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Today on Campus 4:45 p.m.: A 2-hour afrobeat workshop with the Zongo Junction band from Brooklyn will be held. Wilson Blackbox Theater.

The Archives

April 15, 1991 President George H. W. Bush accepts an invitation to give an address to the University and receive an honorary degree.

On the Blog Sports editors predict the women’s water polo team’s performance at the CPWA Southern Championship.

On the Blog Staff writer Jarred Mihalik reviews The Strokes’ most recent album, ‘Comedown Machine.’

PRINCETON By the Numbers

The number of new student groups approved by the USG, including food discussion group Spoon.

News & Notes Smoke alarm causes evacuation in Wilf Hall

a smoke alarm in Wilf Hall was activated at 3:26 a.m. on Sunday morning, summoning Public Safety officers to the scene and prompting an evacuation of the building. Officers found that the alarm appeared to have been activated by the removal of a fire extinguisher, as no evidence of a fire was found on the premises. Officers and staff who responded to alarm found “a yellowish powder on the floor and a cloud of dust in the area in the basement level,” University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua said. It appeared that a dry chemical fire extinguisher had been removed and discharged in the area near the elevator. The removal of the fire extinguisher set off the alarm, Mbugua explained. In response to this alarm, about 100 people were evacuated from Wilf Hall. They were allowed to return about 30 minutes later after the circumstances that provoked the alarm were determined and the alarm was reset. At this time, Public Safety has no suspects for the incident, Mbugua said.

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Stairs at Frist Campus Center have been taped to celebrate LGBT Pride Week. Other locations have also been decorated, such as the steps of Blair Arch and the pillars of Robertson Hall.

Polis ’96, Tilghman talk at 1st LGBT alumni forum By Allison Kruk contributor

As part of “Every Voice,” the University’s first conference for LGBT alumni this weekend, Colorado Congressman Jared Polis ‘96 spoke to alumni about his experience as an undergraduate at the University and his position regarding LGBT rights.

The three-day symposium featured a series of speakers, panel discussions, films and mixers meant to re-engage LGBT alumni with the University community. Friday’s sessions included a series of panels ranging from a discussion of the student LGBT experience today, moderated by English professor and Rockefeller College Master Jeff Nunokawa, to a

talk on Princetonians active in social causes titled “Princeton Activists: Pioneers for Equality,” moderated by New York Times Managing Editor Alan Flippen ‘84. Alumni discussions were the focus of Saturday’s panels, which included a discussion of LGBT parenting titled “The Joys and Challenges of LGBT See EQUALITY page 4

ACADEMICS

‘EastCon’ to explore Asian popular culture By Seth Merkin Morokoff contributor

Student organizers of the Princeton University East Asian Undergraduate Conference will host what they describe as one of the first academic conferences in the nation focused on featuring undergraduate research related to East Asian culture on April 26 and 27 in Lewis Library. The undergraduates planning

the conference, abbreviated as EastCon, have chosen the theme “Beyond Gang nam Style: K-Pop and the Rise of Asian Pop Music” for the inaugural year and will focus on hosting students who will present work related to East Asian pop music, according to Sarah Pak ’15, one of the eight Princeton undergraduates organizing the project. “We decided to call it ‘Beyond Gangnam Style’ because we saw

how popular the song had become, but it was almost overshadowing or coloring people’s perceptions of what East Asian pop culture really was,” Pak explained. “East Asian pop isn’t just about the horse dance.” The conference will feature the work of twenty researchers, who are predominantly undergraduates from a variety of universities, and will be organized into See CONFERENCE page 3

Victoria Solomon ’13 has been named a 2013 Marshall Scholar, the second Princeton student this academic year to be awarded the scholarship after Jake Nebel ’13. Solomon is majoring in electrical engineering and will use the scholarship to complete a masters in medical electronics and physics at a British university. Solomon said she is still in the process of applying to and h ea ring back from London universities. The Marshall Scholarship funds students each year to study at a graduate level for up to two years at any institution in the United Kingdom. Around 1,000 students are endorsed by their universities, around 150 students are interviewed and up to 40 are selected, according to the scholarship website. Solomon was at home for Passover when she found out that she had received the scholarship. “I was completely shocked,” she said. “I called my parents and I told

VICTORIA SOLOMON ‘13 Recipient of Marshall Scholarship

them and the next thing I did was I called my fiance.” Solomon plans to pursue a career in designing medical technology for people with disabilities. “Basically, my goal is to be designing and developing these devices that can change people’s lives. I want to do that in any way I can,” she said, adding that she also hopes to work with non-profit organizations to make such devices accessible. “She’s brilliant, so I’m not surprised she got it,” Atara Cohen ’15, a close friend of Solomon, said. “When I spoke to her about what she wants to do, even before this, she was speaking about how she really wants to be an engineer so she can use engineering to help other people. See ENGINEER page 5

LOCAL NEWS

Class council positions largely uncontested By Anna Mazarakis staff writer

All positions for the 2014, 2015 and 2016 class councils are uncontested except for the Class of 2016 vice president, the USG released on its website after registration for spring elections closed Saturday evening. The Class of 2016 vice president position is being contested by Daniel Chen ‘16 and Gwen Lee ‘16. No candidates have registered to run for the Class of 2015 social chair. At the USG meeting Sunday night, senate members said they were surprised that all but one of the positions were uncontested because the Class of 2016 class council was elected in the fall as a body rather than for individual positions. “I think this is the phenomenon that Julian [Dean ’13, former chief elections manager] brought up in December: internal primaries,” U-Councilor Elan Kugelmass ’14 said. “Undoubtedly, the

’16 class council all decided in advance what position each of them were going to run for to eliminate contested elections.” Chief elections manager Rachel Nam ’15 also asked the members of the senate what they thought about using the computers on the 100 level of Frist as voting stations, with screens set to the Helios voting website and posters at the welcome desk reminding students to vote. Members of the USG debated whether the wording of the Elections Handbook allowed for this new policy. Nam said she did not think candidates should ask students to use the Frist computers to vote for them. Social committee chair Carla Javier ’15 questioned Nam’s objection, saying she didn’t see a difference between telling someone to vote at a computer in Frist or voting on a personal laptop. Javier is a senior writer for the news section of The Daily Princetonian. See ELECTION page 2

NIGHT MARKET

STUDENT LIFE

Frey ’09, Haugen GS ’12 start bamboo bike venture By Paul Phillips contributor

Aluboo Bikes, a company founded by Nick Frey ’09, Drew Haugen GS ’12 and James Wolf, has launched a campaign using the crowd-funding site Kickstarter to support their production of sustainable bicycles with bamboo tubes inside aluminum frames. Frey and Haugen spoke about their experiences with entrepreneurship and crowdfunding at a talk on April 11 hosted by the Keller Center. The company, based in Fort Collins, Colo., launched a campaign on Kickstarter, a crowd-funding site that allows members of the public to pledge donations to support independent projects. Project creators set a funding goal, which

must be reached in order for the project to receive any money. Aluboo’s campaign, which began March 23 and runs until May 7, met its goal of $50,000 in nine days. As of April 14, 143 backers have donated over $70,000 to the project. Frey, Haugen and cofounder Wolf created Aluboo in the summer of 2012 in order to widen the accessibility of its parent company, Boo Bicycles, which markets high-performance racing bicycles. Frey created a prototype bamboocarbon fiber bicycle while at the University in 2008, and founded Boo Bicycles after graduation a year later. Aluboo, which targets a more general audience, uses aluminum frames made in Vietnam instead of carbon fiber frames. Haugen See KICKSTARTER page 2

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Asian American student groups served various dishes at the ‘Night Market’ on Thursday evening.

