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Students respond to Perry’s arrest By Jessica Li news editor and
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In response to African American Studies Professor Imany Perry’s arrest on Saturday, some University students are collecting stories from students, alumni, staff and faculty who have had experiences plagued by racism with the Princeton police department, according to Asanni York ’17. York said that this effort has the aim of urging the University to issue a statement supporting Perry, he said. He explained that the University, which he noted prides itself on diversity and inclusion, needs to look at the fact that though Perry is a black woman with a dis-
tinguished background, she still experiences the troubles that face other black women at the hands of police brutality and at the hand of a police state. “The police department is already threatening Professor Perry and the University needs to stand in solidarity with her,” York said. York added that the students are issuing statements on Facebook, sending emails to campus listservs and tweeting to raise awareness. Perry was arrested on Saturday, Feb. 6 for driving while suspended, according to Lieutenant Jonathan Bucchere, a member of the Support Services Division at the Princeton Police Department. Perry declined to comment. Bucchere explained that Perry was stopped for speeding on See ARREST page 3
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PPPL researchers receive grant to use supercomputer for simulations By Abhiram Karrupur staff writer
Researchers from the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory won a grant to use 80 million processor hours on the nation’s fastest supercomputer to conduct simulations of various phenomena. The researchers include University Astrophysical Sciences Professor Amitava Bhattacharjee GS ’81, PPPL physicist William Fox, University research scholar Yi-Min Huang and PPPL graduate student Jonathan Ng. In addition to the PPPL team, University Astrophysical Sciences Professor James Stone also won 47 million processor hours from the INCITE grant to pursue a project titled “Magnetohydrodynamic Models of Accretion Including Radiation Transport,” and Geology Professor Jeroen Tromp GS ’90 GS ’92 received 80 million processor hours from the INCITE grant to pursue a project titled “Global Adjoint Tomography.”
Bhattacharjee said that he plans to use the supercomputer to conduct simulations of highenergy-density plasmas. He explained that plasma is the fourth state of matter consisting of freely-moving electrons and protons and said that some of these highenergy-density plasmas, created in the laboratory, have the unique property of having self-generating large magnetic fields. “These magnetic fields are a major source of energy,” Bhattacharjee said. Fox added that since plasmas possess electrical and magnetic properties, it is possible to control and confine the behavior of the plasmas by modifying the surrounding electrical and magnetic fields. He noted that such plasmas comprise some large astrophysical objects. He added that such plasmas are very important for controlled nuclear fusion research since they can generate large amounts of energy from seawater that can be used as an
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alternative source of power. Bhattacharjee explained that these plasmas have been created in the laboratory, specifically at the University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics and the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. “Our goal in the experiment is to understand the processes that might go on in astrophysical objects,” Bhattacharjee said. “Our ability to simulate them on the computer will give us confidence in understanding the laboratory experiments and how these processes will play out in the context of the universe.” “Specifically, we’re trying to understand what is the environment in the plasma around the Earth, and how does the Earth interact with the wind of plasma blowing from the sun?” Fox said. He noted that solar flares are very relevant today, since a large solar flare has the potential to See PLASMA page 2
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COS 126 ratings improve after switching to online lectures By Jessica Li News Editor
After traditional, in-class lectures were replaced by ones held online, lecture ratings for COS 126: General Computer Science improved from 3.3 to 3.8, according to Professor of Computer Science and COS 126 course head Robert Sedgewick. COS 126 is the largest course in the University by annual enrollment, with 318 students having completed it in the fall semester and 405 students currently enrolled for the spring semester, according to the Office of the Registrar. COS 126 lectures, coined as ‘flipped lectures,’ have been offered exclusively online since this past fall semester, according to
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Sedgewick. He also noted that COS 126 achieved an overall course rating of 4.3 on a 5.0 scale, the highest recorded rating in the history of the course. More than 80 percent of surveyed COS 126 graduates from this past fall semester expressed positive opinions about online lectures and academic performance remained consistent after the transition to flipped lectures, according to Sedgewick. He added that he became keenly convinced that ‘flipped’ lectures were better for students than traditional lectures held in class. For anyone who has studied pedagogy, it is known that traditional lectures aren’t ideal, Sedgewick explained. These types of lectures often make a passive See RATING page 3
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Any kind of romantic relationship between members of the University where one has supervisory status or direct power over the other is forbidden under the revised University policy on faculty-student relationships, even if the relationship is consensual, according to Dean of the Faculty Deborah Prentice. Revisions to “Rules and Procedures of the Faculty” and the corresponding section of “Rights, Rules, Responsibilities” were approved at the faculty meeting in December. According to Prentice, the Faculty Advisory Committee on
