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Today on Campus

The post office in Palmer Square is moving to the former West Coast Video property at 259 Nassau St. There is no set timeline for when the move will take place, Ray Daiutolo Sr., a U.S. Postal Service spokesman, said, adding that the organization is waiting for the new location to be prepared and for the old building’s sale to be finalized.

West Coast Video used the property from 1997 to around 2006 until the company went out of business because of the growing popularity of online streaming videos, said Robert Bratman, whose family has owned the property since the 1960s.

“Now there’s nothing there,” Bratman said. “We’ve been trying to get a tenant.”

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News & Notes Harvard considering implementing honor code pledge

Harvard students will probably have to sign an honor pledge on their final papers and examinations if the Faculty of Arts and Sciences approves a proposed honor code, the Harvard Crimson reported.

Harvard has never before had an honor code.

Around 125 Harvard students were investigated for cheating on the final examination of a government class in 2012, and approximately 70 students were forced to withdraw but returned in the fall of 2013.

The Faculty Council approved the honor code proposal last week, and the entire faculty now needs to vote to approve it. Some faculty members expressed concern that requiring students to sign the statement was tantamount to assuming they are cheating.

An honor code was passed in May 2014 but has not yet come into effect, and a provision for required written affirmations of the honor code has not yet been required.

The Faculty Council also decided against a proposal to make the honor code required on every assignment.

A new Honor Council will hear matters relating to the honor code.

While his family was originally in negotiations with TD Bank, the neighbors strongly opposed the idea of a bank at that location, he said.

The bank would have closed at 4:30 p.m. or 5 p.m., and because it would have occupied the whole building, it would have created a large parking lot for all the restaurants in town, Bratman said.

However, because of the tension between the neighbors and the bank, the bank decided not to relocate, he explained, adding that he was surprised at the resistance from some residents.

Despite an ordinance prohibiting businesses bordering residential areas from operating 247, a 7-Eleven will also likely still come to the location, Bratman said.

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Former Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius spoke on Tuesday at Dodds Auditorium.

By Charles Min senior writer

The Affordable Care Act, as well as other Obama administration health care efforts, has made health care more strongly rooted in adding value-based services and better delivery system reforms, former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius said in a lecture on Tuesday.

The two primary goals of the ACA are affordable health coverage in the market and reform of the health care delivery system in ways that can improve the overall health of the American population, Sebelius said.

She added that over the five years since the ACA has been implemented, it has created a competitive market where there was previously a monopoly on health

care coverage and has aided those who were previously locked out of health care because of preexisting limitations.

“Overall, health care costs are trending below our levels of GDP,” Sebelius said. “Health care cost trajectory is beginning to level out, and this has been happening consistently over the past five years.”

The ACA has provisions that say if experimental payment strategies prove effective and at the same don’t lower the quality of health care, they can be implemented nationally, she explained. These strategies are designed and tested by the Healthcare Innovation Center, which receives $10 billion in funding every decade.

“Hospital infection rates are down, preventable readmissions are down and early elected delivery has significantly lowered,”

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Hamm ’78 speaks on activism, civil rights

By Pooja Patel staff writer

People don’t have adequate power to make needed changes to society, Lawrence Hamm ’78, chairman of the People’s Organization for Progress, a social and economic activism organization, said in a lecture on Tuesday.

“Ultimately, that’s what we’re struggling for: to empower people,” Hamm said.

Hamm said he began his work as a student activist in Newark in 1971.

“Newark is a key center among several centers for the black liberation movement,” Hamm said. “Newark had been an apartheid city. It was a city with a predominantly black population that was controlled by a white power structure.”

At the University, where he was known by the name “Adhimu Chunga,” which means “important youth” in Swahili, Hamm was active in leading student movements, particularly in get-

ting the University to divest from companies with links to apartheid in South Africa.

His impact at the University is recounted in the documentary film, “Blacks at Princeton.”

Hamm also discussed the lesser-known contributions of slaves to the present-day United States.

“The capital that was used to build Princeton and Harvard and Brown and other universities was from the slave trade,” Hamm said.

“That citadel of democracy, Washington, D.C., was built with slave labor. Where the leader of the so-called free world sits was built with slave labor.”

After watching the film“Selma,” some people believe that Jim Crow was only a Southern phenomenon, Hamm added.

“But I am here to tell you that [Jim Crow] was a national phenomenon,” he said.

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Sebelius said. “Early results are incredibly promising on the delivery system side, and it will lend itself to changes in the future.”

Several emerging trends in health care that the ACA addresses include electronic health records, accessible public health data, renewed drug development trials and improving global health capacities, she said.

“There is now a real move toward data-driven decision-making in health care that really hasn’t been in place before,” she said.

“In 2008, only 20 percent of doctors and 10 percent of hospitals in the country were using any form of electronic health records, and most information was done on paper.”

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By Corinne Lowe senior writer

Satellite constellations can be optimized to better predict f looding around the world, researchers from the University, Cornell University and The Aerospace Corporation said in a study published on Feb. 11.

The study examined the current global constellation of satellites used to predict f loods to determine the risk posed if any of these satellites were to fail and explored how one could optimize the constellation to more efficiently predict f loods, said Eric Wood, co-author of the study and civil and environ-

mental engineering professor at the University.

“We’re interested in combining our global modeling of the hydrology of the Earth’s surface,” Wood said. “[The Cornell researchers] are very interested in optimizing how you would put up constellations of satellites, and Aerospace — which is the third party — they simulate orbits.”

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is currently using 10 such satellites, Wood said, which provides global coverage approximately every three hours.

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up there way beyond their lifetime,” Wood said. “The issue is: What is the risk to monitoring precipitation, especially over areas of the world where there aren’t a lot of gauges on the ground?”

Africa and South America in particular have fewer ground gauges, putting these areas at greater risk of unpredicted f loods, Woods said.

Areas with strong and short duration thunderstorms are at the highest risk of unpredicted f looding activities, explained Nathaniel Chaney GS, another co-author, adding that with better coordination from different countries and agencies, this problem could largely be addressed.

Examples of past f loods that occurred without much

warning in the past decade include recent f loods in South America, f looding around 2012 or 2013 in West Africa and several bad f loods in Mozambique a few years back, Wood said.

“There’s probably a major f lood once a week someplace in the world,” he explained.

“If they’re unprepared because they don’t know it’s coming, the loss of life is significant.”

The existing system of satellites is still insufficient, Chaney said.

“The main idea that we get from that paper is even with all the satellites we have right now, we’re still far away from being able to capture the sub-three-hour timescale rainfall events,” he said.

The research team used the Blue Waters supercomputer in Illinois, Chaney noted.

“We are using 2.5 million hours of computation to answer this problem in terms

of hydrologic modeling,” he said. “What we did couldn’t have been done five or six years ago.”

The optimization solution that the group proposed was better coordination of satellites within a constellation.

“The major finding is that putting up constellations of satellites one by one and not looking at the total problem results in performance that is less than desirable and really results in a overspending or underperformance given the amount of money they spend,” Wood said.

Even if results like these might be discussed at meetings, NASA is not currently planning on putting any additional satellites into orbit in part due to monetary constraints, Wood said. The cost of satellites can run from a few million dollars to over a billion, he added.

However, this research could help them best prepare

for the loss of satellites in the future and fill in the holes in an efficient way, Wood said.

The same techniques employed in this study can also now be employed to look at similar issues on the Earth’s surface, such as evaporation, weather information and humidity in the atmosphere, he added.