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USG president Shawon Jackson ’15 explained that the difference was in the public setting of the Frist computers. “I think [candidates] should be telling kids that this is available now and that they can now go to Frist to vote but that they can’t physically bring them,” Class of 2016 senator Ella Cheng said. Cheng is a staff writer for the news section of the ‘Prince.’ Class of 2015 senator Deana Davoudiasl added that it would be difficult to place a “restraining order” on the candidates’ presence near the voting stations. Nam will meet with Adam Ouellette of Student Computing Services at the Office of Information Technology on Monday, when a decision will be made regarding the use of Frist computers as poll-

ing stations. Student Groups Recognition Committee chair Benedict Wagstaff ’14 announced four recently approved student groups on campus. The University will now recognize the Princeton Pre-dental Student Association, a group for students interested in pursuing a career in dental medicine; German Association of Princeton, a group that will provide students who are native speakers or students of German with a community to interact and celebrate German language and culture; Spoon, a group that will talk about food; and Princeton Gates Millennium Scholars, a group that will promote awareness of academic resources on campus. The USG unanimously approved a funding request allocating $7,600 for expenses for Communiversity, a celebration of the University-town relationship that will take place on April 28.

According to Campus and Community Affairs chair Trap Yates ’14, the amount requested is $2,600 more than the USG budget typically allocates for Communiversity. He explained that the additional funds are needed to cover overtime pay for workers because the event was moved from Saturday to Sunday. Yates is a former associate editor for the Street section of the ‘Prince.’ He added that the cost will likely be more than the allocated budget again next year, saying that the USG should take this higher price into account when forming the budget for the 2013-14 school year. Treasurer Christina Yu ’14 finished the meeting by presenting the state of the USG’s budget, which still has $174,386.70. The Frist Ad-Hoc Committee’s upcoming survey and the SCORE Rewrite Project were also discussed at the meeting.

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BEYOND THE BUBBLE

Whig-Clio to host dinner discussion, public lecture with Susan Patton ’77 By Anna Mazarakis staff writer

Susan Patton ’77, the author of a letter to the editor printed in The Daily Princetonian advising female undergraduates to find a husband while in college, will speak on campus Thursday, American WhigCliosophic Society president Matt Saunders ’15 announced in an email to club members Sunday evening. “I’m looking forward to hearing the ideas and opinions of the young women on campus,” Patton said Sunday night. “I’m delighted that this conversation, that has been overlooked or suppressed for so long, has finally been brought to light and that young women on our campus and on campuses every where are talking about this … I love Princeton’s campus, and I look forward to being there.” Patton will give a brief lecture before taking part in a two-part question-andanswer session. She will first answer questions from a moderator before taking questions from students in the audience. Patton sparked a national

debate after her letter to the ‘Prince’ published two weeks ago encouraged female students on campus to find a husband before graduation, arguing that they would never again be surrounded by the same concentration of intellectually stimulating men.

“I think that the reaction on campus was understandable and appropriate.” Matt Saunders ’15

“We wanted to give her a forum to be heard and to interact with students who may or may not agree with her,” Saunders said Sunday night following the announcement. “We think through that forum people may come to learn a lot, they might walk away with a better interpretation of what she was trying to get across and she might walk away

with a changed opinion on her views.” Saunders added that Patton was “very eager to accept” the society’s invitation to speak on campus. He explained that the society wanted to bring her to campus in order to give students the opportunity to have their voices heard on the issues addressed in her letter. He expects the event to be one of the most packed lectures they will host this semester. “I think that the reaction on campus was understandable and appropriate,” he said. “When there are times where there is controversy, we like to set up a forum where people can have their voices heard in a very safe fashion.” Whig-Clio will also host a small dinner for 12 students with Patton before the lecture. Interested students must apply for the discussion by Monday evening. The application form asks students to answer in one sentence why they want to attend the dinner. The event, titled “Advice From a Princeton Mom,” will take place on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the Whig Hall Senate Chamber.

News & Notes Hosie ’16 elaborates on challenge of Justice Scalia in Los Angeles Times op-ed in an op-ed published in the Los Angeles Times on Sunday, Duncan Hosie ‘16 elaborated on his motivations for challenging Justice Antonin Scalia for rhetoric on homosexuality when Scalia gave a lecture on campus last December.

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Hosie, a freshman from Belvedere, Calif., questioned Scalia’s comparison between morally objecting to sodomy and morally objecting to bestiality or murder. In his op-ed, Hosie explained that he cited dissents written by Scalia in his question. Hosie also described his personal experience growing up

gay and explained that he had only come out to his parents about a month before speaking to Scalia. “I know from personal experience that poisonous language like Scalia’s can be devastatingly hurtful,” Hosie wrote, saying he asked his question in hopes that the justice would reconsider his rhetoric.

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explained that aluminum frames allow his company to save time and money while still allowing them to make hand-crafted products. While Boo Bicycles’ bicycles are priced between $5,000 and $14,000 per bicycle, the models from Aluboo would cost between $945 and $2,795, Haugen said in an interview. “We wanted to offer a bike that would be price-accessible to more people and maintain the riding quality of a bamboo bike,” he explained. Frey and Haugen said that they chose to use Kickstarter because it is one of the largest and most prominent crowd-funding sites. Furthermore, Haugen noted that the site’s audience is willing to try new products such as bicycles made from bamboo. “Those folks are the ones who are gonna tell your story,” Haugen said. Kickstarter also offers potential customers the opportunity to obtain data on a variety of models without having to build the models first, Haugen explained. Without Kickstarter, Aluboo would actually have to build bicycle models to show them to customers interested in that model. Both Haugen and Frey said in an interview that their experience at the University greatly influenced the development of Aluboo. Frey, who studied mechanical and aerospace engineering, said that the difficult classes he took in the department taught him to approach everything with a “can-do attitude.” Haugen, a Wilson School

graduate, said that the classes he took in entrepreneurship and financial management gave him the basic business skills, knowledge and resources to pursue selling bicycles commercially. Frey and Haugen both took ELE 491: High-Tech Entrepreneurship, taught by professor Ed Zschau ’61. They said that Zschau has been a constant mentor for their project. Zschau explained that he and other experienced entrepreneurs in the area have experiences that enable them to make suggestions to young entrepreneurs. “We’ve seen what the challenges are, and we’ve also seen how they might be approached,” Zschau said. Inspiration for Boo and Aluboo also came from Haugen and Frey’s cycling experience. Frey, who became a professional cyclist in 2009 and is a two-time Collegiate National Champion, races on a Boo bike. He explained that the two biggest lessons he has learned from cycling are perseverance and an understanding of what bikers look for in a good bike. The Keller Center was eager to host the lecture because Aluboo is a wonderful example of Princeton alumni who were able to start a business right out of college, said Cornelia Huellstrunk, Associate Director of the Keller Center. She cited passion, great ideas and the energy to push forward with those ideas as personality traits that have made Haugen and Frey successful entrepreneurs. Zschau cited passion as the main reason for Frey and Haugen’s success. “To be able to have your job be your passion, that is not all that common.”

