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News & Notes Second fondling incident reported on campus

The second fondling incident in four days was reported Sunday at around 4:20 p.m. between Whig Hall and MurrayDodge Hall.

The case follows a fondling incident reported on Thursday night outside the Friend Center.

According to an email from the Department of Public Safety, a female student reported that an unidentified man struck her buttocks as she was walking north. She was not injured.

The suspect then reportedly f led by bicycling toward Firestone Library.

The suspect was described by the student as light-complexioned, red-haired and wearing a white shirt and backpack, the email said. He was accompanied by another light-complexioned man wearing a blue shirt and backpack on a bicycle.

Both men are about 5 feet 11 inches tall and around 20 years old.

As with the incident on Thursday, the DPS searched the area but could not locate the suspect.

Directed patrols will guard the area through the night, according to the email.

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Nate Ruess, formerly of the band Fun., performed at Quadrangle Club during Lawnparties on Sunday.

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

National data released on alumni earnings

By Nahrie Chung staff writer

In a newly revamped “College Scorecard” website, the Department of Education has published an unprecedented set of federal data that reveals how much students who receive financial loans and grants end up earning after graduation.

While median earnings among the nation’s elite universities vary, the typical Ivy League graduate who entered college in 2001 or 2002 makes at least twice as much as the typical graduate from other colleges.

White House officials claim this new informa-

tion will help prospective students and their families make better evaluations of the return on investment for a college education, according to a policy paper on the College Scorecard Data webpage.

The report about the University shows that its graduates’ median salary ten years after entering college is $75,100, as compared to $40,500 for a graduate of a median four-year university.

In a second post-college metric, the data reveals that 75 percent of University graduates six years after enrollment have salaries above the “threshold” salary of $25,000 for a typical high school

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Ten years after entering college, Harvard alumni report a median salary of $87,200, while University of Pennsylvania graduates earn $78,200. A Yale graduate’s median salary stands at $66,000.

A popular comprehensive salary-tracking system for colleges before “College Scorecard” was PayScale, an online database containing over 13 million self-reported salary survey responses since 2010. PayScale currently ranks Princeton eighth in its 2015-16 College Salary Report, listing a median earlycareer salary — 0-5 years’ See ALUMNI page 4

The university will be installing Eruvin boundaries across campus and the local municipality and should be completed in the next three weeks, Dean of Religious Life Alison Boden said.

The boundaries will extend as far as Elm Road to North Harrison Street, according to the official map released by the Center for Jewish Life website in late August.

Eruvin boundaries, composed of poles or telephone wires, enable Jewish individuals that observe the Sabbath to perform normally prohibited activities, such as carrying personal items from a private space, such as a dorm room, into the public domain.

Boden noted there are 50 students with this level of observance at the University, but that its impact will also extend to faculty and local residents. The Center for Jewish Life houses the only Orthodox Jewish synagogue in the local municipality.

After unsuccessful attempts at launching the boundaries in the 1980s, the initiative for the university’s most observant Jewish students was revisited five years ago when students no longer used keys to access their rooms and instead used their University ID cards, Rabbi Julie Roth, the Executive Director of the Princeton Center for Jewish Life, explained.

Boden said that the project

was first proposed by David Wolkenfield, the predecessor of the current head orthodox Rabbi.

“The approvals process has been great, the reason why it took so long is the number of poles involved,” she explained. “Each pole required its own paperwork.” The utility poles used for the boundaries are owned by companies PSE&G and Verizon.

Obstacles to complete the Eruvin project included acquiring approval to obtain the telephone poles and the fact that some parts of campus do not have any telephone wires, Roth said.

“In order to build an Eruv, you have to have a closed perimeter. Every part of the perimeter has to meet certain restrictions within Jewish law,” she added.

Isaac Fink ’17, president of the Yavneh student board, said that the installation of the Eruvin is something orthodox students have been hoping for for many years.

Fink noted that several other Ivy League Universities, including Harvard and Columbia, have installed such boundaries.

“It came into effect just because a lot of us here at the University knew that it would make a big improvement in the quality life of our most observant Jewish students and all of our peer schools have them. It’s just the right thing to do,” Boden said.

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STUDENT LIFE

U. professor discusses study on infant brains

By Zoe Toledo staff writer

Psychology professor Lauren Emberson has developed a new technique to study how the portions of babies’ brains that respond to visual stimuli are the same portions of babies’ brains that respond to the expectation of a visual stimulus.

The research in “Topdown modulation in the infant brain: Learning-induced expectations rapidly affect the sensory cortex at 6 months,” published June 20 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was conducted by Emberson, Richard Aslin and John Richards.

Aslin is a professor at Rochester University for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Center for Visual Science, and Richards is a professor at the University of South Carolina department of psychology.

Emberson, who joined the University psychology department on September 1 as an assistant professor of psychology, was previously a postdoctoral associate at Rochester University for the department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences.

