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ICC discusses eating club inclusion

By Caroline Lippman staff writer

In a Princeton Interclub Council conversation about diversity and inclusion in eating clubs on Sunday, eating club officers and students addressed common stereotypes and discussed ways to increase club accessibility for students from a variety of backgrounds.

The conversation was meant to address how the eating club system can become more welcoming towards all students hoping to join, according to a statement from the ICC. All members of the University community were invited to the event, which took place at Cap & Gown Club from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. The event was attended mostly by officers of eating clubs and other members of eating clubs.

W. Rochelle Calhoun, Vice President for Campus Life, made opening remarks and stated that she looked forward to what would come out of the day’s discussions.

Calhoun mentioned that her office has been focusing on the student community, which is one of the reasons why the freshman orientation program will have incoming freshmen participating in joint activities.

“Part of that is about trying to, at that very moment, help individuals have a sense of deep belonging in this community. I think the clubs have

a pretty good place in that landscape,” she said.

ICC President Jean-Carlos Arenas ’16 led the discussion, which was broken into several topics that attendees discussed in small groups before sharing their ideas with the rest of the group.

Arenas is a former staff writer and chief copy editor for The Daily Princetonian.

According to Arenas, topics of discussion included club demographics, socioeconomics, interclub affairs, admissions processes and attrition.

The list of topics was generated from the event’s RSVP form, where attendees wrote what they wanted to discuss and the officers at each table took notes on the discussion so they could debrief the event at the next ICC meeting.

Before breaking into table discussions, attendees looked over a list of rules of engagement for the event, which included practicing empathy and good listening skills, speaking from personal experience, engaging everyone present, staying on topic and being sensitive to trigger topics, which were defined as topics that could potentially make others feel upset or uncomfortable.

Grant Godeke ’17, the social chair of Cap & Gown, shared his table’s thoughts on the eating clubs’ stereotypes with the rest of the group. He noted that his group seemed to feel that See ICC page 3

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Two TigerTransit bus lines will be piloted in early March, offering engineers and athletes a ride.

New TigerTransit lines offer access to EQuad, Boathouse

By Caroline Lippman staff writer

TigerTransit will pilot two new bus lines, one between Princeton Station and the EQuad and the other between Princeton Station and the Boathouse, from Feb. 29 to March 11, according to Undergraduate Student Government President Aleksandra Czulak ’17.

The bus on the EQuad loop will run approximately every 30 minutes between 7:30 a.m. and noon, and again between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. Service will run approximately every 30 minutes from 6 a.m. to noon and from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. on

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the Boathouse loop.

The EQuad route will begin at Princeton Station, near Forbes College, and proceed to Goheen Walk, Alexander Hall, the Friend Center, the Wilson School and end at Palmer Square before returning to Princeton Station. The Boathouse loop service will start at Princeton Station and go to Goheen Walk and Alexander Hall, finishing at the Boathouse and stopping at Icahn Lab along the way after 8:15 a.m.

Kim Jackson, director of Transportation and Parking Services, wrote in a statement via email that last year TPS

hired consultants to evaluate the TigerTransit system.

“The consultants rode various bus lines, held focus groups with all riders, including undergraduate students and administered a survey to both users and non-users of the system,” she noted.

She added that she held discussions with USG members about how to optimize TigerTransit for undergraduate students as an alternative and effective way of moving around campus.

Czulak said that in the past two years, better transportation around campus, See BUSES page 2

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USG discusses future changes for Q&A: Hyung Joon Won, bathroom codes, support for co-ops activist and musician senior writer

The Undergraduate Student Government senate discussed replacing bathroom codes with proximity card access in their weekly meeting on Feb. 28.

“I’m very happy that after a year and a half, we finally have a bathroom recommendation,” University Student Life Committee chair Jenny Zhang ’18 said.

According to Zhang, survey results revealed that 71 percent of the student body opposed having codes only on women’s bathrooms, 72 percent opposed having codes on either gender bathrooms and 56 percent voted in favor of prox access to all bathrooms.

The USLC, Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students and the Department of Public Safety have decided the best way to move forward would be switching to Tiger Card access to dormitory bathrooms, Zhang explained.

The new Salto locks for bathrooms would not require a PIN number, unlike the locks on dorm rooms, according to Zhang. Housing is trying to get funding to replace the bathroom locks, and the changes could be in place as early as late 2016.

Zhang said that all the locks for both genders would be accessible with a student’s prox, regardless of the student’s gender, adding that this option would enable students to have independence as well as privacy.

