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By Warren Crandall senior writer

Jason Choe and Susannah Sharpless discuss grade deflation, and the Editorial Board revisits the freshman rush ban. PAGE 4 COURTESY OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

Today on Campus

10 a.m.: The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is hosting a Science and Technology job fair. Bring copies of your resume and wear business casual attire.

Dillon Gymnasium.

A map of possible locations for a seventh residential college within a 10-minute walk from Frist Campus Center proposed in a 2008 campus plan. Source: 2008 Princeton Campus Plan.

DEMOCRACY NOW!

Stengel ’77 nominated Rothman for State Dept. position wins

By Jacqueline Gufford

Oct. 11, 1995

contributor

Professor Eric Wieschaus receives the 1995 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on a paper he assigned as reading to the students in his freshman seminar.

On the Blog Benjamin Dinovelli discusses the Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action case.

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Amy Goodman, host and executive producer of radio news program Democracy Now! spoke on independent media during wartime.

Lara Norgaard breaks down what your closet says about you.

News & Notes Hammer and chisel hitting door identified as source of reported gunshots

a hammer and chisel facidui A hammer and chisel that were used to repair a door have been identified as the likely source of the reported gunshot sounds on Tuesday evening at Nassau Hall, the University said Thursday.

The door repair happened around 20 minutes before a female caller told the University’s Department of Public Safety she had heard the sound of gunshots inside the building, according to a press release issued Thursday night. The call happened at 7:55 p.m., and the worker using the hammer and chisel left the building before the call was made.

The DPS investigation into the matter is now closed.

Local Princeton Police Department officers armed with rif les entered Nassau Hall on Tuesday evening to inspect the report of gunshots. DPS, an unarmed force, formed an outer perimeter around the building. Two-and-a-half hours after the initial report, it was concluded that the reports were unfounded.

ACADEMICS

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University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 suggested that the University may consider either building a seventh residential college or expanding Forbes College in order to handle a potential increase of the student body.

Eisgruber floated the idea of

expanding the student body at the last Council of the Princeton University Community on Sept. 30.

“The most obvious way you could [expand] would be to add an additional residential college, but there are also other ways that would be more modest,” Eisgruber said in an interview Wednesday morning.

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As a result of the government shutdown that began on Oct. 1, the confirmation process for Time Managing Editor Richard Stengel ’77, who was nominated

by President Obama on Sept. 17 to become the next U.S. Department of State’s Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, has been put on hold.

If confirmed, Stengel will be the eighth under secretary since the position’s creation and the 24th journalist to be appointed to a post in the Obama administration, according to The Atlantic Wire.

Stengel declined to comment for this article due to the fact that he has not yet been confirmed by the Senate.

The under secretary’s objective is to advance U.S. policy goals by developing international com-

munication and relationships, according to the State Department’s website.

Jim Kelly ’76, Stengel’s predecessor at Time and a close friend, said the nominee will rise to the challenge.

“This job is relatively new,” Kelly said. “What Rick brings to the party is that he’s highly articulate, and he’s very good at articulating an agenda and then going about executing it. And he’s very good about delegating authority.

He’s not a one-man band.”

Prior to his tenure as managing editor at Time, Stengel worked as the head of the National Constitution Center, co-wrote Nelson Mandela’s memoirs “Long Walk to Freedom” and worked as a speechwriter for Bill Bradley ’65.

At Princeton, Stengel majored in English and played basketball.

He later studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.

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Nobel

By Loully Saney & Angela Wang staff writer and contributor

Former University professor James Rothman won the Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday along with Stanford biochemistry professor Thomas Sudhof and University of California, Berkeley biologist Randy Schekman. Rothman, Sudhof and Schekman’s contributions advanced scientific understanding of the transportation systems within cells.

Rothman attended Yale University as an undergraduate and majored in physics, graduating in 1971.

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BEYOND THE BUBBLE

Former Egyptian foreign affairs minister Amr talks democratic process, institutions

By Elliott Eglash contributor

“Democracy is not an event.

Democracy is a process,” former Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohamed Kamel Amr said at a lecture on Thursday afternoon. He argued that Egypt’s transition toward democracy will be gradual and explained that it takes time to establish the institutions that will support a democratic government.

Amr’s talk came just one day after the United States announced that it would suspend a large portion of its military aid to Egypt, The New York Times reported. The decision came as a result of the Egyptian military’s use of violence against the recently ousted Muslim Brotherhood.

In his speech, Amr argued that the military’s use of force was not part of a coup, but rather was necessary to prevent even more violence from breaking out between various factions.

In a coup, “by definition, the military would take over,” Amr said. “But the military didn’t take over.”

The former ambassador said that, given the young age of Egypt’s democracy, the country is doing well. “There’s a civilian government and a civilian president,” he said.

However, he noted that his country does not have institutions that allow its people to voice their opinions.

“We are practicing democracy in its lowest form in Egypt,” he said. “It is democracy of the streets.”

Amr explained that there are a number of competing interests at play. He noted the fact that the extremist group Hamas is a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, a relationship that is troubling to Americans and Egyptians alike. He said this affiliation concerns him, adding that, in a situation like this, “You always have doubt about where their real loyalties are.”

But he said he remains hopeful about Egypt’s future. The fact that the people are becoming invested in the democratic process is a good sign. The protestors “won’t allow any diversion” from the democratic path that Egypt is set on, he said.

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Former Egyptian foreign affairs minister Mohamed Kamel Amr gave a lecture at the Wilson School Tuesday afternoon.

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Q&A: Amr on Morsi, constitutional democracy, Egypt’s transition

By Lydia Lim senior writer

Before his lecture at the Wilson School on Thursday afternoon, former Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr sat down with The Daily Princetonian to discuss the challenges facing the Egyptian government and the likelihood of a transition to a legitimate constitutional democracy in the wake of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi’s removal from power in June.

