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The Archives

Sept. 12, 1985 Professors organized a residential college seminar program to increase opportunities in the humanities and social sciences for the freshman class.

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The number of bikes to be offered in the new bike-share program.

News & Notes Hinners GS ’63, space race pioneer, dies

Noel W. Hinners GS ’63, one of the pioneers of NASA’s probe launches into space, died on Sept.

5 from cancer. He was 78.

Hinners completed his Ph.D. in geochemistry from the University in 1963, prior to dedicating his life to NASA. He served as a leading geologist and soil chemist at NASA for over 30 years, holding numerous appointments during that span of time.

He was involved in the Apollo program’s exploration of the moon in addition to overseeing the Mars Surveyor Program.

Prior to his retirement in 2002, he was the director of the National Air and Space Museum and directed the Goddard Space Flight Center. He retired as a third-ranked executive from NASA.

STUDENT LIFE

Student develops supplement to cure hangover

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By Ruby Shao staff writer

By night, students drink. By day, they struggle through hangovers in precepts and in athletic practices, among other places.

“You just kind of always hear people complaining about hangovers,” Brooks Powell ’16 said. “So, basically, at first I was thinking, ‘How great would it be if someone could invent a hangover cure?’ ” Powell, a member of the swim team, decided to do just that in mid-January. His product, Thrive+, is described on its website as “a patentpending hangover cure that protects your brain and body from the negative effects of alcohol while supplementing your body to break down alcohol’s toxic by-products.” The intended usage is to take three capsules after consuming alcohol. The product is sold in a bottle of 30 pills.

One of the main ingredients in Thrive+ is dihydromyricetin, also known as DHM, a flavonoid component of a Japanese raisin tree extract. The extract is used as a traditional hangover remedy in Oriental countries.

Powell came across a scholarly article about DHM while looking for dietary supplements that could be taken in a safe and sustainable way. The article, entitled “Dihydromyricetin As a Novel Anti-Alcohol Intoxication Medication,” appeared in The Journal of Neuroscience, which molecular biology and neuroscience professor Samuel Wang called one of the core journals in his field. According to Powell, the study found that after being injected with alcohol, rats that took DHM did not show the signs of hangovers that affected rats without DHM. Powell, who took Wang’s course NEU 101: Neuroscience and Everyday Life, approached his professor for help interpreting the study.

Wang explained that alcohol largely works on the brain by acting on the GABA receptor and that according to the article, DHM blocks alcohol’s effects on the GABA receptor and therefore on the brain.

“It looked like there was real scientific evidence for it, and so that was interesting to me because that made it different from other supSee THRIVE page 4

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STUDENT LIFE

Big Sibs partner school loses charter, shutdowns

By Jasmine Wang staff writer

The Princeton Big Sibs project, a program through which members of the Class of 2016 mentor lowincome students at City Invincible charter school in Camden, N.J., has been discontinued because City Invincible did not have its charter renewed. This was due to the fact that student test scores in the school were below those in the host district.

“It was pretty upsetting for us,”

Big Sibs co-chair Sofia Gomez ’16 said. “We’ve seen these kids’ drawings, exchanged emails, formed real connections with these kids. It was hard to realize that we probably wouldn’t be seeing them again.”

The news about the school’s shutdown was first made known to Class of 2016 president Justin Ziegler and the Big Sibs board in late May. After the news that there would no longer be a partnership with City Invincible was made official, the Big Sibs board notified members via email.

Ziegler explained that he and the

board have now entered a transition period, brainstorming and refocusing the project while communicating with groups associated with the PACE Center, such as Community House and the PrincetonBlairstown Center, a nearby group that has provided the University community with volunteering and service opportunities. Gomez said that while plans are not yet finalized, the project is most likely to partner with Community House due to its convenient location on See BIG SIBS page 3

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

ACADEMICS

Liu named new director

U. launches new study abroad program in Cuba

of U. center in Beijing

By Sharon Deng staff writer

Jin Liu was named the director of the new Princeton Center in Beijing and officially began her job working at the first administrative center abroad set up by the University in mid-July.

The center was approved by the trustees of the University in April last year and is under the administrative oversight of Diana Davies, the University’s vice provost for international initiatives.

Located on the campus of Tsinghua University, a top research university in China, the center offers assistance to

faculty on their collaborations with different Chinese partner universities and helps students with logistical aspects of research and internships.

The center will also connect local alumni to University scholars visiting the area.

Davies explained that the University needed to open an administrative center in China because it had difficulty finding a Chinese university with which to have a strategic partnership. She added that many Chinese universities specialize in one particular area, noting as an example that Tsinghua University is top-notch in engineering but perhaps not as strong in other

areas.

Strategic partnership differs from regular partnership in that strategic partnership requires institutional oversight of a shared governance board. The board, consisting of representatives from the University and its partner university, works to ensure a growing relationship between the two institutions.

The University currently has strategic partnerships with the University of Tokyo in Japan, Humboldt University in Germany and the University of São Paulo in Brazil.