Policy drafted the changes at the recommendation of a committee of faculty formed in the fall of 2014 to address sexual misconduct policies at the University. She also noted that peer institutions such as Harvard put out new policies in the last academic year and that the decision to make changes to the University’s policy on consensual relationships was not a response to any incidents or violations at the University but rather in response to peer institutions changing their policies. Dean of the College Jill Dolan, who also served on the FACP that drafted the policy changes, deferred comment to Dean Prentice. See FACULTY page 2
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Dean of the Graduate School Sanjeev Kulkarni, who was also involved on the committee that drafted the changes, declined to comment. Prentice noted that the policy’s former language was vague and ambiguous. “We thought that it needed greater clarity than it had about what kinds of activities were and were not okay,” she said. The former language in “Rules and Procedures of the Faculty” stated that consensual sexual relationships between students and faculty members are a serious violation of the faculty member’s professional responsibility to the student. The policy also stated that romantic
or sexual relationships involving teachers and students are a serious violation of University and professional standards as well as possible state and federal anti-discrimination statutes. The previous policy stated: “When a sexual or romantic relationship involves individuals in a teacher-student relationship (e.g. being directly or indirectly taught, supervised, or evaluated) or involves any element of coercion, harassment, bargaining for educational favors, or the like, it is a clear and most serious violation of both University and professional standards, as well as a potential violation of state and federal antidiscrimination statutes.” The policy’s new language defines faculty members as “tenured, tenure-track faculty, instructors, and lecturers,” and undergradu-
ate students as “those matriculating at Princeton as well as those from other institutions who come to Princeton for pre-bac, visiting, summer, and post-bac programs.” It says that “no faculty member, researcher, graduate student, visiting student or undergraduate course assistant shall initiate or engage in a romantic or sexual behavior with any student, including a graduate student or DCE student, who is enrolled in a course taught by that individual or otherwise subject to that individual’s academic supervision or evaluation.” Supervision includes “teaching, advising, supervising research, supervising teaching or grading, and serving as Departmental Representative or DGC of the student’s academic program” and evaluation includes “assigning grades, evaluating degree progress, serving as a
committee member, and providing letters of reference.” The new language introduces a discussion of power dynamics between members of different University statuses, describing relationships between faculty members and those for whom they have a professional responsibility as inherently problematic. The first paragraph of the policy notes that professional responsibility comes with power and that it is “incumbent on faculty members not to abuse, nor seem to abuse, the power with which they are entrusted.” Prentice noted that the more general language was designed to encourage the community to be sensitive to the power dynamics that exist in the different types of relationships that exist at the University. “The broader discussion about the power dynamic themselves, more broadly, were really intended to apply — again more broadly— to relationships where there’s not necessarily a direct reporting line or anything like that, but nonetheless a power dynamic can influence even relationships where there’s not a direct reporting line,” she explained. Colleen O’Gorman ’17, Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education Peer President, noted that power dynamics exist in many forms of relationships at the University, citing extracurricular groups where student leaders interview those applying to join the organization as an example. She said that she believes it is important to consider what factors can impact people’s ability to consent in relationships. “I’m not saying someone can’t consent if they’re in some kind of differential power dynamic; I just think that there are other factors that people need to think about,” she said, noting that there can be coercion when people are on un-
even playing fields. The policy states that relationships require “heightened awareness” to the power asymmetries that exist between, for example, faculty members and graduate students or individuals subject to another individual’s academic evaluation or supervision. Prentice added that this language is also meant to address those such as staff in the residential colleges or coaches, members of the community who have relationships with students where there is a power dynamic that needs to be taken into account. O’Gorman added that members of SHARE talk about unhealthy relationships and the role of power dynamics, including how structural power impacts people’s relationships and how racism, sexism, classism, and other forms of oppression can make people more vulnerable to abuse. “Those kinds of power dynamics, if you can imagine them on a more micro-level, you can see how, not that abuse is bound to happen in those kinds of power differentials, but people are more vulnerable if they’re not as empowered as the other person in the relationship,” she added. In terms of enforcing the policy, Prentice noted that the policy is designed both to guide people toward appropriate behavior and to specify what constitutes a violation. She said that the clearer, broader language will allow people to ask the right questions ahead of time as to what constitutes appropriate behavior. “In the case of violation, this obviously gives guidance to the review board that consider questions of a violation when a charge is made,” She added. Last week, Jason Lieb, a former University professor, resigned from his post at the University of Chicago after allegations of sexual misconduct with a graduate student.
