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Q & A with new U. Provost Prentice staff writer

On Jan. 30, University President Christopher L. Eisgruber ’83 announced that current Dean of the Faculty Deborah Prentice will become University Provost on July 1. Prentice — who was formerly the Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Psychology — will replace current Provost David Lee GS ‘99, who plans to return to full-time teaching and research. As provost, Prentice will be the University’s chief academic and budget officer, responsible for long-range planning.

The Daily Princetonian sat down with Prentice for an interview to discuss her expectations for the new role, her background in social psychology, and the University’s response to the Trump administration.

The Daily Princetonian: Why did you decide to take the position of Provost?

Deborah Prentice: It was a surprise to me because I didn’t know my colleague Dave Lee was planning to step down, and I came back from the holiday break only to learn that he was going to be stepping down. I’m very happy for Dave because I

think he’s going to go back to doing what he loves. It’s a really important time on campus in terms of what we’re trying to do with strategic planning and campus planning. We’ve been planning and planning for a couple of years now and have a lot of initiatives that have come up through the planning process. Now is the time to make them happen.

[President] Chris[topher Eisgruber ‘83] asked me to take on the provost role in large part because I’ve been a part of all those [previous] planning processes and know what’s going on and am in a position to hit the ground running. For my part, it’s exciting to be able to step into a new role where I’ll have even more involvement in the longerrange planning for the next decade in making some of these things happened that I’ve been very intimately involved in.

DP: What are some of the initiatives you’ve been involved in?

Prentice: I was involved with the strategic planning task force in the humanities that recommended the changes to the art museum See STORY page 1

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News & Notes: Melania Trump settles libel lawsuit against Tarpley ’66

By Princetonian Student staff writer

First Lady of the United States Melania Trump reached a settlement on Feb. 7 in a libel lawsuit filed against blogger Webster Tarpley ’66, who claimed that Trump worked as an escort.

Tarpley stated in a blog post on Aug. 2, 2016, that Trump is “obsessed by fear of salacious revelations by wealthy clients from her time as a high-end escort.”

Tarpley also alleged that Trump suffered a nervous breakdown after her speech at the Republican National Convention in July 2016. The complaint submitted states that The Tarpley Post, his blog, published that “Rumors Swirl in Manhattan That Ms. Trump Is Having An Apoplectic Fit After Plagiarism Incident at a GOP Convention and Is Refusing to to Return to Campaign Trail, Putting Enormous Strain on Trump Operation.”

Trump’s attorney, Matthew Blackett, said in a statement that Tarpley had agreed to retract the blog post and apologize to the Trump family. Blackett added that Tarpley had also agreed to pay Mrs. Trump a “substantial sum.”

In his apology letter, Tarpley said, “I had no legitimate factual basis to make these false statements and I fully retract them.

I acknowledge that these false statements were very harmful and hurtful to Mrs. Trump and her family, and therefore I sincerely apologize to Mrs. Trump, her son, her husband and her

parents for making these false statements.”

The libel lawsuit against Tarpley was filed in September 2016, after Tarpley had retracted the article from his website “tarpley.net.” On Jan. 27, Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Sharon Burrell ruled that Mrs. Trump could proceed with her defamation case, noting that “there could be no more defamatory statement than to call a woman a prostitute.”

Tarpley graduated from the University in 1966 with a degree in English, and his senior thesis was titled “Torquato Tasso and Some Italian Parallels to Milton’s Epic Style.” He earned a Master of Arts in humanities from Skidmore College, and a Ph.D. in early modern history from the Catholic University of America.

In 1986, Tarpley attempted to run for the U.S. Senate in New York on Lyndon LaRouche’s U.S. Labor Party platform. Since March 2006, Tarpley has hosted a radio talk show called “World Crisis Radio,” and he authored a biography on former President George H. W. Bush.

Tarpley is most well known for his 9/11 conspiracy theories, in which he claimed that the attacks were engineered by the military-industrial complex and intelligence agencies. He also claimed that former President Barack Obama was a puppet of Wall Street.

