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Democratic incumbents reelected in local NJ races By Evelyn Doskoch Contributor
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Artist Maya Lin discusses her artwork on campus and environmental activism By Marissa Michaels Staff Writer
Before the Lewis Center for the Arts was built, Maya Lin discussed the possibility of creating art around it. Now, several years later, she has finally completed her two contributions to the University campus, “Princeton Line” and “Einstein’s Table.” On Tuesday, Lin — who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. and has won numerous awards, including a 2016 Presidential Medal of Freedom — came to Richardson Auditorium to discuss the artworks, her earthworks, and environmental activism. James Steward, Director of the Princeton University Art Museum, joined her in conversation. Lin’s hope for her art on
campus is that it reminds people to slow down. “For me,” she said, “the ‘Princeton Line’ is about getting to know what’s going on right underfoot.” Much of her talk focused on understanding the environment around you through her famous earthworks and water tables. As Steward said, Lin asks “us to contemplate our relationship with the physical world around us, whether it’s natural or shaped by the human hand.” Lin’s continuing global project “What is Missing?” tracks the world’s lost species. As its website states, it is “showing us how to reimagine our relationship to the natural world and showcasing how we could live See MAYA LIN page 2
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Judge Sallie Kim ’86 fines Betsy DeVos for contempt of court
By Sandeep Mangat Contributor
Last week, U.S. Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim ’86 fined U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos $100,000 for contempt of court for violating a preliminary injunction. The Department of Education will be expected to pay, and the money will be given to the association of students affected by the fraud committed by Corinthian Colleges, Inc., a for-profit, post-secondary education conglomerate that operated a host of degree-awarding schools across the United States and Canada. In 2014, the U.S. government revoked federal funds for Corinthian after it was discovered that the company falsified its graduation and job placement rates. This caused most of Corinthian’s schools to apply for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Students affected by the organization’s tactics were eligible to receive full relief from any federal loans through a process termed the “Corinthian Rule.” However, both current and
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former students of Corinthian schools were expected to pay any outstanding debt accrued from their time at the institution. Senator Elizabeth Warren, who had launched an investigation of the incident, wrote to then-Education Secretary John B. King Jr. that “it is unconscionable that instead of helping these borrowers, vast numbers of Corinthian victims are currently being hounded by the department’s debt collectors — many having their credits slammed, their tax refunds seized, their Social Security and Earned Income Tax Credit Payments reduced, or wages garnished — all to pay for fraudulent debts.” The Department of Education under the Obama Administration had provided full relief to affected students. This changed under President Trump and Secretary DeVos, whose Education Department, according to Judge Kim, “had erroneously sent 16,034 notices that payments See SALLIE KIM page 3
Guest contributor Leopoldo Solis responds to a recent column by columnist Zach Sippy, while senior columnist Hunter Campbell discusses the ways student organizations should and shouldn’t promote themselves on campus.
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The 2019 elections, despite being an off-year for much of the country, yielded meaningful results for the state of New Jersey and for local races in and around Princeton, N.J. This year, Princeton residents voted on races for the New Jersey General Assembly, the Mercer County Executive, the Mercer County Board of Chosen Freeholders, the Princeton Town Council, and the Princeton Public Schools Board of Education. Residents were also asked a public question regarding the allocation of veterans’ benefit funds. Polling took place at the Carl Icahn Laboratory, which was open for voters from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. on election day.
STATE Incumbent Democrats Andrew Zwicker and Roy Freiman were re-elected to the NJ General Assembly as members of the 16th district with 42.72 percent and 40.76 percent of the vote, respectively. “It’s a real honor to represent the University and the entire 16th legislative district,” Zwicker said. A member of the state legislature’s Science, Innovation, and Technology Committee, Zwicker says he plans to focus his next term on issues of digital privacy. “So much of our [lives] is digital right now, and so my committee is going to focus on how we protect people, and how we balance the fact that our lives are online versus who controls and who owns our data.”
Zwicker also expressed interest in issues of environmental protection and access to voting: “I’m gonna continue to work on environmental protection and make sure New Jersey is a leader in the climate crisis. My other big thing is around access to voting … making sure young people [come] out to vote, and doing everything we can to take all this dark money out of politics.” “That’s all in the first week,” Zwicker joked. Zwicker and Freiman ran against Republican challengers Mark Caliguire and Christine Madrid. Neither were available for comment at the time of publication. COUNTY The Mercer County Board of See ELECTIONS page 2
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Professor Aaron Friedberg and Michael Mazza spoke on Hong Kong protests in Robertson Hall.