“I think it’s an extra layer of protection [for those] who feel uncomfortable,” Zhang explained.

U-councilor Ethan Marcus ’18 said that many students would find this new system to be a hassle.

“I’m not saying that it should be a one-sided standard… rationale that only University students should have access is convoluted because to get into the building you need a prox,” he said.

Zhang added that the prox access would also provide for a record of who accessed a bathroom at a certain time.

If, for example, someone were to be assaulted in a bathroom there would be a record to see who went in, she noted.

According to Zhang, the records would be protected by relevant University protocol regarding prox data.

U-Councilor Dallas Nan ’16 noted that if the data is pertinent to a certain case then the committee on discipline and the honor committee can ask for those records, but the re-

cord would not be released for anyone’s common knowledge.

Although both genders will have access to any dorm bathroom, the bathrooms will still remain “Men’s” or “Women’s” rather than being relabeled as gender-neutral.

“The University is still working on ways to include gender-neutral bathrooms; it’s in the strategic plan,” USG president Aleks Czulak ’17 noted.

Maxim Zaslavsky ’17, IT committee chair, said that the goal of the new committee members would be to provide ample support for students pursuing projects or apps that could be useful for the student body at large.

“I think the name ‘IT’ is a little misleading, and I think our primary goal is fixing the way websites are hosted,” Zaslavsky said.

He added that there has always been a gap in support between students.

“Students have had to reinvent the wheel each time,” he said.

Czulak noted that USG should push for greater integration among committees, including the IT committee, to increase communication. In addition, she explained that many See USG page 3

By Claire Lee staff writer

Hyung Joon Won is a South Korean musician and activist for the reunification of North Korea and South Korea who had recently given a talk and a violin performance at a conference hosted by Princeton for North Korean Human Rights. Over the weekend, Won spoke with The Daily Princetonian about his plan and personal motivation for creating an orchestra with musicians from both North Korea and South Korea.

The Daily Princetonian: Can you describe your vision for using music to promote North and South Korean reunification?

Hyung Joon Won: In my view, through music, we can communicate and make harmony. Our nations have been divided for more than 70 years because of a lack of communication. The political situation is not good, and we both [North and South Korea] have national securities that prohibit civilians to contact one another unless we [civilians] get permission from both Korean governments. With this situation, it is very hard to do something between the two Koreas.

However, through music, we [Koreans] can communicate

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and make harmony. This is why I have been promoting my project in which musicians from both Koreas can play together.

DP: What is it about music that you think will have such a profound impact in bringing people together?

HJW: For music, we don’t need to talk. What’s amazing about orchestra is that with a variety of different instruments and sounds, you are able to to produce a harmony.

This is because the musicians listen to one another. While the U.N. and the South Korean government imposing sanctions on the North Korean government, North Korea is testing nuclear weapons.

Real communication is not happening and I hope politicians realize this.

DP: What was your personal motivation for starting this project?

I am part of a separated family. My great-grandmother’s tomb is still in North Korea, and I can never visit her tomb. That was my family motivation. Secondly, there’s a conductor whose name is Maestro Daniel Barenboim who founded an orchestra that is made of young Palestinian and Israeli musicians.

I was really astonished and I admired what he did to bring See WON page 2

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especially buses to Forbes, has come up as an issue that students would like to be addressed. She explained that the USG “What Matters” survey, which provided several suggestions for USG initiatives and asked students to rank which are most important to them, has revealed that parking and transit on campus is something students would like USG to work on. She added that USG had received similar feedback from door-to-door campaigning and general or informal conversations with students.

“We knew that from conversations with students that Forbes, the EQuad and the Boathouse, and even Jadwin Gym, were all places that students wanted better access to,” she said.

Czulak added that the Icahn stop on the Boathouse loop is directly across from Jadwin Gym, which will impact students who have practice there in addition to stu-

dents on the crew team.

“We focused on routes taken by Forbes students to the EQuad area, Rocky students to Jadwin Hall, Icahn and Peretsman Scully buildings and lastly on how athletes with early morning practices and afternoon practices ending close to when dining halls stop serving dinner, might be assisted in their travels by TigerTransit,” Jackson added.

Jackson wrote that after the pilot, TPS will gather feedback and look at how many people rode the new routes. She wrote that after the evaluation process, potential new routes and stops would be considered to be implemented as part of the permanent TigerTransit routes in September 2016.

“We will look at ways to incorporate the stops on the piloted routes into existing TigerTransit routes without changing our current level of service,” she added.

