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In Opinion Barbara Zhan responds to the “Hose Bicker” movement, and Lea Trusty justifies the current AP U.S. History curriculum. PAGE 4
ALUMNI DAY
Queen Noor of Jordan ’73 talks women, injustice at Alumni Day By Annie Yang staff writer
Today on Campus 5 p.m. Journalist, author and filmmaker Tariq Ali will be giving a lecture on “The State of Palestine” at the 12th Annual Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture. McCosh 10.
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The Archives
Feb. 23, 1990 The University’s 250th anniversary prompted production on a documentary film focusing on major events in Princeton’s history, under Alan Greenspan’s direction.
PRINCETON By the Numbers
1951 The year the first AfricanAmerican undergraduate to be admitted by the University’s admissions process graduated from the University
News & Notes Cornell hosts Ivy League Vegan Conference Cornell hosted the fourth Ivy League Vegan Conference, with over 300 anticipated visitors, this past weekend. The event, hosted by Cornell for the first time, was free for Cornell students. The conference is the only Ivy League conference dedicated to discussions about vegan diets, academics, policy and bioethics. Attendees, through facilitated discussion, learned more about new perspectives on global issues related to veganism and explored the relationship between health and a vegan diet. Events included a career fair and a lunch, as well as presentations from several speakers. The conference also included discussion periods and a networking event for students, in which attendees could learn more about opportunities with companies and organizations committed to promoting vegan lifestyles. Ithaca was rated the fifth most vegan-friendly city in the United States by VegNews Magazine in 2013. The last Ivy League Vegan Conference was held at Princeton last year.
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Queen Noor of Jordan, formerly Lisa Halaby ’73, was awarded the Woodrow Wilson Award. STUDENT LIFE
Panel discusses women’s experiences in eating clubs By Pooja Patel staff writer
Gender and the eating club experience cannot always be separated, a panel of alumni and current students concluded at a discussion, “A Conversation on Women and Eating Clubs,” held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Alumni Day. Panelists were Joanna Anyanwu ’15, a Women’s Center intern and member of Cap & Gown club; Julia Blount ’12 former president and trustee of Quadrangle Club; Hap Cooper ’82, president of the Tiger Inn graduate board; Joe Margolies ’15, former president of Quadrangle Club and president of the Interclub Council; Sydney Kirby ’15, vice president of Cannon Club; and Lucia Perasso ’16, president of Terrace Club. The event was moderated by Lisa Schmucki ’74, a trustee of Cap and an adviser to the ICC and Graduate Interclub Council. Both Blount and Perasso said they initially considered running for vice president of their respective eating clubs instead of president. “Traditionally, [Quad has] had a lot of female vice presidents,” Blount said. “I took the leap to run anyway, and I ran against seven men.” Being a female president of an eating club does involve a certain degree of behavior modification, Perasso said. “It became very gendered in a way I didn’t expect,” she explained. “Once I was elected, I did realize that there is an element of having to fulfill the expectation of norm male behavior that people assume that presidential people in positions of power will have.”
Kirby, however, said she had a different experience. “I think that ‘being one of the boys’ or having to act in an agentic manner or display typical male traits isn’t necessarily something that I found at Cannon,” she said. “I think the women officers that were elected in Cannon are fairly feminine, stereotypically.” TI had to confront issues of equality especially painfully last year, Cooper said. “Ever had one of those mornings where you second guessed your decision to get out of bed?” asked Cooper. “[TI’s graduate board] had one of those years last year.” Since two TI officers were fired last fall for the alleged distribution of a sexual photograph, the club accepted more women than men in the Bicker process this year, instituted a tip line through which any member can call the graduate board anonymously with an issue without having to deal with undergraduate officers and changed the officer training program to include more on sexual misconduct and alcohol abuse awareness, Cooper said. Newly elected members do not assume office until fall of their senior year, after they have completed the training, he added. “It took a lot of learning to develop the tools that were necessary to make the decisions that drove the behavior that had to change. It was a tough year but a really important year,” he said. “There was a slippery slope of behavior that went from inappropriate to misogynistic to dangerous.” TI conducted a poll of its members last November, See EATING CLUBS page 2
F E AT U R E
Women are the key to progress in the Arab world, Woodrow Wilson Award winner Queen Noor of Jordan — formerly Lisa Halaby ’73 — said during Alumni Day on Saturday. The award is given annually to an alumnus or alumna who embodies the ideals former University President Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, set forth in his speech, ”Princeton in the Nation’s Service.” With training, education and economic opportunity, women become capable of stabilizing nations and radically increasing GDP, she said. She added that microfinance allows women to play an active role in their communities. “No strategy that marginalizes women can succeed: To stifle their rights, hamper their work and to deny their contributions not only demeans women but also women’s progress,” she said, adding that she noticed in her work that women have extensive experience with reconciliation and nurturing peace. The primary problems that prevent women in the Arab world from receiving their rights are in fact social and economic, she said. However, these problems are often presented in religious terms, she added. Addressing a belief that Islam is the reason for misogyny in the Arab
world, Queen Noor noted that seventh century Islam allowed women political, legal and social rights that were unheard of in other countries. Current practices seen as coercive are not mandated in the Quran but are holdovers from pre-Islamic social culture, she added. “Women are not simply a special category of problems to be addressed or ignored — they are the key to the solution,” she said. Queen Noor also addressed the economic and political prospects of Arab youth. A majority of the population in the Arab world — about 60 percent — is under the age of thirty, she said, adding they face one of the highest unemployment rates in the world. State-based tyranny will also continue until a government based on the rule of law is created, she said. “ISIS or ISIL/Daesh are neither Islamic nor a state,” she said. The difficulty in addressing extremism is that the majority of the money spent in military and humanitarian aid often lines the pockets of leaders, she explained. The interventions of the United States in Arab countries such as Syria serves only to strengthen militants’ convictions, she added. Education and human rights reforms are essential to peace and development, she said, adding that when force must be used, it should See INJUSTICE page 2
ALUMNI DAY
Eakes GS ’80 discusses homes, inequality By Annie Yang staff writer
Home ownership is one of the most important factors in breaking the cycle of poverty because it can stabilize the family and neighborhood, James Madison Medal winner Martin Eakes GS ’80 said at an Alumni Day lecture on Saturday. The James Madison Medal was established in 1973 and is conferred upon a Graduate School alumnus who has had a distinguished career, achieved a record of outstanding public service or advanced the cause of graduate education. “Economist and community builder, tireless advocate for social progress, and economic justice and opportunity,” reads the inscription on the medal. Eakes received a Master in Public Affairs from the Wilson School. He said he was at first unfamiliar with life away from home, and that his