Hydrology is an unusual subject of a satellite model, noted Jon Herman, a co-author of the study and a Cornell graduate student in civil and environmental engineering.

“Usually the world of hydrology and satellite constellation modeling don’t really talk to each other,” Herman said. “Satellite missions might not be planned with hydrology in mind, and in hydrologic modeling, it is just sort of taken for granted that the rainfall data is there, so by combining them I think we’re on to something.”

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to be nice that it’s there,” Bratman said. “Though many neighbors came out and opposed the 7-Eleven, it seems like it fulfills the need that they wanted.”

Bratman said that representatives from the post office approached his family and said they were leaving their Palmer Square location.

Daiutolo declined to disclose why the post office was relocating.

“I thought they were going to be a really nice fit, because they’re going to be on the side of the building with plenty of parking, which I know was a real concern with the location in Palmer Square,” he said.

Palmer Square Management did not respond to a request for comment.

The post office can also forgo plan approval because it is a federal building, which makes the process of relocating much sim-

pler, he said.

The 259 Nassau St. property has a long history, Bratman said. The building was constructed in the early 1920s and originally housed multiple car dealerships.

In 1966, Bratman’s parents bought the car dealership and service station and converted it into a furniture store.

Twenty years later, Bratman said he declined to take over the family business, and his father leased the property to the Wawa, the building’s first renter. The Wawa’s lease ended around 19951996 and the company decided not to renew the lease due to the existence of another Wawa in town.

Eckerd, a drugstore, became the next tenant of the property.

Two years after opening, however, Rite Aid Corporation bought Eckerd, and decided there was no need to have two Rite Aid locations operating in Princeton. As a result, Rite Aid closed the 259 Nassau St. location and sublet it to West Coast Video with the permission of the Bratman family.

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tronic health records, and now the majority of doctors and hospitals are using health records, Sebelius said.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services had huge amounts of data that were locked, but the Obama administration was committed to making the information understandable and accessible to the public, Sebelius said.

Health care costs, infection rates and information about medical procedures are data to which consumers now have access online, she added.

Trends in clinical trials have

also been gradually emerging, she noted. There are currently about 80 Food and Drug Administration breakthrough drugs going through trials and testing, and a framework has been put together for a clinical database, she said, adding that patients can voluntarily join the database so that investigators can go to it to find subjects for clinical trials, dramatically reducing the cost of drug investigation.

She concluded by saying it was necessary to more fully address global health issues.

“Outbreak anywhere is a risk everywhere,” Sebelius said, adding that helping to build the capacity for epidemiologists to be able to address sudden outbreaks is important to the health of the United

States.

A group of College Republicans, wearing “healthcare.gov” shirts, asked about the ACA during the question and answer session following the lecture. All of Sebelius’s replies were accompanied by loud applause from the audience.

Evan Draim ’16, president of the College Republicans at the University, stood to ask Sebelius why she had previously claimed that everyone who liked their health care plan could keep the plan when he said many people would be losing their health care plans because of the ACA even though they were satisfied with it.

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Draim said after the lecture that he was not satisfied with Sebelius’s answer, explaining he didn’t believe it was right for her to qualify her claim from the past by offering exceptions to when people cannot keep their desired health care plans.

“We still appreciate her for coming to talk to us, and we respect the fact that we were able to engage in meaningful dialogue with her,” Draim said.

The lecture took place at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday in Dodds Auditorium.

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the practices were basically the same.”

Slavery was as much a part of the North as it was a part of the South, Hamm said.

“Where Wall Street is located today in New York City was in fact where the auction block was located,” he noted.

Black soldiers in the Union Army also made important contributions during the Civil War, but they could not be buried in the same cemeteries as white soldiers, Hamm said.

“Jim Crow was from cradle to grave,” he said. “In the final analysis, it took gun and cannon and soldiers to bring the institution of slavery down and relegate it to the trash bin forever.”

The number of white supremacist organizations that still exist in the United States is 256, Hamm said.

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“From where I stand, racism is as bad today as it was in 1968 when Dr. King was assassinated,” he said.

He added that the history of slavery and the civil rights movement are still relevant to events today.

“I hear white people all the time ask me, ‘Why can’t you get over it?’ Because we stand forever in the vortex of history, and you can’t understand the present unless you understand the past,” he said. “You can’t understand what’s going on in America today unless you understand the problem of race. And it’s our failure to confront and adequately discuss and uncover the roots of the problem that help this problem to continue.”

The country is in need of a new civil rights movement, Hamm said in closing.

The lecture took place in McCormick Hall 101 at 5 p.m. on Tuesday and was sponsored by the Black History Month Committee.

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The Chapel Hill Murders and Mainstream Media

Ivy League elitism, revisited vol. cxxxix

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ast Wednesday, I awoke to the tragic news of the murder of three college-age Muslim Americans in Chapel Hill, N.C.. Deah Barakat, 23, his wife Yusor Abu-Salha, 21, and her sister, Razan Abu-Salha, 19, were murdered executionstyle in their condominium two miles from the UNC campus. One week later, I’m finding it difficult to convince myself that the reason for the brutal murders was — as reported by several news outlets — a dispute about parking spaces with their neighbor and killer, 46-year-old Craig Hicks. Currently, a federal investigation is underway, along with an ongoing investigation by the Chapel Hill Police Department, to determine the true motive of the killings many believe was a hate crime.

I saw the news on Al Jazeera on Wednesday morning, but it was only when I attended a vigil that afternoon honoring the victims did I realize that so many students on campus had not heard about the case. Most students who did know had learned about the shootings through social media. Specifically, the hashtag #MuslimLivesMatter was trending on twitter with over 100,000 tweets on Wednesday, a reference to the perceived lack of coverage in the mainstream media. In the late afternoon and evening, mainstream news stations began to air the story more regularly.

In the past week, Deah Barakat’s older sister Suzanne Barakat has appeared in many interviews advocating for her family and community and honoring the legacy of her loved ones by reminding us all about the dangers of bigotry and hatred.

She referenced a tweet made last Tuesday by California assemblywoman Melissa Melendez that used the hashtag #standupagainstIslam. While councilwoman Melendez later explained that the tweet was not directed at “peaceful Muslims”, the message conveyed by the tweet was clear and disturbing. The equating of Islam and its followers, Muslims, with ISIS or other extremist groups is troubling and needs to end. Muslims across the world have condemned all manifestations of extremism and explained that these radical displays are entirely un-Islamic, yet many still see Islam, rather than extremism, as the enemy that needs to be stopped.

This type of hateful rhetoric is frightening because it creates a hostile environment which can lead to alienation, fear, distrust, discrimination, and even death.

Part of the feeling of distrust comes from a perceived double standard — which columnist for The Daily Princetonian Zeena Mubarak mentioned in her column — in the rhetoric used by the mainstream media when referring to Muslims. In one interview with CNN, Suzanne says to this effect, “Had roles been reversed and the man was Muslim, was of Arab descent, was of South-Asian descent, this would have immediately been labeled an act of terror. I haven’t heard anyone use the term terrorist here … why the double standard?” She goes on to describe how her family, their lives, and their local, national and international community were terrorized by Hicks’s actions. Her statements reflect what I believe to be the sentiments of a significant segment of the Muslim American population. Are her claims justified? Is there a double standard when it comes to Muslims being portrayed in the media, and if so, what is its purpose?

