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ACADEMICS

SINSI to add new separate internship program next year

By Shuang Teng contributor

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People left flowers and lighting candles at a memorial in Paris following the terrorist attacks on Friday.

U. students in Paris recount Friday attacks

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In the aftermath of terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday, at least 10 University students have been identified as studying abroad in the city this semester, and some said they have been impacted from living in the city during the attacks.

At least 129 people have died

as a result of Friday’s attacks in Paris as of Sunday. Six locations — including the Bataclan concert hall, the Stade de France and two restaurants — were attacked. French President François Hollande declared a state of emergency in response to the attacks.

Students currently in Paris come from a number of departments including French and Italian, comparative liter-

STUDENT LIFE

USG senate discusses changes to new elections handbooks

By Katherine Oh staff writer

The Undergraduate Student Government senate discussed changes to the elections handbook during the weekly meeting on Sunday.

The senate voted to split the elections handbook into two separate handbooks, one governing candidacy and the other governing referenda specifically.

The senate then approved voting and passing thresholds for referenda, making it necessary that at least one-third of the student body vote on a referendum for that referendum to be on the ballot and that of those students, more than 50 percent must vote in favor for the referendum to pass.

Some members of the senate said that it would be desirable to have referenda only during regular USG election cycles instead of allowing students to vote on referenda at any point during the year.

“I think this is a reasonable action to take,” U-councilor Ethan Marcus 18 said. “We have limited resources. We have one elections manager, who has to deal with two elections.”

Other members disagreed, saying that pressing issues should be addressed quickly and effectively, regardless of the time of the year.

“As leaders of the university, us as a USG, it’s our job to facilitate conversations,” U-councilor Dallas Nan ’16 said. “If we choose this option, I think we’re doing a disservice to our peers. It should not be our job to decide what is and isn’t a pressing issue to

them.”

Nan added that rather than taking into account what peer institutions do regarding referenda, we should support and give voice to students who wish to discuss topics affecting them here and now.

In past elections, 200 signatures during elections cycle and 500 signatures off-season were required for a petition to be considered. The new referenda handbook contained a tentative clause requiring 400 signatures to be on the ballot.

U-councilor Jacob Cannon ’17 said that the number of signatures required for a petition should be a percentage of the school’s population, as the population of the school changes every year and a percentage would better reflect how much support the petition has. He noted that he thinks this percent should be 10 percent specifically.

USG president Ella Cheng ’16 noted that during the Hose Bicker referendum, those seeking to petition had been actively impeded and had a hard time reaching the required number of 500 signatures. People had ripped the paper ballots, Cheng noted.

Cheng said that she was afraid something similar could happen with more controversial referenda.

Cheng is a former staff writer for the Daily Princetonian.

After extensive discussion, the senate passed the 10 percent amendment.

Princeton Perspective Project chair Mary Manning ’17 presented a brief overview of the direction the project is heading this See USG page 4

ature and the Wilson School.

Director of Study Abroad program Mell Bolen did not respond to a request for comment. Department representative for the Wilson School Christina Davis, Wilson School Associate Dean Nathan Scovronick, French and Italian department representative Efthymia Rentzou were unavailable See PARIS page 3

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The Diwali celebration in the University Chapel included worship and spiritual reflection on Saturday.

LECTURE

Treuer ’91 lectures on Native American experience in inaugural Speaker Series

By De Vann Sago senior writer

The University’s Native American inclusion and recruitment efforts have improved since 1991 but still fall short, Dr. Anton Treuer ’91 argued in the inaugural lecture for the Native Leaders Speaker Series on Friday.

Treuer said that the Native American experience is usually one of marginalization and invisibility. He explained that what people think of Native

Americans is often imagined rather than real, noting the “noble savage” and the “ignoble savage” as examples of stereotypes that Native Americans face.

“Even today some people think Indians are all rich from casinos and some think Indians are all living in squalor on reservations, and of course the truth is actually complicated,” Treuer said.

He noted that Native Americans are often perceived as people of the past, which contrib-

In Opinion

Today on Campus

Columnist Sarah Sakha discusses identifying as a person of color despite being perceived as white, and columnist Colter Smith argues that sometimes there is no binary answer to certain controversial issues. PAGE 5

8 p.m.: Death row exoneree and activist Anthony Ray Hinton will give a public lecture on the death penalty, hosted by Students for Prison Education and Reform. Frist Campus Center Lecture Hall 302.

utes to the invisibility.

“I think it’s important to remember, too, that most of the stories that pop up going to school K-12 or in the mainstream media are stories of loss and tragedy, and they’re also stories that happened before 1900,” he said. “So it’s really easy for people to think that Indians are something that happened in the past. It’s important to remind people we’re still here.”

