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Quadrangle Club president Daniel Pallares Bello ’20 hopes that low-income students will no longer face financial obstacles to club membership.

Quad changes financial aid policy for members By Yael Marans Contributor

Quadrangle Club president Daniel Pallares Bello ’20 recently announced that the club will now guarantee that students on full financial aid will not need to pay any out-ofpocket costs for membership. Pallares Bello hopes that lowincome students will no longer face financial obstacles to club membership. “This year, we have completely upgraded the financial-aid policy to be centered around the student,” Pallares Bello explained over email. “We have shifted to a no out-ofpocket cost policy for students on full financial aid.” Currently, juniors and seniors on full financial aid re-

ceive a certain sum of money from the University to fund their board expenses. Quad pledges to pay the difference between full-year membership dues and these university grants to make membership possible for all upperclass students. Sophomore members on full financial aid will receive $322.50 as a scholarship from the club and will have the option of dropping down from the University’s unlimited meal plan to the Block 190-meal plan. Doing so will allow sophomores to be refunded $277.50 by the University, covering the remaining costs of the $600 sophomore membership dues. “On Dec. 1, I had my first meeting with the graduate board and got approval for a

no out-of-pocket costs policy for full-year dues for students on full financial aid,” Pallares Bello wrote. “On Jan. 12, the board approved my proposal to extend the policy to sophomore dues as well.” Pallares Bello ran for club president on a platform of access and inclusion. The changes to the financial aid system realize his goal of making club membership more affordable. “As someone on full financial aid, I understand how difficult it can be to join an eating club,” Pallares Bello wrote. “Many of us don’t have the $600 to pay a club our sophomore year.” Other club members recognize the significance of the changes to the financial-aid See QUAD page 2

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Cory Booker, the first African-American Senator from New Jersey, has announced his run for president, joining the already-crowded field of Democratic hopefuls.

NJ Senator Cory Booker announces presidential bid By Ben Ball Head News Editor

On Friday, Feb. 1, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker announced he is running for president, becoming the fourth Democratic senator to join the crowded 2020 field. A video Booker released Friday morning made the announcement official, emphasizing collective action on behalf of the American people. “Together, we will channel our common pain back into our common purpose,” Booker said in the video.

At 49, Booker is the youngest Senator to announce a bid for the presidency so far. Booker is the first African-American Senator from New Jersey. Booker also took to Twitter to make the announcement, encouraging his followers to unite with people around shared values. When one Twitter user informed Booker that Trump would “crush [his] soul,” Booker responded, “My soul belongs to God. I fear no man.” The University selected BookSee BOOKER page 2

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Jerome Powell presents the Monetary Policy Report to the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

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On Jan. 17, the University Office of Communications announced that the renovations for Nassau Hall’s clock tower had been completed in December, three months ahead of schedule. The scaffolding, which has obstructed the

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building since last June, has finally been removed to reveal a brand new cupola adorned with refurbished clocks and a new weather vane. The project included replating the cupola’s rusted copper coat and rehabilitated the old decaying clocks. According to the Communications announcement, this

Senior columnist Liam O’Connor comments on academic departments’ representation in the eating clubs, while Guest contributor Sean Fraga argues that Princeton needs new campus monuments. PAGE 4

was the first major renovation to the clock tower in nearly 60 years. Assistant Facilities director of special projects Alexis Mutschler noted that the most visible change is the copper dome’s new brown color, which sharply differs from the previous dome’s bluish green. “It will take about 20 years to See NASSAU page 3

Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell ’75 has recently found himself embroiled in a controversy surrounding federal interest rates with President Donald Trump. The two men have sparred pointedly on the topic, largely differing in their approaches to sustaining growth in an economy that is strong but

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not immune to a slowdown in 2019. Powell, who has had experience in private law, banking, and the Treasury Department, has demonstrated a more cautious approach to monetary policy. Powell has repeatedly acknowledged the promising trend of economic growth in the U.S. over the past few years but has also warned of some negaSee POWELL page 3

