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U. placed 13th in list of top national universities with most graduates entering public serviceamong the top 50 na-tional universities, the University was ranked 13th in the rate of its graduates who enter public service, Washington Monthly re-ported.

The list was created by Aspen Institute researchers who studied the LinkedIn profiles of graduates from the top 50 national univer-sities and the top 20 liberal arts colleges as ranked by U.S. News & World Report. According to the data, 23.1 percent of Princeton gradu-ates entered public service in public education, non-profit organizations or gov-ernment agencies between 2000 and 2010. It was not explained whether this re-ferred only to the first jobs held by students immedi-ately after graduation.

The College of William & Mary was ranked first among national universi-ties, with 32.1 percent of graduates entering public service. It was followed by George Washington Univer-sity with 31.1 percent and the University of Chicago with 30.1 percent.

Yale placed seventh on the list with 25.5 percent. Harvard placed 12th with 23.4 percent.

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Despite difficulties in or-ganization and logistics en-countered after its launch last year, the Big Sibs pro-gram, the service project of the Class of 2016, will be continued this year under a different structure with lower participation. While

roughly 300 students ex-pressed interest in the pro-gram when it was first pre-sented, around 120 students are currently participating.

According to Sofia Gomez ’16, this year’s Big Sibs co-chair and a member of last year’s executive board, the new structure will do away with the one-on-one men-torship and instead contin-

ue as a group interaction, with groups of Princeton students writing to a class of students in the City In-vincible Charter School in Camden, N.J.

Gomez explained that the change was necessary af-ter the logistical difficul-ties encountered under the old system. “Last year, it didn’t end up working out

because City Invincible, be-ing a charter school, didn’t have the technological ac-cess they thought they would and they didn’t have the computers they thought they would. So it just ended up being complicated, and we were never able to actu-ally have the email relation-ships,” she said.

Aside from the weekly let-

ters, Gomez explained that Princeton students would be visiting the students at City Invincible on most Sat-urdays so that each group of Princetonians can interact personally with their as-signed class of Little Sibs. In addition, the Little Sibs will come to Princeton one Sat-urday to tour and explore

Local same-sex couple marries

‘Big Sibs’ restructured after former difficultiesBy Lorenzo Quioguecontributor

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Following Monday’s announce-ment that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie dropped his challenge to a state Superior Court ruling approv-ing same-sex marriage, Princeton Mayor Liz Lempert officiated the wedding of a lesbian couple that had been waiting 30 years to be married and the University’s Les-bian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Center served wedding cake to over 60 students, faculty and staff mem-bers in celebration.

“I am glad that the governor changed his mind,” Lempert said,

adding that she feels being able to officiate weddings is the best perk of her job as mayor. While Lempert said she usually officiates the mar-riages of young couples, many of the same-sex ceremonies she will officiate in the coming weeks for older couples who have been togeth-er for decades are “a different kind of special.”

“It’s exciting to be a part of a change that’s such a good thing and a reason for celebration,” Lempert said. “At the same time it does feel like we’re too late — or not too late, but like it shouldn’t have taken this long.”

The town of Princeton made

application forms available in the health office immediately follow-ing the Superior Court’s Sept. 27 ruling that allowed same-sex mar-riages to proceed beginning Oct. 21, according to Lempert. Due to a 72-hour requirement, couples had to register by last Friday to be married as early as Monday.

Heather Howard, a Princeton councilwoman, said the registrar’s office stayed open two hours later than usual to accept applications, during which two couples picked up applications and many phone inquiries were received.

“From a local perspective, it just became important for us to be ready

to react as soon as there was legal clarity to be able to provide mar-riage licenses,” Howard said in re-sponse to the news about marriage equality in the state.

According to Lempert, sup-port for same-sex marriage seems almost universal, especially in Princeton. The Princeton Commu-nity Democratic Organization en-dorsed marriage equality in 2009. The town council unanimously approved an Oct. 14 resolution in support of same-sex marriage, en-couraging lawmakers in Trenton to vote against Christie’s expected challenge to the court ruling.

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Projects Board did not violate the USG constitu-tion in its funding request awarded to the Tango Club, Projects Board co-chair Jared Peterson ’14 and USG presi-dent Shawon Jackson ’15 con-firmed Monday.

While reviewing the bud-get at its meeting on Sun-day, the USG found that Projects Board had allegedly approved $1,800 for Tango Club’s Tango Festival. Ac-cording to the USG’s consti-tution, any Projects Board

fund request over $1,000 must also be approved by the Senate.

The budget misrepresent-ed the amount of money that was given to the Tango Club, leading to confusion Sunday evening.

On Monday, Peterson ex-plained that Projects Board only granted $900 to the Tango Club. The extra $900 was credited to the Tango Club’s account because it had previously been trans-ferred from the Tango Club account to the Projects Board account by mistake.

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By Anna Mazarakisstaff writer

With the end of his term as chairman of the Federal Reserve slated to expire in January, former professor and chair of the economics department Ben Bernanke’s plans for life after govern-ment are still unclear.

“I prefer not to talk about my plans at this point,” Ber-nanke told reporters at a Sept. 18 press conference. “I hope to have more informa-tion for you at some reason-ably soon date, but today I want to focus on monetary policy.”

Before his appointment to the Federal Reserve by Presi-dent George W. Bush in 2006, Bernanke served as the chair of the University’s econom-ics department from 1996 to 2002 and resigned following his appointment. He will be replaced by Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Janet Yellen, who was nominated to the position by President Barack Obama on Oct. 9.