I do not believe that the answers to these questions will be completely definitive, generally applicable, or all-encompassing. Although I do not have detailed quantitative information cataloging the media coverage of events concerning Muslims, I do believe that there is a consistent inflation of violent acts of Muslims and a downplaying of similar actions by those of different or of no faith in the media. This can be seen by the way the term terrorist/terrorism is used when referencing certain events. Take the foiled Valentine’s Day attack in Canada last week.

To start, how often did you hear of it or see it in the news? Beyond the frequency and placement of the story in the media, the way that it was described is also noteworthy. The Canadian Justice Minister said, “The attack does not appear to have been culturally motivated, therefore not linked to terrorism.”

Although Lindsay Kantha Souvannarath and Randall Steven Shepherd plotted to kill massive amounts of people at the Halifax shopping center, their actions were not considered acts of terror because there was no alleged cultural motivation. The writing on the wall is clear: although Lindsay and Randall plotted to kill many random innocent people, they were not Muslim, so this was not an act of terror.

It is because of stories like this one that many Muslim Americans feel that a double standard and subpar recognition by the mainstream media is too common regarding news stories that involve Muslims. One of the more disturbing news segments I witnessed about the shootings aired on CBS’s “Inside Edition” which used the murder of the three innocent Americans to segue into a segment called “Breaking the Code” about tips to ease the “frustrating” process of finding a parking spot, a reference to the alleged motive of the murderer. The insensitivity displayed by the segment was truly disheartening — it was as though CBS was making light of the murders of three young Americans and validating the actions of the murderer.

Despite the media coverage, outpouring support from tens of thousands of Americans gives hope that unity, trust, and community in spite of diversity are achievable. In fact, this reality exhibited by millions of Americans daily is exactly what Yusor cherished about her home country. “Growing up in America has been such a blessing … It doesn’t matter where you come from. There’s so many different people from so many different places, of different backgrounds and religions — but here, we’re all one.” Rest in Peace Deah, Yusor, and Razan. You will be missed.

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ast week, guest columnist Theo Furchtgott (full disclosure: Furchtgott is a friend and fellow Governing Council member of the American Whig-Cliosophic Society) decried the “steep price” we Ivy Leaguers pay when seeking public office, since our top-ranked degrees are liable to come back and bite us in populist, anti-intellectual attack ads. While I agree with his assertion that receiving a rigorous education should not be seen as a bad thing, I think Furchtgott’s premise misidentifies the true root of this problem of perception. In my opinion, the reason for such bitterness against candidates with Ivy League degrees isn’t motivated by some vague jealousy or insecurity about one’s own intellect or education, but rather by the justly-perceived inaccessibility of these institutions.

Pointing out that Ivy-Leaguers make up close to 19 percent of the 114th Congress but only 0.4 percent of all American undergraduates — as Furchtgott is right to do — in fact confirms the very argument he is trying to rebut. While attack ads, such as those launched by Karl Rove against Elizabeth Warren, often indict a candidate as a professor or an Ivy League, out-of-touch snob, they often prove ineffective, at least in Congressional elections. We shouldn’t hate a candidate for being smart; in fact, we should value intellect as a necessary facet of bold leadership. But that’s not what I think

most people are actually attacking, even though it is what the attack ads might be.

The real issue for most people is not a fear of others whom they believe to be smarter than themselves, on account of credentials like Ivy League degrees, but rather a fear of entrenching a system of asymmetrical access to top-quality education. That is to say, that for most people who buy into the distorted rhetoric of such ads, they do so not because they inherently see intellect as a bad thing, but because the term ‘Ivy League’ conjures up images of castles, of playgrounds for the elite and of an inaccessible education.

There’s a reason the same charges aren’t made against candidates who went to, say, the University of California, Berkeley or Georgetown, even though these and other schools also provide a top-notch education.

As Noliwe Rooks, associate professor of Africana and feminist, gender and sexuality studies at Cornell, wrote in Time in 2013, the “biggest barrier to elite education” is the way in which elite universities — epitomized by the Ancient Eight — reinforce cycles of privilege in their admissions methodologies.

While factors such as performance on standardized test scores — which has actually been found to be more strongly correlated with parents’ income than any other metric — affect underprivileged applicants to almost all four-year universities, the Ivy League in particular is also affected by reliance on legacy admissions. Whereas many public university systems — including the nation’s largest public university

system, the University of California — have done away with legacy admissions, at the University, the legacy acceptance rate is close to four times higher than the general rate.

This, coupled with a lack of economic diversity highlighted recently by the Princeton Hidden Minority Council’s photo campaign, leads to more than just an image problem for hallowed institutions like ours; the problem of access is also a delegitimizing force to the electorate.

Graduates of Ivy League schools are seen to have been admitted based on what boarding school they attended or what building is named after their ancestor, rather than on actual talent or merit. This is a huge problem in its own right, too big to do justice to here, but it is worth bringing up in the context of discussing the “Ivy League attack ad” problem in national politics. In the case of reversing the negative connotation associated with the Ivy League and turning it into a political plus, if we want to do better, we have to be better. The only way to fix the political or image problem that the Ivy League name carries with it is to truly be meritocratic, and open our doors to talent from all backgrounds.

This is an initiative that should be applauded. However, the image problem of Ivy League elitism — as opposed to elitism in other forms — will never fully go away until we completely fix the substantive problem behind it.

Ryan Dukeman is a sophomore from Westwood, Mass. He can be reached at rdukeman@princeton.edu.

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Diversity and some inevitable trade-offs Max Grear

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o begin with the obvious: diversity is hardly a new topic of conversation at the University.

Since 1963, when women first enrolled in the University’s Critical Language Program, a selective grant-funded program, there have been arguments about the forced inclusion of marginalized groups. However, since the strong student activism on campus in the wake of the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases, the conversation about diversity has taken on a greater sense of urgency.

The post-Ferguson conversation on diversity has continued over the past months in the form of more panels, in the Special Task Force on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion created in December, on Facebook, in opinion columns and in public campaigns. However, widely agreed-upon goals concerning diversity remain elusive. First we need to ask ourselves: what exactly is the purpose of diversity? It may simply be a moral ideal, a condition of inclusivity and fairness for all high-achieving individuals. Or it may also be a condition for strengthening the academic community and furthering the University’s traditional goals — producing the best scholarly research and providing the best education possible.

Is it possible to achieve both of these conditions?

Both of these causes have been cited from various political perspectives.

This was on display a panel held in De-

cember, as James Madison Program senior preceptor Russell Nieli GS ’79 put forth a tone-deaf case for neoconservative “strict meritocracy” and University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 defended University admissions policies.

More recently, associate opinion editor emerita for The Daily Princetonian Tehila Wenger and ‘Prince’ columnist Erica Choi have written about faculty diversity, and ‘Prince’ columnist Newby Parton has criticized affirmative action on the basis of race in the University’s admissions.

Yet no one seems willing to acknowledge that which continues to make diversity such a controversial topic — the unresolvable tension between individual merit and community vitality.

Diversity undeniably improves the academic community as a whole by ensuring that education and research be conducted from a variety of different perspectives. Affirmative action is clearly necessary to achieve meaningful diversity. To a certain extent, affirmative action can also lead to better recognition of individual merit. Still, it is impossible for an institution to both achieve a truly diverse community and to deal with each individual in a completely fair manner based strictly on merit. To do so, the University would have to establish rigid criteria both for admissions and faculty hires based solely on merit rather than background — a process that is not only impossible but that would severely limit the University’s ability to create a vital, academically strong community.

