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Report shows average GPA continues to rise

By Benjamin Ball Senior Writer

Four years after the elimination of grade deflation as a university-wide policy, students have seen GPAs rise -- if only by a few percentage points.

The University-wide GPA in 100–400 level courses across all departments and programs increased .026 points over the past year, from 3.435 to 3.461, according to a report by the Faculty Committee on Examinations and Standing.

The committee, led by Dean of the College Jill Dolan, comprised faculty members from each of the four academic divisions: humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering. As part of the University’s revised grading policy approved in 2014, the committee reviews grading data yearly and reports that data each fall.

The 2014 revised policy re-

moved the grade deflation system and allowed departments to determine their own grading practices. However, because departments can determine their own grading policies, aspects of grade deflation may still exist.

“Grading and assessment are among the most complex but important actions the faculty undertake,” Dolan wrote in an email to the The Daily Princetonian. “Students deserve to be given a clear sense of their work in a class and over the course of their educational careers at Princeton.

Being clear and transparent about standards for assessment works in the best interests of both faculty and students.”

Undergraduate Student Government president Rachel Yee ’19 was pleased with the results of the report, saying that a rise in student GPAs allows undergraduate students to be

more competitive candidates for graduate school.

“I think that looking at our peer institutions, this is still on the low end,” Yee said. “In a competitive grad school market or job market, when recruiters are just looking at GPA for no more than a couple of seconds and don’t have a background in Princeton’s grading policy, that puts our students at a disadvantage.”

The report did mention one possible complication from the rise in GPA: “grade compression.” Dolan explained that an increase in higher GPAs can make the process of awarding honors more difficult.

“When the university GPA rises, more students are clustered together at the top of the class,” wrote Dolan. “Differentiating between the best students in quantitative terms [then] becomes harder.”

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ON CAMPUS

Second ‘She Roars’ conference to celebrate female U. students, alumnae

By Albert Jiang Staff Writer

On Thursday, more than 3,000 alumni and guests are expected to gather on campus for “She Roars,” a three-day conference to connect, celebrate, and empower University women.

The second-ever She Roars conference will take place Oct. 4–6, just a few months before the 50th anniversary of the University’s January 1969 decision to begin admitting women.

President of the Alumni Association of Princeton University and chair of the Alumni Council Jennifer Daniels ’93 will kick off the event and deliver opening

remarks in Richardson Auditorium at 5 p.m. on Thursday.

The expected turnout has exceeded initial estimates and is anticipated to be well over twice the turnout of 1,350 at the inaugural event held in 2011, according to the Steering Committee for She Roars.

Women alumnae, especially those on the Steering Committee, have led the organization and planning of the She Roars conference.

The Steering Committee is composed of 15 women, including both undergraduate and graduate alumnae, and is co-chaired by Dr. Laura Forese ’83, Kim Goodwin ’81, and Susan

Katzmann Horner ’86.

Forese, a University trustee, is the executive vice president and chief operating officer of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.

Goodwin, also a University trustee, is the chief executive officer of Avanico Holdings and a member of the Princeton University Investment Company Board of Directors.

Horner serves on the Princeton Alumni Council’s Ad Hoc Committee on Alumnae Initiatives and works as a media consultant.

In an interview with The Daily Princetonian, Horner explained that since the second conference See SHE ROARS page 4

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Frances Arnold, currently of Caltech, became the fifth woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Frances Arnold ’79 becomes first female U. graduate to be awarded Nobel Prize

By Emily Spalding Senior Writer

University alumna and California Institute of Technology professor Frances Arnold ’79 made history on Wednesday, Oct. 3, when she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, making her the first female Princeton graduate to win a Nobel Prize.

Arnold graduated from the University in 1979 with a bachelor of science in engineering degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering. She is now the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemi-

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Memorial service held for Vilma Codner Codner was beloved U. financial aid officer

By Albert Jiang Staff Writer

On Wednesday, Oct. 3, dozens of alumni, family, friends, and colleagues joined together to remember the life and contributions of Vilma E. Codner, former Assistant Director of Financial Aid, who passed away on July 29, 2018.