The Federal Reserve’s Pub-lic Affairs staff said that Ber-nanke was not available for comment. Michelle Smith, assistant to the Federal Re-serve Board and director, confirmed in an email that Bernanke has not yet pub-licly announced his plans for

Bernanke’s plans after Federal Reserve unclear

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By Charles Mincontributor

Delbanco, Katz discuss troubling trends in American higher education

Higher education has be-come dominated by a num-ber of troubling trends over time, and students come to

college with little sense of why they are there, Colum-bia University’s American Studies program director Andrew Delbanco argued in a conversation on Tuesday afternoon.

In the course of the lec-ture, Delbanco and Wilson School professor Stanley Katz touched on a number of subjects about the state of education in the United States, from pre-kindergar-

ten programs to higher edu-cation.

Delbanco said that Amer-icans increasingly see col-leges as lavish institutions that fail to teach students effectively.

“They’re wasteful, they’re inefficient, they’re not do-ing their job, and we have a problem,” he said of or-dinary people’s view of col-leges.

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Participation in Class of 2016 service project drops in its second year

the campus.Gomez added that the

new system would also help achieve the goals of the program more easily and facilitate student involve-ment without demanding as much commitment.

“The reason we switched to the group dynamic was because we came to realize that people aren’t going to go every single Saturday, and so they won’t be see-ing their Little Sibs consis-tently. And what we’re try-ing to really do is introduce a sense of consistency for these kids. And so with the weekly letters, there is that consistency, but without the weekly visits and per-sonal contact, it won’t be so intense of a one-on-one relationship.”

Alex Cuadrado ’16, anoth-er member of the Big Sibs executive board, explained that, while the project is currently funded entirely by the Class of 2016 Class Council, the Council plans to cut funding in the fu-ture so that the program can achieve self-sustainability. He went on to explain fur-ther that the board was al-ready looking at potential other sources of funding.

The Class Council launched “Big Sibs” during the last school year, but the release was marred by many problems and delays.

“There were so many prob-

lems that we didn’t expect to happen and so many things we didn’t consider,” Mason Williams ’16, last year’s co-chair of the Big Sibs pro-gram, explained. “It was so stressful for me and every-one on the board, and then with Class Council, there was so much clashing. I had to play peacemaker, and I was like, ‘You know, guys, it’s okay, Class Council can sit in on our meetings; this is their baby; they started this.’

“But then you had some people who said, ‘No, we don’t want them here; this is too confusing; there are too many cooks in the kitchen,’ which there obviously were. But they were there origi-nally, they had the original mission and ideas and vi-sion, and they were a great resource because they set everything up, so you don’t just get rid of them entirely. The whole thing was just re-ally complicated.”

Williams went on to clar-ify that he wasn’t personally involved with the program anymore, since the Class Council decided to reorga-nize the program last sum-mer.

Justin Ziegler ’16, the pres-ident of the Class of 2016 Class Council, explained why the board was restruc-tured.

“We realized that with 10 people on the board, it was kind of too many, so we defi-nitely wanted to have less this year,” he said, adding that the Class Council had created a charter that clearly identified the roles of each member this year.

Williams explained that there had been a good deal of confusion in the board’s early stages over the mem-bers’ roles.

“There was so much time spent trying to figure out, ‘Okay, what is Class Coun-cil’s role now? What are peo-ple’s positions, and what are we gonna have them do?’ ” Williams said.

Gomez said that around 120 Princeton students signed up this year, attrib-uting the drop in partici-pation to the fact that last year, as freshmen, the class presumably had fewer com-mitments. Later on, with new commitments, there was less time to focus on the project.

“Some people were really only in it because it looks good on a resume,” Williams added. “So when the level of commitment required

started to go up, they backed out.”

He added that the delay in setting up the program may have contributed to the decline.

“There was a lot of hype lost because there was so much time spent figuring out the new infrastructure and all. I think a lot of peo-ple just forgot about it, and with a project like this, you need people to be reminded and to be excited,” Williams said.

Despite the past year’s dif-ficulties, both Williams and Gomez agreed that the pro-gram was well received by Princeton students and City Invincible kids alike.

“Everyone was just re-ally happy about the proj-ect. In fact, when we were leaving City Invincible after the first Saturday, there was a girl crying because she didn’t want us to leave. They definitely loved it, and they wanted to continue,” Wil-

liams said.Brianne Steakelum, the

charter school’s Civic En-gagement Leader, empha-sized the program’s impact on the kids.

“The Big Sibs were ex-tremely enthusiastic, and that in turn made the Little Sibs excited and enthusias-tic to come in on Saturday, which is huge. They got re-ally excited to learn their Big Sibs’ names and write letters to them and things like that,” Steakelum said, explaining that the Big Sibs had planted a community garden and done some arts-and-crafts activities with the Little Sibs.

She added that she really admired the commitment Princeton students have shown.

“I am completely over-whelmed and humbled by the number of students who would dedicate their time to the Little Sibs. I couldn’t believe how many college kids would take time out of a Saturday to

hang out with kids from our school,” she said.

Ziegler explained that this year’s program would include new skil ls-based learning initiatives in ar-eas such as reading and math.

“We want to really help these kids and turn college from a dream into some-thing that is expected, and we know that making this kind of impact at a young age is really important,” Ziegler said.

He added that the board members are discussing the sustainability of the project, including what will happen after the Class of 2016 gradu-ates.

“Nothing is set yet, but we’ve definitely been talk-ing about a lot of things. It’s extremely important that once you enter into some-one’s life, you stay there, and we’re trying to figure out ways to do that. I think that’s vital,” he said.

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“Some people were really only in it

because it looks good on a resume.”