Ultimately, the ideas of a “meritocratic” institution, founded on individual

worth and a “representative” institution, founded on collective worth, are both impossible. The best that any organization can hope for is to reach the best possible balance, while acknowledging that a value judgment favoring one or the other in each specific case will always be necessary.

A true meritocracy cannot exist because there is no way to completely separate an individual’s performance from his background. Especially in admissions, there is no criteria to objectively gauge an applicant’s potential as a member of the Princeton community. In his column “Princeton Admissions and its Racism,” Parton argues that, because the population of Asian-Americans has grown but their representation in elite universities has stagnated or fallen, affirmative action has served as discrimination against this group. However, he ignores the point that Rod M. Bugarin makes (in the same debate cited in Parton’s column) about admissions criteria — namely, that the standardized testing component has benefited Asian-American students. Where Parton sees a quota in place is more likely a shift away from emphasizing standardized testing.

So while it is clear that individual merit alone is difficult to judge, much less use as the sole foundation of an institution, the idea of “representation” is similarly shaky. We can tell when something is wrong — for example, the fact that this year 8.3 percent of the undergraduates are Latino or Hispanic in a country where, in 2013, 17.1% of citizens were Latino or Hispanic (even higher in

New Jersey) clearly indicates a problem.

But how do we know when we’ve hit the right balance, and should that be representative of our country’s demographics, when 11.3% of undergraduates are international students? Should the University try to represent the world’s population, with its massive racial and economic diversity (to name only a couple types of diversity)?

Evidence suggests that even in Ph.D. programs, with better-defined criteria based not on high school clubs but on years of education and research, women and minorities may be significantly disadvantaged. Still, emphasis on affirmative action in hiring faculty inevitably decreases the University’s flexibility to hire the leaders in a given field based on particular, often specialized research or teaching interests.

Diversity is proven to make organizations more effective, and it best enables an institution like the University to explore pressing cultural, historical and scientific questions through research and in the classroom. However, affirmative action cannot be fair on an individual basis — it inevitably limits the University’s ability to balance individual achievement and background. There is an inevitable trade-off between valuing individual merit and fairness and the vitality of the community. We may emphasize one over the other, but we must acknowledge that this is ultimately a value judgment.

Max Grear is a freshman from Wakefield, R.I. He can be reached at mgrear@princeton.edu.

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WOMEN’S LACROSSE McMann, Tigers hungrier than ever

By David Liu contributor

On February 21, the Princeton Women’s Lacrosse season will officially kick-off as the team faces No. 9 Loyola. After maintaining a nearly undefeated Ivy League record of 6-1 and reaching the second round of the NCAA championships last season, Princeton Women’s Lacrosse has earned its respected reputation; the team is currently ranked at No. 15 in the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA). With a fresh influx of eight freshman players and star leadership, the team will work to build off last year’s phenomenal season and revive established rivalries.

The Tigers finished the 20132014 season with an impressive 12- 7 overall and 6 -1 Ivy

League record, especially after facing top ranked NCAA teams including Virginia, Maryland, and Penn State. After only losing to Brown in the regular season, the team entered the Ivy League tournament with high confidence. Accordingly, Princeton dominated Cornell in the first round. Unfortunately, the championship game pitted Princeton against Penn, the top team in the conference. The rivalry between the two schools extends as early as 2007, when the Quakers stole the championship; since then, Penn has won every Ivy League championship.

The Tigers fell to an early deficit but mounted a comeback in the second half. Unfortunately, Penn narrowly escaped with the title.

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Women’s lacrosse finished 12-7 last season and 6-1 in Ivy League games as they reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament, crashing out to Virginia 13-11.

MEN’S LACROSSE

Tigers look to fill the void left by Schreiber

By Andrew Steele sports editor emeritus

Four Ivy League teams rank among the nation’s top twenty according to both the Inside Lacrosse and the US Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association Coaches polls.

Surely Princeton, a school nearly as reputable for lacrosse prowess as for academic excellence, is among this elite cadre. Not this year. Cornell, Harvard, Penn and Yale have all found their respective ways into the rankings. As the past few years have evidenced, nothing can be taken for granted in college lacrosse.

The last few Orange and Black campaigns, led by some of the nation’s most outstanding players and coaches, seem to have left potential unfulfilled. This season, expectations for the Tigers are somewhat murky following a mediocre 7-6 finish (2-4 in conference play) and the loss of a once-in-a-generation talent.

Two-time Tewaaraton Trophy finalist – the award is annually awarded to the nation’s most outstanding college lacrosse player – Tom Schreiber graduated last spring and took his near-boundless talents to Major League Lacrosse’s Ohio Machine. And yet, as dynamic as the three-time all-America first teamer was, during his college career the Tigers

never advanced past the first round of the NCAA Tournament and only claimed one Ivy League regular season championship.

Schreiber, a two-time captain, scored 60 points in his sophomore and junior along with 51 in his final year. How will Princeton replace this consistent and prolific offensive production?

“It’s a natural question based on how much Tom impacted the game,” head

coach Chris Bates responded. “There’s going to be a redistribution of the ball, meaning more guys are going to step up.”

Bates, who enters his sixth season at the helm with a record of 42-32, pointed to his team’s second through fourth-ranked scorers from last season: the midfield tag team of senior captain Kip Orban and junior Jake Froccaro and a dynamic attack See M. LAX page S4

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MEN’S & WOMEN’S GOLF Men’s and women’s golf look to build off strong freshmen performances

By Tom Pham associate sports editor

Both men’s and women’s golf look to continue to round into form after an inconsistent fall season. Both teams will look to build on their performances as they look ahead to the Ivy League Championship that will be hosted during the end of April at the Saucon Valley Country Club. The women’s team will look to go one bet-

ter than last season, when it finished second in the Ivy League Championship, while the men’s team will look to improve on their fourth place finish last season.

Men’s Golf The fall team saw the men’s team finish in middling form in both the Quechee Club Invitational and MacDonald Cup, but with a strong freshman class, the team will hope to impress in the upcoming spring season.

Especially impressive during the fall season was freshman Eric Mitchell, who marked his second appearance for the Tigers with a fantastic victory at the MacDonald Cup, which was hosted in enemy territory at Yale. It was a great weekend for Mitchell, as he carded two under par over the two days, which helped Princeton to a fourth place finish, twelve strokes behind winner Yale. Mitchell has perhaps been one of Princeton’s top performers, also finishing 19th at the Quechee Club Invitational

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The men’s team looks to improve after an inconsistent performance in the fall, while the women’s team looks to build on previous success.

and 15th at the Alister MacKenzie Invitational in California. Also playing well during those events were sophomore Alex Dombrowski and freshman Marc Hendrick.

This will be the last season for seniors Joseph D’Amato and Jason Zhou, who hope to leave Princeton golf with a bang and hopefully reclaim the Ivy League Championships for the Tigers, a title they lost out to Columbia last season but won in 2013.

With a bounce back season on the cards, the team will need to continue to improve and push for increased consistency during their performances Women’s Golf The women’s golf team saw much more success during the fall season than the men’s team, with an exceptionally impressive victory at the Lehigh Invitational, where the team placed first out of nine teams.

The Lehigh Invitational was the highlight of the fall season for the women’s team, with all six players placing in the top 10, and most impressive was the joint top finish from both freshman Tenley Shield and junior Alexandra Wong, with the freshman edging her teammate to bring home the individual trophy, courtesy of a tiebreaker as Shield carded a lower score than Wong. Sophomore Hana Ku rounded out the top three in a dominant performance from the Princeton team.

