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By Christopher Umanzor contributor

In Opinion Columnist Barbara Zhan discusses perceptions of leadership on campus, and contributor Pranaya Anshu advocates for extended weekend dining hall hours.

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The annual Princeton Ballroom Dance Competition was held last Sunday in Dillon Gym.

A new emergency response mobile application that would enable students in dangerous situations to call the Department of Public Safety simply by swiping right will be available during the 2015-16 academic year, Environmental Health and Safety director Robin Izzo announced at the Coun-

cil of the Princeton University Community meeting on Oct. 12. Both Izzo and DPS deferred comment to DPS Infrastructure Operations Manager Taylor Keller. Keller explained that the app will allow a student to send a distress signal to DPS by simply swiping right on the app’s screen. Once swiped, the caller’s See APP page 2

LECTURE

Today on Campus 4:30 p.m.: Nancy Duff Campbell, founder of the National Women’s Law Center, will present a public talk as this year’s Judith H. Rawson and Robert Rawson Distinguished Visitor. Robertson Hall.

The Archives

Oct. 20, 1981 Princeton freshman Melanie Drane spent three long nervous hours quarantined in her single in Lourie Love Hall in a radiation ordeal.

News & Notes 19 students diagnosed with hand, foot and mouth disease

Nineteen students in total have now been diagnosed with hand, foot and mouth disease since the beginning of this academic year as of Tuesday afternoon, University spokesperson Martin Mbugua said. Thirteen cases had been reported as of last Thursday. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, hand, foot and mouth disease is a viral illness common among children under five years old. Symptoms include reduced appetite, sore throat and malaise. Painful sores can develop in the mouth, as well as red blisters. A skin rash, sometimes with blisters, may develop on the soles of the feet, palms of the hands, knees, elbows, buttocks or genital area. The disease can occur in adults and is spread through close contact with an infected person or contact with a contaminated object such as a doorknob. An infected person is most contagious during the first week of infection and should stay at home. Treatment consists of symptom management including taking pain relievers to reduce fever and using mouthwash to numb mouth pain.

Bernanke lectures on financial crises patterns By Katherine Oh staff writer

Having an individual, a company or a central bank willing to lend to banks is crucial in responding to financial panics, Former chairman of the Federal Reserve and former economics department chair of the University Ben Bernanke said in a lecture Tuesday. “Lender of last resort activity is a critical tool to stopping bank runs,” Bernanke said. Bernanke used the 1907 financial panic as an example, explaining that there was no central bank to deal with it as the Federal Reserve had not yet been instituted. A private citizen, J.P. Morgan, worked with his colleagues to respond to the panic, and Bernanke noted that Morgan employed essentially the same tools used by central banks. However, the private sector’s response to the panic was not entirely successful and the economy suffered accordingly, he said. “It is striking, though, in this case because Morgan was

slow to respond, the panic actually got much worse and spread to most of the country,” Bernanke said. In contrast, the response to the 1914 panic was more efficient because the treasury utilized its power to create emergency currency, Bernanke said. An act of Congress allowed for the printing of up to 500 million dollars. He explained that the treasury in 1914 quickly and aggressively printed currency to lend out to the troubled banks of New York City so that they could pay their depositors, and this prevented the banks from collapsing. “The difference here was the very rapid, very comprehensive lending,” Bernanke said. “No banks failed and there was no recession that followed.” Bernanke explained that while the most recent financial crisis of 2007-09 involves a more sophisticated, globalized context, the comparison between 1907 and 2007 is still valuable because the crises are conceptually similar. Most financial panics share some common fundamental characteristics,

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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke delivered a lecture on Tuesday afternoon.

Bernanke said. For example, what triggers a financial panic is often small. While the financial panic of 1907 was one of the sharpest recessions in the history of the U.S., Bernanke noted that the 1907 panic had a trigger

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which was amusingly trivial. Another common feature is the lack of liquidity in financial markets, Bernanke said, explaining that a liquidity crunch is when, because of the runs of the banks, nobody has any money.

