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Fenwick Hospitality to operate bar, restaurant in Arts and Transit Project By Betty Liu staff writer
The University will be partnering with the Fenwick Hospitality Group, a local restaurant group, to operate a new bar and restaurant along Alexander Street and University Place next spring as part of the Arts and Transit Project. Fenwick operates 37 Panera Bread restaurants in North Jersey and a farm-to-table restaurant called Agricola Eatery in Princeton. University Director of Community and Regional Affairs Kristin Appelget explained that the University formed a selection committee comprised of a variety of University offices in choosing a partner to operate the bar and restaurant. She herself was on the selection committee. Tracy Lawler, an outside consultant who assisted with
the selection committee, deferred comment to Appelget. Appelget explained that the committee worked over the past several months with a locally based restaurant consultant firm to find a suitable partner. Interested restaurants sent in proposals, which the committee then reviewed. When considering the proposals, the committee looked at factors including type of restaurant, type of cuisine and menu concepts, she said. Appelget said that the selection committee was impressed by Fenwick’s proposal for a bar and restaurant and liked the fact that Fenwick is locally owned. “Their ideas all seemed to resonate with what we thought would be of interest to the various constituent groups, potential customers in that area,” Appelget said. Terra Momo Restaurant Group, which owns three lo-
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The Fenwick Hospitality Group’s restaurant and bar will be part of the Arts and Transit Project.
cal restaurants, was originally selected as the operator but later dropped out of the project. Appelget said that the bar and restaurant will consist of the former north and south station buildings in the train station. The south building
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will be a full service restaurant, while the north building will have a bar and also more limited food menu. The opening of this restaurant is a part of larger renovations conducted by the Arts and Transit Project, which also includes improvements
to public roadways, a new train station and new buildings for the Lewis Center for the Arts. When asked about what type of food would be served, Appelget deferred comment to Jim Nawn, the owner of the See FENWICK page 3
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Milner, Tingley GS ’10 discuss partisan politics, foreign affairs at lecture on Tuesday staff writer
The famous phrase that “politics stops at the water’s edge,” meaning that Americans abandon partisan domestic conf licts when confronting international issues, is not really true, Wilson School professor Helen Milner said in a lecture on Tuesday. Milner and Dustin Tingley GS ’10, a professor of government at Harvard, were discussing their recent book, “Sailing the Water’s Edge: The Domestic Politics of American Foreign Policy.” Barton Gellman ’82, visiting professional specialist at the Wilson School and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist,
moderated the discussion. Milner, who is also the director of the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, explained that most books on foreign policy either focus on the international dimensions or zero in on how different presidents’ personalities affect their decision-making. She explained that “Sailing the Water’s Edge” takes the middle ground between these two ideas and incorporates the discussion on how U.S. leaders operate within longstanding, stable political institutions. The book takes a stance against an argument of two presidencies, she said, where an “argument of two presidencies” supposes that there
is one kind of presidency that concentrates on domestic issues and cooperation between the President and other branches of government, as well as the public, and another kind of presidency that focuses on how the President can make foreign policy independently without such interventions. “We just looked at this and said, you know, that just isn’t true in a lot of foreign policy areas,” Milner said. Tingley gave an example of how domestic issues and different government branches help shape international policy by explaining how the U.S. used textiles in an effort to encourage trade with See LECTURE page 2
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Former Mathey College DSL has moved to a job at Career Services.
Frawley takes senior Career Services position By Zaynab Zaman senior writer
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Helen Milner, Barton Gellman ’82 and Dustin Tingley GS ’10 spoke on campus on Tuesday afternoon.
