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March 4, 1970 Seven undergraduates decided to open a “Community House” intended to teach verbal skills, improve math and science abilities and provide awareness of black identity to AfricanAmerican children in the town. They received a $5,750 per year grant from the Danforth Foundation.

News & Notes ACLU sues state over withholding Ebola quarantine documents

The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey filed a lawsuit on Monday against the New Jersey Department of Health’s refusal to provide public records about state policies and protocols about exposure to Ebola, according to Planet Princeton.

The ACLU-NJ requested these documents on Oct. 30 under New Jersey’s Open Public Records Act, but the state delayed the request several times. The ACLU-NJ set Jan. 15 to be its final deadline for a response.

On Jan. 14, the records custodian for the Department of Health alleged that the ACLU-NJ request was overly broad and required additional research and refused the request.

The lawsuit filed by the ACLU-NJ challenged the denial by stating their request was very specific. It also argued that since the department believed the request was invalid, they should have issued a denial sooner instead of delaying the process by two full months.

The lawsuit asks the court to declare the state in violation of the Open Public Records Act, issue a fine and demand the requested records be delivered immediately.

Daily Princetonian in February that the issue of businesses staying open late had been a concern for years among residents.

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Dan Kang ’15 and Akshay Kumar ’14 launched Campus Anonymous, a chat website for Ivy League students, on Sunday.

Kang and Kumar are also the creators of Tigers Anonymous, a similar website that only University students can use.

As of Tuesday afternoon, approximately 200 users had registered and over 1,000 conversations had taken place, Kang said, adding that the most frequent registrations were from the University and Columbia but that all eight Ivy League schools were represented.

Kang said that he and Kumar created Campus Anonymous both because University students were too small of a pool to ensure users would be able to be paired with someone else and because students at other schools had

expressed an interest in the concept.

“In the beginning there was a lot of usage [of Tigers Anonymous], but a lot of time when people went on during the day, there weren’t enough people on it, and they stopped coming back,” Kang said.

Campus Anonymous retains some elements of Tigers Anonymous, such as anonymity, randomly selected prompts to help users begin conversations and the option for users to reveal their identities if both users in a pair agree, although Kumar noted there were approximately 20 to 30 percent more prompts on Campus Anonymous.

A unique feature to Campus Anonymous is the introduction of a terms of service and a privacy policy, Kumar said, noting that they are paying for SSL encryption for the chats. Kang said that he and Kumar cannot see the See ANONYMOUS page 4

LECTURE

U. students launch Friendsy nationally

By Lorenzo Quiogue senior writer

Friendsy launched nationally on Monday, allowing users from any college in the United States to sign up for the service.

The site, which was created by students and allows students to indicate their interest in becoming friends with, hooking up with or dating other students, started at the University in 2013 and gradually expanded to more colleges.

Within 24 hours, the service attracted around 4,500 new users, on top of its preexisting database of around 25,000 users, said Michael Pinsky ’15, one of the site’s founders.

Since Friendsy’s initial launch to University students in May 2013, the core team has been working to add new features and components to the site, including applications for both the iOS and Android operating systems, Pinsky said.

He added that the team spent the summer in the eLab program of the Keller Center, working with mentors and advisors to further improve Friendsy’s user experience.

Friendsy’s original setup prevented users at two closely located universities from connecting through the website, explained Vaidhy Murti ’15, Friendsy’s other founder. One of the main changes since the site was originally launched is that it now allows users to establish connections with other college students, rather than only at the user’s university.

“Throughout the time we’ve been working on Friendsy, we’ve heard from users that they were interested in branching out and meeting more people,” Murti said. “Naturally, when it’s only people within your school, you reach a carrying capacity of students at that school.”

This new feature has brought both challenges and new possibilities to the website, Pinsky said.

“The biggest challenge will really be seeing how people take to the idea of cross-school communication. Thus far, we’ve kind of identified ourselves as a network for just your college, and now it’s going to be a college network for college students,” he explained. “People can really share themselves with the rest of the college world without worrying about your parents or your coworkers or anything like that on the same network.”

Through the eLab program, the Friendsy founders received seed funding and campus housing from the Keller Center without any equity, and the founders matched up with mentors, explained Cornelia Huellstrunk, Associate Director of the Keller Center. In addition, the team presented their product for two “demo days” at the end of the summer, one at the UniSee FRIENDSY page 2

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Singer and songwriter Paul Simon performed his song, “The Sound of Silence,” at a public lecture on Tuesday.

Simon talks songwriting, performs song

By Chitra Marti senior writer

Art today seems to be no one’s priority, singer and songwriter Paul Simon said in a public conversation with creative writing professor Paul Muldoon on Tuesday.

Simon also discussed his latest projects, his songwriting process and the role art should play in our society and performed his song “The Sound of Silence.”

“The world is so for one thing brutal, and for another so obsessed with speed and wealth,

that it possibly calls for a redefinition of art,” Simon said.

“That’s what’s coming … Nobody seem[s] to think that [art] has any place in the national dialogue.”

Politicians also play a role in the degradation of art, in parSee LECTURE page 3

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Latkes win at Latke Hamentaschen Debate

By Jessica Li

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By a narrow margin, latkes were declared victorious in the Annual Latke Hamentaschen Debate on Tuesday night. “[The Latke v. Hamentaschen] academic debate has taken its place in American history,” said University President Emeritus Shirley Tilghman, a veteran moderator of the event, noting the discussion’s importance alongside the de-

bates of slavery expansion and various electoral disputes. “To my knowledge, none of these historical debates have concluded in the consumption of the subject of debate.”