Having served the University for 31 years, Codner warmly supported the students she worked with and was a prominent symbol of positivity within the world of financial aid. When she first

came to the University, Codner was one of only a handful of minority administrators. She showed unrelenting optimism throughout her illness, according to her colleagues.

“I hope today’s service is a time we can share not only the sorrow, but also celebrate Vilma’s life,” said Director of Undergraduate Financial Aid Robin Moscato as she welcomed attendees.

She recounted the shock and distress students and colleagues felt when they learned of her passing.

Deputy Director of Undergraduate Financial Aid Betty Ashwood, spoke next, recounting Codner’s natural confidence.

“Vilma Elaine Codner was her own woman,” Ashwood said.

“And she approached her job as she approached life: on her own terms.”

She shared anecdotes about her time with Codner and highlighted Codner’s effusive personality and prominence in the financial aid office.

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From left to right: Laura Forese ’83, Susan Katzmann Horner ’86. and Kim Goodwin ’81, are the co-chairs of the Steering Committee for She Roars.

cal Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology.

Arnold was honored for her work on “the directed evolution of enzymes,” according to a press release by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. She shares the prize with George P. Smith of the University of Missouri and Sir Gregory Winter of the University of Cambridge.

Although Arnold is the fifth University undergraduate alumnus to receive a Nobel Prize, she is the only University undergraduate

Washington Post foreign affairs columnist and bestselling author David Ignatius discussed growing aggression at the boundary of foreign policy and journalism in a talk Wednesday.

When Ignatius, who had covered the Department of Justice, the CIA, and the U.S. Senate, was sent to the Middle East despite having no experience with the region, he felt protected by an “invisible white f lag” that allowed journalists to safely travel the world and tell stories that needed to be told.

He said this is no longer true. Now, he feels journalists are seen as superf luous and their presence faces retaliation from locals.

“During that period, I experienced a kind of journalism that I sadly think is disappearing,” Ignatius said. He explained how now more than ever, people are able to tell their own sto-

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ries without the involvement of traditional news outlets.

According to Ignatius, The Wall Street Journal and The Associated Press are increasingly irrelevant.

He cited James Foley, the U.S. journalist who in 2014 became the first U.S. citizen killed by ISIS, as an early sign of a more dangerous time.

Ignatius, who has recently covered the Trump administration’s foreign policy, said he sees recent executive decisions as a harbinger of even more problems with the Middle East.

He characterized the administration’s foreign policy as “shake them, threaten them, and then make a deal with them.”

Ignatius stated that Iran is likely President Donald Trump’s next target and voiced his fears.

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that compared average GPA for each of the four divisions stuck out to the students that the ‘Prince’ interviewed. The report found that humanities courses had the highest overall GPA, followed by social sciences, engineering, and then natural sciences.

Students across divisions expressed little surprise at the ranking. Some believed that the more quantitative nature of classes in engineering and the natural sciences leads to the lower GPAs. “In the natural sciences, there is a right answer,” said Anthony D’Arienzo ’21, a prospective physics major. “You’ve either calculated the integral right or you didn’t.”

However, D’Arienzo also added that not all natural science coursework is black and white. For example, the success of a mathematics paper, similar to a social science or humanities paper, depends on the proof and the strength of its argument.

Delaney McMahon ’21, a prospective English major, said that the content of humanities classes can make grading expectations vague.

“In a pool of ideas, it’s very hard to quantitatively value them,” said McMahon of her English classes. “The fact that I am not kept to a clear standard makes me raise my own standard. [The professors and preceptors] have this expectation that they’re supposed to

hear something intelligent and thought-provoking, and that pushes me.”

Conversely, David Zamora ’21, a concentrator in mechanical and aerospace engineering, said that the content of the engineering courses contributes to the lower overall GPA, since such courses require a particular way of thinking and problem solving. He expressed some surprise that the overall GPA for engineering classes was higher than that for natural sciences.

“The material itself can be hard to grasp because we’re deviating from how we would naturally see things or do things,” Zamora said. “In an introductory physics or chemistry or math class things are [often] idealized … in engineering classes, that’s off the table. We’re dealing with actual systems with real inefficiencies.”

