) scoreless in the first half while making up for the USC loss with 13 goals. Jeremic and sophomore center Tommy Nelson scored three times each, and senior utility Tyler Amina made 13 saves.

The tide turned again in the next game, as No. 1 UCLA (14-0) rolled over the Tigers, 15-3.

Despite the three losses over the past two days, the Tigers finished strong in the last two games of the weekend against Claremont McKenna and Whittier. Hoffenberg scored five more goals against Claremont (2-10), while Jeremic added three and Shannon contributed two. Senior goalie Ben Dearborn had 15 saves.

The weekend ended with a thriller. The teams were tied 1-1 after the first period, but Whittier (5-8) took the lead in the second 4-2. By the end of the third period, Princeton was still down 5-3, but in the fourth period the Tigers broke past the Poets’ defense with a rally of five goals while keeping Whittier to just one. The ever-productive Hoffenberg had five goals in the twogoal victory.

Despite the losses, the Tigers remain No. 11 on a chart dominated by Californian schools and are the highest-ranked team not from the West Coast. Next weekend the Tigers get a chance to avenge last year’s Eastern Championship loss when they take on Bucknell at home.

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Junior co-captain Drew Hoffenberg entered this weekend’s road trip with 17 goals and amassed the same amount during the California campaign, including 10 goals on the last day of play.

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The goal, Suedois’ first in his career, ended what had been a tightly fought contest for a goal, with both teams creating many scoring opportunities throughout the game. The first half began with FGCU dominating possession and creating opportunities throughout the first 20 minutes of the game. The Eagles nearly converted on a corner kick in the 15th minute, when Princeton defenders, late to step from the far post, allowed an FGCU forward to rocket a left-footed volley just over the crossbar from close range.

“We had a really, really tough first half and put ourselves in a position to lose a close game because we started slow,” Barlow said. “I don’t know why Gulf Coast was pretty sharp in the first half, but we just weren’t ready to play today.”

But by the midpoint of the first half, momentum had shifted, with Princeton maintaining possession and nearly scoring multiple times. The Tigers almost scored a goal in the 23th minute, when junior forward Cameron

MARY HUI :: CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

The first shot on goal of the game, which didn’t come until the 81st minute, came off the foot of junior Cameron Porter. His shot on a pass from sophomore Josh Miller was stopped by the FGCU goalie.

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attempts. Junior receiver Matt Costello led all receivers with 75 yards on six catches, and senior receiver Roman Wilson and DeValve caught seven passes each.

The Tiger defense proved itself capable of finishing games and making stops when it counted, both concerns coming into the weekend. The Tigers held Georgetown to only three third-down conversions.

Freshman defensive back Dorian Williams had a sack and an interception, while junior defensive back Jakobi Johnson also came away with a pick and senior safety Phillip Bhaya led the team with 10 tackles.

“I personally think we didn’t change our scheme [from last week],” Williams said. “We just executed more efficiently on getting them off the field on third down and forced turnovers, which left our offense in a good position to score.”

The Tigers begin Ivy League play when they host Columbia at home next Saturday at 1 p.m.

They have won their past two meetings with the Lions.

Porter lofted a chip from the sideline toward sophomore forward Thomas Sanner in the middle.

Sanner took a settling touch to his right near the top of the box, but was forced off balance by his defender and lofted his shot over the bar.

Princeton continued to pressure the Eagle net during the second half, unleashing 12 shots and earning three corner kicks. Porter nearly scored on a back-heel attempt in the 81st minute when junior midfielder Myles McGinley’s free kick from the sideline found sophomore defender Josh Miller in the box. Miller’s shot attempt was bottled up in traffic in front of the goal before slipping to Porter, whose back heel attempt was snagged by diving FGCU goalkeeper Danny George. Ultimately, the Tigers could not convert on any of their opportunities and entered overtime tied 0-0.

“We had a good second half, but in college soccer you can’t play well for 45 minutes and guarantee yourselves that you’re going to win the game,” Barlow said.

With the victory, the Eagles rounded out a strong weekend road trip with back-to-back victories. FGCU, which came into this

weekend’s road trip 0-5-1, defeated Penn 3-2 in overtime Friday night.

Princeton, which entered the game with momentum following a strong 4-2 home victory over FIU on Friday night, lost its final non-conference game before beginning Ivy League competition next weekend. Sunday’s matchup marked the first time Princeton and FGCU had ever competed in men’s soccer competition.

