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U. President Christopher Eisgruber welcomed and congratulated 46 newly naturalized U.S. citizens at the Wilson school.

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46 people from 28 countries countries became naturalized U.S. citizens at the University today, in a special naturalization ceremony administered by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Newark District.

President Christopher Eisgruber ‘83 opened the ceremony by welcoming newly-naturalized citizens from around the world, expressing “joy in welcoming you as fellow citizens.”

“Both of my own parents were immigrants to this country.

Like you, they became citizens through naturalization,” Eisgruber reflected. He explained how he, too, had to take an oath committing himself to supporting the Constitution upon becoming president of the Uni-

versity.

“You and I will share in common that promise to support the Constitution of the United States,” Eisgruber said.

He invited everyone to “dedicate ourselves to the ideals that animate it” and to “challenge ourselves and our fellow citizens to live up to them fully.”

“Supporting the constitution is a demanding endeavor,” Eisgruber said, but also “an exhilarating project.”

John Thompson, USCIS Director of the New Jersey District, prefaced his administration of the oath of allegiance.

“In a few moments, you will be rising one to become citizens of the greatest country you have seen,” Thompson said. Thompson enumerated the countries of origin for the 46 people taking the oath: Albania, Bangladesh,

Belarus, Brazil, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Japan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Nigeria, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Slovak Republic, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, and United Kingdom.

All 46 were asked to stand and say aloud the oath, with their right hand raised, before receiving individual certificates, making their new status official.

“I have the pleasure of reading your name out loud; I think that is the hardest job in this room,” joked Keith Dorr, Supervisory Immigration Services Officer.

One Princeton student, Masako Toyoda ‘18, and two members of Princeton faculty, were among those naturalized, as was a service member of the U.S. Na-

tional Guard.

Princeton Mayor Liz Lempert congratulated the new citizens. “Some of you have faced great difficulties coming here … many of you are hoping for a better life, and each of you has a story to tell,” Lempert said.

Lempert pointed out the differences in the backgrounds of all Americans, but “what binds us together, is a shared belief, a belief in the freedoms enshrined in the Constitution … and hope in the ability to achieve the American Dream.”

“You are all choosing to become Americans in a challenging time for our country,” Lempert said, acknowledging the questions facing all Americans today.

“This ceremony is an affirmation of our best selves,” Lempert said. “Our diversity truly makes

us stronger.”

“As Mayor, I encourage each of you to think not just nationally, but locally,” Lempert offered, inviting engagement in local communities and the imperative for action, particularly today.The only Princeton student to be naturalized today, Toyoda, came to the United States from Japan when she was two and received her green card around her sophomore year of high school.

She applied for naturalization in September of 2016.

“I’ve been feeling ‘American’ for more than a decade now,” Toyoda reflected. “It feels strange to say the Pledge of Allegiance as an American citizen, something that I’ve been saying since third grade.”

The ceremony took place in Dodds Auditorium of Robertson Hall on April 12, 2017, at 10 a.m.

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Clouds of colored powder f lew through the air at the University’s celebration of Holi, the Hindu festival of colors. About 100 students gathered at the Frist Campus Center on Wednesday to observe the holiday, a celebration that extols the victory of good over evil.

The event, hosted by the Princeton Hindu Satsangam, involved a half-hour religious puja followed by a celebration in which participants covered each other with colored powder to celebrate the occasion.

During the puja, participants sat in pairs in front of small plates containing framed pictures of Lord Narasimha, an incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu, as well as offerings of rice, yellow and red powder, milk,

Many ambassadors are known for their polished and discreet “diplomatic language.” According to Gérard Araud, however, blunt communication has been just as effective for the job of of the French Ambassador.

Approximately 100 students and faculty members gathered today to hear French Ambassador to the United States Gérard Araud discuss the future of French foreign policy.

Suleiman, professor of international studies and director of the Program in European Politics and Society, introduced the ambassador as “not your run of the mill” diplomat, referring to Araud’s extremely direct mode of communication. Araud’s straight-

The University’s Program in Law and Public Affairs has announced a total of six fellows for the 2017-2018 academic year. The fellows will each give a public seminar while working on their own research. Some fellows will teach in either undergraduate or graduate departments.

“I’m writing the story of the feminist strategy in the AIDS epidemic,” Aziza Ahmed said. “In the early part of the epidemic, people thought women weren’t really vulnerable to contracting HIV.” Ahmed went on to describe how it took the work of feminist lawyers to expand the definition of who was considered able to contract HIV. A law professor at Northeastern University

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Various hymns were chanted as part of the ceremony, and participants were provided with booklets to follow along. The ritual was explained, and everyone was encouraged to participate in giving the offerings.