Mason Williams ’16

“We want to really help these kids and turn

college from a dream into something that is

expected ...”

Justin Ziegler ’16

Constitution upheld by Projects Board

“All of the money netted out to be the proper fund-ing amount, but there’s a line item that shows the $1,800 from us to them, which is why the Senate thought we had funded the group more than $1,000,” Peterson said.

Both Peterson and Jackson stressed that the reported $1,800 funding request was solely a clerical error.

Since this was not the first time that Projects Board allegedly neglected to seek Senate approval before granting funds in excess of $1,000, various members of the Senate wanted to vote to censure Projects Board’s budget at the meeting on Sunday night.

“If this was the same is-sue arising, I would agree with them, but this was not a funding of over $1,000 that we didn’t get their approval on,” Peterson said. “I think they should have checked to make sure it actually was a violation of the constitution before they considered issu-ing a censure.”

U-Councilor Paul Riley ’15 said at the meeting that the USG should talk to Projects Board before making any assumptions about the ap-

proval of this fund request, a suggestion that Jackson said he agreed with.

“That’s especially true knowing the outcome of this situation, as we saw that it was actually an error in the system and not any fault of the committee itself,” Jack-son said.

Riley is also a member of Projects Board.

Though the vote to cen-sure Projects Board failed, the USG did vote to invite Pe-terson to its next meeting on Nov. 10 so he could explain Projects Board’s actions.

Since Projects Board did not actually violate the USG’s constitution, Jackson said the Senate will vote via email over fall break in order to decide whether the Proj-ects Board co-chairs will still need to attend the next Sen-ate meeting.

“I would say, in the future, for clarity in USG proceed-ings,” Peterson said, “I would prefer if Projects Board was let know if our finances were under scrutiny and were going to be discussed and possibly issued an of-ficial censure by the Senate so that either Eileen [Lee ’14, Projects Board co-chair] or I could be there to help ex-plain it or we can at least be involved in the dialogue.”

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CORRECTIONDue to editing errors, an earlier version of the Oct. 21 article ‘Projects Board re-quest allegedly violates USG Constitution’ misspelled the surname of Andy Loo ‘16 and misstated U-Council Chair Elan Kugelmass’s title.

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“The Big Sibs were extremely enthusiastic, and that in turn made

the Little Sibs excited and enthusiastic ...”

Brianne Steakelum,City Invincible Civic Engagement Leader

“Everyone was just really happy about

the project.”

Mason Williams ’16

Jared Peterson ’14Projects Board Co-Chair

“I think they should have checked to make sure it actually was a

violation ...”

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Blinder doubts Bernanke’s return to U.

the future.Economics professor Alan

Blinder, who served as Fed-eral Reserve vice chairman from 1994 to 1996, told The Daily Princetonian in Febru-ary after Bernanke was an-nounced as Baccalaureate speaker that the University could not rule out the pos-sibility that Bernanke would return as a professor after his term ended.

However, Blinder said in a recent interview that he thought it is “unlikely” that Bernanke would return im-mediately to the University following his chairmanship.

“I don’t know,” Blinder said of Bernanke’s plans.

“And probably he doesn’t yet [either] because he’s still a Federal Reserve chairman, so he has until January. But I’d be surprised at this stage if he comes back here.”

He added that Bernanke might remain in Washing-ton because he has many pro-fessional connections there.

Even so, Blinder noted Ber-nanke’s decision to deliver a series of lectures on the 2007 economic recession at the George Washington Uni-versity School of Business in March 2012, and he said that one could not discount the possibility that the Chair-man might return to aca-demia at some point in the mid- or long-term.

Blinder added that he thought Bernanke might miss teaching students.

Blinder said that having Bernanke back at the Uni-versity would be a pleasant surprise for everyone. “Get-ting somebody like Ben Ber-nanke after his incredible experiences in Washington back here would be fantastic, I think, from our point of view — also from the faculty point of view, and especially from the student’s point of view.”

Bernanke still has the op-tion of serving as a Federal Reserve Board member un-til 2020, a plan that Blinder considers “beyond stunning if he did.”

Several faculty in the eco-nomics department either did not respond to comment or said they did not have in-formation about Bernanke’s plans.

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Delbanco criticizes rankings obsession

This attitude is reinforced by rising tuition fees, which are caused in turn by the increasing privatization of higher education, Delbanco explained.

“Our public universities have been gutted,” he said, noting that public funds make up only 6 percent of the University of Virginia’s budget.

Katz warned against pub-lic universities’ efforts to raise funds in the face of budget shortfalls, either through tuition increases or the admission of more out-of-state students. These strategies undercut the dem-ocratic purpose of public ed-ucation in America, he said.

Higher education has de-veloped a “pernicious and

perverse obsession with rankings,” Delbanco said. This trend extends from uni-versities such as Princeton, “which is always jockeying with Harvard and Yale,” to other universities that “are really working hard to get up into the top 200.”

More troublesome, he said, is universities’ focus on SAT scores.

“As far as I know, the one clear correlation between SAT scores and anything else is correlation with fam-ily income,” said Delbanco. “If you’re driving your in-stitution to matriculate a class that has very high SAT scores, you’re basically driv-ing it to admit and enroll mainly rich kids.”

Katz also discussed the changing purpose of a university education in America today, arguing that institutions measure

their success by how many students they can award degrees. He added that universities are no longer focusing as much on edu-cating students as they once did, concentrating in-stead on “preparing them to compete with the Chinese.”

Despite all these pres-sures, Katz said that uni-versities still consider their primary business to be the promotion of student learn-ing. He explained that the purpose of a university edu-cation is still to teach stu-dents about the world, not simply to prepare them for the job market.