“We couldn’t pick a strategic partner in China, so we See BEIJING page 4

By Sarah Kim staff writer

The Program in Latin American Studies will begin offering a new study abroad program in Cuba starting in spring 2015 to students with an interest in Latin American culture, politics and history.

The Office of International Programs website describes Princeton in Cuba as a semester-long program with a curriculum focusing on the “contemporary culture, political economy, history and anthropology of Latin America.”

The Wilson School originally offered a task force in Cuba, but the program is no longer offered. Dean of the Wilson School Cecilia Rouse noted that

interest from Wilson School students has been fairly low in the past few years. According to Director of the Office of International Programs Nancy Kanach, most students who participated in the task force were from other departments, such as anthropology, comparative literature and Spanish and Portuguese, and more than half of them were getting a certificate in the Program in Latin American Studies.

“Last year, there were no Wilson School students,” Kanach added. “[The Program in Latin American Studies] seemed like a better home for the program.”

She also noted that the Wilson School would offer a task force in a different location in See CUBA page 3

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

U. announces new bike-share program located at new Dinky Station

By Jeron Fenton staff writer

The University will pilot its own bike-sharing program beginning in the late fall, organized by the University’s transportation and parking department.

The pilot bike-sharing program will consist of 10 bicycles available for rental

at the new Dinky station.

These bikes will have to be picked up and returned to the bike spaces there. In addition to the 10 bikes used as part of the rental program, the University will install racks with spaces for nearly 100 bikes, allowing people to park bikes they already own near the Dinky station.

There will also be 20 bike

lockers near the West Garage.

Princeton’s new bikesharing program will offer a new and useful method of transportation to and from the train station, University Director of Community and Regional Affairs Kristen Appelget explained.

“Once you got off the train before, you could walk, take

a taxi or take the bus,” Appelget said. “This introduces an option that gives you more flexibility.”

While University students may benefit from this bike rental program, the program is designed to help a more general audience, namely those who often need to travel using Princeton Station.

“This short-term bike rental program was designed with commuters and people using the station in mind … The primary audience for the bike rental program is not undergraduate and graduate students that are in residence at Princeton,” Appelget said. “It is intended to be for people See BIKE page 2

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who are using the station as a means of transportation to and from Princeton.”

Nevertheless, students have reacted positively to the development of this new bike rental program.

“I’m a New York girl,” Philomina Kane ’17 said, ”so I have already witnessed the benefits of a bike-share program, and I am so happy that they are bringing it to Princeton.”

“This introduces an option that gives you more flexibility.”

Kristen Appelget, Director of Community and Regional Affairs

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The University’s bikesharing program resembles New York City’s Citi Bike program, which places bikes at stations around New York, allowing residents and visitors to travel around the city by bike.

Citi Bike began in May 2013 and is now the largest bikesharing program in the country. Other similar programs include the Bay Area Bike Share program near San Francisco, Calif., and SmartBike DC in the District of Columbia.

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In addition to two courses with local students in Cuba, Princeton in Cuba will require students to take The Urban Landscape of Havana and Cuban History, Literature and Politics Since the Revolution during the time that they study abroad in Cuba. These classes will be taught by professor and Director of the Program in Latin American Studies Rubén Gallo.

Because half the curriculum will be University-sponsored courses, Kanach said, the academic program will be stronger.

“The program is perfectly integrated into the Princeton curriculum.” rubén gallo

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“The program is perfectly integrated into the Princeton curriculum,” Gallo said. “We have a Princeton faculty member teaching there, which was not the case in the past.”

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Gallo also said that the program is especially exciting due to the fact that Cuba is in the

“It is a great opportunity to witness firsthand, to experience as it’s happening.” rubén gallo

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middle of making the transition from a socialist economy to a market economy, making Princeton in Cuba different from other programs in more developed cities such as Shanghai, Seoul and Paris.

“It’s not part of this globalized economy yet,” Gallo said.

“It is a great opportunity to witness firsthand, to experience as it’s happening.”

Princeton in Cuba will accept approximately 10 students. Accepted students will study at the University of Havana and will have a weeklong excursion in the middle of the program to see different parts of Cuba.

The selection process begins this fall, and there will be an information session on Sept. 24.

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campus. Ziegler expressed enthusiasm about partnering with the PACE Center to supplement existing projects on campus and existing goals, such as working to reduce achievement gaps.

Ziegler said the idea of launching a project like Big Sibs was inspired two years ago by a desire to stimulate class unity through service, noting that University alumni already have a tradition of engaging in similar class service projects at their fifth reunions. He said that the Big Sibs have had a unique opportunity to mentor low-income students and to form particularly meaningful bonds with them.

“The relationship has been beneficial for both sides,” Ziegler said. “We really felt that personal connection to

“We really felt that personal connection to the students and even the teachers.”

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the students and even the teachers.”

While Gomez said that disappointment was inevitable in light of the bad news, she emphasized the importance of

staying positive.

“We were definitely able to see over the past year and a half the important impact that we’ve had. [The kids] would always get so excited, learning a lot about a different environment,” she said.

