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Judy Jarvis, the new Director of LGBT Center, started work in January.

Jarvis takes new role as U. LGBT Center Director By Hannah Waxman staff writer

Judy Jarvis, former director of Vassar College’s LGBTQ and Women’s Centers, began her work as the Director of the University’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center on Jan. 18. During her tenure at Vassar, Jarvis was responsible for organizing an LGBTQ oral history project and also worked with members of Vassar’s Bias Incident Response Team to design and implement a campaign to educate students, faculty and staff on issues of identity, power and privilege. Jarvis said that she is eager to create multiple points of entry for students within the Center through social events, lectures, academic engagements and collaborations with the different residential colleges. “My goal is to work very collaboratively [with the Women’s Center and Fields Center] and really creatively to figure out all the ways to serve the Princeton LGBT community but also the straight Princeton community who certainly needs to learn

more around issues of LGBTQ campus culture [and] campus life experiences,” she explained. Jarvis noted that another part of her role includes making sure that transgender students feel comfortable on campus. She explained that there’s still a lot of work to be done across the country and at the University in examining the campus experience of transgender and gender non-conforming students. “At Princeton I’m learning that while there are gender-neutral bathrooms and ways to put a preferred name in the systems, there are still some glitches,” Jarvis said. She added that she is confident about moving forward on work to better support transgender students on campus to help them feel fully affirmed and a part of the University community. “I think there are still opportunities for growth to enhance the campus climate for transgender students, faculty and staff,” LGBT Center Program See JARVIS page 2

The University announced its strategic planning framework, recently adopted by its Board of Trustees, on Tuesday. The framework will focus on the University’s commitment to research and the liberal arts, with an emphasis on diversity and inclusivity, affordability and service, and includes plans to accept transfer students, expand student body and create a seventh residential college. “The vision that is expressed in the strategic framework document is one that I own wholeheartedly and am delighted to have the Trustees putting forward,” University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 Eisgruber said. The framework identifies the University’s strategic priorities, such as expanding the student body and developing new facilities to better support engineering and environmental studies. In light of the University’s mission as a residential liberal arts research university, priorities such as expanding the Graduate School are also being considered.

Among other plans, the report states that the University will institute a small transfer admissions program for the first time since 1990, in order to attract students of diverse backgrounds, including military veterans and low-income students who may have begun their post-secondary careers in community colleges. The first set of transfer applications will be considered as early as September 2018. Specifically, it states that the Board has authorized the administration to begin planning for the addition of 500 more undergraduates, 125 students per class. To accommodate these students, a seventh residential college will be constructed. The plan also provides for the establishment of an interdisciplinary initiative centered on environmental studies to combat climate change and other global-scale phenomena, the continued expansion of its faculty in computer science, statistics and machine learning and increased support for student entrepreneurship. To provide resources for the initiatives, the Board authorized the administration to pro-

pose an increase to the spend rate, currently at 4.12 percent of the endowment, that would take place over fiscal years 2017 and 2018. Eisgruber noted that different sections of the framework will be implemented on different time frames over the next few months and years, but did not provide a specific range of time, citing the complexity of the decision-making process. “Where we can do things immediately, we will try to do them immediately; other things will happen on whatever time frame is needed in order to get them done right, because it’s very important that we do that,” Eisgruber said. Noting that he last strategic plan was issued over 15 years ago, Eisgruber explained that many layers of planning went into the framework and that both the University’s Board of Trustees and various task forces across campus, such as the Residential College Task Force and the General Education Task Force, have taken part in the planning process. He said the Board suggested that it will look at and potenSee PLANS page 3

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Butler College’s iSpace offers space for students to think freely and experiement with new projects.

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Students and faculty participated in various service projects including decorating lunch bags, tutoring students and initiating food drives during the inaugural Month of Service spearheaded by the Pace Center for Civic Engagement this January. Gwen McNamara, Communications Coordinator of the Pace Center, said that the Center chose to hold the event in January as it is the month when the University honors Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy with a formal commemorative event. “January is a great time for reflection,” Kimberly de los Santos, Executive Director of the Pace Center, said. “We’ve all had a busy fall and we’ll all be having a busy spring, so January is a great time to set

aside to provide a lens for the upcoming year.” During the Month of Service, Pace Center’s Community House organized multiple service projects for University students. These projects included helping students from low-income families close the academic achievement gap, initiating food drives to help fight hunger in the community, and hosting civic dialogues where students could come together and discuss the importance and meaning of service. The Pace Center also released a Field Guide to Service online each week of the month, which offered students a way of learning about service opportunities and comprehending the meaning of service, de los Santos said. She added that Assistant Director of the Pace Center Charlotte Collins compiled these guides. See PACE page 4

