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In Opinion Jason Choe discusses Princeternships, and Lea Trusty explains the important implications of the faculty letter on sexual assault. PAGE 4

Today on Campus 4:30 p.m.: Prominent Irish writer and historian Erskine Childers will speak on the life of his great-grandfather Robert Erskine Childers, a prominent figure in the Irish Revolution. Stewart Theater.

The Archives

Mar. 28, 1994 Former University Ombudsperson Wilbur Hicks was accused of not bringing any change to campus after seven months in the position.

Students attributed Hicks’ failure to bring change to his absence from campus.

PRINCETON By the Numbers

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The number of students admitted to the University for the Class of 2018.

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quote of the day

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Don’t be that girl that allows yourself to be preyed upon.

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- Susan Patton ‘77

News & Notes

Christie discusses Bridgegate scandal on ABC News

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said in an interview with ABC News that his aides did “inexplicably stupid things” in the George Washington Bridge traffic incident known as “Bridgegate.”

The interview, which aired on Thursday night, was the first television interview since the Bridgegate scandal came to light.

Hours before the interview, the law firm Christie hired to conduct an internal investigation released a report that cleared Christie of any involvement.

Christie has put blame largely on two former allies — David Wildstein, Port Authority official, and Bridget Anne Kelly, Christie’s deputy chief of staff. In the interview, Christie denied Wildstein’s claim that the two had talked about the lane closings at a Sept. 11 memorial last year.

“What he didn’t say was: ‘Hey, governor, I’m closing down lanes at the George Washington Bridge to stick it to some mayor,’” Christie said during the interview.

“I would have remembered that.”

Regarding the drop in his poll numbers, Christie noted that it has been the toughest time in his professional life.

He added that he wouldn’t make any decision about future careers until next year.

U N I V E R S I T Y A F FA I R S

7.28 PERCENT ACCEPTED TO U. Concerns about meningitis cause shorter Preview

By Corinne Lowe staff writer

Princeton Preview will be shortened this year for the Class of 2018 and will no longer include an overnight component in light of the recent death of a student at Drexel University that was caused by meningitis and linked to contact with Princeton students.

The University will continue to fly students to campus who require financial assistance, putting students up overnight in hotels in Newark or Philadelphia if necessary before Preview starts.

Those students will then fly back home the night Preview ends, Dean of Admission Janet Lavin Rapelye explained.

In addition, admitted students who choose to matriculate will be vaccinated upon their arrival at the University, starting in the summer.

The announcement was made in an email to all undergraduate students on Thursday evening.

“Because the University has been in touch with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about the meningitis outbreak we’ve had, the University has taken efforts to vaccinate our students, but since there was a case where a student became fatally ill, that caused us to reconsider the Princeton Preview program,” Rapelye said in an interview.

Last year, over 2,000 admitted students attended Princeton Preview. At the time, two cases of meningitis had been reported, and Preview occurred as scheduled.

Over 20,000 alumni are expected to come to campus in late May for Reunions. It remains unclear whether any changes will

be made to Reunions programming.

Preview usually takes place over two separate weekends and serves as an introduction to the University for admitted students.

Preview will now take place on Thursday, April 10, and Monday, April 28. It will be a one-day program and will no longer have an overnight component, beginning at 9 a.m. and ending at 7 p.m. Rapelye said.

“We’re doing this in an abundance of caution to limit the social gatherings on campus where there could be additional risk,” Rapelye said.

The University released admission decisions on Thursday for the Class of 2018. In a press release posted in the early afternoon, the University said it had 7.28 percent of applicants, its most selective class in history.

The letter being sent out to admitted students will announce the University’s adjustment to Preview and also states the University’s intention to vaccinate all incoming freshmen upon their arrival at Princeton.

“The CDC has approved the use of the vaccine for incoming freshmen,” Rapelye said.

Students will be vaccinated when they get to campus, whether that be in the summer for athletic programs or right before the start of the term, Rapelye explained.

The University has already started planning for the revised and condensed Preview, folding the programming from what is usually the second day into just Thursday and Monday, respectively. Rapelye said this will require combining many events.

When asked about how the press surrounding Princeton’s See PREVIEW page 3

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New class most selective yet

By Corinne Lowe staff writer

The University has offered admission to 1,939 students, or 7.28 percent, of the 26,641 applicants for the Class of 2018, making this the most selective admission year the University has seen to date. This year marks a one-hundredth increase in selectivity from last year’s record-low 7.29 percent acceptance rate.

This year’s number of applicants is also among the highest the University has seen, increasing from last year’s number of 26,498. The highest number of applicants was 27,189, set by the Class of 2015, the last year before the University reinstated an Early Action admission round.

The University’s undergraduate admission office mailed letters to

students admitted in the regular decision applicant pool, but students were able to view their decisions in an online portal since Thursday at 5 p.m. EST. Of the 1,939 admitted students, 714 were admitted through the early action applications back in December.

The class size is expected to be 1,308 students for the Class of 2018, a slight increase over last year’s estimate of 1,290 because the University has determined itself to have a slightly higher capacity than it previously expected.

Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye expressed uncertainty as to how the negative publicity that the University has received for the meningitis outbreak will impact yield, but said that the change in University leadership under President Christopher

Eisgruber ’83 could impact yield positively.

“It’s exciting having new leadership, that may be important for some students,” Rapelye said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian.

Rapelye also discussed the University’s objective to attract more low-income students.

“We are hoping we’ll have more low-income students,” Rapelye said.

