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STUDENT LIFE

SPEAR protests solitary confinement

By Rooya Rahin Contributor

Students for Prison Education and Reform (SPEAR) held a performance protest, “7x9,” in front of both Firestone Library and Frist Campus Center from 5 p.m. on Nov. 7 to 5 p.m. on Nov. 8.

“7x9” is meant to bring awareness to the use of solitary confinement in prisons. SPEAR has held the “7x9” demonstration annually for the past seven years. The protest’s name, “7x9,” refers to the average size of a solitary confinement cell — seven feet long by nine feet wide. During the protest, a student stood in a taped-off seven by nine foot rectangle, with a light illuminating the scene.

The students neither interact nor looked at any passersby, thus mimicking the isolation of solitary confinement.

“In no way does this performance represent the experience of people who have been confined in solitary cells,” SPEAR states on their event page. “7x9 is only an abstraction, an entry point or reminder for people to catalyze learning about solitary confinement.”

The performance protest has typically been accompanied by a talk from a formerly incarcerated person. This year’s speaker was Mark Hopkins.

Forty-six students took part in the protest, with each volunteer standing for one hour in front of either Firestone Library or Frist Campus Center, for a total of 23

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Students take one hour shifts in “7x9“ protests to draw attention to the conditions of prisoners in isolated confinement.

hours of performance at each location.

“We had students from all over Princeton’s community, from freshman to seniors, participate in the piece,” said Noam Miller ’21, one of the event’s organizers and a member of SPEAR. Despite rain on Thursday night and chilly winds Friday morning, the volunteers stood nearly motionless in their positions.

For the last hour at each location, the sections were left empty to represent the one hour incarcerated people are allowed out of their cells.

“Because I could see people, it is

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a different experience from what real solitary confinement is like,” said Kennedy Mattes ’23, who stood the second shift in front of Firestone Library. “I was trying to imagine what it would be like if there were four walls and I couldn’t.”

“I wanted to fully immerse myself in the experience,” Mattes added.

Mattes took off her watch for her shift, adding that trying not to think about the time passing was the most difficult part of the experience. Mattes is currently a SPEAR member and participates in the re-entry working group. She said that 7x9 has motivated her to

join Project Solidarity, a SPEAR correspondence initiative in which students write to an incarcerated person who has experienced solitary confinement.

After the performance ended on Nov. 8, SPEAR members and other interested students gathered at East Pyne Hall to listen to Mark Hopkins, the formerly incarcerated speaker. Hopkins shared his experiences in solitary confinement in the New Jersey prison system and discussed the activist work he does now.

Though Hopkins was sentenced at the age of 15, he was incarcerated in an adult prison. At 16, he first

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encountered solitary confinement and administrative segregation.

During his incarceration, Hopkins participated in the prison education program NJ-STEP, and he received a B.A. from Rutgers University after being released.

During the talk, Hopkins described the conditions and the “daily struggles” of isolated confinement, such as obtaining an education and keeping one’s mind entertained while deprived of human contact.

Hopkins also shared a spokenword poem and explained how he found poetry as a mode of selfexpression while incarcerated. He stated that poetry, in his opinion, is “the pinnacle of human society” and “a phenomenon [he] fell in love with.”

Hopkins is a self-proclaimed “prison abolitionist” and stated during his talk that confinement of any kind, but especially solitary confinement, “has never been an answer to any form of behavior.”

During his talk, Hopkins also described the activist work he has done with the The New Jersey Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement (NJ CAIC) and encouraged students to get involved with activism and start conversations about prison reform and isolated confinement.

At the end of the talk, Hopkins called for students to “be critical of white supremacy and white privilege” and to look into the impact of mass incarceration of marginalized communities.

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USG: New Princeton Football loses to Dartmouth in health center to Yankee Stadium replace McCosh

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A wall in the Women*s Center.

Director of the Women*s Center resigns

By Elizabeth Shwe Contributor

In early October, Amada Sandoval, the former director of the Women*s Center, resigned from her position, having worked at the University for 19 years. Her departure leaves the director positions of both the Women*s Center and LGBT Center vacant, as former LGBT Center Director Judy Jarvis has become Director of Wintersession and Campus Engagement.

Administrators are not looking to immediately fill these roles.