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The new Butler College Innovation Space, or iSpace, aims to be a hub for budding entrepreneurs, Butler College Director of Studies Matthew Lazen said. The iSpace is located in the basement of Wu Hall and was officially inaugurated last November. The walls of the space are covered with whiteboards, and the movable tables can also be written on with dry-erase markers so that spontaneous ideas can be jotted down, according to John Danner, a lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering who was involved during construction process. In addition, the space is equipped with an Apple-TV, and work is in progress to secure forthcoming technology that will allow

multiple users to project their screens onto the TV at the same time, he noted. Danner added that the space was stocked with supplies like paper, blue tape, Lego bricks and marking pins to foster innovative thinking. “It’s a place that encourages unpredictable creative collision,” he said, comparing the space to larger ones at the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford. According to Danner, some universities like Berkeley and Stanford have multiple buildings and faculty members dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship. To date, the iSpace is the only room on campus that houses the entrepreneurial community. Lazen said that much of the inspiration for the iSpace came

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from the book “Make Space: How to Set the Stage for Creative Collaboration” by Scott Doorley from the Stanford d.school. He added that the iSpace was not nearly as elaborate as spaces at schools like Stanford and that the idea was to allow students to make the space their own and to accommodate their needs as they cropped up. Lazen noted the initial idea for the space was to build a community at Butler similar to Mathey College’s Edwards Collectives. “The group of people that came to mind was entrepreneurs, especially social entrepreneurs,” Lazen said. The Princeton Entrepreneurship Club reached out to the Butler College Office requesting the space at the same time as the See ISPACE page 7

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Coordinator Andy Cofino said. Jarvis said that she hopes to facilitate an LGBTQ oral history project similar to the one which she introduced at Vassar and that she wants to place a larger emphasis on graduate student LGBTQ programming. “I’m really interested in working more with LGBTQ graduate students, including LGBTQ international graduate students. I’ve learned through my interview process that that’s sometimes a group that doesn’t feel as connected to the LGBTQ community,” Jarvis said. Jarvis said she hopes that future LGBT-related programs and initiatives at the University, crafted using her experiences from Vassar and MIT and an increasing understanding of the University’s culture, will connect with students at the University. Jarvis will work alongside Cofino as well as ten undergraduate student staffers, according to Cofino. Jarvis added that the Center hopes to hire two graduate students for the team. According to Jarvis, the University employs a greater number of staff members than other universities often do. The position of director of the LGBT Center at the University has been vacant since Sept. 22, when Debra Bazarsky, who served as the Center’s founding director since 2005, left for the position of Manager of Diversity and Inclusion at the Office of Human Resources. Deputy Dean of Undergraduate Students Tom Dunne described Jarvis as a creative and warm person with excellent listening skills.

“We felt that she was really equipped to take leadership over the Center,” Dunne said. He explained that while the Center has many great programs that it plans to continue, there is always room to explore new opportunities for growth. According to Dunne, having a new

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will find Judy to be a really great advocate and support person and director for them to access and go to. She’ll really be able to help lead the Center into the next decade.” Debra Bazarsky,

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leader like Jarvis can help ensure that the Center continues to be dynamic and at the forefront of its field. According to Dunne, the search process for the new director of the LGBT Center began when Bazarsky she transferred to her new role in Human Resources after she held her role as director through orientation in September. Then Dunne led members of the HR department, faculty and students in a fourmonth-long nationwide search process to look for a new director. Dunne added that the reason the process took as long as it did was to accommodate interviews from the broad pool of candidates as well as to allow for the fact that the position was begin-

