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Today on Campus 4:30 p.m.: Former chairman of the Federal ReserveBen Bernanke will deliver “A Historical Perspective on the Financial Crisis” as a Bendheim Center for Finance Lecture. McCosh 50.

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Oct. 20, 1966 The Students for a Democratic Society asked the university to bar representatives of the Dow Chemical Company from interviewing graduate students on campus on the grounds that Dow is one of the largest manufacturers of napalm in America.

STUDENT LIFE

13 hand, foot and mouth cases diagnosed

By Maya Wesby contributor

Thirteen students have been diagnosed with hand, foot and mouth disease since the beginning of this academic year as of Thursday — a stark increase from last year’s single case, University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua said.

University Health Services Director John Kolligian deferred comment to Mbugua.

“The cause of the rise in cases at Princeton is unknown,” UHS Health Educator Kathy Wagner said. “We don’t really know why there might be a cluster like this, it just happens occasionally. So the cause in the rise of cases at Princeton isn’t something we’re going to know.”

Hand, foot and mouth disease is a viral illness that usually affects children under 5 years old. Symptoms include a sore throat, reduced appetite, fever and malaise. Sores may appear in the mouth and a skin rash, sometimes with blisters, may develop on the palms of hands and the soles of feet.

Adults may not experience any symptoms yet still pass the disease on to peers and children, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The disease is spread from close contact with an infected person, and contact with contaminated objects such as a doorknob. The CDC website says an infected person is most contagious during the first week of infection and should stay at home.

According to CDC Health Communications Specialist Ian Branam, hand, foot and mouth disease is a clinical syndrome, meaning that one can be diagnosed only if he or she has symptoms. He explained that the illness is typically mild, and nearly all patients recover in seven to 10 days without medical treatment.

“There’s no vaccine for hand, foot and mouth disease, and there’s really no [disease-specific] treatment,” Wagner said.

She added that treatment would consist of symptom management, including taking pain relievers to reduce a fever and using mouthwash to numb mouth pain.

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U N I V E R S I T Y A F FA I R S

Entrepreneurial Hub launches on Chambers St.

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News & Notes NJ Transit begins #RudeZone campaign

NJ Transit will debut its #RudeZone campaign over the next six weeks to encourage passengers to mind their manners during their commutes, Planet Princeton reported.

The campaign will be centered around postcards placed on train seats that read “Greetings from the #RudeZone! You’ve heard this person before during your commute” or “Don’t be that person, keep it down.” The postcards are accompanied by cartoons of nightmare passengers.The campaign will focus on six specific types of “rude” passengers.

A “Phone Booth” passenger is one who loudly and publicly holds phone conversations. The “Potty Mouth” passenger is one who utters profanities while riding transit. “Excess baggage” passengers are ones who carry with them so much baggage that it obstructs walkways.

The “traveling DJ” is one who plays his music loudly enough for other passengers to hear. The “coastline clipper” is one who grooms himself or herself while riding transit. A “foot loose” passenger is one who lounges in the seat.

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Donald Treiman lectured about the lasting social impact of family labels in China on Monday.

Treiman lectures on class labels left over from Communist China

By Paul Phillips news editor

Family class labels assigned by the Chinese Communist government in 1950 still affected levels of schooling and job status in 1996, even though the labels were abolished in 1979, Donald Treiman argued in a lecture on Monday.

The lecture was the first

hosted by the new Center on Contemporary China. Treiman is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Treiman said that when the Communist Party took control of China, it assigned family class labels to people living in China based on family status in the years just before liberation. He explained that although

there were 14 labels in total, they could be grouped in four basic categories: red, working, middle and bad.

‘Red’ was given to party members or orphans of war veterans who fought on the Communist side, ‘working’ was given to poor peasants or workers, ‘middle’ was given to middle-class or small businessmen and ‘bad’ was See LECTURE page 3

The Princeton University Entrepreneurial Hub, a new incubator space to advance entrepreneurial initiatives and education for faculty, students and alumni, launched this summer.

The Hub resides in a University-leased building at 34 Chambers Street in downtown Princeton.