Professor Aaron Friedberg and visiting fellow Michael Mazza discuss US-Hong Kong-China relations By Kris Hristov Staff Writer
On Monday, Nov. 4, professor of politics and international affairs Aaron Friedberg and American Enterprise Institute visiting fellow Michael Mazza discussed China’s policies toward the ongoing Hong Kong protests and the American response. Michael Mazza specializes in U.S. defense policy, China’s military modernization, and broader Asian grand strategy. Friedberg is an expert on American strategy in East Asia, international relations, and the broader Asia-Pacific region. Mazza began by explaining the causes of the present violence in Hong Kong. Over the past 22 weeks, there have been ongoing protests in the special administrative region of Hong Kong. Hong Kong was transferred to China from the United Kingdom in 1997. Since then, Beijing has increased its control. The current protests began due to an extradition bill that would allow for the Chinese government to arrest and extradite political dissidents in Hong Kong. Following the massive growth of the protests, they began to encompass broader issues, such as democratic reforms and retaining autonomy from China. The
protests have also escalated due to violence between police and protestors. “Hong Kong is well on its way to becoming just another Chinese city. Hong Kongers want to prevent that fate,” Mazza said. Mazza pointed out two future inflection points. One is Hong Kong’s upcoming district council elections, which could see anti-Beijing parties lose seats in the Legislative Council and legitimacy in the region. Meanwhile in Taiwan, Mazza said the anti-Beijing Democratic Progressive Party could potentially regain support it would have otherwise lost due to domestic controversies. This would be a blow to Beijing and president Xi Jinping, who, according to Mazza, sees both Taiwan and Hong Kong as parts of mainland China that need to be re-unified. Mazza noted that the United States has responded strongly, with President Trump mentioning Hong Kong to the United Nations and calling for China to respect its treaty guaranteeing Hong Kong’s autonomy. However, Mazza said, a clear end is not in sight. Friedberg noted that China has not followed the path that Western countries expected in the 1990s. Rather than industrializing and democratizing, Beijing increased its wealth while
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adopting a more authoritarian system under Xi Jinping and establishing itself as a power in Asia, putting pressure on the United States. Friedberg compared the current situation in Hong Kong to the protests in Warsaw, Poland, in 1989. The Soviet Union was unwilling to commit forces to stop protests, pressuring Warsaw’s own security forces to deal with protestors. Mazza and Friedberg agreed that the use of mainland Chinese military to disperse protests was unlikely, as it would result in international condemnation and potentially severe repercussions from the United States in the form of sanctions, visa restrictions, and publicly disclosed statements on the wealth of Chinese elites. Neither Friedberg or Mazza saw a decisive outcome as likely in the near-term future. “The best outcome is for the process of Hong Kong’s integration to be deferred and delayed until there is meaningful change in the Chinese mainland’s political structure,” Friedberg stated. The lecture, entitled “USChina-Hong Kong Relations,” was sponsored by the Alexander Hamilton Society. It was held in Robertson Hall at 4:30 p.m.
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Lin hopes her artwork will remind people to slow down MAYA LIN Continued from page 1
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Maya Lin and James Steward discuss Lin’s new works of art near the Lewis Center.
in ways that balance our needs with the needs of the planet.” Because of her emphasis on the environment, Lin is site-specific. When she initially looked at the campus many years ago, Lin turned down a project for the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment because she was so drawn to the hill outside the Lewis Center. “I tend to get drawn to spaces a little bit out of the way,” Lin explained. She also has experience working with nature for her seven water tables, one of which is now outside the Lewis Center. “Einstein’s Table” is meant to imitate a black hole. Lin laughed at the coincidence of Einstein’s black hole theory being validated by photographs of a black hole during her creation of the table this year. The table, made of Virginia Mist stone, has a “Milky Way quality” that invokes Einstein’s theories and allows the water to slide down almost silently. The choice of stone required as much
detail as the rest of Lin’s work. She is involved with every step of the process, including the manipulation of many models before even working on site. Most important to her is remembering that unlike her architectural background, art requires constant adjustments. “I feel that if I do not continuously modify it and adjust as I am in the field, then it’s going to be a little flat. I need to be out there, I need to be really relating to the site itself in ways that you can’t predict.” To conclude the event, Steward gave Lin a platform to advise the audience on their environmental impact. She offered some practical solutions like modifying diet and energy consumption and remembering natural solutions. She also reminded the audience to remain optimistic, because more people than ever are acknowledging humanity’s role in disastrous climate change. To great applause, she said, “We have to vote for the people who believe in and are doing something about climate change.”