ning in the middle of the school year, which had the potential to inconvenience candidates and the institutions they were working for at the time. I In the interim period, Cofino stepped up and continued the Center’s growth, including hosting a talk by transgender actor Laverne Cox, one of the most high-profile event sponsored by the Center in the University history, Dunne explained. He added that one of the most important aspects of the University’s LGBT Center is a commitment to intersectional work. As he learned from people at Vassar who spoke on her behalf during the search process, Jarvis was someone who prioritized this kind of work. Bazarsky noted that Jarvis has a strong knowledge of LGBT students and LGBT issues in higher education and will therefore be a great addition to the Center. “I think the students will find Judy to be a really great advocate and support person and director for them to access and go to. She’ll really be able to help lead the Center into the next decade,” Bazarsky said. Jarvis, Bazarsky and Dunne all explained that the Center has been leading in the field of LGBT work for many years. “I think most LGBT students experience Princeton to be a really open place to be students and to be out, but I think that we still have a ways to go,” Bazarsky said. Jarvis noted that support from a strong alumni base and having a centrally-located office within Frist Campus Center also contribute to the Center’s strong framework that has allowed it to operate smoothly over the years since its founding. She added that she looks forward to meeting as many new students as possible in the coming weeks.

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He noted that although the Board considered reports from campus task forces while preparing the plan, the initial reports by the task forces did not determine which recommendations will ultimately be implemented. Eisgruber added that there were a number of decisions, particularly those regarding finance, that fell more under the Board of Trustee’s jurisdiction, and added the framework set a basis for judging future initiatives, comparing the costs and benefits of pursuing a proposal. While this framework concludes an intense period of strategic planning process, the campus planning process is ongoing, Eisgruber noted, and the two frameworks intersect in areas such as the increase of undergraduate admissions and its relation to student housing. “There are planning processes that will start immediately for the expansion of the undergraduate student body, but there’s no way we can expand the undergraduate student body until we build more residential housing,” he said, adding that the progress on campus planning would influence the implementation of strategic planning framework.

Eisgruber explained that during the planning process, each task force drafted a report which was then posted online to gather feedback and comments, which was then followed by extensive revisions. He added that because this plan is meant to be a long-term strategy, there was significant consid-

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eration about which basic principles and values should guide the University over the next several years. “There are very important paragraphs in here about diversity and inclusion. Those paragraphs speak to values that have been important to this university I would say for the

past 50 years,” he said. When these principles are taken into account in drafting the plan, he explained, the University can respond to shorter term issues by going back to the larger concepts of what it stands for and what the Board is aiming to accomplish over the next several years. “My hope is that everyone will take the time to read through the report. I think people will find in it a set of values that resonate with the many different ways in which people care about this university and care about its future, and that they will find in there a set of priorities and principles that invite continued engagement,” Eisgruber said. He added that the engagement and participation of students, alumni, faculty and friends of the University is crucial as the University works towards implementing broadly stated priorities. He noted that the report should be read by everyone with a perspective towards their continuing membership in the University community. Successes of the framework will be reviewed by an externally commissioned task force, according to the report.

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Collins deferred comment to McNamara. In conjunction with the Pace Center, many student organizations participated in the Month of Service. These included the University’s Academic Managers’ Group, which hosted a children’s book drive for Princeton Nursery School, and Forbes Residential College, which decorated paper bags to make cheerful lunches for the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen, according to McNamara. Kevin Sallah GS, founder of Princeton Against Global Hunger, said the student organization hosted the Hunger and Homelessness Event with the Pace Center during the Month of Service. “This event consisted of a food drive to benefit the Cornerstone Community Kitchen and discussions about the problem of hunger”, Sallah added.

Dean Rodan ’19, a food drive participant, said that he found the “service meaningful in a logical and spiritual manner and was glad to be able to help and assist others.” De los Santos said the Pace Center plans on expanding the Month of Service to create partnerships with other campus groups. She added

that she hopes to engage more student organizations, such as athletic teams and eating clubs. “We decided to develop a Month of Service at Princeton to raise awareness about service and civic engagement, provide opportunities

“This event consisted of a food drive to benefit the Cornerstone Community Kitchen and discussions about the problem of hunger.” Kevin Sallah,

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for students, staff and faculty to engage, and inspire the campus community to get involved not just in January but hopefully the whole year through,” McNamara said. The Month of Service will conclude on Feb. 4 with a Community Matters Open House event in the Pace Center Lounge, where participants will share narratives of service. This year also marks the 15th anniversary of the Pace Center, McNamara added.

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Butler administration contacted the club Co-Presidents for their input, he explained. “It was like zeitgeist,” he said. Henry Shangguan ’18, CoPresident of the Princeton Entrepreneurship Club, said that the club sorely felt the need for such a space on campus. “A lot of schools have dedicated entrepreneurial areas on campus… and Princeton didn’t really have

that,” he said. “There are other places on campus built for collaborative learning, but in most cases there’s just a blackboard against a wall and you’re restrained to that one blackboard,” Yash Huilgol ’18, who has used the space for group projects in his EGR 498: Social Entrepreneurship, noted.

