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In Street This week in Street, Street profiles Princeton students who have been on national TV, Contributor Joy Dartey goes behind the scenes of “TIP: Black Lives Matter” and Contributor Carolyn Beard and Senior Writer Caroline Hertz review PUP’s “Hair” and Theatre Intime’s “The Little Dog Laughed,” respectively.

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Feb. 26, 1951 Two University students, Sherman T. Brown III ‘51 and John W. Noble Jr. ‘51, were arrested by the Princeton Borough Police for shooting out six street lights on Prospect Ave. with a Winchester rifle.

News & Notes Two Princeton residents charged in connection to crash

Two Princeton residents have been charged in connection to a car crash on Saturday in which the pair’s vehicle allegedly struck two houses on Hamilton Avenue after flipping over, the Times of Trenton reported.

Kyle Froehlich, 18, the driver of the vehicle, was charged with filing a false police report in relation to the accident, which took place at 2 a.m. on Saturday morning. The passenger, Otto Gramajo, 26, was charged with hindering apprehension of Froehlich.

Both men allegedly fled the scene of the accident, according to the Princeton Police Department.

Froehlich allegedly lost control of the vehicle while driving on Hamilton Avenue toward Chestnut Street, town police spokesperson Sgt. Steven Riccitello told the Times. The car supposedly drove onto the curb, continued onto a residential lawn, hit two trees, flipped over and slid on the snow before crashing into a house and stopping against another.

Both men were uninjured from the accident, and only minor property damage was reported. The crash is still under investigation.

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Louis Simpson GS ’60 donated $10 million to the University to establish the Louis A. Simpson Center for the Study of Macroeconomics, the University announced on Monday.

The center will be formally dedicated in October with a lecture featuring Ben Bernanke, former chair of the Federal Reserve, who chaired the University’s economics department from 1996-2002.

“We already have an excel-

lent [macroeconomics] program,” economics professor Gene Grossman, chair of the economics department and director of the International Economics Section, said. “But this is a very nice infusion of resources that will allow an expanded set of activities including postdoctoral scholars, visiting fellows during the year, conferences, summer workshops maybe.”

The economics department has a number of research sections and centers organized See ECONOMICS page 3

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

Black History Month: Looking back at the 1980s and 1990s

By Shriya Sekhsaria staff writer

Affirmative action was the political backdrop of African-American student life on campus in the 1980s, with some students and alumni questioning its place.

In the 1990s, the University began examining race relations on campus, while both the Alumni Council and the Alumni Association selected the same person to be each of their first African-American leaders.

1981: The label of “products of affirmative action” The year 1981, beginning with President Ronald Reagan’s budget for fiscal year 1982, brought new budget cuts to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the civil rights division of the Department of Justice, heightening public scrutiny of both affirmative action and hiring and admission decisions perceived to be the result of affirmative action.

Faculty members and students were also still uncomfortable having AfricanAmericans on campus at the beginning of the 1980s, Eric Holmes ’85 said.

Holmes said that on one of his first days at the University, a stranger from his residential advising group told him, “I understand about affirmative action, but you’re here and my friend isn’t. And that’s just not fair.”

The assumption about gaining admission through special privileges predated the 1980s, Melvin McCray ’74 said.

“There was always an as-

sumption that the reason you got in was because of a quota or because of some affirmative action,” he said.

An “undercurrent of otherness” marked a large part of the experience of Karen Ruffin ’86 at the University, she said.

“As a black student, I can’t speak for everybody but for me,” Ruffin said. “I always felt like everyday, I was being asked to prove that I belonged there.”

While affirmative action was a hot-button issue in the 1980s, Nneka Nwosu Faison ’05 said affirmative action was still featured in the news frequently during her time as a freshman.

Whenever affirmative action was brought up in her politics precept where she was the only black student, her classmates looked at her as if affirmative action was the only reason that she was admitted to the University, she said.

“I felt kind of put under the microscope,” Faison said.

“When you’re trying to create an identity for yourself, you don’t really want everyone questioning whether you belong there.”

1982: A diaspora of the community into the Residential Colleges A major change that affected the University was that the class of 1985 was the last class to arrive on campus without the residential colleges, Holmes said.

The residential college system made each residential community more representative of demographics on campus, he explained.

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Former Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis spoke on campus about women’s rights.

Davis discusses women’s rights, gubernatorial campaign at lecture

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Politicians need to stop damaging women’s lives in their political games and instead design policies to support women’s rights and true gender equality, former Texas state senator and former Tex-

as Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis said at a lecture on Wednesday.

Davis gained nationwide attention for her 11-hour filibuster in June 2013 to block a bill restricting abortion rights that was ultimately signed into law by Texas Governor Rick Perry.

Gender equality, despite some remarkable advances during the past century, is currently losing ground in the U.S., Davis said. More than 60 percent of minimum wage jobs are occupied by women and women’s reproductive rights are being restricted by See LECTURE page 3

Q&A

Q&A: Former Texas state senator, gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis

By Ruby Shao associate news editor

in Texas and stereotypes women face when entering politics.

Former Texas state senator and former Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis gave a public lecture on campus on Wednesday addressing her recent campaign and women’s rights. Before the lecture, Davis sat down with The Daily Princetonian to discuss her famous filibuster, abortion laws

The Daily Princetonian: To start off with, what were you like as an undergraduate?

Wendy Davis: I was working and raising children so I had a unique experience as an undergraduate but I was very, very focused on getting my degree and making my way to law school. So I didn’t do a

lot of the typical things that a student would do. I didn’t participate in the student community really, I was more like a commuter student who came to campus each day and put my head down and did what I needed to do to graduate. I started in community college and I did two years there in a program to become a paralegal before I decided to shift my focus and try to become a lawyer

instead.

environment.

DP: What motivated you to want to become a lawyer?

WD: I felt like it was a skill that I was suited for. I enjoyed writing, I consider myself to be a fairly analytic person and this was in the day of California… in the day of L.A. law. You probably don’t even remember that, but it was really exciting to think about being in that

DP: What is your most unusual habit?

WD: Goodness. Most unusual habit. I can’t think of anything unusual I do. I must be so boring. I like to watch the same movies over and over and over again. I’ve watched “Out of Africa” at least 20 times. So if I’m inspired by a movie or See Q&A page 4

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“Most of the student body didn’t want a change in the structure of the campus life,” Holmes said. “It wasn’t a popular change across the campus.”

This change had a major impact on the African-American community in particular because it was no longer concentrated in Princeton Inn College and the so-called New New Quad in what is now the Butler College area, Holmes said. However, the move also had some unintentional negative consequences, he added.

“We now, as a community, were kind of dispersed across campus and didn’t have the same kind of support that we had when we were living in larger concentrations,” he said.

However, the residential college system also fostered

friendships, Perry LeBlanc ’88 said. He had carpools with his friends to go from Princeton Inn College to the Engineering Quadrangle, he said, adding he particularly remembered a time when the college took its residents up in a hot air balloon. “[The residential college system] played an important role in the friendships that I developed because I really spent a lot of time in the residential college and got to meet a lot of interesting people,” LeBlanc said. “When we extended out of the residential college as well, we had a very strong base of people that we could take with us for our junior and senior years.”

1983: Interactions with the press There were occasionally letters written to The Daily Princetonian that were not in favor of the presence of African-American students on

campus, Holmes said.

In 1983, Princeton Alumni Weekly published an editorial letter Charles Huber ’51 had wrote saying the University had gone downhill after it admitted African American students and women, Ruffin said.

“Those types of sentiments were not rare with the older alums,” Ruffin said.

