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Expert speaks to function of ‘vaccine courts’
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The “vaccine court” is organized in a manner that reconciles science and policy, by ensuring that those with scientifically credible claims to vaccine injuries get generously compensated, Anna Kirkland explained. Kirkland, a professor of women’s studies at the University of Michigan, discussed the politics of vaccination in an event promoting her new book, which is titled “Vaccine Court: The Law and Politics of Injury.” The most recent wave of cases that the court sees have been from adults claiming inf luenza vaccine injuries like neurological damage, almost all of which are compensated through settlement, Kirkland said. She added that in contrast, between 2002 and 2007, the court dealt with 5600 autism-related cases, comprising over 30 percent of all cases seen since the court’s inception in the 1990s, until it was finally decided that autism was not a compensable vaccine injury. Kirkland, whose research for the book was funded by the Program in Law and Public Affairs (LAPA) at the University, explained that the court was created to be very accessible, with attor-
neys and experts fully paid regardless of the outcome of the case, and that the court was organized in an inquisitorial rather than an adversarial manner. Rather than being heard by a panel of judges, each case is heard individually by the “Special Masters,” appointed by the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, who don’t screen out any expert or evidence, she added. “A 75c excise tax on all vaccines recommended for use in children funds the reparations and payments to attorneys and experts,” Kirkland explained. She noted that pharmaceutical companies were exempt from liability, a rule that followed severe reactions to pertussis vaccines in the 1980s, which led to many vaccine manufacturers pulling out of the market and endangered the vaccination program in its entirety. Kirkland, who also serves as the associate director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) at the University of Michigan, said that the evidence for determining what vaccine injuries are compensable lies in one of two categories. “On table” refers to an official list of all adverse reactions that occur withSee VACCINE page 2
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Eisgruber discusses annual letter at CPUC meeting By Audrey Spensley staff writer
University President Christopher Eisgruber ‘83 discussed his first annual letter to the community at the Council of the Princeton University Community meeting on Monday. Eisgruber began by addressing the broader political climate and its recent effects on the University community. “I think that universities have an important role to play in a time like this, but the key to that important role is to be focused on the values that define us as an institution and
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Former detainee Mihara addresses internment Japanese internment camps existed because of prejudice, hysteria, and failures in leadership, former World War II detainee Sam Mihara argued at a lecture on Monday. A San Francisco native, Mihara was first taken to a temporary camp in Pomona, Calif. He then was moved to the Heart Mountain camp,
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be conducted in a way that is academically stringent and supported. “One of our responsibilities as a university is to be a place where contesting views can be heard and where those views can be elevated and made more rigorous, and where the contestation among views can lead us further in the pursuit of truth,” Eisgruber said. “It is important that we stand for the importance of impartial debate, for the value of having forums where people of contending views come together, and where there’s a real contest between those things, and
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to continue to move forward on those values,” he said. “Figuring out exactly what that means in political times that are characterized by a lot of anxiety, by division, by upheaval, is not an easy thing to do.” Expanding on this, Eisgruber stated that he must take two major factors into consideration when debating whether to take action on political issues. The first is whether the issue contradicts the University’s values, one of which is a commitment to providing a forum in which discussion on controversial topics can
which spanned Cody and Powell in Wyoming. After the war ended three years later, he was released and then attended high school. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in engineering from UC Berkeley and a graduate engineering degree from UCLA. He built a career as a rocket scientist at the Boeing Company before retiring. He traced the cause of the See INTERNMENT page 3
People today are more likely to have sex earlier but wait longer to get married, biological anthropologist Dr. Helen Fisher said in a lecture on Feb. 20. “We’re very well built to fall in love, for pair bonding and real sorrow in relationships,” explained Fisher. A member of the Center for Human Evolutionary Studies in Rutgers University’s Department of Anthropology, as well as chief scientific advisor of Match. com, Fisher talked about the science behind love — why we are attracted to one person instead of another, and how evolution shaped the biological processes behind human love. She began her talk by saying that love is universal and that the phenomenon is comparable among people regardless of gender, age, or sexual orientation. Contrary to what women’s magazines may say, Fisher said men are more romantic than women. They fall in love more often and more quickly and are two-and-a-half times more likely to kill themselves when a relationship ends. She explained that there were three basic brain sys-
tems that govern mating and reproduction: one for sex drive, one for romantic attraction, and the last for attachment. “I think all three of these brain systems evolved for different reasons,” Fisher said. The first gave our ancestors the instinctive drive for sex; the second, the ability to focus our energy on that one special someone; and the last, the capacity to tolerate someone and sticking with him or her at least long enough to raise a child, she said. Once you’re attracted to someone, everything about that person becomes sexy, even “the way he gets on the bus,” she added. Fisher then explained the neuroscience behind love. A certain region of the brain becomes activated when one is in love, she said, and this region is the same that becomes activated in “all ... substance addictions and behavioral addictions.” According to her, love is a “wonderful addiction when it’s going well, and a horrible addiction” when it’s not. Fisher added that she wouldn’t be surprised if modern drugs “hijacked” the brain system developed for mating and love.
