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Former NAACP president Benjamin Jealous to join Wilson School in fall

By Annie Yang news editor

Rouse added that in making appointments, she does so in response to academic needs or curricular fit; if the individual and the necessary funding are available, then Rouse invites the person to join the faculty.

When the Wilson School first reached out to Jealous, he was unavailable, as he was just stepping down from his position at the NAACP, Rouse said.

A little while later, he became more interested in being part of an academic institution, so the discussion over his appointment started up again.

Rouse encourages students to reach out to Jealous when he arrives on campus next year.

“What we hope he’ll bring is somebody who will certainly understand issues of racial justice and social justice, somebody who understands mobilizing groups of people to certainly serve the interest of

those who have been less advantaged — people of color certainly,” she said.

One of the courses Jealous may be teaching in the fall is America 2050: Building Democracy for a Nation with No Racial Majority, she added.

“It’s really about, how does one work in a diverse, divided society?” Rouse asked.

According to Rouse, Jealous is interested in the social impact of entrepreneurial startups in generating social change. Many students are interested in these newer, non-traditional mechanisms as modes of change.

The title of the courses Jealous may teach have not been finalized since Jealous’ appointment only went through last week; however, another course that Jealous is interested in teaching might be entitled Smart, Safe and Right: InvolvSee JEALOUS page 3

Benjamin Jealous, currently a partner at Kapor Capital, looks to focus on issues of racial justice and activism at the U. this fall.

Benjamin Jealous will join the Wilson School of Public and International Affairs as the John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs & Co. Visiting Professor and Visiting Lecturer in Public and International Affairs next fall, according to Dean of the Wilson School Cecilia Rouse.

Jealous is a former president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and is currently a partner at Kapor Capital working on social impact startups.

“We are thrilled that he will be joining us; he will be joining us for a three year term — we hope it will be longer,” Rouse said, adding that a stay of longer than three years would give Jealous the opportunity to be more entrenched in the University community.

LOCAL NEWS

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Council candidate accuses Lempert of conflict of interest

Christies to join coalition of delegates supporting Trump

By Amber Park contributor

Princeton council candidate Anne Neumann publicly confronted Princeton Mayor Liz Lempert on her conflict of interest with the University during Monday night’s council meeting.

Neumann noted that Lempert’s husband, Kenneth Norman, is employed by the University and works in the Department of Psychology as well as in the Princeton Neuroscience Institute. This connection would impact any mayoral decisions that involves the University, Neumann said.

Neumann said a conversation with the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs on April 11 brought up the Local Government Ethics Law “No local government officer… shall act in his official capacity in any matter where he [or] a member of his immediate family… has a direct or indirect financial or personal involvement that might reasonably be expected to impair his objectivity or independence of judgment,” she said, citing the law.

Lempert said she did not find legitimacy in Neumann’s suggestion of the conflict of interest.

She added that she is unaware of why Neumann is levying these allegations against her.

“My husband is a tenured professor at the University. I’m completely open about that. I recuse myself when required. I ask for and follow the advice of our municipal attorney,” Lempert said.

She said that she was not the first mayor to be married to a professor and have a University connection. Lempert added that

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many residents have some degree of involvement with the University and that the town and University have many aligned interests. She further noted that she would most likely not be the last either, as Princeton is traditionally a college town.

“The town would not be the same without the University, and the University would not be the same if it were situated in a different community,” she said.

Neumann said that the mayor should certainly recuse herself from any participation in any matter likely either to benefit or to harm the University. She added that despite this conflict of interest, Lempert continues to hold private meetings with the University, which concern the aesthetics of the sidewalks and other public infrastructure on Nassau Street.

She said these meetings, which were formerly open to the public, are now private. She said this is an example of how Lempert strives for the University to benefit the town, rather than the other way around, because Lempert hopes that the University will contribute financially to the downtown’s renovation.

“The University does not always behave with the town’s interests at heart. It acts as a corporation for its own benefits. [The University] has a long history of conflict with the town’s interests,” Neumann said.