More fear and more panic then ensues due to a phenomenon Bernanke referred to as ‘contagion,’ meaning the panic spreads to entire system through interconnections between financial inSee BERNANKE page 2

S T U D E N T A F FA I R S

5 U. alumni find entrepreneurship Forbes Café reopened experience at Venture for America Sunday following By Myrial Holbrook contributor

Five University alumni have participated in Venture for America, a two-year fellowship program for aspiring entrepreneurs, since the program was founded in 2011. Leandra Elberger, senior communications and development manager at VFA, said that VFA seeks to provide an alternative pathway to other paths such as finance and consulting. She explained that the organization recruits, trains and then helps to match college graduates with startups in 15 cities across the country, including Baltimore, Miami and Philadelphia. She noted that the list of cities VFA works in will be expanding this year. “That’s something that’s a big draw over some of these larger companies because you generally have to go to big cities to work there,” she said. “With Venture for America, you’re not only going to make an impact at a startup early on, but you can also make an impact in the community by being a young person in that com-

munity.” VFA fellows get access to a wide range of resources, support and training, Elberger said. “[VFA fellows] can learn the ins and outs of starting a business, see the trials and tribulations, gain some hard skills that they would need, and throughout the fellowship they would have access to programming that would help boost their hard skills, and also then access to capital, if and when they’re ready to start their own businesses after the fellowship is over,” she added. The five University alumni who have participated in VFA are Eleanor Meegoda ’12, Wesley Verne ’13, Emily Tseng ’14, Seth Forsgren ’14 and Emilie Burke ’15. Tseng is a former managing editor for The Daily Princetonian. Verne, who was matched with ZeroFOX and became its principal engineer, said that he was really attracted to VFA’s mission of putting the fellow in a small startup, seeing it grow and allowing the fellow to be important to all areas of the business.

“Personally, one of the biggest things that VFA taught me — one of the most important things I came out of training camp with — was just the way to speak the business language,” Verne added. Verne said that he participated in the fellowship because he had been an engineer in college and wanted more exposure to the business side of engineering. Forgsen said he appreciated the role of VFA in his career path for helping him get his own company off the ground. “[VFA] is definitely not a program for people who want to be told what to do,” Forgsen added. “You need to be a self-starter.” Burke, the most recent VFA fellow from the University and current customer success analyst at Allovue in Baltimore, Maryland, said that she decided to participate in the fellowship because working for a startup gives the fellow the advantages of being on a small team and having a direct input in the company. “When I have questions, I See VFA page 3

refurbishment By Claire Lee contributor

Forbes Café, a small café within Forbes College that sells beverages and snacks, reopened on Sunday. The café was being refurbished over the first couple weeks of school, manager Chanyoung Park ’17 said. Park was appointed manager of the café last fall. Park explained that the café was originally built two years ago and became a functional café starting last year. She said that the café needed redecorating because the decorations fell down over the summer. The café, located across the main entrance of Forbes dining hall, is open from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. every day, Park said. Food options include baked goods, hot chocolate, coffee, tea and snacks, she added, and all options are under two dollars. One big change, Park noted, is the café’s new espresso machine that makes espressos and lattes from Small World Coffee beans. Students said that the

café offers an affordable, relaxing space for them to study and socialize. The prices in Forbes Café are a lot more affordable than prices at other food locations on campus, including Wawa and Frist Campus Center, Sri Nimmagadda ’18 said. “Forbes Café feels a lot more homey; the aesthetics are enhanced with more decorations,” Nimmagadda said. “I really missed the café, so I’m glad it’s back.” Jenny Kaufmann ’19 said that the café is much closer to where she lives in Forbes than the Wawa and that she would probably go to the café about two times a week. Park also said that as a new addition, Forbes Café owns its own set of mugs, each with the “Forbes Café” logo. Park said the café is now decorated in every corner with records, record covers and lights, creating an atmosphere in which students can socialize or study over a warm beverage. Maha Al Fahim ’19 said See FORBES page 3

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New public safety app geared towards specific situations to launch next year

