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In Opinion Colter Smith describes his take on the Owen Labrie trial and Nicholas Wu questions the Wall Street Journal’s use of a derogatory term to describe Chinese President Xi Jinping.

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Today on Campus 4:30 p.m.: A panel discussion entitled “When Diplomacy Succeeds:The Iran Agreement” is hosted by the Bobst Center for Peace and Justice. Computer Science Building Auditorium 104.

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News & Notes Tourism spending increases in the Princeton region

Tourism spending in the Princeton region in 2014 increased 5.2 percent from 2013 to a recordbreaking $2 billion, the Princeton Packet reported. New Jersey lieutenant governor Kim Guadagno said that 2015 is likely to see an even greater increase in spending.

According to a study for the Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce, the spending was spread across five sectors: recreation and entertainment, food and beverage, shopping, transportation and traveler accommodation.

Scott Sussman, marketing director at The Peacock Inn, a boutique hotel on Bayard Lane, told the Princeton Packet that the increase in luxury spending is a result of a turnaround in the economy.

Tourism is the third largest industry in New Jersey, supporting nearly 37,000 jobs in the Princeton region alone.

Peter M. Crowley, president and CEO of the Chamber told the Princeton Packet that the recreational and cultural attractions made the Princeton area one of the most popular destinations in the visitorfriendly state.

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

Students hospitalized after CA van accident

By Shriya Sekhsaria staff writer

Five members of the Class of 2019 and their Community Action leader Divya Seshadri ’16 were involved in a car accident on Sept. 8 during a Community Action Hunger trip, and three spent the night in the hospital.

The group did volunteer work on campus after the accident for the last day of the program. The group’s activities included working with Sustainability at Princeton and conversations about sustainability on campus.

According to Hyunnew Choi ’19, who was one of the members of the CA Hunger group, the passenger side of the minivan Seshadri was driving was struck by a pickup truck. The pickup truck was driven by 55 year old Michael McCann, ac-

cording to a press release from the Hopewell Township Police Department.

The accident took place at 9:04 p.m. at the intersection of Pennington Road and Denow Road in Hopewell Township.

Seshadri and McCann were not injured, according to the press release, and all five passengers in the minivan complained of pain and sustained minor injuries.

The collision occurred as Seshadri attempted to take a left turn at an intersection, Choi said.

According to Lt. Lance Maloney, Chief of Police at the Hopewell Township Police Department, the intersection was posted as “No Turns” and left turns were prohibited in that section of Pennington Road. He added that Seshadri was issued a summons for disregarding

a traffic control signal for the improper left turn.

Seshadri and the other group leader, Deanah Hamlin ’17, did not respond to multiple requests for comment, and Executive Director of the Pace Center Kimberly de los Santos and Associate Director Elsie Scheidler deferred comment to University spokesperson Martin Mbugua.

Community Action Associate Marissa Rosenberg-Carlson ’18 said that the team had agreed to keep the issue confidential and refrain from speaking about it publicly.

She added that after the day of the accident, the head of the Department of Public Safety spoke with the students of the group. DPS deferred comment to Mbugua.

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Class of 2019 predominantly from 3 states

By Annie Yang staff writer

Members of the Class of 2019 took the first steps into their academic career during Opening Exercises on Sunday, when University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 welcomed the incoming students by sharing encouragements and blessings for the start of their adventure on campus.

“You will encounter people with views, backgrounds, values and assumptions different from your own,” Eisgruber said.

“You will have to make your own choices about how to interact with the community around you about ways to sympathize, ways to ar-

gue, ways to accommodate, when to confront and when to walk away.”

Referencing Claude Steele’s “Whistling Vivaldi,” the incoming class’s assigned summer reading, to discuss stereotypes and judgments, Eisgruber added that people can feel their identities being threatened in ways that powerfully affect their thoughts, emotions, actions and performances.

Eisgruber encouraged students to embrace the diversity and differences among the student body.

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

Eisgruber ’83 addresses freshmen

By Charles Min senior writer

Members of the Class of 2019 took the first steps into their academic career during Opening Exercises on Sunday, when University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 welcomed the incoming students by sharing encouragements and blessings for the start of their adventure on campus.

“You will encounter people with views, backgrounds, values and assumptions different from your own,” Eisgruber said.

“You will have to make your own choices about how to interact with the community around you about ways to sympathize, ways to argue, ways to accommodate, when to confront and when to walk away.”

Referencing Claude Steele’s “Whistling Vivaldi,” the incoming class’s assigned summer reading, to discuss stereotypes and See ADDRESS page 3

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The Class of 2019 officially entered the University through FitzRandolph Gate on Sunday during the annual Pre-Rade.

