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Czulak ’17 wins USG presidency By Andie Ayala staff writer
Undergraduate Student Government vice president Aleksandra Czulak ’17 won the 2015 USG presidential runoff with 56.9 percent of the vote, according to chief elections manager Sung Won Chang ’18. Her opponent, USG Social Committee chair Simon Wu ’17, obtained the remaining 43.1 percent of the vote. Wu led the first round of elections on Dec. 30 with 45 percent of the votes, while Czulak took 38.8 percent and Grant Golub ’17 took 16.3 percent of the vote. Golub is a former staff writer and former staff copy editor for the Daily Princetonian. Chang explained that the two presidential candidates faced off in a runoff, because according to the USG election handbook, if neither of them had more than 50 percent of the vote, there would have to be a second election between the candidates with the highest percentage of votes. Czulak noted that her victory signifies the first time that two women have been consecutively voted as the USG president, as she will follow current USG President
Ella Cheng ’16. Cheng is a former staff writer for the ‘Prince.’ Czulak said that her first step as the elected USG president will be to bolster mental health and academic support for the student groups on campus. She explained that while she had written a lot of points about the role of committees from the USG perspective on her campaign website, it became apparent to her in the process of going door-to-door and talking with students that student groups were not giving enough mental health and academic support to students. She said that she intends for USG to collaborate with resources such as the McGraw Counseling Center and Counseling and Psychological Services in pursuit of this goal. She added that she will start planning now with the USG committees about her plans for the following semester, even though she will not be taking office until February. Wu said that even though he wasn’t elected as president, he will continue trying to find ways to make USG more accessible and relevant in people’s lives. “I support Aleks a hundred See PRESIDENT page 4
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U. agrees to allow reversal of P/D/F for required courses By Caroline Lippman staff writer
Students will be allowed to reverse a pass/D/fail grade option for a course that could be used to fulfill requirements for a concentration or a certificate, according to Undergraduate Student Government academics committee chair Ramie Fathy ’16. Students would be able to reverse these P/D/F designations once they have chosen their concentration and/or certificates, Fathy said. Fathy will communicate
with administrators to finalize an implementation date for the change, according to USG president Ella Cheng ’16. Cheng is a former staff writer for The Daily Princetonian. The committee, which organized the initiative to reform P/D/F policies, proposed several changes to the University’s current P/D/F policy on Friday to the Committee on Examinations and Standing, academics committee member Erika Kirgios’ 17 said. The proposal was based on data from a survey administered to the student body over
the Thanksgiving break, which received over 2,000 responses. Kirgios noted that the survey revealed that 22 percent of students have chosen not to pursue a potential concentration or certificate because they used a P/D/F grade in an introductory course and could not use that credit to fulfill higherlevel course requirements. “The students definitely wanted the policy to change,” Fathy explained, noting that the results show student interest in a new P/D/F policy. Kirgios added that the See PDF page 7
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USG Senate discusses P/D/F, holiday buses senior writer
The Undergraduate Student Government is discussing a complete reversal to the pass/D/fail policy in which students would be allowed to reverse a choice to take a class with a P/D/F option, academics committee chair Ramie Fathy ’16 said at the weekly senate meeting on Sunday. He noted that the committee also included an alternative in which students could reverse a P/D/F option only if the course was used for a concentration or a certificate program. “A lot of students have said that they didn’t have enough information about whether to P/D/F by the ninth week of
classes,” Fathy said. He added that students also said they wanted to use the P/D/F option for introductory language classes, which students must currently take for a grade. USG president Ella Cheng ’16 noted that the USG could push for professors to publish midterm grades for higherlevel classes, not just 100- or 200-level classes. Cheng is a former staff writer for The Daily Princetonian. U-councilor Brandon McGhee ’18 said that the Thanksgiving buses this year were a success, with tickets selling quickly due to high demand. He noted that USG implemented a wait-list and that there were 48 people on the second See USG page 2
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Bonfield named executive director of Princeton Public Library By Jessica Li senior writer