Matthew Frawley, the former Director of Student Life of Mathey College, has departed his position in Mathey to work as the Senior Associate Director of Career Education in the University’s Office of Career Services. His new position became effective on Nov. 30, according to the Career Services website. Frawley served as the DSL of Mathey for more than eight years, according to Head of Mathey College Harriet Flower. Frawley explained that he will be helping organize the Career and Life Vision
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workshops and working on integrating those workshops more into campus life. He said that as the DSL, he had a pulse on student life and was able to understand what students will likely be receptive to. He added he has also built good relationships with colleagues in many different areas of campus, which will help Career Services further integrate into campus life. Career Services Director of External Relations and Operations Evangeline Kubu said that Frawley brings a wealth of expertise and extensive knowledge of the residential college system to his new position with Career Services, adding that Frawley really See FRAWLEY page 3
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Pakistan. He noted that the constituents of a few states where textiles were an important commodity disapproved of the efforts, leading Congress to substitute trade policy with military strategies. Climate change is another factor that impacts the relationship between foreign policy and domestic governance, he said. “The U.S. military is really scared of climate change,” Tingley said, noting that drastic changes to the Earth’s climate would make military operations more expensive. “Climate change is a security issue, and so it’ll be interesting in some senses to see how some of the rhetoric plays out here.” Both Milner and Tingley added, however, that there have been stellar, historical moments in which foreign
policy was most effective. “I’ve been kind of inspired by the handling of both Ukraine and Myanmar,” Tingley said, referring to the efficient use of sanctions and aid support in these two countries. Milner also cited the international policymaking in effect after World War II, saying that strategies such as the Marshall Plan, movements to stabilize the global economy and international alliances such as NATO were a powerful combination in saving Western Europe from the rise of Communism. A Q&A followed the lecture, with topics ranging from the Iran nuclear deal, an argument for the expansion of the military and urgency in forwarding the ideas discussed in the book to elected officials. The lecture, entitled, “Sailing the Water’s Edge: The Domestic Politics of American Foreign Policy,” took place in Robertson Hall at 4:30 p.m.
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Barton Gellman ’82 moderated a discussion about partisan politics and foreign affairs on Tuesday.
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understands how the residential colleges work and is in an excellent position to facilitate greater collaboration between Career Services and the residential colleges. She added that Frawley has a grasp on how students progress through their time at the University and understands what their needs are. “We are looking forward to his creativity, his energy, his innovative thinking and ways that we can expand our career education program,” Kubu said. Flower said that the
“We are looking forward to his creativity, his energy, his innovative thinking and ways that we can expand our career education program.” Evangeline Kubu,
Career Services Director of External Relations and Operations
search for a new DSL is currently underway and that all advertisements for the position have been posted, explaining that the applicants will be reviewed and selected for interviews by a search committee. This committee will be comprised of both administrators in Mathey and administrators working in the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, she said. She noted that the DSL position is a very demanding job, requiring the DSL to balance a number of very different skills and roles. For example, she said, the person must be able to be both an authority figure with disci-
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plinary power and approachable for students. “You need someone who can build community in a diverse environment but can also stay calm in a crisis and deal with those tough moments that may come up,” she said. Frawley said that he thinks his biggest accomplishment as DSL was probably his efforts to expand what goes into the role of a residential college advisor. “I feel like we really changed understanding of that role from almost an information hub to really focusing on building communities within the residential colleges and making people feel at home,” he said. Frawley explained that in addition to adapting the RCA position, he also worked toward increasing college loyalty. He noted that though there was very little enthusiasm several years ago at events such as awards ceremonies, those events now display clear residential college pride. He has helped create events such as Clash of the Colleges and intercollegiate Quidditch in order to increase residential college spirit, he said. Frawley explained that now he will be more intentional about getting time with students, which was easier when he could easily grab daily lunches with students in Mathey. However, because he will also be doing career and life counseling for students, he will still be interacting with undergraduates to a significant degree. “It will change, but I’m going to do as much as I can to make it change as little as possible,” he said. He noted that though he is sad to be leaving Mathey, he will hopefully be able to expand the positive work he did for the residential college to help the whole university. “We’re sad he’s leaving but we’re thrilled that he has this incredibly cool job and we will get to work with him in a different capacity, where I think he really will add a whole new dimension to Career Services,” Flower said.
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Fenwick Hospitality Group. Nawn did not respond to requests for comment. Appelget added that the format of a restaurant and bar would be of interest to community members and University students. She noted the location’s proximity to McCarter Theatre. “With the proximity to McCarter Theatre, we feel that the new bar and restaurant will be very much of interest to patrons who are going to McCarter,” she said. Paul Finley, program manager for the University’s Office of Real Estate Development, deferred comment to Appleget. Students said they were unaware of the restaurant but gave favorable responses upon hearing about it. “After four years at Princeton, it’s really nice to see a
new restaurant open on campus in order to offer some diversity,” Ryan Fulmer ’16 said.
“Their ideas all seemed to resonate with what we thought would be of interest to the various constituent groups, potential customers in that area.” Kristin Appelget,
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Kyle Huang ’19 said that he thinks the restaurant sounds interesting and that he would probably check it out.
