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Ivy Club to join multiclub Bicker

By Paul Phillips news editor

Ivy Club will join the multiclub Bicker system starting in the coming spring, Ivy president Eliza Mott ’16 said.

The multi-club Bicker process gives students the option of bickering two of the Bicker clubs at the same time, ranking their first and second choices.

Until now, students bickering Ivy were not allowed to bicker another eating club.

Mott explained that the Ivy officer corps came to the decision to join the multi-club

Bicker system due to concerns that not having a second option in the event of rejection would make students scared to bicker.

“The multi-club system gives them more options and makes the eating club system less exclusionary,” Mott said.

She added that she thinks the decision to join the multiclub system will lead to a higher number and wider variety of students bickering. This wider variety, she said, usually leads to having the best class possible.

She explained that the club’s officers came to the decision toSee BICKER page 3

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Ivy Club will join the multi-club Bicker system and allow students to bicker another club in addition to Ivy.

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U. to consider offering ASL course next spring

USG reforms rules for future referenda

By De Vann Sago

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The University might offer a non-credit American Sign Language course as early as this coming spring, Deputy Dean of Undergraduate Students Thomas Dunne said.

The course would not be recognized as an official University course.

Dunne explained that plans for

the course came about when he met with members of the Princeton University American Sign Language Club and brainstormed how the course could be offered.

“We do believe there’s a student interest here that we could meet and give people the opportunity to learn more about ASL and the Deaf community,” Dunne said.

He said the first step in the process will be finding a lecturer to instruct the class, but did not

provide further details.

Colin Lualdi ’17, president of PUASL, said that when he first arrived at the University, there was nothing related to ASL on campus. He noted that as he met people, he realized that there was a strong interest among students in learning more about ASL and the Deaf culture and community, and he said that meeting this demand would be a meaningful See ASL page 2

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

By Paul Phillips The Undergraduate Student Government implemented reforms last Sunday to make the referendum process more organized and to allow more student discussion and dialogue.

USG president Ella Cheng ’16 explained that the reforms include a rule that referenda can only be sent out during an election cycle and must be signed by 10 percent of the student body in order to appear on the ballot.

Cheng is a former staff writer for The Daily Princetonian.

She also explained that referendum sponsors must send the referendum to the USG five weeks before the election period. Signatures are collected in the third week, while an opposition party is allowed to form during the fourth week.

Then campaigning, during which time the parties can put up posters and hold forums

and debates, occurs during the fifth week.

USG will help the parties put out pro-con statements for the student body to read during the campaigning period, she said.

Cheng noted that previous regulations had called for referenda to be sent in three weeks before the voting period and that this change to five weeks, while in some ways inconvenient, is intended to give the opposition party more of a chance to form.

“We hope that this five weeks will allow the substantive, quality debate that a lot of people were asking for,” Cheng said.

Former chief elections manager Grant Golub ’17, who started working on the reforms in May when he was still in his role, noted that there also will be a spending cap of $500 on all spending related to referenda from now on, and referendum sponsors will be governed by See REFERENDUM page 3

LOCAL NEWS

Cruz ’92 surpasses Trump in Iowa primary polls, Christie gains support in N.H.

By Annie Yang staff writer

U.S. Senator from Texas Ted Cruz ’92 has surged in the Iowa polls for the 2016 Republican presidential primary, while New Jersey governor and ex officio University Trustee Chris Christie is polling much lower.

According to the Des Moines Register, Cruz made a 21 percentage-point increase in the Iowa polls since October 22, making him the lead among Republican candidates. Real estate developer Donald Trump, the former leader, is now 10 points below Cruz, while Ben Carson, who previously held

second place, dropped to third.

The Register said that Christie has three percent in the Iowa polls, tied with former Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee and U.S. Senator from Kentucky Rand Paul.

USA Today presented a national poll Monday showing that Trump still holds the lead with 41 percent of the votes, while Cruz holds second place with 14 percent. All other candidates, including Christie, polled below five percent.

However, USA Today also noted that Christie remains a contender in New Hampshire. According to the New York Times, Christie has been actively seeking endorse-

ments in New Hampshire, a state that remains significant because it has the earliest primary in the nation. In November, he received an early endorsement from the New Hampshire Union Leader, a well-known newspaper for Republicans in state politics, the Times stated.

