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By Christina Vosbikian staff writer

Today on Campus 3 p.m.: Former Texas State Senator, Wendy Davis, will discuss ways to subvert “wolf-whistle politics, coded language that seeks to minimize the power of women’s voices. Presentation in Robertson Hall’s Dodd Auditorium.

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Feb. 25, 1970 Jerome P. Webster Jr., the University’s assistant for Career Services, announces that companies are canceling recruiting interviews in unprecedented numbers. Princetonian’s scheduled interviews were down 10 percent from the year before.

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Dean of the College Valerie Smith will leave the University on July 1 to become the next President of Swarthmore College.

Smith to leave U. on July 1 By Linda Song staff writer

Dean of the College Valerie Smith will leave her position to become the president of Swarthmore College on July 1. Swarthmore’s Board of Managers named Smith on Feb. 21 after unanimous agreement. She said she had been offered the position on Feb. 8 and accepted shortly thereafter. She said will miss working

News & Notes Columbia hires former Penn football coach

After retiring from his position of football coach at the University of Pennsylvania three months ago, Al Bagnoli has just been hired by Columbia as their new Patricia and Shepard Alexander Head Coach of Football. Bagnoli joins Columbia after a 23-year career at Penn, where he led the team to winning nine Ivy League titles and maintained an overall record of 148-80, including 11249 in the conference. Bagnoli’s tenure at Penn saw six undefeated seasons in the Ivy League and three perfect seasons. After Bagnoli retired from his position as Penn’s head coach to defensive coordinator Ray Priore, he transitioned to an athletic administration job. Bagnoli was introduced as Columbia’s new head football coach in a news conference on campus Tuesday. Bagnoli is replacing former Columbia head coach Pete Mangurian, who left the school in December.

Smith has served as Dean of the College since 2011. She first came to the University in 1980 to teach English and African-American Studies before moving to the University of California, Los Angeles in 1989, after which she returned to the University in 2001 as the director of the AfricanAmerican Studies program. During her time at the University, Smith chaired the Working Group on UnSee SMITH page 2

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to academic rigor, increasing the access and affordability of higher education for students whatever their circumstances and educating students for the common good.” She joins Swarthmore as its first president of color and its second female president, as well as the 15th president in its history. Former Swarthmore president Rebecca Chopp left last year to become chancellor at the University of Denver.

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with members of the University but is excited about the opportunity to lead Swarthmore. “I have learned an enormous amount during my time here at Princeton, and I am very grateful for the experiences I have had here as a faculty member and as dean,” she said. “My values are aligned with Swarthmore’s. I am eager to have the opportunity to lead a top-ranked liberal arts college that is committed

University Carillonneur Lisa Lonie believes there is room for modern experimentation in the art form of carillon playing, which originated in the late medieval period. A carillon is a musical instrument composed of at least 23 carillon bells, tuned to produce harmonic notes when many bells are sounded together, according to the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America. The carillon, usually installed in a tower, is played from a keyboard that allows expression through variation of touch, although the larger bells are connected to foot pedals. “At a college, musically, you have a lot more leeway,” Lonie said. “When you play for a church, you ought not to be playing ‘Game of Thrones’ or funny music like that or show tunes. On a college campus, you can do that.” Sunday afternoon carillon concerts are a longstanding University tradition. In addition to that, the University continues to have a summer carillon series, attracting guest carillonneurs from around the world, but mainly from EuSee CARILLONNEUR page 2

In the 1970s, the AfricanAmerican community on campus expanded to include women. The Third World Center was also developed as a social space for the community, which helped to organize a number of protests and sit-ins for anti-apartheid divestment campaigns. 1970s: Women are welcomed on campus In the fall of 1969, women were officially admitted into the University’s first coeducational program. Among the 171 new female undergraduates,

the first African-American female undergraduates at the University were also enrolling. Women on campus quickly made their mark: the valedictorian and the salutatorian of that first coeducational class were both women, Melanie Lawson ’76 said. The University was still adjusting to the change — for example, the bathroom doors in many buildings had the letters “W-O” painted in front of “Men,” she explained. Sometimes, the urinals had not been removed. The men at the University with whom she interacted were supportive, she said. “I found that the African-

American men who were my classmates and in the classes a few years above me were very protective and really looked out a lot for us, and I really appreciated that a lot,” she said. Lawson didn’t experience discrimination or difficulty from other men either; the men on campus were generally respectful, she added. “If they ever felt like there was a situation in which they felt that the women were being picked on, like if a black woman was being picked on, they pretty much would rush to your rescue,” she said. Karen Ruffin ’86 said she felt more conscious of her race than her gender in some situations.

“The last thing that came to my mind was that it was because I was female,” Ruffin said. “The first thing that would come to my mind was because I’m black.” Melvin McCray ’74 said black women had a particularly hard journey because they were very few in number. “I think that the journey of black women at Princeton is a different one than black men, because black women had the double whammy of being black and female,” he said. October 1971: Building a home — The Third World Center When Carl Fields first ar-

rived at Princeton as an assistant director of student aid, there were 12 black undergraduates in the student body. When he left the University to become a planning officer in Zambia in 1971, there were more than 300. By the 1970s, a number of colleges, including Stanford and Yale, had established black houses, which were houses or centers designed for black students to congregate together as a community. The African-American community on campus decided the University needed to have one too and began to push for the creation of a social space, McSee FEATURE page 3

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

Rep. Gabbard talks faith, military service, public office at public lecture By Ruby Shao associate news editor

The spirit behind the word “aloha” is key to solving many of today’s challenges, Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard said at a Tuesday lecture. She represents the second district of Hawaii and serves on the Foreign Affairs, Armed Services and Homeland Security House committees. According to Gabbard, “aloha” means “I greet you with respect and an open heart.” She suggested that Democrats and Republicans consider the phrase when working toward their objective of a strong and great country. “We have more in common than we have that divides us,” Gabbard said. “It’s a matter of getting over the divisiveness, of transcending these boxes that we place ourselves in.” As the first Hindu member of Congress, Gabbard said she relies on the spiritual foundation built by her Catholic father and Hindu

mother, who taught her the principles of both religions. Gabbard noted that she never needed to choose between the faiths since they share an essence of universal concepts with real-world applications. “It’s not about which place of worship you choose. It’s not about what title you may give yourself or what label you may attach to yourself,” she said. Gabbard noted that her parents raised her to avoid seeing titles, paychecks or material goods as measures of worth in any career path. “The true key to success is by applying your actions and your skills and your talents to be of service to others, to have a positive impact on those around you,” she said. “If you stay very focused on this, asking yourself constantly, ‘How can I best be of service?’ and answering that question with the decisions that you make with your life, then you will experience … a deep sense of fulfillment and happiness.”