Sol Taubin ’16, a member of the Big Sibs board, said that while it was inevitable that the program would have to change, the board will continue to build community through service-learning opportunities and that it is important to maintain perspective on the larger mission of service and the pressing issues of education reform and mentorship.

Ziegler also expressed hope that in the coming years, the Big Sibs service project would extend to other classes at the University as well.

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plements and extracts,” Wang said, noting that most traditional remedies lack supporting studies and prove useless when sold to consumers.

Harnessing the alumni network Powell soon assembled a beta product by combining DHM with other ingredients that included ginger root and vitamins B, C and E among others. After attending an alumnimentoring event in which University swimming and diving alumni offered career advice to members of the current team, Powell connected with Andrew Chadeayne ’01, a patent attorney who had started a business based on his own chemical invention.

Chadeayne said he recognized that he owed his success to the University and to the swimming and diving program, so helping Powell represented an opportunity to give back. Communicating by phone, Chadeayne guided Powell in preparing and filing a patent application in May. “Here’s an undergraduate that I’ve never met who I did tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of work for, for free, simply because he’s a Princeton swimmer,” Chadeayne said.

Christianity’s role in Thrive+ Powell said Thrive+ has encountered mixed reactions in the religious circles to which he belongs. He noted that many pastors in his community questioned the product at first but then expressed their support once Powell explained his position. Still others, like certain deacons, have deemed Thrive+ inappropriate.

Powell explained that, to him, Thrive+ answers the call for Christians to interact with

“So, basically, at first I was thinking, ‘how great would it be if someone could invent a hangover cure?’”

Brooks Powell ’16

the world in a beneficial way.

“God’s calling us not just to transform and redeem people, but also culture — because people make culture and culture makes people. And so that’s a call for Christians to try to transform all domains,” he explained, naming environmental, social, political

and economic domains as examples. Thrive+ focuses on the social domain through its aim to improve the experience of drinking socially, Powell said.

However, critics of Thrive+ argue that because a hangover cure reduces the consequences of drinking, Powell’s invention may incentivize people to drink more. Princeton Theological Seminary biblical studies professor Dennis Olson explained that the Bible admonishes against excessive drinking that leads to impaired judgment.

Olson added that Thrive+ is aligned with the principles of Christianity because loving God and loving one’s neighbors are basic obligations within the Judeo-Christian context.

“If this product has some good effects on individuals, whether they come to faith or not, well then, it can have the expression of loving your neighbor in that way,” he said.

But Olson took issue with Powell’s claim of transforming culture, calling for a distinction between major, global transformations of culture like the Internet and inventions with positive effects on a smaller scale.

Princeton Faith and Action Director Tim Adhikari, whom Powell said helped craft the company’s Christian vision and mission, countered that Thrive+ transforms culture by reducing the negative chemical

News & Notes Mueller ’66 leads investigation in Ray Rice case The National Football League named former FBI director Robert Mueller ’66 as the lead investigator in the independent investigation of the recent domestic assault case by Ravens running back Ray Rice.

Rice allegedly beat fiancee Janay Palmer in an Atlantic City casino elevator last

February and then allegedly dragged her limp body out of the elevator. TMZ released a video of the incident on Monday, and Rice was subsequently released from his contract with the team.

The league made the announcement late on Wednesday, stating that Mueller would conduct an independent investigation of the league’s handling of

dependency involved in drinking.

“If we look through all of the

“It really does what it says it does, and I think that’s actually something we need more of these days.”

Javi Salazar student at university of houston epic, shaping initiatives and endeavors throughout history, I think most of them at the front end felt like, ‘Man, that’s a little audacious, don’t you think?’ ” he said.

Hitting the market Although still in the pre-order stage, Thrive+ has reached potential customers in the form of beta version capsules.

Powell distributed samples to 450 people in exchange for email addresses at the 5th reunion tent during Reunions weekend. Because some users returned the next day, citing positive experiences and asking for more, Powell estimated that he gave out approximately 900 samples in total.

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University of Houston sophomore Javi Salazar saw Thrive+ at a fraternity house party last month and decided to try it.

Though he was skeptical at first, he said that the following morning after drinking, he did not have a hangover.

“Thrive+ really delivers.

It really does what it says it does, and I think that’s actually something we need more of these days,” Salazar said, add-

ing that he will probably take the capsules to avoid hangovers in the future.

The members of about 20 fraternities at various universities have agreed to sample Thrive+ once the orders are ready for delivery, Powell said.

He is working with another student, a helicopter pilot and many volunteers from among friends and family to launch the final product this month.

Center based in Tsinghua University the case. Mueller’s investigation will be overseen by NFL owners, and the contents of his investigation will be made public.

Mueller served as director of the FBI for 12 years from 2001-13. He is known for his investigations following the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 and his investigations unravelling terrorist networks across the globe.

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knew we had to try a different approach because it’s critical that we have a presence in China because of its incredible importance,” Davies explained.

“Even though we are based on the Tsinghua campus, we are going to continue to have collaborations and programs with all these other universities as

“I know what globalization means for those universities.

That’s why [the University] took me.”

Jin Liu director of the princeton center in beijing well.”

