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00paw1010_coverREV1-nobox_00paw0707_Cov74 9/27/12 5:20 PM Page 1 Pat the e-book: Princeton Children’s literature in the digital age Alumni Aaron Burr’s reputation makeover Weekly Professor teaches to thousands Stepping down President Tilghman to leave post in June October 10, 2012 • paw.princeton.edu PALM BEACH SOUTHAMPTON WINTER PARK ZURICH www.petermillar.com 120907_PeterMillar.indd 1 7/17/12 9:07 AM 01paw1010_TOCrev1_01paw0512_TOC 9/25/12 12:20 PM Page 1 Page 26 Princeton Alumni Weekly An editorially independent magazine by alumni for alumni since 1900 OCTOBER 10, 2012 VOLUME 113 NUMBER 2 President’s Page 2 Inbox 5 From the Editor 6 ROMAN Perspective 13 MURADOV A professor teaches a class online, and learns along with his students By Mitchell Duneier Goodnight, iPad? 26 Campus Notebook 14 Though the words might be the same, reading children’s books President Tilghman to step down • Art electronically can be a different experience than reading the museum considers issues of provenance old-fashioned way. A Princeton professor weighs in on whether in new exhibition • College rankings • it matters. Conference planned for LGBT alums By William Gleason • University welcomes Class of 2016 • New faculty • IDEAS: Burgernomics • FYI: Findings • Breaking Ground: American Lucifer 32 A seamless Internet • ON THE CAMPUS: Aaron Burr Jr. 1772 is best known for killing Alexander Hamilton When cheating isn’t clear-cut • Grad- in a duel. But perhaps history has saddled him with a bum rap. student housing crunch By Mark F. Bernstein ’83 Sports 22 Field hockey has high hopes • EXTRA POINT: After a deadly riot, Bob Bradley ’80 aims for World Cup with Egypt’s What’s n ew @ PAW ONLINE national soccer team • Football opens • Sports shorts FRESH FACES A Moment With 25 View images from the Mars researcher Kevin Lewis Class of 2016’s first week on campus. IMAGES, Alumni Scene 38 FROM Bedtime math — and not just TOP SPORTS DIGEST AT counting sheep • STARTING OUT: Zach LEFT: Kevin Whitaker ’13 recaps Gregg Lange ’70’s Ruchman ’10 • TIGER PROFILE: Anne FRANK READING ROOM: Tiger headlines every Rally ’Round the Cannon Fitzgibbon *98 • Siblings WOJCIECHOWSKI; Andres McConnon ’05 and Aili Monday morning. A look at contemporary McConnon ’02, on an unlikely hero Chinese artist Ai Weiwei • New releases ON THE LAWN and Princeton’s own BEVERLY r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s , circa 1776. Class Notes 42 The Street comes alive SCHAEFER; in our slide show from Memorials 62 Lawnparties 2012. PAW on iTunes ELIZABETH Listen to Rally Princeton Exchange 69 MARTIN WHAT’S YOUR VIEW? ’Round the Cannon as a Final Scene 72 podcast on iTunes. ’14; Share your thoughts ROMAN about children’s literature ON THE COVER: Shirley M. Tilghman, Princeton’s 19th president. MURADOV Photo: Bloomberg via Getty Images. in the digital age. THE PRESIDENT’S PAGE Opening Exercises: Occupying Princeton On September 9, at Opening Exercises, I welcomed 1,357 new freshmen — the largest class to matriculate in Princeton’s history — together with other new and returning members of our University community. In my address, I encouraged APPLEWHITE each member of the Class of 2016 to “occupy Princeton” by making it uniquely his or her own, reminding them that in DENISE 2012, Princeton is not solely a location in New Jersey but a gateway to educational opportunities throughout the world. Here is part of what I said. — S.M.T. pening Exercises is one of the truly joyous occasions at Princeton because it marks the beginning of a great adventure — your great adventure. At this moment in your Princeton Oeducation everything is possible — every door stands open, every dream has the potential to come true. You are about to Occupy Princeton. Now don’t panic — I don’t mean to suggest that you are going to live in a soggy pup tent on Cannon Green for the closet full of orange and black paraphernalia. Others of next four years. Instead, I am co-opting that phrase from you had never heard of or even considered Princeton until last year’s political season to preview what I hope will be a teacher or guidance counselor or family friend suggested the many ways in which you will seize the moment, take that you should take a look. And by the way, it has been this University by storm, make it uniquely your own, and my experience that the moment you arrive on campus, leave it better than you found it. those differences completely evaporate, and you all become Let me begin with the most literal meaning of Princetonians to the core. Some of you had something very Occupying Princeton. Here you are! Bravo for making the specific in mind when you applied to Princeton — to study wise decision to attend this University. I suspect