As a pre-med psychology major, Amanda Haye ’19 has experienced both natural and social sciences. Haye explained that especially in the natural sciences, classes known to “weed out” students may leave the students in the class with resultingly lower grades.

The “weeding out” refers to large preliminary lecture courses, usually in engineering or natural sciences, that depend heavily on examinations. Unlike those entry-level courses, social science entrycourses tend to be smaller and more discussion-based, resulting in higher grades within those classes.

Concentrations with “weed-

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ing out” classes in the department tend to have lower GPAs on average.

“If we could somehow find a way for natural science classes to be more collaborative and expose the talents of each student more than just testing ability, I think that would make more satisfactory grading,” Haye said. “There’s a bit of a climate change when I walk into a pre-med class versus a psych class.”

D’Arienzo concurred that some early-on “weeding out” classes contribute to lower overall GPAs, but also acknowledged that once a student in the natural sciences had fin-

ished those classes, there was opportunity for one’s grades to recover.

“The weed out classes are definitely my lowest GPA,” said D’Arienzo. “Part of that is getting adjusted to Princeton, and part of that is getting used to the expectations of the program … but you stay in the department, you figure things out, and your GPA goes up.”

Students across divisions also acknowledged that preconceived notions about the difficulty of a division could be wrong, since the work done in each division requires different skill sets and experiences.

“Behind the joke, sometimes there’s an actual belief that AB majors have it easy or sleep all day, but it’s naive.”

Zamora said. “They’re different departments, different fields, and there’s something for everybody.”

Ultimately, Yee praised the administration for sharing the grading data with the student body.

“I want to commend Dean Dolan and her department for sharing this with all of us,” Yee said. “I think this provides some insight and I think this increased transparency is definitely a step in the right direction.”

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alumnus, regardless of gender, to receive an award in the natural sciences. Other Nobel Laureates affiliated with the University include Toni Morrison, Paul Krugman, and Duncan Haldane.

Morrison, who is the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities, Emerita, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993 and is the only other

female associated with the University to win the award.

Arnold is also the fifth woman in history to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Arnold’s innovative research on directed evolution has driven progress in both renewable energy and in pharmaceuticals.

Her lab harnesses the natural phenomenon of evolution, the gradual change in characteristics of a biological population over generations. She directs this

process by strategically mutating bacterial genes and screening for traits that are useful to humans. Her work has engineered protein machines that use novel biochemical systems.

“Directed evolution’s revolution … is bringing and will bring the greatest benefit to humankind,” according to the statement by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Chemistry professor Michael Hecht said in a Univer-

sity press release that Arnold is a “powerhouse.”

“Other people are doing protein evolution as well, but she just does more of it and gets to real results that are really cool and that have real uses in the real world,” Hecht said. “And that, in part, is because she is an engineer in how she thinks.

She’s not just exploring protein engineering because it’s cool, or because she’s interested in the origin of life, but she’s exploring it be-

cause she’s trying to make something that’s useful to people.”

As a result of her impactful research, Arnold has been recognized for her contributions in a variety of ways, including having the rare honor of being elected as a member of all three National Academies in the United States: the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine.

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is seven years after the first, this upcoming conference will have a “number of remarkable young alumnae who have much to offer … as presenters and guests.”

She added that the conference will bring back the members of the student panel of 2011, young women who were identified by the administration as leaders on campus.

“It will be interesting to hear their reflections on the many strides women on campus have made in taking leadership roles since 2011,” said Horner.

The highlight of the conference will be the conversation with Associate Justices of the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor ’76 and Elena Kagan ’81.

The event will be moderated by Heather Gerken ’91, the Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law at Yale Law School and held on Friday, Oct. 5, at 5 p.m. in Jadwin Gymnasium.

Both justices have taken time off the first week of the Supreme Court’s new term to attend this conference.

Goodwin described the timing of the interview with Sotomayor and Kagan as “fortuitous,” in light of the recent Brett Kavanaugh hearing. “[W]hile our esteemed alumnae will likely refrain from any partisan commentary, I am confident that [Gerken] will lead them in a lively discussion,” Goodwin said. “This will be a historic period in our country as well as an illuminating moment on our campus.”