New executive director of Princeton Public Library Brett Bonfield plans to spearhead educational initiatives for privacy protection, solicit input from the community and collaborate closely with the University. Bonfield’s appointment by the library’s Board of Trustees marks the end of the tenure of current PPL director Leslie Burger. Bonfield will assume the position
when Burger steps down in January. Burger announced her plans to retire in July, leaving a vacancy for this permanent position that drew 25 candidates, according to NJ.com. Members of the PPL Board of Trustees did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Burger did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Bonfield graduated from Rutgers University and previously served as a librarian at the Whar-
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ton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University and St. Joseph’s University. He is currently the director of Collingswood Library in Camden County. Bonfield noted that in spite of changes in technology, libraries have not lost their unique function in communities. According to Bonfield, though users may not be coming in to locate the reference number of a particular book, more have been See LIBRARY page 5
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bus to Boston, which was close to capacity. “We actually made a profit this year” Jacob Cannon ’17 said. U-councilor Ethan Marcus ’18 noted that USG needs to emphasize that it provides the Thanksgiving bus service every year. Cheng noted that the USG website distinguishes “projects” and “services,” where the services recur year after year. “Thanksgiving buses is a ‘service,’ which means it happens every year,” she noted. Treasurer Hunter Dong ’17 noted that the USG could pur-
sue a long-term contract with the bus company to reduce prices. The senate also discussed the possibility of gauging demand for buses for other breaks. Paul Yang ’17 and Julie Chong ’17 of the Student Groups Recognition Committee described a number of newly approved student groups on campus. Among the newly approved groups were Alabaster Princeton, a religious group, the Cognitive Science Society, an interdisciplinary group for students interested in topics of the mind such as philosophy and neuroscience and the Wounded Tigers network, a support group for injured athletes. U-council chair Naimah
Hakim ’16 said that the word “wounded” in the group’s name might be a sensitive term. “All measures should be taken to make this an inclusive group,” U-councilor Dallas Nan ’16 said. Yang explained that the Wounded Tigers were seeking recognition from the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students “to make the group more broadly accessible,” rather than forming an informal group specifically for varsity athletes. Cheng said that she was happy about how many projects were happening towards the end of her term, but noted that student group leaders should give her ample time to include information in her weekly emails to the student body. Cheng also noted that she had been receiving many individual complaints from students about garbage pickup
times and how the trucks were disrupting students in certain dorms. When asked about when students might expect bathroom code changes, Cheng explained that University Student Life Chair Kathy Chow ’17 will be attending a meeting with housing facilities this coming week. The results of the bathroom code survey will be discussed at this meeting to determine the next course of action. Marcus and Class of 2018 senator Paul Draper ’18 went over a possible update to the USG elections handbook governing referendum measures. One of the suggested changes is to require students to contact the Chief Elections Manager at least six weeks before an elections cycle, they said. Vice president Aleksandra Czulak ’17 said that the senate will be voting on this clause in their next meeting.
News & Notes Harvard discontinues use of ‘House Master’ title Harvard Dean Rakesh Khurana said the institution would discontinue the use of the term “House Master,” which currently refers to the heads of Harvard’s residential houses, the Harvard Crimson reported. The announcement comes on the heels of a similar change that took effect at the University on Nov. 18. Khurana cited unanimous agreement concerning this change in an email signed by all of the current masters of Harvard’s residential houses. He added that the change was approved by Harvard Presi-
dent Drew Faust. “In the coming weeks, the College will launch a process in which members of the House leaders’ docket committee, working with senior College team members and the House leadership community as a whole, will suggest a new title that reflects the current realities of the role,” Khurana said, noting that the shift will serve the 21st century needs of residential student life. The title “master” was originally adopted from the British university system, but in the American context can be associated with the legacy of slavery.