He then discussed the bigotry See LECTURE page 2

WEATHER

By Maya Wesby

The Wilson School’s Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative program will be broken up into two programs, Dean of the Wilson School Cecilia Rouse said.

Rouse explained that the first would be a summer internship program open to rising sophomores, juniors and seniors, and the second component would be the SINSI graduate program, which is open to seniors and will involve two years of the Wilson School’s Master of Public Administration program and two years of federal service.

The program is currently a six-year commitment, and accepts students in their junior year. Selected SINSI scholars complete an internship the summer before their senior year, and upon graduation finish the Wilson School’s MPA program for two years and do two years of federal service fellowship.

The changes resulted from a review by Wilson School faculty that took place last year, Rouse said, explaining that the faculty wanted to make the SINSI experience available to more students.

Rouse explained that the faculty felt that the SINSI program is a big advantage to students since having the direc-

tor of SINSI place students into internships would give them better opportunities than what students might find on their own.

She added that the faculty felt having students apply to the program in their junior year was too early.

“It’s very early to be asking students who’ve just barely six months after selecting a college major on making a six-year commitment in terms of what they want to do going forward,” Rouse said.

The changes will be initiated in the 2016 fall semester, SINSI Director Hilda Arellano said.

“We really wanted to make sure that all of this was done in the proper sequence and what we intend to do, as of probably the second semester, early 2016, is have the revised website up that explains both the changes, and also have the process that people would follow starting in the fall of 2016,” Arellano said.

According to Arellano, this was the first review of the program since its conception nine years ago.

“I think usually programs are reviewed more frequently.

I think it was because it was a new program and a relatively small program,” she said.

Rouse noted that in the review, faculty looked at how current See SINSI page 2

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to go into a public service job,” said Rouse.

Both Rouse and Arellano said that the program hopes to attract all students, not just those in the Wilson School.

“We actually had a higher percentage of [non-Wilson School] applicants than ever before last year and we also had a higher number of applicants last year,” said Arellano.

Rouse added that the program hopes to attract students who have not otherwise thought about a career in public service.

Nathan Eckstein ’16, Jamal Johnson ’16, Abyssinia Lissanu ’16, Michelle Nedashkovskaya ’16 and Alex Wheatley ’16, the five seniors currently in the SINSI program, declined to comment.

nation. The most common required percentage is 25 percent, but for some tribes it is higher, he said.

However, he said, the current blood quantum criteria for native nation citizenships are highly flawed since it evolved out of eugenics of the past and were designed to make native people “breed” themselves out of existence.

Treuer ended the lecture by emphasizing that in order for Native Americans to address the issues they currently face, they both need to work internally and collaborate with the rest of the world.

“There are plenty of problems in Indian country, lot of good things too, and of all of the things that are wrong, there isn’t one … that can’t be fixed by what’s right,” he said. “There are internal things that Native communities need to be working on, and then there are external sources of help and things that we need to do moving in coalition and concert with the rest of the world.”

Treuer, who earned a bachelor’s degree from the Wilson School, is currently a professor of Ojibwe language at Bemidji State University. He is also the editor of Oshkaabewis Native Journal, the only academic journal in the Ojibwe language.

The lecture, which took place at 4:30 p.m. in the Fields Center, was organized by the Natives at Princeton group.

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SINSI students were doing academically, as well as careers that SINSI students went into upon completing the program.

So far, the program has been largely successful, and based on interviews with agencies in DC that have hired SINSI graduates, the faculty saw that the program is also helping to raise Princeton’s profile in Washington, D.C., Rouse noted.

“When they looked at the outcomes in terms of career placement of SINSIs compared to students who had applied to the program but weren’t selected, they found the SINSIs were almost five times more likely

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that Native Americans face and the issues he faced as a student in the educational system, noting that he only had one teacher of color during the duration of his education including K-12 and college.

“For the most part I have really fond memories of my time at Princeton, but there were times of extreme discomfort too, where it was just such a different world than where I came from financially, culturally and so forth,” he said.

He said that one positive trend among the young generation is their questioning and exploration of native identities positively, but added that defining identities and citizenships for native people could be complicated, as most Native people are citizens both of their native nation and of the United States.

“Unlike the Amish or certain other cultural enclaves, we’re not just cultural enclaves, we also have distinct political entities,” he said.

He explained the criteria for being a citizen of a Native American nation are different than they are for most other nations where one is either born as a citizen or earn citizenship through an application process.