The Daily Princetonian: What is the biggest challenge facing

the Egyptian government today?

Mohamed Kamel Amr: I think the biggest challenge facing Egypt today, it is what they call a “road map” for, you see, moving forward. This road map involves writing a new constitution or amending the old one, then we have the legislative elections, then we have the presidential elections. All of this should happen within the next seven to eight, nine months. Now we are in the process of writing the constitution. So I think the chal-

lenge now is to go according to this road map. This is very important for the stability of the country, which again, stability is important for investment, for economic activity, for tourism, which are all down now because of the situation. Everybody is feeling the transition of the government. It is a transitional period, but we want to have this kind of road map finished.

DP: What made you decide to resign in July 2013 yet stay on as the caretaker foreign minister?

MKA: I decided to resign when it was clear, you see, that the majority of the people of Egypt don’t want the situation to continue as it is, and they were against the policies of the president. And I saw that Egypt, for the first time, there was a kind of division among the people. The majority was on one side, and there was a sizable minority on the other side, and the situation was developing, you see, in a very bad way.

And I thought that the president should make some concession, should try to respond to the will

of the people, but he didn’t. So I submitted my resignation, and I mentioned all of this, actually. I cannot, with a clear conscience, continue my work in this kind of atmosphere. But I was asked to stay until they found a replacement. And, of course, I’m the foreign minister, you can’t just leave — people call you foreign minister, people call you from abroad. So I agreed to stay until they found a replacement.

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affected Egypt’s relationships with other countries, particularly those from which it receives military and foreign aid?

MKA: You see, there was a misunderstanding of what happened in Egypt on the 30 of June.

Some countries said this was a military coup, which it wasn’t.

There were these, literally, tens of millions of people on the street asking for the president to resign. The president had a chance before, actually, to go to have a referendum on his staying or resigning; he refused to have this referendum. So people came to the street asking for him to resign. And I think the wise course to do was for him to resign. He refused. And the situation was threatening to become a confrontation between those tens of millions on one side and hundreds of thousands who are with the president on the other side.

If the situation [were] allowed to develop, there would have been catastrophic results; blood would have [been] shed in the thousands. The army came, ac-

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tually, to prevent this from happening and withdrew from the political scene. The army, they didn’t take over the government or anything. They appointed the head of the Supreme Court and the interim president, and there was a prime minister who appointed a civilian government.

So I think countries who said this was a coup, they didn’t really understand the situation.

But there were many countries, actually, who knew exactly what happened and understood what happened. And they kept their relations, even they increased their assistance to Egypt — like Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, like Kuwait, all these countries, actually, increased their help to Egypt during this time. And I think everybody now is realizing that the situation was not what they thought at the beginning, and I think in time, they will understand the correct and right situation of Egypt.

DP: Is Egypt in danger of falling back into authoritarianism? What steps must be taken by the interim government to put Egypt back on the clear path toward a constitutional democracy that is viewed as

legitimate by all quarters of society?

MKA: I’m not afraid at all that Egypt will come back to authoritarianism. For one reason: People now are different. They have been changed after what happened on the 25 of January 2011, when people came to the street, and they removed the president.

And then again on the 30 of June [2013], when they removed the second president. People now are very much aware, you see, of their rights, and of their power on the street. So I don’t think any future leader will have the chance to go the way of the old leaders, you know, being authoritarian or dictatorial. The people wouldn’t allow that. So I think I’m optimistic on this regard.

People would never go back.

What the government should do to move Egypt forward, as I said, [is to] adhere to the road map that was announced in the 3 of July. The road map is very clear, very specific, in its steps. And within a time of less than a year, actually, we should have a new, modern constitution — democratic constitution — an elected legislature and an elected president. So I think what the government should do now is to just stick to this road map.

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In particular, Stengel’s time co-writing the Mandela memoir “gives him [the] international perspective” necessary to fulfill his new duties as under secretary, Kelly said.

Former Time Editor-in-Chief John Huey, who recruited Stengel to become managing editor, said he believed that Stengel’s appointment would be good for the country.

“He was one of the most trans-

formative editors, in my opinion, that Time has ever had,” Huey said. “Rick is a very innovative and energetic and determined person … I would describe him as a hands-on leader.”

Critics of the Obama administration have criticized the large number of journalists who have been appointed by the administration, according to The Washington Post.

“It’s limiting to say that he is the 24th journalist in the Obama administration,” Kelly said, explaining why he thought critics’ claims were misguided. “He’s so

much more than just a journalist.”

He explained that Stengel’s journalistic experience and communication skills would be assets in his new role as under secretary.

“This job, I think it’s ideally suited to the kind of skills Rick has,” Kelly said. “He’s a first-rate communicator. And this job, more than most jobs in the administration, is about communicating something very specific. It’s about what America stands for.”

Nancy Gibbs, who will succeed Stengel as managing editor of Time, said she was traveling and not available for comment.

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to take a biology course to become a doctor, he said to me,” Rothman said.

However, Rothman cited Robert Oppenheimer, Albert Einstein and other famous physicists of his youth as his inspiration for choosing to major in physics, a field distinct from his career in biochemistry.

“Physicists are smart. Chemists are acceptable. Biologists are stupid,” Rothman explained of his early views of the sciences.

Rothman said that each year he and his college roommates reunite and remind each other of what they were like a couple of decades ago.

“One of my friends described me as Buddha sitting on the floor with my legs crossed, and Buddha was a very large man, which I am as well,” Rothman said.

Rothman described himself as the mixture of a nerd and a “goof-off.”