Concerned Alumni of Princeton, which opposed the admittance of women and minorities to the University, distributed an unwelcoming magazine called Prospect accusing the University of diluting student life quality by admitting minorities, Holmes said.

“It was made very obvious that you were other than a real Princetonian,” he said.

CAP and its magazine attained additional public scrutiny in 2005 when U.S. Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito ’72 was undergoing

his confirmation hearing. A congressional inquiry led by Democrat Ted Kennedy eventually found Alito wasn’t associated with the group’s activities.

“Currently alumni children comprise 14 percent of each entering class, compared with an 11 percent quota for blacks and Hispanics,” the group wrote in a 1985 fundraising letter sent to all Princeton graduates, according to the New York Times.

During her freshman year, Ruffin said, the Madison Report, a student-run paper on campus, mocked the Black Thoughts Table, a group of African-American students who dined together to discuss global and campus issues from an African-American perspective.

After the Madison Report mocked the group, they were invited to attend the next meeting, which was tense, Ruffin added.

“I remember that it was civil, but terse,” she explained, “and I remember thinking, ‘Why is it they think its OK to belittle us in print like that?’ ” 1980s: The age of romance The 1980s also saw the beginning of a significant number of romances in the African-American community on campus, many of which have resulted in marriages even today. Both African-American students and female students had become more numerous on campus in the 1980s than they had been historically.

This trend also occurred because these students had a lot in common, Rhinold Ponder ’81 said.

“There were some special people there,” Ponder said.

“Some people probably found their soul mate. I know quite a few of those folks. It’s not uncommon to go to college and find someone who you’re going to marry.”

Ruffin and her husband were the second couple out of their friend group to get married, she said, adding her rehearsal dinner was conducted at the former Third World Center, her wedding at the University Chapel and her wedding reception at Charter Club, where her husband was a member.

These marriages were a predictable outcome because the African-American community was extremely tightknit during her time at the University, she added.

“We have all sorts of common bonds, and being Princetonian is just one more common bond,” she explained. “So culturally, we have a common bond, and experientially, we have a common bond.”

However, marriage at the University is not an African American phenomenon, LeBlanc added, but a campuswide phenomenon among people who are like-minded and have the same values and aspirations.

“When you put such people together, you tend to find your soul mate,” he ex-

plained.

1993: Recommendations for campus race relations On March 1, then-Vice Provost Ruth Simmons issued a 50-page report, titled “Report on Campus Race Relations.”

The reports resulted in the appointment of an ombudsman, the establishment of a Race Relations Working Group and an effort to better coordinate race relations activities, according to the Princeton Weekly Bulletin.

Despite these recommendations, the same issues got raised in the same ways, Jim Floyd ’69 said.

“There certainly have been ‘Prince’ articles about how students have been disappointed that the results of the implementations of the recommendations of that study had not been heartily carried out to the point that there have been protesters and more studies and more work groups and ad hoc groups and more diversity groups,” he said.

1997: Beginning to move up the University ranks In 1997, University Trustee Brent Henry ’69 became the first African American alumnus to be elected as the Chair of the Alumni Council and president of the Alumni Association.

“Part of my focus as Alumni Council chair at the time was really to figure out how to identify a number of ethnic groups who, because of their history with the University, they didn’t feel as connected as they seem to do now,” Henry said.

The Board of Trustees has also had a significant number of African-American trustees, Charles Brown ’92 said.

“We were able to represent a certain perspective and give voices to students who weren’t necessarily represented during previous times in the University’s history,” he explained.

Spencer Merriweather ’00 said when he was the president of the Undergraduate Student Government, ad hoc committees were not primarily focused on diversity issues, though the organization was diverse at the time, with a Korean American vice president and an Asian American treasurer.

In 2011, Henry became the first African-American alumnus to be named as the vice chair of the Board of Trustees.

One of the highlights of his experience as a trustee, Henry said, was working on a diversity plan.

The report found that progress to increase the diversity of academic departments since 1980 had been “disturbingly slow” and that graduate students and faculty were significantly less diverse than the undergraduate population, according to a September 2013 Daily Princetonian article.

“That again was an opportunity to bring a lot of voices from diverse backgrounds on the table to try to figure out how to promote ideas and University programs that

would move the University in the right direction,” Henry said.

1998: The lack of a department There were a number of protests in 1998 to raise the awareness about issues at the University that affected minorities, Merriweather said.

The protests outside Firestone had agendas that ranged from the treatment of dining employees on campus to the lack of embrace of AfricanAmerican students at eating clubs, he explained.

“They all helped foster big conversations about these things,” he said.

One of the biggest points of debate surrounded the possibility of the creation of an African-American studies department instead of the African-American studies certificate that was the final result.

“We don’t have a department because an African American studies department could possibly dilute the central disciplinary contributions to the field from history, from political, from psychology, from art, from religion,” he said.

As a result of the conversation that was started, the Center for African American Studies was constructed, he added.

1999: The story of Princeton in Africa In 1999, a group of University alumni, including Floyd, founded Princeton in Africa.

Princeton in Africa offers yearlong fellowships with African organizations with an interest in Africa’s development and advancement.

One of the things that happened to bring the program together was the 100th anniversary celebration of Princeton in Asia, Floyd explained.

“There’d never been a Princeton-any-place-else,” he said. “And many of us said, ‘Well, why not?’ ” The group’s founders knew there was student interest in spending time in Africa, he said, adding the fact that the University’s first AfricanAmerican administrator, Carl Fields, had wanted to establish something along the lines of a Princeton in Africa earlier in the 1960s and 1970s motivated him.

Floyd said he never anticipated people with such diverse backgrounds to become Princeton in Africa fellows.

“An evolution has happened where not only African-American students have served as fellows with Princeton in Africa, but also people whose parents are from Africa and some of them who grew up in certain countries in Africa have become Princeton in Africa fellows,” he said.

The program has 400 alumni, according to statistics published recently.

This article is the fourth in a five-part Black History Month feature series. Check back tomorrow for a look at the University in the 2000s and 2010s.

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sexist legislation, she said.

Some politicians are intentionally and strategically using gender, as well as race, as a tool to pursue power, money and success, she added.

“In my [gubernatorial] race, my opponent’s supporters derided me by using photoshopped sexual images of me in social media, with my face on a very sexy body, in order to invite responses from potential voters to view me as highly sexualized, rather than intelligent and confident potential state leader,” Davis said.

Her political opponents also attacked her for attending law school rather than paying full attention to her children, she said, adding those acts belittled her achievement and framed her as a traitor of traditional gender roles.

Some women respond to such so-called “wolf-whistling” because they feel like their chosen role as traditional

stay-home, caregiving mothers would be devalued by gender equality, she said.

“Sadly, messages from the far right have convinced so many young women that feminism is about trading in their license to be women, to be feminine,” Davis said.

“What we have to help them understand is that fighting for women’s equality isn’t about telling women how they have to live … It’s about having the ability to choose freely.”

This fight against gender equality is often nothing more than a strategic tool for politicians, she said, adding it nonetheless damages women’s health and lives. For example, as a result of the Texas government’s strategic defunding of Planned Parenthood, more than 180,000 women lost a major source of their health care, Davis explained. “[The politicians] need to consider the human casualties of the fight,” she said.

Rather than investing in a fight that damages so many lives, Davis said lawmakers should design policies to sup-

port women from low socioeconomic status escape their poverty.

“Policies to support women’s ability to climb out of the deep well [of poverty] actually do work,” Davis said.

She added that she herself is a living example of how policies that provide women with access to education, health care, child care and family leave do change their lives.

She then called for a creation of inclusive, shared community where both men and women are given the ability to freely choose their life paths, get adequate support and have the choices they make respected and celebrated.

