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New society to reward science research contributor

The Princeton Biomedical Engineering Society hosted an informational presentation on Feb. 22 with Elise Mochizuki, investment analyst at the Akemi Capital family office. She is the founder of the honor society Epsilon Alpha Mu and the nonprofit organization The Elise Foundation, which aims to make available new sources of funding for STEM research and pursuits on campus.

The honor society will provide Ivy League-affiliated researchers with funding and the opportunity to enter a new poster contest in which researchers will create exhibits to showcase their current projects. She was accompanied by Kenji Mochizuki, chairman of the board of directors of the honor society. The honor society plans to award current Ivy League students in science fields with monetary awards for research.

According to Kenji Mochizuki, grant applications take up close to 75 percent of researchers’ time; this wastes valuable time that could instead be spent doing research with no guarantee of a payoff.

In addition, Mochizuki noted that traditional sources of funding like the NIH are harder to access. He

added, “[The NIH has] made it harder for faculty to even apply for grants [because] ... you need to identify a specific genetic causality for a disease. [The NIH] are insisting, and preferring, grant applications to be linked to a single biomarker. But the problem is ... most of [the diseases of interest] are multifactorial, and other biomarkers may not even have been discovered, and there’s a huge environmental component.”

“So you have a whole discipline. All of a sudden, it’s not even worth your time applying for grant,” Mochizuki said. “And we’ve heard this from a lot of investigators.

We’ve heard it from chairs, chiefs, other senior scientists, at a handful of schools, at the Ivies.”

Because of this, the honor society aims to provide funding at every level of involvement in research, from principal investigators to graduate students to temporary or summer visiting researchers. Another one of the society’s aims is to foster an inter-Ivy League network of scientists.

“Once you’re a member, you’ll have access primarily to funding and the network,” Mochizuki said. “The trend in science is collaboration, interdisciplinary, interdepartmental research, and See SOCIETY page 3

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Junot Dí az will be on campus on Friday to read from his book and speak about activism.

Q&A: Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prizewinning author and activist

By Emily Spalding staff writer

Author Junot Díaz will be on campus for a special book reading and book signing hosted by Princeton Latinos y Amigos on Friday. Díaz will be reading from his book “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.” The ‘Prince’ asked Díaz a few questions about his identity and writing career over email.

The Daily Princetonian: It was recently announced that you will be among a group of writers contributing to the book “Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times.” What can you say about this project? What sparked your involvement,

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The Daily Princetonian sat down with the former Director of the Division of Investment Management of the Securities and Exchange Commission Norm Champ ’85 to discuss his role in the regulation of the finance industry after the Great Recession. Champ’s recent book, “Going Public: My Adventures Inside the SEC and How to Prevent the Next Devastating Crisis,” details the process of

turned away from plenty of troubling materials and have left plenty of things unsaid because I did not have the heart to write about them, because I feared the consequences. Writing (it should surprise no one) takes courage. Sometimes you ain’t got it right when you need it. We ain’t all fearless soldiers — some of us are human. All you can do at times like these is keep at it, keep growing and challenging yourself and eventually you’ll become the person you need to become to write the words you need to write. Perseverance really is everything in this game.

One has to remember that in a culture like ours polemSee DIAZ page 3

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Q&A: Former SEC official Champ ’85

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and what are you hoping to achieve through this work?

Junot Díaz: Shortly after the election, I wrote an epistolary piece for The New Yorker entitled “RADICAL HOPE” about hope and struggle in the age of Trump. And in less than a month Carolina De Robertis reached out to me to take part in a book project inspired in part by the essay I wrote.

DP: Have you ever found yourself censoring your writing because you felt it was too disruptive or controversial? What advice might you give to writers facing this kind of hesitation in going through with writing on polemic topics?

JD: As a writer, I have

financial reform both by and within the SEC after the crisis, and is set to be published in March. Champ is currently a lecturer at Harvard Law School and a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP Investment Funds Group.

The Daily Princetonian: You concentrated in history when you were at the University, and then studied war studies at King’s College, London, and went to Harvard Law. Can you tell us

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about what inspired you to pursue this particular academic path, and how it has influenced and helped you in your career?