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er to be Class Day speaker for the Class of 2018. At the event, Booker instructed graduates on the importance of service, mentorship, and confidence. “Walk into every room, go to every place, and embrace the world with your spirit and your truth,” Booker said to the grad-

uates. “If you do that, if you live that way, if you strut like you are powerful then I promise you that generations yet unborn will know of your light and your love.” Booker is a Rhodes Scholar who studied U.S. history at the University of Oxford. Afterwards, he received a J.D. at Yale Law School in 1997. Booker has been in the Senate since his election in 2013 and currently

sits on the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on the Judiciary, the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, and the Committee on the Environment and Public Works. Prior to his Senate career, Booker served as a member of Newark’s city council. Beginning in 2006 and up until his election to the U.S. Senate, he served as mayor of Newark.

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system. They expressed pride in the fact that Quad continues to strive toward diversity and inclusion. “I hope that the changes will help make Quad more diverse,” wrote Quad member Henry

Ando ’20. “The goal is for everyone to feel welcome, and I think this is a step in the right direction.” Quad member Gabriella Pereira Feron ’19 hopes that other clubs will follow Quad’s example and take similar steps toward expanding their financial aid. “Hopefully this will moti-

vate other clubs to also become more accessible for students of all backgrounds,” Pereira Feron wrote. “I know several students who wanted to but did not join an eating club — or were not able to continue their membership — because it would be a financial hardship for their families.”

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turn the turquoise-colored patina that we grew accustomed to seeing,” Mutschler said in the announcement. The project finished three months ahead of schedule;

Facilities originally predicted that both the copper cupola and the clock face would be completely restored in March. Mutschler credited the early completion to “the better-thanexpected condition of some of the structure, scaffolding, and netting that allowed work to continue safely throughout

the very wet summer and fall and the contractor’s decision to work many weekends during the long days of summer.” In addition to the cupola and clock faces, Facilities also replaced the weather vane on top of the structure with a new one that rotates in the wind. According to the announce-

ment, the project used 10,000 pounds of copper to replate the dome. Massimino Building Corp. of Newtown, Pennsylvania, managed construction for the renovation project. In addition, the University hired several local businesses for specific tasks, such as making new clock

faces, painting gold leaf time marks, reslating the roof, and replacing the weather vane. The Office of Communications did not disclose the project’s total costs.

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tive signs, particularly from abroad. At a press conference on Jan. 30, Powell pointed to “cross-currents” and “conflicting signals” in China and Europe, issues that may have arisen in the wake of Brexit and the partial government shutdown in the U.S. Powell’s urge for a “patient, wait-and-see” approach to monetary policy is at odds with the President’s hastier plan of action. The Fed’s decision on Dec. 19 to raise interest rates for the fourth time last year, this time from 2.25 to 2.5 percent, drew sharp criticism from the president. The federal interest rate plays a significant role in the growth of an economy. While lowering interest rates can spark more spending and risk-taking, a decision to increase the rate could

suggest that the economy is growing too fast, leading to dangerous levels of inflation. President Trump, who has lauded recent job growth and unemployment numbers, has expressed strong confidence in the U.S. economy and advocated for lower interest rates to keep it growing. He has called rate increases “foolish” and has asserted that the Fed has gone “crazy.” He has also repeatedly tweeted out his frustration with the central bank, exhorting the Federal Reserve to “feel the market” instead of going by “meaningless numbers.” On Nov. 27, the president told The Washington Post in an interview that he was “not even a little bit happy” with his selection of Powell. Bloomberg reported on Dec. 21 that Trump was considering firing Powell over their disagreement. Economics professor and former Federal Reserve vice-chair-

man Alan Blinder ’67 told The Daily Princetonian that the controversy between the two men stems from a more fundamental difference between them. “Powell thinks before he speaks, and Trump speaks before he thinks,” Blinder said. The famed economist defended Powell’s decision-making and told the ‘Prince’ that “Trump’s approach goes against what almost all economists would think is sound behavior.” “The Fed has been, for years and years, pressing firmly on the accelerator to get the economy moving, and all Powell has done so far is remove the foot from the accelerator,” Blinder said. “It still is on the accelerator, but lightly.” “Trump wants the economy to roar,” Blinder said. “But you don’t want it growing too fast.” In addition, Blinder cited the below four percent unemployment figure that Trump has boasted about. In a society with “high resource utilization such