The Congresswoman added that she learned personal responsibility for solving problems while growing up. “Don’t look left and right and say, ‘Who’s going to do something about this?’ Look in the mirror and ask yourself, ‘What can I do?’ ” Gabbard said. Despite absorbing her parents’ advice early on, she said she never fully understood how to apply their principles until she co-founded an environmental non-profit called Healthy Hawaiʻ i Coalition at age 19. The organization began in response to her anger at finding trash on beaches and other bodies of water. After leading beach cleanups, Gabbard created an educational program to teach Hawaiian elementary students from mostly public schools about why they needed to be custodians, rather than abusers, of the environment. COURTESY OF UNITED STATES CONGRESS Gabbard said she drew inspiration Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard spoke in Whig Hall on Tuesday. See LECTURE page 2

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from watching comprehension dawn on her audience members’ faces. “That experience of seeing that change take place, even a very, very small way, made me know that this is what I wanted to do — that I wanted to try to be in a position where I could be of service, where I could make that positive impact for other people,” she said. Gabbard said she brought her passion for environmental issues to the state legislature by running for office at 21 years old. She noted that although she received little support due to her lack of experience, her commitment and conviction allowed her to win against what people said were impossible odds. She then became the youngest person elected to a state legislature in U.S. history. Shortly thereafter, Gabbard enlisted in the National Guard because she wanted to help fight what people said they did in the

name of God around 9/11, she said, adding that she needed to make a decision once a brigade combat team in Hawaii was called for deployment to Iraq. “It was a choice between staying in Hawaii and continuing the service that I was doing for my constituents, in a beautiful office in a beautiful place and watching close to three thousand of my brothers and sisters in arms march off to the other side of the world in combat, maybe coming home, some of them, maybe not — or leaving that behind and going with them,” Gabbard explained, adding that she chose the latter so she could contribute her part. After serving in a medical unit on the deployment and seeing firsthand the incredibly high cost of war, she said, she developed new perspectives on the fragility of life, preciousness of time and lack of veteran experience within the House of Representatives and Senate. These new perspectives motivated her to run for Congress, even

though people again claimed she was too young and inexperienced to do so. Nevertheless, Gabbard recounted that her engagement with voters enabled her to win by a margin of 20 percent on election day. In response to an audience question about how to better engage women in politics, Gabbard said that in general, people refrain from running for office because they mistakenly believe they must acquire a certain set of credentials. “Ultimately, it comes down to what’s in your heart and making that personal connection with people, earning their trust and earning their confidence,” she said. “There’s no special qualification other than that … you have to be focused on how you can be of service, listening to the needs of your community.” Entitled “Faith and Public Service,” the lecture took place in the Whig Senate Chamber at noon and was sponsored by the American Whig-Cliosophic Society, Princeton College Democrats and the Office of Religious Life.

CORRECTION Due to a reporting error, the Feb. 23 article, “Black History Month: Looking back from 1792 to 1950s,” inaccurately stated where Dean of Admission Radcliffe Heermance told Bruce Wright he should consider going to college. Wright was told to consider going to college in New England. Due to a reporting error, the Feb. 23 article, “Black History Month: Looking back from 1792 to 1950s,” inaccurately stated where Dean of Admission Radcliffe Heermance told Bruce Wright he should consider going to college. Wright was told to consider going to college in New England. The ‘Prince’ regrets the error.

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rope and Northwestern Europe. Lonie is notable for her willingness to lead tours of Cleveland Tower at the Graduate College, where the carillon is housed, and to play the instrument for visitors as well as for her teaching of students who have expressed an interest in the carillon, said Dean of Religious Life and of the Chapel Alison Boden. The University carillonneur’s position is located within the Office of Religious Life. In carillon performances, the line between the secular and the religious is often blurred, Boden said. “So much of the beautiful music from the Western tradition has roots in the sacred,” she explained. “If you’re playing Bach’s ‘Sheep May Safely Graze,’ is it sacred or is it secular?” University performances also take into account songs with which University students might be familiar, Lonie said. “The way that you can connect yourself as the carollineur to your audience is through music,” she explained. “If you play something that’s really catchy, or that people know or students know, maybe they’re going to take notice of what you have to say from the tower.” Lonie also said she wants to take the instrument out of its solo recital role. Last year, she played the University’s carillon live with two trumpeters. This year, she plans to play the carillon against pre-recorded tracks, something she described as a kind of “karaoke carillon.” She also hopes to repeat a novel concert she did last year where she had a live video feed of her playing the carillon in Cleveland

Tower broadcast to her audience, so they could see her as she played. “That’s part of the whole community aspect of what a carillon is, just as an instrument in its most fundamental form,” she explained. “It’s a public instrument, so you want people to notice what you’re doing. They can’t see you while you’re playing. They can hear you.” Lonie plans to, in her words, “keep it fresh” so that audience members come back week after week to her Sunday concerts, which run all year except during Ph.D. exams. Lonie began her carillon studies as a teenager with Frank Law, former carillonneur at the Washington Memorial National Carillon in Valley Forge, Penn., and continued with Frank DellaPenna. “We’re kind of like carillon brother and sister,” former University carollineur Robin Austin said, explaining that he and Lonie were both taught how to play the carillon by Law. “I was in my early twenties and [Lonie] was probably 13 or 14, and we’ve known each other since then.” The carillon Austin and Lonie were trained on was, coincidentally, linked to Princeton’s first official carillonneur, Arthur Bigelow. The Valley Forge carillon was designed by Bigelow and has on it a plaque dedicated to him. The University acquired its carillon as a gift from the Class of 1892. The instrument was originally intended for the University Chapel, and then for Holder Tower, but was eventually placed in Cleveland Tower, Austin said. “It’s now her turn to take care of that beautiful instrument,” he said of Lonie, who was appointed to her position in 2012. After its installation in