Norm Champ: I was a history buff from the time I was a little kid, so I used to read these one-dollar Valentine books, history of the Second World War books. I read those as a kid and I was interested in history the whole way along. When I came to Princeton, I was drawn to the history department, and I continued to study military history at Princeton, and that included with James McPherson, who’s a Civil War historian, the best historian of the Civil War. While I was at Princeton, I really enjoyed the history department. I was even considering maybe going for a Ph.D. in history, and so I ended up applying for a Fulbright Scholarship to go to the U.K. and continue studying military history, and I got a master’s degree there, but at that point I decided I wanted to have a little more marketable skills and so instead I decided to continue on with my other original desire, which was to be a lawyer. I ended up applying to Harvard Law School and started there in 1986, graduated in 1989. It was an interesting question, how studies inf luence your career. I think being a histoSee CHAMP page 2

Rogoff promotes “less cash” society

By Alexander Stangl contributor

At a lecture on Feb. 23, Kenneth Rogoff, professor of economics at Harvard University, discussed the idea of moving to a society with less cash, which forms the basis of his new book, “The Curse of Cash.”

Rogoff prefaced his presentation with a disclaimer, noting that his work is often misunderstood and that he has received several death threats as a result of these misunderstandings. Other critics of his work, he noted, believe him to be promoting an Orwellian government. In response to these criticisms, Rogoff stated that his belief is not that money is inherently bad, and that we should live in a cashless society; rather, he is calling for what he has dubbed a “less cash” society in which we rid ourselves of the “big bills that don’t really have good use.”

These big bills include the $100 USD, 500€, and ¥10,000 bills. Rogoff argued that these bills had use in the past, as they facilitated the process of handling and exchanging large sums of money. He added that while this is no longer a limitation for

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the government, such large bills continue to be of great value to the underground economy, tax evaders, and criminals. The “black money” that these groups hold comprises a large amount of the wealth, he noted.

However, while the capital holdings of currency are vast, Rogoff explained that 80 to 90 percent of all currency remains unaccounted for. He noted that other economists claim this to be the result of foreign groups’ work and that these economists believe that most of the nation’s wealth exists overseas. On the contrary, Rogoff noted that economists have employed very sophisticated methods of tracking currency in order to obtain more reasonable estimates of overseas holdings. These methods show that well over half of U.S. currency is held in the United States, indicating that the problem is primarily domestic.

Rogoff claimed that average citizens would hardly be affected by removing large bills from circulation, as many citizens do not often use $50 or $100 bills; he added that these bills are more useful to money launderers See ROGOFF page 2

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ry major was great for being able to learn how to absorb a lot of material and analyze material and be able to write well about that material. All of that was extremely helpful in becoming a lawyer and being able to use those skills in the law as well. Plus, I’ve remained an amateur history guy, so I continue to read a lot of history and continue to love it.

DP: Can you tell us a little bit about your work at the SEC during and after the financial crisis?

NC: I started at the SEC in January of 2010, so that was after the financial crisis. Fall of 2008 was the main kickoff of the financial crisis. I came in a little over a year later, January of 2010, and I first came to the SEC to head up examinations of investment managers in New York and New Jersey at the New York regional office. The New York regional office has the most asset managers and most asset management assets in the country, and so I originally came in and was in charge of those exams. After a few months, I got promoted to be deputy director of the whole exam program across the whole United States, not just for investment managers, but also for broker-dealers, credit-rating agencies, transfer agents, financial securities exchanges, all sorts of entities that the SEC regulates. I was the deputy director of the exam division for two more years. Altogether, the first two and a half years I spent in the examination group and the examination division, most of it as deputy director. In the sum-

mer of 2012, I got named the Director of the Division of Investment Management at the SEC, which is the division that writes all of the guidance and all of the rules for the asset management industry of the United States.

So, [I am] no longer doing examinations, but now working on rules and guidance and all of the policy around asset management in the U.S., and that’s for all kinds of funds, so mutual funds, hedge funds, private equity funds, anybody in the fund business.

DP: What were some of the rules and reforms you pushed through for the financial industry as a whole in order to try to prevent something like the 2008 crash from happening again?

