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Sept. 22, 2001 After the Princeton Peace Network held a rally in response to September 11th attacks, College Democrats and College Republicans sponsored a forum on terrorism.

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FAFSA changes streamline aid applications

By Christina Vosbikian staff writer

Students around the country will soon benefit from what U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan called an earlier and easier Free Application for Federal Student Aid, according to a Sept. 13 White House announcement on the change.

Starting late next year, students will be allowed to apply for federal student aid based on their family’s income from two years earlier instead of the previous year, Inside Higher Ed reported.

Additionally, the Obama administration plans to change the federal aid process so that students can submit their FAFSA as early as October for the school year beginning the following summer or fall, instead of having to wait until January to submit.

University Director of Undergraduate Financial Aid Robin Moscato said the changes in the FAFSA are a great improvement allaround. Moscato noted that using “prior-prior” year reduces the complexity of the FAFSA for students and families.

“It’s preferable to get the FAFSA earlier. It’s preferable to use the prior-prior year because it’s the only way to reduce the complexity of the FAFSA,” Moscato said.

She explained that using

prior-prior year makes the FAFSA available to schools much earlier than it was available before, which will make the FAFSA available to schools with early admission programs as well as schools with regular action programs. This will allow schools with early admission programs to notify students about their financial aid packages along with their admissions decisions.

Moscato said the FAFSA reforms will not increase the volume of financial aid applications to the University.

“We’ve always required the FAFSA as part of the financial aid application, but our primary application form is the Princeton Financial Aid Application, which is our own web-based financial aid application,” she explained. “The FAFSA is used exclusively for determining eligibility for federal financial aid, which is an important part of what we do but isn’t as central to Princeton’s financial aid program as it might be at other schools, since the vast majority of our aid is from our own university aid sources.”

When asked how the changes will affect the University, Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye deferred comment to Moscato.

Moscato described the general reaction to the reSee FAFSA page 2

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History professor emeritus Carl Emil Schorske died at age 100 on Sept. 13 in his continuous care community.

Schorske, professor emeritus of history, dies at age 100

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Carl Emil Schorske, the Dayton-Stockton professor of history, emeritus died of old age on Sept. 13. He was 100.

Schorske won a Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction, became an honorary citizen of Vienna and was named by Time Magazine in 1966 as one of the nation’s top ten academic leaders of the century.

Schorske died at Meadow Lakes, a continuous care community where he had an apartment, his daughter Anne Edwards said.

Schorske was married to human rights and anti-war activist Elizabeth Rorke in

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sity for a term of three years and accepted the position of Dayton-Stockton professor of history in 1969, according to an April 9, 1969 article in the Daily Princetonian about Schorske’s appointment to the University.

“He was a great, great scholar and had been famous for many years by the time he came to Princeton and joined the history department,” history professor Anthony Grafton said.

Some professors were so keen to be part of Schorske’s intellectual life that they served as teaching assistants to him, history professor Natalie Davis said.

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Community Action, Outdoor Action trips shortened by one day

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News & Notes U. of Pennsylvania approves framework for mental health reforms

The Hamlett-Reed Mental Health Initiative and University of Pennsylvania administrators met and agreed upon a framework for reform Friday, the Daily Pennsylvanian reported.

Administrators agreed to look into a new program for incoming freshmen that would involve wellness counselors and evaluating counseling appointment scheduling so that visits can be scheduled online and over the phone.

They did not agree to make the scheduling of visits to counseling services anonymous, nor did they agree for counseling services to send out emails once a month containing mental health updates.

The Initiative had sent a letter to Penn president Amy Gutmann the week before asking her and the administration to reform student mental health policies at Penn. The letter was signed by relations of Penn students who had committed suicide, leaders from student mental health advocacy groups, student government, minority councils and Greek organizations.

The letter noted that seven students had died by suicide in the past two years at Penn and that, according to the National College Health Assessment, in the past twelve months almost a third of college students reported feeling “so depressed they were unable to function.”

1942, according to her obituary published in the Expressions Tributes. They raised five children.

According to Edwards, Schorske moved to Meadow Lakes with his wife and remained there until his death.

She said that in his last days he was very quiet and that he slept for a few days and then stopped breathing.

Schorske taught history at Wesleyan University for fifteen years and the University of California, Berkeley for ten. He also gave guest lectures at Harvard and Yale. Schorske worked at the University’s Institute of Advanced Studies in 1967-68 then returned to the Univer-

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Students from the audience voiced their opinions during the first Whig-Clio debate on Monday.

First Whig-Clio debate compares Republican, Democrat primaries

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The first Whig-Cliosophic Senate Debate of the year took place on Monday, with candidates from the opposing sides debating whether the Republican presidential field will produce a better candidate than the Democratic presidential field.