Neumann said that Princeton pays an annual tax of roughly $2.5 million, which is much less than if the University were not categorized as a non-profit and thus made tax exempt. This issue is currently being addressed See LEMPERT page 3

The editorial board advocates for the preservation of a part of the Princeton battlefield from development by the Institute for Advanced Studies, and guest contributor Justin Ziegler presents updates to six aspects of the University’s disciplinary process. PAGE 4

By Kevin Agostinelli contributor

Andrew Christie ’16 has joined the growing coalition of New Jersey Republican delegates supporting businessman Donald Trump for the Republican Presidential Nomination.

In the upcoming New Jersey Republican Primary on Tuesday, June 7, Andrew Christie will be one of 12 at-large delegates — delegates chosen by official Republican state committee members — who are backing the New York businessman for president.

On that same list of at-large delegates is Andrew Christie’s father and current New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, an exofficio trustee of the Univer-

sity, as well as former members of Christie’s senior staff.

Andrew Christie did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Trump’s campaign office in New Jersey did not respond to requests for comment.

11 of New Jersey’s twenty-one Republican county chairs are also on the list of delegates for Trump, both as district delegates and alternate delegates.

This notice follows Christie’s announcement in February that he would be endorsing Trump for the Republican presidential nomination and that he would be encouraging other Republican political leaders in New Jersey to do likewise.

New Jersey is a “winner-takeall state,” which means that the

majority winner of the Republican primary will receive the state’s entire district and atlarge delegates. Additionally, three state party leaders — in New Jersey’s case the state party chair and the national committeeman and committeewoman — will be bound delegates to the Republican National Convention in July, where they will necessarily pledge their support to the winner of New Jersey’s Republican primary.

Dan Cassino, associate professor of political science at Fairleigh Dickinson University, said he is not at all surprised by the announcement that New Jersey’s 12 at-large delegates are all supporting Donald Trump.

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LECTURE

Exhibit features civilian torture and execution by the Syrian government

By Rachel Glenn contributor

Thirty graphic photographs and five panelists highlighted the horrors of civilian torture under Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in an exhibit and a panel on Thursday.

The explicit photographs on display were just thirty of over 55,000 photographs that make up a traveling exhibition known as “The Caesar Project,” according to a press release by the Wilson School. Released publicly in January 2014, the Caesar Project is a group of photographs taken by a Syrian

military police officer and forensic photographer who, under the pseudonym “Caesar,” took pictures of detained prisoners in security branches in Syria.

These images capture the men, women and children who were imprisoned in Syrian detention facilities and who have been tortured and killed. Other than blurred faces to protect the privacy of the victims, the pictures graphically display the gruesome and shocking wounds, infections, whip marks, signs of starvation and other injuries suffered by the victims photographed at

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Military Hospital 601 in Mezze, Syria.

Each picture is captioned with a label of the victim’s gender, a series of numbers identifying the victim, as well as a reference to which of the four detention center branches the victim was killed in. These branches are the Department of Military Intelligence, the Political Security Directorate, the General Intelligence Directorate and the Air Force Intelligence Directorate.

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fill up those at-large delegates in each state with their own supporters,” Cassino said, “The [New Jersey Republican] State Party is picking the at-large delegates at these very smokefilled backrooms with few people attending… and because Chris Christie is the leader of the New Jersey Republican Party, he can control whom these delegates work for.”

Cassino said that the State Party’s appointment of Andrew Christie and other firm Trump supporters as at-large delegates “smacks of crony-ism,” but the noted that this is simply how delegates are typically set up.

Cassino also added that atlarge delegates at the RNC are forced to pledge their vote for Trump in the overall presidential election but have total freedom to vote either way on “rules votes.” In these votes, which propose changes in the rules within the Republican Party Election process, those delegates who may be pledged to Trump but do not actually support him as president could vote for rules that would prevent Trump’s nomination.

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someone as loyal as possible because the other side is going to do anything to entice these delegates to go against Trump at the RNC,” he explained.

Regarding Chris Christie’s controversial endorsement of Donald Trump in the first place, Stanley Katz, professor in public affairs at the Wilson School, noted that the governor’s support of Trump is a sign that Chris Christie has seen the writing on the wall with his time in New Jersey.

“We have to assume that [Chris Christie] understands that his political career in New Jersey is all over,” Katz said.

“Christie has been a disaster as Governor of New Jersey not only because he has been here so little, but also because he promised to solve the economic problems of the state and they’ve only gotten worse under his governorship.”

