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STUDENT LIFE
67 percent of sophomores admitted to bicker clubs
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With 1,064 sophomore participants — 81 percent of the Class of 2021 — Street Week has come to a close. This year’s participation rate represents a four percent increase from last spring’s rate of 77 percent. The Interclub Council’s data, released exclusively to The Daily Princetonian, does not list statistics from individual selective clubs.
That data was provided at the discretion of each individual club or by anonymous sources. This spring, 837 sophomores, an increase of 84 from last year, bickered selective clubs, according to the ICC. Of those bickerees, 559 sophomores were admitted to selective clubs, according to the ICC, yielding an admittance rate of 67 percent. This acceptance rate is seven percentage points lower than last year’s.
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Tiger Inn admitted 84 students — 41 men and 43 women — out of 214 total bickerees, according to TI president Maggie McCallister ’19. This admittance rate of 39 percent is a six percent decrease from last spring. According to RJ Hernandez ’19, president of the Cap and Gown Club, 287 students bickered Cap this spring. Of the 287, 99 sophomores and two juniors were admitted, yielding an admittance rate of 35 percent. This represents
a four percent decrease from last spring. Tower Club admitted 123 of 224 bickerees, according to Tower Club President Aliya Somani ’20. This represents an admittance rate of 55 percent. Last spring, 178 students bickered Tower and 70 percent of those students were admitted. According to a member of Ivy Club, the club admitted 71 new members. That member declined to estimate how many students bickered Ivy
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Ford F. Graham ’86 and his wife Katherine B. Graham, who once resided on Prospect Avenue, allegedly defrauded members of their social circle by selling unregistered securities that they presented as profitable opportunities in gas and oil investments, according to a civil complaint filed against them. On Tuesday, Jan. 29, the New Jersey Bureau of Securities filed a lawsuit against the couple, alleging that they raised more than $5 million between Jan. 2012 and Jan. 2014 through loans and fraudulent sales of unregistered securities to investors in at least five states, including selling at least $1,910,000 of unregistered securities in New Jersey alone. At least three Princeton residents were among those allegedly defrauded. The Bureau of Securities alleged that the couple committed a number of violations of the New Jersey Securities Law, including “employing a device, scheme, or artifice to defraud” and “offer and sale of unregistered securities,” among other offenses. “We strongly deny the
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claims made by the State of New Jersey,” Ford Graham wrote in an email to The Daily Princetonian. “When all the facts are revealed, we will prevail in court, and we look forward to that day as soon as is possible.” The couple allegedly raised the funds by selling promissory notes, purchase agreements for certain interests, and profit participation agreements and making loans through their holding companies: Specialty Fuels Americas, LLC, Aries Energy Group Venture, LLC, CCC Holdings, LLC, and Rattler Partners, LLC. They allegedly told investors that funds would be spent on oil and gas, but they allegedly transferred the funds into their holding companies and personal accounts. The couple also allegedly “misappropriated a significant portion of the investors’ money to fund personal expenditures including, but not limited to, luxury vacations at five star resorts, private school tuition, summer camp payments, and payments to his country club,” according to the lawsuit. “Ford Graham and his wife allegedly used their social connections in the affluent See PONZI page 2
Contributing columnist Leora Eisenberg espouses the importance of setting aside personal time amidst a busy schedule, and contributing columnist Jasman Singh proposes making the mandatory writing seminar PDFonly so that it is more conducive to learning. PAGE 6
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Princeton couple allegedly defrauded community By Sarah Warman Hirschfield and Linh Nguyen
Club this spring. Last spring, 209 students bickered. According to several anonymous sources, Cottage Club admitted 90 students out of approximately 210 students. Last year, a club member estimated that around 80 of 208 bickerees were admitted to Cottage Club. Additionally, Cannon Dial Elm Club admitted 105 of over 200 bickerees, several anonymous sources told the ‘Prince.’