The Clio, or conservative, side won the debate by a vote of 15 to 13.

The debate opened with arguments from Allison Berger ’18, representing Clio, and Ethan Marcus ’18, representing Whig. Berger said that the Republicans are better both on policy and politics. On the policy side, she noted that the Democratic

side supports Obamacare, which will cause health insurance rates to continue to rise, and the Iran nuclear arms deal, which gives Iran support to develop nuclear weapons that could be used against Americans.

“In short, the Democratic field is advocating continuation of the disastrous policies of the Obama administration’s failed progressive experiment,” she said.

On the political side, she noted that the Republicans are favored to win because Democrats have faced tremendous losses in both houses of Congress and in key battleground states, and that most political parties do not win three elections in a row.

Marcus said that it was ridiculous to assume that Republicans could beat even the lower-polling Democratic candidates, let alone former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or U.S. Senator for Vermont Bernie Sanders, and went on to point out the flaws with specific Republican candidates. He pointed to former governor Jeb Bush’s flip-flopping on issues such as immigration and the fact that HewlettPackard lost over half its value while Carly Fiorina was its CEO. He also said that Democrats are more willing to reach across the aisle and compromise.

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Both Community Action and Outdoor Action trips were shortened by a day this year, running from Saturday, Sept. 5 to Thursday, Sept. 10.

Participants only had threeand-a-half days of activity on each trip, with students returning to campus Thursday evening.

According to Deputy Dean of Undergraduate Students Thomas Dunne, the schedule changes were mostly made to accommodate students who celebrate Rosh Hashanah, which took place last Sunday.

As a result, this year’s freshman orientation program was one day longer than last year’s, returning pre-orientation to the same length as in fall 2012.

Dunne said the budgets for the pre-orientation programs were not reduced.

Pace Center Assistant Director Dave Brown, who coordinates CA programs, and Director of the Outdoor Action Program Rick Curtis ’79 did not respond to requests for comment.

CA leader Kelly McCabe ’18 said she believes having one night of rest before returning to campus is helpful for freshmen. Doing service and moving back in one day created a hassle, she added.

In addition, the number of upperclassmen trip leaders per group also decreased to about three leaders per trip. Nonetheless, there were more CA and OA leaders in total, according to Dunne.

The reduction in the number of leaders per CA group was “part of a well thought-out process based on past experience and the need to build a CA that is scalable as interest in the program continues to grow,” Brown wrote in an email to CA leaders on Sept. 5.

Ruting Li ’19, a participant in the OA sustainable farming trip, said that the three leaders on her team were sufficient in order to facilitate an effective trip.

Li added that the upperclassmen leaders were wellprepared, though the trip did not seem to require substantial training.

Kitty Moraes ’19, a participant in the CA Arts in Trenton trip, also expressed that her team leaders provided abundant mentorship.

“I’m not really an artist, but it was still really rewarding for me to be able to paint and see a mural come together in the food bank,” Moraes said. “The leaders were really helpful in talking about what it’s like at Princeton, answering our questions and reflecting on what happened each day.”

According to Dunne, trip leaders held discussions about a variety of matters pertinent to the University, including sexual harassment, as part of the ongoing campus conversation about such issues.

To centralize CA protocols, Pace Center established a CA support center modeled after the long-standing OA command center, McCabe said. The center ran everyday from 7:30 See OA/CA page 3

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for discussion from the audience. Peter Russell ’19, the first speaker, said that the Republican candidates have no actual record besides yelling at people and shaking them down.

“Ted Cruz, class of ’92, can stand up and talk about things,” he said, “but he’s not really a believer in America.

He’s a believer in Ted Cruz.”

One of the themes of the discussion was the diversity of viewpoints in both parties, with Evan Draim ’16 pointing out that the Republicans have a much wider diversity of candidates than the Democrats and that while the Republicans have already had two nationally televised debates, allowing candidates

to discuss issues and hone their viewpoints, the Democrats have had none.

Ryan Spaude ’16 further noted that the Democratic candidates are all white and elderly, unlike the Republicans.

Closing arguments were then made by Matt Chuckran ’17 for Whig and Theodore Furchtgott ’18 for Clio.

Chuckran said that the Democratic candidates are more diverse despite their being fewer in number, while the Republican candidates all say the time thing, with the exception of Trump.

He described Hillary Clinton as another President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden as another President Bill Clinton but with fewer scandals, and Sanders as someone who seems extreme but whose policies are not particularly extreme.

He said that what the nation needs is someone to advocate for the “silent majority,” and that this goal will be accomplished even if Sanders does not win the primary because he will still push Hillary Clinton left.