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percent, she’s one of my best friends, and I’m super excited to see what she does, and support her in any way that she needs. I will continue to work on individual initiatives on my own, because change is change no matter where it comes from and there’s nothing that I can’t do now that I wouldn’t have been able to do as president,” Wu said. He says that he hopes Czulak will find ways to make USG more accessible to the student body. “People can come to school and float on by, and not really need USG, but it would be nice to see how we can make USG more of a resource, and have a greater impact,” he said. Chang explained that there was less of a voter turn out during the second round of
presidential elections, noting that 1,468 people voted compared to 1,623 in the first round, and added that he found this low participation to be disappointing. “USG is more than what people think it is,” he said. “People work really hard to improve the daily lives of other undergraduate students.” The Class of 2017 had the highest turnout of 445 valid votes, followed by 405 for the class of 2018, 319 for the class of 2019 and 299 for the class of 2016. Czulak led Wu in each of the four classes. Chang said that what makes student government work is the election process, as this process is how students can determine who will be working for them. He added that he hopes that people will keep exercising their right to vote for the elections, with the individual class council elections coming up in the spring.
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academics committee received notification shortly after the proposal from Senior Associate Dean of the College Claire Fowler that the Committee on Examinations and Standing was currently working on a process to allow students to appeal through their residential college dean to uncover a grade in a course that they took with a P/D/F if they need it to meet a departmental or certificate requirement. “I would be very much in favor of students being able to reverse a P/D/F for a course they needed for a department or a certificate,” Fowler said. “I wouldn’t like to think that choosing to P/D/F would prevent somebody from majoring in a department.” Kirgios said that the academics committee’s proposed revisions also included a reverse P/D/F policy, which would allow students to uncover their grade in a course and reverse their decision to opt for the P/D/F option up to two weeks into the following semester. However, this change will not be implemented, she noted. Fowler explained that some faculty members might not support a P/D/F policy that allows students to reverse any P/D/F choice. “I imagine that many faculty [members] would probably consider that excessive grade management,” she said. Fathy noted that the survey revealed that 50 percent of the student respondents use the P/D/F option for grade management. Fathy and Kirgios explained that a reversible P/D/F policy would still encourage students to explore new classes, and that the current policy may prevent students from fully engaging in a class if they know once they have applied an irreversible P/D/F that they will not receive a letter grade. “If you’re not investing, are you really exploring? We don’t think so,” Kirgios explained. Fowler also explained that if reversing any P/D/F were an option, students would likely uncover their grades if they did well, but keep the P/D/F grade only if they did not do well. “The biggest problem, I think, if you allowed everybody to just change everything, then it would mean that when you have a ‘P’ on your transcript, it’s basically a ‘C’,” she explained. Kirgios noted that this is a valid counterargument to a complete reverse P/D/F policy. Stevie Yang ’18 noted that the newly changed policy allowing students to reverse an old
P/D/F designation if the class can count towards a concentration or certificate is especially attractive. She explained that the neuroscience concentration requires COS 126: General Computer Science, which may be a deterrent for some students. “Because I’ve never had programming experience, I’m scared to take it, and if I took it, I couldn’t P/D/F it if I wanted to major in neuro, so it would be nice to have that option,” she added. Computer science concentrator Stephanie Liu ’18 said that she is taking a sociology class with the P/D/F option because she was interested in the topic but wanted to dedicate more of her time to her concentration requirements. She noted that taking the class using one of her P/D/Fs allowed her to explore the topic and participate in class without the pressure of earning a letter grade. However, she also added that a reversible P/D/F policy would encourage her to be more engaged in the class. “If I knew I had a chance of getting a better grade — sometimes you sell yourself short, and then because you know you’re already not putting effort in — you don’t bother,” she explained. According to Kirgios, the survey showed that 93 percent of students said they would devote more time and attention to a course they are taking P/D/F if they had the option of reversing the pass/D/fail if they did well. Fathy noted that the issue of P/D/F policies was one of the main topics students wanted addressed by USG, according to polls run last year by Cheng. Fathy said that, in the future, the academics committee may address the issue of students not having sufficient information about their standing in a class at the P/D/F designation deadline. The survey revealed that 76 percent of students have felt they lacked enough information at the time of the deadline to decide whether to elect P/D/F grading, he added. Kirgios added that it would be helpful if the faculty or administration could enforce a deadline asking faculty to provide midterm grades even in upper-level classes, where this is not required, to help students decide whether they should take the class P/D/F. In recent years, the deadline for choosing to take a class P/D/F was moved to two weeks later in the term, which is one of the reasons that the academics committee chose to focus on suggesting other changes to the policy, Kirgios explained.
