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STUDENT LIFE

Unhinged: Tower entryway adoorns Prospect street sign

By Benjamin Ball Head News Editor

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The door was found tied to the bike route sign this morning.

Early Thursday morning, one of the front doors of Tower Club was found tied to the Bike Route sign on the corner of Prospect Avenue and Washington Road.

Screenshots of emails on the Tower listserv acquired

by The Daily Princetonian confirm that Tower president Aliya Somani ’20 was aware of the door’s displacement and claimed to be working with staff to bring the door back around 10 a.m.

Somani declined to comment.

Anonymous Tower members confirmed that the night before was a member’s night event, but did

not know if the event was connected to the removal of the door in any way.

“It just seemed very random,” said Alec Leng ’21, who saw the door while walking to breakfast.

Leng said he did not initially recognize the door as belonging to Tower, but later in the day when a friend told him Tower’s door had been “stolen,” he made the connection.

Although he did not know how the door came to be outside, Leng said it was likely the result of “some kind of shenanigans.”

Sally Ruybalid ’21 passed by the door on her way to breakfast at Colonial around 8:15 a.m. Her immediate reaction was one of confusion.

“I noticed it right away,

and was like ‘why is there a door in the middle of the street?’” Ruybalid said. “I have no words.”

Ruybalid noted that, at the time she saw the door, there was also a cardboard sign near the door, but she was unsure of what the sign said.

Bensu Sicim ’19 passed by the door around 11 a.m. and took a picture of it. When she took the picture, the rope holding the door to the sign was absent, and the door was leaning on the sign.

As of 12:20 p.m., the ‘Prince’ confirmed that the door was no longer tied to or leaning on the street sign. According to an anonymous Tower member, the door was returned safely to the club.

TOWN

Princeton Theological Seminary student talked journey from prison to advocacy

By Claire Silberman

Associate News Editor

On March 18, 2004, 23-year-old Erich Kussman was awaiting sentencing in a robbery case at Somerset County Jail when he prayed to God to let him out of prison. On March 19, 2004, Kussman was released due to an administrative oversight.

Kussman was released on a cold day wearing just the shorts and t-shirt he had been wearing when locked up. He recalled running into a man holding a clipboard on the street.

Kussman asked if he was lost. “You’re lost. You don’t know Jesus,” the man replied.

Kussman took it as a

sign.

Thirty-two hours later, Kussman was re-incarcerated, but that religious experience during his taste of freedom put him on a path to Princeton Theological Seminary. With his sentence shortened by 10 years, he committed himself to his studies. Kussman now spends his days as a social justice advocate, attempting to challenge preconceived notions about incarcerated individuals.

“I started reading the Bible, reading books, and trying to educate myself,” Kussman said. “The best investment is going to school.”

Kussman came from a tumultuous childhood,

selling drugs and getting into fights at school. Kussman’s father was absent, and his mother struggled with substance addiction. Once on the inside, he argued with fellow inmates who used his cell as a church, but the day before his temporary release, Kussman decided to join in the services.

After his re-incarceration, Kussman was moved to Albert C. Wagner Youth Correctional Facility, where the chaplain Reverend Emmanuel Bourjolly saw potential in both Kussman’s book knowledge and his exceptional ability to listen.

“Prison is not conducive to learning. It is an envi-

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Kussman is now a pastor at a church in Patterson, N.J.

TOWN

U. releases report on contributions to town of Princeton Contributor

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Eisgruber focused on facilitating startups and joint ventures.

In Opinion

Columnist Hunter Campbell examines the benefits and detriments opinion pieces confer upon society, and contributing columnist Jae-Kyung Sim underlines the importance of responding to friends’ texts.

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The Office of Communications published its annual summary detailing the University’s contributions to the surrounding town of Princeton on Feb. 12.

Ranging from voluntary contributions to the municipality of Princeton and working with emergency services to educational outreach at Princeton High School and supplying transportation, the report brings attention to the town’s primary investments in the community.

Through routine meetings with University administration, the town community maintains

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an open line of communication, said Mayor Liz Lempert.

