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The Black Lives Matter movement has aimed not only to effect policy change but also to make structural racism a kitchen-table conversation, Alicia Garza, one of the original organizers of the movement, said in a lecture on Monday.

Although perhaps best known as a hashtag, Black Lives Matter began as an organizing project in part spurred by Garza’s reflections on the shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed AfricanAmerican 16-year-old, and the acquittal of George Zimmerman, who was charged with Martin’s murder, she said.

The first thing she thought about when she heard Zimmerman was acquitted was her brother and how he could have been in a situation similar to Martin’s, she said. She found both cynical reactions to the verdict and reactions in which AfricanAmericans were called upon to act in different ways to prevent violent situations unsatisfactory, she added.

While some have derisively referred to the use of the Black Lives Matter hashtag as “clicktivism,” the project is intended to give people platforms to share their experiences and knowledge both online and in-person where they normally wouldn’t have a medium to do so, she said.

“What we’re taught about how change happens is to call a lawyer, sue somebody, ask the President, vote, right?” she said. “There’s a transformative process that happens when people, everyday people, not just the people who speak well, not just the people who look great, but everyday people make the changes they want to see in our communities.”

The use of technology has found its “sweet spot” when it facilitates connection between people offline, she added.

Garza and her two original co-organizers — Patrice Cullors and Opal Tometi — have found themselves dealing with generational challenges, like the rollback of gains made from the civil rights movement, the Reagan-era dismantling of labor See LECTURE page 3

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Hilary Beard ’84 was recently named the winner of theNational Association for the Advancement of Colored People Image Award.

Beard ’84 wins 2015 NAACP Image Award

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By Linda Song

An octogenarian couple was forced to move after 44 years in University housing on William St. They moved to the Stanworth Apartments since the University was planning a new biochemical sciences complex.

Hilary Beard ’84 won a 2015 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Image Award earlier this month for a book she coauthored in 2014, “Promises Kept: Raising Black Boys to Succeed in School and in Life.”

The book, a companion to the Sundance award-winning documentary American Promise, is part of that film’s campaign to support young African-American men in fulfill-

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Suspected drug overdoses send 12 to hospital at Wesleyan University Twelve students were sent to the hospital after showing symptoms consistent with a drug overdose, the CBS affiliate WFSB reported.

Students allegedly overdosed on the drug MDMA, a variant of Ecstasy that is also known as “Molly,” at a party on Saturday night at the Eclectic Society House, a coeducational group.

Multiple calls were placed to police, and police and Wesleyan continue to investigate the incident, although police are treating the MDMA used at the party as a “bad batch,” WFSB reported.

Wesleyan President Michael Roth said the patients were 10 Wesleyan students and two visitors.

As of Monday evening, eight people were still in the hospital, and four were expected to be released late Monday. On Sunday evening, two patients had been in critical condition and two in serious condition.

MDMA was cited in the deaths of two attendees at the Electric Zoo music festival in 2013, and hospitals in 2011 reported more than 22,000 MDMArelated emergency room visits, WFSB reported.

ises Kept’ contains a cafeteria menu of research-based best practices for parents and educators of black children, particularly males.”

She said the main challenges involved in writing the book were planning, time management and endurance.

“We got the deal in May [2013] and the book was due in February [2014],” she said. “Nine months is not a lot of time to write a book whose content is rooted so heavily in research; See AWARD page 3

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Black History Month: Looking back at the 1960s

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ing their potential and closing the educational achievement gap. Beard said that filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michele Stevenson invited her to write the book to accompany the film, which follows two middle-class African-American boys’ educational journey from kindergarten to the 12th grade. “ ‘American Promise’ raises issues of race, gender, privilege, unconscious racial bias, parenting styles and other issues, but offers no solutions,” Beard said of the film. “[In contrast,] ‘Prom-

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In the 1960s, the AfricanAmerican community at the University expanded in size under the mentorship of Carl Fields and went on to establish a series of organizations and conferences.

There were also a variety of protests that began at the University in relation to apartheid.

1963: A change in admissions policy In 1963, former University President Robert Goheen ’40 announced a new admissions policy to accept as many qualified African-American students as could be found.

Former University President William Bowen GS ’58, who held the position of provost at the time, said the reactions to Goheen’s strategy were very positive, adding that more people became aware of the problem over time.

“We were slow of the mark, that’s what has to be said,” Bowen said.

E. Alden Dunham ’53, the University’s Director of Admission at the time, said African-American students increased the University’s diversity and that the

University was serving the nation through educating AfricanAmericans, according to a 1964 article in The Daily Princetonian about the updated admission policy of the University.

However, recruiting minority students was difficult because the pool of candidates was not outstanding due to the deficiencies of American education in general, Bowen said.

“So trying to find well-qualified people who wanted to take what for them would have been a bold step of coming to a place like Princeton that had been unfriendly to black students for a long time was a challenge,” he said.

The 1960s were a difficult, challenging and exciting time for the incoming African-American students, University Vice President and Secretary Robert Durkee ’69 said.

“This was still a place with lots of white students not expecting there to be black students and in many cases, not knowing how to engage with black students [or knowing whether they wanted to],” Durkee said.

University Trustee Brent Henry ’69, who is African-American, said that it was as if he had en-

tered a whole new world when he arrived at the University for the first time.

“The experience on the whole as an undergraduate was a very rich one,” he said. “Something that, you know, I appreciated after I graduated much more than I did when I was there.”

Building up to a critical mass of black students was a very important process that took time, and much of the credit is owed to the original group of black students who were effective in encouraging others to come, Bowen said.

“The main thing that we accomplished slowly, but we did accomplish it, was to recruit a large enough number of black students so that they felt comfortable with one another as well as comfortable in their setting,” he said.

Durkee said that at the senior levels of the University, there was a commitment to increasing diversity that was strongly expressed by Goheen and Bowen. “[The African-American students who arrived on campus in the 1960s] had a sense that the University was very interested in diversifying and bringing black students to campus,” Durkee

said.

1964: The arrival of the first black administrator In 1964, the University became the nation’s first college with a predominantly white student body to appoint a black administrator with the selection of Fields, who became one of the most beloved figures on campus.

Fields was concerned with the black students and all of the students that he had been in contact with from his position in the Office of Financial Aid, Jim Floyd ’69 said.

“He made sure that we were looked out for and that we had a grown up that we could talk to, should we need someone to talk to,” he explained.

W. Bradford Craig ’38, then Director of Student Aid, showed up at Fields’ office in January 1964 to offer him an administrative position at the University, according to the an article by Fields written for the Association of Black Princeton Alumni.

“Forgetting that he was soaking wet, that he had shown up under really abominable conditions, I raked him and his institution over the coals of black indignation,” Fields wrote.

