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BEYOND THE BUBBLE

Gellman ’82 talks Snowden, national security

By Angela Wang staff writer

The government has the ability to easily keep track of every citizen’s online activity, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Barton Gellman ’82 said in a lecture at the Wilson School Tuesday.

The discussion focused on Gellman’s role in the blockbuster series of stories relating to the National Security Agency’s extensive surveillance programs that begun appearing in the Washington Post and in the United Kingdom’s Guardian newspaper this summer.

“There has never been a disclosure of so much information of such high sensitivity,” Gellman said in reference to former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who leaked the documents.

Gellman is also a former chairman of The Daily Princetonian.

Gellman described the backstory of how he became one of three journalists, together with the Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald and independent documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, with whom Edward Snowden shared highly classified government documents.

Gellman said he was first contacted by Poitras, who had begun corresponding anonymously with a source who later revealed himself as Snowden. Eventually, Snowden and Gellman began to communicate directly, Gellman said he would not go into greater detail about his interactions with Snowden or discuss the exact means of communications they have used.

“Just because he released his identity doesn’t mean I don’t have confidences regarding our communication,” he said.

Gellman explained in general terms the findings that came from Snowden’s documents and focused particularly on the NSA’s storage of metadata — the send-and-receive information as well as timestamps stored in communications — and its importance.

“It’s data about data. It’s the outside of the envelope when you mail the letter,” he explained.

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ACADEMICS

Q&A: Economics professor Alan Krueger

By James Evans

Intersections critic Jarron McAllister discusses Miley Cyrus’ new song, “Wrecking Ball.”

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Economics professor Alan Krueger served as the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from November 2011 until August 2013 after being appointed by President Obama. He previously served as the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and the Chief Economist of the Department of Labor.

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News & Notes Dining Services offers new flexible meal plan for upperclassmen

upperclassmen will now have the option to convert their two extra weekly dining hall meals into a flexible 30-block meal plan for $200 a semester, Dining Services announced in an email to a selection of upperclassmen Tuesday morning.

Under the original upperclass plan, upperclassmen were allowed two dining hall meals per week, and unused meals expired each Saturday after dinner. The flexible 30-block meal plan will allow upperclassmen to use their existing weekly two extra dining hall meals at any time in the semester, for a total of 30 swipes.

In addition, flexible meals can be used for eating club meal exchanges, theme dinners, outdoor events like barbecues and other special meals. The meals may not be used for Late Meal, bagged lunches or guest meals.

Students must indicate their participation in the program via email to Dining Services by midnight on Sunday, Oct. 6.

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Economics professor Alan Krueger returns to teach at Princeton.

STUDENT LIFE

Daily Princetonian: In your view, what is the role of the Council of Economic Advisers?

Alan Krueger: The CEA advises the president on all economic issues, and the chairman has the principal responsibility for conveying advice from the Council. The CEA works together with other departments and agencies within the government. But the CEA is unique … President Obama was clear that he wanted the CEA’s role to be to provide him with objective, unvarnished advice based on the best evidence. Other departments have constituencies. The Agricultural Department has the agriculture industry as its constituency; the Labor Department has labor unions as its constituency. We could kind of stay above the special interests, and that’s a nice feature of the job. I think the president appreciated that. It also means that sometimes people don’t welcome your advice because they view things

through a different lens. But I think the way I interpreted the job, and the way my predecessors did, is anything that has any significant economic impact was within our realm. So that involved energy policy, jobs and economic growth, the European debt crisis, even the economic effects of the drought last summer.

DP: How was your experience with the CEA different from your time with the Treasury and Department of Labor?

AK: They were all different. Working directly for the president was different. First of all, President Obama was a great person to work for. But I found that also when I worked for the labor secretary and the treasury secretary, that they were also very good people to work for. I worked on a wider range of issues at CEA. At Labor it was obviously labor issues; at Treasury it was a broader set of issues because it included housing as well as employment and taxes, and at CEA it was all of those issues. And that taught me a lot, but it also forced me to learn a lot in different areas. It was a very different scope … Here, as my role as chairman of the CEA, I could provide advice, and it was up to others to follow it. I could give the president my advice, and sometimes he would take it, and sometimes he wouldn’t.

DP: What would you say was the greatest success, in terms of economic policy, during your last tour of duty in government?

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STUDENT LIFE

USG class senator Dorm Room Fund helps student start-ups position opens

By Jean-Carlos Arenas staff writer

By Anna Mazarakis staff writer

Members of the Class of 2015 can now apply to be a USG class senator, USG president Shawon Jackson ’15 announced Monday night in an email to the junior class.

The appointed junior will fill the seat vacated by Deana Davoudiasl ’15, who stepped down from the position in order to take a semester off, Jackson said in an interview.

The new senator will be appointed, rather than elected, in accordance with Section F of the USG Constitution. The USG president and the class president will nominate the replacement, who then must be approved by the Senate.

Davoudiasl was halfway through her second term as Class of 2015 senator. During her tenure, she spearheaded the Summer Storage Initiative, which gives students the opportunity to store personal items over the summer, and Tiger Universe, which encourages attendance at athletic events.

Davoudiasl said she was taking time off due to a personal matter.

“Deana was a huge resource and a huge advocate, not only for the Class of 2015, but a great resource for USG,” Zach Ogle, the other See VACANCY page 5

When FiscalNote, a company founded by Tim Hwang ’14, recently raised $1.4 million in funding, the company’s list of backers included Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and the venture capital firm New Enterprises Associates. But among the list of high-powered investors was a more unexpected source of support, coming from Hwang’s own Princeton classmates, Taylor Francis ’14 and Raymond Zhong ’14 by way of the Dorm Room Fund, a venture fund run by student entrepreneurs at various universities across the United States.

Started by First Round Capital — a company that connects and invests in entrepreneurs — the Dorm Room Fund has been investing in various student entrepreneurs in the New York area since 2012. It also operates in the Philadelphia and San Francisco areas, with a branch in Boston coming soon. The fund relies on undergraduate student investors to identify potentially successful student entrepreneurs at their universities.

“The core belief is that students

can stay in school and start companies if they get a little bit of support, both financially and in terms of advice,” Francis explained. “The other big idea behind the Dorm Room Fund is that the people who are best placed to find the best student entrepreneurs are their fellow students.”

First Round Capital selected student investors via an application and interview, according to Cece Cheng ’08, director of the Dorm Room Fund. The student investment team will choose who will replace the current members as they graduate, she explained.