“We took the research that [economist] Caroline Hoxby did quite seriously. We have admitted more students who participated in the LEDA program and who participated in QuestBridge.”

Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America and QuestBridge are both programs designed to increase college opportunities for See ADMISSIONS page 3

U N I V E R S I T Y A F FA I R S

Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity eliminates pledging process

By Corinne Lowe staff writer

The national headquarters of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity has eliminated the pledging process for new members in the hopes of treating all members fairly. All chapters and colonies, including the Univer-

sity’s chapter, will have to comply with this change.

Brendan Ecclesine ’14, the chapter president for Princeton, declined to comment.

At Princeton, the SAE fraternity has been involved in scandal in the past due to the intensity of its pledging process.

Eleven SAE members were sus-

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

pended in 1990 by the University’s Faculty-Student Committee on Discipline after a party known as ‘golf night’ sent one freshman pledge to the hospital according to an article published in The Daily Princetonian at the time.

“After attending the SAEsponsored party — in which

participants consumed five drinks in each of nine rooms, referred to as ‘holes,’ scattered across campus — a first-year fraternity pledge was deemed ‘totally unresponsive’ and transported to Princeton Medical Center,” the article read.

More recently, an article published in the ‘Prince’ in

2010 shed light on the hazing practices of the organization, which included regular excessive drinking, as well as other hazing tasks such as swimming naked in an icy lake and drinking tobacco spit.

New members of SAE will now participate in a program See FRATERNITY page 3

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

Eckel and Fallon ’10 take History professor Zelizer takes students to on Patton ’77 in panel see Cranston in Broadway’s ‘All the Way’

By Durva Trivedi staff writer

Susan Patton ’77, who recently released her new book, “Marry Smart,” urged women to accept sole responsibility for their own happiness on Thursday at an emotionally charged and at times chaotic panel discussion on campus.

“It’s disempowering to tell women they’re not responsible for the situations they find themselves in,” Patton said.

Some audience members reacted with angry outbursts at Patton’s discussion of her views on sexual assault, which were recently criticized in a recent letter to the editor from University faculty.

Along with fellow writers and panelists Sara Eckel and

Claire Fallon ’10, Patton discussed marriage, sexual assault, work-life balance and feminism.

Fallon is the Books Editor for The Huffington Post and wrote an article entitled, “The 10 Worst Pieces of Advice from Susan Patton’s ‘Marry Smart.’” Eckel is the author of “It’s Not You: 27 (Wrong) Reasons You’re Single” and has written an article in response to Patton’s book, “Why We Can All Relax and Ignore the Princeton Mom.” Patton suggested that for undergraduate women at the University who see marriage and family as critical for their happiness in the future, it’s important that they start planning early on.

“I don’t like the term ‘husband-hunting’ per se, and I’d See PATTON page 2

By Do-Hyeong Myeong staff writer

History professor Julian Zelizer went with 48 students to Broadway on Wednesday to see “All the Way,” a play about former President Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency starring “Breaking Bad” star Bryan Cranston as Johnson. The group had a chance afterward to discuss the play with several of the actors, including Cranston.

The play focuses on Johnson’s attempt to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed most forms of racial segregation.

The students asked several questions during the discussion after the play about the limitations and opportunities of bringing a historical character to the stage as well as how the actors had prepared to portray their various historical characters.

Cranston explained during the

discussion that actors should resolve any disagreements that they have over how to play historical parts by going back to the text of the play.

“What is the text telling us?”

Cranston said. “Go back to the story. Get away from yourself.”

Zelizer said the collaboration started with his participation in an event on Johnson and the play a couple of weeks before the play opened, explaining that during the event he spoke with one of the play’s associate producers, P.J. Miller ’10, about the idea of taking University students to see the play. Zelizer, who just finished a book on the Great Society, gave a keynote speech at the event and participated in some of the panels, including an interview with Bryan Cranston.

Zelizer said that he always tries to find ways to make both politics and political history exciting for

students.

“There are different ways to learn about history; you could learn about it through textbooks, you could learn about it through lectures, you could learn about it through a senior thesis, but another way to learn about history is through popular culture,” he said.

He added that he wanted the students to think about some of the themes the play deals with, including race relations in the United States during the 1960s, presidential power and how it can be used effectively, as well as the opportunities and limitations of portraying history through a play.

Zelizer also noted that there is a lot of discussion going on comparing Lyndon Johnson to President Barack Obama.

“I hope looking into history opens up some ideas about thinking about the present,” he added.

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rather we say, ‘searching for a meaningful relationship,’” Patton said. “If you see that as a priority, double down on it.”

Fallon, however, drew on her own recent experiences at the University and cited divorce statistics in her counterargument.

“If you want to just get married, you can do that I guess, but if you want it to last, you have a better chance later in life,” Fallon said.

Eckel said she doesn’t believe one can plan out love.

“When you marry out of fear, when you marry because you want to stick to some time-table, you’re not going to have as much a shot at staying married,” Eckel said.

Patton vehemently opposed the idea that any one person out there will be a perfect match for someone.

“There’s no such thing as the absolute most perfect person out there,” Patton said.

Directly addressing Fallon, Patton went on to add, “I understand, in your 25-year-old life, that may not seem true, but there’s just no such thing as the absolute most perfect person.”

Instead, Patton said that she believes women at the University who prioritize marriage and family should work at it and should start now because men at the University are “the absolute best.”

“You will only increase in attractiveness and desirability, you’re all going to do incredibly well for yourselves professionally and you

will never want for attractive women,” Patton said, addressing the men at the University. “They will all flock to you because you’re attractive, talented, incredible men.”