Associate Director of the Keller Center Cornelia Huellstrunk said the University established the Lab to respond to tremendous interest in entrepreneurship among students, faculty and alumni. The Hub aims to foster entrepreneurial collaboration within the Princeton community.

The Hub’s main purposes are to provide a shared working space for students and faculty startups and significant learning opportunities through workshops, roundtables and networking events. Users have access to meeting rooms, classrooms, office hours and information technology support. Office spaces are available for license to faculty and alumni startups.

Both the semester-based eLab incubator program and the summer eLab accelerator program are housed in the same building.

Stephanie Landers, Program Administrator of the Keller Center, explained that the creation of the Hub was part of a much larger entrepreneurship initiative on part of the University. She noted that administrators realized the need for programming and support on campus.

“The way that Keller Center is involved is that we, for the past four years, have had the ELab accelerator program and also the incu-

bator program during the fall and spring semesters where students can work on their startups or very, very early stage ideas that they might want to turn into a startup company,” Landers explained. ”In the summer, the ELab is for students who have a startup and want to accelerate, to work on it over the summer and hopefully launch and properly find investors, gain customers and succeed. At the end of summer they give a demo-day to a large audience.”

While these programs took place before in the engineering quad, the Keller Center now has a whole building to support them, she said. “We have a lot of space for workshops that are all focused on entrepreneurship, innovation and design.”

According to the Keller Center website, the Hub aims to help students, faculty, and alumni develop their creativity and make important contributions to society.

Huellstrunk said the organizers are looking for faculty who might be interested in this type of arrangement.

She noted that the Hub has a very robust calendar of office hours with accountants, legal experts and entrepreneurship faculty.

“The programming that happens at the Hub is really for everyone on campus, and includes talks by entrepreneurs, design thinkers and social entrepreneurs,” she said, adding that tours happen at the Hub at all times.

Students interested in getting involved in the Hub do so by contacting Landers, who has been overseeing the dayto-day activities at the Hub, according to Huellstrunk.

Landers said the Hub is funded by the University as part of the University’s ongoing efforts to support of See EHUB page 2

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its students’ entrepreneurial passions.

David Pal GS, a Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental Engineering and Water Resources, said that last year he was a counselor fellow in more than just the coursework at Keller Center, as he learned about the workshops and participated in various projects. As a graduate student, he was not able to work in the summer incubator because he had to work on his dissertation.

“Now that the semester is going and I’ve finished my dissertation and have a little bit of time before I graduate, I figured I would take advantage of some of the awesome programs they have going on at the incubator,” Pal said. “The eHub is a pretty cool opportunity to have a co-working space with other people and other like-minded entrepreneurs who like start-

ing businesses, are going through the same trials and tribulations, have the same needs. The Keller Center does a really great job of finding spaces and putting on programs and seminars to make it easier to get things done.”

Pal explained that he’s cur-

“The programming that happens at the Hub is really for everyone on campus.”

Cornelia Huellstrunk Associate Director Keller Center

rently working on a few different projects, specifically Marna’s Pals, which helps students whose families have been affected by cancer, giving scholarships to students

who live in New Jersey. He’s thinking about starting another business as well, but he is primarily focusing on his non-profit.

Michalis Alifierakis GS, a fifth-year chemical engineering grad student, said he might start a business after taking a class in the Keller Center.

“I approached Stephanie Landers at the end of last year and asked her about the incubator program,” Alifierakis said. ”It sounded like a pretty good idea, so this year I applied.”

Alifierakis noted the Hub has an excellent structure in place to help entrepreneurs, since it provides a space where entrepreneurs can seek the mentorship of experts like lawyers, accountants and even other entrepreneurs.

“We need people who have done it before and who can help us with the problems that we face,” Alifierakis said.

Ashlyn Lackey ’18, who got involved in the Keller Cen-

ter last year and spent last summer interning in a Keller Center internship, explained that the eHub offers a myriad of helpful programs and opportunities and is, in itself, a unique space tailor-made for entrepreneurs.

“The eHub is a pretty cool opportunity to have a co-working space with other people and other like-minded entrepreneurs...”