After 45 minutes of persuasion, Fields wrote, he decided to come to the University. While everyone he knew tried to discourage him due to the University’s reputation of being unfriendly towards minorities, his father supported him and motivated him to take on the challenge.

“I felt that it was time for me to come out of the cocoon and appeal as what I was: the black administrator of Princeton,” he wrote.

1965: An African-American luncheon Fields wrote he wanted to have a meeting with all of the new black students on campus during Freshman Week, because the African-Americans on campus did not know him or even each other well.

He invited sophomores and juniors to welcome the freshmen in the fall of 1965 at Floyd’s house.

The 14 students comprised the largest group of black students to come into a class at the same time.

At the luncheon, Floyd said, Fields expressed his wishes for all the attendees to meet each other and him. He said that the See FEATURE page 2

STUDENT LIFE

Undergraduate Law Review launches inaugural collection of articles

By Olivia Wicki staff writer

The Princeton Undergraduate Law Review published its first collection of articles online on Feb. 16.

Anthony Sibley ’16, the former president of the Pre-Law Society, said he reached out to Mengyi Xu ’13, a former Program of Law and Public Affairs co-director and Pre-Law Society president, about the idea.

Since the Pre-Law Society’s

founding in 2008, the concept of a publication for the organization had never been fully developed, Xu explained.

The Editorial Board consists of Editor-in-Chief Charlotte Chun ’16, Ella Cheng ’16, Carol Gu ’17, Martha Jachimski ’17 and Selena Kitchens ’17.

Chun is a former columnist and Cheng is a former staff writer for The Daily Princetonian.

“It just so happened that the entirety of the PULR board is

female, which is something that I have personally taken a lot of pride in,” Chun said. “We just all come from different backgrounds but all have leadership experience in our own way, and came together more as peers, I would say, than a hierarchical structure.”

The journal is run solely by undergraduates and contains only content written by undergraduates, Chun explained.

However, she added that the absence of a law school at the

University and associated faculty limits advising and factchecking opportunities for writers.

“We sort of tried to come up with a unique system of our own, working with what we have and sort of maximizing on giving the writers as much autonomy as possible,” she said.

The Editorial Board does not determine the content matter of the journal and allows students to explore any legal issue

they are interested in, Gu said.

Other on-campus publications did not serve as models or inspiration for the PULR, Chun noted.

“While it is very inspirational to see a lot of academic journals emerge on campus, I had personally looked into a lot of other undergraduate law reviews and seen how they had conducted their publication,” she said.

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attendees should be aware that the gathering was historic.

The failure rate for AfricanAmerican students went from around 50 percent to zero after the luncheon, Floyd said.

“The black community had come through and the whole administration knew that the plan [of connecting African-American students] had proven itself,” Fields wrote.

1966: The formation of the Association of Black Collegians By the end of 1966, Fields wrote he believed the black students were beginning to think of coming together in a more organized fashion, and long conversations began to take place in his office and in dormitory rooms to plan a more formal organization.

“In my mind, it had to have a form and purpose that would not only bring it visibility, but also create an effective force for positive change on the campus,” he wrote.

The “Association of Black Collegians,” co-founded by Paul Carryon ’68 and Alan Deane Buchanan ’68, was soon created.

The association was dedicated to solving the problems of African-American students across the country and at the University, according to a contemporary announcement of the formation of the ABC in the ‘Prince,’ and 88 percent of the 43 African-American students on campus at that time were a part of the association.

“When you speak with a combined voice, you tend to get heard a lot more,” Henry, a University Trustee, said.

The ABC tried to restore African-American culture on campus in November by organizing events with artists like LeRoi Jones and African-American poet, playwright and author, Ed Spriggs, according to a 1967 ‘Prince’ article.

The ABC highlighted the collective identity of the AfricanAmericans at Princeton, Durkee

said.

“It helped convert a series of individual presences into a collective presence and gave more visibility to the fact that there were black students at Princeton and that their number was growing,” he explained.

March 1967: the President’s reaction to the first ABC conference Fields decided to hold an ABCsponsored conference for black students from predominantly white institutions to discuss their role in shaping the future of African-American students’ on campus, he wrote.

While searching for a person to open the conference, Fields suggested then-University President Goheen as a candidate in an effort to show that the group was accepted by and representative of the University.

Goheen agreed to open the conference on the condition that he would not have to give a speech and would only spend five minutes welcoming the students, Fields wrote. However, upon meeting with student representatives from 41 eastern colleges and universities, Goheen decided to address the gathering spontaneously for 30 minutes about the need for equality.

“Every eye was glued on him.

They were taking in every word,” Fields wrote. “When he finished, there was an outpouring of applause. In one spontaneous motion, the audience rose to its feet and rocked the Wilson School Auditorium with a tribute that I have seldom seen accorded a white man by a black group.”

May 1967: A walkout during a governor’s address Former Alabama Governor George Wallace was invited by the Whig-Cliosophic Society to speak at Princeton when he began visiting college campuses as part of his presidential campaign.

This invitation was not met with approval from most of the University community due to Wallace’s segregationist attitudes, Floyd said.

“An impulse among many of us who were younger was to do something dramatic and to call attention to ourselves and hopefully to make [Wallace] look bad,” he explained.

Placards denouncing Wallace, attempts at confrontation and planned interruption of his speech would be ineffective, Fields wrote. He suggested instead that if, during his speech, Wallace were to make statements deemed biased and prejudicial to the interests of African-American people, the students should rise quietly and leave the auditorium without comment.

“Carl Fields had advised us and guided us towards deciding to all get dressed up in our jackets and ties and go sit together near the front,” Floyd said.

Fields had informed the students that Wallace usually launched into comments about blacks about two-thirds of the way through his speech. As soon as the comments began, all the black students stood up and filed out of the auditorium.

“We’re walking from the front of the hall to the back of the hall so everyone would see us,” Floyd said. “We were not causing a fuss, so Mr. Wallace could not say, ‘Look at them.’ And yet, no one could deny that we had made a statement — and a dignified statement at that.”

Fields wrote that his phone rang throughout the entire following day. Members of the black community let him know that they was proud of the students’ actions, while the campus administration said the black students had handled the “difficult situation with dignity and directness,” he wrote.

October 1967: A journalist tells the story of black experiences at the University Durkee said that in his sophomore year, he wished to tell the story of black students on campus upon attending an ABC meeting.

However, he said that members of the African-American community debated with one another over whether it was a good idea to

cooperate with a white student to tell their story.

Eventually, a number of members of the African-American community agreed to be interviewed and Durkee went on to publish an article, “A New Era for the Negro at Princeton?”, in the ‘Prince.’