Emberson explained that in the study, parents go into a room where there is a screen that will display a video to the baby. A small cap, which utilizes near-

infrared spectroscopy, is placed on the baby’s head.

The baby is then exposed to a pattern of sounds and images including a clown horn honk or a rattle followed by the image of a smiley face. The sound and visual stimulus were then paired together and shown to the infant. At random periods the sound still occurred, but the image was withheld.

“There was one baby in particular, she had this look when the smiley face did not appear. She had this great surprised look, a ‘where did it go’ kind of look,” Emberson said.

Emberson said that the moment experienced by the baby was a kind of peek-aboo moment. One in which the baby expected to see something, but did not.

She noted that the experiments performed on the infants ages 5 to 7 months were non-invasive and entirely dependent on the baby’s wanting to participate.

With the aid of John Richards’ anatomical data of baby brains, the researchers were able to localize where the sensors of the babies’ brains are in respect to the underlying anatomy, Aslin said. Emberson explained that they could then determine which parts of the brain were activated by the visual stimulus.

“For a naïve person like an See BABY page 6

COURTESY OF THE OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS

The Lakeside Graduate Housing opened for graduate students on June 1 after long delays.

Graduate students move into Lakeside Graduate Housing after long delays

By Nahrie Chung staff writer

The Lakeside Graduate Housing complex opened on June 1 after a yearlong delay.

The delays were due to the complexity of the project and contractual relationships, The Daily Princetonian reported in October 2014.

The complex was originally scheduled to be completed in July 2014, but delays pushed the scheduled completion to September, then to December and finally to June.

Lakeside is the University’s newest on-campus housing option, and features 329 units, including 74 townhouses and 255 apartments, and is now home to over 700 graduate students.

With its proximity to campus and to other graduate student housing, the Lakeside Graduate Housing seeks to cater to graduate students’ housing needs and to strengthen the graduate student community.

Andrew Kane, assistant vice president in the Office

of the Vice President for University Services, said that Lakeside has now consolidated the student populations of the Butler and Stanworth apartments into one location on campus.

Kane explained that when planning for Lakeside began in 2005, the administration sought input from the graduate student body. Two students were appointed to the planning team that worked with architects and participated in the design process.

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Former Fun. vocalist Nate Ruess rocked the stage at Quadrangle Club during Lawnparties on Sunday. HOLYCHILD opened for Ruess, and performers at other clubs included Lil Dicky, Young Rising Sons, and Bellatonic.

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experience — at $61,300 and a mid-career salary — ten or more years of experience — at $122,000.

However, the government’s now openly accessible data has allowed the public to look into some finer details.

For instance, the top ten percent of Harvard graduates are earning around $250,000 by age 32. The top ten percent of Princeton graduates, who are ranked with the third highest median salary among the Ivies, are making $217,200 at about the same point in their lives. Columbia, in fourth place, has graduates making $205,500 within the top ten percent. By contrast, top earners from other institutions earn around $70,000, according to the Washington

Post.

Moreover, the data reveals certain inequalities at the institutions with highest earnings potential.

According to original data files used in the Scorecard, Princeton male graduates earn $47,700 more than their female counterparts at ten years after entering college, both groups employed fulltime. This difference highlights female alumni earning roughly 65 percent of their male peers’ salaries, a percentage lower than the White House’s reported national income gender gap of 77 percent.

The gender earnings gap also persists at other Ivy League institutions. Yale women earn $34,600 less than Yale men, approximately 69 percent of the men’s salaries.

Harvard’s estimate falls in between those of Yale and

Princeton at 67 percent. But among the Ivies, Brown appears to have the smallest pay gap, with female graduates making almost 80 percent of what their male counterparts make.

To report these figures, the government paired federal tax returns with federal student financial aid information for the first time. The data points were determined from loan and grant records reaching back to the 1990’s, according to a White House fact sheet about College Scorecard.

However, some higher education experts and institutions have criticized the quality of the data published by the Department of Education.

Molly Corbett Broad, President of the America Council on Education, noted in a statement on Monday that the

system only provides a single number for an entire institution regardless of whether a student studied chemical engineering or philosophy, and only includes the earnings of federal student loan borrowers, and so may or may not provide meaningful information to the students and families it was designed to help.

Broad did not respond to a request for comment.

Pulin Sanghvi, Executive Director of Princeton’s Career Services, expressed other concerns with the newly released college data. He noted a shift away from traditional companies and career paths, making today’s compensation packages look different from before, noting as an example that if a student joins a small startup company, he would get a lower salary but receive equity compensation from the startup. This equity would not be reported on tax returns and would not show until it is fully realized.

“Historical comparisons of compensation will become very complicated,” he said.

In addition, students are pursuing less traditional paths and looking at what they could come to love over the long-term, he said. With the rise of global opportunities and an increase in the number of small companies, students face an increasingly diverse landscape for career opportunities.

“Whole categories are changing and becoming available in today’s econo-

my,” he added.