Christie was endorsed by New Hampshire Senate Majority Leader Jeb Bradley on Dec.7. The Political Monitor said that Bradley appreciated Christie’s persistence and willingness to listen and believes that these qualities would appeal to voters in New Hampshire, where 43.7 percent of resiSee CANDIDATES page 2

By Hannah Waxman staff writer

Forty-three Princeton Theological Seminary students wrote and signed an open letter petition denouncing Liberty University President Jerry Falwell’s call to violent action against Muslims on Dec.8.

“If more good people had conceal-carry permits then we could end those Muslims before they walk in and kill,” Falwell said during a Dec. 4 talk, referring to the San Bernardino shootings.

Falwell did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Liberty University issued a follow-up statement the day following Falwell’s speech to clarify that he had been referring to the couple responsible

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for the terrorist attacks, as opposed to Muslim individuals in general.

Senior Managing Editor of the Liberty University News Office Mitzi Bible deferred comment to the statement.

However, Seminary Ph.D. student Stephanie Thurston said that it doesn’t alleviate any of her worries about the flippant nature, the cheering and the way killing someone is discussed.

Since Liberty University is one of the largest nonprofit private Christian institutions in America, Thurston said it was important for the petitioners to respond to Falwell’s remarks, noting that those comments had the potential to be wide-reaching and influential.

Seminary Ph.D. student See PETITION page 3

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dents are undeclared. Christie has over 100 endorsements from political leaders in New Hampshire.

Neither Christie’s nor Cruz’s campaigns responded to requests for comment.

University politics professor Paul Frymer said that Cruz has gone up a bit further as an alternative to Trump on the far right and has likely benefitted from Carson’s decline in the polls. However, he added that more needs to happen, with other candidates declining in the polls, before Cruz can become a front-runner for the nomination. He noted that while Rick Santorum won the Iowa caucus in 2012 and Huckabee won the Iowa caucus in 2008, neither won the eventual Republican nomination.

“At the end of the day, it’d still be quite shocking for someone as

far right as him to be the nominee, and I assume that once the more moderate wing of the party sorts out its different candidates, that we’d see a move of support for someone other than Cruz,” Frymer said.

Candidates typically rise when they aren’t in the limelight and fall once they get there, Frymer noted. The question to ask, then, he said, is whether Cruz can withstand the scrutiny that comes with being more competitive now that people are starting to pay attention to him.

Frymer added that Cruz’s links to the Tea Party are currently helping more than Christie’s links as a moderate. He said he believes that Christie will not drop out of the race if he thinks he can do well enough to re-energize his campaign.

“Christie is hanging in [there], with some help with a big New Hampshire endorsement, but has

yet to really separate himself from the likes of Rubio and Bush,” he noted.

Frymer noted that traditionally, the political spectrum changes as more candidates drop out and parties think about the general election where they want a candidate who can beat the Democratic nominee in the national race.

However, such changes won’t happen until it gets closer to the elections day, he added.

An unexpected turn in the race was terrorism, which was the focus of Tuesday’s GOP debate and has given yet more life to Trump’s campaign and all the attention for his hardline anti-terrorism, Frymer noted. He added that Trump is willing to fuel people’s anger in a way that no one else can or deems appropriate.

“It’s hard for others to compete, especially if they want to engage in any set of facts or realities,” Frymer said.

PUASL aims to create ASL courses for foreign language credit, Lualdi says ASL

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contribution to the University’s mission of diversity and cultural understanding.

“It’s also not often that you have Deaf students here at Princeton, so I wanted to take advantage of the opportunities that you have when you have a Deaf, native speaker of ASL on campus,” Lualdi said.

Liz Erickson, the Associate Director for Disability Services, also met with members of PUASL. Erickson said that non-credit ASL courses were offered through the Office of Disability Services about a year and a half ago, but the courses were not offered after that. She added that when the University did offer courses, students seemed interested.

“I think that right now, there is a great deal of interest and mo-

mentum on the part of students to learn ASL and to be able to communicate using that language,” Erickson said.

Khristina Gonzalez, Associate Dean of the College and Director of Programs for Access and Inclusion, and Council of the Humanities lecturer Eileen Forestal, who teaches LIN 312: Linguistics of American Sign Language, said that they believe the course could be beneficial to students and to the University’s campus community as a whole.

“It’s great that Princeton is opening that pathway for students to learn American Sign Language and they can learn more about the Deaf community and Deaf culture as well as the history by learning American Sign Language,” Forestal, the only Deaf professor on campus, said through an interpreter.