“It is an accurate description of what life was like on this campus in the sixties,” Durkee said about the article, adding that the reaction to his article was not positive because white students did not like the theme that it was good to have African-American students on campus.

The article went on to win the prize for the best college newspaper story of 1967 and was published in the anthology, “Black Hands on a White Face.”

1968: A bullet that pierced the silence On Sunday April 7, 1968, at 11 p.m., almost three dozen AfricanAmerican students, led by Carryon and Buchanan, gathered and marched to Walter B. Lowrie House, the University President’s home because Goheen decided not to cancel class on April 9, the day of Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral, Durkee said.

The ABC found fault with Goheen’s choice to establish one hour of silence and otherwise allow campus activities to proceed as usual. Black students thought they should be authorized to prepare a program for a day of no classes, Durkee said.

“No black student will attend classes! No black student will work on any job! It will be a day of quiet meditation and reflection,” the ABC wrote in the ‘Prince.’

Melvin McCray ’74 said that when Goheen opened the door and saw a majority of the AfricanAmerican student population gathered on his porch that night, he stood there and listened to their reasoning for half an hour, finally agreeing to cancel classes.

“It was a very important defining moment because of the way they had represented their concerns and the way he had responded to their solicitations,”

Durkee said. “And then, they put together an absolutely first-rate program.”

Later that week, ABC held an hour-long silent vigil at Palmer Square in honor of King. Approximately 200 people were in attendance for an unprecedented show of unification that the University had never witnessed before.

On Class Day that year, the ABC announced the creation of the Frederick Douglass Award for students who showcase courage, leadership, intellectual achievement and unselfish contribution with regard to racial minorities.

The first two recipients were Carryon and Buchanan.

“It was a tremendous surprise,” Buchanan later told Princeton Alumni Weekly. “This was the University recognizing the importance of generating student leadership among blacks.”

Carryon and Buchanan were greeted by a standing ovation from the entire student body as they made their way down Cannon Green to collect their prize, Fields wrote.

1969: A cry for divestment On Feb. 26, a student rally sponsored by The United Front on South Africa, which combined the University’s black and white student groups, asked the University to divest stock in 39 companies for their role in apartheid.

Goheen promised on March 4 that the University would inform the companies it invested in of the University’s feelings toward apartheid, according to University archives at Mudd Manuscript Library.

However, the University should not fully divest, as divesting would not have a “substantial prospect” of meaningful impact on apartheid, Goheen said in a statement at the time. The companies “derive on average less than one percent of their sales and profits from southern Africa,” while the University would lose of $3.5 million in income, which would hinder its ability to carry out its educational mission, he wrote.

In retaliation to Goheen’s po-

sition, 51 students pushed aside a janitor on March 11 who was going about his daily job of opening up the New South Building, which then held the University’s administrative offices.

“In the late sixties, campus building takeovers were not uncommon,” Henry said. “So we decided that we would make a statement by taking over New South.”

They occupied the seven-story building for eleven hours, during which the Students for a Democratic Society, a predominantly white student group, piled bike racks at the entrance of the building to prevent administrators from entering.

“We leave, not out of fear of repercussion, but rather because the administration has already begun to shift the emphasis of our protest away from the moral issue of South Africa to the legitimacy of our tactics,” W. Roderick Hamilton ’69 of the ABC told the ‘Prince’ at the time.

Henry said the protesters only disrupted the University for a day, a far lesser impact than that of protests at other colleges.

“When you’re a student, as long as you’re not destructive, a peaceful protest is a legitimate way to make one’s voice known,” Henry said.

Henry went on to be elected as one of the first two young alumni trustees, making him the first black alumnus to be elected trustee.

Henry said the first action of the trustees was to put him on the financial committee to work with the trustee committee and the University committee to address student concerns on campus.

“So clearly, the action [of protesting] got the board’s attention,” he said. “And I do give the board leadership credit for taking it seriously enough to put someone who was involved in the protest on the committee to address the issue.”

This article is the second in a fivepart Black History Month feature series. Check back tomorrow for a look at the University in the 1970s.

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18 months or even two years wouldn’t be unreasonable.”

She was ultimately able to research and write the book in less than five months, she said, noting that the scope of the book increased about 40 percent during that time. She said she interviewed approximately 35 experts and reviewed the works of about 15 scholars. “[The interviews] occurred in random sequence, which increased the project’s complexity,” Beard said. “It was exhausting and at the time seemed impossible, but failure was not an option.”

Beard had also previously won the NAACP Image Award in 2013 for her book, ”Health First: The Black Woman’s Wellness Guide.”

Beard graduated with honors from the University after concentrating in political science and was involved with the Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding, which was then known as the Third World Center.

“I contacted with, was supported by and learned about other students of color,” she said.

“Even though I’d grown up in an integrated community and with a lot of wealthy white kids, I found Princeton to be a very difficult place to be a black person.”

Reginald Ponder ’84, classmates and longtime friends with Beard, said he met Beard through shared interests.

“Hilary and I were in the same class, so being in the same class and having a lot of the same interests — from an AfricanAmerican standpoint, we bonded,” he said. “The Third World Center meant a lot during those times and it was really a hub for African-American students … Hilary was a very big part of that and I was too.”

Ponder, who is also a film critic, said he was familiar with

Beard’s work.

“The particular work that she wrote is extremely important because it relates to AfricanAmerican men and education and how you approach them as opposed to how people view African-American men today,” he said.

Cheryl Scales ’84, Beard’s friend since the age of 17, said she remembered Beard as intellectually curious.

“Hilary and I worked at the same Fortune 100 Company after Princeton,” she said. “When she decided to leave to pursue her writing career, I was always a champion of her pursuit at a time when leaving such a successful place was not as easy as career changing is today.”

Beard worked in a number of sales, marketing and management positions at Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson and PepsiCo before realizing in her thirties after the death of her mother that writing was her calling, she said.

“Walking away from a traditional career path — which someone with my background is not supposed to do — and following my dreams of becoming a writer and landing on my feet” was the most valuable moment in her career, she said.

“Few opportunities existed for black writers when I was growing up … Seeing Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and Terri McMillan atop The New York Times bestseller list back in the late 90s signaled to me that publishing was changing and that there might be a place for me in it.”

Beard said aspiring writers should experiment with different types of writing.

“The industry is tough and very competitive,” she said.

“Don’t allow yourself to become trapped in only one form.”

She said she is currently working on several book proposals and has just finished a children’s book that is a memoir of Little League pitcher Mo’ne Davis.

CORRECTION Due to a reporting error, the Feb. 23 article, “USG senate tackles Mental Health Week,” inaccurately stated that the Dear World program requires a ticket. The Feb. 19 “The Archives” misidentified the year that a story about a lawsuit by Boston University against online term paper companies had been published. The year was 1998. The ‘Prince’ regrets the errors.