Abdullah Kandil ’05, who worked as a consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton for two years before going on to complete medical school, said that the topic of financial prospects never arose in conversations with undergraduate friends.

“My passion was always biology — ecology and evolutionary biology was my major and I’ve always loved that field,” he said. “It was easy for me to choose a major but I really didn’t have an idea of what I wanted to do after graduation.”

It wasn’t until his junior or senior year that he decided on the pre-medicine track.

Still, he said, financial security was an important professional consideration.

“It’s one of the reasons why I made the decision to go into medicine — because of its relative job security and financial security,” he said.

Kandil further described how the Princeton name will follow students beyond their undergraduate years.

“The reputation of your undergraduate school makes a big difference — on how people perceive you, your education, your background and your work ethic,” he said.

“I think it makes a big difference.”

Anne White ’05, who took a non-traditional guide job in the outdoor industry before now pursuing graduate studies in sociology, observed that post-college earnings

may not be the only measure of a Princeton education.

“My value in Princeton definitely came from the contacts that I made there, opening doors for me,” she said. “Financially, on paper, it doesn’t look like I’ve been very successful but I’ve been allowed to do things that I think, by being affiliated with a Princeton University community, I have access to.”

White said financial security was an important concern for her professional decision-making, but her personal motto was to live simply. After being inspired by her Outdoor Action experience and as an avid backpacker, she lived out of a tent for more than six months after graduating.

“Princeton is really helpful if you want to go to law school, if you want to go to med school or if you want to go to Wall Street,” she said.

“But otherwise, if you don’t fit into any of those categories, you’re really left on your own.”

Sanghvi said that Career Services, now undergoing a re-imagining process, has a mandate focused on empowerment. His team encourages students to take a leap of faith to better understand themselves and explore the opportunities that give them a sense of life purpose and mission.

“The best of themselves will come out as they pursue what they love, and long-term security will follow,” he said.

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They also looked into graduate student needs and preferences, Kane noted.

“We did a survey of common space amenities and what students wanted to have in the common spaces of the buildings, and we cosponsored with the [Graduate Student Government] a survey of apartment unit types and rental costs,” Kane said.

According to the official Lakeside Housing website, Lakeside offers a variety of floor plan options, and caters to singles, partners, roommates and families. Unlike previous graduate student housing, each unit has a dishwasher, washer and dryer.

Within the complex, a 6,000 square-foot “commons” building features a fitness

center, private study rooms, TV lounges for gatherings, a computer cluster with printers and a playroom for children. The center serves as a central gathering space and is open to all graduate students.

Outdoor amenities include a large patio for grilling, basketball and volleyball courts, a community garden and several courtyards.

Graduate Student Government president Akshay Mehra GS, who currently lives in Lakeside, said that GSG has helped connect graduate students with the administration throughout the planning process.

“Our role in this whole situation — prior to Lakeside opening and now that Lakeside is open — is acting as a means for collecting information from graduate students and interfacing with the administration,” Mehra

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from the University, and that in the past the University had done a lot of different things to make it possible for observant students not to carry objects. Projects in the past to accommodate Sabbath-observant practice included jewelry and belts

that incorporated keys, she said.

“The Eruv is very important to the Princeton’s Jewish community as a tangible commitment to creating a campus that is inclusive of students who wish to observe all aspects of Jewish practice,” Shira Cohen ‘16, the president of the student board of the Center for Jewish Life, said.

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said.

Kane also explained that the main drive was to improve the condition and quality of graduate student hous-

“Our role in this whole situation ... is acting as a means for collecting information from graduate students and interfacing with the administration.”

Akshay Mehra GS, GSG president

ing overall, as the existing Butler and Stanworth units were well past the end of their useful lives.

Many graduate student

apartments that had been constructed under the G.I. Bill in the years following World War II had not been intended for long-term use, GSG Facilities and Transportation Chair Julia Wittes GS noted.

“They were built originally as temporary housing. In fact, I think they were built in such a way so that they could be moved — so they didn’t have foundations, and they weren’t insulated at all,” Wittes said.

Butler and Stanworth apartments were also located 25 to 30 minutes away from main campus, according to Mehra. Thus, proximity and integration with the rest of the University community proved an additional challenge. But with the opening of Lakeside — situated closer to central campus as well as the rest of the Graduate Col-

lege community — students may find community-building easier than before, Wittes explained.

“Our Tiger Transit bus system has now been streamlined because graduate housing is all along Alexander Road,” Wittes said. “So instead of having a line that ran to Stanworth and a line that ran to Butler, we have all of graduate housing in one loop, which has now permitted us to have a weekend bus.”

The D-Bar, the graduate student bar located at the Graduate College, seems busier than before, both Mehra and Wittes said.

“It has not been doing so well in the past few years — and now I went to a packed D-Bar last Wednesday and was very excited about that,” Wittes said.