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device location will be visible to DPS, and the caller, if possible, can speak with a communications officer. She noted that the signal can also be easily aborted by swiping left within four seconds of activating the response. “Public Safety will treat these notifications the same as a voice emergency call,” Keller said. “Resources will be immediately dispatched to the location of the device that is reporting an emergency situation.” Keller explained that the app was geared toward certain situations in which making a voice call is not the best course of action. “The best course of action in an emergency is always to place a voice call to Public Safety or 911,” Keller explained. “This app provides the ability to report an emergency situation and request urgent help when making a voice call is not

the best course of action under the circumstances. In the event that an individual cannot place a voice call, it opens the phone line and sends location information to DPS so that DPS can send assistance.” According to Keller, the University evaluated the app throughout last spring semester and is planning to launch it within the 2015-16 school year. Keller explained the time seemed right to unveil this new student tool. “Considering that nearly all of our community have and use mobile devices, it was appropriate to look at opportunities to provide a tool that can be used to report emergencies, especially in those cases where making a voice phone call to request help is not always a good option,” she said. This app comes from the company NowForce, an Israel-based company that offers emergency response solutions for campuses across the world, Keller said. The organization focuses on cre-

ating easy and accessible methods to help those who may find themselves in dangerous situations, according to its website. NowForce did not respond to a request for comment. Brooke Phillips ’19 said that she views the app as feasible. “If you’re in a precarious situation or maybe you don’t feel safe calling PSafe, it’s a good thing to have the app,” she said. Alexander Xu ’19 and Ben Laufer ’19 both said they saw the app would be useful in certain situations that presented the need. Xu said that it might be useful to have the app on his phone if he was in a situation where talking was out of the question. Laufer also said he saw the app as helpful for other students who may see the need to use it. “I don’t think it’s likely that I’ll be in a situation where I’ll need to use it,” he said. “That being said, it might come in handy for a small number of students.”

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Ben Bernanke, the former Chairman of the Federal Reserve, spoke about financial crises, comparing the most recent recession to the crisis of the early 1900s, at a public lecture in McCosh 50 on Tuesday.

stitutions. “Contagion can happen because of common risk factors,” Bernanke said. “Runs accelerate into a panic.” Such financial crises have big impacts on the economy because they can lead to an adverse feedback loop, with panics giving way to economic decline, he explained. Looking at the current state of the global economy,

Bernanke said that while the U.S. recovery is not as strong as we would like, the main weakness is still in the global economy. The Chinese slowdown, Bernanke noted, is an inevitable part of its transition from a top-down, semi-centrally planned economy to a more organic, market-driven economy. “But it’s been surprising that emerging markets besides China seem to not have adapted to that as well as we thought they might,” Bernan-

ke added. Bernanke also noted that the GDP of the U.S. has reached levels even higher than its pre-crisis peak, while the Eurozone has not yet recovered its pre-crisis levels. This has to do with differences in monetary or banking policies, Bernanke explained. The lecture, titled “A Historical Perspective on the Financial Crisis,” was sponsored by the Bendheim Center for Finance and took place in McCosh Hall 50.

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can ask them,” Burke said. “It’s not considered insubordination, because the whole point of VFA is teaching you how to contribute to a

startup.” Startups can be risky, but the potential for immediate, direct impact is the reward, Elberger said. “I really love my job. I wake up every day and I want to go to work,” Burke said. “I think that in your

five years out of college, that’s not when you should be dreading going to work. You don’t have a mortgage, you don’t have kids to feed — now’s the time to be risky. This is the perfect opportunity to give startups a try.”

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that although she wished that there were more food options, she likes relaxing

and enjoying the café’s atmosphere. “I’m really happy that they reopened the café because it’s not only a nice place to study, but it’s also a great place to socialize and

get free hot chocolate and tea,” Fahim said. Park said she hopes the new changes made to the café will attract more students to stop by and enjoy everything it offers.