Katz reasoned that due to what appears to be a dearth of political avenues left for Chris Christie, he decided to endorse someone who may, as a potential President of the United States, offer the New Jersey governor a federal appointment.

Katz is in fact unsure of how exactly Chris Christie will even benefit Trump’s campaign.

“I think it’s very hard to see

that the governor represents a distinctive political stance within the Republican Party at this point… it’s just hard to see what he adds,” Katz said.

In the 2016 election cycle, New Jersey will be sending 51 delegates to the Republican National Convention: 10 at-large delegates, three Republican Party leaders, 36 Congressional district delegates and two bonus delegates.

During this primary stage prior to the RNC, each state is allocated 10 “at-large delegates.”

If any at-large delegate is unable to attend the Convention, an alternate delegate will take his or her place. Three Republican leaders in that state will also be awarded a delegate seat, and each state will also receive three “district delegates” for every Congressional district in the state, regardless of the party to which the Congressman in that district belongs.

Finally, each state is granted “bonus delegates” based upon the number of elected Republican officials in state and federal positions, and upon the results of the previous presidential elections in each state.

Because of this system, states that have a record of being the most right-leaning will generally be awarded the most Republican delegates.

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panelists Jacob Shapiro, Mouaz Moustafa, David Pollock, Deborah Amos and Adam Entous noted during the panel after the exhibit. Moustafa and Pollock discussed their personal relationship to the events that took place in Syria and how these events were communicated to the public after the fact, while Amos and Entous discussed political reactions to this situation.

Moustafa, executive director for the Syrian Emergency Task Force and United for a Free Syria, was born in Damascus and grew up under the Assad regime.

“Growing up there, I remember, even if we made a joke about Assad in our house, we whispered,” Moustafa said.

“That’s a huge amount of fear.”

Moustafa explained how the first eight to nine months of the start of the Syrian war began with peaceful protests of civilians seeking rights they believed they deserved, which resulted in the government’s creation of torture chambers and “slaughterhouses,” where tortures have been taking place since 2011.

Moustafa noted information about Caesar, the photographer in question, who he said was originally called in to a military hospital in Damascus and was labeled as having had an “accident.” During his time there, Moustafa added, Caesar captured pictures of fifteen

people who had been tortured to death. Although Caesar did not want to be part of what was going on, Moustafa explained how Caesar bravely stayed to document these events with pictures for another two and a half years before eventually escaping to the United States to release the evidence at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Pollock, a Kaufman Fellow at the Washington Institute, explained that his exposure to Syria in 2012 as an EnglishArabic translator for refugees and activists opened his eyes to what Caesar had captured in his photographs.

“I had seen my share of horrors, and there were times during that two-week assignment when I literally just could not go on,” Pollock said.

Pollock said he was first exposed to the reality of living conditions in Syria through a bilingual Arabic and English blog, called Fikra, which moved him to see for himself what was happening. He noted some of the reasons why the United States has not been more involved in this issue so far, including those given by President Barack Obama and the United States government.

Arguments include a lack of a military solution, a belief that stepping into the situation might open up the regime for anarchy similar to what happened in Libya and a belief that Bashar al-Assad is useful in the fight against ISIS. However, Pollock said that

he does not believe these reasons are valid and he believes that human rights violations in Syria are so widespread to the point that the United States should be involved.

Entous, a national security correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, said that the reason that the United States administration is not more involved in this issue is that they are stalling for time to eventually find a solution diplomatically, so as to avoid another situation similar to the Iraq war.

Amos, an international correspondent who covers the Middle East for NPR News, also added that the pictures were not released immediately out of concern for privacy and dignity of the dead.

The panelists also raised the question of how to deal with these widespread crimes, moving forward. While many difficult questions remain to be answered about sufficient funding, military strength and diplomatic readiness in order to come up with a solution to this issue, the panelists agreed that the situation needs to be immediately addressed.

“The war goes on and the atrocities continue,” Pollock added. “Even as we sit here right now, the pictures that Caesar took are being replicated in real life inside Assad’s prisons.”

The photos were on display in Shultz Dining Room in Robertson Hall between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m Thursday. The panel took place at in Dodds Auditorium of Robertson Hall at 4:30 p.m.