“We have done a lot of work with individual professors and groups of students to promote collaboration at the council level,” she said.

On Monday, Feb. 11, President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 met with Lempert and other city officials “to discuss a range of mutual interests” regarding the University’s sustainability plan, transportation management, and community partnerships, according to the Office of Communications. “[The University’s strategy] is about facilitating various kinds of See TOWN page 2

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ronment of punishment,” Bourjolly said. “The best way to transcend this punishment is the art of listening. [It’s] a skill that opens people to understanding one another.”

Bourjolly recommended Kussman to the University’s Petey Greene Program, which was in its pilot stage at the time. Through the Program, Julia Jacobson ’10 helped Kussman get his GED and put together college applications.

Jacobson did not respond to requests for comment.

Kussman graduated from Pillar College in three years at the top of his class with a bachelor’s degree in

Biblical Studies. In his final year, having built up a strong reputation as a leader on campus, his peers elected him student body president.

“It’s like a family there.

They really cared about me succeeding,” Kussman said. “You know that expression, ‘it takes a village? ’ Pillar College was my village.”

According to Kussman, school helped him in his transition from incarceration to freedom.

He noted that before he was locked up, not everyone had laptops, and “noone had those cool-looking iPhones.”

“Society had changed and they helped me get my feet grounded,” he said.

The day after Kussman’s

graduation, Bourjolly set up an appointment with the admissions office of Princeton Theological Seminary. Kussman earned a full scholarship and is set to graduate with a Master of Divinity this May. He went on to co-found Ransom Writers and Speakers, a support network that helps previously incarcerated individuals re-enter society.

“I try to recreate the impact that Petey Greene, Pillar College, and now Princeton Theological Seminary had for me. You want to see people have that magic in their eyes again,” he said.

Kussman is now a pastor at a church in Patterson, N.J., where he is an outspoken advocate for social justice. He recently spoke

at the counter-protest against the planned white supremacist rally in Princeton. Last year, he spoke on Petey Greene’s panel at Reunions.

Kussman explained his drive to speak out.

“When I look at people, especially people dealing with immigration issues, mass incarceration, everything I’ve been advocating for, I see myself in that situation,” he said. “I understand what it means to go through struggle. I know what it means to be left out.”

He explained that people’s preconceived notions about formerly incarcerated individuals as “ravaged wild animals” prevent them from seeing their humanity at large.

In fact, according to Petey Greene’s executive director Jim Farrin, when Kussman was scheduled to speak at a conference as Petey Greene’s keynote speaker, his parole officer barred him from speaking because he “should have been f lipping hamburgers at McDonald’s.”

Kussman gave the speech anyway via teleconference and took the opportunity to speak out about the importance of education and thank those who had lifted him up.

“I feel it’s my calling to stand alongside people who are suffering,” Kussman said. “I want to treat people how I would want to be treated, because there’s a commonality within us all.”

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startups or joint ventures, and trying to make sure that we have the nimbleness to accommodate different potential research collaborators as they come in,” Eisgruber said at the meeting.

One of the hallmarks of the relationship between the University and the town community is the multi-year agreement signed between the city council and University officials.

According to the Office of Communications, the most recent agreement from 2014 lasts seven years, outlining a $22 million contribution over to the town for an array of services and projects.

The most prominent services involve personnel support between Public Safety and the Princeton Police Department, according to Sergeant Fred Williams.

“In monthly meetings, we see how we can do things better … constantly working to make the relationship as balanced as it can be,” he said.

One example Williams referenced was that PSAFE and the PPD share their responses to calls.

In addition, Sergeant Williams recommended that the University continue to support the essay and sporting competitions it co-hosted with the police department.

According to Williams, those competitions built trust between the police and the community.

Students also have an active role in the University’s partnership with the community. University students are a part of, or run, tutoring services and volunteer programs such as the Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad (PFARS).

Tim Sadov ’22, who is actively involved in tutoring math and history to Princeton’s middleschool students with Academic Success Today (AST), wrote in an email to The Daily Princetonian that the University could better advertise opportunities such as AST. “Many of my friends are unaware that these programs exist,” he wrote in the email.