Most native nations, he noted, require that a proven percentage of blood be from that native

LIGHTS

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Diwali, the festival of lights, was celebrated in the University Chapel on Saturday night and was hosted by Princeton Hindu Satsangam.

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for comment. Comparative literature department chair Eileen Reeves did not respond to a request for comment.

“Honestly, I had no idea what was happening,” Taylor Pearson ’17, who is currently studying at Sciences Po, a public research institution, through a Wilson School exchange program, said.

She said that she knew of the attacks through text messages from friends and family asking if she was safe.

“I was really lucky because I literally had walked to my apartment at the time it had happened,” she said, noting how sites of the terrorist attacks included dorms as well as bars, restaurants and nightclubs that attract a younger audience such as college students.

Alex Costin ’17, who is studying at Sciences Po through the Wilson School and the politics department, said he found out about the attacks in an email from his grandmother. He then turned on the news.

“At that point I heard about dozen ambulances or police cars fly by right outside the window,” he said. “From that point on it was pretty clear what was going on.”

Both Pearson and Costin said that they were unsure what was going on during the first few hours after the attacks and felt unsafe.

“As a person living in Paris, obviously the first couple hours were … a little uncertain about exactly where it was,” Costin said, adding that he stayed on the phone with his family so they knew he was safe.

Costin also noted that there had been unconfirmed reports of gunfire in other parts of the city closer to where he was and was not sure if something was going to happen in his neighborhood as well.

Pearson said she was distraught on Friday night because she was alone in her apartment and was not sure what was going on.

“There was a lot of just craziness happening on the streets, people were really

unsure of what was happening. And especially at night — you know when there’s intoxicated people — it can just become really crazy,” Pearson said. “And I just remember specifically on Friday night there were so many sirens and screaming and running, and I was really just worried for people who didn’t have a place to go.”

Pearson noted that that the Office of International Programs was reaching out to the students during the incident and sent them updates of the situation, as well as offering them counseling.

OIP Director Nancy Kanach did not respond to a request for comment.

Costin said that Paris is now more vigilant.

“I definitely feel more cautious and aware of my surroundings because of the Paris attacks two days ago, and it’s totally within the realm of possibility that something else could happen soon after,” Konadu Amoakuh ’17, who is also involved in the Sciences Po program, said.

Amoakuh is a former staff writer for The Daily Princetonian.

Pearson noted that there would probably be heightened security.

“I personally won’t be taking the Métro like I normally do. I might leave earlier and just walk all the way to school,” she said.

Pearson added she is unsure whether or not her classes will resume Monday.

The students said that study abroad programs in Paris should continue.

“I hope other students aren’t going to be dissuaded from coming here, it’s been a really wonderful experience for me so far,” Costin said, noting that it’s important for people to go back to daily life.

Amoakuh said that the Paris attacks could have happened anywhere, and added that she thinks the University has been good about contacting students who were abroad.

“If anything, this just has been another historical event that I’ve been able to witness that proves the work we still have to do to make the world a better place,” Pearson said.

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year. Whereas they had focused on acquiring stories to put on the website last year, the group hopes to spark more conversations this year.

“Getting people talking is more important than increasing the number of stories on our site,” Manning said.

One of the events that PPP has been organizing is the Battle for Burrito in the residential colleges, she noted.

Manning added that the PPP is more than open to possible collaborations with other student groups on campus. For example, Manning explained that PPP hopes to reach out to fresh-

men through residential college advisers, since freshmen in particular might be more overwhelmed because everything is new to them.

Mental Health Initiatives Board co-chair and U-council chair Naimah Hakim ’16 said that the MHIB will also be working with PPP for Mental Health Week.

USG vice president Aleksandra Czulak ’17 said that the USG has been looking into working with the Interclub Council in the past.

ICC president Jean-Carlos Arenas ’16 said he hopes to increase cooperation with USG, noting that the hydration stations set up at 1879 Arch during Princetoween had been successful.

Arenas is a former chief copy editor and staff writer for the ‘Prince.’

Czulak said that it was necessary to also consider the needs of students on financial aid, or those that are independent or in co-ops.

“At this point, we’re at the stage when we can consolidate our efforts,” Arenas said regarding ICC and USG’s work on financial aid for eating clubs.

Cheng noted the fact that cultural or affinity groups on campus have recently been experiencing difficulty in procuring funds or booking rooms for events.

Cheng also noted that students had recently noticed late meal prices going up.

“There’s no reason a sandwich would cost six dollars,” U-councilor Miranda Rosen ’18 said regarding late meal prices.

