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Spring 2017 eating club statistics released

By Marcia Brown and Emily Spalding Head News Editor and Contributor

GRAPHIC BY SAM GARFINKLE

A comparison of the acceptance rates for each selective eating club over the past decade.

If a student who bickered did not successfully make it into the club, they had the opportunity to sign in to an open non-Bicker club until Feb. 18.

ICC President Christopher Yu ’17 wrote in an email that the ICC does not release statistics for juniors in the Bicker and sign-in process.

“Since the number of juniors participating in the spring admissions process varies a lot year over year, and since the number is of-

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ten very small, the ICC is not publishing these figures as they are not particularly meaningful/helpful,” he wrote.

This year, 416 sophomores elected to sign in to open clubs, constituting 40 percent of the Class of 2019’s participation in the Spring 2017 eating club admissions process, while 536 sophomores, 52 percent of those who registered with the ICC, joined selective clubs, the report STUDENT LIFE

Basketball forward Cook earns community service award

By Rose Gilbert contributor

IMAGE BY MARCIA BROWN

Kyle Lang ’19 plans to run coast to coast across the United States for charity

Sophomore plans to run across US for charity

By Katie Petersen Contributor

Kyle Lang ’19 ran his first marathon in his sophomore year of high school at the age of 16, after receiving the book Born to Run for Christmas. He’s run a few marathons since then, finally passing his older brother in one last spring.

Nowadays, he’s running the equivalent of a few marathons every week, and this summer, he’ll be running about a marathon and a half every day. Beginning June 5 at Grayland Beach, WA, Lang will run 2,967

notes. Ultimately, 8 percent of sophomores who took part in the admissions process were not placed in any eating club, the report adds. These statistics are consistent with the spring 2016 admissions process, in which 40 percent of sophomores registered on this site opted for membership in open clubs and 53 percent joined selective clubs.

The report also states that 28 percent of the participat-

miles to Coney Island, NY by about Aug. 18 — across the United States.

This literal cross-country run will be a fundraiser, benefiting three communities that have had an impact on Lang through three nonprofit organizations: Great Rivers United Way, which serves in areas of education, income, health, and community basics in his home of La Crosse County, Wisconsin; Every Hand Joined, a cradle-to-career initiative in Red Wing, Minnesota at which Kyle interned last See RUN page 2

Basketball forward Stephen Cook ’17 has always looked up to college basketball players. Now that he is filling such a role himself, he is working to give back.

On Feb. 7, 2017, Allstate Insurance Company, the National Association of Basketball Coaches, and the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association named Stephen Cook ’17, as well as 19 other men and women, to the 2017 Allstate NABC and WBCA Good Works Teams.

This nomination honors players who make a positive, lasting impact on the world outside of basketball.

Cook, who first got involved in community service in his hometown of Chicago, didn’t expect to be given the award.

“It was actually kind of a complete surprise,” Cook said. “I didn’t actually know I was being nominated for the award.” He added that receiving this honor encourages him to continue being involved in service projects.

“It means a lot to know that people have noticed the kind of work you’re doing and it motivates me more to keep doing this kind of service in the future,” he said.

Bradley Harwood, assis-

tant account executive of public relations company Taylor, which represents the organization from which Cook’s award came, said Cook was nominated in recognition of his commitment to service. Harwood noted that Cook’s fundraising efforts for the Gidel Mother of Mercy Hospital in the Nuba Mountain region in Sudan were particularly impressive, raising about 20,000 dollars.

The Gidel Mother of Mercy Hospital is the only hospital serving the region’s population of about a million people, and it cares for those hurt in the violence of the civil war between North and South Sudan, as well as people suffering from quotidien illnesses and injuries.

After Cook’s friend Jack DiMattio sent him an article from The New York Times about the hospital, Cook said he felt like he needed to find a way to help.

“There’s basically this one doctor serving a population of about a million people. When I heard about this, me and my friend [DiMattio] got together and decided we needed to do something about this,” Cook said. “We reached out to all of our friends and

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ACADEMICS

U. students host Science Olympiad for 600 high school students

By Sam Oh Contributor

The University hosted its inaugural Science Olympiad invitational tournament on Feb. 4 for 600 high school students from highly ranked teams across the country.