Horner added, “Everyone I’ve spoken to is hoping to absorb not just wisdom from these two incredible women, but also the humanity that emanates from them.”

In many ways, this weekend’s conference will expand on the 2011 event. Focus groups and surveys from the original conference expressed a desire for more intimate opportunities to connect through small table discussions and workshops, according to the conference’s Steering Committee.

One new addition is a new alumnae project featuring vlogs of small memories, significant turning points, and advice to women submitted by alumni, some of which will be incorporated into the conference. A complete repository of the clips is posted in a digital gallery.

Another new event for this conference is the the emphasis on alumnae performers and authors. Alumnae will be featured along with student groups in the Women in the Arts showcase and the Alumnae Author Book Fair.

Additional workshops include “Women & Leadership: Strategies for Success” and “She

Should Run: Why and How More Princeton Women (Like You) Should Run for Office.”

The entire conference schedule can be found on the She Roars website.

Two of the events will be livestreamed online: “They Didn’t Know Their Place: Adapting the Work of Jane Austen, Edith Wharton and the Life of Carole King” and a Conversation with Sally Blount ’83.

Blount is the Michael L. Nemmers Professor of Strategy and Former Dean at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

In light of the current sociopolitical landscape, Horner urged participants to keep their hearts and minds open and to openly and freely express their opinions.

“I have no doubt that dynamic, heartfelt conversations will take place on a range of topics, from the global rights of women … to personal identity in an intersectional world,” Horner said. “We will hear inspiring, relatable stories from women of all voices.”

Forese said that the ultimate goal of the conference is to “bring women back to campus to connect and engage with each other and with Princeton.”

Horner emphasized that the event is a celebration of all alumnae. “[Our alumnae are] made up of so many ‘extraordinary ordinary’ women for whom success does not mean the markers of fame and fortune, but less visible, yet as important, hallmarks of influence in life,” Horner said.

Both Forese and Horner also described the impact that their experience at the University had on their personal and professional lives.

“Princeton taught me to be resilient, courageous and persistent,” Forese explained. “I also learned the value of teamwork [and] planning this conference has been all about those values.”

Horner reminisced about her experience when the student male-to-female ratio was twoto-one. She credited the woman professors in the English department as her role models. “[They] impressed upon me through their brilliant presence and … considerations of gender dynamics in their literary interpretations that I should never think of myself as less than,” she said.

She emphasized her commitment to strengthening the community of University women in her role as chair of the Alumnae Initiatives Committee. “Each generation of Princeton women may have had different experiences as women on campus,” said Horner, “but we can all share in a unique legacy moving forward by continuing to join together in community.”

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terchangeable as far as administrators go,” she said. “However, there are students who do not agree with that and they would only speak with Vilma. Vilma was their financial aid counselor.”

Ashwood also spoke poignantly about Codner’s vital role as a black administrator on campus.

“The students just gravitated toward her,” Ashwood said. “[She] intuitively knew whether a student wanted financial aid information [or] if they needed much more than that — to connect with someone who knew what it was to be a person of color at Princeton.”

“She was not just a representative of Princeton,” Ashwood remarked. “She was an ambas-

sador, a beacon of hope and possibility … wherever she went.”

Codner’s husband, Wendell Codner, shared memories of his wife’s strength, drive, and unbounded kindness for everyone around her.

“She had this very high emotional intelligence,” he said.

“She was capable of arresting people into her emotional orbit.

Once you’re in her orbit, then you are part of a select, magnificent group.”

Wendell Codner emphasized the importance of family and friends in Vilma Codner’s life.

He recalled her dedication to her work and unbroken desire to return to the University, even while battling stage IV cancer.

Many friends, colleagues, and former students stood up to share some of their own memories and the personal impact Codner had on them. A few of her former students all told sto-

ries of receiving help from Codner after getting insufficient aid packages.

One alumnus from the Class of 1994 said he came to Codner and told her how he cried in his dorm room when he realized he could not afford tuition. However, his wife recounted, “She put on that white cape of hers and just made it all better.”