Forestal added that she is thrilled to be part of an educa-

tional movement that began with Lualdi starting the ASL Club, an act for which she gives him much credit.

Lualdi said that ASL classes could create a larger group of people who sign on the University’s campus and make the campus a more welcoming place for Deaf individuals. He also said he hopes that the course would become a permanent credit-bearing course offering, and that the eventual goal is to have a foreign language sequence in ASL that satisfies the foreign language requirement.

“What we’re doing is setting up small stepping stones to get to our ultimate goal,” Lualdi said.

“It’s important that the non-credit class is not misunderstood as the solution itself — it’s just a temporary offering to meet the immediate demand for ASL instruction since it’s much easier to set up.

But it’s not of much value or sustainable in the long term.”

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Thomas Seat explained that the petition was intended to address the disenfranchisement that Muslims, after reading Falwell’s statement, might experience. He added that the students at the Seminary wished to assert that there are many Christian communities that love their Muslim neighbors.

“I think the original impetus for writing the letter is Falwell addressed those comments to Christian scholars, so as Christian scholars we felt compelled to let the world know that not all Christians feel this way,” Seat said.

Ph.D. student at the Seminary Margaret Elwell said that the group of students who were concerned by Falwell’s remark coalesced immediately as they felt the need to react.

Elwell said she was one of

the students to organize concerned students and facilitated the collaboration of a core group of 15 who worked together to write the letter..

Elwell noted the petition focuses on the basic tenets of Christianity — loving God and one’s neighbor — because she and her colleagues wanted the letter to be something that people could read and sympathize with if they were bothered by Falwell’s words.

“It’s important that we do it in a way that is true to the core of something that Christians can agree on,” she said.

Seat explained that in the end, the final statements emphasizing the importance of love in the Christian faith were unanimously agreed upon.

Thurston, who was also a key organizer of the group, explained the importance of addressing the nuances of the controversial issue of gun control.

“Speaking theologically …

in the Christian tradition, there are some people who are pacifists and would just kind of reject this Falwell statement outright,” she said.

“There are also others who believe in a just-war tradition and want to think about what kinds of killings or wars of self-defense might be justified.”

She added that the students felt compelled to respond to Falwell’s comments because they often were bothered by the rhetoric that glorifies and celebrates violence in the media.

Thurston said that the Seminary’s responses to the petition created a strong community of students doing public theology and caring about an issue together.

She added that she has received positive feedback on social media in support of the petition.

As of 5 p.m. Thursday, more than 300 people signed the petition.

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the same rules as USG officer candidates.

He added that if a referendum has been passed, USG will work with the sponsors to draft a policy proposal to send to the appropriate administrator.

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

Golub explained that new referendum policies were needed because the previous rules were very unclear, noting that as chief elections manager in spring 2015, he found it was difficult to run the controversial referenda on divestment and Hose Bicker within the context of the USG framework set out

by the elections handbook.

Cheng noted that in the case of the divestment referendum, both sides of the issue reported inappropriate conduct, such as ripping signs, and the elections handbook contained no regulations on referenda to resolve the issue.

Cheng also said that the USG instituted the pro-con statements to guarantee both sides’ equal representation and to educate students.

“We don’t want people to vote without any education on the topic,” she said.

Cheng noted that Golub and Zhan Okuda-Lim ’15 had already looked into referendum rules at Harvard and Yale for comparison. Golub explained that over the summer, he and

Cheng rewrote the referendum rules before presenting them to the senate in the fall to finalize them.

U-councilor Ethan Marcus ’18, who drafted an amendment to the USG constitution based on the referendum reforms on behalf of the senate, noted that discussions during the fall centered around mostly logistical issues, such as the number of signatures necessary for a referendum to appear on the ballot.

Marcus said that further tweaking may prove necessary but that he is hopeful that the reforms will allow USG to function better in the referendum process and the chief elections manager to gain logistical support during the process.

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gether after holding discussions within the club and polling club members for their opinion.

While the Ivy Club Graduate Board supported the proposal, the final decision was made by the officers, she noted.

Ivy Club Graduate Board president Charles Lowrey ’79 did not respond to requests for comment.

Interclub Council president Jean-Carlos Arenas ’16 noted that the leadership of each eating club individually decides that club’s admission processes and that the council wasn’t involved in the decision-making. “[The change] would certainly continue the mission of accessibility and give students more options in terms of Bicker,” he said.