Furchtgott said he agreed with Chuckran that Clinton would be another Obama, but added that he does not think another Obama is what the country needs. The Democrats, he said, are inherently regressive, noting that the Dodd-Frank Act makes it hard for young people to get mortgages and the Democrats’ support of teachers’ unions benefits wealthy parents who send their children to private schools rather than poor public school districts.

The debate took place at 4:30 p.m. on the lawn by Whig Hall.

forms as positive.

“We’re glad that steps are being taken to reduce the complexity of the FAFSA,” Moscato said. ”This is not just for Princeton. Nationally, it’s important to make it easier for students to apply for financial aid, particularly for schools that use the FAFSA almost exclusively. We’ve been able to make it easier to apply for aid at Princeton by developing our own form, but not every school can do that.”

She said she does not expect the reforms to change significantly who receives federal financial aid. The reliance on an earlier tax year will not make much of a difference for most families, so her office does not anticipate a big shift in federal aid eligibility at the University, Moscato added.

Many experts say that these changes will streamline the financial aid process, making the choice of college easier for many students and their families.

Traditionally, students apply to colleges in the fall, but apply for financial aid in January. This puts applicants in the difficult position of potentially accepting a college’s offer before knowing how much financial aid that college will give them.

The FAFSA’s being based upon two years of income instead of just one will make the process easier, experts say. The Internal Revenue Service has the ability to fill out much of the FAFSA for families, but, since the FAFSA requires parents’ tax

information from the prior year, and about four million students apply for aid each year before their families’ taxes have been filed, the IRS tool can’t help them. Using two years of income will allow the IRS to be able to utilize the IRS-retrieval tool so that much of students’ FAFSA will be automatically filled out.

According to an NPR report, Duncan said Monday morning in a press release that he expects the changes will lead to hundreds of thousands of additional students applying for federal Pell grants, though he said the costs were very minor.

Duncan did not respond to a request for comment.

Stephen Payne, the federal relations associate for the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, said the NASFAA has studied what moving to prior-prior year for the FAFSA could mean in the USA for over two years, even publishing a report in 2013 with support from the Gates Foundation. Reforms, he said, could have enormous implications for students nationwide.

“What we found in our study was that there wasn’t too much impact in their awards, and so moving to a prior-prior year system would then allow students and families more time to consider their options when it comes to financing their college education,” Payne said.

Payne said that if more students have an opportunity to fill out the FAFSA and know rather than estimate their information, the country will likely see more

participation in the financial aid process. But whether this hope will come to fruition remains to be seen, he added.

For students that are already enrolled in college, the changes to the FAFSA may not significantly improve the financial aid process.

Chance Fletcher ’18, a student whose family owns a small construction-support industry business, explained that the earlier submission dates for the FAFSA will not have much of an effect on his family. As small business owners, his parents file their taxes later than many other families. While salary earners in many families receive their pay from an employer, Fletcher’s families income depends upon its own business’s revenue sources.

Fletcher explained that his family receives revenue and tax information later than, for example, income streams from someone employed by a third-party employer. As such, the October instead of January FAFSA submission date will not affect his financial aid process, Fletcher explained. His family has always needed to wait until after the FAFSA’s prior release date of January to submit the FAFSA, and the earlier October release date of the FAFSA will therefore have no effect on when his family submits its FAFSA. “As a student who submits a FAFSA, I appreciate the efforts of the federal government to make the process easier,” Katie Kubala ’18 said, but she also noted that she would have to wait until next year to see if the changes have any great effect on her financial aid process.

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a.m. to midnight, according to McCabe. CA deployed “regional leaders” to the center to have them provide immediate support and mentorship to multiple CA groups, according to Brown’s email.

McCabe said that she found the center crucial in providing hour-to-hour support for health- and activities-related support.

“It was beneficial to have a central unit,” McCabe said. “We had issues with power [at our

residence] one night, and they were very helpful.” McCabe, who co-led her service trip to help with maintenance for Grounds for Sculpture and create artworks for Friends of Mercer Street Food Bank and Homefront, said she encountered a last-minute change on the last day. The CA support center then directed the group to the Crisis Ministry of Princeton.

The OA and CA dance, a tradition that took place in past years on the night of the program’s conclusion, was also omitted this year, as students were still moving back to campus on Thursday evening. The dance

has received mixed opinions from students in past years.

“I was at first a little disappointed to hear that the dance was canceled,” said Chi-Chi Azoba ’18, a CA leader for Princeton Project, a program aimed to cultivate civic engagement beyond the Orange Bubble. “But it worked out in the end — everyone was pretty tired when we came back.”