Southern accent and careful manner of speech did little to help him fit in. “When I first came to Princeton, I considered myself a foreign student; even the students from India, when I first started arguing with them, were not sure that I was speaking English,” he said. The year he earned his graduate degree, he established two organizations in Durham, N.C. — the Center for Community Self-Help, where he continues to serve as CEO, and the law firm Gulley, Eakes, Volland & Calhoun. Self-Help had humble origins in a $77 bake sale, but grew to become worth more than $2 billion, loaning over $7 billion to businesses, non-profits and low-income people, according to Eakes. Eakes insisted on providing fair mortgages and allowing everyone the opportunity to own a home See INEQUALITY page 2
STUDENT LIFE
Black History Month: Look- USG senate tackles Mental Health Week ing back from 1792 to 1950s By Katherine Oh staff writer
By Shriya Sekhsana staff writer
Race relations at the University have transformed significantly from a time when admitted students were turned away because of their race to a time when multiple diversity initiatives and ad hoc committees have been created to make students feel comfortable on campus. According to sources, the history of African-American students at the University has been complex starting from 1792. 1792: The potentially first African-American University student Although John Chavis, a young African-American man, was nominated for the Leslie Fund Scholarship set aside for poor and pious students who wanted to get a Presbyterian
education, he does not appear in contemporary class rolls, and there are no records of him having ever attended the University. Melvin McCray ’74, who has spent considerable time preserving campus AfricanAmerican history, said Chavis’ nomination for the Leslie Fund Scholarship is recorded in the minutes of the meeting of the Board of Trustees in 1792. “All the history in his family places him at Princeton as a student,” McCray said. “I am searching for documents to prove it without a reasonable doubt, but I haven’t come across that. And I may not ever.” Chavis moved on to study at another college upon the death of then-University President John Witherspoon for unknown reasons. In 1799, Chavis became the first African-AmerSee FEATURE page 3
Committee applications, Mental Health Week and increased access to New York City were among the topics discussed by the Undergraduate Student Government at their weekly senate meeting on Sunday night. Members of the senate discussed the recently received committee applications, and members noted that the number of applications received was lower than the numbers from the previous semester. “I think it was much higher in the fall; I tried to maximize the amount of responses to the committee app,” USG president Ella Cheng ’16 said. “I think the timing was bad. We tried to avoid the first week, but it still looks like the apps are a little lower than we wanted.” Cheng is a former staff writer for The Daily Princetonian. Cheng also explained that she met with University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 last week, and that Eisgruber encour-
aged members of USG to seek more direct contact with administration. Led by treasurer Hunter Dong ’17, the senate also reviewed the procedure for requesting funds, and noted that USG also hopes to increase the transparency of its finances. “The budgets are actually available to the public, but I doubt that anybody has tried to see them. So I will try to actually make them as public as possible, so people can see what we’re spending,” Dong explained, adding that he welcomed feedback about the budgets from the general student body. U-councilor Naimah Hakim ’16 said that the programming for the upcoming Mental Health Week will include the “Dear World” photography project. Students who wish to participate in the “Dear World” project can get a ticket and have their photo taken. Former U-council chair Zhan Okuda-Lim ’15 explained that participants can write something on their arm and share a story behind the writing, along with a photo
of themselves. The stories can be positive stories of hope, or about vulnerabilities and insecurities. “The feedback we received from last year’s Mental Health Week, a lot of students said they liked the photography aspect; they liked seeing this project where people shared their stories, but they wanted something with a more positive outlook,” Okuda-Lim said. U-councilor Jacob Cannon ’17 noted that the photography project is a fun, new way for students to get involved. “The other thing is that ideally there will be conversations as well, but those are harder to schedule because of the pace of this place,” Cannon said. Hakim said that the Mental Health Initiative Board plans to increase collaboration with other groups on campus. The board is also working with the Counseling and Psychological Services Director Calvin Chin to discuss ways in which students could better respond to friends or peers going through stress. Hakim noted that See USG page 2
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Cooper said, and found that 70 percent of the club did not believe that a woman had much of a chance of winning a high officer position in the club. On Wednesday night, the club elected a female president, a female treasurer and a female safety officer. Anyanwu said the results were a good starting point but not the end of the process equality at eating clubs. “I think there should be a distinction between success on a position level and cultural change,” she said. “It’s important that these changes are being made, but it’s really key to see if these changes are being internalized.” Both male and female officers have to be concerned with equality, Margolies said. “This is a responsibility that also falls on male officers. To a huge extent it’s important that there’s female leadership in the clubs,” he said. “But
if you have a situation where only female leaders are concerned with female issues in the clubs then you’re right back to square one.” TI’s survey indicated that a significant number of men were concerned with women’s rights and a number of women were not, Cooper said, adding that the same trend could be found on the TI graduate board. “One of the reasons is the women are younger, and they can remember the stuff that is going on,” he said. “They liked being passed down the stairs naked, and most people survive without being too badly fondled.” These perspectives do not cheapen the experience of women’s marginalization, Anyanwu said. “We live in a patriarchal society, one that is upheld by both men and women,” she said. “So this idea that women are more resistant is indicative of the fact that we live in a society where women have internalized aspects of their own marginalization. It’s also indicative of how women have to adapt to spaces
that are sometimes hostile to them, and to exist in those spaces means going along with the status quo.” Men and women also face double standards, Margolies said. “There is this entire world of information that women have to be careful of, that men not only don’t have to be careful of, but don’t even know about,” he explained, recalling an incident when he was informed of a number of sexual assaults that occurred on a night of sorority initiations. If more people, specifically more men, were aware of such information, it would mobilize people who ordinarily would think events don’t occur at this campus into action, he said. The event was cosponsored by the Princeton Women’s Mentorship Program, the Office of Alumni Affairs, the Alumni Council’s Committee on Alumnae Initiatives, Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education and the Mavric Project. The panel took place at 3 p.m. on Friday in McCosh 50.
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be within the confines of international law. “Missiles may kill terrorists, but good governance kills terrorism,” she said, adding that uprisings that
have occurred across the Middle East show promise for the eventual emergence of good governance. Queen Noor also discussed her time before attending the University and her time at the University. When she arrived on campus, one of her first aspirations was to join the Peace Corps, she said, add-
ing her experience marching with Martin Luther King Jr. was a defining moment in her life. She pursued a major in architecture and urban planning, which she said exposed her to a number of different ideas and people. The lecture took place in Richardson Auditorium at 10:30 a.m.