Rev. Dr. Theresa S. Thames, Associate Dean of the Office of the Dean of Religious Life, spoke last.

“Vilma has left us with a charge to keep. That charge is to love boldly and courageously.

To love with integrity. To seek justice and hospitality. To welcome the stranger. And to do everything we can to conspire for the good,” she said.

The service was held at 4 p.m. in the Friend Center Convocation Room.

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Iran’s economy, we likely won’t have a liberal democracy but instead yet another failed state in the Middle East,” Ignatius said.

Audience members found Ignatius’s dual expertise in journalism and foreign policy compelling.

“Ignatius’s experience with foreign affairs gave

him extra edge and perspective on the issue,” Tiger Gao ’21 said of Ignatius’ comments on Trump.

The discussion was held in the Arthur Lewis Auditorium of Robertson Hall on Wednesday, Oct. 3, at 4:30 p.m. Ignatius visited the University as part of the Wilson School’s Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Leadership through Mentorship Program.

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Treat the hearing as a job interview: Kavanaugh shouldn’t get a second round Morgan Lucey Columnist

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ike many students, I spent Sept.

27, the day of Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony before the U.S. Senate, on edge. I checked my phone at every break between classes, opened my laptop at every chance, and tried to decipher which professors would let me watch the hearing while sitting in seminar. At the end of the day, despite the evidence that Kavanaugh was not fit to be a Supreme Court justice, the national conversations surrounding both of the Kavanaugh hearings were not as punishing as one might have expected.

Ford’s story would not necessarily hold up in a court of law, but this hearing was not a court of law.

Rather, it was a job interview, for what might currently be the most important job in the country.

Thus, the hearing should have focused on whether Kavanaugh is qualified to serve as a Supreme Court Justice, rather than whether he committed the assault.

It is clear from his reaction

that he is not qualified.

Kavanaugh delivered what has been called a “blistering, scorched-earth” defense. He seemed to be crying, more concerned with how Ford was deconstructing his “good name” than with the truth of Ford’s testimony. He even went so far as to hysterically call the hearing a partisan “frenzy.”

Many current and former justices have faced difficult hearings. Take Ruth Bader Ginsburg as an example.

She also faced difficult and controversial questions in her confirmation hearings, but she answered honestly about the subjects about which she had already written. Though she refused to answer questions about other subjects, such as the death penalty, as it was something she felt might soon come to a vote, she refused to do so calmly and with grace. This is a far cry from the frustrating avoidance and hysterics demonstrated by Kavanaugh, particularly surrounding the potential for overturning Roe v. Wade, for which he has provided circular answers every time it has come up in the hearing. For example, Kavanaugh may have intentionally downplayed his role in the campaign for a controversial appeals judge before the Senate. Re-

cently released files provide evidence that Kavanaugh was far more involved than he revealed, suggesting that he has committed perjury under oath. This lack of regard for the regulations of the court is troubling.

On the other hand, the women who have participated in the Kavanaugh hearings have remained calm and composed, including Amy Klobuchar and Ford, even throughout the most difficult of questions and situations. Ford herself held back tears in favor of composure, and repeatedly emphasized that she was open to more investigation to draw out the details of her accusation. She acknowledged the weaknesses in her case while emphasizing the truth in its strengths. She never once descended into anger or hysterics, which may have in some ways been justified given the difficulty of the circumstances.

The same cannot be said for her alleged perpetrator, who is seemingly incapable of portraying either his strengths or weaknesses accurately. When Minnesota representative Amy Klobuchar asked Kavanaugh if he had a ever blacked out from drinking, he responded angrily with “I don’t know.

Have you? ” Klobuchar, like Ford, remained calm

throughout this ridiculous line of questioning. This seems like something a middle school boy caught with a beer would ask their parents, not something said by a man who might wield a huge amount of power over the rights American people.

By refusing to answer the question, and instead asking an irrelevant question of his own, Kavanaugh failed the job interview, per any reasonable standard.