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Continuing her examination of the evolutionary and anthropological origins of love, she described her hypothesis of how human romantic love evolved with human pair bonding. Once our ancestors moved out of living in trees and started walking on two limbs instead of four, women couldn’t carry both a baby — the equivalent of a “twenty-pound bowling ball” — and tools to perform the necessities of survival. “She began to need a mate to help her rear her young, at least through infancy,” Fisher said. On the other hand, men couldn’t defend multiple women and their babies simultaneously. So, according to Fisher, our ancestors crossed the monogamy threshold at one point, and the circuitry for romantic love evolved. Then, after examining the traditional factors behind what makes certain people likely to fall in love with each other, such as similarity in socioeconomic and ethnic background, education, and social values, Fisher asked if biology could be involved. She explained that she has found four traits linked See LOVE page 2
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sis and whooping cough, were themselves incredibly harmful and often caused death. “Whiter, wealthier areas tend to have higher vaccination exemption rates and incidences of children who have been given only a few of the recommended vaccines,” Kirkland said, adding that at the Waldorf school near her Ann Arbor residence, over 70 percent of children were not vaccinated. She noted that as exemption rates increased, many states tightened their laws, with California now only allowing exemptions from vaccination on a medical basis, having slashed the philosophical and religious exemption laws. She added that states with the most lenient exemption laws also had the highest rates of measles and pertussis, often because parents found it easier to just sign an exemption form than make an effort to take their children to get a vaccine administered. The talk was sponsored by the Program in Law and Public Affairs and was held in Robertson Hall on Monday afternoon, Feb. 20.
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to biological systems, or four “brain systems, each one linked with a host of personality traits.” These systems correspond to different levels of four substances in the body, namely dopamine, serotonin, testosterone, and estrogen/ oxytocin. Everyone has his or her own unique personality signature, a combination of different levels of these four systems. And those with dopamine- and serotonin-dominant personality signatures are attracted to others with similar personality signatures, while those with testosterone- and estrogen/oxytocin-dominant personality signatures are attracted to individuals of the other personality signature. Wrapping up the talk,
Fisher said “we’re moving into ... an era of slow love. I think people today are terrified of divorce.” Thus, she said, people take a long time before they get married, even though they have sex quite early on. She called the occurrence “fast sex: slow love.” “Marriage used to be the beginning of a relationship, [but] now it’s the finale,” she said. Due to the longer time people are spending finding the right partner, she said that “we’re going to move into a generation of much happier marriages.” The talk was titled “The Science of Love.” It was part of “Conversations on Love,” a student-organized series of talks on love, and it was held in Frist Campus Center at 4:30 on Feb. 20. “Conversations on Love” will be hosting more talks this week; the schedule is available on the group’s Facebook page.