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four panels based on the focus of their research: Exotic Economics and New Cultures, Technology and Digital Mediums, Transnationalism and Gender, according to the organization’s website. “We really hit a small, passionate niche of people, who are genuinely excited about studying popular culture in East Asia,” Pak said of the presenters. “I’m hoping that their enthusiasm transfers to Princeton and gets people really thinking about these issues.” After all of the researchers in each panel complete their 20-minute presentations, a group of four Princeton graduate students will discuss their findings, the conference’s graduate advisor W. Evan Young said. “We wanted to give them some well-thought-out individual feedback and try to promote groups of presentations as potential subfields of study to show that they have promise,” Young explained. “Too much of the time, undergraduates produce fantastic work; they have fantastic ideas, but it remains within the classroom.” The conference will also feature a faculty panel consisting of five professors from the University, Salisbury University and Wesleyan University as well as keynote speaker Woo Taek Kim, a Korean media producer. The faculty panel will open a dialogue on some of the issues involved in researching popular culture, faculty panelist and University professor David Leheny explained. “For me, the conference has two intellectual goals. One of them is to take a different lens to the study of East Asia,” Leheny said. “But another one is to think about the intellectual challenges involved in studying popular culture in general.” The conference has received a total of $1,900 in funding from the USG-sponsored Projects Board, the Department of East Asian Studies, the Program in East Asian Studies,

the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Comparative Literature, according to Pak. The undergraduate organizers have appealed to the Department of Music to receive more funding, she added. According to the conference’s website, attendees and presenters can participate in the conference free of charge, but will have to pay for their transportation to the University. Both attendees and presenters can arrange their own housing or request that the organizers of the conference find them a host from among the undergraduate student body on the conference website’s registration page. “Right now, about twenty people have signed up to attend,” Pak said. “But I would love if there were so many people that we had to say no.” Both Pak and Leheny said they hope that EastCon becomes an annual event, although ultimately that decision will reflect student interest in organizing another conference. The undergraduates who organized the event have discussed hosting more activities and study breaks sponsored by the East Asian studies department throughout the academic year, Pak said. “The amount of interaction that EAS has with a lot of the students here on campus is pretty tremendous if you think about it. I know a lot who are taking or have taken an East Asian language class,” Pak explained. “Those numbers don’t really translate into actual enrollment with people majoring in EAS though, which I think is a real shame. It seems like there is real interest.” Pak said she thinks the conference will expose people to the variety of topics they can explore via classes and independent work within the realm of East Asian studies, including popular culture. “Music is something that everybody, however remotely, is interested in,” Young noted. “As a scholarly conference you can draw on a very large audience, and we’re hoping that students here at Princeton will participate.”

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Students hoed, cleared out beds, planted seeds and enjoyed the sun at 79 Alexander Road on Sunday afternoon for the Forbes Garden Project, a student initiative overseen by the Office of Sustainability.

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Parenting: Legal, Medical and Psychological Considerations.” Saturday afternoon also featured a reception for Wilson School graduates, as well as a reception for members of the Asian-American, black and Latino alumni associations. A separate reception was also held for trans alumni and current students, with the goal of providing “a confidential space for transgender, genderqueer and gender-nonconforming” alumni and students to meet, according to an email sent to students by LGBT center program coordinator Andy Cofino on Saturday. Polis delivered his remarks at Saturday’s luncheon. He said he did not regret that the campus did not have a large LGBT presence during his years as an undergraduate. “I don’t regret that there wasn’t this kind of [LGBT] presence here any more than I would at other things, like maybe I wasn’t quite good enough at baseball to make the baseball team and good enough singing to make an a cappella group,” Polis said. “You got what you got from the Princeton experience, and we’re here today, and isn’t that wonderful?” Polis said, adding that the healthiest outlook is to “never look back.” Polis went on to address his role as an openly gay member of Congress, saying he thought that voters were more concerned with political issues than his sexual orientation. Being a member of the LGBT community while running for election, Polis said, “really didn’t have any impact. I hate to disappoint people with that answer, but people just don’t care.” Polis added during the event’s question-and-answer session that he did not think that being transgender would be a “barrier to being elected” for an individual running for office.

Although Polis did mention he received homophobic hate mail during his campaign, he chose to put them on his “Wall of Hate,” saying, it “wasn’t even a bump in the road.” Polis also noted that his more conservative colleagues in Congress might publicly disagree with LBGT equality, but that they’ve always acted in a professional manner and worked with him on common issues. Polis explained that his partner, Marlon Reis, is beloved by the other congressional spouses. “Even the kind of conservative, Republican anti-gay member spouses adore, you know, ‘the gay’ ... you know, they want him to go shopping and whatnot,” said Polis. Polis concluded his speech by stating that while the political climate isn’t favorable for an equality agenda, he hopes to continue to fight for the right to marriage, anti-discrimination in the workplace and an end to bullying in schools. “The gay and lesbian agenda is equality, equality under law, nothing more, nothing less,” Polis said. “This is a phenomenon that Princeton is a part of, neither leading nor lagging. And thanks to the leadership of [University] President [Shirley] Tilghman, we have caught up to where the rest of the world is.” One audience member, Chris Bauer ‘86, said during the event’s question-and-answer session that he felt that Polis downplayed some of the very real challenges facing the LGBT community. “You have to be an optimist to be in this business,” Polis responded to Bauer. “People attack members of Congress all the time for everything.” “To keep your eye on success and continue doing the business of the people honorably, you can’t let that get to you,” Polis added. Bauer, however, told The Daily Princetonian that he was not satisfied with Polis’ response, saying, “That was not a speech made by a gay man.” He added that “the fact that he did try to minimize [LGBT issues] speaks to the fact that these issues are still out there,” Bauer said. “I wish he was more of an ally,” Bauer concluded. Tilghman was also among the event’s key speakers, delivering the conference’s opening address Saturday morning. The inspiration for the event came when members of the alumni council questioned whether the University was really relating to the entirety of