Gender studies and English professor Jill Dolan and ecology and evolutionary biology major Eliot Linton ’15 advocated for the latke, a type of potato pancake.

“Latkes are an ethnic dish as metaphorically redolent with associations and meaning as Norman Rockwell’s

paintings of flaky apple pie cooling on the American windowsill, while blond tow-headed Gentile boys and girls crowd around with their noses twitching,” Dolan explained. “Latkes are to Judaism what apple pie is to America — a performative utterance of foundational identity.”

Claiming to have co-authored a research paper with Shirley Tilghman and Charles Darwin on the evolution of JewSee DEBATE page 5

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versity and one in New York City.

“One of their main goals is to spread happiness over their network, and that definitely sets them apart from their competitors,” Huellstrunk explained. “That is true about the founders as well — they’re extremely positive individuals, which is really important for aspiring entrepreneurs.”

Leah Worthington ’15, a Friendsy user, explained that she had originally signed up for it because all of her friends were on the site. She added that she liked the idea of being able to connect with people from other schools.

“I think people enjoy using it,” she said. “I’m not really sure

whether the connections made will really be very meaningful, but I definitely think it’s a fun way to connect with people in your community.”

Evan Kappatos ’16, however, said he wasn’t on Friendsy because he has never heard of it.

In order for a student to be able to use the service, he or she would have to register with a specific university email address, Murti explained. He noted that at schools where students and faculty have similar email addresses, it would be possible for non-students to sign up “At schools like Princeton, where professors do have the same 8-character @princeton. edu email address, they can theoretically sign up for the service, but the moment anyone sees them, or the moment we see them, we take them

down immediately,” he said.

Since the service’s initial launch in 2013, several new features have been added, such as Murmurs, which allow users to anonymously compliment other users, and Hints, which allow users to opt to reveal some information about themselves to people they request connections with.

“The idea of Hints is that you can choose to reveal particular aspects of your profile to a person you request a connection with,” Murti explained. ”As I choose each particular bit of information, the servers will tell me how many other people match my profile, so I can tell exactly how dynamic I’m being.”

The service also added a private messenger, with conversations between mutually connected users.

“Once you have a match, you don’t want people going away to Facebook to talk; you want to keep them on your app,” Murti said.

While Murti and Pinsky noted that the service had the most success at schools like Dartmouth, Bucknell and Duke, they added that the University community helped them shape the service into what it is today.

“Princeton was our guinea pig — we tested everything out at Princeton, we made all our mistakes at Princeton,” Pinsky said. “Princeton really helped us refine things as well — they saw the very original version of Friendsy and they’ve seen every version since … Hopefully, when we launch across the country, everyone will appreciate the help that the Princeton student body has given us so far.”

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ticular by using it in their campaigns, Simon said.

“They bring the art to get people to come in and spend their money. They don’t ask the artists their opinion,” Simon said.

In particular, Simon referenced his album Graceland, inspired by his trip to Johannesburg in 1984 at the height of apartheid. At that time, the people that had the “most insight” into injustices were musicians, Simon said, because they understood both the politicians and the people.

Simon said his focus as an artist is on creating “beauty,” a goal he fears is damaged by current trends.

“My deepest thought is to make what I do better and more beautiful and to push the boundary of how far I can take my imagination,” he said. “There are aspects of art that are meant to not be beautiful … but not for me. I like beauty.”

Simon introduced and played a recording of a new piece called “Insomniac’s Lullaby” that he is working on, which uses Harry Partch’s “microtonal instruments.” Partch believed there were 36 distinct notes in an octave, rather than the traditional twelve notes, Simon said.

“Ever y thing sounded so smooth,” Simon said.

“Great singers have that ability to shift tones across the line of whatever a note is.”

Simon said his biggest challenge as a songwriter is that the “ear is drawn to the irritant,” and so songwriters must be careful to remove anything irritating and replace it either with something beautiful or nothing.

He recounted a recent

conversation he had with University bioethics professor Peter Singer while on tour for charity, noting that Singer had said that donating to Ebola research was more worthwhile than donating to, say, a museum. Simon disagreed, saying this argument damages the artistic world.

“If we don’t acknowledge the highest part of our humanity, if we just focus on solving the problems of the degradation that humanity is capable of, then it’s not a

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Singer and songwriter Paul Simon spoke at a public lecture on Tuesday in a conversation with creative writing professor Paul Muldoon.

full picture, it’s not who we are,” Simon said. “It doesn’t examine joy enough.”

Simon also brief ly discussed his time with Art Garfunkel as part of the duo Simon & Garfunkel, which started while the two were in high school.

The two idolized The Everly Brothers, Simon said, though he noted that the duo often had “juvenile” lyrics, which was expected

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When asked if he could change anything about his time with Garfunkel, Simon simply replied, “No.” Simon was also recently a guest in Muldoon’s class, CWR 211: How to Write a Song, where he heard the students’ projects and offered commentary.

Jason Kim ’17, a member of the class, said the

experience was once-in-alifetime.

“I appreciated that he took us seriously as songwriters,” Kim said. “It was just inspiring to be around him.”

Besides working with Art Garfunkel, Simon has also had a successful solo career, releasing several solo albums and writing music for Broadway productions.

He has won 12 Grammy

awards, was awarded the Library of Congress’ Gershwin Prize for Popular Song and was named one of Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Guitarists.