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EDITORIAL

Administrators and campus dialogue

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Anna Mazarakis ’16 editor-in-chief

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Recently at Yale, there has been considerable controversy surrounding an email urging students to think about the messages being sent by their Halloween costumes and the Silliman College Master’s response to the email. The email stressed the difficulty in determining offensive cultural appropriation and encouraged the students to either ignore or confront those wearing costumes that strike them as offensive. Many Yale students felt that the response was inappropriate and made them feel unwelcome in Silliman College. Applying this controversy to Princeton, the Editorial Board continues to support free speech and dialogue on Princeton’s campus; however, in order to be consistent with those goals, we urge University officials to maintain neutrality in official communications related to campus controversies where open debate exists.

College campuses, by their nature, foster debate and discussion on issues ranging from academic subject matter to national controversies and social movements. These debates can often become contentious because of the controversial nature of many issues. When administrators comment on ongoing campus debates, it is imperative that they do so in a way that does not bias discussion and debate. Taking a position or side in a campus debate while speaking in an official capacity is harmful to campus dialogue because can create the impression that the institution the person represents has taken a position on the issue. This can, in turn, lead to the marginalization and alienation of those who disagree because the very institution that is tasked with providing a free and open space for debate has failed to remain neutral towards their position. This makes a fair conversation difficult.

In order to address this concern, the University administrators should maintain neutrality in official communications relating to open campus debates. By official communications, we are referring to emails and other communications sent by administrators and staff members on an official basis to groups such as all students at the University and students in a particular residential college or class year. Determining what constitutes a neutral message is undoubtedly difficult and could itself be disputed in some cases. However, it should be the responsibility of administrators and staff to use their best judgement in order to maintain a norm of neutrality in official communications. When students be-

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lieve that the University has failed to maintain this norm, the appropriate response should not be yelling at administrators or calling for their resignation. Students should demonstrate to the University, through informed arguments, why they disagree with an administrator’s take on an issue. It is important to emphasize that this should not be construed to constrain the ability of administrators to express their own, personal views in other places, such as in academic work, on personal blogs, personal discussions, or in publications such as this paper. Additionally, University organizations such as the Fields Center or the Women’s Center have far more freedom to take positions than, for instance, a dean who has authority over students. In other words, the issue here is not the ability of University officials to express their views in the campus community, but rather the medium through which it is expressed.

Neutral messages from administrators can be simple and open to discussion. The email sent to students in Rockefeller College by the Director of Student Life before Princetoween addressing Halloween costumes is a good example. It encouraged students to think and be mindful of the impact their costume selections could have by providing questions students could ask themselves in order to understand the potential effect a costume could have on others.

However, it refrained from taking an explicit position on what constituted objectionable cultural appropriation and instead left it up to students to reflect on their choices independently.

Issues in our society and on college campuses cause students to think critically and engage with peers, faculty and administrators. However, in order for a campus to truly have free and open debate, the institution itself must avoid unduly inserting itself into debates in a way that unfairly prejudices one side. In light of recent events at Yale, we urge the University to keep this in mind as the Princeton University community debates important issues in the future.

Allison Berger ’18, Paul Draper ’18 and James Haynes ’18 abstained from the writing of this editorial.

The Editorial Board is an independent body and decides its opinions separately from the regular staff and editors of The Daily Princetonian. The Board answers only to its Chair, the Opinion Editor and the Editor-in-Chief.

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Don’t take a side Colter Smith columnist

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ince Oct. 1, over 50 attacks, mainly stabbings, against Jews by Palestinians have occurred in Israel. This has brought back into focus a lot of questions about this broad and difficult issue. It also further fuels an on campus debate that admittedly never really stopped. Although the issue directly could merit many columns, here I instead aim to discuss the problematic way in which many of us approach this issue, and many other controversial issues as well.

Too often when confronting difficult issues, we look at them as binary choices.

By this, I mean that we talk about them as if there are only two sides and everyone is on either one or the other. For example, people will talk about being on the “Israeli side” or the “Palestinian side”, being “for” or “against” what’s happening at Yale, being for “large government” or “small government”, etc.

We do this because separating issues into binaries makes them simple to understand.

In a binary issue, there are only two sides and you immediately know who’s on your team and who’s not. Unfortunately, trying to turn complex issues into binaries inherently causes inaccuracies. So many of these problems, the Israel-Palestine one being no exception, are extremely multi-faceted, involving elements of history, culture and politics that are constantly evolving. Trying to neatly put people on one side or the other inherently leads to misrepresentations and

people talking past, rather than to each other.