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through Self-Help to address the fact that, among American families, 73 percent white, 50 percent African-American and 42 percent Latino, were homeowners. “I don’t covet your money, what I covet is your distribution network — you have branches and loan offices in every corner of the United States — and if you will make these loans to low-income Americans, I will make you a Godfather-like proposition: you get to have the credit, you get to charge the loan percent fee, you get to have your community reinvestment obligation, and I’ll take all of the risk,” he said. His program was successful, with an annual return on equity of over 23 percent since the founding of the organization in 1980. Although Eakes faced threats by the Ku Klux Klan, lending companies and various drug dealers, he said he was not fazed because he knew that he was doing right. Over the course of 11 years, he added, he had not lost any money through faulty loans. He even found that many of the recipients of the loans not only paid back in full, but also approached him for help in refinancing their homes in order to save money for the family. “Income gives a family the re-
sources to make short-term choices, but assets and wealth give a family the choice to make long-term investments,” he said. Eakes cited his personal experiences with inequity as illuminating. As a child, he had moved to a community in Greensboro, N.C., where the citizens were approximately 99 percent African-American, Eakes said. He expressed faith that poor people were better borrowers than rich people were, citing a bet he had made that single African-American mothers would pay off any loan given to them on fair terms. African-American or Latino families have approximately onetenth the wealth that white families have, Eakes noted, adding that these families often have almost zero or negative cash wealth, which often excludes them from purchasing a home due to the high down payment necessary. He added that minorities have suffered from pernicious lending practices in America, where 52 percent of African-Americans and 40 percent of Latinos received faulty loans or subprime mortgages, compared to 19 percent of white families. Eakes also saw a correlation between areas of high minority concentration and home foreclosures. “These communities were utterly destroyed; if you have foreclosures one after another within
a block, you have what they taught me at Princeton in the Woodrow Wilson School: an externality,” he said. On a broader level, Eakes noted that income inequality has increased to pre-Great Depression levels, despite the recent recession. He added that 43 percent of financial wealth is concentrated in the top 1 percent of wealthy Americans, contrasted with 7 percent owned by the lowest 80 percent. “ ‘It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men,’ Eakes said, quoting Frederick Douglass, a leader of the abolitionist movement. “I think this is the challenge of our time, whether it’s in the villages of Iraq or Libya, or in the inner cities of Los Angeles, Chicago or Baltimore.” Abandoned young men who were not raised with hope or ambition will often find affiliations in other forms of family, like gangs. He said that without the means to provide for a family, many turn to violence, drugs or theft. “I believe that suffering and selfsacrifice can heal the corrosion that has taken hold of this world,” he said. “If struggle is the defining characteristic of life, let’s make that struggle worthwhile.” The lecture, titled “Homes, Lending, and Wealth Inequality in America,” took place on Saturday at 9 a.m. in Richardson Auditorium.
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another change in the programming for Mental Health Week was the inclusion of “Me too Monologues.” “As far as health and wellness goes, there are students that feel as though mental health may not be for them,” Hakim said, “that’s where the wellness part is really critical, that this really is a campus-wide initiative, that even if you don’t identify with these issues that it could be your roommate, somebody on your team.”
Cheng added that USG hopes this year’s Mental Health Week will see increased student participation. Social chair Simon Wu ’17 proposed a way to provide easier access to arts events in New York City, explaining that the social committee is working with the New York venue Terminal 5 to launch a large concert series for which students will have to buy the concert tickets themselves, but for which USG would provide transportation. According to Wu, the social committee is currently organizing a pilot run for two concerts, OK Go and The Chainsmokers, in order to better gauge student interest.
One bus will be provided for each concert, and the committee hopes to have both underclassmen and upperclassmen take advantage of this opportunity. “I think we should give it a chance,” U-councilor Dallas Nan ’16 said. “Maybe there’s a way to specify that a certain number of tickets are reserved for upperclassmen, because they don’t have that many opportunities.” The senate also discussed the possibility of increased support for free fitness opportunities on campus, as well as plans for Princeton Preview for the admitted Class of 2019.
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ican licensed to preach by the Presbyterian Church. He also started the Chavis School for white and free black children, considered to be the best contemporary secondary school in North Carolina. In 1831, laws passed in North Carolina in the wake of the Nat Turner Rebellion in Virginia decreed that African-Americans were no longer allowed to congregate in public. Chavis was stripped of his license to preach and had to close the school. 1817: The potentially first African-American woman associated with the University Betsey Stockton was born into slavery and given to the wife of former University President Reverend Ashbel Green upon their marriage, McCray said. She was freed from slavery in 1817 and became a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Princeton. Stockton was homeschooled by Green while she worked in his household as a paid domestic servant. Green even wrote her a letter of recommendation when she wished to go to Hawaii as a missionary along with Charles Stewart, a student at the Princeton Theological Seminary. She became the first single American woman sent overseas as a missionary. She also helped to found a school for aboriginal people in Canada and Princeton’s First Presbyterian Church of Color, which is now the Witherspoon Street Church. Upon her return to Princeton in 1835, she taught in local schools for African Americans until her death in 1865. “She lived a really incredible life doing missionary work,” McCray said.