Sadov added that the local community could always benefit from more tutors from schools like Princeton.

While some of the programs run by the University are volunteer-based, many are run due to the aforementioned agreement between the campus and the city council.

However, the agreement is set to expire within the next two years.

When asked about future contributions on behalf of the University, Mayor Lempert told the ‘Prince’ that she hoped for additional agreements.

“They create stability and allow both parties to make projections into the future of the Princeton campus and community,” she said.

While impressed with the nature of the city’s relationship with the University, Councilwoman Leticia Fraga stated that

she would like the University to contribute even more to local businesses and vendors in the Monday meeting with Eisgruber.

Agreements between the University and the town foster the cooperative climate needed for the University to pursue its own projects, especially considering the University’s solidifying plans to expand its borders through the establishment of new residential spaces for undergraduate and graduate students, according to the Mayor’s office.

The establishment of Perelman College, for instance, will increase the size of the first-year class by 10 percent, according to a separate report by the Office of Communications. The meeting at the city council established that, for such plans to be executed, University administrators require the support of the Princeton community at large.

In discussions following the release of the contributions, the city council and University affirmed that although the University can improve its commitment to the surrounding community, the relationship between the two remains very firm.

“We are grateful for our community partners, who are always willing to speak with us about new ideas and to work collaboratively to develop and enhance town-gown partnership,” wrote Deputy University Spokesperson Michael Hotchkiss in an email to the ‘Prince.’

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Why we need opinion sections, even with the occasional bad take Hunter Campbell Columnist

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o we really need opinion sections?”

This is a question I ask myself on a biweekly basis when I sit down to write my column contributions for The Daily Princetonian. I also ask myself this question when reading other op-eds from both the ‘Prince’ and national media outlets. Occasionally, I will see a column so poorly written, or advocating for such a ridiculous or heinous idea, that I begin to wonder if it would have been better had this piece not been published.

Nonetheless, even with all the flaws that I believe are inherent to some opinion sections, I still believe they are essential components of any media organization, be it the ‘Prince’ or the Times.

A common critique of columnists is that they pen too many articles with little or tangential relevance to the real world, beyond certain elitist bubbles. Why should you care what a random writer at a newspaper thinks about an issue that is of no interest to you? This is an entirely fair complaint. I propose a solution: if you sincerely believe that a paper is publishing

opinion pieces about inconsequential topics, then you should vote with your wallet and not purchase the paper.

Don’t click on its articles if it is publishing what you believe to be low- quality material.

This could push outlets to seek out more engaging topics for their opinion writers. Yet this actionable solution only applies to opinion sections that homogeneously push out intellectually soporific content. It may very well be the case that a paper publishes columns on subjects you find interesting. What may be some complaints in this situation?

One could argue that while yes, opinion sections often cover engaging topics, columnists frequently lack authority to write on the issues. It can be incredibly frustrating to read a column from someone who has a poor understanding of the topic at hand.

Such columns are often riddled with logical fallacies and factual errors. Yet, if we apply too high a journalistic standard to everyone, we would doom our ability to interact with the world around us.

Imagine, for example, if Congress operated with this mentality. Only astrophysicists would be able to vote on legislation regarding NASA, and only a general with decades of experience would be able to make choices regarding the appropriation of funds to the military.

Such a system would not work. Similarly, voters have to make choices on multifaceted topics, likely with little to no experience in foreign policy, healthcare, law, economics, etc. Instead of looking for someone’s qualifications — which frequently results in the “argument from authority” fallacy — we should simply examine the soundness of the opinion a columnist expresses, including the quality of the evidence provided.

Given the ease of accessing information today, acquiring evidence should be relatively easy for a columnist even if they are not an expert in a field. If a columnist’s argument is sound, and they provide ample evidence for their opinion, then any lack of qualification is rendered moot.

Whether an argument is well-reasoned, however, should not be the only criterion for publication. It will come as a surprise to no one that columnists sometimes have bad or even harmful takes. I am sure most of us can recall a time when someone expressed an opinion so vile or absurd that we wondered why the editors of a paper even allowed its publication.