With Ivy League competition looming, the Tigers will prepare to face Dartmouth in Hanover on Saturday afternoon. The last time the two squads met, last September in Princeton, the Tigers emerged with a 2-1 overtime victory.

“Every Ivy League game is such a battle, and if we have stretches like we did in the first half today, we’re in trouble. So how you work on that is a challenge we’ll have to figure out during the week in training,” Barlow said. “We know we have the talent to compete with anyone on our schedule if we’re sharp, but we also know that we have a lot of good teams on our schedule who can beat us. So it’s going to be a lot of close games, like it always is, and we’ve got to get better.”

In defense of a supposedly impractical major

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LA requirement change

Prianka Misra

senior columnist

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rinceton has long been a leader in liberal arts education, and in today’s increasingly pre-professional world, the University stands strongly behind its goal of providing all students with a broad base of knowledge. While students often bemoan distribution requirements, these courses are crucial in guaranteeing that each one of us is exposed to a wide range of disciplines and ways of thinking. Sure, the system is not perfect, but requirements ensure that, by the time we walk through the FitzRandolph Gate, we will have had at least some practice reading literature, conducting science experiments and speaking a foreign language. This is certainly a worthy goal, and the requirements do a decent job of meeting it.

But the system is not perfect, and there are some ways it could be improved. A good place to start is with the Literature and the Arts requirement. The Board believes that, as it stands, the LA requirement is too broad. Instead, the LA requirement should be split into two separate requirements so that each student would take at least one course in literature and at least one in the arts, instead of two courses within this large category.

Under the current requirements, it is possible for a student to graduate from Princeton without ever having studied a piece of fiction or explored a work of art. The objective of distribution requirements is to ensure a well-rounded education, but the structure of the LA requirement undermines this because it allows students to take just arts courses or just literature courses. We believe that while literature and the arts are related, they are sufficiently different and offer students different critical skills, making them independently important. The skills that a student uses to analyze a text are certainly not the same ones that a student uses to critique a painting or a symphony; both skills are important components of a liberal arts education.

By splitting the current LA requirement into a literature requirement and an arts requirement, the University could further ensure that all students receive a comprehensive education without placing an extra burden on their schedules. In the past, two LA courses were required, so the number of distribution courses necessary for graduation would not change. In addition, both literature and

or the entire day, he was all I could think of. Nervous thoughts rushed through my mind just as I rushed through my day. They pried me away from efficiency and toward a state of panic, distracting me from every task.

How should I act? What should I wear?

What would he say to me? What should I ask him? (I’m always terrible at asking questions.) Excitement and anxiety fueled this endless torrent.

No, it wasn’t a date. Or maybe you could say it was a group date. It was a semi-intimate dinner with the CEO of Buzzfeed, Jon Steinberg ’99, that had quietly unleashed a flurry of butterflies in my stomach. Out of a number of events arranged by Whig-Clio, I felt that this one was particularly relevant, as Buzzfeed was responsible for a number of hours spent not doing homework and not sleeping.

Here I was again, similarly distracted.

But as we sat down to eat, a number of things he said made me uncomfortable.

Don’t get me wrong — I was certainly inspired by some of his statements.

When he told us that we could “outwork anybody,” and that our efforts could trump true genius no matter how smart our peers were, I felt a sense of hope (okay, cockeyed optimism, but I still chose to savor it).

Or when Steinberg stated, “If you want to do something, now is the best time” with regard to entrepreneurial attempts and other save-the-world ventures, I felt that same warm fuzzy idealism in my heart.

What a guy, I thought.

But other things he said contradicted those feelings.

Steinberg, as you may know, majored in the Wilson School. I plan to do so as well. When asked by one of my peers how he benefitted from the department, he grappled for a reason, and ultimately said that he hadn’t. I exchanged nervous glances with the five other Woody Woo majors in the room, and we all chuckled while our souls (yes, we have souls) burst into flames.

It seemed that Steinberg’s primary source of disappointment in the Wilson School rested in his unsuccessful attempts to get thesis funding. But as he continued to explain his resentment, it seemed he also felt that the skills he obtained from the concentration were not relevant to the real world, ironically enough.

Steinberg said he wished he had majored in economics or had gotten more coding experience in college. All of these were thoughts I had entertained before, but now were coming back to haunt me in a very tangible and urgent form.