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unions and the amassing of corporate power, at the same time as they attempt to learn from a broader history of civil rights organization, Garza said.

The impact of the federal government’s COINTELPRO operation in the 1950s and 1960s was not only the dismantlement of a number of civil rights organizations but also the fracture of its leadership to the point where many civil rights movement-era leaders no longer speak to each other, she said, adding this had a deleterious effect on the “political imagination” of those interested in civil rights.

The relationship between the broader movement to end structural racism and the LGBT community is complex, she

said. While African-American LGBT women protesting in the wake of the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson was largely well-received, the same women standing up for their own interests, including LGBT rights, has not been received as well by some people protesting structural racism, she said.

It is also important to use the construction “Black Lives Matter” instead of “All Lives Matter,” Garza said.

“All lives do matter, that’s absolutely true, and in a perfect world, that would be realized, but we don’t live in that world,” she said. “We live in a world where the average life expectancy for a black trans person is 35 years old, we live in a world where young black men don’t expect to see 21, we live in a world where black women are more likely to be sexually assaulted by

the police than anyone else, so if we want to get to that world, it means we will fight like hell today for black lives to get to that point.”

However, non-black people are not irrelevant to the Black Lives Matter movement, she said.

“What we can do and have asked people to do is to use Black Lives Matter to investigate how anti-black racism affects your life, because that affects everybody,” she said.

The Black Lives Matter movement does have policy goals, including quality housing, full and fair employment and education, an end to violence against African-American people, passing the End Racial Profiling Act and having police departments collect full data on officer-involved shootings, she noted.

She said that in Oakland, Calif., her hometown, the police de-

partment used taxpayer money to purchase tanks and bazookas which ended up being displayed at protests.

However, bigger than policy, Garza said, was the need to keep engaging people and effecting change in communities.

Garza said Cullors told her that after being frustrated in engaging people after the death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man who was killed by a white police officer, she continued to engage people because it was the right thing to do and was heartened to see that black women and LGBT black women had begun to lead the process of organizing and effecting change.

The lecture took place at 4:30 p.m. in Betts Auditorium. It was sponsored by the Fields Center, the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, the LGBT Center and the Women’s Center.

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School professor Kim Lane Scheppele said the most effective medium for PULR to be accessible would be to publish it online, Chun said.

Scheppele did not respond for a request to comment.

The online format allows for the gradual publication of blog posts, rather than a quarterly publication deadline where all

at once the material is let out to the public, Chun said.

Future goals, Chun and Gu said, include expansion and continuing to incite discussion among University students, as well as making the website interactive to enable debate.

Omid Abrishamchian ’18 said PULR had provided him with an opportunity to explore the law more deeply than he would normally have been able to do at the University.

“The ultimate goal was to ex-

pand the community that we had discussing legal issues and the law, and sort of group more people in, and to also create more of an inclusive environment as opposed to one that is just exclusive to pre-law students,” Chun said.

Jonathan Cortez ’16, co-president of the Pre-Law Society, said he expected the law review to appeal especially to members of his organization.

“As a society, we try to strive beyond just being an organiza-

tion, and we want to engage minds that are interested in law, in the legal field, both to educate themselves and to encourage exploration in the field, and we feel that the law review is an excellent way of doing that,” he said. “I don’t know if there was necessarily a demand for a law review … but hopefully now that we have one, people will recognize the merits of having one, and maybe there will be more a demand for one coming in the future.”

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et’s throw it back to our Founding Fathers. In his farewell address, George Washington admonished against the rise of political parties.

He got it right. Parties serve as a distraction, drawback and danger to constructive dialogue, and he tried to warn us with an uncanny prescience. John Adams would likewise warn against a “division of the republic” with the introduction of a twoparty system in a letter to Jonathan Jackson. But we did not listen. We implemented the same two-party structure that our Founding Fathers foresaw and cautioned against, but it has evolved from a simple dichotomy between two political parties into an ideological war that extends beyond Democrats and Republicans, or liberals and conservatives.

Ultimately this has led to inbred divisions and political polarization, not only on the national stage, but on our own campus as well. These dichotomies conspicuously manifest between groups such as Princeton Democrats and College Republicans, Whig and Clio, “The Princeton Progressive” and “The Princeton Tory,” Princeton Committee on Palestine and Tigers for Israel. Even more organizations, such as Model UN, debate and Students United for a Responsible Global Environment, supplement the divisive nature of the aforementioned groups.

The inclusive yet exclusionary nature of our political culture was made apparent to me at the last Whig-Clio Senate debate on police brutality. Retrospectively, I realized that some of the most politically active and interested, even zealous, students on campus used this as a platform to develop and articulate already-established views. I couldn’t help but notice that the attendees belonged to either to Whig or to Clio, and as indecisive as some were at the start of the debate, everyone ended up on one side or the other by the end. These are the future Princeton-grad politicians, lawmakers and lobbyists, yet they had already ceded to the impossibility of cross-party compromise.

The political groups on campus perpetuate the notion of a warped two-party system, since participants in the system generally have to be on one side or the other.

There is no room for third parties, just as in the United States political field. There is no room for the curious case of the “socially liberal, fiscally conservative.” There is no room for the far-left or far-right. There is no room for the non-politics, history, economics or Woodrow Wilson School majors. This not only serves to polarize people on both sides, but to alienate those who do not conform to this dichotomous structure.

And there is no room for the politically disinterested yet aware — those who remain cognizant of political news but simply aren’t as invested in political affairs as many others on campus. These individuals may not side with one particular party or side, or they may not care enough to commit to one side’s philosophy. Or perhaps they simply don’t have fully formulated political views. After all, according to a survey conducted by “Reason” magazine on 2000 Millennials (aged 18 to 29), our generation’s views are totally incoherent and constantly evolving.

As foreshadowed by John Adams, we are now witnessing the division of a campus and student body. So many students have grown disillusioned with the political atmosphere today that they are choosing to dissociate themselves from politics on campus (and nationally). As pointed out in “Salon” magazine, “Millennials have lived most of their lives within a historically toxic partisan climate — for many, it’s the only kind of politics they’ve ever known.

Without a compelling reason to expect this to change any time soon, young people are opting to disengage from politics entirely.”

While this is representative of a national trend, it is imperative that we look introspectively to realize how much our political culture has and can continue to hurt dialogue on campus. This political hyperinclusivity not only bars a certain group of people from participating, but it prevents any sort of consensus from being reached and obstructs positive change on campus that does not solely look to the opinions vocalized by a few.