“I love that you can write literally from floor to ceiling, and you don’t have to erase anything to see the full picture,” he added.

Danner noted the iSpace is for students who are still in the exploration phase rather than committed to a venture. When entrepreneurs get more serious about their ideas and want to invest more in a start-up, they would migrate to the Princeton Entrepreneurial Hub on Chambers Street, an initiative spearheaded by the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, which has more resources and mentoring available, he explained.

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The untold story of winter break Luke Gamble columnist

lasses have started up again, but as students begin the second semester, many wonder why it starts so late. We are almost a full week into February before teachers finish passing out syllabi and move on to real content. Every year Princeton’s unique schedule comes into question, but the issue is quickly forgotten as students plunge into a semester that proceeds non-stop except for spring break. Princeton’s schedule is unique among the Ivies, with final exams being taken in mid to late January after winter break. Additionally, there is no standard length to the breaks. This year, most students returned to campus the week of January 5, since winter break was a meager two weeks. USG has not put forth a sustained effort to change the university schedule for many years. Former USG President Ella Cheng noted that such efforts were difficult because of how far in advance the faculty votes on the schedule for a given year, almost four years in advance. Cheng commented that the schedule was also difficult to change because of the implications for athletics. Any serious change in the schedule would cause serious a shake-up in terms of practice regulations or return dates for athletes. While last year 96.2 percent of voters supported standardizing a three-weeklong break in a referendum, the possibility of moving Dean’s Date and final exams to before winter break has not been addressed by the student body in recent years. There has not been a referendum on said issue, but there are many reasons why ending the semester in December and having a longer winter break would benefit a large part of the student body. The combination of short winter break and Intersession, rather than one longer break after finals, makes it difficult for some students to return home for a significant period of time. It also divides the fall semester. With a full week off for fall break, Thanksgiving, as well as winter break, the fall semester is incredibly spread out. The current schedule may also not be what is best for students academically. And no matter how responsible Princeton students are over winter break, it is difficult to argue that leaving the classroom for two weeks before coming back for reading period really helps students keep the lectures and readings fresh in their minds come Dean’s Date and finals. If all of this is true, why has the schedule remained the same for so long? What many students don’t realize is that the faculty — the professors — hold most of the scheduling power. For many professors, the current schedule is ideal for their own work, research and publication thereof. This year teaching professors gave their last lectures the week of December 14, the latter half of December, and the entire month of January could have been used to attend academic conferences and conduct research. Initially, this seems like a case in which the faculty is using their power for their own interests at the expense of what is best for their students. In other words, professors seem more interested in their own careers and academic lives than in actually serving students. However, it is not so black and white. Being so focused on undergraduates, Princeton puts its professors in a difficult position. Princeton professors are expected not only to take their teaching duties very seriously, but also to produce copious amounts of research and publications so as to compete with professors at other institutions, which do not apply the same teaching responsibilities to their faculty. While many other institutions outsource much of their teaching to graduate students, except for the lucky few in the Institute for Advanced Study, most Princeton professors teach at least one course each academic year. While many students focus on the inconvenience of travel for international students and athletes, they often forget to consider that the current schedule might be ideal for the 850 full-time faculty members that make Princeton such an incredible undergraduate-centric university. Princeton aims to be the premier undergraduate university and also to compete on the high-end academic level. The current academic calendar provides an important window for faculty to contribute to academia — contributions that we students rarely value but that is largely the invisible groundwork for Princeton’s prestige. Luke Gamble is a sophomore from Eagle, Idaho. He can be reached at ljgamble@ princeton.edu.