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Everybody wants to rule the world

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Barbara Zhan is an operations research and financial engineering major from Plainsboro, N.J. She can be

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’m interested in perverse incentives, those peculiar “M. Night Shyamalan plot twists” of policy-making in which motivational rewards actually cause unintended adverse effects. Take for example, the punishment system of Bangkok police for minor infractions like coming to work late or littering. They first tried to force minor rule breakers to wear tartan armbands. However, it only promoted pride instead of shame. Before the government realized what was going on, officers began actively collecting these armbands as souvenirs. In response, the punishment was updated to be a bit more emasculating — Hello Kitty armbands — blindingly pink and sufficiently humiliating. Fun fact. But you don’t have to go all the way to Bangkok to find mixed incentives that affect your life. I talked about mixed incentives in entrepreneurship events a few weeks ago. Another one I noticed is the overwhelming emphasis on “leadership” in Princeton, in the job search, in anything really. “What makes you a leader?” our Princeton interviewers ask us. “Tell me about a time you led and had the final say in an initiative,” asks any job interviewer, ever. Leadership, leadership, leadership, leadership. Interestingly enough, the emphasis on leadership is no longer another characteristic on par with “good listener” or “hard worker”, but rather seen as a requirement for life. What this leads to is the promotion of laundry list officer titles, which is decidedly at odds with true leadership. Leadership seems to have become an extracurricular in and of itself. Instead of leadership growing organically in times of need, leadership has become factory-farmed, with clubs spawning branches and branches of hierarchy that bear no real fruit. And all this because “leadership” has been elevated to stratospheric levels, above “following,” above “listening,” above anything else. An article in The Atlantic postulates that college admissions, in “valorizing ‘leadership’ as a quality, risk[s] overlooking other — less obvious — qualities.” In one class about leadership, we went around the room talking about why each of us wanted to learn about it. There were answers like, “I want to be better prepared to be a leader in the future,” or “I want to know more about working in the real world.” I threw out a similarly selforiented view of leadership. However, one student’s answer grabbed everyone’s attention: “I want to be able to identify a good leader to follow.” Astounding. Shocking. Unheard of at Princeton. Some students nodded admiringly, some shifted uncomfortably in their seats. A Princeton student not aspiring to rule the world? Why? I saw in that answer a self-awareness that I myself did not possess — someone who saw that he or she was not best-suited to be a decisionmaker, but well-suited to be a good executor of decisions. The question this pivotal answer raises is, do we want everybody to be a leader? That’s a hard question to answer, because yes, we do want people to be able to step up to the plate when the opportunity arises or when the situation requires it. But that characteristic is not determined by the number of presidencies on your CV or the number of “initiatives you’ve had the final say in” — that characteristic can shine through when you’re a thought leader who people turn to for knowledge or when you’re a good translator to bridge the gap between misunderstandings. The definition of “leader” has expanded to encompass these discrepancies, to include things like being a good listener and empathizing with followers. Maybe a good way to convey this concept is being a “team player” or being “decisive under pressure” — terms that won’t have students clamoring to become “assistant regional manager,” not “assistant-tothe-regional-manager” a la Dwight Schrute. But I can see why all of these other characteristics are kept beneath the umbrella term of “leadership,” which is clearly treated as king. I can see why glorifying being the “lead” in decision-making is attractive over being a behind-the-scenes person. It’s the same reason why, let’s face it, so many students experience “FOMO” — fear of middle office. What’s missing is the credit, the glory, the direct line between the person and the impact. It does sound less impressive to say “I was the source of knowledge that led to this important decision being made, which resulted in a five billion percent increase in money” than to say “I made an important decision that resulted in a five billion percent increase in money.” It’s hard to change these perceptions when “leadership” is easier to judge than other important characteristics. It’s hard to change in college admissions, as The Atlantic article states, because colleges are looking for potential students who can eventually become famous, well-known alumni spokespeople. But I think it’s still important to search for these qualities in prospective students in order to combat the adverse effects of motivating people to seek titles or “front office” jobs above all others. It’s important because all moving parts of a team effort are vitally necessary to its success.

Opinion

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Esther Maddox

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e owe nothing to people who are deeply flawed.