Science Olympiad is a national team competition for students in 6th to 12th grade that features 23 competition events each year, ranging from paper tests on subjects such as microbiology and optics, to laboratory practicals involving forensic science, and engineering events in which students tested devices such as rubber-band propelled helicopters built prior to competition day.

Led by co-directors David Fan ’19 and Edison Lee ’19, Princeton University Science Olympiad hopes to inspire high school students to continue pursuing their academic interests at a high level outside the classroom, through providing this competitive and well-run invitational tournament.

Preparations for this competition started in August.

“There are so many students on campus who com-

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In Opinion

Today on Campus

Josh Stephens ‘97 praises the University for not expanding internationally, and senior columnist Beni Snow argues against legacy admissions. PAGE 3

10:15 a.m.: Woodrow Wilson Award Lecture: Once More unto the Breach: Our Future Ahead. Eric Schmidt ’76, Executive Chairman of Alphabet Inc. Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall.

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952 members, or 72 percent, of the Class of 2019 joined either a selective or open eating club in the spring 2017 eating club admissions process, according to the official final statistics report from the Interclub Council of the Eating Clubs of Princeton University. Additionally, of the 105 juniors who registered on the ICC website, 32 joined selective clubs and 29 joined open clubs, the report states.

According to an ICC press release, these aggregated numbers come from an effort to “synchronize and improve the process of joining an eating club,” as well as provide more information to students who are interested in joining.”

Furthermore, the ICC’s press release stresses an endeavor to “provide clear and accurate information about the clubs in order to encourage more students to explore the clubs, decrease the stress surrounding the process, and provide a more positive experience for students.”

Sophomores and juniors use the ICC website to manage the process of signing up to join clubs, visiting clubs, ranking club preferences, and receiving admission results. Final club announcements were made available this year at 9 a.m. on Feb. 10.

ing junior class joined open clubs and 30 percent joined selective clubs this year.

These rates demonstrate a contrast with spring 2016 admissions, which saw five percent of registered juniors seeking membership in open clubs and 38 percent joining selective ones.

Despite multiple requests, all of the old presidents of the Bicker or selective clubs have not released information on admission statistics beyond what the ICC has released, except for Tiger Inn and Tower Club, which provided their individual numbers for Bickerees and accepted members. The ICC does not release individual clubs’ numbers. In previous years, Bicker clubs provided this data to the ‘Prince.’

According to Yu, this change “represents a choice, not a policy change; the bicker clubs have always had the option to release the individual club bicker numbers or not.”

Graduate Interclub Advisor Lisa Schmucki ’74 supported Yu’s explanation in an email.

“In past years the clubs have always provided their individual numbers,” she wrote. “The ICC only issues numbers in aggregate, so we can’t help you with the individual club numbers. We feel that the individual clubs should give their own final

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Lang will consume between 8,000 and 10,000 calories per day to fuel run

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Basketball team volunteers for local YMCA.

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Lang trains to run thousands of miles this summer.

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summer; and Special Olympics New Jersey, which provides sports training and athletic competition for children and adults with intellectual disabilities in the state he calls home during the school year. Donors can sponsor a mile or a state by contributing through Lang’s website.

In addition to dedicating the entire trip to three nonprofits, Lang will also be dedicating each mile to a cause.

“I’m encouraging people to submit their mile intentions,” he says. “It can be anything from a struggle that they have in life, to a friend, a conf lict.” Those who are interested can submit their ideas for mile intentions through his website. A devout Catholic, Lang said he hopes to think and pray about 2,967 different “intentions” throughout the trip.

For Lang, running is about more than coming in first.

Liam Collins ’19, an Outdoor Action buddy, running club friend, and fellow Forbesian, says Lang runs “because I think fundamentally he’s an extremely selfless person.”

Life for Lang seems to be that way too. On campus, he organizes bi-monthly

trips to Loaves and Fishes, a Trenton soup kitchen, and plans volunteer events for the Rotaract Club.

“I think a lot of times people are in awe of how much he run, because it’s very abnormal,” Collins said. “But I think they’re also in awe of the person he is even outside of running.” Collins says that when they met on Outdoor Action before their freshman year, Lang shared about his running, his faith, and his family.

