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Princeton students writing letters opposing President Trump’s executive orders on immigration

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On Friday, Feb. 17, Princeton Advocates for Justice (PAJ) held an “Immigration Day of Action,” an event for students to voice concerns about President Trump’s executive orders and other national political actions regarding immigration. The event was open to students, faculty, and community members.

PAJ, a new student organization, formed in response to measures and executive actions taken by the new Trump administration. Their mission is to help promote a culture of activism and political engagement that is directed toward encouraging inclusivity toward immigrants and other marginalized groups. The Day of Action, which PAJ has been advertising in Frist Campus Center, was their first event.

Tables set up in the B level of Frist were stocked with templates and advice for calling or writing letters

and postcards to U.S. congressmen and senators, as well as state legislators and other representatives of students’ home districts. The event offered letter paper, postcards, and stamps for all who attended.

Organizers also provided event attendees with help registering to vote in New Jersey. One table, sponsored by the Princeton Clay Project and Princeton Students for Gender Equality, had a button-making station with slogans such as “You Are Loved” and “I Support Refugees.”

Princeton Citizen Scientists, a similar coalition initiated by graduate students, headed a table at the front of the room.

“The point of the activity was to show people that they can do something and get engaged, whether it be calling or writing or making postcards,” Diego Negron-Reichard ’18, a member of Princeton Advocates for Justice and one of the event’s organizers, said. “We made 550 postcards and had around 200 people coming in and out. We had faculty partici-

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pate more, as well as people from the Princeton community at large.

It was very successful and very encouraging.”

The planning process for the event started at the end of January, directly after President Trump issued executive orders on immigration.

“It began with a lot of different student groups coming together and forming a coalition,” Ramzie Fathy ’20, another organizer, said. “We met a few times to plan out the process and how we wanted to approach this.

We decided on phone backing and postcard writing as the best way to reach the most representatives.”

“It was an organic, natural process,” Negron-Reichard added. “[Trump] had just issued executive orders on immigration, so campus leaders from different groups just started talking.”

These conversations eventually turned into an official meeting in which the group decided on the name of the organization and conceptualized the Day of Action.

“We were brainstorming ways to release anger and frustration,” Soraya Morales Nunez ’18, another organizer, said. “There are more than 25 student groups on the board.”

This frustration was a common sentiment expressed by many of the event’s attendees.

“I think that the attitudes and views toward immigrants are very skewed and misinformed. The world would be a better place if there wasn’t such a xenophobic fever going on in the United States,” Dan Sturm ’19 said. “This was an issue before Trump was president, but now it’s becoming much more of an issue and it doesn’t look like progress is going to made soon unless there’s some kind of resistance.”

According to Fathy, Princeton Advocates for Justice reached out to 41 other universities, and ten hosted similar Days of Action.

“We let them know, ‘here’s what we’re doing and here’s how,’ so it’s unified,” he said.

“When we realized how much

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Wilson demoted PEI hosts panels in newest C-SPAN on interplay of ranking of presidents climate, food

By Marcia Brown Head news editor

C-SPAN released its third annual survey of presidential leadership by historians. The survey polled 91 historians, include three University historians, to rank the “43 former occupants of the White House on ten attributes of leadership,” according to a press release from Media Relations Specialist Robin Newton.

University affiliates who participated include politics professor emeritus Fred Greenstein, author and professor emeritus Nell Irvin Painter, and professor of history Sean Wilentz.

The previous surveys occurred in 2000 and 2009 and used the same ten criteria.

These consist of “Public Persuasion,” “Crisis Leadership,” “Economic Management,” “Moral Authority,” “International Relations,” “Administrative Skills,” “Relations with Congress,” “Vision/Setting An Agenda,” “Pursued Equal Justice for All,” and “Performance Within the Context of His Times,” according to the press release. Historians, biographers, and other

professional observers of the presidency contributed to the ranking, and their individual survey results would remain confidential. According to the press release, C-SPAN tabulated responses by averaging all responses in a given category for each president.

In all three of C-SPAN’s surveys, Abraham Lincoln ranks No. 1, the statement read.

George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, and Dwight Eisenhower take the rest of the top five spots. Former President Barack Obama joins the presidents in the No. 12 spot, notably ranking No. 3 for “Pursued Equal Justice for All,” according to the press release.

Ulysses S. Grant is the most average president, ranking at No. 22 of the 43 presidents.