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removal of Japanese people to the late 1800s, when many Japanese and Chinese workers came across the Pacific Ocean to build railroads in the U.S. as the Great Expansion occurred. Mihara noted that in the 1940s, President Franklin Roosevelt signed an executive order giving local military commanders the authority to move people. On the East Coast, General Hugh Drum chose not to relocate German and Italian families. On the West Coast, General John DeWitt pledged to remove anyone with one-sixteenth Japanese blood. Mihara jabbed at the promise within the Pledge of Allegiance of “liberty and justice for all.” “We were denied liberty, because we were removed from our homes,” Mihara said. “We were denied justice, because there was none; not even a hearing.” After gathering the addresses of Japanese Americans from community registries, the government sent Mihara and his family to Heart Mountain, which was initially a set of horserace tracks modified with fences. Detainees lived first in horse stalls, then in hastily constructed shacks. The government began to build a high school within the camp. However, when local townspeople protested that since they were not receiving new schools, neither should prisoners, the internees had to finish the project themselves. Mihara described unpleasant camp conditions, including bad food in the mess halls and toilets without partitions allotted to every 600 people. His father became blind. His grandfather developed fatal colon cancer. Ignorant guards had been treating his grandfather with a laxative, Mihara later learned from medical records. Mihara noted that he still remembers his cell number, containing his block and barrack, as well as his prisoner number. Heart Mountain quali-
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fied as a prison because of its guard tower, floodlights, and, most importantly, signs in English and Japanese that threatened harm to anyone who tried to exit the fenced area, according to Mihara. “If anybody inside these camps feels they’re going to get hurt by crossing the border, they are in a prison,” he said. “That condition made us prisoners of the U.S. government.” Of 120,000 Japanese Americans, only three resisted internment. The welder Fred Korematsu, after being fired by the government because of his precarious position, decided with his white girlfriend that he would spend all his money on plastic surgery intended to make him appear white, so that he could avoid detainment. However, an employer caught him and reported his actual ethnicity, and he consequently was jailed. The Supreme Court ruled against Korematsu, citing the danger from espionage. It also upheld the convictions of Gordon Hirabayashi, imprisoned for walking outside past curfew, and Minoru Yasui, a lawyer who asked a police officer to arrest him so that he could prove internment was unjust. When Mihara and his family returned home, local people shunned them through signs and other means. Some former internees committed suicide. In one case, a man unable to find employment killed himself so his wife and children could then survive on his life insurance payment. “The idea of mass imprisonment without justice continues to live,” Mihara said, listing hostile reactions to certain groups after the Cuban missile crisis, 9/11, and other incidents. But he reminded all those who see mass imprisonment as the solution to imagine their own families as victims: “I simply say, ‘Never again to anybody, not to anybody at all.’ ” Titled “Memories of Heart Mountain,” the lecture was sponsored by the Asian American Student Association. It took place on Feb. 20 at 4:30 p.m. in McCormick 101.
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The pre-med myth Daehee Lee columnist
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med” evokes images of consecutive all-nighters, temper tantrums, and the banging of one’s head against a wall. A Princeton education is tough across the board, but pre-med students hold a special rank on campus, both in their coursework and in how much they complain about their coursework. Not all the ghastly rumors about this quasi-major are true. My peers — I should acknowledge that I am a freshman and have not suffered the full extent of the pre-med tribulations — enjoy lives outside of their organic chemistry textbooks for more than one hour a day, and some even go out to the Street on weekends. But pre-med students suffer from an incredible amount of academic stress. As a result, perhaps the cruelest thing one can do to a pre-med student is ask for their GPA.
But this perception of GPA as the final authority on academic worth leads to a far more stressful pre-med career. This taboo is not exclusive to pre-med students. Asking for grades is an unjustified slap in the face, especially at Princeton. In a university where both A-students and C-students were high school valedictorians, revealing one’s grades merely fuels the inferno of competition already present. Princeton purposely does not have a dean’s list or rank its students by their GPAs; these practices instigate an unhealthy desire to be better than others by any means necessary. Plus, asking for another’s GPA is just rude. Our GPA quantifies the mistakes we would like to obliterate from existence, but which follow us for our entire undergraduate career. We don’t want busybodies to remind us of these blunders constantly. But the disposition of premed students transforms this unspoken rule into a taboo. A pre-med’s GPA is more important than that of another un-
dergraduate with a different pursuit because it is among the most critical factors in a medical school application and, thus, the student’s future career dreams. It is small wonder, then, that a pre-meds are so protective of their grades. For example, before I learned the dangers of asking about another’s grade, I asked one of my classmates in a freshman seminar what she received in an assigned essay. Coming from a relatively small high school where everyone knew everyone else’s grade, I thought I had asked a harmless question; she responded with a glare of discomfort and a bit of disgust. I realize now that I was insensitive on a very sensitive subject. I simply did not register how her grades reflected not her accomplishments of today, but her career choices in the years to come. Confessing one’s grades is tough. We all have that one final we bombed because we had three finals on consecutive days, or that paper that
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was less a work of careful deliberation than more a Red Bulldriven mess; we want to hide away these perceived failures because we believe that these defeats define us as future medical students. But it is time for pre-med students to realize that neither our pride as academics nor our worth as individuals comes from the end of a professor’s red pen. Our grades are important, not because they give us the right to rank ourselves by the authority of a difference in the thousandths place, but because of the work and struggle we have borne in earning these marks. In the end, worrying about grades and silently judging a clueless freshman busybody are immaterial to our future; the best we can do is to let our future sail to its destination, be it to medical school or somewhere else entirely. Daehee Lee is a freshman from Palisades Park, NJ. He can be reached at daeheel@princeton. edu.