STUDENT LIFE

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

Ruess, Holychild to perform at Lawnparties

By Jessica Li staff writer

Nate Ruess, lead vocalist of former Grammy-winning indie rock band Fun., will headline the 2015 fall Lawnparties, Undergraduate Student Government social chair Simon Wu ’17 announced in an email Thursday.

Indie pop duo Holychild will stage the opening act, Wu said.

Ruess, along with Jack Antonoff and Andrew Dost, formed Fun. in 2008. In March 2012, “We Are Young,” the lead track of the band’s second album “Some Nights” topped Billboard’s Hot 100. The song then won the band the Grammy Award for Song of the year, and in 2013, the band won Grammy Award for Best New Artist.

In February 2015, Fun announced that the band would no longer produce as a group. Four months later, Ruess released his debut solo studio album.

Holychild formed in college at George Washington University.

The band consists of songwriter

and vocalist Liz Nistico and producer and multi-instrumentalist Louie Diller. The band was named

by Billboard as one of the “14 artists to watch in 2014.”

The announcement comes after the USG released two hints on the Lawnparties Facebook page and on the USG Facebook page.

The first hint said “Who doesn’t love ramen in college?” referring to Ruess’ label, Fueled by Ramen, and the second said “A bouquet of roses, a box of chocolates, a candlelit dinner…” referring to the name of his first solo album, “Grand Romantic.”

According to Wu, members of the Social Committee selected the two artists from a shortlist after seeing an overwhelming preference among students for alternative rock in a survey collected in the spring.

“We had more than 1,000 responses to the survey,” Wu said.

He noted that after parceling out the entries with Google Analytics, the committee contacted a See LAWNPARTIES page 4

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President Barack Obama awarded Lahiri (left) and Goldstein GS ‘77 in a ceremony at the White House.

Obama recognizes U. professor, alumna

By Jessica Li staff writer

Creative writing professor and Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri, as well as novelist and philosopher Re-

becca Newberger Goldstein GS ’77, have been named recipients of the 2014 National Humanities Medal.

President Barack Obama, joined by first lady Michelle Obama ’85, presented medals

to the recipients on Thursday, Sept. 10.

The National Humanities medal is bestowed upon an individual or organization whose work has helped the See AWARD page 7

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judgments, Eisgruber added that people can feel their identities being threatened in ways that powerfully affect their thoughts, emotions, actions and performances.

Eisgruber encouraged students to embrace the diversity and differences among the student body.

He explained that the most important learning at the University takes the form of relationships between people of different ideas and experiences, and that students can make the most of their college careers by striving to understand and learn from the views around them.

Unlike prior students, today’s students are at a disadvantage because social networking tricks people into thinking they already know someone before really having met them, Eisgruber added.

“We gather you here physically and in person because community and relationships matter fundamen-

tally to our mission,” he said. “People often conceive of education as if it was a purely intellectual or utilitarian activity … that is not how we see it. We believe that learning also requires qualities of character and feeling and judgment, motivation, engagement, initiative, persistence, resilience, curiosity, imagination, and daring.”

Eisgruber explained that students should maximize their relationships with not only fellow classmates but also scholars and professors who are willing to hear their thoughts, saying that a singular advantage of studying at the University is the scholars who will take one’s ideas seriously.

“Approach them after class,” he said. “Go to office hours. Invite them for lunch. Doing so will make a difference.”

Opening Exercises is an annual event marking the beginning of the academic career for the incoming freshmen. The ceremony is held in the University Chapel on the Sundayprior to the beginning of fall semester and involves the wel-

coming of the freshmen by the University President, hymns and prayers and the awarding of undergraduate prizes for the academic achievements of current students. Opening Exercises is followed by the Prerade, where the incoming class parades through FitzRandolph Gate.

The Freshman First Honor Prize, which recognizes “exceptional academic achievement in the work of their freshman year,’ was awarded to Kyle Berlin ’18 and Kevin Sun ’18. The George B. Wood Legacy Sophomore Prize was awarded to Vladimir Feinberg ’17 and Lydia Liu ‘17 for their academic achievements in their sophomore year, and the George B. Wood Legacy Junior Prize was awarded to Cameron Platt ‘16 and Yuval Wigderson ’16 for academic achievements in their junior year. The Class of 1939 Princeton Scholar Award, which recognizes a student with the highest academic standing at the end of his or her junior year, was awarded to Saisai Chen ’16.

Dean of the College and professor of English Jill Dolan presented the award.