Whether or not Kavanaugh actually committed the crime he was accused of (though in my opinion, he did), this case has still revealed his inability to handle the trials of being a Supreme Court justice. This is a tumultuous time in American politics, and the next several years will be no different. If Kavanaugh attempts to overturn Roe v. Wade and continues to assail disability rights, he will face character assaults far greater than those from Ford. If he cannot calmly and competently handle the Senate hearing, how does he expect to handle one of the most difficult jobs in the country?

Morgan Lucey is a senior studying neuroscience from Scottsdale, Ariz. She can be reached at mslucey@ princeton.edu.

Beware: Sleep-deprived zombies

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ave you seen the zombies walking around campus?

As workloads begin to escalate, I’ve noticed more and more students turning into sleep-deprived zombies, staying up all night to try and finish their readings and p-sets. In high school, I tried to sleep eight hours every night. The least amount of sleep I could get to still function the next day was about six hours, and if I got any less than that, my productivity level would drop drastically. Honestly, I am terrified for what the next four years hold in regards to my sleep schedule.

I have only been at Princeton for about a month, but I have noticed that staying awake until the early morning is something fairly typical for students here, even those students who excel in time management. So why exactly are Princeton students sleeping so little, and why has no one confronted this issue?

Yesterday, my RCA told me that he went to bed “at eight.”

I was impressed, and I told him that I wished I could fall asleep that early, but I typically can’t sleep until 10 p.m.

However, when he clarified that he went to bed at eight o’clock in the morning, I was astonished. He told me that he was up literally all night working on a p-set. My RCA is a smart guy — he doesn’t seem like someone who would put something off until the last minute.

As a freshman, a popular topic of discussion is the dreaded writing seminar.

While I will not be taking mine until the spring semester, I have lots of friends who are currently struggling through the class. The night before the rough draft of their first essay was due, I saw frazzled freshmen running around, telling me how they were planning to pull an all-nighter. In high school, “all-nighter” was an exaggeration of staying up until 2 a.m. — maybe 3 a.m. Here, however, “all-nighter” seems to mean quite literally stay-

ing up all night.

One of my friends bought two preemptive 5-hour Energies at 10 p.m. — enough to keep him up until 8 a.m. Another one of my friends told me that he did not sleep more than two hours per night for the past four nights. When I expressed major concern for his mental and physical health, he told me not to worry because he “will try to get eight hours on the weekend.”

Doctors tend to recommend at least eight hours of sleep each night, but Princeton students view eight hours of sleep as an unthinkable luxury. Why exactly is that? Everyone at Princeton excelled in high school — they had to have in order to be here. To excel in high school, you need to have some concept of time management. I don’t think that time management is the issue; the people who seem to not be sleeping are also the people with meticulously scheduled Google calendars.

Rather, the issue lies in the workload given by professors and in the notion that being

sleep-deprived is the norm.

Princeton is arguably the most difficult college in the nation. However, no university should encourage a workload that practically forces students to compromise their physical and mental health. During many freshman orientation events, university leaders stressed how much they care for us students. It is clear through organizations like Counseling and Psychological Services, McCosh Health Center, and the residential college staffs, that Princeton does make a strong effort to look out for each of us and our well-being.

This is not an issue that is felt only by Princeton students. I have a friend at Dartmouth who told me that she is in the library every night when it closes at 2 a.m. and back waiting at the door when it opens at 8 a.m. I told her that I was concerned for her health and she replied, “I’m concerned for you…. You do realize that your school is still harder than mine, right?” While Princeton may

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be ranked higher than Dartmouth, both are rigorous schools, and their students deserve to sleep. Her words did cause a sense of fear to swell inside of me. I hope to never stay up all night to finish an assignment; however, it seems as though that is not a foreign phenomenon for most Princeton students.

As a university, we need to acknowledge that being sleep-deprived should not be a prerequisite for a Princeton degree.

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{ www.dailyprincetonian.com } WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Women’s volleyball team continues to impress with wins against Brown, Yale

By Jack Graham

Associate Sports Editor

Women’s volleyball (10–4 overall, 3–0 Ivy League) remained undefeated in the Ivy League this season with a pair of commanding wins against Brown (8–5, 1–2) and Yale (8–4, 2–1) this weekend.