1843: An escaped slave whom Princeton College “bought” James “Jimmy Stink” Collins was born to two slaves in Maryland in 1816. On Aug. 8, 1839, he escaped from captivity in Maryland on foot with $5 in his pocket. He changed his name to James Johnson and arrived at the University, then called Princeton College, where he began working as a janitor. In 1843, Simon Weeks, Class of 1838, a native of Maryland and also a student at Princeton Theological Seminary, recognized Johnson and informed his employers. In a trial that ensued, Johnson was found guilty of violating the Fugitive Slave Act. A young woman, Theodosia Prevost, purchased his freedom for $550, and Princeton students collected $100 for Johnson to start over as a free man. In 1855, Johnson began a used clothing store on Witherspoon Street. In 1880, he secured the rights to be a monopoly in outdoor food vending on campus. “He certainly was an integral part of the lives of many students who took a liking to him and also took care of him in his old age,” McCray said. University students bought a tombstone for Johnson’s gravesite in Princeton Cemetery, which to this day reads, “the students’ friend.” 1870s: A race-related battle under the presidency of James McCosh Matthew Anderson, Francis Grimke, Hugh Mason Brown and Daniel Wallace Culp were four young African-American men at the Princeton Theological Seminary who attended the classes of then-University President James McCosh in the 1870s. Several white students in the class allegedly appealed to McCosh to expel them, threatening to withdraw if the black students were not expelled from the class. When McCosh refused to
deny the four African-American students the right to attend his class, two of the white students who were originally in his class withdrew their status as University students and returned to their respective hometowns. However, upon what is believed to be pressure from their parents, the students returned to the University and asked for McCosh’s forgiveness. They were then readmitted and attended the same class as the four black students without further incident. 1939: A man who was turned away Bruce Wright was an African-American student who had been accepted with a scholarship to the University in the 1930s. While he stood in line to register himself at the University, however, an upperclassman approached him and said that Radcliffe Heermance, the Dean of Admission, wanted to see him. According to a 1997 article in The Daily Princetonian, Wright said that Heermance told him, “If you’re trying to come here, you’re going someplace where you’re not wanted.” Wright also recalled being told that the admissions committee was unaware of his race before he was admitted. “He always felt exploited by Princeton and hurt — hurt badly,” McCray said. Heermance told Wright he would feel alone on campus due to lack of other AfricanAmerican people, and that he should consider going to a college in the South instead, according to a letter donated by McCray to Mudd Library. “I cannot conscientiously advise a colored student to apply for admission to Princeton simply because I do not think that he would be happy in this environment,” Heermance wrote. Wright eventually graduated from Lincoln University
in Pennsylvania and went on to serve as a member of the New York Supreme Court. Wright was later named an honorary member of the Class of 2001 before his death in 2005. 1940s: The beginning Students began to question the status quo in the 1940s. In fall 1942, Frank Broderick ’43 began a campaign in The Daily Princetonian in favor of the admission of African-American students to Princeton. “While 13,000,000 Negro Americans look for signs of their admission to a rightful place in American democracy, Princeton continues its principle of white supremacy and, in an institution devoted to the free pursuit of truth, implicitly perpetuates a racial theory more characteristic of our enemies,” Broderick wrote. During the Second World War, four African-American students — John Leroy Howard ’47, James Everett Ward ’48, Arthur Jewell Wilson ’48 and Melvin Murchison, Jr. — entered the University through the United States Navy’s V-12 program. Ward said he was not ready to attend the University because he did not have the adequate preparatory background. “I came during World War II,” he explained. “At that time, this was a drastic break with Princeton tradition, and only the Navy could have done it.” Ward said his arrival was remarkable and that his acceptance from much of the community led to the formation of some particularly warm friendships. “The Navy sent me from a godforsaken island in the South to Princeton University,” he said. “So you think that I’m going to complain about anything in Princeton? That was absolutely wonderful.” Ward was a member of Prospect Club, an eating club at the time. Members did their own work and only hired a chef,
though they did have a student manager, he said. “We had fun just like the clubs of Prospect Avenue,” he said. Ward said he did recall some alumni concern about the presence of African-American students at the University, and he said that his navy officer gave him and his roommate, Wilson, the option to transfer. However, Wilson was worthy of the varsity basketball team and the coach wanted him to stay, Ward explained. Since his roommate only agreed to stay if his best friend Ward would stay too, they both stayed at the University, he added. Wilson, Ward and Howard all went on to earn degrees from the University. Murchison, however, eventually graduated from Carnegie Mellon University instead, though he remained at the University long enough to become Princeton’s first African-American varsity football player. Ward said he recalled being excited at his commencement exercises, but being unable to understand the proceedings because they were carried out in Latin. “We had a prober that told us when we had to laugh or cheer something,” he said. “But I was impressed.” Ward said that for his peers, he was just another student from the Navy and had a few friends. Though he was conspicuous, he was never singled out, he said. “Some ignored me just as I ignored them,” Ward said. “I was an anomaly, but I have no problem with that. As with any changes, somebody’s got to be the first. But to me it was a tremendous opportunity and experience.” 1950s: Progress sputters After Howard, Ward and Arthur Jewell Wilson graduated, there were not more than one or two more African-Americans per class in the following
classes who graduated, McCray said. “This was essentially the government forcing Princeton to admit these black students [in the 1940s],” McCray said. “There weren’t a whole lot since then.” By the end of the 1940s, however, the University had begun to evaluate African-American students for admission and decided to admit Joseph Ralph Moss ’51, who then became the first African-American undergraduate to be admitted by the University’s admission process, as opposed to through the Navy. The University’s conduct at the time was not a matter of prejudice, but rather one of neglect and failure to be aware of the issue, former University President William Bowen GS ’58 said. “I think people were not as aware of the issues as they should have been,” he said. “It was mainly a matter, I think, of not focusing on the problem.” A speech by Robert Rivers ’53, a former University trustee, given in 2001 at the third Pan-African Graduation in Richardson Auditorium, also sheds light on the AfricanAmerican student experience in the 1950s. Rivers’ time at the University was characterized by unpleasant social encounters resulting from white privilege and preferences, he said, adding he was insulted without apology during the Bicker process for the eating clubs. His experience at the University led to a number of unpredictable opportunities, he added in the speech. Multiple African-American alumni from the 1950s either did not respond to a request for comment or declined to comment. This article is the first in a fivepart Black History Month feature series. Check back tomorrow for a look at the University in the 1960s.
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Why Bicker is necessary Barbara Zhan columnist
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here has been a recent initiative on campus in the form of a petition to call forth a referendum to end Bicker in the Princeton eating clubs. The referendum calls for eating clubs to end Bicker by the 2019-20 academic year and to establish an Undergraduate Student Government committee, which must include a nonvoting member appointed by the Interclub Council, to facilitate the process. Although an initiative to familiarize students with the downsides of Bicker and to introduce to students all available alternatives would be valuable, Bicker still ultimately has a place on this campus.