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Too poor for college, too rich for financial aid” is a phrase that describes the awkward financial status of those who can afford college, but not comfortably. Many upper middle class families belong to this income bracket. They are financially secure, but even for them, the extravagant cost of college these days is a huge burden. Therefore, when it comes to summer planning, many such families find that they simply cannot justify spending additional thousands of dollars so that their children can participate in summer study abroad programs. Princeton offers an incredible array of summer study abroad options, including language immersion programs and Global Seminars. These courses are also extremely expensive. I participated in Princeton in Spain this past summer, which cost $3,900 for tuition, lodging and meals. On top of that, we had to buy airfare and textbooks and bring some incidental money; if we followed the recommended guidelines, all these additional costs came up to $1,970. The total, then, comes to $5,870, and this is only for a four-week-long program. While financial aid itself does not extend into the summer, students on financial aid are eligible for several funding sources. For example, with Princeton in Spain, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures offered scholarships for financial aid students. Further, the Dean’s Fund for Study Abroad also provided up to $3,000, and the actual amount given to interested students was decided based on the quality of students’ essays, the relevance of the programs to their academic goals and their demonstrated financial needs. The students not on financial aid, for the most part, were on their own. Even some internships sponsored by the University have this problem. All IIP placements come with a financial award that “is estimated to cover meals, lodging, local transportation, and transportation to and from the airport.” It also covers airfare for students on aid; those who are not on aid, on the other hand, have to purchase their own tickets unless they can procure the rare additional funds through the Student Activities Funding Engine. This means that some students work for eight weeks and still lose a thousand dollars or more. The issue of cost severely limits the options for students not on financial aid. Some of them may feel pressured to study abroad during the summer if and only if the program is useful for their majors. I’m by no means suggesting that the University should divert funds away from financial aid students to nonfinancial aid students. Nor am I trying to undermine the generosity of the University. I do, however, believe that the University should look into providing better, more comprehensive funding opportunities for students of all kinds of needs extending beyond the annual tuition, room and board. I support the establishment of more merit-based scholarships for the summer, using the University’s $22.7 billion endowment. This way, all competent students can have a chance to win funding. I also believe that students not on financial aid should be eligible for need-based funds like the Dean’s Fund. Needless to say, there is a great discrepancy in financial comfort level among non-financial aid families. For some families, paying the full sticker price of tuition is about as much as they can do. Summer funds that look at demonstrated need can assess these families’ situations and provide them with small funding. While obviously smaller than what financial aid students receive, the existence of even small funds like these, however, would be immensely helpful to families struggling with the already high costs of college. Erica Choi is a sophomore from Bronxville, NY. She can be reached at gc6@princeton. edu.
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ith Beyoncé’s “Run the World (Girls)” playing from the room’s speakers and accompanying my steps, I marched confidently into Richardson Auditorium two weeks ago. I was there to hear Laverne Cox, a woman who is the epitome of confidence, personally tell her powerful message: “trans is beautiful.” As I took my seat near the stage, I was surprised by the audience’s energy, unlike any other I had yet experienced at the University. Receiving thunderous applause, Laverne came on and commanded the stage from behind the podium, speaking like a slam poetry artist with speed, fluidity and soul. She talked about the intersections of people’s identities, like being both black and trans, and about her struggles growing up in Mobile, Ala. and later in New York City. Throughout, the audience actively responded to Laverne’s examples of homophobia and transphobia. I felt many were grateful to hear someone giving firsthand experiences and acknowledging such unfortunate truths so publicly. The audience snapped passionately, nodded their heads vigorously and often went, “uh-huh.” I think you know exactly the kind of energy I’m talking about. I wish every day at the University could feel like that Tuesday night. I wish every day could be more of a celebration of the strength and courage of the LGBTQ+ community. I wish our university could do more to acknowledge the issues affecting the LGBTQ+ community on campus more often. One issue that came up during the talk was the difference between equality and true acceptance. At the end, a student asked “If this is the tipping point for the trans community, what are we tipping towards?” We are tipping towards a point where more people will no longer have to remind themselves that members of the LGBTQ+ community are equal under the law but will instead know in their hearts and minds that LGBTQ+ people are fundamentally equal in all respects because of the fact that they are human beings. The moment we stop making assumptions about our peers based on their identities will be a step in the direction