First USG meeting of year discusses finances By Oliver Effron
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The Department of Athletics determined that Cannady has served the appropriate suspension from competition.
Basketball standout Cannady ’19 reinstated By Ivy Truong and Jack Graham
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Less than a month after he was suspended for violating team rules, men’s basketball standout Devin Cannady ’19 resumed play this weekend as the Tigers took on Yale and Brown. After the University completed its own investigation of Cannady, the Department of Athletics determined that Cannady has served the appropriate suspension from competition. “Princeton University takes issues of student conduct very seriously and responds in accordance
with established policies and procedures,” University spokesperson Ben Chang wrote in a statement to The Daily Princetonian. “The University investigates and adjudicates each individual case in a thorough and thoughtful manner.” Cannady did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the ‘Prince.’ Cannady was suspended on Jan. 18 after an incident during which he allegedly swung at a Department of Public Safety officer in Wawa. At the time, he was charged with aggravated assault, resisting arrest, and See CANNADY page 2
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The new Undergraduate Student Government administration has big plans — and a slightly smaller budget. During the first USG Senate meeting under the new administration, USG president Zarnab Virk ’20 and vice president Chitra Parikh ’20 led a discussion about government finances, a rally for detained graduate student Xiyue Wang, and an art museum fashion show. The meeting began with an address about the state of the USG financial budget. Though a formal budget is not due until next week, the current balance is $209,172 — a lower amount compared to the beginnings of previous administrations, according to USG treasurer Bradley Spicher ’20. According to Spicher, the main expenses last semester were Lawnparties, buses to the football match at Yale, and the subsequent bonfire on Cannon Green. See USG page 4
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............. All club members have been granted anonymity, since they are not allowed to discuss club matters. The presidents of Ivy Club, Cottage Club, and Cannon Dial Elm Club did not respond to requests for comment. All six selective clubs participated in “double bicker,” as they have since 2017. In this context, double bicker occurs when students apply to two selective clubs. This spring, 523 students bickered two clubs — 101 more students than last year’s double bickerees. With the new Street Week process in effect, all participants received a club acceptance either to a selective or sign-in club on the ICC website at 9 a.m. on Friday, Feb.
9. Because of this, all 1,042 sophomores who ranked clubs received an offer on Friday. After Street Week, 483 sophomores have been placed into one of the five open clubs — Charter Club, Cloister Inn, Colonial Club, Quadrangle Club, and Terrace Club. Last year, 202 sophomores signed in early to an open club, and 340 sophomores had been placed into an open club at this point. The number of sophomores who have accepted admission to open clubs is, as of now, unknown. As these sophomores’ contracts trickle in, the open clubs will be readjusting their capacities. On Monday, Feb. 11 at noon, the ICC website will reopen to facilitate open club enrollment. Students will be able to claim any vacant spots.
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Princeton community to lure investors into a Ponzi scheme that financed the defendants’ posh lifestyle of country clubs, private schools, and tropical vacations,” said New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal, who filed the lawsuit against the Grahams on behalf of New Jersey Bureau of Securities Chief Christopher Gerold. “The Bureau’s action … seeks to hold the defendants accountable for their actions and require them to return the ill-gotten funds to defrauded investors.” Gerold did not respond to request for comment by the time of publication.
In the court documents, the Grahams are described as having friendly relationships with some of their investors. One investor allegedly often “met in the kitchen of Graham and Katherine Graham’s Princeton home to discuss investment opportunities in the FG Entities.” “Investors who put up money were led to believe it was being invested in legitimate projects guaranteed to return a profit, but that was a lie,” said Division of Consumer Affairs Acting Director Paul R. Rodríguez. “We will not allow the defendants’ lies and deceit to go unchecked, nor will we allow New Jersey investors to be exploited in such an egregious manner.” This is not the first time
Ford Graham has found himself in trouble with investors. In 2011, a court found that Graham and Vulcan Capital co-founder Kevin Davis owed two corporate officers $3,924,000 in exemplary damages in addition to $981,000 in compensatory damages for acts of fraud. According to these court documents, the compensatory damages stemmed from a settlement agreement from a different lawsuit between the two parties in 2004. In 2011, Levett Rockwood P.C. and Pullman & Comley, LLC also filed a lawsuit against Graham and his company for allegedly failing to pay $56,279.08 in legal services, disbursements, and costs of collection owed to them.