“I was a physics major, and I was pretty good at it. I had wonderful grades my freshman year, and I discovered marijuana my second term,” Rothman said.

He went on to explain that while he always received excellent grades, he was not always the best student.

“I goofed off a lot and had a good time. But, by the time I was a senior, I was reformed and a dedicated scientist,” Rothman said.

After graduating from Yale, Rothman obtained his Ph.D. in biological chemistry from Harvard University in 1976 and completed his post-doctoral training at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978, according to a Nobel Foundation press release. He devoted much of his subsequent career to biochemistry at a variety of institutions.

Following his post-doctoral training, Rothman worked at Stanford’s Department of Biochemistry for three years. He then came to the University, where he worked from 1988 to 1991, before moving on to work at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

Rothman founded the Department in Cellular Biochemistry and Biophysics at SloanKettering in 1991 and chaired the department until 2003. Among the people he considers to have been his mentors are Harvard’s Eugene Kennedy, who helped him explore the lipid bilayer of cell membranes, and MIT adviser Harvey Lodish, who taught Rothman the inner workings of cell-free systems.

Kennedy died in 2011. Lodish said he was traveling and was not available to comment for this article.

Rothman held a number of titles within the Sloan-Kettering Institute and the science departments of Columbia University.

He focused his research largely on the function of vesicles — tiny, sac-like structures that serve as transportation mechanisms within cells.

Two years after returning to Yale’s department of cell biology, Rothman won the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience in 2010 with scientific work that linked him definitively to Thomas Sudhof, another winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize, by illustrating the critical role of neurotransmitters in vesicle function.

Over the course of his career, Rothman continued to explore the structure and configuration of the proteins that facilitate vesicle-target fusion.

According to the Nobel Prize Foundation’s webpage, Rothman’s research on yeast proteins aligned with results that Schekman had reached in his exploration of mammals. Their results collectively produced a groundbreaking new map of the cell’s transport mechanisms.

Rothman explained that he intends to pursue and continue the research he is working on now. He currently chairs the cell biology department at Yale and leads a research lab, where he plans to continue his work.

“I have a wonderful research lab, and I am privileged to have at least 20 young, able students and post-doctoral fellows and a couple bright undergraduates,” he explained.

One goal that Rothman has for his future research is to understand how neurotransmitters are released.

“The message is that you can get a Nobel prize for working on a problem, but it doesn’t mean the problem is completely solved,” he said.

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CORRECTION Due to a reporting error, the Oct. 10 article “Details emerge regarding grading policy review” mischaracterized the involvement of the Board of Trustees in the decision to reevaluate the grading policy. Eisgruber and the trustees discussed potential changes to the policy at a late September meeting. The ‘Prince’ regrets the error.

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foreign policy,” and about a number of other factors in Egypt’s ongoing transition, Amr said. He noted this was indicative of the average Egyptian’s investment in his country’s future.

For now, Egypt is following a nine-month “road map” toward a functioning democracy. The country already has an interim president, the former head of Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court, Adly Mansour, and a constitutional committee, he said.

Once the committee finishes its work, legislative elections will be held, followed by

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a presidential election. Amr said he hopes that this time, the necessary institutions will be in place to ensure that every Egyptian’s voice is heard, in contrast to what happened after the 2012 revolution.

When asked about the possibility of extremist forces taking control in Egypt, Amr said that Egypt has experienced a series of tumultuous changes throughout its history but that it has always avoided extremism.

“Egypt is a moderate country. Always, the pendulum comes back to the middle,” he said. “Any group who tries to prove otherwise will face the same fate as the Muslim Brotherhood.”

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Princeton South Asian Theatrics rehearses for its fall show, ‘Roshan’s Eleven,’ in the Frist Campus Center Film/Performance Theatre.

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As Forbes is currently smaller than the other colleges and has some vacant space on its northern side, he said the University may consider renovating or replacing the Forbes Annex or Addition to add more beds.

Eisgruber noted that he intended his remarks to re-open the question of expansion among the University community, rather than to lay it down as a goal.

“I really do mean to put the question [of expansion] on the table, rather than presuppose an answer to it,” he said.

“There’s no way we could ever get to expansion without having a serious trustee-level committee in a public process.”

The Class of 2016, the University’s largest admitted undergraduate class to date, enrolled

1,357 students. The Class of 2017 enrolled 1,291 students.

Seriously considering the possibility of expansion, Eisgruber explained, would require forming a committee to gather impressions about the benefits and impacts of a larger student body.

Expansion has been on the University’s horizon for years.

The campus plan published in 2008 mentioned the possibility of adding a seventh residential college and identified three possible sites for its location. One was the area north of Forbes College, between the college and College Road.

Another possible site mentioned in the plan is the MacMillan building, which is located south of Baker Rink along Elm Drive. It currently houses the University’s Department of Facilities and Office of Design and Construction, as well as the University’s Energy Man-

agement Center. The plan notes that this site “is constrained and may result in an unacceptably dense layout.”

A third site considered in the plan is along Ivy Lane, which becomes Western Way before its intersection with FitzRandolph Road. The proposed site includes the University’s Computing Center and would be backto-back with Charter Club. The plan notes that the selection of this site “would contribute to the goal of uniting the campus across the two sides of Washington Road.”

In 2009, former University President Shirley Tilghman said she thought a seventh residential college would be added at some point in the next 25 years.

The last major expansion of the size of the student body, which gradually increased the annual class size from 1,200 to 1,300 beginning in 2005 and

ending in the 2012-2013 school year, was based on a report by the Wythes Committee — charged by the University’s Board of Trustees with evaluating long-term strategic issues facing the University — in 2000.

In order to accommodate the larger class size, the University constructed Whitman College, the sixth residential college.