The idea that student entrepreneurs do not have to choose between being enrolled in school and being part of a start-up is different from that motivating many other student-entrepreneur fellowships and grants, such as the Thiel Fellowship, which offers students $100,000 to drop out of school and start a company, Francis explained. Each branch of the Dorm Room Fund is given $500,000 to invest in undergraduate entrepreneurs, totaling $2 million across the four different branches.

The average investment the Dorm Room Fund makes in a single startup is about $20,000, according to its

website.

FiscalNote was the first Dorm Room Fund investment made at the University. The start-up aims to provide real-time government analytics and actionable data for enterprises regarding relevant legislature that would otherwise not be easily accessible and would require the work of many entry-level assistants to compile, Hwang explained.

FiscalNote is on track to raise another $8 million in July, according to Hwang, and will probably expand from 14 to 20 employees by the end of the calendar year.

“I’m pretty confident that a little after graduation I’ll be able to ramp [FiscalNote] up to 100 people and start expanding this company out globally,” Hwang said.

In addition to providing initial seed financing to the start-ups, the Dorm Room Fund intends to provide mentorship to the aspiring student entrepreneurs. Over 60 entrepreneurs have joined the Dorm Room Fund as resident advisers already, according to Cheng. Many of these advisers are alumni from universities in which the Dorm Room Fund has student investors.

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AK: I think the biggest success was that the recovery continued. When I started in the fall of 2011, there was a lot of concern about a doubledip recession, and I think the continuation of the 2 percent payroll tax cut provided support for aggregate demand.

So we’ve now had 42 months of private sector job growth in a row since the recession ended and job growth turned positive. I think the most important thing we achieved was a continuation of the recovery.

DP: How closely did you work with Ben Bernanke during your time in government?

AK: The Fed is an independent agency, and we never publicly comment on Federal Reserve policy. There is a tradition which has gone on for decades, where the chairman and members of the CEA have a monthly meeting with the Board of Governors, so we had

lunch once a month down at the Fed. More generally, we benefited from interactions with the economists at the Fed. They have a large staff and a tremendous amount of expertise. So, if you want to understand an issue — how they’re modeling the effect of the sequester versus how we’re doing it, for example — it was very helpful to interact with them.

DP: Is unemployment the best way to measure progress away from a recession?

AK: I think the unemployment rate continues to be an important indicator. I think it’s one of many indicators.

I think it still is indicating that the labor market is not yet back to full health, although we’ve made progress.

I wrote an article for Bloomberg before I took my job … where I said the unemployment rate is going to continue to edge down, but we also have to be concerned with labor force participation. People may drop out of the labor force. So another indicator to

keep an eye on is the fraction of the population that’s employed — the employment-topopulation ratio. I think there are multiple measures of the health of the job market.

DP: How do you respond to

I think that we heard a lot of crying wolf about inflation ... that never materialized. I think a bigger risk is deflation than inflation. alan krueger critics who argue that measures like the stimulus package and quantitative easing will be difficult to unwind, creating a drip-fed economy?

AK: I think the Fed has the

tools to unwind and do it in a way which is at the right pace for the economy. I think that we heard a lot of crying wolf about inflation — that Federal Reserve policy would cause inflation — that never materialized. I think a bigger risk is deflation than inflation.

DP: What advice did you give Jason Furman, your successor?

AK: Jason had been around long enough that he didn’t really need that much advice.

But there are a range of issues that the chairman needs to address, from managing the agency to knowing how to do IPA arrangements, where people go on leave from universities and nonprofits to work in the government, to substantive economic issues.

Jason had been Principal Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, so he was extremely familiar with budget and tax issues. I thought it was useful nonetheless to go through some of the mechanics of the processes we go through on releasing

statements on the jobs report or GDP, some of the positions the CEA had taken on various policy issues in the past.

I think it’s probably helpful, not a requirement but helpful, for the CEA to be consistent over time. I kind of explained where I stood on certain issues that he might not have known — most issues he probably already knew — or where Austan Goolsbee had been, and why I thought it useful to continue supporting various policy proposals.

DP: Will your experience in government have an impact on your research and teaching here at Princeton?

AK: I think there’s no doubt it will enrich my teaching.

When I returned to Princeton after the Labor Department stint and after working at the Treasury, I think it helped my teaching by providing better examples of how things work in Washington. As far as my research goes, I think it will probably cause me to focus on some of the central challenges the economy currently faces,

like long-term unemployment, and will probably cause me to move away from some of the more peripheral issues I’d worked on, like the economics of terrorism.

I think the two main challenges the economy faces are long-term unemployment and the large increase in inequality of opportunity that we’ve seen in the United States. I think those are the areas I’ll focus my research on.

DP: What are you most looking forward to upon your return to campus?

AK: I think I’m looking forward to being able to concentrate on a few issues at my own pace, as opposed to having to cover the waterfront. I’m sure that if I were still in Washington, my time would be totally absorbed by the budget negotiations and the debt ceiling — and I hope that gets worked out smoothly — but I think it’ll be nice to be able to focus on some of the long-term issues that affect the economy and not the short-term drama that Congress creates.

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because advanced software programs can discover from large amounts of data user patterns that would be hard to find manually.

Gellman also defended Snowden’s decision to go public with the information by highlighting the inability of Congress to take action on its own. He spoke of how many high-level members of Congress had no idea of the NSA activities before the stories were published, and how those who did had no interest in publicizing its activities.

He described the process as a cycle that begins with a government that tries to keep too many secrets and people who try to find them. He emphasized that while reporting these stories he has never published information without asking high-level authorities

to confirm that no information that could compromise national security would be released.

The one exception he made was publishing, against the government’s demands, a list of major companies that had provided their data to the government.

“If the harm that you’re worried about consists of companies stopping doing something because their customers and the public at large don’t like what they’re doing, and them losing business because of it, that’s why we have to [release the information].

That’s our job,” Gellman said.

During the audience-led questionand-answer session, Gellman admitted that he constantly considers and reflects on the way that he handled the Snowden story and is aware of its consequences.

He said he was “spooked” by the likelihood that he was subject of spe-

cial attention and surveillance.

However, Gellman stated that he would stand by his right to resist any government pressures that may be put on him, given the importance of his information.

“I’ve seen the accumulation of powers that Orwell could not have imagined, and not only that, but, in the hands of a relatively small number of people, this stunning capacity to track you,” he said.

Gellman is currently an author-inresidence at the University’s Center for International Security Studies. He taught WWS 384: Secrecy, Accountability and the National Security State in the spring and fall semesters of 2012.