its alumni community, Tilghman said. When the council members realized they were not doing everything they could to engage certain marginalized alumni groups, Tilghman said the University decided to re-engage alumni based on how they self-identified. “Every Voice” was created as part of this larger effort. The name “Every Voice” captured the essence of the conference for Tilghman. “It was through learning about the power of my own voice that I came to champion LGBT rights,” she said. She said she first recognized this vocal power during her 2003 commencement address on the necessity of courage, in which she used the example of the courage it took to identify publicly as a gay individual to illustrate her point. She received a flurry of positive reactions from the LGBT community and its allies. “That one phrase created a landslide of email the next day. It went like wildfire through the community,” she said. “[I] realized the power of my voice and realized there was a community out there that needed my voice.” Tilghman then related the initiatives undertaken by the University to promote LGBT activism. In particular, she noted the construction of the LGBT Center, the hiring of openly gay Executive Vice President Mark Burstein, the burgeoning work on queer studies at the University and the leadership of LGBT Center Director Debbie Bazarsky. “The progress is permanent. We are in a new era at Princeton,” Tilghman said. One of the metrics Tilghman used to measure that progress was the mood of the Lavender Graduation, an event celebrating the achievements of graduating LGBT seniors and their allies. At first, the stories told at the Lavender Graduation were “painful and difficult to hear,” Tilghman said. But now, the event is a joyous occasion increasingly attended by parents and LGBT supporters, according to Tilghman. However, noting the perpetual though waning challenge of “incipient homophobia” to LGBT equality, Tilghman stated that the University’s motto should be “eternal vigilance” going forward. “The only defense we have is our culture and building into that culture a self-examination and a commitment to every voice,” said Tilghman.

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I think that this really helps her do that.” Solomon said she was inspired to study the field of medical technology in high school. She attended the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Sciences summer program, in which she worked on an electrical engineering project and became convinced to pursue further studies in electrical engineering. “It completely changed my life path,” Solomon said. At Princeton, Solomon has been able to further pursue her interests in the field. “One thing that’s been pretty awesome is that for a lot of my electrical engineering classes that aren’t exactly related to the topic of biomedical or assisted technology, a lot of my professors have let me roll my projects toward my interests in biomedical technology,” Solomon said. For her junior year independent work, she developed an Android application that would send signals between health monitoring devices that patients could wear and computers or smartphones.

For her senior year independent work, Solomon is working on developing a “portable and affordable communication device for patients” with Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS), in collaboration with the Technology Against ALS Foundation. “My motivation behind that is that there are a lot of amazing technologies that help patients with ALS to communicate, but one problem is that sometimes these communication devices can be rather bulky and they are extremely expensive,” Solomon explained.

“I’m very excited to see what kind of progress and research she’s going to do in the future.” Naveen Verma,

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“I’m extremely proud on one hand. On the other hand, I think she’s very, very deserving so I’m not sur-

prised,” electrical engineering professor Naveen Verma said. “On the other hand, I’m also very excited to see what kind of progress and research she’s going to do in the future.” Outside the classroom, Solomon is an Orange Key tour guide and a mentor for the Society of Women Engineers. She is also active in the Center for Jewish Life. In addition, Solomon is part of a philanthropy fellowship in which she researches charities and donates $5,000 plus additional money from fundraising to a designated charity. Solomon said that she thought the United Kingdom would be an ideal place to continue her studies in biomedical technology and electronics. “To me it was really important to be in a country that had this culture that really shows support and care for people’s health,” Solomon explained. “One thing that I don’t really know as much about is how Britain’s national health care interacts with medical device design so I thought that would be something really interesting to experience and study in the UK.”

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Mark Watter ’14 and Jameson Creager ’15 played at the ‘Star Party’ hosted by the Astrobiology Club on the roof of Peyton Hall. It was too cloudy to see the Northern Lights or stargaze on Saturday night.

News & Notes Missing TCNJ student’s personal property found the purse, cell phone and car keys of Paige Aiello, The College of New Jersey student who went missing on Tuesday April 9, have been found by the George Washington Bridge, the Trentonian re-

ported. An Audi vehicle owned by the Aiello family was also found in a parking garage in New Brunswick, N.J., two hours after Aiello’s personal property was recovered that Tuesday. New Jersey and New York authorities are now searching the

Hudson River for signs of the 22-year-old Hillsborough, N.J. native. Aiello is a captain of the TCNJ women’s tennis team and has been accepted by nine law schools, her father, Christopher Aiello, told radio station 1010 WINS.

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Hack Princeton

he word “hack” has been around for a very long time; the Oxford English Dictionary dates its first use to around 1200. But today, axe murders aside, one sees “hack” and derivative forms like “hacker” and “hacking” most often in the context of computer use and abuse. Wikipedia defines a hacker as someone who “uses his skill with computers to try to gain unauthorized access to computer files or networks,” and most people think of hackers as evil, the ubiquitous bad guys who threaten our privacy and security on the web, and online activist groups like Anonymous that attack government and corporate web sites. But originally the connotations were positive. “Hacker” as a computer word comes from 1976 and probably originated from the local jargon for the amazing pranks that MIT undergrads pulled off. In this view, a hacker is a compulsive programmer, someone who programs as an end in itself, just for the fun of it. The positive meaning also appears in “hackathon,” a portmanteau so new that it hasn't yet found its way into the OED. A hackathon is a competition where individuals or small teams create new computer sys-

tems in a 24- or 48-hour marathon. Some students gave me a neat T-shirt a couple of weeks ago to advertise Hack Princeton, which was held at the end of March. The event was a great success, drawing well over 100 participants from 18 different universities. What’s the appeal? Nearly 40 years ago, Fred Brooks wrote a classic computer science book called “The Mythical Man-Month” (after the fallacy that adding more people to a software project will help complete it faster). One of the most eloquent parts is the explanation of “the joys of the craft,” some of which is excerpted here. “Why is programming fun? What delights may its practitioner expect as his reward? First is the sheer joy of making things. Second is the pleasure of making things that are useful to other people. Deep within, we want others to use our work and to find it helpful. […] Finally, there is the delight of working in such a tractable medium. The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures. Yet the program construct, unlike the poet's words, is real in the sense that it moves and works, producing visible outputs separately from the construct itself. It prints results, draws pictures, produces sounds, moves arms. The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life, showing things that never were nor could be.” There’s one more potential joy that wasn’t an option when Brooks wrote in 1975: a slim but real chance for fame and fortune if one’s creation becomes popular. To computing old-timers like me, it's still pretty remarkable that a handful of students can build a significant piece of software over a weekend, something that might conceivably form the basis of a viable business. But there are powerful and expressive programming languages, lots of libraries of open source code available for the downloading and free tools that help quickly cobble it all together into a working system. Getting a prototype off the ground isn't as tough as it was 10 or 20 years ago. Furthermore, if the idea is good and the system proves popular, it's trivial to scale up to any number of users. Cloud services like Amazon Web Services that provide computing and storage via the Internet support everything from tiny student projects up to, well, Amazon, and the price to get started is hard to beat — it's free. So a hackathon is a fun way to explore an idea and build a prototype in a friendly competitive environment, and perhaps get some recognition and reward if things go well. Group projects in courses offer a chance to create systems larger than a weekend hack but smaller than a startup. In COS 333, for example, students spend 10 weeks working in small groups on projects of their own devising. The projects are almost always very impressive, and often they are remarkably sophisticated. Some have real staying power as well, since they hit on the right combination of features and implementation. ICE, The Integrated Course Engine, is perhaps the most successful of the lot — everyone uses it — but there are four or five other TigerApps that originated in the class. Come to a hackathon sometime, or drop in on the COS 333 project demos during reading period. You’ll certainly see some great work, and who knows — you might even spot the next Facebook or Angry Birds or ICE before everyone else does. Brian Kernighan GS ’69 is a computer science professor and a Forbes faculty adviser. He can be