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knock out communication satellites and GPS satellites. Understanding this phenomenon can help researchers prevent disruptions to Earth’s equipment. Another research interest involves finding out where the highest energy particles in the universe, called cosmic rays, get their energy from. Fox said that the rays have energies billions of times larger than particles used in accelerators on Earth. In order to use the supercomputer, researchers must be allotted time in the form of processor hours. Bhattacharjee’s group won 35 million processor hours from the INCITE (Innovative and Novel Impact on Computational Theory and Experiment) program and 45 million processor hours from the Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) Advanced Scientific Computing Research Leadership Computing Challenge program. Both of these grants are awarded by the United States Department of Energy’s Office of Science. A processor hour is an hour when a CPU of the computer takes to process a single program. INCITE Program Manager Judy Hill said they receive applications from professors, government researchers and industry researchers from around the world to obtain processor time on the supercomputer. She noted that the purpose of using the computer does not have to relate to the Department of Energy’s mission. “The competition to use the computer is targeted at any open science problem that can efficiently use the computing resources that we have,” she said. The supercomputer that will be used by Bhattacharjee’s group is the Titan Cray XK7 located in Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. The Titan computer is the nation’s fastest supercomputer. Hill noted that the proposals they receive are judged primarily on whether they will have the highest scientific impact in their
fields and secondarily on whether they will efficiently use the computer. She noted that it is very difficult to obtain time in the INCITE program, since only 55 to 60 projects are granted access each year. “We want projects that utilize a substantial fraction of the machine,” Hill said. All prospective users must submit a 15-page proposal to the INCITE program that describes the significance of the research, the importance it has to the general public and the specific simulations the researchers plan to run. Hill noted that researchers can ask for discretionary time, on the order of a few million processor hours, to demonstrate their simulations. One process Bhattacharjee and his collaborators hope to simulate on the computer is magnetic reconnection, which is when magnetic field lines break and reconnect, resulting in a liberation of energy in the form of highly energetic particles. “The magnetic field lines can be thought of as rubber strings,” he said. “They break and reconnect and release a lot of energy that shows up in particles and heat.” Bhattacharjee noted that researchers at the PPPL have made important discoveries in this field in the last couple of years. He explained that this research explains new phenomena observed in the universe. Other processes Bhattacharjee hopes to run include the “Biermann battery,” which is the creation of a large magnetic field with a laser in a material that has little or almost no magnetic field, and Weibel instabilities. He explained that he and his team require large amounts of time because he plans to run the processes in both two and three dimensions and that the objects being simulated are very large. “Using up all of the 80 million processor hours will not be hard,” Bhattacharjee said. “Some of it will be spent on massive or heroic simulations, but building up to that will be many small simulations that will make sure everything is working right.”
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environment for students, he continued. Sedgewick noted that lectures aren’t an ideal means of teaching because they are passive for students, who often do not pay as much attention during lectures as they should. Students have to choose to watch the lectures and they have full control of the speed and other elements that contribute to an active learning environment, Sedgewick said. He also noted that in the past semester he has held class meetings during the scheduled lecture times to cover non-lecture material that allowed for much greater personal interactions with students. In the University’s Strategic Planning document released last week, a call was made for increased utilization of online resources and online teaching. According to Sedgewick, one of the biggest challenges for ‘flipped’ lectures to be widely implemented by other faculty lies in the sheer effort required to produce quality material. Sedgewick explained that he put in 50 to 100 hours per one hour of video lecture and also used a diverse array of software that faculty who are used to traditional classroom settings may not be familiar with. Sedgewick noted that for students who may be concerned that their tuition is shortchanged as traditional lectures are phased out, their contributions currently support an expansive body of staff who give individualized attention. “What you pay for at Princeton is personal attention — the ten plus graduate students preceptors, the 42 graders who comment on your code, the Lewis Lab TA’s and the 20 office hours per week,” Sedgewick said. Multiple COS 126 graduate preceptors expressed positive feelings toward ‘flipped lectures,’ stating that having a unified resource that’s readily accessible lessened their workload. “We have 400 students, some of them are in sports, some of them get sick, some of them have family vacations in the middle of the semester,” COS 126 head preceptor