For women, however, she had very different advice.

“I think you have to plan for the personal components of your happiness,” Patton said.

“I advocate always for women to take complete responsibility for their own happiness.

Don’t say, ‘It’s not my fault.’

You are not victims of your life; you are the architects of your life.”

When the panel discussion was opened to questions, both male and female undergraduate and graduate students voiced concerns about the privileged, heteronormative focus of the panel.

“We’re all coming into an understanding of new ways that modern families are formed, and I think that’s wonderful,” Patton said, adding that she fully supports same-sex marriage.

On the topic of privilege, Fallon said she believes there is a lot of progress left to make.

“I think that what we need more is for people like the ones at Princeton to be working on issues that affect those without this privilege,” Fallon said.

Patton also acknowledged that every Princetonian is privileged.

“If you’re on this campus, you’re clearly living a life of privilege, but I think connecting with someone on this campus is meaningful,” Patton said. “If you could find yourself a life partner here

who understands that privilege, that’s a very good thing.”

Revisiting the topic of sexual assault meant several audience outbursts, heated exchanges between the panelists and Fallon receiving a boisterous round of applause for saying she had a hard time staying calm through Patton’s suggestions that women take responsibility, too.

“Sex can’t be unwanted after the fact,” Patton said.

“That’s not assault. It’s bad but it’s not assault. I don’t like the idea of diluting the true horror of rape with mistaken sex.

I’m advocating for women to take control of themselves and take responsibility for themselves.”

“Isn’t unwanted sex what rape is?” Fallon responded.

Patton remained unwavering in her belief, clarifying that “both parties are responsible, but it’s women who are the more likely to be overpowered.”

“Don’t be that guy that preys upon women who are overserved; don’t be that girl that allows yourself to be preyed upon,” Patton said, offering advice again to both young men and women.

In response to an audience outburst of, “Men are raped too,” Patton said, “I don’t know. I guess so.”

Patton noted after the panel that she does not know much about male rape but is aware that it exists.

The panel discussion, entitled “Building a Career or Finding the One?: What Princeton (and Men) Ought to Do With Their Time,” took place on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the Whig Senate Chamber.

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Raks Odalisque, Princeton’s belly dance troupe, opened its spring performance, ‘Habibi,’ in the Frist Performance Theatre Thursday night. The show continues through Saturday. Tickets are on sale at Frist.

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low-income students. Rapelye was referring to Hoxby’s research on lowincome students and college matriculation. She explained that Hoxby’s research indicates there are more high-achieving low-income students than perhaps originally thought and tries to identify solutions for increasing college opportunities for these groups.

Of the students offered admission, 51.6 percent are men and 48.4 percent are women, and 48.3 percent have identified themselves as people of color.

The percentage of admitted students who are men has increased

slightly over last year’s 50.2 percent.

Students accepted to the Class of 2018 come from 48 states in addition to Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico.

The only states not represented are Nebraska and North Dakota. International students comprise 11.4 percent of the accepted students, representing 68 countries.

“Of course we have no quotas and do a holistic review,” Rapelye said, adding that this year’s applicant pool was nearly identical to the one last year.

Sixty-one percent of the admitted students are from public schools and 13.8 percent will be the first in their families to attend college, statistics almost identical to last year’s class, of which 61 percent came from public schools and 13.9 percent were first-

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Miller explained that the producers wanted to bring young students to see the play to give them a chance to reflect on the history that the play portrays. He said they wanted to make sure they could bring in as many students as they could.

“A lot of the things that we’ve been trying to keep in mind as we are producing this play is not just

the appeal to a commercial audience but the appeal we can have to young people, in terms of engaging the students in theater for one, and the specific time period in the event in particular,” Miller said.

Miller noted the time period the play portrays is very relevant to modern politics, explaining that we are facing many of the same issues today that people faced during the time period of the play.

Benjamin Liu ’15, a student who participated in the event, said he thoroughly enjoyed the experience

and that the play helped him to understand better what he learned in class. Liu is enrolled in HIS 361: The United States Since 1974. “[The play] presented [the historical event] in a different way than the lecture, where we just learn things,” Liu said. “We saw it happen – we didn’t really see it happen, but we saw how it might have happened. I thought it was a lot more concrete for me, so it definitely helped.”

Zelizer is organizing a similar event in May with alumni.

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meningitis outbreak and the revised Preview will affect yield this year, Rapelye said it will be difficult to predict.

“We are hopeful that students and families will understand that it is safe to be on this campus, that it is safe to sit next to someone in class, that this is not transmitted through the shaking of hands,” Rapelye said. “The risky behavior comes in social settings — that’s

what we’re trying to reduce in this situation.”

Rapelye indicated that the University has been discussing this decision for just over a week and that the decision was made with the consultation of many community members and the approval of the CDC. This is an unprecedented occurrence that Rapelye hopes will not happen in subsequent years.

“For this year, and because of what happened recently, we thought it only prudent to make this decision while preserving

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generation students.

Legacy students, or sons and daughters of University alumni, comprise 9.4 percent of the admitted class.

Of the admitted students, 25.3 percent specified an interest in studying engineering at Princeton, 43 percent of whom are women.

1,141 students were offered a spot on the waitlist this year, a decrease from the 1,395 who were offered a spot on the waitlist last year. Rapelye noted that it is often difficult to predict how many students will be offered admission off the wait list.

Although roughly 30 students were taken off the waitlist last year, in the past several years the number of students offered admission off the waitlist has ranged from 165 to none.