Andrew Jackson fell the most, from the No. 13 spot in 2009 to the No. 18 spot in this year’s survey. Woodrow Wilson Class of 1879 dropped from his No. 6 spot in the 2000 rankings to No. 11 this year. According to Time magazine, historians placed new attention on his civil rights record, which may be responsible for the considerable decrease in popularity.

By Jackson Artis staff writer

Caring about sustainability does not imply action. It’s not enough that people care about sustainability because sometimes caring doesn’t catalyze them into action, according to Richard Waite GS ’79, who presented on how to make eating habits more sustainable at the Feb. 17 conference on “Changing Climate, Changing Appetites.”

The Princeton Environmental Institute hosted the event as an instillation in their sustainability series. The conference showcased five panels that sought to allow discussion based sessions about how to manage feeding the world while also protecting it.

Recently, it has become increasingly apparent that human eating habits are not sustainable. Not only do developed countries waste large amounts of food, but the energy and resources put into preparing that food also presents

a serious challenge to sustainability, according to the panelists.

The series of panels addressed how to fix current eating habits. One panel entitled “Changing Minds: Marketing a more sustainable diet,” discussed ways in which to efficiently shift the diets of millions of people. To begin the talk, three panelists polled the audience consisting mostly of adults involved in culinary practices. Polling questions touched on such topics as how audience members define their diet, how often they look at food labels before purchasing food, and what the biggest barriers to reducing their meat consumption are. A large percentage of the audience identified as omnivores, but there were also some vegetarians, vegans, and “f lexitarians,” a term which loosely means a person who is vegetarian when it is convenient.

During the panel “Changing Minds: Mar-

attention the event was getting, with over a thousand kids signing onto the Facebook event, we were sure other schools would be interested,” Negron-Reichard added. “We reached out to other schools, really through personal connections, and people we knew were campus leaders.”

“Groups of students came together to make a difference and stand up for basic human rights,” Nicholas Wu ’18 said. “It’s really heartening to see how many people came through.

A lot of people felt hopeless or helpless in response to the election. We want to show them they can make their voices heard through civic advocacy.”

Wu is an Associate Opinion Editor for the ‘Prince.’

According to Wu, Princeton Advocates for Justice’s next event will be a benefit concert held Feb. 24 in Richardson Auditorium. The concert will feature performances by various student groups.

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8 of 12 new U. groups recognized

by USG at meeting

By Jason Fu senior staff writer

In their first weekly meeting of the second semester, the Undergraduate Student Government discussed new position appointments and student group recognitions on Feb. 19. The Student Group Recognition Committee’s Chair Aaron Sobel ’19 presented newly recognized student groups, a distinction that grants groups access to an email listserv and deems them legitimate. As legitimate student groups, they are eligible for funding from the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students.

Of the 12 groups that applied for recognition, eight received approval. Among the approved groups were: Fire Hazards, a gender-inclusive a cappella group; the Princeton Southern Society, which aims to increase awareness of southern culture; and the

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The Editorial Board reflects on the eating club recruitment process, and Bhaamati Borkhetaria explores the failings of consent in discussions of sexual assault.

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keting a More Sustainable Diet,” Waite said that the mentality behind how people maintain their meat eating habits is often unsustainable. He offered four goals that must be achieved before conceivably shifting the eating habits of millions of people: prevent disruption, sell a compelling benefit, maximize awareness, and evolve social norms.

Waite gave an example of a solution to fit these four goals in the form of a “f lip burger,” a burger which contains mushrooms and other vegetables in addition to beef. The inclusion of beef with other ingredients ensures that consumers do not feel cheated or deprived of meat, Waite said.

He added that while people want to protect the environment, there are other factors that come into play when consumers buy their food in order to shift social norms around and encourage eating sustainably. For example, he explained that the link between eating meat and masculinity also contributes to people’s reluctance to change their diet.

Following Waite was Kristen Rainey ’97, a Global Food Program Vendor & Supplier Relations Manager at Google Food. Rainey discussed the methods employed by Google to help their workers make healthier, more sustainable eating choices.

Some of these methods are subtle, Rainey explained, noting how Google places a salad bar

in the front of a dining facility and puts the animal parts of the salad bar at the end so that by the time a consumer reaches it, his or her plate is already full.