Delbanco said that college is still a worthwhile invest-ment, at least for now. He added that “most people who take the public position that not everybody should go to college are thinking about somebody else’s children.”

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U. LGBT Center celebrates deci-

Howard, who proposed the res-olution, said she feels that while same-sex in the state is good prog-ress, the development happened too slowly from the perspective of Princeton residents.

“We’re a progressive community, and we wanted to implement this as quickly as possible because these couples have been denied equal treatment for too long,” she said.

Princeton was in fact the first municipality in Mercer County to accept applications on Friday and

perform weddings on Monday, making this “a proud moment” for Princeton, Howard said.

The news was received with cel-ebration from the campus LGBT community as well. Debbie Bazar-sky, the director of the LGBT Cen-ter on campus, has been updating the community with the latest de-velopments over the last week via email.

While the LGBT Center has not been involved with advocacy for particular legislation, Bazarsky ex-plained that its role is to be “a con-duit of information” about develop-ments in LGBT rights issues.

In an email sent last Friday, Ba-

zarsky notified colleagues, alumni and students of the Friday deadline to file for marriage in order to be married Monday. On Monday, Ba-zarsky sent another email announc-ing Christie’s decision to drop his appeal of the court’s decision.

Bazarsky’s email invited recipi-ents to join the LGBT Center in cele-brating the fact that as married cou-ples, people in same-sex unions will now be able to share the over 1,100 federal rights that were previously limited to heterosexual couples in New Jersey.

According to Howard, the state decision brings “a lot of good news from a civil rights perspective.”

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Christie drops challenge to court ruling, effectively legal-izing same-sex marriage in New Jerseygovernor chris christie an-nounced Monday morning that he will drop his challenge to a state Supreme Court decision permitting same-sex marriage, effectively making New Jersey the 14th state in the nation to legalize

same-sex marriage.Christie noted that he dis-

agreed with the decision made by the Court but acknowledged that it “left no ambiguity,” The New York Times reported. Christie had sought a stay to prevent the marriages from taking place, but his petition was denied and his administration has announced it will not continue to challenge the

ruling.The ruling went into effect just

after midnight on Monday, when same-sex couples across the state held weddings at promptly 12:01 a.m., The New York Times report-ed. In the town of Princeton, May-or Liz Lempert announced on her Facebook page that she would be authorized to officiate same-sex marriages starting Monday.

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After delivering a lecture called “Campaign Bootcamp: Leader-ship Lessons from Candidates on the Trail and Women on the Run” Friday night, au-thor and activist Christine Pelosi — daughter of former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi — spoke to The Daily Princetonian about her child-hood growing up in a political family, the goals driving her work and a new book coming out next year.

The Daily Princetonian: What first made you inter-ested in grassroots politics?

Christine Pelosi: I started being interested in grass-roots politics when I was walking in precincts as a young child, and I’ve been doing it ever since.

DP: What were you like in college?

CP: Well, I was very active in a student cooperative called Vital Vittles at Georgetown. My third year of college, I went [home] junior year to work on my mom’s special election … to Congress. So, when I say what was I like in college: I was pretty out-going, studious, had a lot

of fun with my friends and then had this very, very in-tense experience where I spent the second half of my junior year at home, work-ing full-time on a campaign, then came back and made up the classes in the sum-mer and fall. So I’d say I was probably a lot more serious when I got back than I was before I left.

DP: Where would you be without your mom’s inf lu-ence?

CP: Well, without my mom, I wouldn’t be here. But I think that I would be a lot less confident walking into a room of complete strang-ers and trying to make friends and make my point. I would also be less familiar with the skills of balanc-ing being a mom and be-ing a working professional at the same time if I hadn’t seen my mom organize to raise the five of us, and then when we were older, balance doing her community work with taking care of the five of us.

DP: What is the most valu-able way of balancing that split that she showed you?

CP: Be who you are, where you are … If you’re on the

phone, be on the phone. With your child, be with your child. If it’s homework time, it’s homework time. If it’s dinner, it’s dinner. Be-lieve it or not, we didn’t re-ally discuss politics at the dinner table. We still don’t, because Father doesn’t re-ally like politics that much, and we’d rather talk about other things at the table. We talked about politics sepa-rately. We talked about civ-ics or sports or other people or what’s going on in our lives, but as my mom says, “Put it on the shelf.” You have to do your work and be intense about it, but then you have to put that on the shelf, and have a regular life, so that you don’t miss out on trying to be a good friend, being a good par-ent, a good spouse, a good relative, a good citizen outside of being a politi-cal activist. There are a lot of people I know who com-pletely overdose on politics, and it is very unpleasant for their families because they never turn it off. And my mom is always a mom, even when she comes to my boot camps, and acts like my mom, when I wish she would just act like [laughs] the leader of the House, and not the leader of my house.

DP: How has your pro-fessional experience as a prosecutor, special coun-sel, chief of staff, party leader and blogger helped you form the philosophy behind your boot camps and books?

CP: Well, one thing that has been a through-line through all of that is my quest for justice for women and chil-dren and also my apprecia-tion of the value that having a voice at the national mi-crophone means. So I have a great opportunity to meet a broad variety of people and to hear their stories and to get to tell their stories on social media and in my boot camps. And I think that that diversity of experience and that ability to share that with other people is a phi-losophy that I try to bring to campaigns, so that people who are involved in politics don’t feel that they have to have been there forever in order to succeed or that if they just recite a set of talk-ing points, then that makes them a politician, ’cause it doesn’t. It makes them somebody who can memo-rize talking points.