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Current Dean Deborah Prentice, Incoming University Provost. Courtesy of Princeton

News & Notes

U. and Rutgers Collaborate to Create Computational Cognitive Neuropsychiatry Center

The University’s new RutgersPrinceton Center for Computational Cognitive Neuropsychiatry will use computational modeling to understand psychiatric diseases, according to a University press release. Opening later in February, the center “aims to improve the diagnosis of mental disorders, better predict their progression and eventually aid in developing treatments.”

In addition to Princeton and Rutgers, the Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research will collaborate. The Centre studies “the causes of psychiatric disorders as well as the causes of individual differences in cognitive development, with an emphasis on adulthood and old age,” according to its website.

The center will allow for computational neuroscientists and clinical researchers to collaborate to “address disorders ranging from depression, anxiety and schizophrenia to obsessivecompulsive disorder and substance abuse,” according the University’s release.

In the last decade, a focus has developed on how to use computational models to more efficiently understand and test hypotheses. These methods use a computer to test how areas of the brain communicate and discover how it affects behavior.

The Center will be located at Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care in Piscataway, NJ and will have the capacity to bring in patients and conduct testing. The University and Rutgers are matching funds to support the Center, according to the press release.

U. adds website resources in response to immigration order, hosts info session

The Davis International Cen-

ter has created a new web page with updates and a Frequently Asked Questions section regarding President Trump’s executive order on immigration. Additionally, the Davis International Center will hold an open information session Feb. 9 for University students and scholars who have been affected by the executive order.

Information session attendees will be able to hear updates and ask questions about the situation. The event will take place from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at the Louis A. Simpson International Building in MPR Room B60 (lower level). The Center plans to schedule other upcoming information sessions at different dates and times.

On Jan. 27, 2017, President Trump signed an executive order entitled “Protecting the Nation from Terrorist Entry into the United States by Foreign Nationals.” A section of the order states that both nonimmigrants and immigrants from seven countries will be prohibited from entering the United States through April 27, 2017.

The Davis International Center’s new web page states that the information the page holds is “intended to assist students, scholars, and other members of the Princeton University community who may be impacted by the Executive Order on immigration...”

“We value the important contributions of all the members of our community, and we are concerned about the impact the Order may have on them and their studies, scholarly teaching, and research,” the home page states.

The web page also states that the Davis Center is closely monitoring the situation and is coordinating with other campus units to provide the best immigration advice and resources, including legal referrals. The University intends to provide accurate and timely information by keeping information on the web page constantly up to date.

Screenshot of the new Davis International Center Webpage

The resource page is divided into three sections – Section I: Updates; Section II: FAQ’s on the Executive Order; and Section III: Advisory Resources and Campus Resources.

In Section I, the most recent update occurred yesterday regarding the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals oral argument.

“The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral argument on the government’s reSee STORY page 1 quest for an emergency stay of the District Court’s temporary restraining order on Tuesday, February 7, 2017, at 6:00 p.m.

Eastern time. The Court has indicated that a decision would be reached in the coming days,” the web page reads.

Section II currently contains 16 FAQ’s about the order. Some of these questions include the following: “I am a citizen of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, or Yemen, but I am a Lawful Permanent Resident (LPR, or Green Card holder) of the United States. How does the 90-day suspension of entry impact me?” and “If I’m not a U.S. citizen, does the Executive Order impact my ability to travel within the United States? What documents do I need to travel within the U.S. or locally?”

Section III provides links to advisories that may provide additional useful information and also encourages students and scholars who have been impacted by the executive order to reach out to campus resources “which can be helpful to their well-being and success during this difficult and distressing time.”

Counseling and Psychological Services, the Office of Religious Life, and the Carebridge Employee Assistance Program are several confidential campus resources that the website recommends as resources to members of the University community.

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In Opinion

Today on Campus

Senior columnist Beni Snow examines the University’s early admission, and columnist Jack Bryan critiques our perception of facts in a post-modernist, Trump era.