Princeton admissions: legacy Beni Snow
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the most selective undergraduate colleges in the world. That is guaranteed, as there are more students who want to attend than spaces. The criteria by which Princeton decides who is allowed to be a Tiger and who is not are not set in stone. In this column, part two of a three part series on admissions, I will examine legacy. The first column explored early admissions, and the final column will discuss athletics. Legacy in admissions is a truly bizarre concept, when considered in depth. Legacy admissions are when a university values one’s familial history of attending the university. At Princeton, 14.5 percent of the Class of 2020 is legacy students. We are told that we live in a meritocracy. Of course, this is a lie. Anyone who has ever applied for an internship understands that who you know is just as important as what you know. Nevertheless, Princeton, and higher education in general, thrives on the idea of meritocracy. Creating the sensation of meritocracy is no doubt a part of why we all had to fill out lengthy applications, stress over SAT scores, and meet with alumni interviewers. We had to
show that we had enough merit to attend Princeton. The meritocracy is inextricably linked to the commonlyheld value of individualism. The concept that a person should be judged by who they are, and not who their family is, or where they come from, is central to a liberal arts education. The University is a place where each student can expand to meet their full potential. Such an ideal requires that each student’s potential be measured against what they can achieve, not what their family has already achieved. Where, then, does legacy fit into the meritocracy? The relevance of my mother or grandfather’s alma mater (or lack thereof) on my merit as an individual is tenuous at best. From the University’s point of view, the value of the legacy system is simple. The University likes multigenerational Princeton families because it feels that those families are more likely to donate. Perhaps they are correct. It seems reasonable that if many members of the same family are Princetonians, then that family is more likely to give. The University, despite having a larger endowment per student than any other university, is still money obsessed. Two pages on President Eisgruber’s State of the University letter were dedicated to fundraising.
Clearly, maintaining a high rate of donations is critical to the University. But it should not abandon the ideal of individualism in the pursuit of self. Legacy, however, does not attack meritocracy and individualism evenly across the student body. It harms some students much more than others. This is because not all students have the same historical connection to the University, the kind of connection that makes legacy admissions advantageous. With a few exceptions, Princeton did not integrate along racial lines to any real degree until after World War II. The University only began accepting women in 1969. Legacy admissions are a way of keeping the University looking like it did decades ago: full of wealthy white people. This aspect of legacy admissions is impossible to ignore. By now, there are Princetonians of color whose parents attended the University, but there are far fewer students of color with a history at Princeton comparable to that of many of their white peers. Data on race at Princeton is surprisingly difficult to find. The earliest data the University has available on the undergraduate body makeup is from 1993. That data lists a category called “American minorities” (international students are a sepa-
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rate category). The American minorities category “Includes African-American, Latino, Asian-American, and native American students,” which in total made up 22 percent of the student body. Contrast this with the current data: 52 percent of undergraduate students are nonwhite, although that number includes international students, so it is not directly comparable. That enormous jump tells a story of a university that, despite many flaws, is gradually becoming more representative of the country and the world, and not just of the kinds of students who were admitted decades ago. But legacy slows down this progress. The University very much enjoys having legacy admissions. There is something nice about seeing multigenerational Tiger families at reunions. The increase in donations, while not quantifiable, is likely quite significant. But the very concept of legacy admissions flies in the face of individualism and meritocracy. Princeton should accept students based on what they have accomplished, not based on the accomplishments of their families. Beni Snow is a mechanical and aerospace engineering major from Newton Center, Mass. He can be reached at bsnow@princeton.edu.