All three will be an important part of this summer’s journey. Lang’s parents will be his support team, following him with a traveling trailer the first half of the summer and cheering him on from the family car for the second half. They will also be supplying him with between 8,000 and 10,000 calories a day to sustain his intense physical activity.

While running, he’ll eat energy gels, burgers, and milkshakes to consume as many calories as possible. When he stops for the night, he’ll balance his diet with fruits and veggies.

“Everything that enters my body will have calories,” Lang says, conceding that he may drink water every now and then. But other than the occasional sip of water, he’ll be chugging energy drinks, fruit juice, and anything that ups his calorie intake.

“If I keep eating like that

when I stop running…,” Lang trailed off, chuckling at the balloon effect that would surely take place.

Lang will take a break from running in the fall semester, and then ease back into it. By the spring semester, he’ll be training for another personal goal: breaking two minutes in an 800m run. Although it’s far from his current focus, he has experience in the 800m from high school track and he’s looking forward to the change.

“It’ll be fun to get out there and do some 200 and 400 meter workouts instead of 20 and 40 mile workouts,” Lang said.

One other thing that might be switching up after the run: Lang’s alwaysbuzzed hairstyle. If he reaches his $100,000 fundraising goal, he has pledged to not cut his hair until classes start spring semester.

“There’ll be a lot of Forrest Gump references,” he said. Despite all the similarities such as the crosscountry run, the possibly long hair, and the humility, the two runners are importantly different in one way: Lang is running with a clear purpose in mind.

Editor’s note: If you’d like to stay up-to-date on Lang’s journey or help him reach his $100,000 fundraising goal, visit http://www.kylelangruns.com.

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numbers.”

As the administrator in charge of maintaining the clubs’ data, Schmucki said that the efforts to create an aggregate of the club numbers began in 2012, “when the clubs agreed to work together to run club admission together on one website — so we could protect the privacy of each club’s individual data.”

As for sign-in clubs, there was an imbalance in membership this year, with Terrace Club gaining the most

new members. Terrace President Natalia Chen ’18 reported 137 new sophomore members along with 13 additional junior sign-ins. Matthew Lucas ’18, president of Colonial Club, noted 102 new members. Stefan Lee ’18, president of Quadrangle club, reported approximately 80 new signins for the club. Charter Club president Elizabeth Stanley ’18 cited 67 new members.

Finally, Allie Diamond ’18, Cloister Inn president, noted 50 new sign-ins.

In an email, Colonial president Lucas explained that the club’s numbers and those from the ICC may not match because a “handful of our sign-ins came from outside

of the official university process.”

“We have chosen not to provide the exact numbers for early / late rounds because in truth the process is not as clear-cut as that,” Lucas explained in an email.

“The lines between early and late rounds are blurred, so it is difficult to pin down an accurate number. All I can say is that a significant majority of our new members came from the first round of sign-ins.”

Quad president Lee declined to comment further, as did Cloister president Diamond, Terrace president Chen, and Charter president Stanley.

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family members and asked them to contribute and people got really into it.”

“It was pretty cool to have that sort of impact,” he said.

Aside from his fundraising efforts, Cook has also volunteered with the Heartland Alliance, one of the largest nonprofit anti-poverty organizations in the Midwest, which provides housing, healthcare, job skills training, job counseling, and refugee resettlement support for those in need.

On campus, Cook and the rest of the basketball team take trips to elementary schools to read to local students through a program called “Reading with the Tigers.” They also play basketball with kids at nearby YMCAs. Cook praised his team for their involvement in the community.

“I know my team in particular is really into that kind of stuff,” Cook said.

“We work together and kind of bounce ideas off each other. It’s really fun when you can do those sort of service projects with guys you spend a lot of time with and guys you’re really close with. I think that sort of culture and environment on a team definitely encourages service.”

Cook said that, like basketball, service has played a role in his life since a young age.

“When you’re in a position like [being a college basketball player] I feel like you have a responsibility to give back in some sense, and when you attend a place

like Princeton I feel like you have a responsibility to give back in some way,” Cook explained. “I think I’ll continue that as I continue to play basketball overseas. I’m not exactly sure in what capacity that’ll take form, but I know I’ll definitely find something to do.”

Cook said that he plans not to end his service efforts at the University or at home, even after he leaves.

“When I’m back home in Chicago I’ll definitely continue helping out with Heartland Alliance or the Greater Chicago Food Depository,” Cook said.