The discussion was held in the packed Dodds Auditorium in Robertson Hall at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday and was moderated by former U.S. ambassador and Wilson School professor Daniel Kurtzer.

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“There are two main ways that we see [resident advisers] interacting with the founders [student entrepreneurs like Hwang]. One is direct mentoring. We’ll be pairing RAs with a student founder … that shares a similar background or is working on a similar problem. The second way the RA will be engaged with students

will be via local DRF events; we’ll also be hosting talks,” Cheng said.

Some Princeton alumni who are currently featured on the Dorm Room Fund’s website as resident advisers are Jon Steinberg ’99, president and chief operating officer of BuzzFeed; Brian O’Kelley ’99, chief executive officer of AppNexus; and Evan Baehr ’05, cofounder of Outbox.

“In subsequent years [after graduation], I got to know

Harvard, Stanford and MIT’s undergraduate culture, all of which are amazingly celebratory of entrepreneurship. From my experience at Princeton, it was a place where entrepreneurship is at best not understood and at worst, mocked, and that’s really disturbing.

The Dorm Room Fund, from my perspective, is a way I can help more undergraduates at Princeton have a shot and think it is awesome to start a company,” Baehr said.

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Taking notice

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ou know how, when you meet someone you’ve never seen before, you end up seeing her all over campus? Or when someone points out an annoying habit, you can’t stop noticing it? When you’re alerted to some stimulus, you suddenly can’t help but pick up on it.

Here it is: Women on campus are very rarely, almost never, the first people to speak up in lecture, precept or any large group of men and women they don’t know well.

This is far from a revolutionary statement. Among the findings of the Steering Committee on Undergraduate Women’s Leadership’s 2011 report is that “in many situations, men tend to speak up more quickly than women, to raise their hands and express their thoughts even before they are fully formulated, whereas women may take a bit more time to shape their comments and be more reticent about speaking up.” The COMBO III survey found that men are slightly more comfortable speaking up in precept than women and that they view themselves as stronger leaders.

I read the findings, and I forgot about them. I’m a confident, self-assured woman, aren’t I? The findings couldn’t possibly affect me, right? I didn’t think about it again until I was retraining for Outdoor Action last fall. A woman from the Fields Center came to talk about diversity and asked all of the leaders if anyone would be willing to share a story about feeling particularly valued. One male leader offered a story, then another.

The same was the case for the other responses she elicited from us. Only a few women spoke up, and only when sharing involved calling out answers instead of speaking into a microphone. I stayed silent.

Once I began to notice it, I couldn’t stop. This week in my classes, it became particularly evident when professors asked the class open-ended questions or prompted people to talk. And yet, I still stayed quiet.

I used to tell myself it was a holdover from high school, where speaking up in class meant singling yourself out in way that does not happen on a campus of 5,000-plus. Or that I just didn’t want to be “that person” in lecture who asks a lot of questions. Both are wimpy excuses and revealing about the pressures in American society for women to be smart without seeming too smart.

I realize now that by not speaking up in class when I have something to say, I perpetuate a problem of which I am now acutely aware. It is a cowardice that I don’t like to admit about myself.

I’m at a stalemate. I don’t think that this female reticence is a problem stemming from men or from Princeton or from some inherent difference between men and women. And yet, this reticence, this unwillingness to take a chance or stand apart from a crowd or make people notice you, is why only 12 women took highprofile leadership positions in the 2000s compared to 58 men, according to the SCUWL. It is why women are less likely to receive fellowships, for the simple reason that fewer women apply.

I don’t have any illuminate-all answer to why women are less likely to speak up in class. I hope that by noticing it, others will be encouraged to debate the idea themselves. My own take, among many possible explanations, stems from the idea that there are different expectations of men and women on this campus.

To be a man here, for better or for worse, is to acknowledge that after graduation you are expected to find a job and contribute to society. To be a woman on campus is to question, sometimes, gently, ever so slightly, whether you’ll be working at all in 10 years, whether you’ll take time off to care for kids and lose the skills you’ve spent the first 20 years of your life acquiring.

To be completely clear, I am not saying that men must work and women belong in the house. We are far beyond those traditional roles or too politically correct to say otherwise. Nor it is to say that women are the only group on campus afraid of speaking up. Nor I am suggesting that every time a woman stays silent in lecture she is contemplating her future and whether it is even worth talking. The effect is less deliberate than that, allowing us to subconsciously devalue our contributions.

Instead, it is about bringing to the surface what can so easily slip past notice. The SCUWL recommended changing campus stereotypes about leadership roles, providing women mentor relationships and raising faculty awareness. All these are admirable steps toward balancing campus participation.

The easiest thing to say and hardest to do is to get women to acknowledge the situation and make an effort to change it.

If women are going to start speaking up in class, then it is time to start talking.

Because the only person holding my tongue is myself.

Rebecca Kreutter is a Wilson School major from Singapore, Singapore. She can be reached at rhkreutt@princeton.edu.

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What we can learn from MOOCs Lauren Davis columnist

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uring many mornings this past summer, I wandered into the kitchen to see my father, a retired investment banker, hunched intently over his laptop, headphones on and scribbling notes. As I fumbled with the coffee machine, he talked excitedly in my direction about the expansion of the universe or the relative nature of time. I doubt I’d have understood him even if I had been fully awake, but his enthusiasm for his “Massive Open Online Course," or MOOC, about Einstein reminded me fondly of my freshman self. As an experiment both he and my mother decided to enroll in courses through Coursera, a website that pools online course offerings from top universities, including Princeton.

I had heard about MOOCs before but was excited to witness them in action — less for their content than for their structure. Each MOOC consists of lecture series streamed online, tests, homework exercises and discussion forums all moderated and graded by professors.

There are deadlines each week, but the student decides when to work within that timeframe. For my father, this usually meant the early hours of the morning — although sometimes I caught him napping on the couch in the afternoon, mid-lecture, with his computer on his lap.

The general consensus in the media is that Coursera and similar sites run by Harvard, MIT and Stanford represent the future of higher education: a true meritocracy in which anyone, anywhere, of any age or background, can get an Ivy League education. In an in-depth

piece in The American Interest earlier this year, Nathan Harden predicted that “the residential college campus will become largely obsolete” within 50 years.

Unsustainably high levels of student debt and an increasing number of academic qualifications available online will drive most middle-tier colleges out of business, he argues, leaving behind only a few of the wealthiest institutions to compete fiercely with each other. Perhaps a few residential campuses will remain, but they will be an unnecessary luxury attended by a small minority.

