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In Opinion Chelsea Jones advocates for studying abroad, and Aaron Applbaum explains how to choose the right classes. PAGE 4

In Street This week Street talks to professor couples, Margot Yale interviews the founders of Tigers Anonymous and Annie Hadley gets the scoop on Princeton Film Productions. PAGE S1

Today on Campus 7:30 p.m.: The Princeton Juggling Club presents the 2014 Juggolympics, a performance of juggling routines, yo-yo tricks, and hilarious jokes. Frist Performance Theatre.

The Archives

Feb. 14, 1983 The $4 million Wu Hall opened its doors to the residents of Butler of College for the first time, celebrating with a private Valentine’s Day steak and champagne dinner.

U N I V E R S I T Y A F FA I R S

Student files discrimination complaint

By Chitra Marti staff writer

In February 2012, a freshman was allegedly asked to withdraw from the University following a suicide attempt, according to a discrimination complaint filed with the United States Department of Education. The student attempted to fight the administration’s decision, the July 2012 complaint read, but ultimately left for two semesters.

At the time, the student alleged, he was fully qualified to continue as a residential student because he met the essential eligibility requirements and the University’s academic and non-discriminatory behavior standards.

The student was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder, type II. Just as the student was leaving the hospital following the suicide attempt, he was informed that the University had evicted him from his dorm room, that he was prohibited from his classes and that he was banned from all areas of campus, according to the report.

Though he was not forced to withdraw, the University noted that if he did not withdraw voluntarily, he would have to leave once he had missed enough of his classes to warrant withdrawal. He returned in fall of 2013 as a sophomore.

“These are crafty people,” the

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student told Newsweek in an article published on Tuesday. “They did everything right to get me out of there.”

The student, who was quoted anonymously in the Newsweek article, could not be reached for comment.

“There’s nothing about this case that makes it unique; it’s unfortunately and shockingly very common,” the student’s lawyer, Julia Graff, said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian.

The student and his lawyers are working towards an appeal of the University’s initial decision.

The report’s timeline In the fall of 2011, at the start of his freshman year, the student sought treatment from the University’s Counseling and Psychological Services and was referred to an outside psychiatrist. In the spring of 2012, he stopped receiving CPS services and began seeing the outside psychiatrist exclusively.

Early that spring, on Feb. 25, 2012, the student ingested 20 Trazodone tablets but immediately began to try and vomit them out.

He then sought help at CPS and the University Medical Center at Princeton. He was discharged three days later, and the hospital staff and a county crisis screener See COMPLAINT page 3

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Members of Triple 8 Dance Company rehearse for their upcoming spring show, D8te Night. The show debuts tonight at Frist Performance Theatre at 9:30PM, with two performances on Saturday.

STUDENT LIFE

Finn ’14, Wilson ’14 awarded ReachOut fellowships

By Sheila Sisimit staff writer

News & Notes Student charged with drug possession had suspected Ritalin the student who was arrested for suspected drug possession on Feb. 2 had three pills of Ritalin and less than 50 grams of marijuana, according to a copy of the complaint obtained by The Daily Princetonian. The student was charged with four violations of drug laws.

Thomas Fellowes ’14 was charged with suspected possession and control of suspected marijuana, suspected possession and control of drug paraphernalia, allegedly knowingly using a controlled dangerous substance and suspected possession of methylphenidate hydrochloride, also known as Ritalin, without a prescription.

Ritalin is a prescription stimulant designed for people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and narcolepsy.

University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua originally declined to specify the amount of marijuana allegedly found as well as the exact type of prescription pill. The Princeton Municipal Court released a copy of the complaint against Fellowes on Wednesday that included these details.

Possession and control of suspected marijuana, possession and control of drug paraphernalia and knowingly using a controlled dangerous substance are considered disorderly persons offenses under New Jersey state law, while the possession of methylphenidate hydrochloride is considered a third degree offense.

Fellowes did not respond to requests for comment.

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Sacha Finn ’14 and Harriet Kristin Wilson ’14 were awarded ReachOut 56-81-06 fellowships.

Finn received the ReachOut 56-8106 Domestic Fellowship and Wilson received the 1956 ReachOut International Fellowship.

Two University seniors are awarded the ReachOut 56-81-06 fellowship every year so that they can embark on a year-long public service project. A board member of the fellowship called both Finn and Wilson during finals week to notify them that they had received the award.

ReachOut receives its funding from alumni in the graduating classes of 1956, 1981 and 2006.

Co-chair of the fellowship committee Jim Freund ’56

HARRIET KRISTIN WILSON ’14

SACHA FINN ’14

explained that the goal of the fellowship program is to “Incentiviz[e] public-minded Princeton seniors to identify, create and carry out projects of social significance, undertaken in conjunction with reputable public service organizations that need the help but lack the resources to engage the services of the Fellow.”

As a part of the application process, applicants are required to create a proposal outlining their project, its lasting impact and its feasibility. They must also submit a budget for their

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project.

Finn, an anthropology concentrator, said that she will use her fellowship to create a guide for youth born through assisted reproductive technologies who have LGBTQ parents.

“Sacha Finn’s project ... will greatly assist youths who are struggling with the many questions and social phobias that accompany such childhoods,” Freund said.

Finn explained that she herself can attest to the difficulties of growing up as an assisted reproductive technologies child

since she is a donor-conceived individual with two mothers. She noted that she went to an all-girls high school where there would be father-daughter events which she was unable to participate in.

“My parents had guidebooks about how lesbian mothers should handle the questions that your kids ask you,” Finn said. “But I never got a book myself about how to respond when your friends want to know about your dad.”

Finn will spend half of the year interviewing assisted reproductive technologies kids in order to learn from their experiences, and will then compile information that will then best help others like her.

Finn said that she was “ecstatic” to find out the news about receiving the fellowship.

“I’ve been given the money

and the means to create this guide that I really wish I had growing up,” she said.

Carol J. Greenhouse, who is the Arthur W. Marks ’19 professor of anthropology and Chair of the Department of Anthropology, said she was thrilled to learn that Sacha had been awarded the fellowship. Greenhouse also served as Sacha’s JP advisor.