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where the administration of the University is not seeking to settle those kinds of arguments or to stand as a refugee in judgment about them.” Eisgruber recognized that the University must also commit to values that ensure such forums are possible, which is why he spoke out against President Donald Trump’s executive order regarding immigration and refugees. His opposition also aligns with another consideration regarding political issues, which is whether the matter directly affects the University. “I thought, for example, the executive order on immigration does exactly that,” he said. “We are exceptionally international as a community, and we are exceptionally international by comparison to the rest of American society, which is a nation of immigrants.” The University has also expressed support for a court challenge to the executive order through an amicus curiae brief. According to Eisgruber, the University’s graduate student body is over 40 percent international and the faculty is over 30 percent international. Besides the relevance of political issues to University values, Eisgruber stated that he considers whether he has sufficient academic or personal expertise to exercise judgment on a topic before forming a public stance. “In the case of this executive order on immigration, I have spent much of my life as a scholar of religious freedom, and it mattered to me that this order was, in my judgment, a threat to religious freedom and a betrayal of principles that define this polity and should define this polity, and I thought I was able to speak to that,” he said. “I was also able to speak to it on the basis of my personal experience as the child of immigrants to this
country.” Eisgruber encouraged members of the University community to think about their individual values and their role in the political conversation. “I think one of the things that defines great universities, and defines this university, is our obligation, each of us, to engage as citizens and persons and people in the world who are interested in the state of affairs,” he said. Political tensions have resulted in increased demand among the student body and others that the University take action on certain issues. University students have engaged in direct political activism, most recently through the Day of Action led by the Princeton Advocates for Justice . “Things arise on my docket pretty frequently right now,” Eisgruber said. “There’s probably not a day that goes by — there certainly hasn’t been a week that’s gone by — in the last couple of months where I don’t get some kind of request asking me to make a statement about something or another.” Eisgruber then discussed one of the key highlights of his annual letter: the University’s increase in socioeconomic diversity among the student body over the last four years. “[The Class of 2020] is the most socioeconomically diverse class we have ever had at Princeton University, and over the last four years, basically, we have become more socioeconomically diverse at a rapid clip, in a way that I think is transformative,” Eisgruber said. Eisgruber added that media reports of socioeconomic diversity at the University typically use data that is four years behind the current percentages, resulting in an inaccurate portrayal of statistics. He said that, while the University’s financial aid has traditionally been very strong, the University has struggled to reach students who would most benefit from it. “We worked much harder
on reaching those students, reaching out to them, finding ways to convince them to matriculate, and making sure we were considering their applications in ways that recognized the different circumstances that they were in,” he said. Eisgruber then expanded on the ten major priorities listed in his letter: to achieve unsurpassed quality in all fields, emphasize service to the community, expand the undergraduate student body, enhance socioeconomic diversity, attract and support talented people from all groups and backgrounds, exercise visible leadership in the arts and humanities, provide outstanding research and teaching about world’s regions and cultures, undertake a bold interdisciplinary initiative centered on the environmental sciences, invest in engineering and information sciences, and improve Princeton’s connections to the innovation ecosystem. He grouped these goals around three broad priorities: increasing access, maintaining the University’s commitments as a research institution and to the liberal arts, and making a difference for others. “I think we recognize the idea that our mission, as a university, depends on the idea that we are giving back to society and making a difference through the teaching and research that we do,” Eisgruber said. Eisgruber’s speech was followed by a question-and-answer session with students and community members. In response to a question about measures the University is taking to alert media organizations of more accurate socioeconomic data, Eisgruber stated that the current financial data on the University’s student body is publicly available and that he is working to ensure the media takes note of it. “We have to do a better job