“We have decided to use this as an opportunity to explore processes that envision the future of this work and how we engage and support students of multiple and intersecting identities,” said LaTanya Buck, the Dean for Diversity and Inclusion in the Office of the Vice President for Campus Life.

The Women*s Center was founded in 1971 by students

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with the goal of “reckon[ing with] and redress[ing] historic and persistent gender inequality at Princeton and beyond,” according to its website. The Center seeks to provide a space where students may discuss gender issues and their own experiences, as well as learn about the history of women’s and other movements for social equality.

The Center aims to help students recognize current systems that perpetuate inequality and create a more equitable future.

The asterisk in the name of the Center indicates that it is not only for, or about, women.

“Instead, the Center welcomes and engages persons of all genders, including genderqueer, nonconforming, transgender folks, and cisgender men,” the Women*s Center website reads.

Sandoval did not respond to a request for comment by the time of publication.

Senior columnist Leora Eisenberg encourages students to consider why and how they are making their friends, and columnist Claire Wayner urges the community to recycle in a responsible manner.

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Saturday’s game at Yankee Stadium had been scheduled to commemorate Princeton football’s 150th anniversary, but it was Dartmouth that ended the day with a celebration.

The Big Green beat the Tigers 27–10 to snap Princeton’s 17-game winning streak, remaining undefeated on the season and putting themselves in a strong position to win the Ivy League title.

“Credit Dartmouth, they played better than we did,” Princeton head coach Bob Surace ’90 said. “You’ve got to be so precise against them, and obviously we weren’t. It’s a credit to them to

force you to be so precise.”

When the two teams met last season in another battle of unbeaten teams, Princeton scored a late touchdown to win 14–9 before eventually winning the Ivy title. This time around, it was all Dartmouth.

The Big Green dominated the ground game on both sides of the ball, rushing for 225 yards and holding Princeton to 36. Despite playing through an injury suffered last week against Harvard, Dartmouth quarterback Jared Gerbino rushed for 99 yards on 16 carries and two touchdowns. “[Gerbino] is a heck of a player,” Surace said. “I grabbed him out afterwards and just told him what heart he has. He wasn’t full See FOOTBALL page 6

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Fans filled Yankee Stadium for the Princeton-Dartmouth matchup.

Today on Campus 8:30 a.m.: Veterans Day Service Princeton University Chapel

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At its weekly meeting on Sunday, the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) discussed University Health Service’s (UHS) upcoming plans for a new building to replace McCosh Health Center.

John McGill, a Senior Associate and Project Designer at WRNS Studio, was invited to discuss future plans for the University’s new health center, which will be built on Goheen Walk, adjacent to Wilcox Hall. According to Jarett Messina, Project Manager for the University, construction will commence during the summer of 2022 to complement the building of new residential colleges.

McGill shared the results of student questionnaires evaluating the current UHS health center at McCosh.

The study showed that students liked McCosh’s academic, rather than institutional, exterior. However, students generally said that they disliked the “cold, sterile, and institutional” interior, difficult navigation, and the lack of privacy.

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STUDENT LIFE

Student Speaker Initiative attempts to bring speakers to campus, solicits second round of student votes

By Sarah Warman Hirschfield & Elizabeth Shwe Head Video Editor & Contributor

After a student vote, the Student Speaker Initiative announced its five nominees of possible campus speakers: Shakira, Danny Devito, Ben Shapiro, Barack Obama, and Michelle Obama ’85. All candidates garnered over 12 votes.

Tyler Eddy ’21 created the Student Speaker Initiative to rectify two perceived problems: first, the difficulties students face in bringing speakers to campus, unless they belong to a student group; second, the lack of viewpoint diversity in prior lecture series.

“It was a remedy to both situations,” Eddy explained.

Eddy created a Google Form that allowed students to nominate speakers. He sent it to two residential college listservs and received over 300 responses.

Students can vote on their top choice among the five final nominees until 10 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 17. As of Nov. 8, over 1000 students have voted.

Eddy said this voting round is a trial run meant to demonstrate student interest. He has met with different administrators and department heads to discuss funding sources.

“The University will take very serious consideration for whatever speakers the students select,” he said.

Eventually, Eddy intends for the Student Speaker Initiative to be governed by a board comprised of students and faculty.

“All [the students] have to do is nominate and vote. Once the [speakers] are selected, it’s the mandate of that board to ensure that it happens,” he explained.