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what’s good about the program,” Rapelye said. “My hope is that our current students will do everything they can to help us put Princeton in the very best light.”

The schedule for Preview is still in progress. Rapelye said the University will be reaching out to student leaders involved in planning Preview to hear student feedback on which parts of Preview are most essential. Rapelye acknowledges that tough decisions will have to be made in deciding which programming to cut.

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The sculptures near Robertson Hall remain covered as construction continues on 20 Washington Road.

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called the True Gentleman’s Experience instead of going through a pledge education program, the SAE website said. The True Gentleman’s Experience involves a holistic education period for all brothers and will reinforce the fraternity’s mission, values and history in addition to encouraging personal development for all members.

The SAE’s Supreme Council enacted this policy to protect SAE’s future and to eliminate the current class structure between active and new members, returning to the fraternity’s tradition before World War II when the pledge program didn’t exist, its website read.

John Burford ’12, a former SAE pledge who recounted his experiences in the ‘Prince,’ said in an interview this week that he feels uncertain about the new policy.

“I think it depends how it actually goes down on a practi-

cal level because before when I was in SAE, the national organization had already banned hazing for quite a long time, but, of course, people actually did it,” Burford said, referring to what SAE called “voluntary bonding” rather than hazing.

While acknowledging that some chapters may adopt the required changes, he added that he has a feeling that the University’s chapter is going to keep doing what it has always done.

Burford said SAE is one of the fraternities at the University most known for its hazing. According to Bloomberg, nine people have died in incidents related to SAE nationally since 2006, more than at any other fraternity. The national SAE organization visited the University to perform an investigation after Burford’s story was published, but Burford said that after SAE denied any instances of hazing, the national organization promptly left.

Although Burford said he had

initially been excited for the pledging process and thought it would be an adventure, instead he found it to be quite unhealthy.

He noted the frequency of alcohol poisoning and added that he could recall individuals who threw up so much they ruptured their stomach lining and wound up throwing up blood.

Burford said that even with these new changes he would not rush again if he were still in school.

“For me, it wasn’t worth it, but I guess people have to make their own decisions,” Burford said. However, he warned students considering going Greek to educate themselves on the possible risks involved.

“At least go back and read the articles from back when it all came out because it actually details the specific incidents,” Burford said. “At least that way they’ll know; they’ll know the kind of things that used to go down.”

Princeton implemented a ban on freshman year rush in 2011.

Opinion

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The three-day intern

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ver spring break, I was fortunate enough to be selected to participate in a Princeternship at the University of Southern California, but when the alumna who invited me introduced me to her coworkers, smiles quickly turned to looks of bemusement — “this is Jason, the three-day intern.” Though their reactions were understandable — after all, what sort of comprehensive experience can an “intern” really garner in the span of a few days?

— it also reiterated, for me, a rather severe flaw in the conception of vocational experimentation and with the widespread understanding of internships as a whole.

The most apt definition of an internship that I could find online was “any official or formal program to provide practical experience for beginners in an occupation or profession.”

Other similar explanations of the term conveyed comparable meanings, often with the caveat that internships can be paid or unpaid thrown in. Of note is the fact that such definitions did not at all specify a timeframe or a minimum length of duration that an engagement must last to render it an “official” internship.

The problem then is that in our society, popular conceptions of internships are limited to lengthy, intensive programs designed to prepare the intern for future work in a same or similar job. While such a narrow

interpretation is highly applicable to upperclassmen — whose internships often serve as vital precursors to occupations after graduation — for many others (predominantly underclassmen), long internships can actually be counterproductive. After all, stories abound of interns who, after spending weeks or months working in a specific industry or field, emerge from their experience only to say that the work simply was not for them.

Why did it have to take so much time to figure out something relatively straightforward? That time could have been spent much more productively pursuing other activities or goals.

For instance, at USC, even after just three days of shadowing my alumna host and helping with minor tasks, I came to the realization that policy formulation involves a greater amount of data processing than I had initially thought, and I was also surprised by the large amount of interpersonal contact that is necessary among the many disparate departments of the Financial Aid Office. Some might contest that short internships lasting only a few days or a few weeks give participants merely a cursory understanding of what sort of work a certain field requires, but this should indeed be the goal. The purpose is not to emerge an expert in a field — it is to acquaint inexperienced undergraduates with the type of work they would be likely to experience if they pursue longer, more intensive endeavors in the same field.

Admittedly, shorter internships run the risk of being too cursory, and

e, the millennials, will be remembered as participants in the Age of Information. Most of us hold in our pockets a device that can inform us about almost anything. All right, I thought, so what? Staying attuned to contemporary events requires us not only to have information but also to be able to distinguish the truth in a wide sea of opinions, facts and numbers. This is especially relevant for a world in which the truth does not always seem to be readily available. As I contemplated how people of my age group could insert themselves into an important global discussion of knowledge and our right to have it, I turned to one of my favorite writers.

Warren Ellis’ wonderful comic series Transmetropolitan is about a journalist whose desire for the truth embroils him in ugly conflicts with morally skewed politicians. Spider Jerusalem, the aforementioned journalist, seems to be one of the few people in a metropolis of millions who believe that its citizens should have access to the truth, even if they choose to ignore it.

The series, first published in 1997, depicted a world in which people downloaded themselves into literal hazes of data called “foglets” (a precursor of Apple’s iCloud?), sprawls of low-income families struggled to survive in forgotten projects and ghettos (Cleveland, Detroit, Camden?) and figures of authority lied — rather, didn’t completely reveal the truth — to the masses (James Clapper?).