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handful of pop and rock artists, gradually narrowing down the list based on factors including availability and pricing.

“The biggest reward in this round of selections was that we were very happy to get students’ voices on what they wanted to see and do,” said Wu. Wu noted that his committee encountered challenges in securing the headline artist this year as the iHeartRadio Music festival, an annual two-day festival held in Las Vegas showcasing some of the world’s well-established musicians, falls on the same weekend as Lawnparties. Consequently, a few

artists who had been corresponding with Wu’s committee over the summer ultimately could not accommodate the event in their schedule.

“I’m very excited with who we eventually ended up getting,” Wu said. “Nate is very energetic.”

With the remaining budget, the Social Committee selected Holychild from a pool of four. Wu explained that Holychild’s style and energy closely matched with Nate Ruess’s.

“After we contacted Holychild, they ended up meeting together with Nate Ruess,” Wu said. “Nate Ruess really liked their energy and so ended up booking a couple more days with them later in the year.”

According to Wu, this year’s fall Lawnparties required a bud-

get comparable to that of spring.

USG president Ella Cheng ’16 had requested a $79,000 budget for the spring Lawnparties. In comparison, Yale appropriates around $180,000 for its equivalent function.

Cheng is a former staff writer for The Daily Princetonian.

Though Fun. and Nate Ruess had been involved in “Campus Consciousness Tour,” a project in which a coalition of artists gives headliner performances in support of environmental awareness, Wu stated that the nature of Ruess’s Lawnparties show will be different. The Social Committee is currently negotiating with Ruess’s agent to finalize the programs.

Lawnparties will take place on Sunday, Sept. 20.

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Freshmen wearing shirts representing their residential colleges marched in the Pre-Rade through FitzRandolph Gate on Sunday afternoon following Opening Exercises in the University Chapel.

and experiences, and that students can make the most of their college careers by striving to understand and learn from the views around them.

Unlike prior students, today’s students are at a disadvantage because social networking tricks people into thinking they already know someone before really having met them, Eisgruber added.

“We gather you here physically and in person because community and relationships matter fundamentally to our mission,” he said. “People often conceive of education as if it was a purely intellectual or utilitarian activity … that is not how we see it. We believe that learning also requires qualities of character and feeling and judgment, motivation, engagement, initiative, persistence, resilience,

curiosity, imagination, and daring.”

Eisgruber explained that students should maximize their relationships with not only fellow classmates but also scholars and professors who are willing to hear their thoughts, saying that a singular advantage of studying at the University is the scholars who will take one’s ideas seriously.

“Approach them after class,” he said. “Go to office hours. Invite them for lunch. Doing so will make a difference.”

Opening Exercises is an annual event marking the beginning of the academic career for the incoming freshmen. The ceremony is held in the University Chapel on the Sundayprior to the beginning of fall semester and involves the welcoming of the freshmen by the University President, hymns and prayers and the awarding of undergraduate prizes for the academic achievements of current

students. Opening Exercises is followed by the Prerade, where the incoming class parades through FitzRandolph Gate.

The Freshman First Honor Prize, which recognizes “exceptional academic achievement in the work of their freshman year,’ was awarded to Kyle Berlin ’18 and Kevin Sun ’18. The George B. Wood Legacy Sophomore Prize was awarded to Vladimir Feinberg ’17 and Lydia Liu ‘17 for their academic achievements in their sophomore year, and the George B. Wood Legacy Junior Prize was awarded to Cameron Platt ‘16 and Yuval Wigderson ’16 for academic achievements in their junior year. The Class of 1939 Princeton Scholar Award, which recognizes a student with the highest academic standing at the end of his or her junior year, was awarded to Saisai Chen ’16. Dean of the College and professor of English Jill Dolan presented the award.

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nation’s understanding of the human experience and broadened citizens’ engagement with the humanities.

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“One of our great poets, Emily Dickinson, once said that ‘truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it,’ ” Obama said during the ceremony. “The recipients of the National Medals for the Arts and the Humanities are here not only because they’ve shared rare truths, often about their own experience, but because they’ve told rare truths about the common experiences that we have as Americans and as human be-

ings.”

Goldstein is the third philosopher to receive the National Humanities Medal in the award’s history.

“Philosophical argument without emotion is empty, but emotional argument without philosophy is blind.

Rationality is a good thing for us,” Goldstein said in an interview.

Goldstein said she believes that novels are a way to “engage with the whole of the person” and a unique form to explore embedded questions.

She noted that many of her novels, such as “Properties of Light,” also delve into aspects of science.