toward true acceptance instead of just acknowledging equality. We must also remember that “hurt people hurt people.” People who are afraid are sometimes the most likely to lash out at others. That is, there is a cycle of aggression and fear. We need to come to terms with this and work to heal the underlying causes of things like homophobia and remind each other that there is nothing to be afraid of. My final takeaway was the fact that LGBTQ+ people currently are not counted as part of the U.S. Census. This raises the concern that we have no way of knowing the actual number of “out” LGBTQ+ people. This is significant because in order to understand the many diverse roles LGBTQ+ people play in the United States, we need to quantify them. We need to get real data on this group of people the same way we get data for other groups. Having access to such knowledge is one of the luxuries of our nation and we are currently excluding people from knowing how many other people like them live in their area and have lives that are similar to theirs. Oftentimes understanding is about seeing, but the true data for the LGBTQ+ community is nearly impossible to see given current data collection. Laverne Cox confidently said, “We don’t want approval, we just want to be counted.” More steps need to be taken so that members of the community can be recognized more often. For example, I would be in favor of colleges and universities collecting data for their campuses and reporting the percentage of students who identify as LGBTQ+ so that high school students could have a more accurate picture of the school at the time of admission. And I would like to see broader discussion about what it’s like to be “out” at the University so that we can do more to foster a more LGBTQ+ friendly campus. Things like this would move the University a step closer to a reality where every day would feel a little bit more like that Tuesday night with Laverne Cox. We cannot celebrate without first recognizing truths. I want to see more examples of simple recognition and acceptance so that we can celebrate the University’s LGBTQ+ community more often. Claire Thornton is a freshman from San Antonio, Texas. She can be reached at claireat@princeton.edu.
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Freedom, ‘I’dom, ‘Me’dom, where’s your ‘We’dom?” It’s an unequivocal call for compassion, sympathy and solidarity. Pop artist M.I.A.’s seemingly stoic but nonetheless fierce mien prefaces a stark shot of hundreds of people running in two straight lines behind her in her newest song, “Borders.” The scene of the self-directed music video is meant to emulate the reality of the refugee crisis today, hordes of people escaping their homes, climbing fences, packing into boats. She poses the question, “What’s up with that?” to borders, politics and identities. However, her lyrics aren’t only politically charged, but also arguably emotionally charged, given her own experiences as a refugee. She and her family lived through civil war in Sri Lranka, in hiding due to their Tamil ethnicity, and eventually attained refugee status in London. However, there they had to adjust to a foreign society that was not amicable to refugees. She questions how society selectively and arbitrarily assigns values to lives — which lives do we save, which lives do we bar from entry, which lives do we deprive of equal basic liberties and rights? M.I.A. highlights one important facet at the crux of this issue — Westerners’ temporal dis-
tance from conflict settings that impel people to flee. And even when refugees arrive at our own shores, this distance contributes to detachment from the plight of refugees, precluding any sort of empathy, let alone sympathy. But it’s not solely a problem of distance. Much of today’s political rhetoric stigmatizes emotion in discourse around the refugee crisis. Right-wing media such as Fox News inextricably links emotion with bias, urging people not to get “carried away” with emotional arguments in the debate. This is understandable — reason is credible; emotions are not. The latter can overpower the former, but we have a harder time talking about the latter than the former. It appears as though appeals to the equal dignity of all humans and criticism of people conflating immigrants with terrorists in light of recent events, based on race and religion, are indefensible. However, these are not simply tenuous arguments arising from mercurial emotions. Anyone who has been discriminated against or marginalized based on race, ethnicity or religion will inevitably feel empathy and frustration. Any immigrant will feel their pain. Anyone with a fundamental respect for human life will feel anger toward the refugee situation, toward their being shut out from numerous states within the United States and from other countries out of security concerns when they fled their own homes for the same reason. Still, these emotions do not contribute blinding biases to the debate; they provide per-
sonal narratives and perspectives that point to the complementary nature of emotion and reason. As David Brooks argued in a column in The New York Times, “…emotion is not opposed to reason; our emotions assign value to things and are the basis of reason.” It turns out that our emotions assign value to human life, dignity, justice and egalitarianism. In talking with one of my professors at a discussion on recent events, I reflected on how emotionally charged the student body — the entire community — has been and continues to be as a result of all the controversy and debate on campus and abroad. At the time, I argued that this emotion made rational discussion on these issues impractical and even impossible. My professor pointed to a speech by Eve Sedgwick, a renowned feminist, in the mid-1980s: “You can cry and talk at the same time. And once you aren’t busy trying to make yourself stop crying, then your voice will be able to come out. You can finish the sentence… It’ll get said. The women around you and the men around you will learn to listen to somebody talking who’s crying at the same time.” As far removed as many of us may be or feel from the refugee crisis, we need to talk more about this issue on campus, but let us not forget our basic humanity and in doing so, we cannot separate emotion from reason. Sarah Sakha is a sophomore from Scottsdale, Ariz. She can be reached at ssakha@princeton. edu.