While I’m not sure what to make of the exact extent of these claims, I do think that the trend toward online education offers Princeton and its students an important opportunity for re-evaluation.

To remain a top-tier learning institution, Princeton needs to borrow some of the innovations offered by the MOOC model to improve the in-class learning experience offered to its students on campus. Some professors, such as Professor Gmachl in the engineering department, have begun to incorporate aspects of the MOOC — but not nearly enough.

The MOOC model has been shaped by the latest findings in psychology and neuroscience research. The setup I observed during my parents’ courses without a doubt felt more efficient than the traditional lecture model used on campus today, especially for large survey courses. Being able to watch lectures in your own time and at your own speed greatly improves flexibility and efficiency, catering to each individual’s learning style. The “flipped” classroom model used at Stanford, where students watch lectures beforehand and spend all class time interacting with professors, discussing or completing practice exercises, is one way Princeton might update the structure of many of its courses. This would not only maximize student-professor interaction time but also the speed of learning:

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon found that combining machine-guided learning with traditional classroom instruction allowed students to learn the same material in half the time. It will be interesting to get feedback from Professor Gmachl’s engineering class, which is piloting this kind of model by watching lectures at home before class, at the end of the semester.

While it may not happen during our school years, the thought that the residential campus may one day become extinct offers an opportunity for each of us as students to clarify the unique added value we’re gaining from the residential college experience, as opposed to the alternative of taking courses on Coursera.

To me, this means being mindful that living and working with professors and other people who are in the same stage of life — sharing passions, forming relationships and working together — cannot be replaced by any form of online forum or chat room.

I don’t think campuses like ours will ever become obsolete, no matter how exciting, cheap and efficient the MOOC option becomes. Campuses are a place for social and emotional as well as academic development, places where one can chat about philosophy with a classmate over dinner or bounce career plans off a professor who is more friend than faculty.

So next time any of us mopes about being ready to get on with the real world or being trapped in the Orange Bubble — feelings I often have — remember that a place like this is becoming more and more of a rarity. Hopefully the prospect of a MOOC-dominated world can help us all actively seek out the positive aspects of the residential experience and let the negatives ones slide.

Lauren Davis is a philosophy major from North Hampton, N.H. She can be reached at lhdavis@ princeton.edu.

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as an intern in Cape Town, South Africa would “change my life.” However, halfway through the trip, I realized that the study abroad program wasn’t about the idea of Isabella Gomes “growing into one’s own” or “discovering columnist one’s self in an exotic land.” (After all, we’re not characters in "Eat, Pray, Love," and it is almost foolish to try to plan exactly when efore we even entered college, and where we will be inspired.) Rather, I many advisers told us that if we had believe the goal of our time abroad should the opportunity to study abroad, be to gain a bit of knowledge on a culture take it, regardless of when or where about which we were previously ignorant. it was. We don’t necessarily understand why We can only hope that our experiences until we hear the cliches: you’ll gain so much were authentic enough that the things we from the experience, you’ll learn about other learned and the people we met didn’t concultures and the ultimate promise — you’ll firm our previous stereotypes. To me, the find yourself. successful study abroad trip manages to Sure, the University offers plenty of ophumble us into not making future assumpportunities to extend our studies both on tions. It manages to make us a little more campus and within Princeton’s vicinity, as qualified to dispel any illusions that othinternships and independent research fund- ers might have of the countries we visited. ing allow students to explore beyond the During my trip, a shopkeeper whose cliclassroom setting and the professor-student entele mainly consisted of tourists told me dynamic. It even encourages a connection that any immersion experience, whether with the world through its course offerings, it be for two months or an entire semescultural student organizations and emter, would never be long enough to make phasis on a diverse student body. However, us “one of the locals.” Until we, as visithe study abroad programs offer a special tors, could accept that, we would never opportunity to be forced out of our combe open to having a truly authentic expefort zones and, hopefully, into a better unrience. While that could be disheartenderstanding of the world and its peoples. ing to hear, it is a truth of being a studyWhen I got the chance to study abroad, abroad student. Our few months cannot I imagined how my two summer months make us experts, just people who were

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fortunate enough to have been acquainted with a new country and its cultures.

A backpacker who had been working his way through Africa to pay for his travels brought up the fact that most college interns still get taken care of by their universities, even while they’re abroad. Whether it’s keeping track of our living situation or paying for a percentage of our expenses beforehand, the University offers security. This security, when compared with the visiting backpackers, signifies that we aren’t exactly “roughing it.” While it’s extremely comforting to know that it isn’t just our families checking in on us to make sure we’re safe, the careful guidance of the university means that we’re not independent travelers experiencing a trip that is entirely separate from home.

Furthermore, many internships and study abroad programs send off a group of Princeton students to live, and perhaps even work, alongside each other within the same program. The premise of having a miniature version of Princeton as a study abroad program is lovely because it fosters a deep bond within a group of students with similar interests; however, it’s an aspect of the experience that participants should consider before accepting the offer to go abroad.

After all, for some students, being alone in an unfamiliar country is what really takes them out of their comfort zones. This might not be achieved if you have the option of

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Regarding“What'swrongwith cheating?”(Wednesday, Sept.11,2013):

Benjamin Dinovelli’s Sept. 11 opinion piece, "What’s wrong with cheating?", raises an important question about the University’s academic integrity policy with regard to student collaboration on coursework. The line between permissible and impermissible collaboration can indeed

vary from course to course — and even assignment to assignment — depending on the faculty member’s specific learning goals for that course or assignment. As such, faculty members need to communicate their course policies clearly, and students need to make sure they understand those policies. The Office of the Dean of the College has posted a short video (which can be found at odoc.princeton.edu)

in which students and faculty discuss examples of collaboration that might fall into the gray area or in fact cross the line. We encourage your readers to watch the video and then use it as a springboard for further conversations across campus this fall.

Sincerely, Elizabeth Colagiuri Associate Dean of the College

recoiling back to a support system. If you go with a group of Princeton students, you’ll seek out their familiar company because, even if you all come from different backgrounds, you will share experiences that are relatively consistent for everyone in the group. In some ways, this is great because you won’t be scrounging for meal dates with people you barely know, but you might also miss out on that chance to have a conversation on a subject that no one ever brought up before or engage in an activity that isn’t listed as a must-see on some tourist website.