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Expanding funding opportunities for internships Nicholas Wu columnist

common complaint aboumodern universities is that they sequester students in the “ivory tower,” isolating them from the problems in the world outside of academia. Public service is a remedy to that problem, and a career in it allows for deeper engagement with the community than the academic world or private sector normally provide. In fact, the University’s unofficial motto is “Princeton in the nation’s service and the service of all nations.” The University has taken great strides to encourage students to pursue careers in public service, especially through internship programs like the Princeton Internships in Civic Service (PICS) and the Guggenheim Internships in Criminal Justice — but the University can do more. One area for improvement is the funding scheme for internships in public service. As it stands now, the University offers few options for funded internships. For example, PICS provides grants for students and matches them with internships in public service, and the organization’s website advertises that over 800 University students have obtained internships through PICS since 1996. PICS is a wonderful program, and I believe that it should continue in its current form, but it has its limitations. PICS is particularly constrained by the small number of internships that it funds as well as their selectivity. It offered over 170 internships this year but had over 600 applicants. We all thought getting into Princeton was hard — but the real challenge was finding a funded PICS internship. Moreover, PICS is not a Pace Center program, but rather an alumni-supported initiative in partnership with the Pace Center. As a consequence, funding for PICS comes from alumni donors, not from the full financial clout of the University. The stipends for PICS internships are better than nothing — many of the internships are in government positions and would have no pay otherwise, yet for many students the overall cost is still altogether too high to

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merit accepting the internship, not to mention the opportunity cost of accepting unpaid summer internships when they could be working in paid positions elsewhere. To further its mission of public service, the University could increase its level of support for PICS and similar programs. It would understandably be difficult to find more partner organizations with which to match students, so an expansion of PICS or the Guggenheim internships would not be feasible. But the University could create a new system for internship funding similar to the current funding schemes for research. If financial need is demonstrated and the internship passes the vetting of a University organization — perhaps the Pace Center — then that organization could disburse funding to students to help cover the large, basic costs of an internship like housing and food. Such a grant program would ensure that internships in public service remain viable for the University population, including students who would otherwise eschew such positions because of the cost. In an increasingly competitive job market, more University support for internships will also help students gain valuable work experience before graduation, further enriching the undergraduate experience. Other universities give students credit for internships completed during the semester, encouraging them to gain experience during the school year. Given Princeton’s distance from urban centers, however, such a scheme is difficult to implement. Short of taking a year off, the summer remains the only time during which to gain significant work experience. As controversial as he may be, Woodrow Wilson, University president emeritus, Class of 1879, once said an admirably “there is no higher religion than human service.” By expanding funding opportunities for internships in public service, the University can help further that goal. Nicholas Wu is a sophomore from Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich. He can be reached at nmwu@princeton.edu.

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Iowans keep our pipe dreams — and pipe nightmares — alive Ryan Dukeman columnist

his week, the Iowa Caucuses marked the first votes cast in the 2016 presidential race. While Hillary Clinton won with 49.9 percent to Bernie Sanders’ 49.6 percent, on the Republican side a clear pack of three emerged — Ted Cruz, the winner; Donald Trump; and Marco Rubio — in a much more telling race. Rubio had been locked in a four-way battle with Chris Christie, Jeb Bush and John Kasich to be the establishment alternative to Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, and the results from Iowa have given Rubio backers significant reason to believe their candidate will emerge from that pack as that alternative candidate. While we are still a long way from having a nominee on either side and the results later this month in New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina could shift the direction of the race dramatically, the one thing that can definitively be taken away from Iowa is that the country’s pipe dreams — and pipe nightmares — have both been kept alive. Even though Bernie Sanders came in an unbelievably close second in Iowa, the fact that he was this competitive with Clinton — and will almost certainly win in New Hampshire, which votes next — was almost unthinkable last summer when he launched his campaign. Clinton was the picture of the establishment, had the support of 100 percent of declared superdel-

egates and had pledged to raise an eyepopping $100M by the end of 2015. She also had near-universal name recognition, something the firebrand Vermont senator did not. Bernie Sanders, and his ideas, were ridiculed as pipe dreams, feasible in Sweden (as Marco Rubio said), but never electable in the United States. The extremely liberal Huffington Post even went so far as to publish a blog post, the opening line of which was “If you think Bernie Sanders will be the Democratic nominee for President in 2016, you’re out of your mind.” In poll after poll and fundraising total after fundraising total, nothing has proven further from the truth, a result Iowa has only confirmed. With few and minor exceptions, Sanders has taken large bite after large bite over Clinton’s national lead, shrinking it from nearly 40 points in August to roughly 12 today. His campaign has received more individual contributions from more individual donors than any in history to this point, all while eschewing super PAC money and traditional, wellstaffed fundraising apparatuses. Sanders’ performance in Iowa and his likely win in New Hampshire in a few days have shown that his supporters, often much younger than those of Clinton, are willing not just to tweet about #feelthebern, but to actually vote, caucus, donate and engage in a political system they otherwise normally feel has disengaged itself from their interests and input. His campaign is therefore historic and provides a much-needed infusion of actual voters and their interests into