“True gender equality will come only when [we] take care not to view each other’s choices through a pejorative lens,” Davis added.

The lecture, titled “WolfWhistle Politics: Taking Back the Conversation to Advance Women’s Rights,” took place in Dodds Auditorium at 4:30 p.m. and was co-sponsored by the Wilson School and the Women’s Center.

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around different economic subfields, including the Bendheim Center for Finance, labor economics and the International Economics Section, Grossman said.

“Macroeconomics was sort of the largest and most important group that really had no center that could provide resources for all of our macroeconomists to do research and support our graduate students and undergraduate research,” he said. “So this was sort of in a sense filling in a hole.”

The new center will not claim a building of its own but will be housed within the building at 20 Washington Road, Grossman said. The building is cur-

rently out of commission as it is being renovated.

The center will be a selling point to attract top-tier graduate students in macroeconomics, new Simpson Center director and economics professor Richard Rogerson said.

“One of the programs we are going to have is each year we are going to look for one of the star new Ph.D. students in macroeconomics and hopefully bring them here for a postdoc before they start their regular position elsewhere,” Rogerson said. “So that means every year we are going to have one of the brightest young macroeconomists in the country here in residence to be interacting with faculty and students, so everybody is going to benefit from having people like that around.”

The center should also put the University in a better position to train students and research the latest macroeconomic developments, economics professor Janet Currie said.

“I think it will put us on a really good path to training students in cutting-edge macro and supporting faculty who do that research,” she said.

Simpson was not available for comment.

He is currently a director at Verisign and has served on a number of corporate boards.

He was also an economics instructor at the University from 1961-62.

University spokesperson Martin Mbugua deferred comment to Wilson School public relations specialist B. Rose Huber, who deferred comment to Rogerson and Currie.

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a book, I’ll read the book over and over, I’ll see the movie over and over.

DP: Describe a widespread misconception about you.

WD: People who know me well or who have gotten to know me well after they knew me in the public eye have said that they are surprised to see how kind and soft and loving I am.

I think sometimes as a woman, when you’ve taken some tough stances and you’ve been in the public eye and you’ve been assertive, you are viewed as not necessarily having that softer feminine side. But I’m a very, very nurturing person, a very nurturing mother, nurturing with my girlfriends and other

relationships. I think people who don’t know me well might be surprised to see that very soft side of me.

DP: What elements of Texan culture do you strongly identify with?

WD: The spirit of independence. The idea that we all are free to make our own choices.

That freedom isn’t necessarily as well respected as I wish it were, but it’s a deeply respected Texas value. We are very proud people and we are very friendly people. Texans are extremely gregarious with each other.

I’ve found on my travels, for example, when I went to law school and it was at Harvard and I would get on the bus and I would talk to people. Or I would get on the train and talk to people. And people would say, “You’re not from here are

you?” And I think it’s a uniquely Texas trait, that we are very outgoing and that very friendly and I certainly identify with that.

DP: Moving to the famous filibuster that you staged in Texas, what did you find was the most challenging aspect of staging that 13 hour filibuster?

WD: The length of time itself wasn’t nearly as challenging as the climate of parliamentary disorder that I experienced. In the Texas senate, filibusters are very highly respected, because a Texas filibuster is a true filibuster, unlike one in the U.S. Senate, where they can take turns and they can leave the lectern. In Texas, you must speak the entire time although you can take questions. You have to stay on topic. You cannot eat or drink or lean on

your desk or leave to go to the bathroom. And so it’s a true test of physical and mental endurance. And because of that, on both sides of the aisle, if a senator conducts a filibuster in Texas, it’s been met with incredible respect even if there are some folks in the chamber who disagree with the person who is conducting the filibuster. I expected that I would get less respect than typical, but I was surprised at the efforts, in a parliamentary maneuver, to shut the filibuster down.

That had never happened in Texas political history before and I hadn’t expected the mental acuity that it was going to require of me the entire day to try and jump through the parliamentary hoops that the Republican members kept throwing for me to jump through.

DP: What changes to abortion laws do you hope to see in the coming years and why?

WD: Well certainly for my state, I would like to see us unwind the changes that were made in 2013. And those changes, of course, were very specifically aimed at closing clinics and closing women’s access to abortion. It’s my opinion that because many who oppose abortion understand that they’re not likely to change the constitutional protection for abortion, they have determined other ways to try to close access to abortion for as many people as possible and limit that choice for as many people as possible. What’s happened in my state is that many, many women, particularly low-income women in areas of our state that no longer have clinics because they were closed as a consequence of this law, they’ve literally been put in danger. Their health is at risk. If they are experiencing an unwanted pregnancy and don’t have a legal option for termination, the fear of course is that they will turn to other options that will put them at risk. The other thing that has been a consequence of the abortion law in Texas and I’m sure elsewhere is that many of the clinics that we closed as a consequence of that law were also providing wraparound services [care management for serious behavioral and emotional problems] for women. They were providing cancer screenings and well women health care and they were the only providers that were giving that to the women of many of the communities in our state, and when they closed as a consequence of the anti-abortion law, it created a climate where women no longer have access to contraception, they no longer have access to cancer screening or to blood screenings that might help them to know they have diabetes, and women truly are being put at risk because they have no other options to receive that care.

DP: What lessons from raising your daughters do you apply to your political work?

WD: When you raise children, you find pretty quickly that there’s no such thing as black and white. The gray bit teaches us to consider the world through that spectrum as well, to appreciate opposing perspectives and to try to find middle ground. Parenting in large part is about doing that, finding respect for your children’s differing ideas about what they may want for themselves and what you may want for them and finding a way to compromise and seek consensus with them. As a political leader, the same has been true for me. Though I’ve taken some pretty hard-line positions in things that matter deeply to me, I’ve always prided myself in working across the aisle and being one of those legislators who is in the small room getting things done, meeting in the middle with people on the opposite side of the aisle. I think it’s an incredibly important and sadly rare, more and more rare, quality for politicians.

DP: As a politician, what are the stereotypes that often prevent women from entering or participating in politics?

WD: I just put my head down and do my work. I wrote a memoir recently titled “Forgetting to be Afraid,” which is something Lady Bird Johnson said when she was asked about how she overcame her extreme shyness to work on things that mattered to her. And what she told people was that you have to get so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. And I found that to be so true, that sometimes when we can be so overwhelmed by what the battle looks like or afraid of losing or what the scrutiny might be that we come under for taking political positions, but if we care deeply about something, we have to set our concerns aside about whether this will be good for us and we have to fight for the things that matter to a broader population outside of ourselves. I found that that’s been very helpful to me. If I listen to my heart and my gut, I have found a much greater courage than I otherwise would.

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Avaneesh Narla

Eating Clubs: The Princeton Paradigm

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he recent discussion regarding Bicker has attracted much interest and discussion, but as much as I am glad that the dialogue is active, I’d like to present another question to the debate: Why do we still have Bicker? Or for that matter, eating clubs. Is it because Princeton students really do want it, or is it because it has always been so?

Very recently, sophomores decided on their dining choices as upperclassmen in what will probably be one of the most critical decisions of their time at Princeton. And while there are many possible options (coops, residential colleges or going independent) for sophomores, it is always assumed that a student will most probably join an eating club.

Any other option is an “alternative,” just as the vast majority of the job market is an “alternative choice” to “traditional” tech, finance or consulting careers for Princeton students. Joining an eating club is the default option, and you would need a good reason not to join one.

