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Today on Campus 5 p.m.: Lawrence Hamm ‘78 will give a lecture on his time as a student activist at the University and his later advocacy for education reform. The lecture will be followed by a question and answer session. McCormick 101.

The Archives

Feb. 17, 1970 The University said the damage to Whig Hall following a fire totaled in excess of $500,000.

Reconstruction of the building’s marble interior was deemed necessary and the building was planned to be put out of use until April 1971.

PRINCETON By the Numbers

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The approximate number of rare books bequeathed to Firestone Library by William H. Scheide ’36.

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STUDENT LIFE

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Tea With Strangers launches, fills quickly

By Jacob Donnelly news editor

Tea With Strangers, a student-organized chapter of an international group by the same name, launched on campus Sunday evening and all of the program’s time slots have already been filled.

The program facilitates group conversations between students on campus who do not know each other. A similar program called Let’s Get Coffee, which was founded by Benedict Wagstaff ’14 and did not have any outside affiliations, operated last spring.

Dalia Katan ’15, one of the project’s organizers, said Tea With Strangers started after Wagstaff posted a status on Facebook that discussed his program last year and asked if there was interest in rekindling the group.

Katan said that students started organizing in November by setting up the website, marketing and strategy.

All 12 of the original tea times were filled after three hours when people saw the Facebook event, Katan said, adding that a 13th spot was then inserted and quickly filled. Fifty people were on the project’s waitlist as of Monday morning, and she said the organizers intend to add more times over the next few weeks.

The first tea is on Wednesday.

Wagstaff said he founded Let’s Get Coffee last year because he was preparing to graduate and wanted to get to know more people.

“People kind of stuck to their social groups,” Wagstaff said, explaining that it could be difficult to reach out to people you did not know after freshman year without feeling a little out of place. “I realized there was a space for conversation with strangers or, let’s call them other students, you wouldn’t necessarily interact with on a daily basis, and as a result, the program took off.”

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William H. Scheide, a musician with profound love of books, donated his rare collection worth $300 million to the University.

Scheide ’36 bequeaths rare books collection to Firestone

By Jasmine Wang associate news editor

William Scheide ’36, a musician and philanthropist who died in November at the age of 100, bequeathed his rare books collection to the University, making it the largest gift in the University’s history.

The collection is valued at nearly $300 million and is particularly notable for its breadth and depth, Karin Trainer, the University librarian, said.

Scheide had announced at a luncheon hosted by the University for his 90th birthday that he would bequeath the collection to the University upon his death, Trainer said.

After his father, John Scheide, Class of 1896, died in 1942, William Scheide permitted the transportation in 1959 of the collection from his father’s home in Titusville, Pa., to Firestone Library, where he contin-

ued to oversee its care and occasionally add valuable items to it.

“I think he was very happy with the way he thought it was being used and the care he could see we were taking with it even though it belonged to him,” Trainer said of Scheide’s decision to trust the University with the collection after his death. “He knew we were being very good custodians.”

The Scheide Library, founded in 1964, is the last major private library housed in an American research library, Trainer said, adding that the University will continue to make the collection available to visiting scholars.

As part of the large-scale renovations going on in Firestone Library, the University also plans to move the Scheide Library from its home on the first floor down to the C floor, where the entirety of the rare books collection will be brought together

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

Syrian film collective presents screening, Q&A

News & Notes

By Pooja Patel staff writer

Cornell U. fraternity chapter recognition restored

Cornell University has restored its official recognition of its Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity chapter after an interim suspension was imposed on Feb. 2, the Cornell Daily Sun reported on Friday.

The chapter is permitted to resume normal business except for social activities and hosting of guests.

The case against the chapter is still being reviewed by the school’s Greek Judicial Board. On Feb. 1, Ithaca police officers responded to a report of an alleged sex offense at the chapter’s temporary residence, although the exact cause of the offense remains unknown.

Cornell also recently lifted its suspension on the Psi Upsilon fraternity chapter over an alleged incident involving alcohol and drug use. In that case, a Psi Upsilon representative called the charges “false and defamatory.”

The Psi Upsilon chapter was also founded guilty of violating Cornell’s anti-hazing policy in 2011. It was placed on a disciplinary probation that lasted for one year, maintained four weeks of social probation and was required to go through a new member education program.

in one large, newly-renovated and well-lit space. This will involve the recreation of the Scheide Library in its new location, using stained glass, bookcases and furniture directly from Scheide’s parents’ house.

The University also plans to completely digitize the collection, Trainer said, adding that the process will take time because it consists of a large number of extremely valuable and rare items.

“We have very well-qualified camera operators, very high-grade European cameras and we digitize page by page, with a lot of quality control to make sure the images are perfect,” Trainer said.

The collection spans three generations, beginning with Scheide’s grandfather, William T. Scheide, who started collecting and purchasing rare books in 1865.

The additions Scheide made to the See RARE BOOKS page 3

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Ballerina Misty Copeland was the only African-American member of her ballet company for 10 years.

Copeland speaks on diversity, body image in the ballet world

By Lorenzo Quiogue senior writer

One of the most important responsibilities of the ballet world today is to empower young dancers who don’t feel like they belong, Misty Copeland said at a discussion on Monday.

A soloist with the American Ballet Theatre, Copeland spoke as part of the Lewis Center’s Masters of Dance series, which

features professional dancers and choreographers in a series of events at the University in January and February.

“I wish people would ask, ‘How does it feel to be alone?’ Because there’s really a history of there not being much diversity in the ballet world,” Copeland said.