Amy Zhang ’19, a Forbesian who takes classes in the EQuad, said that walking between the two could take 25-30 minutes. She

noted that many Forbesians ride a bike, but even that can take 15 minutes and is all uphill.

“It’s definitely a welcome change, but it is kind of annoying to have to check the times. Sometimes the bus itself takes 10-15 minutes because it stops at other places,” Zhang said about the new bus lines.

She added that she had looked at the schedule and noticed that the bus is often scheduled to arrive at the Friend Center at 41 or 51 minutes after the hour, which for some might be too early to arrive to class.

Czulak explained that to gather feedback, she will include a link to a Google Form on both her USG emails this week and next week. Students will be able to submit feedback through the form, which will also be publicized on Facebook, through listservs and potentially through Directors of Student Life in residential colleges, she said.

The Google Form to gather feedback will remain open until after the pilot program ends on Friday March 11, Czulak said.

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together people from two conflicting nations.

DP: Given the political difficulties of making this project happen, what are your plans for overcoming the obstacles?

HJW: From my eight years of experience working on this project, I have some achievements. For example, in 2011, it was the North Korean government that approved the project. They invited South Korean musicians to do this joint orchestra performance in Pyongyang, North Korea.

Unfortunately, however, it didn’t happen because of political tensions between the two nations at the time. In 2014, with the support from the German government, we tried to make a joint orchestra project happen in Germany. The South Korean government approved, but this time the North Korean government denied. Because of political obstacles, my plan is to continue giving lectures and performances at universities like Princeton to gather international support – not only support from both Korean governments but also international support. We are the only nations in the world that are divided. It’s a pity that, unlike West and East Germany where people were able to communicate and travel between the two nations, it is impossible for communication to happen between North and South Koreans. I am trying to let the world recognize the difficulty of communication

between the two Koreas. Music is not harmful to either government, so I hope that support from international organizations or foundations would help make my project possible. I hope that through this project, our governments can open dialogue and address important issues.

“I am trying to let the world recognize the difficulty of communication between the two Koreas.”

Hyung Joon Won,

Musician and Activist

DP: Looking into the future, are you optimistic that your project will succeed?

HJW: After eight years of working on this project, I discovered that the only way to realize this joint orchestral project is not only to get political support from the two Korean governments, but also to get support from the international community. Whether it be in a university, a museum, or even the street, more people need to know about this project. There’s a tremendous ideological gap between the two Koreas, and I believe that uniting Koreans through music can serve as the first step toward reunification.

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the stereotype for somebody in an eating club is a white, typically social and outgoing, financially stable student. He noted that certain groups, such as minority individuals, or those opposed to alcoholic consumption or hook-up culture, might feel excluded by the eating clubs. A potential change they suggested was implementing a buddy system, where new students in a club are paired with current members who have similar interests or characteristics, to help the new student connect with the club.

Sean Poosson ’17, president of Cap & Gown, noted that his table discussed a potential way to broaden students’ perception of eating clubs by having them collaborate with other student groups on campus.

“We talked about how to move away from a party image that could alienate groups of people on campus that aren’t necessarily into the whole alcohol or party scene… so a suggestion was to have clubs interact with the community in a non-’night-out’ way,” he said.

Another question for discussion asked what barriers might exist for lower-income students that could alienate them from eating clubs.

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Poosson shared that his group discussed creating a sheet or guide for students containing information on the finances of joining a club, and what their options would be regarding campus dining plans and financial aid adjustments.

Godeke said that his group discussed the potential social isolation low-income students may feel at eating clubs, especially for students coming from neighborhoods or schools that do not have a long tradition of sending students to Princeton.

The groups also discussed how the outward-facing image of the eating clubs might affect who ends up joining. Attendees suggested encouraging an RCA discussion during freshman orientation week to explain the social scene on the Street to freshmen who may not know much about it, or starting a raffle of extra passes through the ICC so that freshman or sophomores have more of an opportunity to visit and experience different clubs.

Miles Hinson ’17, the social chair of Charter Club, noted that his group talked about how clubs may seem inaccessible to freshmen who do not understand much about the bicker process. He also said they discussed having more open events for freshmen and sophomore students.

Hinson is a former sports editor for The Daily Princetonian.

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While few students ventured outside their rooms during the heavy rain last week, a suited man is standing outside the McCosh Hall holding an umbrella while the passersby hurry to get indoors.