NC: The two main policy reforms that I worked on as head of investment management, the first one was reforms to the money market mutual funds industry. Money market mutual funds are funds that many investors have, but don’t necessarily realize that they have them.

If you have a securities account, or asset management account, and an asset manager, cash is usually kept in these money market funds accounts, and that account actually looks very much like a checking account, because you can write checks and so forth. Up until the crisis, those accounts were allowed to have a fixed one-dollarper-share value, so you put in a dollar, you get a dollar back.

That sounds a lot like a bank account, but these were still securities accounts and they invested in securities, so there was a bit of a mismatch there, between the fact that they were carried at a dollar a share but they invested in securities that had risk. In the

crisis, several of them got in trouble because — they had a particular one called primary reserve — they got in trouble because they held securities of Lehman Brothers, and Lehman Brothers went into bankruptcy. While I was [at the SEC], we worked on reforms that were adopted in 2014 that did many things.

The main thing they did was they forced some of the money market funds to f loat their price, so they could no longer be a fixed one-dollar price, so it would show what the real value was. And then we allowed the money market funds to put up so-called “gates” to stop people from withdrawing from the fund if there was a problem with the fund’s price. We passed those reforms in 2014. The second big thing I worked on from a policy perspective was the Volcker Rule, which is a rule that attempts to separate two types of activities at banks. On the one hand, banks are handling money that’s insured by the federal government, by the FDIC, and so the Volcker Rule seeks to limit the use of insured money for traditional banking practices, like lending for mortgages and [certificates of deposit]. What the Volcker Rule is trying to do is saying, ‘You can do traditional banking activities with insured money, but we don’t [want] you doing risktaking activities,’ and so the Volcker Rule tries to draw the line between activities that you can undertake using insured money. It’s a thousand-page rule, and it’s very complicated, but it’s trying to draw that line between the two types of activities.

DP: So the Volcker Rule is part of the Dodd-Frank Reforms. How do you feel about the new government

administration’s plans to review and potentially reverse Dodd-Frank and loosen financial regulations? What do you think the effects of those will be, and how much more likely will they make another financial crash in the future?

NC: Dodd-Frank had a lot of provision in it that had nothing to do with the crisis. They were things that various people wanted put in the bill, but they had no direct link to the crisis. I think the Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, is going to undertake a review of Dodd-Frank and I think they can locate a lot of provisions that don’t relate to the crisis that should get reviewed. I think that one of the main things the administration’s going to focus on is trying to make sure that our markets here are very healthy, and that would mean getting more companies to list their securities and go public here.

We’ve had a decline in the number of companies going public in the United States, and they think the administration’s going to try and reverse that and get more companies to go public here, and that would be great for the depth of U.S. markets and for growth in the United States.

What we need in the United States is more growth to help all Americans.

DP: You left the SEC after five years of senior leadership positions to go to a very large private law firm [as a partner], Kirkland & Ellis.

What motivated that decision and what are some of the differences that you experience in your work now?

NC: So I left the SEC in January of 2015. I took the first year off after I left and worked on the book, and taught my class at Harvard

Law School that I teach every year, did some consulting. And then in February of 2016, I returned to private practice at Kirkland & Ellis. We have an Investment Funds Group at Kirkland & Ellis that represents investment funds, mostly private funds, but also public funds, and we have the largest funds practice in America. It’s been very interesting to return to private practice and very enjoyable to help clients structure their affairs to comply with SEC rules and regulations. It was motivated by the fact that five years on a government salary was enough, and I felt like we made a lot of changes at the SEC and it was kind of time to move on. We had the opportunity to make a lot of changes that a lot of people didn’t think we could make. The single biggest difference in being in the private world is you’re in the more free market environment, as opposed to a government environment.

It’s been great fun; [I’m] enjoying being back in private practice.

DP: Is there anything else you’d like to add?

NC: I’m really looking forward to getting to speak at the Wilson School on Monday, and looking forward to hopefully having good dialogues with students. I teach at Harvard Law School and I’ve taught some classes at Princeton for the Bendheim Center [for Finance] and others. You don’t get a chance to spend a lot of time with students, and I always enjoy it, so looking forward to doing it again on Monday.