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and a program in film and media studies. I’ve worked with the strategic planning task force in American Studies, and I’m very excited to see American Studies grow and develop. I’ve been working with the people who are developing further our wonderful Princeton Environmental Institute into a new environmental studies initiative. I work closely with Emily Carter [Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science] in all of the things the School of Engineering is doing. I’ve been working with the people in-

volved in statistics, machine learning, and data science to try to imagine how the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning and our current Institution for Computational Science and Engineering can forward data science. Those are some of the major academic initiatives which will have really significant teaching and research components. They will involve space, reorganizing, and hiring new faculty.

I would have a role in that as Dean of the Faculty, but as provost, I’ll really be responsible for overseeing them [the academic initiatives] in some sense, and I’m very very excited about that.

DP: Did your academ-

ic background in social psychology uniquely prepare you to be provost and if so, how?

Prentice: Social psychology is really the study of how people think, feel, and behave as social animals, and all administrative work is really about working with and for people — motivating people to think and work collectively toward common goals while making sure each individual’s needs are met. That’s exactly what social psychology is all about — maximizing what people can do together and understanding both what makes that happen and makes it difficult. My students always ask, “Do you ever use your

scholarship in your work,” and [I say] yeah, every day.

DP: What part of social psychology do you specialize in, specifically?

Prentice: I study social norms, which are all of the unwritten rules that govern our lives. Social norms are hugely motivating; they’re a very strong source of motivation that is defined in terms of what is good and normal and appropriate. What do other people want? What do they expect of me? So it’s very much about understanding the often unspoken and unwritten but very real contours of how we function as social animals.

DP: What do you think will be one of your biggest challenges in your new role as provost?

Prentice: Oh gosh, I think there will be a very steep learning curve. Even though I’m right across the hall and I work with Dave [Lee] all the time, there will be a lot to learn, it’s a very big organization and provost has oversight over a huge amount. Getting a handle on everything will be the first challenge, but it’s also the exciting part. It’s the fun and the challenge.

DP: Which of your character traits do you believe will be particularly helpful in your new role?

Prentice: A love of learning and a genuine appreciation for the amazing people at this institution. I’ve learned so much in this role that will be helpful for me there.

DP: Are there any goals you’d love to see realized at the University that are still in the brainstorming stage?

Prentice: The task forces are all about what we’ll do going forward.

There’s a huge amount that we’re currently doing that I want to see continue to flourish. I’m very interested, for example, in how the new space that’s going to open up for the Lewis Center for the Arts is going to affect arts education on campus. Those buildings are the realization of a long-term dream that I think will have a profound effect in the role of the arts on campus. I’m interested in our efforts in broad diversity and inclusion.

I’m interested in continuing to work to make sure Princeton is a place where all people are represented and valued. It’s one of those projects that’s never done, so it doesn’t form up like a task force initiative, but it’s critically important.

Keeping Princeton the vibrant, alive, inclusive place it is will occupy a lot of my time.

DP: Do you see your goal of encouraging diversity to flourish as especially relevant given the current sociopolitical climate across the United States?

Prentice: I think there will be new challenges [for the University in the coming months], and I don’t think we know what they all are yet. We know what kind of chal-

lenges the immigration ban poses to our ability to move people around on and off campus. I anticipate there will be additional challenges.

DP: How do you hope to approach decisions by the Trump administration that may directly affect University processes and regulations?

Prentice: I think we will continue to do what we’ve done in the past, which is to figure out ways to continue to pursue our mission given new constraints.

I think we’ll also, as President Eisgruber’s letter did, make the administration and others in Washington aware of the ways in which the decisions they take affect our ability to fulfill our mission. This goes for everything from the immigration ban to some decisions they will make that will probably affect other more everyday aspects of what we do. What goes on in Washington affects us profoundly in terms of federal funding for education and the sciences and arts and humanities.

DP: How do you feel about your role as a woman in a position of power within academia?

Have you ever felt that your gender has impacted your career and, if so, how?