She explained that when she first joined American Ballet Theatre, she wasn’t really aware of how she felt about being the only

black female dancer on the roster, but things gradually built up as she spent more time in the company. Copeland was the only African-American member of the company for 10 years.

“By my third year in the company, I had this resentment, and I really didn’t know where it was coming from,” she said. “I had to really step back and say, ‘Do I belong here?’ Now, after all this See LECTURE page 2

The act of filming takes on special meaning during times of war, Charif Kiwan, Syrian filmmaker and co-founder of the Abounaddara Collective, said on Monday.

The collective’s films, titled “Syria: A History of Snapshots in the Making,” were presented on Monday night. The screening was followed by a questionand-answer session with Kiwan.

The collective is a group of anonymous, volunteer Syrian filmmakers, and the term “abounaddara” is a nickname for a man with glasses. Each week, the group releases a short video on the Internet depicting the ongoing revolution in Syria from the perspective of everyday individuals. The group began operating about a year or two before the civil war but could not publish anything due to censorship.

“Many people in Syria’s names are connected with their job, so we wanted to put the filmmaker inside society,” Kiwan said. “Abounaddara is the man with the camera. …

When we go to film somebody in Syria, people are so generous with us. They are lovely in our films. They protect us and they consider us their defenders.”

The only individuals who are hesitant to speak with Abounaddara are those who are proregime because they are afraid, he said, adding that the collec-

tive’s goal wasn’t to advocate for a specific ideological agenda.

“We are not polemical. We are radical, but we respect diversity and the complexity of the society,” he explained. “The crime is still unfolding, so we have to give you fragments and leave the story unfinished. The idea is to give you an idea of the history in the making.”

Kiwan added that the filmmakers are kept deliberately anonymous in order to present a more candid view of daily life amid a war.

Scenes in the film include hopeful and disillusioned revolutionaries, women challenging traditional societal roles, a young boy speaking of his brother’s beheaded friend, events celebrating Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and individuals and graffiti condemning him.

“We hate heroes. We are dealing with a revolution and also with a crime against humanity,” Kiwan said. “We have to be humble. We have to represent our society and we don’t have the right to embody our revolution in one place or through one character. The idea is to show that we have a society that is struggling against the state, so we have to show you many characters, women and men.”

Abounaddara purposefully does not show much of the violence of the revolution.

“We don’t ask for your pity.

We are struggling, we are trying to change our society and See FILM page 2

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Inspiring younger ballet dancers “makes me happiest,” Copeland says

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time, I’m glad to say that I don’t feel lonely.”

One of the most common remarks she heard in her first few years as a dancer was, “You don’t seem black,” she said.

“It’s hard to exist in a place where you want to forgive these people for being ignorant, but you also don’t want to let it slide,” she said. “Ballet shaped me into the person I am today. I wouldn’t be as articulate, I wouldn’t be as open and I wouldn’t be able to communicate the way I do about art without ballet.”

Copeland also said she dealt with binge eating disorder when she was younger and she did not hit puberty until she was already a professional dancer.

“I never really saw what I was doing as a disorder,” Copeland said. ”It went on for about six months or so, and I felt like I had to be someone else in order to fit into the ballet world.”

When asked how she maintains a positive body image, Copeland replied that she doesn’t think of herself differently from how she has thought of herself throughout her career, and has remained comfortable with herself throughout.

Copeland also discussed her favorite roles, how she recovers from injuries and her daily routine, which normally starts at

10:15 a.m. and ends at 7 p.m., normally without a break for lunch.

In the United States, professional dancers are still viewed as inferior to professional athletes, and dancers are not getting the same opportunities as professional NFL and NBA players, she said.

“In America, you say you’re a football player and people ap-

“In America, you say you’re a football player and people applaud you.

Ballerinas are strong too and people view us as kind of secondary.”

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plaud you,” Copeland said. “Ballerinas are strong too and people view us as kind of secondary, like we just twirl around.”

Copeland mentioned that in recent years, people have started to view dancers differently, noting her own endorsement for Under Armour as an example.

“I think people are starting to look at dancers in a different way,” she said. “I don’t think you can say that we’re just athletes, or that ballet is a sport. But we’re definitely athletes.”

Copeland said that she deals with the publicity by always remembering to put her career first.

“I realize that I wouldn’t be where I am now, I wouldn’t have the endorsements, if I weren’t this dedicated to dance,” she said.

Copeland said that she wants to be a role model for youth who may feel like they don’t have a place in the ballet, and said Project Plié, a joint program by the American Ballet Theatre and the Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs of America designed to bring ballet training to members of the clubs, was a good example of community service within the ballet community.

Copeland concluded by saying she draws the most pleasure from inspiring young dancers and seeing them succeed.

“Whenever I can sit down with a young dancer and hear their experiences, guide them, give them motivation and just watch them grow, that’s what makes me happiest,” she said.

Co-sponsored by the Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University Ballet and the Center for African-American Studies, the discussion was hosted

by Tina Fehlandt, a lecturer in dance at the University and took place in McCosh 50 at 4:30 p.m. on Monday.

Following the talk, Copeland participated in a signing of her 2014 book, “Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina.”

Syrian film collective uses internet to “tell the stories we wanted to tell” FILM

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Dr. Saladin Ambar, author of “Macolm X at Oxford Union,” gives at lecture as part of “Contemplating Malcom X 50 Years Later,” hosted by the Muslim Life Program in the Office of Religious Life.

we don’t have to ask pity,” Kiwan said. “If you want to speak about love, you don’t have to show sexual penetration. It’s exactly the same with war and revolution. We consider that we don’t have the right to show

those images. We have to respect the image of the Syrian people.”