The event took place at 4:30 p.m. at Richardson Auditorium. Although it was snowing, hailing and raining outside, Simon announced no plans to donate a bridge over this troubled water to the University.

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content of chats, and they do not think there should not be a way for people with malicious intentions to view any of the chats or discern any of the users’ identities.

Although Kang and Kumar copied a lot of the chatting code from Tigers Anonymous, they had to work on a new filtering and authentication system to make sure emails were associated with Ivy League students and not with alumni of those schools.

“There was a lot more machinery with Tigers Anonymous choosing prompts, so we were able to streamline that, make that more efficient,” Kumar said. “The code is a much cleaner version of what we had. You could say, ‘Oh, what took you guys so long? ’ We were experimenting with different concepts. We didn’t know what we wanted the site to look like. We didn’t know what we wanted the image to look

like.”

About half of the work has been done over the past three months, Kumar said.

The introduction of anonymity was borne out of Kang’s experience with Tiger Talk, a chatroom for the entire University student body Kang created three years ago in which users’ names were revealed and all users could talk to each other instead of in pairs, Kang said.

Having a single non-anonymous chatroom led to people talking over each other or feeling afraid to talk, he said, comparing it to a precept environment.

“When you introduce anonymity, people change how they talk,” Kang said. “Some people turn into trolls, just like terrible, saying the worst things, but a lot of people, I feel like they open up a lot more. They’re a lot more vulnerable.”

Andres Parrado ’15 said he has already used Campus Anonymous and talked to a student at Dartmouth.

“It was pretty chill, we were just talking about what

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are you studying, what’s your major, what are you doing right now?” Parrado said. “It was just very small talk type of thing. It was cool that you had the option of seeing who you were talking to eventually.”

He said he heard about the site on Facebook and added that he thought it would be possible for the site to be more long-lasting than Tigers Anonymous.

“It might be different if other campuses make it more popular,” he said. “It might either die down again because people will be hyped up about it at the beginning, but it might also be the case that because there are other campuses involved, people might use it more.”

Laurentiu Rodina GS, however, said he had never heard of Tigers Anonymous or Campus Anonymous. It is possible for graduate students to register on both sites.

Kang said that he and Kumar hope to eventually expand the service to even more schools.

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ish foods in high-profile journals including Nature, Science and the Talmud, Linton provided a scientific justification for the superiority of latkes.

“If you give a mouse a latke, he’ll want to learn Jewish law,” Linton noted. “If you give a mouse a hamentaschen, he dies after a single bite, and the causes are mysterious.”

Hamentaschen should be properly classified as a “gross food,” Linton added.

From the observation of fossil records, Linton said it is clear that all of the foods that evolved from hamentaschens, such as “livertaschen,” are disgusting. Meanwhile, descendants of latkes, such as hash browns, have all gone to thrive.

“It is clear that latkes are superior because they come from a better tree, one in which our grandparents didn’t force us to eat it,” Linton said. “Hamentaschen is a dangerous mutant and I urge you to vote for its extinction.”

History of science professor Michael Gordin and art and archaeology major Lauren Frost ’16 defended the hamentaschen, a triangular dessert with fruit or other fillings.

Recounting scientist Dmitri Mendeleev’s endeavors to formu-

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late the periodic table of elements, Gordin explained how latkes almost destroyed the history of chemistry.

Much of Mendeleev’s inspiration for the table spurred from serving as a middle school teacher in Odessa where he “couldn’t stand the latke partisans,” Gordin said.

The first element of the table, abbreviated with an ‘H,’ is ascribed to no other substance than a hamentaschen, Gordin noted. Unsurprisingly, the weight of ‘La’ was initially miscalculated and became a stumbling block to the completion of the table, as the “lanthanides” proved too difficult and incongruous to fit into the chart.

Frost subsequently described the “art, beauty, majesty” of the hamentaschen, which she said has a symmetry naturally pleasing to the eye. Frost drew a comparison of the hamentaschen to a renowned sketch by Leonardo da Vinci called the “Vitruvian Man.” In contrast, a latke could only be compared to a repulsive modern sculpture by Joseph Beuys called “Fat Chair,” Frost said.

The debate concluded with a latke and hamentaschen feast. The idea for the debate originated at the University of Chicago in 1946 and has been held annually at colleges and universities ever since.

The debate was held in the Whig Hall Senate Chamber at 7:30 p.m.

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Women’s Leadership at Princeton: Beyond the Numbers

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Ryan Dukeman nyone who has held a senior leadership role in a University student group or organization knows, or will quickly learn, that the pace of University institutions is on an entirely different wavelength than that of most leadership terms. In many clubs, leaders take office sometime between winter break and spring break, serving for a year. Assuming that it takes roughly a month to fully acclimate to the swing of things and learn the ropes and institutional mechanisms, and taking away the summer months (since school is out of session, which is not to say that crucial behind the scenes planning doesn’t occur then), that leaves roughly 8 months for actual accomplishment and the effectuation of promised changes, new events and other lasting reforms.

The most disappointing thing, which newly elected leaders usually discover about six weeks into their tenure, is the so-called “page and a half ” problem.

While running for office, candidates often enter an election with a list of ideas they want to accomplish, but upon taking office, they quickly realize that those several pages of hopes have to be reduced to less than half on account of the frustratingly sluggish pace of University bureaucracy. Moreover, in the process of targeting only a few initial goals, one may find that many of the items on the shrunken list will fail, be rejected or be too long-term to implement in just one short year. Finally, when a leader leaves office after what seems like a few rushed weeks, much of which was spent transitioning in or transitioning out, the desired feeling of accomplishment is sometimes hollow at best. Rather than walk out with head held high, too many leaders are left with a nagging feeling of unfulfilled potential.

