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In Opinion The Editorial Board disagrees with the Princeton Sustainable Investment Initiative’s call to divest, and Will Rivitz believes that critics of The Daily Princetonian should do more than just post snarky comments. PAGE 6

Today on Campus 4:30 p.m.: Nicholas Kristof, Pulitzer Prize winner, author and columnist for The New York Times, and Sheryl WuDunn, MPA ‘88, former business editor for the Times, will talk about their recently published, co-authored book, “A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity.” Dodds Auditorium.

The Archives

March 2, 1987 University Counsel Thomas Wright ’62 criticized judge, Robert Miller for deciding that eating clubs did not have to admit women.

News & Notes Over half of Jewish students have experienced anti-Semitism in first half of 201314, study says

Approximately 54 percent of Jewish students had anti-Semitic experiences on campus in the first half of the 2013-14 academic year, according to a study conducted by researchers at Trinity College that was released this week. The online survey consisted of questions regarding the situation and location of each anti-Semitic experience. It was filled out by 1,157 Jewish students across 55 college campuses throughout the nation. 58 percent of religious Jewish students reported that others had demonstrated hostility toward Jewish people, as well as the Jewish faith. Barry A. Kosmin, director of the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture and Research at Trinity College, and Ariela Keysar, the associate director of the institute, emphasized that the problem of anti-Semitism was not an isolated problem, but rather one that is pervasive throughout the nation. Keysar said she hopes that this survey will raise awareness of the hostilities that Jewish students face and that anti-Jewish bias does not only hurt highly religious Jews.

ACADEMICS

Study finds gap in Ph.D. hires between elite, nonelite universities

THIS IS PRINCETON

By Zaynab Zaman staff writer

Ph.D. students at elite schools like the University have a systematic advantage in being hired on the academic job market, according to a recent study. Elite schools have shown a trend of hiring Ph.D. job candidates from a small pool of other elite schools, coauthor Aaron Clauset, an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Colorado at Boulder, said. He conducted the study, “Systematic Inequality and Hierarchy in Faculty Hiring Networks,” with coauthors Samuel Arbesman and Daniel Larremore, who did not respond to a request for comment. The study looked at hiring trends among Ph.D. candidate job applicants and found that only 9 to 14 percent of job applicants are able to get jobs at universities ranked higher than those at which they completed their education. The vast majority of applicants become faculty members at lower-ranked universities than universities where they got their Ph.D., Clauset explained. “One of the real benefits of our study is that we looked at multiple disciplines and very different scholastic traditions, and we found essentially the same results across the disciplines,” he said. “People move down the hierarchy in a overwhelming majority.” See PLACEMENT page 2

HEATHER GRACE :: CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Organizations and student groups come together at This is Princeton 2015: Black Lives Matter to bring art and performance as a voice for social change. U N I V E R S I T Y A F FA I R S

U. may start anonymous reporting system for students By Zaynab Zaman staff writer

The University may soon have a system for students to anonymously report discriminatory or offensive comments made by professors and preceptors, Asanni York ’17, co-chair of the Council of the Princeton University Community’s Working Group on Structure and Support, said. Though there are already processes in place to report discrimination, many students don’t know about them, York said. The format of such reporting requires the student to convince administrators that the professor made offensive or prejudiced statements, he added, saying that when students are reporting to people of power, failing to say the right thing at the right time may result in their complaint being overlooked. There is currently no new

system for reporting complaints, but a new website was recently created for members of the University community to submit diversity-related comments, University spokesperson Martin Mbugua said. York said that in the very early stages of the task force, the members sent out a large survey asking questions about changes wanted by the student body. One of the questions asked if the students saw a need for reporting people for discrimination and asked students to provide examples that would help the task force. “There were hundreds of examples,” York said. In one instance, a preceptor had asked his classmates to share their names, class years, majors and their relationships to slavery. There was only one African-American student in the class, and the student’s ancestors were slaves. Making a student publicly discuss that