Although success at Lehigh Invitational was a oneoff event, there were encouraging signs throughout the season for the teams, finishing fourth in the Princeton Invitational, fifth in the Nittany Lion Invitational, and 13th in the Mason Rudolph Invitational. Not only

were the team performances promising, but there were also impressive individual performances, including Ku’s and Wong’s, who continue to form a formidable one-two punch for the women’s team, often finishing as the team’s lowest scoring players in the competitions.

The fall season also saw a debut performance from Kelly Shon ’14 in a Ladies Professional Golf Association event. Princeton’s finest golfer last season finished 11th while competing against 120 golfers at the Pure Silk Bahamas LPGA event. Kelly Shon had an award-filled career at Princeton, as she was the second-ever Princeton student to advance to the NCAA Championship during her junior year. She was also a four-time All-Ivy player and a two-time Ivy League Player of the Year.

The women’s team will begin their spring season by travelling to the Moss Creek Golf Club on the weekend of March 21 and 22 to compete in the Low Country Intercollegiate. This will be the first of four competitions that the team will play in the spring, before the team competes in the Pirate Invitational on April 2 and 3, the Brown Invitational 10 days later, and the Ivy League Championship between April 24 and 26.

The Ivy League Championship will be held at Saucon Valley Country Club in Pennsylvania, marking the first time that it will be held outside of New Jersey and New York. This course is also where the team had their impressive performance at the Lehigh Invitational, and both the team and Shield hope to repeat their performances to capture the Ivy League Championship for the women’s golf team.

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tant coaches Mike Russo and Greg Van Horn, Bradley has stressed “how we’re no longer going ot be the team that just hits home runs to win the game, we need to play a bit more soundly as well to have more success in the league this year”.

In general, coach Scott Bradley has handed much of the load to the younger guys. This strategy looks to yield dividends not just in hitting but on the mound as well. Though the aforementioned Fagan did pitch the most innings for the Tigers, the average age of the pitching lineup appears to mirror that of the batting – four of the five most used pitchers last season were underclassmen.

Granted, unlike with the hitters, the dropoff in performance from Fagan to the underclassmen pitchers is pretty drastic. While Fagan was tearing it up with a 2.33 ERA, the next smallest ERA amongst the top five pitchers. Sophomore pitcher Christopher Giglio expressed the difficulty of replacing such a performer, explaining that “it’s tough to beat a guy who’s up there

for Ivy League pitcher of the year … we won’t be able to replace [Fagan] with one guy, but we’ll be able to replace him with a staff.”

This in itself, however, is no reason to doubt the readiness of last year’s pitchers and their ability to step it up this season. In particular, current sophomores Keelan Smithers and Chad Powers really showed their mettle last year. Each got a lot of starting opportunities last year, Smithers at 9 and Powers and 7; moreover, both went on to put up respectable records of 2 — 4 and 3 — 4. In addition to the sophomores, [blank] has expressed confidence in freshman pitcher Nick Brady.

However, when talking about the Tigers’ pitching, the big question mark for the season is going to be the health and performance of junior Cameron Mingo. Mingo had an excellent start to his Princeton career in 2013, posting a 2.93 ERA and recording 33 strikeouts in 49.1 innings pitches. Going into last season, he seemed a lock for the starting pitcher spot.

Unfortunately, during his sophomore campaign, he would be hampered by injury. Issues with his elbow kept Mingo to just six games and 25 innings pitched. Despite

the aforementioned strong play of the younger players, having Mingo in full form on the mound will be crucial if the Tigers are to make a deep run in the spring, and hopefully get a shot at the Ivy League Championships.

If Mingo can stay healthy and the rest of the team continues to develop, then the Tigers would certainly have the tools to make a drastic increase in winning percentage this year. One would think that the team finishing second to last in the conference would have to go through a few years of “rebuilding”. However, having a young core and giving that core a chance to develop, will certainly accelerate the process.

Servais reiterated that he definitely sees this team competing for an Ivy League title, pointing out that “all it takes is for one team to get hot for four-five weeks in a row to run the league . We really feel confident … in our ability to play small ball and play better as a team”.

In short – while they may have lost some heavyweights last year, the Tigers are looking ready to go as they head down south to do battle against Louisiana State University at the end of the month.

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ing a mature presence on the field.”

Turning to the batting lineup, last season junior catcher Skye Jerpbak had the most home runs of any returning player (3), starting 31 of the 33 games she played last season. Hineman and senior infielder/outfielder Rachel Rendina played in teamhigh 42 games last season.

Rendina plays mostly in outfield and led the team with 130 at-bats and 19 runs scored last season. Rendina also had the second-most hits on the

team (34) last year, with six multi-hit games and three three-hit games, Rendina batted a strong .350 with 50 hits in 2013 but only .262 in 2014, so she will definitely be a player to watch in the coming season. Junior first baseman Emily Viggers is also a force to be reckoned with, and started in 29 of the 30 games she played in last season, batting .250 in stark contrast to the .327 batting average she maintained in 2013 in addition to two homeruns and 14 runs batted in.

The Tigers will open their season this weekend at a tournament in Florida, which, due to a particularly

cold winter, will be the first time the Tigers have played outside this season. “It’s been a tough winter, and that means that we haven’t had a lot of opportunities to practice outside. Friday will be the first day on the dirt, and I ultimately think the team is ready to compete in the conditions that we have or have not prepped for,” said Van Ackeren.

“Our greatest strength is that we’re tougher than we have ever been. Our team is prepared for whatever comes our way. If we fail, our team is resilient and will be ready to come back stronger the next time,” said Van Ackeren.

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SEASON’S QUESTIONS BASEBALL

What’s the Pitching Situation?

With the departure of Michael Fagan, the Tigers now enter the season with mostly young pitchers, as junior Cameron Mingo continues to recover from injury. Will they be throwing well enough to help keep the Tigers competitive in the Ivy League?

SOFTBALL

Can They Overcome the Injury Bug?

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This team that tied for second in Ivy League play has talent in spades. However, they enter the season with injuries to key players, including All-Ivy player Shanna Christian and last year’s star rookie Erica Nori. Will the Tigers get through this early rough patch to make noise later on?

MEN’S LACROSSE

Who’s Going to Replace Schreiber?

Voted the nation’s Outstanding Player of the Year twice in his career, Tom Schreiber leaves a hole in Princeton men’s lacrosse that will be extraordinarily difficult to fill.

Will Princeton be able to deal with the loss of such talent and remain near the top of lacrosse?

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WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Can They Go Further?

Last season, the women’s lacrosse team showed they can hang with anyone in the nation. Coming into the season ranked at No. 15, this Princeton team boasts a strong combination of steady veteran influence and promising young freshmen. Can they turn promise into results come May?

TRACK & FIELD

Can Both Teams Regain Former Glory?

The men’s team enters this season after losing the Ivy League championships in both indoor and outdoor for the first time in three and four years (respectively). The women’s team has gone without a title since 2011. While members of both teams extol the Tigers’ depth, do they have enough to get back what was once theirs?

GOLF

Can Underclassmen Continue Excellent Performance?

The fall season was certainly a coming-out party for younger members on the team.

Men’s golf saw the rise of freshman Eric Mitchell, and on the women’s team freshman Tenley Shield and sophomore Hana Ku shined. Can they continue their great play up through the end of the year?

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duo of senior Mike MacDonald and junior Ryan Ambler.

“Those are four tried-andtrue guys who can play with and against anybody,” Bates said.