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Chosen Freeholders, the sevenmember legislative body responsible for budget creation and county affairs, held elections for two of its seats this year. Democrats Andrew Koontz and Nina Melker, both incumbents, ran unopposed. Koontz has served as a freeholder since 2011. Melker was appointed in September 2018 to fill the seat of freeholder Anthony Verrelli, who vacated his position to serve in the New Jersey General Assembly. In November 2018, she then won an uncontested election to serve the remainder of Verrelli’s term. Additionally, Mercer County residents voted to re-elect Democrat Brian Hughes as County Executive. Hughes won with 69 percent and 44,682 votes, defeating Republican challenger Lishian “Lisa” Wu, who earned 30 percent with 19,696 votes. Wu made an unsuccessful bid for Princeton Town Council in 2018 — the first Republican in three years on the ballot. LOCAL On the local level, three candidates ran for two vacancies on Princeton’s town council. Democrats Mia Sacks and Michelle Pirone Lambros defeated “Independent Democrat” Adam Bierman to win the seats. “My campaign was all about one thing from the beginning, and that was planning for the future of Princeton,” Sacks said. “Over the next few years I believe that critical decisions about the future of Princeton, that will lay the foundation for the next half-century, will be
made.” “I felt like I had the experience and the background and the community to have a seat at the table, and I think the people of Princeton agree,” Sacks added. Four candidates ran for three seats on the Princeton Public Schools Board of Education. As of publication, candidate Susan Kanter led with 3,157 votes, followed by Dafna Kendal with 2,948. Deborah Bronfeld and Gregory Stankiewicz GS ’05 had 2,795 and 2,682 votes, respectively. However, these totals are unofficial and do not include any mail-in ballots. “I’m hoping my son’s friends and college kids all really voted, and mailed them in,” Bronfeld said. “I don’t think [a 113-vote margin] definitely means I won.” OTHER Also on the ballot was a state constitutional amendment that would allocate veterans’ benefits to residents of “continuing care retirement communities.” The deduction would be given to continuing care retirement communities, which would pass on the value of those deductions to the veterans within. The public question passed with 75.52 percent of the vote. Several students, reflecting on this year’s elections, explained that they were less engaged than usual due to the lack of high-profile races. “I wasn’t particularly invested in any races, I just kind of vote Democrat all down the ballot,” Isabel Griffith-Gorgati ’21 said to The Daily Princetonian after voting at Icahn. “I was aware of a couple of the campaigns, but mostly I’ve been focusing on the 2020 elections.”
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Betsy DeVos, U.S. Secretary of Education.
DeVos fined $100,000 for violating court’s injunction SALLIE KIM Continued from page 1
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were due to Corinthian borrowers. In response to those notices, 3,298 Corinthian borrowers made one or more payments … The Department also mistakenly notified at least 3,000 Corinthian borrowers that their loans were entering repayment, rather than stopped collection or forbearance status.” The new government reduced the amount of relief starting on Jan. 20, 2017 — the day of Trump’s inauguration. Over the course of the next few months, compensation was completely terminated. Mark Brown, Chief Operating Officer of Federal Student Aid at the Department of Education, deemed the incident an accident, saying that “unfortunately, loan servicers mistakenly billed approximately 16,000 students and parents” in a recent video put out by the department. He added that “we take full responsibility” and that “as Secretary DeVos has directed, we are putting students and parents at the heart of
everything we do.” According to Brown, “99 percent of customers who made payments on their federal student loans when they didn’t need to have been refunded.” Nonetheless, Judge Kim ruled that the Department of Education “has not provided evidence that they were unable to comply with the preliminary injunction,” which is a court order that prevents the involved parties from taking a drastic course of action until the judge gives a ruling. It was issued after it was discovered that the new government had limited relief for affected Corinthian students. Judge Kim ruled that “the evidence shows only minimal efforts to comply with the preliminary injunction. The Court therefore finds Defendants in civil contempt.” The Department of Education had until Nov. 1 to submit a “status report” on how they intend to comply with the injunction. A final plan of action is due by Nov. 15.