Arenas is a former staff writer and chief copy editor for The Daily Princetonian.

Ivy’s decision to join multi-

club Bicker system leaves Tower Club the only single Bicker eating club.

Tower president George Papademetriou ’16 said that the club will not join multi-club Bicker system next semester.

He explained that while the club wants to be accessible to as many students as possible, it also wants to maximize each bickeree’s chance of success by spending enough time with them during the Bicker process.

Joining the multi-club Bicker system might make getting to know bickerees difficult for club members due to the resulting increase in the number of bickerees, he noted.

“We want to give people a fair shot,” Papademetriou said.

The clubs first announced the implementation of the multiclub system in fall 2012. Cap & Gown Club, Cannon Club, Tiger Inn and Cottage Club were the initial participants, while Tower and Ivy only allowed students to bicker that club.

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Meat and morality through time Colter Smith columnist

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I know eating meat is morally indefensible, but I do it anyway.”

This is a quote I’ve heard from more than one friend of mine. The morality of eating meat has been on my mind for at least a year, and after much thought I have been forced to come to the conclusion that in most cases, it is unethical. While the environmental impact of eating meat is large, to me, the biggest problem is the slaughter of farm animals. We all agree that purposefully killing a human is very, very wrong.

The same reasoning should apply to all things with consciousness as well. Although these animals are less intelligent than us, most of them in adulthood are likely more intelligent than newborn humans, whom we all agree shouldn’t be killed. To make matters worse, farm animals are often held in very cramped housing, fed unnatural foods and, in general, treated immorally in their often short trips from birth to the slaughterhouse. With all this, it’s fairly clear that meat is ethically unsound.

However, this article is not simply about making an unimaginative argument for vegetarianism. In 2013, scientists in the Netherlands produced the world’s first artificial hamburger. The beef in this burger had never been inside a cow; it was grown entirely in a lab. While this burger cost over $300,000 to produce, as with all technologies, the price is bound to go down as it is further researched, produced and commercialized. In fact, the company that produced this burger plans to have it on the market in just five years.

This means that within the next century or two, the world could make the switch entirely to artificial meat. Once we have a nearly identical alternative, people will begin to become more and more ethically repulsed by the idea of slaughtering animals for food. Within just a generation or two of this switch, slaughtering livestock will be completely banned in nearly every country in the world. Almost the entire global population, most of whom will have never tried natural meat, will consider the practice awful and deplorable. Most interestingly however, they will look back at us, humanity’s meat eaters, and wonder how members of their species were ever so morally corrupt and blind to have caged, slaughtered and consumed the flesh of another living being.

Interestingly enough, we today think many of these same things about many practices of humans in the past. How could so many societies of our fellow man have practiced slavery? How could they have discriminated against people on the basis of race, gender or religion? How could they have executed people for their sexual orientation, practiced human sacrifice or allowed infanticide? The answer is the same answer as that which allows us to eat meat without an ethical alarm going off in our head: societal pressure.

We take almost all of our initial cues about what is right and wrong from what is happening around us and what we are told. Nearly all of us have been raised in societies that say infanticide is wrong but killing animals is mostly fine, and so that is what most of us believe. However, we could very well have been raised in a completely opposite culture.

In that case, changing my views and practices on infanticide would take, at first, a lot of hard and determined thought about what is right and wrong. I would be forced to unlearn decades of cultural beliefs, and after that, need the will and strength to oppose nearly all of my peers and elders, often with the implicit or explicit threat of ostracism or worse.

All of this is not to say that doing bad things is morally acceptable if everyone is doing it. However, this does allow us to understand why some people in the past did the things they did.

Even if we all stop eating meat, that’s not to say that some society in the future won’t find other major moral faults with our generation. In fact, I’m completely sure that they will. What it will be, I can only guess — perhaps our execution of criminals or our performance of abortions. Given, then, that we don’t know which of the things we are doing later peoples will find to be wrong, our moral failing is not so much a problem of our immorality, bur rather of our stupidity.

Put in this light, it is a little easier to understand the actions of our ancestors.

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

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Being thankful this holiday season

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s the last week of the fall semester wanes and students return home for the duration of winter recess, we would all do well to remember how truly fortunate of a position we enjoy. We attend a world-class university. As a consequence, we are frequently afforded academic and social opportunities, of which many others may only dream.