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Improve coordination between McGraw tutors and course staff
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he University’s McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning provides undergraduate students with multiple opportunities to find academic assistance outside the classroom. Among these opportunities is the Center’s free study hall and individual peer tutoring program, staffed by fellow students who are well-versed in a given subject. While the Editorial Board commends the McGraw Center for providing tutoring services, we encourage the McGraw Center to improve coordination between course staff and McGraw tutors. The content of a given course is very much affected by the professor teaching it, and the professors teaching specific courses often rotate. Therefore, McGraw tutors are at times less equipped to provide assistance for a specific course be-
cause they did not take the course with the professor currently teaching it. Many students are thus left without the assistance they need to succeed in the course. Better coordination between course staff and tutors would alleviate much of this problem. At the beginning of a semester, preceptors and tutors could meet to discuss the planned content of the course for that semester. Tutors who have previously taken the course with a different professor could then ask for clarification or instruction on specific topics that were not covered when they took the course. This would equip tutors with the knowledge that they need to effectively help students understand key topics. Finally, to avoid imposing an unfair burden on McGraw tutors, we suggest that the tutors be paid at their normal hourly rate for attending these meetings.
The Board acknowledges McGraw’s stance that “McGraw undergraduate peer tutoring is intended to supplement lecture, precept, lab and office hours and not replicate or replace them.” We further acknowledge that homework help is not the primary aim of McGraw. However, the Board believes that improved coordination and increased familiarity with the course material does not undermine this attitude. Meetings at the beginning of the semester between course staff and peer tutors should not give rise to tutors giving out specific answers to problem sets. Instead, when tutors are more familiar with the course material, they are better equipped to guide their tutees and help reinforce general concepts learned in lecture. We encourage tutors to use their increased familiarity with the course content to focus on “solidifying foundational concepts”
and encourage students to develop independent problem-solving skills. Study hall and Individual peer tutoring is a vital and much-appreciated service provided by the McGraw Center with the aim of helping “students develop the skills and strategies they need to independently and successfully engage in the course.” Thus, in order to better achieve this aim, the Board urges the McGraw Center to increase coordination between the course staff and peer tutors. Connor Pfeiffer ’18 recused himself from the writing of this editorial.
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ast Thursday, senior columnist Imani Thornton wrote an op-ed titled “Can you be ‘Woke’ and B.S.E.?” She concludes that because B.S.E. students are not required to take social analysis classes, they were not “woke” enough to participate in the protests. As an African-American B.S.E. student, I say that this is completely false and baseless. First, I’d like to address the term “woke.” I’m aware of the problems facing the black community, but as a lover of grammar, I would cringe to describe myself with a word that is so grammatically incorrect. When there are plenty of words in the English language that precisely describe this concept — “aware,” “heedful,” “perceptive,” “savvy,” and even the phrase “awake to” — I find it embarrassing that we’re using a word like “woke” to refer to those of us in the
black community who are perceptive of the racism affecting us. Additionally, I’ve only ever seen it used positively for people that share a certain perspective on racism. Those of us who disagree are told to become “woke” or “stay woke.” I’d also like to address Thornton’s claim that B.S.E. students aren’t involved in on-campus protests because they do not take enough social analysis classes. I am a B.S.E. candidate majoring in computer science, and I have taken a social analysis class and an African American Studies class. In the interest of transparency, the social analysis class I took was Social Networks, and the AAS class I took was The American Dance Experience and Africanist Dance Practices (both of which I highly recommend). I get the distinct impression from her op-ed that Ms. Thornton was referring to social analysis classes that support the Black Justice League perspective. Ms. Thornton assumes that if more B.S.E. students were taking social analysis classes, they would
have left class to support the BJL. At 11:30 a.m. that Wednesday, I was in a 300-level departmental class. There was no way I was skipping class to go to a protest, especially one whose tactics and demands were disturbing to me. I believe that the BJL’s mission is to combat racism on this campus and I agree with that aspect, but I completely disagree with their tactics and their demands. The BJL’s demands may make them feel more welcome on this campus, but they do absolutely nothing to address the mindset of prejudiced or racist members of our Princeton community. In the class I was attending on the morning of the protest, I am one of only two black students. This is representative of a greater problem in the tech industry — a dearth of underrepresented minorities, particularly African-Americans and females. I am defying the stereotype of the introverted white male software engineer just by being a computer science major, and I quite frankly
believe that I was doing more to dismantle racism in the hour and a half that I chose to sit in that class than the BJL did in the 32 hours that they spent yelling in the office of University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83. By being one of a small percentage of African-American American females in computer science, I am transforming people’s expectations of what a software engineer looks like. Changing people’s hearts and minds is a much more effective way of combatting racism than creating an “us vs. them” environment like the BJL has created. To use Ms. Thornton’s words, I am “woke.” My “wokeness,” however, has taught me that the best way to combat prejudice is by being a counterexample and encouraging others to be one as well. If we spend more time pushing each other to defy the stereotypes placed on us by biased people, we will do more to eliminate racism than any protest ever could.
