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In Opinion Columnist Reva Abrol discusses the token minority phenomenon and Columnist Azza Cohen criticizes media outlets for profiling perpetrators of mass shootings. PAGE 4

Today on Campus 4:30 p.m.: The Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies hosts an event on realism and socialism realism in Soviet cinema. 219 Aaron Burr Hall.

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A group of 27 students demands an optional rebate of the part of the University health fee that funds abortions.

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The value of the University’s current endowment, in billions of dollars.

News & Notes Reported rapes at Harvard nearly double from 2013 to 2014

Harvard’s campus saw its number of reported rapes nearly double from 2013 to 2014, the Harvard Crimson reported. Reported rapes increased from 17 in 2013 to 33 in 2014. The increase accompanied a much smaller increase, from 40 to 43, in sexual offenses overall. The term “sexual offense” refers to fondling, rape, incest and statutory rape. Six of the 33 reported rapes were classified as “unfounded,” meaning “any report of a crime that is found to be false or baseless” after law enforcement performs an investigation. Dartmouth had 55 reported sex offenses in 2014, where “sex offenses” includes rape and fondling. The University reported eight instances of rape in 2014 in its Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, released last Wednesday, compared with six instances of rape in 2013. There were also 28 sexual offenses, two domestic violence offenses, one dating violence offense and five fondling offenses were also reported. Rape, fondling, incest and sodomy count as subsets of sexual assault in the University’s report.

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Jeff Smith, former Senate member and Assistant Professor at the New School’s Milano Graduate School, gave a talk on Monday at Robertson Hall Bowl 2 about his experience in prison. BEYOND THE BUBBLE

The University’s endowment returned 12.7 percent in the fiscal year that ended on June 30, according to Princeton University Investment Company president Andrew Golden. The total value of the endowment rose to $22.7 billion, up from $21 billion last year. PRINCO, which manages the University’s endowment, is expected to certify the results in a meeting of its directors on Oct. 22. Golden said that he was satisfied with the past year’s results. “That’s a nice number in absolute terms. It’s sufficient to meet our spending objectives and give us the ability to reinvest, and hopefully to offset future inf lation,” Golden explained. “That’s the kind of result that helps us achieve the endowment’s mission, which is to support the

teaching and research at this University.” This year’s return was above both Harvard and Yale‘s endowment returns, with Harvard returning 5.8 percent and Yale returning 11.5 percent. Golden explained that it would be difficult to draw conclusions from one year, but added that the three funds used different models. Golden explained that broad market indicators such as the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index generally have a minimal effect on the fund’s return. The S&P 500 rose 5.3 percent in the past fiscal year. He explained that PRINCO strives to build a highly diversified program that is somewhat immunized from broad market movements in most circumstances. “So broad market movements do have an inf luence, but that doesn’t explain as much about performance as See ENDOWMENT page 2

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Campbell ’04: firsttime candidate for Boston City Council By Olivia Wicki staff writer

Andrea Campbell ’04, a firsttime candidate running for Boston City Council, is leading in the preliminary polls against incumbent Charles C. Yancey. Yancey has represented the city’s District 4 since the district was created in 1983. Campbell beat him 58 to 34 percent in the Sept. 8 preliminary election, and voters will ultimately decide who the representative will be when they return to the polls for the municipal election on Nov. 3. Campbell explained that she did not always aspire to run for political office. “Never in a million years did I think I would be doing this,” she said of being in the race. Campbell used to work as a lawyer in the office of Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. The death of her twin brother Andre when they were 29 years old in pre-trial custody spurred part of her career trajectory change, Campbell explained. “When life happens, and what I mean by that is when you go through things in life, whether it’s deaths in your family or other tragic circumstances, sometimes they pull you in different directions,” Campbell said. Her brother had been a pretrial detainee for two years in Massachusetts. Having been diagnosed with an scleroderma, an autoimmune disease, six years before his arrest, he was not getting the medical care he required, Campbell said, and he passed away while he was in custody. Campbell said she had been advocating for increased medical attention for him. “As his next of kin – both our biological parents are deceased – I was the one bearing the burden advocating for him, I was