With this statement in mind, we, the Black Justice League, chose to start a discussion on campus that administrators and students alike have skirted around, a discussion about the presence of legacies on our campus and the glorification of prominent and problematic individuals. By resurfacing controversies of the University’s beloved figures and questioning their impact on this institution and the society they inhabited, we hope to get the campus to think more about the implications of blindly and selectively glorifying people on the values of the University and on the well-being of the student body. Since this is a discussion we want to sustain, we want to take the time to respond to some of the more verbose, uncritical and less nuanced opposition voiced by the University community in order to dispel any fallacies concerning our campaign and position. The first argumentative fallacy we want to address is the overbearing presence of tone policing when addressing our arguments and claims. We have been described as “angry,” “arrogant,” “smug” and “inflammatory,” all for voicing valid concerns about the values of the University. Words like these are wielded in a way that derails focus from actually addressing an individual or group’s grievances. Instead, such words unjustly overanalyze the emotional response of

the oppressed individuals in order to invalidate their claims. They arise out of the assumption that oppression — such as the glorification of individuals who have caused intentional harm to a group of people — is not an act of aggression, and therefore anger and distress are not appropriate responses. The importance of what is being said is not changed by how it is said. Some seem to believe that we are “creating false equivalences and asserting modern-day genocides”; however we use the term “genocide” to describe state-sanctioned violence against Black people that has proliferated over the course of 400 years and has resulted in steady, aggressive deaths. In 1951, the town of Princeton’s very own Paul Robeson brought the petition “We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People” before the United Nations under the definition of genocide as acts committed with “intent to destroy” a group, “in whole or in part.” The petition cited lynching, legal discrimination and disenfranchisement as evidence of the genocidal nature of white supremacist institutions that govern the United States. So when the term genocide is used, it is not lightly or without careful evaluation of our historical and present circumstances. Many have brought up the concern of hindsight judgment and how we cannot evaluate past figures for actions committed under “normative beliefs.” We are obligated to reexamine what were considered a period’s norms and who held these beliefs. However, “norms” — like systemic racism — were not beliefs

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held by everyone during that time and those pervading ideas are not in fact temporally constrained. By continuing this conversation about the overbearing presence of racism, we are not contributing to our own victimization or keeping racism alive; white supremacy has achieved that without our compliance. Coming back to the quote, “We owe nothing to people who are deeply flawed,” there is an impulsive reaction to want to ignore uncomfortable or questionable legacies. However, what does it say about our society if we continue to glorify legacies without acknowledging — and at the very least caring about — the continuous promotion of unrectified inequalities and injustices? We cannot passively recognize Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, and other individuals’ problematic legacies and change the school’s name. We, as an institution of higher learning, must think critically about our role in history and how it has shaped the present. By not recognizing the importance of this discourse, the University is telling its marginalized community and the outside world that it values its bleached-clean version of history over the prolonged discomfort and alienation of students of color. This erasure is especially dangerous in the present context of state-sanctioned violence against Black people that prolongs this genocide.

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES president Richard W. Thaler, Jr. ’73 vice presidents John G. Horan ’74 Thomas E. Weber ’89 secretary Betsy L. Minkin ’77 treasurer Michael E. Seger ’71 Craig Bloom ’88 Gregory L. Diskant ’70 Richard P. Dzina, Jr. ’85 William R. Elfers ’71 Stephen Fuzesi ’00 Zachary A. Goldfarb ’05 KAthy Keily ’77 Joshua Katz Rick Klein ’98 James T. MacGregor ’66 Betsy J. Minkin ’77 Alexia Quadrani Jerry Raymond ’73 Randall Rothenberg ’78 Annalyn Swan ’73 Douglas Widmann ’90

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Pranaya Anshu

Extend weekend breakfast hours

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uring the first couple weeks on campus, as the somewhat stereotypical freshman, I asked myself many questions: I wasn’t the only one who managed to get locked out of my dorm three times within the span of a week, right? For how long is it considered socially acceptable for freshmen to utilize good ol’ Google Maps to get around campus? Would I ever learn self-restraint when it comes to the limitless dining hall desserts? Why are there two Fisher Halls on campus? And, most importantly, why does the University not offer breakfast on weekends? According to the University’s Executive Director of Campus Dining Smitha Haneef, the University has not offered three separate meals on weekends for at least the past two decades on account of logistic needs. Further, advice from the Student Advisory Board for Campus Dining continues to indicate that many students prefer a 10 a.m. dining option that features a brunch-style meal with a greater selection of food rather than a separate, albeit more limited, breakfast and lunch option. While this seems like a justifiable reason, it is not a good enough reason