“JPs in Anthropology are normally library projects, and the library ‘side’ of Sacha’s junior paper would have been impressive by itself,” Greenhouse said. “But at a certain point, Sacha decided to go further, taking those conversations outside of the library and into an interpersonal register.”

Greenhouse added that she was “happy to listen in and learn as the work unfolded See AWARD page 3

STUDENT LIFE

Colleges offer pilot USG senate appoints several new members exchange program

By Anna Windemuth staff writer

By Corrine Lowe staff writer

Both Forbes College and Whitman College will be participating in a pilot exchange program, Global Exchange, with schools in Hong Kong and Cambridge, United Kingdom this upcoming spring break.

Five students from Forbes will spend the break at St. John’s College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge, and four students from Whitman will spend the break at Morningside College, one of the colleges of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. </span>Whitman and Forbes will also host a small number of students from these universities during one of the foreign universities’ academic breaks next September, Master of Whitman College Sandra Bermann said.

“The idea of this is that we’re thinking if we provide an exchange early on, it will make students more aware from the very time they start living at Princeton that [international experiences] are an option,” See ABROAD page 3

The USG senate approved selected appointees for a range of positions last weekend, USG president Shawon Jackson ’15 said.

Although public elections took place in November, only one student ran for Class of 2015 senator then, prompting Jackson and Class of 2015 president Jonathan Ma ’15 to send out additional application notices.

Nihar Madhavan ’15 will serve alongside Mariana Bagneris ’15 as 2015 class senator. He applied because he wants to give back to the University community, he said.

“I really love Princeton, so I guess I just wanted to get more involved with USG,” he said.

When asked why he didn’t run for the position during the elections, Madhavan responded that he recently stepped down from other leadership roles, allowing more time in his schedule.

“I guess [the opportunity] was just more highlighted so I thought about it more,” he explained, adding that the later date gave him more time to consider the commitment.

In addition to improving communication between USG and undergraduates, Madhavan said he would like to steer the University towards more sustainable food practices and improve access to fresh groceries for upperclassmen on the independent meal plan.

Claire Nuchtern ’15 will serve as a U-councilor, taking over the seat that was vacated when former Ucouncilor Paul Riley ’15 was elected as the new Campus and Community Affairs chair.

U-councilors take on many of the same functions as class senators, but are not assigned to a specific year, Nuchtern explained. In addition to attending weekly senate meetings, councilors join project teams and represent the undergraduate student body during the

Council of the Princeton University Community meetings led by University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83.

Nuchtern said that she is excited to become involved with another student organization towards the end of her University career. Nuchtern is also a member of the Pace Council for Civic Values and participates in the local prison tutoring program.

“To be honest I had never really thought about [the position] before this year. Since the election was back in April, it just wasn’t on my radar at the time,” Nuchtern said of her decision to apply later. She added that her priority is to maintain the quality of current projects rather than to start new ones because of her limited time in office.

Former U-councilor Yifan Zhu ’15 resigned this week because of a conflicting time commitment, he said.

“I’m bummed to have to leave, but it’s really definitely not anySee USG page 3

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CORRECTION Due to an editing error, the Feb. 13 column “The social effects of recruitment” inaccurately referred to crew as a sport that can be “played.” Due to an editing error, the Feb. 13 article “Neuroscience building receives mostly positive reactions” did not disclose that Margaret Wang ’17 is a copy editor for The Daily Princetonian. The ‘Prince’ regrets the errors.

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Wilson ’14 to work with Freshman asked to withdraw after suicide attempt Nigerian literacy program COMPLAINT Continued from page 1

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around [Finn’s] insights.”

After the year-long project, Finn plans on going to medical school. Finn has had experience interning at hospitals and medical centers in Los Angeles and Princeton.

On campus, she previously served as the music director of the Tigressions and publicity chair of the Glee Club.

Wilson, a comparative literature concentrator, said she will use the fellowship to partner with the LEAP Africa Foundation and high schools and uni-

“I’ve been given the money and the means to create this guide.”

Sacha Finn ’14

versities in Nigeria to create a literary literacy program.

“The idea is to bridge communities, increase accesses, promote dialogue, and promote advocacy and change,” Wilson said.

Wilson explained that her project has three phases. The first will focus on literacy levels and helping students move from basic literacy to analytic literacy. She said the second phase is more reflective in nature because she wants the participants to ponder their experiences and identify a problem they would like to resolve before producing their own projects.

The third phase will allow the students to participate in an exhibition of their projects.

Throughout each phase, she noted, students from underserved schools will be paired with students from overfunded schools in an effort to bridge the gap between them.

“I’ve been thinking about it

a lot because one of the things I believe is that most problems with education come from access and not ability,” Wilson said. “And so with many things I do, I try to increase access and then bridge groups that have too many or too few resources.”

Wilson explained that as a Nigerian-born individual she was inspired to pursue this project in Nigeria, and she has thought about the gap between the privileged and underprivileged in the past.

“Kristin has voracious intellect, is deeply committed to public service, and approaches her classroom and community work with thoughtfulness and humility,” Whitman College Director of Studies Justin Lorts said. Lorts has worked closely with Wilson on a number of projects related to Whitman.

Lorts added that Wilson’s ReachOut project is an extension of the work that she has already done, and said that he believes it will be successful.

“The project will continue long after Kristin’s fellowship with ReachOut has ended and will help train a new generation of student leaders and materially improve the lives of the children involved in the program,” Lorts said.

After the year, Wilson plans on pursuing a masters program at Oxford. Her program will focus on literature.

Wilson has also interned at hospitals and clinics in Philadelphia and France. On campus, she has worked with ReachOut in helping underserved high school students to prepare for college. She is also a member of the Pace Council, a peer health advisor and chair of Whitman’s college council.

“We’re very proud of the creativity, activism and passion already demonstrated by our newest Fellows,” Freund said.

In addition to providing the ReachOut fellowship, ReachOut increases college awareness, provides literacy programs for disadvantaged high schools and sponsors an annual social entrepreneurship contest at Princeton.

Madhavan ’15 hopes to improve communication USG

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thing because I was not happy,” Zhu noted.