the one who was responsible for advocating for him to get appropriate medical care,” she explained. The death caused Campbell to reflect on their upbringing as siblings. “When something like that happens and you’re going through the bereaving process, you begin to look back and ask questions,” she said. “And so for me, the questions I asked myself were, ‘How do two twins born and raised the city of Boston have such different life outcomes?’” Campbell attended what she described as the prestigious Boston Latin Grammar School, earned a bachelor’s degree at the University and then attended the University of California at Los Angeles law school, while her brother cycled in and out of court. After leaving her job as an attorney in Patrick’s administration, Campbell decided to make the run for city council. “I left the private sector to go into the public sector,” Campbell explained. At the University, Campbell majored in sociology and wrote a thesis titled “XY” about blackJewish intersections in urban life. She made the switch to sociology from mathematics after her father passed away in her sophomore year. His death made her reconsider her path and realize she should be pursuing her actual passions, she said. Campbell noted that she decided to pursue the academic interests most important to her, even as she recalled sometimes being the only person of color as well as the only non-Jew in her classes. “I was taking classes in sociology, black and Jewish relations in urban settings,” she said. See CAMPBELL page 2

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Paul Volcker ’49, former Federal Reserve Chairman, recently donated his public service papers to the University.

Volcker ’49 donates public service papers to U. library By Christina Vosbikian staff writer

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker ’49 donated his public service papers to the University on Sept. 11, according to University Archivist and Curator of Public Policy Papers Daniel Linke. The collection of Volcker’s papers, currently comprised of 29 boxes with an additional 30 expected in the coming months, is located in the Mudd Manuscript Library, a division of the Princeton University Library’s Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. Covering Volcker’s time as chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Undersecretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs and president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the papers include correspondence, speeches, re-

ports and memos. Additional materials will pertain to Volcker’s work with the World Bank, United Nations and President Barack Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board. Volcker did not respond to a request for comment. Linke explained that the acquisition of these papers was the culmination of about eight years’ worth of on-andoff correspondence between himself and Volcker. “It’s in the last year and a half, essentially, that things got serious,” Linke said. “Giving up his papers is a really significant thing for him to do.” Linke explained that Volcker and his staff are in the process of gathering and collating the records that will be adding to the collection in the coming months. Linke noted that some documents currently housed in the collection include cor-

respondence between Volcker and then-U.S. Vice President George H.W. Bush, and between Volcker and then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan. The papers also contain a transcript of Volcker’s testimony before the White House Joint Economic Committee about his monetary policy stance in 1982. These kinds of documents, Linke explained, provide an invaluable resource for historical study of U.S. economic history. One of the areas in which the University collects is economic development, Linke said. He noted that the Mudd Library houses about 35 collections on this topic from across the 20th century. Linke explained that when Volcker himself toured the Mudd Library, he noted the presence of papers from James Baker, whose time as Secretary of the Treasury See VOLCKER page 2

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overlapped with Volcker’s time at the Fed. Having Volcker’s papers to study in conjunction with Baker’s will offer students the unique chance to conduct a primarysource study of 1980s U.S. economic policy from two important vantage points, the Treasury and the Fed, Linke said. “We acquire collections not only for the value they have in and of themselves, but also for how they relate to other collections,” Linke said. These connections supply invaluable resources for triangulation and synthesis in forming an original argument in students’ independent work, he added. Rachel Van Unen, Public Policy Papers Project Archivist at the Mudd Library, noted that for any students interested in economics, Volcker’s papers will make the collec-

tion a very rich one since he held so many prominent positions. Economics professor Elizabeth Bogan, who in 2008 served on the faculty committee that picked the 25 most influential Princetonians of all time and nominated Volcker for the list, explained that having Volcker’s papers at the University will provide students and other viewers of the papers with a deeper understanding of what happened during the years that Volcker was head of the Fed, a time that Bogan considers particularly significant. “He broke inf lation and greatly reduced and/or eliminated inf lationary expectations. I think that set the stage for the long-term period of stable growth that the U.S. had without inflation,” Bogan said. She also noted that Volcker’s economic policies had worldwide effects, such as inspiring many countries around the world to keep their infla-