Senior midfielder Will Rotatori, a convert from attack, likewise highlighted the potential for increased dynamism in a new offense.

“We see it as a positive for us now that more people can contribute,” Rotatori explained.

“When Tom was on the field, you would just give him the ball. But now, we have to play more as a team. Coach Matt Madalon, our offensive coordinator, has given us a new offensive set on top of our old two man game.”

Last Saturday’s 14-4 drubbing of Manhattan at 1952 Stadium, which included a 5-0 first quarter run by the Tigers, showcased an evolved Princeton offense. Seven different players scored for the home side in a truly dominant showing, including first time goal scorers Bear Altemus and Gavin McBride, both sophomore midfielders, and Adam Hardej, a sophomore attackman.

Hardej, listed at 6’ 6” and 225 lbs., transitions from midfield to attack for his sophomore campaign. His size and powerful shot will certainly cause nightmares for opposing coaches and defensemen.

“The main thing for him is that he has to realize that nobody can stop him,” Rotatori explained. “If he plays with that confidence and swagger, the veterans on attack, MacDonald and Ambler, will set him up all day.”

Another Tiger whom Rotatori believes can make the next step into college lacrosse’s elite is sophomore midfielder Zach Currier.

“It took Zach about half of last season to gain that confidence. He was one of the best high school players – he was on the cover of Inside Lacrosse magazine – but he was kind of lacking that swagger. We kept

on going to him and then he finally realized, ‘I can do this.’

He’s dynamic. The next step for him is that he can be the playmaker he was at the end of last season all of this year.”

On the other side of the ball, Princeton will look to shore up its defense under new coordinator Dylan Sheridan. The Claremont McKenna graduate has migrated east from Denver, Colo. where he coached the Pioneers defense under former Princeton skipper Bill Tierney.

“He’s a very good teacher,” Bates said of the new hire.

“Our guys have responded very well to him as a leader.

He’s been a part of final four teams three of the last four years. It’s been pretty seamless, so I’ve been very pleased with that. The on-field stuff is a little bit of a work in progress, getting young faces acclimated. But on the whole it’s been very positive.”

Senior goalkeeper Eric Sanschagrin will start between the pipes. Despite his four years of experience, he has started only ten games in during his collegiate career.

Nonetheless, his early season performances have been impressive both in terms of ballstopping and leadership.

In front of Sanschagrin, junior defensive Mark Strabo will continue to take on opponents’ toughest offensive matchups. Particularly noteworthy were his efforts against Tewaaraton winner Lyle Thompson in a preseason scrimmage against Albany.

Sophomore Bear Goldstein joins Strabo at close defense.

Their linemate from last season, sophomore Will Reynolds, has made the switch to long stick midfield. This change leaves some uncertainty in the third close defense position, a slot which may be filled by a number of younger players including sophomore Alistair Berven and freshmen Daniel Winschuh and Aran Roberts.

If you wanted to catch a men’s lacrosse fall practice, you might have had some difficulty tracking down Bates and company. The coaches de-

prived their players of their usual Warrior swag, locker room and field space at 1952 Stadium. The idea behind the regimen was to make the Tigers acutely aware of the privilege of wearing a Princeton uniform.

“We haven’t deserved it. I haven’t deserved it these past few years,” Rotatori explained.

“People in the beginning were like, ‘What the hell? Are we ever going to get equipment?

Are we ever going to get on our field?’ But it helped us get all our excuses out of the way and realize that we have to earn it.”

Regaining the conference championship will be no small task for the Tigers. Cornell’s Big Red boasts both the 2015 Ivy League Rookie of the Year and Player of the Year in goalkeeper Christian Knight and senior midfielder Connor Buczek. On the whole, only the overpowered Atlantic Coast Conference provides more consistent competition than the Ivy League.

In 2014, Princeton ranked second among conference foes in goals per game with 12 (just behind the Big Red’s 12.75) but second-to-last in goals allowed with 10.85 (ahead of Dartmouth’s Swiss-cheese like 13.33). The Tigers’ clearest statistical advantage is in ball security. For the second straight year they turned over the ball over at an Ivy League-low rate of 12.1 times per game (the second lowest was Dartmouth with 17.25). Yet, the Tigers also created the league’s fewest turnovers and collected a league-low ground balls.

Success will require some creativity along with plenty of determination. Not only will conference opponents provide steep challenges, but No. 6 Johns Hopkins, No. 10 Maryland and No. 16 Lehigh will put Princeton to the test later in the season.

This Friday, No. 19 Hofstra will travel to Sherrerd Field to take on Princeton. This game and this college lacrosse season promises to be another exciting gauntlet. What’s more, it just might be the year of the Tiger.

this year, Senior midfield captain Erin Slifer said, “I’m most excited about the returning team the momentum we had coming off the last season and playing even better than last season.” Last season set the bar high, but Slifer accepts the leadership reigns in stride and hopes for an even more successful year.

As the Tigers start a fresh season, hoping to take back the Ivy League championship, the team also welcomes a star leadership cast. Senior attacker Erin McMann will lead the dominant Princeton offense. Boasting an endless list of awards, including leading the team in scoring and reaching First-Team All-Region, McMann hopes to cap her phenomenal Princeton tenure with an even more phenomenal senior year.

Moving to the middle of the field, Senior Midfielder Erin Slifer (First-Team All-Ivy, TwoTime Offensive Player of the Week) brings experience and talent. Slifer will rely on this experience to lead the incoming freshmen class, who consists mostly of freshmen.

Finally, on the defensive end, Junior defender Liz Bannantine is the youngest captain on the team. Grabbing 25 ground balls and reaching Second-Team AllIvy League, Bannantine rounds off the star leadership cast and anchors the unique Princeton defense. Speaking on the special system in place, Bannantine says that she’s excited to lead the “surprising” and high energy defense.

Yet, as veterans rise in ranks the team also makes room for the freshmen. This year, team welcomes a large group of eight

freshmen, as such, the Class of 2018 will have the largest representation on the team. The freshmen are: midfielder Kennedy Krauss, midfielder Ellie McNulty, midfielder Camille Sullivan, midfielder and attacker Colby Chanenchuk, midfielder and defender Addie Ewald, midfielder Abby Finkelston, goalkeeper Mary McDonough and attacker Haley Giraldi. These fantastic players bring strong leadership experience and will bolster the team’s midfield game.

When asked what excited her the most about the upcoming season, Junior captain Liz Bannantine said, “The incoming class. We have a really strong freshmen class and they bring a lot to the table. Paired with the returners who have the experience, they have been great in the scrimmages.”

Looking forward to the teams schedule beyond the first few games in February, March presents a very formidable challenge. Early on, the Tigers will travel to face Dartmouth on March 10th. A consistently highperforming team, Dartmouth will surely challenge Princeton in the team’s first Ivy League matchup. As the Tigers set their sights on the Ivy League championship, every conference game counts for the team. Then, on March 14th, the Tigers will travel to Charlottesville, Va. to face No. 7 Virginia. In a repeat of last year’s NCAA matchup, the game promises high energy play and heated emotions. At the end of the month, Princeton will face two more challenging opponents in Penn. State and Harvard. After narrowly escaping Penn. State in the first round of the NCAA tournament last year, the team will strive to repeat their success. Only this time, they’ll have home advantage for both games.

In contrast, the team will primarily focus on Ivy League conference foes in April. The lineup includes Yale, Cornell, Penn, Columbia and Brown. The only non-conference foe in April will be No. 1 Maryland. Fortunately, the spacing of these games gives the Tigers time to rest and regroup. Speaking as a leader of the team, senior captain Bannantine says her goal for the team is still to win Ivies.