as ours,” uncontrolled economic growth can lead to inflation, he warned. Blinder also noted that Trump’s background in real estate may be a major driver of his position. “Real estate developers always want interest rates to be low, since they are heavy borrowers,” Blinder noted. The president’s forceful stance on the issue has raised numerous questions pertaining to the Federal Reserve’s autonomy. “Presidents since Bill Clinton have understood and respected the independence of the Fed,” Blinder emphasized. “And even if they privately fumed about the Fed raising interest rates, as I saw Bill Clinton do, they didn’t go public with it. They respected the independence of the Fed.” Though presidents appoint members to the Federal Reserve, it tends to make decisions without input from the president, current political battles, or other

agencies. For this reason, Blinder believes that it is probably the most independent federal department. Powell’s rhetoric surrounding this point confirms the Federal Reserve’s independence. “We are absolutely committed to serving the public in a nonpartisan, professional way, in a way that communicates what we’re doing, why we’re doing it, as clearly as possible,” Powell said at a Dallas Federal Reserve event in November. Powell has emphasized that this independence will allow the Federal Reserve to fill its singular goal: “to sustain the economic expansion, with a strong job market and stable prices, for the benefit of the American people,” as he outlined in the Jan. 30 press conference. Jerome Powell did not respond to request for comment from the ‘Prince’ by the time of publication.

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A knowledge of wealth in Princeton’s departments

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Liam O’Connor

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ophomores make two important decisions during their spring semester. They choose their eating club and their concentration. Statistics derived from Tigerbook, the University meal exchange website, and the Office of the Registrar indicate that socioeconomic status may affect both decisions. Students in eating clubs whose members came from towns with higher median household incomes were overrepresented in humanities and social- science departments, while those in eating clubs whose members hail from towns with lower median household incomes were overrepresented in the sciences. The data shows not only that students of certain concentrations dominate particular eating clubs but also that members of certain eating clubs dominate entire departments — including some of Princeton’s largest departments. Bicker club members compose 48–59 percent of politics, history, economics, and the Wilson School (WWS) concentrators, despite representing just 39 percent of upperclass students overall. But 20 percent or less of physics, chemistry, and mathematics concentrators are in those clubs. Sign-in club members compose 31–41 percent of students in the chemistry, mathematics, and Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE) departments. 20 percent of upperclass students are in nonselective clubs. They are 15 percent or less of politics, sociology, and WWS concentrators. I previously reported that American Bicker club members are from towns with median household incomes on average $2,832 greater than those of sign-in club members. Independent and residential

college members are highly represented in physics, geosciences, and comparative literature. They are least represented in economics, history, psychology, and Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE). A few clubs drive most of these differences. Collectively, Ivy Club, Tiger Inn (T.I.), Cannon Dial Elm Club, and University Cottage Club have 40 percent of all WWS concentrators but only a quarter of upperclass students. Cannon, T.I., and Cottage have around 35 percent of all history and economics concentrators. Together, the clubs represent 19 percent of juniors and seniors. A student is twice as likely to find an Ivy or Terrace F. Club member in the philosophy or art and archaeology departments as elsewhere on campus. The clubs are demographically similar in terms of the average wealth of members’ hometowns and the percentage who come from major U.S. cities. The Colonial Club, Quadrangle Club, and Princeton Charter Club have 21 percent of chemistry concentrators and just nine percent of the Classes of 2019 and 2020. Colonial and Cloister Inn are doubly represented in ORFE. Terrace and Colonial members compose a third of mathematics concentrators in spite of being a tenth of upperclassmen. Implications I interpret these results to show that socioeconomic status is a possible factor in students’ decision to join departments. Ten years ago, the Undergraduate Student Government’s (USG) COMBO survey reached a similar conclusion. Self-identified lower-income students were more than twice as likely as upper-income students to say that “expected financial prospects” were a significant reason for choosing a concentration. On a national level, parents’ income is highest for students in the humanities, according to a study by the National Center for Education Statistics. Over in the United Kingdom, researchers found that young adults with elite surnames dispropor-