tionary target around 2 percent, and that he has served the United States in many ways, noting his role in the Dodd-Frank Bill, specifically in the proposal of the bill’s Volcker Rule. The D0dd-Frank Bill sought to regulate Wall Street, and the Volcker Rule restricts banks from making certain investments that are often referred to as proprietary trading. “He tried to make sure that we get a separation between commercial banking and all of the different financial activities so that the money supply is protected,” Bogan said. Bogan said at the undergraduate level, Volcker’s papers are more likely to be used by history students who want to better understand aspects of U.S. economic history than they are to be used by students studying economics. “I’m excited to have the manuscripts here at Princeton,” Bogan said.

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it might for other investors,” Golden said. The average annual return on the endowment over the past 10 years was 10.1 percent, Golden said. The 10-year return places the University among the top percentile of the 471 institutions listed by the Wilshire Trust Universe Comparison Service, according to a PRINCO press release. Golden explained that he

was also pleased with the 10-year return, noting that it spanned a period that included the 2008 global financial crisis. “When you get something like the global financial crisis, there’s no investment strategy other than shoving the money in the mattress and buying canned goods,” he explained. According to Golden, the endowment had a lot of success in several areas, particularly in biotechnology, healthcare, venture capital and emerging markets. Golden noted that there

was some concern over the declines in Chinese markets for the fiscal year 2016, but declined to make a prediction for the coming year, noting the constant f luctuation of markets. Golden referred to the past fiscal year as a “groovy” kind of year, adding that it ref lected efforts made in previous years. “This was a year that was satisfying because it ref lects reaping seeds sowed over many years, as well as some specific activity during the year that helped augment returns,” he explained.

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Andrea Campbell ’04 is running for Boston City Council this year. The municipal election is on Nov. 3.

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Campbell said one of the challenges of her University experience was traveling regularly back to Boston, where she maintained an apartment she had inherited from her parents. “I was an independent spirit. I wasn’t in any of the eating clubs. I played rugby for a little while. But, I found myself really focusing on academics,” Campbell added. “One of the things that makes Princeton great are the expertise and the passion of the professors.” Sociology professor Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, who taught Campbell as an undergraduate, said she is very proud of her. “She was an excellent student. She was very dynamic and extremely focused and oriented towards public service. It does not surprise me that she is now

a beautiful and young political candidate,” Fernandez-Kelly said. Sahtiya Hosada Hummel ’04, an English major, current doctoral candidate at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education and Campbell’s sophomore through senior year roommate said Campbell was a determined and ebullient person throughout all of her difficult experiences. “She still maintained her time at Princeton,” Hummel said. “She was determined to get through and get finished and do it on time. She always continued to focus on what she wanted to do.” Hummel added that Campbell was good friends with a number of different people on campus. “She never fell into any of the cliques you sometimes see with undergrads at Princeton.” Classmate Jason Clark ’04, who majored in American Histo-

ry and is the Assistant Attorney General in the New York State Attorney’s Office, said Campbell reached out to others in a unique and active way. He remembered a saying his dad used to tell him, that the way people think of you has to do with the way you make people feel, always reminds him of Campbell. “She had this strong energy about her and it made people gravitate to her,” Clark explained. Campbell said that some of the best moments in her run for council have been when women have stepped up to support her. More women are needed on the political scene, she added. “There are still challenges that women have to go through when running for office,” Campbell said. “If you see a man, it is not really looked down upon, and when you see a woman be aggressive, it has its connotations.”