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improper behavior. According to Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office spokesperson Casey DeBlasio, the prosecutor’s office downgraded the indictable charge — aggravated assault — to a disorderly persons offense. The case has been remanded to the Princeton Municipal Court. Prior to his suspension, the senior guard was the team’s leading scorer this season, averaging 19.5 points per game. He is one of the most prolific scorers in Princeton history, ranking fifth on Princeton’s all-time scoring list, with 1,458 points, and third in career three-pointers, with 264. Princeton played three games without Cannady, winning them all. However, the team struggled offen-
sively against Ivy League opponents in his absence, scoring only 55 points against Columbia and making just two three-pointers in an overtime win at Cornell. In his return to action, Cannady was notably rusty, scoring only 8 points and making only 3 of his 12 shots during his 34 minutes of play in the Tigers 74–60 loss to Yale on Friday. On Saturday, Cannady performed much better, scoring 24 points and grabbing 9 rebounds; despite his return, Princeton fell to Brown 78–70, dropping their second straight game. Cannady will return to the friendly confines of Jadwin Gymnasium Friday against Harvard. The Tigers are currently in a three way tie for second with Harvard and Cornell at 4–2; they are a game behind first place Yale with about half of the Ivy League season remaining.
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Spicher hopes to spend most of the current funds by the end of semester. “USG had a large surplus over many years,” he said, “and I’m not planning to run a surplus this year.” Afterwards, third year Graduate Student Representative Mikey McGovern addressed the chamber about funds for an oncampus “call-a-thon” and rally for graduate student Xiyue Wang, who is currently detained by the Iranian government. “We think this is a broad-based issue, not just for undergraduates,” he said. “We want everybody
to get involved.” Wang, who was researching the Qajar dynasty in Tehran, was arrested by policemen in Tehran on Aug. 7, 2016 and sentenced to 10 years in prison without appeal. According to McGovern, he was only recently awarded phone privileges. “He’s one of the most brilliant men I’ve met,” McGovern said. “He speaks, like, nine languages.” McGovern requested a “small budget” of $318 from the USG government to offset publicity and catering costs for the call-athon. The motion passed unanimously with no abstentions. The chamber quickly
confirming Aparna Shankar ’21 to the position of Diversity and Equity Committee Chair. For the final item on the agenda, the chamber listened to a request from Franklin Aririguzoh ’19. Speaking on behalf of a USG subcommittee, he made a request for $3,000 for a fashion show in collaboration with the University Art Museum themed around the museum’s collection, designed to connect students with alumni in the industry. The chamber passed Aririguzoh’s request unanimously with no abstentions. The meeting was held on Sunday, Feb. 10 in Lewis Library 138 at 8 p.m.
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Third year Graduate Student Representative Mikey McGovern requested funds for a “call-a-thon” and rally for Xiyue Wang, currently detained by the Iranian government.
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Making time for pleasure Leora Eisenberg
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ometimes the only reason I can finish an assignment is by knowing I get to read a book when I’m done. The realization that I can spend time with friends after completing an essay or problem set is motivation enough to finish the job. After a long day (or perhaps just several long hours) of doing homework or paid work, it’s critically important for me to relax — be it by watching a movie or going for a walk — so much so that I’ve proactively built this time into my schedule. Princeton students love to talk about how busy they are, and it’s true! In between classes, problem sets, club meetings, and rehearsals, it seems as though we barely have time to breathe. Additionally, once exam season rolls around, numerous appeals to self-care pop up around campus, reminding us to take a break and do something we enjoy between the long hours of studying.