Eddy emphasized that he wants to have creative conversations, such as having student questions

submitted to a moderator or hosting a debate.

“It’s much more important when people have to bring their ideas together and create something new rather than give a speech that they’ve probably given to 10 other campuses,” he added.

Some students, however, do not think the initiative will bring anything new. Alejandro Roig ’21 believes that it would have “zero effect” on the types of speakers who would come to campus, because the vote would be just a “popularity contest.” Even if students nominated an underground speaker, Roig believes the “mainstream” speaker would always win.

Aisha Tahir ’21 noted that the initiative was an interesting idea but thought similarly to Roig.

“This is something that can be done through many groups that already bring a lot of diverse speakers to campus. I didn’t really understand the purpose of this,” she said.

Other students believed that the initiative has the potential to catalyze more diverse conversations on campus.

“I think it’s a welcome addition.

If your goal is to invite more diverse speakers, then you have to start with something such as this program,” Everett Shen ’22 said.

“Once it’s more established, then you can start moving it towards the direction that you want it to move, instead of just dismissing the idea altogether.”

Students also expressed concern about the lack of clarity on what exactly this initiative is and how it was organized. Shen believed that the organizers of the initiative would do well if they were more transparent about their sources of funding and relationship with the University.

Students interviewed by The

Daily Princetonian said they only heard about this initiative after the top five nominations were selected. Shen said he would have nominated Andrew Yang, a 2020 presidential candidate, but was not aware of the initiative when nominations were being accepted.

“It needs to be made a lot more public before they even begin the nomination process so people have a choice in who gets nominated,” Tahir said.

“Shouldn’t I be told about the fact that this initiative is happening and the kind of intensity and power it has?” she added.

Another concern was how the initiative would address arranging for those speakers to visit campus in the first place. Tahir said she believed that the initiative needs to adopt better criteria of who may be nominated, because, “if you’re letting your imagination run wild, it’s not realistic.”

The initiative has spurred de-

bate about what the concept of “free speech” means on college campuses, specifically because of the controversial nature of one of the five nominees — Ben Shapiro, a conservative political commentator.

Some students were troubled by the fact that they see Shapiro as the only nominee who might realistically come to campus. Tahir thought that the organizers of the initiative “need to critically think about what this platform means and who needs to be engaging with this platform, because it could get quite chaotic if it is that democratic.”

Sana Khan ’21 said the initiative itself is unproblematic, but that there needs to be more deliberate parameters on who students may nominate.

“Ben Shapiro is someone who is pro-ethnic cleansing of Arabs from Israel/Palestine. I am ethnically Afghan and I would be very

offended if there is someone on this campus who believes I’m inferior,” Khan said. “This is 2019, you can’t hurt people’s sentiments like this.”

She believes there are better ways to start important dialogues, which don’t involve figures such as Shapiro coming to this campus.

The initiative also spawned conversations on what exactly the phrase “diverse speakers” means.

“Just because there is a group of people who believe in something, that does not mean the University must give that view a platform,” Khan said.

“This is akin to saying there’s a Nazi group on campus, and because they are also Princeton students, they should be allowed to bring a Nazi on this campus to speak,” Khan said. “I’m pretty sure we all know what the answer to that is going to be.”

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The speaker initiative aims to give individual students a voice in what speakers get invited to campus, according to organizer Tyler Eddy ’21.

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In response to this feedback, McGill presented the new building’s design, which he described as encapsulating the theme of “healthy building, healthy people.” The new building, twice the size of McCosh, will incorporate artwork and natural elements, such as wood, to create a feeling of home. The building will be transparent to allow for natural light.

The project also follows a “South Porch scheme,” which will introduce a new public space on Goheen.

One of the three entrances will be accessible.

USG also discussed other topics, including a Housing Committee report detailing steps that are being made to improve room draw, following several students’ discovery that draw times were not randomized between 2018 and 2019.

CBORD, the external vendor that provides the platform for room draw, has since fixed the bug in its software, effectively fixing the randomization error.

According to the report, however, “the new update does not address the error in larger groups having an advantage over smaller room draw groups.”