1927, the University’s carillon was not played very often until it came under the care of its first “Bell Master,” Arthur Bigelow. When he came to the University in 1941 and found the instrument in serious disrepair, Bigelow set to restore the carillon, adding 14 new bells of his own design and casting, eventually going so far as to remove seven of the original 35 bells, as well as his 14 bells, and design a rescaled treble register of 42 bells cast by the French Foundry Paccard. When Bigelow died in 1967, the carillon came under the care of Walter Noller who was the University’s carollineur from 1972 to 1993. “The instrument was kind of played rather irregularly,” Austin explained when asked about this point in the history of the University’s carillon. When Austin retired, the Office of Religious Life mostly focused on finding applicants in the area, Boden said. Lonie is from the Philadelphia area. “First and foremost, it was because the instrument is so superior,” Lonie said of why she applied to become the University’s official carillonneur. “It’s the fifth largest in the country.” Austin said he was impressed by Lonie’s public promotion of the instrument and teaching, as well as her energy. Lonie is also the carillonneur at St. Thomas’ Church, Whitemarsh as well as the lead carillonneur for the oldest carillon in North America at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square. She is also a member of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America, former chair of the Guild’s Examinations Committee and former member of its board of directors. She is also frequently an invited recitalist to carillon festivals.

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dergraduate Socioeconomic Diversity, was involved with establishing modules for the University’s Freshman Scholars Institute and helped repeal the grade deflation policy. Dean of the Faculty Deborah Prentice was selected by President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 to chair a search committee to appoint the next Dean of the College, according to a University press release. Smith was enjoyable to work with, Provost David Lee GS ’99 said. “We certainly will wish her well as she takes up her new duties at Swarthmore,” he said. Vice President for Campus Life Cynthia Cherrey also recently announced her departure from the University.

Cherrey is due to leave the University in August to head the International Leadership Association as president and chief executive officer. She also remains a defendant in a lawsuit about mental health procedures filed against the University. The 2015-2016 operating budget report, written by the Priorities Committee of the Council of the Princeton University Community, noted the University was facing a competitive labor market. “The University continues to face significant competition for top talent,” the report said. “The University continues to authorize higher salaries to recruit and retain talent.” The previous operating budget report for the 20142015 year voiced similar concerns. “In this environment of aggressive recruitment, lagging

salaries could make us vulnerable to losing our best talent to our peers,” the report read. Smith received over $700,000 in “recruitment incentives” from 20112013, an October 2013 Daily Princetonian article reported. The departures were rooted in personal considerations, said Daniel Day, acting director of communications. “The departure of a dean or administrator from the University is part of the normal ebb and flow of higher education officials making career and personal choices,” he said. “For those same reasons, people leave other institutions and companies to come to Princeton.” No connection exists between the Priorities Committee’s recommendations and Cherrey and Smith’s impending departures, Day added.

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Cray said. “[The campaign for a social space] was something that was started by a group of black students sitting around their dorm and realizing that they didn’t have access to an eating club, they didn’t have really a place other than the larger suites where they could, you know, give a party or something every now and then, but they didn’t have a home for some of their social activities,” he explained. Few African-American students wanted to join eating clubs, which had a stringent application and hard Bicker process, and often registered for meal plans at Wilson College instead, he added. “At the time, I kind of considered the eating clubs to be much more elitist,” Lawson said. “Most of them were largely white, and I didn’t feel as comfortable — I didn’t think I’d feel as comfortable there.” Jim Floyd ’69, former secretary of Tower Club, also said the eating clubs were not particularly attractive to the AfricanAmerican student body back then and, to some extent, today. “Many people see the clubs as being alcohol-fueled, and many of the parties that black students have, and I still understand this to be true today, are not alcoholfueled,” he said. “They may be music-fueled, and they may be having a good time spontaneously fueled, but they are not alcohol-fueled.” In 1970, a group of students piled into two cars and went to the house of then-University President Robert Goheen ’40 to talk to him about creating a social space. The University was initially very hesitant about giving into the request for a separate socialization space for the AfricanAmerican students, McCray said, as it believed that students should try to make an effort to integrate into the existing community instead of creating their own. According to McCray, the students were unsatisfied by this decision and mobilized on campus in several ways, one of which included the takeover of the reading room in Firestone Library, where several African-American students refused to leave until the proctors were called in. Though there was a disciplinary hearing, the students were not charged because the jury believed that the reasons for the sit-in were legitimate. “This was just one step toward asserting their identity and asserting the need to have a Third World Center, as it turned out to be,” McCray said. According to McCray, the space was called the Third World Center instead of a black house as there were a number of Latino students on campus,

and the space was to be made all-inclusive. University Trustee Brent Henry ’69, a young alumni trustee at the time, said that many members of the African-American community remained concerned that the trustees did not support the Center. He added that students protested by blocking the trustees from entering the meeting in which they were scheduled to discuss the creation of the Center. One of the highlights of his time as young alumni trustee was being able to convince them to let the trustees pass, Henry said. The trustees approved the concept and appropriated funds to refurbish the old Osborne Field House for the creation of the Third World Center, which later became the Fields Center. The Third World Center allowed her to interact not only with African-Americans, but also the diverse community of other Hispanic students and Asian-American students, Lawson said. “I can remember that we would go down there and play cards a lot. It was always fun,” she said. “There was always a good Bid Whist game going on at the Third World Center. We would go down and listen to music and dance.” Rhinold Ponder ’81, former co-chairman of the Center, said he also met a number of Native Americans and LGBT activists there. “I enjoyed the Third World Center, which was a great meeting place for people of all types of religions, ethnic and racial backgrounds,” he said. For some students, the social space took on an extreme importance, Ruffin said. “That’s where we hung out, that’s where we spent our free time, that’s where we studied, that’s where I spent 90 percent of my time when I was writing my thesis and that’s where we had our parties and everything,” she explained. 1972: A beginning from an end — the formation of ABPA Just as their journeys as undergraduates were about to end, Howard Bell Jr. ’70, Michael Calhoun ’70, W. Roderick Hamilton ’69, Henry Kennedy Jr. ’70, Jerome Davis ’71, Carl E. Drummond ’71 and Girardeau Spann ’71 came together to form the Association of Black Princeton Alumni. “The ABPA is a remarkable organization, and I’ve seen over the years the growth of the organization and the force of the organization on campus,” Ruffin said. “They serve a necessary purpose.” The ABPA’s mission was to strengthen the relationships among African-Americans in the University community through networking and men-