To move more specifically to the IsraeliPalestinian issue, one thing we must take into account is the huge number of factions, organizations and groups involved. For example, there is the Israeli government, the IDF, Hamas, Fatah, the Palestinian Liberation Organization, Hezbollah, the Al Qassam Brigades and many others, not to mention the external actors also in play. Additionally, there are also the simple, unorganized people, who get caught up in all this: Israeli-Jews, Israeli-Arabs, Gazans, Arab West-Bankers, Israeli settlers, African migrants, etc.

Furthermore, even within these people groups we must remember that everyone is different. All these actors have their own independent motivations, disagreements and views. As a result, when we reference a side, talking as if all the groups on that side act in concert, we are often very far from the truth.

In addition to a plethora of groups involved, there are also a large number of sub-issues within the conflict. These include Palestinian statehood, the Occupation of the West Bank, the Boycott Divestment Sanction movement, the right of return, the Gaza blockade, the Hamas-Fatah split and reconciliation, Zionism, the Iran deal and settlement building to name a few. Thus if I were to say I was “pro-Israeli”, do I support the West Bank Occupation? Do I support the Gaza blockade? How do I feel about Palestinian statehood or the Iranian Nuclear deal?

Why is all this a problem? Because it causes us to make assumptions about people and groups that may not be true. For

example, let’s look at the recent stabbing attacks. If we try to force this into a side narrative, we come up with the idea that the “Palestinian Side” is attacking the “Israeli Side” and supports stabbing civilians. Put in this paradigm, it would make sense to oppose and want punishment for all Palestinians and Palestinian organizations.

In reality of course, only a tiny number of Palestinians actually carry out these attacks. On the flip side, we can look at cases like the one this July in which Israeli settlers set fire to a Palestinian house, burning a Palestinian baby alive. The side paradigm would say that the “Israeli side” attacks Palestinians and burns babies, when of course this was only done by a handful of settlers and was heavily condemned by the Israeli government.

While of course we all understand these distinctions rationally, the more we talk about sides, the more we forget them and the easier it becomes to blame entire groups for the actions of a small number, or support people we shouldn’t because they are on “our side.” So the next time you’re discussing Israel and Palestine or any other issue, don’t claim to be on one side or the other. Rather, clearly and specifically articulate your beliefs and who or what you support and do not support.

You’ll often find that you have a lot more in common than you realize with those on the “other side.”

Colter Smith is a computer science major from Bronxville, N.Y. He can be reached at crsmith@ princeton.edu.

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n light of the protests and controversy around racism at Yale University and the University of Missouri, college students across the country took to Facebook to show solidarity with students of color whose lives were threatened at these institutions. This status (or some derivation thereof) inundated newsfeeds: “To the students of color at Mizzou and Yale, we, students of color at Princeton, stand with you in solidarity.

To those who would harm them or threaten their sense of safety, we are watching.

ConcernedStudent1950 #‎ ‪ InSolidarityWithMizzou #‎ ‪ #InSolidarityWithYale” Standing in solidarity, I went to share this message as well, but I stopped myself before clicking on “Post.” I had never before explicitly identified myself as a “person of color,” so I naturally questioned whether I did now. Rather, could I, a lightskinned Iranian-American, identify as a person of color?

I am classified as “white” or “Caucasian” by government agencies and educational institutions. However, I have never personally identified as “white,” though that checked box on all my college applications says otherwise. I struggle with exactly which ethnic category Iranians fall under; I am neither white nor Arab.

Still, looking back to racial roots in history and the ethnicity politics of Iran, Iranians have been associated with “whiteness” in the past, and more generally, people of Middle Eastern and North African descent have historically identified themselves as white on national censuses, according to the Pew Research Center. In the early 20th century, Middle Easterners contended in court that they belonged to the white race, not Asian, and the designation was granted. Fast forward to 2010, and this issue arose again, this time as a nationwide campaign directed towards changing how Arab- and IranianAmericans were categorized as white on the U.S. National Census. The message “Check it right; you ain’t white!” was disseminated in an effort to push back against this trend, according to CNN. The Pew Research Center was considering adding a new ethnic category for the Middle East and North Africa, one that doesn’t conflate Arab-American with Middle Eastern. However, for now, we will continue to check the “white” box as we wait for such a change to actually occur.

This identity of “whiteness” has been arguably imposed upon me based on the color of my skin. Surely, the color of my skin has allowed me to assimilate more easily into American culture and society and has inevitably shielded me from a lot of the discrimination faced by others with the same roots as I who differ only in the darkness of their skin. However, it does not eliminate the problem of discrimination based on my ethnic background, and my experience being “white” is starkly different from the experiences of many people in this country who identify as “white” in the European sense.

Nonetheless, the racial privileges associated with being “white” contrast with those deprived of “persons of color.”