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hris Harper-Mercer. Vester Lee Flanagan II. Dylann Roof. Aaron Alexis. Adam Lanza. Wade M. Page. James Holmes. Jared Lough-

ner. We know their names. These eight men shared a deep hatred, an apocalyptic supply of firearms and ammunition and histories of “irritability” or “loneliness” before opening fire on innocent civilians. Although we know their names, we are desensitized. From Connecticut to California, the stories have begun to look like iterations of each other: the surprised, horrified, hindsightis-20-20 reactions of family and friends of the gunman; a photo of the shooter as an anxious-looking man staring blankly into the camera. The tear-stained testimonials in celebration of the victims’ lives; an image of a candlelight vigil. After a mass shooting, we retreat comfortably into a strange ritual: 1. Naming the gunman. 2. Investigating his (the overwhelming majority of such massacres have been committed by men) troubled past in an

To know their names attempt to make sense of his crime. 3. Profiling the victims of his violence. This first step, naming the gunman, is the most dangerous. As explicitly understood in this case, the shooter was motivated, in part, by the seduction of the infamous. He admired the gunman who murdered two journalists. The New York Times reported that in a blog post linked to the shooter’s email address, he wrote, “I have noticed that people like him [Flanagan] are all alone and unknown, yet when they spill a little blood, the whole world knows who they are … Seems like the more people you kill, the more you’re in the limelight.” The way the majority of major media outlets has covered such atrocities is, perhaps, causing the “copycat effect.” First coined around 1916 due to the crimes of Jack the Ripper, the “copycat effect” refers to criminals who explicitly resemble film villains, urban legends or criminals highlighted by the media. In the 1960s, a Canadian psychologist Albert Bandura studied the effect between media attention to violent behavior and copycat attempts. He found that children quickly learned to be aggressive if the aggressive behavior was rewarded with at-

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tention. In a similar manner, the media attention on certain criminal acts serves as a reward for those who might copy them. The CDC recently released a “Reporting on Suicide: Recommendations for the Media” document explaining the hazards of dramatic diction in reporting on suicide. The report cites a study of Austrian media outlets designing more careful stories about suicides on the subway system, and how the rate of attempts dropped 80 percent during the campaign. The report illustrates the contagion of violence, and how (accidental) glorification may compound it. Media outlets, perhaps most of all, are acutely aware of the power of our words. The choice to include certain information must be absolutely intentional. In publishing fully investigative profiles — in this case, complete with photos of his face, hometown and one posing with a gun — of these gunmen, we are highlighting their actions. Mass shootings are, of course, newsworthy — it is important that these horrors are well investigated in the news. However, we might be able to form a new norm for this specific type of coverage. While it certainly cannot be the direct cause of the violence, it would be prudent (given both the studies about copycat crimes and the notoriously

high rate of gun crimes in the United States) to reconsider the words we use to describe such events. Take a look at The Los Angeles Times, which published a story solely referring to “the shooter” or “the gunman” or “the man.” Imagine if this were the norm for journalistic standards instead of the exception. Moving forward, we should learn to direct the spotlight on the atrocity, not the person who committed it. I posit that news outlets should follow The Los Angeles Times in deciding to write about the crime without the name of the shooter. Further, news organizations should seriously consider not running profile stories about the shooter. In these grim glorifications, the shooters get their fifteen minutes of fame, enabling and empowering copycat criminals who feel they relate to such stories. Words are powerful; we can see it in the way we write survivor instead of victim, activists instead of rioters or food assistance instead of welfare. Let’s rethink the way the media covers the words, names and actions of violence intended to inspire. Azza Cohen is a history major from Highland Park, Ill. She can be reached at accohen@ princeton.edu.

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The token phenomenon Reva Abrol

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pon reading a recent article by guest columnist Luis Ramos ’13, in which he recalls his journey from cultural negation to cultural promotion and ultimately urges Princeton students to use their educational equipment to “help dismantle racism and prejudice,” I came away feeling both mildly inspired and mostly skeptical. Ramos asserts that “everyone can embrace the diversity that makes Princeton and this country so special,” but I’m not so sure if everyone can. I do not feel the need to mention what seems to me a palpable apathy toward discussions of race by the people who might benefit from them the most. Rather, I would like to focus on a particular social phenomenon that disables arguably the most agent leaders of discussions on race and ethnicity — that is, minorities with personal stakes in such matters — by necessitating their own cultural- and self-negation so that they might blend in and secure their candidacy for upward social mobility. The “token” phenomenon, what we might know as either having or being the “token [insert race here] friend” of a predominantly racially homogenous group of people, can be seen as undeniably applicable to all races. The “token Korean international friend” of an all-Indian group, the “token white friend” of an all-black group, the “token Hispanic friend” of an all-white group: all represent several possible permutations of the “token” phenomenon. Being the welcomed pariah of an otherwise homogenous social group is not exclusive to racial minorities and is certainly not the same across cases (for example, being the “token Hispanic friend” of an all-white group may perceivably carry more prestige than being the “token Korean