And while we are diverse in our backgrounds, traditions and troubles, there is an undeniably lucky, wonderful and exciting quality that characterizes all of our admission to and experience of the University. The Board encourages students to express their gratitude for the opportunities available at the University to those who make them possible, including University staff, professors and teaching assistants.

This endorsement of the University experience is not to say our community is perfect. Nor is it to ignore that studying and living at this University can entail immense academic stress and social anxiety. In the past few weeks alone, campus protests surrounding the legacy of racism at this institution reminded us that the University is not the Orange Bubble we sometimes imagine it to be.

But the privilege of a University education is nonetheless an exceptional one.

We should be thankful for it.

The staff of the residential colleges, dining halls, campus stores and more work tirelessly to make our daily lives possible. They dispose of our trash. They sort our mail. They mop our f loors. They prepare and serve our food, even at 1:30 a.m. on Sunday mornings. Every student should make an effort to personally thank the staff members who make our lives so much easier. Using their names and engaging them in full conversation during lulls in their work help us better understand their experiences. In

addition, making an effort to be cleaner, more courteous and more helpful to staff goes a long way toward reducing their formidable workload.

The same may be said for our teachers and mentors. Professors and teaching assistants, caught in the purgatory of academia and student life, are urged to devote as much time as possible to students because of the University’s proud and firm undergraduate focus. But they were once undergraduates, too. They too had to deal with worries about summer internships, coursework and final exams. We are fortunate they are now here to guide us and perhaps to prevent us from repeating the mistakes they once made in our shoes. The University’s advisors and teachers have devoted their lives to their work, and by extension, to us. We should be less inclined to complain about a worse-than-expected grade on a paper, and we should remember that even if office hours are short or ill-scheduled, they represent the free time of some of the best minds in the world.

Finally, we should ref lect on our classmates, friends, dining hall acquaintances and even our adversaries from precept. It is easy, at the University, to forget the mutual vulnerabilities and aspirations that unite us as undergraduates attempting to carve ourselves places in the world. We should thank our classmates for their friendships, their brilliance and their support. And we should attempt to empathize with those whom we are inclined to dismiss or simply forget.

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-inChief.

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In response to “The ‘right to offend’ goes both ways” Brian Zack ’72

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o the Editor: This is in response to “The ‘right to offend’ goes both ways” by Will Rivitz (Dec.

16).

Will, with all due respect, you are confounding the issue of free speech with the issue of whether speech should or should not be met with social condemnation. These are two different things. As you point out, no one is arguing that First Amendment rights should be curtailed. In this sense, the “right to offend” certainly goes both ways. But you are missing a key point.

Take, for example, the drive to stop people from “appropriating” the attire of a cultural group to which they do not belong as a Halloween costume. This manifested on our cam-

pus through posters and discussion.

Students used speech as a way to raise and spread awareness. On a few campuses, the administration actually issued costume guidelines.

Now, no one claims such “speech” on campus should be prevented by law. However, some who were aggrieved that their cultures were being used for others’ costumes made it clear that, in their view, this was offensive, wrong and even immoral.

Others felt that there was nothing wrong with these costumes, and that the offended groups were being overly sensitive.

No one denied the other’s “right to offend,” in your sense. The argument was about whether this particular action was morally wrong. An analogous situation exists with respect to the issue of renaming the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Wilson College.

And to get back to your own example,

all would agree that students were legally “within their rights” to protest the expressed views of Ms. Christakis. The relevant issue was whether they were morally right in doing so.

So “[t]hose who are arguing that free speech on campuses nationwide is under attack” are not “conf lating protected speech with repercussionfree speech.” The question — and it is an important one — is whether the repercussions, which have the intended and possibly the actual effect of reducing the expression of certain views, are morally justified.

It seems to me that this is a legitimate disagreement that deserves recognition and discussion, hopefully between reasonable people of good will. It is on a different plane from, and cannot be resolved by, the recognition that “the ‘right to offend’ goes both ways.”

Brian Zack ’72

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Maryland star Melo Tigers look to make statement as they battle no. 10-ranked Ohio State Trimble could pose W. B-BALL trouble on offense Continued from page 6

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48.8 percent shooting, and forward Shayla Cooper, who leads the team in rebounds (9.3 per game).

Princeton holds the advantage in rebounding. The team currently ranks sixth in the nation in rebounding margin (+15.8) and claims 46.2 rebounds per game compared to Ohio State’s 37.9. Senior forward Annie Tarakchian is instrumental in securing possession for the Tigers, with 9.4 rebounds per game.