Adhitya Raghavan ’20, one of the organizers of the puja, explained that offerings were given symbolically to welcome God “as one might welcome a guest into one’s home.” The specific actions performed do not matter as much as the devotion with which they are performed.

Hindu Satsangam members explained that the color celebration was preceded by a puja to establish the religious basis of the holiday.

“We wanted to give attendees an opportunity to observe and experience the religious background surrounding Holi,” said Rik Nag ’19.

After the puja, participants were given packets of colored powder and asked to

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Students gathered for colorful Holi celebration on Frist South Lawn on Wednesday evening.

go to the Frist South Lawn for the color celebration.

Outside, participants threw colored powder on each other with the goal of getting everyone as colorful as possible. Participants tried to surprise their friends by smothering them in color, and many took advantage of the opportunity to take pictures covered in colored powder.

“Holi is definitely one of my favorite holidays and celebrating with friends is what made this one special,” said Akash Pattnaik ’20.

“I thought it was a lot of fun and gave me an opportunity to get together with so many people and learn the significance behind Holi,” added Raghavan.

Members of the Hindu Satsangam also said the event served as a valuable cultural exchange.

“It was a great way for [Princeton Hindu Satsangam] to share our culture and have fun with the rest of campus,” said Pranav Rekapalli ’20.

The event, hosted by the Princeton Hindu Satsangam, was held at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday at the Frist Campus Center.

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Q & A: Stacy Wolf, Guggenheim Fellow

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Stacy Wolf has been extensively involved with music and musical theater, both on and off campus.

By Emily Spalding staff writer

The Daily Princetonian spoke with theater professor Stacy Wolf about her recently received Guggenheim Fellowship and her work in theater, both with the University and outside of it.

The Daily Princetonian: What motivated your interest in musical theater? How has your relationship with the field changed throughout your career?

Stacy Wolf: Well, like most of us who are musical theater scholars, I started as a kid performer. I would say one hundred percent of us started as children performers, although sometimes it takes people a little while... And I returned to this childhood love after I had finished my dissertation. And at the same time, musical theater was just, just, just starting as an academic field. It’s a very new field. I would be considered the first generation of scholars. And before my generation, there were people who wrote — who did coffee table books, or who wrote books that were compendiums of lyrics, or that were hagiographies or biographies. But in terms of scholarly analysis of the form, in terms of taking the script of a musical as seriously as you would a play by Shakespeare or Ibsen, or taking the music as seriously as you would the music of Beethoven, or the dance as seriously as you would the dance of Balanchine, that’s a very new occurrence. So when I started working on this, like others of my close friends and colleagues now, some people just thought it was ridiculous that we would engage in serious study because the musical is entertaining, it’s commercial, it’s an industry, and it’s not meant to be taken seriously. But of course it’s the most serious form of American culture and it’s one of the two forms of culture that are truly American, the other being jazz.

So that’s how I got started in that, and I wrote two books that brought together my interests in feminism and sexuality studies with musical theater. And as I was finishing — or part of the way through — my second book and writing stuff and editing stuff, I was struck by what I always knew but never thought to study, which is the importance of the amateur in the sustenance of musical theater in America and the importance of community theaters and high schools and summer camps and churches and Jewish community centers, and how crucial these venues are for the continuation of the musical. So when I finished my last book I turned my attention in this direction.

DP: Can you brief ly talk about your project “Beyond Broadway: Four Seasons of Amateur Musical Theatre in the U.S.,” for which you were awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship?

SW: It actually takes a year in the life of amateur musicals, and every chapter looks at a different venue or a different setting for the musical, or a different person who’s a key figure in the amateur musical theater scene. I travel around the country and visit different places. It’s ethnographic in method…I’m not an ethnographer because I’m not an anthropologist, but it relies on interviews, it relies on observation, it’s very much in the weeds of how funding operates and how it’s put together, how kids who have never seen a play learn to perform.

There’s a chapter that’s about Disney’s engagement with the amateur musical theater scene, which is hugely expanded, and Disney has a big philanthropic wing that is doing a lot of really amazing stuff. So some of it’s about licensing and industry and the people who support and profit from amateur musical theater, and then some of it is about kids, and some of it is about adults — why people do musical theater for fun.

DP: You have written on theater at varying levels, from Broadway to regional to high school theater.