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in the WWPA conference tournament, defeating Santa Clara and Air Force before upsetting a heavily favored UC Davis squad, clinching them a spot in the tournament. Princeton’s overall record against UC San Diego is 3-6; however, earlier this season, the Tigers defeated the Tritons 12-9 in the Kap7 NorCal Invitational. Princeton has also previously defeated UC San Diego in the NCAA tournament (9-7 in the 2011 third-place game). The Tigers will continue to rely on its strong performance across the pool to oust UC San Diego. Sophomore goalie Vojislav Mitrovic has been stellar this year; his 293 saves this season, including 20 against
Harvard in CWPA semifinal and Johns Hopkins in the Southern Conference championships, are a school record. As a sophomore, his 546 saves are the third most by any Princeton goalie. Mitrovic’s save percentage of 69.6 percent earned him a CWPA Most Valuable Player of the Tournament award and a spot on the all-Southern Conference first team. Offensively, the Tigers rely on a versatile and wellbalanced squad that has placed an emphasis on collaborative play. Seven Tigers have scored at least 10 goals and had at least 10 assists in the 2015 season, a testament to Princeton’s strength across the board. The lynchpin of the high-powered Tigers offense is senior center Tommy Nelson, who has scored an impressive 70 goals this
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season. Nelson’s domineering play in the CWPA tournament, including 10 goals and 5 steals, earned him the CWPA Player of the Year Award. Freshmen Ryan Wilson, Michael Swart and Matt Payne, sophomore Jordan Colina, junior Jovan Jeremic and senior Jamie Kuprenas have also all recorded over 10 goals this season. Wilson also leads the team in assists with 37, while Kuprenas has attained 94 career assists, the fourth most in Princeton history. Though they face a difficult challenge from the Tritons, the Tigers have played confidently and dominantly throughout this season. They hope to extend their strong performance to this year’s tournament, setting their eyes on reaching the Final Four and hopefully a National Championship as well.
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some of us were able to get some good individual wins as well.” Perez stressed the longterm importance of facing tough opponents early in the season. “Overall it was important to see that top competition and see what it takes to be All-Americans and national champs,” Perez said. “Our schedule is tough and should prepare us for the real test in March.” Despite Princeton’s 1-2 performance on Sunday, the strength and potential that the Tigers demonstrated throughout the month of November was recognized
in the updated national rankings. According to the USA Today/NWCA Coaches rankings from Dec. 1, the Tigers are now ranked in the top 25 in the country, tied with Northern Iowa at the No. 25 spot. With tough matches this weekend against Northwestern and No. 12 Lehigh, the Tigers have potential to further increase their profile on the national stage and position themselves as team contenders at the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) Championships in March. Princeton will square off against Northwestern at 11 a.m. on Saturday and Lehigh at 2 p.m. Both matches will be held in Dillon Gymnasium.
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Capping a strong season, the no. 4-seeded Princeton Tigers (22-4) prepare to take on the no. 5-seeded UC San Diego Tritons (14-13) in the opening round of the men’s water polo NCAA tournament championships. The winner of the match will head to the semifinal round to face returning NCAA champions and no. 1-seeded UCLA. This is the fifth NCAA tournament appearance for Princeton since 1992 (the fourth since the program’s inception); the previous best finish by the team had been third in 2009 and
2011. The Tigers secured their berth in the tournament with a compelling display in the CWPA tournament. Princeton defeated Bucknell 11-7 and avenged an earlier loss to Harvard in the Ivy League Championships to face Johns Hopkins in the tournament championship, where a grueling 7-6 battle secured the CWPA championship for the Tigers. The no. 5-seeded Tritons struggled for much of the start of their season, ultimately finishing 14-13. However, they put up a strong performance See M. WOPO page 5
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Wrestling puts out strong showing in Big Apple By Jack Rogers senior writer
The wrestling team kicked off its dual meet schedule on Sunday in New York City, which is where the Tigers hope to finish their season in March at the 2016 NCAA Championships. The Tigers wrestled Hofstra and Nebraska at Madison Square Garden during Sunday’s Grapple at the Garden and then squared off against Illinois at the New York Athletic Club. The Tigers began the day on a strong note, avenging last season’s loss to Hofstra with a dominant 33-9 victory. The Tigers racked up team points across weight classes, with freshman 125-pounder Patrick D’Arcy and junior 197-pounder Brett Harner pinning their opponents and senior 165-pounder Judd Ziegler and senior 184-pounder Abram Ayala adding victories by major decision. The Tigers only lost three of ten bouts, with each of those losses decided by margins of two points or less.