President Obama, at a news conference in The Hague this week, announced plans that would terminate the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of American telephone data. These proposals would require the NSA to obtain a court order before procuring information from phone companies. Notably, the President said, “We have to win back the trust … of ordinary citizens.”

Regarding this point, I certainly don’t disagree.

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Unfortunately, I believe we live in a time in which national security programs have aided the mass collection of private webcam images. I also believe that many people trusted technological companies, which may have falsely ensured their customers that they knew nothing of bulk email and file collections, to be better than they were. The ire of Spider Jerusalem, a fictional character, is fueled by the vulnerability of real people, real anger and real distrust.

As I grappled with this, I wondered whether there was anything college students could do to somehow alleviate a very passionate situation. I once succumbed to a myth that says young people are useful simply for reassuring adults that the world is in good hands. We could make PowerPoint presentations about serious issues, but, of course, we wouldn’t begin to affect real change until our post-graduate lives. This is obviously false.

The University happens to be a great example of a school whose students frequently address some of the world’s most pressing issues — moral, political, environmental and so on. While the University is an excellent forum for student creativity and problemsolving, I was still unsure how to account for our place in this tense, post-Snowden world. But I have a few notions of where we might start.

Perhaps the most critical step for students (most of whom are neither politicians nor journalists) is the perusal of multiple news sources. I am not just talking about organizations that have a good reputation for the least subjective stories. Gather the biases, and listen to as many voices as you can.

We can hope that somewhere in the polyphony resounds a note of truth. I find it very meaningful to read comment sections and personal blogs, too.

These are the voices of people not unlike you or I, who share similar concerns and who often conLea Trusty You Move,” in which a student, after columnist tribute facts and opinions about particular articles talking to a friend about a supposed that the author may not have considered. Reading hookup, comes to grips with the academic journals, on the other hand — many of realization that he has raped somewhich are available through the University’s dataarlier this week, I one. SHARE also offers constant bases — offers more in-depth analyses than those stumbled upon a Letter to support through counselors — both usually found in news publications. the Editor from the Opinion professionally trained and peer — As students in a campus environment, it is true section of The Daily Princeand hosts several events on campus that we may facilitate emotionally cathartic contonian, titled “A faculty statement throughout the year to raise awareversations about contemporary events. However, in on sexual assault.” I was confused ness of sexual assault on campus and terms of approaching objective truth, I think our and a bit intrigued, since I could not arm students with the tools to dispel proximity to accomplished faculty members simthink of any recent incident it could situations before they occur. Still, plifies the process. We attend a school where, only be in response to. When I opened the while SHARE provides a substantial a decade ago, former Princeton professor Robert Letter, I found 215 faculty signatures amount of support for students who Hutchings took a leave of absence to chair the Nain support of holding victims of have been assaulted, or for those who tional Intelligence Council. Now, if Hutchings still sexual assault blameless no matter want to aid others, many students are taught here, would I expect him to talk about each their level of intoxication or dress, oblivious to these efforts. detail of his job? Well, no. My point is that we are opposed to the statements of SuSHARE is not to blame for this. among people who know a great deal about issues of san Patton ’77 made in her recent The fundamental issue is reluctance national importance, and some of these people are interview with ‘The Prince.’ Patton on the part of the student body to players in the game. responded to the faculty letter, sayacknowledge that sexual assault hapYou’ll forgive me for slightly corrupting the ing that her recent book suffered pens even here, at Princeton. Sexual words of Ms. Susan Patton: Before you graduate, because it did not directly contrast assault is one of those issues that we find the professors on campus who can speak meanrape and “regrettable sex,” as she have a tendency to critique in other ingfully about the topics that matter to you (in this would have liked. environments rather than their own. case, the ability to acquire the truth). Of course, But I digress. This column is not This can vary from one university’s once you graduate, you will meet people who know about Susan Patton. This column is students criticizing another instiwhat they’re talking about — but they might not about the importance of all parts of tution, to a nation constantly highbe as well-informed. The University’s technological campus taking sexual assault, in any lighting the dangers of another. A and human resources allow us to define the Age of and all forms, seriously. perfect example of this is the media Information not based on the number of computers There is a support system on cam- coverage of the constant sexual aswe have, but on our preparedness to find objective pus for victims of sexual assault. We saults in India. By the number of stotruths. have the Sexual Harassment/Assault ries that I’ve read on Buzzfeed, The Advising, Resources & Education New York Times and other sources, Aaron Robertson is a freshman from Detroit, Mich. He can be center, which has students perform a the idea of rape becomes a foreign reached at aaroncr@princeton.edu. skit every frosh week called “The Way and distant problem. This is not to

spending only a few days might not allow participants the adequate exposure necessary to establish a clear sense of whether a field is “right for them” or not. However, from a costbenefit perspective, this ambiguity is preferable to spending an entire summer in an internship that initially seemed ideal, but in actuality, proved a poor fit. Overall, a few days is a minor price for the chance to explore different fields, especially when compared to the months-long price tag that comes with lengthier internship engagements.

Ideally, though, the general knowledge obtained from the relatively short experience of the Princeternship will serve students well in scoping out future, longer-term internship endeavors that carry more commitment. In this manner, Princeton’s Career Services has done a commendable job implementing the Princeternship program and giving students the capacity to make better, more informed choices, so they don’t end up “wasting their time” chasing an internship in which, as it turns out, they have no real interest. Perhaps it is time that other universities start adopting this model as well, to empower their undergraduate student bodies in a similar manner.