The report also states, “the randomization of draw groups will be done in-house by USIT, before being sent to CBORD.” To increase transparency regarding room draw, the University launched an Instagram account (@ pr i nce t on_ s t u d e nt h o u sing), a new email (askhousing@princeton.edu), and a ServiceNow@Princeton (SN@P) portal to facilitate communication.

Additionally, Jess Ma ’21, representing the USG Movies Committee, announced new initiatives, such as using a more data-driven approach to improve movie selections, increasing col-

laboration with on and offcampus organizations, and providing group ticketing for RCAs so that they may organize study breaks with first-years.

Moreover, the Senate ap-

proved Lehman Montgomery ’22 as Chief Elections Manager. The body also unanimously approved five new clubs, including Minecraft Club, J-Asians, Princeton Baking Compa-

ny, E-Club Subgroups, and Princeton Guitar Club.

The Senate meeting was open to the public and held in Lewis Library 138 at 8 p.m.

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Think beyond your zee group Leora Eisenberg

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ver the course of our Princeton careers, people come and go: friends, lovers, partners, and, for some, even family members. We make regular choices about whom to keep in our lives and whom to distance ourselves from — some people we keep because they bring us joy; others we keep because they fill a specific need, be it psychological, academic, or physical. Relationships — whatever they may be — are all based on choices.

That said, sometimes, we don’t choose to get rid of certain relationships, even when we recognize that they probably aren’t the best for us. Consider this: many of our friendships, especially in our first two years of college, are not based on mutual interests or passions.

They’re based on sheer chance: your first friends are likely the

people in your zee group, your roommates, your CA/OA group.

You might not have anything in common with them, but you’re friends, well, because you’re stuck together.

There’s nothing wrong with this per se: many of our greatest friendships are formed by chance encounters. But by the same token, many of our greatest friendships are formed by getting to know people with similar interests and values, not to mention that our greatest friendships should be meaningful, fulfilling, and healthy.

When you’re stuck with someone during your first week of classes of your first semester of college, you might not realize just who else is out there — and that might be what’s keeping you from both pursuing better relationships and nipping a possibly unhealthy one in the bud.

Some of the friendships I made over the course of my first two years at Princeton did not turn out to be the ones that I kept, for a variety of reasons. In one case, we just grew apart. In another, we weren’t as kind to each other as we thought. And in another still, we didn’t actually

have anything in common. It took months — even years — to figure this out, so in the meantime, I stuck around in relationships that weren’t very good simply because I didn’t know any better. We’d been friends since day one, I thought, so we had to continue being friends, right?

Your time at Princeton needn’t be hampered by friendships and other relationships that don’t fulfill you — life is too short for that. Consider the reasons that you’ve chosen to be friends with people: are you friends because your interactions give you meaning? Or because you were stuck together at some point? If the latter is true, continue probing. Do you continue your friendship out of a force of habit? Or because you truly enjoy each other? Asking these questions allows us to consider the reasons behind our relationships, and the answers reveal the depth of our interactions.

On the other hand, while I’m not very close with my first-year/ sophomore year zee groups or CA group, I have made a handful of my closest friends through opportunities like these: my first-year roommates became

some of the people nearest and dearest to my soul, and a few of the people in my CA group are those whom I count on regularly for love and support.

While you should ask yourself why you maintain relationships with your friends from these “stuck-together situations,” that does not mean (at all!) that they are, by default, bad. And even if they might be, letting go of them is both difficult and painful. We come into college with such high hopes that acknowledging their shortcomings isn’t what we’d necessarily like to be doing. Ending things might involve a tearful break-up — but it might also involve simply drifting apart, as people often do.

These first relationships are inescapable in the college experience: we all make friends by necessity and proximity. But we have to do ourselves (and them) a favor and wonder: do we maintain them because they mean something to us? Or because we just don’t know anything else?

Leora Eisenberg is a senior from Eagan, M.N. She can be reached at leorae@princeton.edu.

Recycling is not dead, but we need you to help revive it Claire Wayner Columnist

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riddle for the reader: pizza boxes can be put in me but only if there is no residual grease. I also gobble up your plastic bottles, but only if you’ve taken the time to clean and rinse them and, in Princeton specifically, remove their caps. I love anything aluminum, though, and when you’re done reading this in print, you can toss your paper in me, too (but if there’s food stuck to me from reading me in a dining hall, toss me in the trash instead). What am I, and why am I so picky?