Several examples of this easily come to mind. In trying to create a website, for instance, hiring or finding a web designer could take several weeks. Then designing the site itself might take upwards of a year. Finally, the University has to review the site, both from a technical point of view and an administrative or legal one. By the time the site is up and running, it could easily have been two years. Beyond this, trying to revamp institutional procedures is hindered by the fact that many are complicated and difficult to understand for anyone who hasn’t experienced them firsthand. A leader’s suggestions on improving financial reporting, publicizing events better, organizing annual shows on better dates or any number of other things only seem legitimate if one has planned a similar event before and understands the mechanisms behind why things are the way they are.

Much of this is intractable, and coping with it is itself an inherent part of being a good leader. Acknowledging that we will never accomplish all we set out to do is a healthy process of ref lection and development. But still, some of this can be prevented, and excess feet-dragging needlessly hollows the potential of our student leaders in the name of the bureaucratic process.

I’m not sure whether this means we should start two-year terms or give more active roles to past leaders who seek it, enabling them to continue the projects they started, but some structural change to the pace at which the University bureaucracy operates should be part of the equation. If we continue to have student leaders who think of “a project” as lasting two months and University bureaucrats that see “a project” as lasting six to eight months, such a divergence will only lead to friction and frustration. No one will be able to completely accede to the other side — however, surely some middle ground between these two extremes is possible if we really strive for it. Perhaps the solution lies in electing students at the end of the school year, so they can spend the summer exclusively on planning for the next year, all at once and well ahead of time for the University machine to begin churning. But perhaps it also lies in a streamlined University bureaucracy — unlike what it usually means, here “streamlined” isn’t and doesn’t have to be code for a reduction in services. But when we spend time adding extra offices, departments and bureaucracies into the mix on a project, simply because we feel they should be there, which often means massaging egos or making sure one doesn’t feel “left out” of the process, the bloating of organizations takes place and less gets done.

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he 2011 Women’s Leadership Report revealed a disturbing reality — in the “highly visible positions” of major student groups on University campus, women held fewer of the top spots since right after the first decade that the University began accepting women.

The findings of this report ignited an effort across campus to try to understand why this was the case and how to reverse the trend.

The report discovered through numerous interviews that many issues were in play, not only at the University, but also across its peer institutions. Female students were consistently underselling themselves; women were active in organizations but chose less visible, behind the scene roles; other students were actively discouraging women from seeking the highest leadership positions, pressuring them “to run for vice president or social chair instead [of president] on the grounds that these posts were more suitable for women.”

Have we finally turned the proverbial corner in 2015 in terms of the newly elected officials of many of our campus’ most highprofile organizations? It might seem as though we have good reason to celebrate the shattering of our campus’ own glass ceiling.

After all, the new USG president is a woman — as are the The Daily Princetonian’s editorin-chief, The American Whig-Cliosophic Society’s president and four of the eleven eating clubs’ presidents.

But let’s not break out the champagne quite yet. It’s important to recognize these elections are immensely significant in the sense that women are taking the initiative to run for these positions and are furthermore winning. But it would be a huge mistake to consider the problem solved — because it isn’t. And proclaiming the issue to be over enormously hinders the chances of getting to the root of the problem and truly creating

the cultural change needed to equalize leadership on campus and beyond.

Don’t get me wrong. I am proud of all the women who stepped forward into leadership roles on campus this year. It is an important and necessary step for achieving gender parity. But let us not forget that Ella Cheng became USG president in a run-off, after Will Gansa ran on a joke platform that garnered the most votes in the general election (though not the required majority).

Ella is the first female president of USG since 2003. How is it possible that Princeton went more than a decade without a woman USG president?

And while it is progress that we now have more women in leadership positions at the eating clubs, Tiger Inn polled its members just this past November and 70% of the respondents did not believe that any female would stand much of a chance of winning a high officer position in the club. These gender stereotypes run deep among both male and female students. One election cycle won’t wash them away.

My guess is the 2011 report and its recommendations — such as the creation of the Women’s Mentorship Program and greater faculty awareness about both the issue and possible causes of this inequality — and the discussions that were sparked helped lead to our present statistics. I know the report’s findings made me personally reconsider why I was or was not interested in taking on certain responsibilities and titles on campus. Ultimately I do not know if I acted differently because of what I read and saw, but it definitely encouraged some serious introspection and discussions.

However, it is imperative to recognize that equal numbers do not necessarily illustrate equality, and certainly we have not dispelled all cultural biases just because there are more women leaders in one random year. It is not only mistaken to assume that no obstacles currently exist to female leadership on campus, but it is also dangerous.

If we assume we have reached gender parity, people won’t think about gender when electing leaders; it essentially becomes a non-issue. And this is certainly the goal.

The most deserving students should be elected to these positions, regardless of their sex. But unless and until the changes have become ingrained in our culture, there is a huge risk of slipping back into greater inequality and losing these gains to both leadership equality and the cultural shifts that have been achieved thus far. On the other hand, when people identify gender parity as an issue, more people frequently reflect on the current situation and how it can be improved.

At the panel on women and eating clubs last week, Hap Cooper ’82, president of the TI graduate board, boasted about the great progress TI made this year, from its previous alleged gender problems to having a female president. His tone suggested that the recent election proved that the sexism that had seemed so prevalent just recently — at eating clubs or on campus at large — had completely reversed. The reality is not so simple. Sexism is rooted in our patriarchal society, not just at the University, but also around the world. While a female leader can have a huge impact on changing that culture and the election of a woman can imply that people are more accepting of women in positions of power and the effects their gender might have on their stewardship of the group, it does not guarantee that such a change has been internalized to signify true equality.