[of] telling this story and I’m not satisfied about what we have done right now,” he said. Another University student asked about methods the University uses to reach out to applicants from disadvantaged backgrounds. “It was a portfolio of measures,” Eisgruber said. “How do we find applicants, first of all, who are qualified and can thrive here but might not put in an application?” Eisgruber cited the QuestBridge and Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America programs as examples of organizations the University works with to increase applications from disadvantaged students. He also described research demonstrating that sending packets which explicitly recognize the challenges lowincome students face makes them more likely to apply. Finally, he spoke about the University’s move to offer a waiver for the application fee. A graduate student asked how the University balances its reliance on its endowment with student requests for divestment from unethical investments. Eisgruber responded that divestment is determined by a process through the CPUC Resources Committee which “requires that any initiative seeking restrictions on investments demonstrate sustained interest in the issue and endurable moral consensus in the community related to University values.” “I think the bar is a high one and appropriately a high one,” he added. Eisgruber said that the University is committed to improving the world through the education it provides and that it should be cautious about making statements with the money of others. A graduate student asked about plans for graduate housing and similar support, particularly in response to a proposed additional undergraduate residential college. “The graduate school is
important to the mission on our campus, in terms of the teaching and research that we do, and it’s important in producing leaders for the world beyond our campus,” he said. “One of the things that came through loud and clear in our strategic planning process on several of our planning task forces … is the importance of providing the right kind of support to our graduate students.” Eisgruber said the task forces recommended increasing stipend support in year six of a doctoral program. The Board of Trustees approved those recommendations and provided an annual increase of seven million dollars. He also said the University is looking to expand undergraduate housing without undertaking an unsustainable investment and hopes to utilize the space across Lake Carnegie. Another attendee asked how the University plans to balance a tradition historically based on wealth and privilege with the changing makeup of the student body. Eisgruber spoke about the Pre-rade, which was suggested by former Undergraduate Student Government president Matt Margolin ‘05 and has become a tradition, as one way the University is proactively changing. He also mentioned the change of the University’s motto, which now uses phrases from both Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879 and Sonia Sotomayor ’76. A final question dealt with a topic on the agenda of the last CPUC meeting, the fundraising and hiring process for the Latin American and American Studies departments. “There are faculty searches happening in English and African American studies,” Dean of the College Jill Dolan said. She added that faculty appointments will increase once the curriculum is fleshed out. The Council of the Princeton University Community meeting was held on Feb. 20 at 4:30 p.m. in Friend Center 101.
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Men’s hockey loses winning streak By Jack Graham contributor
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The men’s hockey team will have a chance to seek redemption in two upcoming games against Yale and Brown.
Following a six-game stretch in which it did not suffer a single defeat, the Princeton men’s ice hockey team endured a setback this weekend with consecutive losses to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and No. 7 Union College. The team, playing the never ideal back-to-back road games, competed well in both games, but could not achieve its desired results. In the first period, Princeton was granted four power plays in the first period and six in total, but failed to convert on any of them, and lost despite outshooting the opponent by a total of 4327. Princeton was forced to play from behind for most of the game, as RPI opened a 2-0 margin in the first period. Early in the second, team goal-leader sophomore Ryan Kuffner converted a goal off a RPI turnover, and after another RPI goal, senior Tommy Davis scored an unassisted wrap-around goal to bring the margin to 3-2. Unfortunately for the Tigers, they would not come any closer than that, as RPI scored at the 18:52 mark in the third to secure a 4-2 lead that would hold, despite a blast from freshman Jackson Cressey with less than a minute remaining in the game to bring the final score to 4-3. Facing the ECAC conference-leading Union College on the road Saturday night, the Tigers certainly had reason for confidence given their previous success against highlyranked teams. Unlike in Friday’s
game, Princeton came out of the gates with high energy against Union, outshooting them 13-7 in the first period and striking first with a Davis goal early in the second. After Union evened the score later in the period, the teams would enter the third deadlocked in a 1-1 tie. In the third, however, Union would blow the game open with two consecutive power play goals scored within a minute of each other, the second scored just four seconds into its respective power play. Again, the special teams units were a letdown for Princeton, as they failed to score on four power plays and allowed Union to convert its only two power play opportunities into goals. Princeton, however, would not become demoralized and added a goal of its own minutes later off a Cressey pass to an open Davis. Davis scored his second goal of the night and third of the weekend despite entering the weekend with only a single goal to his name. The comeback effort would ultimately come up short, as Union added an empty net goal late in the period to bring the tally to 4-2 and ice the game. Though Princeton would undoubtedly have preferred to maintain its unbeaten streak going into the playoffs, it will have a chance to regroup with two very winnable home games against Yale and Brown to conclude its regular season. These games will be critical, both in determining Princeton’s final slot in the standings and in building momentum entering the tournament.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Tigers sweep road trip; win streak increases to 7 By Chris Murphy Contributor