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Dan Leyzberg, lecturer in computer science, said. Before the flipped lecture style, if a student missed a lecture, the only resources they had were PowerPoint slides, he added. Leyzberg said that students had to find time to meet with preceptors in order to catch up on missed material. “That’s a lot of work to spread out among preceptors and that’s not a great use of our time,” Leyzberg added. Another preceptor Jeremie Lumbroso, lecturer in computer science, who previously taught a computer science course at the University of Vancouver, recalled having to develop an entire course for a traditional lecture class. Lectures are the main vehicle for teaching at many peer institutions, as they do not have the resources to provide for individualized attention, Lumbroso said. Lumbroso also noted that in a course-wide survey, the majority of students enrolled in COS 126 said that they had previously experienced an online course. Sedgewick said that though there were many arguments against flipping lectures, such as the possibility that students won’t watch the lectures, come to meetings, or that preceptors will be ‘reteaching’ the course, there were no such problems last semester. He explained that each video was viewed 508 times by a class of over 300 students. “It’s something controversial in the abstract . . . we have the best and biggest class in Princeton and we are embracing technology,” Sedgewick said. Adeniji Ogunlana ’19, who took COS 126 last semester, said he found the ‘flipped lectures’ more conducive to learning than a traditional setting. “The ability to change the speed of and relay the videos were most useful for me. The ‘flipped’ style allowed me to go through things I already had a bit of knowledge about much more quickly than I would have in a traditional lecture,” he said. “It worked in the opposite direction as well. Being able to replay certain concepts until I understood them fully was something I would never have been able to enjoy in a traditional lecture setting.”
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Saturday around 9:30 a.m. on Mercer Street after being detected through a radar by an officer on duty. He said the police stopped Perry on the shoulder of the road for speeding, conducted necessary investigations and discovered that Perry was no longer a legal driver at the time. “It was learned that her driving privileges had been suspended. Further investigation revealed that she had an act of warrant issued by the Princeton Municipal Court. That warrant in 2013 was issued for a violation of the Parking Adjudication Act,” said Bucchere. Bucchere noted that while driving privilege suspensions are handled by the municipal court, several notifications are typically sent to the subject prior to a warrant being issued. Bucchere noted that as a consequence of those findings, the police on duty arrested Perry. “She was placed under arrest per our protocol and as required by the state and was brought to the police station, she posted the bail that satisfied the warrant, and was released,” Bucchere said.
Bucchere said that bringing in an individual apprehended for similar traffic violations and performing the necessary processes typically lasts around two or three hours. Bucchere declined to comment on when Perry’s driving privileges were suspended and whether multiple parking tickets were issued for her. According to the New Jersey Parking Adjudication Act, persons upon conviction of the first offense of this statute will be fined $500. The defendant will also be surcharged a mandatory $250 per year for three years for every Driving While Suspended violation by the DMV. Upon conviction for the second offense a fine of $750 will be assessed and imprisonment in the county jail for not more than five days will be ordered, and a fine of $1000 and imprisonment in the county jail for 10 days will be issued for a third offense. In September 2015, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled to broaden police authority to search vehicles based on probable cause. In a Facebook post written on Monday, Perry noted that her quarrel was not with paying a fine or getting a ticket, even though such punishments are dispropor-
tionately meted upon black people who often don’t have the resources to pay them. “My quarrel is with how I was treated,” she wrote. “If it is the standard protocol in an affluent suburb to disallow a member of the community to make a call before an arrest (simply to inform someone of her arrest) and if it is the protocol to have male officers to pat down the bodies of women, and if it is the norm to handcuff someone to a table for failing to pay a parking ticket, we have a serious problem with policing in the society.” She further noted that she did not want to isolate the Princeton Police but would like to hear a response. In response to heated concerns within the University community and beyond regarding the incident, Bucchere said that the Princeton Police Department will conduct a thorough, ongoing investigation about the course of events. “We are aware that there are a lot of activity, especially in the social media arena; thus there are many reasons for us to look into the matter; we are doing the prudent thing by looking into whether the officer [on duty] followed protocols appropriately,” Bucchere said.