What has that process been like, and is it still an ongoing one? Where has your research taken you?

SW: It is an ongoing one.

I would say I am substantially through the research but I still have some more visits to make and people to talk to and material to investigate…I honestly cannot remember exactly where it started. I think I just was interested in the amateur and interested in people who are involved in musical theater for fun and who are not intending to be professional performers. And part of it was kind of the “People Magazine” biography where everyone who’s on Broadway talks about how they started by being in a high school musical or they started by being in a community theater musical, and I thought that was really interesting.

But I wasn’t so interested in tracking their journeys or even looking at Broadway and talking about how the people get here. I was interested in the where people start and the fact that most people don’t make it to Broadway and don’t become big stars and still get great pleasure and meaning and community building and expressiveness, and for kids, a lot of skill building through participation. It’s this funny form that brings together music and theater and dance and speech, and it’s so weird, and people

still love it. I think the other thing that I feel about this book very strongly is that it’s an advocacy project. It’s absolutely meant to show the importance of the arts, specifically theater, and more specifically, musical theater in people’s everyday lives. Because, across the country, in every city and every town, there is some kind of musical theater activity happening, no matter what people’s race, socio-economic situation, geographical location, there’s musical theater happening everywhere. And it means something to people. So that’s kind of where it starts...One of my chapters is about musical theater at girls’ Jewish summer camps in Maine.

And they’re not religious camps and the plays are not religious, but most of the campers who go there — and these are not camps that identify explicitly as Jewish, but they have some Jewish cultural components to them — almost all the campers are Jewish, the directors are Jewish, they were founded by Jewish women in the early 20th century. And at all of these camps, musical theater has been part of the camp since the they were founded in 1916, before there actually was what we understand as musical theater. So in the days of vaudeville, they were doing vaudeville shows, they were doing other kinds of theater.

And as soon as musical theater arrived on the Broadway scene, it immediately showed up at these camps.

And they do a musical in five days. Every single girl in the camp does a musical every summer and sees six or seven other musicals every summer, and so it’s a very interesting process of acculturation into learning the cannon of the musical, and they also do musical theater. These are not performing arts summer camps, these are camps where girls swim, play soccer, and do arts and crafts, and they do a musical. And I just thought it was absolutely fascinating that this is a part of what camp is about and that doing the the musical completely corresponds with the other values at camp about girl power and community building and bravery...

One of my favorite — this was a camp I went to see and they were doing “Sister Act”, which featured Whoopi Goldberg in the movie version and is about nuns. There were all these Jewish girls playing nuns, and it was just fantastic.

It was hilarious, it was so great, and they loved it. It really bonded this group, and the girls in the audience who start at the age of seven loved it, and it was really fascinating.

DP: What is your response to the current threat

of the National Endowment for the Arts potentially losing funding?

SW: Well, like all of my colleagues — my academic colleagues and my artist colleagues — and I would say... it’s absolutely horrifying and completely absurd. First of all, because barely any money goes to the support of the arts and humanities in this culture anyway. I don’t remember what the statistics are, but it’s a tiny percentage…It’s ridiculous. And I think we eliminate the arts at our peril. People have to have venues for expressiveness, people have to have places to experience art from the spectator’s perspective. It’s what makes us human, it’s what makes us empathetic, it’s what brings people together — especially theater being together in the same space, breathing the same air as other people who are not like you. It’s so alarming and shocking that they would be suggesting this.

It’s terrible. And there’ve been... so many studies of how much children, especially children in underserved areas, benefit from the arts and benefit from theater. I was actually just at a conference last weekend and the president of the theater Education Association was quoting statistics on how much every kid, and especially kids from underprivileged backgrounds, benefit from the arts.

DP: With lots of recent and upcoming changes to the Lewis Center for the Arts, such as the new building opening Fall 2017 and the music theater certificate being offered for the first time this year, what are your hopes for the future of theater at the University?

SW: I am so excited and hopeful about our future.

The Program in Music Theater already has had a lot of interest and a number of students who signed up for the certificate, even in its very first year. I’m so excited to move to the new building. I think proximity to the Department of Music...will be fantastic for us … Also, I feel like we are

attracting a more diverse pool to the theater program and to music theater. This year we did a production of “Hairspray” which we were really excited about with a whole new concept and a wonderfully diverse cast … In my ideal world, every single student at Princeton would take an arts class. As many many many would take a theater class, and so many would take a musical theater class. I would love for every Princeton student to cross my door, but I’m not sure that’s going to happen. But certainly I hope everyone crosses the doors of the Lewis Center.