relationship was insensitive, York said. Although graduate and undergraduate students alike have experienced or observed classroom discrimination, the process for complaining is so unclear, arduous and timeconsuming as to repel most students, Ricardo Hurtado GS, co-chair of the CPUC’s task force on academics and awareness, said. He added that the weak accountability system in place for faculty suggests that even if an anonymous reporting system is created, it is questionable whether tangible results will come out of it. While professors have been removed from courses after enough student complaint, it is difficult to effect change since faculty members have so much autonomy in and out of the classroom, Hurtado said. An offensive statement made by a tenured professor

regarding the die-in protests following the death of Eric Garner is another example of the need for a more streamlined reporting system, York said. “[The professor] said, ‘Oh, the black students are doing another protest. I hope they don’t go loop Frist [Campus Center] after this,’ ” York said. If the anonymous reporting system is successfully implemented, a key aspect of the system should be giving students access to the data, Hurtado said, adding that students would gain power because problems would be known to everyone rather than just the administration. Making the data public would also be useful to all parties, he said. The goal of the protests recently, York said, was to demand conversation among the student body regarding the reSee REPORTING page 3

STUDENT LIFE

Most women elected eating club presidents since 2002

USG senate discusses TruckFest, ‘Dear World’

By Jessica Li staff writer

Four women in the Class of 2016 are eating club pres-

idents or presidents-elect, the most since the Class of 2002, when there were also four. When the Steering Com-

YICHENG SUN :: PHOTO EDITOR

Ivy Club elected its second female president, Eliza Mott ’16, last week.

mittee on Undergraduate Women’s Leadership released its final report in 2011, only one woman in the Class of 2011 was president of an eating club. The report found that women tended to gravitate to behind-the-scenes positions in extracurricular activities and noted a decrease in female students holding leadership positions since the beginning of the 2000s. Grace Larsen ’16, the first woman ever elected president of Tiger Inn, said she wants to improve the club’s image when she takes over the position in September by developing an open line of communication between club leadership and the membership. “We cannot simply present a good face and hope that the club will eventually mirror that image,” she said. “It is also imperative that membership work both with [the officer corps] and with one another.” The election results at TI should help to set an example of gender parity in the leadership of prominent See CLUBS page 5

By Katherine Oh staff writer

The Undergraduate Student Government senate discussed plans for TruckFest, approved new committee members and reviewed the progress of committee projects at its meeting on Sunday. In light of Mental Health Week, the senate meeting opened by introducing the photographer Robert Fogarty, who will be running the “Dear World” photography project on campus throughout the week. “Dear World,” which first started in New Orleans, La., is a photography project which asks participants to share a message about themselves. In addition, the senate approved the appointment of new Honor Committee member Hassan Ejaz Chaudhry ’18. Chair of the Honor Committee Jesse Fleck ’15 explained that this mid-semester appointment was necessary to replace Class of 2017 president C.J. Harris. “We believe he’s very insightful. He showed a high understanding of integrity and of the Honor Code itself,” Fleck said of Chaudhry. A freshman was selected by the senior members of the Honor Committee because they

wanted someone who “could be trained and jump into the system mid-semester and not focus on what year they were,” Fleck said. The senate approved the Projects Board’s request for funding for TruckFest. Projects Board co-chairs and event organizers Tyler Lawrence ’16 and Naman Jain ’17 presented their plans for TruckFest, which is scheduled to take place on April 25. The event will be larger in scale than last year’s, with 25 food trucks on Prospect Avenue compared to last year’s 11, Lawrence and Jain said. The organizers said they hope to raise $50,000 for charity. TruckFest will hopefully be more streamlined than last year by providing every student with a certain number of tickets and reducing wait times by offering only a limited menu at each truck, they added. Elections manager Grant Golub ’17 discussed his plans about future USG elections. Golub is a staff writer for the ‘Prince.’ “The first thing is that I would like to have meetings — I call it the speaker series — where we can talk about what USG is doing, how people can See USG page 3