As the OA and CA dance was canceled, Li explained that her group convened for an informal dinner after the trip. Li said “hanging out informally was a good closing” for a rather exhausting trip.

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Grafton said that Schorske was a brilliant lecturer who often spoke in beautiful sentences full of metaphors and even sang musical examples, which was rare during lectures.

“He didn’t speak from notes. I think he just spoke from both memory and mastery of intellectual and cultural history, which was his pioneering field of study,” Davis said.

His student and current President of Wesleyan University Michael Roth GS ’83 said that lots of people, including graduate students and other professors, came simply to hear him lecture on modern European intellectual history.

“He gave us — those of us in the lecture hall, I mean — a sense of an invitation to the pleasure of culture and of confronting or enjoying great works of art and literature and music,” he said.

Roth said that he recalled a time when Schorske crumpled up one of Roth’s papers and threw it in the garbage in front of him.

“He was demanding in exactly the right way,” Roth said. “What I saw in Professor Schorske was an uncanny ability to be where the student needed to be.”

Edwards said that Schorske was very popular amongst his students, whom he often invited to his house for dinner.

He would write invitations like “Students A through C come to Schorske’s for dinner tonight” on lecture hall blackboards because he wanted to understand and know his students, Edwards added.

Davis said that Schorske hosted many gatherings at his house, which included students, graduate students, colleagues from the University and visitors from all over Europe. Edwards added that Schorske set up many such gatherings with champagne and dry ice, where friends would come and waltz or just dance in a regular manner.

“As a daughter, I remember the fun parts more than the intellectual parts. Dad knew how to make it fun, and there

were a lot of people who came and danced,” Edwards said.

Grafton said that Schorske was willing to do things as a teacher that almost nobody did at the time, like giving an entire lecture on the Ringstraße, a street in Vienna.

Schorske was appointed the director of European Cultural Studies in 1973. Davis said that he founded this pioneering interdisciplinary historical approach to enable political and cultural history to be studied together, sans isolation from each other.

In an April 22, 1985 ‘Prince’ article about Women’s Studies, then-professor of anthropology Kay Warren described the ECS program as the most successful interdisciplinary program Princeton has ever had because Schorske had created a center of risk-taking and intellectual excitement, to which he brought to his program all kinds of viewpoints, including those with which he disagreed.

Schorske retired and went on to write the Pulitzer-prize winning nonfiction book Finde-Siecle Vienna in 1980. According to a Feb. 4 Princeton Weekly Bulletin article about Schorske’s Fin-de-Siecle Vienna, Schorske draws on art history, urban theory, literary criticism, psychoanalysis and political science to carefully reconstruct Vienna through seven related essays.

According to the book “Engagement with the Past” by William Palmer, Schorske was born to a German banker and Jewish mother in New York City on March 15, 1915. On his entry into kindergarten, Schorske sang a song about a German soldier contemplating death in battle when his teacher asked the class to volunteer to sing songs. Schorske was immediately promoted to first grade.

He received his B.A. from Columbia in 1936 and Master of Arts from Harvard in 1937 respectively, according to the 1969 ‘Prince’ article about Schorske’s appointment to the University. He also won the Toppan Prize for the best Ph.D. thesis in Politics when he was awarded his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1950.

Schorske worked as a political analyst for the Office of Strategic Services from 1941

to 1946, Roth said.

“One of the things he was to work on was understanding the psychodynamics of Facism and Nazism and I think he felt that it was so overwhelmingly horrible, that he turned away from it,” Roth said.

Roth added that Schorske felt like the group of people he was working with were intellectually extraordinary in a time when American intelligence services were brimming with really intelligent people.

Edwards said that Schorske was a part of many demonstrations and wrote many controversial articles for the foreign press during the Vietnam War. “For a child it was scary and I didn’t like it,” she said. ”But for the country, it was necessary.”

Edwards added that apart from the Vietnam War protests, Schorske was always there for his children and was very kind to them. The family had a tradition of having dinner at a specific time every day, before which each child had to tell Schorske about what they had been up to.

Grafton recalled a celebration the city of Vienna had for Schorske’s 85th birthday, for which many scholars had very carefully prepared talks in his honor. He added that the City Hall was extremely hot and had no air conditioning, but was filled with people that mattered to Schorske.

“He rose wearing about six layers of wool and gave the most beautiful and impromptu response to all these papers, and it was so much better than any of our papers,” he said.

For his 100th birthday celebrations, Schorske sang a duet that he was very proud of, Edwards said. Davis added that by the end of his life, he had managed to become a fabulous singer like he always dreamt of being.

According to Edwards, Schorske is survived by four of his children — Theodore Schorske, an opera singer, Edwards, a tutor for young children, John Schorske, an insurance company worker and Richard Schorske. One of his sons, Stephen Schorske, died in 2013.