The fact that there is a need to hose students indicates that there is a demand for certain eating clubs and no way to fulfill that demand. As long as the number of people who want to join certain clubs exceeds the capacity of those clubs, there will be a need for Bicker. Although having a lottery system would be a technically feasible way to allocate membership when there is an excess of students bickering, a lottery system would defeat the purpose of having individual, unique eating clubs. Each eating club facilitates its own culture and personality, which is a large part of the draw for each of these clubs. Although Terrace Club implements the lottery system to address its lack of capacity issues, it is not unreasonable for clubs to choose Bicker as a way of maintaining their culture. It makes sense to choose people based on fit in order to maintain the culture and personality that made the club so desired in the first place. The claim that Bicker divides friend groups is a valid concern. It’s true that meal exchanges don’t mitigate the social distance separating different eating clubs, since meal exchanges don’t cover the other social events that eating clubs host. It’s true that being in different eating clubs may mean that friendships change, especially if friends don’t make the effort to stay close. Ultimately though, the main objective of eating clubs is not to accommodate every student who wants to join and to make sure they feel comfortable and safe and wanted; rather, the objective is to foster a community of people with similar interests and, unfortunately, using a lottery system would be at odds with that objective. There are other alternatives, such as sign-in clubs, co-ops and other avenues to join a social community that don’t involve bickering. There are other ways to keep in touch with friends in different clubs, such as meal exchanges, dining swipes for upperclassmen and guest meals. These alternatives may not be as ideal as joining the same club as friends and being able to eat together every single day, but making sure every single student feels comfortable is not a feasible goal for the eating clubs. It is simply impossible for them to keep everybody happy given capacity limitations, so the goal they strive for when using Bicker as a membership selection method is to foster a cohesive culture. The most difficult part of being hosed is the feeling that it is indicative of you as a person. It’s all too easy to believe that is the case — although I’ve never bickered, I know that gut-sinking feeling of failing a fit interview for an internship and thinking that it’s because I’m inherently an unlikeable, unworthy person. I know friends who weren’t accepted to their topchoice sorority and friends who’ve been hosed from their desired eating clubs. It’s difficult to deal with, knowing that you were judged solely on your personality. However, rejection is not necessarily a commentary on your personality: it may indicate only that you were not the right fit for the company or the sorority or the eating club or that there was simply not enough space. We commonly hold the mentality that we want to be the best at everything and be accepted by everything we apply to. Although it may be hard to see after being hosed by an eating club, often there is another place that will turn out to be a better fit in the end. While “Hose Bicker” would be a way to protect students from feeling like Bicker is a judgment of their character, it is not a feasible course of action for the eating clubs. A better way to help students reach this understanding is to facilitate conversation that helps students genuinely reject the idea that Bicker is indicative of self-worth. This is the conversation that needs to be had on campus: not an abolishment of Bicker, but an understanding of why Bicker is necessary and what hosing means — helping students find places that are better fits for them personally — and what it doesn’t mean — that a person is unlikeable. Barbara Zhan is an Operations Research and Financial Engineering major from Plainsboro, N.J. She can be reached at barbaraz@princeton. edu.
EDITORIAL
Campus speakers and diversity of thought
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son School hosted former Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, as well as Dr. Willie Parker, one of the last physicians performing abortions in Mississippi, to deliver lectures in Robertson Hall. This week, on Wednesday, the Wilson School will welcome last year’s Texan Democrat gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis to campus for another such Universitysponsored lecture. In response to the appearance of these high-profile liberal figures, a number of students on campus have expressed concerns over a perceived liberal homogeneity among invited speakers. Whether or not allegations of a liberal campus orthodoxy have merit, the Editorial Board recognizes the value of diversity of thought on campus and encourages the University to take active measures to encourage constructive debate.
Diversity of thought is critical for the project of a university. It is through the respectful clash of ideas that productive dialogue, mutual understanding and learning occur. This is not to endorse any and all ideology — and certainly not those ideologies that are inimical to fair-minded conversation (such as racism or hate of persons). But reasonable people of goodwill can disagree — and very often they do, especially on difficult questions of faith, morals and politics. These tough questions should be discussed and debated at the University with due
balance and tolerance. We propose two specific ways in which the University can foster diversity of thought at Universitysponsored lectures. First, the University and its various departments should host more panel events with groups of scholars representing different views. Arranging more independent panel events and faculty panels after guest lectures would be especially conducive to robust debate and dialogue. Secondly, we suggest that University lecture coordinators adopt a better format for Q&A sessions at politicallycharged talks than the common system of having questioners form lines behind microphones toward the front of the venue. The University already hosts a number of panel events, but more would be welcome. Such public discussions help to generate a salutary diversity of thought, provided that scholars of different viewpoints from both the Princeton faculty and the greater academic community are selected. Even at major single-speaker events, more could be done to encourage the fruitful clash of ideas. Q&A sessions following a speaker’s remarks allow the audience to engage with speakers in a way that can prove illuminating for all. However, this beneficial outcome is only obtained when a variety of questions are asked. Following Secretary Sebelius’s lecture last week, a group of College Republicans stormed the microphones to ask a litany of confrontational
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questions, thereby preventing many unaffiliated students from asking their own pressing questions. Similarly, at the conclusion of Dr. Willie Parker’s talk the next day, a large group of prochoice graduate students and College Democrats rushed to the microphones to ask friendly questions. In so doing, they prevented many pro-life students from asking their questions. Clearly, this Q&A format is prone to abuse. Single groups monopolizing Q&A sessions narrows the critical conversation and limits the educational value of University events. We propose instead that Q&A sessions be conducted by alternating between questions from those lined up at the microphones and those randomly chosen from the audience by a neutral moderator or by the speaker. This would ensure a balance between the questions of those who take the initiative to get to the microphones and the questions of others who do not make it to the head of the line — whether because of an unfortunate middle-of-the-row seat or because they did not come with a prepared question. Such a format, we believe, would greatly help to bring differing ideas into conversation and enliven the educative experience of these lectures in general. Through a diversity of thought, the best ideas may triumph.
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here are many things that I worried about as a 16-year-old high school sophomore. As a junior at Princeton University, most of those concerns seem irrelevant now, if I can recall what they were at all. Still, there have been moments on campus — from late-night chats with my friends to guest speaker talks to simply interesting lectures — that have brought me back to yesteryear. This happened most recently in the tiny Computer Science Building hall at the start of my American Politics lecture.
We were discussing American traditions of liberalism and republicanism, and the dissonance between them and the historic exclusion of whole groups — like AfricanAmericans, women and immigrants. Our professor posed the question, “How do we understand extensive periods of slavery, genocide, legalized racial and gender inequality and xenophobia within the context of our democratic values? ” It’s an important question to answer: how do we reconcile our Founding Fathers’ convictions about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness with the knowledge that essentially no one but white, land-owning males had any of the three?