toring and to strengthen the relationship between AfricanAmerican Princetonians and the University community. “Back then, as I recall, there was a small group of people at the ABPA who tried to come back and give back to the students, help students, counsel students and give to the students,” Ponder said. February 1978: The daily protests and a storm Anti-apartheid movements all over the world called people to pressure their governments to break diplomatic ties with South Africa and encourage companies based in their countries to discontinue business transactions with South Africa. College campuses were no strangers to this kind of social activism. In January 1977, a new student group, the People’s Front for the Liberation of South Africa, took the lead in organizing the divestment protests, according to the Mudd Manuscript Library. On college campuses, boards of trustees were also being asked to divest their stock portfolios of companies that did business in South Africa, said Lawrence Hamm ’78, one of the leaders of the divestment protests at Princeton. “What we did on campus was have a number of activities — protests, marches, educational forums, letter-writing campaigns — you name it, we did it,” he said. On Feb. 1, daily protests began behind Nassau Hall to try to convince the Board of Trustees to divest from South Africa. “We thought that we needed to do something that was different, because what we were doing was having these periodic demonstrations that were basically getting the same people out,” Hamm explained. For almost an entire month, only about 10 to 25 students gathered behind Nassau Hall every day to walk the picket line and beat their makeshift drums crafted from emptied trash receptacles and big, heavy sticks. “We were not well-received,” Hamm said. “People would walk by. They would curse at us. Sometimes, people would throw their soda at us.” On March 5, a snowstorm approached that was violent enough to be the possible end of the daily protests, Hamm said. “I was in my room, and I said ‘Boy, this is going to be the end of the daily protests,’ ” he said. “But I dragged myself out of my room, I came on up campus, we started beating on those trash cans, those same dozen people showed up.” He was surprised because he did not think they were going to show up, he said, but about 110 students in total had braved the storm to walk the picket line. “Everybody had the same thought — this is going to be the day that the picket dies and

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we can’t let it die,” Hamm said. From that day forward, the line got bigger and bigger, Hamm said. The daily pickets consisted of between 400 and 600 students, without the organizers even making a phone call. “It was wonderful,” he said. “People were saying that they hadn’t seen anything like this since the Vietnam War.” The University claimed it had no connection to the companies in question, but the People’s Front for the Liberation of South Africa began investigating these claims. The students then printed an alternative newspaper showcasing evidence contrary to the University’s claims, Hamm said. The students then conducted a poll and found 55 percent of students on campus supported at least partial divestment. The fight for divestment was successful, even though the University was one of the few in the nation that did not fully divest, Hamm said. “The real victory was getting students who had been apathetic and disinterested and some of them even initially opposed to what we were doing to, in fact, winning them over and having a student movement on the campus that rivaled that which had occurred during the Vietnam War,” he said. “That was the real victory.” April 1978: A historic sit-in for divestment The anti-apartheid movement was gaining momentum at other colleges like Stanford and Harvard, where sit-ins had become increasingly common. Anticipating a similar reaction from the University’s students, Jerrold Witsil, the University’s director of security, made an announcement on the front page of The Daily Princetonian that there would be no sit-in at Princeton. “If he hadn’t said that, there might not have been a sit-in at Princeton University,” Hamm said. “He was indirectly chal-

lenging us, and that was the icing on the cake. We said, ‘Let’s go.’ ” Some people were willing to sit-in, some to camp out all night long and some to provide the rest with things like sandwiches and blankets. A mock sit-in was soon run at the Third World Center, where 200 volunteers showed up. Before the sit-in, Hamm said he returned home to inform his mother of his intent to participate. His mother was very upset because he had already been expelled in middle school and had withdrawn from, with intent to return to, the University for career-related reasons before. She cried and begged him not to throw away his life by risking his imminent graduation, Hamm said. “I said, ‘Ma, I can’t ask other people to do something I’m not going to do myself,’ ” he said. “You can’t do that.” Hamm added he could not expect everyone to participate, because many students could not risk the education their middle-class families had invested in so heavily. Nevertheless, on April 14, some students dressed up as businessmen made appointments with a variety of administrators in Nassau Hall. While one group of predominantly white students dressed up as corporates, the rest of the people moved up campus and hid in a lower-level classroom of Dickinson Hall. At the appropriate moment, the ‘corporates’ opened up all the exits to let 210 students into Nassau Hall, while 300 kept vigil outside. Nassau Hall remained occupied for 27 hours. Upon a meeting, the Board of Trustees indicated that they would consider divesting from some selected companies. Toward the end of the sit-in, the students voted on whether they should leave the next day, with a majority vote being cast in favor. However, some people wished to be arrested, believing an arrest would enhance the ef-

fectiveness of the sit-in. “By pulling off this sit-in successfully, we had proved our point just as effectively as if we would have if we did get arrested,” Hamm said, adding that the students didn’t have adequate money for bail and lawyers. The occupation of Nassau Hall on April 14-15, 1978, resulted in disciplinary hearings for all those involved. “We understood the anger at some instances and the frustration at other instances that prompted the protests,” Bowen said. “But we were always clear that there was a limit to which these protests could go.” The University’s faculty voted in support of the students, and the administrators of the Third World Center printed a statement of support for the students in a number of publications. “Because we had all the support on campus … all of us graduated,” Hamm said. According to Mudd Manuscript Library, 205 students were ultimately given official warnings in connection with the sit-in. Hamm was later awarded The Daily Princetonian’s Humanitarian Award, he said, adding that someone ran up on stage and hit the editor in the face with pie at the ceremony. “It was embarrassing. It was very embarrassing. It wasn’t funny at all,” Hamm said. “That represented the kind of opposition that was on the campus against what we were doing. Because as strongly as we felt for divestment, some people felt against divestment.” Princeton never fully divested from South Africa, despite many revisions of its policy. In 1994, the Board of Trustees voted to revoke the “selective divestiture” policy, when the end of apartheid rendered it moot. This article is the third in a fivepart Black History Month feature series. Check back tomorrow for a look at the University in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Beyond bicker: An alternative vision of club admissions Joe LoPresti