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h, New York City. The city of lights, the city that never sleeps, the city of… homelessness. This past summer, I returned to work in NYC, and again I was reminded of the struggles of so many homeless on a daily basis.

It’s next to impossible to avoid seeing homelessness if you live in the city. Shockingly, despite New York’s population rising only about 6 percent since 2000, the number of homeless people in shelters has nearly tripled to the highest rate since the Great Depression. Walking down the street, I find it hard to avoid a profound sense of guilt for enjoying such a lavish lifestyle while so many suffer around me. I often reflect on how lucky I am to have such a strong upbringing with capable parents and a bright future through Princeton. Perhaps these people could change the world, if only people like you or me could give them a leg to stand on.

But what exactly is the best way to help such people in need? I often hear friends say never give money to the homeless, else they won’t seek help. Or worse yet, that they are simply scammers or lunatics who don’t give a damn about your charity. I always dismissed these as selfish excuses under the guise of a selfless decision to do “what’s best for them.” I had no reservations about giving money to those in need directly, continuing to believe that compassion was the best weapon against this problem.

Until this past summer, this sentiment had served quite well. Yet, an unfortunate encounter truly shook my world. A few months ago, while coming home from a typical Manhattan Saturday night, a friend and I stopped in the park to relax on a bench. Yes, it was 2 a.m. No, this was not a safe decision. Nonetheless, we decided to enjoy the night air in the park.

After sitting for a few minutes, a clearly inebriated homeless man approached us in considerable distress. With his eyes welled up in genuine despair, he hysterically narrated an incoherent story of being robbed of his seizure medication by some teenagers only half an hour earlier. Both my friend and I could read the distress and sadness in his eyes, and that was enough to engage quite a bit of sympathy from us both.

Never before had I seen such an opportunity to help a person before, so I asked “What can we do? How can we help? What do you need?”

As I had done successfully in the past, I attempted to show compassion and offer help to somebody I thought just needed a hand. This time it was different. In a few seconds, the man went from inconsolable sadness to unprovoked anger. He demanded to know what happened to his drugs and told me “I’ll knock you the **** out.” He reached for my bag, and before I knew what was happening, my friend and I were running towards Third Avenue in full sprint.

This little dose of reality had a profound impact on me. I couldn’t stop thinking about it for days. Where once I thought that love conquers all, I was now left with a confused sense of betrayal. All I had wanted was to help this man, but my compassion was met with rage. I want to make clear that I am not attempting to paint myself as a traumatized victim. Sitting in a park at 2 a.m. begets certain company, and I am primarily to blame for putting myself in this situation. What I am saying is that this changed my perspective. The real victims are those who need help, yet don’t know how to express it or find it.

After a few months of reflection, I am able to have an impersonal perspective. I have strong reservations about shifting to a more conservative point of view. How easy it would be to paint all homeless with a broad, sweeping brush as dangerous, psychotic maniacs and shut myself off to any sort of charity in the future. How convenient. I get to continue reaping the benefits of my — dare I say — privileged upbringing, turning my nose up at those ungrateful individuals who threw my kindness in my face, all the while pleading a story of senseless victimization. No, I refuse to let this one experience shape my view of so many people.

However, it does merit a rethinking of the way I approach the problem. This experience prompted me to research best practices for helping the homeless. Unsurprisingly, many organizations warn of the dangers of drunk or mentally ill homeless at night, and suggest avoiding such encounters. The truth is, mental illness is extremely widespread within the homeless population, and personal charity won’t solve the problem alone. Research suggests that putting money towards shelters and organizations is a more prudent way to tackle this complicated problem. While my head is still reeling from this incident, my sympathy for these people remains. If nothing else, this has taught me that solutions to complicated problems such as this must come from organized, concerted efforts to provide help.

Instead of giving your $10 to a person, donate it to a homeless charity or shelter. Sometimes, individual kindness just isn’t enough.

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n the 12th of September, Princeton opened for the academic year.

A huge barrage of loaded Dinky trains, excited hugs, orange carts and the sudden reminder of the doors that are magically open to you with the card with Princeton written on it soon followed. No, I am not talking about your future business card, but our beloved Prox, which grants us access to our food, clothing and shelter on campus.

For most returning students, this card was magically activated on Sept. 12. If you wished to move in early, however, you could either be a part of a program pre-approved for Early Arrival (like Peer Academic Advisers, Outdoor Action, Residential College Advisers, etc.) or apply to Housing Services individually for Early Arrival. It is necessary for Housing Services to provide access to those in the first group, and it is great that they offer the possibility to other students who might need housing for any reason. However, Housing rejects most applications for Early Arrival, and this presents problems for many students.