the country’s political system, regardless of whether he is the Democratic nominee come this summer. On the Republican side, the ‘Iowa Rule of 3’ can provide a sketch of the rest of the campaign for the nomination. With the exception of one candidate, no eventual nominee for either party has come in worse than third place in Iowa since 1972, and those third-place finishers all either had special circumstances or, like Rubio, finished extremely close to the first and second place candidates. While the Democrats’ pipe dream of Bernie Sanders is now still clearly a realistic possibility, so too is liberals’, centrists’ and elite conservatives’ nightmare of Donald Trump. While he may have hit his “ceiling,” as conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat wrote on Twitter, Trump has now clearly demonstrated that he is not a media phenomenon with no real support in the form of actual votes. With a finish only roughly three points behind Cruz and just one and a half ahead of Rubio (whom betting markets favor to be the GOP nominee), it is clear that Trump’s supporters are not straw men and that they are willing to turn out and actually vote for their candidate on election day. He will remain a serious candidate for weeks, if not months, even if no longer the obvious and clearaway front-runner he has been for most of the last six months. Ryan Dukeman is a Wilson School Major from Westwood, Mass. He can be reached at rdukeman@princeton.edu.

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Fencing took on a strong national field at the Northwestern duals.

Leading the Tigers were the usual suspects. On the women’s side, junior épéeist Audrey Abend spearheaded the Orange and Black effort, winning 29 of her 33 matchups. Conversely, for the men’s team, brothers Thomas and Michael Dudey, a sophomore and junior, respectively, and freshman Alex Lam each won 25 matches. Junior épéeist Audrey Abend, the women’s team point leader over the weekend, provided a firsthand account of the action-packed weekend. When asked about the Northwestern Duals, the New York City native commented, “The thing that comes to mind is it’s a very long tournament. It’s like a marathon, a Spar-

tan battle. It’s about letting your endurance and training prevail; you almost go into automatic mode. Your training really does show, though. It’s really interesting because those practices late at night matter. It’s really fun but it takes a toll.” To be precise, each fencing tournament follows a precise structure. Within each game between two schools, there are a total of 27 individual matchups. The épéeists, foilists and sabrists each compete against nine individual opponents. The team that reaches 14 individual victories first wins. Amid the endless individual matchups, the women’s team especially celebrated their victory over rival no. 10 Temple University. Abend explained, “We fenced Temple University which only has a women’s

team but is really strong. My team did really well; we won 9-0. The fact that we were able to hold together was really rewarding.” Perhaps the most crucial element of the weekend victories was the combined positivity of both the women’s and men’s teams, which actually practice and integrate closely. In particular, Abend added, “We always stayed positive. Even when two people lose we always say good job. We try to just focus on tactically what we can do the next time. It really helps. One thing we did is in between each bout the previous teammate will help hook up the next teammate.” The teams hope to use the positivity and momentum generated this weekend to carry over into next week’s Ivy League round robin at Cornell.

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by a score of 11-6. However, the Trinity freshman took a commanding early lead in the deciding fifth game, and prevailed. With four out of nine freshmen in the starting lineup, the Princeton team certainly finds itself in the midst of a rebuilding year. Going into their most challenging weekends of the season, the team aimed to compete hard and keep building on its games. “The Trinity and Penn programs are at different places than ours. We knew we could push Penn, but Trinity might have one of the best teams in history, so we were just trying to see where we were at in terms of level and use

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the experience as a building block,” Doyle commented. The coaching staff has kept the morale of the team high by having the team ref lect and find a word to describe each practice. In addition, there has been an increased emphasis on mental toughness, as players have been encouraged to visualize their entire day leading up to a match, from waking up to stepping onto the court. The men’s team looks to improve this upcoming weekend, facing no. 4 Yale on Saturday and no. 16 Brown on Sunday. Anton expects Yale to provide a tough test but anticipates a strong performance by the Tigers against the lower ranked Brown squad. Both matches will be played at 12 p.m. at the Jadwin Gymnasium Squash Courts.