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n Monday, Barbara Zhan ’16 wrote an article arguing that Bicker is necessary. The students working on the Hose Bicker campaign — a large group that includes students who have been hosed, who got into Bicker clubs and who never bickered at all — appreciated her articulate response. However, her arguments fail to stand up under scrutiny. First, Zhan ignores the inherent role of social rejection in the Bicker process — and the harm that this rejection causes. It is nice to believe that Bicker participants should “reject the idea that Bicker is indicative of self-worth.” Many Bicker supporters similarly claim that rejection is just a part of life, especially for Princeton students. Of course, colleges and jobs also reject some applicants, but the kind of public social rejection Bicker encourages — indeed, requires — is uniquely harmful. Bicker necessarily relies on social rejection and, in particular, on fostering a belief that admitted sophomores have demonstrated their social worthiness for club membership — an implicit expression that hosed sophomores have demonstrated their social unworthiness. The responsibility of dismissing this rejection should not be placed on hosed students.

Second, Zhan neglects to acknowledge how self-selecting the eating clubs already are. Bicker is not necessary to maintain a club’s “culture and personality” — sign-in clubs have cultures and personalities as well. If anything, Bicker undermines a unified club culture by forcing members of Bicker clubs to compete against one another to get their friends into the club. Third, she assumes that Bicker is a logical system that effectively if not perfectly identifies the students who “fit” in a given club. Certainly, a club admission process should help prospective members determine whether they fit the culture of a club. But Bicker is an inadequate system for making such a determination. Bicker votes are often based on who members already know, more a measure of other affiliations than of fit. Evaluating other prospective members comes down to a few short conversations and a late-night vote, neither giving enough time nor enough consideration to evaluate their “fit” for the club. Fourth, Zhan assumes that the only alternative to Bicker is a lottery system, which she finds unfairly arbitrary. It is true that a lottery is arbitrary — although Bicker’s reliance on low information voting makes it nearly as arbitrary as a lottery. However, she is not correct in saying that a lottery is the only alternative to bicker. In fact, many alternatives exist that would be fairer, less arbitrary and

more effective than Bicker. The most prominent alternative is a system already in use by Charter: the points system. Prospective members earn points by attending events at the club and those with the most points get in. A points system is a far better way of fostering “club culture” and determining “fit” than Bicker: prospective members would get to see whether they feel comfortable at a club, and members would get to know prospective members without the time pressures of brief Bicker sessions of the social pressures of trying to get their friends into the club. A points system could have many variations. For example, a club could set a “point limit” that a prospective member must reach in order to enter a lottery, combining the best aspects of both systems. Or it could use a “ranking and optimization” system like the one used to allocate residencies to medical students: sophomores rank their club preferences, the clubs submit a list of sophomores ordered by number of points or by lottery, and an algorithm chooses the optimal distribution of sophomores based on these two sets of preferences. These reforms could be accompanied by other attributes to make the system more transparent and less arbitrary. Elimination of Bicker should be coupled with the re-introduction of “ironclad” groups. In an ironclad, a group of friends signs up to participate in

the club admission process together, with the entire group receiving the same admission decision. Ironclads could easily fit into a points system. Additionally, a new system should make sure that points-eligible events are advertised to all sophomores to prevent members from allowing only certain sophomores to consider their club. At Princeton, we receive a world-class liberal arts education that, in theory, teaches us how to approach seemingly impossible problems and find solutions to them — problems that are far more complex than Bicker. Our first reaction to Bicker should not be that there is nothing else we can do. Clearly, there are several alternatives to the status quo, including possible alternatives not yet devised. None of our alternatives are perfect, but all of them are better than the enshrined social rejection inherent to the Bicker process. The Hose Bicker campaign is first and foremost about starting a dialogue about what we would be willing to change in order to create a more inclusive campus. Encouraging the clubs to discuss what alternatives would be best for them is a key part of that. Princeton is better than Bicker, and the sooner we replace it with any of the feasible alternatives that exist, the better. Joe LoPresti can be contacted at jalopres@ princeton.edu.

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Where we are on sustainability Isabella Gomes columnist

here really aren’t any shortcuts on Princeton campus. For a student body whose day-to-day activity involves quite a lot of walking and biking, it seems like there’s never enough time for the trek from Frick Chemistry Laboratory to East Pyne. The new construction and renovation projects scattered around campus certainly don’t make those ten minutes between classes any easier. What many students don’t know is that these new buildings represent something that we should be proud of — the University’s commitment to sustainability. As featured on the Sustainability at Princeton website, the Olden House, home to visiting faculty, is energy and water-efficient; the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment will host green roofs, rain gardens and heat recovery systems in spring 2015; and the Arts and Transit Project currently in the works will have geothermal heat pumps, biofiltration systems and daylighting control. In its goals to reduce waste and energy, the dining halls went tray-free; Café Vivian introduced a reusable container program; over 180 “Drink Local” bottle-filling stations were installed; a 5.3-megawatt solar array was established — providing about 8% of the electricity on campus last year — and the University joined the Billion Dollar Green Challenge. According to Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs David Wilcove, when he came to Princeton 13 years ago, “sustainability in the context of what we do on campus was barely a concern, but [the Office of Sustainability] and the University community have done an impressive job.” It’s nice to know that the University isn’t taking shortcuts in this area. While the new projects and buildings reflect an effort to “stimulate transformational thinking and exceptional performance in sustainability,” the same can’t be said