David Pal GS “I know when I applied to Princeton, I was worried that there wasn’t really a strong business focus, but I think that the Keller Center and the eHub are definitely the University’s answer to this,” Lackey said.

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given to capitalists, rich peasants and criminals.

He added that the labels were hereditary and generally not subject to change, in keeping with Chinese notions of collective responsibility in which people ought to be punished for the sins of their fathers.

“This is very different from American notions of individual responsibility,” he said.

Contrary to popular intuition, societies in Communist countries were not classless, he said, nor were they societies in which there was equality of opportunity.

“Indeed, they were almost exactly the opposite,” he said. “They were societies in which people were thought to continue whatever their parents or grandparents did.”

Treiman described the results of a study in which he examined the impact of family class labels given to people in 1948 on vari-

ous achievements of their children or grandparents, including the level of educational matriculation, the attainment of elite occupations and whether they joined the Communist Party. He also looked at the difference in those results before and after the Reform period, when the class labels were abolished.

In terms of education, Treiman said, members of the ‘red class’ had a huge advantage over the other classes, but members of the ‘bad’ class did not have an especially big disadvantage.

He added that results for the Reform period were generally the same as results before the Reform period.

He said he found that members of the red class had an advantage when job advancement was considered, but this advantage went away when he included controls. Once again, results were the same before and after the Reform period, he said.

As for joining the Communist Party, results after the Reform varied great-

ly from results before the Reform, Treiman said. Before the Revolution, people marked as red had a huge advantage in ability to join the Communist Party, and people marked as bad had a correspondingly huge disadvantage. After the Revolution, however, those differences went away.

Treiman theorized that the Reform had a greater effect on Communist Party membership than on education or work because the government could tell the Communist Party to disregard the family class labels of potential members, while it could not do so as easily for businesses or universities.

Treiman noted an analysis of family class labels in China speaks to the ongoing debate about social stratification and the way in which families transmit both their advantages and disadvantages across generations.

The lecture, titled “The Consequences of Political and Class Background in the People’s Republic of China,” took place in Robertson Hall Bowl 1 at 4:30 p.m.

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“Containing the disease is something we can all work together to do by practicing good hygiene … for each person to protect themselves by washing their hands often with soap and water, disinfecting surfaces and soiled items, and avoiding close contact, kissing, hugging, sharing eating utensils or sharing cups,” Wagner said.

This outbreak echoes the appearance of meningitis B at the University. Between March 2013 and March 2014, there were nine meningitis B diagnoses related to the University. The strain found on

campus was the same strain that killed a Drexel University student after her contact with a Princeton student at a social mixer.

Meningitis B’s prevalence triggered the cancellation of many University programs, including Princeton Preview which could no longer include its overnight component. The University held mandatory vaccinations for the members of Class of 2018 and Class of 2019.

In spring 2015, the CDC declared that since the vaccinations, the University had seen no new cases of meningitis B. Wagner noted that hand, foot and mouth disease does not pose as serious a threat

to the campus community as meningitis B. “Hand, foot and mouth disease is a common, mild viral disease, and so when you compare it to meningitis… there’s not much of a comparison,” Wagner explained.

Meningitis B causes the death of approximately 120 people every year in the United States, and about one of every five survivors lives with permanent disabilities, such as seizures, amputations, kidney disease, deafness, brain damage and psychological problems. On the other hand, she said that the symptoms of hand, foot and mouth disease typically go away after several days.

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came to Princeton with the preconception that it is a safe, insular campus — no officers roaming around with guns, and no need for such either. And for the past year, I have always felt safe on a gun-free campus. So when I first heard the news of Department of Public Safety officers soon having access to firearms, I was, to say the least, unsettled.

There are some limitations in place, as covered in the breaking news article in The Daily Princetonian. Guns can only be used ‘“to respond to an active shooter or someone brandishing a firearm’” on campus — only an “imminent danger,” however that may be defined — and will only be granted to fully trained police officers in the DPS. Nonetheless, even this information did not assuage my initial discomfort.