Yale recently announced plans to build two additional residential colleges, part of an attempt to increase enrollment by 15 percent. The total $330 million project got off the ground with a $250 million alumni donation.

Eisgruber has said he’s certain Princeton’s student body will expand eventually but has no timetable in mind for it. Expansion, he said, is “one of the most important questions the University needs to be thinking about.”

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The Princeton University Art Museum hosted ‘A Happening’ by Geoffrey Hendricks on Thursday evening.

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Is revisiting the grading policy beneficial?

More harm than good

Rank inflation?

enough at Princeton. It is evident when students produce A quality work or when they get over 90 percent on a test that they deserve a suitable grade to match their performance — which is not always the reality under grade deflation. There is a preexisting organic demarcation, a naturally existing boundary between A, B and C quality work in the form of the bell curve, because of the fact that some students do better than others and subsequently earn a higher grade. That being the case, grade deflation is simply unnecessary and just serves to induce further stress among the student body by acting like the proverbial sword hanging over our necks.

What’s more, professors, when building a course, design assignments and tests to accurately gauge student capability. The grades students earn are indications of their mastery of the course load and of their ability to apply what they have learned, so why does the Princeton administration need to step in and implement active grade deflation at the seemingly arbitrary 35 percent threshold? If 40 percent, or 45 percent or even 50 percent of students in a class manage to do well in a class, surpassing a professor’s expectations, they are rightfully entitled to that A grade.

And, of course, the grade deflation policy only hurts the prospects of Princetonian graduates as they leave school and enter the job market or apply to graduate school; our peer institutions have not followed suit in Princeton’s example of active grade deflation, and as such, our graduates are at a distinct disadvantage. For instance, although Yale has not released the statistics of its graduating class since the 1980s, Stuart Rojstaczer, a former Duke University professor and a noted grade inflation researcher, estimated that the average GPA at Yale in 2012 was equivalent to an A-, while the average GPA was equivalent to a B- just 50 years ago, according to an article published in The Yale Daily News. From a purely numerical standpoint, Yale students clearly seem to have the upper-hand upon completing their undergraduate studies.

Grade inflation can clearly be a problem, when too many students get too many high grades. But forcing competition and artificially suppressing grades is not the solution. In the end, at a school like Princeton, where instructors already design classes to test each student’s respective capabilities, grade deflation is an unnecessary policy that only serves to harm the student body.

Let the professors be the judges of work quality, and above all, give A-level work an A grade.

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s the Triangle Club song goes, "New Haven has its murders, Philadelphia decays and in the town that’s home to Brown, they smoke away the days. They kill themselves in Ithaca; in Hanover it snows. There’s violent crime in NYC; in Cambridge egos grow."

But in Princeton we have grade deflation. Although the lyrics of the Triangle song jest at each school’s respective stigmas, grade deflation is a real problem. Last year, when choosing which college to attend, by far one of the most agonizing choices I (and likely many students on campus) have ever had to make, Princeton’s grade deflation policy was a thorn in an otherwise easy choice. And I suspect I am hardly alone in this regard. The Class of 2017 Facebook page was filled with concerned posts about the effects of grade deflation, and the best pieces of advice upperclassmen could give were often something along the lines of, “You’re going to get B’s and C’s. Relax. Everyone does.” The problem with grade deflation isn’t that we will probably get some lower grades — at a school of Princeton’s caliber, that is to be expected. Rather, the issue is that B’s and C’s are expected and indeed are seen as inevitable.

Now, however, University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 has tasked a committee to reevaluate Princeton’s grading policy, which has been in effect since 2004. It is indeed high time that the decade-old policy be updated.

First and foremost, the use of a numerical guideline for the allocation of grades, while wellintentioned, does more harm than good. It was designed by former Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel to curb the rising problem of grade inflation, but since then, the policy has been misapplied. While intended as a limit on A's given in the departmental unit as a whole, some professors apply the numerical limits to specific courses, which in turn harms the students. Especially in introductory classes, which often have hundreds of students, perhaps a third of them can get an A grade. This knowledge, and indeed this mentality, fosters negative academic competition. Knowing that I may or may not be one of the select few to walk out the door with one of the coveted A grades makes me less willing to aid, cooperate or otherwise work with people who may very well “nab” one of the few A’s as well.

It’s not as if classes aren’t already difficult

Jason Choe is a freshman from Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. He can be reached at jasonjc@princeton.edu.

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have chosen — and it’s sad that this had to be an actual choice — to spend my time as a Princeton student focusing on what I’m actually learning and not on the number of zeroes at the end of my probable starting salary. This means I fight with my parents a lot and have a gutdeep distaste for the career fair. This also means that I have never really been that stressed out about grade deflation. Most of the time, I feel that I deserve the grade I get. If I think I deserved a better grade than I received, I think back to the outfits I used to wear in sixth grade and remember never to trust my own judgment. I also remind myself that the learning is what’s important, not the letter.

That said, I would not complain if it were easier for me to get an A, so at first I was excited when Eisgruber announced plans to reexamine the policy. The more I think about it, however, the more I worry about why Princeton would even consider making this change in the first place. While I would obviously be happy to see grade deflation go, I think we need to consider whether the underlying motives are truly in the student body’s best interests, not just focus on how pretty our transcripts will look if the faculty finds that the policy’s 10-year reign has been unsuccessful.

The increasing importance of unilateral, numerical assessments in education — a result, in part, of measures initiated

by No Child Left Behind and its accompanying programs — has been largely criticized. As standardized tests become more and more important, teachers find themselves subjected to regular evaluations, and their schools are ranked (or closed) according to their ability to meet these standards.