“I disagree with the presentation of humanities versus sciences as an exclusive.

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away from campus that was handled by first responders,” Mbugua said. ”Upon learning about the accident, University administrators were immediately available to provide support and assistance to the students.”

The entire group was split into two vans on its way back from a regional CA dinner when the accident took place, Choi said. Choi was in the van driven by Hamlin, and she said the passengers in her van had a clear view of the accident since they were following Seshadri’s van.

Choi said that as soon as the accident occurred, Hamlin pulled over onto the other side of the road and instructed all the freshmen to remain inside the car as she went over to help.

“We were all really, really terrified — we didn’t really know what was happening,” Choi said.

Choi added that the five students in her minivan were then given updates by their group leader. She said that of the five students injured, three seemed to have sustained more serious injuries.

“We wanted to go to the hospital but the [injured] students

were actually split up into two different hospitals and they told us that we should just head back to campus,” Choi said.

Mbugua said that the decision to put the students in different hospitals was made by the first responders on site.

According to Choi, the three seriously injured students spent the night at the hospital while the other two were released very late that night after being evaluated by doctors. The remaining five students, from the other van, were taken to the Pace Center on the University campus.

Choi said that when the five uninjured students arrived at the Pace Center, they were greeted by upperclassmen who are Regional Community Action and Pace center workers, who provided them with food and talked to them to get their mind off things.

“It was just a really nice, warm environment to go to after such a traumatic experience and so we really appreciated that,” she said. “We all felt like we were really, really well taken care of. Obviously it would have been better if it [the accident] hadn’t happened but the way that the Pace Center dealt with the entire situation made it feel like everything was going to be okay.”

Community Action 2015 ran from Sept. 5 through Sept. 10.

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phy into science,” Goldstein said, noting that the majority of her readers and initial supporters, including her nominator for the MacArthur Award, are scientists.

She described the honor as a profound encouragement for herself and for all people, especially young women, to follow their passions.

Goldstein said she grew up in an Orthodox Jewish community, attended an allgirls school which discouraged women from pursuing a college education or stepping beyond the role of a traditional wife and mother.

However, she explained that she realized that there was a divergence between her values and inherited faith when she was introduced to Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza as a 14 year old.

“The story of Spinoza was told as a cautionary tale of a ‘bad boy.’ But I was immediately interested because I was already an atheist,” Goldstein said. “Yet one thing my teacher said was that Spinoza kept his heresy to himself until his parents died because it is a big thing in Jewish culture to not shame your families.”

Having made the vow to keep her atheism obscured until her parents pass away, Goldstein went on to pursue an academic career in philosophy. She explained that as one of the first female philosophy students at the University, she often found that there was a hostile environment towards women.

“You really felt that you were woman,” Goldstein said. ”Being the only woman

in many seminar classes, you feel like if you say something stupid, your entire gender is being judged. It’s like you were validating the stereotype.”

Goldstein explained that after becoming a professor of philosophy at Barnard College, she began exploring philosophy, especially questions of identity and peculiarity, through writing novels. This unconventional undertaking, she said, provoked even more challenges from her peers and institution due to her gender, and she noted that sometimes academia was not supportive of her work.

“When I wrote my first novel, the initial response was, ‘Oh she’s not serious, she must be delirious,’ ” Goldstein said. “Of all the

humanities, I think philosophy and economics have the worst statistics for women.

It’s far worse than some fields in [Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics].”

Lahiri declined multiple requests for comment. She joined the Lewis Center for the Arts’ faculty July 1.

Lahiri was born to Bengali parents in London and grew up in Rhode Island. Her work includes a 1999 collection of short stories, “Interpreter of Maladies,” which won the Pulitzer Prize, and a 2013 novel, “The Lowland,” which was a National Book Award finalist.

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My Friend the Felon: The St. Paul’s rape trial through the eyes of an insider Colter Smith columnist

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n a hot spring day 15 months ago, I sat outside St. Paul’s School, my high school, watching the class below me graduate. The final and most prestigious award, the Rector’s Award, is presented every year to the senior who “through selfless devotion to School activities, has enhanced our lives and improved the community.” The recipient that day was a student named Owen Labrie.

Little did I know that a week later, Labrie would be accused of rape by a freshman. Following his recent, highly publicized trial, he was found innocent on three sexual assault felony charges. However, he was found guilty of a felony of a different nature: using a computer to “seduce, solicit, lure or entice a child under the age of 16.”

As a graduate of St. Paul’s and a personal acquaintance of the newly convicted felon, I have had conflicted feelings about this trial that has consumed a place I still know as my second home.