friend” of an all-Indian group), but I argue that the general case of the “token” minority among a majority class of people carries with it the greatest and often most dangerous implications on the condition of identity for the “token” individual. My first real encounter with tokenism was my admittance into a predominantly white group of self-proclaimed beatniks (mostly “Twin Peaks” fanatics and “This American Life” enthusiasts) in my senior year of high school. I found their romantic nostalgia and wild theatricality to be alluring. They loved alternative culture — weird movies and numbing music and quick-witted banter — and that was cool, but it was really just alternative white culture. I appeared racially ambiguous enough and culturally silent enough to pose no threat to their impassioned and unfiltered discussions on technological singularity or upcoming music fanzines or contemptible fresh-off-the-boat Asians or how Kevin Hart is a banal black comedian. They rejected cultural nuance with a severe sense of entitlement and showed no interest in correcting their attitudes. I never told them that I had taken Vedic classes and had learned Indian classical dance for ten years — they didn’t care, and what’s worse, they didn’t want to know. I constantly felt that I had to choose between being agreeable and defending what I perceived to be an integral part of my heritage. At Princeton, I am still reluctant to fully identify with this heritage. I am often met with a look of disappointment when someone finds out that I’m an Indian-American. I cringe with terror when I see my Indian friends self-segregate or flaunt their culture. I think: “Save yourselves and protect the illusion that you are something other than what you are!” Being the token is not a temporary state of being; it affects the way in which you connect with your heritage and ultimately your identity for a long time to come. It is a

variable of rampant social homogeneity that persists even as our generation experiences a more diverse America. According to a survey released by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) in 2013, “fully three-quarters (75 percent) of white Americans report that the network of people with whom they discuss important matters is entirely white [while] Approximately twothirds (65 percent) of black Americans report having a social network that is composed entirely of people who are also black [and] Less than half (46 percent) of Hispanics report that their social network includes only other people who also identify as Hispanic.” While the tendency toward racial homogeneity is prevalent among all racial groups, white Americans demonstrate the greatest homogeneity in the racial composition of their social networks: “91 percent of people comprising their social networks are also white, while five percent are identified as some other race.” The “token” phenomenon then becomes an appropriate discussion for the minority individual in an otherwise entirely white American social network. To say that the token is a selection only made by homogenous social networks to ward off accusations of racism is to ignore the complexity of social dynamics, especially when applied to smaller social networks. While larger social networks, from Greek organizations to corporate structures, may actually practice the purposeful selection of minority recruits, the racial composition of our most intimate social circles is likely a result of who we truly get along with the most and not who provides us with the greatest confirmation of our identities as tolerant and cosmopolitan citizens. Still, we cannot deny the appearance of the “token” in homogenous social networks, large and small, and the effects of his unique social rank on his relationship to his culture.