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an 8-1 victory. While the loss was disappointing, the rivalry is far from over. The two teams may meet again, with the stakes raised, in the Howe Cup semifinal if both teams win out. Princeton is confident that they can turn the result around. Indeed, this is exactly what happened last year. Last season, Princeton lost to Penn at home 6-3. However, the Tigers f lipped the result into a 7-2 victory when the two teams met again in the Howe Cup third-place match. This included a gutsy performance by senior Rachel Leizman, who grabbed a vital point for Princeton after five sets. The Princeton squad responded quickly to their loss in Philadelphia with a

7-2 victory over Stanford, last year’s Kurtz Cup Champions. This time, the Tigers took control of the game early. In the opening shift, Princeton went up three games to one. The Tigers continued their dominance in the second shift to finish the match strong. Indeed, Princeton won 12 of 13 individual games in four wins, which included shut-outs by Leizman, sophomore Olivia Fiechter, and freshman Samantha Chai. Still, the game had its fair share of excitement. The matchup featured two fivegame thrillers. However, Princeton managed to pull through each time with Keating winning her second game of the weekend in another exciting 3-2 victory and senior Isabella Bersani clinching a 3-2 win. This year, the Tigers will be looking to replicate the successes of last year’s

squad. In the 2014-15 season, Princeton beat Penn in the Howe Cup third-place match after narrowly losing to Harvard in the semifinal. In addition, the squad also managed a third-place finish in the Ivy League Conference. The Tigers are 1-2 in the Ancient Eight after their loss to Penn. Princeton won its first conference match against Dartmouth, sweeping their opponents 9-0. The Tigers’ first conference defeat came from the Crimson, last year’s Howe Cup winners. Currently, the squad is tied with Cornell in fifth place, but the four games still remaining will give the Orange and Black ample opportunity to climb the table. The Tigers will continue the season this weekend with back-to-back matches against Ivy rivals Yale and Brown.

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The men’s basketball season in the Ivy League is in the middle of its most exciting portion, as all the teams of the Ancient Eight continue to duke it out for a chance to go to the Big Dance in March. The race for the top remains competitive, with no one team able to break away from the pack.

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Yale Bulldogs (13-5 overall, 4-0 Ivy League): A roaring hot start to Ivy League play is certainly a great sight to behold for the men of New Haven. They’ve been clamping down on teams, leading the league in fewest points allowed at just a hair under 64. As they ride their current eight-game winning streak, they give thanks not just to perennial star Justin Sears but also to high-scoring Makai Mason in givColumbia Lions (15-6, 4-0): One of the surprises of the season, the Lions’ perfect start is a stark contrast to their 4-10 finish against their fellow Ivies last year. The second highest-scoring team in the league continues to live and die by the play of star forward Maodo Lo, who averages just under 16 points per game. Highly encouraging is their play on the road — three of their four league wins were in the gyms of their opponents. Princeton Tigers (12-5, 2-1): The Tigers stand where they’ve finished the last two years: third place. Despite having been dealt their first loss in league play against Yale, the Orange and Black have to be pleased with the players they’ve had step up throughout the year. Junior forward Henry Caruso and rookie forward Devin Cannady both continue to impress — the former having a breakout season and leading the team in scoring, the latter serving as an offensive dynamo off the bench. Cornell Big Red (9-9, 2-2): Standing in the middle of the league isn’t too shabby for a program continuing to make its climb back to relevance in the league. The Big Red stands in a solid fourth after finishing eighth and fifth in the league the past two seasons. The backcourt duo of Robert Hatter and Matt Morgan are keeping this team in the thick of things, as they rank first and second in the league’s scoring leader. Harvard Crimson (9-11, 1-3): With the loss of Wesley Saunders due to graduation and Siyani Chambers due to injury, the Crimson knew the battle was to be uphill all season. Junior forward Zena Edosomwan has stepped up and is the only player in the league to average a double-double (14.2 points, 10.5 rebounds). Dartmouth Big Green (7-11, 1-3): It’s defensively been one of the poorer teams in the league so far, ranking sixth in points allowed and last in blocks per game. The Big Green did not help its case by giving up 77 points in both of its most recent losses against Cornell and Columbia. The strong play of Evan Beaudreaux alone, who just put up a dominating effort against Cornell with 24 points and 16 boards, won’t be enough to lift this team to higher ground. Brown Bears (6-12, 1-3): While they snapped the 0-3 start to league play with the victory against bottom-dweller Penn, the Bears will have to make some changes if they want to avoid finishing joint last once again in the league. Big man Cedric Kuakumensah swats shots away well, but he’ll need more help to lift a team currently dead last in points allowed per game. Penn Quakers (6-11, 0-3): Like Brown, a repeat season at the bottom of the league could be in the Quakers’ future if they don’t right the ship as soon as possible. Finding the net itself has been a struggle all year — they’re second to last in both shooting percentage and points per game. It’s the exact dilemma they found themselves in last year, when they finished dead last in PPG as well. COURTESY OF GOOGLE. COM