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developers and entrepreneurs have contacted USG with ideas that could benefit the school, which USG could support in

“Part of that is about trying to, at that very moment, help individuals have a sense of deep belonging in this community. I think the clubs have a good place in that landscape.”

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the future.

The senate has been working on a resolution to support the inclusion of co-op and “Block 95” students into the independent housing room draw, Nan said.

Nan said his working group hopes to alter the independent pledge, because the current stipulations are too re-

strictive.

Nan added that there seems to be an oversupply of rooms for independent students, which then get moved to the general upperclassmen draw.

Further, Nan added that students in co-ops and “Block 95” are getting nearly two-thirds of their meals on their own and need a kitchen.

“That is one piece of the puzzle that hasn’t been thought through,” Nan said.

He explained that changes to the independent housing draw would affect other rooming options as well.

Mary Heath Manning ’17 said that the Princeton Perspective Project is currently working on a number of projects, including a collaboration with the Inter-Club Council to continue conversations on diversity. PPP will also be working with female leaders in the student body to discuss challenges and obstacles that women on campus face.

Nan suggested that the PPP reach out to freshmen during orientation.

“I know it’s jam-packed, but I’d love to see the mindfulness brought out in that,” Nan said.

Manning noted that Community Action and Outdoor Action leaders serve as crucial sources of information for freshmen, so the PPP could work with those leaders to make information available.

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It’s time to consider a new calendar

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rinceton University, by all accounts, has an unusual academic calendar among its peers. We start school in mid-September and end in late May. We take finals in January — a tradition begun in the 1939-40 academic year which has persisted into the 21st century.

Over a year ago, students were frustrated and surprised to find that the 2015-16 academic year would feature a two-week winter break, instead of the more typical three-week break.

USG ran a short survey and a referendum on the issue. But unfortunately for USG and the 98 percent of students who voted for a three-week break, a shortened winter break on some years is written into the University’s rules and procedures for the calendar. So are several other anomalies in our academic calendar — the relatively late start compared to our peer institutions and finals after, instead of before, winter recess.

Many students have written columns for this paper arguing that finals after winter break are harmful to student learning, mental health and co-curricular opportunities.

But initiatives to change the calendar have notoriously failed, with the most recent attempt occurring in 2007-08. The 200708 effort was stymied, in part, by the multiplicity of options.

Four calendars were suggested and, predictably, none of them gained the necessary support from student and faculty members.

The current survey, to be released on March 1 by the Office of Institutional Research, attempts to avoid previous mistakes. The survey was co-authored by the USG Academics Committee and the Office of the Dean of the College. It is the product of a months-long collaboration on designing and vetting questions. Undergraduates, graduate students and faculty will be surveyed on their satisfaction with the current calendar and on their calendar preferences. Questions include whether finals should be before or after winter recess and the desired length of the teaching period. Most importantly, the survey invites respondents to consider the trade-offs that accompany any calendar change.

This survey is our best hope to find out if students and faculty alike would prefer an alternative calendar — and if so, how such a calendar could be structured to best serve all members of the Princeton community. Princeton’s calendar is set and voted on by the faculty, so any change must strongly benefit professors as well as graduate students and undergraduates.

We encourage all students — whether you love the current calendar or hate it, whether you prefer your finals in December or in January — to take the survey. Consider the trade-offs, and think about how your learning, your mental health and your opportunities can be optimized. Discuss the options with your peers. It’s been 75 years. It’s time to consider a change.

Shannon Osaka, USG Academics Chair Ramie Fathy, USG Academics Chair-Emeritus

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Editorial: Give students access to Dean’s Date papers and final exams

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t is currently a common practice for instructors not to return Dean’s Date papers or final exams with feedback — or at all. The Board sees no reason why these essays and tests should be treated any differently from those scheduled throughout the course of the semester. In fact, we believe that the habit of ignoring these final assignments both costs students some of their best learning opportunities and sends a message of grading-over-teaching that corrodes Princeton’s educational environment.

The Board believes that the University should encourage course instructors to make marked-up Dean’s Date papers or final exams available by the date on which overall course grades are posted online.

In not bothering to return Dean’s Date papers with constructive feedback, instructors send a disheartening message — that these end-of-semester assignments are not intended as learning experiences but are, rather, only useful for satisfying requirements and calculating grades. In some cases, students do not even see the grade they received on the project — it gets absorbed into the overall grade for the course. Dean’s Date papers are very often the most advanced, challenging and cumulative projects in a class, emphasizing independent thought and (in many instances) providing a chance for close student-faculty collaboration: it is in these essays that students invest some of their hardest work, strive to produce original research or reflect upon ways to tie together the major themes of several months’ worth of lectures, discussions and readings. In other words, these are precisely the assignments from which students can grow the most, and yet many undergraduates see nothing of their Dean’s Date or testing-period work after turning it in; they next encounter their projects in the form of a single letter on TigerHub. If the University and its academic departments are serious about teaching to the fullest (not just handing out transcripts), their current approach should change.

