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Monday may 12, 2014 vol. cxxxviii no. 64

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In Opinion

Today on Campus 4:30 P.M.: Cornell professor Christine Shoemaker will discuss geological carbon sequestration in a Highlight Seminar. Computer Science Building 104.

The Archives

May 12, 1975 Over a thousand University community members attended a “Poe-Pourri” that included beer, fried chicken and performances by jazz, rock and country bands on Poe Field.

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News & Notes Lansky to retire after 45 years at Princeton

music professor Paul Lansky will retire this month. Lansky was one of the first composers to choose a machine as his main instrument, having specialized in computer music since 1973, NJ.com reported. Initially a French horn player and guitarist, he began digitally composing on an IBM mainframe with one megabyte of memory in the 1960s. Much of his work involved reprocessing everyday sounds such as speech. “It was a way to experiment with sounds and a way to try things that instruments couldn’t do,” he said. Lansky joined the faculty 45 years ago. He explained that he thought he should stop teaching at the end of this year to make way for younger people. In retirement, he plans to continue composing, travel and relax. The University will host a concert in honor of Lansky at Taplin Auditorium on Saturday at 8 p.m. The event will include a performance of his piece “Book of Memory.”

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Class of 2018 yield revised, now higher By Corinne Lowe staff writer

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Azza Cohen explains the importance of using our education to help others, and Bennett McIntosh talks about recent protests at Rutgers University. PAGES 5-6

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CLASS YEAR SHIRLEY ZHU :: DESIGN EDITOR

The University’s yield for the freshman class has been increasing after a jump with the Class of 2016.

The yield has increased since the University reinstated an early admission round. Following an announcement Thursday, the University has revised its official yield rate for the Class of 2018, increasing it to 69.2 percent, which actually marks a slight increase from last year’s yield of 68.7 percent. Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye explained in an interview Friday that the number

provided to The Daily Princetonian on Thursday — a yield of 67.4 percent — did not include Bridge Year students. The Thursday number was provided by University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua and was also reported by the University Press Club. Each year, around 35 students defer their enrollment for one year to participate in the Bridge Year Program, a University-sponsored gap year program. The Class of 2018 will include 35 students who See YIELD page 4

ACADEMICS

Class of 2017 BSEs declare concentrations By Do-Hyeong Myeong staff writer

While B.S.E. departments did not have significant changes in the numbers of freshmen who declared this year, computer science and Operations Research and Financial Engineering were the two most popular major choices for Class of 2017 B.S.E. students. Official numbers will be released on Monday morning. The numbers reported for this article were obtained using College Facebook. Computer science, with 84 concentrators, had six more concentrators than last year and was the engineering department with the largest enrollment this year. Department chair Andrew Appel noted that the computer science department has grown consistently over the past 10 years, attributing its increase to the growing importance of computer science in modern society. “Whether they go out find a job in business world … or whether they go into some scientific or scholarly field, computer science has great applications in many of those fields,” Appel said. “Another reason, I think, is that our introductory courses are taught very well, there are interesting and challenging materials, we have a lot of support for the students.” Evelyn Ding ’17 said that she chose to concentrate in computer science because of the department’s strong support system and the fact that the skills can be applied to many fields. The department with the second-highest See ENGINEERING page 4

HANNAH MILLER :: SENIOR GRAPHICS DESIGNER

The most popular BSE department in the Class of 2017 was computer science. The second most popular department was ORFE.

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Who can use the ‘Princeton’ name? By Sharon Deng staff writer

Colleen McCullough ’12 was contacted this March by University officials who told her that Princeton in the Middle East, the post-graduate fellowship program she had founded along with other University alumni, would have to remove the “Princeton in” construction from its name because it suggested that the independently established organization had an affiliation to the University and thus created confusion. PriME is one of many outside organizations that have fallen into the gray area as to whether or not they should be allowed to use the word Princeton in their name. University General Counsel Peter McDonough said the University decides whether an organization can use the Princeton name on a case-by-case basis. Sometimes the University

evaluates an organization and finds its use of the Princeton name to be legitimate, while other times, as with PriME, it has chosen to step in to ensure that no confusion regarding an association with the University arises. For example, the Princeton Club of New York is a private club founded in 1899 that offers social events, rooms for overnight stay and fitness facilities for its members. Although it is independent of the University, its membership is restricted to University alumni, faculty and students, as well as alumni of select universities such as Columbia University and Williams College. “We are fine with there being an association in the public’s mind between Princeton Club of New York and the University, so we don’t think there is any likelihood of confusion because we are fine with that,” McDonough said. See NAME page 3

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STUDENT LIFE

CPS denies existence of USG discusses ‘watch list’ of students Honor Code By Jacob Donnelly staff writer

Counseling and Psychological Services does not maintain a “watch list” of students of concern that it shares with the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, CPS director Calvin Chin and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Students Michael Olin said at a dialogue about mental health evaluations between students and administrators Friday afternoon. The dialogue followed an initial dialogue that took place on Tuesday. The Tuesday discussion emphasized that CPS does not share information about its conversations with students with ODUS and that students are not required to follow treatment recommendations to gain readmittance. U-Councilor Zhan OkudaLim ’15 had asked about the existence of a “watch list” at the meeting on Friday because of a 2007 Princeton Alumni

Weekly article in which former Director of University Health Services Daniel Silverman said that CPS regularly shared information about students with ODUS. John Kolligian, the current Director of UHS, explained that Silverman may have been “trumping up” more limited lists after the Virginia Tech massacre that CPS maintains to allay fears about a mass shooting, saying that there has not been such a “watch list” during his 10 years as CPS director and UHS director at the University. Silverman may have been referring to two sorts of scenarios, Kolligian added. The first is a list of students of concern in support groups for internal CPS use only and the other is the formal evaluation process in which ODUS, based on information brought to its attention by students, residential college advisors or residential college See CPS page 2

protocols

By Sheila Sisimit staff writer

While approving members of the Honor Committee and Committee on Discipline, the Senate debated some of these groups’ practices in its final meeting of the year on Sunday night. Under current protocol, members of the Honor Committee contact students to meet with the committee but do not inform students of whether they are being called in because they are suspects or witnesses. U-Council chair Elan Kugelmass ’14 raised the idea that students should be informed of their position as soon as possible in order to ensure their rights are protected. “When we’re trying to build a system on trust … it doesn’t make sense that we would treat all students with some kind of See MEETING page 3


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