Tarakchian and the rest of the starting five will have to set the pace of the game early on against the Buckeyes, a highly athletic and offensive team.

“They’re very strong, and they’re athletic and have a fast style of play, so I think we’re just going to have to really focus on our fundamentals overall,” Tarakchian said. “It’s going to be crucial that we play a five-on-five game. Taking them one-on-one is not going to be good for us, so I think our biggest key is to be a five-on-five team.”

The starting five, with senior

forward Annie Tarakchian, senior guards Michelle Miller, Amanda Berntsen and Alex Wheatley and junior guard Vanessa Smith, have been developing as a dynamic team. Tarakchian and Miller lead the team in points per game, while Berntsen leads in assists (3.6 per game). In the Tigers’ recent wins over Pittsburgh and Fordham, Wheatley played a key role with 15 points and 5.5 rebounds per game. For her performance, she was recently named the Ivy League Women’s Basketball Player of the Week. The youngest player on the starting squad, Smith has scored an average of 6.2 points per game and has made 14 steals and 45 rebounds over the span of ten games.

While the Tigers have developed strong fundamentals, their early-season wins have not come without challenges. On Monday, Fordham opened the second half of the game on a 13-2 run, forcing the Tigers to find their defense.

A similar scene played out on Saturday when Pittsburgh responded to a strong Princeton offensive start with an 18-3 run right before halftime. These mid-game runs, however, will

ultimately develop depth on the team as players outside the starting five work to establish their own rhythm.

“Basketball is a game of runs, so learning to deal with them and grow as a team to overcome them is going to be super important for us earlier on in our season,” Smith said. “Seeing adversity early on is kind of better for us and it helps us grow stronger as a team.”

As the favorites in this matchup, the Ohio State Buckeyes will undoubtedly provide some more constructive adversity for the Tigers. The good news is that the Princeton starters have proven themselves able to sustain their level of play away from Jadwin. The Tigers have averaged 77.5 points per game away from home and hold a +15.8 rebounding edge and 17.3 assists on the road. Of course, the Buckeyes are no average opponent and will challenge the Tigers to bring their best play.

Princeton and OSU will face off at 7 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 18 at Schottenstein Center. On Sunday the Tigers will continue their Ohio trip with a game against No. 12 Dayton.

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son, and those shots may be the most available ones on Saturday with Maryland’s size and shot blocking inside. However, the Terrapins have only allowed opponents to shoot 33 percent from three this year, a number Princeton will likely have to surpass in order to emerge with a win.

Princeton will try and win its first game against a ranked opponent since its 2012 victory against then 25th-ranked Harvard, this time against an even more formidable opposition. The

“Certainly every game, as a team, we want to improve on both ends of the floor. ... We have been getting the shots we want on offense just at times have been struggling to put them in. ” Spencer Weisz

junior forward

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Tigers set to take on Ohio State Buckeyes

By Berthy Feng contributor

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The Tigers are currently riding a 7-game winning streak as they head to Columbus to take on Ohio State.

Hoping to extend a sevengame win streak, the Princeton women’s basketball team (9-1) will travel to Ohio to square off against No. 10 Ohio State on Friday.

The Ohio State Buckeyes (6-3 overall) have so far lost only to top-tier teams UConn, South Carolina and Notre Dame. The Buckeyes hold a 1-0 all-time record against the Tigers, having won their only other meeting in

1979.

Ohio State has scored an average of 84.7 points per game.

Princeton has scored an average of 74.7 points per game and holds a field goal percentage comparable to that of the Buckeyes (45.4 percent versus the Buckeyes’ 45.6 percent).

Ohio State’s Kelsey Mitchell leads the Buckeyes in scoring, with 24.4 points per game. Other key players on the Ohio State side are guard Ameryst Alston, who has averaged 17.9 points on See W. B-BALL page 5

MEN’S SOCCER

Sanner to head to MLS Combine in January

By Miles Hinson sports editor

After stellar performance after stellar performance during his senior season, and indeed, throughout his career as a Tiger, forward Thomas Sanner now looks to take his talents to the next level.

Sanner, the unanimous choice for Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year, has been invited to the 2016 Adidas Major League Soccer Player Combine. He is one of just 59 players from across Division I soccer to be invited to Combine, where he and others hope to impress scouts from MLS teams across the nation.