DP: What do you hope will be distinctive about your next book, “Women on the

Run”?

CP: Humor and empathy. Humor, because I think there’s a lot of funny stories that I’ve been told — things that have happened to peo-ple as they’re running, and sometimes injecting humor into politics helps a lesson go down a little more smoothly. And empathy because there are women who are really trying to make a contribu-tion to civics, to make a contribution to society, and without the support of other women, or of feminists, they are not going to be able to succeed. So I want my book to teach people that it’s fun to be a woman out there on the run but also that there’s an important job that needs to get done, and women have to be a part of doing that job. If we’re going to have a legitimate society, women have to be in leadership posi-tions across all sectors of our society.

DP: What do you see as the biggest issue facing Amer-ica today, and how would you solve it?

CP: I think the biggest issue facing America today is in-come inequality, and I would solve it by more investments in education and in the kind

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W hen you join an eating club (if you join an eating club), a weird thing hap-

pens: You become the baby again. Though you’re basically half-way though your undergradu-ate career — if you keep churn-ing smoothly through the system like the rule-abider you are — and a legal adult, you suddenly find yourself infantilized. The old-er members beam at you and tell you how to bus your plate. When you show up for meals alone, you feel intimidated, awkward. You wander wide-eyed through un-familiar halls, feeling once more that overwhelming newness you haven’t felt since freshman fall.

Aaron Applbaum ’14 recently wrote about his wish for more cohesion among the student body, and I agree with him, but I would like to emphasize a different negative effect of the eating-club-induced bifurcation between upper- and underclassmen. He is right to worry about lost opportunities for friendship and growth. I think, also, that this separation between younger and older students robs us of a chance to help each other.

I think we all remember how scary Princeton can be when you don’t know what on earth is going on. This is a school of strange lingo and unspoken rules. From “proxes” to passes, to the twin McCoshes, to what it means to be “picked up” or “hosed,” feeling comfortable here is as much about speaking the language as it is about figuring out where you “fit.” The other day, a friend

of mine fumed about the way a freshman had asked her for a pass. She and I, as freshmen, had been terrified into simpering timidity by socially powerful upperclassmen because we were susceptible to social pressure and easily swayed by group cohesion. Admittedly, this freshman had been relatively rude, but how could he possibly have known better?

My understanding of how to fit into this campus was formed both because and in spite of the sorority I belonged to for a year-and-a-half. I joined as a freshman because I was totally confused by Princeton and rushing was the easiest way to work my way into a campus social scene I barely even knew existed, let alone understood. The girls I met during rush were friendly, tall and blonde, a lot of them were English majors, and I thought I saw some incarnation of what I’d like to be in them. It was shallow, but I was sold. Though I eventually turned out not to be an English major and definitely not to be a sorority girl, I never could have evolved past who I was then, and what I understood Princeton to be, had I not had this community in the first place. Given the circumstances, it was the best I could do.

I’m pretty against Greek life in general these days, but I can’t fault anyone for wishing for this kind of network to decipher the complexities of the first months and years here. It’s true that there are a variety of ways for underclassmen to find this kind of guidance within the older echelons of this campus community, but these are highly specific, often aimed at a certain demographic and mainly

academic. I don’t know if they work or not. I know the peer adviser I had freshman year (was I supposed to have one sophomore year, too?) was unhelpful — and besides, I knew what I wanted to study. What I needed were upperclassman connections I could ask for more than just a pass.

I don’t have an exact solution. I do know that efforts last spring to make me feel at home in my eating club worked: I love it there now. This fall, watching freshmen — my younger sister among them — adjust to this campus makes me wonder whether us upperclassmen could do something like this, though I’m not exactly sure what it would be, for the actual new kids on the block, the real babies. Last month, as my newsfeed filled with pictures of newly Greek sophomores hugging smiling juniors, all in their letters, I felt something like envy underneath my scorn. I wanted that: to get to know the people the dining halls I’m never in and tell them that if they mix Sriracha with Fines Herbes Dressing it’s actually delicious. I’d like to let the underclassmen cramming in my old study room in on the secret that the walls are thinner than they realize, so they shouldn’t sing along to their 2 a.m. pump-up song, and to remind whomever’s in my old room in Yoseloff that everyone can see what they’re up to from the courtyard. Well, everyone who’s down there, at least. Which isn’t me, anymore.

Susannah Sharpless is a religion major from Indianapolis, Ind. She can be reached at ssharple@princeton.edu.

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Last Thursday evening, I found myself in McCosh 50 for Ryan Anderson’s talk, “What Is Marriage?” The

fact that it was sponsored by the An-scombe Society — a campus group dedicated to promoting traditional marriage roles, family and chasti-ty — gave me a pretty strong inking of what wouldn’t be included in his definition.

The gay marriage debate is ages old at this point. On a college campus, it’s pretty difficult to oppose same-sex marriage in peace. Especially in such a liberal part of the United States, being homophobic like that is just about equivalent to being racist. What interested me in Anderson’s talk, however, was that he claimed he would make a case for the “traditional definition” of marriage without calling upon religion reasoning, vague moral loftiness or historical precedent. He said he’d use purely “philosophical reasoning.”

It turns out that “philosophical reasoning” was just a generic slippery slope argument. If we change one variable in the supposedly very complicated definition of marriage (his, by the way, consisted of three parts: a man and a woman creating a nurturing environment for children,

doing this with sexual exclusivity and doing this forever), it could lead to changing every variable. What’s to stop it from changing two people of any sex to three people of any sex? What’s to stop it from becoming four people of any sex? What’s to stop marriage from being a temporary “wed-lease” — no expectation of forever at all?