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Jealous to teach courses Lempert: My husband is a professor at on voting and civil rights the U. I’m completely open about that.

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ing American Justice, Rouse said. Another course he is interested in developing is Social Change Beyond Public Policy, Social Impacts and Startups.

The Wilson School faculty has also developed a portfolio of potential courses that Jealous would be comfortable with and interested in teaching.

Beyond teaching, Jealous will be part of the academic community and will engage with students to encourage them to participate in public events that the Woodrow Wilson School holds regularly.

Jealous said that the focus of his courses will be on topics including voter registration and the history of voter suppression. This includes looking at different periods of time from the past to the present, including the period of time after the Civil War and recent attempts by conservatives to suppress voter rights.

“It’s actually looking at the policies underlying the bipartisan consensus against mass incarceration and the opportunity for us to make our country safer by embracing what works,” Jealous said.

Jealous’ courses will also look at policy failures such as racial profiling; they will also highlight policy successes, such as the use of rehabilitation instead of incarceration.

He added that policy students need to understand what works and what does not work, and they need to understand at least 300 years of history in order to deal with the larger picture.

“We look at an issue like the ways of vote suppression, and if you only know 100 years of American history, then you know that it gets very similar to the end of Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow,” he said.

Jealous said if students understand more of American history, they will be better able to understand the dynamics around the exclusion of women and blacks from voting and job opportunities. Looking further back allows students to see why, at one point, leaders banned poor white men from voting and how similar this case is to the situation now, he added.

Jealous’ approach, finding what works and what does not, allows him to train activists, advocates and students. Making sure that students understand the history of similar problems in society also ensures that they will be informed about the most important aspects of the past and present, Jealous noted.

In light of the student protests that have taken place on campus and across the nation, Jealous said that students need to understand that their voices matter.

“Just because the cause is just doesn’t mean that winning is easy,” he added.

He said he encourages the students who protested in favor of removing the name of Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, from campus buildings to keep up the momentum until jus-

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tice is accomplished. He noted that there are many battles to rename schools being waged across the nation and that the key is to never give up.

Jealous said that as a Rhodes Scholar, he received a Master of Science in Comparative Social Research from the University of Oxford. As a sophomore at Columbia University, he was approached about a scholarship program for junior students with the Wilson School, which was his first contact with graduate school programs.

“In any idea in life, getting the idea started counts as much as any after that,” he said, referencing this important incident in his life.

Jealous said he is forever grateful to the Wilson School for inspiring him to pursue graduate and advanced studies in public policy, as well as Dean Rouse for welcoming him in.

“I look forward to being an engaged member of the faculty and an engaged member of the community,” he said.

The NAACP and the American Center for Progress did not respond to a request for comment.

News Editor Jessica Li contributed reporting.

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in a lawsuit that questions the University’s non-profit status.

“I and others favor a Special Improvement District, or SID, that would include the University,” she said. A SID would mean that the University would come to contribute annually and substantially — not just once — to downtown Princeton’s maintenance.

Neumann said that the relationship between Lempert and the University with regard to this beautification process of downtown Princeton is a reflection of an effort to establish goodwill in advance of the settlement the University will surely offer in lieu of continuing the lawsuit.

“The private task force I described might appear to people like me to be the University’s attempt to preempt a SID,” she said.

This lawsuit, whose parties are currently exploring mediation, makes any financial dealings with the University on [Lempert’s] part now especially illtimed. As Neumann campaigns for a position on the council this spring, she said she senses a new spirit of activism in Princeton in

opposition to unchecked development, including development by the University.

“Many of the Princetonians I’ve spoken to while campaigning believe, as I do, that the University has a history of making relatively small, occasional contributions to our town to avoid making larger, ongoing ones,” she added.

She first introduced the discussion on whether the University’s Butler tract should be rezoned as residential land at the council’s March 14 meeting.

Neumann added that the mayor should have not suggested delaying the rezoning until November or December.

“That is, development is governed by ordinances in effect when developers submit applications, not when a municipality decides on them… it would not be unreasonable to assume, given notice of a delay in rezoning the Butler tract, that the University could make alternate plans for the Butler tract and submit an application before the site is rezoned,” she said, citing the timeof-application rule in the state of New Jersey.