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In an op-ed published earlier this week in the The Daily Princetonian, several accusations were made against the co-sponsoring organizations of the event “Fighting for Justice from Gaza to Ferguson: Black and Palestinian Solidarity.” Among them, the one that most caught my attention was the assumption that we and our members are lacking “moral-political compasses” and do not oppose “manifestations of hatred.” These are strong accusations, and, as an organizer for the event, I find that such a personal attack warrants a personal response. The article is unhelpful because it is not an invitation to rebuild, but a shout-out to foment guilt and in so doing prevent any future solidaritybuilding. The author’s performative apology does many things, but solidarity-building is not one of them. Speaking from my personal perspective as a leader in one group, a member of the other, and an organizer for the event, there are several points to address concerning our “lack of solidarity.” As is clear from the title of his op-ed, Sippy argues that neither the Young Democratic Socialists (YDS) nor the Princeton Committee on Palestine (PCP) were in solidarity with the Alliance of Jewish Progressives (AJP) or the Jewish community following the critical reception of the event. One of the main pieces of evidence Sippy refers to is an open letter published and signed by members of AJP that condemns Finkelstein and apologizes for his invi-
tation. Sippy seems to imply that our lack of signature on said letter was evidence of a lack of solidarity. The language of the letter, however, demonstrates that it was not one written in collaboration with YDS or PCP, but one solely written by AJP. The organization only retroactively asked for other organizational signatures, not looking to include input, just blanket agreements. Accordingly, the letter was written from the perspective of AJP members speaking from their own affiliation and perspective as Jewish students, and solely opposed to the inclusion of Norman Finkelstein on the panel without addressing the content of the panel as a whole. With regards to Finkelstein’s comments, we’ve addressed them within the ‘Prince’ and elsewhere. Despite the author’s assurance that it is important to shed light on the oppression against both black Americans here and Palestinians in Israel and the Occupied Territories, the AJP letter makes little to no mention of this topic. Instead of both condemning Finkelstein’s comments and reaffirming that the State of Israel is violating the basic rights of Palestinians and that the U.S. government does the same to black Americans, it only chooses to do the former. Instead of speaking to the necessity and urgency of the event, Sippy’s condemnation does little more than reaffirm the extreme belief that the event shouldn’t have happened in the first place or was inherently anti-Semitic. There is a difference between apologizing for a speaker’s com-
ments and apologizing for having an event in the first place. To believe the latter is to present a threat to the free speech of other activists on campus seeking to discuss similar issues. While we were informed of the contents of the AJP letter and had conversations with AJP members regarding it, Sippy was involved in none of them. That Sippy is now calling us out publicly without offering to have a conversation either with me or anyone in a leadership position in YDS or PCP is absurd. This onesided logic is a hypocritical display of the lack of solidarity that Sippy himself claims to want. Disagreement is not a manifestation of lack of solidarity — an unwillingness to discuss it and thereby build solidarity is. I am deeply disappointed by Sippy’s comments, but here it goes: we are and always have been willing to have a discussion with AJP to discuss the ways its membership was affected by the comments made by Finkelstein at the event, and how solidarity can be built hereafter. We have held conversations between YDS, PCP, and AJP on the ways we could have done better with the event, and we are willing to reach out to our partners at AJP for further discussion and reconciliation. If we did not release a joint statement with AJP, it was because we were willing to speak from our perspective as event organizers and activists, not as AJP members. Further, Sippy fails to consider who he is standing for when other members of AJP did engage in solidarity build-
ing. What Sippy failed to mention were the AJP members who stood by us, disagreeing with Finkelstein’s statement but not with our hosting the event, who talked with us and offered us their thoughts and criticisms face-to-face. Sippy and whoever he is trying to represent here (it is unclear) did not. As an organizer, I am willing to admit fault and acknowledge the ways we and our organizations can better our activism on campus, but, first and foremost, we must be willing to have a conversation with the people who are most directly impacted by racism and oppression on this campus. In this case, black, Palestinian, and Jewish students. From his article and the baseless accusations it presents, it would seem Sippy is interested in only one of these conversations. Without this basic building block of solidarity, how can we ever achieve our goals as activists? Fred Hampton once said “We’ve got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don’t fight racism with racism. We’re gonna fight racism with solidarity.” What exactly Sippy wants to fight against is unclear given his article. Whatever it is, it seems he does not wish to do so with solidarity. Leopoldo Solis is a junior from Tucson, Arizona. He can be reached at leopoldo.solis@princeton.edu.