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hile grade deflation continues to influence the academic environment at Princeton, the Board believes that constructive conversation about and criticism of this policy has declined. Given the upcoming presidential transition and the recent transition in college deans, we believe that the grading policy ought to be reconsidered; we further believe that the realities of the policy illustrate that its implementation has been problematic. The University’s grading policy states: “We want to emphasize that any student who does A-range work should receive an A-range grade. Under no circumstances should any faculty member fail to give an A to a student who deserves it.” The experience of the student body is contrary to this, however. Many professors begin courses by telling students the number of A’s given will be constrained by the University’s policy, and they sometimes even codify that statement into the syllabus. Such grading is a misapplication of the policy, as the quota is intended to limit the number of A's given at the department level rather than the course level. This misapplication of the grading policy by professors on a class-by-class basis makes it likely that students may not be given grades that accurately reflect the quality of their work. If a professor limits at the start of a course how many A’s will be given, he or she is likely not grading each student’s work based solely on its merits. Instead, such a professor is grading with an eye toward meeting the allotments of the grading policy, which is contrary to the stated intentions of the policy. The logic of grade deflation also invites a sense of direct competition against classmates. If only the top 35 percent of a class can get a top grade, helping to bring someone up to the level of understanding or analysis that is shared by the top 35 percent would jeopardize one’s own chance of getting an A-level grade. This disincentivizes cooperation among students. Sharing notes, forming study groups and tutoring peers are all things that students could use to gain a greater understanding of the material but are contrary to individual incentives under the grading policy. Given Princeton’s ostensible commitment to academic cooperation among undergraduates, it seems odd that the University has instituted a policy that directly undermines incentives to cooperate. These poor incentives are especially present in introductory-level classes, as many departments lower the allotment of A-range grades to 30 percent or even 25 percent so that they can give 40-plus percent A’s in higher level classes. It is unfounded to think that fewer students are doing well in introductory courses, especially because the work is often easier. Princeton prides itself on being a liberal arts institution that encourages students to explore

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new fields and consider all concentrations. But here, too, the grading policy undermines one of Princeton’s philosophical commitments. If a student knows that introductory courses are graded especially harshly, he or she will be less likely to explore departments outside of his or her academic field. This not only limits exploration on the course level but also on the department level — any non-A grade in an introductory course would likely deter students from pursuing the department further. Furthermore, the resulting lower GPA of Princeton students limit job opportunities and academic pursuits. The existence of GPA cutoffs for graduate schools, fellowships, internships and jobs limit some Princeton students from even pursuing them, and those that do pursue such opportunities have the extra challenge of a lower GPA than competitors from peer schools. While large institutions likely have knowledge of Princeton’s grading policy and thus evaluate its students accordingly, smaller firms, either because of their size or lack of informationgathering resources, are less likely to have this knowledge. Their ignorance will penalize Princeton students who have lower GPAs than they might otherwise have. True, Princeton sends a letter explaining a grading policy along with official transcripts, but that letter may not compensate for the lower GPA and is inadequate because often employers do not ask for transcripts; instead, they may only ask for resumes that indicate a student’s GPA. Finally, the grading policy was instituted with the expectation that our peer schools would soon institute their own policies dedicated to curbing grade inflation. That expectation has been proven false. Since the policy’s institution in 2004, our peer schools have not engaged in similar initiatives; Yale is only now considering the issue of grade inflation, and it is unclear what form of policy it may institute. Just as Princeton revisited its early action policy in light of its failure to elicit similar policies from our peer schools, so too it is time to revisit grade deflation because of its failure to influence the policies of other universities. Grade deflation affects the everyday lives and postgraduation plans of Princeton students in real ways, and it is important that discussions about the disadvantages of the policy continue. The Board believes that repealing the policy would be a sound change. But, short of that, the policy might also be improved by ensuring that professors apply it appropriately, by increasing the allotted number of A’s or by increasing the time span over which departments must achieve the required grade allotments. While these policy suggestions are tentative, the Board firmly believes that they represent possible paths forward and urges students to continue challenging the policy.

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Rap on the rocks Lea Trusty columnist

am a fervent lover of music. It has the power to move and mesmerize because it is more than a compilation of sound. Music, real music, is a blending of one’s sounds, stories and soul. And while music is an individual experience in this manner, I believe that its ability to speak to others is just as important. Personal and pervasive, all at once. What music says to others is a large portion of its identity. This is why I listen to several different genres. Though instrumentals and texture are extremely important parts of music, I find that lyrics are typically the tipping point of a song. And I suppose this is why I find myself more and more disappointed with the direction of rap. I won’t pretend to be an expert on rap. But from the history I do know, I can say rap can be considered an extension, or rather, a descendent of hip hop, a powerful movement beginning in the streets of New York in the 1970s in which black men could express themselves as they lived through economic and social suffering. It was pure in its complete, unapologetic rawness. And most importantly, while it was

personal expression, it simultaneously reached out to others in similar situations and created a new sort of unity. It is because the origins of hip hop can be found in such empowerment of the people that I am so angry when I see how artists of today have degraded the genre. Of course, this isn’t a new concept. It’s not like I woke up today and thought, “Rap has really lost itself.” However, I did wake up and talk with my sister about recent articles on the sorry state that is, more often than not, rappers and their lyrics. The first article was about Rick Ross, who’d lost a deal with Reebok due to these illustrious lyrics: “Put Molly all in her champagne. She ain’t even know it. I took her home and I enjoy that. She ain’t even know it.” After an unexpected backlash from women — go figure — Rick Ross made sure to clarify he did not condone rape or even use the word in his lyrics. It was obviously all a misunderstanding. Because putting drugs in someone’s drink and taking her home to “enjoy” her cannot be interpreted as rape. Obviously. As if reading this article hadn’t incensed me enough, I then read an interview with A$AP Rocky where he felt he needed to dole out advice for the ladies: “I feel like with the red lipstick thing it all depends on the complexion … You have to be fair skinned to get away with that. … What do dark

skin girls have that you know fair skinned can’t do … Purple lipstick? Naw, that looks stupid on all girls!” Oh. All right. I’ll just be sure to dispose of that red lipstick I got the other day. Not like that Sephora employee’s expertise can compare with A$AP Rocky's. I would say these two instances, among the many that I could list, depict the three major reasons my relationship with rap is on the rocks. The first is obvious: the gross attack on women, and in A$AP Rocky’s case, black women. The latter sheds light on the ongoing politics and discrepancies of light and dark-skinned black women. As for the former, it’s one thing to wax poetic about a woman’s ass. It’s another thing to suggest rape, putting Molly in her drink and enjoying her, if she’s not particularly moved by your words. This callous, almost violent approach dehumanizes all women and sequesters black women who have historically played major roles of empowerment, only to now be reduced to objects many rappers feel entitled to. The second issue is of the decline of significance in lyricism. I won’t overgeneralize and say that there is no meaningful rap left. But I will say that finding rap reminiscent of its former glory can be a tedious yet worthwhile game of hide-and-seek. I would be less upset if the music simply declined from its once social