Over the last two months, I have approached a lot of my friends with

this question: “Why did you decide to join an eating club?” While most initial responses were based on preserving their groups of friends, I didn’t really understand how social circles were going to be preserved if they were going to be distributed without certainty in mostly selective (and arbitrary) eating clubs. After a few more rounds of prodding, most of my friends confessed that their decisions to join eating clubs were because it is an integral part of “the Princeton experience.” After all, the eating clubs are distinctive of Princeton and they are the most prominent of the social settings on campus, present since 1855. Alumni are recognized by their eating club affiliations as much as, if not more than, their concentrations.

Thus, as a bid to be part of it, we perpetuate this Princeton tradition: a tradition of exclusive institutionalized social spaces that many students are critical of, but most join anyway, out of resignation, because it is “the Princeton thing to do.” Parallels may be drawn to other historical institutions that were perpetuated merely because of the conformity of community members. The spectrum of these historical institutions includes extremes such as racially segregated restaurants, and speak of

the need of community members to be self-critical.

Even before being critical of eating clubs, I am critical of this attitude of conformity that joining an eating club is an integral part of “the Princeton experience.” Nearly a third of our current upperclassmen has decided not to join one, and I do not feel that we can invalidate their experiences in any way. And at the end of the day, “the Princeton experience” is what we make of it, not a blind subscription to historical precedents. After all, before 1969, the Princeton experience exclusively meant being male.

If we take a step further back, I feel it is imperative to question the phenomenon of eating clubs. Should social spaces be closed? Should my ability to interact with someone be institutionalized? And if so, should the University sanction and support such institutions? (Though located outside the University, Princeton extends a lot of resources to the eating clubs such as technological support and institutional collaboration.)

Most retort against the selectivity and exclusivity of eating clubs by saying that Princeton itself is selective. But Princeton is an academic institution with limited academic and physical resources. Princeton

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admitted 50 students more than expected in 2012 and had to make many adjustments in order to accommodate everyone. But the primary resource that eating clubs offer are social spaces (the significance of physical spaces and other resources offered by eating clubs can be questioned) and the numbers they admit are often arbitrary; so is the selectivity justified? The effect of size on social dynamics of communities and its relevance must be questioned.

Through campaigns such as Hose Bicker, it is important for the Princeton community to ref lect on the role and impact of eating clubs in Princeton. But I feel it is even more significant for each individual to evaluate what they truly want from the Princeton experience, including their choice of dining for the next year. Thus, I ask Princeton sophomores to think carefully before deciding to spend around $10,000 to join an exclusive institutionalized social space. Or before deciding to cook or buy meals regularly. But I hope that we make our Princeton experience what we want it to be, not what we were told it should be.

Avaneesh Narla is a sophomore from Kolkata, India. He can be reached at avaneesh.narla@princeton.edu.

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In loco parentis Reva Abrol

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pparently, some 24hour bug has been going around for the past two weeks. I unfortunately know this firsthand, not because I have the stomach f lu (yet), but because I recently had to stomach the effects of someone else’s f lu.

At the end of my seminar class one recent evening, as I casually started toward the door, I looked up just in time to see one of my classmates lurching towards the landfill section of the classroom garbage bin. There, in front of an audience of four traumatized students and one traumatized professor, he released the contents of his dinner all over that poorly designed can. We all pleadingly turned toward our instructor’s authority, awaiting some call to action, some directive, some reassurance — but most importantly, some relief from the putrid smell

that permeated the air.

My professor stopped to let pass a moment of f leeting concern, then said: “Uh… Can someone call University Health Services? I have to catch a train back to New York.”

And with that, she left the room. I was dumbfounded. Was she going to leave the four of us to handle this mess on our own? Did she feel no obligation to at least call for help herself? Did she feel no responsibility toward the welfare of her students? I temporarily stif led my confusion to make a smooth exit through the door, throwing one last pitiful glance at the kid bent over the trashcan. Another student was helping him up and I wasn’t about to stick around any longer than I had to. This might seem hypocritical, given that I had just judged my professor and all, but I’m only eighteen, and the sight of vomit still makes me want to vomit. Besides, my responsible, adult professor was the one with the obligation to help out that poor

kid, right? Later, I thought about it more and decided: maybe not.

Our modern understanding of in loco parentis, the concept that a temporary caretaker of a child takes on all or some of the responsibilities of a parent, is often applied to primary and secondary educational institutions, where the recipients of care fit the legal definition of a child. However, in his 2011 article, Phillip Lee of Harvard University revisits in loco parentis as exercised in the American university, stating that, prior to the 1960s, “[the] doctrine allowed universities to exercise great discretion in developing the ‘character’ of their students without respect to their students’ constitutional rights,” thereby subjecting university students to heavy regulation of their private affairs. Criticism of these regulatory practices by student movements of the 1960s led to the general dissolution of this concept in higher education. Today, university students supervise

themselves. On campus, the student, although subjected to and responsible for abiding by university policy, has no true parental figure.

So then, why do we sometimes treat our professors — representatives of the University — like parents?

Maybe it’s a first-year phenomenon or the result of lingering impressions made on us during our secondary education; perhaps it’s some weird complex that explains why you accidentally called your teacher “Mom” that one time — but the enduring notion that professors are supervisors is a threat to our progress as scholars and independent, critical thinkers. While professors are undeniably authority figures, this authority derives from the value we place on their academic prowess, not from the authority we merely assume in an individual who occupies a teaching position. When we give importance to the position rather than the reason behind the position, we forget the principal purpose that profes-

sors serve: to motivate, enlighten and inspire inquiry. To treat your professor as only your guardian and never your peer in an academic environment is to hinder your ability to take your potential for agency, contribution or refutation seriously. Although professors deserve respect for the invaluable knowledge and guidance they provide, they should not be seen as infallible parents — this image is harmful for both you and them.

Just as much as professors are permitted to pass on dealing with the kid who just puked (which they are), you are permitted to question the soundness of their ideas or offer methods to improve discourse in a classroom. Accepting the idea that your professor can also be a peer is a step toward growing up and taking on responsibility, both in life and in academics.

Reva Abrol is a freshman from Syosset, NY. She can be reached at rabrol@ princeton.edu.

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QUESTION: Who is Terry O’Shea?

Last year, Terry O’Shea ’16 represented Princeton in legendary trivia show Jeopardy!, earning the title of first Ivy Leaguer to achieve first place in the show’s college championship, fame for Princeton and a fortune of $100,000. But while these facts are known to the greater Princeton family, not many know about the arduous training and comprehensive selection process required to even be on Jeopardy!, much less become one of the show’s champions.

Indeed, the road to becoming a champion is paved with online quizzes.

“When I was a freshman, I took an online diagnostic test that thousands of college students around the country take,” O’Shea said, describing the process of preparing and being selected for the show. “I did well enough on that to qualify for an interview during freshman spring in New York with people from other colleges. I’m not really sure why they chose me from the pool of candidates.”

The diagnostic test was made up of fifty questions from various categories.

O’Shea prepared for the test and the show by reading a lot of Wikipedia pages, storing away random facts from her daily life and using a website that archives all the questions that have ever been asked from the show. These archives, O’Shea said, helped the most during her preparation.

“I went through about five episodes’ worth of questions per day for a long time,” O’Shea said. “It went quicker than actually watching the show.”

The “contestant coordinators” of Jeopardy! called O’Shea in November of her

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Terry O’Shea ’16 with “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek in the 2014 College Championship. O’Shea also competed in the Tournament of Champions last fall.

sophomore year, and she went to Los Angeles during reading period in January to film the episodes for the College Championship, which aired in February 2014. O’Shea won four episodes (quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals game 1 and 2), beating 14 other college students from around the country. Because O’Shea won the College Championship, she was invited back to compete in the Tournament of Champions in the fall of 2014, where she faced adult champions.