Cook’s academic interests ref lect his commitment to service as well; in fact, Cook notes that his favorite class at the University so far has been social entrepreneurship.

“That was a really cool class because I learned a lot about how nonprofits, or even for-profit companies with social causes in their core values, were formed and the people and faces behind those companies and what inspired them, like how they got to where they are today,” Cook said. “I also got to develop my own company idea too, which was pretty cool.” He added that though he initially plans to continue playing basketball after graduation, he will stay involved in service in his personal life and perhaps find a career in the nonprofit sector later.

Head basketball coach Mitch Henderson ‘98 did not respond to request for comment. Assistant Coach Brett Macconnell was also unavailable for comment.

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From New Jersey to the world Josh Stephens ’97

Guest contributor

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hort on spires and even shorter on gargoyles, Education City in Doha, Qatar, looks like a cross between a world’s fair and Area 51. Surrounded by Arabian desert, its fancifully designed pavilions declare the presence not of countries but of universities, each sharing western-style wisdom with an ascendant corner of the world.

Many of these institutions get generous subsidies from host countries. I can imagine plenty of countries that would offer Princeton University the moon and the stars for it to plant a flag on their shores. And yet, Princeton has resisted this trend.

This is where I’m supposed to decry Princeton’s insularity and disregard for the global community. It’s where we may be tempted to worry that our University is falling behind. It’s where we worry that Princeton students are missing out.

I won’t, we shouldn’t, and they aren’t.

At a time when so many universities are flaunting themselves like brands — or, worse, like franchises — Princeton’s commitment to tradition serves it well. It serves the world well, too.

For two years I did international outreach for a tutoring company, bringing me to 30-odd countries, over 350 international high schools, and the occasional overseas university campus. If I’ve learned one thing about international education, it is this: the cliché that “education is the U.S.’s

best export” could not be more true. The fervor for American education — with a disturbing, and often naïve, reverence for an Ivy League degree — is arguably more intense in Beijing and Abu Dhabi than it is in Boston and Ann Arbor.

In the case of Education City, exportation is literal. American universities including Georgetown, Virginia Commonwealth, Weill Cornell Medical School, Carnegie Mellon, and Northwestern have established outposts there. So has Texas A&M, minus its football team. Having gone from desert nomadism to global prominence in the span of a generation, Qatar figured that it’s easier to enlist established institutions than it is to build native institutions from scratch. Princeton has taken 270 years to get to where it is, after all.

Many more colleges are pursuing this import-export strategy elsewhere. NYU has set up a major campus in Abu Dhabi, where students can study for all four years. Yale has a program at the National University of Singapore. The brand-new Minerva Schools at the Keck Graduate Institute take students to a different city each semester. Many universities have strengthened their study abroad programs in recent years by securing real estate in cities beyond usual suspects like London and Florence. These programs offer life-changing experiences and are incomparable portals into cosmopolitanism.

These days, we assume that anyone can learn almost anything from anywhere. Students can dabble in Massive Open Online Courses, submit papers by

email, and even earn Ph.D.s online. Some professors are probably happy to hit the road and earn bonus pay. So, I don’t doubt that a Georgetown or a Carnegie Mellon can maintain their curricular standards overseas.

But great institutions are not just about showing up. Great institutions encompass people.

They encompass shared experiences. They rely on formal and informal relationships — among students, professors, coaches, and staff alike. They are places.

To earn a degree from Princeton means spending time at Princeton. In an age when you might do billions of dollars worth of business with people on whom you’ll never lay eyes, the chance to mingle with the same 5,000 or so people every day is precious. Ideally, the same goes for any number of equally ambitious universities.

To be sure, Princeton’s quads and lawns may sometimes seem confining — I think they’re calling it the “Orange Bubble” these days. Princeton has ample imperfections, including a long history of being less than diverse and less than inclusive. But its commitment to a campus-centered life is not one of them. Anyone who runs out of ideas to ponder, books to read, labs to conduct, or people to learn from in four years behind the FitzRandolph Gate isn’t trying very hard.