On one hand, it makes sense. It takes time to get the rooms ready for the next group of students, and nobody wants to move into a room that still has the remnants of the last occupants. Housing Services

states on their website, for Early Arrival in Fall 2015, that “Students returning before Sept. 1 will be housed together in assigned dorms rather than spread throughout campus in academic-year rooms” as “this will enable longer access to dorms for renovation and cleaning, and concentrate early returns in an area that enhances safety and security at a time when the University is still on a summer schedule.”

However this is no longer the policy for students returning after the 1st; and if the above were the only reason, it would make sense to allow roommates of those given Early Arrival to also be given Early Arrival, as the room is ready for them as well. However, this is never treated as valid grounds for granting Early Arrival.

Further, in some cases, such as for Freshman Scholars Institute staff, Housing allows the students to leave their stuff in their rooms, but the students themselves cannot move in. This leaves almost two weeks where the students don’t have access to their rooms and are forced to go back home or stay with family or friends close by. Unfortunately, this option is quite complicated for international students, or students living far away, who can’t go home for just two weeks. The rooms would have to be ready for the students to leave their stuff, and as it would be very difficult for Housing to get it ready after the student occupies the room with his stuff. This is also the situation with students

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who come for International Orientation, but decide not to go for OA or CA trips, who are initially given access to their rooms to move stuff in, but then have that privilege revoked.

It would seem that Housing has many other reasons for not granting Early Arrival to many students.

However, it is never mentioned in their webpages. If the reasons become clear, then students could work with housing to see if they could qualify for Early Arrival.

For many students, Early Arrival can be crucial, such as for international students who often have to arrive a few days earlier due to their flights. Or students who only have a week between what they did for summer and the move-in date, during which they cannot go home. Or students who have been working near campus and living off-campus, whose lease runs out at the start of the month.

It is completely understandable that Housing may need Early Arrival to be available only for certain students; however, Housing should be transparent regarding the reasons why it turns down the majority of the students, so that students can work with them to make it possible, rather than be forced to find accommodation offcampus, which can be ridiculously expensive and extremely inconvenient.

Avaneesh Narla is a physics major from Calcutta, India. He can be reached at avaneesh.narla@princeton.edu.

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f a friend had described what the current state of the 2016 Presidential Election would be like to me many months ago, I would have scoffed at her — Hillary Clinton scrambling for “likeability” and still answering questions about emails. Bernie Sanders, who I would consider to be the closest thing we have to the people’s candidate, closely trailing her. Jeb Bush, whose announcement was so hotly anticipated, barely in the headlines.

Yet the greatest shock — and my greatest disappointment — has been the rise of Donald Trump.

Granted, this is not Trump’s first run for President. He briefly ran for the Reform Party’s nomination a decade and a half ago. But it is the first time he has had a legitimate possibility of becoming the Presidential nominee of a major political party.

In the end, will he win? Probably not. The primaries are still months away. The great Class of 2016 will have graduated months before the nation reaches the voting booths. While predicted frontrunners sometimes fall flat, allowing the “dark horse” to briefly reach the forefront, political gravity always manages to catch up.

From Howard Dean to Ross Perot, none have succeeded, only a blip

What Trump means for us in the history books. Tides are always turning. In such a large field, I have no doubt Trump will soon meet a similar fate.

Yet to come to such a conclusion requires me to ignore all conventional signs and logic. Who leads in all the Republican polls? Trump.

Who do Republicans believe is the likeliest to win the nomination?

Trump.

However, I still think he is ridiculous. Why? Because for me, he encapsulates the darkest parts of the United States — the parts that make me fume at home, or hang my head in shame while abroad when people think of him instead of all the other great parts of my country. Because in order for me, or anyone else, to accept that Trump is the current front-runner is to accept the idea that millions across the country share these same twisted views as well. It’s just easier to think that everyone else is in on some kind of cruel joke.

His disparaging words towards Megyn Kelly and Carly Fiorina — women of whom I am actually not fond at all — display the ridiculous amount of sexism this country still permits. His inaccurate comments concerning Planned Parenthood, most recently on The View, perfectly demonstrate the tendency of old, white male politicians’ uninformed to attempt to police women’s bodies and reproductive health. His inhumane depiction of

undocumented immigrants and Mexico reminds us of America’s dark history of xenophobia and distorted views of people of color in general. The number of times his companies have filed for bankruptcy shows blatant manipulation of the law for personal gains in the end — something of which I thought we’d seen enough.

All of this, and I mean, look at that hair!

I cannot stress how much I do not want to take this seriously. I want this to be the first few episodes of a new season of American Idol. (Does that show still exist?)