When it comes to issues like reserving the grill space

or mailing electricity billing, there are “still some kinks to be worked out” in policies under the new management company, American Campus Communities, Emily Hulme GS, who lives in Lakeside, said. Overall, however, the Lakeside experience has been an upgrade for many Butler and Stanworth students, she added.

“I’m definitely happy with my unit,” Hulme said.

“I think it will be good for future graduate students to see [these units] because they look like the standard. And to have a place where you can live this close to campus is something you can’t beat.”

The Lakeside complex stands on the former location of Hibben and Magie apartments, situated adjacent to Lake Carnegie and within walking distance of the Dinky train station.

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infant, since you can’t tell them the structures that are present they have to figure it out themselves by listening or looking at events that occur in the world. And so that seems to be a very powerful form of implicit learning,” Aslin said.

He explained that the study used an optical tech-

nique known as near infrared spectroscopy, in which light of a particular wavelength that can travel through skin and scalp is shined into the brain. The amount of light that comes back out, he said, varies by how much oxygen is being absorbed by the brain at that location, and the amount of oxygen being absorbed is higher when neurons are more active.

“What it does is provide a measure of how the surface

of the brain is responding when you present certain kinds of stimuli to the infant,” he said.

This methodology, he added, is new and particularly suitable for babies.

He also noted that although these kinds of studies have been around for twenty years, what has been missing from most of that work is an understanding of the brain mechanisms that support statistical learning.

Emberson’s study, he said, is the first entry point into beginning to understand how statistical learning operates in the brain.

“Developmental science is a relatively new field and Lauren is a pioneer tackling very important theoretical, methodological and statistical challenges,” associate psychology professor at the University Casey Lew-Williams said, regarding the research.

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Underage drinking as privilege

EDITORIAL

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Will Rivitz is a sophomore from Brookline, Mass. He can be reached at wrivitz@princeton.edu.

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y now, Lawnparties are over, and only a sea of dust from Quadrangle Club and a few stray plastic cups remain as physical evidence of the crush of people who filled Prospect Avenue over the past day. If we didn’t already know what Lawnparties entails, we’ve learned it by now. Officially, we’ve spent the afternoon celebrating the beginning of school with excellent musicians and great friends, partying in a last-ditch attempt to resuscitate summer and stave off our coursework for one more day. Unofficially, of course, many of us will have used the event as a chance to get totally sloshed before noon, stumbling around Cannon Club’s lawn with a cup of beer in each hand or begging Terrans for one of their bottles of Andre.

I’m not going to waste my breath complaining about the degeneracy of youth today or the no-holds-barred hedonism that drives modern society or whatnot, because that kind of argument is boring to read and shows a writer out of touch with the campus on which he purports to comment. So long as there are no serious injuries, I see no harm in continuing the day-drinking tradition of Lawnparties. We’re theoretically responsible enough to live without parental supervision, survive near-impossible classes on our own terms and apply for jobs — if we want to kick back and relax (or rage) for an afternoon, so be it.

However, I think Lawnparties is a good jumping-off point for thinking about one of the lesser-discussed forms of institutional privilege that comes along with attending a school like Princeton: except in very extreme cases, we are almost never punished for underage drinking. Most of us have at least heard of the policy outlined in the Alcohol and Other Drug Use brochure that states “neither intoxication nor admission to UHS for intoxication will be grounds for disciplinary action,” and we know that the University is concerned first and foremost with keeping its students safe with respect to drinking.

Moreover, aside from the 20-odd students arrested over the course of the past few years by a Princeton police officer for purchasing liquor while underage, it’s difficult to find any on-campus examples of disciplinary action levied against Princeton students for alcohol-specific charges.

Somewhat counterintuitively, this isn’t a bad thing in and of itself — after all, if we’re drinking mostly responsibly and not putting the lives of others in danger, what do we care if we have a beer or two at an eating club on a Saturday night? Unfortunately, many of our non-Princeton peers — especially those not at a university whose prestige can sometimes allow it impunity from some facets of the law — are not able to partake in that same privilege. We see this pretty frequently in the news — take the 133 arrests for underage drinking made at end-of-summer concerts in New York, for example — but it’s not something we often discuss. There is no reason other 19- and 20-year-olds, especially those who drink at least as responsibly as the average Princeton student, should be subject to more stringent policing than we are. Crackdowns inevitably happen sporadically and irregularly, but such a disparity between disciplinary action on campus and off campus is shocking.

As such, I’d like to propose the most reasonable solution I can think of: lowering the legal drinking age to 19. We as Princeton students are lucky to have the resources we do to deal with alcohol-related issues, from short-term binge drinking care to longer-term counseling for mental illnesses begotten from alcohol. By establishing the drinking age as 21, countless young adults just under that cutoff who don’t attend a university are often unable to access similar opportunities, and are thus deprived of the same ability to learn to drink responsibly on their own terms, without fear of legal repercussions. If we were to lower the legal drinking age (which I’ve set at 19 instead of 18 to cut down on high schoolers’ access to alcohol — there are a lot more 18-year-old seniors than 19-year-old seniors), those resources suddenly become available, and the corrosive legal need to hide problems pertaining to alcohol disappears.