Princeton has always had a gun-free policy, even though the policy has been challenged before. In 2008, the Fraternal Order of the Police, the DPS’s police union, filed a complaint with OSHA claiming, “the University’s policy of not allowing Public Safety officers to carry guns was an occupational hazard.” Back then, OSHA ruled against the need for guns.

Again in 2013, the Fraternal Order of the Police recommended a change in the gun policy, but Princeton again did not budge. Then President Emeritus Shirley Tilghman stressed her resolve to maintain a gun-free community. The administration argued that, in the wake of an emergency, the local police departments would be able to respond to the situation with firearms of their own.

Less than two years have elapsed, so why do we suddenly need to bring guns to our campus?

DPS Executive Director Paul Ominsky asserts, ‘“The national best practices for responding to an active shooter have evolved,”’ especially in light of recent situations with armed shooters on campuses. But is recent gun violence on college campuses a compelling enough reason? There is no evidence that links gun-free zones with a greater instance of gun violence, according to Media Matters.

I understand the heightened concerns for students’ safety. In the wake of tragic shooting rampages across the country, notably in Oregon and my home state Arizona, no one wants to see another tragedy befall any school campus again.

However, the decision to keep campus gun-free has never compromised our safety. Nor has the local police’s ability to respond to on-campus emergencies ever proven inadequate. In the case of an emergency, trained, armed police would be ready to dispatch to campus, merely a four-minute car ride — if not less — away. While I agree with Ominsky that “a few minutes can make a difference to save a life,” arguably it would take the same length of time to dispatch officers from DPS as it would to dispatch officers from the local borough.

As the role of campus police is being reconsidered regarding access to firearms, we must ask exactly what kind of firearms Public Safety officers will have access to. Various news sources say rifles; why specifically is there a need for rifles?

Have Taser guns and chemical or pepper spray been definitively ruled out?

Colleges have offered “the active-shooter scenario” as a warrant for the need for such militarygrade rifles; many have armed their police officers and campus military arsenals have grown over time. In fact, the Pentagon has provided more than 130 universities with surplus militarygrade weapons, such as M-16s, having granted more than $12 million in weapons and equipment, according to The Marshall Project. The Department of Defense’s 1033 program transfers surplus military equipment for free to many campus police departments, both public and private colleges, according to The New York Times.

Could Princeton receive equipment too?

Most importantly, we need to answer the question of whether arming our officers will definitively make our campus safer — or rather, whether our students and faculty will feel safer as a result.

The likelihood is small, but more importantly we should consider the other consequences of an armed DPS. While officers won’t be carrying firearms, as students become more aware of onhand access to guns, the willingness to engage in protests may go down. Plus, an imminent threat or danger may be presumed with the presence of guns on campus.

Moreover, this decision may lead to a slippery slope of who can carry weapons on campus. If the main issue is concerning the safety of our campus, then students and faculty could contend that they too should be able to carry a weapon for their own protection.

This is not a solution to stopping gun violence on college campuses. This is not a deterrent or preventative measure. This is part of a larger problem. We should allocate more resources towards implementing greater security measures to minimize the probability of gun violence.

Bringing guns onto campus will not stop others from doing the same.

Ominsky, in a recent ‘Prince’ article, argues that “There are times when administrators will act on behalf of the community for that purpose, so we did not consult with students.” But when it is our safety — the students’ safety — on the line, shouldn’t administrators and DPS officials treat us with enough respect to consult with us?

This is a conversation that should take place with input from all of us — if the safety of the community is truly the concern.

Opinion

Tuesday october 20, 2015

Claire Thornton

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rriving to Princeton just one month ago, I never thought I would be wearing a pair of light pink, three-inch wedges. In high school, I would wear a t-shirt, jeans and Vans every day. I had dresses and sandals and dangly earrings, but they never left my closet. It would have felt weird to wear them at school where people were used to seeing me in such plain clothing. I had given up on trying to look cute by my junior year, mostly because I knew everyone at my school and didn’t care what they thought about me, but also because I didn’t have the confidence.

Flash-forward to Lawnparties, when I wore those light pink wedges and a floral dress from Ann Taylor. I still don’t care what other people think about what I wear, yet Princeton has managed to change the way I think about dressing.