You know the ones, where the producers choose amazingly talented people to appear on TV, but also the wild or wacky ones to keep the audience’s attention. Donald Trump is a wacky one, but somehow Randy Jackson said, “Dog, you are IT,” Paula smiled sweetly and said she wanted to hear more of him. So their poor judgment has overruled Simon Cowell and his pursed lips of annoyance, and Trump makes it to Hollywood. Roll the credits.

But instead of coaching for his singing, many U.S. citizens are looking at him and legitimately seeing him potentially as the next occupant of the White House.

Maybe his support is derived from something other than his policies. I can’t recall the news network or person, but a political analyst took a shot at explaining why

Trump has been doing so well.

People are seeing a tough outsider, someone without the weight (or experience) of previous politics.

Sure, he’s said many controversial and offensive things to a number of people, but his words aren’t registering. His image is.

Trump represents many different things depending on to whom you speak. However, despite the specific policies (that often contradict each other), his appeal seems to be derived from a segment of the country that views him as a last-ditch attempt to make America “America again,” as if something is fundamentally wrong with our country. To this, I disagree. I think today’s America is the best we’ve ever seen, or at least the best I could’ve seen as a black woman. Going back in time would undo all the long overdue progress — legally, socially and politically — that has allowed minority groups to seek their own American Dreams.

But Trump is not some grandiose American knight or temporary entertainment. He’s a significant threat to American politics, an unfortunately viable candidate for President and a scarily clear look into where we are as a country.

Just hear his words and listen.

Lea Trusty is a politics major from Saint Rose, La. She can be reached at ltrusty@princeton.edu.

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Last weekend, the men’s waterpolo team headed west to California to compete in a game against Santa Clara and in a tournament at Stanford.

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junior utility Jovan Jeremic each netted three goals and

sophomore goalie Vojislav Mitrovic made 14 saves, including five in the second and third quarters each.

Against UC Davis, due to goals from Swart and sopho-

more attack Jordan Colina, the Tigers took a 2-0 first quarter lead. The Tigers fell behind 3-2 before a tying goal from Swart. UC Davis retook the lead into

the second half, scoring to put them up 5-4. One goal behind was the closest the Tigers would get, however, as the Tigers finished in 10th place after a 10-7 loss.

Freshman forward Mimi Asom shines in overtime SOCCER

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William & Mary evenly for almost the entire game, going ahead early and only giving that lead up with 20 min-

utes left in regulation. Asom showed her poacher’s instinct by rocketing a ball into the back of net in overtime after some shaky defending by William & Mary to clinch the game with the golden goal.

It was her fourth goal of the

season already, and she is tied for second overall in points in a very impressive performance. Only senior forward Tyler Lussi is ahead of her in goals and points, with six and 14 respectively. The win precedes a crucial juncture

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Women’s volleyball team dominates in Rutgers tournament

By Miles Hinson sports editor

Going 1-2 in their showing at the Hofstra Tournament last weekend, the women’s volleyball team had a dominant performance at the Rutgers Tournament this Friday and Saturday. They won all three of their matches on the weekend, defeating Duquesne, Rutgers and Howard.

The Tigers, moving to 5-4 after their three victories, started their weekend with a doubleheader, Duquesne in the morning and Rutgers in the evening. They rolled through Duquesne 3-0, with the sets going 25-21, 25-13, 25-14. Three players in particular, one might say, went for the kill: junior outside hitter Cara Mattaliano led the team in kills with 13, followed by junior middle blocker Brittany Ptak with 11, and senior right side hitter Kendall Peterkin with 10.

The next game, against the Scarlet Knights, would fare little better for the Tigers’ foes. Another 3-0 sweep remained, with the scores from the sets more lopsided than against

Duquesne: 25-14, 25-13, 2514. Mattaliano, Ptak and Peterkin led the squad in kills once more with 10, 8 and 12 respectively.

The final match of the weekend, and by far the toughest, would come against the Bisons. The first set of the match indicated what kind battle this was going to be — the Tigers pulled out on top in what was so far their closest contest of the tournament, 25-23. After that, however, the Bisons seized all of the momentum. Another close set ensued, but this time the Bisons dealt the Tigers their first loss of the event, winning 25-23.

The Bisons stayed aggressive. After picking up this victory, they came storming out into the third set of the match. Going up by as much as 17-7, they refused to let up the pressure as the Tigers took their second loss, to the tune of 25-17.

Facing defeat, the Tigers kept their cool. The fourth set was close throughout, until the Bisons threatened to pull away and win the match, going up 22-18.

Their 22nd point would be their last — the Tigers went

on a 7-0 run to come from behind and snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.