Of course, in the big scheme of things this is a very small issue. There are other discussions of institutional privilege we should probably be having before talking about underage alcohol consumption, and we can do a better job on almost all those other, more important fronts. However, with this small change to our nation’s current alcohol policy, we can reduce at least one completely arbitrary manifestation of this privilege. By lowering the legal drinking age, we can better regulate the drinking of young adults whether they are in a college setting or not, destigmatize the treatment of problems related to alcohol and increase access to resources for healthier consumption. We manage to stay remarkably safe on our own campus — it’s time to allow that safety to our peers.

Opinion

Monday september 21, 2015

The start of classes is an exciting time, offering students a chance to meet new people, reconnect with old friends and explore varied interests. But for some students, this is overshadowed by schedules not yet finalized due to University policies related to add/drop period for non-freshman, precept selection and access to course syllabi. The Board proposes three reforms to the start of the fall semester: allow upperclassmen to add or drop courses when Academic Year SignIn begins, improve the process of precept selection and require that professors post course syllabi on Blackboard two weeks prior to the start of classes. We believe these changes will ease students’ transition to the fall semester and create more choice and flexibility.

While freshmen spent last Tuesday finalizing their schedules, a number of upperclassmen were left unsure about which classes they would be attending the next day. This uncertainty could have been avoided if the University allowed students to modify their schedules when Academic Year Sign-In began a week before classes started. Holding an early add/drop period is particularly important for students who need to add a course due to the cancellation of another class they were planning to take.

Moreover, students often discover new interests over the summer while traveling and working; these students should be able to revise their schedules before new students arrive on campus. The Board recognizes that the current policy

reserves time for freshmen to register for courses, but does not believe that the few late summer schedule modifications that would occur would significantly burden freshman course selection.

Second, the Board proposes that students be allowed to sign up for precepts or labs before fall classes start. Currently, while many classes do allow students to select their precepts during course registration in the spring, some classes do not allow section selection until mid-September. This exacerbates students’ uncertainty about their schedules and delays the discovery of potential conflicts until the fall, when it is more difficult to make broad schedule changes. It is simpler for students to sign up for courses and precepts at the same time in the spring, and we believe this should be broadly allowed across all courses. However, the Board recognizes that precepts cannot always be fully finalized due to uncertainty about who the preceptors will be. To address this concern, the Board proposes that, at minimum, all classes finalize precept schedules several weeks before classes start and allow upperclassmen to register for precepts as part of the earlier add/drop period recommended above. A finalized schedule helps students consider their other commitments and extracurriculars more carefully.

Finally, syllabi should be available on Blackboard two weeks prior to the start of classes. This would help students begin planning their semester. For example, if a student realizes she has three papers due

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the same week, she would have time to decide to switch classes before the semester starts. This is preferable to making that decision during the first week when a student may already have gotten behind on assignments. Additionally, students would have the option of beginning their work during the last few days of summer break. This would be particularly useful for students who have significant extracurricular responsibilities at the beginning of the year, such as residential college advisers and the officers of student groups that hold time-consuming tryouts. Book lists are already made available two weeks prior to the start of classes, suggesting that courses are largely finalized by this time, so the Board does not believe this reform would pose a heavy burden on professors. It would only benefit students.

These simple reforms – having an earlier add/drop period, improving precept selection and posting syllabi two weeks before classes – allow students more flexibility to make the choices that work best for them, without requiring professors or the University to make significant changes to course organization on their end. The Board strongly advocates their implementation.

The Editorial Board is an independent body and decides its opinions separately from the regular staff and editors of The Daily Princetonian. The Board answers only to its Chair, the Opinion Editor and the Editor-In-Chief.

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rom a recent grad to the incoming Class of 2019: congratulations — and welcome to what may well be the four most formative years of your lives.

My advice to you is this: make friendship your top priority in college. An excellent education begins with and thrives upon sound friendship.

Point number one: joy is the key to it all. In all you do, radiate joy and you will find friends in abundance and intellectual enrichment everywhere. A wise fellow once wrote, “whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think about such things.” Such things elevate the mind and lead to joy. The joyful person inspires others and cultivates friendships, no matter how vehemently others disagree with him or her intellectually.

There is nothing so utterly disarming and contagious as true joy.

Point number two: learn by dialogue.

The ancients did so and they created that amazing thing known as Western civilization. Socrates, the gadfly of Athens, both taught and learned through conversation, and the Western tradition is one enormous (and somewhat cacophonous) conversation between great thinkers.

Dialectic is how we approach the truth.

To the class of 2019 It’s also how we come to know others and make lasting friendships through the back-and-forth of meaningful interaction.