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Safe space, sacred place, leave a trace Bennett McIntosh columnist
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he evening after the final football game, the Band gathers in the inner sanctum of Nassau Hall — the cavernous Faculty Room. Under the watchful portraits of past presidents, our senior leadership bids heartfelt goodbyes, then we play a final song and sing Old Nassau while our notes are swallowed by history’s ponderous echoes. Two days later, the Band enters a different Princeton monument, for a different celebration. The dress code for our end-of-year celebratory “BANDquet” in the garden room of Prospect House is “tacky formal.” Cross-dressing, morph suits and hats full of thumbtacks (get it? “tacky?”) are encouraged. It’s one of the many oddities of the Band that such a farcical masquerade could be tolerated, let alone celebrated, in the former house of Woodrow Wilson, our irreverent revelry overlooking gardens that former President James McCosh likened
to Eden. The Band occupies a strange place on this ancient campus. It’s hard to imagine an organization chiefly known for interrupting Dean’s Date, getting in fights with military cadets and getting banned from various campuses, would today find approval for midnight rituals in Nassau Hall, but such is tradition’s power. The Band is peculiar, moving through the sacred spaces of Princeton without challenging them, since our traditions do not change the landscape of this campus. This year, only 72 hours before our midnight in Nassau hall, other students sat in the building, in a less traditional, more challenging display. While the Band flouts decorum in Wilson’s house, the Black Justice League and allies of the movement challenge Wilson’s very legacy. And when these students sat in, the nation (and The Nation, and The New York Times) took notice — not simply because students were questioning a U.S. President or an ancient University, but because they were doing so within a building which was, for a
few critical months, the national capitol of a young United States. History clings to this campus, rising like sickly-sweet steam from hidden passages below, congealing into a protective shell against chalk, graffiti, controversy or rapid change. Even when they were built more than a century ago, Princeton’s quintessential neo-gothic edifices were intended to strengthen our ties to times even further back, and even now we (or at least Meg Whitman ’78) continue to build for the past. Perhaps it is right that there be a certain permanence to the heart of campus. Much of Princeton’s strength lies in our history — and like the endowment, returns on history compound over time. But we must be careful how and how much we invest in the past. Woodrow Wilson is only a part of this. Questions — from how to provide an elite education without the problems of elitism to how to include all lines of inquiry in an overwhelmingly homogenous scholarly tradition — sprout again and again in the shadow of our gothic towers.