That said, I honestly can’t say that I see “self-care” practiced that much during exam week; I see more stress than anything else. Even “regular weeks” (i.e. not exam weeks) are fairly stress-filled. Princeton students constantly talk about how little time they have for anything that’s not schoolwork, Theatre Intime auditions, or the next Press Club deadline. We like to mention how long it has been since we last read a book for fun, and how we envy those people who have the time to do that (and say that they must not have a lot of work to do). Once you build personal enjoyment into your schedule, though, it becomes doable. More importantly, you become happier. After spending far too many semesters bogged down in work, I’ve practiced incorporating this philosophy into my busy Princeton schedule, too. In between a full course load, at least ten hours of stressful — but at least paid — work, and club meetings/obligations every week, I sometimes feel like I’m sinking. But the only thing that reminds me that I won’t is that I have something to “greet” me at the day’s finish line. I’ve built my day
into chunks of working time, wherein after a few hours of uninterrupted work, I reward myself with half an hour of reading or maybe lunch with a friend. It makes work way more tolerable, and it means that I have more energy to go about my day. Sure, some days are busier than others — and some days, I really don’t have more than one such opportunity to do something I really enjoy. I’ve also realized that you can pick and choose what you want to do: if I want to, say, go out with friends, I have to get all of my work done beforehand and avoid scheduled breaks during the day. However, that means that I’ll have several hours of unadulterated fun later on. Since enjoyment has become so integral to my schedule, I become quite unhappy if I don’t include it. The quality of my work can suffer. It may seem as if I have the luxury of doing this because I’m a humanities major and don’t play a sport. I don’t have to face regular organic chemistry or COS exams, I don’t have problems sets, and I never have practice or competitions. My major still gives me plenty of things to do (and essays to write), though. That said, nearly all of us,
however busy we may perceive ourselves to be, find time to scroll through Facebook or Instagram. It may be worth trading at least some of that screen time in for high quality pleasure time, maybe with friends or a book. If you really love social media, you can definitely consider working it into your schedule as scheduled enjoyment, but if you just do it out of boredom or procrastination, consider replacing it with some other high quality pleasure. Perhaps read a book, spend time with friends, practice yoga, etc. The possibilities are endless. It’s best to find out what you enjoy doing most and build it into your schedule, so that you are happy and fulfilled. It may seem selfish to schedule time to explicitly not to do work, but it’s just giving you both the opportunity and motivation to raise your future productivity. Building time for personal enjoyment motivates me to finish the paper I’m writing — and also ensures that I’m rested and refreshed enough to do a good job. Leora Eisenberg is a junior from Eagan, M.N. She can be reached at leorae@princeton.edu.
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riting seminar. Many know it as the bane of their existence. Others know it as their worst grade of Princeton, and even more know it as their least favorite class of freshman year. I can recognize the need for professional competency in the English language, but why not level the playing ground and make the course PDF-able or PDF-only? If the intention of the class is really to make us better writers, let’s give everyone the chance to learn how to write before they’re quantitatively measured by grades. Students would still come out of the course having learned how to write the Princeton way, but nobody would feel bitter about the experience. Moreover, international students comprise 12 percent of Princeton’s student population.