With this reality in mind, let’s take the University’s recent surge in women’s leadership for what it is: a step in the right direction, but not a reason to stop pushing for cultural change among both women and men on campus as well as for more female leaders on campus.

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

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ypocrisy is a curious human condition, and one that is important both to experience and to take note of, whether in oneself or in others. Rarely, however, is it a completely benign phenomenon with few consequences. The results of such conflict between action and rhetoric can be seen in stark relief thanks to the media: recently, through this powerful conduit of information, yet another glaring case of hypocrisy has sprung up that stuck out to me the same way a particularly egregious typo stands out in an email.

Harvard announced in early February a revamp to its policies regarding interpersonal relationships. This new policy includes an outright ban on romantic relationships between professors and students in a shift that clarified earlier language deeming such interactions as only “inappropriate.” Some people I’ve spoken with have shrugged at the distinction — claiming it’s not too different from the preexisting policy, but Harvard explained its choice by declaring that “relationships of unequal status did not explicitly reflect the faculty’s expectations of what constituted an appropriate relationship between undergraduate students and faculty members.” By clarifying expectations in this way, some questions of consent can be more clear-cut by removing problematic power dynamics

from the mix.

I’ve heard few negative reactions in response to this announcement, both in the media and in everyday conversation.

Though there are those who argue that this policy is too cut and dry, since it leaves little room for individual cases and for both parties’ autonomy, most concede that it still is, in general, a positive move.

I personally do not have a strong opinion either way on the matter of this policy. To me, this is the rhetoric side of the aforementioned instance of hypocrisy — the action, then, is the overwhelming response to the release of the “Fifty Shades of Grey” movie.

My personal response to “Fifty Shades of Grey” is nearly entirely negative and, as such, I have many issues with “Fifty Shades of Grey” beyond what I plan to write about here, particularly with regard to the way in which it construes BDSM relationships. This is not a minor problem within the novel and the movie, indicated by the number of articles that have popped up in the wake of its release, describing the manner in which it portrays BDSM as something fundamentally abusive. This, in turn, perpetuates stereotypes about a community that are untrue and serve to further push it to the outskirts. For the sake of this article, however, I prefer to turn my attention to its problematic portrayal of an abusive relationship in general within the context of unequal power dynamics.

For those unfamiliar with its premise, “Fifty Shades of Grey” is about the rela-

tionship between Christian Grey, a charismatic billionaire, and Anastasia Steele, a recent college graduate who first meets Grey when she is interviewing him for an article. She is unsure of herself and of the world around her in a way that many students can empathize with deeply. Beyond that, Anastasia finds Christian to be intensely intimidating. From there, a cat-and-mouse game ensues that includes, according to the CDC’s standards for emotional abuse and sexual violence, instances of stalking, isolation and intimidation.

There are numerous points in the plot that substantiate these claims; perhaps the most alarming is the contract that Christian compels Ana to sign before they move forward in their relationship.

This contract stipulates that Christian will provide financially and emotionally for Ana, taking particular care to make sure of her physical health, and Ana will then submit to any desire, fleeting or not, that Christian may have. Ana is rightfully concerned, but still finds the entire thing vaguely romantic in a truly troubling way. There is nothing romantic about Christian dictating her diet (giving her a prescribed list of foods from which to choose), stripping her of her physical autonomy by deciding that she cannot masturbate and dictating what type of birth control to use, instructing her not to confide in her closest friend and punishing her by whipping or spanking should she deviate from the terms of the contract. At one point, he does so when

she simply rolls her eyes. Instances like these are not paragons of romance, nor passion, nor BDSM. These are instances of domestic abuse.

And yet, this book has sold over 100 million copies and has been translated in over 50 languages. The movie, in its opening weekend, grossed $81.6 million.

Why do we, both the media and the consumers of the media, laud or at the very least accept as reasonable changes in a policy to reflect the danger of unequal power dynamics and, in the same breath, fund a franchise that is questionable on all levels?

I don’t advocate, as some men and women do, the burning of the book as a show of protest against its message. I am simply calling upon those who read it and watch the movie (and even those who don’t) to reflect upon whether or not they find its messages — implicit and explicit — troubling, and why or why not, especially in the context of what many have come to (accurately) call a “rape culture.” Ignoring “Fifty Shades of Grey” is not a solution to a problem rooted in the mentality of a population.

It’s time, however, for some introspection and for that introspection to lead to reform. The question floated above is not an easy one to answer or to change the answer to, but it’s crucial to consider it in the years to come.

Kelly Hatfield is a sophomore from Medford, Mass. She can be reached at kellych@princeton.edu.

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by just 0.01 of a second.

Although the team did not claim first in many other events, there were notable days for senior Nana OwusuNyantekyi and sophomore Christopher Cook who both broke their personal records, with Ow usu-Nyantekyi earning a 15.67m mark on the triple jump and Cook achieving a shot put toss of 18.85m.

Both athletes, however, could only claim the runners-up spots, and they were joined by freshman Lane Russell, who came fourth in the triple jump, and senior Scott Rushton, who came third in the shot put.

In the running events, freshman Garrett O’Toole came second in the mile run, while senior Rob Mohr and junior Greg Caldwell com-

bined for a 2-3 finish in the 60m hurdles, with Caldwell beating a personal record with a time of 7.97.