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ear Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), While I appreciate your concern about preventing fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) and other related health issues associated with drinking while pregnant, I and other women think you might have missed a few steps in your most recent monthly Vital Signs report concerning the adverse effects of women imbibing. Because based on the included infographic (which associates “drinking” of any kind with violence, cancer, STDs, fertility problems and unintended pregnancy among other ailments), apparently only one of us has a clear understanding about how a woman gets pregnant. Thank you, I guess, for warning me and other female students that drinking a bottle of wine alone in my dorm room could place me at so much risk. I must have slept through that portion of sixth grade health class. For those who haven’t yet seen it, the CDC released a report last week on the risks of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and how to avoid it. A noble intent. It warns that women who are pregnant (or are trying to become so) should avoid any and all alcohol because of the possible birth defects that could affect the developing child. Within that same report, however, the agency urges all fertile women who are not on birth control to abstain from drinking, and the report also includes a now-controversial infographic warning all women, not just pregnant or wouldbe pregnant ones, about the risks of drinking too much alcohol. Let me lay out a few complaints concerning this report. For one, it is condescending and perpetuates the motherhood mandate, suggesting that women exist for the sole purpose of having kids. Moreover, the infographic text is mislead-
ing and inaccurate. Finally, conflations like this one substantiate incorrect and harmful blamethe-victim rape myths. When, as a Washington Post column highlighted, the report leads to headlines with quotes accurate to the article like “CDC: Young women should avoid alcohol unless using birth control,” there’s a real problem. The agency appears to suggest that the most important quality about young women is not that they are autonomous human beings but instead that they are babymaking factories that will most likely give birth one day. Pushing this traditional narrative constricts the freedom for women to live the life they want for themselves. If, as many women do, they choose to give birth to a baby in the future, that’s great. But what about women who are lesbian or who have decided for their own individual reasons that they do not want to conceive a child? Should these women also abstain from drinking? A federal public health agency should not be pushing any single agenda to control women’s bodies and choices. The infographic is perhaps the more offensive statement. Indeed, the information contained there is not only misleading but quite frankly inaccurate in its excluding intermediate steps. Shockingly, that bottle of wine isn’t going to impregnate me; it won’t give me herpes either, and it won’t cause violence to be perpetrated against me. I understand that the CDC didn’t purposefully intend to convey such claims; they know their facts. But that doesn’t change the reality that the infographic is indeed easily misinterpreted and that it comes across in a decidedly demeaning manner. And it isn’t just a problem of misleading information. The missed steps in the infographic and the resulting message communicates that those “risks of drinking too much” are the woman’s fault. Apparently I can get an STD or become pregnant completely by myself — magic! As a Washington Post response column says per-
fectly, “one of the unexpected costs of being female is that people keep holding you accountable for other people’s behavior. You thought you were just a person, but it turns out that you are a wizard. You control the actions of others by the way you choose to dress and walk and talk and live your life.” This mentality is a product of and feeds into a broader rape culture in which few people think twice about this blame-the-victim mentality, even though it is a false rape myth. Look, I realize that the CDC’s intent was virtuous. Many women who are trying to become pregnant should be informed that drinking any alcohol at all has significant risks. Preventing FASD is a laudable goal. It is also useful for the CDC to caution that alcohol lowers inhibitions and reduces judgment. And so drinking too much isn’t great for a wide range of factors. But it is another issue altogether to convey that information in the way the CDC did and then refuse to apologize for the way they communicated said message. Claiming that the negative media coverage was “a big misunderstanding of our attitude” and defending the advice, the CDC has still failed to acknowledge that the way it portrayed its worthwhile recommendations was highly problematic. Perhaps in the orange bubble we tend to simply ignore the CDC. I don’t expect to see any reduction in alcohol consumption among women on campus because of the admonitions of this report. Indeed, because of the impracticality of its recommendations, the report’s more targeted warning to women who are trying to become pregnant has unfortunately gotten lost. While the CDC’s intent might be good, the ideas this warning actually conveys are highly problematic for women both on and beyond campus. And we shouldn’t just accept these misstatements without challenges simply because they emanate from a source of authority. Marni Morse is a politics major from Washington, D.C. She can be reached at mlmorse@princeton.edu.