Jackson said an email was sent to undergraduates advertising the opening of the Ucouncilor position.

“We hope to hear of [U-council] finalists late next week and have a nominee confirmed by Sunday, Feb. 23,” he added.

The USG also confirmed Aleksandra Czulak ’17 as the new executive secretary, Richard Lu ’16 as the new director of external affairs, Annie Tao ’16 and Kristen Coke ’16 as the new public engagement officers, Simon Wu ’17 as the new chief of design, Katherine Chow ’17 as the new website manager, Amara Chukwu Nnaeto ’17 as the new

chief elections manager and Jeffrey Silverstein ’16 and Clement Lee ’17 as the new IT chairs.

The second round of interviews for the new Class of 2016 social chair has concluded, and

“I guess I just wanted to get more involved with USG.” Nihar Madhavan ’15

an appointee will soon be presented to the senate, according to Lu. The new social chair will replace Molly Stoneman ’16 who won her bid for USG vice president in November.

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determined that he did not pose an imminent risk of harm to himself or others.

As he prepared to attend an evening class, his first after being discharged, his mother received a voicemail from the director of student life in his residential college saying that he had been banned from setting foot on any of the University’s 500-acre campus. The University never publicly articulated a reason for doing so, the complaint said, and the ban was lifted on April 24.

Although the student met with the director of student life and the associate dean of undergraduate students, telling them he wanted to come back while continuing to pursue outpatient treatment, they told him that they believed he still posed a direct threat to himself.

They strongly encouraged him to voluntarily withdraw from Princeton, as this was “always the outcome in these cases.” Before he could be readmitted, he would have to show six to nine months of “demonstrated stability.”

He was also told that he could not come back for the fall 2012 semester, because the University is built on a system of “coursestacking,” central to the Princeton experience, which would be unable to accommodate him returning in the fall, according to the complaint. He would have to wait to reapply in the spring semester.

The student and his lawyers continued to go back and forth with Princeton in negotiations.

He was repeatedly told that his suggestions were unreasonable accommodations that would fundamentally alter the Princeton ex-

perience. For example, he requested a taping or transcription of classes he would miss during his ban, or, alternatively, a note-taker through the Office of Disability Services. Both of these requests were denied.

The dean of undergraduate students sent him another letter on March 7, informing him that the University still believed he had an “extremely high risk of having another dangerous episode.”

The letter included many details from an assessment by CPS that the student originally thought were confidential, according to the complaint.

He eventually did voluntarily withdraw from the University.

Of the $24,862 he was charged for the 2012 spring semester, $7,621 was not reimbursed, Newsweek reported. The student returned to the University in fall 2013 with sophomore standing.

The complaint University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua declined to comment on this case specifically, citing the confidentiality and privacy expectations of the student.

“The well-being of students is important to us,“ Mbugua said.

“It’s a shared responsibility facilitated through the collaboration of offices and departments across campus.”

On campus, Mbugua said, there are variety of mental health resources available to students, such as counseling services in McCosh and 24/7 access to health for students.

In the case that a student must withdraw from the University, the student is able to work with the dean and other officers to “ensure his or her time away is productive and that the student’s return

to campus is successful,” Mbugua said.

Graff, a staff attorney with the Bazelon Center who, along with Ira Burnim, legal director of the Center, helped the student file his complaint with the United States Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, said the case was “emblematic of a widespread problem across the country.” She explained that universities like Princeton do not always know how to best handle cases of mental and psychiatric disability. Because a lawsuit would have taken up much of the student and firm’s time and resources, and because the name of the student might have gone public at some point, they chose to file a complaint with the DOE, Graff explained.

To determine whether a student poses a direct threat and meets perpetual eligibility requirements, the University must perform a five-step legal analysis considering the imminence, likelihood, nature, severity and duration of the threat, Graff said,.

In addition, if the harm caused by the threat can be mitigated by reasonable accommodations, the University is obligated to provide them.

Graff said that they were ready to negotiate, but the University was unwilling to make accommodations. For example, the University rejected offers by the student to live with his mother off-campus, take a part-time course load, and leave for a single semester as opposed to a full year, she said.

“Each time we came up with an idea, Princeton said, ‘No, that won’t work, we can’t give that accommodation,’ ” Graff said. “I think there’s an unwillingness to be creative because of the discriminatory attitude.”

The only two reasons a university can reject an accommodation, Graff said, were if the accommodation were a fundamental alteration to the University experience or if it presented an undue burden upon the University.

Currently, the case is in appeal following what Graff called an “incorrect legal analysis” by the University, and has not yet been resolved.

Of particular concern, Graff said, was the fact that the University had called in its own psychiatrist to evaluate the student, setting aside the diagnosis and the recommendation of the student’s original CPS-referred doctor.

“They understand learning disabilities and physical disabilities,” Graff said. “They just don’t understand psychiatric disability.”

Burnim said that the Bazelon Center has been in talks with the United States Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights to try and form consistent policies, so that universities have standard procedures for cases like this. The DOE has issued guidance on student discipline in the past. However, those guidelines were related to safety and violence in schools.

Mbugua said that the University does not have a standard procedure for cases like this, instead looking at each case on its own.

“There is no specific process automatically implemented, because each case is handled individually,” Mbugua said. “It’s not a cookie-cutter approach.”

“The big picture is for Princeton and other universities to understand that you can’t just get rid of people who have disabilities based on your stereotypes or your assumptions,” Graff said. “You have to look at the facts of each individual case.”

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Bermann said.

Bermann explained that during their stays in Hong Kong and Cambridge, Princeton students will have an “academic experience” in which they go to classes and are hosted by other students and faculty fellows. However, she added, their experience will primarily focus on residential college activities such as eating in communal dining halls and engaging in service activities.

Dean of Whitman College Rebecca Graves-Bayazitoglu noted that in the case of Whitman’s exchange program, students would also be participating in a service activity, community dinners, guided tours through Hong Kong and theater productions.