Friendship in its fullest form involves mutual character development and intellectual growth. Sure, there are other aspects of friendship: friends scratch each other’s back (i.e. the utilitarian aspect), and they do fun stuff together (i.e. the pleasurable aspect). But, as Aristotle rightly noted over two millennia ago, the most important aspect of a close and meaningful friendship is mutual goodwill. This doesn’t mean some wishy-washy reciprocation of warm feelings; mutual goodwill means a profound hope and desire that the other flourish (viz. live the good life). And flourishing means living in accord with right reason: attaining happiness through the cultivation of both the moral and intellectual virtues.

At Princeton, you’ll be in the very best place to form and develop this rich kind of friendship — both with your peers and professors. The classroom is important.

The dinner table, perhaps more so. Discuss the big ideas. Solve the world’s problems with your roommates in the common room over a local brew. The richest friendships spawn the richest conversations, and the best of friends don’t always have to agree: to the contrary, often they do not. And that’s okay. Friends characteristically will the good of each other, and even when they disagree as to what

that good is, the foundation of mutual goodwill — and above all, their heartfelt trust in such — is unshakeable. It is this trusting foundation that leads to intellectual and moral growth.

My college friendships significantly shaped my education, affecting me in countless ways: in my mode of thinking, in my intuitions and principles, in understanding my faith. I chose to study philosophy, for instance, not out of some innate interest in symbolic logic or meta-ethics, but rather, because a friend shared with me her joy in seeking wisdom. Another friend, with whom I disagree about everything from aesthetics to zygotes, challenged me to seek zealously an understanding of his premises and arguments before returning the challenge — in so doing, we together grew in the virtue of patience, learned a lot, and sometimes even changed each other’s minds.

It’s a fact of human nature that people rarely (if ever) change on force of brute argumentation. Friendship, on the other hand, is powerful reason for action, and the relationships we build with others change both us and them — sometimes radically so. At Princeton I witnessed conversions both intellectual and spiritual: two of my roommates and several other friends entered the Church; other close friends reevaluated and revised their worldviews to very considerable degree. While deeply rational, all of these conversions (and many others be-

sides) were motivated by and supported through pre-existing friendship.

I think there’s a lesson to be gleaned from this that goes beyond the University bubble and your impending undergraduate years, and it’s this: if you mean to ‘change the world’ (as you were likely instructed at your high school graduation), you’ll do best to do so with the joy of friendship, not the shrill cry of activism. Leaders befriend; partisans fight. Civic friendship, rooted in fruitful dialogue between reasonable people of goodwill, is the surest route to political and cultural reform.

A sound liberal education over your four years — if you do it right — will give rise to leadership as you grow though mutually educative relationships with your fellow students and your professors. This is precisely the kind of leadership we need: principled, thoughtful and joyful.

So, as you go forth into the big unknown of university life, bear this in mind. Focus on what is true and good and beautiful; be joyful always; seek to learn through conversation; and in all your collegiate interactions, be a friend.

In so doing, you will grow to be a leader, and, more importantly, as you’ll later realize, you will live the good life during those halcyon days of college.

Zach Horton is an alumnus from the Class of 2015. He can be reached at t.z.horton@gmail. com.

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He thought much of that job was around having to recruit and pursue players, and he knew my interest was in leading and creating systems, and managing people. He felt that baseball, in general, was something he was extremely excited about me pursuing, but on the agent side, it was an area where he wasn’t going to assist at all.

DP: What lessons do you take as a student athlete from Princeton that you use at your time with the Indians?

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All facets of the football team’s offense - passing, running and kicking - were on point as the Tigers rolled to victory on Saturday.

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quarterback Kedric Bostic also made an appearance, going 1-1 for 8 yards.

However, you can’t talk about Princeton’s success today without mentioning the dominant running game. Senior running backs Dre Nelson and DiAndre Atwater both had a field day. Nelson went for 116 yards on just 8 attempts, a ca-

reer day for him, and scored a touchdown in the process. Atwater rushed for 93 yards on 14 attempts. Junior running back Joe Rhattigan and freshman running back Charles Volker added to the tally, picking up 66 yards on nine attempts and 33 yards off 6 attempts, respectively. Rhattigan also earned a touchdown off of a 26 yard run in the fourth quarter.

The running in particular stands a stark difference between these two teams during

the game. Overall, Princeton put up 308 net yards on 45 total attempts. For Lafayette, only 58 net yards were gained from rushing, on 24 attempts.

Senior kicker Nolan Bieck was also effective on the day, going 2-2 in field goals.

Lafayette’s quarterback Drew Reed is probably going to have to deep clean his jersey – the Princeton defense was bringing him down, sacking him 4 times for a loss of 25 yards. Taking down Reed were

Holuba (1 sack for 8 yards), junior defensive linesman Brannon Jones (1.5 sacks for 10 yards), junior linebacker Birk Olson (1 sack for 3 yards) and senior defensive linesman Dan Dreher (.5 sacks for 4 yards). Junior linebacker RJ Paige led the team in tackles for the game with 7.