DP: Is there anything else you would like to add?

SW: Well I think just that I’m so honored and privileged to get a Guggenheim … Obviously it’s wonderful to get a financial award to support the research, but it’s enormously legitimizing for a field that’s really — you know, it’s about the amateur. It’s in some ways the opposite, it is the opposite of high art. It’s really about the “people.” And I’m very honored and humbled when I look at the other people I know who got Guggenheims or my colleagues in this year’s class, it’s very, very humbling, and I just feel so thrilled that this project will be supported by the Guggenheim Foundation.

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School of Law, she teaches courses on International Health Law, Reproductive Health and Rights, and Property Law. She has served on various United Nations agencies and was a member of the United Nations Technical Advisory Group on HIV and the Law. Another fellow, Celeste Arrington ’03, is the Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University. She received her A.B. degree from the Wilson School.

According to Arrington, part of the appeal for becoming a fellow was that she is a University alumna herself. She said that the University has many “smart and interesting people doing great research.” She also said that she thinks it will be a stimulating research environment, and she looks forward to exchanging ideas with those who are looking at similar questions to hers, but in other parts of the world.

Jessica Eaglin is an Associate Professor of Law at Indiana University Maurer School of Law. She teaches courses on evidence and criminal law.

“Princeton has such a great intellectual community,” Eaglin said when asked what made her want to apply for this fellowship. “This would be a really great opportunity for me to start thinking about my research from different angles and interact with some of the leading scholars in the field.”

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Lewis Grossman is a law professor at American University’s Washington College of Law. He won the Washington Engleson Historical Prize at Yale University for having the best dissertation on American history.

“I’m going to be discussing legal efforts and social movements throughout American history to ensure that people can take any kind of medicine they want and visit any kind of doctor they want,” Grossman said when describing the book he will be writing while at the University. He added how he was looking forward to spending the time on campus.

“I feel honored, delighted, excited — it’s unbelievable,” Grossman said.

Tomasz T. Koncewicz is a Professor of Law and the Director of the Department of European and Comparative Law at the University of Gdansk in Poland. He is the author of many papers and 9 different books. At the University, he will be working on his project “The politics of resentment, European disintegration and constitutional capture: Rethinking the European overlapping consensus?”

Koncewicz was unavailable for comment at the time of publication.

Yüksel Sezgin is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program at Syracuse University.

“I have wanted to apply for more than 10 years,” Sezgin said. He also noted how grateful he was for being chosen as a fellow for the upcoming academic year, calling the LAPA fellowship “one of the most prestigious scholarships in the country.”

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forward way of working deviates from a diplomat’s standard tendencies to use more discreet “diplomatic language,” he said.

Araud’s no-nonsense personality stood out immediately as he walked behind the podium and promptly began his speech, stating his intention was to talk about the French National Elections and Syria before responding to questions from the audience.

When asked about French politics in the past, Araud said he normally began by explaining the differences between the French and American political systems. Today, however, he found himself in a new predicament.

“Our political lives are totally comparable,” he said.

Araud began by stating that many countries in the sphere of Western democracy are experiencing the “same rebellion of some of our citizens.” This “rebellion” refers to the rise of populism across the borders of Western democratic countries. This major shift in politics has manifested itself through Brexit, the election of Trump, and now the popularity of French extreme right-wing politician Marine Le Pen. “A lot of the French, like a lot of Americans, think that the elites have not delivered,” he said.

According to Araud, many French citizens want to “toss the table” at “nearly any price” because they are dissatisfied with the performance of traditional political parties and feel as if they have been neglected by the political elite.

He added that 85 percent of voters in support of Marine Le Pen “will vote for her no matter what.”

Araud voiced the concern that this extremely dedicated group of voters has the ability to take control of the election.

“Will the majority mobilize against this determined minority?” Araud said that this is the pressing question in France’s current election cycle. The answer to the same question in America and Great Britain has been “no.”

When asked about the consequences of a possible

Marine Le Pen presidency, Araud first reminded a few concerned audience members that the transition from one administration to another takes time.

“Just like with any new president, we would have to wait and see how the real policies, as opposed to campaign rhetoric, will play out,” Araud said.

However, Araud sounded much less optimistic about the future of the economy if Le Pen wins the election. Le Pen is running on the promise of getting France out of the Eurozone and the European Union.

In previous interviews, Le Pen has described the EU as an institution “poking a knife in your ribs.”