This group of students faces a severe disadvantage in writing seminars that are based in scholarly English. Many foreign students come from predominantly non-English-speaking countries or schools that don’t stress English academic writing to the degree that some secondary schools do in the U.S. When these same students are forced into a graded writing course, the University preys on their greatest vulnerability: the language skill gap. This causes international students a great deal of grief. Writing seminar is a learnas-you go class, in the sense that students improve from the feedback they get in graded papers. In other classes, you more or less understand the exam expectations and required material for the course. Writing seminar classes are far more opaque. Like in other classes, our job as students is to study the material and learn it, but it’s hard to know what’s wrong with your writing until someone tells you. So English-speaking students, or Americans, can compete with international students in every subject with standard
rules and conventions. Yet, when it comes to English, internationals are expected to seamlessly adapt to our conventions and techniques. The outrage might be better understood by Americans if we imagine a situation where we’re all forced over to the metric system and are no longer allowed to measure anything in standard. Perhaps then we would be more compassionate to the plight of the international student. Writing is also inherently subjective, so there exists considerable room for flexibility in its instruction. Math and physics don’t have this problem. STEM subjects have set rules and axioms that govern them — math in India is the same as math in Norway. Yet, English writing style in Norway and India would be very different. Writing, or more specifically what is defined as “good writing,” is very subjective across areas, as students write with many different styles, each of which may differ slightly or significantly from Princeton’s accepted norms. English is nonconforming and is used for different purposes all over the
world. Today, writing seminar is a source of major stress for students, causing great anguish, not to mention GPA deflation. Perhaps it’s a more Darwinist approach to teaching, wherein we leave B.S.E students behind, shrieking for help. Is it really so radical to require everyone to take a PDF-only writing course? To compare to other collegiate experiences, MIT allows firstyears to PDF their entire first semester simply to help them adjust to the difficult standard of academic work. Is it so inconceivable that we’d want students to learn how to write before grading them on how they write? When we put people who write very well in classes with people who haven’t written academically or struggle for whatever other reason, we thwart true scholarly progress. We leave behind students that need the most help. It’s like having to take a quantum physics exam right after learning Newton’s laws of motion. Even within writing seminar courses, specific topic choices seem to vary in difficulty. De-
coding Dress has become famous on campus, heralded as one of the easier writing seminars. This perception of relative difficulties skews students away from their real interests and instead towards GPA gaming. Students take the writing seminars they’ve heard are easy, rather than ones that they’re genuinely interested in. If you’ve ever studied any economics, you know that taxes change consumer choices or hinder the work of the “invisible hand.” Similarly, different grading standards or difficulties across writing seminars hinder real intellectual curiosity at an institution that necessitates it. A PDF-only course would equalize grading disparities, or — at the very least — make them less disparate. Let’s let students experiment. Let’s let students learn. Let’s let students forget about their GPA. Let’s let them learn to write. Jasman Singh is a first-year from East Windsor, N.J. He can be reached at jasmans@princeton. edu.
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Comeback falls short as women’s basketball loses to Yale in OT By Josephine de La Bruyere Assistant Sports Editor
Men’s basketball (12–7, 4–2 Ivy) lost both games on their road trip this weekend, defeated by Yale University (15–4, 5–1 Ivy) on Friday night 74–60 and by Brown University (14–8, 2–4 Ivy) on Saturday 78–70. The Tigers entered the weekend in first place and undefeated in the Ivy League, but emerged tied for second with three other teams and their first losses of conference play. Friday evening’s game against Yale took place in New Haven, where the Tigers have a losing all-time away record against the Bulldogs, 59–61. Sophomore forward Jerome Desrosiers scored the first points of the game, hitting a three