In these situations it is best to think of the rainbow that comes after the rain. The swift backlash and condemnation that arise after people collectively conclude that a certain opinion is simply unworthy of further consideration actually

helps us to reaffirm our distaste for it.

It creates discussion on why the opinion is so ridiculous in the first place. Bad opinion pieces can unite us against bad ideas. Getting rid of opinion sections just to stop the periodic publication of subpar columns negates the benefit of uniting against ideas we condemn.

Moreover, exposure to contrasting ideas will force you to sharpen your rebuttals and allow you to become better skilled at defending your own positions. Ultimately, dealing with these articles is a tough but necessary exercise if you want to succeed in the public sphere.

Opinion sections can get incredibly obnoxious, especially when columnists themselves buy into the “argument from authority” fallacy and treat their own words as gospel simply because they are printed on a piece of paper. Instead of letting this bother you the next time you read a column that grinds your gears, try to think of the benefits that come from its publication.

Sometimes the responses to an article that occur around dinner tables or in a dining hall can be far more important than the unfounded opinion spewed out by a columnist.

Hunter Campbell is a junior from East Arlington, Vt. He can be reached at hunterc@princeton. edu.

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et’s face it. A lot of us are pretty bad at responding to texts.

We use the preview function on our phones without actually responding.

Even worse, we turn off the read receipts on their phones — precisely so we can respond much later or simply ignore the messages without feeling guilty.

But you should feel guilty – especially when it comes to staying in touch with childhood friends. As someone who’s attended 10 different schools, I know the pain of experiencing the people who meant the world to me slowly fade away — and at the same time, the surprisingly little amount of effort needed to maintain those relationships: texting them regularly and promptly.

Please respond to their texts The vast majority of students reading this article will likely face a similar problem — that of fading friendships from home. But if all of us want to keep up with some of our valuable, lifelong friends we had before Princeton began, then we should recognize how important texting is and make it a priority. It could be the only meaningful medium of communication, especially when we are thousands of miles away from our friends.

Many of my high-school friends reading this article would find it comically hypocritical that I am raising this opinion. And I concede that I still sometimes fall into the same trap that many others do — either I flat out do not check my phone for hours, or, when I do, I tend to rarely read through and respond to the messages that I have received. It is not uncommon

that I see 20 or 30 messages piled up that I haven’t responded to in a week.

This unhealthy texting behavior has taken a toll on my social life outside of Princeton. I have now either lost touch with or feel distanced from many of my friends that I thought I would keep up with throughout my entire life. Looking back, it began with a couple messages that I had perhaps forgotten to respond to — which later culminated in the end of the conversation altogether.

But high-school friends matter – as well as friends that we had before coming here to Princeton. As Jessica Nyquist argues in her column on reconnecting with lost friends, it is incredibly easy to get lost in the detached, and at times, elitist, atmosphere of Princeton. Our childhood friends ground us in the reality outside of the

“Orange Bubble.”

Moreover, our childhood friends were there when times were simpler. As we grow, we tend to focus on the more professional, materialistic, and perhaps more self-centered goals in life, whether that be securing internships or gunning for graduate schools. The more authentic connections we made as children provide us with a home, a reminder of childhood, a special kind of refuge from the constant stress we face in the outside world. It’s something we direly need.

At Princeton, it is very difficult to experience how valuable these childhood friendships can be. We always have people we greet when we walk to class and study groups to do problem sets with. It can feel as if we are never alone — or we are always too busy to even think

about it. But when hardships strike, our childhood or high-school friends can be the important outside perspective, or perhaps the only outside perspective, that aids us with personalized advice.

As I now try to stay connected to friends from vastly different locations, I regret not investing time into the simple act of texting to maintain more pre-Princeton friendships.

So let’s get better at texting. It’s not just a matter of courtesy. It is these simple, daily acts like texting that constitute and define abstract words like “friendship” or “love” — especially when our friends are physically so far away from us.

Jae-Kyung Sim is a first-year from Sejong City, South Korea.

He can be reached at j.sim@ princeton.edu.