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and those in illicit businesses. To illustrate this, he noted that a popular television series, “Breaking Bad,” features a very well-researched and accurate depiction of money laundering, clearly depicting the difficulties associated with physically storing large sums of money.

Without large bills in use, such operations would be even more difficult, almost to the point of infeasibility.

Rogoff noted that India’s government recently made such a reform, cutting off circulation of the 500 and 1000 rupee bills. This action

was met with mixed responses, and Rogoff explained that developing economies likely should not be undertaking these monetary decisions.

However, he noted that developed economies are indeed working on phasing out large notes; for example, the European Union is slowly removing the 500€ bill from circulation and has found great success in doing so.

This lecture was given as part of the University’s Future of Capitalism Talk Series and was hosted by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. The event took place in Robertson Hall at 4:30 p.m on Feb. 23.

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ics and outrageousness are the order of the day. But truthfulness — the kind of truthfulness that undoes the speaker as much as it undoes the hearer — that’s hard as fuck.

DP: What fears do you have for our society going forward in how we treat immigrants?

JD: The so-called alt-right

— which is the liar’s way of saying white supremacists — is all up in the White House. Our entire democracy should be terrified of that development — and not just us immigrants and refugees, who are its first targets.

DP: Alternatively, what gives you hope?

JD: The fact that nearly every black woman in this country who voted in this last presidential election voted against Trump gives

me hope (and makes me, a member of the African diaspora, very proud). The outpouring of resistance and organizing that has occurred after Trump’s inauguration gives me hope. My community’s long legacy of overcoming inhuman injustice gives me hope too.

We’re in for a serious and difficult struggle and there will be many setbacks but for me there’s no question that the future of this coun-

try will be one of tolerance, justice,and democracy, and not the bullshit they’re currently serving up in the White House.

DP: How has your identity informed your perception of the world, and, furthermore, the work you choose to put into it?

JD: I assume my “identity” has informed my worldview and my work but how and to what extent I cannot say.

Who ultimately can? Our

identities after all exist in large part in our unconscious and what do we ultimately know about that? Not much. I’m Dominican and I’m an immigrant but I know tons of Dominicans and tons of immigrants and while we have some things in common we are also exquisitely emphatically unique. We all truly contain multitudes.

And the work, the actual writing, makes its own demands beyond what you are.

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we’re just trying to facilitate that.”

“Initially, we would provide small cash awards through a traditional science poster competition, then larger poster-competition awards like scholarships, fellowships, and endowments to scientists we identify and vet through the poster competition,” Mochizuki added.

Elise and Kenji Mochizuki have spent the last week touring Ivy League colleges in order to increase awareness of The Elise Foundation and Epsilon Alpha Mu. “Because I just set up a nonprofit organization one and a half months ago to start a brand new annual poster competition, nobody has heard of us,” Mochizuki said. “That’s why I thought it would be a good idea to provide the opportunity for students to meet me in person to hear about this new funding source and to ask their questions.”

Kenji Mochizuki cited Drs. Bonnie Bassler in molecular biology, Robert Kaita in the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, and former University dean of engineering

H. Vincent Poor, as well as University trustee Fiyinfoluwa Akinlawon as some of the honor society’s contacts on campus.

When asked which subject in STEM she was most excited about supporting, Elise Mochizuki said, “Neuroscience. Anything that has to do with the brain.”

The two organizations currently are exclusively for STEM students and researchers affiliated with the Ivy League, though Mochizuki also stated that expanding the scope of the foundation and competition to schools other than Ivies was “definitely on our horizon. We’re going to start small now, probably stumble, take some baby steps ... there’s a learning curve; philanthropy is not as easy as you think.”

“We’re very welcome to such initiatives,” PBMES president Rohan Shah ’20 wrote in an email.

This year’s Epsilon Alpha Mu poster competition will be held at Cornell Medical School and/or Columbia University, according to the honor society’s website. Participants will vote on the dates.