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rinceton University is currently at a crucial juncture with respect to the way we respond to calls to improve the racial climate on campus. Actions undertaken last semester by student activists under the leadership of the Black Justice League have served to bring to light injustices endured by undergraduate students on campus. The Princeton Diversity Initiative now seeks to add to the conversation additional voices that until now have been missing — those of underrepresented minority graduate students. Through conversations on campus following the protests, it has come to light that URM, especially black students, are searching for ways to be able to have their voices represented to the University’s administration. Graduate students in particular tend to be less connected to the campus community, and URM graduate students share their own set of experiences when moving through a space like Princeton University that can be hostile to their identities. Following last semester’s student protests, some initiative has been undertaken by the university administration to create an inclusive atmosphere on campus. While URM
students are generally supportive of that goal, PDI feels that graduate students have not been actively included in the administration’s considerations of the URM student experience, and the unique challenges that URM graduate students face are not heard enough by the administration or the faculty and staff of some academic departments. Through conversations among PDI’s members and through the information that we have gathered through surveys and focus groups thus far, it has become clear that diversity and inclusion vary greatly from department to department and that information about these differences is not well communicated between departments or to the university and graduate school administration. Additionally, URM students commonly feel that the onus is placed on them to “prove” to the administration that they suffer injustices on campus so that the administration may then take action. To address both the need of students to be heard and the desire of the administration to receive concrete examples of hostilities against URM students on campus, PDI is now conducting focus groups on campus in order to undertake a qualitative analysis of the climate in the gradu-
ate school at Princeton. Women in STEM fields have experienced great success in using this model of data collection in order to represent the concerns of their constituents to administration, and PDI is now building from this model. We ask that all URM graduate students consider participating in the focus groups, in order to share their own personal experiences. Allies of URM groups are also welcome to reach out to PDI for opportunities to share their own experiences regarding interactions that they have witnessed on campus. The results of all of PDI’s surveys and focus groups will be completely confidential, and only five graduate students (the students of PDI) will have access to survey responses. While we know that students have interest in knowing what the outcome of the project will be, PDI must be honest and transparent in communicating that actions taken following data collection will depend on the feedback that we receive from students. PDI will review survey and focus group results and subsequently form a plan of action based on trends observed in the experiences reported. We will present findings to university administration as well as make rec-
ommendations that follow from our findings. From preliminary results, PDI is considering recommending specific models of diversity training for faculty and staff, recommending measures of diversity that the university should be collecting and publicizing, and/or making a mental health professional available to diversity groups on campus in order to create a space in which URM experiences may be constructively shared on a regular basis. PDI would like to especially thank the various diversity organizations that have supported this initiative and would like thank the greater student body for their support of various forms of activism on campus. Together we can help create a more inclusive campus for all students at Princeton University. If there are any questions, please feel free to send a message to princetondiversityinitiative@gmail.com. Thanks for your support, The Princeton Diversity Initiative Chaya Crowder, Politics Aja Kennedy, Wilson School Gabriel Moore, Molecular Biology Elise Myers, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Angelina Sylvain, Neuroscience
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come back. The Colgate match secured Princeton’s standing in both national and ECAC rankings but the real celebration came on Saturday against Cornell when the Tigers won their first Ivy League Championship in ten years. The historic game raced to a controversial start when officials discounted junior forward Hilary Lloyd’s power-play goal three minutes into the game. Though unfortunate, the moment proved to be pivotal for the Tigers’ eventual success. McKenna reflected, “Versus Cornell, in previous years we would have been down and given up, but it just fueled us. We used the bad luck as fuel this weekend.” Following a scoreless first period, the Tigers came out
with energy and poise in the second period. Junior forward Cassidy Tucker and senior forward Cristin Shanahan both scored to give the Tigers a commanding 2-0 lead. To finish off Cornell, freshman defender Kimiko Marinacci scored early in the third, and junior forwards Morgan Sly and Hilary Lloyd each contributed an empty net goal. Given the dominating performance, the Tigers began to celebrate with two minutes remaining in the game. McKenna recounted, “The best moment was at the end of the Cornell game. We were all jumping on the bench and celebrating. Everyone was so happy and there was a smile on everyone’s face.” To be sure, the Tigers entered Saturday’s game expecting to bring home the championship, given their stellar 12-game winning streak earlier this season. Instead, the victory was more a testament
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to the Tigers’ determination and grit. Again, McKenna explained, “We knew that as long as we put in the work good things would happen. It wasn’t a surprise, but it felt so great knowing that it paid off. We stuck to the plan.” Princeton will maintain home ice advantage in the final four games of the season. At the top of the opponent list is No. 2 Clarkson, whom the Tigers will face this Friday. Though successful throughout the season, the Tigers remain humble and ready to improve. To provide insight into the team’s efforts and goals heading into the final home stretch, McKenna concluded, “I think that we are always trying to improve. Every day we work on playing a full 60 minutes. That’s the goal. I think that’s always something we work on until the final whistle blows. We just need to keep it rolling and stick together.”