Master of Forbes College Michael Hecht explained that the idea for this exchange program started several years ago when, prior to becoming master of Forbes, he went to Cambridge to visit his friend and colleague Christopher Dobson, who had recently been appointed master of St. John’s College. After being named master of Forbes a year or so later and recalling his experience at

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Cambridge, Hecht said, it occurred to him that the two schools could form a partnership, allowing students at the University to see where the residential college system originated.

Hecht explained that although he posed his idea to the Council of Masters three years ago, it is has only be-

“It’s really important as part of one’s education to be able to see other cultures.”

Michael Hecht

master of Forbes College

come a pilot program this year at both Forbes and Whitman.

“I think in the long run this is something that any of the, perhaps all six of the colleges can do,” he said. “It started with this one because I had that connection.”

Bermann said that she organized Whitman’s exchange program with the help of the International Programs Office, which connected her with an alumnus

who identified the Morningside College as a potential sister school.

Funding for the trip comes primarily from the Office of the Dean of the College, Graves-Bayazitoglu said, noting that students also contribute a piece as well based on their individual financial capabilities.

However, she added that as Global Exchange is only a “pilot program,” funding may differ in future years if the program is a success and is continued.

Both Bermann and Graves noted that this experience of a residential college exchange trip is a good way for students to ref lect on how residential colleges impact

their time here at Princeton and see residential college life from a global perspective.

“As the world becomes culturally more global and there are more interactions between different cultures, it’s really important as part of one’s education to be able to see other cultures,” Hecht said.

Hecht added that in this particular case students will be able to see other cultures “through the lens of residential life and university life.”

“I’m eager for them to have the opportunity to broaden their own horizons and also to bring that back to college and to share that with other students,” Bermann said.

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ewspapers fulfill a unique niche in whatever community they serve, whether that is the campus, city, nation or the world at large, as they are one of the few sources providing concise and clear factual information in the time honored objective of traditional journalists.

This exclusive role is especially prevalent on college campuses, where the only other source of information about campus issues is the University itself and thus could be biased.

In addition to providing campus news, these university newspapers grant those students involved with the paper an incredible opportunity to serve the student body and hone professional skills. The Opinion section of The Daily Princetonian provides a forum for columnists and the general University community to enact changes by publicizing pertinent issues, especially when traditional media aimed at creating change fail, which is why I choose to join the section. (And given that applications are now out for second semester columnists, it is something you too can do if you also want a forum to generate change.)

However, the student newspaper system here isn’t flawless. The new editor-in-chief recently published the ‘Prince’ code of ethics, in alignment with the policy of most newspapers, to render the newspaper more accountable to the campus population. Laudably, the code of ethics emphasizes that staffers are professionals and should be held “to the highest levels of ethical conduct and integrity.” The goal of maintaining a professional atmosphere is admirable, as it serves both the writers looking for a real-world experience and the readers who want reliable information.

Nevertheless, the reality that we are students first, not journalists, makes me question some policies within the code of ethics, policies that if modified slightly wouldn’t diminish the reading experience for our audience, but would enhance the experience for the many student journalists who work for the ‘Prince.’

Specifically, I question the policy that writers for the Opinion section and those students involved in the business of publishing the newspaper cannot be part of any other section.

The rationale is that Opinion columnists have publicly displayed biases in their columns whereas every other section — from News to Copy to Design — is publicly unbiased. Thus, even if an Opinion writer can be unbiased in another role, the mere “appearance” of bias prohibits a crossover role to another section.

The problem is, it is irrational to assume that the opinion columnist is any more biased than the average copy editor, designer or editor who also has some control over page layout.

Everyone has a perspective that can bias how they copy edit an article or how they choose to lay out the articles. It is naïve to assume otherwise. Thus, the notion that the bias doesn’t matter — while the mere the appearance of a bias is important — is ridiculous. The primary rationale behind preventing this section crossover might be that this appearance of bias would ruin the newspaper’s reputation and credibility to its readers. But if this is actually a nonissue to the reasonable reader, the separation doesn’t seem legitimate. Staffers when writing, editing or laying out the news should all be held to a high standard of objectivity. An Opinion columnist is not any less likely than any other newspaper staffer to be objective in dealing with news articles.

It might be true that in some cases the likelihood of introducing bias into a role is so large that it merits this separation. For example, it might be reasonable to assume that news and opinion writers shouldn’t cross over. But surely Copy and Design face fewer situations in which bias would intervene. It is naïve to assume that a sports writer will not copy edit in a slightly biased way like an opinion writer might be inclined to do, as they are both students with varied perspectives.

Furthermore, these restrictions also apply to guest columnists who only wrote one opinion column, even without their realization.

No matter what section one chooses, being a student journalist comes with its sacrifices, as a newspaper is nothing without its reputation for objectivity. I myself was accepted to both News and Opinion this past fall and decided to join Opinion largely because I felt the restrictions on news staffers were so intrusive that they would hinder my ability to have the wellrounded student experience. According to the code of ethics, news writers and even sports reporters cannot even sign a USG candidate’s petition to run — merely a statement that you support the candidate having the opportunity to run — much less publicly support a USG candidate. Though I understand that some sacrifices are necessary as a journalist, I didn’t feel that these were fair, as they take the goal of avoiding the appearance of bias too far.

The ‘Prince’ should strive to attain the highest ethical standards in order to maintain its reputation and fulfill its duty to the community. The publication of the code of ethics is proof that this year’s editorial board is off to a great start. Yet we must also recognize that the ‘Prince’ is a student newspaper and still has a responsibility to provide a well-rounded apprenticeship experience to its student journalists.

Marni Morse is a freshman from Washington, D.C. She can be reached at mlmorse@princeton.edu.

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ing my friends, the nights out, the inside jokes that I wouldn’t be a part of when I returned. I worried about the academic and career opportunities — classes rarely offered or information sessions for future internships — that would pass by while I was gone.

And I did, in fact, miss some things while I was abroad. I missed the break up of three couples and the start of one other. I was not here for Princetoween or formals or the bonfire. Four good friends threw various birthday pregames I could not attend and I never networked at the Morgan Stanley information session.

I was not here at the moment when others got over the novelty of eating in a club and I will have to wait until next fall to take THR 205: Introductory Playwriting. So, yes, I missed things. But the important things — my friends, my extracurriculars, my professors, even my unsolved problems — were all waiting, untouched and unchanged, when I came back. In the end, I missed a semester that was not all that different from the others.