The main problem with the slippery slope argument is that marriage law has already changed tons of times, within the last hundred years alone. Fifty years ago, marriage law disallowed interracial unions. Even before that, it dictated that a woman, after marriage, would become the husband’s property. Clearly, we’ve appended the law several times already, and anarchy has not yet broken loose.Someone in the audience did mention interracial marriage in the Q&A session, and Anderson responded by saying that the old writings of Aristotle and Plato never indicated that marriage had to be between two people of the same race, so therefore it was okay. I found this response startling for several reasons. First of all, it broke the rule that Anderson set for himself that he wouldn’t call upon historical precedent. Second, if Aristotle and Plato had indeed had racist tendencies in their writings from thousands of years ago, would that make a solid case

against interracial marriage now? Furthermore, what even makes them any sort of authority on the matter of marriage? Plato wasn’t even married, and Aristotle said in “Politics” that women were “subject to men, but higher than slaves.”

Anderson pointed to polyamory as the seemingly catch-all bleak dystopia that the world would be headed to once we legalize same-sex marriage. Many defenders of traditional marriage law seem to think this too. What’s surprising, though, is that even people who believe in marriage equality seem to agree that polygamy would be an unwanted consequence. The thing is, I don’t think polygamy and polyamory are huge deals either. It’s no one else’s business, certainly not the government’s, what a certain person’s definition of love is. What does matter is that the institution is offered to all members of society equally. The main argument against polygamy by skeptics is that it never works out, many citing Psychology Today’s claim that people are just fundamentally too jealous. However, with 50 percent of all weddings ending in divorce, it’s arguable that marriage in general just doesn’t work out. No one’s proposing to illegalize marriage because it doesn’t seem to work out. According to a recent study done based on U.S. Census data, bartenders have one of the highest

divorce rates among all professions, yet no one’s trying to make sure that they never get married.

Apart from his slippery slope argument, Anderson made the claim that marriages are all about children and that single-parent households and same-sex marriages produce the “worst environment” for children. He cited a few social science studies to back this up but was very unclear on what “worst environment” even means. Furthermore, as he conceded himself later in the Q&A session, social science studies are very difficult to control. Two studies about the same subjects can reach polar-opposite conclusions based only on the type of data they report. And if both single-parent households and same-sex households scored equally “bad” in terms of rearing children, what’s the legal justification for allowing one but banning the other?

I came to Anderson’s talk expecting a well-articulated argument with which I would have to respectfully disagree. I was a little sad that what I heard was a rather shoddy one. Slippery-slope arguments and poorly controlled social science experiments aren’t a proper platform on which to deny one-tenth of the American population equal rights. Shruthi Deivasigamani is a sophomore from Cresskill, N.J. She can be reached at shruthid@princeton.edu.

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S ever al times a week, my inbox is f looded with emails from Tiger-Tracks about new opportunities in consulting, trading and invest-

ment banking. At first I thought that may-be I had made a mistake when I fil led out my profile. Did I accidentally click “com-puter science” instead of “comparative lit-erature” when I clicked on the drop-down box to list my major? Perhaps I clicked on one of the check-boxes for “consulting” when I really meant to click “communica-tions/media” as one of my career prefer-ences. But when I looked at my profile, I had made no errors. So why was I receiv-ing emails that did not pertain to my in-terests? After expressing my opinions to friends, I realized that I wasn’t the only one who felt a little bit peeved about these emails. According to PolicyMic, in 2011 about 35 percent of Princeton students went into finance, which proves that the industry is booming. The top investment banking companies come to Princeton and Harvard first to recruit students, and these emails are used to spread the word in order to prepare for the early recruit-ment and interviewing process. And I’m not suggesting that no one in the humani-ties goes into these types of job sectors. They do. But when I rarely see email alerts about arts companies, I cannot help but wonder if I, and many others who made sure to detail their preferences on Tiger-Tracks, are being ignored.

As mentioned earlier, I understand that the recruitment process for finance companies starts very early in the year. Students dress in their best professional attire and head to Frist 302 to hear from employers, chat with them afterward and eat good food. Career Services tries to create a balance with these events; for example, they organize the annual Communications Careers & Networking Night. Looking at the description for the event, it is noted that these types of companies do not often recruit on campus. But why not? Those handling TigerTracks should count the students whose interests include the arts, editorials, writing, et cetera, so that they can use these statistics to attract companies from these particular job sectors to come to campus in order to recruit people. If Career Services targets students who participate in the Nassau Literary Review, the Nassau Weekly, The Daily Princetonian, creative writing classes and the countless theater groups, I can almost guarantee that you will find enough students to fil l Dillon Gymnasium for a career fair that is specifically aimed at those who are interested in the arts. This will encourage companies from these sectors to network more with students. The demand is already there. The Freelance Artist’s Manifesto Boot Camp is another excellent example of an initiative hosted by Theatre Intime for those who are artistically inclined. But what about those artists who do not want to be freelance? There are countless ways in which an artistic person can channel his or her skills, both in traditional and unconventional paths. For instance, NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts or the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop could hold information sessions here. These options do exist, but we need access to them.

I have noticed that there are a few companies, such as those in translation, with deadlines that passed a few short days ago. What if reminders were sent about those opportunities? Since foreign language study is required for two years at Princeton and there are plenty of students who go beyond the requirement, these types of students should be catered to as well. Do you know how many Princetonians speak French?