In the chaos of frosh week and the start of classes, I almost didn’t notice at first, but I’ve realized that I am approaching the way I dress differently and am even dressing “preppy” (although, I often struggle to define that term, as its definition played out more broadly in real life can easily intersect with “edgy” or even “hipster”).

There has been a surprising shift from the t-shirts and jeans of my high school days. Even more notable is how easily the shift occurred.

In the past, I was worried that if I dressed too preppy, others would think I was trying too hard to present myself in a certain way. And even worse, I was afraid of taking advantage of a style and atti-

tude that I had told myself were not mine to enjoy. Similar to other teenage girls, I had developed many negative and overly self-conscious ideas about myself and my body. I was afraid that if my outfit was too cute it wouldn’t match me.

Coming into Princeton, I worried about having to deal with this same dilemma. I imagined it would be somehow obvious who was allowed to dress “preppy” here, and who was not. I feared I would be categorized, pushed into dressing like an average-looking girl in a hoodie and Converse, or else feel like an imposter in a pretty dress. At home in August I anxiously weighed the two images in my mind and decided to pack both my simple tops and my patterned dresses.

On the plane I prepared myself for both options, and awaited the moment when something would click and I would know for sure exactly what I would be comfortable wearing.

After being on campus for five minutes I realized that my ideas were completely misplaced and irrelevant. Princeton is not perfect. There are many things that can be fixed. But the one thing that I realized quickly is that there is no question of “can she, or can’t she?” regarding dressing “preppy.” No one has a monopoly on “preppy” at Princeton, and that is extremely liberating. Everyone on campus has just as much of a right to dress “preppy” as any other person. If anything, I feel as though attending Princeton gives all students a uniquely “Princetonesque” liberty to dress “preppy,” or any other way that makes them feel confident. By definition, a “prep” is someone who attends an expensive school, especially a school such as Princeton.

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Here you don’t wear a certain outfit because you feel forced into it. You put on what you put on because it is fun for you to see yourself that way. In my first few days I saw every kind of person dressing “preppy” and looking utterly amazing. I saw everyone having a great time and I decided to join in. I immediately shed my negative feelings and began dressing in a way that felt both natural and unnatural at the same time, because I was consciously being brave and taking little risks.

Before, I had tentatively packed my dresses and my sandals and my dangly earrings. I ended up wearing many of them within the first week. My light pink wedges were something strange and new and made me feel a certain way that I previously would have described as “worried.” Now I call that feeling excited.

College has so far been an inspiring and unexpected freedom for me. I feel as though I can be myself, or even better — not be myself at all (at least not the girl my high school friends would recognize).

If I want to look like a quintessential east coast “prep” I totally can, and it will be perfect because this is freaking Princeton.

And if I want to be a hippy princess and pin flowers in my long, thick hair that will be perfect too. Even jeans and Vans are acceptable, too.

I’ve realized that it is so easy to wear what you want here and have fun doing it.

So far I have loved seeing the clothes my classmates have put on and I have noticed when you guys were having fun. Thank you for that.

Claire Thornton is a freshman from San Antonio, Texas. She can be reached at claireat@ princeton.edu.

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y friends are well accustomed to my feminist rants by now. But last week when I asked if anyone else had seen the “Colonial Mansion” party signs with the playboy bunny logo, none of us could believe that it was actually happening. (At least not at Colonial.) But sure enough, over the next few days more and more posters popped up around campus.

I’m not arguing that Playboy is the most sexist party theme that’s sprung up on this campus or on others. Just Google “sexist party themes” — people really come up with “creative” excuses to encourage women (and men) to wear as little clothing as possible or to highlight the belittlement of women. (The second link of that Google search actually leads to a Men’s Health Magazine article entitled “The 10 Sexiest College Party Themes” and includes themes such as “Bros and Hos,” which unsurprisingly also makes it on the most sexist lists the search brings up.)

But Playboy is just so overtly sexist that these posters stood out to me. Playboy earned its reputation as a magazine selling photos of nude and semi-nude women, often in an extremely objectifying manner, under the slogan of

Playboy Bunny is not okay “entertainment for men.” Even Playboy’s current staff has realized how wrong these previous practices have been, as its editors recently announced that the magazine would no longer include fully nude photos, with a top editor saying, “It’s the right thing to do.”