that there with world-class mathematicians; to combine a liberal arts are almost as many reasons for why you chose Princeton education with a serious commitment to the arts; to play as there are members of the Class of 2016. Some of you on a sports team that contends for Ivy championships on knew you wanted to come to Princeton the moment you a regular basis. The great majority of you, however, are stepped on this beautiful campus — it just looked and felt completely open to what lies ahead and plan to use your like what a college campus is supposed to be. I completely first year or so to explore the tremendous smorgasbord of understand that reaction. Even after 26 years, I occasionally opportunities that Princeton has to offer. find myself dazzled when I encounter a long vista through But whatever your path to Princeton, you are now a Gothic arches, or the sky’s reflection on the glass façade member of the Class of 2016, collectively poised to Occupy of Sherrerd Hall. Geography matters, and you will find Princeton for the next four years. As I warn each freshman inspiration in living and working in a setting that can class, the next four years are going to go by in the blink continually astonish. of an eye. If you do not believe me, ask any member of the Some of you were attracted by the opportunity to work senior class. That look of panic in their eyes is not solely with faculty who are not just extraordinary scholars, brought on by the fact that they are still struggling to find a scientists, and engineers, but also are committed to sharing topic for their senior theses. It also reflects their realization their knowledge and erudition with the next generation. that there is a light looming at the end of the tunnel, and That is a great reason to choose Princeton — you will come they have just one more year to savor and extract the full to know faculty as individuals, not just as talking heads at worth of this place. the front of the class. And rather than being intimidated So Occupying Princeton means first and foremost by the prospect of writing a senior thesis, some of you carpe diem — seize the moment, take responsibility were motivated to come to Princeton by the chance to take for consciously and conscientiously carving out your responsibility for your own intellectual development, rather own vision of a Princeton education. For there is no than being a passive recipient of learning. Writing a senior quintessential Princeton experience, especially for a class thesis may seem daunting to you right now, but it will be as broadly diverse in every imaginable way as yours. Each the most exhilarating and rewarding experience of your Princeton experience is forged from a highly individual academic career, and the one you remember best. spectrum of interests, talents, initiative, focus, and, There are those of you in the Class of 2016 who yes, serendipity. Luck matters. The roommates you are had siblings who attended Princeton, or parents or randomly assigned, the conversations you happen upon in grandparents, and undoubtedly received regular doses of the dining halls, the preceptor who takes a special interest Princeton lore around the family dinner table and have a in your work, the play you decide to audition for on a THE ALUMNI WEEKLY PROVIDES THESE PAGES TO THE PRESIDENT 20121010-1.3.indd 2 9/17/12 9:44 AM THE PRESIDENT’S PAGE whim — who knows what will turn out to be a revelatory for you to begin planning your strategy for becoming a moment in your Princeton experience? cosmopolitan. But as the 19th-century French scientist Louis Pasteur As you know, the Occupy movement began last fall in famously said, “Chance favors only the prepared mind.” Zuccotti Park near Wall Street in New York as a protest A prepared mind is open to courses in disciplines and fields against the growing inequality in income and opportunity you have never encountered before and to testing whether in the U.S. and in many other countries around the world. subjects that fascinated you in high school are truly your The movement’s rallying cry was “We are the 99 percent,” calling. A prepared mind will explore extra-curricular to underscore the point that the widening gap in wealth interests that bring you in contact with students who come is benefiting a very small percentage of the population. to Princeton with very different life trajectories than yours, With your matriculation at Princeton, and irrespective of and who will challenge you to grow as an individual. With your family circumstances up to this moment, you have a prepared mind, you can leave your mark on Princeton now become part of the 1 percent, not in terms of wealth, by the ways in which you choose to spend your time and but certainly in terms of future opportunity.