My mind could have wandered to many different places as this complex issue was presented to a room full of undergraduates, but it jumped immediately to my AP U.S. History course. Although I can now safely say it was one of my favorite and most critical classes in high school, it wasn’t always so. In fact, had you asked me if I was excited to take the course before enrolling, I would have shaken my head and run for the hills. History had always seemed so cutand-dried, very “first this happened, then this happened, and that’s how we got here!” Furthermore, the class had a reputation of being one of the hardest, most demanding courses in our school’s honors/AP program. In the end, it was one of the most challenging courses I took in high school. However, I was perfectly okay with this,because after a year’s worth of lectures, class discussions, essays and projects, I realized there was absolutely nothing cut-and-dried about history. Many factors contributed to this new insight, but the most important was the way in which my awesome teacher presented the thought-provoking curriculum of the course. It was obvious why many of my other history courses had seemed so bland: The perspectives from which we had studied past events were so narrow. This had nothing to do with the quality of teachers I had, but rather the textbooks around which they had to make lesson plans. Textbooks where both
important and controversial parts of our history — such as the Trail of Tears, the bedrock of slavery in the agrarian south as well as the exploitation of immigrants in the industry-driven north, the important role women played in the Progressive Era, just to name a few — were glazed over, if mentioned at all. I understand that, realistically, every period of American history cannot be covered in a semester. I also understand that many of our country’s historical events and ideologies may be too complex to bring into a fifth- or even 11th-grade classroom. Still, I think it would be naïve at best to not realize that there are events that are systematically skipped over in U.S. History courses, no matter the year. An example is the U.S.-Mexican War, the story of the region, Tejas (i.e. Texas) and compulsorily drawn boundaries leading to the geographic behemoth America is today. Recently talking about all this in my Latinos in American Life course, I felt a twinge of shame as I realized it was only the second time I had discussed the topic — the first being in AP U.S. History. Suddenly I was feeling immensely grateful for the countless number of angles to American history that this high school course had provided me, while being disappointed that it was the only one that endeavored to do so. Imagine my extreme
disappointment, then, when I found out last week that an education committee in Oklahoma approved a bill that would replace the AP U.S. history curriculum, all because the legislators believe the course paints America in a negative light. Painting America in a negative light should never be a concern. Every day, the people of America prove their tenacity and will to thrive in the framework upon which this country was built. Furthermore, I would have no understanding of the framework or appreciation for its founders without AP U.S. History — in which my first assignment was to read 1776, a retelling of the birth of America and the perseverance and courage of those who brought it about. We live through the greatness of American history every day of the present. But just as we live through the feats of our country, so too do we have the face the follies. Courses like AP U.S. History do not paint America in a negative light. They shine lights on all parts of our story as a nation, all peoples who tell the story from a different vantage point. Only when we respect and recognize this divergent recounting can we make our story of forward movement one of unity. Lea Trusty is a Wilson School major from Saint Rose, La. She can reached at ltrusty@princeton.edu.
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16:12 to give her team some insurance, with junior forwards Cristin Shanahan and Jaimie McDonell assisting on the goal. McDonell added a goal of her own (an empty net goal) — assisted by Shanahan and sophomore defender Molly Strabley —to cement the 4-1 victory. Despite the win, results elsewhere ensured that Princeton would finish sixth in the ECAC. In the Ivy League race, however, the win meant that the championship would be decided the following afternoon in New Haven, Conn. Fast forward to 4pm on Saturday. The Yale Bulldogs (15-13-1, 1210-0) drew first blood at 9:43 as Krista Yip-Chuck beat Newell to put the home side on top early 1-0. McDonell leveled the score at one with her second goal in as many days, assisted by Achterkirch and Lloyd just 4:17 into a penalty-filled second frame. Yale’s Grace Wickens (interference) and Princeton’s Shanahan (embellishment) were awarded matching penalties at 11:59. In the ensuing four-on-four action, a delayed checking penalty on Pankowski allowed Yale to pull goalie Jaimie Leonoff for an extra attacker. The Bulldogs capitalized on this five-on-four opportunity as Taylor Marchin converted at 12:50. Each team traded two more power play opportunities as regulation wound down without another score. Desperate, head coach Jeff Kampersal pulled Newell for an extra skater with 1:02 remaining. A frantic last-ditch effort could not save the Tigers, and the final horn signaled a heartbreaking 2-1 loss of the game to rival Yale, and the Ivy League to rival Harvard. While Saturday’s result will be a tough pill to swallow, Princeton’s impressive season has not yet ended. The Tigers will travel to Hamden, Conn on Friday to take on third-ranked Quinnipiac (24-7-3, 15-5-2) in a best-of-three ECAC quarterfinal series this weekend.
Men’s Hockey After two weeks of much improved play — featuring a threepoint swing last weekend that included a win over Clarkson and a tie of then-No. 20 St. Lawrence — the men of Princeton Hockey closed out their home schedule in disappointing fashion. In Baker Rink on Friday in front of 1,714 spectators, Princeton (4-19-3 overall, 2-16-2 ECAC) and Brown (817-2, 5-13-2) squared off in a rematch of January’s 2-2 tie. Neither team could muster much of an attack in the first period, though Brown’s Tyler Bird did open the scoring at 17:22 to put his team on top 1-0. In the second period, with both school bands blaring in the stands, the Tigers came out flat. The Bears would add three goals in just over seven minutes of play between 12:49 and 19:53 of the period, as Mark Naclerio, Sam Lafferty and Nick Lappin all found the back of the net to put the game out of reach. To its credit, Princeton went down fighting. The third period saw a slew of shots and scoring chances for the home side, which fired 19 salvos on Brown netminder Tim Ernst. The lone highlight of the night for Princeton came at 11:48 in the period, as junior Kevin Liss — a defenseman playing on the fourth forward line for the night — intercepted a cross-ice pass at the red line on the penalty kill. Liss made a beeline for the net and managed to power the puck into the cage on the contested breakaway, netting his first collegiate goal. Following a timeout, first-year head coach Ron Fogarty pulled sophomore goaltender Colton Phinney with 4:54 remaining for an extra attacker. While his team was able to sustain an attack, Brown and Ernst stood tall to keep the puck from entering the goal, and when the final horn sounded the score remained at 4-1 in favor of the visitors. Ernst finished with 31 saves on 32 shots, while Phinney had 23 on 27 shots. The loss ensured that Princeton would finish last in the ECAC for the second consecutive year.
Princeton honored its six-member senior class the following night ahead of a showdown with No. 13 Yale (16-7-4, 11-6-3) on Senior Day with a pregame ceremony for Tom Kroshus, Tucker Brockett, Aaron Kesselman, captain Tyler Maugeri, Aaron Ave and Ryan Benitez. Fogarty awarded senior goaltender Benitez his first official collegiate start, and thes Denver, Colo., native stopped all four shots he encountered before being lifted for sophomore Colton Phinney at 5:04 of the first period. The home side netted the first goal of the game, as sophomore Ben Foster scored his fourth goal of the season on assists from junior Jonathan Liau and Brockett. Yale answered with two goals of its own from Frankie Dichiara and Cody Learned — just 33 seconds apart — to close out the first period. The Bulldogs struck first in the second period, as John Hayden extended the lead to 3-1. However, senior defenseman Aaron Ave cut the lead to one midway through the frame, giving the Princeton side hope against a strong Yale team. Liau and Brockett picked up their second assists of the night on Ave’s goal. Once again, though, Yale would respond quickly, as John Baicoco tacked on the Bulldogs’ fourth score at 11:06. Dichiara would add his second tally of the night to put Yale comfortably ahead 5-2 just 2:42 into the final frame. After Phinney was pulled at 16:09 for an extra attacker, the Tigers’ final effort to try and bridge the three-goal deficit fell short, as the visitors scored again. Learned earned his second tally of the night by sending the puck into Princeton’s vacated goal with 2:15 remaining. Benitez once again entered play at this juncture, stopping two more shots before the final horn sounded for the last time at a Princeton Tiger home game at Baker Rink this season. The Princeton squad will close its regular season on the road next weekend, squaring off against Dartmouth (13-10-4, 10-8-2) on Friday and Harvard (14-9-3, 10-7-3) on Saturday.