He added that the entire operation depends on individual filmmakers, who have their own cameras and computers and donate their time and money to make the project possible.

“Our idea was to use the internet to tell the stories we

wanted to tell,” he said.

Kiwan added that the collective is still releasing a video every week and is able to film nearly everywhere in Syria except for the coast.

The screening and questionand-answer session took place in the East Pyne Building Auditorium and were sponsored by the Transregional Institute.

808 AND LINEBREAKS

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Students enjoy heartfelt spoken word at Ellipses’s “808 and Linebreaks” over Valentine’s day weekend.

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4000 people, 18 cities worldwide have $300 million collection includes participated in Tea With Strangers rare early 15th century printing TEA

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He said a number of students reached out to him about restarting the project after he graduated and it took some time for him to bring them together and give them his framework for organizing the group.

Wagstaff said over 200 students participated but there were more on the waitlist who they weren’t able to accommodate by the end of the academic year. Each session featured a student host affiliated with the organization and five other students who signed up.

Conversations were not structured, Wagstaff said, and topics varied widely from humorous and lighthearted to more ref lective discussions about life challenges.

Wagstaff noted that the program is similar to Princeton Muse, which brings strangers together for “open, meaningful conversation” during a meal or a study break. “[Tea With Strangers] is kind of easy to come across as a one-time commitment, where I just go and have a

nice conversation with some new students or students I might not know at all,” he said. “It’s not really a discussion group as much as whatever you want to make of it.

It’s something you can do one time or you can do multiple times.”

Ankit Shah, who founded Tea With Strangers at the University of Pennsylvania and has overseen its expansion to 18 cities worldwide, said the project began when he wanted to get to know people in his senior year of college outside of his social circle. Over 4,000 people have participated worldwide so far, he said.

“All of the reasons we hadn’t met were totally arbitrary,” Shah said.

He expected five to 10 people to respond, but over 250 people actually responded to the website he created, he said, adding that people eventually came to know that he would be at a certain café from 8-11 p.m.

Shah said he had some reservations about expanding Tea With Strangers because some people appeared to be interested in using it for networking or romantic opportunities, but he added

that his conversations with Wagstaff led him to believe the organization would be a great fit at the University.

Wagstaff had said Let’s Get Coffee was inspired by Tea With Strangers on his website, Shah said.

Tea With Strangers will keep the six-person format at first and will reevaluate after a number of teas have been conducted, said Zhan OkudaLim ’15, who is one of the project organizers on campus.

Okuda-Lim said he always hears students talk about their plans for future internships, fellowships or careers, but noted that students are more interesting than what can be found on their résumés.

“As Princeton students, we’re here because we bring so many unique hopes and fears and dreams and challenges, and what I’m excited about is that this project provides an opportunity for people to take off their masks … and allow us to talk not as résumés but as people.” he said.

The project could prove to be particularly advantageous for incoming freshmen in the fall to meet new people, he said.

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collection have been exceedingly important, Paul Needham, the Scheide Librarian in Firestone’s rare books and special collections department, said. He also added that the collection is strongest in its items from the period of early printing in the 15th century, such as the Gutenberg Bible.

“That’s the single area that Bill paid most attention to,” Needham said. “He made truly wonderful acquisitions and tremendously strengthened the library.”

The gift is one of the most outstanding in the history of American higher education,

University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 said.

“This gift from Bill Scheide will be a defining collection for Princeton University. It contains books and manuscripts that will fascinate scholars and enliven the education of Princeton students for generations,” Eisgruber said. “It is a tremendous gift for the University.”

Born in Philadelphia, Scheide was raised in a wealthy family and attended private school in Connecticut.

In 1946, Scheide founded the Bach Aria Group with the aim of bringing Bach’s lesser-known music, such as his cantatas and arias, to the public. In the next several decades, the group would

come to be internationally renowned as it performed for audiences throughout the world, often funded out of Scheide’s own pocket.

Scheide also played an important role in the battle for civil rights throughout the 20th century. As one of the main funders of the Brown v. Board of Education case, Scheide supported the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund generously and was an emeritus member of the organization until his death in November.

Scheide also endowed a professorship in music history, a position currently occupied by Scott Burnham, and sponsored the Scheide Caldwell House at the University.

CORRECTION Due to a reporting error, the Feb. 13 column, “On measles,” incorrectly stated the severity of the current measles outbreak. It is the most serious outbreak in recent years, but nobody has died of the disease yet. The Feb. 13 article, “U. develops 10-year campus plan” has been updated online to clarify that a quote by University architect Ron McCoy about the necessity to renew campus plans every 10 years was paraphrased and not a direct quotation. The ‘Prince’ regrets the error.

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Princeton admissions and its racism

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Why we need to talk about the Chapel Hill Shooting

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Jews.

The problem was especially dire at Harvard, where Jews — nationally, 3 percent of the population — made up 27 percent of the student body by 1925. Harvard’s president Abbott Lowell feared that high Jewish enrollment would prompt the social elite to send their children elsewhere, so he proposed a quota. No more than 15 percent of each class would be Jewish.

Lowell’s proposal proved controversial, so it was never officially adopted. Instead, Harvard developed an admission system based on character — what we call “holistic admissions” today. Lowell assured skeptics that this system would not discriminate against Jews, but the next admissions cycle saw Jewish enrollment cut in half. For decades, their enrollment stayed steady at 15 percent — right where Lowell wanted the quota.

Yale and Princeton had their own ways of treating the problem. Yale adopted legacy preference to keep whites in and Jews out. Not to be bested, our own Princeton University slashed its Jewish enrollment to 2 percent.