Searching for jobs is a stressful topic for all seniors, but the process would be less overwhelming with balanced support from Career Services. Yes, finance students should be especially cognizant of deadlines and information sessions because the recruitment processes are early and tend to finish rather quickly. That doesn’t mean that the entire student community should be f looded with these emails, especially when we have never listed these career preferences. Instead, those who tend to fall on the artistic side should be informed and reminded about upcoming deadlines for other companies. Check out BuzzFeed (which was started by a Princeton alumnus, might I add) — there is a job opening this instant as a books editor. Many Princeton students on Facebook are constantly tuned into these websites. If Career Services could consolidate some of this information and send emails, perhaps others like me wouldn’t feel so left out. Morgan Jerkins is a comparative literature major from Williamstown, N.J. She can be reached at mjerkins @ pr inceton.edu.

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Cappon and Carril careers are parallel tales

Cappon — almost always referred to as “Cappy” — was a star in both basketball and football at the University of Michigan. After coaching stints at the University of Kan-sas and University of Michi-gan, Cappon found his final and longest coaching stop at Princeton in 1938. During his tenure as coach, according to former player Selden Edwards ’63, “[Cappon] was Princeton basketball to anyone vaguely familiar with the teams of that era … His personality had come to dominate East Coast basketball. Though his six con-ference championships in his last 12 years of coaching speak for themselves, more striking to me was the game plan he

employed.”Cappon’s success was pri-

marily built on two corner-stones: his “Iron Five” and the five-man weave. Cappon was never one to draw from his bench. He believed that his starting five ought to be well-conditioned enough to last throughout the game without missing a beat. Whether out of conviction or necessity (Princ-eton’s roster rarely lends itself to a Miami Heat-style offense), Cappon forged from his shal-low talent pool a perennial league powerhouse.

His second main weapon, which he had used since his first days at Princeton, was the five-man weave. In the weave, a player dribbles with his out-side hand and passes to an ap-proaching teammate, with whom he basically swaps places on the court. Cappon’s style of

offense syncs totally with his emphasis on excellent condi-tioning, for it’s impossible to execute a weave throughout the game if the players wear

out after the first quarter. Of course, the idea is that the op-posing team will get exhausted.

In efforts to conserve energy, defenders found themselves either giving up mismatches, dropping too far back to defend the basket (and thus allowing easy midrange jumpers) or just allowing simple layups.

By these two core principles, Cappon was able to maximize the potential of his players and elevate Princeton basketball to the next level. The tales of Cap-pon and Carril, when placed together, certainly look like parallel tales. I look at the styles of these two men not to sug-gest that Carril got all his tricks by looking at what Cappon had done. Nothing I can write here could ever detract from the ca-reer of a coach who belongs in the Hall of Fame. I merely wish to point out that for most suc-cess stories, like Carril’s, there are successful blueprints lying behind them.

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Sophomore hurdler keeps good perspective

A: I hated running! Like, I quit tennis because I hated running, and then I ended up being a college runner.

Q: How did that transition happen?A: I don’t know. Once I got into it, it’s a really beautiful sport. It’s just one of the best sports you could do.

Q: What do you think about when you run?A: Well, besides it killing — my favorite thing to do is go for runs and not focus on the time or the pace and just kind of get lost in thought. It’s usually just a reflec-tive time, and it’s very nice to be in touch with your thoughts and yourself and be introspective.

Q: What’s your least favorite thing about running?A: I’m not sure if it’s my least fa-vorite thing, but I find that it’s difficult because you can get really caught up in numbers. You can see progression — or lack thereof — by half a second or less, depending on the length of your race, and it definitely can drive you crazy if you don’t have a good perspective over it. It’s just really hard to keep perspective because there’s noth-ing subjective about the sport; it’s very honest.

Q: If you could do one other sport, what would it be?A: I think volleyball. After going to a few volleyball games here, I think it’s the coolest sport. It’s so team-oriented and so much fun.

Q: Who’s the quirkiest member of your team?A: It’s either going to be Julia Rat-cliffe — she’s a thrower from New Zealand; she’s awesome — or Ra-chael Chacko. Shoutout to Chacko; I love her. She’s one peppy ball of enthusiasm.

Q: What do you like better: track and field or cross country?A: Track and field, for sure. If I had slow-twitch muscles for cross country and my body didn’t hate it, I would probably like cross coun-try better. But just because my

body likes track better, I like track better.

Q: What do you want to major in?A: I’m thinking about majoring in psychology with a certificate in neuroscience. I really like neu-roscience a lot. I feel like I found something I really love, which I didn’t think I’d really find. Even to-day in lecture, Professor Graziano pulled out a puppet and was being a ventriloquist. I love that lecture every week.

Q: If you were stranded on an island and could only bring three things, what would they be?A: I’d probably bring [sophomore teammate] Sarah Porter [and] ap-ples. I could probably live off of them.

Q: What kind is your favorite?A: Pink Lady. It’s really sweet; it’s like candy. The third thing I would bring is a camera and a dark room to develop in. I like photography a lot.

Q: What do you like to do when you’re not running?A: I like to paint a lot and sketch. I haven’t been able to do it as much as I like to since I’ve been here though, but it’s like my go-to outlet.

Q: Have you ever tripped on your own feet and fallen in a race?A: I have not done that. I’m wait-ing for the day when I trip over a hurdle and fall on my face. I’ve yet to do that in a race. I’ve only done it once or twice in practice in the last six or seven years. I’m waiting for it to happen.

Q: Were you scared the first time that you were running toward this station-ary object?A: I still get scared. It’s scary be-cause you’re running pretty much full speed at something that’s not going to move for you, so, if you don’t think about it, it’s much easier. But you kind of have to be-cause you have to focus on your form and your steps and how far away you are. I still get scared. In practice especially, I run off to the side a bunch, which is a bad habit, but during a race it’s just a differ-ent mentality, and I just have to go through with it.