Junior Luke Brahm and freshman Noah Kauppila had a 2-4 finish in the 1000m run, and a similar result occurred in the 5000m run for senior Matt McDonald and Mazzaccaro, including a personal record from McDonald with the time of 14:18.10.

The women’s team could not complete a doublesweep, but they performed impressively in their own right. The team had a successful first day, racking up 48 points, which at that stage far outdistanced Columbia, who had 28 points. However, the team only ended up with 105 points, which was 20 points behind Harvard and two points behind Columbia.

Junior Taylor Morgan won the indoor pentathlon event with great ease, totaling a

score of 3923, which broke a school record that she had previously held. She was accompanied by fellow junior Kerry Krause, who finished in fifth place.

Once again, junior Julia Ratcliffe was too much for her opponents, as she picked up her first indoor weight throw title with a weight toss distance of 19.48m, more than 3m farther than any of her opponents’ distances.

Sophomore Megan Curham had a great tournament in her own right, as she finished as the runner-up in the 3000m before guiding the Tigers to a first place finish in the 5000m with a time of 16:01.51. She was joined on the podium for both events by junior Kathryn Fluehr as Fluehr came second in the 5000m and third in the 3000m.

There was also similar

success for junior Cecilia Barowski and senior Kim Mackay, who placed first in the 800m and 500m, respectively. Mackay, with her victory this past weekend, now also holds the distinction as the only female Tiger to win the 500m event at the indoor heptagonals.

Other impressive showings this past weekend included sophomore Allison Harris’s third-place pole vault finish, junior Sara Ronde’s third-place long jump leap and junior Inka Busack’s third-place finish in the high jump.

Both teams will return to Massachusetts this upcoming weekend with the men’s team facing off in the IC4A Championships and the women’s team competing in the ECAC Championships, as both teams look to continue their fantastic form so far this season.

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he starts to see the offensive side of the field he’ll make some noise. As of now playing d. middie [defensive midfielder] he’s a force down there, knocking some guys over with his strength.

DP: Austin’s currently recorded a penalty in every Division 1 game he’s played in, one of the more impressive streaks in college sports.

AS: Very true.

DP: Both of you were very highly recruited coming out of high school — why did you choose Princeton?

AS: I chose Princeton because as a kid Princeton had always been one of my favorite teams, and then once the recruiting process started there was no reason to pass up a chance to come to Princeton. And the tradition here is pretty incomparable; obviously we’re very talented too, so a combination of all the best things.

SB: I kind of wanted to stay close to home, and it was the best option for me. Like Austin I came to camp here when I was seven, eight years old and fell in love with the place. Since then I had the opportunity to come and it’s only an hour and a half away from home so I just hopped on it.

DP: Who on your team has the best game on and off the field?

AS: The face, [senior midfielder] Kip [Orban].

SB: Yeah, I don’t think he uses as much game; he’s kind of just the face. If we’re talking game I’d say…

AS: Maybe Wobbles [junior midfielder Bobby Weaver].

He’s got sneaky good game.

SB: No. I think you’ve got to go with Kip. DP: The Iv y League is especially deep this year and

you guys have some great matchups. Which teams would you consider your biggest rivals?

SB: From years past it’s always been Cornell — last game of the season they’re kind of our habitual rival in the Iv y League Championship and it usually has some playoff implication that late in the season. Yale, Penn’s a pretty big game.

Even Brown we lost to last year, it’s a very even playing field.

AS: I’d have to agree. I’d say Cornell historically, but the last couple of years it’s been Yale. Going back three years we beat them in 2012 in a five overtime game up in Yale, 2013 was a one-goal game at Princeton, last year was a one-goal game at Yale, so the last couple of years Yale and then Harvard has started to come on strong.

Those will be big games this year.

“I chose Princeton because as a kid Princeton had always been one of my favorite teams, and then once the recruiting process started, there was no reason to pass up a chance to come to Princeton.”

Austin Sims

lacrosse midfielder

DP: Who’s the funniest member of the team?

AS: [Senior attackman] Brendan DeTommaso.

SB: I’d agree, Brendan DeTommaso. [Junior goalie] Matt O’Connor comes in second, they’re both pretty witty guys.

AS: Yeah, or OC. Bones [senior midfielder Will Rotatori] is up there. Bones isn’t really funny; he’s just a lit-

tle crazy. [Senior midfielder Will] Himler.

DP: Bono, do you identify as a FOGO? [FOGO stands for “Face off, get off,” used to describe players who get the face off and then are replaced with another player.]

SB: I mean no, I don’t want to be, but right now that’s kind of how it is. I don’t know, we’ll see, maybe one game I’ll stick one and that will change, but as of right now I’m a face-off monkey just doing my job.

DP: Along those lines, the face-off unit’s done a really nice job this year, especially against a highly touted Hopkins unit. Could you talk a little about the team’s success on face-offs?

SB: I don’t really have all that much to do with it; our wings are awesome. I mean I’m sure as everybody saw, Zach Currier came into his own last game and literally picked up anything that was within five feet of him. He was amazing, I really have to credit the wings. I just get the ball on the ground and they do the dirty work.

DP: Some people have described fellow freshman [midfielder] Drew O’Connell as slightly slow.

How would you respond to those comments?

AS: I’d say we love Drew, but he does move at a snail’s pace sometimes. We just love Drew.

SB: He’s not the fastest guy out there.

AS: He’s got a good first step.