pointer less than a minute into the game. Junior center Richmond Aririguzoh followed up with a solid layup a minute and a half later, bringing the score to 5–0 in Princeton’s favor. This lead would be the Tigers’ highest of the game. Yale scored twice soon after, tying the game in the 16th minute. The two teams went back and forth until the 13th minute, when Yale began a nine-point run and prevented Princeton from scoring until the ninth minute. For the rest of the half Yale dominated, bringing their lead to fifteen points over the Tigers with two minutes to go. The first half finished 36–22 in Yale’s favor. The Tigers rallied in the second half, tying the game with 11 minutes to go, 42–
42. Yale responded with a ten-point run, bringing the score to 52–42 with less than ten minutes to go in the game. Despite seven points in a row by Aririguzoh, who brought Princeton within four points with six minutes to go, the Tigers were unable to mount a comeback and did not score in the final two and a half minutes of the game. Yale won 74–60. The following night the team was defeated by Brown in Providence. Princeton once again took an early lead thanks to Aririguzoh and extended it to 12 points by the tenth minute, putting the score at 20–8. Brown followed with an 11-point run for the next three minutes, coming within one point of a tie. After back and forth scoring between the two
teams, Brown tied it up with five minutes to go. The Tigers would not lead for the rest of the game. By the end of the first half Brown was ahead of Princeton by 12 points with the score at 47–35. In the second half, Princeton never got within less than five points of Brown, who dominated the second half. The Bear’s field goal and three-point percentages were 44.0 and 22.2, respectively, in the second half. Princeton, by comparison, shot a 34.4 percent and 14.3 percent for field goals and three-pointers, respectively. The Tigers did have a higher free throw percentage, 80 compared to Brown’s 58.3. The game finished out 78–70 in Brown’s favor. Despite the weekend’s
losses, the team had some accomplishments. Senior guard and captain Myles Stephens moved into 15th place on the program’s alltime scoring list, currently sitting at 1,223 points. Another senior guard and captain, Devin Cannady, is now only one three-pointer away from hitting 50 during his Princeton career. Cannady’s appearance in the game against Brown was his first since being briefly suspended in mid-January. The team is still optimistic after the past few days. “This weekend was a tough weekend for us,” said sophomore guard Ryan Schwieger. “But it’s a long season, so we just need to bounce back and put those two losses behind us.”
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Women’s hockey clinches Ivy League Championship title, looks forward for ECAC championship By Owen Tedford Senior Staff Writer
This weekend, the No. 5 ranked women’s hockey team (16–3–5, 14– 1–3 ECAC) clinched this year’s Ivy League title with a win over Brown (5–18–2, 2–14–2) on Friday night. This is the team’s eighth Ivy League championship, its first since the 2015–2016 season, and Head Coach Cara Morey’s first in her tenure as Princeton’s head coach. Princeton still leads the ECAC by three points thanks to its sweep, Clarkson’s loss on Saturday, and Cornell’s tie on Saturday. Senior co-captain forward Karlie Lund said that, “Winning the Ivy League was one of the highlights of my time here at Princeton. It’s been our goal since freshman year to win the Ivy League again, so to finally bring the trophy back and end our career on a high note is incredible.” Senior co-captain defender Stephanie Sucharda added that, “It feels incredible to win the Ivy League title, especially as a senior. My class won it freshman year as well and I don’t think we initially
appreciated how special it is.” On Friday night, the Tigers defeated Brown 8–2 behind a fourgoal performance by freshman forward Margaret Connors. This is the second time this season that a Princeton player has scored four goals in one game; the other player to do so was junior forward Carly Bullock when Princeton hosted Yale in October. Connors added an assist for a five-point game. Freshman forward Sarah Fillier also had a five-point game with one goal and four assists. Connors and Fillier are the first Princeton skaters to have five-point games since Kim Pearce had six in 2006. Other goals came from junior forward MacKenzie Ebel, her first of the season, sophomore forward Sarah Verbeek, and freshman defender Mariah Keopple. Sophomore goalie Rachel McQuigge made 29 saves on 31 shots in another outstanding performance in her first year as the starting goalie. On Saturday against Yale, the Tigers clinched another weekend sweep with a 4–2 win. The Bulldogs scored first less than a minute into the game, forcing Princeton
to try to immediately respond. Bullock was able to tie the game at one before the end of the first period on the power play. The Tigers stretched their lead adding two quick goals from Bullock and Lund. Before the second period was out, Yale was able to score again to make it 3–2 heading into the third. Here, Connors stepped up again and gave Princeton some breathing room with her first goal of the night and her 22nd of the season.