To many people on campus, the recycling bin can seem as puzzling and unclear as the riddle above. Why do only certain things belong in it, and why does it take so much effort to recycle? Why does Princeton have particular recycling requirements which other places do not? And finally, why should we be recycling in the first place when, despite its simplistic nature, it can be so challenging?

What has helped me to understand why it is imperative to recycle properly has been recognizing where our waste goes when not recycled, as well as the incredibly harmful impacts it can have on humans and the environment. A trash bin, with its ominous dark interior, presents the false illusion that whatever item you toss into it just disappears.

In actuality, we all must

acknowledge that there is no “away,” and that the phrase “throw it away” is sorely flawed.

Your trash, when whisked “away” by custodians or garbage trucks, must go somewhere, and on a finite planet with finite resources, often ends up in low-income communities of color, either halfway across the globe or here in the United States.

Consider my hometown of Baltimore, where we currently send 70 percent of our trash to be burned in an incinerator downtown. It’s not a coincidence that this toxin emitter, which sends dozens of carcinogenic chemicals into the air at levels significantly higher than what’s permissible, is located in an industrial area close to predominantly black and lowincome neighborhoods.

Baltimore is not the only city suffering from unjust incinerator siting — closer to campus, Newark is as well. There, the Ironbound Community Corporation has been fighting against pollution and its adverse health impacts for years.

Trash, thus, is not only a “save the trees” issue. It is squarely an issue of environmental justice, even here in the United States.

Halfway across the planet, other countries have been dealing with the United States’ trash for decades. China, for instance, has been accepting our plastic “recycling” for years on shipping vessels that return to China before bringing us newly manufactured plastic goods (yes, the hilarity of this cycle

should not be lost on any of us).

Much of this plastic has not been recycled, due to its high contamination rates (Americans are pretty bad at sorting their recycling properly) and has instead been stockpiled, overflowing local ecosystems.

Recently, China refused to take any more of our recycling because of the resultant contamination. Since then, other nations in Southeast Asia, such as Malaysia and Thailand, have filled the void, allowing the United States to continue to push off its consumerist waste onto other areas — out of sight, out of mind.

What’s the solution? It’s not to stop recycling entirely; to do so would be to fall victim to the toxic, extractive cycle of single-use disposable everything.

Instead, it’s to start recycling correctly, to support a system aimed at reprocessing the waste we produce into something usable again so that we minimize our use of the finite resources of the earth. For example, a new app launched by the Office of Sustainability makes it much easier to engage with recycling on campus.

Until we as students start getting better at putting the right things in the right bins, we will continue to see our recycling get dumped into the trash, exported to developing countries, or sent to landfills.

We can’t, however, give up on a broken system just because it’s broken; we have to participate to make it better.

While it may seem difficult,

the great news is that other countries have set stellar examples on how to recycle. Germany, with an incredible recycling rate of 66 percent (the U.S. is half that, at 34 percent), sustains a national culture built around “thinking before throwing,” i.e., taking the 10 seconds of brainpower, maximum, required to put one’s waste in the correct bin. Taiwan turned itself around from having a reputation of “Garbage Island” in the 1980s to recycling over half of its waste, using trucks that play classical music as part of what’s been dubbed the “community ritual” of trash collection.

On a planet with limited resources and a rapidly growing population, we cannot continue to ignore our ailing recycling system. Nor can we abandon recycling entirely. Instead, we must continue to become more innovative in our reuse and manipulation of old “trash” into “treasure.”

Recycling allows us to get there, but only if we all participate willingly and enthusiastically. It’s not that difficult to take five minutes to familiarize yourself with Princeton’s recycling guidelines and then change your daily routine to make sure you’re tossing things away correctly.

Claire Wayner is a sophomore from Baltimore, Maryland, majoring in civil and environmental engineering. She can be reached at cwayner@princeton.edu with any of your questions on how to recycle on campus.

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“Brotherhood”: Scenes from the stands at Yankee Stadium

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It was 38 degrees in Yankee Stadium. 8:55 remained in the third quarter. Princeton football trailed Dartmouth 20–7. The sky was darkening by the minute. The Tigers were on their way to netting a meager 64 rushing yards to the Big Green’s 252. And it was getting dangerously close to 37 degrees in Yankee Stadium.