None of these party themes ever explicitly require students to wear or not to wear certain apparel, but themes like “Capmandu” (essentially strippers) or “2 articles of clothing night” send a pretty strong signal of what is expected.

I don’t want to pass judgment on what women, or men, decide to wear out to the street. That is their prerogative, and every individual should be free to wear whatever they please. That being said, the reality is that social life at night here heavily revolves around the street. In order to fit in, it is understandable that students may feel compelled to dress in accordance with spoken or unspoken expectations, whether people truly feel comfortable dressing that way or not.

We shouldn’t be encouraging situations through party themes that pressure students into wearing less clothing than they otherwise might choose to wear in public. This sort of pressure, especially if unequally placed on women, is problematic. Moreover, such themes often degrade and objectify women and their bodies. There isn’t anything fun or funny about them.

I understand that not every woman might feel trivialized or degraded when dressing up for these parties. In fact, some may even feel empowered by their sexuality, and that’s totally fine. But the reality is that some, if not many, women, and men too, both feel objectified and likely are objectified when they dress for these themes. We are all more than our bodies, and no one should be pressured into a situation where they feel like they aren’t respected for more than that.

Of course, there is an easy fix for this problem. There are infinite party themes out there; eating clubs don’t need to pick ones that explicitly objectify and insult people. Unfortunately some social pressures will inevitably still exist, but hopefully with different themes there will be less pressure to dress a particular way. Students are then free to wear whatever they please out to the street. This choice without undue social pressure is essential. Club leadership should be making a conscious effort not to select overtly sexist themes that create this undue pressure on women (or men). This same rule applies to racist or classist themes as well. Students should demand this from club leadership and refuse to attend parties that cross the line.

These sexist party themes are only the tip of the iceberg of a much larger problem of pervasive sexism on campus.

A compilation of many little slights goes

a long way to creating a hostile environment for women. I’ve had male students cut me off in seminar numerous times and never even notice it. Nor do most professors. Or if the professors do notice it, they do nothing about it, which perhaps is even worse. And this hasn’t just happened to me, but to many other women as well. And I see the eyes rolling when I or other students mention an interest in gender studies issues.

And while people might think all this behavior is harmless, it contributes to a larger problem on campus: an environment where we have fewer women leaders as the 2011 Sterling Committee on Undergraduate Women’s Leadership notes and an increased prevalence of sexual misconduct. This linkage was briefly discussed at the Council of the Princeton University Community meeting after the We Speak survey results were released. Granted, none of these incidents on their own is the cause of these problems and addressing one of them won’t solve everything. But students, professors and administrators alike must put forth a conscious effort to create a more equal and friendly environment. Perhaps reexamining our party themes is one place to start.

Marni Morse is a junior from Washington, D.C. She can be reached at mlmorse@ princeton.edu.

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With wins against Dartmouth, Yale, Columbia and Brown, field hockey keeps up their Ivy League winning streak.

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It was a tale of two very different matches this weekend - Princeton was swept by Yale 0-3, but got by Brown 3-2.

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ing back to .500 in their Ivy League record, the Tigers found themselves faltering as Brown responded strong.

“Brown’s a very good team.

They’re very good at defense, and they never give up.” senior Kendall Peterkin said.

“They tend to frustrate you.

They slowly start chipping, coming back at you. It’s hard, once you’re up a certain amount of games, 2-0, to stay focused and [have] that power-through mentality.”

Brown came right back at the Tigers with victories of 25-19 and 25-22. As the score indicates, the Bears weren’t at any point really able to break away from the Tigers.

Nevertheless, they had put themselves in the position they needed to take the Tigers down.

With the fifth and final set looming — one to be decided in 15 points — coming out and making a statement was more crucial than ever for the Tigers. They responded to the challenge with vigor, with the score moving to 10-5

before the Tigers managed to ultimately put this one to bed, 15-7.