After a semester abroad, the mantra I’m professing is, “You have seven semesters at Princeton. And only one abroad. Why would you not go?” Never in your life will you have the opportunity, flexibility and the financial assistance to spend three or four or five months in a different country and actually be expected, even encouraged, to expend energy enjoying yourself. I explored London and cities throughout Europe and found hidden — and not so hidden — places to love in each of them. I met incredible people to get lost with, to laugh with and even to cry with once or twice. I had one of those cliché coming of age moments when some sound perspective — on

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n imagining what can only be the dramatic origins of a certain Princeton mantra, I like to think that one day a Princetonian on the cusp of graduation looked up at Blair Arch, its stones basked in a special sort of afternoon sun, and in a fit of nostalgia placed his hand on the shoulder of a passing freshman and warned, “You only get eight semesters here.”

The freshman then thought of the very short eight semesters ahead of him and was struck with unease. He repeated the words, now with the cadence of a proverb, to those around him: “You only get eight semesters here.” And the phrase was picked up and passed on and was swept up into the collective consciousness of the Princeton student so that however many years later as I, a restless sophomore, filled out my application to study abroad the following fall it made me wonder if I was making a terrible mistake.

Anyone who disproved of my going, or who did not want to go themselves, said those string of words as if no other advice was necessary. Why would I want to give up one of my precious eight semesters? Until the moment I landed at Heathrow Airport in London, I was wondering the same thing. I was afraid that I would miss some quintessential Princeton moment. I absolutely needed to live out all eight semesters on this campus, within these gates, to really get the “college experience” that adults always seem to reference, as if we’ve all had the same one. I feared miss-

what matters and what makes me happy — replaced, in retrospect, a rather naïve one. I love that it happened and hate that I have no less corny way to say it — I had the time of my notso-long life. I would readily give up another semester to do it all again.

Do not let anyone — even yourself — talk you out of going abroad if that is what you want to do. This is your chance and it pains me to hear students say, “I want to go abroad but … ” There are very few endings to that sentence that should be enough for you to stay. I promise Princeton will be here, FitzRandolph gates still thrown open, when you return. And in a way it will all seem more wonderful — the campus more beautiful than you remembered, the relative familiarity of the faces more comforting, the Street not so mundane, the free laundry more luxurious.

Nevertheless, I am not so ignorant as to suggest that every single person should or must go abroad. There are those that simply have no desire and to them I say do enjoy each and every moment of your time here — Princeton can be its own sort of adventure if you take risks and seize opportunities within its bounds.

But if for even a moment you considered going abroad, do not let any excuse dissuade you. In the scheme of things, missing a semester was a blink, a snap, a twitch — I was there and then suddenly I was back. That is the opportunity I encourage you to grasp, because it is fleeting and brilliant and there is only one, not eight, of these chances before you.

Chelsea Jones is an English major from Ridgefield, Conn. She can be reached at chelseaj@princeton.edu.

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enior year brings an amalgam of intense feelings, confusions and apprehensions. It is a year of transition where independent work becomes significantly more serious and the prospect of leaving the academy for the first time is daunting. These fears and anxieties are normal, unavoidable and important to moving on — natural growing pains.

One consistent and far more avoidable senior-concern is the pangs of regret associated with doubting class selection choices.

There are more than a thousand class options per semester — a student will take around 35 in his 8 semesters. It is impossible to play out in one’s mind what could have been. There are steps, however, that can be taken to minimize this sense of doubt, and ensure that one is confident in one’s choices.

The most important and perhaps overstated item of advice given is that the quality of a professor makes or breaks a class.

The degree to which this is true makes it worth taking a class by a stellar professor, even in a sub-

ject only moderately interesting.

Knowing which professors fit this bill is discovered by reputation and consultation with other professors who themselves wish they could audit their colleagues classes. Also, course reviews and Youtube clips of previous classes can be useful tools. For example, in my experience taking Caryl Emerson’s COM 415: Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, and the Tasks of Literature is less about understanding Tolstoy than it is about learning how to approach an author from Caryl Emerson. If a student exposes herself to the great minds living at this institution she can better access the dead ones codified in the pages of our texts.

In order to take full advantage of the tremendous professors available at the University, it is also important to balance the type of work one takes on in a given semester. Even in a world where a student chooses all the “right” classes, one cannot extract all the wisdom available if there is an imbalance in class work requirements. Too many essays and an 80 page Dean’s Date or too many problem sets and back-to-back-to-back finals doesn’t allow a student to maximize his attention allocation. A little planning al-

lows for a healthy mixture.

In balancing different types of course work, one also encourages well-roundedness. Interesting people can and should participate in many forms of cultural and scientific literacy. It is of course important to be passionate about something and achieve a level of expertise, but that should not come at the cost of exposure to diverse disciplines.

The most stimulating people are computer science majors who understand biblical allusions in literature, or comparative literature majors who have confronted questions of impending computer singularity (the point at which computers surpass human intelligence). It is important to build the ability to approach life with the varied tools necessary. Taking liberal arts seriously also allows students to continue studying interesting things on their own, after their formal schooling has concluded.

Amassing analytic tools also allows for one to grow into new interests. We are constantly becoming aware of new interesting intellectual pursuits. We can indulge these curiosities thoroughly if we expose ourselves to different modes of thinking.

Simultaneously important to acquiring a varied set of

analytic tools is also developing functional skills necessary to be an asset in a “real-world” working environment. Many work skills can be learned quickly and on the spot, while others require the careful guidance of a professor. A robust statistics course is important for many jobs, and while statistics is seldom anyone’s favorite class, it is undeniably helpful and not taking it could be a source of eventual regret.

Ultimately, I believe it is important to not get bogged down in the future. Selecting courses to check boxes of what one ought to know for a potential job is a major source of regret. So too is treating the course title numbers as existing in a progression — as in one should take a 300-level course only after having done a 200-level version. These numbers should mostly be viewed as easing cataloguing for the office of the registrar. The titles of courses is important — the corresponding digits are not.