for the University’s endowment thus far. Despite the University’s monitoring of its on-campus ecological footprint, it has not integrated these values of environmental ethics and transparency in its investment practices, which may support environmentally irresponsible companies. In 2011, the College Sustainability Report Card, an online evaluation of campus and endowment policies at leading institutions, published its last review of the University’s sustainability profile. The University had received an A in all categories — eight perfect scores — except for endowment transparency, in which it received a D. The survey indicated that the University neither incorporated school community feedback into proxy voting decisions nor did it give access to information on endowment holdings to the school community or general public. Instead, according to the website survey, most of these rights were reserved for the trustees, senior administrators and certain select individuals. Furthermore, donors could not choose to direct their gifts to specific investment funds, as policy states that they have to invest in the endowment as a whole. According to a Feb. 27 article in The Daily Princetonian about Students United for a Responsible Global Environment petitioning for divestment, University spokesperson Martin Mbugua said, “regarding specific investments, we do not discuss the specifics of our endowment portfolio in order to retain a competitive advantage in the financial market.” The Report Card reported that “approximately one in five schools makes lists of endowment holdings available to the campus community, and in many cases, the public, [whether these lists were] kept at the investment office, sent upon request or posted on a website.” While being part of the four out of five might not seem like the gravest of sins, the University’s low rating in this category hardly upholds its values as a leading academic institution. By withholding information about how the endowment is managed and distributed, the University stifles dialogue in the

college community. Considering the number of environmentally conscious student organizations on campus, the University hardly does the students a favor in excluding them from the conversation and from representation in proxy votes on investment holdings. Since then, student bodies and faculties from across the country have been debating whether universities should divest their endowments from fossil-fuel companies. In 2013, the Princeton Association of New York City hosted a panel discussion on energy, the environment and the endowment, featuring panelists Michael Oppenheimer, professor of geosciences and international affairs, and Peter Singer, professor of bioethics. They considered relevant questions such as what divestment and its impact could mean for an institution such as Princeton that maintains a large endowment and what kinds of alternatives might exist. A year later, a group of undergraduate and graduate students, along with faculty, staff and alumni, came together to form the Princeton Sustainable Investment Initiative. “Last September,” said Soumya Sudhakar ’18, coordinator of PSII, “400,000 people plus a large contingent of the Princeton community marched in New York City, demanding action on climate change. Basically people care about climate change and want to respond — PSII is doing just that.” PSII proposed that the University become a member of the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment, which would push the University to demand risk disclosure from the companies they invest in, encourage investors to address longterm sustainability within their portfolios and report on endowment allocation to the school community and general public. PSII also proposed that the University sign the Carbon Disclosure Project, which would further inform the University on the environmental profile of their investments and encourage these companies to steer away from practices that contributed to environmental degradation. “If elite

universities divest from fossil fuels and take steps to reduce their own emissions,” Singer explained, “there is a chance that others will take notice and attitudes will change.” Perhaps the most significant of PSII’s proposal was the creation of an annual report that would track the carbon footprint of the endowment and the development of a representative committee that could oversee and guide the management of the endowment toward “a set of environmentally and financially responsible investment guidelines.” PSII referred to two precedents in its proposal, citing the cases of South Africa and Darfur as examples in which “the University [had] taken actions that advanced far-reaching, successful movements and separated Princeton from assets that conflicted with its values.” Whether it was the campaign for divestment from apartheid South Africa in 1985, from companies associated with the genocide in Darfur in 2006 or from West Bank and Gaza in 2014, Princeton students have been on the frontlines of debate. They have established student organizations such as the Princeton Coalition for Endowment Responsibility and informational websites such as www.princetondivests.org. Beyond the maturity of staying informed and informing others, the student body has also demonstrated resourcefulness in creating effective platforms with supporters, drafting initiative proposals to present to Resources Committees and most of all, infiltrating a system that has managed to exclude many affected parties from the debate. As Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town Desmond Tutu wrote in his June 2010 article in The World Post, “principled stands … are essential for a better world in the making and it is always an inspiration when young people lead the way and speak truth to power.” It is therefore PSII’s mission to ensure that Princeton extends these ethics into its sustainability agenda when managing the endowment. As the proposal states, “a University that acts contrary to its values sets a model of unethical behavior before its students and

the world.” Thus far, the Initiative has been endorsed by University faculty, staff and several student organizations including Greening Dining, the Princeton Wilderness Society, Princeton Animal Welfare Society, The Princeton Progressive, SURGE and Innovation: Princeton Journal of Science and Technology. Thus far, the main concerns student organizations have had were about what it would mean to endorse the Initiative as a student group in terms of additional responsibilities in taking a public stance on a policy change. Thus far, most initiatives have involved the support of individual students, so some student organizations that have been approached wondered whether they had that responsibility as an organization to participate. However, with the diverse representation of the student body behind the Initiative, it is clear to see that it is everyone’s responsibility to care about and respond to the ethical stance that the University takes in managing the endowment, especially when this stance facilitates environmental degradation. “What’s most important is for the University to have an open and specific set of guidelines that investors need to adhere to that takes into account the concerns of the University community,” Oppenheimer explained. “We shouldn’t be treating each investment on an ad hoc basis, in which it’s a different outcome each time and an indefensible one at that.” It therefore appears that now may be the best time for the Initiative and for students to be demanding representation and accountability from the University in the transparency of its endowment. “The campus is in the midst of its planning for the next 10 years,” said Leigh Anne Schreiver ’16, coordinator of PSII. “It seems like the perfect moment to encourage sustainability and environmental protection in every aspect of Princeton’s vision for the future.” Isabella Gomes is an ecology and evolutionary biology major from Irvine, Calif. She can be reached at igomes@princeton.edu.