At the end of Steinberg’s lecture (which followed the dinner), he asked anyone who knew how to code or who was “good at math” to come see him. “We need you,” he stated. My heart sank. I felt like I had been told that nothing I was doing was important, that I would be stuck with a useless — or nonexistent? — skill set after college that would be irrelevant and archaic in an advancing world, ripe with the fruits of technology.

As I walked home, Steinberg’s perspective confused me even more.

It angered me that he was essentially turning his back on his own department and academic context. He had made it this far, hadn’t he? And couldn’t at least part of that be attributed to what he learned in the Wilson School? What about perspectives on pressing international issues and news, which the company has been incorporating into its output?

Learning about cross-cultural dynamics and socioeconomic trends to make his site appeal to a broad viewer base?

Steinberg might have chosen to prioritize the world’s computer science and econ majors as the artists of the blank technological canvas that is the modern world, but I am majoring in the Wilson School because I want to learn about the issues and debates that fill that world. I don’t believe that my major is as much of a limiting factor in the real world as Steinberg made it out to be. In fact, I really don’t think that my major is going to affect what I do in life — the skills I pick up along the way are more important. Do I know about domestic and international issues? Do I know how to support my Ellen Chances arguments in a professional setting? Do I Guest contributor know how to perform basic data analysis?

Just because he felt he didn’t benefit nce upon a time, from Woody Woo doesn’t mean no one there was a canopy can. Although Buzzfeed is certainly a that stood tall and prestigious company, getting a job at happy at the Princeton Buzzfeed is not the same as getting a job train station.

She eagerly awaitin general. The skills that Steinberg felt ed the Dinky, as the little train he needed to build a successful career are returned from his adventures not universal keys to surviving in the real in the land of Princeton Juncworld. tion. The canopy loved to watch I think I’ll stick to Woody Woo, take the engineer and conductor some of Steinberg’s more optimistic step through the Dinky door. advice and go get the skills I need if I feel She loved to watch the passenlike I’m really behind the times. Maybe I’ll gers, as they went to and from be able to outwork the others, or maybe the Dinky. She especially loved I’ll be able to come up with something else entirely. to watch the people who met or

arts courses can be found across a variety of departments, so selecting appealing courses that fulfill these requirements would not be difficult. The arts requirement, for example, could certainly be fulfilled in the art and archaeology department, but many courses in music, visual arts, dance and theater would also be satisfactory. And while literature may seem to indicate a course in the English department, there are dozens of courses in journalism, comparative literature, creative writing, American studies and East Asian studies that include significant literature components.

Unlike the core curriculum present at some schools, Princeton’s distribution requirements allow students a great deal of flexibility in choosing courses across disciplines. While the Board acknowledges that some students may use this flexibility to avoid seriously engaging with disciplines that do not interest them, we believe that most students engage seriously with a diverse array of fields. Splitting the LA requirement will not completely deter students who wish to avoid serious engagement with literature and art, but it will help encourage a broader exploration of the humanities for most students.

This is a small change that will make a positive difference without placing a burden on students. Literature and the arts are important disciplines that offer valuable skills, and all Princeton students should have experience in both areas.

Dissent: Princeton’s distribution requirement system attempts to preserve what it fundamentally undermines. Distribution requirements were meant to expose students to a complete set of important disciplines. However, by granting students the license to choose from a whole host of courses — many only nominally connected to the discipline category — students can easily avoid getting the well-rounded education that the system was intended to provide. The Board rightly seeks to remedy the problem for the LA requirement, but, in reality, its solution can only do so much. After all, there already exist a plethora of courses for students who want to avoid engaging with tough literature or serious art.

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bid farewell to loved ones. (She secretly dubbed them “kissers” as she blushed and chuckled to herself.) The canopy loved

the springtime, when staccato melodies of newborn sparrows filled the air.

One day, the canopy became sad. There were no more kissers, no more passengers, no more conductors, no more engineers.

And there was no more Dinky that used to stop right next to her, every half hour.

The canopy was lonely.

People rushed by. No one walked on the platform that she carefully sheltered, night and day. She heard the Dinky in the distance, but she couldn’t see him. Metal fences surrounded her. No one waited with her for the Dinky to arrive

and leave.

The canopy became lonelier and lonelier. No one needed her anymore. On rainy days and snowy days and hot sunny days, she had once felt proud that she could protect the Dinky passengers-to-be. She had once felt good that every spring, her wooden beams were homes for sparrow nests.