Michael Chang ’16 got the opportunity to experience the best of both during his internship in Bermuda. When his fellow Princeton students were with him, they got meals and went sightseeing together — like a “Princeton clique” that curbed the nostalgia for home. But it wasn’t until this Princeton microcosm returned to the States that he really got a chance to feel “integrated” within Bermuda, from investing more time in his research to bonding with non-Princeton people from his lab. It is from not having a “go-to group of people” that we force ourselves to make connections outside of our comfort zones — a valuable part of understanding our world.

Isabella Gomes is a sophomore from Irvine, Calif. She can be reached at igomes@princeton.edu.

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The Sept. 17 article “Duneier quits Coursera platform” stated that Professor Mitchell Duneier declined to be interviewed. However, the interview request Duneier received did not adequately indicate the focus of the story, which does not meet The Daily Princetonian’s standards for clarity and specificity. We regret this particular incident and continue to require our reporters to be clear about the scope of their stories to potential sources in requests for comment.

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Class of 2015 senator, said.

“We’ll miss her quite a bit, and we can’t wait for her to get back.”

Jackson said that the applications for students interested in the position will be due on Thursday and he hopes to complete interviews with the finalists over the weekend.

The applications will be reviewed primarily by Jackson and 2015 class president Jon Ma. USG vice president Carmina Mancenon ’14 and Ogle will provide input during the application review and interview processes, but the formal nomination will come from Ma and Jackson, Jackson said.

“As always for a class officer, it’s an elected position — you want them to be responsible, be passionate about USG, have some

sort of project in mind that they can have, have been involved already in campus in the sense that they know what’s going on,” Ma said of the kind of candidate he is looking for. “I want to make sure that they have been participating in the activities and the events and they have a good feel for how they can contribute.”

After the interviews, Jackson will introduce the nominee during the first Senate meeting of the year on Sunday evening in order to obtain Senate approval.

Should the nominee be confirmed on Sunday, he or she will not begin duties as Class of 2015 senator until the following Senate meeting.

Three members of the Class of 2015 ran for the two positions of Class of 2015 senator in November of 2012. As of Tuesday afternoon, four members of the Class of 2015 had submit-

ted an application, Jackson said.

“I would predict that it [the application pool] would be a little larger since some students tend to be intimidated about putting themselves out there in an election and feel more comfortable with filling out an application,” Jackson said, noting that the USG received about 20 applications to fill the empty Class of 2015 social chair position last spring.

The nine-question application asks students why they are interested in serving as a senator, what project ideas they may have and how they would try to fix a perceived problem in the USG. It also asks applicants to list a television show or movie that best describes their life.

Whoever is chosen to fill Davoudiasl’s vacated seat will hold the position until the end of January, unless he or she is reelected during the November elections.

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FOOTBALL

After turnaround season, Tigers hope freshmen keep ball rolling

By Hilary Dodyk senior writer

When the 2013 season opens on Sept. 21, 30 new freshmen will suit up in orange and black as members of the football team. After the program’s first .500 football season since 2006, the incoming members of the Class of 2017 have higher expectations than previous recruiting classes.

“I’m very excited about this group of young men who will be part of the tradition of Princeton football,” head coach Bob Surace ’90 said. “I feel like this group will add immediate depth on both sides of the ball, and I expect that they will add to the character and integrity of the program.”

On the offensive side of the ball, the Tigers anticipate the arm of quarterback Chad Kanoff, who had originally committed to Vanderbilt before deciding to enroll at Princeton.

“We got the best thrower I’ve seen on film since I’ve

been here,” Surace said. “He’s tall, he’s accurate, he’s got a strong arm [and] he is way more athletic than most guys his size, so he’s going to be a tremendous fit.”

Nick Peabody also joins the Tigers as a quarterback, though whether he will remain at the position or convert to either a wideout or tight end role remains to be seen. After juniors Quinn Epperly and Connor Michelsen alternated last season, the question who will start under center may be even more complicated this season.

Joining them in the backfield will be freshman running backs AJ Glass and Joe Rhattigan. The Tigers have not hesitated in putting freshmen in at the running back position over the past few years, but while the running skills are there for both players, they will have to learn the routes and prove that they are able to pass protect if they hope to see playing time this season.

On the defensive side

of the ball, the Tigers will miss current Kansas City Chief Mike Catapano ’13 but return a significant number of starters and experienced veterans, giving new recruits such as defensive linemen Hunter Hill, Henry Schlossberg and John Hummel time to improve and get up to speed.

“This group is … maybe even a little bit deeper of a group than we’ve ever brought in, but they’re going to have a harder time getting on the field because of the depth that we return,” Surace said.

Still, there will definitely be some who will compete for playing time almost immediately. After being the best pass rusher in training camp, according to Surace, freshman defensive lineman Tyler Desire is someone to watch. Additionally, linebacker Birk Olson may very well start this season coming off the edge on the pass rush.

“The better we are, the harder it is. As there’s more talent returning, and there’s

SPRINT FOOTBALL

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Replacing current Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Mike Catapano ’13 is one of the hardest tasks facing the football team, which went 5-5 last season after consecutive 1-9 campaigns.

more depth returning, that makes what these guys do now and in the summer [even more important]. These recruits have to be even more in tune with our strength and conditioning programs and getting themselves ready to have a great season if they

Rookies already contributing to undefeated Princeton squad senior writer

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The sprint football team has not won a game in over a decade and faces an uphill battle when trying to find new players due to a lack of recruiting spots and other complications.

Five freshmen added to Princeton roster despite recruiting difficulty associate sports editor

The last time the sprint football team won an official game, junior wide receiver and defensive back Chris McCord was just eight years old, and it was 1999. Fourteen years and 87 consecutive losses later, McCord stood at the activities fair in Dillon Gymnasium as junior captain of the squad, trying to convince freshmen that they could make history.

Sprint football is a varsity sport at Princeton, but it is not sanctioned by the NCAA. With only eight teams in the country belonging to the College Sprint Football League, the Tigers’ season barely stretches more than a month. And, with no official recruiting spots from the University, it is up to coaches and players to fill the roster each year and field a team.

Head coach Stephen Everett explained that while other Ivy League schools like Penn and Cornell get official recruiting spots for sprint football, the size of Princeton’s athletic program combined with Ivy League rules makes it difficult to justify giving some of the limited recruiting spots to the team.

“Between the fact that there are other sports that get those spots and also Title IX, there has to be equity between our male and female sports department figures,” Everett said.

“With football already getting a significant number of those spots, you can’t add another male sport, especially another

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named Ivy League Rookie of the Week twice last season and defensive back Matt Arends, who split the team’s award for best defensive rookie with Gaffney.