Students must play an active role in the shaping of its issues. Protest is a valuable tool, but so too are the discussions (from activists, reactionaries and navel-gazing columnists) they foster. As is our ability to physically shape the space we live in — think the emotions and issues brought to the surface by the art installation last spring called, fittingly, “The Surface.” Elsewhere, dorm walls, sidewalks, banners and “free speech walls” are a canvas magnifying student voices in realms personal and political. But our gothic towers stand unchanged. Princeton is a sanctuary — it is no accident our time here begins and ends with assemblies in the chapel, or that the Faculty Room looks like a small cathedral with images of our sainted presidents lining its walls like stations of the cross. Dei Sub Numine indeed. But what is the purpose of this church for the worship of human thought? I think of the church I grew up in — its nursery smelling of cleaning solution, its youth room stuffed with beanbags and shabby couches, its community hall where worshippers mingle after the sermon,
where life and meaning and fellowship and worship intersect. The messy exchange of ideas within the bonds of community is as sacred as any sanctuary or solemn contemplation of ideas. It’s ironic that when activists occupied Nassau Hall with their calls for a safe space, much of the opposition to the tactics of the protest seemed centered on the idea that students were violating the sacred or safe space of Nassau Hall. But this ignores the value of a safe space — what students need, and what Princeton needs, is not some rigid sanctum where ideas exist unchallenged (we have plenty of those already), but a forum where all perspectives can be heard without being smothered by the past – and where we can not simply flout authority like the Band, but challenge and change it. It’s up to us to shape our space here through art and protest and heartfelt discussion — to make this campus our own. Bennett McIntosh is a chemistry major from Littleton, Colo. He can be reached at bam2@princeton.edu.
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quarter. A balanced attack from Berntsen, Miller and junior guard Vanessa Smith kept the momentum up for the Tigers’ offense. Had Flaherty not stepped up again — she scored seven of the first 10 Wolverine points to begin the third quarter — this one could have quickly gotten out of reach. As the teams traded baskets and pushed the score out to 41-34, the Tigers chose then to pounce, going on an 8-0 run that was capitalized by a steal and score by sophomore forward Leslie Robinson. This play in particular caused the Princeton fans to roar, and indeed, Robinson herself seemed energized following her strip and score. She as-
sisted on Princeton’s final two buckets of the half, one of them a particularly beautiful faked shot and dump down low to Wheatley. Taking a 54-40 lead into the final quarter, Princeton would ultimately cruise to victory, as the lead never dipped below 12 for the rest of the game. Flaherty, singlehandedly trying to drag her team to victory, put up 33 points in the outing. However, her efforts were matched by Miller, who earned 24 points and eight boards on the game for the Tigers. With the victory in hand, the Tigers look forward to the second game of their fourgame homestand this Tuesday, as they bring Monmouth University to campus at 7 p.m. The game can be viewed via the Ivy League Digital Network.
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The Tigers also managed to dominate the field events, winning the high jump, pole vault and shot put events, while placing in second in the weight throw and third in the triple jump. Junior Xavier Bledsoe captured the high jump title, with a height of 2.09m, beating out his runner-up, who failed in all three attempts to beat the 2.09m mark. Senior Adam Bragg also dominated his event, comfortably winning the pole vault event after clearing 5.10m. The Tigers were especially impressive in the shot put event, with junior Chris Cook comfortably winning the event by 1.23m, beating the 18.12m, beating out fellow Tiger and sophomore Mitchel Charles. The women’s team did not manage to win eight events, but also managed to greatly impress, winning four events. Most impressive was senior Cecilia Barowski, who
managed to break a school record in the 1,000m event with a great time of 2:48.56, beating out the runner-up by seven seconds. The Tigers also managed to capture the 4x800 event, with the team beating out second-place Wagner by 40 seconds. The Tigers also had a 1-2 finish in the triple jump, as freshman Kerri Davidson triumphed in her first career event, beating the 11.53m mark, followed by junior Alex Lanzafame, who came in second with a mark of 11.02m. Sophomore Kennedy O’Dell rounded out the victories for the Tigers as she came first in the weight throw, with a mark of 16.07m. Both teams will return home to Jadwin Gymnasium as they host their first tournament of the season this Friday. The teams will host the New Year’s Invitational, which will start at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 11. This will be the last meet of the calendar year before both teams take the winter break and return to action in January.