The canopy decided that everyone had forgotten her. She felt rejected and abandoned.

She was broken-hearted. She felt so despondent that she crumpled to the ground, her purpose in life dissipating in dust and smoke.

The moral of my humble tale: Did the Arts and Transit Neighborhood committees and commissions and consultants, planners and designers and architects, ask the canopy what she thought about moving the Dinky station? No, they did not. Dear reader, you will certainly agree that they should have.

THE END Ellen Chances is a professor of Russian literature in the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures. She can be reached at echances@princeton.edu.

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the Bulldogs 8-0 last year, the Tigers won by a less lopsided but comfortable score of 2-0 this time, outshooting Yale 25-5 and earning 16 penalty corners to their opponent’s three. The second match — in which UConn held the advantage in shots on goal 8-4 and penalty corners 11-6 – resulted in a 1-0 defeat for the Princeton squad.

Princeton’s offense ran smoothly against Yale, holding possession in its opponent’s half for almost the entirety of the first five minutes before earning a penalty corner that resulted in a shot by sophomore back Teresa Benvenuti that went wide right of the goal.

Halfway through the first

period Yale earned a penalty corner. Bulldog Georgia Holland’s shot was deflected into the back of the net, but it was found that it had ricocheted off of one of her teammate’s feet and the shot had come from outside the circle. These double infractions dampened the visitors’ celebration of what would be their best chance of the game.

With just under 10 minutes remaining in the first period, junior striker Allison Evans took on the Bulldogs’ defense and beat the keeper to open up scoring for the Tigers.

Earning corner after corner, Princeton occupied the Yale semicircle to great effect in the second half. The second goal came more than 30 minutes later off of a second consecutive penalty corner, as senior back Amanda Bird’s shot was

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The Quakers refused to give up, however, never allowing the Tigers a lead of more than three points and eventually evening the score at 11-11. As a full Dillon Gym looked on, Woolridge led the offense on a tear, hitting the go-ahead kill and the final kill as Princeton won the final four points.

Sophomore right side/ middle blocker Kendall Peterkin, who earned first-

team All-Ivy League honors last season, scored a match-best 21 kills, while adding eight digs and two service aces. Wooldrige and junior middle blocker Nicole Kincade combined to hit 31 kills, while rookie setter Lauren Miller added 59 assists. Princeton hit .313 for the match, significantly higher than their current .203 average this season.

The Tigers continue Ivy play in Ithaca next Friday as they take on the Cornell Big Red before traveling to New York City on Saturday to play Columbia.

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redirected by senior midfielder Julia Reinprecht to put the Tigers up 2-0. “Surfin’ Bird” by The Trashmen was played in celebration.

Head coach Kristen HolmesWinn described her team’s performance as “fairly dominant.”

“We were able to do what we wanted to do with the ball,” she said. “So we were really happy with how we connected between lines.”

Holmes-Winn was frustrated, however, with the failure to capitalize more often.

“We were not happy, obviously, with the lack of finish in the front field,” she said.

“To generate 25 shots and 15 penalty corners and only get two goals from that is a bit frustrating. But we were able to identify what was going wrong with our attack penalty corners so we should see better

results there.”

UConn posed a far greater challenge than Yale. The Huskies are one of only seven teams against whom Princeton does not boast a record of .500 or above after having competed

“We’re very focused in on making improvements.”

Head coach Kristen Holmes-Winn in five or more contests.

“We just want to play our best — I think that’s our mindset — and clean up some of the areas that haven’t been going well for us. We’re very focused

in on making improvements.

When you play the top teams, you have to do that,” she said before the game. “We want to know where we’re at. And since [our loss to No. 5] Syracuse — and I’d put Syracuse and UConn in a similar realm in terms of ability and level of talent — we want to hopefully see we’ve improved.”

Scoring opportunities were scarce in the first period. Twenty-one minutes in, UConn had one shot on goal — saved by sophomore keeper Anya Gersoff — and two penalty corners. Shortly thereafter, freshman striker Cat Caro saw her shot go wide as the Tigers began threatening the Huskies circle. With 24 minutes elapsed, the Tigers earned their first corner, leading to a shot by Benvenuti saved by the opposing keeper.

The teams remained scoreless at halftime and the scoreboard was not put to use until more than halfway through the second period.