commentary to marketing fluff. But it often goes past fluff and into dangerous territory like that of Rick Ross’s “slipup” which is a travesty of what rap and hip hop originally were. The final problem is that this sort of music is the most pervasive. It is the most popular depiction of where rap is today, and it is everywhere. Just this past Saturday, amidst protests, Tyga, famous for “Rack City” and lesser-known songs like “Bitches Ain’t Shit” performed at Harvard’s Yardfest. But don’t think our Orange Bubble is impenetrable to this. It’s in our dance troupe performances — because "Mercy" does have any amazing beat — it’s blasted at that pregame, and it’s unconsciously on my mind as I find myself murmuring about a “wifey, girlfriend, and mistress.” It’s true that music speaks. But what is spoken may not always be real, and what is heard may not be the best conveyance of truth. Still, music continues to reflect and transcend society. Rappers may continue to spew words of irrelevance, objectification and inward divisiveness, but at some point, this music that was once meant to empower will inevitably end in unconscious self-subjugation of both its creators and listeners. And that hurts. Lea Trusty is a freshman from Saint Rose, La. She can be reached at ltrusty@ princeton.edu.

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pitch in shorter games this season. “I’m just able to go into the game expecting to throw all seven innings every time, not really worrying about my pitch count,” he said. “That’s been working out pretty well for Ford and I, being able to take those games … and just not even have to worry about the bullpen.” The Tigers put up solid offensive numbers over the weekend and scored in the first inning of each of their wins. They put up five runs in the first two frames of the first Saturday game and six runs in the first two of the first game on Sunday. Keller had an outstanding weekend, going four for four in game one and nine for 17 over both days. In addition to tossing a two-hitter, Ford

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knocked in seven runs over the weekend. Though the Tigers beat the Quakers 7-2 and 7-1 to begin both doubleheaders, their only loss of the weekend was a close one. They used only four pitchers in their three wins but went through three in the loss: seniors Kevin Link and Mike Fagan and freshman Luke Streiber. Link, coming off of a rocky outing against Harvard the weekend before last, got only six outs before being pulled, giving up six earned runs. Streiber allowed only one run over his three innings and Fagan, who has had a bumpy season, pitched three innings and let up only one unearned run on one hit, but one run ended up making the difference. Princeton stayed in the game until the very end, when freshman infielder Danny Hoy drove in a run and another run scored on

Rigler finished the weekend with 10 goals in three tournament games; Princeton’s opponents managed a combined 10 goals in those games. This season, Princeton has averaged over 11 goals per game and scored in double digits in 20 of its 28 games. Meanwhile, Johnson and the defense have surrendered over ten goals in only three games. Overall, the Tigers have outscored their opponents by an average of nearly six goals per game while they outscored their opponents by over 10 goals per game in the tournament. The weekend’s wins moved

Princeton’s overall record to 23-5 in advance of the CWPA Eastern Championship, which will take place in two weeks (April 26–28) in Ann Arbor, Mich. Of the Tigers’ five losses this season, four have come at the hands of teams from California that will not compete in the Eastern regional. 15th-ranked Indiana is the only team that Princeton has lost to that will be competing in the Eastern Championship. In last year’s Eastern Championship, Princeton snuck by Maryland 7-6 in the final to advance to the NCAA championship for the first time ever, where they lost to third-ranked USC and finished sixth in the tournament.

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a sacrifice groundout. There were Tigers on first and third when junior pinch hitter Jonathan York struck out to end the game. A close decision went the Tigers’ way the next evening, however, thanks to Keller’s home run. Ford also hit a two-run bomb and senior right fielder Steve Harrington drove in two runs in the contest. Princeton will take on St. John’s this week before returning to Clarke Field for the first time in three weeks for a four-game home stand against Columbia this weekend. As it did last year, that series will have major implications for the Tigers’ playoff hopes. “Obviously last year they’re the team that pretty much ruined our season by taking three out of four at their place, so we’re going to be looking to get back at them this year,” Hermans said.

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everything is always cut dry, but very respectful and classy.” Callahan set the standard for his career in 1981 during his first season as head coach. His Tigers went undefeated on the season, winning both the Ivy League and the Intercollegiate Squash Association national title. Callahan’s players have won 10 individual national championships. Yasser El Halaby ’06, widely considered the best player in college squash history, won four of those titles in consecutive years from 2003 to 2006 under Callahan’s tutelage. Senior Todd Harrity most recently won one in 2011. This year, Harrity was also a cowinner of the Skillman Award, an annual award given to a senior men’s squash player “who has demonstrated outstanding sportsmanship during his entire college career.” “I learned a lot from him — not just squash, but just to be a better person,” Osbourne said. Tactically, Callahan’s coaching style could be considered

quite unorthodox. Although he has coached 384 matches for the men’s squash team, it’s unclear how many of those he has actually watched. “If you ask a lot of us, we’ll all say he’s a nervous wreck during all of our big matches, and a lot of the times when it comes down to the wire, he ends up not even really watching the actual match,” sophomore David Hoffman said. “He just ends up kind of standing over to the side and watching the reactions of the crowd to see if our guy wins or not.” After winning the 2012 championship, however, the team was able to witness the nerves and emotion that Callahan kept hidden during all of those big matches. “[After the final match], talking with us, it was apparent how much it meant to him that we got to win a national championship after a long time,” Hoffman said. “Just seeing that kind of emotion on a guy that doesn’t let us see that kind of emotion from him all that often was a really awesome thing.” Osbourne said that given the time and dedication that Cal-

lahan put into the program, it will be difficult to adjust to a replacement. “But at the same time we’ve got three classes of players who have played under Coach [Callahan] that all know each other very well,” Osbourne said. “Hopefully as a team we can work together to aid in this transition of helping the new coach settle in as well as work with him to try and strengthen our team for next year.” Callahan will now leave the position that he has held for 32 years, but his players contend that his legacy will remain in college squash. “He is the classiest guy I know, and everyone on the team will vouch for it. He’s really a true legend of the game because of the sort of real level of respect that he upholds for us, the guys on the team and all of the other coaches and all of the other opposing teams,” said Ward. “He really does try to make sure that there’s a certain integrity to squash. He’s really held it together, I think, for college within the past 32 years as our head coach and also as the head of college squash.”

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second doubles. However, it looked at first as if Harvard would be able to secure a win just from the singles side, as Harvard won three of six immediately. However, Graff won 6-4, 6-2, junior Katherine Flanigan won 3-6, 6-3, 6-1 in the second spot and freshman Emily Hahn came through with a 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 win in the fifth spot to cap the Tigers’ comeback. “Winning the doubles point was a major factor in the win,” Flanigan said. “Harvard is a loud and upbeat team, so we needed to show our positive energy.” “The major factors in today’s win were our flexible strategies and positive attitudes,” Graff said. “We were quick to adapt our game plans ... and we remained positive the whole time, which is key against a fi-

ery team like Harvard because they weren’t able to ever really gain the momentum.” Against Dartmouth (9-11, 1-3), the men won a decisive 5-2 match.