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country, everyone is hungry for a victory during both the indoor and outdoor seasons,” said Morgan. “Many PRs have been written and rewritten already, which is awesome, because through this point most of us have been training through these meets, the idea being to peak at the Ivy League championships. Performances and competition really begin to start up around now in preparation for [the Heptagonal Championships]. Pretty much everyone will keep training hard for the next week or so, then begin to back off in order to be rested enough to compete at our championships.” Morgan, however, also acknowledges cohesion and unity within the team as another contributing factor to its overall success. “With so many different events in the sport of track and
field, we are quite diverse, but nonetheless we are still a family. We make efforts to learn about each other’s events and PRs in order to support one another on the track, but we also have team bonding to bring us together in general. It is important to us to bridge event group gaps and create a more cohesive unit not only in order to win championships, but to care for each other as well.” Based on the team’s collective hunger and dynamic, Morgan looks to the remainder of the season with hopeful eyes. “Indoor Heps is in three weekends, so that is the next big meet for us. The ultimate goal is to win the triple crown (where one school wins cross, indoor and outdoor Heps in one year), so winning indoor is the next step in that conquest. We are a dedicated, passionate and talented bunch, and I have faith that we can come together come Heps and take home the crown!”
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resulting 16-2 run put the game away for good for Princeton and the Tigers prevailed over their rivals, 83-62. On Sunday, Princeton hosted Dartmouth, who were tied at the time with Harvard at the bottom of the league standings. The Tigers again started strong, opening the game with a 16-4 run on the back of five points from Cook inside and two three-pointers from junior forward Spencer Weisz. With more strong shooting from Weisz, Caruso and Cook, Princeton extended their lead to 23 with four minutes left in the half. However, Dartmouth finally found its range and scored 12 points in a row to end the half and keep the game
close heading into the break. The Big Green was able to score more consistently in the second half to keep things interesting, but Cook kept the Tigers’ offense humming, scoring from inside, outside and the free throw line. Dartmouth was never able to truly close the gap. With Princeton’s lead at seven with just over three minutes to go, Caruso drained two free throws and then Cook, the game’s leading scorer with a season-high 27 points, made a layup to put the game out of reach as the Tigers went on to win 83-70. After convincing performances this past weekend, Princeton travels to face a struggling Cornell (9-11, 2-4) squad on Friday before a huge matchup with fellow one-loss team Columbia (16-7, 5-1) in New York City on Saturday.
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Women’s Hockey crowned Ivy champs
By David Liu
Head Sports Editor
For several weeks this season, the women’s hockey team (19-5-1 overall, 12-5-1 Eastern College Athletic Conference) has overcome challenges to produce consistent success. This past weekend proved to be no different as the No. 9 Tigers took down ECAC rival No. 10 Colgate (17-6-7, 9-4-5) by a score of 4-2 on Friday. Princeton then proceeded to shut out Cornell (9-12-4, 5-9-4) 5-0, clinching the Ivy League championship, which is awarded to the school with the best Ivy conference record. A road challenge for the Tigers, Friday night’s match against Colgate pitted the two teams, both tied for No. 3 in
the ECAC, against each other. The game carried even greater stakes because as the end-ofseason ECAC championships approach, every win increases the Tigers’ chances of gaining home ice advantage in the tournament. Providing insight into the significance of Friday’s match in terms of rankings, junior forward Fiona McKenna explained, “Our biggest goal was to get four points, two points for each win. In fact, we didn’t want to focus on huge goals.” Clearly the Tigers were successful in reaching their goal. Princeton now controls the No. 3 spot in ECAC and is only one point behind second place Clarkson, and four behind topseeded Quinnipiac. Despite the Tigers’ recent
success, it was Colgate who scored Friday’s first goal, less than three minutes into the match. Princeton’s freshman forward and ECAC Rookie of the Month Karlie Lund responded two minutes later by tieing the game at a goal apiece. Lund’s goal was just the beginning of a phenomenal night for the star rookie. After a goal from freshman forward Keiko DeClerck and a second Colgate goal, the two teams entered the third period tied at 2-2. However, Lund would score two unanswered goals in the final period to secure the game for the Tigers. On top of Lund’s defense, senior goaltender Kimberly Newell recorded 37 saves, cutting off every Colgate attempt to See W. HOCKEY page 5
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Women’s hockey won its first Ivy League championship in a decade. MEN’S BASKETBALL
Men’s Basketball cruises over Harvard, Dartmouth By Alan Balson Contributor
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Women’s Track and Field remains hungry even after victories at Sabock Cup and Armory Invitational.