Davies said she is very happy with the new director, noting that Liu has had more than 12 years of experience working in the United States and that she most recently served as the assistant director of the Columbia University Global Center in

East Asia, which is also located in Beijing.

“I have pretty much gone through all of the processes like registration, legal compliance, the operations, how to run an office center for top universities and how to do alumni outreach and how to deal with relationships with the local academic community and those top scholars in the region. So I know what globalization means for those universities,” Liu said. “That’s why [the University] took me, I think.”

Chung Law, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has been collaborating with Tsinghua University for years and was instrumental in the establishment of the center on Tsinghua campus.

Law, who met Liu this summer in Beijing, said he is very pleased with her.

“Of course she can speak both languages very well, which I think is important, and she is very articulate,” Law said.

Liu, a Shanghai local, graduated from Shanghai Maritime University with a bachelor’s degree in business English and then later went on to pursue two master’s degrees at New York University and Kansas State University. Liu was offered the job last November and signed a three-year renewable contract with the Univer-

sity.

The center occupies one floor and consists of three rooms. The renovation of the 90-square-meter space will begin by the end of September and Liu, who is currently the

“We knew we had to try a different approach because it’s critical that we have a presence in China.”

Diana Davies vice provost for international initiatives only person there, said she expects the center to be fully renovated by the end of October.

Davies explained that the intention was to start small and then they’ll decide later on whether they need to scale up their size.

“Princeton is always very deliberate in doing things,” Law said. “We don’t rush into things. We wait and see and learn the lesson from others.

And when we are ready to go, we go in full force and do it right.”

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Bennett McIntosh

Senior Columnist

Seeking strangeness

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was speaking with a kind and interesting trucker last week outside of Pittsburgh, Pa., and a man — a stranger to the both of us — approached my friends and warned them: “Do you know that woman there is actually a man? I’ve never seen anything like that before. There’s something to talk about in church.”

I was initially repelled by what seemed like blatant transphobia. However, upon our return to the woods later, perhaps as my mind cleared, I questioned my own reaction to this remarkable woman. I was struck by how my own biases had damaged my interaction with this trucker. I didn’t know, nor would I have cared, that she might be transgender, but I had felt uncomfortable around her for an entirely different reason.

I wasn’t being transphobic, but I was shying away from physical unattractiveness, from perceived poverty and, worse than any single characteristic, from strangeness.

The trucker had only a few of her original teeth, sticking at odd angles. The lines on her face bore testament to her 60-odd years, and, oh, the tales she told! Frugal but ambitious in the early days of personal computers, she had gone dumpster-diving for parts to assemble her own. The power source alone was built from parts of four decrepit ones, and the entire assemblage was cooled by an oscillating fan and held up by a pizza box. Beyond that, we discussed the TV show “Rocket City Rednecks” and its importance to science education, the meningitis epidemic at Princeton and the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, as well as Shakespeare. We also swapped stories on how we’d involuntarily ended up at Days Inn Somerset — her engine breaking during a long haul down Interstate 70 and us being evacuated from our nearby Outdoor Action trip due to a few cases of gastroenteritis.

Despite her conversation and obvious lack of ill intent, my OA freshmen and I were constantly on edge, clearly trying to distance ourselves from her. There was no reason to be afraid — the hotel parking lot was welltrafficked, it was broad daylight and the front desk was 15 feet away — but the thought of rudely slinking away was clearly on everyone’s mind. The truck driver herself was hardly menacing — average build, clearly well past her peak physical fitness. Her appearance was vaguely off-putting, but no more so than the sight and smell of our unwashed OA bodies.

Our reasons for shying away were manifold and, perhaps, justifiable. Too many trips to New York and downtown Denver, and ubiquitous images of people who are simultaneously homeless, crazy and ugly have perhaps led me to conflate the three attributes. Or maybe, after one too many stories of truck stop serial killers, we feared the trucker for being a trucker. The reason itself matters less than the fact that it has little basis in fact and could easily have prevented us from meeting and engaging with a fascinating person.

I met a number of other fascinating strangers this summer. In a bus stop in South Bohemia in the Czech Republic, I spent an hour chatting with a Czech former maître d’ at a high-end restaurant near my Littleton, Colo., home, who had come to know a number of hockey players, including former Colorado Avalanche forward Milan Hejduk and New Jersey Devils right winger Jaromír Jágr during his time there. In Nuremberg, Germany, I stayed with a married couple of professional translators, Lawrence and Peggy, who opened their home to my friend and I — even though we were strangers — and invited us to an organic beer festival where Lawrence was playing with his band, Yellowbelly. I can safely say that I learned more in conversations about European culture and history with these and others like them than I did in nine weeks of scientific research and museum visits.

Before OA this year, Rick Curtis ’79 confirmed to the OA leaders that, next fall, participating in OA or Community Action will be mandatory to nearly all freshmen. Even though these programs ensure that we begin our college lives outside the Orange Bubble, we must continue to break out during our time here. Aptly named breakout trips are a wonderful opportunity to do this, and I would love to see every student here participate in these. Due to demanding class schedules, many students are never afforded the opportunity to study abroad. Departments, especially science, technology, engineering and mathematics departments, should make room in their course plans for a semester abroad.