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Women’s squash falls to Penn, beats Stanford By David Xin Associate Sports Editor

This past Friday and Saturday, the women’s squash team faced off against Ivy rivals, the University of Pennsylvania (7-1, 1-1 Ivy), before traveling to New Haven for a match against Stanford (7-9) in neutral territory. The Tigers fell short against the Quakers, who won the match 8-1. However, Princ-

eton quickly responded the next day, handily defeating the Stanford squad 7-2. The Quakers started the match in dominant fashion, with a 4-0 sweep of the first shift. However, the score line failed to ref lect the intensity of the match. Senior Tara Harrington nearly sealed a point for the Princeton squad, rallying with 11-9 wins from being down 1-0 and 2-1.

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In the second shift, sophomore Kira Keating put Princeton onto the scoreboard with a comeback performance. After being down two games, Keating grabbed the third game with a strong 11-4 showing. Two trying back-to-back 11-9 wins later, the Tigers soon found themselves on the board. Unfortunately, Penn would take the remaining matches for

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Women’s squash lost to Penn 8 to 1 on this past Friday before rebounding against Stanford 7 to 2 on Saturday.

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Fencing successful at Men’s squash falls in matchups Northwestern duals against top-ranked Penn, Trinity By David Liu sports editor

This past weekend, both the men’s and women’s fencing teams traveled to Evanston, Ill. for the annual Northwestern Duals, a marathon of a competition. In the span of just two days, each of the enduring Orange and Black teams competed against 11 different schools. Each year the Northwestern Duals attract both ranked and unranked teams from across the country. This year, the tournament marks the third competition of the season, following the Penn Elite Invitational in November and the Sacred Heart Duals in December.

As the no. 3 and no. 8 women’s and men’s teams, respectively, in the country, Princeton fencing encountered mixed competition, battling ranked teams such as no. 2 Notre Dame but dominating unranked teams such as the team from the California Institute of Technology. At the end of the event on Sunday, both the men’s and women’s teams emerged victorious. The men’s team finished with an impressive 9-2 record, losing only to no. 7 Ohio State and no. 2 Notre Dame. Similarly, the women’s team accumulated an 8-3 record, falling to no. 6 Ohio State, no. 2 Notre Dame, and no. 5 Northwestern. See FENCING page 9

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By Hamza Choudhry contributor

The Princeton men’s squash team traveled this past weekend to face off against second-ranked Penn and top-ranked Trinity. The young team struggled, falling 8-1 to Penn on Saturday and 9-0 to Trinity on Sunday. The 11th ranked men’s team (2-8) entered Saturday’s match looking to improve upon its 0-2 Ivy League record but fell short against a very strong Penn squad. Players showed some promise early on in the contest as five out of nine matches opened with the first two games split. Freshmen Wil-

liam Oon and Clark Doyle, junior Vivek Dinodia and senior Michael LeBlanc all fared well at the beginning of their matches, grabbing a game early on, but failed to find more success against their opponents. Oon showed great resolve after dropping a thriller first frame 15-13, rallying back to win the second 11-7, before falling in four. The lone win from the Princeton side came from the stellar performance of sophomore Abhimanyu Shah. In front of a raucous Penn crowd, Shah fought out an impressive victory against Penn’s Max Reed, triumphing 12-10 in the fifth game.

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29 events Junior épéeist Aubrey Abend won 29 of her 33 matchups at the Northwestern duals.

Following the Penn loss, the Princeton team traveled to Hartford, Conn. to face the no.1-ranked Trinity Bantams. The team knew they had a tall test in front of them, but battled hard. Due to Doyle’s injury, freshman Spencer Anton moved up to the number one spot and won his first game but could not find any more success as Trinity’s Rick Penders eventually wore Anton out. The closest match was a five-game contest between senior Sam Ezratty and Tor Christoffersen. Ezratty won an exciting opener 1412 and kept battling hard even after going 2-1 down in games, grabbing the fourth See M.SQUASH page 9

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