Women’s Track and Field impresses at Sabock Cup By Miranda Hasty Contributor
Women’s track and field impressed this past weekend at the Sykes and Sabock Challenge Cup in University Park, Pa., claiming the third place title and pushing three individual athletes through to win in their respective events. The Tigers garnered a total of 110 points as a result of impressive performances across the board. Sophomore Ashley Forte won the 600m race at a personal record of 1:32.78. Forte was followed by freshman Anna Jurew in fourth place at 1:33.24, senior Meghan McMullin in sixth at 1:34.69 and sophomore Mattie Baron in eighth at 1:34.24. In her first time competing in the 800m event, junior Katie Hanss won the event with a 2:11.52 time and was followed shortly by freshman Jackie Berardo, who won fifth place at 2:13.63. With a personal record of
9:37.62, sophomore Melinda Renuart won the 3,000m. Junior Ally Markovich placed third with a time of 9:42.01, and freshman Allie Klimkiewicz was fourth at 9:56.97. The Tigers claimed the second and third titles respectively in the triple-jump with freshman Kerri Davidson’s jump of 12.22 (40-1.25) and junior Alexandra Lanzafame’s jump of 11.59 (3800.25)Tea The Tigers also finished backto-back in the women’s mile with junior Jessica Ackerman finishing in fourth at 4:56.97, junior Zoe Sims in fifth at 4:57.12 and senior Birdie Hutton following in sixth with a personal record of 4:58.18. Sophomore Melissa Reed came in third in the 5,000m race with a personal record of 17:26.19. Baron, Forte, McMullin and junior Elisa Steele teamed up in the 4x400m relay and finished with an impressive second place finish at 3:50.44. While their teammates placed
Tweet of the Day “The Super Bowl is today? Rather be on this bus with the team enjoying our 3-0 weekend” Chris Ayres (@ tigercoachayres), Head coach, Wrestling
during the second day of the cup, competing separately at the Armory Invitational in the Bronx, senior Cecilia Barowski came in sixth place in the 800m race with a time of 2:06.59. Greta Feldman followed in seventh at 2:07.39. Senior Taylor Morgan, team captain, was proud of her team’s overall performance this past weekend. “Overall the team performed quite well,” she said. “The most exciting performance of the weekend was junior Allie Harris’s 4.20m clearance in the pole vault, which set a new Ivy League record by 8 centimeters.” Harris also came in first place for the pole vault at the Tiger Open two weeks prior. Morgan also praised her team’s performance throughout the season so far and attributes their success to their hunger for growth and for more titles. “The team has been performing quite well this season. Coming off of an Ivy League title in cross See W. TRACK page 5
After suffering their first loss of the Ivy League season against Yale, Princeton men’s basketball faced struggling a Harvard (9-13 overall, 1-5 Ivy) and Dartmouth (7-13, 1-5) over the weekend and soundly defeated these two lastplace teams in the league. Before Friday’s game at Jadwin Gymnasium, Harvard had beaten Princeton in five of their last six meetings on their way to five straight league titles. However, this season, with last year’s leading scorer Wesley Saunders gone to the NBA and star point guard Siyani Chambers out for the year with a torn ACL, the Crimson has not been able to replicate the success of recent seasons. Furthermore, the Crimson was without their leading scorer and rebounder of the season, junior center Zena Edosomwan. Accordingly, the Tigers
jumped out to a commanding lead early, relying as they often have this season on strong threepoint shooting. Freshman guard Devin Cannady scored 12 of his overall 14 points, including two three-pointers, before the break and the team went 6-10 as a whole from deep to take a 38-22 lead into halftime. The Crimson fought hard to get back in the game in the second half and closed the scoring gap to 10 points with just over 12 minutes to go behind the hot outside shooting of freshman guard Tommy McCarthy and the strong inside play of senior forward Agunwa Okolie. However, Princeton quickly responded with another barrage of three-pointers, with junior forward Henry Caruso, the Ivy League’s leading three-pointer shooter, and junior forward Stephen Cook, the game’s leading scorer with 21 points, both on target from behind the arc. The See M. B-BALL page 5
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The Tigers employed balanced attacks in both weekend wins.
Stat of the Day
4.20 meters Junior Allie Harris set a new Ivy League pole vault record of 4.20 meters, surpassing the previous by 8 cm.
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