According to NPR, this term dates back to the early 19th century in legislation pertaining to slavery, having been associated for some time with solely black people. Today it generally encompasses any nonwhite persons. However, this implies that “people of color” are a monolithic group, without taking into account the racial and ethnic complexities present, and therefore the varying degrees of discrimination faced by members of this singular designation.

The necessity of such labels continues to be debated, in that while certain labels can be empowering and arguably useful, others can be arbitrary and alienating, and one should not be compelled to fall into certain prescribed categories. Ultimately, this question, albeit an important one for me personally and within the context of ethnicity and identity politics in the United States, is extraneous to the larger issue — showing solidarity with students of color at Yale, Mizzou and similar educational institutions where death threats have circulated on a backdrop of systemic racial discrimination.

One does not have to identify as a “person of color” in order to show solidarity with these movements and these students; the aforementioned Facebook post is adaptable. Numerous students, including minorities here at Princeton and across the country, identified themselves as “student allies” in expressing solidarity.

We don’t need a label to define our perspective, and social media here on campus and on campuses around the nation attested to that.

Sarah Sakha is a sophomore from Scottsdale, Ariz.

She can be reached at ssakha@princeton.edu.

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for Princeton in clutch play.

Even with the lead, the Tigers could not rest as the Eagles had established themselves as potent second-half players. In fact, throughout the season, the Eagles outscored their opponents 24-11 in the second half alone.

In resposne, the Tigers wasted no time to score a 4th goal five minutes into the second half.

Lussi once again confirmed her offensive prowess as she capital-

ized on a deadly corner kick. The goal also tied Boston College’s season record for most points allowed in a match.

Hidden in the shadows behind the star-studded explosion of Asom and Lussi was senior defender Emily Sura. As one of two current seniors on the 2012 NCAA run, Sura assisted three of Princeton’s four goals.

Similarly, the Princeton defense formed an impenetrable wall against the Eagle offense.

The combination of tight defense and clutch saves from junior goal keeper Hannah Winner kept the

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Eagles scoreless through the majority of the second half.

Following a volley of desperate shot attempts in the final minutes of the second half, the Eagles’ Lauren Berman finally netted a goal. However, the effort proved futile to Princeton’ commanding lead. As the final seconds on the clock diminished to zero, players and fans erupted to celebrate Princeton’s second round berth.

Moving forward, the Tigers will travel to the University of Virginia campus to face USC on Friday.

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Princeton went 1-1 in their matchups against Harvard this season.

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Cara Mattaliano led the Tigers with 12 kills apiece on the day. The duo ranks second and third in the Ivy League respectively for kills per set, with 3.53 for Peterkin and

“I think we’re just going to take it one step at a time. We’re just going to look at it as just another game in the league.

We know Harvard, they know us.” kendall peterkin,

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3.40 for Mattaliano. Cornell, moreover, was hardly able to keep up as Princeton went to win by scores of 25-17, 25-15 and 25-14.

The Lions (7-16, 5-9) were not much more successful.

The Tigers stormed into New York City Saturday evening and downed their foes 3-1.

Columbia, however, made their matches far closer than their Ithacan counterparts, 25-16, 19-25, 29-27, and 26-24.

On the game, Mattaliano led the team offensively and defensively with 21 kills and 25 digs. Senior libero Sarah Daschbach made a strong contribution as well with 20 digs.

With the back-to-back victories, the Tigers still have one more Ivy League battle to go — a showdown with the Crimson in Cambridge next weekend, to decide who makes the trip to the NCAA Tournament.

Going into the biggest game of the year, Peterkin stressed the importance of not thinking too much about the NCAA Tournament itself, but rather make the game in front of them the greatest priority.

“I think we’re just going to take it one step at a time.

We’re going to look at it as just another game in the league,” Peterkin said. “We know Harvard, they know us. … As long as we continue to focus on what we’re doing and realize that it’s just another game, that if we win we can go from there … but for now, we’re just going to keep focus and practice and not stray too far away from what we’ve been doing.”

“I have a good feeling about this game [against] Harvard,” Peterkin added.

“We’re still on our high. We have a lot of momentum and I think we can pull out the win. ”

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locker rooms tied, 21-21.

As the second half began, Princeton initially appeared to have gained momentum: the Tiger defense forced Yale’s first two drives to end with a punt and a field goal.

Then, with 2:21 to go in the third quarter, Kanoff fired a 53-yard touchdown pass to senior receiver Isaiah Barnes to put Princeton up, 28-24.

Yale’s ensuing drive advanced all the way to the Princeton 17, but the defense held strong and the Bulldogs were again forced to settle for a field goal in a huge stop.