The more Princeton students puncture the Orange Bubble, challenge their conceptions of normal lives and learn from situations they would have just as soon avoided, the better. Interactions with people who don’t conform to Princeton’s community and don’t lead the bland and safe lives we live here drive us to change the world. A more porous bubble makes for a graduating class more apt to change the world outside of it. Maybe the next Rocket City Rednecks or Mythbusters can come from an inspired Princeton student. Or maybe the next game-changing hardware coming out of Princeton will be built in a pizza box.

Bennett McIntosh is a chemistry major from Littleton, Colo. He can be reached at bam2@princeton.edu.

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Instituting a sexual assault prevention program

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efore the academic year began, the University administration made important progress in strengthening the University’s stance against sexual assault on campus. Chief among these is the recent recommendation by the internal Faculty Advisory Committee on Policy that the University lower its standard for the burden of proof in cases of sexual assault from the policy of “clear and persuasive” to that of a “preponderance” of guilt. Additionally, the University announced that students would no longer serve on committees handling sexual assault cases.

Having repeatedly advocated for reforming the University’s sexual assault disciplinary policies, the Editorial Board strongly supports the Committee’s recommendation.

However, it is important to restate that there is more to be done to protect Princeton students from sexual assault.

While these new policies represent an important step in the right direction in terms of appropriately and adequately punishing perpetrators of sexual assault, we believe that the University must not stop at punishment, but further turn its focus to increasing prevention and reporting of sexual assault.

Over the past two years, the Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources & Education program has done much to promote bystander intervention following a general trend in sexual assault activism that champions primary prevention as a central way to address sexual violence. New programming has included the introduction of online sexual assault training for freshmen. SHARE also offers eating club officers sexual assault training; optional training was offered to upperclassmen this past year.

While these efforts are commendable, they are small. We suggest that Princeton emulate large-scale sexual assault bystander intervention programs that have proven successful at peer institutions. A

bystander intervention program piloted in Haverford College and since adopted

by Dartmouth trains students to identify situations of potential sexual assault and teaches proper techniques to prevent such occurrences. Participating students are paid hourly to attend campus parties sober in order to observe and intervene in cases of potential sexual assault.

The Editorial Board recommends that Princeton adapt such a program to the eating club system. While all eating clubs currently have at least one officer on call at each eating club function, we believe that the eating clubs, in coordination with the University, should institute a specific and separate bystander intervention program similar to the programs at Haverford and Dartmouth.

Under such a program, each eating club would be responsible for having several members serving as an extra level of safety and security each Thursday, Friday and Saturday night. The participants in this program would undergo mandatory training in sexual assault prevention, and would be compensated for their work. This program would fill an important void. Club officers are often overburdened and cannot solely focus on sexual assault prevention. While SHARE peers and others who have attended SHARE trainings are equipped to intervene, they may not be present in every situation or solely focused on finding instances of potential sexual assault. Those being paid by the University would be both trained and remain sober and solely focused on intervention.

Even if Nassau Hall acts on the recommended reforms, the University will be the last Ivy League school to move to lowering the burden of proof standard from “clear and persuasive” to “preponderance.” The University has once again been found playing catch-up to its peers.

Instituting a large-scale University sponsored sexual assault bystander intervention program would represent the

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University taking the lead in the national battle to eliminate sexual assault from college campuses. More importantly, such a program would make clear that the University is taking a strong stance against sexual assault. This would hopefully serve to encourage students to report sexual assaults at higher rates and make Princeton a safer and stronger community.

Dissent by Zach Horton ’15 Bystander intervention policies are commendable, and I endorse such preventative efforts. Lowering the burden of proof in disciplinary procedures, however, is rash and potentially unjust.

The abundant frustration on this matter is understandable, but the “preponderance” evidentiary standard does not ensure a just outcome when the primary evidence is accuser testimony. In our detrimentally libertine culture, everything depends on that singular — and elusive — criterion of consent. It’s no secret that consent is notoriously difficult to discern from conflicting accuser/accused testimony. The preponderance standard does not make that any easier; it only advantages an accuser over the accused.

In a case like the infamous 2006 Duke lacrosse case, the preponderance standard could likely result in false incrimination.

Beside that potential for gross injustice, it is perplexing that under this novel standard, the accused could be guilty of a crime for purposes of University discipline but innocent in the eyes of legal authority. If the accused is in fact a sexual offender, he — or she — should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

I strongly urge the faculty to vote to maintain the current “clear and persuasive” standard and to press for more preventative and remedial action in confronting the severe problem of sexual assault.

Mitchell Johnston ’15 is recused. Jeffrey Leibenhaut ’16 and Brandon Holt ’15 abstain.

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Media coverage and Ferguson Kelly Hatfield contributor

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am from Saint Louis, Miss. I was born there, and I spent most of my childhood and adolescence coming to terms with the mess of contradictions and issues that form the core of the city that I identify as home, while still trying to open my eyes to what makes this “flyover city” special.