Though this only applies legally to public institutions, private schools and universities too are beginning to feel pressure to prove they’re successful. And prove, in this case, means with numbers. Considering this climate, I would not be surprised if Princeton’s real motivation in looking again at grade deflation is actually a way to make our (very excellent) stats stay this way.

There are several ways our institutional anxiety about being “the best” manifests itself, from our desperation for inclusion in a

Harvard/Yale rivalry that has nothing do with us to our quiet reinstitution of early action admissions that allowed us, at least partly, to compete with these school’s yields. The competition I would like to examine most closely, however, is the one that is arguably the most widely referenced: that of the U.S. News and World Report’s highest ranked college. We’ve won it before and we’ll win it again, but when my Facebook News Feed exploded with Tiger pride — which I found annoying and arrogant — I was gratified to see among all the boasting a link to an Atlantic piece by John Tierney that pointed out problems with the rankings. The most striking sentence in the article explained how the rankings can become more important to universities than the actual quality of their education, motivating them “to do what they can to raise their place in the rankings by, for example, spending lots of money on things the U.S. News formula deems important or by” — and this is the most important part — “aggressively increasing the size of their applicant pool so they can turn away a higher percentage of their applicants, thus showing themselves to be ‘more selective’ and thereby raising their rank.”

I know there are other factors influencing our discussion about grade deflation, but I don’t think we can forget that the most identifiably negative aspect of grade deflation is the bad press it gives us. The fact of the matter is that — to the high-achieving kids Princeton wants to attract — grade deflation is a huge deterrent. And Eisgruber’s desire to expand the student body presents a problem: We’d like to get bigger, but God forbid we get less selective.

A Princeton that is easy to get into would not be the Princeton we’re so proud of, nor would it be the number one school in the country. If we get rid of grade deflation, or at least seem open to the idea of getting rid of grade deflation, we become almost perfect. The student body can get larger while Princeton stays just as elite.

It’s not that I think getting rid of grade def lation would be a bad move: I would take a 4.0 any day. What I am worried about is that this may reveal the Eisgruber administration’s possible — and unacceptable — preoccupation with prestige, statistics and meaningless numbers that eclipse the real reason we’re all here: to learn. That’s what matters most. Being number one should come second.

Susannah Sharpless is a religion major from Indianapolis, Ind. She can be reached at ssharple@ princeton.edu.

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ith the announcement of rush numbers this week, the Board feels that it is important to discuss the effects of the freshman rush ban. When the ban was initially passed, many observers thought that it would hurt membership in Greek organizations. The thought was that sophomores who were better established would have less of an interest in social organizations than new freshmen who were still looking for friends and for groups to join. However, with the release of the statistics for sorority rush, it is clear that this has not been the case. This year’s rush numbers are almost identical to the number of students who rushed in the years before the ban. While we have written in the past about the ban and still feel that it should be one semester rather than a year, we feel it is important to revisit this topic in light of these new numbers.

On the one hand, the ban has in some ways achieved its goals. During rush this year, anecdotal evidence suggests that sophomores rushed with an established group of friends.

If the aim of the ban was to encourage people to first form friendships outside of Greek organizations, it seems to have worked. As a result of having to wait a year, the people who rushed have had ample time to think about their activities on campus and decide whether Greek life is a good fit for them.

The ban has undoubtedly eliminated some of the pressure to rush that comes from being a freshman who is new to Princeton and looking to meet people and for a way to fit in.

Additionally, the ban has

helped sophomores who chose to rush by giving them more time to consider their options.

By giving potential rushees more time to meet members from different organizations, the ban has helped them more closely evaluate their options.

Furthermore, it has given members of fraternities and sororities more time to meet potential rushees. One criticism of freshman rush was that it favored people who came from high schools that send many students to Princeton. The worry was that students who came from smaller, less wealthy schools did not have anyone to guide them through the rush process and would therefore be discouraged from joining a Greek organization. We feel there is reason to believe that the ban has helped open Greek life to more people and has given students more time to consider its pros and cons.

The Board does worry that the ban may have served to isolate students more. One of the arguments for joining a Greek organization has always been that it exposes students to a group of people that they might not otherwise meet through their academics or extracurricular activities.

Students rushing with their friends may have lost some of this advantage. However, even those who rushed with friends will be able to benefit from Greek life’s ability to connect younger students with upperclassmen.

Again, we reiterate our belief that a shorter ban that lasts a semester would help connect these students to upperclassmen earlier while addressing those concerns that prompted the institution of a yearlong ban.

What is clear though is that

there is still a place for Greek life on campus. The large number of rushees indicates that there are still sophomores who think that Greek organizations have something to offer them. These sophomores have friends and are established within Princeton but still saw potential benefits in the Greek experience. While the ban has helped limit some of the negative aspects of fraternities and sororities, it has also helped highlight the value they add to the lives of many Princeton students.

ABSTAIN: Ethan Jamnik, Brandon Holt, Zach Horton DISSENT: Lily Offit, Sean Chen “Fixing” the Greek system by moving to a one-semester ban is a step in the wrong direction.

Such a regressive move would serve only to continue to place our newest arrivals on campus at the mercy of what the Working Group on Campus Social and Residential Life called a “faux Greek system” characterized by “social stratification, cliquishness and high-risk drinking and hazing.”

Let’s be honest: Greek life at Princeton still serves largely as a pipeline to the selective clubs. It undermines the social diversity it has taken generations for the University to achieve. Rather than compromise our ideals, let us redouble our commitment to inclusiveness. Let the new leadership of this University hear the voices of those who decry a faux Greek system that only further stratifies and isolates, plays to insecurity and weakness, rather than building the sense of community that this University strives to embody.

