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U. community members help fight hunger By Mashad Arora contributor

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Around 100 University students, alumni, and local middle and high school students gathered Thursday evening to discuss food insecurity and prepare bagged goods for a hunger awareness service event. Participants sat around tables and engaged in discussions around hunger and food security in the community. After that, they worked to sort and bag canned and dry goods to benefit the Princeton Cornerstone Community Kitchen and HomeFront Food Pantry. The food was donated by local grocery stores, including Wegmans

and Trader Joe’s. The event was held on the first day of a three-day Alumni Volunteer Weekend at the University. “We are absolutely thrilled to have so many alumni interested in engaging in service and equally thrilled to have some of our undergraduate student leaders lead you in this service activity,” Elsie Sheidler, associate director at the Pace Center for Civic Engagement, said. “It’s really nice to see alumni engaging in service,” Dan Rounds ’17, a participant, said, noting how the event brought together alumni as well as University and local school students.

Cathleen Kong ’20, a volunteer at the Community House, said she thought the event could have been better publicized but it was worthwhile and meaningful nevertheless. Alumni expressed positive sentiments about participating in the event and looked forward to the Alumni Volunteer Weekend. Victoria Bjorklund ’73, an attendee and Board of Trustees member, said that she was delighted to see the focus on service that the Pace Center and the University have. “I feel that if you’re going to live a meaningful life you have to include service as a See FOOD page 3

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Bergstrom discusses “false facts” in science By Samvida Venkatesh staff writer

“False facts” are being canonized in scientific literature due to the under-publication of negative results, said Carl Bergstrom, professor of biology at the University of Washington. The lecture, titled “Modeling Scientific Activity,” consisted of a two-part discussion on scientific activity, the first being publication bias leading to the canonization of “false facts,” and the second a game theoretic model of the questions that scientists choose to pursue. Bergstrom explained that to accurately accept as true 99.9 percent of facts at a p-value of 0.05, over 40 percent of the obtained negative results need to be published. Negative results are those that show non-correlations between variables rather than correlations, or those that

show non-differences between experiments rather than differences, he explained. “If fewer than 10-40% of negative results are being published, we have a serious problem — yet reputed journals like ‘Cell,’ ‘Nature,’ and ‘Science’ never publish negative results,” Bergstrom said. He added that editors of many scientific journals were dismissive of the fact that negative results could contain any information at all. Bergstrom said that this means some reasonable fraction of the facts in our textbooks and review papers are false. Mathematical models show that the average reader is unable to gauge the truth of a claim if they see a disproportionate number of positive results, he explained. Part of the problem, he said, See FACTS page 2

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Project Solidarity, a program by SPEAR, held a performance art protest agains solitary confinement. The protest will end 5pm Friday and will close with a lecture at Frist 302. STUDENT LIFE

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Schenkkan talks Green Princeton, Pink House host “upcycled” costume-making event “All the Way,” Lyndon B. Johnson staff writer

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Lyndon B. Johnson is a Shakespearean figure in the sense that he was outsized — he was big in his ambitions, his triumphs, his failures, — said Robert Schenkkan in a talk about his play “All the Way.” Schenkkan is the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of “The Kentucky Cycle.” His play “All the Way” won the Tony Award for Best Play in 2014. He discussed his play with Julian Zelizer, public affairs professor at the University. “He’s always been in my head,” Schenkkan said when asked why he decided to write a play about Lyndon B. Johnson.

Schenkkan grew up in Austin, Texas, the same place where Johnson was born, raised, and rose to power. The play’s first act follows Johnson’s first year as president, right after the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Schenkkan talked about his choice to write the play about this time period given Johnson’s long political career. In a play, Schenkkan said that it is critical to make “the stakes as high and as real as possible.” These conditions, he said, were true for that point in Johnson’s career; the United States was recovering from the death of its former president while starting See LBJ page 2

On Oct. 20, Green Princeton hosted a Do-It-Yourself costume-making event at 99 Alexander Street. From 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., students were invited to bring clothes and other supplies to trade and fabricate into costumes for Princetoween. The event was advertised as an “upcycle” event, where students could turn old clothes into new and creative costumes. Lindsey Conlan ’18, the president of Green Princeton, demonstrated this idea with her own costume creation. She decided to take a spare white t-shirt, draw a skeleton on the shirt, and cut out the parts of the shirt not meant to represent bone. Conlan explained that by wearing a black shirt underneath the shirt she had cut out, she could create a skeleton effect, all from things she already owned.