This tale of anti-Semitism must seem shameful to modern readers. We recognize prejudice was a sin of the times — a decadeslong blot in the annals of Ivy League history.

Thankfully, we’re writing a new chapter. Today Princeton and its peers accept students on merit, and racial quotas are relics of darker days.

Except, not really.

Now we have a quota on Asians.

We don’t advertise it. Like the bygone quota on Jews, we pretend it does not exist. We say that our admissions process is holistic; if a whiz kid is turned away, it’s because she lacked a je ne sais quoi that another applicant possessed.

That’s not the story the data tells, says Ron Unz in The New York Times. He notes that America’s college-age Asian population doubled in the last 20 years. Enrollment should have grown too, Unz said, and at the California Institute of Technology — which “follows a highly selective but strictly race-neutral admissions policy” — that’s exactly what happened: Asian enrollment grew to about 40 percent. But only 21 percent of students in Princeton’s Class of 2018 are Asian Americans, a fraction that is remarkably consistent across the Ivy League. Harvard and Yale both report that 20 percent of students in their freshman classes are Asian Americans — the same as they reported 20 years ago, before the group’s population doubled.

That looks a lot like a quota. That looks exactly like a quota. That looks so much like a quota that the only defense for it is “holistic admissions,” which is the reason a former president of Harvard gave to defend a racial quota.

Not long ago, I told myself that the quota was O.K. Choosing a class was a juggling act in a show called diversity, and Princeton’s admissions office managed it the best way it could.

My acceptance, however, was tantamount to saying this: “I am fine with the knowledge that Princeton University is oppressing a minority by refusing them admission on the grounds of racial discrimination.”

Can you say that? I can’t.

I am calling on the University to abolish its racial quotas. Holistic admissions can stay, but it should not be a farce for racism. We should follow Caltech in adopting race-neutral admissions. Divorce applications from names. Hide the race checkbox.

The University should still strive for diversity. We can give affirmative action to underprivileged applicants by considering their socioeconomic standing. Current admission criteria strongly favor the wealthy elite, who can afford SAT tutors, extracurricular activities, and paid college counselors, all of which are inaccessible to low-income students. This creates a serious barrier to acceptance. That’s why only 18 percent of Princeton students receive Pell Grants. Compare this to the rest of America, where 38 percent of college students are Pell Grant recipients, and it’s clear that we’re failing the very students who need an education the most — many of them from underserved black and Hispanic communities.

My proposal is not perfect. College admissions is a zero-sum game, so a victory for an oppressed minority is a loss for other groups.

My own progeny might be among the losers, but that’s O.K. I don’t want them to benefit from a system predicated on racism. Instead, I want the University to give up the bigotry that has plagued it for 100 years.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 called for an end to race-based discrimination 50 years ago.

But a December panel on diversity faced sharp student criticism when Russell Nieli GS ’79 argued for race-neutral admissions, which shows that attitudes inside FitzRandolph Gate are not post-racial. Discrimination still thrives here.

Its victims just have a new face.

Newby Parton is a freshman from McMinnville, Tenn. He can be reached at newby@princeton.edu.

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arvard, Yale and Princeton had been educating America’s elite for 200 years when, in the 1920s, the Big Three began to have a problem:

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Zeena Mubarak columnist

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ast Tuesday, a gunman entered a private residence and shot and killed three students of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Their names were Deah Barakat, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha. All three of the victims were Muslims, the two girls visibly so, because they chose to wear hijab, the traditional Muslim head covering.

The religion of the victims is important to note, because it explains the comparative lack of coverage of their deaths. It is also being speculated that the killer’s motive was hatred for Islam, and that these murders were in fact a hate crime.

The killer, Craig Stephen Hicks, posted several long anti-religious posts on his Facebook before the attacks, including many emphasizing the role he felt Islam played in the 9/11 attacks. With these facts in mind, it is not unreasonable to think that the victims’ religion may have played a role in their murder.

Right now, the police are investigating the possibility that a parking lot dispute led to the attacks. It is hard to believe that this could be all there is to it; the victims were shot execution-style within their own home.

However, even if we accept, for argument’s sake, that the trigger for the attack was a parking lot dispute, we still have to ask the important question of what made Hicks feel as though he could kill three people over such a dispute. Actions don’t exist in a cultural vacuum. We live in a world where a hashtag like #KillAllMuslims can exist in a mainstream forum and be an accepted part of the general discourse. We live in a world where a president can be insulted by being accused of being Muslim. We live in a world where a movie like American Sniper, which glorifies the killing of Muslims, can break box office records. All of these facts mean something. Muslims are seen as outsiders, and dangerous ones at that. If you are socialized into believing all Muslims are inherently violent, then it becomes very easy to just pick up a gun and shoot one.

But why am I writing this here, in the pages of The Daily Princetonian?

I want to start a campus conversation about this. I see the memories of these victims slowly sliding away, and, as a Muslim, that terrifies me.

It isn’t usually productive to think in hypotheticals, but I can’t help but wonder what the reaction would have been had the situation been reversed: had the gunman been Muslim and the victims not. I believe their pictures would have been plastered all over every news outlet, international, national and local. The victims’

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names would have been on everyone’s tongues. The words “parking lot dispute” would certainly not have been brought up in conjunction with the killer — only the Muslim affiliation.

But because this situation doesn’t fit neatly into the media’s preferred stereotypes, Barakat and the Abu-Salha sisters are being slowly erased.

I want you, the average Princeton student, to be thinking about them and talking about them. I want you to imagine what it would be like to have a man who hates you based on your identity come into your home and press a gun to your forehead. I want you to think about the agony your parents, siblings and loved ones would go through when they heard the news.