It is time to rethink and broaden our perception of internships altogether, to embrace the merits of both lengthier opportunities and shorter ones.

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

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say that there shouldn’t be extensive coverage on the struggles women face internationally in terms of security. Indeed, there are a number of places where women face much more dire threats concerning their personal safety in comparison to those in America. Were these horrendous acts to go on unnoticed or underreported, the hope of improving the situation becomes much less likely.

However, just as American coverage of sexual assault abroad is extensive, it should be equally as widespread in the States themselves — as sexual assault is a much more common occurrence than many realize.

The Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network reported that, according to the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Crime Victimization Survey, on average there are 237,868 sexual assault victims (age 12 or older) of rape and sexual assault each year. It would be foolish to assume that just because we live in an Orange Bubble, we are immune to the atrocities of the outside world. In a ‘Prince’ article covering an unpublished survey conducted by several University offices in 2008, it was said that more than 15 percent of female undergraduates reported experiencing non-consensual vaginal penetration during their time at the University.

I am fortunate enough to say I

have never had any experiences with sexual assault, so I cannot speak as if I know the trauma a victim must feel afterward. But even despite the wonderful resources and nationally, a decreasing rate of sexual assault in the past years according to RAINN, it can always be challenging for a victim of sexual assault to speak about his or her experiences and seek support.

However, it is not helpful when we as a society minimize the prevalence of the problem and the ensuing trauma.

When Susan Patton and others like her reframe sexual assault as “regrettable sex,” they make it much less likely that victims will speak out and find justice.

It is blatantly base to insinuate that a victim is responsible because of an outfit or drinks consumed. I highly commend the faculty who has taken the time to involve themselves in an issue so significant for so many students, and I was proud to have seen former professors who determined circumstances like clothing or alcohol does not make someone assaulted accountable. It is a step in the right direction because a society that perpetuates blame on victims will inevitably perpetuate the crime.

Lea Trusty is a sophomore from Saint Rose, La. She can reached at ltrusty@princeton. edu.

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Player of the Year award.

The opportunity at a season sweep over rival Penn State, according to Waddell, is immensely significant for the team and its profile moving toward the postseason.

“For us, it’s really meaningful. You beat them once, and it’s kind of a big deal.

But if you beat them twice, it becomes a real talking point. And also, if we beat them, we have an outside shot at hosting the EIVA tournament.”

This year, the two EIVA Ivy League teams appear poised for upsets over the league giant from State College.

Princeton has taken one from Penn State, while Harvard has pulled off a season sweep of Princeton. Should

the Tigers pull off a win this Friday, and should the Nittany Lions top the Crimson once again, the three teams could finish the regular season in a three-way tie for first, with Harvard likely coming out on top.

Four teams at the top of the table earn a playoff berth, with the regular season champion receiving home-court advantage.

Penn State has the star power of Russell, but its rotation is replete with talent. Waddell has experience in facing the Nittany Lions and acknowledges that their completeness poses a substantial test in every meeting.

“Really, you just have to hope to slow (Russell) down,” he said, “and shut down the other guys the best you can.

There are a lot of teams we play that have a hole here or

there. But this is one of the few teams in the EIVA which is really complete, which is a big challenge for us.”

The second game of the

“This is one of the few teams in the EIVA which is really complete, which is a big challenge for us.”

Senior Hitter Davis Waddell

weekend comes against another league opponent in St. Francis. Earlier this sea-

son, the Tigers pulled off a convincing 3-0 home win — scores were 25-19, 25-21, 25-20 — over the Red Flash.

While the team is confident in its ability to earn a victory in this Saturday’s contest, it knows it cannot look past its matchup in Loretto, Pa., if it wishes to hang around the top of the league.

“We’ve played really well at St. Francis the last two years,” Waddell said. “They also get their starting center back this weekend. So they’re going to be a little more dynamic team than we faced when we played them at home.”

Two recent standouts for the Tigers have been hitters Cody Kessel, a junior, and David Stearns, a sophomore. Playing in all but two of Princeton’s matches, they lead the team with 215 and 200 kills per set, respectively.

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another on Princeton soil, when Princeton fell 13-12 in a heated overtime contest.

Princeton will look to its offense for continual production if it wants to move toward a winning record in the Ivy League. The Tigers have manufactured a minimum of 10 goals per game thus far and are netting 13.75 goals per game on average. Equal contributions from both upperclassmen and underclassmen have fueled offensive production over the first half of the season. As expected, the team’s veterans have provided strong leadership so far, as junior midfielder Erin Slifer and junior attack Erin McMunn have combined for 36 points through the team’s first eight games. Slifer has 11

goals and seven assists, while McMunn has scored 10 times and leads the team with eight assists. Senior midfielder Sarah Lloyd and senior attack Mary-Kate Sivilli have added 15 and 14 points, respectively.

The underclassmen have produced striking results through the first half of the season, as freshman midfielder Anna Doherty and sophomore attack Alexandra Bruno lead the team with 20 points apiece. The two combine to average four goals per game thus far, as Doherty leads the team with 17 scores, and Bruno has added 15 thus far in her sophomore campaign. Freshman midfielder Olivia Hompe and sophomore midfielder Anya Gersoff have tallied 16 and 14 points, respectively, in the one month the Tigers have competed for so far.

After winning four of its

first five games this season, Cornell has struggled to maintain its winning form, with three straight losses coming to Albany, Rutgers and Stanford. While the Big

Princeton has scored at least 10 goals in each game this season and averages 13.75, 20th best in the country.