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Three Tigers shot in the double digits, with Wheatley leading the pack with 20 points. Tarakchian, who has managed to turn in eight double-doubles this season, nearly had a tripledouble during the game, with 11 points, eight assists and 14 rebounds. Miller rounded out the trio with 12 points. During the Harvard game, only two Tigers shot in the double digits, led by senior guard Blake Dietrick with 23 points, eight assists and five rebounds and followed by Tarakchian with 17 points and 14 rebounds. Sophomore guard Vanessa Smith also flirted with a double-double with nine points and nine rebounds. The Harvard game, in addition to putting the Tigers within five games of an undefeated season, leaves head coach Courtney Banghart with 163 coaching wins with Princeton, tied with Joan Kowalik for the most in program history. The Tigers opened the game with a Dietrick three and midrange jumper, which, given the baskets from Harvard’s Temi Fagbenle and teammate AnnMarie Healy, left the Tigers up 5-4. The Crimson then put together a strong 11-4 run in just under 10 minutes to leave the Tigers down 9-15 with less than nine minutes left in the period. A layup from Smith ended the Crimson run and jump-started the Tiger offense into gear, as the Tigers scored the next 11 points in a row, assisted by a Dietrick three and layup and a pair of layups from Wheatley. Harvard worked to keep it close — at 2:24 the Crimson came within two points of the Tigers on a layup from Fagbenle. However, layups from Wheatley and Tarakchian, combined with another Dietrick three, ensured that the Tigers stayed in the lead, finishing the period with a nine-point lead over Harvard and a score of 28-19. The second half started with the Tiger lead shrinking again as Harvard came within five points of Princeton, but
the Crimson were no match for the Tigers, who pulled together to keep pulling away for the rest of the half, pulling off a quick 12-4 run. Tarakchian scored the first Tiger points of the period before four Dietrick layups, three within less than a minute of each other, and a layup from junior guard Amanda Berntsen left the Tigers up 13. The Tigers then pulled quickly out of reach, eventually pull-
ing off a 23-point lead with less than a minute left in the game. After shooting a low 30.8 percent during the first half, the Tigers shot a scorching 61.5 percent during the second half, keeping the Crimson to 36.2 percent for the game. Shooting wasn’t the Tigers’ only strong facet — they matched their highest number of rebounds this season with 53 in this standout performance.
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Amir Bell, who produced a stat sheet-stuffing performance on the day. Bell put in 12 points, six rebounds and four assists, aiding his team in nearly every way possible. While Dartmouth’s star player Miles Wright put up a solid 16 points on the day, Princeton would still go on to win to the tune of 63-56. The real challenge would lie in Cambridge. Harvard (19-5, 9-1) has not lost since Jan. 24, and have made Lavietes Pavilion the hardest place to play in the Ivy League. The team is firing on all cylinders at both ends of the court — they have not only the productive combo of Wesley Saunders and Siyani Chambers on offense, but also a high-performing and intimidating defense known to force
tough shots and turnovers. Despite all this, Princeton appeared able to rise to the challenge. The Tigers led by as much as 12 in the first half, and at halftime held an eight-point lead. The Crimson was undaunted. After going down by nine in the early minutes of the second half, they would storm back on a 13-4 run to tie the game up with 12 minutes to go.After a series of ties and miniscule Princeton leads, the Crimson would finally break away with about three minutes to go, as a 7-0 run by the home team would seal the Tigers’ fate. If we are searching for any one culprit for the Tigers’ loss, we can start with the turnovers. Princeton turned the ball over 19 times, compared to just eight times by Harvard. A large number of Princeton’s turnovers were converted into easy baskets or free throw opportunities
for Harvard. Credit, of course, must be given to the Harvard squad for pulling out this victory. In particular, the aforementioned combo of Chambers and Saunders should receive much of the praise. After a poor showing against Princeton last time, Saunders came out hungry, racking up 23 points and nine rebounds. Chambers would contribute 12 points and six rebounds to the game. Moreover, both players wreaked havoc on defense, as each got four steals en route to a victory determined by defensive intensity. The Tigers now have merely five games to play; what’s worse, their travels are not yet over. Still on the road, they must take on Yale and Columbia next week before returning to Jadwin Gymnasium in the first week of March.
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extending her undefeated Ivy run to one full year. The second day provided more success for Princeton, especially via freshman Claire McIlmail as she claimed two victories, one in the 200 free, where she finished with a time of 1:47.21. She was also a huge factor in Princeton’s 800 free relay victory, making up a 1.5 second deficit as the team posted a time of 7:14.58. The Tigers kept themselves close to the top through the 200 medley relay as they finished second, as well as in the 100 f ly, where four Ti-
gers finished in the top six. All this built up to the exciting finale, where Harvard would build up their lead — which at certain stages extended to triple digits — but a strong team performance in the 100 free put Princeton back into the race with a deficit of just 11 points. However, the tide turned for Princeton after the three-meter diving final, where Chambers was once again her fantastic self, breaking a pool and meet record with 360.55 points. The race for the title then came down to the final event, the 400 free relay, and the team did not disappoint, coming through in the clutch via
Larson, McDonald, McIlmail and Veith, who completed the meet with another victory. This fantastic performance marked the 17th Ivy League Championship for coach Susan Teeter, who had long ago etched her name in Tigers history. “I couldn’t be any prouder of the team for the effort and sacrifice they made for each other throughout the season and during this incredible weekend,” Teeter said. However, their season is not yet finished, and the women’s swimming and diving team will look forward to the NCAA Qualifying Meet at DeNunzio Pool this Sunday at 10 a.m.
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Monday february 23, 2014
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Tigers take Ivy League championships by storm with thrilling victory By Tom Pham Associate sports editor
In what was a sensational weekend, the Women’s Swimming and Diving Team claimed the Ivy League Championship after an unbelievable comeback. This victory marked the 22nd time that the Women’s Swimming & Diving Team has been crowned as Ivy League Champions, completing a weekend that finished in exciting fashion. The Tigers finished with 1423 points, while Harvard had 1401.5 and Yale finished with 1377. The top three easily distanced the other five schools, with 4th place Penn only winning 952 points. Not only did Princ-
eton complete a stunning comeback, but it was also one of the most tightly contested championships in recent history, with the 21.5 point gap between Princeton and Harvard being the smallest gap since 2004, when Princeton bested Harvard by just 15.5 points. Victory did not come easily this time around, however, as Princeton had to make up a 92-point gap going into the final six events of the last session of the championship, which was hosted at Harvard’s Blodgett Pool. Princeton, Harvard and Yale were locked into a three-horse race after the first two days, and the Tigers held their own through some fantastic victories.