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Improper promotion on campus Hunter Campbell
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The University is home to over 300 student organizations, with plenty of students also participating in off-campus opportunities they find enriching during the academic year. The desire to have extracurricular activities is a great one, and one that the University should continue to encourage. What needs to change are some of the excessive ways in which students try to promote their clubs, events, and businesses. There must be certain norms that govern how students advertise on campus in order to avoid certain obnoxious strategies that not only annoy and inconvenience other students, but also fail to achieve the primary objective of advertising. These strategies include overuse of residential college listservs, putting posters and stickers in inappropriate locations, and placing leaflets inside people’s rooms or on their door handles. The cluttering of residential college listservs is the least obnoxious of the three, but it still isn’t productive. If, by the end of class on a given day, a student has received over a dozen obscure emails covered in gifs, emojis, and neon text, there is simply little incentive to do anything other than ignore or delete them. The college listservs have the potential to be a cost-effective and environmentally friendly way to promote activities on campus, but they will only succeed in this goal if they are not overused. Organizations should use good judgment when posting to the listservs by only sparingly sending reminder emails the day of an event, and not advertising an event too many times in the same week. Sending too many emails is undesirable because the cluttering defeats the purpose of putting an ad on the listserv in the first place Putting up posters, stickers,
and flyers on inappropriate locations on campus is the next worst of the improper promotion strategies. We have a beautiful, historic campus, and we should take pride in it by treating it respectfully. When stickers are plastered all over road signs, buildings, and lamp posts, it not only gives more work to facilities staff, but it makes our campus look unkempt. Some are put on staircase railings and then become crumpled and dirty. This is especially a problem with advertisements for businesses such as Bumble, for which stickers have been plastered all
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over dorms and signs in recent weeks. These posters ruin the aesthetic of our campus architecture and look pitiful when their material condition rapidly deteriorates. Posters should be reserved for lamp posts and bulletin boards where they stay in decent-looking conditions. Further good practice is for student organizations to try to remove their posters after their event has ended. The worst advertising practice by far is sliding material underneath students’ doors or hanging flyers on their door handles, though this thankfully is also the least frequent
of the three. This is an incredibly wasteful practice because an entire flyer is printed just for one person, unlike posters put up around campus that are seen by hundreds of people. Beyond this, the chance that anyone is interested in the flyer is simply negligible — most people will just end up throwing these in the trash. Emails and posters are seen by students from a wide array of backgrounds, allowing for people to proactively engage with an email or poster which they find appealing. Putting flyers under doors wastes substantial time and paper on each individual room, with no
way to verify if the room’s occupants will have any interest in the advertisement. Not only are these posters wasteful, they are obnoxiously presumptuous because they assume that everyone wants to pick up a menu or flyer for a startup and read it. It is great that so many students wish to offer opportunities to others on campus, but we should do so in an orderly, respectful, and non-wasteful fashion. Hunter Campbell is a senior politics major from Sunderland, Vt. He can be reached at hunterc@princeton.edu.