A barrage of shots by the Huskies starting at the 56th minute — four of which were saved by Gersoff in under 10 minutes and five of which were consecutive penalty corners for UConn — led to a goal for the home team.

Princeton earned a corner just over a minute later, earning a chance to equalize with less than 10 minutes remaining.

Benvenuti’s shot — the Tiger’s last — went wide, and the Huskies soon celebrated a narrow victory.

The Tigers will host Columbia on Friday before perhaps the toughest test of their season so far: a match against No. 2 Maryland in College Park on Oct. 11.

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Offense excels as Princeton outplays Hoyas

Princeton goes 4-3 on tough Golden State trip

By Hillary Dodyk

By Saahil Madge staff writer

The No. 11 men’s water polo team traveled to California this weekend for a tough seven-game series against some of the nation’s best teams. The Tigers (103) suffered their first loss but went 4-3 overall.

The Tigers entered the weekend undefeated and won their first match against Chapman 139. The Tigers fell behind 1-2 in the first period but evened the score at four by the end of the first half. They charged ahead after halftime, scoring three goals in the third period and four in the fourth, holding the Panthers (24) to three in each for a final score of 13-10. Junior attacker Drew Hoffenberg and junior center Kayj Shannon led the attack with three goals each.

The next matchup was much tougher, as No. 7 Long Beach State handed the Tigers their first loss of the season. They scored just two goals in the first period and none in the second period, while LBS (10-3) scored See M. W-POLO page 5

of the day’s seven touchdowns.

These included two one-yard rushes, a seven-yard carry and a 59-yard touchdown run down the left side of the field on a fourth and inches play.

He had only one other carry in the game, but threw for 19 yards.

Georgetown had no answer for the Tiger rushing attack, and Epperly was not the only Tiger to find success in the run game. Princeton rushed for 326 total yards; however, no single player carried the ball more than 11 times in the effort. Senior running back Brian Mills rushed for 110 yards on his 11 carries, including a 53-yard touchdown to bring the lead to 22-12 late in the first quarter.

“This week we didn’t allow any lead to phase how we played our game and how we performed,” Mills said. “Every drive was a new one, and we made sure to maintain our focus and our mentality every play.”

Junior quarterback Connor Michelsen added 181 passing yards and 26 more on the ground, completing 19 of 28

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Junior quarterback Quinn Epperly rushed for 4 of the TIgers’ 7 touchdowns against the Hoyas on Saturday.

After a disappointing loss to Lehigh in its season opener, the football team rebounded explosively against Georgetown on Saturday. The Tigers (1-1) scored seven touchdowns to dominate Georgetown (1-4) 50-22. It was the first 50-point game for the Tigers since their 55-28 win over Brown in 2000.

The Hoyas led only once during the game: early in the first quarter after junior receiver Seth DaValve’s fumble was recovered and returned 14 yards PRINCETON 50 to the end GEORGETOWN 22 zone to give Georgetown a 12-8 lead.

The Tigers would regain the lead on their next possession, which included a fake punt on fourth and seven at the Princeton 46-yard line that resulted in freshman punter Tyler Roth’s completion to junior running back Will Powers for a 16-yard conversion. That drive would put them back on top for good.

Leading the Tiger offense was junior quarterback Quinn Epperly, who rushed for four

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Tigers win Ivy opener in 3-2 thriller

Princeton remains perfect in Ancient 8

By Victoria Majchrzak associate sports editor

After getting off to a rough 4-6 start to its year, the women’s volleyball team kicked off Ivy League play this weekend in a drastically different way — by beating Penn in a 3-2 thriller in front PRINCETON 3 of a packed Dillon PENN 2 Gymnasium.

The Tigers (5-6 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) got off to a slow start, dropping their first set to Penn (10-2, 1-1) 25-21 before gaining some momentum in the second set to win in a decisive 25-17. The third set was much closer, with Princeton walking away with a narrow 25-23 victory, but momentum swung back to the Quakers

in dramatic fashion. The fourth set saw Princeton score only 15 points to the Quakers’ 25.

The Tigers were then forced to play just their second fifth set of the season. The last time that Princeton went to five was against South Carolina-Upstate at the Hofstra Tournament on Sept. 14, when the Tigers came out on top 15-10.

This time around, the Tigers once again pulled through, winning the final set 15-11 and securing their first Ivy victory. Freshman outside hitter Cara Mattaliano added two kills to get the final set going, and junior middle blocker Tiana Woolridge recorded another to push the Tigers to an early 5-2 lead.