I am not from Ferguson specifically; I am from another suburb that helps compose the series of rings around Saint Louis’ largely rundown nucleus. I do not speak on behalf of the residents of Ferguson, for I can never truly know how the community must feel in the wake of the tragedy that was Michael Brown’s death. As a young woman from a neighborhood not 20 minutes away, however, I can only begin to list off all the parts of this summer that enraged and saddened me.

One of the things that most makes my blood boil over is the way in which certain sectors of the media began to cover Michael Brown’s death and Ferguson’s response, and how this is indicative of the state of our media in general.

That is not to say, as I have heard in cof-

fee shops, restaurants and pharmacies all over the city, that everyone should just get out and let the situation resolve itself in peace. Saint Louis’ longstanding issues of inequality, segregation and racism are no secret and form the basis for many of its seemingly unrelated problems today, in a way that resonates with other cities across the nation. No, the media should not stop covering these unpalatable issues. The statistics about racial profiling and police brutality need to be published on the front cover of the country’s most influential newspapers.

Pictures of militarized men and women in uniform confronting people exercising fundamental rights need to be seen.

However, there are other details of the situation in Ferguson that should be covered as well, and the language used in and focus of future coverage need to shift.

First off, Michael Brown’s death should be mourned regardless of whether or not that was him in the video of the shoplifting. He should be mourned regardless of whether or not he was planning on attending college the following Monday. He should be mourned regardless of whether or not he drank and smoked pot. He was an unarmed man who was shot and lost

his life, and for this reason he should be mourned. No one deserves to be shot six times and left on the sidewalk for four hours. I have no doubt that he was a wonderful person from everything that his family and friends have said in the wake of this tragedy; I am simply saying that his parents should not have to testify as such to keep the media from calling their late son’s morality into question. I call upon the media to stop “bringing to light” evidence that Michael Brown was “no angel” — an expression used to describe him in a New York Times article published on Aug. 24. It doesn’t matter. It matters neither in this specific case, nor in any others.

In a loosely related vein, I also call upon the media to stop its emphasis on the lootings and waves of teargas, and to reevaluate its priorities should a similar situation arise in the months and years to come. Yes, these are components of the constantly evolving situation, but there are so many other dimensions that you miss if you are only searching for the next Molotov cocktail.

You fail to notice the volunteers flooding in daily from the wider Saint Louis community to help clean the streets and supply essential items to residents.

You overlook the demographics of those

committing the violence — many of them are not from Ferguson itself. You neglect the core issues at hand that led to Michael Brown’s death, and you do not supply as much pressure on the power structure of the area to resolve what truly happened and supply some modicum of justice to all involved.

Again, I don’t call upon the media to vanish, to leave Florissant Avenue altogether and ignore dominant issues of our society as a whole. I call upon the media to reflect upon how it paints individuals across class and race and to do better in the future. I call upon the media to focus on the larger picture, or at least the most important parts of a specific narrative, rather than succumbing to the temptation of providing sensationalist minute-by-minute analysis of violence. I don’t have all — or any, for that matter — of the answers, but I can offer this small suggestion for a future in which the entirety of our nation continues to navigate the issues that continue to plague it. I can and will offer my condolences to Michael Brown’s friends and family. May he rest in peace.

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

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target, as goalkeeper Jordan Stagmiller only had to make two saves during the first half.

The Tigers’ offensive struggle deepened during the second half, as Stagmiller did not have to make a single save between the 45th and 90th minute of regulation.

The story of the match came from the Tigers’ defensive end, particularly from junior goalkeeper Ben Hummel. The California native made a career-high seven saves, which included a terrific save in the second half, when a shot from defender Gabriel Camara was turned away by Hummel’s outstretched hands. Hummel’s five saves during regulation kept the Tigers in contention as the match headed to overtime.

St. John’s dominated the attack to start the first overtime period, as three Red Storm shots came within the first five minutes of extra time. Hummel continued to keep Princeton alive, as he had three saves during the first 10-minute overtime period. The Tigers saw an offensive spark in the

98th minute, as senior forward Cameron Porter’s header was saved by Stagmiller. Junior midfielder Brendan McSherry missed wide of the net to end the first overtime period.

The second overtime period saw Porter continue to

“I think we all have faith the goals will come as we continue to reach full game fitness.”

Cameron Porter senior forward

hound Stagmiller, as another header went wide of the net, and a shot in the 107th minute forced Stagmiller to make his fourth and final save of the match. Hummel tallied his seventh save during the final 10-minute session, which ultimately led the two teams to draw for the first time since Oct. 14, 2009. While still in

search of their first win of the season, the Tigers were generally pleased with Wednesday’s result.

“It was a pretty even game, back and forth,” junior forward Nico Hurtado said. “We didn’t have that many shots on target, but we still felt like we created a lot of chances. Our defense was very solid. Wished we had gotten the win, but not a bad result considering it’s only our second game. And [St. John’s] has had more games than us since the Ivy League schools start a week later.”