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Men’s cross country places third at Heps; Lundy makes history By Sophie Cantine Contributor
Men’s cross country ran its way to a third-place finish at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships (HEPS) at Van Cortlandt Park in New York last Friday. Senior captain Conor Lundy, Princeton’s third finisher to cross the line, picked up his fourth consecutive All-Ivy title, making program history. The Tigers were led by two first-years, Camren Fischer and Connor Nisbet, who finished fifth and sixth at their first HEPS championship. “I was definitely a little surprised and very ecstatic with the way I performed that day, and it was exciting to see my teammate Connor Nisbet do so well, too,” Fischer said. Their race strategy helped them achieve their great results. Nisbet explained, “Camren and I worked together almost the entire race, staying patient through the backhills, and really made our move with 1k left to go.” Finishing right behind Fischer and Nisbet was Lundy,
who completed the eight-kilometer course in seventh place in a time of 24:51. His finish in the top 10 makes him the first athlete in the Princeton men’s cross country program’s history to earn first-team All-Ivy League honors for four consecutive years. The Princeton men’s program has exceptional depth, and while seven Tigers who have taken part in the program have earned first-team All-Ivy League honors three times, Lundy is the first to do so every year of his collegiate career. “It’s truly an honor to be a part of such a historical program like Princeton cross country,“ he said. “While it is bittersweet to finish my college career without a team win, I am happy to look back and do my part to continue the successful tradition of Princeton’s cross country program.” Despite these strong individual performances, the third place finish was a disappointment for the team. “Previous to the meet we were hoping to bring home the
team title,” said Fischer while recapping the race. At 4.1 kilometers, approximately halfway through the race, Princeton had a definitive lead, with their top five runners in the top 12 separated by about two seconds. However, the final half of
the race did not go as planned. “Unfortunately, some extraordinary circumstances towards the last kilometer of the race worked against us, leading to a very close defeat with some guys falling back in the last stretch. I think there was a lot of pressure
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Senior and four-time All-Ivy runner Conor Lundy.
on our guys to perform, considering we had won the last two years, but we’re hoping to bounce back for regionals and NCAAs,” said Lundy. The Princeton men will race at Lehigh University next Friday, Nov. 15, to compete at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional Championships, where they will run their first 10-kilometer race of the season. The men are optimistic about their ability to have a strong performance at regionals and at nationals the following week. Describing next steps, Fischer explained, “At HEPS we all learned a lot about ourselves and what our team has potential for. With that in mind, and just enjoying being able to train with such a talented group of guys day in and day out, we are all looking forward to competing at the highest level with one another.” The top two teams at regionals will automatically earn qualifying spots for the NCAA National Championships, which will take place in Terre Haute, Indiana, on Saturday, Nov. 23.
MEN’S SOCCER
After Cornell draw, Princeton is third in Ivy League men’s soccer standings By Emily Perez Contributor
After a victory over Virginia Tech on Oct. 29, Princeton men’s soccer (10–3–2 overall, 2–1–2 Ivy) stayed home on Saturday, Nov. 2 to play the Cornell Big Red (8–5–2, 1–2–2). A goal from first-year forward Walker Gillespie in the 8th minute was matched by a goal from Cornell midfielder John Scearce in the 67th minute, and the game ended in a 1–1 draw, which left Princeton at third in the Ivy League Men’s Soccer standings. The game began with some difficulty for Cornell, with four fouls before Princeton’s goal. Gillespie’s goal — which was headed in with assistance from junior midfielder Frankie DeRosa and junior midfielder and forward Kevin O’Toole — marked the first shot of the game. A shot from Cornell in the 11th minute was blocked by junior goalie Jack Roberts. Princeton retained control of the ball with a shot from junior defender Richard Wolf that was blocked by Cornell goalie Ryan Shellow and a shot from sophomore midfielder Moulay Hamza Kanzi Belghiti that went high. Strong defense from Princ-
eton kept Cornell from scoring, although two shots were made in the 20th minute. The first, from Scearce, was blocked, and the second, from Griffin Garrard, was saved by Roberts. Princeton soon retained control of the ball with a shot in the 24th minute, which went wide. Cornell then upped their offensive, with five more shots before the end of the first half. A yellow card to Gillespie marked Princeton’s struggle to retain control of the ball. The rest of the first half represented a fairly wellmatched struggle between Princeton and Cornell, however, and no more goals were scored. The first half ended with eight shots from Cornell and four from Princeton, as well as nine fouls to Cornell and eight to Princeton. The second half began with a shot from Princeton’s Gillespie, which went wide. Cornell’s offense then took control, with five shots to Princeton’s three before Scearce scored a header goal in the 67th minute, with assistance from Connor Drought and Jonah Kagen. The game remained at a draw until the end of the period, despite two more shots from Cornell and
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Freshman Walker Gillespie, Ivy player and rookie of the week.