Throughout the 2015 season, Sanner’s prowess on offense was second to none. He led the Ancient 8 in scoring by a large margin, finding the back of the net 13 times

this season — nearly double that of the league’s second leading scorer (Harvard’s Jake Freeman, with 7). His ability to create shots himself made him a remarkably adept playmaker — Sanner was also tied for second in the Ivies for assists, finding his teammates for goals 5 times on the season.

The list of Sanner’s accomplishments for the Orange and Black is certainly a long one. He was named First-Team All-Ivy during his sophomore season and was the Ivy League Rookie of the Year during the 2012 season.

Indeed, having been such a focal point for the offense in his four years as a Tiger, it appears that one major transition Sanner could have to make is working with a host of players, all of whom are as accomplished and as used to being the go-to guy as he is.

However, with so much superstar talent around him, Sanner’s abilities as a playmaker could come into full view at the event.

“What I’m pretty excited about in the Combine is that all these guys are going to be trying to show off their skills individually, and that kind of suits my game,” Sanner said.

“I want to get them the ball. I want them to be able to show their stuff, and then get the ball in the box and be able to finish [and] let them do all the fancy stuff.”

Helping ease the transition is the connection with a former Tiger who’s gone through the same process. Cameron Porter ’15, a star player during his four years at Princeton, went to the Combine in January of 2015 and was taken in the third round of the MLS SuperDraft by the Montreal Impact.

Indeed, starting a career the way Porter did could bode much success. In one of his first appearances for the Impact, Porter put in a goal in the 94th minute to send his team to the CONCACAF Champions’ League semifinals.

“We’ve definitely talked and will be continuing to talk as I continue to prepare.

He told me that it’s definitely a hard environment and a unique environment with such good players,” Sanner said. “But basically you just have to play your own game and worry about the things you can control … and be confident and do your best.”

While the transition from NCAA to professional sports may seem like a huge hurdle, Sanner pointed out that this process of “stepping up” was something he already experienced when moving from high school to Division I soc-

cer. The need to comport oneself as professionally as possible and to make as strong an impression on a new coaching staff remains the same.

“Coming onto a new team and learning to mesh is something you get used to — I’ve played on summer teams and whatnot when I go home,” Sanner said. “I’ll play with other teams and learn to mesh with a new group of guys — [learning] what people like and how to play with certain people. There’s definitely a similarity between coming into college and what I would expect [going] into the Combine.” “[It’s nice] having a blank slate, where coaches are just developing their opinions on you, [but] you have to be professional in all aspects — not just on the field but off the field, in warmups and just everything,” Sanner said.

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Men’s basketball travels to Baltimore to take on Terrapins

By Alan Balson contributor

The Princeton men’s basketball team travels to 6thranked Maryland (9-1) this weekend in what will be by far its toughest test of this young season. Rebounding from two straight losses, the Tigers’ leading scorers, juniors Henry Caruso and Spencer Weisz, combined for 45 points as Lipscomb’s struggles continued. However, Princeton will likely face a much more dangerous opponent in the Terrapins.

Maryland started the season as the top-ranked team in the country, with its only loss so far coming to 11thranked North Carolina. The best team on paper the Tigers will face during the regular season, the Terrapins recovered from that loss by beating their last three opponents by a combined margin of 72 points. Maryland boasts an explosive backcourt comprised of leading scorer Melo Trimble, one of the premier point guards in the country, and standout Duke transfer Rasheed Sulaimon. Further-

more, 6-foot-11-inch center Diamond Stone, one of five Maryland players averaging more than 10 points per game, will pose a demanding physical challenge for any Tiger big man who defends him on Saturday.

Against Maryland’s size and athleticism, Princeton will need the junior trio of Caruso, Weisz and forward Peter Miller to continue its strong recent play. The three upperclassmen combined scored 57 points and 33 rebounds against Lipscomb and will need a similar performance for the Tigers to prevail against the Terrapins. Sophomore guard Amir Bell, the team’s leader in steals with just under two per game, will also need to step up defensively in order to contain Trimble, Maryland’s best player and a potential future first-round NBA draft pick.

Another area in which Princeton will look to gain an advantage is three-point shooting. The Tigers have averaged over ten makes from outside per game this seaSee M. B-BALL page 5

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The Tigers will take on the University of Maryland, currently ranked no. 6 in the country per the AP Poll.

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