As basketball season inches closer to its conclusion, the Tigers continue to find ways to win and now have an inside track at the Ivy League regular season title and the top seed in the league’s inaugural postseason tournament. Princeton once again swept a weekend double header against Ivy League foes, beating Yale and Brown to win its seventh straight game and fourth on the road. This, combined with a Penn loss to Yale on Saturday, gives the Tigers (7-2) control over their own destiny for the first time this season. Princeton started off the weekend Friday night against the Yale Bulldogs at the John J. Lee Amphitheater in New Haven. Looking to win a third straight road game, the Tigers started off the night strong and never looked back. Princeton used early runs of 7-0 and 11-2 to keep the Bulldogs at bay and dominated the fourth quarter to walk away with a 69-47 win. The Tigers used the same tactics that have been working all season, with pressure on the glass and offensive efficiency, to silence the home crowd and prevent Yale from having a chance to gain ground. Princeton held the Bulldogs to only 30 percent shooting for the entire game and 20 percent from beyond the arc. Twice, the Bulldogs failed to score 10 points in a quarter. Meanwhile, Princeton used an efficient 43 percent field goal rate to earn the win despite shooting only 42 percent from the charity stripe. Four Tigers scored in double digits during the Yale game. Senior Taylor Brown paired her 13
points with a team high of five assists, a third of the Tigers’ 15 total assists. Freshman Bella Alarie added three steals and two blocks to her 13 points as she once again received honors for Ivy League rookie of the week, her eight time receiving the award this season. Sophomore Sydney Jordan had 11 points and six of the Tigers’ 45 rebounds on the night. Finally, freshman Tia Weledji added 10 points and shot perfect from beyond the 3-point line. Princeton forced Yale into 19 total turnovers, including 12 steals. The quality defense was apparent in the game, and the Tigers looked to carry it forward into Saturday’s matchup against Brown. The Bears came into Saturday leading the Ivy League in team offense by a wide margin and were the only team all season to score more than 70 points against the Tigers. Earlier this year, the Tigers defense was pushed around and the offense could not overcome the massive firepower from Brown in their 98-88 loss at Jadwin. On Saturday, Princeton gave up more than 70 points again versus the Bears. This time, the defense did enough to stymie the offensive barrage, while the Tiger offense carried them to an 81-75 victory. The key to the game came in the third quarter, when the Tigers held Brown to only 11 points, while using their own offense to build a commanding lead. From there, clutch shots down the stretch, including a layup and one by Jordan and free throws by sophomore Gabrielle Rush, kept the Bears at bay and gave Princeton a critical in-conference win. Princeton shot a season best 54 percent from beyond the arc in the victory, and just like on Fri-
Tweet of the Day “Two school records go down for the women this weekend! Allison in the PV and Julia in the WT!” Princeton Track/XC(@ PrincetonTrack), Track
day, four players scored in double digits: Robinson, Brown, Alarie, and Rush. Alarie also earned her fifth double double of the season. The Tigers dominated the glass, something they did not do well in the first meeting, outrebounding the Bears 44-33. The Tigers also cooled the scorching offense of the Bears, holding them to only 39 percent shooting for the game. They also stole the ball 13 times against Brown, as senior Vanessa Smith led the way with four steals of her own. A complete turnaround from the first meeting, the Tigers proved against Brown they have learned from their mistakes and continue to improve. Later that afternoon, the Tigers caught a break in the standings as Yale upended the leagueleading Pennsylvania Quakers. Penn (8-1) leads Princeton by only one game. The showdown between Penn and Princeton will come on the last day of the season, March 7, in Philadelphia. However, before then, the Tigers still have other critical conference games to play. Up next is another weekend double header against Columbia and Cornell. The Tigers defeated both opponents at the start of their road trip last week by scores of 62-52 and 58-54, respectively. Saturday’s clash against Cornell, in which the Tigers will look to win their eighteenth in a row against the Big Red, will be the final home game of the season and senior night as well. As the path to the Palestra becomes clearer, the Tigers are hoping that through their continued success, the road to a conference title, a tournament title, and a place in the Big Dance this March runs through them.
Stat of the Day
30 meters Julia Ratcliffe was the first Princeton Student in all of track program history to clear 30 meters in the weight
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Senior Vanessa Smith stands guard.
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