Rainey said that her colleagues “know that messaging matters.” She added that people do not intend to eat in ways that damage the environment, but that people eat what is most readily available.

She used this reasoning to justify why, at Google, sugary drinks and candy are housed behind frosted glass instead of being presented in the open.

Conference attendees such as Edible Jersey writer Fran McManus thought the event was helpful for understanding sustainability in their jobs. McManus said she “was very interested to hear the perspective that Princeton University, as an academic institution,” would have for “their vision of this exact idea of how are we going to eat in a sustainable future.” She said that these types of events allow her to see the academic side of the discussion about living sustainably and added that she believes the answer to the question of how to become a more sustainable society will most likely be found by evaluating both academic and empirical sides of the discussion.

New Jersey food writer and restaurant reviewer Pat Tanner found the event to be reinvigorating, stating that she found “some of the current issues, the future issues,” discussed at the event to be “the stories [she] should be writing about.”

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While junior class senator Eli Schechner ’18 noted that recognizing eight groups out of 12 represented a relatively low yield, Sobel indicated that the groups not receiving approval failed to turn in requisite paperwork, did not garner enough petition signatures, or needed further clarification. However, Sobel added that groups that did not receive recognition are able to reapply in a cycle later this year.

Several USG members raised concerns about the Center for Interdisciplinary Psychedelic Study, which was one of the eight groups recognized. CIPS states its mission as to “[remove] the psychedelic taboo in favor of developing a neutral, informed, and interdisciplinary mindset, through academic discussion in a variety of do-

mains.”

U-Councilor ExCom Chair Miranda Rosen ’18 noted that the use of “center” in the group’s name could potentially be misleading, as the group is not officially affiliated with any campus academic departments. Sobel agreed, noting that he “realize[s] that probably could be confusing, because it [would be] under ODUS listed groups.”

The USG Senate voted to approve seven out of eight of the recognized groups, with the exception of CIPS. Additionally, they approved four Senate appointments: Soraya Morales Nunez ’18 for Class of 2018 Senator, Nadeem Demian ’19 for Mental Health Initiative Co-Chair, Aaron Sobel ’19 for SGRC Cochair, and Laura Hausman ’20 for Chief Elections Manager.

The Senate also approved two appointments for the Honor Committee, Camille Moeckel ’20 and Wade O’Brien ’20. Honor Committee Chair Carolyn Liziewski ’18 stated that the approved candidates

were analytical thinkers who displayed maturity and empathy about academic integrity issues. Liziewski also noted that increased diversity among applicants would be a priority in the future; while the current Honor Committee consists of six males and six females, the application pool for Spring 2017 consisted of ten males and only three females. Along with gender diversity, Liziewski stated she hoped to promote greater diversity in academic concentrations among members of the Committee.

“We are really trying to pull from some different groups on campus who don’t necessarily see representation on the Honor Committee right now,” Liziewski said.

Social Committee Chair Lavinia Liang ’18 also presented the committee budget.

The budget, which was subsequently approved by the USG, primarily allocated funds for Spring Lawnparties and the Dean’s Date Celebration.

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Bhaamati Borkhetaria

Consent is not enough

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Editor’s Note: This column discusses issues and events that might be traumatizing, or triggering, for some, namely sexual assault and rape.

One of the first things that we learn as Princeton students is how to define consent. Before we have even matriculated, we are required to watch a series of videos that detail what affirmative consent looks like. With the catchy and somewhat comical slogan of “Not Anymore,” we are socialized to view a lack of consent as the crux of sexual assault. Similar sexual assault prevention courses have become popular on college campuses around the country.

Videos on the internet have also begun to treat consent as the most important topic of discussion when sexual assault is discussed. For example, the “Tea Consent” video, which compares the act of having sex to giving someone tea, has been making the rounds on social media. Consent and sexual assault have become inseparable in the conversations that are currently being had on college campuses.

It’s important to consider why consent is entering the public discourse at the same time as the concept of female pleasure is leaving its taboo space. And even more importantly, we need to consider whether the idea of consent can actually be detrimental in certain ways.

Before this emerging moment in time, consent on the part of women didn’t generally have any currency because women weren’t supposed to have sex for pleasure. Sex was a man’s right. For a long period of time, it was believed that women did not even enjoy sex, let alone have sexual desires. A woman’s consent doesn’t matter if her desire to have sex doesn’t exist. After all, the desire to have sex is central to the concept of consent.