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Considerations in expanding the student body

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n his recent State of the University letter, University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 reaffirmed the University’s intent to expand the size of the undergraduate student body with the hope of “grow[ing] enrollment while maintaining the distinctive character of a Princeton education.” We appreciate the University’s effort to offer the Princeton experience to a greater number of qualified applicants, and we do not oppose the expansion of the student body; however, we urge the University to keep in mind a number of considerations while planning for the expansion. Specifically, the University should take special note of the capacity of upperclassmen residential and dining options, the location of the new residential college, and the effect of student body expansion on the availability of University resources. Such careful planning will ensure a larger Princeton retains the unique qualities that make it “the best damn place of all.”

Expanding the student body will affect many aspects of the Princeton student experience.

For instance, increasing the size of the student body could present problems for the University’s dining system. A new residential college can feed additional students during their underclassmen years, but the eating clubs — which feed the vast majority of upperclassmen students — may not be equipped to absorb the additional students when they become upperclassmen. Moreover, the bicker process will

naturally become more selective, exacerbating concerns about social exclusivity. This provides even more reason for the University to implement our past recommendations to better support the sign-in eating clubs.

The University’s ability to accommodate additional students in the residential system is another area of concern. While the construction of a new residential college will provide living and dining space for additional students in their freshmen and sophomore years, it does not necessarily ensure that there will be space for those students in their junior and senior years.

The University should construct more upperclassman housing and make the new residential college a four-year living community in the mold of Whitman in order to continue to offer a diverse set of living options for upperclassmen in an expanded student body.

The location of any new residential college is itself an important consideration in expanding the student body.

One of the most special aspects of the Princeton experience is our close-knit community, which is fostered in large part by students living in close geographic proximity to each other. We believe it is essential to maintaining Princeton’s positive residential life that undergraduates not be isolated far from their peers or forced to take buses to get to central campus, as is necessary at some other insti-

tutions. Fortunately, Eisgruber has maintained that the new residential college will be built on “traditional campus” land, north of Lake Carnegie and east of the Springdale Golf Course. We support those limitations, and we further suggest that the new residential college be located west of Washington Road to ensure that students in the new college remain a part of Princeton’s main campus.

Some University resources, like McCosh Health Center, Counseling and Psychological Services, and University Health Services more broadly, are already strained with the current student population size. We have previously advocated for an expansion in CPS programming. Increasing the number of students on campus would further tax these resources. We urge the University to prudently consider the increase in resources required to meet student needs in these areas, as Eisgruber highlighted in his letter.

Perhaps most importantly, the University must consider the effect that expanding the student body has on the availability and efficacy of academic resources. Princeton rightfully prides itself on its commitment to undergraduate education and the accessibility of faculty members.

This is demonstrated in the University’s 5:1 student to faculty ratio and its robust academic advising system, which pairs undergraduates with faculty members for academic support. To maintain the

strength of our undergraduate academic programs, the University should consider expanding the faculty to an extent commensurate with the expansion in the undergraduate student body. This is particularly pertinent due to Princeton’s emphasis on junior and senior independent work, both of which require advisors. Similarly, the University should consider an expansion in the graduate student program to maintain the necessary ratio of preceptors and teaching assistants for undergraduate courses.

The Board again commends Eisgruber’s commitment to expanding the undergraduate student body in order to offer the Princeton experience to a greater number of deserving applicants. But, even more so, we hope that the University will take into account the many aspects of undergraduate life that this expansion will impact, whether it be the residential and dining systems, the location of residential colleges, or the availability of health and academic resources. These factors, among others, are critical to maintaining what Eisgruber calls “the distinctive character of a Princeton education.”

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Stories from your peers: The third annual Me Too Monologues

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cent).”

These statistics are too high. Mental health struggles are real and prevent Princeton students, college students, and the millions of those aff licted from enjoying a higher quality of life. But before we can address these realities, we need to acknowledge them. And yet we rarely talk honestly about how we are feeling.

There is a stigma to answering the question “How are you?” with anything other than “fine” or “good” because we all implicitly understand the exchange to be more of a formality than a genuine question. Many of us are also raised not to speak honestly and openly about our feelings, so it can be difficult to provide an honest answer.

But the refrains of “fine”and “nothing” do not help break the stigma.