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As November approaches, contenders have begun to separate from the rest of the Ivy League. With four teams in the thick of it and the others still holding onto hope, here’s how the league breaks down:

Penn (5-6-1 overall, 2-0-1 Ivy League): The Quakers have the most goals of any team in the Ancient Eight and boast wins over Cornell and Dartmouth, the latter of which they defeated 3-0. Penn’s defense has not yet allowed a goal during Ivy play and has earned five shutouts this season. Junior midfielder/forward Duke Lacroix is second in the Ivy League both in points and in goals.

Cornell (6-3-4, 0-2-1): The Big Red’s defense has been solid this season, but unfortunately its offense hasn’t been contributing many goals. As a result, Cornell has been involved in nothing but low-scoring games and has not put up multiple goals in the same contest since Sept. 18. The offensive struggles are not exactly the result of trouble getting possession — Cornell leads the Ivy League in shots per game but is last in the league in goals per game.

Dartmouth (4-3-4, 0-3): Though it hasn’t lost a non-Ivy game this season, the Big Green has yet to win its first league match. Dartmouth looked to have Princeton beat before the Tigers came back to win in the second half in Hanover, but since then things have only gotten worse. Yale defeated the Big Green 1-0 in a double-overtime affair earlier this month, and Penn also shut Dartmouth out in its most recent Ivy game.

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Columbia (5-4-2, 0-1-2): The Lions score the second-most goals per game of any team in the league and have a winning record to show for it. They do not, however, have a league win. A five-game winning streak was snapped by consecutive ties with Brown and Penn, and since then they have lost to UConn and Princeton. David Najem, third in the league in both goals and assists, leads the high-powered offense.

Brown (3-6-3, 0-1-2): After tying with Columbia and Princeton, Brown lost 2-1 to Harvard on Saturday. The Bears will have a decent shot at their first Ivy victory next weekend when they visit struggling Cornell, but strange things would have to happen for them to have a shot at the championship. A highlight of the season has been the superb play of goalie Josh Weiner, who leads the league with 4.82 saves per game.

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Yale (3-8-1, 2-0-1): Their overall record isn’t too impressive, but the Bulldogs are tied for a share of the lead in the Ivy League. Yale snapped a five-game losing streak with a win over Harvard and followed it up with a 1-0 double-overtime victory over Dartmouth. The Bulldogs’ offense has put up more than two points only once this season, but the defense has allowed only one goal to an Ivy League opponent so far.

Princeton (5-6-1, 2-0-1): Led by sophomore forward Thomas Sanner, whose seven goals are the most in the league, the Tigers are very much alive in the hunt for the championship. The Tigers broke a two-game scoreless streak with a 2-1 win over Columbia last weekend on the strength of sophomore midfielder Brendan McSherry’s first career goal. Next weekend, Princeton heads to Harvard for a tough game that will have major implications for the Ivy title.

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Sophomore Meghan McMullin runs on the cross-country team and hurdles for the track-and-field squad. Recently, she sat down with the ‘Prince’ to talk about Snooki, Pink Lady apples and tripping over hurdles.

Q: Where are you from, and what is it like there?A: I’m from the Jersey Shore, about an hour away from campus. Most of the shore is nothing like the show [“The Jersey Shore”]. It’s actually much more classy and not as trashy.

Q: Do people ever ask you if you know Snooki?A: All the time — every time I mention that I’m from the Jersey Shore, that’s like the first question. I do live really close to her.

Q: When did you start running?A: I started running in seventh and eighth grade, but I would do everything I could possibly could to not run at practice. I would hide behind bushes and cut corners and cut my warm-up in half. So I would say I probably started legitimately running freshman year [of high school].

Q: What was your reasoning?

Feb. 11, 1983: Pete Carril secures his 273rd victory as Princeton’s head basketball coach, becoming the Tigers’ all-time leader in wins. Carril, whose name is now synonymous with Princeton basketball, currently holds the highest winning percentage of any Ivy League head coach ever (.658). Much of his success was due to his capacity to develop less-than-stellar players within his system, as well as his stalwart defensive scheme, which allowed the fewest points of any team in the nation for eight years in a row.

Though he was a master of all aspects of the game, Carril’s legacy will forever be tied to the Princeton offense. For the unfamiliar, the Princeton offense is, at heart, a game of constant motion, where players never hold the ball for more than a short period of time. The constant passing and movement of the players leads, in theory, to one of three outcomes: an exploitable mismatch of position (big on little guy, for example), an open midrange jumper or, should a defender lose track of his man, a simple backdoor cut leading to an easy layup.

In a school generally lacking in NBA-caliber talent, such a sys-tem is ideal. Instead of relying on one dominant superstar, a coach utilizes the talents of five high-quality players and keeps a defense off-balance. As Georgetown coach (and former Princeton coach) John Thompson III once noted, “When I say the Princeton offense, you know, I just think of guys playing together, sharing the ball. Talented, unselfish players.”

Certainly, Carril was a genius. How else could a coach working with such a pool of talent defeat a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tourna-ment, as Princeton did against UCLA in 1996? He was a great coach, but it should be understood that the Princeton offense Carril set up already had roots here on campus. Another man, Franklin Cappon, had already set the groundwork for the program’s future success.

TriviaFormer men’s basketball head coach Franklin “Cappy” Cappon was such a strict disciplinarian that he would not let his offense shoot until it had passed at least five times — he considered fast breaks a sign of a lack of discipline.