The new conversation around consent addresses female desire and condemns sexual assault. Even more importantly, it helps universi-

ties and the government to define what sexual assault is — a sexual act in which one party does not give consent.

Gender and Sexuality Studies professor Anne McClintock says that “historically, the right to rape was a marker of male status, for example, husbands, slave owners, and feudal lords.” The idea that women are capable of giving consent aims to take away men’s “right to rape,” no matter what the man’s status is. This notion is complicated, however, by how lax the punishment has been in recent years for men who do rape (e.g. Brock Turner, Austin James Wilkerson, Mark Hulett). This shows that the idea of consent hasn’t truly been implemented in the justice system in the way that we might hope.

Among all of this talk of consent, we are missing something that can help us better address the problem of sexual assault. We need to address the fact that, even though sexual assault is being taken more seriously, neither the impulse to rape nor rape itself has disappeared.

Rape has always been a way to assert dominance over another human being, and the desire to establish this power is still a significant part of male socialization. Rape was once a marker of male status and still remains so in our society in some residual manner. Although the act itself is frowned upon, the perpetrators are let off with a leniency exactly correlated with their social status.

Rape (and sexual assault) has always been regulated rather than prohibited. The ability to get away with rape is still held by very powerful men in our society. Our own president has bragged about sexually assaulting women: “When you’re a star they let you [grab their pussy].” Roger Ailes, the former CEO of FOX news, was also accused of sexual harassment in the beginning of 2017, but was not criminally prosecuted (he did resign as a result of the scandal, however, and settled a lawsuit for his perversions).

He was accused of trying to solicit sex from various women in his network and was sued successfully by Gretchen

Carlson for $20 million. It is notable to mention that FOX gave him $40 million upon his resignation. Trump and Ailes are men who got caught talking about or participating in sexual assault and still went without reproach.

Likely, there are many such men who buy their way out of sexual assault accusations who we don’t even hear about — all you need is money and power to silence the voices of assaulted women.

It is doubtful that Donald Trump, Roger Ailes, or Brock Turner was ever unclear about how consent works. We need to stop marketing sexual assault as some drunken accident. When we enter a debate on consent, we neglect to consider that rape is not a mistake. Men know when they rape. Brock Turner knew, when he dragged his victim out to a dumpster and fingered her, that she didn’t “want it.” Instead of talking about this fact, the judge presiding over his case infantilized Turner. The idea that Turner did not understand consent, that he was just a misguided boy under the influence of alcohol, is utterly ridiculous. The victim hadn’t said no, but let’s not forget that she was also unconscious and the fact that he dragged her behind the dumpster, which indicated malicious intent and a conscious attempt to hide what he was doing.

Turner was aware that he was sexually assaulting a woman. Yet, he was able to claim that he didn’t understand consent. All of the focus on “teaching consent” made it okay for a person like Turner to claim that he couldn’t understand consent. Although consent is supposed to make it easier for men to understand sexual assault, it also makes it easy for men to pretend as if they do not understand if they are committing sexual assault because they do not understand consent.

The consent conversation has led to the “myth of miscommunication”: that sexual assault results from a misunderstanding rather than from calculated maliciousness. This is where the fear of being falsely accused for committing sexual assault comes in. Some men purport

to be scared that they will be accused of rape even if they engage in mutually desired sexual intercourse because consent wasn’t loudly given.

However, such a small percentage of men are falsely accused of rape that this occurrence is negligible.

Consent does empower women in the acknowledgement of their sexual agency.

Women now have the right to say “no.” However, the debate about consent continues to put the burden on women to say “no.” In theory, this is a power. In reality, it just means that a woman can say “no” all she wants, but that a rapist will continue to rape her. And then, it will be seen as her fault for not saying “no” loudly enough.

Although conversations about consent do work positively, they have proved to be inadequate in curbing sexual assault. Perhaps this is because we are ignoring the fundamental questions behind rape, such as: why do men rape? Why do men need to assert their power over women, children, and even other men?

The conversation should go way further than the concept of consent. The concept of consent has started the conversation but we need to address the historical and contemporary implications of sexual assault. Only then can we uncover the underlying impulses that drive men to rape, and thereby find long term solutions.

Note: This article deals with heterosexual rape and rests on the assumption that men are the perpetrators of most cases of sexual assault.