While Labrie’s alleged actions are despicable, I have also been surprised by how poorly the media has covered his trial. For the first time in my life, the person on trial was someone I knew personally, not some faceless stranger, and that has forced me to consider the entire process from his point of view as well. Due to the nature of the crime, newspapers did not display the name of the accuser. However, Labrie, the accused, was not afforded this same right. Instead, the media publicly paraded his name before the trial even began. The unfortunate result of this is that even if Owen had been acquitted of all charges, his association with rape would still have followed him until the end of his life.

It is of course important for the purposes of a just legal system that the government discloses all parties involved. Nonetheless, in the case of particularly heinous crimes, the media should still have the decency not to encourage the association of the accused with potentially false accusations by not releasing his or her name until guilt has been proven.

But the media not only failed to adequately cover the people involved, but also failed in its reporting on St. Paul’s School itself. Many media outlets have described the school as abounding with traditions of sexual conquest and competition. Having graduated only one year before Owen, I can attest however that it is nothing as portrayed. In particular, the media has misconstrued certain phrases particular to St. Paul’s.

For example, media outlets referred to messages between Owen and others in which he talks about “scoring” a girl, implying that Owen was in some game or competition. In reality, the term “score,” among St. Paul’s students, simply refers to any sort of romantic encounter or relationship.

Another unique term of media interest is the ‘Senior Salute’. The Washington Post described it as a time where “senior men at St. Paul’s competed to sleep with as many younger students as possible.” NBC called it a “ritual.” In actuality, the senior salute was nothing more than the act of a senior near graduation having any sort of short-term romantic encounter with a younger student. It usually was seen as a fun way to end the school year, or as a last chance attempt to pursue a long-held romantic interest. It was in no way a culturally encouraged tradition, and certainly not a competition. Rather, “the senior salute” was just a word we had come up with to describe a naturally occurring phenomenon, and both genders partook in it. The twisting of these harmless phrases and actions into something they are not in order to fit a specific narrative has led to undeserved backlash against the school.

Rather than attempting to feed us a blackand-white story, the media should have focused on the legal issues surrounding the trial. While Owen’s alleged actions were certainly wrong and criminal, the worst crime he was convicted of was not the actual act, but rather the use of a computer to do so. Owen was not some 40-yearold man pretending to be a 15 year old in an online chat-room, or someone luring a child into an empty park with promises of candy. He was just a guy who exchanged a couple of messages with a girl on Facebook before hooking up. No disguise. No deceit. No trap. If that is a crime then most of us are felons.

If his actions are truly considered despicable and worthy of punishment, then we should be concerned that it took the ridiculous application of an outdated computer law to punish him. Owen’s actions, not his use of a computer, should be what he is convicted for. If this trial has done anything, it has caused me to lose significant faith in the way that our legal system is shaped to handle such cases involving sexual assault. To prevent future occurrences, we should stop trying to craft narratives, and focus on how we can create a legal system that convicts people of clear and sensible crimes.

Colter Smith is a computer science major from Bronxville, N.Y. He can be reached at crsmith@ princeton.edu.

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The Wall Street Journal Done Goofed Nicholas Wu columnist

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was one of the few AsianAmericans in the small suburb of Detroit that I grew up in. I still remember multiple instances in which other little boys would walk up to me and ask, “Your eyes are so small, are you blind or something?” They might as well have been hurling a slur at me – “chink.”

Well, that’s just an ugly word. But somehow, the Wall Street Journal never got that memo. For those unfamiliar with the story, the Wall Street Journal recently tweeted a link to a story about the President of China, Xi Jinping, with the caption “A chink in his armor? Xi Jinping looks vulnerable for the first time.” The tweet was deleted and a nonapology was subsequently posted, “We recently removed a tweet on our Xi Jinping article because a common idiom might be seen as a slur. No offense was intended.” Belying that statement, no major disciplinary action was taken at the Wall Street Journal. Regardless of intentions, the damage had been done.

Language matters in political writing, and the Wall Street Journal ignored that in order to score a cheap joke.

Normally that particular idiom is fairly innocuous, with Dictionary.com defining the expression as “a vulnerable

area.” Its usage dates back to the 1600s; however, when it is used in conjunction with a person of Chinese descent, it takes on a pejorative meaning.

That derogatory definition of “chink” is derived from a corruption of the word “China,” as well as from the stereotypical Western image of Chinese people as having narrow eyes (stemming from an original definition of “chink” as a “gap”). Some consider it to be as offensive to Chinese-Americans as the nword is to African-Americans.