Princeton fell to No. 4 Nebraska, but by a much closer margin than last season’s 38-6 defeat in Dillon Gymnasium. After losing the first two bouts, the Tigers got on the board when junior 141-pounder Jordan Laster scored an upset over No. 13 Anthony Abidin with a 2-1 decision. Senior 149-pounder Chris Perez followed with a victory over No. 5 Jake Suef lohn in a nailbiting 12-10 victory. With the team score at 7-6 in favor of Nebraska, the Cornhuskers took the next four bouts to go up 21-6. Harner won in sudden victory to add to the Tigers’ total, and junior heavyweight Ray O’Donnell scored an upset over No. 13 Collin Jensen to bring the final team score to 21-12. The last time Princeton wrestled Illinois in 2012, the Tigers lost all ten bouts in a 41-0 thrashing. The result was much closer on Sunday afternoon, as the Tigers fell to the No. 13 Fighting Illini by just five points. The Tigers took three of the first four bouts to lead 9-5 but lost the next four bouts to trail
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20-9. Once again, Harner grabbed a hard-fought victory and O’Donnell battled to another win over a nationally ranked opponent, this time upending No. 14 Brooks Black. Although the final team score was 20-15 in favor of Illinois, the Ti-
gers had a lot of positives that they took away from their victory over Hofstra and battles against tough Big Ten competition. “I’d say this weekend was a good test,” Perez said. “Coach [Chris] Ayres modeled these dual meets to
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Men’s basketball remains perfect on season, takes down Lafayette at home By Alan Balson contributor
Princeton men’s basketball (4-0 overall) got out to its best start to a season since 1997-98 with two strong wins in the last week. On the Wednesday of Thanksgiving break, Princeton hosted Lafayette (1-4), a team which it had lost to last season. However, this time around, the Tigers soundly defeated the Leopards, getting off to a hot 14-2 start and never looking back, eventually winning the game 10452. It was an all-around team performance with five players scoring in double figures, including two freshmen, forward Noah Bramlage, who led the way with 14 points, and guard Devin Cannady. Princeton shot 48 percent from three, making
17 in total, and grabbed almost twice as many rebounds as Lafayette, leading 50-26 in that category. Furthermore, all 15 players on the roster got in the game, and no one played more than 20 minutes. On Monday, the Tigers turned in another convincing performance, beating nearby Fairleigh Dickinson (2-5) 91-61 at home. After a close start, with the score tied with 7 minutes left in the first half, Princeton opened up a lead behind a slew of three-pointers and went on 14-4 run to end the half. The Knights never recovered and the game was well out of reach with 10 minutes to go. It was another team victory, with twelve players scoring and four in double digits. Junior forward and leading scorer Henry Caruso turned in
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a monster double-double for Princeton, scoring a careerhigh 27 points on 10-11 shooting and pulling down also a career-high 10 rebounds. Hitting from three and finishing inside, Caruso keyed the Tigers’ first half run and kept Fairleigh Dickinson from recovering in the second half. Junior forward Steven Cook scored 17, shooting 3-3 from outside and 5-7 overall, and Cannaday continued his impressive start to the season with 10 points and 5 rebounds off the bench. The lone blemish on the win was a subpar day at the free-throw line, as Princeton shot 59 percent (2034) which kept the game closer than it needed to be. The Tigers will look to stay undefeated when they head to New York to face Stony Brook this Friday, Dec. 5.
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The Tigers resoundingly defended home court, picking up a 91-61 victory.
Stat of the Day
91 percent Junior forward Henry Caruso shot 91 percent from the field for 27 points in the recent Tigers’ victory.
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