This is backed up by statistics about rape in the United States — only 1% of the people arrested for “forcible rape” in the year 2010 were women (survey year). Certainly, we should account for a lack of male reports of rape due to the social stigma, yet the statistic is so disparate that it is justifiable to state that generally men rape while women are raped.

Bhaamati Borkhetaria is a sophomore from Jersey City, New Jersey. She can be reached at bhaamati@princeton.edu.

EDITORIAL

Putting bicker in context and strengthening sign-ins

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his month, 1,018 sophomores participated in the process of joining an eating club, whether through bickering or signing in. The annual event sparked controversy, as it often does, yet eating clubs remain deeply ingrained in the Princeton fabric: 56.3% of voting students voted against the 2015 “Hose Bicker” referendum, and the University does not have capacity to feed upperclassmen without the clubs. While this may mean eating clubs are here to stay, the Board believes the substantial stress and unhappiness that the process of joining clubs can create for students should be alleviated by the following recommendations.

First, to sophomores who did not obtain their preferred Bicker outcomes, we want to emphasize that while Bicker can feel like a deeply personal process, being hosed is often due to random factors such as the timing of an individual’s discussion or the club members whom a Bickeree happened to meet during Bicker. Every student at Princeton is valuable and welcome in this community, and Bicker outcomes do not change that. Further, as a unique Princeton institution, eating club affiliation has little to no bearing on life post-grad-

uation. The clubs are largely a social and community experience while here at Princeton, and accordingly we encourage sophomores who are disappointed after Bicker to join a sign-in club this spring. Signin clubs offer the same opportunities to make new friends, eat good food, find an alumni network, and enjoy members’ social events that Bicker clubs do. Even for someone planning to re-bicker a club in the fall, joining a sign-in club this spring is a great way to meet new people and have the experience of being in a club. One might very well fall in love with the club and not have to bother with the Bicker process again. We strongly encourage students to take a chance and sign in this spring.

Given that sign-in clubs are an essential alternative to Bicker clubs, we also believe that the University must do more to support the sign-in clubs and incentivize membership by offering more shared meal plans and considering opening the four-year residential colleges to students without a dining hall plan. Sign-in clubs have broadly experienced membership declines over the past decade.

In 2009, the Board expressed concern that the USG COMBO II survey showed that “since 2007,

the number of students reporting membership in a sign-in club has dropped nearly 10 percent, while the number of students not joining any club has increased almost 7 percent.” In 2012, four of the five sign-in clubs reported a total of 445 incoming members. Quadrangle Club did not release its numbers that year. By contrast, in 2016, all five sign-in clubs reported a total of only 374 incoming members. At least part of this decline is likely due to the University’s fall 2007 creation of the four-year residential college system, which has allowed upperclassmen to live in Butler, Mathey, and Whitman provided they have a University or shared meal plan.

While it was an admirable goal of the administration to provide students with dining options beyond the Street, this seems to have backfired in part by taking students away from the sign-in clubs. This further heightens the Bicker clubs’ exclusivity and increases stress for students seeking acceptance to a Bicker club, who may feel a sign-in club is a less viable alternative given its lower membership.

We believe the University can maintain f lexibility for students who do not wish to join an eating club while still

supporting the sign-in clubs by increasing the number of shared meal plans available to sign-in clubs. If a prospective sign-in club member interested in living in a nicer dorm in a residential college knew that he or she would have a high chance of obtaining a shared meal plan from the club, he or she would be more likely to sign in and bring friends with them. If current membership levels persist or decline further, the University ought to consider allowing students to live in a residential college without a University dining plan. The residential college room draw could work similarly to independent room draw, with students definitely purchasing a dining hall plan getting first priority to draw into the residential colleges and the remaining dorms going to eating club members.

In conclusion, the Board hopes more students, including sophomores this spring, will take advantage of the opportunity to join sign-in clubs, which offer a great experience to members without the exclusivity and negativity of Bicker.