This is not the first time that a similar incident has occurred. Perhaps the most notable incident was back in 2012, when ESPN ran an article about a New York Knicks basketball game with a large picture of Jeremy Lin, the basketball player, and the headline “Chink in the Armor.” In reference to the same basketball game, an ESPN commentator used the same phrase on-air shortly before the article was published. The anchor was suspended and the employee responsible for the headline was fired.

There is, however, a nuance to the matter. “Chink in the armor” is an entirely acceptable, inoffensive phrase if it were to be used in a context not involving Asian-Americans. Some ChineseAmericans, like Eddie Huang, who created a sitcom called “Fresh Off the Boat” centering around an Asian-American family, believe that “chink” has been reclaimed in a similar fashion to the

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way the n-word has been reclaimed for African-Americans. The idea is that those members of the in-group can reclaim the word and divorce it from its offensive connotations when it is used within the group. Huang, for instance, refers to himself as a chink in a selfdeprecating way in his writing. However, it is still unacceptable for those outside the group to use it, given the word’s loaded meaning and legacy of racial hatred.

“Chink in the armor” is a phrase that should not be entirely retired, but at the end of the day, it’s still entirely inappropriate to use it when referring to Asians or Asian-Americans. To use it, even in an idiom, in the context of a person of Asian descent requires shocking levels of idiocy.

It’s simply unacceptable for this to have transpired, especially in reference to one of the most powerful men on the planet. The Wall Street Journal might as well have directly used the slur against him, and one wonders how many different levels of authority the decision to run that caption had to go through before publication. The Wall Street Journal, as one of our nation’s leading newspapers, needs to issue a formal apology and discipline those responsible.

Nicholas Wu is a sophomore from Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich. He can be reached at nmwu@princeton.edu.

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Reaching Back Marni More columnist

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ith the start of a new school year, everyone is eager to impart his or her advice on how to face the future. In doing so, they largely forget about their pasts. While I wouldn’t dare suggest I have any better advice, I think people often forget to look back and think about how they want to maintain past relationships moving forward. I’ve done a lot of reaching back as I’ve grown, and I think it’s perhaps something we all, incoming freshmen and returning students alike, could do a bit more conscientiously.

Growing up, I saw my friends on a regular or semi-regular basis. Keeping in touch was simple because we all lived in the same neighborhoods and attended the same schools.

The first time this changed was in eighth grade when I was accepted into a magnet program at a different high school from all my friends. I was terrified at the prospect of losing my friends, a fear only exacerbated when an older peer who had also left for a magnet program admitted that she hadn’t really kept in touch with any of her old friends. I began to second-guess

my decision. My friends were what made me happiest, and leaving them completely felt like betraying them and dooming myself. She continued, though, to say that she supposed it was her fault for not reaching out more to her friends; she suggested simply that if maintaining those relationships was important to me, I should take the initiative and responsibility into my own hands. And ever since, I have.

Knowing that these relationships were important to me, I took the initiative to make plans with my old friends even when they didn’t reach out on their own. I made sure to check in and make movie or dinner plans once a month or so, even as I began to develop just as meaningful friendships at my new high school.

Of course the whole thing just happens all over again. All my close high school friends eventually separated, and at Princeton my new friends span across class years. Last spring, three of my closest friends on campus graduated. This year, even more will do so, and then it will be my year to leave as others go elsewhere or stay. My two close romantic relationships both ended at least in part because we were from different classes and had to move apart.

That’s just how life and growing up go.

Being separated from people you’re

close to sucks. There’s just no other way to put it. But there is something you can do other than just move on and try to forget the past, because that is much easier said than done. Since high school, I’ve found that by taking the situation into my own hands, not only do most relationships last, some even grow stronger.

I’ve found that small things can really go a long way. When my friendships become long distance, I just try to make a concerted effort to make sure I’m still there for them as much as possible, be it paying attention to milestones (big or small) in their lives, following up on things they mention, or reaching out if we haven’t spoken in the last week or so.

Granted, not all past relationships last. I’ve simply drifted apart from some old friends and I’ve also concluded that some relationships weren’t worth the emotional effort it took to try to maintain them. Though I was happy to bear the responsibility of maintaining my relationship with my high school best friend, I was getting little friendship back no matter how hard I tried to reach out. The so-called friendship and the emotional weight I was bearing hurt more than it made me happy, so I consciously stopped putting forth that extra effort it takes to maintain a

long-distance friendship. It hurts, but I’m a lot happier knowing that I tried to maintain the relationship at first than I would have been had we drifted away simply because neither of us even tried to stay connected. If maintaining a relationship makes you happier than letting friends go, to me it seems worth the effort, but if not, perhaps it’s time to let go and enjoy the relationships you do have, new and old.