Choosing classes is about a little research, a little intuition, a little luck and little disregard for what one “ought to do.”

Aaron Applbaum is a Wilson School major from Oakland, Calif. He can be reached atapplbaum@princeton.edu.

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with Cornell, the path to victory begins at the defensive end.

“Against Cornell, we played defense for 40 minutes,” Bray said. He also noted that pulling out a win will depend on “a lot of other things [they] can control. Defensive rebounding, just playing solid defense all around. Offensively, you have nights that you’re on and you’re off.”

Though the strength of the Tigers’ interior game will certainly be critical, the most exciting part of this matchup looks to be the duel be-

“[The stats] don’t really mean much to me. [I] would take team success over individual success.”

T.J. Bray senior guard tween the Ivy League’s two leading scorers, point guards Bray and Brown’s Sean McGonagill. Despite the Tigers’ disappointing season, Bray has been excellent across

the chart, averaging over 17 points and five assists per game, all the while with a 55.8 field goal percentage, one of the highest clips in the country, let alone among point guards. McGonagill, though less efficient overall than Bray, still gets 18 points per game, while shooting 42 percent from deep. When asked about how he feels about going head to head with McGonagill, Bray insisted the goal is still to remain within the team’s offense. “[The stats] don’t really mean much to me,” Bray said. “Both of us would take team success over individual success.” He does admit though that McGonagill “lit [Princeton] up a little bit” in last season’s finale and that “it’s fun playing against one of those guys you respect.”

In Providence, McGonagill went off for 24 points, eight rebounds and five assists against the Tigers, his finest game of the season.

Yale (11-9, 5-1) likely will not prove to be any less tough than Brown. The Bulldogs come into this weekend with a four-game win streak and are tied for first in the league. They moved into joint first by heading into the tough crowd at Cambridge and handing Harvard its first loss at home and in the Ivy League. The Bulldogs can attribute much of their recent success to a revamped defense, which is holding teams to 36.7 percent

from the field and 28.6 percent from deep during this streak.

As with Brown, the Tigers have to worry about how

“1-4 isn’t how we want to start, [but] everyone comes in every day and works hard.”

T.J. Bray senior guard much size they are giving up down low. Yale boasts a big front lineup in forwards Matt Townsend and Armani Cotton. Cotton especially could be a threat, as he looks to build on the double-double he had at Harvard. However, the primary focus for the Tigers will probably be Justin Sears. The sophomore forward, a New Jersey native, has been strong in league play, as he put up 21 points and 11 rebounds against Harvard to push his team to the top of the standings.

Though the hopes of an Ivy League crown are slim at best, Bray maintains the mood of the team is still upbeat.

“1-4 isn’t how we want to start, [but] everyone comes in every day and works hard.

We’re playing for each other.”

In the face of such a challenge, team unity will need to be stronger than ever.

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last year. She has drawn comparisons to senior guard T.J. Bray of the men’s team for her lights-out shooting and versatility. She averages 14.8 points, 4.8 rebounds and 3.1 assists per game, marks good for fifth, 18th and fifth best in the league, respectively. She shoots 50.2 percent from the field, including 44.3 percent from downtown, the 17th best rate in Division I. “Blake is having a great year,” Banghart said. “She came in as a good player, but took some time adjusting to the college game. She was sitting behind some talented players.”

Helmstetter, the captain, is the lone senior in the rotation and is another jack of all trades. She is tied for second on the team with sophomore guard Michelle Miller at 11 points per game and leads the team at 6.2 rebounds and 3.7 assists per game. Princeton also features two more key players who make more baskets than they miss. Sophomore forwards Taylor Williams and Alex Wheatley shoot 61.2 percent and 54.4 percent, respectively, entirely from inside the arc.

Brown has not had much team success this year, ranking 298th in RPI and beating just one team with a winning record. They average 66 points per game, while allowing 71

to conference opponents. They allow 46.2 percent shooting and suffer an eight rebound deficit per game. They take exactly a third of their shots from three, the highest rate in the league, and shoot a respectable 36.2 percent from there.

They lead the league with 9.3 steals per game and also with a scintillating 81.7 free throw percentage. What makes this Brown team interesting is its individual firepower. The Bears have the best duo in the league, with two of the top seven scorers, including senior guard Lauren Clarke, the leader at 16.9 points per game.

Junior guard Sophie Bikofsky leads the nation, making 51.1 percent of her three-pointers, and two other Bears also shoot better than 40 percent from behind the arc.

The matchup against Yale serves as Princeton’s annual breast cancer awareness game.

Marketed as “Princeton Plays Pink,” the team will wear pink socks and shoelaces, and fans will gain free entry for wearing a pink shirt. Yale’s Ivy League record and statistics are misleading, as they have played five of their six games against the bottom half of the league.

The Bulldogs rank 223rd in RPI and have not beaten a team inside the top 200. They average 67.2 points per game and allow 64.4. They narrowly out-rebound their opponents and force 3.1 more turnovers than they commit, but allow an appalling 38.1 three-point

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Sacred Heart (2-8). The Pioneers, who have not won a dual match since Jan. 18, have dropped their last three duals by margins of 26 points or more. Considering the Pioneers only forfeited one

match in last weekend’s loss to Bucknell, it appears that Sacred Heart should put up a better fight this year against the Tigers. It was only one year ago that Sacred Heart forfeited an astonishing five of 10 weight classes during last year’s 22-4 loss at Princeton. However, the Tigers will not overlook Sacred

Heart’s apparent weakness, as they head into the second-tolast weekend of regular season competition.

The Tigers face off against Columbia at 7 p.m. in Dillon Gymnasium on Friday night.

Match time against Sacred Heart is set for noon in Fairfield on Sunday.

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possibly be their final home matchups of the year.

Seniors have provided no small amount of offensive production and leadership for the Tigers. Senior forwards Denna Liang, Sally Butler and Rose Alleva rank first, second and fourth in scoring and together account for a third of their team’s total points.

The play of senior goaltender Aubree Moore has been a late-season highlight for Brown. This past weekend saw her named ECAC Goalie of the Week for her 51-save shutout against Rensselaer and her allowing only one goal on 27 shots against Union. Her .929 save percentage is good for fourth in the conference, but her defensive unit’s 892 shots allowed ranks second-worst behind Union’s 924.