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team would have to face the No. 1-ranked men’s fencing squad in the nation, Penn State. The match came down to the wire, but Princeton fell 5-4 in both saber and foil, and the 5-4 victory in épée was not enough to overcome the loss. A similar result would befall them against the No. 7-ranked Penn, where Princeton would come one victory shy of defeating their Ivy League rival. Their final opponents of the day would be No. 6-ranked St. John’s, who defeated Princeton in both foil and épée and won the match 16-11. The women’s team would face much more success on the day. After trouncing Brown 234, the women would engage in a heated battle with the home

squad Temple, just pulling out victory 14-13. In particular, performance in épée was key to helping the Tigers edge out the Owls. Junior Anna van Brummen and sophomore Elizabeth Meyers ought to be given much credit, having gone 4-0 combined to give the épée team a 6-3 victory and along with it a victory for Princeton. Like the men’s team, the women’s team would fall to Penn State, ranked No. 6 in women’s fencing. The performance was the worst of the day for the Tigers, as they lost in all three categories to Penn State, with an overall score of 18-9. After this speed bump, Princeton got back to their winning ways. They would take down Penn and St John’s to the tune of 16-11 and 17-10, respectively. The match against St. John’s featured a wonderful bounce-back

performance by the saber team. After getting crushed by Penn State 8-1 and losing a close one to Penn 5-4, they would end the day on a high note, winning 7-2 behind perfect performances by junior Gracie Stone and freshman Allison Lee. With Temple behind them, the team prepared for the National Squad Championships. Both teams had high finishes in every section. The men received silver in saber, falling in the final round to Penn 45-36. Épée also would feature a second-place finish for Princeton, as the team would defeat NYU in the semifinals 45-37 but fall to Sacred Heart by a near identical score, 45-38. Men’s foil was to come in third, falling to the strong Penn team in the semifinals, and redeeming themselves with a solid 45-32 victory over Brandeis soon after.

As in the day before, the women’s team saw more success than the men did. They overall earned two first-place finishes and one third-place. Saber would eke out a nail-biter over Penn 45-43; the foil team would have a very different experience with the Quakers, crushing them 45-21 in the final round. The bronze-receiving épée team was shut out of a championship match due to a heartbreakingly close loss to Brandeis (43 — 42) in the semifinals. They convincingly defeated Sacred 45-36 to earn third, making them the highest performing women’s team at the event. The Tigers will have wellearned rest as they prepare for the NCAA Regionals on Saturday, March 7. This in turn will be followed by the NCAA Championships, which begin Thursday, March 19.

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Bates on Friday afternoon. Although Princeton hadn’t faced Bates during the regular season, the team entered the match with confidence, given their top seed in the division. Bates came out of the door determined to prove their worth, winning two of the first three matches. Showcasing some of the top players in the matchup, the two Princeton losses pitted senior captain Samuel Kang against Bates’ Ahmed Abdel Khalek and freshman Jarryd Osborne against Bates’ Darrius Campbell. Both losses boasted high intensity play and lasted a full

five sets. Fortunately, the Tigers were able to bounce back to win six consecutive matches and clinch the game with a 7-2 victory. Moving onto the semifinals, the Tigers faced Drexel on Saturday afternoon. Princeton had defeated Drexel 6-3 during the regular season, so the team approached Saturday’s match with similar confidence. Ultimately, the team relied on strong starts from senior captains Samuel Kang and Tyler Osborne who swept their opponents to give Princeton an early 2-0 lead. Thereafter, Drexel rebounded and the two teams exchanged victories until Princeton came out on top with a narrow 5-4 victory. Notable moments on

Saturday include junior Michael LeBlanc’s victory over Drexel’s Mark Kauf, a match that required the full five rounds. At last, Princeton reached the climax of the weekend, facing Dartmouth for the Hoehn Cup on Sunday. Princeton defeated Dartmouth, ranked No. 11, during the regular season and had hopes of repeating a similar victory. In a fortunate flashback to the previous day’s matches, Princeton kicked off the championship game with two impressive victories from senior captains Samuel King and All-American Tyler Osborne. Furthermore, the Tigers speared the early lead with successive victories from freshman Jarryd

Osborne and senior captain David Hoffman. Henceforth, the two championship contenders would trade off victories, but the early, dominant Princeton lead would prove too much for the Big Green. With the Hoehn Cup in hand, Princeton has once again demonstrated its squash prowess. However, the season concludes with the CSA Individual Championship beginning on Feb. 27. During this annual individual event, the top 32 players in the country compete for the Pool Trophy while all other players compete for the Molloy Cup. This year, the CSA Individual Championship will be hosted in Princeton’s own Jadwin Gymnasium for the first time.

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to be a part of PUCSDT because it’s amazing and it just reaffirms that choice, having won this past weekend. DP: If you were in the circus, what would you perform? CC: Hmm… Well given I was in a circus, I can answer this question pretty well. I would be a hand-to-hand acrobat and also practice tightwire. DP: What role would you say Lord of the Rings has played in your life?

CC: I think that it’s been a real inspiration to me. I personally think I draw on the character of Eowyn in my daily life — I like to think I’m a pretty aggressive person and might kill the king of the Nazgul if I ever had the chance, so I would say she’s one of my big role models. DP: Would you say she’s the character from the films that you identify with the most? CC: Her and Aragorn, for the sake of gender equality. DP: You’re on a deserted

island and can bring three things. What do you bring? CC: Three things… Water, food and can I bring an entire diving board setup? Because I’m not getting off the deserted island — I’m not that resourceful — might as well have fun while I’m doing it. DP: If you had to sing one karaoke song for the rest of your life, what would it be? CC: Nothing. Please don’t make me do that. DP: If the four fingers and thumb on one of your hands were drink dispensers, which drinks would they

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TRACK & FIELD

At Invitational meet, Tigers claim 9 events By Tom Pham associate sports editor

Following a spectacular weekend where the men’s and women’s track and field teams completed a sweep of the Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet, both teams continued their fine form this weekend by combining to win nine events, with the men’s team claiming six events and the women’s team bringing home three events. In the field events, the men’s team dominated the shot put, as three Tigers finished in the top four and four in the top seven. Leading the field was sophomore Christopher Cook, who completed a toss of 17.86m, besting runner-up and freshman teammate Mitchel Charles, who recorded a 17.18m tosySenior Scott Rushton came fourth with a toss of 16.76m and senior Stephen Soerens rounded out the field with a 14.86m mark. Freshman August Kiles claimed the pole vault event by clearing the 4.80m mark, in an event where star man senior Adam Bragg failed to clear the 5.18 mark all three times, a mark which would

have easily brought him a victory. Princeton had success in the other jump events too: the Tigers had another 1-2-4 finish in the long jump, with senior Tumi Akinlawon winning the event with a 6.95m jump, followed by sophomore Victor Du with a mark of 6.57m and junior Bryan Oslin with a jump of 6.41m. Although there was no victory in the high jump, sophomore Xavier Bledsoe and freshman Colin Reilly combined for a 2-3 finish, as Bledsoe broke the 2.00m mark, while Reilly managed 1.96m. The running events brought similar success, especially sophomore Brent Albertson. The Illinois native had a fantastic day, claiming the 200m event with a 22.39 mark before joining his teammates for another victory in the 4x400m as Albertson along with sophomore Francesco Di Caprio and freshman tandem Mike Seaton and Josh Ingalls combined for a 3:25.92 mark that just edged out on their opponents. Ingalls also had a successful day himself, claiming the 500m event with a 1:05.58 mark in an event that three other Tigers finished between