That older peer I ran into back in eighth grade probably doesn’t remember that conversation. She might not even remember me at all, and I’m sure she doesn’t know that I still live by those words she imparted back in our seventh-grade science classroom. But I have and I do. And whether you are a first year who just split from all your school friends, or an upperclassman whose close friends just graduated, you ought to too. As you relish all the friendships you have and will have at Princeton, know that you don’t need to leave the old ones behind as you do so.

Take your friendships into your own hands and don’t let something good slip away without at least attempting to hold on tightly.

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

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vard’s Tom Purnell clocking in at 24:48.

On the women’s side, Bird

ran the course in 17:14 — seven seconds faster than the second-place finisher from Harvard. As a team, the Tigers were only a point away from first place. Princeton finished with 37 points, while

Harvard only had 36 points, despite the fact that the Tigers had a faster average time and the lowest combined times.

Princeton’s average time was 17:41.20 and Harvard’s was 17:43. Yale finished third with

50 points.

Next weekend, the men’s team will compete in and host the Princeton Interregional Meet, while the women’s team is scheduled to participate in the Iona Meet of Champions.

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with a goal at the 49-minute mark to make the score 1-1, Miller at the 70-minute mark to put the score at 2-2. Unfortunately, their efforts weren’t enough as FGCU’s Preston

Kilwien found the back of the net in the 88th minute to put the Eagles up for good.

The Tigers’ second match in the Sunshine State would be against Florida International University. The game started out in a far different way — the Tigers found themselves up 1-0 at the half, courtesy

of a goal in the eighth minute from senior forward Tom Sanner. The Panthers (4-20) turned the tide, scoring two goals in the 74th and 77th minutes to give them the lead, which they rode to victory. The flip at halftime can be seen in the box score – shots in the first half favored

Princeton 8-2, but the second half saw FIU overtake their foes 10 shots to 6.

With their road trip to open the season complete, the Tigers return to Roberts Stadium, where they hope to begin their campaign at home with a victory against visiting Boston University.

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past Bucknell 5-1, but suffered another tough loss 4-3 on Sunday to No. 18 Delaware.

As the score suggests, the Tigers displayed end-to-end domination against Bucknell, finding themselves up 4-0 by halftime alone. Sophomore striker Ryan McCarthy got it started, scoring at just the 7:50 mark in the first half. More and more Tigers would get in on the act, as freshman striker Nicole Catalino, junior midfielder Ellen Dobrijevic and junior midfielder/striker Cat Caro got goals of their own on the day (Catalino scoring twice).

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ton’s Gersoff to extend the lead to two. In the 21st minute, the Tigers looked to make a charge and earned their first penalty corner of the afternoon. Freshman midfielder Elise Wong set up a shot on goal from senior midfielder Teresa Benvenuti, forcing Delaware’s goalie to make a kick save, which sophomore striker Ryan McCarthy was able to corral and push into the net to put Princeton on the board. Continuing the offensive push a few minutes later, Princeton earned another penalty corner. Again Wong set up Benvenuti, who slapped a hard shot toward the cage, which Caro was able to tip past the goalie to level the score at two.

The Tigers took the lead a few minutes into the second half with a big goal from Benvenuti, but Princeton wouldn’t hold the lead long, as Delaware responded five minutes later with a shot from the top of the

circle that found the back of the net. Delaware kept the pressure on in the 56th minute, when junior back Hailey Reeves was forced to save a shot from Greta Nauck, and then got the goahead goal minutes later with a shot from Michaela Patzner.

As the game entered the final five minutes, Princeton was able to stay within striking distance as one Delaware shot hit the post and Gersoff made a diving save on another to keep it out of the cage. As regulation time ticked down, the Tigers were able to earn a penalty corner. Tornetta fired a shot toward an empty Delaware net, but a defensive save left Princeton with a loss.

Gersoff recorded two saves on the day, and the Tigers finished with a 13-9 shot advantage and 6-3 penalty corner advantage.

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Women’s soccer ends losing streak, as men make Florida road trip

By Miles Hinson sports editor

Women’s Soccer The first skid of the season came to a halt for the women’s soccer team. After taking their lumps in a loss against Delaware on Thursday, they bounced back with a victory against Villanova on Sunday morning.