A back-and-forth November battle with Yale in New Haven saw a goal by sophomore center Jamie McDonnell give the Tigers the final lead with just over 10 minutes to play.

Currently, Princeton sits just above Yale in the conference

table, holding a four-point lead in the sixth spot.

The Bulldogs have gone winless the past two weekends of play. Forward Phoebe Staenz has led her squad in scoring with 23 points in only 17 games. However, she is currently representing her native

“I think we really have the opportunity to surprise some people in the playoffs.”

Denna Liang senior forward Switzerland in the Olympics and will be unavailable for Yale.

In the Princeton Athletic Communications podcast, co-captain Liang discussed the potential playoff scenarios her team faces. The conference’s top eight teams make the playoffs, and the top four teams earn home-ice

advantage in the first round.

Princeton currently sits just three points behind fourthplace Quinnipiac.

“We would love to have home ice,” Liang said, “but the league is so close right now, and everybody is upsetting and surprising everyone.

So it’s really hard for us to look at the schedule and know where we’re going to end up and know where anyone else is going to end up.”

She also highlighted the resiliency of her squad and the Tigers’ prowess in the final period of games.

“If we play the way we are playing, and start more games the way we finish,” she explained, “I think we really have the opportunity to surprise some people in the playoffs. It is going to be a huge weekend for the seniors especially. We’re definitely not letting our guard down because we beat them earlier in the season. As we’ve shown, and as other teams have shown, anything can happen. I hope we can do really well and I know everyone’s going to be focused. But they’re going to want to win as bad as we do.”

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percentage, fifth worst in Division I. Yale is led by junior guard Sarah Halejian, who takes more shots per game than anyone else in the league despite playing fewer minutes than anyone else in the top six.

She does rank third in scoring at 15.6 points per game, but shoots a less than average 38 percent from the field, 29.6 percent from three and 64.5 percent from the line. Halejian is also top five in assists and steals per game.

“Brown has three starters shooting over 40 percent from three, so we’ll need to defend the arc. Yale prefers to win in one-on-one situations,” Banghart said. “It doesn’t get much more different than these two teams, but that’s the nature of the Ivy League. To win, you’ve got to beat all sorts of teams.”

Looking beyond this weekend, Princeton will head into a must-win matchup at Harvard on Feb. 22. While it is conceivable that the Tigers could merit an at-large tournament selection, the goal is obviously to earn the program’s fifth straight league title and win its first ever NCAA tournament game.

“We can’t worry about getting to the tournament. We take things one game at a time; every opponent looks the same to us,” Banghart remarked.

“With that said, winning in the tournament is its own challenge. We need a good matchup because you can’t sneak up on anyone when there are 64 good teams participating.”

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Tigers hit the road for critical matchups

By Miles Hinson staff writer

Coming off a rough homestand, the Tigers head out for what looks to be their toughest weekend of the season. After going 1-1 against two of the weaker teams in the Ivy League, Princeton (13-6 overall, 1-4 Ivy League) now stand at seventh in the conference and must take on some of the best and (literally) biggest of the Ivies, Brown and Yale.

Brown (12-8, 4-2) has been no easy opponent when defending its home turf against Ivy opponents, posting a 3-0 record there heading into Saturday. The game is certainly looking to be a shootout, with Princeton and Brown holding the first and third spots in league scoring, respectively. The three-point shot has proved a huge weapon for these two teams this season. Princeton currently averages over 10 made three-point shots a game, already having taken more threes this season than it did all of last year. Brown has been averaging just over seven made threes, while shooting the highest threepoint field goal percentage in the league, at 38.8 percent.

Unfortunately for the Ti-

gers, the Bears have been forcing opponents into poor shots all season. They are the best in the conference in opposing shooting percentage, holding them to a mere 37.7 percent from the field and 27.7 percent from behind the arc. It was apparent from last weekend how different of a team Princeton can be when its offense is f lowing. It is clear that the Tigers need to emulate the kind of shooting they put on against Cornell, as another stagnant and inconsistent performance, like their second half against Columbia, could knock them out of Ivy League contention for good.

More worrisome than the three-point game is the Bears’ intimidating presence down low. Senior forward Will Barrett and sophomore forward Hans Brase have a tall task ahead of them, as they prepare to face two players that use their size to tremendous effect. Brown’s big men, Rafael Maia and Cedric Kuakumensah, are first and seventh in the Ivy League, respectively, in total rebounds on the season.

In addition, Brown leads the league in rebounding.

Kuakumensah especially has been a force to be reckoned with, as he leads the

Ivy League with 2.7 blocked shots per game. Even more impressive is his doing so in just under 23 minutes per game. When asked about how the team would deal with such strong defense down low, senior captain T.J. Bray noted the team just needs to keep attacking.

“You can’t think about shot blockers in the lane. If they block your shot, they block your shot,” he said.

“If a team’s a little bigger, [we] have to go a little bigger [ourselves]. You just have to be physical against them.

They’re pushing, [and] you have to push right back.”

The battle down low can make or break this game for the Tigers. They have given up a 44.6 percent field goal shooting to teams this year, second to last in the Ivy League, only above Cornell. They have also gotten bullied at times down low, a point on full display in the second half of the Columbia game. The Tigers allowed multiple and-1’s and backdoor cuts to allow the Lions to seize the momentum and get right back into the game. It certainly does not help matters that the Tigers are ranked dead last in the league in rebounding. As See M. B-BALL page 5

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MEN’S & WOMEN’S HOCKEY PREVIEW

Princeton faces Brown and Yale

Men travel, women host senior weekend

By Eddie Owens associate sports editor

Women’s basketball will host Yale and Brown on Friday and Saturday nights at Jadwin Gymnasium. Princeton (13-6 overall, 4-1 Ivy League) is 61st in the RPI ratings and sits in a tie for second in the Ivy League, trailing Harvard by half a game. The Tigers suffered their lone conference loss to the Crimson in their first game back from finals break, but have since won three straight by an average of 22.3 points. Yale (10-10, 4-2) is coming off a heartbreaking one-point loss to Harvard in New Haven and occupies fourth in the league table.