According to Neumann, the University has already mentioned using the Butler tract temporarily for event parking, in or-

der to delay the rezoing process.

However, Lempert says she has never felt any type of pressure from the University to regulate certain situations in favor of the school.

“The relationship between the two entities has had its ups and downs over the years,” Lempert said.

She added that there are always going to be areas of disagreement and areas of common purpose between the municipality and the University.

“The important thing is to have good communication and a relationship of understanding and respect,” she said.

Neumann said Lempert knows that the role of mayor entails being first among equals, both on the Princeton Township Committee as well as in New Jersey’s township form of government.

“But [Lempert] is a mayor of a consolidated Princeton under New Jersey’s borough form of government, the so-called weak mayor/strong council form,” she said.

Neumann said she would like to see Lempert step back from the downtown task force and step down from the dais when the University is the point of discussion.

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n important, yet often forgotten, historical site in the United States is just around the corner from the University, beyond the Graduate College: the Princeton Battlefield.

The battlefield is the site of George Washington’s victory over the British Army in January 1777, in a battle that set the course for the Continental Army’s eventual victory in the Revolutionary War. Today, the preservation of the field is threatened due to the purchase of a portion of it, Maxwell’s Field, by the Institute for Advanced Studies.

The IAS intends to develop faculty housing on the plot. The Board calls upon IAS to sell the land to a non-profit for the purposes of historical preservation and build housing elsewhere.

In November of 1776, George Washington’s Continental Army was encamped beyond the Delaware River in Pennsylvania, vastly outnumbered by its British and Hessian adversaries. In early January of the following year, days after defeating the Hessians at Trenton, Washington marched his army around the British flank to attack the rearguard at Princeton. During the battle, Washington personally rallied two brigades and led them in a charge, exposing himself to a volley from merely 30 yards away. This unlikely victory demoralized the British Army, led to the liberation of southern New Jersey and changed the course of the Revolutionary War. Due to the Battle of Princeton’s historical importance, part of the battlefield is preserved by a state park. Some of it, though, is not — Maxwell’s Field, the site of Washing-

ton’s charge, is to be bulldozed to make room for faculty housing at the IAS. Given the IAS’s devotion to scholarship, including the study of history, the Board is disappointed that the organization is willing to bulldoze a site that is of considerable historical importance both to the United States and to Princeton University. The issue is not funding. The Civil War Trust, a nonprofit dedicated to the preservation of historical battlefields, has offered to buy the land for nearly 40 percent more than market value.

It is understandable that organizations such as the IAS should have master plans for land use to maximize efficiency. However, the Board believes that such plans should be subordinate to historical considerations in this particular case since the IAS can sell the land at well above market value and purchase a similar plot elsewhere. The Board does not call upon the University or any governmental authority to use coercive measures to force IAS to relinquish land. Rather, it calls upon IAS to recognize the importance of preservation and sell the land to the Civil War Trust.

On a practical level, construction on Maxwell’s Field would obfuscate future efforts to study the military history of the Battle of Princeton. Military history relies heavily on the study of topographical features, and the preservation of battle sites would allow for future generations of historians to better understand and critique the works of previous ones.

More importantly, preservation of the en-

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tirety of the Princeton Battlefield provides a memorial to a conflict that shaped human history and to the soldiers who fought there.

In the past, the Board has repeatedly called for a nuanced understanding of history as a means of reconciling differences in the present. Preservation of the Princeton Battlefield does not entail cordoning off the land.

Leaving the entirety of the battlefield in the hands of a non-profit, as opposed to private residences, would allow more Americans to engage with and learn from this event.

The creation and preservation of historic sites plays a critical role in furthering public understanding and appreciation of our nation’s history. Though not all historic sites of comparable importance are preserved, the IAS should not turn down the opportunity to preserve the site.

By exercising restraint, the IAS would send a powerful signal that the events that took place on Maxwell’s Field almost 250 years ago merit commemoration through preservation. Rather than build faculty housing, IAS should allow Maxwell’s Field to be a resource for understanding the origins of the United States. Future faculty members may have to endure a short bus ride in order to get to work, but future generations of Americans will have access to a historical site key to their heritage.