Araud explained that “going out of the EU means devaluation” and further described the consequences as a “world financial crisis.”

He touched upon the major upheaval it would take to simply deal with logistical issues of changing from the Euro to the Franc. Banks would have to close and as during Greece’s financial crisis, a financial standstill would occur. More significantly, the consensus, even held

by Marine Le Pen’s National Front, is that the Eurozone cannot exist without France’s participation.

Thus, according to Araud, it is possible that France’s exit and the following destruction of the Eurozone could mean the end of the European Union.

While discussing the effects the rise of Western populism will have on foreign policy and the current unstable situation in Syria, Araud stressed that, as a diplomat, he does not live in a “world of wishes” but in a “world of facts” in which he must simply “see what we can do.”

Assad highlighted his realistic take on alleviating tensions in the Middle East, stating that his job as a diplomat is to “handle the world as imperfect it is” and to “try to modify it at a margin.”

The event was held on April 12 at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall. It was sponsored by the European Union Program, an organization that promotes interests in issues relating to the European Union and European politics more broadly.

Staff writer Katie Peterson contributed reporting.

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No, Editorial Board: Gender-neutral housing shouldn’t be conditional Marissa Rosenberg-Carlson Contributing columnist

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rinceton’s new g e n d e r- i n c l u s i v e housing policy is beneficial to all Princeton students, not just to those who “expressly need” it. Two weeks ago, the Editorial Board of The Daily Princetonian recommended that Princeton Housing Services “exercise caution” when implementing the policy for the upcoming school year. The Board presumes that this policy confers special treatment on people who identify outside the gender binary or otherwise request mixed-gender rooms. It believes Housing Services must take extra care to account for the “well-being of all students,” given that the rules for room draw already “enhance living choice for some while restricting it for others.”

But it is through the gender-inclusive policy that Housing Services will account for the well-being of all students. The policy should not be conditioned to appease those who don’t care for it.

The point of this policy is inclusivity. Speaking of special treatment, having only single-sex options inevitably prefers heterosexual and cisgender individu-

single dorm rooms for the first year at the University” without their request.

Contrary to the intent of gender-inclusive housing, doing this would ostracize individuals who wish to have living situations that are social but not dictated by gender.

I agree with the Board that Housing Services should continue to recommend against romantic cohabitation, which is newly available to heterosexual couples. Also worth noting is the fact that gender-inclusive housing policies may actually desexualize the dorm environment, according to a 2011 report by the Yale College Council’s Committee on Gender-Neutral Housing. When “singlesex housing” is the norm, language around going to other people’s rooms is often more sexually charged.

Our talk about “going home” with someone, for example, is partly based on the notion that one doesn’t take another person home without expecting a sexual encounter.

The Yale College Council found that on Yale’s campus, gender-inclusive housing has created an alternative model for the suite as a “coeducational space in which individuals of other genders socialize in nonsexual ways.” The benefits

of this are remarkable. Yale students who live in gender-inclusive housing feel that there is “no male or female dominance” in their suites. This in turn makes women and genderqueer individuals feel safer, and contributes to healthier relationships of all kinds in these spaces.

In fact, I agree with the Board that administrators should “exercise caution when implementing the policy this year and considering similar policies in subsequent years.” But caution, in my view, hinges on the concept of “inclusive.”

The policy will already minimally disturb those who don’t wish to subscribe to it. People are welcome to live with others of their same sex or gender identity.

As we solidify our housing choices for next year, and as admitted students begin to consider their options, the Board would be wise to encourage all students to ref lect on how we can most thoughtfully accommodate members of our community — in our ’zee groups and in our eating clubs — who want gender-inclusive housing.

Marissa Rosenberg-Carlson is a Near Eastern Studies major from San Francisco, Calif.

She can be reached at myr@ princeton.edu.

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aniel Krane, in his April 10 op-ed, draws attention to the alleged plagiarism in Justice Neil Gorsuch’s 2006 book “The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia.” We do not intend to offer an opinion about whether the issue of plagiarism ought to have been a factor in determining Justice Gorsuch’s suitability for the Supreme Court of the United States, but in case the public discussion of his writing has caused any confusion, we write to clarify for Princeton students the University’s

expectations about the proper citation of sources in work submitted to fulfill academic requirements.

Academic integrity is a bedrock value of our institution.

The rules and conventions that govern academic honesty reflect the gravity with which we regard this most important principle. Violations are generally regarded as serious offenses. Accordingly, the University goes to great lengths to ensure that students are acquainted with their obligation to distinguish their own words and ideas from those of others.