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avoid having those big lapses, kind of like what we talked about after Lehigh — being consistent,” Surace said. “Make each day im-

portant; we only get 10 games, so make each one of them count and let’s not have the ups and downs of this opponent’s a league game, this opponent’s a road game, anything like that. Let’s make each preparation, each day count, and I really think we use practice to

build competition and evaluate things, whether it’s personnel or plays, and then based on how guys perform in practice is mostly how we make judgment on what we’re going to run or who’s going to be running it.”

The Tigers have four players

who currently average six yards or better per carry, including Epperly, sophomore running back DiAndre Atwater and sophomore running back Dre Nelson, who are all averaging 6.8 yards per carry, as well as senior running back Brian Mills who is averaging 6.3

yards per carry.

On the defensive side of the ball, the Tigers, led by senior defensive lineman Caraun Reid, have shut down their opponents’ run game, allowing only 84.3 yards per game rushing. Junior linebacker Mike Zeuli leads the

team with 28 stops.

“To reach our long-term goals, we have to be more consistent,” Surace added. “Let’s make each day our masterpiece.”

The Tigers host Lafayette Saturday at 1 p.m. in Princeton Stadium.

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will host the Tigers on Sunday afternoon for the teams’ second game of the weekend.

While Princeton will be battling Maryland on Friday night, the Blue Hens will be playing Towson. Last year, the Tigers handily beat Delaware 10-2, but overall the teams are tied 11-11-3 all-time.

“Delaware is definitely going to be a good competition this year,” Byrne said.

“Over the past few weeks, we have been working on quick passing all over the field and finishing our scoring opportunities in the circle, and these will definitely be main focuses during the game.

Hopefully, this will lead to a win!”

The Blue Hens are also coming into the weekend with positive momentum, with two recent wins. The offensive leader for Delaware is Michaela Patzner, who has netted 10 goals so far this sea-

son. The Tiger defense will have to make sure to keep her closely marked throughout the game so that she cannot capitalize on any easy-scoring opportunities. Protecting the goal for the Blue Hens is Sarah Scher, with 54 saves and 20 goals against this season.

“Tiger field hockey really tries to look at all of our opponents as equals,” Arner said. “Sometimes, it is hard to go into games and not think about the other team’s reputation, but we really stress the importance of the principles and mentality that we revolve our game around and implementing those well no matter who we are playing.”

Several players are leading the Tiger attack this season, making it difficult for their opponents’ defenders to know whom to focus on. Junior striker Allison Evans leads the team with seven goals and three assists, sophomore midfielder/ back Teresa Benvenuti has six

goals and four assists, senior midfielder/striker Michelle Cesan has two goals and five assists and senior midfielder Julia Reinprecht has added another three goals. Nationally, Princeton is ranked eighth in penalty corners per game, 12th in assists per game and 16th in points per game.

The Tigers recognize the extra difficulties that come with having only away games for the remainder of October but have learned to make the most of the opportunities that traveling affords the team.

“The most difficult part about playing on the road is getting the team’s energy up after sitting on a bus for a few hours,” Byrne said.

“However, away games are also exciting because we’re traveling as a team, and they are a good opportunity for team-bonding. We also have a great support system from our parents, and they still throw a great tailgate for us after every away game!”

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against Brown,” sophomore forward Nico Hurtado added.

“The only game we thought we came out hard from the start was against Dartmouth.

This is Brown’s league opener at home, and they’re known for pressing teams in the first 20 minutes of the game.”

Despite its 3-5-2 record, Brown possesses a strong lineup that took Princeton to a 2-2 draw in double overtime last season at Roberts Stadium. In addition, the Bears have performed noticeably better in front of their notoriously raucous crowd in Providence, R.I. While the team is 0-4-2 on the road, Brown is 3-1 at home. Known as one of the stronger teams in the Ivy League, Brown presents

a threat that the Tigers know cannot be ignored.

“The biggest mistake we can make is getting overconfident right now and getting too much from the Dartmouth win,” Porter said.

“Brown may be on a bit of a losing streak right now, but we shouldn’t look into it too much. They may have graduated a lot of seniors on defense, but they’re still really strong.”

“We can’t give up the first goal,” Hurtado said. “Ivy League games are so tight that if you give up the first goal, it’s very hard to come back. Teams will close in with a narrow lead and play defensively. We’re a small team, too, and if Brown closes in, we’ll have to cross the ball in, which isn’t an advantage for us.”

While the Tigers know

what mistakes to avoid, they also have a number of strategies that they need to continue from their past few games.

“When we got control of the ball against Dartmouth and Drexel, we were able to hold it well on their attack and half,” Porter said. “Our backs could recover, and we didn’t have too many attacks on goal. Besides the two shots Dartmouth took last Saturday, [senior goalkeeper] Seth [MacMillan] was basically standing around most of the game.”

“We need to continue with our quick transition from defense to offense and vice versa,” Hurtado said. “And we have to keep possessing the ball in their half and not just in our half.”

Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. Saturday night in Providence, R.I.

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mental,” Lazo said. “We’ve been creating opportunities, but we’re not converting them. This is the most talented team I’ve been on, and we’ve been working hard.

We just need a turning point, and we’ll be back to our early season form.”

Both teams have struggled offensively this year. The Tigers average 1.3 goals per game and the Bears just 1.0 goals per game, the worst two averages among the Ancient Eight. The two teams also share the cellar in corner kicks, with 44 each.

The Bears counter with a solid defense, having allowed just eight goals in nine matches, four of which came in one lopsided loss to

St. John’s early in the season.

Brown has used an unconventional two-goalie strategy in all its games this year.