to keep students who wake up early hungry and cranky. If you’re anything like me, you love food. More importantly, you find it increasingly difficult to concentrate without sustenance. Correspondingly, on weekend mornings when my friends and I get up before 10 a.m. — yes, it really is possible to do so — we tend to be very unproductive. And at this point, I am sure you could say that my friends and I could walk down a block or so to the Wa or Starbucks to purchase a breakfast sandwich and a fancy cup of coffee (which we ultimately do) but we should not have to do that. According to the ‘Prince’ columnist Newby Parton, paying for three meals a day can cost up to $54.24 under the Block 95 plan. Correspondingly, I believe that since a good chunk of us students already pay a hefty price for our daily meals under the University’s dining plans, we should not have to pay extra just to have three square meals every day. So what am I suggesting? Let’s extend dining hall operation hours in the residential dining halls! By separating breakfast and lunch and having breakfast start at weekday times, or by having brunch start earlier on weekends, students who wake up early on the weekends will be able to replenish their bodies with a nutritious meal and start out their days right.

Because of the lack of early weekend dining hours, many students who wake up early and who prefer not to venture outdoors to purchase food skip breakfast or stay hungry for a few hours. Besides the inconvenience, this habit can lead to negative health effects. In fact, a study done at Harvard indicates that men who did not skip breakfast were at a much lower risk of getting coronary heart disease in the near future. Moreover, many studies indicate that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. According to an article written by John Hopkins University Kinesiology and Health Education Professor Emeritus John Ivy, “Breakfast immediately raises the energy level of the body… reduces blood cortisol levels and helps control appetite… [and] also increases cognitive function and the ability to concentrate.” In summary, breakfast is essential for students who have a lot to accomplish during the day and could use the boost of energy that the meal provides. Thus, on weekends, either a separate breakfast that starts around 7:30 a.m. should be available for students or brunch should start earlier so that students don’t feel compelled to skip breakfast altogether. Now at this point I would like to clarify that breakfast — exclusive of brunch — is available on Saturdays;

students can purchase breakfast with a cash credit of $4 from 8 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. in the Food Gallery at Frist Campus Center. And while Frist isn’t too far of a walk for most students (sorry Forbesians), a walk to Frist might sound like a tedious task once the campus is covered by a thick sheet of snow. Moreover, for the students who had a bit too much to drink on Friday night, walking to Frist to satisfy their hunger and get over their hangovers might not sound very appealing. Conclusively, because the Frist breakfast option is available only on Saturdays and not Sundays and is unappealing to those who would prefer to stay in their residential colleges for their meals, it is not a suitable replacement for weekend breakfast. One solution for students who wake up early on weekends would be having the weekday residential college dining hours carry on to the weekends. And since the University’s Campus Dining administration has proven that it listens to student voices by changing its Sunday residential college dining hours from starting at 11 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. this academic year, we know that although it is difficult, it is feasible to extend weekend dining hours even further. Pranaya Anshu is a freshman from San Diego, Calif. She can be reached at panshu@princeton.edu

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Grace Cordsen, sophomore Rebecca Singer, junior Christina Warren, sophomore Grace Miles, freshman Madelynn Prendergast and junior Juliette Hackett represented Princeton for the race. Sophomore Megan Mirabella acted as coxswain on the day. The members of women’s open saw a great leap in

their performance from the 2014 Head of the Charles, finishing fourth place overall in a field of 32, after finishing in 10th the previous year. They were the second highest finishing Ivy League team in the event, trailing Brown by just above six seconds but beating Yale by more than 10. The team consisted of senior Mary Ann McNulty, senior Meghan Wheeler, senior Brett Simpson, junior Dagmara Lapins, freshman

Emily Kallfelz, senior Erin Reelick, junior Georgie Howe and freshman Claire Collins, with junior Amanda Rutherford as their coxswain. With the Head of the Charles behind them, the teams can now focus on the final event of the fall: the Princeton Chase, taking place on nearby Lake Carnegie on Sunday, Nov. 1. The teams will have two weeks to rest and train before hitting the water once more.