The Tigers hope to continue their success on Saturday, as they come back to Princeton for their home opener against Lehigh.

MS: In every part of my life, I have drawn on determination, perseverance, resolve and grit. Football, for me, at Princeton did not go how I expected. I had to deal with a lot of challenges and a lot of disappointment along the way. Yet I persevered and found the value and the opportunity to learn and grow and develop within that adversity. Those are the primary lessons that I’ve carried with me and everything I’ve done professionally. They’re attributes I look for in the people that I surround myself with, whether they’re on the field or off the field.

DP: Speaking of being able to deal with adversity: a) How does that help you deal with your time with the Indians (some seasons go up and down) and b) How much does

it play into what you look for when you’re looking to draft or trade for players in the MLB? MS: I would say this — throughout 25 years of building teams and acquiring talent and developing talent, whether that be talent on the field or talent in the office, there are traits and attributes you grow to look for. Certain traits and attributes are baselines.

Certainly talent is among them. The game being extremely important to them, pride [are among them], dependability and reliability, but the separator for me is always that accountability, that taking ownership of one situation or circumstance and not making excuses. I think that plays directly into that singular question: does someone look at adversity as a setback, a f law, a weakness exposed, or do they look at it as an opportunity to grow and develop and learn. Are they fueled by their challenges or are they diminished by their challenges?

Those are things I’ve looked for definitely in players [and] in executives. Championship organizations have people who think that way. If you want to overcome objective expectations … you better have an organization full of people who are fueled by the desire to contribute [and] do better than the expected reality.

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but I want to be an example to show people that it can be done and is being done.

DP: What prompted the decision to come out publicly, beyond friends and family, so close to the first game of the season? Do you think the recent media attention has affected your getting ready for the game?

MD: In terms of doing it when I did, that was how the timing shook out. I first had the idea to do it over the summer, and then between going to talk to Coach [Robert Surace ’90] and doing the whole interview process

with Outsports.com, it’s just the time it shook out to that it would be released. And the media attention hasn’t affected our game preparation at all — our sole focus is just beating Lafayette.

DP: How do you think, as a whole, the NCAA and the professional landscape has changed for coming out as an athlete? Do you think you would have been less comfortable a few years ago than you would be now in terms of coming out?

MD: It’s definitely changed a lot, thanks to great examples set by Jason Collins and Michael Sam. I think it’s definitely a lot easier than it would have been even three, four or five years ago.

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Against the Griffins, the Tiger offense found itself outmanned both in the passing game and in the running game.

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the first half; the second a 41 yard run within 90 seconds of

the second half’s kickoff.

Princeton’s next competition falls on Friday, September 25th against Army, a team whom the Tigers have struggled mightily against of

late. With kickoff scheduled for 7:00 p.m., the game will be held under the lights at Princeton Stadium and broadcast for subscribers to the Ivy League Digital Network.

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Q&A: Mason Darrow ’17, Tiger Football’s first openly gay player

By Miles Hinson sports editor

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After a scoreless first quarter, the football team scored 40 unanswered points to secure their victory against Lafayette on Saturday.

Tigers win 40-7 in season opener against Lafayette

By Miles Hinson sports editor

2006. The last year the Princeton football team opened its season with a victory. It seems, however, the Tigers had had enough of this ignominious streak.

What was for a bit a neckand-neck game soon turned into a rout, as the Tigers demolished the Lafayette College Leopards 40-7. While the

first quarter was scoreless, the Tigers would go on a crushing 40-0 run, where Lafayette would not score until just over 5 minutes to go in the fourth quarter.

On offense, one of the big storylines is the ascent of junior quarterback Chad Kanoff.

The highly touted recruit spent two years as the backup to Quinn Epperly ’15, and he looked more than ready to take over the reins today. Kanoff

went 20-31 for 256 yards on the day, picking up a touchdown via a 5 yard pass to junior wide receiver Trevor Osborne.

Kanoff’s most effective target was senior wide receiver Seth DeValve, who caught six passes (all from Kanoff) for 72 yards. The longest of these was a 40 yard bomb that helped spur the Tigers to their second field goal of the game in the third quarter, putting them up 33-0.

In fact, all three quarterbacks for the Tigers got in on the action in this one. Sophomore quarterback John Lovett came in and made an impact, as he hit sophomore defensive linesman (!) Kurt Holuba for the 1 yard touchdown. It was, surprisingly, the first pass of Lovett’s collegiate career.

Lovett would also rush for a one yard touchdown near the start of the third quarter. Senior See FOOTBALL page 8

As the Princeton football team prepares for its season opener against Lafayette, one of its players is preparing to be the first of a different sort. This week, junior offensive lineman Mason Darrow became the Princeton football program’s first openly gay player, and one of the few in football, NCAA or professional, as a whole. While having come out to his friends and family his freshman fall, Darrow did not intend to make his story public until earlier this summer. The Daily Princetonian spoke with Darrow about the decision to make his story known, and where he plans to go from here.