I want you to get mad.

Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha was 19 when she died. She had a bright future ahead of her, and it was ripped from her hands. I want you to feel the injustice of that tragedy burn in your soul.

It is absolutely imperative that we mourn our fellow American college students. Because the same attitude that is making it so easy to forget them is likely the same attitude that caused their deaths in the first place: the lack of value placed on Muslim lives.

Zeena Mubarak is a sophomore from Fairfax, Va. She can be reached at zmubarak@princeton.edu.

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We’re not ready for mandatory reporting Marni Morse columnist

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f all the recent coverage about sexual assault on college campuses has done anything, it has encouraged people to scrutinize more closely the prevalence of sexual assault and the difficulty of bringing justice as well as to brainstorm potential solutions. The very public cases at Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Virginia, as well as the federal Office of Civil Rights mandated policy changes at a number of institutions, have ignited policymakers and university administrators to finally begin to take action.

After a Rolling Stone article was published detailing an alleged gang rape at UVA, even after numerous contradictions in that story were discovered, many members of the Virginia legislature were quick to take action. A Virginia senate subcommittee in January approved a bill requiring that sexual assault on college campuses in the state be reported to the police within 24 hours of learning of the incident. However, in their haste to find a solution to a problem long neglected, these policymakers have overlooked the possibility that such requirements for reporting to the police might harm the very victims they are trying to help.

Granted, it is no surprise that legislatures are interested in taking ac-

tion. The data is clear. Just between 2011 to 2013, reports of forcible sex offenses on U.S. campuses went up from 3,443 to 5,054, a 47 percent increase in two years. Sexual assault on college campuses is far too prevalent and universities are not doing enough to prevent it or bring about justice for victims. To be fair, universities are generally getting better at pursuing cases. Perhaps this is due to new mandates by the OCR or simply because of a growing understanding throughout society that reporting a low number of sexual assault cases depicts a university as being too slow to respond rather than as a sign that sexual assault isn’t a problem at said college.

However, schools are still failing when it comes to handling the indictments and carrying out justice.

Colleges are not required to report the outcomes of reported alleged sexual assault cases, making it hard to determine the scope of the problem. The best data we have is from a voluntary Department of Justice surveys with 120 universities in 2012 and 2013. According to the survey, there were a total of 759 reported cases of alleged sexual assault. Of those cases, universities imposed sanctions in 478 incidences, with 63 reprimands, 135 suspensions, 56 expulsions, 56 counseling, 17 community service and 151 other punishments. This federal data shows that currently “students found responsible for sexual assault are as likely to be ordered to have counseling or given a reprimand as they are to be

kicked out.”

This seems to confirm what we’ve heard anecdotally for years. At the UVA, zero students have been expelled for sexual misconduct in the past decade. And the Dear Harvard letter from last year shows how little that Harvard seems to be willing to do for sexual assault victims, as evidenced by the school refusing to relocate the attacker to a different dorm, instead forcing the victim to eventually move herself.

If these facts show anything, it’s that schools have clearly failed at handling sexual assault cases in the past. It’s a point that advocates for both the victims and the accused can agree on (even if they don’t agree on what to do about it). But this reality does not mean that the best or even proper response is to ignore the problem and rely on the police to handle these sexual assault cases instead. Even if the victim does choose to involve the police, the university still must pursue an independent investigation and determine an outcome for an alleged violation of school policy. Police involvement does not relieve a university of this responsibility. Universities must become better equipped to deal with these cases.

Moreover, the reality is that our current criminal justice system also is unable to sufficiently handle cases of sexual assault — ranging from properly understanding how to treat victims who come forward, to how to investigate in a timely and considerate manner, to how our laws

define consent, there is still much that needs to be figured out. At the end of the day, until the criminal justice system is also better able to handle these cases, the choice to report these cases to the police must rest with the victim.

In light of this, it would be a mistake for Virginia to treat the mandatory reporting of any case of alleged college sexual assault to the police as an end-all solution. Because people realize the limitations of the federal and state laws in handling these cases, police reporting might deter even more students to report cases to school administrators. Any chance for help and justice is removed if those who (justly) do not have confidence in the criminal justice system believe they can no longer even speak out to the college administration because of such a law.

Perhaps such a law may be justified in the future. But now is not the time for this particular reform. In the short-term, we need to consider how colleges can best serve victims of sexual assault and the campus communities at large. Reforming college policies is easier than the various changes needed to improve the criminal justice system regarding sexual assault. And in the longterm, hopefully we will be able to curb rape culture and curtail the number cases of sexual assault altogether.

Marni Morse is a sophomore from Washington, D.C. She can be reached at mlmorse@princeton.edu.

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to build a 19-0 lead at the halfway point of the match.

Despite the lopsided beginning, the Tigers had bright spots in their losses. In his battle against No. 9 Anthony Ashnault, sophomore 141-pounder Jordan Laster scored the first takedown of the match, but an escape and a riding time point for Ashnault solidified a mere 3-2 victory over Laster. Junior 149-pounder Chris Perez also fought well against No. 17 Ken Theobold, but ultimately fell by a narrow 5-3 margin.

Schleifer got the Tigers on the board at 165 pounds when he picked up a major decision over Nick Visicaro. Harner and Ayala soon followed to give the Tigers victories in three of the ten bouts. The final team score was 24-11 in the Scarlet Knights’ favor.

Ayres’s squad was pleased with its performance against Columbia, and despite the loss to Rutgers, saw some bright spots in Saturday’s outing, too.