Prentice: Oh sure, yes, just as it has with all of us [women]. We come with the characteristics we have, and it does affect our life outcomes, including career outcomes. Honestly, I haven’t given it a huge amount of thought, which is sort of interesting since I study gender.

If having a woman as provost — I’m only the second woman dean of faculty — makes women think ‘Oh gee, that’s something I could do.’

I’m happy about that.

DP: I’m sure this job will be an increase in responsibility. How do you plan to deal with this?

Prentice: I’ll do it the same way I’ve always done it. I do have a wonderful family, and all of us support each other in the things that we do.

I have hobbies; I run, I play piano — I’ll continue to do those things in my off-time.

DP: Any thoughts?

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Prentice: I’m really honored to do this job now. This is a wonderful institution, and I have great colleagues in the administration. My confidence that I can do this job rests hugely in knowing that I’ll have the support of all of the other people I’ll work with in the administration and the faculty. I truly love the faculty, and one thing I’ll miss about the dean of faculty job is [having such] a strong connection with them.

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illiam F. Buckley Jr. famously stated that he would “rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston telephone directory than by the faculty of Harvard.” This was because he feared making the academic establishment the center of the government, as well as the ultimate arbiter of culture and knowledge.

There is a sense in which Buckley’s nightmare has come true. Although the recently inaugurated President Donald Trump is by no means an academic — and has indeed suffered a barrage of denunciation and criticism from the administrations of leading institutions like the University — there is a sense in which recent events reveal a similarity between the philosophies of Trump and the prevailing academic authorities of today.

Kellyanne Conway, a Trump counselor, recently put forth “alternative facts” in an interview regarding the numbers in attendance at the inauguration. Similarly, just this week she cited the nonexistent “Bowling Green massacre” as proof of immigrant terrorism. These “post-truth”isms should be no surprise,

Postmodern Trump as Trump’s campaign was fraught with falsehoods and these so-called “alternative facts.” Former Speaker of the House Daniel Moynihan used to say that “everyone is entitled to their own opinion but not to their own facts.” Apparently this is no longer the case with the White House.

Unfortunately, this has not been the case on many college campuses for a long time.

The Trump Administration’s disregard for objective truth seems to represent the political manifestation of irreconcilable pluralism. One of the most popular sentiments in modern academia is the relativity of truth.

That is, that everyone is entitled to their own truth. The only rule of this is that you can’t wield power over others with “your truth.” The idea of tolerance, however well-intended, has ballooned into the virtue of virtues that enables men like Trump to make claims at the truth and then respond with blustering outrage rather than facts when others criticize him.

Donald Trump is a postmodernist. He does not operate in a world in which facts exist. One of the hallmarks of postmodernism is the idea that no one can discern the truth, and that truth itself is in a sense arbitrary. As the postmodernist scholar Stan-

ley Fish once wrote, “It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is — although we all think that we are.”

And is this not what galls the media about Trump?

They fact check him to no end. Facts don’t matter in a postmodernist environment.

Who can really say what the facts are and who are you to say that your facts are better than mine? If Trump and his supporters seem to brush off the truth then could it not at least in part be due to the Academy’s success in persuading culture at large that truth is perspectival?

Indeed, if any news channel is critical of Trump, he attacks it as “fake news.” If a Washington judge dares to challenge the executive orders regarding immigration, then his legitimacy is questioned.

This election has read rather like a novel by William Faulkner. In “The Sound and The Fury,” all of the characters have their own distinct voices, their own ways of interpreting the world, and their own contesting conceptions of what is true and what is not. And just as each of these characters is locked irreconcilably inside their own heads, so Don-

ald Trump is a man determined to see his own reality.

In the same way, this year has seen various news channels marketing their own brand of facts. Conservative channels vilified the Democratic party and liberal news stations attacked the Republican candidates.

There is a flavor of news for every bias and a station for each issue. And just as the media has a perspective and agenda, so does Trump.

Donald Trump is the monster of our own creation.

In a bid for tolerance and compassion we announced that each individual should seek what is “true for you.”

Trump, apparently, took this to heart, disregarding tolerance but content in wielding power with his own truth.