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right side to get on the board less than two minutes later. Brown tied up the game just under three minutes into the second, but the Tigers persevered, as junior forward Garrett Skrbich scored his first goal of the season a few minutes later. The Tigers solidified their lead with less than a minute remaining in the third period, as junior forward Ryan Siiro f lipped the puck into an empty net One of the heroes of the weekend, Siiro scored the game-winning goal on Saturday night, helping the Tigers vanquish No. 10 Yale 4-2 to complete the weekend sweep. The game opened with Skrbich scoring for the second time that weekend, just one day after scoring to bring the Tigers out on top of Brown, assisted by Siiro. Ten seconds later, freshman forward Spencer Kryczka put another one in, putting the Tigers up 2-0. After a scoreless second period, Yale got on the board at the beginning of the third period, tying it up 2-2, before the Tigers rallied with Siiro’s tie-breaking goal and another one from sophomore forward Eric Robinson to cement the Tigers’ win. The Tigers will head to Penn State on Friday, playing at 7 p.m., before returning home to host an exhibition match for the USA Under-18 Team at Baker Rink. Women’s hockey The women’s team (9-4-1 overall, 5-4-1 ECAC) had successes of its own, sweeping Harvard and Dartmouth
over the weekend. The Tigers have now won four straight games, and toppled a top10 ranked opponent of their own. Princeton went into the weekend ranked fourth in the ECAC with nine points, with Harvard in second place and Dartmouth in third, but after the sweep, the Tigers found themselves in a tie with Harvard for second place with 11 points, seven points behind Quinnipiac,
Princeton went into the weekend ranked fourth in the ECAC with nine points, with Harvard in second place and Dartmouth in third, but after the sweep, the Tigers found themselves in a tie with Harvard for second place. who beat the Crimson on Saturday. Princeton defeated No. 7 Harvard 2-1 in overtime on Friday night. Last year, the Tigers came away with a 1-0 victory over Harvard. Both were defensive, holding scoring to a minimum, making the game scoreless until halfway through the third period. Senior goalie Kimberly Newell stopped 26 out of 27 shots, while Harvard goalie Emerance Maschmeyer put on a strong showing as well, with 37 saves and
22 stops in the second period alone. Harvard got on the board first, as Harvard’s Sydney Daniels scored, but less than a minute later the Tigers scored as well, with junior defender Molly Strabley putting one in. But the score remained tied at the end of the third period, until 2:27 into overtime when junior defenseman Kelsey Koelzer scored to secure the Tiger victory. On Saturday night, against another strong defense, the Tigers again had trouble scoring goals, but they managed to maintain their momentum to secure the win. In the second period, Dartmouth’s Laura Stacey scored on a power play, putting the Big Green up 1-0. But the Tigers quickly retaliated, scoring two goals in quick succession 33 seconds later. Junior forward Morgan Sly scored her fifth goal of the year, tying the score, and only moments after freshman forward Karlie Lund, ECAC Rookie of the Month, put another one in off a rebound shot by Koelzer. The Tigers managed to score a third time less than four minutes later when junior forward Cassidy Tucker scored her fourth goal of the season, giving the Tigers a 3-1 lead. Junior forward Hilary Lloyd scored the final goal into an empty net with 35 seconds left in the third period. The Tigers only have one game left in the calendar year, and will play Penn State next weekend. The Tigers return to the ice on New Year’s day against Brown, and will play Yale at home the following day.
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Women’s basketball takes down Michigan By Miles Hinson sports editor
JAMES SUNG :: CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
The Tigers took down the Wolverines 74-57 in Jadwin Gym on Sunday.