The Board recognizes that faculty members and preceptors at Princeton are genuinely and deeply committed to helping their students progress. However, the current system of unreturned end-of-semester assignments incentiv-

izes the quick checking, grading and disposing of these projects. Even the most devoted teachers may, on occasion, unconsciously invest less time and effort if they know that students will never see more than a final grade. The act of typing out comments (which no instructor, however well-intentioned, will do if he or she knows that students will not have access to those comments) can be a vital step in encouraging instructors to think through their critiques and judge work more responsibly. The current practice creates a lack of transparency that is bad for instructors and makes students suspicious that their hard work is not getting the attention it deserves.

It might be argued that many students and instructors are instinctively eager to bring their courses to a close — instructors want to wrap up their workloads and prepare for the next, fast-approaching term, and students, off to enjoy vacation, frequently have little interest in continuing to preoccupy themselves with papers and tests. However, instructors have an obligation to remain committed to their undergraduates’ progress and to honor their students hard work with thoughtful, thorough comments. It is true that many students want to move on after classes have come to a close, but instructors ought to push back against this attitude as best they can: sometimes students need to be reminded that they are not at Princeton just to fulfill requirements towards a degree, but to develop their minds.

Undergraduates come to Princeton to work with some of the best intellects in the world — and to learn from them.

Receiving feedback on assignments is crucial: students want to hear how their work measures up in the minds of brilliant, knowledgeable scholars, as well as to know how it can be improved. The very basis of Princeton’s undergraduate experience is weakened if many of the most important assignments students complete are lost in the shuffle or brushed over with little care.

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Knowledge nostalgia: missing the bleeding edge

have less than 50 days until my thesis is due, and less than 100 before I graduate.

Folks, it’s real. The inevitability of the approaching milestones and the immensity of the tasks at hand war for the attention of my overworked stress response.

But last week, even while careening through my final months, I found more insight from a couple of serendipitous events than from any approaching milestone or academic achievement. Two evening talks — by a UC Berkeley molecular biologist and a University of Bath expert on intelligence — drove right to the heart of what I’ll miss as I prepare to leave Princeton.

Last Wednesday, I was fortunate enough to see Berkeley professor Jennifer Doudna speak on the gene-editing technique she coinvented, Crispr-Cas9. In just the last few years Crispr has revolutionized biotechnology, allowing the rapid and precise editing of other organisms’ genes, and forced us to confront our suddenly-veryreal capability to change our own genetic makeup permanently.

The talk was titled “The Sci-

ence and Bioethics of Editing our Genes.” But what gave me pause was a point neither scientific nor bioethical. As Doudna emphasized throughout the talk, she did not set out to revolutionize bioengineering, but to understand an esoteric aspect of bacterial immune systems. The RNA-protein complex that bacteria use to protect themselves from viral DNA can be harnessed as a powerful tool, but Doudna didn’t know this when she began her work. Here curiosity, rather than necessity, was the mother of invention. It was inspiring to all curious people present to see how the pet-project of a self-described “RNA-nerd” turned into a world-shaking invention.

Doudna’s emphasis on the curiosity-driven nature of her work is an explicit counterargument to a philosophy which has for years been undercutting academic research: the insistence that research be “translational” — driving towards solving a specific problem, rather than discovering fundamentals of how the world works. The overemphasis of translational research (and the quick profit attached to it) resulted this

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month in Australia, slashing funding for basic climate research and thereby jeopardizing our ability to understand and respond to climate change. The U.S. House of Representatives followed suit with a bill requiring the National Science Foundation to justify how each grant furthers the “national interest.” Had Doudna and her colleagues tried to justify asking “why do bacteria have these funny repeating bits in their DNA?” on grounds of national interest, especially to Congress, I can hardly imagine Crispr being understood and applied rapidly, if at all.

Why should you, dear reader, care? Princeton and her peer institutions are the core of basic research, building our understanding not just of the hard sciences but about how human society functions and should function. And we, the undergraduates, are part of that.

The second seminar I attended, a dinner with visiting fellow Joanna Bryson, framed this for me.