“The game was another step forward for the team, especially for the defense,” Porter said. “There were solid performances all along the back line, with the standout being our keeper Ben Hummel. As we prepare for Seton Hall on Sunday, it will be important for us to focus on getting it right in the final third. That being said, I think we all have faith the goals will come as we continue to reach full game fitness.”

The Tigers next suit up Sunday afternoon, when they travel to South Orange to take on in-state rival Seton Hall University. Kickoff is set for 1 pm.

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new class of 13 freshmen will also enter the field. Putting up especially strong times at the moment are freshmen Noah Kauppila and Wolfgang Beck.

Eddie Owens is a staff writer for The Daily Princetonian.

The Princeton women’s team will return all five of its scoring runners for cross country: Eysenbach, sophomore Megan Curham, senior Emily de La Bruyere, and

“There’s sort of a sense that you’re competing against a team instead of a mass of 300 people.”

Lindsay Eysenbach senior captain Kathryn Little. They also

have 11 new freshmen who are excited to race in their first collegiate event.

The teams expect to face some challenges, including Yale’s hilly course — entirely grass, which might be difficult for runners training on the track — and, for the men’s team, an especially strong competitor in Yale’s runner Kevin Dooney. However, they are undeterred.

“Harvard and Yale are both going to be very good,” McDonald said, “but we’re looking forward to showing them just how good the Tigers are.”

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

Tigers unable to find net in scoreless draw

By Mark Stein senior writer

Despite amassing 16 shots and six corner kicks, the women’s soccer team drew 0-0 with Seton Hall on Monday afternoon. The game was the Tigers’ second of the season and their second consecutive home matchup. Princeton, which has now been shut out in two consecutive matches, has not yet scored a goal this season. The Tigers have not been shut out in consecutive games to open a season since failing to score in three straight matches to begin the 2007 season.

The scoreless tie came after Princeton (0-1-1, 0-0 Ivy) lost 5-0 to Rutgers (4-0, 0-0 Big Ten) at home this past Sunday, while Seton Hall (1-4-1, 0-0 Big East) ended a four-game losing streak during which the Pirates tallied only one goal. The game was the third overtime showdown in a row for the two clubs, as Princeton and Seton Hall battled to a scoreless tie last season in South Orange and lost there 2-1 in overtime in 2011. Despite these recent results, Princeton continues to dominate the series overall, posting an 8-2-2 record in 12 matchups all-time against the Pirates.

Despite the Tigers’ inability to convert any chances, Princeton did create many opportunities throughout the game.

Sophomore forward Tyler Lussi led all players with nine shots, two of which were on

target. Senior defender Lauren Lazo and freshman forward Beth Stella each added two shots, with one each on target. However, Seton Hall goalkeeper Illissa Blackshear was up to the task, recording six saves during her full 110 minutes of play. Her defense also produced two blocks, including an important stop in the 88th minute that foiled a Lussi header attempt.

Princeton senior goalkeeper Darcy Hargadon recorded her sixth career shutout, converting on her only save opportunity of the match near the end of the first overtime period.

Three seconds later, her defense blocked another shot attempt, the Tigers’ third block of the game, sending the teams into double overtime scoreless. The shutout also represented Hagadon’s second consecutive shutout against Seton Hall.

The Tigers will now prepare for two weekend matchups, including their first road game of the season against La Salle on Friday evening (2-2-1, 0-0 Atlantic Ten). Princeton owns the all-time series, boasting a 6-1-1 record against the Explorers. The last meeting between the two clubs, in October of last year, resulted in a 0-0 draw. The Tigers will return home for a Sunday afternoon showdown with Villanova (1-3-1, 0-0 Big East). Princeton last squared off against the Wildcats in 2011, emerging with a 2-1 road victory.

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Senior forward Cameron Porter (No. 13) tied for the team lead in shots with three while managing to twice test the St. John’s keeper.

Nothing separates sides after scoreless double overtime

By Jack Rogers

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In search of its first win of the regular season, the men’s soccer team (0-1-1) battled to a scoreless draw with St. John’s University (0-3-2) on Wednesday night at Roberts Stadium.

The Tigers were in search of redemption after letting a late two-goal advantage slip away in a 3-2 loss to Fairleigh Dickinson University in last week’s season opener.

Nonetheless, the 110-minute battle carried a number of positive factors for Prince-

ton, including a result that marked the end of the team’s three-game losing streak to the Red Storm. From an offensive standpoint, St. John’s held a 9-4 advantage on the shots-ongoal differential, but the Tigers maintained a 13-11 advantage in the total shots category. The

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first half of play saw the Tigers with the majority of strong scoring looks. Princeton held a 3-1 advantage in corner kick opportunities and outshot St. John’s 5-3 through the first 45 minutes. However, the Tigers struggled to put the ball on See M. SOCCER page 6

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For the first time in years, Princeton cross country will confront Harvard and Yale on Friday in a head-to-head meet. The Tiger men have not participated in this Ivy League tradition since 1997, after winning the race two consecutive years and determining that the competition was in some ways below them.