Junior goalie Stephanie Neatby got another win making 25 saves on 27 shots, improving her record to 4–0–1. Something that has worked incredibly well for the Tigers so far this season has been their powerplay scoring. The unit is the first in the country in goals and percentage. Against Brown, the group went two for four and against Yale, they went one for three. Bullock attributed the power play success to
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having been able to keep the same units together all year. “We have two great units with a lot of depth so teams tend to have trouble defending when there are five scoring threats on the ice together.” Next weekend, the Tigers will look to move closer to an ECAC title when they host Union and RPI next Friday and Saturday respectively. Lund commented that she is optimistic about their chances at a regular season ECAC title. “We still have four tough games, but we control our own destiny, so as long as we continue to play as a team we have a good shot at winning the title.” A sweep next weekend could go a long way towards clinching the title. With a sweep and one loss each by Clarkson and Cornell, the Tigers could clinch the title this weekend as they would be five points clear with two games left. Friday night’s game is scheduled at 6 p.m. and Saturday’s is at 3 p.m, which will also be the senior day game.
MEN’S BASKETBALL
Men’s basketball loses both games during Ivy double-header weekend, against Yale and Brown By Tom Salotti
Associate Sports Editor
Men’s basketball (12–7, 4–2 Ivy) lost both games on their road trip this weekend, defeated by Yale University (15–4, 5–1 Ivy) on Friday night 74–60 and by Brown University (14–8, 2–4 Ivy) on Saturday 78–70. The Tigers entered the weekend in first place and undefeated in the Ivy League, but emerged tied for second with three other teams and their first losses of conference play. Friday evening’s game against Yale took place in New Haven, where the Tigers have a losing all-time away record against the Bulldogs, 59–61. Sophomore forward Jerome Desrosiers scored the first points of the game, hitting a three
pointer less than a minute into the game. Junior center Richmond Aririguzoh followed up with a solid layup a minute and a half later, bringing the score to 5–0 in Princeton’s favor. This lead would be the Tigers’ highest of the game. Yale scored twice soon after, tying the game in the 16th minute. The two teams went back and forth until the 13th minute, when Yale began a nine-point run and prevented Princeton from scoring until the ninth minute. For the rest of the half Yale dominated, bringing their lead to fifteen points over the Tigers with two minutes to go. The first half finished 36–22 in Yale’s favor. The Tigers rallied in the second half, tying the game with 11 minutes to go, 42–
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42. Yale responded with a ten-point run, bringing the score to 52–42 with less than ten minutes to go in the game. Despite seven points in a row by Aririguzoh, who brought Princeton within four points with six minutes to go, the Tigers were unable to mount a comeback and did not score in the final two and a half minutes of the game. Yale won 74–60. The following night the team was defeated by Brown in Providence. Princeton once again took an early lead thanks to Aririguzoh and extended it to 12 points by the tenth minute, putting the score at 20–8. Brown followed with an 11-point run for the next three minutes, coming within one point of a tie. After back and forth scoring between the two
teams, Brown tied it up with five minutes to go. The Tigers would not lead for the rest of the game. By the end of the first half Brown was ahead of Princeton by 12 points with the score at 47–35. In the second half, Princeton never got within less than five points of Brown, who dominated the second half. The Bear’s field goal and three-point percentages were 44.0 and 22.2, respectively, in the second half. Princeton, by comparison, shot a 34.4 percent and 14.3 percent for field goals and three-pointers, respectively. The Tigers did have a higher free throw percentage, 80 compared to Brown’s 58.3. The game finished out 78–70 in Brown’s favor. Despite the weekend’s
losses, the team had some accomplishments. Senior guard and captain Myles Stephens moved into 15th place on the program’s alltime scoring list, currently sitting at 1,223 points. Another senior guard and captain, Devin Cannady, is now only one three-pointer away from hitting 50 during his Princeton career. Cannady’s appearance in the game against Brown was his first since being briefly suspended in mid-January. The team is still optimistic after the past few days. “This weekend was a tough weekend for us,” said sophomore guard Ryan Schwieger. “But it’s a long season, so we just need to bounce back and put those two losses behind us.”
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Men’s tennis coach Billy Pate earned his 100th career win at Princeton this weekend.