SB: And a hard shot. Good heart.

DP: Do you have any special pregame rituals?

AS: Not really. In high school I used to eat a big bowl of ice cream the night before games, but I haven’t really translated that to the college game. I like to watch a movie the night before a

game, a nice little pump-up movie, re-tape my stick.

SB: I always listen to the same song before I go out.

When The Levee Breaks by Led Zeppelin gets me going.

AS: I like Real Estate, by Wiz Khalifa.

DP: Describe each other’s spirit animal.

SB: For Austin, I’m thinking more of a cougar, because you’ve not yet developed into a lion. That’s where we all want to be in the endgame. You have the tools in place, you have the confidence, the size, the speed.

I’m talking this is all field stuff, you’re at stage two of three of the jungle cat, cougar’s just below a lion. You just need to take that next step to go from a cougar to a lion. You’ll get there.

AS: I’d say you’re a falcon.

Don’t know why, it just comes to mind. Falcons are pretty fast, pretty agile.

They’ve got that dive bomb thing going, if they see something they go after it.

It’s like you.

DP: There are some big home games on your schedule, any in particular that you’d like to tell fans to come out to?

AS, SB (at the same time): Harvard! Night game.

AS: April 17 [correct] or whenever it is. Also Yale if you’re around campus.

SB: Yale’s a big one. And, if all goes as planned this is the home run. Sunday…

I don’t know what day it is.

AS: Sunday, May 3.

SB: Spring Lawnparties, Iv y League Championship game. If we win all Iv y League games, we host said game. Lawnparties followed by 7 PM night game, crowd goes wild. That’s what we’re shooting for.

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coming tantalizingly close to scoring in the seventh in particular, they would make no further progress in this game.

The next two games would see a fair amount of ups and downs. In game two, Princeton managed to grab a lead after going behind early 1-0.

Powers would make an impact yet again as he got two runs batted in off a single in the bottom of the second to bring home sophomores Nick Hernandez and Paul Tupper. After going up 2-1, Princeton would be unable to score a run for the rest of the game. After falling behind, LSU would rip off four runs in the bottom of the second inning and would never look back.

The results were mixed between Princeton’s pitchers. Junior Luke Strieber, the starting pitcher for the game, gave up five runs (four

earned) on three hits. Junior Cameron Mingo, one of the two relief pitchers, gave up two runs himself in three innings pitched. Senior Tyler Foote, the other relief pitcher, would fare the best of the men on the mound, allowing no runs scored in his three innings pitched.

The final game of the series would prove by far the roughest for Princeton. LSU would win the game 15-4, with Princeton managing to avoid a shutout by scoring its four runs in its final inning. Sophomore Keelan Smithers was the starting pitcher for the game, with freshmen Nick Brady and Kevin Thomsen and sophomore Chris Giglio as his relievers. Baer, Hoy, Phillips and Owens would score the runs for Princeton in this one.

With LSU behind them, Princeton now looks toward next weekend’s series against University of North Carolina at Greensboro, another battle on the road.

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close win against the Hawks in last year’s CWPA semifinals. In coincidental fashion, the day’s second match followed a similar course as the first: following a slow first quarter start, the Tigers scored a 5-1 run toward victory. Junior goalie Ashleigh Johnson finished the game with 14 saves and senior utility Ashely Hatcher recorded three goals.

“We were just not making our shots, and we weren’t utilizing every opportunity,” said sophomore center Morgan Hallock, who finished the weekend with an amazing four goals and 11 ejections drawn, to explain the unusually slow starts on Saturday.

Going into Sunday’s matches, Princeton carried a combined undefeated record over both Gannon and Mercyhurst.

Accordingly, the Tigers translated this early confidence to dominating wins. Recovering from the previous day, Princeton started both games with early leads and then sustained scoring edges, concluding in clear victories for the Tigers.

Impressive play on Sunday featured Wan’s 3-0 sprint record against Gannon. Furthermore, senior utility Hatcher netted a team-high five goals against Mercyhurst, while Van Brande marked nine saves in the same game.

“I think that during the week we train very hard. In these situations we know what to do. The hard thing is adjusting to the different types of play,” Hallock explained.

This weekend, the Tigers will travel to Harvard to face Marist, VMI and Iona, returning to non-conference play. In fact, Princeton will not face another CWPA opponent until the end of the month.

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Tigers continue great success at Heptagonals

By Tom Pham associate sports editor

The Tigers’ success this season continued once more as both the men’s and women’s team impressed at the 2015 Ivy League Indoor Heptagonals, hosted at Harvard.

Both teams have shown their dominance time and time again against Ivy League opponents and were extremely close to another doublesweep of the titles, as the men’s track and field team claimed the event after finishing second in the past two years and the women’s track and field team placed third after Harvard and Columbia.

The triumph of the men’s team in Cambridge this year marked the 22nd straight year where the team would finish in the top two, demonstrating the program’s continued success. The team started the first day in good

form, placing second with 39 points and trailed Cornell by only three points.

The first day consisted of a lot of preliminary heats, which included freshman Carrington Akosa’s recordtying 6.82 mark in the 60m.

The Tigers were not hindered by the lack of events, as they impressed mightily in the jump events, with pole vault and long jump being the major success points for the team.

In the pole vault event, freshman August Kiles and sophomore Ben Gaylord had a 2-4 finish, as Kiles cleared a 5.10m mark, a personal record in his young Princeton career, and Gaylord placed two places below Kiles with a 4.90m mark.