The Tigers will open their season Saturday, Sept. 21 at home against Lehigh.

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want to play as freshmen,” Surace said.

Current Tigers who made impacts their freshmen seasons include sophomores Chuck Dibilio, who rushed for 1,068 yards in 2011, Khamal Brown, cornerback Anthony Gaffney, who was

football sport, that would eat up a significant number of those spots.”

Instead, returning players simply look to events that garner a large freshman attendance, like the activities fair, to lure potential players onto the roster. How they approach the subject of their record is a little more complicated.

“It’s turned some kids away in the past, but, I mean, a lot of the kids on the team, they play

“Athletes realize that, ‘Hey, I’m going to have an opportunity to play right away.’ ” Chris McCord `15

because they love the game,” McCord said of the team’s dry spell. “They’re just glad they have the opportunity to play.”

Everett, on the other hand, sees the years of losses and the small roster size as a kind of motivation for potential players to join, describing the hunt for a victory as “kind of a draw.”

“Because of our small numbers, athletes realize that, ‘Hey, I’m going to have an opportunity to play right away.

I’m not going to be sitting on the bench; I’m going to get a

chance to play right away. If I’m playing, then I have an opportunity to be on that team that makes history.’ That’s actually a good recruiting tool,” Everett said.

But the small roster that Everett sees as one of the keys to recruiting may be also keep Princeton from winning a game in the near future. Most recently, the Tigers were forced to forfeit their Sept. 20 game against Navy due to a lack of available active players on the roster, one that at the time of publication included only five freshmen — some who had never played football before, Everett said.

“We had some guys this year who we had to teach how to get into a three-point stance.

We had to teach them the positions, so you lose a lot of time with that,” Everett said.

“Even teaching them the rules — guys may play ‘Madden,’ or even watch football, but they might not actually know the rules. We need to do a lot of educating in just the basics of football. We call it ‘Football 100.’ ” Everett and his staff hope that the team has moved away from ‘Football 100’ basics by next weekend, when they travel to Waterbury, Conn. to take on the team that they almost beat last season. The Tigers suffered a heartbreaking 32-28 loss in overtime to Post on Oct. 5, 2012, a game that could have been their first victory in almost a decade-and-a-half and was their best chance to make a mark in the win column in years.

The men’s water polo team will add three recruits from the Class of 2017 to its roster this season to join the 16 returning members.

“It is not a huge class,” head coach Luis Nicolao said, “but all [four] will have an impact as freshmen, and we are looking forward to seeing them compete this fall.”

The recruits are Curtis Fink, Bret Hinrichs and Jovan Jeremic.

Fink will join the team as a utility player after leading his high school team to three consecutive league championships and earning All-CIF Division I and All-Sunset League first team honors in 2011 and 2012,

as well as being named a California-Hawaii All-American. In 2013, he participated in the U.S. National Team selection camp.

Hinrichs, who hails from Menlo Park, Calif., led his Sacred Heart Preparatory team to consecutive CCS Division II championships and two league titles. He also picked up first team CCS Division II and allleague honors in 2011 and 2012.

Also coming in as a utility player is Jeremic, who scored over 100 goals throughout his high school career, making him the second all-time leading goal scorer in Huntington Beach High School history.

He earned All-CIF Division I Southern Section and All-Sunset League First Team honors in 2012 and was selected to the U.S. Youth National Team

camp in 2012. Additionally, he was named one of the top 40 players in the nation in 2012, and from 2010-12 he participated in the Olympic Development Program. After winning HBHS’ Most Improved Award his junior season, he was team MVP as a senior.

“We are very excited about our incoming men’s class,” said Nicolao. “One area we were lacking last year was some outside shooters, and we feel like we got some guys the really can shoot well from the outside.”

Fink and Jeremic netted two goals apiece as the No. 14 Tigers stormed past Harvard 14-7 over the weekend. The freshmen looked promising throughout the weekend, which saw Princeton go undefeated in four games to begin the 2013 campaign.

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on and off of the field.

Holmes-Winn added that the real challenge in replacing the talent and personality of the graduated seniors will fall to the rising seniors, who must “carry that tradition and that legacy on their backs.”

As with any change in a team’s roster, the team is expecting to experience a change in rapport.

“Of course [the team dynamic] is going to change since we have new players and lost the seniors, but I think we’re going to have a great team,” sophomore back and midfielder Teresa Benvenuti said.

“I hope it won’t change too much, since I had such a good time last

year.”

With a strong and passionate new class, though, members of the team are ready to repeat the successes of last season.

“They care very much about team; they value the camaraderie; they value the competitive aspect; they have great work ethic,” Holmes-Winn said of the new players. “They want to be pushed and challenged, and they’re very passionate about the game and very passionate about achieving their potential on and off the field.”

The Tigers are 3-1, having lost to No. 13 Penn State 4-3 on Sunday after downing Michigan State in overtime Friday night. Though upperclassmen have seen the majority of the action thus far, Reeves has already contributed a goal and an assist.

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All-American Katie Reinprecht ’13 left big shoes for the freshmen to fill.

with high rankings, great expectations

By Adam Fisch senior writer

Coming into the 2013 crosscountry season, both the men’s and women’s teams are bolstered by strong packs of freshman recruits. Spearheaded by experienced upperclassmen, the Tigers are poised to excel on the national stage — with the men ranked ninth and the women 29th. Buying into that mentality, the new runners are looking to add to Princeton’s depth, and several may soon break out into the Tigers’ top seven.

“It looks to be a pretty good class; I am excited about the possibilities,” women’s head coach Peter Farrell said. “This is a class that has a lot of character, and I see them developing.”

With a total of nine fresh faces, a large and gifted freshman class augments the women’s team. Currently leading the group is Megan Curham from New Jersey, with Colorado native Rachael Chacko close behind. England’s Lizzie Bird is just as impressive on paper, and although still recovering from a long summer track season, the three should lead the class once Bird returns to full speed.

An accomplished high school athlete, Curham’s top achievements include a 14thplace finish in the prestigious Foot Locker Nationals cross-country race, as well as a 16:45.86 5K personal best to finish sixth in the country at the New Balance outdoor track national meet. Bird has strong personal bests of 4:25.52 in the 1,500m and 9:34.85 in the 3K.

Tough in cross country as well, she placed eighth at the English National Championships.

Curham wasted no time in contributing to the team, winning the Delaware Cross Country Invitational, her first collegiate race, on Saturday. Bird placed seventh, and Chacko finished ninth.