Amber Bledsoe starts the game and then MC Barrett closes it out. Barrett has been dynamite for the Bears, with a stunning 91.7 save percentage, third best in the entire NCAA. Princeton’s defense has been inconsistent, averaging 1.11 goals against per game, second worst in the league, but also recording five shutouts. Junior goalkeeper Darcy Hargadon has started nine of 10 games for the Tigers with a 70.3 save percentage but was pulled out of last weekend’s match against Dartmouth after allowing two goals on just three shots on goal in favor of senior goalkeeper Cecilia Di Caprio. Coaches have not yet decided who will start.

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with seven goals.

Named Southern Division Player of the Week following a difficult West Coast trip two weekends ago, in which he scored 17 goals over seven contests, co-captain Hoffenberg noted the difference posed by varying venues.

“Last time when we played Hopkins, their pool was shallow,” he said. “It’s kind of a different game. It’s going to be interesting to see how they are in a deep pool.”

Earlier this season, the Midshipmen (9-12, 0-4) provided an early challenge for the Tigers, who held onto a one-goal lead at the half. Outscoring Navy 9-4 in the second period, Princeton pulled away for a 12-7 victory.

Historically, the Annapolis squad has proven a difficult rival. Princeton trails Navy 22 to 34 in the all-time series.

The previous matchup against the Bucknell Bisons (64, 1-3) came just last weekend.

The Tigers emerged victorious by a margin of 14-9. The Tigers’ postseason hopes last year came to an end in the second round of the Eastern Championships in a 7-6 decision at the hands of their Pennsylvania rivals. In 51 contests with the Bisons, Princeton has secured 39 wins with 13 losses.

“We’ve played all the teams before, so we know kind of what to expect,” Hoffenberg said. “We know what they’re going to run.

It’s going to be interesting to see what adjustments they make between games. We played pretty well against all of them, so it’s going to be hard to keep that level of intensity against them.”

So far this year Princeton has outscored its opponents by a margin of 146-129. Hoffenberg has contributed 36 goals — a

team high — and sophomore center Thomas Nelson has added 22 goals, good for third on the squad. Freshman utility Jovan Jeremic comes in second on the team with 27 goals. A stellar performance during the team’s West Coast trip earned him conference Rookie of the Week honors.

Hoffenberg remarked on the encouraging boost provided by the incoming Class of 2017: “We knew we were going to have depth because we were bringing in some good freshmen. But it was surprising to see how well they adjusted so quickly.”

Following this weekend, the team will take part in the Ivy League Championship tournament in Philadelphia hosted by Penn. The event last year coincided with Hurricane Sandy, resulting in the cancellation of the final contests. The Tigers will enter the event this year as the top seed, ranked as the unanimous No. 1 selection in the most recent CWPA poll.

Princeton remains the only East Coast team in the top 15 of the NCAA men’s rankings.

Within the top 20, Harvard is at 17 and St. Francis is at 16.

Johns Hopkins and Brown were among the other vote-receiving teams.

“We’re obviously confident because we’ve beat[en] all the other teams in the division,” Hoffenberg said. “But at the same time, we haven’t faced all the teams we’re going to face in [the] Easterns [Championships]. Teams like Brown and St. Francis — who are traditional powerhouses — we haven’t played them or seen them play.

So while at the same time we’re confident, we’re still trying to maintain our composure and realize that we may not be the best team. There are other teams out there who we still need to compete against and strive to get better to beat.”

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WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

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The women’s volleyball team has two huge matches coming up, as it will hit the road to take on Yale, the current leader of the Ivy League, and Brown, with which Princeton (6-7 overall, 2-1 Ivy League) is tied for second in the Ancient Eight.

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Coming off of momentous one-goal wins over Dartmouth and Drexel in the last week, the men’s soccer team will look to build on its momentum Saturday night when the Tigers hit the road for their second Ivy League match, this time against Brown.

A win against Brown would send the trajectory of this season in an eerily similar direction to that of the 2010 men’s soccer team. It was three years ago that wins over Dartmouth and Brown turned around an unsteady September for the soccer team. Coincidentally, these initial victories were the spark that led to the Tigers’ most recent Ivy League title.

But the Tigers are not thinking that far ahead and are far more concerned about the quality of their play on Saturday, especially in getting a strong start to the match.

“We need a full game performance,” junior forward Cameron Porter said. “We’ve been putting in a mediocre half just to stay in the game. But we don’t come out and dominate.”

“We have to start out well See M. SOCCER page 8

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Sophomore running back DiAndre Atwater helped the Tigers rack up huge scores in their last two games.

After a convincing victory over Columbia last weekend, the football team has attained its first winning record through three games since 2008 and currently holds a two-game win streak.

Princeton’s (2-1 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) offense has proven that it has the explosive potential head coach Bob Surace ’90 desired with consecutive 50-point wins; however, with the toughest part of the Tigers’ schedule yet to come, how far that will take them is yet to be determined.

Leading the offense has been junior quarterback Quinn Epperly, who was named offensive player of the week on Monday.

Epperly began to draw attention this season after he became the first Princeton player to rush four touchdowns in a game since Keith Elias ’94 in the Georgetown game; however, he earned league recognition after he added six touchdowns last weekend against Columbia. He now ranks third in the NCAA in points responsible for per game with an average 24.0 points per game, and after throwing four touchdowns in the Columbia game, became the first Tiger to throw four touchdowns in a single game since Chad Roghair

’91 threw five against Brown in 1991.

“Quinn continues to consistently make winning plays every week,” Surace said. “He’s worked really hard, especially in some tight areas in the red zone and some key third downs.”

Also earning Ivy League recognition this week was senior receiver Roman Wilson, who was named to the Ivy League Honor Roll after receiving three of Epperly’s four touchdown passes.

Epperly has now been part of at least one touchdown in each of his past eight games.