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Women’s hockey shoots for ECAC regular season title this weekend

By Owen Tedford Senior Writer

This weekend, the No. 6 women’s hockey team (18–4–5, 15–2–3 ECAC) will travel to No. 5 Clarkson (24–7–1, 15–5–0) and St. Lawrence (13–13–6, 8–7–5). All three teams are in line to make the ECAC playoffs.

But with no seeding yet decided, the stakes remain high.

Clarkson and Princeton are battling No. 4 Cornell (18–3–6, 15–3–2) both for the No. 1 seed in the ECAC tournament and for home ice advantage throughout the playoffs.

Home ice for the quarterfinals has already been decided for Princeton, Cornell, Clarkson, and Colgate — who, in some order, will finish as the top four seeds. St. Lawrence is in a four-team battle

with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Harvard, and Quinnipiac for the fifth through eighth seeds.

On Friday at 6 p.m., the Tigers will head to Potsdam, N.Y., to take on the Golden Knights. Earlier this month in Princeton, Clarkson got the better of the Tigers, walking away with a 3–1 victory. The performance broke Princeton’s 20game unbeaten streak — which, the longest in program history, had propelled them to a No. 4 national ranking.

In the Feb. 2 game, the Tigers dominated on offense; they outshot Clarkson 38–20. However, they were unable to get their power-play offense working. Though Princeton ranks No. 1 nationally in converting those power-play opportunities, the team netted no

goals in six attempts. Princeton played a relatively clean game, finishing with only two penalties. However, the Golden Knights were able to capitalize on one of those chances. In all, an improved special teams performance on Friday could be a key for a Tigers win.

Princeton will face St. Lawrence in Canton, N.Y., at 3 p.m. on Saturday. When the teams met last, they played one of the Tigers’ most exciting games this year; with 3.2 seconds left in overtime, a goal by first-year forward Maggie Connors lifted Princeton to a 4–3 victory.

Princeton was able to net a power-play goal on one of its three opportunities. But unable to kill off all four of its penalties, it gave one up as well. Though the Saints outshot the Tigers 41–31, great net work by junior goalie

Stephanie Neatby kept Princeton in the game. Neatby made 38 saves, including 16 in the third period alone. St. Lawrence’s goalie only had to face 14 shots over the second and third periods combined; expect the Tigers to up their offensive pressure come Saturday.

As mentioned, a lot of things can still happen in the ECAC standings. Princeton can currently finish anywhere from the first through third seed, but the team controls its destiny. A sweep this weekend will guarantee the Tigers the No. 1 spot. One win will guarantee them at least the No. 2; Cornell could only then earn the No. 1 seed if the Big Red sweeps this weekend against RPI and Union. Importantly, were Colgate, Cornell, and Princeton to end up tied on points, Princeton holds the

head-to-head tiebreaker.

The tiebreaker against Clarkson remains undecided. Princeton can only win it if it beats the Golden Knights on Friday night and then has one of the following scenarios happen: Princeton wins over St. Lawrence, Clarkson loses to or ties with Quinnipiac, or Princeton and Clarkson tie on number of wins, because Princeton has a better record (3–2–1) than Clarkson (2–0–4) against the other teams in the top four.

For those unable to make the trips, the games will be streamed online on ESPN+ for fans in the United States. For fans abroad, there is a link on the GoPrincetonTigers website to access a stream.

There will also be live updates available on the Princeton Women’s Hockey Twitter (@PWIH).

MEN’S BASKETBALL

PREVIEW: Men’s basketball looks to earn season sweeps over Columbia, Cornell

By Tom Salotti associate sports editor

Men’s basketball (13–8, 5–3 Ivy) will face off against Cornell (13–11, 5–3) on Friday night and Columbia (16–6, 1–7) on Saturday.

Princeton currently sits tied with Cornell for third place in the Ivy League after last weekend’s double header that saw the team fall to Harvard (13–8, 6–2) and edge out a win over Dartmouth (11–13, 2–6).