“Rights, Rules, Responsibilities” defines plagiarism as “the use of any outside source

without proper acknowledgment” in section 2.4.7. Students are obliged to cite their sources properly and to document the extent of their indebtedness to other authors.

This obligation extends to phrases, ideas, facts, and formulas. Among other things, “Rights, Rules, Responsibilities” in section 2.4.6 says, “Any sentence or phrase which is not the original work of the student must be acknowledged.”

We urge students with questions about proper citation practices to take advantage of the many resources available on campus. We suggest consulting with your instructors and preceptors, the staff at the

The decision to suspend or expel a student should not be made by other students. It is too grave and consequential a decision to entrust it to undergraduates who are just getting their feet wet in the legal process.

The Honor Committee is a group of 12 students who try cases of cheating and recommend punishments when necessary. The fact that students enforce the Honor Code is central to its purpose because it means the administration trusts the student body to do the right thing. They trust students not to cheat during exams, and they trust that the Honor Committee will make the right decisions.

I trust that the Committee will try their best to do what is right, but I’m not convinced they have the experience or judgment to know what the right decisions are. Administrators, not students, should

try all cases of cheating and determine the appropriate punishments. Making decisions that deeply affect students is their job, not an extracurricular activity. The Honor Committee makes serious decisions, and entrusting them to anyone but the administration is careless.

If I were accused of cheating and threatened with the possibility of suspension or expulsion, I would want to know that the administration took my trial seriously. The Honor Committee works hard to be thorough and just. But they don’t have the experience that administrators do.

Most Committee members have less than a year of experience on the Committee. And to argue in my defense, I cannot call a lawyer or an administrator, but only another student.

Letting students judge and argue cases is better suited for Mock Trial. The Honor Committee’s decisions have serious consequences. The people who can decide to suspend or expel

me should not be so new to disciplinary proceedings. And judging my trial should not be an extracurricular activity.

Instead, administrators like the Dean of the College should try the cases and determine punishments. For administrators, making decisions that significantly impact students’ Princeton careers is their job. Their first priority is, or should be, the students’ best interests. They are more invested in ensuring a fair outcome to the trials than a committee of students can be.

Furthermore, administrators can stay in their positions longer than the four years that most of us will spend at the University so they can hone their judgment and develop a record of experience judging trials that students cannot.

Under the current system, students can appeal their case to the Dean of the College, so the Dean, not the Honor Committee, makes the final decision. But students should not run the investigations or make

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Writing Center, and deans and directors of study in the residential colleges. We encourage all students to familiarize themselves with “Rights, Rules, Responsibilities” (section 2.4.6) and “Academic Integrity at Princeton.”

As we move into the last quarter of the academic year, when students face many papers and other assignments, we’re happy to take this opportunity to clarify University citation expectations and to underscore the importance of careful and honest scholarship.

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als. It stigmatizes queer and genderqueer people by forcing them to publicly declare gender status, assuming that their sex aligns with their gender identity, and assuming that individuals feel most comfortable living with others “of their own sex.” Gender-inclusive housing is actually an equalizer, as it dislocates gender from its position as the primary determinant of living situations.

The Board is concerned that students who check the “gender-neutral” box on their housing form won’t know what that entails.

It recommends that these students “receive written notice that expressing the preference or need for such housing may result in sharing a multiple occupancy room with men, women, trans-men, trans-women, or any other students of any other gender identities.” But this extra step is off-putting and unnecessary, implying to recipients that their request is exceptional. The Board’s concerns would be better addressed by merely adding the disclaimer next to the gender options on the housing form.

Directors of Student Life at Princeton should not, as the Board suggests, automatically “place students who express need for gender-inclusive housing in

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even preliminary decisions.

The message the administration sends in letting undergraduates investigate cases and recommend punishments is that the cases are trivial enough to be used as practice.

Furthermore, having administrators judge cases of cheating does not undermine the Honor Code’s spirit of student enforcement. The Honor Code is student-enforced to emphasize that students are trusted to do the right thing when doing the wrong thing is easy: we are trusted not to cheat when there are no professors in the exam room and we are trusted to report cheating when it’s easier to say nothing. But judging the trial of a student is not as clear-cut as deciding not to cheat. I trust the Committee members to do the right thing even when it’s hard, but I don’t trust them to discern what the right decision is.