The Tigers began the weekend with a dominating straight-set home win against Brown on Friday night. None of the sets were even remotely close — Princeton allowed at most 13 points in a set, winning 25–12, 25–13, 25–13. Junior right side and outside hitter Devon Peterkin and junior right side hitter Maggie O’Connell led the way for Princeton, who played a nearly mistake-free game en route to the blowout win.

Things became more interesting Saturday night as the team stayed at home to face off against Yale. Princeton took four sets to dispatch the Bulldogs, the first three of which were closely contested.

Princeton won each of the first two sets by the narrow margin of 25–23 before Yale fought back to take the third set 25–22. Princeton refused to allow Yale to climb back into the match, however, taking the fourth and final set 25–14. O’Connell led the way

this time with 21 kills, and sophomore middle blocker Clare Lenihan and Peterkin contributed 18 and 13 kills, respectively. Junior setter Jessie Harris distributed the ball effectively for the Princeton offense, recording 59 assists to go with her 37 assists against Brown the night before.

Voted to win the Ivy League

during preseason, Princeton has clearly proven itself to be the team to beat in this year’s conference. Its nonconference schedule included impressive wins against major teams Northwestern and Maryland, and it has been dominant in Ivy League play so far this season, winning a total of nine sets and los-

ing just one over the course of three games. Its win Saturday came against the Bulldogs, who competed against Princeton in last year’s Ivy League playoff match and were the only team besides Princeton to receive votes in the preseason Ivy League poll.

Next week, the team will get the chance to prove that

it can win on the road in hostile conditions on a road trip to New England. It will play Dartmouth on the road on Friday before traveling to Cambridge to take on Harvard on Saturday. While back-to-back road games always present a challenge, the team has to like its chances if it continues to play at its current level.

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Women’s volleyball took down Yale in four sets Saturday.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Women’s soccer team beats Bucknell in successful finish to non-conference play

By David Xin

Head Sports Editor

The women’s soccer team (7–2–2 overall, 1–0–1 Ivy League) finished non-conference play this past Tuesday with a game against Bucknell (5–7–1) at home. The Tigers took the lead early, scoring a

quick goal in the third minute. The early goal would be the only one of the match as the Tigers’ side held on to edge out the Bison 1–0. This was the eighth victory in 10 all-time meetings between the teams.

The only goal of the game came in the third minute

from first-year forward Gabi Juarez. A well-threaded pass from first-year midfielder Caroline Noonan took a deflection off a Bucknell defender, landing in front of Juarez. A well-weighted chip lifted the ball over the opposition goalkeeper and into the back of the net. The goal

lifted the Tigers to their seventh win of the season.

Despite the score line, the Tigers outshot the Bison 21–7.

Princeton had seven shots on target in the game. The shutout extended Princeton’s shutout streak to 400 minutes — the last goal the Tigers conceded was a goal against

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Women’s soccer sits in a four-way tie for second place in the Ivy League standings.

Georgetown on Sept. 13.

This was the final non-conference game of the season for the Tigers. They will now play five consecutive Ivy League games, the first of which will be against Brown. Last year, the Princeton side rallied past the Bears for a narrow 2–1 victory in conference play.

Sophomore forward Courtney O’Brien scored two goals in under a minute to lead a Princeton comeback.

Currently, the Tigers sit in a four-way tie for second place in the Ivy League. Princeton has beaten Yale, 3–0, and tied Dartmouth, 0–0, for a 1–0–1 league record. The game against Brown will be crucial as the Princeton side looks to distance itself from the pack.

Columbia currently sits atop the standings with a perfect 2–0 record. Last season, the Lions finished in second place behind the Tigers, who had an impressive 6–1 record.

Princeton’s lone loss came from a 2–0 defeat at the hands of Columbia, however.

Princeton will try to recreate the magic that propelled it to the NCAA quarterfinals last season. The Tigers pulled an amazing upset against No. 2 University of North Carolina in overtime to secure a historic win.

The Tigers continue Ivy League conference play this Saturday, Oct. 6, when Princeton hosts Brown at Sherrerd Field. The game will be broadcast on ESPN+.

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