On Friday night the Tigers will go up against the Big Red. The team defeated Cornell earlier in the season in Ithaca, N.Y., 70–61 in overtime. Last year, Princeton slammed the Big Red at Jadwin 91–54, but lost the rematch later in the season in Ithaca, 107–101 in triple overtime. Junior center Richmond Aririguzoh hit 20 points that game, and will look to do so again. The two teams’ alltime record is 147–81 in the Tigers’ favor, and the record at Jadwin Gymnasium stands at 87–27. Still,

the Tigers must win on Friday or risk falling further in the Ivy League standings.

The Tigers’ success will hinge partially on their ability to contain Cornell guard Matt Morgan.

Morgan is Cornell’s all-time leading scorer and is averaging 23.6 points per game and 45 percent three-point shooting this season.

Senior guard Myles Stephens drew the assignment of guarding Morgan in the teams’ previous matchup, in which Morgan scored 16 points.

The following night the team will square up against Columbia, who sits at eighth and last place in the conference. The day before defeating Cornell earlier this month, the Tigers topped Columbia in New York City 55–43 in a low scoring game. Senior guard and captain Myles Stephens scored 17 that game, followed by sophomore guard Ryan Schwieger with 15. The only other game this season where Princeton scored fewer points was against

nationally ranked Duke (23–3, 11–2 ACC), where it were crushed 101–50. Princeton and Columbia’s all-time record is 153–86 all-time in the Tigers’ favor, and the team holds an 83–34 advantage over the Lions in Jadwin Gymnasium.

Should the Tigers lose one or even both games this weekend, they could fall out of the race for the Ivy League championship.

The tournament, which began in 2017, includes the top four teams in the conference. The first and fourth seed play each other, as do the second and third seeds.

The winners of the semi-finals face off in the championship, and the winner heads to the March Madness tournament. This year, the Ivy tournament will be held at Yale University on March 16 and 17.

Both games tip of at 8 p.m. in Jadwin Gym. Friday’s game is Sustainability Night and Saturday is Social Media Night. Both nights feature giveaways for the first 125 fans.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

PREVIEW: Women’s basketball prepares for rematches with Cornell, Columbia

By Alissa Selover associate sports editor

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The Tigers earned a dominant 28–6 victory over Penn on Saturday

In their last meet-up, Princeton beat Columbia 79–64. The Tigers shot .453 from the field, had 47 rebounds, and racked up nine steals. This was also the game that junior Bella Alarie set two Ivy League records. The story of her record-breaking performance, and a recap of the game, can be found here. Sophomore Carlie Littlefield also contributed 18 points.

Princeton beat Cornell – on Feb. 2 – 75–46, with a field goal percentage of .410, a three-point percentage of .375, and a free-throw percentage of .842, all of which were higher than Cornell’s corresponding percentages throughout the game. Alarie secured a doubledouble and first-year Lexi Weger had a season-best 13 points.

As the Tigers prepare for their sec-

ond meeting with these teams, there are two things that they need to be prepared for. The Big Red are one of the best teams in the country in defending the three-point line, ranking 19th in the nation. Though this wasn’t a problem the last time that the Tigers played the Big Red, they need to go into the game prepared to face this defense.

Second, the Tigers need to continue to get rebounds. Having high rebounds this season has allowed the Tigers to continue to put up a fight against their Ivy League competitors.

“We’re on the journey and we learned a lot after the Penn loss that we can’t just look past any games. We are going to just keep learning and take one game at a time and hopefully it takes care of itself,” head coach Courtney Banghart explained in her podcast, “The Court Report with Courtney Banghart,” on Feb. 20.

Coach Banghart also explained that last year, the team went into every game with the goal to win in a landslide, whereas this year, they move into their second matchups with the idea of who the other teams are and what they need to look out for.

On Friday, before the matchup against Cornell, the Tigers will honor Alarie for scoring 1,000 career points before tip-off, and on Saturday, the team will honor senior Sydney Jordan for winning the Pyne Honor Prize. The Pyne Honor Prize is awarded annually to a member of the senior class who has “most clearly manifested excellent scholarship and effective support of the best interests of the University.” It is the highest general distinction conferred upon an undergraduate.

Both games will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Jadwin Gymnasium, with Cornell on Friday and Columbia on Saturday.

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