99 Alexander Street, the location for this event, is also known as the Pink House. Starting in fall 2016, this house has played host to Princeton Social Sustainability, which is a group of 10 juniors focused on creating a community focused on sustainable living and activism, according to the Pink House website. Two of the residents, Sophia Alvarez ’18 and Gavin Hall ’18, were in attendance at the Green Princeton event and volunteered information about the Pink House project. Though having just started this fall, the Pink House has hosted a number of sustainability-related events. This includes a series of sophomore dinners, which were open to sophomore students in Forbes College. These students were invited to come to the Pink House and use the facilities available to cook a sustainable meal using local ingredients. Hall and Alvarez

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were happy with the turnout of these events, adding that participants definitely seemed engaged. “We got to talk about sustainability, which is something that doesn’t usually happen at Princeton,” Hall said. Some events have been more eccentric. On Oct. 16, for example, a group of Pink House residents led a mushroom hunt near Princeton, teaching participants about edible mushrooms in the wild. Apparently, the harvest was bountiful; residents report a surplus of leftover mushrooms. “We still have so many mushrooms,” Alvarez chuckled, asking others at the costume event: “does anyone want some mushrooms to take home?” When asked about plans for future expansion of events to students, both Hall and Alvarez expressed interest in opening up See COSTUME page2

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was that scientists cannot build careers by publishing negative results. “Perhaps we think that anyone can get a negative result, so there’s nothing great in that. No one ever received tenure after thirty experiments that don’t produce positive results,” Bergstrom said. Such incentives as tenure and grants also influence the problems that institutions encourage scientists to work on, he added. “Scientists these days do research to get grants rather than vice-versa,” Bergstrom said, adding that scientists today were epistemically sullied. “It’s no longer the picture of a lone scientist striving to understand the workings of the universe.” Bergstrom explained that scientists working on a hot problem were in a “credit race” where the first person to solve the problem gets all the credit while the others get none at all. He used this as a basis to set up a game theory model of problems that scientists choose to work on, considering such factors as the scientific “capital” that a researcher has (for exam-

ple, grants and previous experience), the value of the other problems that they are working on, and the payoff received for solving the problem. Multiple Nash equilibria exist for such a problem, but only one minimizes the risk to any individual of dropping other research to pursue a hot topic, Bergstrom explained. The model could also change based on the publication of partial results, he added. When researchers publish results that partially solve the problem, they receive the credit for the part that they have solved, but then everyone else can catch up to the same point, after which the race is thrown wide open again. Bergstrom noted that analysis of when partial results were published and by whom shows that individuals with low scientific capital tend to publish immediately, while those with more experience and money tend to hold back and wait. If researchers were dissuaded from publishing partial results, many tended to opt out of solving the problem itself, he said. The lecture was part of the EEB 522 Seminar Series: Colloquium on the Biology of Populations and took place in Guyot Hall on Thursday at 12:30.

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to confront its legacy of racism and slavery. “The combination of high stakes and compelling characters is something that you always look for,” he said. From there, it’s about arranging all of the pieces in a manner that makes sense to the audience and keeps them interested throughout the production. One such figure whose portrayal Schenkkan was especial-

ly proud of was Martin Luther King, Jr. “He is always seen as an orator or martyr, but never as a politician,” Schenkkan said. He argued that despite this general view of King, he was, in actuality, a skilled politician. His ability to keep the Civil Rights Movement active and to give it direction was a testament to his abilities as a politician. In summary, Schenkkan said, the play is about “the nitty gritty of politics; the human part.” He noted that he could’ve written about Johnson’s start in

politics, as he was just learning to navigate his first wins, but the “arc of it [Johnson’s coming into office] was so inherently dramatic or beautiful; the assassination, the thrusting of him into the office, achieving what he’s wanted for years in the way no one would’ve wanted it.” The “human part” of it, Schenkkan said, was where he thought audiences could most resonate with the play. The talk took place in Dodds Auditorium in Robertson Hall at 4:30 p.m. The event was sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson

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further sustainability dinners to the rest of campus. However, they did note that their relationship with Forbes obliges them to provide opportunities for the Forbes community. Nevertheless, Alvarez expressed enthusiasm about shared events with student organizations such as Green Princeton, as these would reach out to a wider audience of University students. Pink House has collaborated with a wide variety of sustainability-focused groups on campus to host fun events for students. In addition to events with Green Princeton,

they also hosted a Honey Harvest in their kitchen, which was co-sponsored by the Princeton BEE Team. This offered students the opportunity to learn how to harvest and filter honey, according to the event Facebook page. Additionally, Pink House has an ongoing partnership with the Princeton Garden Project, which grows food in a local garden near Forbes College. They buy a portion of that produce to cook their meals, according to Hall and Alvarez. Both residents said to look out for more events coming from the Pink House in the near future.

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component of that life and service has been incredibly important in my own life. I’ve spent 35 years as a lawyer in a major New York City law firm… and I’ve found that it’s extremely meaningful and important,” Bjorklund noted. She added that the event was helpful in making people aware that even in an apparently aff luent community like Princeton there is a lot of hunger. According to the website of Send Hunger Packing Princeton, an organization that works to address food insecurity in the Princeton area, almost 420 kids, or two kids per classroom, in Princeton Public Schools are eligible for free or reduced price lunches from the federal government. The Princeton Cornerstone Community Kitchen, one of the organizations receiving food from the event, provides a free and nutritious meal every week to the children, even on

holidays. “I think it’s very important to be a good neighbor,” Bjorklund said. She added that when she was a student at the University, she did not recall so many students engaged in service. Chris Loh ’86, who lives in the San Mateo, CA, f lew in for Alumni Volunteer Weekend. He said that he is looking forward to sessions over the course of the weekend on topics such as annual giving, admissions, and best practices. He said he wants to share what he learns with alumni back home. “I saw a guy who was wearing his coat and it said ’77 on it,” said Jordan Thomas ’18. “You’re going back almost 40 years but to still see this commitment to service that he had, sort of what we still embody today. Service really is this transgenerational thing.” The event, hosted by the Pace Center for Civic Engagement, was held at 4:30 p.m. on the Frist South Lawn.

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Target and expand mental health programming

ental health issues affect many students here at Princeton, but due to the personal nature of these concerns, many students are unaware of the struggles their fellow students experience and may be uncomfortable seeking help via the available resources. Counseling and Psychological Services and the student-run Mental Health Initiative work together to deal with mental health concerns on campus. CPS, part of University Health Services, provides the actual medical care needed. MHI, a standing committee within USG, works to increase awareness, reduce stigma, and promote constructive dialogue around mental health. Together, they have fostered improvements in reducing the stigma around mental health concerns and raising student awareness about resources available to them. Building on these successes, the Board urges a further increase in focused programming, an expanded outreach system, especially in high-stress times such as midterms week, Dean’s Date, and Bicker, and increased publicity of the more specialized care options offered by CPS. These continued reforms will help ensure that students facing these issues are aware of treatment options and feel able to take advantage of them. The Board commends both of these organizations for recent improvements they have made. For example, CPS’s new online appointment system gives students more options and makes it easier to schedule appointments. The MHI has continued to spread awareness through the creation of Mental Health Weekend, which was held from Oct. 13 to Oct. 15, to complement the existing Mental Health Week held in the spring semester, as this Board recommended last fall. The Board particularly commends recent efforts to destigmatize mental health on campus through poster and picture campaigns, revealing how widespread mental health is as an issue. Continued improvements can be made, however, to expand resources during periods when students feel more stressed. During exams, reading period, and Bicker, we recommend that CPS increase the availability of ap-