Students today have their entire lives for jet-setting, tourism, international business, and global service — and, of course, Princeton rightfully offers short-term international experiences. Any Princeton graduate who wants to teach English in China, monitor

oil wells in Kuwait, make microloans in Brazil, or buy bonds in London faces ample opportunities. Today’s students will meet a more diverse array of people and visit more places than did those of any previous generation. That is our privilege and our opportunity as graduates of Princeton — the school and the place.

Long before anyone paid Qatar much mind, Toni Morrison remarked in her 250th anniversary address in the fall of my senior year, “In private memory this place is its halls, its library, its chapel worn to satin by the encounters and collaborations among and between strangers from other neighborhoods and strangers from other lands.”

Leave it to one of our nation’s greatest novelists to capture not only Princeton’s role in the burgeoning spirit of globalization — a concept so new in 1996 that I don’t recall hearing it once in my four years — but also the timeless value of camaraderie. Her point, I think, is that reading King Lear quietly under the McCosh sundial or lingering long past a precept’s dismissal time unlocks levels of wisdom that no plane ticket can.

Maybe one day those buildings in Qatar will have spirits and personalities to rival those of Princeton. For now, though, the constancy of Princeton should be cherished more so than ever. It’s why now, even with the whole world to compare itself to and compete against, Princeton can still credibly claim to be “the best old place of all.”

Josh Stephens ’97 is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles and former ‘Prince’ editorial page editor.

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Princeton admissions: early action

Beni Snow

Senior Columnist

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rinceton is one of the most selective colleges in the world. That is guaranteed, as there are more students who want to attend than there are spaces at the University. The criteria by which Princeton decides who can be a tiger and who cannot are not set in stone. In this column, part of a three-part series on admissions, I will examine early admission. The subsequent two installments of my series will discuss legacy and athletics.

Just before our winter break, Princeton accepted 770 students to the great class of 2021, representing an early acceptance rate of 15.4 percent.

The numbers for regular acceptance will not be known until April, but for the class of 2020, the regular admission

rate was just 4.4 percent.

The overall admission rate for Princeton and similarly selective schools is around 6 to 7 percent, but that number is a fairly useless one, since the actual odds of admission depend heavily on whether or not a potential student applies early.

Early admission is designed to select for students who truly are passionate about Princeton. These are the students who are more likely to say yes to a Princeton acceptance, increasing yield rate, which in turn affects the everimportant U.S. News & World Report rankings. In essence, early admission helps find the most dedicated students and maintain Princeton’s spot on top of the rankings.

Of course, this all assumes that a student who does not apply early is not as dedicated to Princeton. This is a

problematic assumption. A student may not apply early because they do not receive quality college counseling or because they need to compare financial aid packages.

These problems presumably disproportionately affect lowincome applicants.

Princeton bills itself as a loan-free university and boasts some of the best financial aid in the country.

However, a prospective student may still have to compare aid packages. Perhaps a state school will offer them a full ride, as well as a stipend.

Perhaps a different university might give them better campus employment options, and they could send that money back home. There are many reasons why, even with Princeton’s generosity, someone has to examine their financial situation before applying.

Early admission makes this

significantly more difficult.

A student who wants or needs to compare aid cannot do so if they cannot apply to multiple schools simultaneously. Princeton has single choice early action, meaning a prospective student may not apply early to any private school other than Princeton.

This means that the student sacrifices the significant advantage of early acceptance at all other schools.

If a student feels that their finances potentially prohibit them from attending Princeton, then they could be disincentivized from applying early, which significantly reduces their chances of acceptance. Princeton has numerous programs to help lowincome students, but those programs are useless if students don’t even apply. Unfortunately, Princeton does not release information of the

breakdown of student economic status between regular and early admission, so it is difficult to know for sure what the effects of the policy are.

Princeton’s removing the single-choice component of early action would help, but only if all other schools removed their single-choice requirements as well. Since Princeton cannot force other universities to do any such thing, the only way to remove the bias that early action creates is to remove it completely. Have all students apply on one day, and judge students on their merits, not on their ability to pay.

Originally published Feb. 9.

Beni Snow is a mechanical and aerospace engineering major from Newton Center, Mass.

He can be reached at bsnow@ princeton.edu.