However, with 9:01 remaining in the game and Princeton barely clinging to a 28-27 lead, Kanoff threw a costly interception. The pass, intended for senior receiver Seth DeValve, was picked off by Yale cornerback Spencer Rymiszewski, who returned it 35 yards to the Princeton 44. Yale then pushed ahead with a threeminute drive on the ground, finishing with a 19-yard

touchdown pass from Roberts. The Bulldogs successfully converted for two after the score, leaving the Tiger offense with a 35-28 deficit as they faced a crucial drive.

Princeton began with a five-yard run from senior running back DiAndre Atwater, and Kanoff continued to build momentum with quick passes to Barnes and Atwater that brought the Tigers to the Yale 47. However, the Yale defense stalled Princeton’s next few pass attempts. Facing a fourth-andsix situation with 3:30 remaining in the game, Kanoff threw his second pick of the game to Yale linebacker Darius Manora. The visitors successfully ran the clock down to escape with a victory in a grueling contest.

Princeton was plagued with difficulties on the ground, averaging only 3.5 yards per rush against a Yale defensive line known for its size and strength. The loss leaves the Tigers with a 2-4 conference record as they look to conclude their season against Dartmouth next Saturday.

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of their home turf, the No. 1-ranked Orange (19-1, 6-0 ACC) dealt the Tigers their first shutout since September. The Orange were overwhelmingly the aggressors in the game, with 28 shots on the game to the Tigers’ six.

With this trip to Syracuse, the Tigers conclude another season of Ivy League dominance, and with more than a few accolades to their name as well. The weekend before the tournament, senior striker Maddie Copeland finished as the Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year. Her teammate Tornetta earned Rookie of the Year honors and freshman de-

fender Elise Wong was named (along with her two teammates) to the All-Ivy first team. McCarthy, Caro and senior striker Teresa Benvenuti were named to the All-Ivy second team, and senior goalie Anya Gersoff earned an AllIvy honorable mention. Head coach Kristen Holmes-Winn, to cap it off, was named Coach of the Year for the league.

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Women’s soccer defeats BC in NCAA Tourney

By David Liu staff writer

On Saturday night, Princeton (14-3-1 overall, 6-0-1 Ivy League) dominated Boston College (11-7-2 overall, 5-3-2 ACC) by a final score of 4-2, taking full advantage of the team’s first NCAA tournament berth since 2012. The dynamic offensive duo of freshman forward Mimi Asom and junior forward Tyler Lussi powered the Tigers to a poignant victory, with each scoring two goals.

Heading into the game, both teams were closely matched in NCAA rankings with Princeton at No. 34 and the Eagles closely behind at No. 38. Despite the affinity in rankings, the two teams

hadn’t faced since 2004 when Princeton won 2-0.

For the Tigers, Friday’s game marked the first women’s NCAA game held in Roberts Stadium.

In turn, Princeton kicked off to the support of a raucous crowd and supple home field advantage on the historic night.

At first, in contrast to buzzing crowd, the first half began to a relatively quiet offense start.

Then, in the 23rd minute, freshman forward and unanimous Ivy League Rookie of the Year Mimi Asom capitalized on a corner kick to give Princeton the first point.

Yet, Asom was not done. With 10:08 left in the first half, the freshman forward netted a sec-

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The Tigers continued their season-long fiery offense with a four-goal outing in the 1st round of NCAAs.

ond goal to give the Tigers a commanding 2-0 lead. In doing so, Asom also tied herself with Linda DeBoer ‘86 for most goals scored by a freshman in Princeton history.

Asom’s two dominant goals soon triggered an offensive frenzy. Shortly afterwards, Boston College’s McKenzie Meehan re-

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sponded with a goal of her own, bringing the Eagles within one.

In return, Lussi, 2-time offensive player of the year, scored with just over three minutes left in the half, sending the crowd into a victorious roar and giving the Tigers a confident 3-1 lead.

In a night of records, Lussi’s late goal elevated her to second

in all-time Princeton scoring, behind only Esmeralda Negron ’05.

By halftime, the game had proven itself to be a battle between the two teams’ top offensive players: Asom and Lussi for the Tigers and Meehan for the Eagles. The team’s top two scorers had come through See W. SOCCER page 6

FOOTBALL

Women’s volleyball earns share of Ivy League title

By Miles Hinson sports editor

About four weeks, ago, at the end of the first half of league play, senior right side hitter Kendall Peterkin said that her team was starting to get into their groove. Seven straight wins later, you might think Peterkin is a bit clairvoyant.