pointments and counselors as well as increase outreach. We recognize that this would require more funding but feel that this is an important need that the University and CPS should look into. Students will be more likely to seek the help they need if it is easier to make an appointment and if non-urgent appointments are more readily available without long wait times. Additionally, a strategic push of events focusing specifically on academic stress or social pressure around the time of Bicker, for example, could raise awareness of these issues and help students consider seeking help in the first place. We understand the MHI hosts events around the time of spring Bicker, but we encourage it to look into other opportunities around thesis due-dates or exams. Targeted and relevant events would help demonstrate to busy students that counseling may be worth their time and might help them address the problems they face. The MHI has done an excellent job reducing the stigma around general mental health concerns on campus and promoting CPS counseling appointments. We recommend it take this the next step by regularly publicizing specific mental health issues on topics such as eating disorders or relationship problems in order to reach out to more students on campus. CPS offers a number of specialized treatment options related to alcohol or drug dependence, eating disorders, student-athlete concerns, and other issues, in addition to a full calendar of workshops on these topics that are open to the campus community. However, these programming options are not as well advertised beyond CPS’s website or the occasional email to residential college listservs, which could lead to them not being as well used as they could be. The Board sees a role for both the MHI and Peer Health Advisers in addressing this and raising awareness of these more specialized options. We recognize that many specific issues addressed by this programming were promoted last year by the MHI through initiatives such as the Me Too Monologues. However, regular and themed campaigns more visible on their website or through monthly emails would greatly increase the reach of the MHI. Just like Peer Academic Advisers frequently email their advisees with information about

upcoming McGraw workshops, we encourage Peer Health Advisers to collate and share information about these specialized treatment options and workshops once a month. For students struggling with particular challenges, many of which may have even greater stigma attached to them than academic or social stress, seeing an MHI campaign or email from their PHA sharing that CPS has specific resources to help them would serve as further encouragement to seek treatment. Given that much of students’ interaction with mental health programs and projects will come online, the MHI should seek to convey more information via social media and their website. The site is out of date and thus does not do as effective a job as it could of publicizing initiatives or upcoming events. The MHI has a Facebook page it used very actively from its creation on Nov. 10, 2015 through Mar. 18, 2016. Since then there have been only two posts: on Aug. 22 and Oct. 12. The Board encourages MHI to post with a similar frequency as it did last year with regular posts that both update the student body on events and convey information about different mental health disorders and the related treatment options available at Princeton. This would serve to provide valuable information to many students on a more regular basis. Though much good work is being done at Princeton to ensure access to mental health resources, additional specialized treatment programs have the potential to help even more students. Targeting specific issues at highstress times of the school year, raising awareness of CPS’s plentiful resources for addressing specific concerns like eating disorders, and expanding programs that better educate and inform the community at large are valuable next steps in continuing to provide students with the help that they need. The Editorial Board is an independent body and decides its opinions separately from the regular staff and editors of The Daily Princetonian. The Board answers only to its Chair, the Opinion Editor, and the Editor-in-Chief.

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f you could have formulated that Spanish sentence on your own, then you are, by the University’s standards, “proficient.” The University’s foreign language requirement for A.B. students is by no means useless. Life in an increasingly globalized world, more specifically in a nation that prides itself on being a “melting pot,” demands that we shed our sentiments of language supremacy. The University not only facilitates this by consistently admitting a diverse pool of students but also by mandating that A.B. candidates who are not already f luent in a second language take courses until they achieve a level of proficiency. Despite the obvious benefits of increasing cultural awareness through language

classes, the Princeton language system has, in many ways, failed. This is not to say that professors are not doing a good job or are less dedicated than in other departments. My favorite, most engaging professors at Princeton have been my Spanish teachers. The underlying structure of the language department itself is where the problems lie. The University requires that A.B. students achieve proficiency in a language. However, the number of courses required to fulfill this requirement is variable, and is ultimately determined by the level in which a student is initially placed. Students placed in the lowest introductory level, 101, will have to take three (or four in some cases) semesters to satisfy their requirement. After three semesters of passing grades, according to the University, you should be proficient in your second lan-