tionately flock to those same fields. Aside from future jobs, students coming from an average public high school may avoid niche subjects because they don’t have prior exposure to them. Someone going to a wellfunded private boarding school has ample opportunity to delve into Latin or sociology as opposed to a person in a struggling high school that cuts classes to focus on math and English. Faculty and administrators should be concerned. As a liberal arts school, a well-rounded education is supposed to be more important than pre-professional development. Academic elitism is another concern. If certain fields of study become too gentrified, students from modest backgrounds will be deterred from exploring them. One could reject my interpretation on the basis that there’s allegedly a lot of socioeconomic diversity among eating clubs’ members. Confounding variables could be responsible for the patterns. And it’s true that many of the departments may be too small to reach any substantive conclusions. But at the very minimum, this data also anecdotally shows how various groups of students prioritize socialization. Each club has different informal expectations on when and how often members attend events. Ivy Tuesdays and Cottage’s Sunday Fundays wouldn’t be possible if more of their members were in departments that have strict problem set deadlines at the start of each week. Alternatively, Charter’s parties wouldn’t be constrained to Fridays had its members pursued concentrations with open-ended homework assignments. * * * The Rule of Ten While I was crunching the data for the departments, I stumbled upon some statistics that highlight challenges on the Street. Based on the meal exchange website roster, 59 percent of upperclass students are currently members of eating clubs, which

is far below the commonly cited statistic that 75 percent are in them. Bicker club members outnumber sign-in club members by a ratio of 2:1. A quarter of upperclass students are independent, and 16 percent are on a residential college meal plan. I calculated retention rates. The number of sophomores who had joined sign-in clubs by the end of February 2018 wasn’t available. To work around that, I created a projection based on the total who signed in between Bicker week and the month’s end in 2017. Fall admissions also aren’t included, which may lower the numbers below the true rates by a few percent. In the past two years, I estimate that sign-in clubs lost 30 percent of their members compared to only three percent for Bicker clubs, a tenfold difference. Interclub Council President Hannah Paynter ’19 declined to comment. A variety of hypotheses could explain this trend. Signin members generally come from lower socioeconomic levels than Bicker members, so the financial benefits of becoming independent may pull them away. Maybe science departments’ workloads make them ditch their social lives for lab work. Or perhaps students are less loyal to un-exclusive clubs. “One of the bigger concerns of mine is that the U. community is kind of hypocritical,” past ICC President Christopher Yu ’17 previously told a ‘Prince’ reporter. “We still buy into this system — whether this system is exclusivity, or selectiveness, or wanting to be part of social groups that we find are similar to us.” In any case, sophomores should breathe a sigh of relief after reading this data. They demonstrate that their dining decision in the spring is not permanent, and upperclass life is a lot more open than originally thought. Liam O’Connor is a junior geosciences major from Wyoming, Del. He can be reached at lpo@princeton.edu.

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Princeton needs new campus monuments Sean Fraga

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f Princeton’s campus were a book, what stories would a visitor read in its stones? Walking through FitzRandolph Gate, a visitor might notice the class stones that ring the base of Nassau Hall, evidence of the thousands of graduates Princeton has sent into the world. Or a visitor might encounter the statue of John Witherspoon, Princeton’s sixth president and an advocate for American independence, who stands as proof of the University’s age and long history. Passing by the Wilson School, our visitor might marvel at the University’s global importance and its connections to centers of power. Together, campus statues, building names, and public art tell Princeton’s story today. This story is incomplete. The astute visitor would realize that important parts of Princeton’s history are not reflected in its campus, as they often are at

other universities. Despite the long history of women at Princeton, for example, there are few — if any — markers recognizing their presence and contributions. (In contrast, Yale’s monument to co-education, the Women’s Table, has place of pride outside its central library.) There are no monuments recognizing that Princeton occupies the unceded territory of the Lenape people or honoring the University’s first Native students. (Harvard mounted such a plaque nearly twenty-five years ago.) There are few references on campus to Princeton’s historical dependence on the labor of enslaved people. (Brown installed a large sculpture recognizing its connection to the trans-Atlantic slave trade in 2014, near the oldest building on its campus.) Taken together, Princeton’s campus monuments aren’t truly representative of the University’s past, nor do they reflect the diversity of its student body today. But unlike a printed book, Princeton’s campus is open to