“Rather than worry about their antics, we simply came in and took care of our side of the court.” Lindsay Graff ’15

“The key was to not have an emotional hangover [from the Harvard loss],” Pate said. “We were tense in the doubles, and we had to kind of rally to

win the doubles, but we played loose and went for our shots and got a solid 5-2 win.” The women, however, lost a very close match 4-3 against the Big Green (8-7, 1-3). The teams finish Ivy play with matches against Cornell and Columbia next weekend. “We’re going to focus on controlling what we can control, and we have to try to do our best to win these last two matches,” Pate said. “We can help ourselves by controlling what we do with the matches next weekend and put ourselves in position to qualify for the NCAA tournament. So that’s our goal now.” Graff expressed a similar mentality on the women’s side. “We’ve still got some tough matches ahead of us,” she said. “We’re just trying to focus on our own matches and what we can control, and we’ll see how everything works out at the end.”

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ton has had trouble playing in Hanover in recent years — the Tigers have now fallen to Dartmouth there on two consecutive occasions, dropping their last matchup at Dartmouth 11-9 in 2008. Although Dartmouth emerged with the victory at the final whistle, Princeton controlled much of the game, forcing the Big Green to climb back from two separate three-goal deficits to pick up the victory. The Tigers got on the board first, scoring early and often with three consecutive goals in the first quarter before Dartmouth notched its first score with 4:23 remaining the quarter. The Big Green managed to draw even with the Tigers at 4-4 in the second quarter, but Princeton achieved a three-goal margin at 8-5 again by the middle of the

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third quarter following goals by sophomore midfielder Kip Orban, senior attackman Luke Armour (2) and freshman midfielder Jake Froccaro. Still, the Big Green climbed back, scoring five of the last six goals and holding its first lead of the afternoon for the final 4:40. Although the Tigers have the eighth-best scoring offense in the NCAA this season, their performance on Saturday did not reach the standards set earlier in the year. Princeton’s final tally of nine goals marked the first time this season that the Tigers have failed to score at least 10 points in a game. Entering the Dartmouth matchup, the Princeton squad was averaging 12.5 points per game, having reached doubledigit figures in every game since falling 6-5 to Virginia in the first round of last season’s NCAA tournament. Princeton’s third goal, scored by sophomore attackman Mike MacDonald, was the 49th

goal of his Princeton career. He needs just one more goal to become the first Princeton sophomore to reach the 50-goal mark since Jack McBride did so in 2009. The Tigers lost despite leading the Big Green in most important statistical categories. Princeton outshot Dartmouth, picked up 10 more ground balls and dominated the face-offs 16-7. The Tigers did commit 15 turnovers, however, six more than they had against then-No. 8 Syracuse the weekend before last. Now, Princeton will turn its attention to its important upcoming matchup against rival Harvard. The Tigers will play host to the Crimson (6-6, 2-2) at 1952 Stadium on Friday night at 6 p.m. before a national audience on ESPNU. Princeton will likely have to defeat either Harvard or Cornell, whom the Tigers will face the following weekend, to ensure a spot in the Ivy League Tournament in early May.

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Sports Shorts Women’s Lacrosse: Tigers clinch Ivy tournament berth The women’s lacrosse team continued its dominance in the Ivy League when it took down Harvard 11-9 at Class of 1952 Stadium on Saturday. The win maintains the Tigers’ perfect record in Ivy play through five games and clinches a spot in the Ivy Tournament for the Tigers. Princeton took an early 3-1 lead, including two goals that came from the free position slot. Harvard rallied to take the lead with three straight goals, however, before senior attack Sam Ellis scored her second goal of the half to tie the game up at four. The game went back and forth for the beginning of the second half, with the score tied at six almost seven minutes in. The Tigers would go on to score the next four goals to take control of the game. The Crimson fought back to within two, but it was not enough, as the Tigers prevailed. Junior attacker Mary-Kate Sivilli and Ellis finished the game with a hat trick each, with Sivilli also adding an assist to lead the team with four points. The win keeps the Tigers tied with Penn for first place in the conference. The two

teams will play for the top spot on Wednesday. Softball: Quakers take three of four The softball team failed to gain ground on division-leading Penn as it dropped three of four games to the Quakers this weekend. The games were close, with the Tigers losing two of them by only one run. The first inning was big for the Quakers in all three of their wins, as they scored a combined eight runs across the three innings. Rookie pitcher Shanna Christian led the Tigers to their only win of the weekend, allowing three runs in seven innings in a 5-3 victory in the second game of the series. The Tigers will take on Lehigh at home on Wednesday before hosting Columbia for a four-game series next weekend. Golf: Men place third on home course The men’s golf team was on the verge of defeating Yale, the three-time defending champion of the Princeton Invitational, at Springdale Golf Club this weekend. The Tigers led after two rounds but finished three

strokes behind the Bulldogs and one behind Temple. Junior Greg Jarmas and freshman Quinn Prchal were the highest finishing Tigers, tying for seventh with one other player at four over par, and senior Bernie D’Amato finished tied for 12th. The women’s team’s matchup against Rutgers on Friday in Piscataway was rained out. Crew: Heavyweights take Childs cup After taking the lead in terms of overall wins in the Childs Cup, the oldest collegiate cup, last year, the men’s heavyweight team defended its title and remained undefeated in the Ivy League, beating Columbia and Penn. The No. 4 men’s lightweight squad did not fare as well this weekend — No. 3 Cornell retained the Platt Cup after winning in the first varsity, second varsity and freshman eight races. While the lightweight women did not race this weekend, the open women came second to Harvard by 2.2 seconds in the Class of 1975 regatta but beat Cornell by 12 seconds. The 2V, 3V, 4V and 4B boats all finished first in their races.

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It was a 29-second defensive lapse that the Tigers wish they could have back: Dartmouth midfielder PRINCETON 9 Nikki DysDARTMOUTH 10 e n c h u c k and midfielder Cam Lee scored back-to-back goals just seconds apart, turning Princeton’s 9-8 lead to a 10-9 score in favor of the Big Green with only 4:40 left on the clock. A peppering of Dartmouth shots on the Tiger goal ended with Dysenchuck finding the net with 5:09 to play, and Lee’s subsequent goal came just moments later on an extra-man opportunity after junior defender Brandon Bonvino was flagged one minute for tripping with 4:56 remaining in the game. That score would hold for the final minutes, causing No. 9 Princeton (7-4 overall, 2-2 Ivy League) to drop its second Ivy League matchup of the season on Saturday afternoon in Hanover while unranked Dartmouth (3-8, 1-3) picked up its first Ivy victory of the year. Dartmouth’s victory stood in stark contrast to the matchup a year ago, when the Tigers defeated the Big Green 21-6 at Princeton. However, Prince-