“At first it was very intimidating,” O’Shea said. “But after I got to know everyone, I realized they’re all super intelligent and also very nice and welcoming.

And I liked that the college winner from the year before was also there, so I wasn’t the only one who was 20 years old.”

The show filmed five episodes per day, and the contestants would take breaks after every round of the show. During the two-day College Championship, O’Shea filmed the quarterfinals the first day, and then the semifinals and two-part finals the next day, with only one halfhour break in between the semifinals

and finals.

Though she spent some time with him on set, O’Shea said that Alex Trebek, the host of Jeopardy!, does not interact that much with contestants.

“Meeting him didn’t seem real,” O’Shea said. “Plus, we don’t get to really hang out with him. We just shake hands and share our anecdotes with him for a few minutes, and then he goes offstage.”

O’Shea said she found the whole process of being on the show terrifying at first, but was much less nervous by the College Championship finals. After winning the College Championship and moving on to the Tournament of Champions, O’Shea won the quarterfinals before finishing second in the semifinals. Despite coming up short of the ultimate Jeopardy! title, O’Shea had still gone above and beyond what she had imagined achieving.

“My goal was to get into the semifinals of the College Championship, and once I did that it was like I had exceeded my expectations,” O’Shea said. “At that point I knew I could go home and still be proud of myself, no matter what happened.”

CHARLIE BAKER fused by the unfortunate end of his snowman, only to find his little sister Staff Writer continuously pressing Staples’ trademark “Easy” button and causing mayhem all around the house. teenage boy is buildMost people would pass over this ing a snowman when a Staples commercial without giving it high-priced electronic item a second thought. For Charlie Baker ’17, abruptly collapses on top of however, seeing himself as the aforeit. The boy looks around, visibly con- mentioned teenage boy was “definitely a surreal experience, to see my face pop up on the screen,” Baker said.

This Staples c o m m e rc i a l, part of Staples’ holiday campaign during 2009 and 2010, is the first of four commercials aired on national television in which Baker has had COUTESY OF CHARLIE BAKER ’17 a role.

Charlie Baker ’17, then aged 13, starred in a commercial Baker’s actfor Staples that aired in the holiday season of 2009. ing career offi-

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cially began in the seventh grade, when he told his parents that he wanted to act professionally. A native New Yorker, the resources around him were abundant, allowing Baker to immediately start auditioning. Baker learned early on, however, that the actor’s life is one of patience. “The day-to-day reality of being an actor is not what one might expect — you have to go on a lot of auditions and callbacks before you actually book a job,” Baker said. “I was auditioning all the time, which basically made professional acting an afterschool job for me.”

Baker continued to audition as he entered Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, a prestigious performing arts school in New York City. Shortly after, Baker booked the Staples commercial, which aired constantly for three months. His acting resume has expanded since to include commercials for Verizon, Nickelodeon and Comcast, booking one commercial per year throughout high school.

“Although they barely involve any serious acting, commercials were ideal for me in high school, because they never shot for more than a day, so I never had to miss very much school,” Baker said. “I

“The whole thing lasted, I don’t know, a few days, maybe a week. And there were a couple of nights in there where I felt really, really overwhelmed, like, ‘I just don’t want to deal with this anymore.’ But I realized this is just something I’m going to have to live with ... It’s just something I have to embrace, and I’m not embarrassed about what I wrote.”

Fortgang does not shy away from the conversation his article started. If given the opportunity, he would have accepted more interviews to shed light on the conversations he sparked. Going on TV was an opportunity to “put a face on some writing that, you know, people could really get nasty and smear,” he said. “But you put a human face to it, and you show people that you’re not such a terrible person — hopefully they might rethink the hardline of their position,” he said.

He did say, however, that he’s had second thoughts about the tone of his piece.

“I probably would have softened it, a little bit. Anticipating that, I don’t know, a few hundred people might read it, I kind of threw in a couple of cheap jabs,” he said. “Had I known that I was going to be on Fox News, I probably would have changed the tone, made it a little bit more professional. I know that for the future.”

And would he want to be on TV again?

“Sure,” he said, “hopefully talking about something completely different ... People refer to me as ‘privileged kid.’

I hate that. That’s one thing that I wrote about.” He added: “I’m not defined by this one topic. So, if something I write is as successful as that piece, but possibly on a completely different topic, I’d love to do that again.”

At the end of the day, Fortgang is the average Princeton student — he likes to hang out with his friends, skip class (occasionally), go to the gym and is a mega-fan of broomball. He plans to major in Politics.

t was good, but it was overwhelming,” Tal Fortgang ’17 said, describing his brush with fame. On April 2 of last year, Fortgang, a freshman at the time, wrote an article in The Princeton Tory titled “Checking My Privilege: Character as the Basis of Privilege.” What followed was a media frenzy of radio show interview requests, op-eds with counter-arguments and plenty of emails with positive feedback. Fortgang’s viral piece also landed him appearances on Fox News for the whole country, perhaps the world, to see.

“It was a real taste of the big stage,” he said. “And so that comes with its perils, but also it’s pretty exciting.”

Fortgang’s journey to the small screen began with an email that asked for him to come into the studio. He agreed to the request, and before his appearance the studio called him to discuss the themes they’d be touching on and prime him “to get the right talking points.”

For the first interview, he said that he was essentially in “a dark, empty room with one really nice camera.” But for his second appearance, there was a panel of hosts, with one of the hosts asking him all the questions. “It was very simple; I got to look at [one of the hosts], which was a lot easier than looking into a space,” he said.

Being on national television can be a nerve-wracking experience, but Fortgang prepared himself: “I was just thinking, ‘Okay, don’t sound too sophomoric and don’t say anything completely horrible and stupid.’ I’m sure plenty of people think that what I said was horrible and stupid, and that’s fine; they’re entitled to their opinion, but I didn’t want to dig myself any kind of hole that I hadn’t already dug.”

However, Fortgang was in good hands. “[They] took very good care of me.

They let me know exactly where I needed to be at all times,” he said. “Everyone was always offering me a cup of water, if I needed one. They’re very hospitable.”

He was shocked, he recalled, by the fact that the hosts from Fox Business shows recognized him. The national COUTESY OF FOXNEWS.COM attention, however, was over- Interviews with Tal Fortang ’17 on his op-ed in “The Princeton Tory” were broadcast on Fox News in the spring of 2014. whelming. didn’t want to have to be pulled out to go shoot something more time-consuming than a commercial.”

Baker’s experiences have only inspired him to go further. While he feels “a little strange about having been in commercials rather than more real acting work,” Baker is content with his decision to focus on academics and come to Princeton, while still gaining professional experience.

“I got to join SAG-AFTRA [Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists], which is the union for screen actors. That’s definitely been a perk, because I get access to work-

shops with casting directors, and I get DVD screeners for a lot of the big movies during awards season. The main perk is that I have professional experience and a real handle on auditioning, so when I get out of school I’ll be at somewhat of an advantage.”

Upon graduating, Baker hopes to work in the film or television industry. In the meantime, he’ll have to deal with friends occasionally finding his commercials online. “A few of my best friends found one last year and posted the link on the Princeton Class of 2017 Facebook page, which was funny,” Baker recalled.

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e’ve all met our fair share of legendary divas, but the characters in Douglas Carter Beane’s The Little Dog Laughed make Miranda Priestly look like a strawberry shortcake. Beane possesses a particular linguistic talent that he shares with satirists like Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw: the gift for making spoiled, greedy people seem compelling — not because of how they spend their money or with whom they sleep, but because of how they talk.