Bryson studies mechanisms of intelligence — both our natural intelligence and future artificial intelligences, somewhere in the overlap of neuroscience, philosophy and computer science. She described human intelligence as deeply indebted to human culture: unlike the brutal logic of natural selection, where the best strategies for survival are spread by simply letting every other strategy die out, our culture and language allow ideas to spread and intersect in a way that mirrors a single intelligence searching for the best way to move forward.

Bryson expanded on this in a recent blog post, pointing out that universities function as powerful nodes in the network of human culture — “knowledge batteries” which store humanity’s collective wisdom and apply it where needed. Sure, business and governments produce and apply knowledge as well, but it is academia where knowledge is created for knowledge’s sake, where the drive for unique — rather than money-making — broadens the pool of ideas from which humanity can draw and

through which it can grow.

I’m going to bet against you discovering something as big as Crispr or relativity while you’re here. But Princeton gives us the knowledge — both academic and humanistic — to put ourselves at the bleeding edge of human intellect and ask the interesting questions. And many of us only have four years to do that.

If Princeton is to be the best four years of your life (I hope it isn’t — we have so much left to do), let it not only be for the carefree parties or the cheap booze.

Let it not only be for your friends.

And I beg of you, let it not only be for giving you a leg up on a prestigious or high-salary career.

When I leave Princeton, I may be leaving behind the richest pool of ideas I will ever have the fortune to immerse myself in.

And I will miss that. But I will take with me the curiosity, the drive for the bleeding edge.

Bennett McIntosh is a chemistry major from Littleton, Colo. He can be reached at bam2@princeton.edu

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Caruso put the Orange and Black up 17 points, 61-44. However, the Columbia squad still had a lot left in its tank. With just less than three minutes remaining in the game, Columbia cut the deficit to just four points at 75-71. However, a crucial three-pointer from the junior forward essentially iced the game, as the Lions never came within five points afterwards.

The Tigers shot 63.3% in the field, including 13 of 21 three-point attempts. The junior trio of Spence Weisz, Steven Cook and Henry Caruso proved particularly critical for the close win, seeing as they shot a combined 2431 from the field and led the team in points, rebounds and assists.

On Saturday, it would be Cornell that would strike first against the Tigers.

Princeton missed its first six three-point attempts, which the Big Red eagerly capitalized on with an 11-4 run.

However, the Tigers would soon return to their usual game, cutting the deficit to two points. The Princeton squad would respond with a run of their own to open a nine-point advantage to-

wards the end of the half.

However several late buckets by the Big Red, including a 35-foot buzzer beat, trimmed the advantage to just three points.

Princeton came out of the break with a 20-3 run to increase their lead to 20. Although Cornell fought late in the second half, they never brought themselves within double digits the rest of the night.

These wins proved crucial for the Princeton squad in their effort to upset Yale.

The Bulldogs, who are 11-1, dealt the Tigers their sole Ivy League loss of the season.

However, Princeton remains even in losses with the Bulldogs and holds one game as they have only played eleven so far to Yale’s twelve. Victories over the Lions and Big Red kept the title race alive and set the stage for a climatic season finale.

The season continues this week as the Tigers head out on the road to face Ivy competitors, Harvard and Dartmouth. Needless to say both games will be tough for the Tigers. But the team’s recent momentum proves that they can win crucial games and handle high-pressure situations. With the title race as close as it is, these next two games should be a thrilling sight.

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the team’s runner up finish in the 200 freestyle relay.

The Tigers kept up the momentum with a huge win in the 800-free relay. The four man squad of D’Alessandro, senior Sandy Bole, junior Julian Mackrel and sophomore Ben Schafer ended the second day by putting Princeton 52.5 points behind Harvard.

While the deficit was still significant, the Tigers were confident heading into the final day. Indeed, the Tigers had three more swimmers than Harvard competing on Saturday. In addition, Princeton had managed to cut their deficit in half and had the momentum moving forward.

However, Harvard was not going to relinquish their lead without a fight. In fact, the Crimson pushed back to start

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days, Princeton broke through and took the lead for the first time in the 19th event. From there, divers senior Noam Altman-Kurosaki and Makarewicz set Princeton up for the perfect finish. By claiming third and fifth respectively, the duo ensured that the Tigers would only need a top two finish to bring home the trophy.

But the Tigers would not settle for second. In an epic 400-freestyle relay, Princeton capped off its comeback with an Ivy League record time of 2:52.06. Needless to say, this sent the Princeton squad watching on the sidelines into an absolute frenzy.