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By Andrew Steele Staff Writer

After taking another step toward once again sweeping its Ivy opponents Friday, the field hockey team held its own but fell to one of the top teams in the nation Sunday. The No. 6 Tigers (5-3 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) UCONN 1 hosted Yale (2-5, 0-2) on FriPRINCETON 0 day before heading north to face another Connecticut school: No. 3 University of Connecticut (9-0, 1-0 Big East).

Princeton has traditionally dominated Yale — the series record stands at 38-2-3. After beating See F. HOCKEY page 7

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Princeton hit .313 for the match on 74 kills against Penn on Friday.

MEN’S SOCCER

Overtime FGCU goal Princeton drops first Ivy League match of season to Yale drops Tigers 1-0 WOMEN’S SOCCER

By Anna Mazarakis staff writer

The women’s soccer team dropped its Ivy League opener Saturday afternoon, falling to Yale in an overtime battle that ended with a 3-2 victory for the Bulldogs (5-3 overall, 1-0 Ivy League).

“Every Ivy League game, especially the first one, is always really intense, and we knew that it was not goPRINCETON 2 ing to be easy YALE 3 and that Yale was going to come out strong,” senior midfielder and defender Gabriella Guzman said.

The game started slowly, with action on both sides of the field.

The scoreboard remained blank, though, until freshman midfielder Jesse McDonough scored her first career goal 30 minutes into the first half.

The Tigers (4-2-2, 0-1) went into halftime ahead, but came back in the second half and gave up a goal within the first two minutes. Another freshman, defender Haley Chow, scored her first career goal around the 73-minute mark, but again Yale came right back to score, tying the game within one minute.

Regulation ended with a score of 2-2, and the game went into overtime. Despite a number of shot attempts by the Orange and Black at the end of regulation play and the very beginning of overtime, it was Yale that scored the winning goal and ended the game 3-2.

Head coach Julie Shackford said she thought the game-winning goal was scored despite the player being offside since the linesman’s f lag was brief ly raised then lowered, but she has yet to watch the game tape.

“We totally outplayed them and had plenty of chances. We just could not finish, which is unfortunate,” Shackford said.

“It was just one of those games … Ivy League women’s soccer has always been really strong, and [the games are] always good battles.”

With this loss, the two Ivy rivals continued their seven-year streak of losing to each other on their home turf.

“They were very dangerous off of set pieces, corners and free kicks, and they were very good in the air,” junior midfielder and forward Lauren Lazo said.

“I think that’s how they created most of their chances — off of set pieces and not in the run of play — so I think that was really hard for us to cope with.”

Guzman added that Yale was able to finish its chances on goal while Princeton was not able

to take advantage of all of its opportunities and put the ball in the net, despite having possession of the ball frequently in Yale’s defensive third.

The Tigers took 22 shots throughout the course of the game. Freshman forward Tyler Lussi, who leads the team with six goals and 33 shots on goal, had nine shots on Saturday, but none found the net.

Princeton will now play catchup in the Ancient Eight after winning the Ivy League championship with an undefeated league record last year, but Shackford is not too worried about the team’s current standing.

“I like our chances going forward. I really do,” Shackford said.

Princeton will face La Salle on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Roberts Stadium.

By Mark Stein staff writer

For the men’s soccer team, one defensive slipup in overtime erased an entire half of momentum and caused Princeton (2-5 overall, 0-0 Ivy League) to suffer a difficult defeat to Florida Gulf Coast University (2-5-1, 0-0 ASC) on Sunday afternoon. In the fourth minute of overtime, the Eagles recovered a Tiger turnover deep in their own end. FGCU moved swiftly forward on the counterattack, stringing together several passes and working up the far sideline before finding freshman midfielder Will Suedois with space in the middle. Suedois collected the ball near the top of the Princeton box, took a touch to his left and calmly slotted the ball low toward the far post, beating senior Tiger goalkeeper Seth MacMillan’s sliding attempt and lifting the Eagles to a 1-0 victory.

“We gave away a ball that we shouldn’t have given away in the final third, and when we do that we start having numbers committed forward and that leaves gaps for them to play in,” head coach Jim Barlow ’91 said. “They played it wide, and we were a little stretched out. Their guy did a good job of cutting it toward the middle and putting it in the goal.”

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