Even when they’re despondent and desperate, the characters in Theatre Intime’s production of The Little Dog Laughed express themselves with a crackling lyricism that most tonguetied mortals can only hope to possess in their actual lives. The most sparkling riffs belong to Diane, an unrelenting shark of a movie agent portrayed excellently by Katie Frorer ’18. Frorer’s brisk and rapturous problem-solving speech in the second act brings down the house.

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The story goes something like this. Mitchell (Nico Krell ’18) is a semi-famous actor who embarks upon a semi-secret relationship with Alex (Cody O’Neil ’15), a male prosti-

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tifying as gay. Not to mention, Alex kinda sorta has a girlfriend, Ellen (Abby Melick ’17). Making matters worse, the cunning and savage Diane has good reason to believe Mitchell’s “slight recurring case of homosexuality” could threaten his budding stardom and her skyrocketing career. Thus, everyone is on a journey to claim their own bit of happiness — and not everyone can win.

This play is about the hardship that comes with accepting gayness as a part of your identity, rather than something you do accidentally, in the dark, on nights when you’ve had too much to drink. It’s about the violent internal battle that plagues you when homosexuality (suddenly, alarmingly) moves from verb to noun. Strangely enough, however, this production is not driven by the men in said gay relationship — it’s driven by the two women whose lives are rocked by Mitchell and Alex’s affair. Though I would have liked to see a few more vulnerable moments from Frorer’s Diane, it’s hard to find fault with her pitch-perfect portrayal of unadulterated ambition — the kind that makes people forgo sleep, ethics and personal lives.

Such intensity burns those who get too close to it — but, as channeled by Frorer, at a safe distance, it is the perfect wattage for filling a theater with incandescent light.

Melick, too, is luminous as the vivacious Ellen. Her Ellen is doe-eyed and shallow, with a lyric wit and just a touch of viciousness. In particular, Melick shines in a

scene that includes an abstract dramatization of Ellen and Alex making love. As O’Neil stands in place and intermittently murmurs sweet nothings, Melick steps out of the scene and delivers a tragically frank monologue on the experience of making love to a man who turns out to be just the tiniest bit absent from the whole process. “It’s like they’re running into your arms,” she says “but if you get a good look at his eyes you can sometimes see that he was just plain running, and you, poor roadkill, got in his way.”

Directed skillfully by Jack Moore ’15, this is a deftly executed production that satirizes artists’ capacity for self-deception. Its only weakness is the central relationship between Mitchell and Alex, which unfortunately at times feels forced and superficial. Both Krell and O’Neil

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deliver fine moments as the emotionally scarred, survivalist male escort and the actor tormented by the stigma of his sexual orientation.

However, their repartee can feel hollow and lethargic compared to the captivating interpersonal connections found elsewhere in the play.

And, regrettably, since this relationship is meant to be the heart of the play, these faltering moments have a larger-than-usual detrimental impact upon the pace and energy of the play as whole.

But don’t let that discourage you.

This production is jam-packed with wit and tragedy — and its scathing critique of showbiz packs a wallop.

Come see this play where the cow jumps over the moon, the fork runs away with the spoon and the little dog laughs her way all the way to fame and fortune.

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stumbled into playing in a band. I’d been a good distance runner in high school, and the extent of my extracurricular plans for freshman year was to try out for the cross country team. I spent much of the summer before that year training to make the coach’s 5k standard. But he suddenly left Princeton and his replacement told me only the day before classes began that they wouldn’t be taking walkons. So I drifted around a bit aimlessly for a few months of my freshman existence, not really knowing what to do with myself.

That December, my friend Maxson Jarecki ’16 invited me to come listen to him and a few friends play music. One night, I went down to the practice room in Bloomberg where they were set up. Maxson and Conor McGrory ’16 were playing guitars and trading off solos and Kenny Hulpach ’16 was laying down the beat on the drum kit. Things sounded pretty good. Someone handed me a bass, I started playing along with them and things sounded even better. Soon enough we decided to form a band. We called ourselves Moxie, and played together for about a year. When Moxie fizzled out, Conor, Kenny and I eventually got back together to write new music in our current configuration as St. Danger.

I’d never really written music before college, and on some

level I believed that it was strictly an innate ability. I remember reading, for instance, that Tchaikovsky only had to incline his head to one side and melodies would come to him, fully formed. Paul McCartney wrote “Yesterday” in his sleep.

I certainly didn’t have access to that wellspring of inspiration, so I didn’t let it bother me.

I was surprised and pleased to realize that it didn’t have to be that way. When we write a song (and it is usually a collaborative effort), it does start with some little nugget we’ve come across by chance or inspiration — but that’s it, just a riff or chord progression or lyric.

We work outward from there in a very deliberate, almost empirical process, seeing what works and what doesn’t, gradually building until we have a whole song. This comes with an amazing sense of discovery and vitality that I rarely find elsewhere.

For me, playing with St. Danger is an activity that stands a little apart from the prevailing culture of Princeton. The ethos of the university, made explicit from the very first moments of opening exercises, is something along the lines of: We are Princetonians, we are participants in a grand tradition and leaders of the future, and you’re damn right we embody excellence.

This is all well and good, but I think the competitive spirit

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that comes along with it encourages many of us to play to our strengths in a lot of different arenas. For instance, to stand above the wretched masses of McCosh 50 in introlevel econ classes, it’s wise to have taken the A.P. equivalents in high school. If you want to make even the club soccer team, you’d better be pretty good at soccer already. In a very general way, we respond to these dynamics. On the one hand, this means that Princeton students tend to see a lot of success in their endeavors. But on the other, playing it safe like this means that many of us feel a bit reticent to try things we don’t already know.

Conor, Kenny and I have each been playing music for a very long time, but none of us have played our current instruments for much more than three years.

Conor came to the guitar from the bass. I did the opposite. And Kenny played piano for years before he ever touched a drum kit.

We’ve bumbled along, taught each other and figured things out. This is an ongoing process, but it’s been very affirming and gratifying to see our progress. I think this is largely possible because — purely through messing around, and without meaning to — we created a really good space for experimentation.

No one’s gunning for our spots. No one’s watching us.

And sometimes that’s a great way to be.

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o you ever look back on your childhood and wonder how you went through each day without a particular food? That’s how I feel about Greek yogurt.

(And peanut butter, now that I think of it.) To be honest, I wasn’t even a huge yogurt fan growing up. Unless they were sugary individual packets like “Tubes” or “Minigo,” I wasn’t really interested in some fruity goop.

I can’t actually remember the first time I ate Greek yogurt. I suspect it was sometime in freshman year after I learned why protein was important. For the past three years, this creamy, proteinrich substance has become one of my staple foods. In fact, at one point I was consuming so much Greek yogurt that I had to research how much Greek yogurt was “safe” to have in a day. I found an article that claimed that eighteen ounces of Greek yogurt was permissible per day, the equivalent of three individual Chobani containers.

Since then, I’ve very much taken this claim to heart, often enjoying up to three containers of Greek yogurt daily, and frequently hoarding containers in my backpack … I mean my fridge. The times at which I consume the yogurt vary: Sometimes I’ll have two at breakfast and one at lunch

or sometimes one at each meal. However, although this foodie phenomenon has been popping up absolutely everywhere, it is still necessary to be aware of a few things when selecting your own Greek yogurt in order to reap its health benefits.

FAT 0% vs low-fat. Nonfat dairy products have been all the rage in the past few years. Thankfully, recent research has shown that certain kinds of fat are actually beneficial to your diet, especially when consumed in moderate amounts. So in the event you actually prefer low-fat Greek yogurt to nonfat, don’t be afraid to go for the creamier version. Not only will it keep you feeling satiated, but the fat actually helps you absorb calcium. If you don’t like the taste of dairy fat, try eating your yogurt alongside some nuts, nut butter, avocado or eggs. One of my favorite ways to eat plain yogurt is to mix in some peanut butter and slice a banana on top for a filling breakfast. If you need a little extra sweetness, try adding a drizzle of honey on top!