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Both men’s and women’s track & field had success at the Princeton Invitational meet as they prepare for Heptagonals this weekend.

yfourth and sixth. There were other podium finishes from sophomore Stephen Rossettie, who came third in the 1000m, and Di Caprio, who took third in the 400m with a 52.36 mark. The women’s team managed to claim victory in three events, once again headlined

by junior Julia Ratcliffe, as she claimed the weight throw with a toss of 19.63m. She blew away the field, as her runner-up finished with 18.57m. Freshman Kennedy O’Dell joined her with a fourth place finish with a throw of 15.79m. Sophomore Allison Harris continued her good form

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on the season, winning the pole vault again by clearing 3.70m. There was more success for the Tigers in the running event, as sophomore and recent on-tap interviewee Rachael Chacko headlined a 1-3-4 finish in the 800m with a time of 2:15.64, followed by senior Rachel Skokowski,

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who finished third and freshman Melinda Renuart, who finished fourth. After an encouraging weekend, the Tigers will look forward to the Heptagonals this upcoming weekend, which will be held in Cambridge, Mass. over Saturday and Sunday.

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On Tap with Caitlin Chambers By Sydney Mandelbaum associate sports editor

Sophomore diver Caitlin Chambers has a lot to be excited about, coming off of a perfect league season. This past weekend, Chambers dominated at Ivy League Championships, finishing first in the one-meter and three-meter events and breaking a pool, meet and program record in the process. The talented diver sat down with The Daily Princetonian to talk about diving, the circus and Lord of the Rings.

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Sophomore Caitlin Chambers spoke about diving, the circus, and coffee.

Daily Princetonian: Where are you from and what’s the best part of being from there?

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Caitlin Chambers: I’m from Seattle, Washington and I think the best part is definitely all the water around everything. I love going outside and doing stuff and it’s really easy to do that in Seattle. DP: What’s your favorite thing about diving? CC: I think my favorite thing about diving is definitely the adrenaline rush you get. You’re standing on something that’s basically a three-story building and then you jump off and by the time you get to the bottom you’re pretty glad you’re still alive. Afterward it’s a nice feeling. DP: What’s the funniest/

most embarrassing thing that happened to you or a teammate while in the pool? CC: This is a good one. One time my teammate was practicing a dive off of the platform and she massively screwed it up. She was climbing out of the water and it turns out that when she hit the water the seam of her suit completely split down the back. Someone had to go run and get her a towel before she could get out of the pool in the middle of practice and she had to go put a suit on and come back and keep diving. DP: What was your first thought when you woke up this morning? CC: It’s cold. I should check

the weather. DP: What are the three best decisions you’ve made this week? CC: Three best decisions? Well, one is definitely having my Lucky Charms as dessert last night. It was a great decision. Another one is that I stayed after the last night of [Ivy League Championships] with my mom in Boston and I don’t get to see her very often so that was actually really fun. And ok, this was definitely not done in the last week, but I have to say the third best decision, which is very appropriate now after the Ivy League meet, was when I chose, I guess a year and a half ago, See ON TAP page 5

FENCING

Tigers succesfully defend Hoehn Cup in Tigers claw through Temple Duals great showing at the CSA Tournament and National Squad Championships By David Liu staff writer

Defending their national championship, men’s squash defeated Bates, Drexel and Dartmouth at the Collegiate Squash Association Team tournament this past weekend to protect their Division B Hoehn Cup title. The Tigers traveled to Trinity College, host of CSA and home of the top squash team in the country, on Friday to uphold the team’s reputation at the annual end-of-season tournament. This year, the tourna-

ment drew in 62 teams from across the country, representing the best that collegiate squash has to offer. Prior to the tournament, the 62 teams were divided into eight divisions, based on regular season rankings. After claiming the Hoehn Cup, awarded to the Division B Champion, last year, the Tigers entered this season with sights set on Division A, representing the top 8 teams in the country. After defeating top-ranked Franklin and Marshall and Penn during the regular season, head coach

Sean Wilkinson remained optimistic prior to the release of the tournament brackets. Unfortunately, Princeton missed the top division by one spot, receiving a No. 9 ranking behind Trinity, St. Lawrence, Harvard, Columbia, Yale, Rochester, Franklin and Marshall and Penn. On the bright side, the Tigers leveraged the top seed in the B Division, setting the stage for a repeat title. To kick start their journey back to the Hoehn Cup title, the Tigers faced No. 16-ranked See SQUASH page 5

By Miles Hinson sports editor

It was a packed weekend for men’s and women’s fencing, as both teams traveled to Philadelphia to compete in the Temple Duals, only to turn around and prepare the next day for the National Squad Championships. With the NCAA Championships not too far in the distance, both of these teams have reason to keep their hopes high. The Princeton men’s team currently holds the No. 8 ranking in the nation. The women have been

even more impressive, standing at No. 3. However, Temple Duals certainly didn’t feature a slew of easy teams for the Tigers to rout. Out of the five schools the Princeton teams would face, three of them held spots in the top ten nationwide (for both men’s and women’s teams). For the men’s team, the day started off excellently. They defeated Brown 22-5 in sabre, épée and foil — moreover, the sabre and épée matches proved to be bloodbaths, with Princeton winning 17 of the 18 bouts

between both events. Their next opponent, Stevens, would fall in similar fashion, as the Tigers would dominate in all three categories en route to a 20-7 victory. Against these first two opponents, the stars for the team were freshman Edward Chin of saber (6-0 through the first two), and the foil duo of sophomore Jeffrey Chen and junior Rodney Chen, combining for 11-0 through these games. The ranked opponents proved far more difficult. After Stevens, the Princeton men’s See FENCING page 5

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