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In favor of disciplinary reform

cademic integrity is a bedrock value of Princeton University — and something that should be held to a very high standard. We are an institution that values learning foremost, and guiding pedagogical principles are endowed in everything that we do. We, current and former members of the Honor Committee and the Chair of the Peer Representatives, do not believe that our current disciplinary system upholds the values of this University as best as it could. The University can better fulfill its institutional objectives and make Princeton a better place through a more compassionate system of discipline.

Princeton’s system of discipline should always be representative of community values. While our current system is not broken, several areas need substantial rethinking.

We are proposing reform and redefinition in six main areas: mental health, precedent, intent, self-incrimination, severity and type of punishments.

Mental health: It is very difficult to evaluate a case when a matter of mental health has been raised. Currently, there is no policy as to how mental health should be factored into deciding cases.

The extent to which a severe stressor or mental health disorder should be considered as a mitigating factor is unclear. However, it is clear that not accounting for mental health issues is systematically unfair to students facing the disciplinary committees, as this leads to the committee neglecting to consider factors that could reduce culpability. Our community needs to devise a way to fairly take into consideration mental health issues that influence academic and non-academic infractions.

Precedent: When a committee is deliberating on a certain case, it is able to review precedent, or information from relevant past cases. Reference to and application of precedent has been incon-

sistent during the years we have served on the Honor Committee, especially in regard to mental health issues. This likely stems from the fact that there is no formal way for the Honor Committee to review its previous decisions. While the Committee on Discipline does have a standardized way of reviewing precedent, its review process is problematic.

Students and faculty on the Committee on Discipline are not able to view precedent outside of the cases they personally adjudicated. They are only provided with precedent on certain cases, and that precedent is provided by the administration. We think all involved in the process would benefit if summaries of past cases were more accessible.

Intent: The system of discipline needs to re-evaluate the role intent plays in deciding punishment. In our training as members of the Committee on Discipline and Honor Committee, we are told that “intent can never be factored into our decisions.” Not only is that not true in virtually all judicial and quasi-judicial systems, there have been indications that committees in the past fairly incorporated intent into their judgments. After all, the wording of the Honor Constitution is clear: violations of the Honor Code are an attempt to gain an unfair advantage.

Self-incrimination: The Honor Committee has recently inaugurated a system in which an investigator immediately tells the student in question that they are under investigation. We believe that this is an important change that helps protect a student’s right to not self-incriminate. Since the Committee on Discipline has not adopted this practice, they are not bound to inform the student whether they are a witness to or the subject of an investigation while interviewing them. The right to be informed of one’s status in an investigation is a hallmark of virtually every other judicial system in

the world, and Princeton’s system of discipline should incorporate this.

Severity of punishments: The severity and gradation of punishments needs to be reconsidered. Under the current system, the Honor Committee assesses a standard punishment when a student is found guilty of an academic violation without extenuating circumstances, no matter how minor and without consideration of intent. The standard punishments are harsh — two-semester suspension for a first violation and expulsion for a second. While the Committee on Discipline has more flexibility in levying less severe punishments, we believe the standard punishments are too frequently levied for minor offenses in both committees. The successful introduction of a lesser baseline punishment for writing overtime during an examination in 2014 proves that finer gradations of punishments have merit. We should continue to consider other finer gradations of punishment, including one-semester suspensions and course failure.

Although one-semester punishments are currently not an option due to the current University curriculum, we believe its possibility should be reconsidered.

Type of punishments: If punishments in the University’s disciplinary system are intended to be punitive and rehabilitative, there needs to be a shift of emphasis towards the latter. We need to consider how we can reframe our punishments to be more compassionate, and we should aim towards rehabilitating offending students, drawing from aspects of restorative justice. For example, mandatory attendance of a crash course on academic integrity could be part of a lesser punishment for students who unknowingly violated a rule. In addition, while the University provides support to students that are required to withdraw from the University, that support needs to be bolstered to better ensure success when they return.

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It’s time for the University to reform its system of discipline and incorporate a more compassionate system focused on the rehabilitative nature of punishment. The current application of our rules too frequently results in harsh punishments for minor infractions.

We believe there are systematic ways of adding nuance to our system that will make our discipline system more just.