Three years ago at a town hall on mental health reform, one student on the Mental Health Initiative Board, Kei Yamaya ’17, proposed a solution. She had heard of a documentary theater project, Me Too Monologues, that began at Duke University in 2009 by students, allowing their peers’ insights on race and identity to be heard by a wider audience. She proposed that the model could be employed to open a conversation on mental health. And she

was right.

The structure lends itself well to address stigmatized issues such as mental health challenges. Students first anonymously submit monologues of their personal experiences with insecurities, and then actors perform six to eight of the submissions.

The anonymity and studentled process allows students to speak honestly about their experiences, something they may not feel comfortable doing in a different setting.

The pieces are then transformed into a production and performed by students, for students. Though you do not know the identity of the author, you do know that it is another student, just like you. Maybe even the person sitting right next you.

Students’ reading the pieces makes the reality of the submissions come to life in a way only documentary theater can create. Each performance is then followed by an open discussion with all who have attended.

Together we have worked on the project since its inception: myself as a three-time project and stage manager, and Matt as a performer and then two-time director. After dozens of discussions with our own friends about the questions each year’s production raises, we remain fiercely committed to bring-

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What’s wrong?”

“Nothing.”

We bet you’ve had this exact exchange with a friend before. We both certainly have. And we bet more often than not, whether you were questioning or responding, you have sensed that the exchange was a mask, hiding a more complicated reality, and yet you let it stay as it was. Perhaps you just didn’t know how to get the truth out or felt like being honest would be a burden on the listener. We understand. But we also understand the need to change the status quo.

In a 2013 survey conducted by the University, “17 percent of Princeton undergraduate students reported feeling ‘so depressed it was difficult to function’ in the last 30 days.”

And Princeton students aren’t alone. According to a 2013 study by the American Psychological Association, “Ninety-five percent of college counseling center directors surveyed said the number of students with significant psychological problems is a growing concern in their center or on campus,” and the problem is only growing worse. “Anxiety is the top presenting concern among college students (41.6 percent), followed by depression (36.4 percent), and relationship problems (35.8 per-

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ing this meaningful and relevant project to a Princeton stage and are excited to do so before we graduate.

Since beginning at Duke, the project has expanded to other universities, and this is the third year that Princeton will be hosting its own Me Too Monologues, exclusively regarding mental health. We need to build a community where people can discuss mental health issues without the burden of its associated stigma. Performances will be held on Saturday, Feb. 25, at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 26, at 8 p.m. in McCosh Hall 10 as the capstone event of USG’s Mental Health Week, a week of programming and resources for students. Tickets for the performance are not required. Please come and be part of the effort to break down the stigma around mental health challenges. But don’t let it stop there. Keep the conversation going. Next time someone asks “what’s wrong,” know you don’t need to say “nothing.”

Marni Morse is a politics major from Washington, D.C. She can be reached at mlmorse@ princeton.edu.

Matt Blazejewski is an East Asian Studies major from Trenton, N.J. He can be reached at mpb3@princeton.edu.

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Men’s lacrosse to battle Hofstra after exciting season start Owen Tedford Staff Writer

After opening the season with two wins against New Jersey Institute of Technology (0-2) and Marist University (2-1), the men’s lacrosse team will look to continue its strong start when Hofstra (10) comes to town on Saturday.

The teams will face off in a 1 p.m. game at Sherrerd Field in the Class of 1952 Stadium.

Princeton (2-0) has started the season off well, winning it recognition from the USILA/ Nike Coaches Poll, in which Princeton received votes to be ranked in the top 20 teams in the country, for the first time this season. This poll was released before the Tigers’ win over Marist, a team that was also receiving votes. With a win over Hofstra on Saturday, Princeton could very well find itself in those top 20 ranked teams.

The Pride won’t make this game an easy one to win, with half of its starters returning from last year. Most notable of those returnees are goalie Jack Concannon and attack Josh Byrne. Concannon was selected as a Preseason AllAmerican and was also selected to the All-Conference first

team last year. He finished the season with a save percentage of 56.8 percent, the tenth best in the nation. On the other hand, Byrne led Hofstra last year in goals, assists, and point, with 30, 15, and 45 respectively. These numbers put him second in the conference in points and third in goals and assists.