All that is to say that frigid, disheartened, and reminded of the upcoming week’s homework, Princeton’s 200-level student section had begun to file out en masse. To some of the spectators a level below them, this proved an unforgivable decision.

“I did not,” huffed one Princeton football alumnus, “win the ’92 ship for kids to walk out of this stadium.”

Though adamant that his quote be included “near the top,” the alumnus requested anonymity.

His wife, he informed this reporter, would not appreciate his talking to the media in, well, “this state of mind.”

If the hundreds of students who f locked to Saturday’s game at Yankee Stadium did so to escape the routine of campus life, the hundreds of former football players who made the trip did so to relive it. They brought with them wives, husbands, children, grandchildren, friends — all of whom spent the day celebrating what former captain

and nose guard Jeff Urbany ’84 called the “unbelievable brotherhood” that is Princeton football.

Ron Senchesak ’71 — a former offensive guard — and Jim Hart ’71 — a former,

“It’s always a problem in the stands,” said former linebacker and captain Matthew Whalen ’88. “We want to cheer and watch the game, but there’s too many friends, too many laughs

Senior placekicker Tavish Rice attempted a field goal. The crowd held its breath. The kick was good.

The Princeton stands erupted; handheld beverages became airborne; Helmerich

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Princeton faithful in the stands at Yankee Stadium.

“mainly benched” member of the sprint football squad — tried to explain the single-wing offense that Princeton football used until head coach Dick Colman’s 1968 retirement. The men were interrupted two, three, four times by hugs and handshakes from old teammates stopping by to say hello.

happening in the seats.”

Former defensive tackle Jono Helmerich ’82 agreed.

“I guess they could be playing better,” he said. “But it’s incredible to watch the game, to watch these kids who are so much stronger, faster, more athletic than we were. But it’s even greater to see everyone, to see these guys. You just —”

pumped his fists.

Then he shook his head, turned back from the field.

“Where was I? Oh yeah. With these guys, you just pick up right where you left off.”

Many of the former players hadn’t seen each other in years. But for the vast majority of them, the memories they share — moments on the field, in the dorms,

on Prospect Avenue — have proved indelible. Even if neither the sport of football nor Princeton University factor into the alumni’s everyday lives, Princeton football has shaped them. “[Head football coach] Bob Surace [’90] was a teammate of ours,” said former fullback Dennis Heidt ’89, standing in a huddle of other ’89ers. “Seeing him out there makes us so proud.

And this guy was my roommate from college — this one introduced me to my wife.”

Speaking at the postgame press conference, junior middle linebacker James Johnson ref lected on Princeton football’s legacy and history.

“You stand on the shoulders of those [who] come before you,” he said. “At least that’s what my family says.”

He might have been referencing only his family-byblood. But a few hundredodd men in the stands might consider him part of theirs.

“The camaraderie is just insane,” said Chris Beiswenger ’93, standing with his son Cameron and his teammate and former wide receiver Steven Tufillaro ’93. “It’s truly a family — every player, past and present.”

Tufillaro kept it short and sweet: “Amen.”

At that Cameron, 13, f lashed a toothy grin. Does he play football?

“Yeah.”

Does he want to be a Tiger?

“Of course.”

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Princeton women’s hockey splits weekend series against Harvard, Dartmouth

By Owen Tedford

Senior Sports Writer

This past weekend, the No. 7/7 women’s hockey team (5–2 overall, 3–2 ECAC) hosted two familiar Ivy League foes at Baker Rink. On Friday, Harvard (5–0, 5–0) defeated the Tigers 6–2, but Princeton responded and ended the weekend on a high note, beating Dartmouth (1–4–1, 1–3–1) 2–1. While not the start it was hoping for to try to defend its Ivy League title, the Tigers are still very much alive in the race, as all of the teams will play each other a second time still.

On Friday, the Crimson jumped out to a quick 3–0 lead by the end of the first period. In an attempt to shift the momentum, Princeton changed goalies from junior Rachel McQuigge to senior Stephanie Neatby at the start of the second period. A goal from junior forward Sharon Frankel, assisted by senior forward Carly Bullock and first-year forward Daniella Calabrese, narrowed the Harvard lead to 3–1.