Offensively, the Tigers received high production from multiple sources — junior middle blocker Brittany Ptak led the way in kills at 17. Peterkin followed her with 14, and junior outside hitter Cara Mattaliano and freshman right side hitter Brittany Smith were tied with 11 kills apiece.

The battle against reigning Ivy League champions Yale (10-6, 5-2) was less in the Tigers’ favor. The first set featured the Tigers in a reverse position of their match against Brown. After falling behind the Bulldogs 15-8, the Tigers made a push to knot things up, responding with a 4-0 run before eventually tying things at 19 apiece. This one went down to the wire — the Tigers claimed the lead for a slim time, 22-21. But once match came down to its last two points (at 24-24), the women of New Jersey would be unable to finish down the stretch, falling 26-24.

The remaining games would be quite close as well, but the Tigers faced the same

result: 25-22 and 25-21 Yale victories. On the day, Mattaliano and freshman middle blocker Nnenna Ibe led the way offensively for the Tigers with eight and seven kills, respectively. Senior libero Sarah Daschbach led the team in digs with 14.

With this weekend in the books, the Tigers have now run the gauntlet in league play, having gone against each other Ivy League team once so far. They stand in a four-way tie for 4th, three games behind conferenceleading Dartmouth.

Peterkin expressed confidence, however, that after surviving the tough start, the Tigers have turned themselves into a stronger unit than they were previously.

“Our chemistry has really connected a little bit more.

[It’s about] playing for each other — just go hard, go all out. I want to always kill a ball for my team, not just because I want to kill a ball.” Peterkin said. “I think that with that mentality, and the fact that we’re a little bit more cohesive, we’re going to be able to come at these teams a little bit stronger.”

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few minutes, was able to finish up the first ahead 3-2.

Emboldened by strong end to the first, the Tigers would keep up the pressure throughout, earning more shots and more corners throughout the second. By the 61st minute, the pressure forced Brown to crack — junior midfielder Cat Caro sent the ball from the left side to the middle, where George was ready to take it and score once more.

With a 4-2 lead, the Tigers needed to do little more to cruise to victory, maintaining their perfect record in

league play.

The game against Syracuse (15-0 overall, 5-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) was almost the exact opposite. It was the underdog Tigers who struck first, as Donio-Escoe continued her great play from the previous game to put it past the Orange’s Jess Jecko late in the 32nd minute. Similar to the Brown game, though, was that the Tigers were the aggressors throughout the first — it’s evidenced in not just the amount of shots per team (4 more for the Tigers), but also by the fact that Jecko was forced to make four saves in the first, whereas senior goalie Anya Gersoff required none.

It was the second, though, where Syracuse showed its true mettle. The Orange put in two unanswered goals at the 47th and 52nd minutes to give themselves their first lead of the game. Sophomore striker Ryan McCarthy put the Tigers back level, receiving the ball from George to get it past Jecko. It would be the last time that Princeton would score — the Orange closed out the game with 2 more goals, finishing ahead 4-2. The Tigers’ five losses this season have all been against teams ranked No. 7 in the NCAA or higher.

The team gets back to action on Saturday, traveling to Cambridge, Mass. to take on Harvard University.

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Women’s soccer defeats Columbia Lions, rolls to 9th straight victory

By Miranda Hasty contributor

The Tigers, after a 2-3 start, have found their groove, putting up their longest win streak since 2012.

Women’s soccer is on a roll, adding a ninth game to their win streak. Despite three consecutive losses earlier on in the season, the team is sporting an impressive 11-3 record heading into this week’s match. With their 3-1 win over Columbia this past Saturday, the Tigers are now 4-0 in the Ivy League and are tied for first place with the Harvard Crimson.

The Tigers came out strong, scoring two goals before the clock reached 15 minutes. In the 11th minute came the first goal from junior forward Tyler Lussi, who finished a long crossing pass from sophomore midfielder Vanessa Gregoire with a header right above Columbia’s goalkeeper Allison Spencer. Shortly after Lussi’s opening goal, freshman forward Mimi Asom scored the second goal, assisted by Gregoire and sophomore defender Mikaela Symanovich. “I think it’s important to get two early on in the game,” Gregoire told the Ivy League

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Digital Network about their early 2-0 lead, “but it’s also a very dangerous score because one goal could make a huge difference, so I think it was definitely very important for us to go out there and get those two first goals.”