Finally, the 2015 season marks a monumental final season for the two senior captains. Reflecting on their journey, leadership, and team chemistry going into the season, senior attacker Erin McMunn emphasized, “Letting people play their game. We have some great attackers and a great team around. By playing your passion. Everyone is working towards the same goal. It’s a great and strong group. Everyone brings something unique.”

Echoing her co-captain’s thoughts on leadership, junior defender Liz Bannantine reflected, “I definitely have found my voice on the team. Not lead by example but by your voice. My ability to inspire others, I rely on my team mates to inspire me as well.”

Perhaps the most exciting and special part of the 2015 season, however, is the collective love and passion for the game.

Speaking at a deeply personal level but for the team as a whole at the same time, McMunn revealed, “For me, personally, my only goal is to enjoy every single day. I play best when I stop thinking and play free. That’s my goal: to just play and appreciate the moment. You have a limited time to play this great sport at this great university.”

With such determination, chemistry, and passion, it’s hard to imagine this team achieving anything short of success.

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TRACK & FIELD Both men’s and women’s

track and field teams look to get back to the top

By Katie Glockner staff writer

Men’s Preview This year, as the men’s track and field team finishes their indoor season and enters the outdoor, they hope to reclaim the Ivy League Championship titles from Cornell in each.

Prior to last year, the Princeton men had won three consecutive titles in outdoor and four consecutive in indoor competition.

However, last spring, despite a strong Heptagonal showing, they fell to Cornell in both indoor and outdoor.

The spring outdoor championship was especially close and was decided by a devastatingly few 6.66 points. This season, they aim to win back these titles in both fields.

“Every year we go for the Triple Crown, so we hope to win indoor and outdoor,” says captain Tommy Scott, a senior. Captain Scott Rushton, also a senior, adds, “We already won cross-country this year.”

The team’s indoor season has been strong thus far, most recently culminating in a win against Harvard and Yale at the annual Harvard-YalePrinceton meet in Cambridge on February 14.

“We’ve won this meet 24 years in a row,” says head coach Fred Samara.

The indoor Heptagonal Ivy League Championship will take place on February 28-March 1 at Harvard’s facilities. From there, the team will soon transition into the spring season, beginning with a spring break training trip in Orlando, Florida. Following the team’s first meets in Florida, the Tigers will return home for the Sam Howell Invitational on the first weekend of April.

According to Samara, every meet in the spring season is important.

“Spring season is different than the indoor season because in outdoors we have a regional championship every year. Guys qualify out of performance from the season,” says Samara. “We have a dual goal of winning the league meet but also trying to get in to the NCAA regional meet and hopefully having a number of guys go on the NCAA final. It’s pretty exciting to do that.”

“Every meet is used for a different purpose, depending on which athletes we’re trying to bring along. Track’s a different sport than, let’s say basketball, or teams where

you have a league standing.

The only thing that matters is getting marks and bringing people along to the league meet, and getting qualifying marks for regionals,” he continues.

Captain Greg Caldwell, a junior, comments that maintaining focus and drive throughout the season can be challenging.

“As a team overall, it can be a challenge to stay consistent throughout the season, not dropping off,” says Caldwell.

“Some people burn out

by Heps. Some people have to transition events,” agrees captain Stephen Soerens, a senior. “Sometimes it can be hard to keep your training intensity up all year and not be injured or burned out, so you have to balance.”

“That’s the difficult nature of track and field and cross country,” says Samara. “The season is so long. It’s incredibly long. The main criterion is to keep them healthy for so long. A second criteria is to keep them motivated.”

Scott identifies another adversary in nature.

“Outdoors, there’s weather that you have to deal with that you don’t have to deal with in indoor,” he says Despite these challenges, the team is eager to move on to outdoors, where players can look forward to a larger track and more events.

“Outdoors is a little different sport,” says Samara. “It has more strength and throwing events. There are some events that are different than indoors.”

The captains express excitement over the addition of the javelin, discuss, hammer throw, 400m hurdles, and 10k events in particular.

They also are optimistic about their prospects for the league championship.

“We have a really good senior class,” says Rushton.

“Last year, we were really top heavy. We had some of the best guys in the league. But this year, we’re deeper.”

In addition, Samara remarks that this year’s freshmen have stepped up to fill some of the gaps left by the graduation of last year’s senior class.

“We’re doing a lot of exciting things already,” says Samara. “Sometimes it’s hard to rely on freshman as they’re new to collegiate sports and they’re away from home, etcetera, but so far the freshmen have been outstanding on our team.”

Women’s Preview The women’s team hopes to fight through tough competition to win both the indoor and outdoor track Ivy League titles, last theirs in 2011 for both seasons. Last year, at the outdoor championship, the Tigers placed fifth. As a team, they collected 86 points to Harvard’s 162.

However, this year the team hopes to challenge opposition, showing strong performances in the indoor season thus far. Most recently, the team enjoyed a victory against Harvard and Yale at the annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet hosted in Cambridge on February 14.

“We had some really noteworthy performances, which bodes really well for two weeks at the Ivy League,” says head coach Peter Farrell. “One of the advantages of having HY-P at Harvard this year is we got to see their facilities, their track, their runways, two weeks before the big meet.”

Regarding the upcoming indoor Heptagonal championships, Farrell expresses optimism, noting that he expects the greatest competition to come from Harvard and Dartmouth. After the championships, the team will ease into the outdoor season with a spring break training trip in Orlando, Florida.

“Outdoor is sort of an extension of indoor. In some ways, indoors prepares you for the outdoors,” says Farrell.

“We have a spring training trip for the transition between indoor and outdoor,” explains captain Julia Ratcliffe, a junior. “We go down to Florida, get some sun, get some good training in, get everyone amped for the outdoor season.”

“I think people enjoy the outdoor season more, so I think people are really excited to get outdoors and onto the bigger track,” she adds. “The indoor track is only 200 meters and the outdoor track is 400 meters, so everything indoors is tighter and more confined.”

The outdoor season also includes different events, including the hammer throw, Ratcliffe’s specialty. Ratcliffe was the NCAA national hammer throw champion in 2014.

Last spring, at the Larry Ellis Invitational meet in Princeton, she placed the New Zealand national record for hammer throw with a distance of 70.28 meters.

The goals for the team’s outdoor season, according to Far-

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Both the men’s and women’s teams look to get back on track and reclaim their Ivy League titles.

rell, are “always the same.”

“We’re going to try to win the league meet, qualify as many athletes as possible for the league regionals, and send several to nationals,” he says. “We have a few luminaries right now: Julia Ratcliffe, hammer throw; Cecilia Barowski, a junior, number two time in the 800 meters; Megan Curham, Ivy League champion in cross-country.

We’ll build a Heps title around hopefully those three.”

“I think that the team in general is a lot stronger than it has been in any previous season than I’ve been here, so that’s exciting to see,” says Ratcliffe.

“Lots of freshmen have stepped up this year, and throughout the team people are really improving. Girls who have been injured in previous seasons are definitely back in action. It will be great to see a fuller team come back on the field in the outdoor season.”

Following the meets over the spring training trip in Orlando, the first outdoor meet is the Sam Howell Invitational

at home on the first weekend of April.

The main challenges that Farrell and Ratcliffe identify include weather, health, and strategizing placement of players across a range of events.