Unfortunately for Princeton, the Crimson responded within two minutes to take a 4–1 lead into the second intermission. Quickly into the third period the lead was extended to 5–1 in favor of

Harvard, before sophomore defender Mariah Keopple could score the Tigers’ second goal, assisted by Bullock and sophomore forward Maggie Connors, and narrow

mouth, Princeton found its first lead of the weekend, when Frankel scored about halfway through the first period, assisted by junior forwards Shannon Griffin and

went to the third still even.

Quickly into the third, though, Connors made an excellent individual play when she stole a pass from her defensive blue line and

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Maggie Connors brings the puck into the offensive zone against Harvard.

the lead to three. But again the Crimson responded almost immediately to take a 6–2 lead, which would hold through the end of the game.

On Saturday against Dart-

Annie MacDonald. Before the end of the first period, Dartmouth tied the game at 1–1 going into the first intermission. After no scoring in the second period, the game T HE DA ILY

went the length of the ice.

The Tigers’ 2–1 lead held through the end of the game.

McQuigge was back in net for Princeton and made 19 saves on 20 shots to secure

the win.

The Tigers were without senior defense Claire Thompson and sophomore forward Sarah Fillier this weekend, as both were competing with the Canadian national team in Pittsburgh in exhibition games against the United States. Canada swept the United States in the two-game series, winning 4–1 on Friday night and 5–3 on Sunday. Fillier scored once on Friday, her second career goal for Team Canada.

On Sunday, both Tigers made the scoresheet, with each tallying one assist.

Up next, Princeton will make another trip to upstate New York to take on Union (1–8–1, 1–2–0) on Friday night and then RPI (0–10–1, 0–4– 0) on Saturday afternoon.

Both teams are currently in the bottom four teams of the ECAC league standings, along with Brown and Quinnipiac.

The next time the Tigers are home, they will be hosting No. 6/5 Clarkson (8–1–3, 3–0–1) and St. Lawrence (4– 4–3, 1–1–1). The Friday night game against the Golden Knights will also be this year’s Black Out Baker night, when the first 500 fans receive a Black Out Baker tshirt, and fans are encouraged to wear black.

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speed, and for him to play like he was for as long as he did is a credit to him and a credit to the toughness those guys have.”

Meanwhile, the Big Green made life difficult for senior quarterback Kevin Davidson. They intercepted him twice, sacked him three times, and prevented Princeton from generating the big passing plays that have powered the Tiger offense throughout the season.

“We knew coming in they had some big, strong guys,” Davidson said. “They showed that throughout the game. When they only bring four, there’s not a lot of things down the field you can get to when you’re feeling the heat.”

With the baseball diamond replaced by a football field, Yankee Stadium provided a unique venue for the game. The stands were hardly full, but both Dartmouth and Princeton fans traveled to New York for the game, and the announced attendance of 21,506 was by far the largest for a Princeton game this season.

“It’s a blessing,“ junior linebacker James Johnson said. “It was a great atmosphere, great turnout by both [teams’] fans. But at the end of the day, it’s just a football game.”

The game started off slowly for the Tigers. Davidson was sacked on the first play from scrimmage, and the punting unit trotted out to cap off the three and out. Dartmouth threatened on their first drive, but sophomore kicker Connor Davis pushed a 38-yard field goal try wide right. The victory was short-lived for the Tigers, as on their second play on the ensuing drive, defensive end Niko Lalos picked off Davidson’s screen pass and took it back 22 yards untouched for the score, to put Dartmouth up 7–0 early.

“We’ve got to cut [block] the defensive end,” Surace said about the play. “The quarterback can’t do anything about that.”

That was the first of three uncharacteristic but costly turn-

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Kevin Davidson was sacked on Princeton’s first play from scrimmage.

overs for Princeton in the first half. The second came on a fumble from sophomore tight end Carson Bobo on the very next drive, with the Tigers deep in Dartmouth territory and looking to tie the game at seven. The third was an interception from Dartmouth’s Isiah Swann, the reigning Ivy Defensive Player of the Year, on a third-andshort play.

Princeton would stand tall after Bobo’s fumble, stopping Trebino’s conversion attempt a yard shy to force a turnover on downs. But once again Princeton’s success was short-lived, as on the third down following the stop Swann read Davidson perfectly, jumped the route, and intercepted the pass. The Big Green would once again make the Tigers pay for their mistake, with Grebino converting on fourth and one before scoring from one yard out to put Dartmouth up 14–0 with 9:40 to go in the half.