guage. If you got an A in all three semesters, this should definitely be true. After satisfying your language requirement, you are eligible to enroll in 200-level language courses. Native speakers of any language are, of course, able to take classes within the department of their native language. They are not permitted to take entry-level classes (the 100 levels), but before they can take a 300 level they must take at least one 200 level class. The lowest of the 200 level classes in the Spanish department are 205, 207 and 209 — these are open to native speakers. In theory, both native speakers and students who are deemed “proficient” by the University’s standards should be on an equal playing field when entering these 200-level language classes. This is most certainly not the case. One need only audit one of these courses for a

single day to see evidence of this discrepancy between native speakers and those who have taken three semesters of introductory Spanish (or maybe even got a 5 on the AP exam). This is not all bad — it is true that it’s helpful for people learning the language to be exposed to native speakers, to hear and learn from their speech. However, it creates an unsettling classroom dynamic in which students who are not raised bilingual are at a serious disadvantage. It is undeniably more difficult to get a good grade in a class when you are being compared to someone who has known the language their entire life. It is also less advantageous for a native speaker to be in a class with people whose language usage is far below their own. Further, heritage speakers and those who are relatively new to the language face different challenges to improving

their language abilities. Other universities are recognizing and meeting this challenge. Schools in the University of California circuit have implemented courses designed specifically for heritage speakers in Spanish, Chinese, and Korean who are too proficient to be placed into an introductory course, but not proficient enough to be placed immediately into an intermediate course. This policy enables a greater variation in accommodations for speakers with different degrees of proficiency. The University certainly has the resources to devote to such programs, which would benefit speakers and learners of all foreign languages. Jacquelyn Thorbjornson is a sophomore from South Thomaston, Maine. She can be reached at jot@ princeton.edu.

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omore Michael Swart aptly puts it, when Mitrovic is at top form, the Tigers are very difficult to beat. Offensively, while the Tigers are overall a young team, Princeton has shown power and f lair. While a relatively small team, Princeton has been able to count on consistent play from all its members. Freshman Sean Duncan says, “This requires everyone to make contributions in the pool, as you can’t expect the same six guys to play the whole game and us be successful. “ Duncan himself is a prime example of the pivotal role shared by many of the team’s younger members. He’s been named NWPC

Rookie of the Week and has become one of Princeton’s most consistent threats at the goal. Duncan has stated the Tigers’ most pressing problem as maintaining focus and consistency when games stagnate and avoiding offensive errors and gaps in defensive play when not playing a dynamic offense; these have led to some of the last-minute, one-goal losses Princeton has suffered. Overall, however, the Tigers have more than a good chance of regaining initiative with a solid performance this weekend. Their play, while occasionally sloppy, has always been edgy, high-energy, and innovative. With victories this weekend, Princeton stands a good chance to replicate its success last season.

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Tigers look to improve after falling to Bucknell by one goal By Michael Gao staff writer

It was a tough weekend for the Princeton men’s water polo team last Saturday in Cambridge, as they dropped a heartbreaking 8-7 match to a strong Bucknell squad. Last weekend’s loss brings Princeton to a 13-7 overall record, while the Tigers dropped to 13th in the overall national poll after reaching ninth place in the national polls following back-to-back wins over George Washington and Navy. The Tigers face a crucial weekend as they restart conference play in the NWPC. Princeton has gone 4-1 in conference matchups so far and needs to retain its high level of performance to qualify for postseason play. Princeton faces tough dual matches in the

water on Saturday against Iona and No. 18 St. FrancisBrooklyn. While the Tigers have taken down both opponents earlier in the season, both are strong teams that will likely give Princeton a challenge. In particular, the Tigers squeaked by St. Francis 9-8 at Denunzio; since then, St. Francis has only gotten better, knocking off 8th-ranked Harvard and a strong Air Force squad. They’ll likely be a tough foe for the Tigers to handle in the water. Princeton has proved to be one of the NCAA’s most dynamic and talented rosters in the water. AllAmerican junior goalie Vojislav Mitrovic has been one of Princeton’s best ever, breaking the record number of saves in one game this year in a match against Air Force. As sophSee M. WOPO page 5

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After falling to Bucknell in a heartbreaker, the Tigers will look to improve as conference play continues.