“A number of years ago our old coach decided, to put it nicely, not to bother with Harvard and Yale because at the time neither of their programs were on the same level as ours,” senior captain Matt McDonald said. “We realized last year at the Ivy League championships that [those programs] have come a long way since then, and so we’re excited to show them what we are made of so early in the season.”

The women’s team has participated more recently, winning the meet in both 2011 and 2010, but has not competed for the past two years.

“One of the really exciting things about this is that the Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet is a very quintessential Ivy competition, and it’s a great opportunity to actually compete against the teams we’ll be working against in the Ivy League Championships,” se-

nior captain Lindsay Eysenbach said. “We only have a few girls who have competed in it before, so we’re super excited to have it again.”

Both teams aim to win and send a strong message to their opponents.

“Based on last year’s Heps, Yale has the second best returning team, so they’re going to be very good this year,” McDonald said. “So our coach has specifically set out the goal for us to show them what kind of shape we are in and that we plan to win the title this year.”

“We want to beat Harvard and Yale because they’re two of our biggest rivals,” Eysenbach said. “We also think that winning would give us a lot of momentum going into the season.”

Although the Princeton team will see Harvard and Yale at a few other meets this year, this is the only headto-head matchup against Ivy League competitors outside of Heps. For some runners, this more intimate feel creates a unique atmosphere.

“There’s sort of a sense that you’re competing against a team instead of a mass of 300 people,” Eysenbach said.

The Tiger men are fielding several strong runners, especially returning scorers McDonald and seniors Sam Pons and Eddie Owens. A strong See XC page 6

Marshal your firm. ’Tis the glorious season of association football, colloquially known as soccer. The Ancient Eight sides will have ample time to hone their tactics and strategy before league play starts Oct. 8. Margins are very slim between the teams, perhaps with the exception of a fairly lost Dartmouth squad. Penn’s Quakers are the one Ivy League team that received votes in this past week’s National Soccer Coaches of America poll.

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Pennsylvania (2-0 overall): Your 2013 Ivy League champions looked impressive early, having tallied a league-high six goals. During last year’s campaign, senior talisman Duke Lacroix tallied a team-high eight goals in 18 games played. The New Jersey-born forward is all-class and will menace even the finest back lines. This weekend, Penn will face its toughest test so far at No. 10 Washington University in St. Louis.

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Cornell (1-1-1): Champions in 2012, the Big Red dropped a crippling four Ivy League contests, all by single-goal margins. Opening day of this season saw them take the field at then-No. 2 University of Louisville and emerge with a hard-earned 0-0 draw. Even having graduated three senior defensive starters — among them Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year Patrick Slogic — the Cornell backline held the Cardinals to just four shots on net.

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Brown (1-1): After dropping the season opener to Siena College, Bruno impressively topped then-No. 23 Boston College on the road. The contest’s lone goal came during the 85th minute, courtesy of junior Tariq Akeel. A member of 2013’s all-Ivy first-team, Akeel stands out as one of the league’s strongest midfield presences. This Rhode Island squad has hung around the top of the table ever since their last championship in 2011.

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Princeton (0-1-1): The Tigers are at no loss for competitive ability. Senior Cameron Porter and junior Thomas Sanner comprised the league’s best attacking combo in 2013, the former abundant in pace and the latter in power. The two Tigers racked up nine and seven goals apiece, good for first and third in the league tally. After a frustrating loss against Fairleigh Dickinson, junior goalkeeper Ben Hummel rebounded Wednesday evening with a strong clean-sheet performance against St. John’s.

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Columbia (1-1): Sophomore midfielder Andrew Tinari earned Rookie of the Year honors for his five-goal, threeassist effort last season. Goalkeeper Kyle Jackson enters his junior year between the pipes. An all-Ivy secondteamer last year, he’s a good competitor in a strong class of goalkeepers. Worthy of note, the Lions managed 242 shots and 25 goals last season, both good for second-best in the league.

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Harvard (0-2): 2012 NCAA runners-up Georgetown University battered the Crimson defense with 21 shots in the season opener, a 0-2 defeat for the Cambridge side. Coach of the Year — according to CollegeSportsMadness.com — Pieter Lehrer does have talent to work with, including freshman sensation Christian Sady. Although yet to see action this season, Sady has featured on the U.S. national youth teams in a number of competitions. The Crimson keeper, junior Evan Mendez, took home first-team all-Ivy honors last year.

Yale (0-1-1): The Bulldogs found themselves just a shade below the .500 mark last year, finishing 2-3-2 in league play. Goalkeeping was a league-worst last year, with then-junior Blake Brown saving only 59 percent of opponents’ on-target shots. It is unclear which of his teammates can redeem the net for Yale. Sophomore Ryan Simpson appears a safe pick, as he has so far managed a solid nine saves against 12 shots on goal.

Dartmouth (0-2): Men’s soccer is far from one of the Big Green’s current strong suits. Only five league goals came for the Dartmouth offense in 2013, with 12 scored against. Colin Heffron enters his senior year coming off a first-team all-Ivy performance last season. Unfortunately for his side, he is the only current member honored in any capacity in last season’s year-end awards.

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