The 50-22 win over Georgetown and 53-7 win over Columbia mark the first consecutive 50-point performances by a Tiger offense since 1907. Yet, heading into a non-league game, the question will be whether the Tigers can keep moving forward with such high intensity and while keeping their momentum.

“I’m hoping, we’ve tried to not use the word ‘momentum,’ per se.

It’s the next play, we talk about the cycle of the snap — we stole that from Jason Garrett and the Cowboys — but really focusing on the next play being the most important. Instead of having those ups and downs, you want to See FOOTBALL page 8

FIELD HOCKEY

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No. 12 Tigers look to keep momentum

Princeton to take on No. 1 Maryland senior writer

On the road for its next five games, the field hockey team will travel down to College Park, Md., and Newark, Del., this weekend to face off against the No. 1 Maryland Terps and the University of Delaware Blue Hens. After shutting out Columbia 5-0 last Friday, Princeton (6-3 overall, 3-0 Ivy League) rose two spots to No. 9 this week. This win marked the Tigers’ 16th consecutive Ivy League victory. The only three losses that Princeton has suffered this season were to teams ranked No. 13 or higher at the time of the competition.

Maryland is the third top-5 team Princeton will face off against this year. The Tigers have not lost

to an unranked opponent since 2011, so they will certainly be out for a victory against Delaware on Sunday.

“It’s always an advantage to play on your home turf and not have to take up a whole weekend traveling, but I think our team does a good job of staying focused on the task at hand no matter where we may be,” junior back Cassidy Arner said.

Friday night, the undefeated and top-ranked Terps (12-0 overall, 3-0 ACC) will be looking to get revenge on the Tigers. Last year, Princeton defeated Maryland 3-2 during the regular season and again by the same score in overtime at the NCAA semifinals game to knock the Terps out of the tournament. However, Maryland leads the overall series

against Princeton 16-6-1, so the game is bound to be exciting.

“This year’s team is completely new and separate from last year’s, so our wins over Maryland last year are out of sight and mind as we focus on what it is we need to bring and work on presently to achieve our goals,” Arner said.

“For the past three seasons, we have had to bring our best game to the field when playing Maryland, and this year will be no different,” senior back/midfielder Kelsey Byrne said. “We have not talked about the two wins last year — this is a new season. We are a different team and so are they.”

Momentum is in the Terps’ favor, with their win in a midweek game against Hofstra 6-0.

Leading the charge offensively for Maryland are Jill Witmer (10 goals) and Anna Dessoye (seven goals). Natalie Hunter, the primary goalkeeper for the Terps, has recorded 38 saves and only 10 goals against.

“As usual, we’re very excited to play against Maryland,” Arner said. “They’re a great team, and it has always been a tough and exciting matchup. Practice has been high-intensity, but that is something we try to bring no matter who our upcoming opponent is.”

“In preparation, we’ve been working on our transition from attack and defense this week since we know that Maryland is a fast team,” Byrne said.

Delaware (8-3 overall, 2-0 CAA) See F. HOCKEY page 8

By Andrew Steele staff writer

This weekend, the No. 12 men’s water polo team will take on three conference opponents: Johns Hopkins (12-4, 2-2), Navy and Bucknell . The first two matches — Saturday at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at DeNunzio Pool — will be home rematches of away contests three weeks prior. Princeton (11-3 overall, 4-0 Collegiate Water Polo Association Southern Division) emerged from both Maryland pools victorious last time around. For the third match, the Tigers will travel to Lewisburg, Pa. After its last win, Princeton’s record in the Southern Division is now 4-0.

Earning head coach Luis Nicolao’s 300th career victory, the men’s squad led for almost the entirety of its away matchup with Johns Hopkins and came away with a 15-10 win in its previous matchup.

Junior attacker Drew Hoffenberg led the offense See M. W. POLO page 9

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Tigers head to Providence in need of Ivy win

By Eddie Owens contributor

On Saturday afternoon, the women’s soccer team will visit Brown in desperate need of a win, having lost its first two Ivy League games to Yale and Dartmouth. The Bears (6-2-1 overall, 1-0-1 Ivy League) will come in having defeated Dartmouth (4-42. 1-1) and having tied Columbia in their first two league games.

“We go into the Brown game with high expectations. We have done well this season and have had some bad moments that have cost us,” head coach Julie Shackford said in an email. “Going forward, we have the confidence that we can put a good game plan together and be a little more con-

sistent in key moments.”

Last year, the Tigers (4-3-3, 0-2) defeated the Bears 2-0 at Roberts Stadium, with both goals coming in the final 14 minutes of regulation. Princeton outshot Brown 2211 in that game, as well as holding a 9-3 advantage in shots on goal.

This year, however, the scripts are f lipped. The Tigers are 0-2-1 in their last three contests and are goalless in the last two. The Bears are 4-0-1 in their last five contests and have not allowed a goal since Sept. 19.

“We didn’t have a midweek game this week, so we’ve had a chance to recuperate mentally and physically,” junior forward Lauren Lazo said. “Every league game is a battle. It’s been a while since we’ve started 0-2, but the

Ivy League is particularly unpredictable. There’s still hope, but a win is vital. This is a huge game.”

Much of Princeton’s offense this year has revolved around freshman forward Tyler Lussi and Lazo who have recorded six and three goals respectively and two assists apiece this season. These two have accounted for 69 percent of Princeton’s 13 goals and 59 percent of its 37 points; however, they both come in on cold streaks.

Lussi is goalless in three games, her longest streak of the season, and was without a shot against Dartmouth last weekend for the first time all season. Lazo has not scored since the fourth match of the year against Rutgers.

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Freshman midfielder Jesse McDonough has scored a goal and has seen playing time in all 10 of her team’s games this season. The Tigers head to Brown this weekend.

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