I am guilty of being a partisan, politically active student who loves being in the middle of rigorous debate, and I am grateful and amazed by the extent of political and social activism on campus. Nevertheless, we can do better to introduce a greater diversity of opinion and background into campus politics in an effort to engender more constructive, less divisive dialogue.

rinceton’s unofficial motto states “in the nations service and the service of all nation.”

However, are all nations equally in need of our service? Are there certain nations in which the University should direct greater effort and aid?

The United States Department of State recognizes thirteen critical foreign languages as part of the National Security Language Initiative. These languages are less commonly studied in the US but are vital to national security, including Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Turkish and Urdu. Right now, the government is in need of Americans who have proficient knowledge of these languages and the area and culture in which they are spoken. Through the NSLI for Youth, and the Critical Language Scholarship, the State Department offers fully funded intensive language study abroad trips for both high school and college students.

These languages are spoken in hotbed areas of American politics such as the Middle East and Asia. Some of which are plagued with war, political discord and economic ruin. In order to best serve and interact with these nations, these countries need people who can speak their language and live in their culture. The government has deemed these nations to be in need of our nation’s service, but does Princeton agree?

Princeton currently offers study abroad programs in only three of these thirteen critical language areas: Princeton in St. Petersburg (Russian), Princeton in Beijing (Chinese), and Princeton in Ishikawa (Japanese). While Princeton does offer language programs in 8 different countries overall, these programs

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should be expanded to include more critical languages.

Granted, some regions such as Syria, Iraq and Iran are unrealistic for study abroad programs due to war, internal conflict and travel restrictions — and that’s understandable. The University should never put its students at risk; there probably won’t be a Princeton in Afghanistan any time soon. Princeton isn’t able to (nor is it expected to) overcome political restrictions or physical dangers that threaten us all. However, there are tons of regions where both American travel is permitted and safety of students would be ensured. While the University cannot be expected to sponsor trips to Syria, it can send Arabic students to Jordan, Oman or Morocco.

Instead of going to Iran, students can study Persian in Tajikistan. The knowledge gained in these countries could prepare a student for work in more dangerous areas of the world upon graduation.

Right now the US needs people willing to cross cultural, linguistic and religious barriers, who are willing to interact with people and find solutions to problems between countries that are largely a product of miscommunication.

This is where Princeton can play a helpful role. Princeton should encourage its students to study these languages and cultures and travel to these areas. However, the current study abroad programs seem to do the opposite, discouraging students from visiting these regions and studying these important foreign languages.

At the moment, studying a language like German or French is much more attractive to students. A student interested in studying Arabic will have much more difficulty studying abroad in country like Jordan than a German or French learner would have if they wanted to study their language abroad. First of all,

students studying German have the convenience of applying to a Princeton program in which they will be with other Princeton students and assured credit.

However, a student studying Arabic is forced to search for programs outside of the University that may not offer credit.

More importantly many of these programs are very expensive, harming students on financial aid, who may not be able to afford to go. Some of these nonPrinceton programs can cost upwards of $12,000 for an 8-week study abroad trip.

Even if one received the max aid available through SAFE, it would barely cover half of the cost! This fact keeps many students interested in critical languages from going abroad who may have been able to do so if they had studied abroad through a Princeton program.

With all of these difficulties and barriers, it is easy to see why Princeton students may be deterred from studying those languages at Princeton which are not paired with official study abroad programs. If Princeton were to offer more programs in these critical languages, it would increase the incentive to learn these difficult, yet very important languages. This not only helps increase our greater campus diversity, but would also help produce a generation of students with enhanced understanding and cultural sensibility to these important areas of the world. To truly be in the “service of all nations” Princeton has to help create students that can offer service to nations that are truly in need of it.

Turkey and India are in much more need of our nation’s service than Germany or France. Princeton should help encourage students to gain the skills necessary to enhance relations with these countries.

Coy Ozias is a freshman from Christiansburg, Va. He can be reached at cozias@princeton. edu.

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finally realized that something was amiss when I was rudely awakened by sirens for the third night in a row. The uneasy feeling that I had so successfully repressed while searching for the apartment, signing the lease, and moving myself in finally manifested itself as a low, visceral ache in my gut and a whispered refrain: “you’re out of your depth.” Out of my depth? The notion seemed absurd: three years of education at the nation’s top university and I didn’t know how to rent an apartment? And yet, there I was, stuck with a three-month lease for an apartment whose leaky plumbing, shoddy wiring and crime-ridden surroundings made themselves apparent within a week.

It was no one’s fault but my own, of course: just as the man who shows up to a used car lot with no prior research will find himself driving out in a twentyyear-old Corolla, the man who fails to do due diligence before signing a lease will end up in an apartment complex where people get murdered for their Vietnam War medals. To quote Robocop: “that’s life in the big city.”

But it sure isn’t life in Princeton.

Within the Orange Bubble, over 98 percent of undergraduate students obtain their housing through the University.

Temporary Utopia Say what you will about the inequities of room draw, but it is a far cry from the real housing market, where shifty salesmen and prevaricating landlords will do their best to fleece unsuspecting customers. My own poorly-researched summer lease worked out fine, giving me some funny stories and some muchneeded perspective, but it illustrated to me a larger point: life at Princeton had not at all prepared me for life in the mythical Real World.

Housing is just the tip of the iceberg, too: thanks to Princeton’s tireless efforts to make this campus a safer and easier place to live, it is now possible for students to graduate without ever going through the hassle of signing a lease, buying or making their own food, interacting with non-college educated people, dealing with the dangers of crime, using a physical key or any number of other skills made redundant by the University’s services. Because of both external pressures and, I believe, a genuine desire to make life better for its students, Princeton may have inadvertently crossed the line between supporting and coddling us.

The role of higher education in public life seems to be in a state of flux, especially as the rate of people seeking degrees has so drastically expanded in recent decades: to some, secondary education exists to teach the new generation “how to think,” by instilling values and

asking hard questions; to others, it is a four year excursion to “find oneself” through new experiences and acquaintances; still others believe that colleges and universities ought to be training grounds for marketable skills, the end goal of which is employment. There are a number of arguments for these and other viewpoints, and each of the thousands of schools in the United States has a slightly different belief in what it should be giving its students. The commonality between these views, though, is that a college or university takes in students unprepared for the world — mentally, personally or technically — and fills in the necessary gaps. All else being equal, then, any institution of higher education should be outputting graduates as prepared for adult life as possible.

With this in mind, the cheery, safe, low-consequence world that Princeton creates for us in the end does us a disservice. No matter how well-constructed the Utopia that the school works towards is, it only lasts us four short years — after which we are rudely thrown into a bare-knuckle world with no training.