After their first HYP win since 2012 and an undefeated season in the Ivy League, bringing home the Ivy League Championship was the storybook finish the Tigers were looking for.

The fact that it was a come-back story only made their victory sweeter.

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Tiger’s deficit in half.With 52 seconds left in the half, Orange and Black tied the game off of a power play led by junior defensemen Kelsey Koelzer. She also scored her second shot of the game in the third period in response to a Saints goal to make the game 3-3. Freshman Karlie Lund scored the game-winner exactly four minutes later to give Princeton the win. Princeton senior goaltender Kimberly Newell ended the game with an impressive 33 saves.

The last game of the series

Men’s Basketball look to tighten the Ivy race with three games left.

the third day. They lead the Tigers by as much as 116.5 points at one point. Yet, the Tigers persevered as they always have throughout the season.

The comeback came throughout the day, as Princeton swimmers slowly chipped away at Harvard’s lead. Okubo claimed the top spot in the 200 back. Hu-Van Wright claimed his second win of the tournament by sharing the podium with Penn’s Eric Schultz. Bole took third in the event to further advance the Princeton cause.

However, the major turning point did not occur until the 200 fly. Although Harvard claimed first in the events, it would be the Tigers who came out on top overall. Indeed, Princeton managed to grab the second, third, sixth and eighth place finishes.

Suddenly, a win seemed manageable. After trailing Harvard for two and a half

made ECAC program history, as it was the Tigers’ first tiebreaker game in a quarterfinal series. The Tigers had a rough start when Koelzer, recently named Ivy League Player of the Year, suffered an injury that prevented her from returning for the next three periods. Orange and Black scored the first goal of the game off an assist from junior forward Morgan Sly to other junior forward Cassidy Tucker. The Saints did not respond until the second period with a goal from Brooke Webster, allowing the Tigers to hold their one-goal advantage for the entire first period. Both teams scored in

the second period to make the score 2-2, which remained on the board until the final period. The next goal came from Saints forward Amanda Boulier to give St. Lawrence the 3-2 lead. The Tiger’s response did not come until 15 seconds were left in the game, when junior Molly Contini forced the game into overtime off of a redirected shot from senior forward Jamie McDonnell.

The Tigers played with heart in their final minutes of the season, but St. Lawrence got the best of them when Justine Reyes scored her second goal of the series to end the Tigers season.

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Men’s Swimming and Diving win 31st Ivy League Championship

By David Xin Associate Sports Editor

How do you end a perfect season?

Men’s swimming answered this question by bringing home Princeton’s 31st Ivy League title – the squad’s seventh title in the last eight years. And they did so in record-breaking fashion.

While Princeton came home with the win, they trailed behind their rival, Harvard, for most of the meet. But that only made their victory that much sweeter.

Senior co-captain Teo D’Alessandro set the tone for the squad on day one with a remarkable performance in the 200IM. His time of 1:44.33 broke his own Princeton record while securing his third straight 200IM title. Fellow senior Marco Bove also had a

strong showing, finishing second. The 1-2 would be crucial as the Tigers tried to close the cap between them and Harvard.

The Orange and Black also got impressive performances from the diving board, where junior Nathan Makarewicz claimed third. The Tigers grabbed second in the 200-freestyle relay.

The Princeton squad clinched enough points on the second day to keep pressure on the Crimson. A Princeton record-breaking performance from junior En-Wei Hu-Van Wright in the 100 Backstroke sparked a 1-2 finish. Sophomore Alexander Lewis claimed second in the event. Other notable swims include sophomore Corey Okubo’s second place finish in the 400IM and SeeM.SWIMMING page 5

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Men’s Swimming and Diving beat out Harvard for their seventh Ivy League Title in the last eight years.

MEN’S VOLLEYBALL

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Tigers Extend win streak to Eight

By David Xin Associate Sports Editor

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Men’s Volleyball rebound from a tough loss to Harvard with a crucial win to bring their record to 3-3.

This Friday and Saturday the men’s basketball team hosted Ivy rivals, Columbia and Cornell, for a conference double-header. The Tigers managed to grab two crucial wins from the meetings, beating Columbia 88-83 and Cornell 74-60. This improved Princeton to an eight-game winning streak and a 10-1 record in the Ancient Eight.

The Tigers opened competition on Friday against Columbia. The game was crucial for both teams, as a win for Columbia would tie them with Princeton in the standings.

On the other hand, the Tigers desperately need a win

to keep pressure on Yale, who tops the Ivy standings. And both teams played as if the season was on the line.