After forcing a three and out, Dartmouth would march down

the field to kick a 33-yard field goal and get up 17–0 with 4:09 left. On Princeton’s next drive, a fourth down attempt came up short as a screen pass fell incomplete to give the Big Green the ball back. This time, it was Dartmouth whose success was short-lived, as two plays later, Trebino’s handoff attempt to senior receiver Drew Estrada was dropped and recovered

by Tigers’ sophomore linebacker Ike Hall. Princeton would finally capitalize on this stop, with Davidson finding senior tight end Graham Adomitis just inside the goal line to cut the deficit to 17–7 at the half.

Despite a rough first half offensively, the Tigers found themselves in striking distance with a chance to come back in the second half. Dartmouth came out and made sure that wouldn’t be the case. On the first drive of the half the Big Green got into field goal range and knocked home a 42-yarder that passed over the crossbar by mere inches to make

it 20–7. The Tigers would respond on the following drive with a field goal of their own, this one from 28 yards out to cut Dartmouth’s lead back to ten. Unfortunately for the Tigers, those would be their last points scored as their offense sputtered the rest of the way.

Early in the fourth on a drive carrying over from the prior quarter, Dartmouth once again ran down the field, with Gerbino once again capping off the drive with a score on the ground, this time bouncing outside for 21 yards to find paydirt and put the nail in Princeton’s coffin. He celebrated by spiking the ball, thus drawing an unsportsmanlike penalty, which did little to aid the Tigers.

Princeton would make one final push to mount a comeback, including a fourth and seven sliding catch by senior receiver Andrew Griffin to keep the drive alive. In the end it wasn’t enough, as a few plays later Davidson was flushed from the pocket and was forced to throw a contested ball

that was batted away by Swann, turning the ball over on downs.

Dartmouth would hold onto the ball the rest of the way, winding the clock down to zeros and handing the Tigers their first loss in two years.

The win puts Dartmouth alone atop the Ivy standings and in good position to win the league. As for the Tigers, their 17-game winning streak was snapped in convincing fashion, with Dartmouth dominating every step of the way. The Tigers were unable to stop the Big Green’s formidable run game and couldn’t break through its defense. However, Princeton looks to move on with two games remaining this season and close the year out on a high note.

“It’s tough, some of the guys in that locker room, the freshmen and sophomores, have never lost a game,” Surace said after the game, “A sign for this team is going to be how we practice on Tuesday.”

FIELD HOCKEY

No. 8 Princeton field hockey beats Penn, wins Ivy League title

By Molly Milligan Senior Sports Writer

No. 8 Princeton field hockey (13–4, 7–0 Ivy) completed an undefeated Ivy League season on Saturday, besting the Pennsylvania Quakers (7–10, 4–3) 3–1.

The win allowed the Tigers to secure the title of sole Ivy League champion. It is their second Ivy title in three years and 26th overall.

Princeton, winners of ten straight, found out Sunday night that they will be playing Syracuse at the University of Connecticut in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

On Saturday in Philadelphia, Princeton fell behind early as Penn midfielder Erin Kelly tipped in a shot in the 11th minute. Princeton responded quickly to tie the game, as senior full back

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Princeton field hockey celebrates after winning the Ivy title.

Carlotta von Gierke played in a ball off a corner to junior striker Emma Street, who scored her first goal of the season.

Neither team was able to score in the second quarter, with senior goalkeeper Grace Baylis having to make several saves. This brought the game

into halftime tied at one.

After a frustrating first half, Princeton took the lead for good early in the third quarter when senior striker

Taylor Nolan scored on an assist from sophomore striker Ali McCarthy. Princeton continued to shut down Penn on defense, taking a 2–1 lead into the final quarter.

Princeton pressed into the fourth, searching for another goal, but couldn’t get any balls to the back of the net. Penn eventually pulled its goalie late in the quarter, paving the way for junior striker Clara Roth to score on an empty goal with just 22 seconds remaining.

The Tigers came away with a 3–1 victory and their 22nd overall outright Ivy title.

Next, Princeton will begin the trek to the Final Four in the NCAA tournament.

The national semifinal and championship games will be hosted by Wake Forest University at Kentner Stadium in Winston Salem, North Carolina.

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