“As far as the weekend goes, we wrestled very tough when we wrestled Colum-

bia,” junior Judd Ziegler said.

“When we wrestled Rutgers, I thought we wrestled tough, but there were a few key matches that we didn’t capitalize on, which included mine. Overall, it looks like the team is finally coming out of the rut we were in, because we had been lacking toughness and the fire that we had last year during the dual meet season, and we finally saw that fire this weekend. And it’s the perfect time for it as [EIWA Championships] are coming up.”

“We wrestled well against Columbia, we competed hard and set the tone of the matches across the board,” Perez said. “It was good to go into a hostile environment and come out successful.

Against Rutgers I think we wrestled hard, we just didn’t get the results we wanted to in a couple of matches, mine included. We needed points in short time and couldn’t get it done. This next week will be good for little adjustments heading into next weekend against Penn, Rider and Nebraska, and will be good in our preparation for NCAAs. It was a good match to see where we need to make improvements near the end

of the year.”

As the Tigers head into their final weekend of the dual season, they will face arguably their staunchest competition of the season.

The Tigers will take on Rider Friday evening, which has a lineup that has turned heads this winter. Princeton will then face No. 22 Pennsylvania and No. 12 Nebraska on Saturday. Despite the challenge before them, the Tigers are hopeful that their recent experience will prepare them well for the weekend.

“I think that we turned a corner beating a tough Columbia team by a great margin, but the loss to Rutgers really showed us that there is still a lot of work to be done,” Schleifer said. “I hope that the weekend ahead of us will truly show what our team is capable of, and how far we have come as we face another set of tough teams.”

The Tigers will take the short drive to Lawrenceville on Friday evening for a 6 p.m. showdown against Rider.

The squad will take on Penn at 12 p.m. on Saturday afternoon in Philadelphia, before returning to Dillon Gymnasium for a 7 p.m. meeting against Nebraska.

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Sophomore Junior Oboh, along with Kessel, made life rough for opponents in their weekend sweep.

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made a potent blocking combo Friday night, totaling a dozen blocks with six apiece. Kessel, an honorable mention All-American from last season, remains one of the nation’s most feared hitters and led all players with 22 kills.

Worthy of note was the performance of freshman hitter Kendall Ratter, whose athleticism and aggression led to 11 kills.

Friday night, the Tigers had to play from behind after a first set which could not have been closer. No team took more than a three-point lead in the 26-24 Harvard win. The Crimson’s attack percentage of 69 marked their highest for the night.

Set two began in similarly close fashion with four tied scores and one early lead change.

Consecutive service aces by Ratter extended the Tigers’ lead to 22-17, a lead which would prove insurmountable for the Crimson.

Four lead changes occurred during the third set along with 12 tied scores. Strong late-set serving from sophomore setter Chris Kennedy, one of the team’s most dastardly ball-handlers, granted the Tigers a 25-21 win and a 2-1 lead.

Harvard looked poised to push the contest to five sets as they took a 20-17 lead following six straight Crimson points in the fourth set. A Princeton rally set up one of the night’s most spectacular moments. On a Princeton set point, sophomore setter Jonah May substituted in

to make his first appearance.

He hit Harvard libero Samuel Murphy with an off-speed serve which caught the Crimson specialist off guard and went out of play for the match-winning service ace.

It doesn’t take much to get a Princeton crowd riled up against Harvard. But this particular set of spectators proved particularly lively and showed no mercy against the visitors.

Additionally, the spirit demonstrated by the Tiger bench provided motivation for players on the court. Senior setter Conor Dube led his fellow subs in entertaining joint celebrations following impressive swings from their teammates.

Dube is a former associate photography editor.

The following afternoon saw a similarly strong performance by the Tigers, although in each set they took some time to establish their dominance.

The underdogs from Fairfield, Conn. managed a strong start. A 6-3 lead for the visitors prompted Princeton head coach Sam Shweisky to call a timeout, after which his team did not look back. They managed a ninepoint win streak before cruising to a 25-13 set win.

Once again, the Pioneers built up a lead with some gritty play in the second set. As the visitors leading 14-10, a Princeton timeout set up an eight-point run for the Tigers who took the second set 25-20.

Sacred Heart refused to back down even trailing by two sets.

The Pioneers managed a set attack percentage of 57, their highest of the night, while holding the Tigers to 61, their lowest. A

service error by Oboh tied the game at 25 before Kessel swung and killed on an assist from Kennedy and subsequently hit a service ace to secure the 27-25 win.

Kessel was again murderous on attack Saturday night, racking up 16 kills on 27 total attempts. His classmate, Will “Wild Bill” Siroky tallied a game-high seven blocks including a solo effort. Princeton’s 27 rejections far outpaced the six block assists from the Pioneers, who had neither the athleticism nor the wherewithal to deal with the Tigers’ attack.

The two wins were key for Princeton following some mixed preseason results. Earlier this winter, the Tigers faced their first six competitors in always-sunny Southern California. Long Beach, UC-Santa Barbara, UCLA and UC-Irvine, all ranked in the top 20, delivered 3-0 losses to the Tigers. Princeton picked up a comeback 3-2 win against Cal-State Northridge, then ranked 13th, to close their competition in the UCSB ASICS Invitational as well as a 3-0 victory over UC-San Diego.

Last weekend, EIVA opponent NJIT fell victim to a Tiger onslaught. Kennedy was stellar in the 3-0 win as he racked up 34 assists along with a service ace. The Highlanders were far outmatched, seeing the visiting Princeton side manage outrageous attack percentages of 93 and 91 in the first two sets.

Next weekend, Princeton will begin a series against Coker College, a Division II South Carolina school of about 1,200 students.