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Princeton games to look out for this weekend

By David Xin and Miranda Hasty

Head and associate sports editors

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL VS COLUMBIA AND CORNELL

MEN’S BASKETBALL VS CORNELL AND COLUMBIA

Currently second in the Ivy League standings at 7-2, the women’s basketball team will look to grab both crucial games this weekend. The Tigers will have the momentum of a seven-game winning streak, having not lost in the Ivy League since their first two conference games.

The men’s basketball team will enter their games this Friday and Saturday riding a 13 game winning streak. The Tigers stand at the top of the Ivy League with a perfect 10-0 record--one of Princeton’s best showings since the 1997-98 season. With a perfect record on the line, both games will surely not be ones to miss.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY VS. QUINNIPIAC

M E N ’ S H O C K E Y V S B R OW N A N D YA L E

After defeating RPI and Union last weekend, women’s hockey (14-6-2) earned a series of ECAC playoff matches against Quinnipiac. As the No. 4 seed in the tournament, the team will play the quarterfinals on home ice with leaders sophomore Karlie Lund and senior Molly Contini on the front line and senior Kelsey Koelzer anchoring the defense.

The men’s ice hockey team will look to close the season out on a high note. After suffering a close loss to Union, the Tigers will look to regroup for this weekend. The Princeton squad will be facing two Ivy League rivals in Brown and Yale. Both teams have offered exciting match-ups with Princeton in the past and these games should be no different.

WOMEN’S TENNIS VS. XAVIER AND KENTUCKY

MEN’S VOLLEYBALL VS. SACRED HEART AND HARVARD

The women’s tennis team (5-4) is gearing up for a competitive weekend against Xavier (3-5) and Kentucky (6-1). The Tigers are heading to Cincinnati and Lexington after concluding the ECAC Championship and snatching a win against Rutgers this past week.

The men’s volleyball team will travel to Sacred Heart and Harvard this Friday and Saturday to defend their first place spot in the EIVA conference. The Tigers have had a strong showing in conference-play and they will look to carry this momentum especially when facing an Ivy League rival.

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Ranked No. 10 by the Collegiate Water Polo Association Varsity Poll, the women’s water polo team is scheduled to compete against No. 19 Harvard in a match this Saturday that will be broadcasted on ESPNU. Sisters Chelsea and Ashleigh Johnson lead the team as the leading scorer and standout goalkeeper.

The men and women’s fencing teams, No. 6 and No. 1 respectively, are set to compete in their final regular-season events this Sunday at the Temple Duals in Philadelphia.

After both sides clinched the Ivy League championship two weeks ago, the Tigers will face nationally ranked teams, including Penn State and Penn.

WOMEN’S SQUASH HOWE CUP

The women’s squash team will host Yale for the Howe Cup Quarterfinals at Jadwin today. The fourth-seeded Tigers will look to top the Bulldogs after beating them narrowly 5-4 earlier in the season. Depth will be crucial for the Princeton team as it was last time.

The winner will likely move on to face top ranked Harvard.

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peted in Science Olympiad at the highest levels possible in high school, and we wanted to leverage that wealth of talent and experience into making the best tournament possible,” said Fan. “We all really enjoyed competing in middle school and high school, and wanted to expose more students to the joy that is problemsolving.”

The all-day event took place in McDonnell Hall, Jadwin Hall, Lewis Library, Friend Center, Guyot Hall, Lewis Thomas Laboratory, McCosh Hall, and East Pyne.

All competition events were run by University undergraduates, who were assisted by nearly 100 additional undergraduate volunteers from over 15 different academic departments, and several members of Transportation & Parking Services as well as the Office of Environmental Health and Safety.

Princeton University Science Olympiad received financial support from academic centers on campus such as the Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials, Andlinger Center, Office of the Vice-President for Campus Life, and the Department of Physics,

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High school students compete in first Princeton Science Olympiad.

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Computer Science, Astrophysical Sciences, Chemistry, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Geosciences.

The event also received administrative help from the

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the Office of Environmental Health and Safety, and Conference Services as well as the Department of Molecular Biology.

In running this inaugural invitational tournament,

Princeton University joined peer institutions MIT, Yale, and Cornell, which host three of the nation’s foremost Science Olympiad tournaments each year. Princeton University Science Olympiad hopes that this tournament will become a Princeton tra-

dition as well as a favorite among high schools across the country.

Directors Eddie Lee and Bill Huang both did not respond to requests for comment.

Good luck, Tigers!