On the men’s side, the Tigers are joined by a smaller contingent of just four freshmen, made even smaller by injuries to two. Nevertheless, the men receive a good amount of quality and talent from the runners coming in.

Traveling to Princeton from England, William Paulson has great middle distance strength. With personal bests of 3:46.48 in the 1,500m, 1:53.70 over 800m and 8:24.91 for 3K, Paulson should have a shot at making an immediate impact.

William Bertrand, a Maryland native, is also capable of making big strides. Starting cross country for the first time his senior year of high school, Bertrand wasted no time in becoming state champion in his division that season.

The Tigers took the first seven spots at the Delaware Cross Country Invitational on Saturday. Bertrand finished sixth.

Though they have proven themselves by their prior achievements and in practice, the newcomers are yet to be truly tested by racing a full collegiate cross-country season.

“I use this expression every year: ‘I don’t know anything until they fire the gun,’ ” Farrell said. “There’s working out, and there’s competing. You can be surprised by some people.”

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Above: Junior Emily de la Bruyere. Below: Greta Feldman ’13, owner of seven Tiger records, with junior Jackie Nicholas and Abby Levene ’13.

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

“Wealth” of freshman hitters, team dynamic key to success on the court

By Andrew Steele staff writer

After graduating thricehonored first-team all-Ivy outside hitter Lydia Rudnick ’13 and losing three straight Ivy matchups at the end of last season, head coach Sabrina King ’01 — herself once a standout member of Princeton women’s volleyball — remains enthusiastic about her team’s prospects.

Five new Tigers from the Class of 2017 will take the court this season, but King admits she does not know which one will have the biggest impact.

“It really is a mystery to me. And I’m excited to see who rises to the occasion,” she said.

Dillon Gymnasium will see the addition of three experienced outside hitters. Mary Claire Bartlett of New York, N.Y. was named a league allstar four times at the Brearley School and apparently has good genes: Her father, Richard Bartlett ’79, played lacrosse, hockey and lightweight football at Princeton; her uncle Paul Bartlett ’82 played lacrosse; and her older sister Hillary Bartlett ’12 helped women’s tennis win

two Ivy League titles.

Freshmen Cara Mattaliano and Ellie Shannon add to what King called a “wealth” of hitters.

“I think Cara and Ellie are both excellent pin hitters and can contribute immediately on either the outside or the

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right side,” the third-year coach said.

Last year, current junior Ginny Willis earned her second All-Ivy honor as the team’s primary setter. Rookie Lauren Miller of San Diego will join her this year, and King believes Miller “can contribute right away.”

King praises the strong work ethic of Brittney Ptak,

an incoming middle blocker who happens to hail from the same high school and club as her new head coach.

While winning matches and returning to the top of the Ivy League remain the priorities, King gives a great deal of weight to the development of a team dynamic.

“One of our main goals for this season is really just working together as a team for a common goal,” she said.

“While that seems very, you know, cliche or something that obviously a team does, we have a larger roster. And we really want to make sure that everyone is on the same page and all-in at all times.”

King hopes high-level team dynamics will be the foundation for a more successful year and said that she feels that the Class of 2017 will fit in well.

“With this class, I was really looking at a couple things,” she said. “The first was a really high volleyball IQ. I wanted kids who really had a good idea about the game, who weren’t necessarily going to be projects for me and could work into our system right away. It’s a great class, and I’m looking forward to seeing what they can do.”

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Sophomore middle blocker Kendall Peterkin leads Princeton in kills with 58, while freshman middle blocker Brittany Ptak is fifth on the team with 24 and classmate outside hitter Ellie Shannon is sixth with 21.

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After kicking off its season with six matches on the road, the women’s volleyball team (3-4 overall, 0-0 Ivy League) dropped its home opener Tuesday night to Seton Hall (3-5, 0-0 Big East) in three straight sets, 25-15, 25-16, 25-20. Sophomore right side Kendall Peterkin had a team-high 12 kills and three service aces for the Tigers. Peterkin, who also added seven digs, returns to Dillon Gymnasium after an impressive freshman season, when she was just one of two freshmen in the Ivy League to be named to first-team honors. Rookie outside hitter Cara Mattaliano closely followed Peter-

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kin, recording 11 kills and 10 digs.

Junior middle blocker Tiana Woolridge contributed seven kills and a team-best .357 hitting percentage, while defensively sophomore libero Sarah Daschbach contributed 19 digs. Princeton was unable to get its offense going, as the Tigers only hit .050 for the match. The Tigers will next travel to Rhode Island for the Bryant Tournament, where they will play three non-conference games before opening Ivy League play on Sept. 27 against Penn in Dillon Gym.

Women’s soccer

The women’s soccer team’s (3-1-

1) game under the lights against St. Joseph’s (4-2-2) took an unexpected twist — after entering the second half scoreless, play ground to a halt 15 minutes later when a power outage knocked out the stadium lights at Sweeney Field in Philadelphia. It took 45 minutes to turn the lights back on, but the delay seemed to be exactly what Princeton needed to get its offense going. Though junior midfielder Lauren Lazo’s penalty kick, called on a handball inside the Hawks’ own box, was saved by St. Joseph’s goalkeeper Lauren Jancuska, it was Princeton that found the back of the net first. Freshman

Tyler Lussi, coming off of a week in which she was named both Ivy League Player and Ivy League Rookie of the Week, knocked in a shot off the crossbar in the 83rd minute to give Princeton the only goal of the game and another notch in the win column.

Offensively, Princeton outshot St. Joseph’s 20-11, but the Hawks saw an impressive game from Jancuska. The game put the Tigers’ endurance to the test, as it was Princeton’s third match in five days. Princeton’s next contest is not until Sunday, when it will face off against William & Mary at home in Roberts Stadium at 1 p.m.

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class has a “great personality” and she is looking forward to a successful season with the new team.

“From the start, we just have to show them how much we want it, and we need to be like one unit,” Guzman said. “We have to set the tone: We’re not going to accept losing, we’re not

going to accept not winning the Ivy League ... we have high expectations for them and for ourselves.”

So far, the freshmen have been a pleasant surprise.

Lussi, in particular, has already made major contributions — she is tied for first on the team with three goals.

The Tigers are 3-1-1 through five games, having shut out Richmond, Army and Seton Hall before falling to Rutgers 5-1 on Sunday.

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MEN’S SOCCER

Accomplished freshmen aim for Ivy title

By Andrew Steele staff writer

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Freshman midfielder Brian Costa grew up less than an hour from Princeton.