At first glance, the “token” member of a homogenous nonwhite social group seems to occupy an undesirable role; neither does he benefit from the white stamp of approval nor can he ever fully identify with values, beliefs and experiences of the new culture in which he has taken up residence. At the least, however, he is exposed to a culture that is different from his own; at the worst, if his ideals clash with those of his friends, he can always retreat to the comfort of his own culture without the fear that he has permanently lost his advantage in the greater social hierarchy that we tend to uphold. He may walk away with scraped elbows and bruised knees, but he will ultimately recover. The token minority of a white American social network seems to be insured by great social stability: he is perceived by white friends, colleagues, constituents and romantic interests as a non-threat since he has been sufficiently whitewashed, and as a result, may benefit from the perks that white people often receive. For example, if he’s lucky enough to find his image as whitewashed as Bobby Jindal’s official portrait, he might actually be “afforded the right to a political voice.” He is the unspoken envy of any nonwhite friends who desire white approval but were unable to unpack and ship off their cultural baggage in time to gain entry into exclusively white American social networks. He is applauded for his role among his white friends as the clean, listless and nonintrusive personality or, alternatively, the wonderfully raucous fool (calling attention to his personality as a diversion from his minority presence); and rarely needs to concern himself with the nuances of playing another part. As the only representative of his special type in his white American social network, he is conferred the responsibility of teaching his culture to his sometimes culturally illiterate friends and is simultaneously barred from doing so, since he only became the “token”

as a result of having appeared to have risen above his culture. The “token” exists alone because, as the needle in the haystack, he proves no real threat to the harmony of homogeneity, but as he multiplies, he may find brotherhood in racial commonality and may force discomfort and awareness upon his otherwise blissfully ignorant friends. The “token” is accepted with caution by his network upon the implicit agreement that he continues to bleach his personality, and is largely lambasted in the meantime by members of his own race for having seemingly betrayed his own heritage. I do not claim that homogenous white American social networks are solely responsible for cases of tokenism or that white Americans are even fully aware of it; we all naturally tend toward the people who make us feel the most comfortable in our own shoes, the people who don’t push us past the limits of what we are willing to understand. The tokens, however, are arguably the worst bystanders of racial ignorance, the individuals who have the greatest access to multiple racial networks and thus carry with them the greatest potential to engage these networks in informed racial discourse and yet, who often exercise this power the least. While it is most certainly not the private responsibility of the token to correct the prejudices of his friends, it is a disservice to his unique position of agency if he renounces this power. I urge the tokens to embrace their cultural roots (if they are even still capable of recalling them) and see just what happens: they may be pleasantly surprised, or they may have to watch their reputations fall into a state of jeopardy. Either way, it’s worth the experiment when at stake is the reclamation of one’s most historical identity. Reva Abrol is a sophomore from Syosset, NY. She can be reached at rabrol@princeton.edu.

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Princeton had an action-filled weekend, as three players made at least the semifinal round of the singles draws.

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split into “A” doubles and “B” doubles. Steffensen and junior Dorothy Tang formed one team for the Tigers’ A doubles, and Hahn and Park formed another. In this field of 16, Hahn and Park fell in the first round. Steffensen and Tang made their way to the semifinals, but would go no further. This feat is made all the more impressive by the fact that Tang was and currently is dealing with a bout of tendonitis in her left wrist, and had to adjust her game accordingly. “My wrist hurts every time I hit a backhand, but I play on the backhand side in doubles. Instead of hitting my backhand, I’d have to slice it, and

slice it up.” Tang explained. “In the beginning rounds, it wasn’t too tough. But as we got deeper into the tournament, we played tougher teams, who hit harder and bigger.” Tang said. “It kind of got into my head that my backhand was kind of affecting my play because I felt kind of hindered by it. Overall, it was mostly about strategy and being able to compensate for my backhand and getting into better position for my forehand.” For the “B” doubles, while the team of Krems and Wolff was stopped short in the quarterfinal round, Goodwin and Kalhorn won three matches to advance to the final round of their draw. On the second day, Steffensen was the only Tiger in the “A” draw to move onto the semifinals, winning both her

matches while all three of her teammates in the draw fell in their first match of the day. The “B” Draw saw much more success, as Kalhorn and Joyce moved on to compete in the semifinal round on Sunday. Kalhorn did not see as much success in her doubles match, falling along with Goodwin to come just short of winning the “B” draw. The Tigers would not be able to take home any first place appearances for the weekend. Steffensen won her semifinal round in 2 sets but fell in the same number in the final round. For “B” singles, both Kalhorn and Joyce fell in three sets each in the semifinal round. The team returns to action Oct. 9, for the Navy Blue & Gold Invitational in Annapolis, Md.