The Tigers resume conference play the following week against George Mason.

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at once this weekend and I know we gave 110 percent of what we had and I wouldn’t have done anything differently.” The Tigers will now set their sights on the individual championships, which will be held in two

weeks time at Jadwin Gym. The men had a less eventful weekend as they had one final match before the national championships next weekend. The Tigers suffered a 7-2 loss against Trinity. Both senior Samuel Kang and classmate Tyler Osborne found victory at the one and two spots. Kang won the match in five games 3-2 and

Osborne swept his opponent by a score of 10, 3, 1. The men now hope to qualify for team championships next weekend. Only eight teams make the top bracket for the tournament and the Tigers are currently on the bubble, ranked ninth in the nation, despite head-to-head victories over No. 7 Franklin & Marshall and No. 8 Penn.

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500m with a time of 1:04.82 and freshman Josh Ingalls came in third. Other victories came from senior Bradley Paternostro in the 800m run, a 1-2 victory in the mile run for freshman Garrett O’Toole and junior Sam Berger and another relay victory in the 4×800 as the team of O’Toole, Patternostro, freshman Noah Kauppila and junior Luke Brahm finished with a time of 7:40.21.

The field events brought similar success as junior Jake Scinto got two victories by winning the long jump (7.20m) and high jump (2.02m). Princeton completed a 1-2-3 finish in both events as sophomore Greg Leeper and senior Tumi Akinlawon came second and third in the long jump, while sophomore Xavier Bledsoe and freshman Colin Reilly rounded off the podium in the high jump.

Senior Adam Bragg continued his fine form as he followed up on his record breaking weekend with another victory in the pole vault, recording a 5.20m while sophomore Ben Gaylord finished third, some 0.3m behind Bragg. Freshman Lane Russell rounded off a clean sweep of the jump events as he won the triple jump with a 15.44m mark as senior Nana OwusuNyantekyi came third with 14.73m.

Sophomore Christopher Cook claimed the final vic-

tory for the Men’s team as he dominated the shot put event, beating his personal record in an 18.34m toss with teammates senior Scott Rushton and freshman Mitchel Charles claiming second and third, respectively.

Women’s Track and Field The women’s team claimed their fifth victory in six years, and although they were not as dominant as the men’s team, they were clearly superior to Harvard and Yale.

The women’s team was in great form during the sprints and mid-distance runs as they won the 400m, 500m, 800m, the mile run and the 3000m events. Sophomore Katie Hanss won the mile run by less than half a second with a time of 4:49.29. Junior Jasmine Blocker took first in the 400m event with a time of 55.72 as freshman Quinn Parker joined her on the podium with a third place finish (58.56). Similar finishes occurred in the 500m and 800m events as junior Meghan McMullin came first in the 500m and sophomore Elisa Steele finished third, while junior Cecilia Barowski finished first in the 800m, six seconds ahead of third place finisher senior Kim Mackay.

The 3000m event brought more success for the team, as sophomore Megan Curham and junior Kathryn Fluehr combined for a 1-2 finish.

The relay teams sadly both just missed out on finishing first as the 4x400m event provided second to fourth place finishes for Princeton A, B and

C teams, with the Princeton B team losing to the Harvard A team by a little bit more than one second. The 4x800m team was even unluckier as they lost by milliseconds to the Yale team with a time of 9:00.78.

The field events brought similar success to the women’s team as there were victories in the weight throw, pole vault, high jump and long jump. Junior Julia Ratcliffe took first in the weight throw with an impressive distance of 19.90m, beating her runner-up by over 3m. Sophomore Allison Harris won the pole vault event, clearing a 3.85m mark as teammate and fellow sophomore Lauren Santi came third with a 3.30m mark. Junior Inka Busack won the high jump with a mark of 1.73m whilst fellow junior Taylor Morgan was only a few centimeters behind at 1.65m and claimed third place.

Rounding off the victories was junior Sara Ronde as she won the long jump with a mark of 5.59m while teammate Kerry Krause finished with 5.30m. Sophomore Alexandra Lanzafame only just lost out on the triple jump title, recording a 11.57m jump whilst the eventual winner from Harvard had a jump of 11.70m.

Both teams will continue to look to build on their success this past weekend as they host the Princeton Invitational this coming Sunday at Jadwin Gym. The events will begin at 11 a.m.

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Wrestling goes 1-1 in weekend away meets

Tigers sweep on weekend, crush no. 13 Harvard

By Andrew Steele staff writer

Princeton men’s volleyball (5-4 overall, 3-0 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association) impressed the Dillon Gymnasium faithful with two strong wins during their home opening weekend. The Tigers downed two conference opPRINCETON 3 ponents, No. 13 Harvard (6-4, 2-1 EIVA) and Sacred Heart (3HARVARD 1 6, 1-2 EIVA) by set score of 3-1 PRINCETON 3 and 3-0 to kick off a six-game homestand.

SACRED HEART 0 Popular sentiment leading up to the contest suggested that Harvard had been overrated by the coaches’ poll. In any case, Friday’s win marked the first time in program history that Princeton had defeated two ranked opponents in the same season (the previous win coming against No. 13 Cal-State Northridge, a currently unranked squad).

With the wins Princeton improves its series records to 6-2 against the Pioneers and 10-7 against the Crimson. Harvard got the best of Princeton twice during the 2014 regular season before falling to their Ivy League rivals in a 3-1 EIVA semifinals matchup.

Strong contributions from across the Orange and Black roster led to the impressive team win over their conference foes. Thanks to the victory, Princeton can lay claim to the Ivy League championship at least until the rematch in early April when the Ancient Eight’s only two men’s volleyball sides will compete again.