revision by those who know it best: its students. FitzRandolph Gate sat closed and locked for the first 65 years of its existence, opened only for special occasions, until the Class of 1970 asked that it be permanently opened, “as a symbol of the University’s openness to the local and worldwide community.” Those students unlocked the gates to let in the world, and now that openness is a part of Princeton’s story. Today, some of the more notable gaps in the story told by Princeton’s campus are being slowly filled in. Student researchers for the Princeton & Slavery Project have written thousands of pages about the University’s ties to slavery. The University relied on their work to name a new garden near Firestone Library after Betsey Stockton, and to name the eastern arch of East Pyne Hall after James Collins “Jimmy” Johnson. Stockton, an enslaved woman in the home of Princeton president Ashbel Green, founded a church and school in Princeton after gaining her freedom, while Johnson

ran away from enslavement in Maryland and worked on campus for more than 60 years. A new series of walking tours, (In)Visible Princeton, allows visitors to explore lesserknown parts of the University’s history through their phones. And this semester, Princeton will unveil a new monument near the Wilson School that explicitly grapples with Wilson’s legacy of racism. As we learn more about the University’s history, we can write other stories, previously hidden or untold, into Princeton’s campus. Now is the time to keep writing. In the past several years, national conversations about history, memory, and place have come home to Princeton. In 2015, the Black Justice League occupied Nassau Hall for thirty-three hours, demanding that the University re-assess Woodrow Wilson’s legacy on campus, especially his presence in building names and public art. Students recently launched the Princeton Reconstruction Project, calling for “an intentional pivot from [Princeton’s] roots as a White supremacist institu-

tion to one that reflects the current values it espouses.” The question of whose history Princeton’s built environment reflects is central to these debates. Indeed, the recent rally planned by a small group of racist white supremacists (which was to take place in Palmer Square, an African-American neighborhood destroyed by white planners in the 1930s) shows how stories about the past continue to shape the present. Adding new monuments to Princeton can make the stories this campus tells more accurate, more reflective, and more inclusive. There are stories in Princeton’s stones. Together, we can learn to read them — and to write our own. Sean Fraga holds a Ph.D. in History from Princeton and is a lecturer in the History Department. He teaches HIS 451, “Writing about Cities: Place and Memory,” in which students are developing proposals for new campus monuments.

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Alarie scores program record 45 in women’s basketball’s win over Columbia By Nancy Tran Contributor

Junior forward Bella Alarie’s 45-point performance in Friday afternoon’s win over Columbia (5–12 overall, 1–3 Ivy League) puts her in impressive company. She set the women’s basketball program record for points and became the second player in Princeton basketball history to score at least that many. The other? Bill Bradley ’65. On top of that, Alarie made 20 field goals during the game, an Ivy singlegame record, and broke the Princeton record for career blocks, previously held by Ellen DeVoe ’86. Led by Alarie, Princeton (10–8, 2–1) defeated Columbia 79–64 in its second Ivy League game of the season. Princeton made out with a field goal percentage of 45.3 to solidify the win over the Lions, who only managed a percentage of 37.1. After a win Saturday over Cornell (7–8, 1–3), the Tigers are moving into the throes of the Ivy League matches with a winning conference record and the adrenaline of success. Asked after the Columbia game what it felt like to play knowing that her team and coach were rooting for a record-achieving performance, Alarie said she tried

to keep her mind away from her point total. “I might glance every once in a while,” she said. “I don’t like to know how many points I have because I don’t want that to be my main focus.”