After 32 years as head coach of the men’s squash team, U.S. Squash Hall of Fame inductee Bob Callahan ’77 has announced that he will retire. Callahan led the Tigers to 11 Ivy League titles, three national championships and 316 career victories for a .823 win percentage. His last national title came last season, when Princeton snapped Trinity’s 13-year winning streak to win the Tigers’ first championship since 1993. But 2012 was a bittersweet year for Callahan — just a short time after he won the title, doctors discovered that Callahan had a malignant brain tumor. “As I said back then, I still believe I’ve just been remarkably lucky,” Callahan told The Daily Princetonian in December. “The tumor came at the right time; it came at the right place.” Despite the diagnosis, he decided to return in 2013 to coach the Tigers for another year, which would be his last. “I think we all were kind of shocked a bit, but it was one of those things where it’s tough what he’s going through and we all kind of understand to a cer-

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tain extent the battle that he’s had with his disease,” junior Dylan Ward said. “I think that during the end of the season it really did take a toll on him, and I think it was incredibly courageous for him to come out and coach us this year, dealing with his cancer.” Many of his players cite that tenacity, along with Callahan’s moral code, as a reason for the team’s success in recent years. “He’s always the kind of guy that tells you to respect everyone,” sophomore Tyler Osbourne said. “He’s always someone to look up to, someone to respect.” The values that Callahan tried to instill in his players translated off the court. Last season his team was awarded the men’s College Squash Association’s Sloane Award for Sportsmanship, an honor given to the team that “best exemplifies the ideals of sportsmanship throughout the season.” “Coach really embodies a true gentleman,” Ward said. “He always emphasized the importance of maintaining a degree of respect, win or lose, with your opponents, and within the locker room and whenever you talk with him, See SQUASH page 8

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Princeton starts division play with 3 wins

Tigers win secondstraight division title

By Stephan Wood sports editor

Each year, the baseball team has just one series against a divisional rival in which four games are played away from Princeton. The Tigers essentially doomed themselves in that series last season, when they lost three of four at Columbia. This season, the opposite occurred when Princeton (11-21 overall, 8-4 Ivy League) took three of four games from Penn in Philadelphia, winning the weekend in dramatic fashion. After giving up three runs in eight innings, freshman starter Cam Mingo’s control started to fail him in the ninth inning of the final game of the series, when three hits, a walk and a hit batter allowed the Quakers (20-14, 6-6) to plate three runs with two outs, tying the game.

After sophomore reliever Danny Thomson managed to put a stop to the damage, however, the tide turned again as junior center fielder Alec Keller swatted a two-out, one-run home run to give the Tigers a 7-6 lead that held, putting them in second place in the division. The other two Princeton wins of the weekend were significantly less dramatic thanks to shut-down performances by senior pitcher Zak Hermans and junior pitcher Mike Ford. Both won complete games, with Hermans striking out a season-high 12 batters and allowing two runs while Ford allowed one run on only two hits. Each doubleheader consists of a nineinning game and a seven-inning game. Hermans said he and Ford, whom coach Scott Bradley used in the nine-inning games last year, have found it easy to See BASEBALL page 7

By Stephen Li staff writer

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Senior starter Zak Hermans had a season-high 12 strikeouts Saturday.

TENNIS

No. 19 Harvard hands men 1st Ivy League loss of season By Saahil Madge staff writer

The men’s tennis team was undefeated in Ivy League play coming into this weekend’s series against Harvard, with wins over Penn, Yale and Brown. Though it was closer than the final score shows, No. 19 Harvard (15-4 overall, 3-0 Ivy League) handed the Tigers (15-5, 4-1) their first Ivy loss of the season, but Princeton rebounded on Sunday to win 5-2 over Dartmouth. The women (11-6, 3-2) defeated Harvard (10-6, 2-2) with a late-game comeback and lost a close game, 3-4, against Dartmouth. The men’s team came in knowing that Harvard would not be easily defeated — the Crimson were

ranked 31 spots above the No. 50 Tigers, although the teams came in with identical 14-4 records. “Going into today’s match against Harvard, we knew everyone … would have to be at their best,” sophomore Zack McCourt said. “Going into the Harvard match, we set ourselves up to be in a good position,” head coach Billy Pate said. “We were the only two undefeated teams [in the league], so there was going to be a fair amount of pressure.” In the end, the match was very close, with a few key points deciding the outcomes of several matches. The Tigers got off to a good start, with senior Matija Pecotic capturing two sets 6-1 each after losing the first set 4-6 to win his

19th straight Ivy match. Freshman Jonathan Carcione, playing in the sixth spot, defeated his opponent, but Princeton lost the rest of the singles matches. McCourt and junior Dan Richardson had close matches, losing 3-6, 4-6 and 5-7, 5-7, respectively. On the doubles side, Harvard took the point 2-1, with Princeton’s first doubles team of Pecotic and McCourt losing 7-9. “Unfortunately, only a few key points kept us from winning quite a few of the matches, and had we won those, the overall outcome could have been much different,” McCourt said. “Harvard’s players were better able to stick to their game plans during the big moments.” “I think losing the doubles point

was critical,” he added. “And we certainly had our chances to convert at the [number] one doubles position and didn’t take advantage of those opportunities as we have previously this season.” The women also found Harvard a challenging opponent. “We expected a tough match at Harvard because we’ve had some very close matches with them in the past few years,” sophomore Lindsay Graff said. “But we knew we wouldn’t have a problem as long as we played our game, which is exactly what we did. Rather than worry about their antics, we simply came in and took care of our side of the court.” Princeton secured the doubles point with close wins in first and See TENNIS page 9

The 12th-ranked women’s water polo team wrapped up an impressive weekend with a 12-4 rout of Brown on Sunday in the final of the Collegiate Water Polo Association Southern Division championship in Providence, R.I. The Tigers also defeated the Bears in last year’s Southern Division championship game by a closer score of 9-8. As the tournament’s top seed, Princeton reached the final by dispatching fifth-seeded Bucknell and fourth-seeded George Washington on Saturday by scores of 13-4 and 16-2, respectively. The Tigers played Bucknell last week and struggled in the first half, facing a 4-1 deficit after a quarter and a 5-5 tie going into halftime. This time, however, Princeton opened on a scoring tear, scoring seven goals in the first half to take a 7-1 advantage into the half. Princeton opened even faster against George Washington, tallying six goals in the first quarter alone for what would prove to be an insurmountable lead. Ten Tigers scored in the victory, with leading scorer junior utility Katie Rigler and senior center Saranna Soroka netting three goals apiece. As they have done all season, the Tigers’ defense spurred the championship victory by stymying Brown’s potent offense all game. Freshman goalie Ashleigh Johnson had two shutout quarters en route to collecting 13 saves and holding the Bears to nearly five goals below their season average of 8.7 goals per game. For the tournament, Johnson recorded 44 saves, six assists and a steal. She also notched six shutout quarters, with two coming in each game, and looks to be in top form heading into the rest of postseason action. Over the year, Johnson has started every game and allowed just over 5.3 goals per game while saving over 65 percent of the shots attempted on her. She also leads the team in steals and has contributed 13 assists. Offensively, the Tigers were led by Rigler and Soroka, who both scored three times. See W. W-POLO page 7

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