“The problem with spring track is weather,” says Farrell, “The league meet is the first or second weekend of May, and you have all of April to get ready for it, but all of April isn’t really that nice in New Jersey. We hope to get the right weather situations.”

“I think staying healthy is definitely always a challenge.

We have a lot of girls competing across a wide range of events, so definitely balancing the training across those events, and putting girls into their strongest events and get the most points,” says Ratcliffe. “It must be so hard for the coaches to strategically place girls in the events that they can perform at their best for themselves and for the team.”

Despite these potential dif-

ficulties, the team remains excited to compete outdoors with everything they have.

“Having seen the girls really push their hearts out of the season has really inspired me to give my all,” says Ratcliffe.

“There’s only a few throwing events in the indoor track, and seeing girls really step up from previous years has made me really excited to see what they can put together on the field when they can really compete.”

“I’m looking forward to seeing what we can do with the work that we’ve put in this year,” she concludes.

Some major outdoor meets to look for include the Larry Ellis Invitational, at home on April 17 and 18, and Penn Relays, in Philadelphia on April 23 through 25. The Ivy League Heptagonal championship meet will be held in Philadelphia on May 9 and 10. The NCAA Regionals will be May 28 through 30 in Jacksonville, Florida and NCAA Nationals will be June 10 to 13 in Eugene, Oregon.

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Tigers lean on underclassmen to replace key seniors

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Deciding to lean on younger players last season could pay dividends this year as the Tigers look to replace two MLB draftees.

By Miles Hinson sports editor

Danny Baer '17

07

Center Field

Paul Tupper '17

Nick Hernandez '17

AVG: .306, SLG: .370, OBP: .380

23

20

Left Field

Right Field

AVG: .275, SLG: .352, OBP: .348

AVG: .202, SLG: .220, OBP: .287

Danny Hoy '16 Cody Phillips '17

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Shortstop

04

Second Baseman AVG: .285, SLG: .417, OBP: .361

AVG: .167, SLG: .167, OBP: .231

Chad Powers '17 Billy Arendt '16

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Third Baseman

12

Zack Belski '17

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Pitcher

ERA: .4.91, WHIP: 1.45 AVG: .182

First Baseman

AVG: .225, SLG: .326, OBP: .301

AVG: .280, SLG: .328, OBP: .316

Tyler Servais, '15

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SOFTBALL

By Sydney Mandelbaum associate sports editor

The softball team is back and better than ever, getting ready to open season play this weekend. After losing only two seniors to graduation last year, the Tigers have a lot to look forward to, with a strong freshman class and a reimagined approach to the game. The Tigers finished the 2014 season with a record of 17-26 overall and 9-11 in the Ivy League, good for a second-place tie with Columbia in the Ivy South Division.

This season will start a week earlier than in years past, and the Tigers have been preparing themselves for the new season differently than before. “The team did stuff differently in the offseason, which made practices really productive in February because [the players] really took it a step further this season, ” said head coach Lisa Van Ackeren, referencing how the Tigers started training on their own time during winter break.

The Tigers return two of the three players who earned All-Ivy honors, sophomore infielder Haley Hineman and junior pitcher Shanna Christian. Hineman finished the season leading the team with the highest batting average, .307. Hineman also had 39 hits and seven doubles on the season, managing multiple hits in 10 games. Christian was the team’s first starter last year and led the Tigers with 103 1/3 innings played and 68 strikeouts. Christian had an earned run average of 3.00 in 2013 and 4.13 in 2014, but regrettably is still recovering from an injury from which she will likely return in time for Ivy League play.

“We have a lot of injuries, but we’re definitely feeling more comfortable and upfront about our weaknesses in practice,” Hineman said. “We’ve been addressing weakness so that [our] strengths have been really showing up more in our intersquad scrimmages … We’re definitely more prepared, and we’re redefining ourselves here.”

The Princeton baseball team looks to rebound after rough outings in the 20122013 season and the 2013-2014 season. After posting records of 14 — 28 and 14 — 26, respectively, the Tigers are ready to begin a new campaign and start competing again for a spot in the Ivy League championship series.

On the surface, Princeton might seem to be faltering after losing some star talent from last season. Alec Keller, senior captain of the 2014 team and drafted by the Washington Nationals, is a player that’s hard to replace.

His accolades included three All-Ivy First Team selections (2012 – 2014) and the title of Ivy League Player of the Year in 2014. Moreover, he posted a .327 batting average on the season, top of the Princeton team and second best in the league overall.

Despite this loss, senior captain Tyler Servais feels confident in the team’s chances, particularly in their depth. He noted that while “Keller was a really instrumental piece to the team …

[Princeton] will have a more stacked lineup one through nine than [they] have had in the past”.

Along with Keller’s departure, the Tigers have to deal with the loss of Michael Fagan, last year’s most used pitcher. Fagan, who was drafted by the Oakland Athletics, led Princeton pitchers in innings with 58.0, earned run average (ERA) with 2.33

and record at 4 — 2, as well as leading the lead in strikeouts with 77. Fagan was also an All-Ivy selection, earning his first (and only) All-Ivy First Team appearance of his career.

Losing players such as these might suggest that the Tigers are doomed to struggle all year – however, the prospects are certainly brighter than that. The Tigers went into last season with a very young team, and many of the young players were getting ample opportunities last year.

A look at the Tigers’ hitting lineup from last year reveals how much the team has been willing to trust the younger guys. While Keller may have held the team’s highest batting average, four of the five players with the most at bat opportunities were underclassmen. Sophomore Danny Hoy, freshman Paul Tupper, sophomore Billy Arendt and freshman Zack Belski were 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 5th in at bats, respectively.

They ended up putting all of those performances to good use – Hoy led the team in runs on the season with 25, and Tupper led the team in runs batted in (RBI) at 20, with Belski tying Keller for second at 19.

Not only would Princeton’s hitting benefit from the development of younger players, but also Servais notes that the team could see improved based on a shift in focus on the part of the coaching staff. In addition to bringing in new assisSee BASEBALL page S2

Softball team boasts strong veterans and rookies, face health questions

“We’ve had a tough time with injuries,” Van Ackeren said, who said Christian should be ready by the Ivy season. Van Ackeren added that sophomore pitcher Erica Nori is also injured. “Our biggest key will be keeping people healthy and on the field, making sure our pitching staff is ready to go.”

Nori had an incredible freshman season, leading the team with an ERA of 2.29, the fourth-best in the Ivy league last season. Nori pitched 97.2 innings with 53 strikeouts.

Classmate and fellow pitcher Claire Klausner will also return this season with 39.1 innings and 22 strikeouts under her belt. Rounding out the pitching staff is freshman Ashley LaGuardia, who in high school was a New Jersey first-team all-state selection among private school players and a third-team allstate pick overall, and will likely make an impact on the team right off the bat.

“We have three freshmen; a pitcher, an outfielder and an infielder, and all three are naturally competitive. For

them, they’ll definitely see time with their approaches from the competitive standpoint. [LaGuardia] will definitely see some mound time and [freshman shortstop/ second baseman Danielle

Dockx] will be able to make an impact on shortstop. She has great leadership skills, and I think she’ll step into that role quickly,” Van Ackeren said, adding that “[freshman outfielder Kylee

Pierce] will definitely compete for time in the outfield right away.”

Hineman agreed, saying that the newest additions to the Tigers are “already showSee SOFTBALL page S2

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The Tigers look to re-establish themselves as one of the better teams in the conference after going just 9-11 in Ivy League play last year.