Senior defender Emily Sura sealed their victory with the third and final goal, hammering in a long-distance shot taken from a free kick. Princeton’s shutout streak was ended, however, when Columbia’s Natalie Ambrose scored in the seventy-fifth minute.

Lussi and Asom are season standouts. Lussi scored her 11th goal of the season and the 39th of her career at Princeton. She is now tied for third place with Emily Behncke ’06 for top goal scoring in program history. Asom scored her ninth goal of the season and is just three short of Linda DeBoer ’86, who is the current record holder for most goals scored as a freshman. “They are definitely dangerous players. Anytime you play against them, you know that they have something very dangerous in them. They connect

well, they are able to put the ball in the back of the net, and that’s definitely something defenders should be worried about,” Gregoire said in the same interview about her teammates after Saturday’s game, “It’s about them getting the job done, and that’s what they’re doing so far.”

The team as a unit has also been challenging past records. Their nine-game win streak is the program’s longest since its 12-game streak in 2012, and each game has had two or more goals scored by the Tigers. The team has won 11 out of 14 games for the first time since 2004 and has outscored their opponents 287.

The next highly anticipated game is against the Crimson, who are also in first place in the Ivy League with a record of 4-0. The showdown is scheduled to take place on Saturday in Cambridge. Gregoire said, “We love playing against them. It’s a huge game, a huge rivalry. A lot of people are getting ready to go. We have been all season, so it’s going to be a good game.”

Women’s volleyball squeaks

by Brown, falls to Yale

By Miles Hinson sports editor

The women’s volleyball team has turned it around after a rough start to Ivy League play. Following backto-back sweeps of visiting Columbia and Cornell at Dillon Gymnasium, the Tigers

went 1-1 in their road trip this past weekend, defeating the Brown Bears in five sets and falling to the Yale Bulldogs in three.

Princeton (8-8 overall, 3-4 Ivy League) had to fight tooth and nail to escape Providence with the victory.

The Tigers initially seemed

on the verge of a sweep on the day — they defeated the Bears to the tune of 25-17 and 25-18 in the first second sets, respectively.

It’s at times like these, however, when a team has to be most vigilant. Despite being on the cusp of movSee VOLLEYBALL page 5

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The Tigers pushed their win streak out to 5 by defeating Brown, but saw their success snapped by the Orange.

Field Hockey defeats Brown to stay perfect in league play, falls to Syracuse

By Miles Hinson sports editor

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Despite a rocky start to league play, the Tigers have climbed back in the conversation for the league.

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After fending off their opponents visiting Bedford Field, the field hockey team prepared itself for a new challenge — a four game swing through the Northeast, taking on some of the best teams the NCAA has to offer.

They completed the first half of their trial this weekend. The No. 19 ranked Tigers (7-5 overall, 4-0 Ivy League) were successful in continuing their winning streak against Ivy League teams, defeating the Brown Bears 4-2. Against Syracuse, however, the No. 1 ranked team in the nation, the Ti-

gers ultimately fell by the same score.

The game against the Bears (6-7, 1-3) had a highly unusual start for a Tiger team historically dominant in the Ivy League. Brown’s Hannah Rogers got her team on the board first, with a goal within the first two minutes of the competition.

While the Tigers were in the unusual position of coming from behind, they maintained their composure and executed well.

The catalysts for the comeback were surprisingly not starters, but players coming off the bench. A duo of freshmen, striker Elizabeth George and Jane Donio-

Enscoe, provided the push the Tigers needed. George found the mark at just within the 13th minute off an assist from Donio-Enscoe for the close range goal, her second of the season.

Donio-Escoe, for her part, followed up George’s goal just 100 seconds later to give the Tigers their first lead of the game.

While the Bears would even it up again three minutes later, senior striker Maddie Copeland, who leads the team and is third in the league for goals scored, hit it past goalkeeper Katie Hammaker just before the 35th minute. Princeton, despite the scare of the first See FIELD HOCKEY page 5

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