With wins over Cornell and Columbia on Friday and Saturday, respectively, the Tigers (15-8 overall, 10-4 Ivy League) have completed a perfect second half of league play, defeating all seven of their league competitors after a rocky 3-4 first half.

With their successful weekend, they now hold a share with the Harvard Crimson of the Ivy League title, their 15th title in program history. All of this becomes more impressive when noting that

the Tigers opened their first three games of league play with three straight losses.

Team chemistry, now more than ever, has been crucial to fueling the Tigers’ run of success.

“It’s definitely the key that’s kept us on our run.

We’ve really been able to connect a lot with our setters, the hitters especially,” Peterkin said. “I think we really focused on doing our individual jobs and letting everything come together, as long as we’re doing what we know we’re supposed to be doing, … focusing on ourselves and not on who we’re playing.”

The focus on treating every opponent the same was critical as Princeton faced Cornell in Ithaca on Friday. The Big Red (6-18, 2-12), though not a threat to overtake the Tigers in the league

standings, certainly had the potential to end the Tigers’ hopes at taking a piece of the league title.

“I think [when] playing Cornell and Columbia, who really had nothing to lose, those can be the more dangerous teams. They’re just playing all out. … [Against Columbia] we were all a little nervous,” Peterkin said. “It’s really inevitable that you’re going to think about the outcome of the game, which is not what we try to think about. ... [But] the Ivy League Championship was definitely the big white elephant in the room.”

However nervous they may have been, the Tigers took care of business, taking down the Big Red 3-0.

Peterkin herself was a force on the offensive end, as she and junior outside hitter See W. V-BALL page 6

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The Tigers were unable to hold onto a fourth-quarter lead vs. Yale.

FIELD HOCKEY

Field hockey makes journey to NCAA At Homecoming, football falls in matchup against Quarterfinals to conclude 2015 season visiting Yale Bulldogs

By Miles Hinson sports editor

The 2015 season came to a close for the field hockey team this past weekend in the NCAA Tournament, as they took down the Maryland Terrapins this past Saturday and fell to the Syracuse Orange the following day.

Traveling to Syracuse, N.Y., to kick off their postseason, No. 16-ranked Princeton (11-7 overall, 7-0 Ivy League) knew they still had hills to climb to get into the later rounds of the tournament. The Terrapins (19-4, 8-0 Big Ten) had had the Tigers’ number in recent years. Maryland, ranked No. 7 in the nation going into the

game, had knocked the Tigers out of the NCAA Tournament in both 2013 and 2014, and had shut the Tigers out 0-3 in College Park in the teams’ lone matchup this season.

The Tigers, however, apparently had no plans to repeat the experiences of recent years. They were the first to get on the scoreboard, with junior midfielder Cat Caro picking up the goal in the 22nd minute off a rebound from a shot by sophomore striker Ryan McCarthy.

Freshman striker Sophia Tornetta would add to the lead in the 31st minute, taking a lofty pass from senior back Kate Ferrara and sending it in. The Tigers’ play did not

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lack strong defensive showing — as the Terps came close to scoring in the final seconds of the half, senior midfielder Debi Jantzen made an athletic save to keep them out of the Tiger net. Her efforts allowed Princeton to go into the second half up 2-0.

Tornetta doubled her goal count in the 59th minute, giving the Tigers what proved to be an insurmountable lead. A late score by Maryland’s Julie Duncan proved to be futile as the Tigers took down their longtime rivals and moved onto the NCAA Quarterfinals.

Syracuse, however, proved to be a much tougher foe.

Playing with the advantage See FIELD HOCKEY page 7

By Nolan Liu contributor

The Princeton Tigers fought until the final drive before falling just short against Yale (6-3 overall, 3-3 Ivy League) by a score of 3528.

The Tigers (5-4, 2-4) struck first, with junior quarterback Chad Kanoff capping off a nine-play, 82-yard drive with a seven-yard touchdown pass to junior receiver Trevor Osborne. The first half quickly turned into a dogfight between Kanoff, who led a strong passing attack that netted three touchdowns for the Tigers, and the

Stat of the Day

11 years Time passed since the Tigers scored more than three goals in the NCAA tournament. They scored four Saturday.

Yale offensive line, which punished the Princeton defense on repeated runs and short passes.

As the second quarter wound down, Princeton’s defense seemed on the verge of a goal line stand, smothering the Bulldogs’ first three attempts from inside the 10 before quarterback Morgan Roberts punched it in on a fourth-down keeper.

Later, the Tigers seemed ready to pull ahead with a minute left in the half, but Kanoff was sacked on a third down at the Yale 33 for a fumble (recovered by Princeton).

The teams would go to their See FOOTBALL page 7

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