Signed, Justin Ziegler ’16, Senior Class President & Honor Committee Member Nicholas Horvath ’17, Former Clerk of the Honor Committee Ali Akram Hayat ’16, Chair of the Peer Representatives Joseph Obiajulu ’17, Former Member of the Honor Committee Editor’s Note: The Honor Committee is an all-student body that deals only with infractions pertaining to in-class examinations. The Committee on Discipline is a body comprised of students and faculty that oversees all other infractions, including non-academic violations, as outlined in “Rights, Rules, Responsibilities.”

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forced turnovers will be key to our success on Sunday.”

Another aspect of their game that the team hopes to focus on this weekend is the draw, which sophomore midfielder Ellie McNulty remarked is “the margin of victory in close games.”

The Big Red has achieved its fair share of success this season as well, as it is the only other team undefeated in the Ivy League besides Princeton. Having competed in one more game than the Tigers, Cornell has outplayed Yale, Columbia, Brown and Dartmouth so far. This year, the team has thrived on a balanced offense, boasting seven players with 15 or more points.

Cornell’s offense scored three more goals than Princeton against Maryland in the beginning of their season and one more against Dartmouth this past weekend, but Princeton’s defense is ready for a fight.

Both Hompe and McNulty agreed that Princeton’s

defensive unit has been the pivotal factor in its victories thus far. When asked about the team’s greatest strength, Hompe commented, “Anchored by the returning starter Ellie DeGarmo in cage, our defensive unit has been incredibly stingy while playing more aggressively than they have in past years, causing lots of turnovers and giving our offense lots of opportunities to score.”

Princeton is sweeping Cornell in the two teams’ overall series, with a 34-4 advantage in their all-time record, including a 20-year win streak from 1989-2009 and wins in the past three matchups. However, Cornell’s past two wins have come on Princeton’s home soil. Despite all the stats and numbers, the team is ready to treat this game like a championship. McNulty commented, “If we execute the game plan and play our hardest, we are confident we can win.”

Draw time is 12 p.m. on Sunday, April 17. The game will be covered by ESPN 3 as well as the Ivy League Digital Network.

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the Cornell squad is only one match away from setting a program record for most victories [in a season?]. Princeton has a little history on its side in this match-up: the Tigers have won 35 out of their total 37 encounters with Cornell since 1973. Nonetheless, Big Red will undoubtedly prove to be a challenge for the Orange and Black.

Making matters more complex, the Tigers are one of four teams chasing Columbia for the top spot.

Currently Princeton, Cornell and Penn are tied for second place, all within striking distance of league leader Columbia. Further-

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more, Yale can also make a comeback performance if they manage to win their next three games. In order to win outright Columbia will have to win their next two games or face the possibility of a shared title.

After stumbling against Harvard in a narrow loss to the Crimson, the Tigers will undoubtedly be looking to rebound this weekend when it matters most. The Tigers have been down this road before, as they have qualified for the NCAA in their last two seasons. Clearly, the Tigers know how to win, but this time Princeton will be facing an uphill battle.

Regardless of the outcome it seems that the season will be a thriller, not to be missed.

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Women’s lacrosse to take on Cornell as race for Ivy title continues

By Claire Coughlin contributor

The top four teams in the Ivy League standings for women’s lacrosse will square off against each other this weekend; among them are the Princeton Tigers. No. 11 Orange and Black will face off against No. 20 Cornell at home this Sunday, April 17.

After a tough loss against No.1 University of Maryland on Wednesday, the Princeton women’s lacrosse team is definitely looking to come back with a strong win. The Tigers are currently undefeated in the Ivy League and hope to maintain this status through the weekend. Although they’ve already achieved much success in their league by having beaten Dartmouth,

Harvard and Yale, the team remains humbled and focused on loftier goals. Junior midfielder and team captain Olivia Hompe said, “I think our team understands that even though we have won three Ivy games so far, each opponent we play proves a potent opponent, and we will be tested every step of the way.”

The Tiger’s strategy this weekend is all about consistency. The players have gained a lot of “resilience and backbone,” according to Hompe, from their past couple thrilling, one-goal victories, but they’re ready to compete in a steadier game. “Playing hard for the full 60 minutes on both halves of the field and not allowing Cornell the chance to capitalize on unSee W. LAX page 5

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The women’s lacrosse team will compete against No. 20 Cornell in a matchup of Ivy League powers.

