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Barney Smith Stanley Morgan 2013 © 130719_MorganStanley.indd29310075_Anthem_16.25x10.5_Rev.2_1.indd 1 5/30/13 1:56 PM Cyan Magenta Yellow Black SHARED VISION The Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla COLLECTION of PHOTOGRAPHY THROUGH SEPTEMBER 15 always free and open to the public artmuseum.princeton.edu also on view Faces and Facets: Recent Acquisitions through august 18 50 exceptional new acquisitions demonstrate the range and depth of the Museum’s collections and include major works by Kurt Schwitters, Hannah Wilke, and Robert Smithson, as well as Pre-Columbian sculpture; Greek, Japanese, and Native American ceramics; and photography. TOP: Loretta Lux, The Drummer, 2004. © 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn BOTTOM: Harold Edgerton, Milk Drop Coronet, 1957. Courtesy MIT Museum. Both works from The Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla Collection of Photography PAW_060413_SV_output.indd 1 5/31/13 4:31 PM 03paw0710_TOC_01paw0512_TOC 6/21/13 6:58 PM Page 3 Noel Valero ’82 *86 submitted this photo Princeton of the Reunions fireworks display, page 36. Alumni Weekly An editorially independent magazine by alumni for alumni since 1900 JULY 10, 2013 VOLUME 113 NUMBER 15 President’s Page 4 Inbox 7 From the Editor 8 Campus Notebook 14 PPPL experiment spared in budget cuts • Professor named as provost • Student website locates Princeton Awonderfullife 28 friends during travels • Bomb threat Cramped rooms with paper-thin walls. Icicles in the shower. closes campus • New trustees • Graphic Skunks under the floorboards. For Butler Tract residents, it’s designs • IDEAS: Professor Markus Prior on the media and partisanship • been heaven. Why some cancer cells spread • ON THE By W. Barksdale Maynard ’88 CAMPUS: Lavender Graduation, Step Sing sans steps • Student sculpture • More Reunions 2013 36 Sports 24 Princeton shows it can put on a party. Women’s crew coach racks up win n i n g record • EXTRA POINT: For football Commencement 2013 54 players, summer is no vacation • A new crop of graduates moves on. Sports shorts A Moment With 63 Cassandra Hough ’07, on chastity versus “hooking up” What’s n ew @ PAW ONLINE Alumni Scene 64 REUNIONS 2013 Dan Cohen ’90 heads new digital View video and slide shows library • STARTING OUT: Yuchen Zhang and read a poetic tribute to ’10 • Newsmakers • READING ROOM: President Tilghman. Alexandria Walton Radford *09 on poor students’ access to elite colleges • New releases GRADS REFLECT In video interviews, the Class Gregg Lange ’70’s Perspective 69 of 2013 talks about lessons Rally ’Round the Cannon A case for ROTC learned at Princeton. A look at the seven under- By Anthony Brandt ’58 graduate alumni who Class Notes 70 ORAL HISTORY have served as Princeton presidents. Memorials 94 Class of 1978 alumni share memories from their Princeton Exchange 102 undergraduate days. Tablet users Download Final Scene 104 ESSAY a PDF of Richard Etlin ’69 *72 *78 the July 10 ON THE COVER: Gonzalo Aniano Porcile, who received a issue. Ph.D. in astrophysics, at Commencement. Photograph by explores online learning Ricardo Barros. and the forgotten lessons ISTOCKPHOTO.COM of teaching. THE PRESIDENT’S PAGE Commencement 2013: Parting Thoughts On June 4, I presided at Princeton’s 266th Commencement— changed your lives. You are the beneficiaries of that most the normally tranquil lawn in front of Nassau Hall awash in distinctive of American inventions — a modern liberal arts joyful graduates and families. In my remarks, I reflected on education — and you leave here knowing far more about the what our University imparts to and expects of its sons and world in general, and your chosen discipline in particular, daughters, especially in terms of pursuing a purpose larger than when you arrived. This is true whether you leave as than themselves. As I prepare to leave office, I would like to an accredited civil engineer inspired by green technology; share these thoughts with you, grateful for all that I myself a dancer who studied physics; a public servant equipped have learned in the past 12 years. — S.M.T. for the complexity of modern policymaking; a 19th- century English scholar devoted to the Divine Miss Jane; t gives me great pleasure to exercise the presidential a chemist resolved to cure cancer; or whether you are still prerogative of serving as the bookends to your uncertain about what your future holds. Your education Princeton education. In your first few days on has not so much given you all the answers as it has taught this campus, at Opening Exercises, I took my you to ask the right questions. It has given you a thirst for inspiration from David Letterman and offered you free inquiry and the nimbleness of mind to cut through Imy top 10 suggestions for making the most of your time complexity to the insights hidden within. It has given you at Princeton — everything from “study what interests you a powerful voice to make your case and the intellectual most” to “break out of the Orange Bubble and explore the confidence to change your mind. And it has exposed you to world” to “remember to exercise, eat healthy, get some the staggering breadth and richness of your own and other sleep and have fun.” Except for the sleep part, which I societies around the world. It is the best preparation that know you all ignored, I hope those recommendations were I can imagine for the rest of your life. helpful from time to time. Now here you are — four years But the learning that happens in the classroom and later — and we are going out together. the library and the laboratory, while certainly necessary But before we do, let me celebrate all the ways in which for becoming an educated citizen of the world, is far you have left your mark on this institution, just as it has left from sufficient. Princeton is not simply about acquiring its mark on you. You filled the campus with the glorious knowledge and jumping successfully through intellectual sound of music, the splendor and exuberance of dance, and hoops, as the power of theater to both enlighten and entertain. On challenging as our playing fields you covered yourselves with glory, with those surely the field hockey, squash and fencing teams winning national are to execute. titles; the women’s basketball team winning four straight It is also about APPLEWHITE Ivy championships; the football team giving us a bonfire; making that last and the men’s swimming and diving team bringing its great leap from DENISE unbroken run of Ivy championships to five — to name just adolescence a few of your athletic triumphs. You held conferences on into adulthood science and religion, lobbied for a DREAM Act, engineered as a member without borders, sustained dialogues on race, debated the of a close-knit relative virtues of latkes versus hamantaschen, designed community living new companies, promoted civic engagement, cooked and working slow food and taught in prisons. You showed us that it is and playing on possible to discuss the most pressing issues of the day with this beautiful civility and an open mind. You dazzled your teachers with and cherished your commitment to learning,