Administrators already investigate most cases of cheating. While the Honor

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Committee handles cases of cheating during exams, the Faculty-Student Committee on Discipline handles all other academic violations.

The Committee is comprised of students, administrators, and faculty. Administrators lead the investigations and the Dean of Undergraduate Students serves as chair.

The Committee on Discipline should handle all cases of cheating because the students on the Committee ensure that undergrads are represented, while the administrators contribute their experience and judgment to the trial. The decision to suspend or expel a student is serious. It shouldn’t be used as practice.

Bhaskar Roberts is sophomore electrical engineering major from Buffalo, N.Y. He can be reached at bhaskarr@princeton.edu.

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Letter to the Editor: Expand Honor Committee Membership

Carolyn Liziewski and Elizabeth Haile Guest Contributors

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he defining feature of the University’s Honor Code and Honor Committee is its legacy of student ownership. The Committee is entirely student-run, differentiating it from other disciplinary bodies at Princeton and other universities.

The Committee’s responsibilities are twofold: we act as both investigators and adjudicators for alleged Honor Code violations. Every step of the process, from report to investigation to hearing, is entirely student-directed.

To respond to the increased demand we have faced to investigate and adjudicate cases in a timely manner, we have internally passed an amendment to expand Honor Committee membership to fifteen undergraduate students for

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e appreciated the feedback from the recent opinion piece on the Frist Campus Center Ticket Office. This input is very helpful and Jared Shulkin ’20 made some great points. With changing technology and customer needs, it is important for our services to evolve. The good news is that we contin-

the 2017-2018 academic year.

We believe that increasing membership is an important step to further our ability to fairly investigate and adjudicate cases while preserving the legacy of the University’s Honor Code.

Fair hearings and decisions depend on conducting thorough investigations.

These investigations are comprehensive, typically necessitating the collection of testimony about examination room environments from faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates.

The richness of this testimony depends on the promptness of investigations, so timeliness is a matter of fairness for the Committee.

Further, investigations have become more complex due to smartphones. Collecting and interpreting evidence related to phone use often requires investigators to spend more time on an in-

vestigation.

We also believe the Committee should be representative of the student body.

Accordingly, we value having members who are engaged in the community in ways beyond service to the Committee. Our current members serve as class presidents, RCAs, varsity athletes, musicians, actors, debaters, and student activists. We are also dedicated students concentrating in departments across the University.

Our ability to remain engaged in the organizations and positions on campus that contribute to our diversity of backgrounds and perspectives depends on our ability to balance these organizations and positions against our Honor Committee responsibilities, which are our highest priority when we investigate alleged violations. We have found

that our current number of members, which is twelve, eleven of whom may investigate alleged violations, requires us to frequently prioritize our Honor Committee responsibilities over our other contributions to the community.

The three additional members of the Honor Committee will be appointed from the student body at large. At the start of each academic year, two first-year students will be appointed as firstyear representatives to the Committee. The amendment, which was unanimously approved by the members of the Committee, will not alter the Committee’s quorum for a hearing, which is seven members.

The Undergraduate Student Government Senate will vote on the amendment this Sunday, April 16, at 5:00 p.m.

Expanded membership of

the Committee provides an opportunity to increasingly promote student voices in the Committee’s work. The Honor Code and the Honor Committee are of the students, for the students, and by the students. Their continued relevancy and success depends on students taking an active role in shaping the Code and the Committee. Accordingly, we strongly encourage students who are interested in the Committee’s work and impact on this campus to consider applying for service on the Committee. We welcome and look forward to discussion of the Committee’s proposal in the coming weeks.

Sincerely, Carolyn Liziewski ’18, Honor Committee Chair Elizabeth Haile ’19, Honor Committee Clerk

Letter to the Editor: “The Frist Ticket Office” ue to develop our support and explore ways that we can improve service. However, we need to do a better job of communicating the capabilities of the current services while we enhance systems and processes.

In 2015, University Ticketing implemented a new ticketing system, which is helping us expand services for the University community. With the new system, University students, faculty, and staff can log in on-

line, access special pricing and offers, and utilize Passport to the Arts vouchers.

In addition, tickets can be printed at home and used on mobile devices.

The majority of tickets for campus events are available online. Sometimes events are not available online at the request of the presenter or because of special distribution plans. With regard to the residential college event trips, University Ticketing is exploring options with

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the residential colleges to provide more of these ticket offerings online. We hope to begin rolling out an online pilot program with some of the colleges this fall.

Also in the fall, University Ticketing is launching a new ticket office in the Arts and Transit complex.