Because sign-in clubs play such an important role on campus, we believe it is imperative the University implement our recommendations of increasing the number of shared meal

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES president Richard W. Thaler, Jr. ’73 vice presidents John G. Horan ’74 Thomas E. Weber ’89 secretary Betsy L. Minkin ’77 treasurer Michael E. Seger ’71 Craig Bloom ’88 Gregory L. Diskant ’70 William R. Elfers ’71 Stephen Fuzesi ’00 Zachary A. Goldfarb ’05 Joshua Katz Kathleen Kiely ’77 Rick Klein ’98 James T. MacGregor ’66 Alexia Quadrani Jerry Raymond ’73 Randall Rothenberg ’78 Annalyn Swan ’73 Douglas J. Widmann ’90

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plans and considering opening residential colleges to nonmeal planholders. This would help sustain the sign-in clubs at high membership levels in order to provide a positive community for their members and prevent the further privileging of the Bicker clubs relative to the sign-in clubs.

Connor Pfeiffer ’18 recused himself from the writing of this editorial.

The Editorial Board is an independent body and decides its opinions separately from the regular staff and editors of The Daily Princetonian. The Board answers only to its Co-Chairs, the Opinion Editor, and the Editor-in-Chief. It can be reached at editorialboard@ dailyprincetonian.com.

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meet as an opportunity to prepare for the season’s main event: the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships, which will take place next weekend at the Armory in New York City. Sophomore middle-distance runner Marie-Fee Breyer commented, “The whole team is very excited for Heps next weekend.

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We’ve seen a lot of PRs and even school and Ivy league records in the last couple weeks.”

Unique to both the men’s and women’s teams at Princeton this season is their energy and spirit. Going into Heps next weekend, Breyer commented that one of the team’s biggest strengths is that “everyone has a great attitude and the team spirit is amazing this year.”

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fight for a position on the scoreboard. Out of the many strong performances displayed by the Orange and the Black throughout the last two days, some notable events include Friday’s 400 Medley Relay, where the team of freshman Christie Chong, Chan, Reis, and Veith took third place, Saturday’s 200 back, where Chong finished fourth place in 1:57.46, and the 400 Free Relay —the last event of this year’s championships —– as Princeton finished with style as McGrath, junior Claire McIlmail, Reis, Veith finished fourth place in 3:20.65.

At the end of the season,

Princeton came in third place, finishing 62 points ahead of fourth place Penn and 566.5 points behind second place Harvard.

Although the Tigers could not compose a dramatic comeback in this year’s championships, their Tigers’ hard work and dedication gave them a strong season, one worthy of being the last for head coach Susan Teeter’s 33-year coaching career at Princeton. As coach Teeter was honored for her brilliant career in leading the Tigers to a total of 17 Ivy League titles, she thanked, congratulated, and praised all of the current swimmers, alumni, and tradition that makes up the Princeton Swimming and Diving community.

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Princeton finishes third at Ivy Championship

By Jay Lee staff writer

On Saturday, Feb. 18, the 2016-2017 Ivy League Women’s Swimming Championships came to a close. At the end of the hard-fought fourday venue, Yale took home their seventh Ivy League Title for the first time in twenty years.

The Tigers came in third place, tallying a total of 1,024 points. No. 1 Yale finished with a stunning 1,681 points, coming out only slightly ahead of Harvard’s second place score of 1,590.5 points.

Penn trailed Princeton by 62 points to come in fourth, followed by Brown (859), Columbia (683.5), Cornell (653), and Dartmouth (358).

On day one, the Bulldogs — who went an undefeated 7-0 in the regular season — stunned the audience in both the 200 medley relay and the 800 free relays, breaking both of the Ivy Champion-

ship meet records and coming out with a convincing first place at the end of the day. The Tigers also started the meet in decent form, as the quartet of freshman Gianna Garcia, senior Olivia Chan, junior Elsa Welshofer, and junior Maddy Veith took fourth place in the opening event. In their second race of the day, Princeton continued to solidify their position as a team of four — sophomores Joanna Curry, Isabel Reis, Elaina Gu, and Monica McGrath — finished third place, bringing the Tigers just four points shy from second place Harvard and two from third place Brown.

On Thursday, the first full day of the meet, the Tigers displayed a good performance overall, overtaking Brown to finish third by the end of the day. Princeton secured top-10 finishes in all but one of the events, and the likes of McGrath, who took sixth in the 500 free, dis-

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The Tigers came in third edging past Penn, but could not comeback against an impressive Yale team.

played strong individual and group performances across the scoreboard. But despite having moved up the rankings to a convincing third place by the end of the sev-

enth event, the Tigers still trailed second place Yale’s 555 points by 232 points.

A similar story played out throughout the last two days of the competition.