Focusing on the game is something that Alarie has improved upon throughout her years on the team. Alarie and head coach Courtney Banghart agreed that a problem Alarie faced as an underclass player was

missing a shot and getting down on herself. With her performance Friday, there is no doubt that the junior forward now has plenty of confidence in her abilities. While Alarie’s individual performance took center-

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stage, Princeton also received valuable contributions from the rest of the team. Banghart said that the team had sections in practice in which no one was allowed to shoot until Alarie touched the ball, putting pressure on Alarie to be more assertive and forcing her teammates to find her for open shots. The Tigers also greatly benefited from sophomore guard Carlie Littlefield’s 18 points, along with seven points from senior guard Gabrielle Rush and four points from sophomore forward Sydney Boyer. “My teammates found me where I could score,” Alarie said. “I couldn’t have done it without my teammates.” Alarie gave another stellar performance the next night, with 21 points and 10 rebounds in a commanding 7546 win over Cornell on their campus, in Ithaca. First-year guard Lexi Weger scored 13 points off the bench, and Princeton’s bench contributed an additional 26 points. The wins over Columbia and Cornell set the team up nicely for the rest of their season as they continue the Ivy League schedule. The Tigers will next play Yale this Friday at 6 p.m. in Jadwin Gymnasium.

Junior forward Bella Alarie recorded 45 points on 20 field goals in Princeton’s win over Columbia in New York City Friday night.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Program record unbeaten streak ends at 20 for women’s hockey By Owen Tedford Senior Staff Writer

This weekend, the No. 5 ranked women’s hockey team (14–3–5 overall, 12–1–3 ECAC) had its unbeaten streak broken at 20 games with a loss to No. 4 Clarkson (13–3–0, 22–5–1). The streak was the longest in program history and the longest in the nation this season. Princeton, which hadn’t lost since October, still leads the ECAC because of its win over Cornell, though both have 27 points. Clarkson is in third with 26 followed by Colgate in fourth with 22, all through 16 games. On Friday night, the Tigers hosted St. Lawrence (8– 6–2, 13–12–3) in a game that had one of the best finishes of the year with first-year forward Maggie Connors scoring the game-winning goal with 3.2 seconds left. After the Saints scored first, Princeton responded with two goals to take a 2–1 lead at the end of the first period. Connors scored the first goal for the Tigers, and senior forward Keiko DeClerck scored her first goal of the year to give Princeton the lead. A scoreless second period sent the Tigers to the third period leading 2–1 still. The

Saints tied the game first with 6:26 left at two before Princeton took the lead after a goal from first-year forward Sarah Fillier with 3:20 left. Unfortunately for the Tigers, St. Lawrence was able to net the equalizer with an extra attacker after pulling its goalie with 1:21 left. In overtime, the pressure all came from Princeton, but it

did not look like it would be able to net a goal until Connors’ game winner. Junior goalie Steph Neatby made 38 saves in a dominant performance for the Tigers, improving her record to 3–0–1. On Saturday, against the defending national champions, Princeton was able to outshoot Clarkson 38–20 but was just unable to translate

that pressure into goals. The Golden Knights scored first, striking 36 seconds into the game. The Tigers responded quickly behind a goal from sophomore forward Shannon Griffin to tie the game at 1. Before the first period was done, Clarkson netted a second goal to take the lead for good, but it was reviewed for a potential high stick

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Sophomore forward Shannon Griffin fights for a puck against Clarkson.

and held up. The Golden Knights extended their lead in the second period to 3–1, and the Tigers were never able to translate their offensive pressure into goals in the second or third period. Princeton’s powerplay unit, to date one of the best in the country, was unable to convert on any of its power play attempts, going 0–4. Sophomore goalie Rachel McQuigge was in net and made 17 saves on 20 shots. Next weekend, the Tigers will look to clinch the Ivy League title with a win Friday night against Brown. With four games left in the season, the ECAC regularseason championship is still up for grabs with six games left for all of the teams. Princeton will also have another game against Clarkson in the last weekend of the season that could have big implications for determining the regular-season champion. Another game that the Tigers will keep an eye on this weekend will be the Friday night match-up between Cornell and Clarkson, a game that Cornell won earlier this season 3–1. Friday night’s game is in Providence at 6:00 p.m., and on Saturday Princeton will play Yale in New Haven at 3:00 p.m.

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