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the Tigers’ high scorers, netting two goals apiece. Senior center Tommy Nelson and freshman driver Matt Payne also each contributed one goal. The Tigers turned in commanding performances on the defensive end as well. Colina led the team with three steals, with Nelson, senior utility Jamie Kuprenas and freshman utility Ryan Wilson attaining at least one steal in the match as well. Payne and Nelson led the Orange and the Black with two blocks each, augmented by Kuprenas, Colina and senior utility Bradley Watchtell, who

had one block each against the Crimson. At the net, sophomore goalie Vojislav Mitrovic’s 11 saves during the match were a testament to the Tigers’ determination even in defeat. Later in the afternoon, Princeton met Dartmouth, the winner of the club bracket, to fight for the third-place title in the Ivy League Championships. The Orange and the Black immediately seized the initiative, as the Tigers would roll onto an 8-0 lead by halftime. Continued commanding performances on both ends of the pool in the second half of the match buoyed the Tigers to a comfortable 17-2 victory over the Big Green for a third-place

title. Brown earned the league title, followed by the Crimson in second place, who were defeated 13-8. Despite the disappointment of not playing in the championship finals, the Tigers ultimately turned in a strong performance that ref lected their skill, talent and perseverance even in the face of defeat. They quickly refocused and turned their loss around with a decisive victory over a strong Dartmouth team. The Tigers will next take on divisional rivals Johns Hopkins (13-7, 4-3) at home on Oct. 23. Princeton won its first matchup against the Blue Jays this season in a grueling 17-15, double-overtime match away on Sept. 26.

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exactly the same placement on their home turf, coming in 12th place out of 24 teams at the Princeton Invitational. Senior Kathryn Little was the team’s top performer, coming in 26th place with

a time of 22:05.5. Right behind her in 27th was freshman Allie Klimkiewicz at 22:07.6. Following them, the remaining scorers for the Tigers were freshman Alie Fordyce at 22:53.8, freshman Taylor Bacon at 23:03.9 and sophomore Mallory Edens at 23:17.1. With this weekend in

the books, both teams turn their attention to the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships (known as Heps), taking place on Oct. 30. Both teams are looking to repeat strong performances from last year – the men’s team took first place ,while the women’s team took second.

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Princeton shines at Head of the Charles regatta By Miles Hinson sports editor

The fall season for the men and women of Princeton rowing started with a bang, with men’s heavyweight, men’s lightweight, women’s open and women’s lightweight all competing in the old and prestigious Head of the Charles. A half-century has gone by since the inaugural Head of the Charles Regatta in Cambridge, Mass. The event, which spans both Saturday and Sunday, prides itself as the largest of its kind, claiming more than 9,000 athletes across more than 55 different events, and 300,000 spectators to cheer them on. While the Head of the Charles contains events such as races for club teams, the events at the end of the final day are some of the largest draws. The collegiate events are the capstone of one of the oldest Ivy League sports in one of its oldest events. History, as is oft told, has a way of repeating itself. Such a truism certainly held for the Princeton men’s lightweight crew team, as the ‘A’ boat put out a repeat performance

as the top collegiate finishers in the lightweight eight race, and second in the race overall. Freshman Cameron Kerr, sophomore Harrison Shure, senior Isaiah Brown, sophomore James Sincavage, senior Cameron Howie, freshman Daniel Hogan, senior Christian Wawrzonek and freshman Jordi Cabanas brought the honor for the Tigers. Senior Sven Henningson served as the coxswain for the race. Wawrzonek is a columnist for the Daily Princetonian. The lightweight men’s crew team has shown its mettle at this event in recent years, having taken first in 2013 and 2014. Strong performances on the day, however, were certainly not limited to the men’s lightweight team alone. Their heavyweight counterparts finished sixth in a field of 25 teams, and while falling to the ‘A’ boats of fellow Ivy League schools Harvard and Yale, defeated the top Brown boat by more than three seconds. Junior Trey Francis, sophomore Julian Goldman, senior Patrick Elbe, sophomore Tim Livingstone, senior Martin Barakso, junior Nicholas

YASH HUIGOL :: STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Both the men’s and women’s rowing teams saw success this weekend with strong finishes at the prestigious Head of the Charles regatta.