Even having lost Mark Linnville ’13, a superstar center back who graduated with four first-team all-Ivy selections, and twotime first-team all-league selection Matt Sanner ’13, the men’s soccer team has fixed its sights on an Ivy League championship in 2013 and, with the addition of a promising class of freshmen, the squad looks to return to the NCAA Tournament after a twoyear absence.

Head coach Jim Barlow welcomes seven freshmen to the program: one goalkeeper, two defenders and four midfielders.

“Everyone we recruit is a person who we think has the ability to make an impact and compete for a spot right away,” Barlow said.

Each freshman is accomplished at the high school and club level. Starting from the back, the Tigers add keeper Josh Haberman of Woodbury, N.Y., along with defenders Patrick Barba of San Diego, Calif. and Mark Romanowski of Rockville Centre, N.Y. Romanowski, a top prospect out of New York, earned

All-America accolades from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.

Greg Seifert, Vikram Pothuri, Brian Costa and Bryan Windsor will add depth to the Princeton midfield. Seifert and Costa are both natives of New Jersey; the former was named MVP of the state high school all-star game, and the latter was New Jersey’s Gatorade Player of the Year during his senior season.

Brian and Bryan share not only homophonic first names but also similar statures, listed at 5 feet 8 inches, 140 pounds and 5 feet 8 inches, 135 pounds, respectively.

Windsor, whose first career goal gave the Tigers their first win on Sunday, was one of four U.S. players selected for the Global Finals of Nike’s “The Chance” competition.

Windsor outlined the selection process for The Daily Princetonian. Organized by Nike, the U.S. National Team scouts brought together their top 50 players from club competition and showcase events. The four best performers of the 50, in the scouts’ view, went to compete in Barcelona with ris-

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ing stars from around the world.

“I just tried to make the best of my opportunity, and good things happened,” Windsor said. “I met some amazing people, and the soccer experience and cultural experience in Barcelona was top-notch.

I couldn’t have asked for a better way to spend my summer.”

Costa, a defensive midfielder at the Pingry School and for the Player Development Academy, won the garden state’s Gatorade POY award for — according to the official release — “not only outstanding athletic excellence, but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the field.”

“When I was a kid, my family would — we live about 40 minutes away — come over to Princeton, and we would watch soccer and basketball games and walk around the campus,” Costa said when asked why he chose Princeton. “I absolutely loved it. Since I was a kid, Princeton was always the place I wanted to go.”

“My freshman year, I would want to help the

team in any way possible,” he added. “If I were to get on the field, I think with my work ethic, I could cover a lot of ground for the team and make some defensive plays.”

Barlow held back on singling out a potential impact recruit from this crop, suggesting that the next few weeks would be telling: “It’s a pretty deep group right now, so it will be fun to see all the challenges and all the competition during preseason as guys arrive and we see how prepared for soccer at the next level and the demands of the college game [they are],” he said.

When asked about the objectives of this year’s squad, Barlow remarked on increasing the goal tally.

“We thought we could be a team that could score a lot of goals [last season], but that didn’t quite go our way,” he said.

“If you ask anyone on our team, they’ll say they want to win the Ivy League and go deep into the NCAA Tournament every year,” he continued. “But we really want to focus on the next game that we’re playing.”

FIELD HOCKEY

Lussi, 2017 make their mark National champions add five freshmen

By Anna Mazarakis staff writer

The women’s soccer team got to the second round of the NCAA Tournament last year, but the Ivy League Champions — who went 144-1 overall and 7-0 in the Ancient Eight — hope to make it even further this year.

The team will face growing pains, however, given that it lost eight seniors and has a large, nine-player freshman class. Defenders Haley Chow, Gianna Geil, Kathy Jones and Fiona McKenna, midfielders Nicole Loncar and Jesse McDonough, forward and midfielder Sarah Mendenhall, forward Tyler Lussi and goalkeeper Hannah Winner join the team’s roster this season.

“We always try to just get the best players that we can,” head coach Julie Shackford said. “We really wanted a balanced class this year, knowing that we lost pretty much people from all over the field last year.”

The freshman class boasts several high school MVP awards, first-team all-league or all-area picks, three- or four-star ratings from TopDrawerSoccer.com and experience on the Canadian national team. Several members were named the top players in their respective regions.

Senior defender Kacie Kergides noted that, with so many new defenders coming in, the team will have to figure out right away what works best defensively.

“We’re going to have some new people back there, so we’re going to have to adjust very quickly,” Shackford agreed. “We have to be really sharp defensively ... we’re going to have to really gel.”

The new team will have to be able to gel both on and off the field, though, players said.

“With so many new players and personalities, you take a chance on

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the chemistry and camaraderie of the team,” junior midfielder and forward Lauren Lazo said. “Hopefully as upperclassmen and as a team, we can make them feel as comfortable and at home as possible

because they’re basically a third of our team and we need them to come in and be positive and help the team in all the ways they can.”

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By Anna Mazarakis staff writer

After winning both the Ivy League Championship and the NCAA Championship with a nearly perfect record, the field hockey team (21-1 overall, 7-0 Ivy League last season) has high hopes for the 2013 season and its incoming freshman class.

The five freshmen that will join the field hockey team this year — Cat Caro, Ellen Dobrijevic, Annabeth

Donovan, Andrea Jenkins and Hailey Reeves — come ready for the challenge.

As members of the United States National Team, the Junior Women’s National Indoor Team, the Junior Olympics team, the New South Wales AllSchools Team, the CanadaUSA Series and the Disney tournaments and showcases, the rookies know what competitive field hockey looks like.

“They have a high level of self-discipline, I would

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say, across the class,” head coach Kristen HolmesWinn said. “They understand how much work it takes to be good, and I think they’re willing to put in that effort.”

Holmes-Winn said she wants the freshman players to “bring their strengths to the table right from the start” and be ready to compete and feel comfortable enough to take risks.

The new players are evenly spread out through each of the positions on the field: Jenkins and Reeves are strikers, Dobrijevic is a midfielder, Donovan is a back and Caro is a midfielder and a striker, according to the team’s roster.

“It’s important that you get a nice diverse group of girls in to kind of learn the roles and learn how to replace people that we’ll end up losing,” junior striker Allison Evans said.

“It will help fill out the team again for replacing the girls that we’ve lost.”

Evans noted that it will take an overall team effort to fill the void left by the players who graduated in the Class of 2013 — which included alltime program-best scorer Kat Sharkey ’13 and Katie Reinprecht ’13, last year’s Daily Princetonian Female Athlete of the Year — both See F. HOCKEY page 7

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