This is what makes summer experiences and semesters abroad so valuable: students are able to escape the University’s mothering and see what will be expected of them once their four year dream is over. But it shouldn’t be the case that students’ most educational experiences occur only when they are free of the Uni-

versity’s loving shackles.

What might the University do to fix its inadvertent stunting of students’ growth? Because the current way of doing things is so entrenched in campus culture, it would be difficult to substantively change the dining plan or housing system, but ideally a number of small policy changes could better instill the idea that students ought to be responsible, trustworthy adults. Offering courses in real-world skills would also at least show students that there exist these gaps in their knowledge. Most importantly, though, administrators and professors (as well as students themselves) should constantly be aware that the vast majority of the student body is comprised of adults: people above the age of eighteen who are, in the eyes of the law, fully responsible for their own actions and inactions. I believe that people act as they are treated — and will get away with anything they are allowed to — so only students treated as morally, legally and socially responsible adults will act as such. However it is done, it is imperative that the University and its students understand that learning how to function as an adult is infinitely more valuable than a few fleeting years in paradise.

Steve Swanson is a Computer Science major from Vienna, Va. He can be reached at sswanson@princeton.edu.

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Student Dance Festival

by Jack Mazzulo :: Contributing Photographer Every year Princeton’s Dance Department puts on a full-weekend event in the early Spring, consisting of dancers and performers from all over campus.

SDF features dancers from various dance groups on campus - including diSiac, Body Hype, Princeton University Ballet and eXpressions, among others - and some that aren’t in any dance groups. They all come together to create art under the instruction of the Dance Department’ws high profile teachers, who choreograph a blend of contemporary and modern dance.

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will host Drexel University at Sherrerd Field before traveling to Georgetown on Saturday. The Ivy League Digital Network will broadcast the former contest, scheduled to begin at 6 p.m.

In absurd conditions, Princeton powers past Pride to stay perfect With a 14-12 win over the visiting Hofstra Pride, No. 20 men’s lacrosse (2-0 overall) continued their hot start in spite of icy conditions.

Saturday marked perhaps the strangest conditions any of the players or coaches present had ever been subject to. The snowfall which began during the preceding women’s game reached a blizzard-like level, painting the field at least an inch thick with powder. Players were severely limited in their ability to make quick cuts, which disadvantaged the smaller and shiftier attackmen of the Pride.

Perhaps fitting due to the conditions, the offensive stars for Princeton were two gentlemen from the Great White North. Senior attackman Mike MacDonald and sophomore midfielder Zach Currier, both natives of Ontario, Canada, proved too much for Hofstra to handle.

Five goals and four assists came for the senior, a point total which equals his careerhigh. The sophomore, whose ball control and dodging ability verged on spectacular, tallied a hat trick while adding two assists.

“I know Currier from back home,” MacDonald said postgame, “And I knew that he could come in and be a great player for us. I think he’s got his confidence this season.

He’s going to have a great year.”

This past summer, MacDonald underwent two hip surgeries which sidelined for the entirety of the fall. His form, which yielded 41, 59 and 39 points over the past three seasons, has not faded.

To the contrary, the senior seems poised to take his already elite game to the next level in his final year.

“Over the past few weeks, I’ve been talking with guys

who have just graduated,” he said. “It’s really starting to sink in that this will be my last run at it. It’s a little weird, but I’m trying to make the most of it.”

The Tigers were able to overcome a slew of injuries to normally key contributors.

Junior midfielder Jake Froccaro, an all-around dynamic player, did not suit up. Nor did his classmate, defenseman Mark Strabo, who had not missed a start in the prior two seasons. One more injury sidelined sophomore long pole Will Reynolds.

“The most experienced guy on defense was a sophomore,” head coach Chris Bates explained. “Aside from that, nobody’s played a whole lot of minutes for us. Our short stick defensive middies, Austin deButts and Austin Sims, did a good job. That’s unsung play. Our close defenders were solid all day.”

Sophomore Alistair Berven and freshman Aran Roberts joined sophomore Bear Goldstein on the starting defensive line. Behind them, senior goalkeeper Eric Sanschagrin registered perhaps his best-ever performance.

The fourth-year netminder tallied a career-high 16 saves, including six rejections in the first quarter.

“Eric’s playing with confidence,” Bates noted. “It’s been a tough preseason for goalies.

If you’re outside in the elements, sight lines are tough with the snow. And indoors is brutal for a keeper. But he had six or seven saves in the first quarter. And that was the difference. It gave us an opportunity to get our feet under us.”

Hofstra’s standout senior midfielder Mike Malave finished the game with a teamhigh four goals, three of which came on extra-man opportunities. Attackman Sam Llinares was able to see through the Princeton defense on a number of occasions and finished the game with five assists.

At the faceoff X, Hofstra’s Kris Clarke established a first quarter 4-1 advantage over freshman midfielder Sam Bonafede. By the second half, conditions had rendered faceoff battles more or less random as the players resorted to snow-shoveling in an effort

to locate the ball.

Senior midfielder Kip Orban had the hot hand early.

Princeton’s solo captain fired two punishing shots past Hofstra’s Chris Selva in the first quarter and added his third tally with 46 seconds remaining in the half.

Holding a slim 6-5 lead at halftime, Princeton blew the game open with a five-goal run in the third quarter. MacDonald was responsible for three consecutive goals within about 90 seconds.

The game was delicately poised in the fourth quarter. Hofstra had scored three straight, including two power play conversions. Frustratingly for Bates and his staff, sloppy Princeton play yielded a number of extra-man opportunities for the Pride.

With just under ten minutes to play, Princeton was on the disadvantaged side of a six-on-four situation resulting from a minute-long penalty on Berven and a twominute unreleasable penalty on Sims. The quartet of Princeton defenders moved with precision, resulting in a turnover from the Pride’s Brier Davis.

Currier’s heroics shone with particular luster on and after the man-down clearance, as the sophomore endured multiple double-team attempts in order to kill the visitors’ power play. The Princeton fans and the bench were energized by their team’s resilience, and this momentum carried the Tigers for the contest’s remainder.

“It wasn’t pretty, but it was a gutty win,” Bates said. “And I think it was an identity win.

That’s what we needed. We have some time to figures ourselves out before we play the Ivies. But we’re playing big-time teams in the next two weeks.”

Challenges will indeed come early and often for the Tigers, who face one of the nation’s toughest schedules.

Next weekend in Baltimore, Md., Johns Hopkins University will host Princeton for the 85th iteration of one of the NCAA’s greatest rivalries, which the Baltimore side leads 55-28. The No. 9 Blue Jays will face the Tigers next Saturday at 1:00 p.m., and the game will be broadcasted on ESPN3.