The rest was all Tigers.

While the final set was close for a while, the Tigers and Bisons neck-and-neck 8-7 at one point, the Tigers pulled away to seal the deal. The final score was 15-8, Tigers victorious.

For the thrilling game, Peterkin, Mattaliano and Ptak got the highs in kills once again, with 21, 15 and 8 respectively.

The Tigers will start up again next Friday, as they open up Ivy League play against Penn on the courts of Dillon Gymnasium at 7 p.m. As one can imagine, this part of the season determines the Tigers’ chances of extending their season, as the Ivy League champion earns an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

Princeton was not too far away from that goal, coming in third place in the league for the 2014 season. They had particular success against their nearby rivals last season, beating the Quakers 3-0 in Philadelphia and 3-1 at Dillon.

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The women’s volleyball team (5-4) swept at Rutgers this weekend, going 3-0 during the tournament.

SOCCER

M E N ’ S W AT E R P O L O

Tigers take west coast trip to California, winning 3 of 5 games ByChris Grubbs staff writer

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The women’s soccer team upset no. 23 William & Mary after freshman forward Mimi Asom scored a golden goal in the 91st minute.

Both soccer teams successful in weekend matches on home turf

By Grant Keating staff writer

Both the men and women’s soccer team came away from the weekend with convincing wins from great games with a lot of impact on the outlook of their seasons. The men pulled ahead to beat Boston University 2-1 in the 87th minute from of a beautiful corner by senior midfielder Nick Hurtado which senior defender Josh Miller pounced on. The women also

won 2-1 over No. 23 William & Mary in an even more exciting fashion, when freshman forward Mimi Asom blasted in the winner on a broken corner kick clearance in the 91st minute.

For the men, this was a must-win game to bring the team back to .500 at 2-2 after a tough Florida trip featuring a SportsCenter lastminute loss at Florida Golf Coast dropped the team to 1-2. The Tigers took control of the game early with a goal

from senior Brendan McSherry, assisted nicely again

by Hurtado, who had his first ever multi-assist game. However a misplayed ball in the 27th minute resulted in a tied game with BU and took the momentum away from the team.

“It was a frustrating game in a lot of ways for us because started so well and had nothing to show for it at halftime,” said head coach Jim Barlow.

But it was still the rebound

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the team needed as they move forward with the season, and it gave them a great chance to move back to a winning record as they travel to Binghampton next Saturday in New York.

The women’s team expanded on what has already been a very impressive season, recording their first victory against a ranked team this season, and the first home victory against a ranked team in 11 years. The Tigers battled See SOCCER page 5

The Princeton men’s water polo team traveled to the west coast this past weekend for a game against Santa Clara University and the Kap 7 NorCal Invitational at Stanford. The Kap 7 is a 16-school tournament, comprised mostly of west coast teams. The Tigers, ranked 12th in the most recent CWPA poll, opened the trip with a victory against the Santa Clara team, 12-7.

The Tigers came out to a blazing start against the Santa Clara Broncos with a 5-2 lead after the first quarter and would go on to win 12-7, as they were paced by sophomore goalie, Vojislav Mitrovic, who logged 13 saves in almost 30 minutes of play.

On Saturday, Princeton began its matches of the NorCal Invitational tournament, suffering a loss early in the day to the University of California, Irvine (ranked No. 8 in the nation), but rebounded later in the day with a victory against Redlands.

The Tigers played the UC Irvine Anteaters to a 3-3 tie early in the game before being thwarted by their opponents. Princeton would only score three more goals the rest of the game. Freshman Ryan Wilson scored the lone goal for the Tigers in the

second while senior center Thomas Nelson and senior utility Jamie Kuprenas both found the back of the net in the third. The loss against Irvine placed the Tigers into the back draw of the tournament.

The game against Redlands was soon to follow.

Despite an early 1-0 deficit, the Tigers rebounded for three straight goals to end the first quarter. Junior attack Bret Hinrichs and freshman utility Ryan Wilson netted a goal each in the last two minutes of the quarter. The Tigers took a 5-1 lead before Redlands quickly responded with two goals. Junior attack Curtis Fink tallied one more goal before the half. Nelson scored within the first 17 seconds of the second half, which was a catalyst for a run that ultimately put the Tigers up 10-3. Princeton ultimately won the game 14-6.

On Sunday, the Tigers defeated the University of California, San Diego before losing the ninth place game against the University of California, Davis.

Against UC San Diego, Wilson started Princeton’s scoring with two goals in the first 4:27. Tied at four with only 25 seconds left in the first half, freshman driver Michael Swart gave the Tigers the lead heading into halftime. Wilson and See WOPO page 5

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