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they were the unquestioned aggressors in the second, getting eight shots to Penn State’s one. Copeland scored the go ahead goal just under three minutes into the second half, with Catalino to follow later on, for her fourth goal on the season. “We came out really, really strong in the second half, and dominated most of it.” Copeland said. The Tigers also have senior goalie Anya Gershoff to thank, as she made seven saves on the game and has

been one of the top goalies in the Iv y League so far. The Tigers now look forward to the Columbia Lions to complete their homestand. Princeton over the past decade has been the gold standard in the league, as they look for the 10th straight title as league champions. “These are the games that put us in the NCAA Tournament at the end of the season. If we don’t win every single one, we’re not going to make the tournament.” Copeland said. “So we treat them exactly the same. We need to be really dominant.” After that contest, they

will begin one of the toughest stretches of their season, with a four game road trip that includes games against two of the best in the country, No. 1 UConn and No. 2 Syracuse. “Those kind of games come dow n to ball possession and just how we connect as a team. I think we’re definitely capable of winning those games, but we can’t have any slip ups throughout those games.” Copeland said. “I think this past weekend has really shown us that our team can come away [and] play a full 70 minute game and be completely dominant the entire time.”

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Despite her team falling in the match, Cara Mattaliano had a strong showing against the Dartmouth Big Green.

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of the team’s rookies. In the Crimson game, freshman middle blocker Nnenna Ibe

recorded eight kills and two blocks. Then in the Dartmouth game, freshman outside hitter Brooke Hershberger tallied nine kills while freshman Claire Nussbaum also excelled with 19 assists.

Looking forward, Princeton will face Columbia and Cornell at home next weekend. Tigers fans can hope the support of a home audience will elevate the team to its first Ivy victory of the season.

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Field Hockey downs Yale, Penn State By Miles Hinson sports editor

With just eight games left in the season, the Princeton f ield hockey team seems to be finding their stride at just the right moment. Following a successful trip to Hanover last weekend, the Tigers defended their home well in back-to-back games on Saturday and Sunday, defeating the Yale Bulldogs and the Penn State Nittany Lions. The Tigers (5-4 overall, 2-0 Iv y League) have been hot during this three game win streak, putting up an average of 4.3 goals per game over that time period. The ability to score was in full display during the match against a Yale team (2-7, 0-2) that has struggled of late. Sophomore striker Ryan McCarthy and senior striker Maddie Copeland got it going for the Tigers in the first half, putting in two goals in quick succession in the 18th and 19th minutes to give the Tigers the lead. McCarthy’s goal came after the Tigers were able to move the ball inside off of a corner by Copeland herself. Copeland’s goal — a result of quick movement up the right side of the field, as Copeland deftly positioned herself up front to receive the pass to score —

illustrates the importance of off-ball movement. It’s a necessary feature of championship offense that has been a focus for the Tigers all season long. Copeland, moreover, has been the Tigers’ goto scorer — she’s put in nine goals on the season so far, while no other Tiger has put in more than four. She’s picked up two hat tricks on the season, and is currently tied for sixth in the NCAA for goals per game (1.0). However, as she freely states, her own scoring is linked to the team’s commitment to off-ball movement. “The goals happen just because of what’s going around from other teammates. It’s then a product of a lot of off-ball movement that we didn’t necessarily have last year.” Copeland explained. “I think we’re opening up a lot more opportunities in the circle, which is amazing. We’ve generated a lot more corners, which we’ve been scoring on too. I just think the overall work from other players on the team has created a lot of my opportunities in the circle.” She and McCarthy would continue prov iding for the Tigers in the second half. Copeland this time took advantage of a defensive error on the Bulldogs’ side to scoop up the ball