Mead, junior Matthew Benstead and sophomore Tom George made up the boat, with senior Jill Barton as coxswain. On the women’s side,

the lightweight team finished fifth in a field of nine teams, and were one of the only teams from outside of Boston to compete in their pool.

While the team finished four seconds behind fourth place University of Wisconsin, they left the competitors behind them completely in the dust – sixth

place MIT was more than 37 seconds behind the women from New Jersey. Senior Phoebe Huang, senior Gabriella Pezzini, freshman See CREW page 5

M E N ’ S W AT E R P O L O

CROSS COUNTRY

Men’s water polo finishes third in the Ivy League

Men’s and women’s Cross Country teams see success at races both near and far over weekend

By Michael Gao contributor

In a fierce Sunday battle at DeNunzio Pool, the no. 10 Tigers (10-4 overall, 3-0 CWPA) were felled by Harvard men’s water polo team 6-12. The Tigers rallied in the afternoon to defeat Dartmouth 17-2 to clinch third place in the Ivy League Championships. It was Princeton’s first loss to Harvard since 2001. Princeton had previously met Harvard one time this season at home, winning 16-12. In the match this weekend, Harvard jumped to an

early 3-2 lead over Princeton in the first quarter, but a tenacious Princeton offense spearheaded by sophomore attacker Jordan Colina and freshman driver Michael Swart tied the score at halftime 4-4. Harvard turned in a strong second half to ultimately outscore the Tigers 8-2 over the last two quarters, winning the match 12-6. The high-powered and spirited Princeton offense was blunted by the efforts of the Harvard defense, led by Harvard goalie Colin Woolway. Colina and Swart were See M. WOPO page 5

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Both the men’s and women’s cross country teams put on strong performances in their respective races over the weekend.

By Miles Hinson sports editor

JASPER GEBHARDT :: CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Men’s water polo finished third in the Ivy League this weekend.

Men’s Cross Country The Princeton men’s cross country team spent a weekend sending team members to races both near and far. This past Friday, seven Princetonians represented the team at the Wisconsin Adidas Invitational, and seven more represented the team in a competition on their home turf, the Princeton Invitational at West Windsor Fields. All seven of the Tigers who travelled to Wisconsin were competing in the 8K meter race, as the Tigers looked to come out on top in a field of 36 teams. For the day, senior Michael Sublette

led the team with a time of 24:18.2, good for 72nd overall in the race. Following Sublette was sophomore Noah Kauppila in 90th with a time of 24:24.9. The final three scorers on the day for the Tigers were freshman Stephen Sum, freshman Jeremy Spiezio and sophomore Kenan Farmer with times of 24:31.9, 25:00.7 and 25:20.5, respectively. Senior Sam Berger and sophomore Wolfgang Beck rounded out the group with times of 25:31.5 and 27:06.7; only times in the top five for a team, however, are counted towards the final score. Ultimately, the Tigers finished 31st on the day with a score of 674. Closer to home, Princeton

had another seven in their own invitational, ultimately finishing 13th out of 21 teams. It was an underclassman who led the charge for the Tigers – sophomore Zach Albright with a time of 24:50.4. Following him was fellow sophomore Charlie Stahl, just about a second behind at 24:51.5. Junior Jack Leahey and yet another sophomore, Rob Stone, were at the middle of the Tiger pack at 25:08.9 and 25:28.8, respectively. Junior Stephen Rosettie was the fifth and final scorer for the team, coming in at 26:15.9. Women’s Cross Country The women’s cross country team competed in the

Wisconsin Invitational and Princeton Invitational as well, their competition being in 6K meter races. For the Wisconsin Invitational, the Tigers finished 13th overall out of 36 teams and were the top placing Ivy League team at the event. Junior Lizzie Bird was the strongest finisher for the Tigers at 14th overall with a time of 20:00.8. Behind her was senior Emily De La Bruyere at 20:20.6. The last three scorers for the Tigers were senior Kathryn Fleur at 21:03.6, sophomore Melinda Renaurt at 21:15.6 and junior Ally Markovich at 21:22.8. Princeton earned almost See XC page 5

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