SUGAR Sugar is arguably the biggest issue when comparing different varieties of Greek yogurt. In a world where processed foods are common and our taste buds have become almost insensitive to sweet-

ness, I am saddened to say that the health food community is no exception. Many companies over-sweeten their Greek yogurt, sending the sugar content sky-high. Choose plain yogurt, and add your own fruit or mix-ins. By doing so, you can choose less sugary, more natural options and also exercise portion control! If you’re in a pinch and don’t have this luxury, choose a Greek yogurt that’s not blended (such as “fruit on the bottom”) and don’t mix in the fruit. I find that most varieties have enough f lavor and are sweet enough on their own without the added fruity f lavor, so I rarely mix in the fruit on the bottom.

PROTEIN Most varieties of Greek yogurt are fairly similar when comparing protein content and vary mostly by fat content. Plain 0% fat varieties will have more protein (and less sugar) than low-fat or full fat, but I don’t find this difference significant. However, if you’re selecting a higher fat content yogurt with added sweetener over a nonfat plain variety, the amount of protein could vary from eight to 20 grams per serving — a huge difference! Bottom line: Try to choose a Greek yogurt that contains upwards of 10 grams of protein per serving.

Well, it’s time for my afternoon snack: Greek yogurt!

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From left to right: Conor McGrory ’16. Kenny Hulpach ’16 and Doug Wallack ’16 performing as St. Danger.

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ASK THE SEXPERT This week, she discusses HIV prevention.

Dear Sexpert, I heard UHS is offering a drug for students at risk for HIV. What exactly qualifies as “at risk” and how safe/effective is this drug?

Signed,

— Curious & Careful

Dear Careful, You’re right that Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, or PrEP, is now being offered at UHS for the prevention of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

PrEP is a prescription pill designed for daily use by people who are HIV-negative and at substantial risk for HIV exposure. PrEP is a combination of two drugs, tenofovir and emtricitabine. If used correctly and consistently, it has been shown to reduce risk by up to 92%.

There are several situations that can qualify a person to be considered at substantial risk. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend PrEP for anyone who meets any of the following circumstances: • is in an ongoing relationship with an partner who is HIVpositive; • is not in a mutually monogamous relationship with a part-

ner who recently tested HIVnegative; • is a gay or bisexual man who has had anal sex without a condom or been diagnosed with an STD in the last six months; • is a heterosexual man or woman who does not regularly use condoms during sex with partners of unknown HIV status, who are at substantial risk of HIV infection (e.g., people who inject drugs or have bisexual male partners); and • has injected illicit drugs in the past 6 months and who has shared injection equipment or been in drug treatment for injection drug use in the past 6 months.

If you fall into any one of these categories, or feel that you may benefit from PrEP, schedule an appointment with Sexual Health and Wellness Services to discuss with a clinician whether this could be an option for you. It’s important to keep in mind this is solely a preventative drug for people with ongoing risk of being infected with HIV and is not recommended for those who have had a single incidence of potential, high-risk exposure.

Additionally, this is a drug that needs to be taken on a daily basis. Like birth control or other daily-prescribed drugs, irregular use will decrease its effectiveness. Anyone pre-

scribed PrEP should return to their health care provider every three months for consistent HIV monitoring and follow up. PrEP is not 100% effective at preventing HIV acquisition and does not protect you from other STDs. Precautions should still be taken to reduce your risks, including using condoms with every intercourse, getting HIV tested with your partner(s), practicing less risky sexual behaviors (e.g., oral sex while using a barrier method), reducing your number of partners and/ or sterilizing injection equipment or joining a substance treatment program.

Best of luck and be safe,

— The Sexpert Note: all guidelines, statistics, and qualifications are provided by the CDC and more information can be found at http:// w w w.cdc.gov/ h iv/ basics / prevention.html Interested in Sexual Health? The Sexpert is always looking for members of the community to join the team of sexual health educators who, along with fact-checking from University health professionals, help write these columns. Email sexpert@ dailypr incetonian.com for more information and questions about sexual health. Don’t be shy!

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Name: William Aung Year: 2018 Style summarized? My style is probably best described as Experimental Yuppie. What I mean by that is there is a lot of nonnorm core things I do like a big hat or a beret of course, but I try to keep those weird pieces one at a time.

Where are your clothes from? I get my clothes online most of the time. ASOS, Urban mostly. More expensive pieces come from some New York boutiques.

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PUP’s ‘Hair’ shines despite small tangles CAROLYN BEARD Contributor

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e’re all one,” boasts the howling Woof (Dylan Blau Edelstein ’17) at the top of PUP’s colorful production of “Hair,” directed by Cat Andre ’17. Following a tribe of friends through sexual revolution, drug experimentation and dissatisfaction with the status quo, this rock musical is hardly a “safe” choice of production. With a script notorious for its lack of character arcs and its absurdity throughout, all too often “Hair” falls from a united piece of social commentary to a disjointed, drug-induced musical revue.

While keeping all the moving parts of “Hair” straight is quite a challenge, it is a challenge that, with a few exceptions, PUP’s production overcomes.

One of the strongest components of the production is its vibrant set design (Miles Carey ’18). Myriad rugs cover the stage and a clothesline of draped clothes forms a patchwork background. The cloth at center stage is a bohemian sun tapestry, symbolic of the astrological and spiritual movements that brought

life and meaning to the time. Ensemble members adjust and add to the clothesline throughout the production, effectively transforming the theater from a blank stage to an intimate space. Hardly a traditional proscenium, the Class of 1970 Theatre in Whitman College provides a unique opportunity as a threesided black box. Floral garlands extend from the stage onto the railings and into the audience, effectively encouraging the audience to become “one” with the tribe.

Claude (Allen Hernandez ’16) drives a compelling narrative, wrestling through his personal dilemma with vocal strength and lucid characterization.

Jeanie (Cameron Platt ’16) is a standout performance; with a voice suited to the score, she brings energy and talent to the ensemble. Similarly, Sheila (Melanie Berman ’18) seems at ease with her character, using moments in the background to develop her relationships. Most outstanding are the unforgettable performances of Margaret Mead (Ryan Gedrich ’16) and Hubert (Andy Hunt ’17); their perfectly timed comedic relief and effortless dia-

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logue make the moment dynamite.

Unfortunately, some of the most promising talent on stage is underused in the production. Allison Light ’18 lights up the stage, Abby Jean-Baptiste ’18 brings a commanding and skilled presence and

:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ‘Hair’ Pros: Standout performances,

innovative choreography and movement

Cons: Spotty vocals, occasional

confused direction, poorly timed technical cues

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Kat Giordano ’18 carries outstanding vocals; however, in “Hair” these actors are hardly adequately featured. Luckily for the Princeton theater community, they will have many more opportunities to take the stage.

Besides the set design, the other technical components of “Hair” are a mixed bag. The onstage band is remarkable, notable for their era costumes and wigs, pre-show warm-up and the vocal solo of the guitarist (Lachlan Kermode ’17). The costumes (Margaret Wright ’17) appropriately depict the counter-cultural movement without relying on flower-power stereotypes.

While the light design (Marc Decitre ’17) sufficiently operates within the confines of the grid at the Class of 1970 Theatre, the often poorly timed cues detract from the immersive experience of the production. Overuse of strobe

lights, coupled with overpowering sound effects, indicates that, though often with good intentions, the multimedia component of “Hair” needs a bit of refining.