The Tigers were even more impressive in the long jump event as they swept the podium finishes, taking a 1-2-3 finish via sophomore Greg Leeper, senior Tumi Akin-

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lawon and junior Jake Scinto who had leaps of 7.27m, 7.26m and 7.20m, respectively, with Akinlawon setting his very own personal record that day as well. To round off the points, senior Mike Mazzaccaro came fourth in the 3000m run.

The second day brought even more success as the team rounded off the tournament in style, totaling 161 points and far outpacing the rest of the field, as Cornell placed second with only a meager 98 points.

Akosa has often been mentioned in these coverage reports and his form has surely deserved it, as he once again rounded off a dominant day for himself, winning the 200m with a time of 21.78 and placing second in the 60m. He was joined by juniors Dre Nelson and John Hill, who came fourth and sixth respectively, separated See TRACK page 7

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On Tap: Austin Sims & Sam Bonafede

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Men’s lacrosse is off to a 3-0 start to the season and is now ranked 10th in the nation after a statement overtime win against Johns Hopkins. The Daily Princetonian sat down with freshmen midfielders Austin Sims and Sam Bonafede to talk about Iv y League rivalries, ice cream and Wiz

Daily Princetonian : Where are you from and what’s it like there?

Austin Sims: I’m from Fairfield, Connecticut. It’s a beach town — Fairfield U. is there. It’s pretty laidback — a lot of lacrosse players come from there.

Also I guess we’re pretty good at baseball now. Our Little League team has gone

to the World Series for a few years.

Sam Bonafede: I’m from Bay Shore, Long Island.

Also a beach town, minus the lacrosse and anything athletic. A lot more of a surfer beach area: people are pretty easy going, nothing much to it.

DP: Describe each other’s playing style?

AS: Sam is a little energiz-

er-bunny type player I’d say. He’s always running around getting ground balls and his short little legs make him look like he’s running ten times as fast as he is.

SB: Austin’s more of a power-speed-combination type guy. He’s got long strides, probably the second fastest shot on the team besides our captain, and once See ON TAP page 7

GRANT KEATING :: PRINCETONIAN STAFF WRITER

Freshman midfielders and teammates Austin Sims and Sam Bonafede.

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BASEBALL

Tigers easily beaten 3-0 by LSU in series

Women’s water polo show dominance at Bucknell

By Miles Hinson

By David Liu

sports editor

staff writer

The Princeton baseball men’s team had its work cut out for it this weekend as it opened its season against the fourth ranked Louisiana State Tigers down in Baton Rouge. While fighting hard, Princeton would be unable to obtain a win in this opening series, falling to LSU 0-3.

Most of the weekend was much closer than the above score shows. In the first game, the only one played on Friday, the battle between the Tigers ended up a slim 3-2 loss for Princeton. Sophomore pitcher Chad Powers made a strong debut as he struck out three LSU players while allowing for just two hits over five innings. Indeed, of LSU’s three runs scored, only one was an earned run — the other two came from Princeton’s fielding errors. Powers’ relief pitchers, senior Nick Donatiello and junior Chris Bodurian, also allowed for two hits over three innings pitched combined.

On the offensive side, Princeton would out-hit LSU 6-4, as sophomores Cody Phillips and Zach Belski, juniors Danny Hoy and Billy Arendt and senior Peter Owens would all get on the board. Belski’s single in particular would help bring Hoy to home, which would cut a then deficit of 2-0 in half. While LSU would get the run back and push it to 3-1, Belski would belt-ski a home run, the fourth of his career, at the top of the sixth inning to bring Princeton ever closer. While Princeton would breathe down LSU’s neck for the rest of the game,

Any doubts of Princeton women’s water polo team’s dominant season evaporated this weekend. To kick off Collegiate Water Polo Association conference play for the 2015 season, the Tigers swept all four opponents at the Bucknell meet. On Saturday, Princeton defeated host Bucknell and conference rival Hartwick by comfortable 9-6 and 9-4 margins, respectively. Then, on Sunday, the team beat Gannon and Mercyhurst by even larger margins: 11-3 and 16-7, respectively.

In addition to its recent Ivy League championship over Brown and nine consecutive wins, extending nearly an entire month, Princeton women’s water polo team has now risen to No. 1 in the CWPA conference — edging out rival Indiana University — and No. 11 in the NCAA, one of the highest rankings ever for any CWPA team.

Although the water polo season officially began on Feb. 7, the team hadn’t faced any conference foes prior to this weekend’s meet. Accordingly, this weekend’s four

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Women’s water polo beat all four teams they faced at the Bucknell meet comfortably.

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‘When all is said and done more is always said than done.’

AJ Glass, sophomore running back

games prompted extra urgency as the Tigers begin their journey towards a CWPA championship victory in late April. Following a close 11-10 loss to Indiana in the championship match last year, every conference match counts for the Tigers.

Known for ferocious first quarters, the Tigers actually got off to a slow 2-1 start against the host Bucknell on Saturday. Fortunately, Princeton quickly made up for the sluggish start and scored six consecutive goals in the following two quarters. The prompt recovery gave the Tigers a comfortable lead to win the game. Saturday’s match against Bucknell showcased continued rookie play, as freshman utility Haley Wan scored a goal and marked two assists while freshman goalie Helena Van Brande recorded six saves.

Saturday’s second match against Hartwick presented perhaps the greatest challenge of the weekend. Boasting a No. 4 ranking in the CWPA, the Hawks entered the meet with a winning record over the Tigers. Moreover, the Tigers fostered rivalry with a See WATER POLO page 7

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