Senior Cody Kessel and sophomore Junior Oboh See M. V-BALL page 5

By Jack Rogers senior writer

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With their fantastic performance, the Tigers now ranked in the top 15 nationwide for the first time since 1998.

TRACK AND FIELD

Going into the weekend riding a threematch win streak, which included a home rout of Ivy rivals Harvard and Brown last weekend, the wrestling team (9-6, 6-5 Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association) split a pair of road matches this weekend.

The Tigers took down Columbia on Friday night in New York, but could not maintain their momentum Saturday afternoon against a strong Rutgers lineup.

Unlike last year, the Tigers did not keep the match close against Columbia, as head coach Chris Ayres’s wrestlers took eight out of ten bouts to blow out Columbia 26-6. Senior 125-pounder Ryan Cash got the Tigers off to a hot start, avenging a loss to Columbia’s Penn Gottfried in the team’s 2014 meeting. After the Lions picked up the win at the 133-pound weight class, the Tigers took control, winning the next seven bouts to solidify their rout. The individual victories included everything from blowouts — major decisions came from sophomore 184-pounder Brett Harner and junior 197-pounder Abram Ayala — to nail biters — freshman 165-pounder Jonathan Schleifer hung on for an exciting 8-7 win in sudden victory.

The Tigers could not repeat their strong performance against in-state rival Rutgers.

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SQUASH

Women’s squash come in third at Howe Cup, men drop final home match

By Chris Grubbs contributor

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After a solid performance at the Sykes and Sabock Cup last weekend, Princeton outpaced its Ivy League rivals this weekend.

Tigers notch dominating victory at HYP Meet

By Tom Pham

associate sports editor

Both the men’s and women’s track and field teams demonstrated their superiority over fierce Ivy League rivals Harvard and Yale by dominating in the H-Y-P meet which was hosted in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Both teams built on their performances at the Sykes & Sabock Challenge Cup to easily outdistance Harvard and Yale and seemed to be in a different class compared to their opponents, with the men’s team totaling

125 points, which was more than double the combined points scored by Harvard (36) and Yale (22). The women’s team also steamrolled their opponents, albeit in a less dominant fashion, finishing with 87 points, easily beating Harvard (54) and Yale (41).

Men’s Track and Field This was the 24th straight H-Y-P title for the men’s track and field team and with this performance, it seems that this streak will continue for a long time, especially if the team continues to perform in such a way.

The performance at H-Y-P was so dominant that in the 60m dash, Princeton took the first five spots. Freshman Carrington Akosa finished first with an impressive time of 6.88, only just edging out juniors John Hill (6.89) and Dre Nelson (6.90) as well as senior Tommaso Greenbaum (6.94) and fellow freshman Maxwell Schwegman (7.01).

Akosa’s day was not finished there, as he brought home two other first place finishes in the 200m and the 4×400 relay events, rounding out a remarkable per-

formance. Sophomore Brent Albertson came second in a closely contested 200m race, whilst Schwegman came in fourth place. Rounding off the spring events was junior Greg Caldwell’s breaking of his personal record in the 60m hurdles as he clocked in at 8.00, beating teammate and senior Rob Mohr by 0.08 seconds.

Not only did the men’s team dominate the sprints, but they were also in fine form in the mid-distance events as freshman Eric Schulz won the See TRACK page 5

This weekend the Tigers gave a thrilling performance to finish third in the Howe Cup, hosted at Harvard. The Tigers came into the tournament seeded fourth and powered past the Yale Bulldogs 6-3 but fell just short of victory 5-4 against the top seeded Harvard Crimson, which would go on clinch the championship, defeating Trinity College in the finals. The Orange and Black went on to defeat the University of Pennsylvania Quakers 5-4 in a consolation match to finish third in the annual team championship tournament.

The tournament opened with Princeton taking on the Bulldogs in the quarterfinals. The Tigers got off to a quick start by winning two of the first three games in the first shift and did not look back after. Freshman Olivia Fiechter won her match at the No. 1 spot in three games, while five other Tigers secured victories of their own: sophomore Maria Elena Ubina 3-0; senior Nicole Bunyan 3-1; senior Alex Lunt 3-0; senior Hallie Dewey 3-0; and freshman Kira Keating 3-2.

The women then advanced to the semifinals to play against Harvard, the top team in not only the Ivy League but also the nation.

The Tigers had previously

lost to the Crimson 7-2 during the regular season but managed to put on a strong fight in a close match. Princeton took an early lead after the first shift by winning matches 3-1 at the nine and three spots from sophomore Alexandra Toth and Bunyan, respectively. The Tigers then jumped out to a 4-2 lead after the second shift victories by Ubina 3-2 and Keating 3-1.

The Tigers, however, were unable to hold onto their lead in the final shift as the Crimson secured victories at the one, four and seven spots.

In their final match of the weekend, the Tigers faced off against the Quakers in a consolation match. Ivy League champion Penn was coming off of a loss to Trinity in the semi-finals. The Quakers beat the Tigers earlier this season 6-3, but the Orange and Black was ready this time around. Fiechter defeated Penn’s Yan Tin Tan 3-1 in a match that finalized the Tiger victory. Ubina defeated her opponent 3-1; Lunt won 3-1; junior Rachel Leizman won in a 3-2 thriller; and Toth dominated her opponent 3-0.

On the victory, senior Hadley Chu said, “In my four years here, we’ve never had a team as deep as the one that competed this weekend. It felt like everything we had been working towards this season finally clicked all See SQUASH page 5

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