Daily Princetonian: What about the Princeton football community made you comfortable with coming out to them?

Mason Darrow: I started to form bonds with guys basically right when I got here.

It’s a really close-knit team.

Those guys are some of my best friends in the world. It was that feeling of friendship that made me think it would be okay to do something like that.

DP: In particular, did you find it was easier coming

out to your teammates or harder than coming out to friends and family back home?

MD: I wouldn’t say it was easier or harder. It was about the same. It’s a scary thing to do regardless of whom you’re talking to.

DP: You were coming off an ACL tear [in addition to coming out publicly]. Can you tell me what that process was like?

MD: I wouldn’t say it was anything too difficult. They were two separate processes. I was out here at the time I tore my ACL. I wasn’t simultaneously battling that while rehabbing. I came out to friends and family freshman fall. The decision to come out publicly started over the summer, when I realized I was very comfortable in my current situation, and there was an opportunity to help people by doing it publicly.

DP: Along the same lines, do you see yourself serving as an advocate for LGBT rights in the NCAA community?

MD: I don’t know if advocate is quite the right word, See DARROW page 9

STORY KICKER

Sprint Football falls to Chestnut Hill Griffins in season opener on the road

By Andrew Steele senior writer

A road trip to nearby Chestnut Hill College ended in disappointment for the men of sprint football, as the Tigers fell to the Griffins by a score of 48-13. The game marked the first ever contest for Princeton’s opponents, a program new to the Collegiate Sprint Football League, while the loss marked the 16th straight season-opening loss for the Orange and Black.

Starting at quarterback, junior Chad Cowden completed 11 of his 23 attempts for 163 yards and one touchdown while rushing 18 times

for a team-high 70 yards. The Maryland native additionally recorded three interceptions and was sacked four times.

Sophomore running back/ defensive back – most players on Princeton’s roster play on offense and defense – Butler Harvey added 30 yards rushing on 10 attempts.

Cowden’s favorite target was sophomore Tyler Kaye, who additionally handles kicking and punting duties for the Tigers. The second year receiver scored Princeton’s first touchdown, a 32 yard reception, just inside the first quarter’s final minute.

While Kaye’s seven points

(he also converted the extra point) cut the Griffins’ lead to a single score, the contest’s remainder would not go in the Tigers’ favor. Princeton’s longest, in terms of time of possession, drive of the game ended with a failed fourth down conversion in the red zone. Meanwhile, Chestnut Hill scored 34 unanswered points before Princeton senior John Su stemmed the tide with a one yard reception from freshman backup quarterback Matt Martinez.

Two of the Griffins’ scores came on explosive plays: the first a 58 yard pass completed with 25 seconds remaining in See SPRINT page 9

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While keeping it close early on, the sprint footballers fell to the Chesnut Hill Griffins 48-13 in the end.

Q&A

Q&A: Mark Shapiro ’89, Princeton offensive linesman, President of the Toronto Blue Jays

By Miles Hinson sports editor

With the baseball postseason approaching, the Daily Princetonian thought it might be interesting to look at one of Princeton’s own who is currently inf luencing the big leagues.

We interviewed Mark Shapiro ’89, a former Princeton football player, former general manager and president of the Cleveland Indians, and soon-to-be presi-

dent of the Toronto Blue Jays.

We spoke to him about his career in baseball, what he learned as a student-athlete at Princeton and what he looks for when acquiring MLB players.

Daily Princetonian: When did you realize you were suited for a job in a front office team as opposed to continuing as a player?

Mark Shapiro: Continuing

as a player was really an alternative for me because my baseball career ended in high school and football career ended during college, and probably earlier than that [during college], to be honest. It’s one of those things where you realize you have a passion for the game of baseball, you have an interest in business and you find leaders that commit to developing you and fuel your passion.

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“‘I’ve never seen a new Mexico license plate before.’ / ‘Oh, those things are everywhere in New Mexico.’ - @makadellick” lisa boyce ’14 (@rolls_b0yce), princeton women’s swimming

DP: You’ve had a long-standing love of baseball, going back to high school. What prompted you to pursue a front office position in baseball rather than football, and did you explore any front office possibilities in football first?

MS: No — although I played football in college, baseball was deeper ingrained. The sport was one my dad had

a tremendous passion for, and my love of the game and childhood memories with him revolve around watching and playing or attending games with him. Through that and through my dad’s involvement from the other side of the game, as an agent, I was able to meet a lot of players and club executives.

It seemed like a natural extension of those interests.

DP: Your dad was a big agent and sparked your interest in baseball. What made you decide not to pursue that path of player interaction like he had?

MS: It was less a decision on my part, and more a mandatory encouragement on his part. He didn’t really feel that the agent side was going to make me fulfilled.

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