In a gym teeming with Tiger supporters, the Princeton women’s basketball team defended their home court against their opponents of the north, as they took down the University of Michigan Wolverines (7-1) to the tune of 7457 on Sunday afternoon. With the victory, they end Michigan’s status as undefeated on the season. As their game was broadcasted on ESPN2, the Tigers (6-1) demonstrated that they were certainly no strangers to the spotlight, as their typically sizzling offense was in full force against their most recent foes. Come the second quarter, the Tigers began to make some distance against the Wolverines. Senior forward Annie Tarakchian and senior guard Amanda Berntsen got
it started for the Orange and Black with a three and layup, respectively. Indeed, the Tigers might have run away with this one early on had it not been for the efforts of one Michigan player — Katelynn Flaherty. She clearly found her rhythm early on in this contest, and began to rain three after three on the Tigers. The impact was felt not just in the scoreboard. The large number of Tigers faithful seemed at points ready to explode, but the Flaherty’s efforts kept even the most eager of fans from celebrating prematurely. Indeed, it was critical for the Tigers that they found a hot hand of their own in senior guard Michelle Miller. Miller, who currently stands second on this Tigers squad in points per game, found success in her jump shot as well, often matching a score from
Flaherty with one of her own to keep up the Tigers’ healthy lead. Despite strong Tigers’ play in the first half, turnovers would at times pose an issue for this team. Indeed, it was certainly frustrating for the Tigers that a turnover in the final few seconds of the half resulted in an easy Michigan layup, cutting the Princeton lead into the single digits as both teams headed into the locker room. The Tigers would ultimately commit 17 turnovers on the day, three above their season average. The Michigan defense chose a style conducive to this, pressuring the ball-handlers the entire length of the court and trying to trap Tiger players as much as possible. The Tigers, however, responded with vigor in the opening minutes of the third See W. B-BALL page 9
TRACK & FIELD
Track and field opens strong in weekend meet By Tom Pham associate sports editor
Both the men’s and women’s track and field teams opened their seasons on Saturday as they competed in the Metro Holiday Meet at Ocean Breeze Park in Staten Island. Although the offseason was long, both teams came out of the gates in fine form and will hope to continue to do so for the rest of the season. The men’s team particularly impressed, capturing eight victories. Freshman Josh Billington impressed in his first career Princeton race, capturing the 200m title with a time of 21.71 seconds, just edging out sophomore Car-
rington Akosa. Billington, the Australian native, also managed to come fourth in the 60m race with a time of 6.93, which was 0.06 seconds behind runner-up Akosa. Akosa, who had an impressive freshman season, was very impressive once again, winning the 4x400 relay alongside senior Dan McCord, junior Ray Mennin and sophomore Josh Freeman. Sophomores James Burns and Spencer Long also had podium finishes, finishing 2nd and 3rd in the 60m hurdles, with Burns only 0.03 seconds behind the winner. Not only did the Tigers perform well in the short-distance sprints, but their mid-
OLIVIA TOBEASON :: CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
The track and field teams put on strong performances in their opening meet of the winter season.
distance performances were also impressive. Sophomore Josh Ingalls also managed to claim a victory as he placed first in the 500m event with a time of 1:03.98 and fellow sophomore Eric Schulz came
first in the 800m event, with a time of 1:55.21. Sophomore Noah Kauppila came third in the mile race, and fellow sophomores Zach Albright and Rob Stone came in second and third, respectively,
in the 3000m race. Kauppila and Schulz joined up with fellow sophomore Jared Lee and freshman Franklin Aririguzoh to win the 4x800 relay too. See TRACK page 9
HOCKEY
Men’s and women’s hockey sweep foes By Sydney Mandelbaum associate sports editor
Men’s hockey
RACHEL SPADY :: STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
An impressive showing at home has given the women’s hockey team a four-game winning streak.
Tweet of the Day “I’m pretty sure if you took the temperature of my feet it would freeze the thermometer” hannah winner (@ hannahisawinner), junior goalie, soccer
This weekend, the men’s hockey team (4-8 overall, 3-5 ECAC) swept Yale and Brown on the road for the first time since the 2007-2008 season, with the Tigers throwing momentum into a threegame winning streak. This is the first time since the 2010-11 season that the Tigers have won three league games in a row. The Tigers defeated Brown 4-2 on Friday, with four dif-
Stat of the Day
50 percent The women’s basketball team shot 50 percent from the field on the game in a win over Michigan.
ferent Tigers scoring, as Princeton totaled three or more goals for the fifth time this season. Junior goaltender Colton Phinney made 36 saves during the game, with 15 in the third period, helping lead the Tigers to victory. The Tigers got on the board in the middle of the first period, as junior forward Ben Foster and freshman forward Ryan Kuffner scored quickly in succession over the span of a minute and half. Brown quickly responded, as Brown’s Tyler Bird scored from an open See HOCKEY page 9
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