Brown (8-12, 2-4) has won two of its last three, albeit against conference doormats Dart-

mouth and Columbia.

This year’s Princeton team has a different makeup and style than any of the league winning teams from the last four years. The Tigers returned only senior forward Kristen Helmstetter from last year’s starting five. With several players in new roles, the team struggled to find its rhythm early on, going 3-4 in the first three weeks and allowing 75 points per game. The 16-point win at Navy, ranked directly behind Princeton in RPI, was a huge turning point as it started a five-game winning streak and the current 10-2 run. The Tigers played their finest game of the season on Jan. 11, crushing Penn, the only Ivy team to beat Harvard, by a staggering 31 points at the Palestra.

“This year’s team is inexperienced in terms of minutes played … They’re fun to coach, since everyone’s role is different and they all want to get better,” coach Courtney Banghart said. “We’re better on offense this year and beginning to find accountability on defense. Early on we didn’t have that accountability, but now we’re playing better across the board.”

The defense has tightened up since allowing 110 points to Oregon, allowing 57.75 per game over the last 12 contests.

In conference play, the team has allowed a league-best 32.4 percent of field goal attempts, including just 26.5 percent from beyond the arc. Princeton’s rebounding margin is plus-10, well above any other Ivy League team and good for

17th in the country. The offense has lit up the scoreboard throughout the season, averaging 73.8 points per game, above the program record of 72.0 set two years ago. Not surprisingly, this is also the best shooting team Princeton’s ever seen, hitting 47.2 percent of its shots and ranking eighth in the country. The team shares the ball very well, averaging 16.5 assists per game, 32nd best in Division I. If there has been one area the Tigers have struggled in, it has been in turnover differential. They’ve coughed the ball up 305 times on the season, while forcing only 257 turnovers on defense.

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WRESTLING PREVIEW

Tigers host strong Columbia squad Friday, visit Sacred Heart Sunday in final regular season road matchup

By Jack Rogers associate sports editor

The wrestling team will look to continue its strong performance and build upon its threematch win streak this weekend, as the Tigers (8-2 overall, 2-1 Ivy League) take on Columbia at home on Friday night and square off Sunday against Sacred Heart on the road. A win against Columbia would clinch Princeton’s winning record in Ivy League competition, and an additional win on Sunday would make the team a winner of seven of its last eight

matches.

A tough Columbia lineup will be coming to Dillon Gymnasium Friday night, with hopes to handle Princeton in the same easy manner that it did last year, when the Lions blew past the Tigers in a 30-7 win in New York. Columbia (64, 0-1) rides in on a hot streak, as the Lions have won five of their last six matches. In addition, their only loss came last Saturday at the hand of No. 4 Cornell, and even then the Lions were even with the Big Red 15-15 with only two bouts remaining in the match. The 21-15

loss to Cornell marked the most points that any Columbia team has scored against Cornell in 23 years.

But the looks of Friday’s match will be quite different from that of last year’s. Four of Columbia’s eight wrestlers who recorded victories in last year’s dual against Princeton have now graduated. And two of the four that Princeton will not be seeing this time around are Steve Santos and Jake O’Hara, who were nationally ranked at No. 6 and No. 18, respectively, at the time of last year’s match.

The additional year of experi-

ence that sophomore starters Kevin Moylan, Judd Ziegler and Abram Ayala have garnered put the Tigers in a much better position against Columbia this time around. The additional depth of freshmen will also be an advantage for the Tigers: Brett Harner has already won 22 matches this year, and with one more win Jordan Laster will join the 20-win club for the season.

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By Andrew Steele sports editor

A pair of home losses for the Tigers last weekend included a close battle with No. 14 Clarkson. This Friday, Princeton men’s hockey (4-19 overall, 3-13 ECAC) will begin a New England series against Ivy rivals Brown (9-11-3, 6-9-1) and No. 13 Yale (12-7-4, 7-6-3).

These matchups mirror the Tigers’ home-opening showdowns in early November at Baker Rink, both of which resulted in losses for the hosts.

Senior winger Andrew Ammon now leads his team in scoring with 12 points following a two-goal performance against Clarkson. Classmate and center Andrew Calof — a nominee for league Player of the Week honors — provided Ammon with assists on both scoring plays and currently ranks second on the team in scoring. Calof has found particular success against Brown in his career, scoring four goals and adding seven assists in nine games.

Freshman Colton Phinney and senior Sean Bonar have guarded the net in 12 and 14 games, respectively. Combined, their save percentage of .890 is higher than only those of Dartmouth and St. Lawrence. Shot opportunities have been easy to come by for Princeton’s foes, as their opponent’s shot total of 803 is only better than Colgate’s 821.

Brown has dropped its last three but sports a pair of high-scoring sophomore forwards in Mark Naclerio

and Nick Lappin (30 and 28 points, respectively). In the overall series against Princeton, the Bears hold an 84-65-8 edge.

Yale currently sits in the ECAC’s sixth spot. Bulldog goalies — freshman Alex Lyon has started in 20 games with a 2.28 goal against average — combine for the league’s best save percentage. The squad has fairly balanced scoring, with senior forwards Kenny Agostino and Jesse Root leading their team with 22 points each and nine skaters having tallied 10-plus points on the season.

In the conference table, the Princeton men currently sit dead last. However, every ECAC men’s team participates in the 12-team playoff tournament. The Tigers will hope that quality late-season play will develop into the form and momentum needed to pull off a first-round road upset against what will likely be a very strong side.

Senior weekend falls this Friday and Saturday for the women’s side.

Princeton women’s hockey (12-9-4, 8-7-3) managed to avenge the two midseason home losses to ECAC rivals St. Lawrence and Clarkson this past weekend with a 2-1 away victory over the Saints and a 2-2 overtime tie with the No. 3 Golden Knights. The Tigers will try to put together similar results this weekend, using the motivation of potential season sweeps over Brown (4-16-5, 3-12-3) and Yale (7-13-5. 5-8-5) in what will See HOCKEY page 5

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