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The Tigers will seek to regain their momentum as they face conference power Harvard this Saturday.

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After a disappointing loss against Columbia that placed it in a four-way tie for fourth place in the Ivy League, the Princeton women’s soccer team is scheduled to host long-time rival Harvard this coming Saturday. The Tigers now stand at 9-3-1 and 1-2-1 for the season and Ivy League conference respectively. The Crimson, which is now at 7-3-3 and 2-0-2, is currently sitting in second place behind first-place Columbia. Senior forward Tyler Lussi, who holds the program record for goals scored and accumulated points, described the importance of her team to remain focused for every game of Ivy League play despite the challenges that are presented to them. “As every student athlete at Princeton

knows, your next Ivy game is the toughest,” Lussi stated. “Sean [Driscoll], Kelly [Boudreau], Mike [Poller], and Alison [Nabatoff], and everyone on this team has prepared us to play at the highest level. Our attitude at game time is either our biggest asset or biggest obstacle. We have to be all in —no excuses, just execute.” Lussi elaborated on this collective need for concentration by tapping into the former success of her team, which finished with a 14-41 record last fall season, for motivation for the remainder of the season. “Sean instilled in us last season a sense of urgency to put together two great halves of soccer each game and it worked well,” Lussi commented. “Sean has always believed and told us that we are a special team that finds a way to win. We know how to win. There is

Tweet of the Day “On the real, this game is unreal. #WNBAFinals” Niveen Rasheed (@ NRasheed24), forward, women’s basketball ‘13

no time for excuses, just two 45 minutes halves to execute the win.” Freshman forward Abby Givens, who has already made her mark with 12 games played and three goals, also commented on the tough road that lies ahead. “Due to the nature of our in-conference play, our biggest challenge for the rest of the season will be hopefully securing an at-large bid for the NCAA tournament,” Givens stated, regarding one of her team’s main goals for the season. “As a team we will need to win the rest of our games this season to give ourselves the best chance to do this, so essentially all of our games are going to be tough from here on out.” The Tigers will face off against the Crimson at on Saturday at 1:00 p.m. and then Bucknell on Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. at Roberts Stadium.

This weekend either the Tigers’ or the Crimson’s perfect record in Conference play will end. Along with football and soccer, Princeton field hockey will take on Harvard in what is likely to be its biggest game of conference play this season. Both sides have yet to lose a game, with the Tigers conceding only one goal and Harvard only two. The matchup between these teams is incredibly close and could be the game that decides the Ivy League champion. In previous seasons, Princeton’s biggest rival has been Penn, however this season the Quakers were defeated 3-2 in overtime by Harvard, and although the Crimson have not scored as many goals as Princeton, they have managed to grind out wins where necessary.

Both teams boast some of the top players of the conference. The Tigers will be looking to senior Captain Cat Caro to continue her scoring record as the number one goalscorer in the conference as well being in the top spot for points earned. The senior forward earned the Ivy League co-player of the week and Coach USA Princeton Athlete of the Week this week, sharing the Ivy League honor with Harvard’s Marissa Balleza, who is a key player for the Crimson. Freshman Tiger Carlotta Von Gierke also earned Rookie of the week. Princeton leads the all-time series, 39-5-2, with Harvard unable to beat the Tigers since 1993. Despite these statistics, this game will not be one to take lightly for the Tigers and they will continue to push forward and play hard against Harvard this Saturday at 1 p.m. for Alumni Weekend.

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Senior captain Cat Caro will look to lead the Tigers to victory over Harvard.

Stat of the Day

1993 Field Hockey has not lost to Harvard since 1993. The teams will meet for the 47th time on Saturday.

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