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The hero of the game was senior utility Jessie Holechek. Holechek, who leads the Tigers in goals on the season (18), put in four goals on an efficient six shots.

She was aided by the strong showing of freshman utility Haley Wan, who racked up three goals and an assist.

Wan’s work on the season has certainly been impressive — in her rookie season, she stands 5th on the team in goals and 1st in both assists and steals. To round it off, junior utility Kimi Klein and senior utility Taylor Dunstan scored a goal apiece. For Klein, it was her 9th on the season, placing her as 4th leading goal scorer on the squad.

While the Tigers have

earned adulation, they don’t seem to have earned any rest. Next weekend, the Tigers will be travelling to Lewisburg, Pa. to take on a few more intra-conference opponents. They will play conference rivals Bucknell University, and the No. 20 ranked Hartwick College on Saturday the 28th before facing Gannon University and Mercyhurst College on the 1st of March.

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the doubles point. The Tigers immediately turned things around, however, in singles. Senior Dan Richardson evened the score at one apiece by coming away with a swift 6-1, 6-2 at the sixth singles spot. The Bulldogs quickly reclaimed the lead with a win at the fifth singles spot.

Sophomore Tom Colautti had an upset victory over Juan Estevarena, who was ranked 99th in the nation and was also the number two Mississippi State singles player. He fought back for a 2-6, 6-4, 6-1 victory. The singles matches at first and third split matches before sophomore Alex Day clinched the match for the Tigers at the fourth singles spot with a 7-6, 5-7, 6-2 victory. This was men’s team first victory over an SEC opponent since 1996.

Princeton advanced on to play a Clemson (6-5) team that was ranked No. 35 in the nation. Princeton had much less trouble with Clemson as the Tigers rolled over the team with a 4-0 victory. The teams of Colautti and senior Zack McCourt and sophomores Day and Josh Yablon both secured victories at the first and third doubles spots respectively to gain the point for Princeton. The momentum gained from the doubles point carried over into the singles matches as the Tigers

won five of the six first sets in the singles matches. Josh Yablon ultimately won the match for the Tigers at the third singles spot after McCourt and Richardson won at the first and sixth spots.

In the finals, the men’s team faced off against the No. 24 ranked South Florida Bulls (7-4), and the Bulls’ superiority showed. The men just barely dropped the doubles point, with the freshman team of Luke Gamble and Diego Vives losing at the second doubles spot in an exciting tiebreak after the first and third doubles split. South Florida rolled in the singles matches, winning five of the six first sets. The Bulls ultimately went on to win the singles matches at one, three and six before the match was decided as a 4-0 victory for the Bulls. Coach Pate was quick to commend the Bulls, but also lamented his team’s performance, saying: “South Florida played a great match in singles and though I don’t think we played our best, they had a lot to do with that.” Despite their defeat, the men’s team improved to a 9-2 record and will look for their national rank to vastly improve after two victories against ranked opponents.

In the women’s bracket, the Tigers began the weekend by facing off against No. 49 ranked DePaul (8-2). DePaul took a quick lead with wins at the one and three doubles spots. Princeton fought back

with wins from senior Lindsay Graff and sophomore Alanna Wolff at the first and third singles spots respectively. DePaul, however, was able to clinch the singles matches at the fourth, fifth and sixth spots for a 4-2 victory.

In the consolation finals, the Tigers played Boise State (4-4). The Tigers once again dropped the doubles point and fell to an early deficit.

The Tigers rebounded in the singles matches, however.

Four singles players won their matches in straight sets to secure a victory for the Tigers. Graff won her match with a quick 6-2, 6-2 victory.

Junior Amanda Muliawan clinched the match at second singles with a thrilling second set tiebreaker victory. At third singles, Wolff rolled to a 6-2, 6-0 victory. Sophomore Dorothy Tang won her match at fifth singles by a score of 6-4, 6-2. This would be the final match for the Tigers due to a rain cancellation for Sunday’s match.

After a succesful weekend, the two teams will head off in opposite directions, as the women’s team will travel to Memphis, Tenn. to play University of Memphis, whilst the men’s side will first travel to Penn State University on Saturday, before returning home to face off against University at Buffalo and Monmouth University on Sunday, as both teams hope to repeat their success this weekend.

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three straight wins by sophomore 184-pounder Brett Harner, junior 197-pounder Abram Ayala and sophomore heavyweight Ray O’Donnell, the Tigers ultimately fell by an 18-15 margin.

The Tigers experienced their second close loss of the weekend against Penn in Philadelphia, as they fell by a team score of 19-12. Princeton and Penn exchanged victories during the first three bouts, but Penn took the lead for good as it rattled off four straight wins, two of which came in sudden victory, to go up by a 16-7 margin. The highlight of the match for Princeton came at 184 pounds, as Harner knocked off No. 5 Lorenzo Thomas by a 9-6 decision. Harner, who had 55 career victories going into the match against Thomas, has been on the fringe of breaking into the Top 20 at 184 pounds.

The victory against Thomas, which marked Harner’s second straight weekend knocking off a former All-American, makes it quite likely that his name will show in this week’s rankings.

Upon finishing the match against Penn, the Tigers re-

turned to Dillon Gymasium for a 7:00 p.m. showdown with Nebraska. Despite the celebration of the team’s veterans in front of family and friends on Senior Night, the Tigers mightily struggled against the No. 10 Cornhuskers. Strong efforts came from freshman 165-pounder Jonathan Schleifer and Ayala, who picked up Princeton’s lone victories in a 38-6 team score differential.

No. 12 Ayala provided the greatest excitement of the match, as he fended off No. 13 Aaron Studebaker by a narrow 3-2 margin.

Despite the tough weekend for the Tigers, the intensity of their recent practice and competition schedule took an understandable toll. With two weeks between now and the EIWA Championships, there is time to rest and prepare to fight for a berth to the NCAA Championships.

“The duals this past weekend were perfect simulations for the EIWA conference tournament in two weeks,” Laster said. “Our coach purposely placed the three tough duals back to back to simulate the stress we will feel both days at conferences.

On top of that, we have been in a tough training phase the last three weeks. Most teams finished their tough training

phase in January and are peaking now, but we haven’t even begun our peaking phase. On that note, we wrestled Rider and Penn with lots of grit and definitely wrestled tougher than both teams. Bonus points in the Rider match and losing critical close matches in the Penn match were ultimately our downfall, but we went out and competed tough. As for Nebraska, they are a top ten team in the toughest conference, the Big Ten. They are great competitors and were a great measuring stick since they have multiple ranked individuals.

We wrestled flat and lacked energy against them.”