The Crimson and the Bulldogs consistently finished at the top in every event, but the Tigers continued to See SWIMMING page 5

Track look to Heps after strong weekend showing

By Claire Coughlin associate sports editor

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The Princeton team broke plenty of reconds and personal bests this weekend.

This past weekend was a big one for the Princeton track and field program, with two major meets occurring on Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday, members of the Princeton men’s and women’s team track and field teams traveled to participate in the Virginia Tech Challenge. Then on Sunday, the University hosted the annual Princeton Invitational at its home Jadwin Gymnasium.

On Saturday, senior pole vaulter Allison Harris set

the program record in the pole vault at 4.27m (14’) at the Virginia Tech Challenge.

Harris beat her own previous school record of 4.20m from last year’s season. The vault of 4.27m is the ninth highest nationally for the season.

Another record was set on Saturday by senior weight thrower Julia Ratcliffe. She was the first Princeton student in the entire track and field program history to clear 20 meters with a throw of 20.13m (66 feet, 0.5 inches), according to the Princeton athletics website. Ratcliffe now holds the 24th longest

throw in the nation for this season. Like Harris, Ratcliffe also owned the previous school record.

Besides school records, the team also achieved a lot of personal records this weekend as well. Freshman Devon Block-Funkhouser won the 500m, setting a personal record of 1:17:46. Junior Ashley Reed also achieved a personal record in the 400m and third place in her event with a time of 58.31, with splits of 27.51 and 30.80.

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MEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Tigers pounce to top spot of EIVA conference

By David Xin Sports Editor

The men’s volleyball team continued its recent string of strong performances with a win over reigning EIVA champions George Mason (5-7 overall, 2-3 EIVA). The Tigers (5-6, 3-1), fresh off a victory over conference rivals NJIT (6-6, 2-2), grabbed their third conference win of the season, putting them tied with Sacred Heart (10-2, 3-1) at the top of the EIVA table.

The Tigers opened competitions this past week with a Valentines date with NJIT. While the Highlanders started the game strong to nearly secure two sets, the Princeton squad fought back to deny NJIT a dominant 2-0 lead. In fact, NJIT served seven times to secure the second set. Each time the Tigers denied them, eventually winning the crucial second set 34-32.

After securing their first set, the Princeton team never looked back, winning the next two sets on their way to a second EIVA conference victory.

Freshman outside hitter Parker Dixon spearheaded the Princeton offense with a career-high 22 kills. Freshman

outside hitter Greg Luck also made his presence felt with 10 kills including several in late moments of the game. Junior outside hitter Kendall Ratter added to the tally with 18 kills of his own.

The Tigers would carry the momentum of their recent win into their match against George Mason.

The Princeton team started the game strong to take the first two sets in dominant fashion, beating George Mason 25-18 and 25-17. However, the Patriots came back to clinch a tight third set. Although the Orange and Black managed to force one match point, George Mason ultimately managed to secure the set. Despite the setback the Tigers maintained their poise. With a strong showing, the Princeton squad closed the match with a 25-23 victory.

Once again, the Princeton freshmen showed their worth in a crucial conference game. Freshman middle blocker George Huhmann led the Princeton team with nine blocks and added 10 kills to the winning effort. Dixon notched an additional 13 kills and four blocks.

The young Princeton squad

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was paced by senior setter Jonah May, who led the offense with his 40 assists. Furthermore, Ratter and junior middle blocker Junior Oboh combined for 17 kills, helping the Tigers to overcome a tough Patriots team.

The win puts Princeton on the top of the table and in ideal position as the Tigers look to claim a playoff spot. However, just as importantly, the win shows how far the Princeton squad has come. Indeed, the Tigers had not won a match against George Mason in the past two seasons.

This recent hot streak comes just in time, as the Princeton team will face Harvard on Friday, Feb. 24. Princeton’s only Ivy League rival in the EIVA conference, the Crimson currently stand at 2-2 in the EIVA, coming off a recent victory against Sacred Heart. The Crimson (4-5) will be a tough matchup for the Tigers, having swept them in their last two encounters.

However, the new Princeton squad has shown that it is a force to be reckoned with in the EIVA. Regardless of the outcome, one can be sure the coming showdown will be an exciting one.

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Men’s Volleyball end their four-game homestand with another win.

Stat of the Day

4.27 meters Senior pole vaulter Allison Harris set the new school record, beating her previous record of 4.20 meters.

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