First, junior Elizabeth McDonald put in a fantastic individual performance to claim two first-place finishes. McDonald started the day with a pool record victory in the 200 free relay alongside junior Nikki Larson, sophomore Kathleen Mulligan and freshman Madelyn Veith before claiming her first individual Ivy League title in the 50yard freestyle with a time of 22.72. Larson, who came third with a time of 22.85, joined her on the podium. Sophomore and star diver Caitlin Chambers continued her dominance of the Ivy League later that afternoon by claiming the onemeter diving competition, See SWIM & DIVE page 5
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Trailing after the second day of competition, the Tigers rallied on the third day to pull off a decisive victory at Ivy League Championships, culminating in the final event, the 400 free relay. MEN’S AND WOMEN’S HOCKEY
Hockey teams see mixed results in conference play By Mark Goldstein staff writer
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While the women’s hockey team split its matches this weekend, the men struggled, falling to Brown and Yale.
Women’s Hockey In what turned out to be a thrilling final weekend for women’s Eastern College Athletic Conference hockey and women’s Ivy League hockey, Princeton certainly played an important part. Unfortunately for the Tigers, it was not the role they had envisioned. Entering the road trip against Brown on Friday night and Yale on Saturday afternoon, the Tigers (15-12-2 overall, 13-8-1 ECAC) sat at sixth place in the competitive ECAC, safely locked into a playoff berth but hoping to rise to fourth place and the right to host a quarterfinal ECAC best-of-three playoff series. To get there, Princeton would need two wins and some help elsewhere in the league, but the goal was within reach. In the Ivy League race, two wins would give Princeton its first Ivy championship since 2006. A win and a tie would clinch a share of the championship with defending champion Harvard. Anything less would leave the Tigers in second place. Cut to Friday night in Providence, R.I.,
where the Bears (5-23-1, 2-19-1) gave the Tigers all they could handle through two periods. Though last-place Brown did not have nearly as much at stake as its visitors, the Bears held strong in an uneventful and scoreless first period. In fact, it was the Bears who landed the first punch — by way of the power play — as Sam Donovan netted her 12th goal of the season just 30 seconds into the man-advantage at 13:14 of the second period. Within six minutes the Tigers would get level with a power play goal of their own, as sophomore forward Morgan Sly responded at 18:27 on assists by senior forward Brianna Leahy and freshman forward Kiersten Falck. From there, it was all Orange and Black. Freshman defender Emily Achterkirch registered her first collegiate goal at 7:45 in the third period (assisted by junior Fiona Mckenna and Leahy), and the Tigers never looked back. As junior goaltender Kimberly Newell — who finished with 21 saves on the night — held fast at the other end of the rink, the Tigers applied pressure on Brown goalie Monica Elvin. Sly tallied her second goal of the game — her eighth of the season — at See HOCKEY page 5
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
MEN’S BASKETBALL
Tigers reach for perfect record, crush Dartmouth and Harvard
Men’s basketball takes down Dartmouth, falls to Harvard as Ivy League play continues
By Sydney Mandelbaum
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After defeating Dartmouth and Harvard this weekend, it looks like an undefeated season might just be with the reach of the Princeton women’s basketball team. On Friday, the Tigers steamrolled the Big Green 70-31, and they went on to crush Harvard 78-57 on Saturday. The Tigers are now 25-0 with a record of 9-0 against Ivy League opponents, and are currently No. 16 in the Associated Press Top – 25 Poll and No. 17 in the USA Today Coaches Poll. Against Dartmouth (11-13 overall, 2-8 Ivy League), the Tigers were actually down for the first minute and a half after a three-pointer and layup
by Dartmouth’s Lakin Roland. Junior forward Alex Wheatley netted Princeton’s first points of the game on a layup and the Tigers kicked into action to remove the deficit. Her basket started a 20-5 run for the Tigers over the next 9:26 that left the Tigers up 22-8. During that run, Wheatley netted four straight points and, after a Roland free throw, the Tigers managed to score seven points without the Big Green scoring any, due to a jumper by junior guard Michelle Miller, a layup from junior forward Taylor Williams and a three from junior guard/forward Annie Tarakchian. The Tigers maintained the 14-point lead over the Big Green until, with less than three minutes left in the pe-
riod, the Tigers managed to pull ahead more on a pair of Miller jumpers, leaving the score 30-12 at halftime. During the first half of the Dartmouth game, the Orange and Black gave up the fewest points of any period this season, keeping Dartmouth shooting at a cool 17.2 percent. And the second half wasn’t any easier for the Big Green. The Tigers opened the second period by scoring the first 12 points, with Wheatley netting six of them in a row on a trio of layups in just under a minute. The Big Green got on the scoreboard again with a free throw at 16:32, but didn’t manage to net a field goal during the second half for nine minutes. See W. B-BALL page 5
By Miles Hinson It was more of the same for the Princeton men’s basketball team this weekend, as they split another pair of games and continue to tread water in the Ivy League standings. Playing two games on the road, the Tigers managed to defeat Dartmouth, but fell to the Crimson, despite holding a first-half lead. Coming into this weekend with only seven games left to play in the regular season, the Tigers (12-13 overall, 5-4 Ivy League), ranked third in the conference, knew that every win (and loss) would count more than ever. The opponents they would face stand on opposite ends of the spectrum, with Dartmouth
at seventh and Harvard at the top of league. Moreover, after dropping a game to Yale last week, a win over Harvard would help the Tigers inch closer to the top of the conference. The weekend certainly started out on the right note, as the Tigers completed a season sweep against Dartmouth. The Big Green (1014, 3-7) came out of the gate strong, leading by as much as nine points in the first half, and headed into the locker room with a five point lead. Though a Dartmouth layup would stretch that lead to seven in the opening minutes of the second half, the Tigers would continue to keep the game close, staying just a few points away from Dartmouth for most of
the half. Around the nineminute mark was when they finally pounced, grabbing the lead after a three-pointer by senior guard Clay Wilson, and refusing to relinquish that lead for the rest of the game. Wilson had a great performance on the game, coming off the bench to score 11 points in 19 minutes of play. His offensive production was part of a very balanced Princeton attack. Sophomore wings Stephen Cook and Spencer Weisz would contribute 10 points each on the game. Cook nearly managed a double-double, as he pulled down nine boards in addition to his scoring. However, the star on the game was freshman guard See M. B-BALL page 5
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