and snipe it into the back of the net. McCarthy, for her goal, found herself in the right place at the right time, as she took the pass from Copeland and, with a tap, caused the ball to go rolling in past a misplaced Bulldogs goalie. She sealed a 4-0 victory for the Tigers, giving them their fourth victory by a 4 goal margin. Against Penn State, the Tigers were getting opportunities early on, but couldn’t find the back of the net through the first half. One of their closest opportunities was from freshman back Nicole Catalino, who hit the post with a shot just 1:16 into the game. Despite a scoreless first half, the Tigers knew they had been getting solid shots, and were ready to continue playing their game for another 35 minutes. “We knew that was a huge game for us. The first half we created some good opportunities for ourselves, but we knew we weren’t executing, obviously.” Copeland said. “I think just going into the second half, we knew that we needed to win the game, we weren’t going to let them get away with the game.” The Tigers certainly took matters into their ow n hands. After getting outshot 8-6 in the first half, See FIELD HOCKEY page 5

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After a slow start to the season (due to playing high-level teams), the Tigers have moved to above .500.

WOMEN’S TENNIS

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Women’s volleyball falls to Harvard, Dartmouth in New England road trip By David Liu staff writer

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Though unable to secure any first place finishes on the weekend, The Tigers made a splash and then some in the Cissie Leary Invitational.

Women’s tennis has multiple strong performers at Leary Invitational By Miles Hinson sports editor

Traveling to nearby Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Princeton women’s tennis team competed in just their second event this year, following up last week’s Princeton Invitational with an ap-

pearance at the Cissie Leary Invitational. On Friday, the Tigers came in hoping to build off an extremely impressive performance from last weekend, where they took 11 out of 14 doubles matches and 16 of their 19 singles matches. Princeton sent eight com-

petitors to the “A” draw of singles portion of the event, an elimination-style tournament bracket with 32 competitors. Of the eight Tigers in the bracket, seven of them — senior Emily Hahn, junior Sivan Krems, junior Alanna Wolff and sophomore Katrine Steffensen in the “A”

draw, junior Caroline Joyce, sophomore Sara Goodwin, freshman Amber Park and freshman Nicole Kalhorn in “B” — advanced onto the next round, each of them winning in two sets, as Park would fall in three. The field for doubles was See TENNIS page 5

In their first Ivy League road trip of the season, women’s volleyball fell to both Harvard and Dartmouth this weekend. Together, the Crimson and the Big Green, both strong teams within the Ivy League, managed to keep the Tigers winless in conference play, who now tie with Cornell for last in the league. On Friday, the Tigers arrived at Boston’s Malkin Athletic Center to face Harvard, last year’s Ivy League women’s volleyball co-champions. As Harvard had lost to Dartmouth a week earlier, both the Crimson and the Tigers saw Friday as an opportunity for their first Ivy League victory of the season, heightening the stakes of the match. The Crimson went off to fast and early 10-5 leads both in the first and second half. While the Tigers were eventually able to narrow the lead in both sets, the numerous errors, 12 in the first and 10 in the second, stifled the Orange and Black comeback. Then, in the third set, the Tigers used the two earlier losses to fuel their renewed energy. Challenging the Crimson for the majority of the set, the two teams stood even at 20-20 late in the match. Crimson outside hitter Kathleen

Wallace led her team with three kills in the final stretch to conclude the night. Following the loss to the Crimson, the Tigers sought to capitalize on the Big Green Sunday afternoon. Finishing sixth in last year’s Ivy League standings, three seeds below the Tigers, Dartmouth presented a prime opportunity to record the season’s first win. Accordingly, the Tigers demonstrated their prowess in a first set victory. Demonstrating aggression and precision, Princeton started the game with an early 15-8 lead. While the Big Green eventually rebounded to narrow the lead, clutch kills from junior middle blocker Brittany Ptak, junior outside hitter Cara Mattaliano and senior right side Kendall Peterkin gave the Tigers their first set victory in two nights. The second set proved to be a much closer down-tothe-wire battle. Tied at 2525, Princeton unfortunately closed the set on two consecutive errors to even the match at a set a piece. Dartmouth would eventually capitalize on the change in momentum, never looking back, and win two consecutive sets over the Tigers. Perhaps the bright side of the winless weekend was the impressive performance See VOLLEYBALL page 5

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