Heading into the game against the Blue Hens (5-3-0), the Tigers (3-3-0) had already found themselves on a twogame losing streak. They had fallen to the Rutgers Scarlet Knights (ranked 19th among NCAA schools as of Sept. 8) and the Duquesne Dukes. If one were to ignore the first five minutes of the game, the Tigers would have appeared the aggressors throughout, getting 18 shots off compared to the Hens’ seven. Unfortunately, it was within the first five minutes where Delaware took their decisive edge, scoring at the 4:34 mark to put them up for good. The Tigers ultimately fell 0-1 on the game, having lost all three games of their homestand.

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ever, was apparently just what they needed. The Tigers pounced all over the struggling Wildcats (0-7-0), winning comfortably 3-1. This one had gotten away from Villanova by halftime. The Tigers were already up 3-0 by halftime, including goals within a minute of each other from junior forward Tyler Lussi and junior midfielder Nicole Loncar.

Sophomore forward Beth Stella noted that the Tigers’ going at 100 percent intensity for the entire game was the key to victory.

“We were lacking a degree of focus on finishing the full 90 [minutes] and composure in front of the goal that we needed to win,” Stella said.

“We finally took control of the game this last weekend.”

Junior midfielder Haley Chow expressed a similar sentiment, pointing out that the Tigers need to be the ones taking control of their own destiny in their games.

“We have realized that we have to come out hard to every game.” Chow said. “A couple times we have waited for other teams to dictate

the pace of how we start, but when we came out hard, we were really able to put our opposition on the back foot early in the game.”

With the road win in the books, the Tigers seek success back at Roberts Stadium. They will begin their three-game homestand with a match against La Salle University on Wednesday at 7 p.m.

Men’s Soccer After a successful season opener against St. John’s in New York City, the men’s soccer team has hit a rough patch of their own. The Tigers (1-2-0) have gone 0-2 since their Big Apple excursion.

Heading down to Florida, the team first fell to Florida Gulf Coast University Eagles (1-1-1) to the tune of 2-3. The match was a thriller, as the Tigers traded goals tit for tat with their foes. Senior midfielder Nico Hurtado and senior defender Josh Miller each were responsible for drawing the Tigers level after falling behind – Hurtado See SOCCER page 10

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Field Hockey splits games and falls to 1-3 on season

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The Princeton field hockey team has had a difficult schedule so far this year. The Tigers dropped their season opener to No. 3 North Carolina and then suffered an overtime defeat against No. 4 Virginia. Despite these losses, following the opening weekend, two players earned weekly accolades. Senior goalie Anya Gersoff played all 155 minutes and recorded a .757 save percentage against North Carolina and Virginia,

tallying a career-high 14 saves against UNC and matching that number the following day against UVA. Gersoff was rewarded with Ivy League CoPlayer of the Week honors for her efforts. Freshman striker Sophia Tornetta was named the Ivy League Rookie of the week as she scored one of the Tigers’ two goals against UNC and recorded an assist, a goal and two defensive saves against UVA. The Tigers turned things around on Saturday, cruising See FIELD HOCKEY page 13

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In the recently revived Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet, Princeton came out on top, travelling to Cambridge, MA to best their traditional rivals.

Cross country teams come out strong at Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet

By Christopher Grubbs staff writer

On Friday, Sept. 11, the men’s and women’s cross country teams traveled to Boston to participate in the second annual Harvard-Yale-

Princeton meet. The men’s team came in first place for the second consecutive year and the women came in second to Harvard, placing one point out of first. Harvard won the women’s event, despite junior Lizzie Bird’s

first-place finish.

On the men’s side, the Tigers clocked an average time of 25:03.40 for a total of 31 points. Harvard and Yale tied for second, scoring 47 points each. Junior William Bertrand, senior Michael

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Sublette and sophomore Wolfgang Beck finished 2-34, helping Princeton secure the victory, with another four Tigers in the top 15. Bertrand was only a second away from finishing in first, with HarSee XC page 10

In an unprecedented move, the University and IMG announced a new multi-year rights representation agreement on Aug. 6. The deal gives IMG rights to the marketing of all advertising and sponsorship inventory for all 38 varsity programs and over 1000 athletes, as well as the production of radio broadcasts for football, men’s basketball and men’s lacrosse. According to the press releases, IMG will also look to develop multi-school sponsorships that include Princeton and Rutgers University, another school that IMG works with.

“We are very excited about our new partnership with IMG Col-

lege,” Director of Athletics Mollie Marcoux ‘91 said. “This relationship will allow us to continue to identify corporate partners who understand and appreciate our athletic mission and values and who can help us meet our goals of Education through Athletics and the continuation of our unmatched tradition of competitive excellence.”

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