Our plan is to provide the University community with a host of online, in-person, and phone options for accessing tickets that are convenient and helpful.

We greatly appreciate the input and are committed to improving our service through technology and service excellence. We also appreciate and are proud of our excellent student worker staff, which provides exceptional service at box offices and venues throughout the campus.

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Sports

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No. 13 Tigers face tough loss against Lehigh Mountain Hawks

By Claire Coughlin Associate Sports Editor

The No. 13 Princeton Men’s Lacrosse Team (74) traveled to the Ulrich Sports Complex in Bethlehem, Pa. to match up against the Lehigh University Mountain Hawks (6-5) on Tuesday. Lehigh’s defense proved stronger than the Tigers’ third-highestscoring offense, holding them to just 10 goals — five less than its average entering the game. The win marked Lehigh’s second win in the last three years against Princeton, both of which happened against a nationally-ranked Tigers roster.

Lehigh had the game from the start, scoring five unanswered goals in the first quarter. Princeton netted its first with 57 seconds left in the quarter, with freshman attack Michael Sowers assisting senior attack Gavin McBride.

In the second half, it looked like the Tigers could make a comeback, but the first half ’s 9-goal deficit was too difficult to overcome. Their second goal was an unassisted point from junior attack Riley Thompson, which was followed by Princeton scoring five of the six goals that followed. Less than a minute into the fourth, McBride brought the score to 11-8, but this was the closest the Tigers would get to the Mountain Hawks.

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The No. 13 Princeton Men’s Lacrosse Team lost to the Lehigh Mountain Hawks in Bethlehem, PA

Despite the loss, the game was record breaking for some, as Sowers broke Kevin Lowe’s 26-year-old school record for points by a freshman with a one-goal, three-assist night. Sowers started the night tied with Lowe, a current Hall of Famer, but now he has four more points than Lowe

with a total of 59. Sowers is also expected to break the record for goals scored by a freshman as he is currently tied with 2010 record holder Mike Chanenchuk at 28.

Princeton is going to have to brush this loss off its shoulders in order to prepare for the last three games of the season. The Ti-

gers will begin play against three Ivy League teams with a game on Saturday at Dartmouth, followed by a home game against Harvard and then a trip up to Cornell. As a result of this loss, the Tigers’ chance for an at-large bid is now at risk, so the team will be looking to guarantee a spot

in the Ivy League Men’s Lacrosse Tournament and give themselves a shot to play into May. Saturday’s game will be at Scully-Fahey Field in Hanover, NH at 12 p.m.

EST and will be available to watch on the Ivy League Digital Network.

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pionship approaches. The Princeton squad finished top among the Ivy League teams in the invitational.

Furthermore, the Tigers opened the month of April with an impressive firstplace finish at the Harvard Invitational, narrowly edging out Boston University by four strokes in what would be a historic performance.

Indeed, the Princeton team managed to tie the program’s three-round score record with a score of 894. This was also the first time that any Princeton squad finished under 300 in every round.

Last season, the Crimson took the Ivy League title, beating second-place Princeton by 13 shots. While the Tigers have been a competitive team, being the runners-up for the last four years, the team has not won an Ivy League title since 2005. However, with a historic performance at the Harvard Invitational and a strong showing this week, the Tigers look poised for another strong performance at this year’s Ivy League tournament.

The Ivy League Women’s Golf Championship tournament will begin Friday, April 21.

Women’s Golf grabs the bronze at the George Hoya Invitational Sports Editor

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Women’s Golf came in third behind the University of South Florida and Georgetown at their invitational

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The women’s golf team opened this week with a third-place finish at the Hoya Invitational. The Tigers rallied from a slow start to grab bronze behind the University of South Florida and Georgetown who placed first and second respectively. The USF Bulls won the tournament at +35, beating the Bulldogs by 10 shots and the Tigers by 11.

Princeton came into the tournament the defending champions. While the Tigers struggled early in the first round, they managed to find their rhythm early in the second. Heading into the final round on Tuesday, Princeton had managed to rise from sixth to third, shaving 11 shots off its firstround score.

However, the Tigers were unable to close any distance between them and South Florida, who had already claimed the number one spot at the tournament.

While this was not the result they were hoping for, the Tigers’ solid performance gives them plenty to look forward to as the Ivy League Women’s Golf Cham-

Stat of the Day

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Freshman attack Michael Sowers broke Kevin Lowe’s 26-year-old lacrosse school record for points by a freshman.

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