The direction of the production — naturally challenging — is perhaps the most polemical aspect of the production.

Numerous moments are brilliantly directed (Cat Andre ’17) and choreographed (Adin Walker ’16 and Selah Hampton ’17). The clever use of space and motion involves full exploration of the theater, aisles and all. Compelling stage pictures align with strong vocals at parts, as in the dance sequence at the top of the titular song, in which ensemble members move as one in a multi-level embrace, mirroring the sun tapestry found just behind the actors.

Other moments of inspired movement include the scene in which three pairs of parents chastise Claude for his shenanigans, the hallucination sequence (an update of the infamous musical theatre dream sequence) and the final combat scene, which is cinematographic in its innovative use of repetition — clearly the shining jewel of the production.

However, some songs are disjointed, often because of too many moving parts detracting from the unity of the story and the ensemble. The opening number “Aquarius,” with patchy vocals and unwarranted choreography, is underwhelming. The space often works against the production; at points the ensemble bunches together during group numbers, overuses the space behind the audience and relies on clichéd choreography.

And although moments of angst and anger often seem abrupt, all in all the production brings a breath of life to a story all too often seen as merely a medium for a musical revue.

Though hardly a perfect production, PUP’s “Hair” transforms the challenging score and script into a living, breathing, cohesive production, boasting many moments of remarkable direction and unity.

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“This is Princeton: Black Lives Matter” JOY DARTEY Contributor

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very year, the Performing Arts Council (PAC) of Princeton University, together with the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students (ODUS) work in conjunction to produce “This Is Princeton” (TIP), an annual performing arts showcase that spotlights the rich arts culture on campus. Last semester, the two organizations decided to give TIP 2015 the theme of “Black Lives Matter,” in honor of the recent activism on campus. As a result, the Fields Center is also sponsoring the event this year, and the PAC has selected an Artistic Advisory Committee of undergraduates for the first time.

Given the theme of “Black Lives Matter,” the support of the Fields Center, which sponsors many cultural events on campus, has been integral to the planning process.

In addition, the Artistic Advisory Committee, which is composed of students in various performing arts groups, has been inf luential in spreading the word on campus.

Naimah Hakim ’16, the member of the Artistic Advisory Committee responsible for pitching the “Black Lives Matter” theme, said that she had reached out to the PAC Board

because she felt “moved by the recent surges in campus activism and national activism related to the Black Lives Matter movement.”

According to Hakim, she was most interested in how the performing arts community could use art as a medium to promote dialogue on an important social issue. “We have two projects that are going on: one was rooted in getting art leaders to talk about why art is important to the world, and the second part was the idea of putting on a show where people could create art that spoke to a theme,” she said.

Organizing the show was not without its challenges. Committee member Kovey Coles ’15 explained, “The theme of ‘Black Lives Matter’ was a very daunting task ... One of the challenges was figuring out what kind of tone we wanted to convey in the show, because ‘Black Lives Matter’ can be interpreted in many different ways.”

According to Coles, many events themed “Black Lives Matter” come off as melancholy. “But I believe it’s more complex than that, and that’s what we’re trying to show,” he said.

Rather than dictating a somber tone, the organizers decided to leave room for the performers in the show

to set different moods to the theme.

“We wanted to choose something that was going to spur creativity without limiting people,” Hakim said.

All the members of the Artistic Advisory Committee are involved in arts groups on campus, and therefore all contributed to identifying which student groups were well-equipped to speak on this year’s theme. Committee member Nonny Okwelogu ’15 revealed that this was also initially a challenge, as the organizers had to ensure that the selection of student groups was racially and socially diverse. “I think it was important that we had inclusion in the show, because we’re trying to fight against the idea of exclusion,” she said.

To get over this obstacle, PAC and the Artistic Advisory Committee held “office hours” in January, where they invited individual artists and different arts groups to pitch their ideas and to raise any questions they had on the event’s theme. According to Hakim, “We marketed ‘office hours’ for artists to ask us questions and talk through the meanings of racial sensitivity and political art — what they looked like with the different genres, bodies and voices.”

One of the Committee’s goals is to

keep the conversation on the “Black Lives Matter” campaign alive, because the movement is still relevant despite having started months ago.

“We don’t label ourselves as activists per se ... but we wanted to keep attention to the [campaign], because it started a little while ago,” Committee member Lorenzo Laing ’16 explained.

“But this is something that’s not just a fad, this is something that’s life,” he said.

The organizers are looking forward to the collaborative pieces involving groups that wouldn’t normally perform together. This is the first time that spoken word has been included in “This is Princeton,” and it is also the first time visual arts has been included in this event’s history. In TIP 2015, art forms such as slam poetry, videography, photography and sculpture will be incorporated to express one theme. The showcase, which has yet to take place, has already sparked a lot of enthusiasm and generated many conversations on campus.

“You don’t have to be a loud person to be an activist, and the performing arts is another way to show that,” Laing said.

The event will be held on Feb. 28 at 8 p.m. in Richardson Auditorium.

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CAMPUS PICKS EVENT: PACE CENTER PRESENTS ‘POETIC JUSTICE’ OPEN MIC infini-T Cafe and Spice Souk Thursday, 8 p.m.

Are you passionate about social justice and civic engagement? Are you interested in hearing, seeing and witnessing what your peers have to say about social justice? Tonight at infini-T, the “Poetic Justice” Open Mic will offer an opportunity for group performance, solo performance and personal reflection. Slam poetry group Ellipses and a cappella group Umqombothi will be performing. At the end of the show, there will be an open mic for any in attendance to share an respond to the night. There will be a variety of food and drink including sweet potato chili, cupcakes, chai tea and many herbal teas.

Be a part of the conversation.

DANCE: NAACHO PRESENTS “JUNOON (FEVER!)” Frist Film & Performance Theatre Thursday and Friday, 8 p.m.

Saturday, 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.

If you’re one of the lucky ducks who has yet to come down with a cold, the flu or measles this winter, then you’ll really want to go to “Junoon,” Naacho’s spring semester show. “Junoon” (it means “FEVER!”) will feature a number of different dance styles, including bollywood, classical, fusion, raas and bhangra. Even if you have already come down with something, this is the kind of fever you’ll want to get again from what promises to be a sick show.

EVENT: PRINCETON CARIBBEAN CONNECTION PRESENTS “TASTE OF CARNIVAL” Fields Center Friday, 9 p.m.

Dance the night away at “Taste of Carnival,” presented by the Princeton Caribbean Connection with the hopes of bringing Carnival to you. The night opens with a live performance by the Higher Levin Steel Pan Band, followed by a Samba routine by the Princeton Ballroom Club. At 11:30 p.m. a guest DJ will take over as the after party begins and Mas Flow performs their best. With live bands, great Caribbean food and tons of dancing, you’ll get to learn about Caribbean history by immersing yourself directly in what the Caribbean does best — party!

COMEDY: ALL-NIGHTER WITH ELIOT LINTON EPISODE 4 Frist Film/Performance Theatre Friday, 11:30 p.m.

You know the drill: All-Nighter host Eliot Linton ’15 and co-host Jake Robertson ’15 are going to say and do things that will make you chuckle heartily, do “Late Night”style interviews with people doing rad things and tell you to please welcome talented students to the stage. In this month’s episode, the people doing rad things are activists & CPUC Task Force members Brandon Holt ’15, Naimah Hakim ’16 and Destiny Crockett ’17 and also grown-up guest Tim Vasen, director of the Program in Theater. The talents are the honey-voiced duo Baker & Goods and bringer of “big ditties” Alex Morton ’15.