three from Princeton. The game then lapsed into two overtime periods, both of which were fruitless. The first overtime period saw four shots from Princeton, while the second overtime period saw three shots from Princeton and two from Cornell. None of the shots resulted in
a goal. The game ended in a draw, with Cornell overshooting Princeton 19–18. Cornell also received more fouls, with 21 to Princeton’s 13. Looking forward, the team will travel to Philadelphia on Nov. 9 to take on the University of Pennsylvania’s Quakers, in what will be both their sec-
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ond-to-last game and secondto-last Ivy League game, with Yale rounding out the season on Nov. 16. Two Ivy League games back-to-back puts a lot of pressure on the team, and will determine the Tigers’ final conference standings.
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Women’s cross country places fourth at Ivy League Heptagonal Championship By Jesse Brewer and Emily Philippides Staff Writers
Women’s cross country put up a strong showing this past weekend at the Ivy League Heptagonal (HEPS) Championships in Van Cortlandt Park, finishing fourth. Amassing 90 points across the top five finishers, any of the five scoring Tigers would have needed to surpass just one other runner in the field to finish ahead of second-place finisher Harvard and thirdplace finisher UPenn, which both accumulated 89 points. The Tigers had some notable individual performances, with junior Melia Chittenden leading the team. She improved upon her eighth-place finish from last year to finish sixth overall. Chittenden maintained a top-10 position for the majority of the race and, running strong on the final stretch, clocked in 21:16.6 for 6k-race, 31 seconds behind the first-place finisher from Yale. “I was happy with my finish which was an improvement from how I did last year,” said Chittenden. “We were disappointed to be so close [to] second place as a team [but we] had some amazing performances by individuals which is indicative of our team getting back to full strength.” Looking to the future, Chittenden and the team are “excited for another chance to race at regionals next week, and HEPS just added more fuel to the fire.” Following close behind, sophomore Page Lester was Princeton’s second finisher and placed 11th overall. After battling an injury for the
majority of the season, Lester made her season debut at the Princeton Invitational only three weeks ago. At the Ivy League Championships, Lester started out modestly but made her way up to the front of the pack as the race progressed. She crossed the finish line in 21:32.0, earning second-team All Ivy League honors for her performance. “From the start I could see my teammates up ahead and that gave me motivation to pick up [the pace],” said Lester. “I also got a ton of energy and motivation from the fans. It was so special that so many members of the track team came out to support. Each runner gave it her very best effort, and we were so close to second, so there were a lot of positives to take away from the day. Mostly, I am so thankful that I get to be back out there with my teammates and represent Princeton.” Placing third for the Tigers, junior Sophie Cantine improved upon her 27th-place finish from last year to come in 17th overall with a time of 21:45.6. Pushing the pace from the gun, Cantine maintained a strong cadence throughout the hilly course. Cantine reflects on her performance: “Individually, the race was really good. It was my fastest time on that course and my highest HEPS finish so far. The course was very challenging, but our training has been centered on preparing for the course’s many hills, which helped me stay confident throughout the race.” Rounding out the top six was a tight pack comprised of sophomore Gillian Wagner in 22:03.2, followed closely by first-year Maggie Liebich and
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Junior Melia Chittenden led the Tigers.
Abby Loveys in 22:04.2 and 22:05.6, respectively. Other competitors for Princeton included senior Madeleine Sumner, junior Katherine Leggat-Barr, sophomore India Weir, and senior Sierra Castaneda. Impressively, Liebich and Loveys were the second and third-fastest first-year finishers in the meet. Furthermore, the first and fifthplace finishers for Princeton were separated by only 48 sec-
onds — the lowest of any team competing. Looking towards the remainder of the season, the Tigers will now be gearing up for the NCAA Regional Championships, taking place on Nov. 15 at Lehigh University, where they will face competition from all across the mid-Atlantic region. They are hoping to match their top-two finish from last year in order to punch their ticket to the
National Championships. “Team-wise, it is disappointing that we were so close to placing second, but I feel the result can definitely be used as fuel going into regionals in two weeks,” says Cantine. “Our team has been building throughout the season and I feel like we are definitely capable of qualifying for nationals again.”
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Conor Lundy has earned four straight All-Ivy titles.