“I think we all wrestled pretty tough against Rider and Penn, but the key tossup matches just didn’t go our way,” Harner said. “We went through a rough month of training, and now we’re going to taper off a little bit in order to peak for EIWAs.” The Tigers will return to action on Friday, March 6, for Day 1 action at the EIWA Championships. This year’s tournament will be held at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa. Wrestlers from 16 different teams will gun for limited spots to the NCAA Championships, which will take place March 19-21 in St. Louis, Mo.

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Impressive victories for both lacrosse teams

By Andrew Steele senior writer

Slifer strikes five times in upset win over Grey Hounds No. 15 women’s lacrosse (1-0 overall) proved they were a force to be reckoned with, as they topped No. 9 Loyola (0-1) in their season opener by a score of 10-8. The game was a tight contest between two of college lacrosse’s top teams. By the end of 60 minutes, Princeton’s methodical offensive approach and solid defending showed them to be the superior side.

Senior midfielder Erin Slifer dominated the contest with five goals on eight shots. Her combination of power and speed will torment opposing defenders and goalies throughout the season. Her classmate, senior Erin McMunn added a pair of goals in a complete team effort. McMunn, 2013’s Ivy League Attacker of the Year, drew the attentions of Loyola’s Maddy Lesher, the Colonial Athletic Association’s Defender of the Year

from 2014.

“This is my last year, so I’m not going to hold back,” Slifer said postgame. “This whole team knows that we can go really far this year if we just push through every game.”

Junior Steph Polascio has stepped up in her third season, starting at attack and tormenting the Grey Hounds’ defense with off-ball movement and shifty dodging.

A 6-3 Princeton advantage at the half evaporated quickly due to a four-goal run by the Grey Hounds. Following the fourth consecutive Loyola score, Princeton coach Chris Sailer made the call to replace senior goalkeeper Annie Woehling with sophomore Ellie DeGarmo.

Within five minutes, the second year player had made three impressive saves.

“Ellie has been knocking on the door all year long,” Sailer explained. “We thought at that point, she could give us a different look in the cage. She’s someone who can come in and perform. It gave us a boost

helped turn the game when she got those few saves.”

In addition to the ballstopping of DeGarmo, Slifer helped turned the tide with a powerful strike with an unassisted goal halfway through the second half.

Princeton employed a stifling strategy of slow possession to close out the contest. Taking possession off the draw just over the 11:00 mark, Princeton held onto the ball for over six minutes before a beautiful McMunn goal, assisted by sophomore Olivia Hompe, gave the Tigers a two-goal lead.

“We knew that it was all coming down to draw controls,” Sailer said. “We dominated those in the first half and felt that we needed possession to win the game.”

Princeton outshot the visitors by a margin of 25-21 with a first half disparity of 178. Their offense will remain among the nation’s most lethal, thanks in large part to the unstoppable senior duo of Slifer and McMunn.

This Wednesday, the Tigers See LACROSSE page 7

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Facing both the Hofstra Pride and Mother Nature, the men’s lacrosse team managed to remain undefeated.

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TENNIS

In Alabama, impressive results for men’s and women’s tennis teams

By Chris Grubbs contributor

The Princeton tennis teams travelled to Montgomery, Ala. for the Blue Gray National Tennis Classic this weekend. The men’s team, ranked No. 50 in the nation, had posted an impressive 7-1 record to start the season.

The team was in a bracket with the University of Alabama, Auburn University, Boise State University, Clemson University, Mississippi State University, University of South Florida and Texas Tech University. The women’s team (2-5) was ranked No. 60 in the nation, and was in a bracket with Alabama, Boi-

se State, DePaul University, Ohio State University, Texas Tech, Tulane University and Yale. The men’s team had an excellent showing at the Classic this weekend, placing second in their bracket after a 4-0 loss to South Florida in the final, after completing two upsets to knock out Mississipi State and Clemson.

The women’s team, unable to complete their final match against Tulane due to rain, settled for tie for 5th place.

The men opened the tournament with a thrilling 4-3 victory over the No. 30 ranked Mississippi State Bulldogs (73). The men got off to a rocky start as they quickly dropped See TENNIS page 7

DANIELA COSIO :: CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Women’s water polo has had a fantastic start to the season, winning 7 of their first 8 games and holding the no. 14 ranking in the country.

Women’s water polo wins first in inaugural Ivy League championship

By Miles Hinson sports editor

It seems women’s aquatic sports can do no wrong this year. Just as the women’s swimming and diving team claimed an Ivy League Championship, the women’s water polo team claimed victory in the first Ivy League Championship for the sport.

The Tigers, ranked No. 14 in the nation, have opened with seven wins in their first eight games, and have firmly established themselves as the best water polo team in the Ivy League.

Indeed, of the six other women’s water polo squads at this tournament, four of them only have club status (Dartmouth, Penn, Cornell and Columbia). The other two, Harvard and Brown, are not ranked in the top 20.

Even before the first match had taken place, it seemed that Princeton would be a threat to totally run away with the event.

Their first matchup against the Dartmouth Big Green indicated as such. The team from New Hampshire was absolutely outclassed at DeNunzio Pool, falling to the Tigers 12-1. As Dart-

mouth is a club team, the win will not go on the Tigers’ record. The Big Green might be happy that their results won’t go on anyone’s record; in addition to the loss against Princeton, they received a 14-0 drubbing by the Harvard team as well.

The final round on the day featured Princeton against the Brown Bears, who got into the final round by edging the Harvard Crimson 6-5. The Bears may have been seeded second in the tournament, but the skill difference between they and the Tigers is apparent.

Brown came into the tour-

nament just 1-2. Moreover, this team had not proven much of a matchup for the Tigers last season, as they lost to the tune of 11-4 and 11-6.

This time, however, the game would prove to be much closer. The first part of the match was a heated battle, with the Tigers unable to pull away from the visiting team. The Tigers would end the first half up only 4-3. Not until the second half would the Tigers begin to extend their lead, ultimately seizing victory with a 9-4 final score.

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WRESTLING

Men’s and women’s tennis teams deliver excellent performances down south

By Jack Rogers senior writer

In its final weekend of dual competition, the wrestling team (9-9, 6-7 Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association) faced stiff competition from opponents both in and out of the conference. The Tigers fell to EIWA rivals Rider University and University of Pennsylvania on Friday evening and Saturday afternoon, respectively, before falling to Big 10 opponent University of Nebraska at home on Saturday

evening.

Similar to last year’s match against Rider, Friday’s match against the Broncs consisted of constant swings in momentum for both sides. After Rider took the first two bouts, Princeton responded with strong one-point wins from sophomore 141-pounder Jordan Laster and junior 149-pounder Chris Perez. Three straight decisions followed for the Broncs, though, giving Rider an 18-6 advantage heading into the final three matches. Despite See WRESTLING page 7

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