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Women’s tennis to wrap up Ivy League play

By David Xin associate sports editor

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Women’s tennis will continue to battle for its position in the Ivy League.

The women’s tennis team has a busy week ahead of it as it wraps up the Ivy League Conference. The Tigers will open the week by hosting Columbia at home on Friday and will then get a day of rest before traveling to Ithaca to close conference play against Cornell.

These two games will be crucial for the Princeton squad, particularly the match against Columbia.

The Tigers (3-2 Ivy League, 11-9 overall) currently stand second in the Ancient Eight, one match behind the Lions (4-1, 14-5). Cornell (3-2, 147) is tied with Princeton in

second.

After their match against Columbia, Princeton will either fall three matches behind the Lions or tie them for a position atop the standings. The game against Big Red may prove equally pivotal if the Tigers fare well on Friday, as they will be trying to defend their position at the top of the table. With much of the season on the line, these next two games should not be missed.

Adding to the excitement is the rivalry between the two teams. Indeed, last year the Lions terminated Princeton’s twelve-game Ivy winning streak after winning 4-3 in New York. However,

while the Tigers lost their perfect Ivy season bid, they did not allow this to deter them as they beat Cornell in a tough match to clinch the title.

This year the roles seem reversed, with Columbia atop the table. The Lions will be looking to secure their Ivy Championship with a pair of wins over Princeton and Penn this weekend. However, a rally by the Princeton squad would tie up the conference and keep the group’s NCAA hopes alive.

The Tigers will then have to face Big Red, who are on the verge of a recordbreaking season. In fact, See W. TENNIS page 5

MEN’S TENNIS

Men’s tennis looks to rebound from losses to Harvard and Dartmouth in matches with Columbia and Cornell this weekend

By Miles Hinson sports editor emeritus

Fresh off of a difficult weekend on the road, the men’s tennis team will look to get back on track this Friday and Sunday, as they take on Columbia on the road and Cornell at the Lenz Tennis Center.

The Tigers (14-8 overall, 2-2 Ivy League), having started out strong in the first weekend with back-to-back wins against Brown and Yale, now find themselves in the middle of the conference standings. They took tough losses to Dartmouth and Harvard on the road, the Harvard loss particularly heartbreaking since Princeton took a quick lead by winning the doubles point early on.

“It is difficult to play on the road when there are relatively large crowds,” sophomore Benjamin Tso explained. “We knew going in they would be tough matches and that it would be a challenge to maintain our energy and positivity with all the

fans trying to rattle us. We competed hard both days, but unfortunately both matches didn’t fall our way.”

The two losses prove critical, as the Tigers are already more than halfway finished with league play. They are entering their last full weekend of Ivy League competition, currently at fourth place in the conference.

What’s more, they must take on league-leading Columbia, which remains perfect against its league foes at 5-0 and is coming off landslide victories against Yale and Brown last weekend.

Indeed, the Lions would need just one more victory in order to clinch the Ivy League title.

However, despite the tough results of the past weekend and the daunting task in front of them, the Tigers remain undaunted as the regular season nears its close.

“Even though the past weekend was disappointing, we’ve had a pretty good season and it’s in our hands to make the tournament. We need to win the last three matches, and that’s what

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we’ve been working in practice, getting ready mentally and physically for the last three matches,” sophomore Diego Vives commented. “I know that we’re going to push ourselves hard this Friday because making the tournament is what what we’ve been working [for] this whole season and beating Columbia would be a huge step in that direction.”

Indeed, while earning a share of an Ivy League title seems out of reach, the Tigers could put themselves in contention for an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament with a strong showing to end the season. It would be their second straight tournament berth – indeed, last year’s berth broke a 17-year streak of missing the tournament.

“We need to bounce back; I expect everyone to leave it all out there and hopefully we will end up with the at-large bid for the NCAA tournament,” Vives said.

The match against Columbia will begin at 2 p.m. on Friday, the Cornell match at 1 p.m. on Sunday.

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The men’s tennis team will look to bounce back this weekend.

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11th nationally The women’s lacrosse team is currently ranked 11th in the country.

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