Red only fell by one to Rutgers, its other two losses were blowouts in which they fell by at least seven goals. Despite their recent struggles,

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12 goals through three quarters, but O’Connor is likely to hold on to his starting spot.

Princeton holds the all-time series lead over Brown by a 31-21 margin. To find a Princeton loss, you’d have to go back to 2008, when Brown pulled off a 6-5 win in Providence, R.I. This league rivalry is noteworthy for its lowscoring propensity. According

to GoPrincetonTigers.com, the winner has scored on average 9.5 per game with the loser scoring 5.2 per game. This mean score line falls well short of the typical Ivy League contest.

Despite being summarily dispatched by the only currently-ranked opponents they’ve faced – No. 14 Massachusetts handed them a 15-2 defeat – the Bears are not a side to be scoffed at. Senior attackman Sam Hurster leads his offensive unit with a listed 195-pound frame

and 17 goals. He has shot with a remarkable success rate of 43.6 percent, getting 74.4 percent of his attempts on goal.

Last year saw the Tigers break open the Bears’ defense with a series-high 15 goals, including seven combined goals from the Froccaro brothers – Jeff, a member of the Class of 2013, had four scores on the day and 32 on the year.

The 3:00 p.m. showdown will be available on the Ivy League Digital Network.

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though, the close contests between Princeton and Cornell over the last two seasons show the clear threat that the Big Red will present for the Tigers on Saturday. Vital to the Tigers’ success will be shutting down Cornell midfielder Emily Tripodi, who currently leads the Ivy League with 18 assists and ranks ninth in the nation with 2.57 assists per game.

Attack Lindsay Toppe also poses a heavy threat to the Tigers, as the New York native leads the Ivy League with 29 points and 4.14 points per game.

With heavy implications for how the Ivy League standings will develop into April, the Tigers’ final contest of March could prove to be one of the most crucial games of the 2014 season. Game time is set for 1 p.m. at Sherrerd Field at the Class of 1952 Stadium.

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pitchers in Morgan Groom, Laura Ricciardone and Taylor Cabe, who all have ERAs at 2.44 or better. Harvard is also best in the league in several fielding categories, including fielding percentage, double plays turned, putouts and assists. The Crimson has a decent offense to go with its strong defense. It hits .258 and scores 4.14 runs per game, both top three marks among the Ancient Eight.

It is especially quick on the basepaths, leading the league by far in stolen bases and ranking 31st in the country for that statistic. Harvard is led by a pair of seniors who both rank among the league leaders in batting average and on base percentage. Infielder Kasey Lange hits .347 and get on base 41.2 percent of the times and outfielder Shelbi Olsen hits .342 and has an OBP of .405. Lange is tied for third in the league with three homers and slugs a strong .547 accordingly.

Dartmouth is the league’s No. 2 team, according to the NCAA’s RPI ratings, as its rank-

ing of 191 trails only Harvard’s 131. Princeton, for reference, is ranked No. 5 in the league at 256th out of 293 total Division I teams. The Big Green, last year’s conference runner up, is a very well-balanced squad, ranking among the top three in most statistical categories.

It ranks third in scoring with 4.09 runs per game and bats .277. Dartmouth hits well for power with a league-best 15 home runs and 39 doubles. Its pitchers allow 3.42 earned runs per seven innings, third best in the conference. It seems to be boom or bust for the Big Green hurlers, who lead the league in home runs allowed, with 15, but also average a league-best 7.15 strikeouts per game. Dartmouth owns the league’s best all around hitter in sophomore utility Kelsey Miller. She leads the conference in batting average, on base percentage and slugging percentage with rates of .429, .500 and .651. She’s also scored a league-best 17 runs and is a perfect five for five on stolen base attempts. Last year’s Ivy League pitcher of the year, junior Kristen Rumley, has picked up right where she left off with a solid 2.51 ERA, despite pitching far and away the most innings in the league.

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Vital rematch with Penn State occurs tonight

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The women’s lacrosse team (5-3, 1-1 Ivy), riding a fourgame win streak, will face its third Ivy League opponent of the season on Saturday when it hosts Cornell (4-4, 1-1 Ivy) for an afternoon matchup at Sherrerd Field at the Class of 1952 Stadium. The last time the Tigers played on their home turf, they capped off their most impressive win of the season thus far, a 15-13 victory over then-No. 6 Virginia.

Since the two sides began competing in 1980, the Tigers own a dominating 31-4 record against the Big Red. For two decades, the Princeton women brutalized the girls from Ithaca, winning 22 consecutive matchups between 1989 and 2009. Cornell has raised its intensity over the last several years, however, as the Big Red has won two of the last five meetings between the sides. While Princeton took down Cornell in Ithaca last season 12-10, the Big Red was victorious the last time the two sides faced one

Princeton men’s volleyball will travel to take on a pair of Pennsylvania opponents in No. 13 Penn State (15-6 overall, 6-1 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association) and St. Francis (4-3, 9-10 EIVA). The Tigers (12-7 overall, 7-2 EIVA) have their eyes toward the playoffs, with only three regular-season weeks remaining after this pair of matchups.

Senior hitter Davis Waddell spoke about the necessity to refine their form in their final few contests.

“We’re gearing up toward the playoffs,” he said. “Really for us, we’re looking at putting ourselves in a position to get hot at the right time.”

Perennial champion Penn State has, according to Waddell, had such consistent postseason success due to its ability to play its best volleyball down the stretch.