Both Byrne and Concannon led the way for the Pride in its first game of the year. Byrne tallied three goals and three assists to lead Hofstra with six points. Concannon, meanwhile, tallied 11 saves, including one with 18 seconds left in the game, allowing Princeton to keep its two-goal lead.

To combat this duo, Princeton has its own trio of stars that it will look to lead the way on Saturday, namely freshman attack Michael Sowers, senior attack Gavin McBride, and junior goalie Tyler Blaisdell. Sowers was part of a USA U-19 team that won the gold medal at the World Championships this past summer.

Notably, fellow Tiger and junior midfielder Austin Sims was a captain of this team.

In the two games that the Tigers have played, these three have played important roles. Notably, Sowers leads

Princeton in points with 12.

Not only has he led this category, he also set a school record in his first game against NJIT for assists in the first game of a freshman year with five, breaking the old record of four. This also made Sowers only the sixth Tiger in the last century to have a five-assist game. In addition, Blaisdell has been great in the net with a save percentage of 69.2 percent, making 18 saves and allowing only 8 goals. McBride has also picked up right where he left off last year as the team’s leading goal scorer.

This year, so far, he’s scored six goals, with three in each game; this has extended his streak of games with at least three goals to now seven in a row.

The game will be streaming on the Ivy League Digital Network, for those who can’t make it down to Sherrerd Field.

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The men’s lacrosse season is heating up as they prepare to face Hofstra on Saturday.

WOMEN’S TRACK

Women’s track and field priming for Ivy League Heptagonal Championships Mike Gao Staff Writer

A month ago, in a dominating performance at HarvardYale-Princeton championships, the Princeton women’s track and field team proved its mettle, earning 73 points and easily beating out rivals Harvard and Yale, each by an impressive 25 points.

The Tigers hope to replicate their performance this weekend while competing in the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships. Coming off a disappointing No. 4 finish last year, Princeton returns to the track with a strong core of returning veterans and talented freshmen and will look to earn its tenth title.

Perhaps the Tigers’ strongest potential to put points on the board lies in the field.

Senior Julia Ratcliffe, the NCAA champion in the hammer throw in 2014, is a favorite in her titular event, having dominated competition from the Ivies this year. She’ll be joined by junior Kennedy O’Dell, runner-up in the HYP meet and ranked third in the Ivy League in her event.

Meanwhile, senior Allison Harris, who is also a serious contender in the hurdles, has continued to prove a dominant force in the pole vault.

Having just set the Princeton and Ivy League record in the pole vault at Virginia Tech University, Harris is an overwhelming favorite in the event.

Princeton will also return with a strong team of distance runners. Senior Katie Hanss, the holder of the Princeton re-

cord in the 1000m, clinched first in HYP and boasts the second-fastest time in the Ivy League. In the 1000m, she’ll be joined by sophomores Alie Fordyce and Zoe Sims, who also have proved dangerously fast in the distance events this year. In the longer 3000m, senior Lizzie Bird stands as one of the favorites for the title. Having placed third at last year’s Ivy League outdoor championships, as well as having qualified individually for the NCAA cross country national finals, Bird spearheads a formidable Princeton distance contingent that will seriously bolster the Tigers’ profile.

Perhaps the area the Tigers are anticipated to most struggle in is sprints, which have suffered heavily from graduations, particularly that of Olympic Trial semifinalist Cecilia Barowski ’16.

Fortunately, the Tigers have received an unexpected but welcome boost from underclassmen. Freshman Heide Baron and junior Maia Craver have proved dangerous in the 400m, Baron having contributed to a 1-2-3 Princeton sweep in the HYP meet. Meanwhile, senior Elisa Steele will run the same events as Barowski did; with top times in the 400m and 500m, she will likely be a point-grabber for the Tigers.

Following the Heptagonal Championships, the Tigers will hope to qualify individuals for the NCAA Indoor Championships held in College Station, Texas, before hopefully riding the momentum of a successful indoor season into the outdoor season.

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The women’s track team looks to dominate the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships this weekend.

Stat of the Day

97 Senior defender Kelsey Koelzer from women’s hockey has racked up a total of 97 career points.

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