After trading shots blow for blow in the first half, both teams were tied at 32 apiece before the Tigers broke the deadlock. Starting a 10-1 run, the Princeton squad ended the half on an emphatic note to take the lead 42-33. The lions responded by cutting the deficit to half early after the break. However, the Tigers returned with a vengeance.

Another huge run, this time 11-0, saw the Princeton squad take a dominant lead, 57-41.

The largest lead of the night occurred after a nice bucket from junior forward Henry See M.B-BALL page 5

Men’s Volleyball Even Conference Record with Win against Sacred Heart Women’s Hockey Loses in Third Game of Quarterfinals WOMEN’S HOCKEY

By Nolan Liu

Associate Sports Editor

The Princeton men’s volleyball team (3-8, 3-3 EIVA) evened up its in-conference record this Saturday with a crucial victory over Sacred Heart University (3-10, 3-3 EIVA).

The Tigers entered this weekend’s match coming off of a tough loss to Harvard (7-6, 4-2 EIVA) the day before. Princeton had initially jumped to a 15-9 lead over the Crimson early in the first set, but wound up dropping the match 23-19 and just fell short in the next set, 30-28, en route to a 3-0 defeat.

With the loss, Princeton faced a 2-3 in-conference record heading into another matchup against Sacred Heart. However, the Tigers, led by senior outside hitters Zach Shaw and Devin Stearns, proved more than equal to the circumstances.

Shaw made the first statement in the opening set, notching six kills with no errors and

scoring critical points late in the match that helped the Tigers pull off a 30-28 nail-biter.

Princeton then went on to take the second set, 25-23, building a 2-0 edge. However, Sacred Heart would not go away and responded in kind, winning the third match 25-22 to leave the outcome of the contest still uncertain as the two teams squared off for a fourth time in Dillon gym.

However, Princeton chose this moment to demonstrate the full potential of their squad.

Shaw and sophomore middle blocker Billy Andrew Jr. went a perfect 3 for 3 on swings, while the Tigers hit an outstanding .333 overall in a convincing 2521 victory. The win sealed the contest and moved Princeton back into a third-place tie (with Sacred Heart and Saint Francis University) in their conference.

Shaw and Stearns played stellar matches and contributed 32 of Princeton’s 52 kills over the course of the day. Junior setter Kurt Thiemann notched

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nine kills and three blocks for the Tigers, Andrew added four kills while also piling on seven blocks and senior middle blocker Alex Schindele-Murayama and sophomore middle blocker Mike Fuerst also had three kills apiece. Additionally, Thiemann played a huge game, racking up 43 assists, seven digs, five blocks and two service aces over the course of the victory.

The match proved to be a critical test for Princeton’s team mid-season, and the volleyball squad more than rose to the occasion. However, the season and its challenges continue into next weekend, as the Tigers take on McKendree University next Friday before facing off against yet another EIVA team: George Mason University. The Patriots (5-10, 1-4 EIVA) will provide Princeton an excellent opportunity to move forward in the conference standings as the team continues its hunt for the EIVA postseason.

By Claire Coughlin staff writer

Despite a very successful season in the Ivy League Conference, the Women’s Hockey Team (22-8-2, 14-6-2 ECAC) lost this past weekend to the St. Lawrence University Saints (1714-6, 9-8-5 ECAC) in the quarterfinals of the Eastern College Athletic Conference tournament.

The first game was a lowscoring event that ended with a 0-1 loss for the Tigers, to which the team responded with a 4-3 win in the second.

Their second-game win forced a third game, in which the Tigers fought hard but lost in a battle that ended in a score of 3-4. Both the Saints and the Tigers went scoreless in the first two quarters of the first game.

Stat of the Day

61.9 percent The men’s basketball team shot 61.9 percent from beyond the arc in their win over Columbia.

The only goal of the game was a bouncing shot from St. Lawrence’s Kirsten Padalis at the 10:12 mark of the third quarter.

Freshman goaltender Grace Harrison of the Saints also made 29 saves, which marked her first career shutout. In the second game of the quarterfinals series, Saints forward Justine Reyes made the first goal of the game 7:45 into the first period, assisted by seniors Jenna Mar and Kailee Heidersbach. A potential second shutout then looked possible when Amanda Boulier scored St. Lawrence’s second goal with about eight minutes left until halftime. However, Princeton’s freshman defensemen Stephanie Sucharda responded two minutes later with a goal from the right to cut the See W. HOCKEY page 5

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