“Hopefully, we’ll be peaking at the right time during the EIVA playoff weekend,” he explained. “The past few years, the team that has won has been playing its best late

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The Tigers won their first match against Penn State in this millennium Feb. 28 at Dillon Gymansium.

MEN’S LACROSSE PREVIEW

High-scoring Princeton visits Brown

By Andrew Steele Sports Editor

Even coming off a heartbreaking loss, Princeton men’s lacrosse (4-3 overall, 1-1 Ivy League) should be very confident going on the road against Brown (5-3, 0-1). Last weekend’s 16-15 loss to currently No. 11-ranked Yale was, wire-to-wire, a spectacular contest which demonstrated the sheer quality any given Ivy League men’s lacrosse contest can provide.

This group of Tigers is not lacking in offensive firepower. Senior captain and midfielder Tom

Schreiber ranks second in the Ivy League in total points with 33 (18g, 15a), and most in points per game.

Junior attack Mike MacDonald sits in fifth with 27, and sophomore midfielder Jake Froccaro follows in sixth with 23. Recently, the threetime all-America selection ranked among Inside Lacrosse’s midseason picks for national first-team honors.

At the other end of the field, a young and talented defense has proven that they can handle any individual matchup opposing offenses can throw at them. Sophomore Mark Strabo along with freshmen

Will Reynolds and Bear Goldstein provide more than enough athleticism required at the Division I level. Senior captain and long stick midfielder Derick Raabe, whose 28 ground balls ranks second only to faceoff specialist junior Justin Murphy’s 38, provides support on faceoffs and necessary veteran leadership.

However, team defense is about much more than winning one-onone battles. Princeton has allowed 11.43 goals per game. Yet, not all competition is of equal caliber.

Johns Hopkins, North Carolina and Yale – these three ranked sides

handed Princeton its three losses – have provided the type of challenge which will come standard should the Tigers have postseason ambitions. These three opponents have averaged 14.7 goals against the Princeton defense. No offense can be expected to match this total on a game-by-game basis.

It appeared a game ago that sophomore Matt O’Connor had solidified his place in the crease, especially with his 13 save effort against Penn. Junior Eric Sanschagrin replaced the sophomore in net after he allowed See M. LACROSSE page 5

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Princeton is on a four-game win streak and returns to Sherrerd Field, where it last defeated No. 6 Virginia. The Tigers host the Big Red in their first home league game.

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in the season. We’re trying to be that team this year.”

The Saturday before spring break, a heartbreaking loss to Harvard — the sets were scored a near-perfectly balanced 20-25, 25-20, 18-25, 25-18, 15-12 in favor of the visiting Crimson — broke Princeton’s six-game winning streak. Marathon matches appear to be the standard between the Tigers and the Crimson, who have played five sets in four of their last five meetings.

In a rebound series of five away matchups, the Princeton men put together five wins, building momentum for this potentially decisive contest in State College, Pa. The Nittany Lions have won 16 of the past 17 EIVA championships. The one exception came in 1998 when our very own Tigers pulled off the feat. Additionally, the Penn State behemoth has won the NCAA national title twice: 1994 and 2008. The Lions’ outside hitter Aaron Russell is widely considered one of the nation’s best, having won the conference’s top award in the 2013 Uvaldo Acosta Memorial EIVA See M. V-BALL page 5

SOFTBALL PREVIEW

First league and real home games on tap

By Eddie Owens Associate Sports Editor

A couple season firsts are on tap for Princeton this weekend: It is the opening weekend of conference play with games against Harvard and Dartmouth, and the Tigers (5-15 overall, 0-0 Ivy League) will hopefully be playing their first games at Class of 1895 Field. The Crimson (11-11, 0-0) visit for a doubleheader Friday before the Big Green (10-13, 0-0) comes to town for another two games Saturday.

Princeton’s performance thus far has mirrored the weather that’s kept it from playing any games on dirt outside Florida and California. The Tigers have the worst win percentage of any team in the South division of the conference and lead only Brown and Yale from the North. Their hitting has been particularly lethargic, averaging just 2.35 runs per game.

They bat .216, 7th in the league, and slug .271, last in the league. Princeton’s pitching is marginally better as it ranks a close sixth with an ERA of 4.65. Tiger pitchers strike out 4.04 batters per game, good for sixth best in the league, but rank last in WHIP ((walks + hits) / innings pitched) at 1.765. One bright spot for them has been freshman pitcher Erica Nori, whose 1.89 ERA ranks her second in the league. Princeton does not have a clear team leader individually on offense. Senior outfielder Maddie Cousens hits .286, best on the team, while junior outfielder Rachel Rendina leads in on-base percentage at .388. Freshman outfielder Marissa Reynolds bats just .200, but half her hits are for extra bases and she leads the team in slugging as a result. She’s also batted in seven runs, tied for highest on the team, and scored five herself, tied for third.

Harvard has put together a pretty good season thus far against quality opponents.

It scored an impressive win on February 28, beating then No. 21 Louisiana State University 1-0 in a 12-inning pitcher’s duel. That game was no f luke; the Crimson have the best pitching and fielding in the Ivy League. Its pitchers rank first by a good margin with a 2.38 ERA and hold opposing hitters to a .252 batting average, second best in the conference.

Unsurprisingly, the Crimson has a trio of top

Four members of the baseball team have batting averages in the top 12 of the Ivy League, including a duo of freshman outfielders, Danny Baer and Paul Tupper. Princeton hosts Harvard and Dartmouth this weekend.

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