To postmodernists who insist that all claims to absolute truth are power plays, it must be irritating to see power held by someone who claims to have no more than they do — his own truth. He believes what they believe, he just doesn’t play by their rules.

Jack Bryan is an English major from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He can be reached at jmbryan@princeton.edu.

Arming PUPD Guest Contributor

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rinceton University wouldn’t have its carpenters do their work without a hammer, so why does the Princeton University Police Department not have the tools it needs to do its job effectively?

PUPD is a full-service law enforcement agency, staffed by both sworn and nonsworn officers. The sworn officers attend the same state-certified basic police training as their municipal counterparts, yet the University Board of Trustees chooses not to arm PUPD officers with handguns. Currently, PUPD is rolling out rifles to some of its officers to be used in the event of an active shooter on campus. However, these guns are to be locked and secured inside patrol vehicles and only to be used in an active shooter situation. They are useless in the event of a robbery, burglary, or sexual assault — all violent crimes often times committed with a weapon. Officers still do not have access to handguns on their person.

Police officers have dangerous jobs, whether they

are municipal cops, transit cops, or campus cops. Last September, during a manhunt for a gunman who was targeting police officers, a University of Pennsylvania police officer was shot just five blocks outside of the University of Pennsylvania campus. In November, a Wayne State University police officer was shot and killed while questioning a suspicious person adjacent to the campus and in December, a Georgia Southwestern State University police officer was shot and killed responding to a domestic dispute. And let us not forget police officer Sean Collier, of the MIT Police Department, who was ambushed and killed by the Boston Marathon bombers while he sat in his cruiser on MIT’s campus. Last November it was an Ohio State University police officer who put an end to an ISIL-claimed attack by neutralizing the assailant with his departmentissued handgun, one minute after the incident began in the middle of campus.

Unarmed police officers are as much at risk as their armed colleagues, if not more so. In March 2007, two unarmed New York City auxiliary police officers, Nicho-

las Pekearo and Yevgeniy Marshalik, were killed when a disgruntled former restaurant worker ran into them after shooting and killing two of his former co-workers. He shot the unarmed officers at point-blank range while they were taking cover behind parked cars.

And while Princeton is not Detroit or Philadelphia, and the University has a relatively safe campus, we do not exist in a bubble. Crime does exist in the suburbs, albeit at a much lower frequency than in urban cities, and the University attracts many dignitaries and has many programs that are open to the public. In 2005, the University of Oklahoma in Norman, another relatively safe campus, was the scene of a bombing after a mechanical engineering student built and detonated a bomb outside the football stadium around halftime.

And just up Route 1 in Piscataway, on Rutgers University’s suburban Livingston campus, a faculty member and student were stabbed when a former student went on a rampage in November.

An armed police department won’t stop events such as the ones described above from occurring. However,

it will prevent further and worse injuries and fatalities from happening. This is because the campus cop, who has institutional knowledge of his or her jurisdiction, will be the first to respond and quell the situation.

Of our sister Ivy League schools, Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Penn, and Brown all have armed police departments to better protect their students. We are the only Ivy with an unarmed police department (neither Columbia nor Dartmouth maintains a police department). In the event of a crime happening on campus, it will be PUPD who shows up first.

It’s time we arm PUPD officers, for their safety and ours, and allow them to do the job they were hired to do.

Ari L. Maas is a Woodrow Wilson School Master of Public Policy student. He holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Rutgers University and a J.D. from New York Law School. He is an attorney in both New York and New Jersey and has over 13 years of law enforcement experience.

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

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

The numbers for regular acceptance will not be known until April, but for the class of 2020, the regular admission rate was just 4.4 percent.

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

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

Of course, this all assumes that a student who does not apply early is not as dedicated to Princeton. This is a problematic assumption. A student may not apply early because they do not receive quality college counseling or because they need to compare financial aid packages.

These problems presumably disproportionately affect low-income applicants.

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

However, a prospective student may still have to compare aid packages. Perhaps a

state school will offer them a full ride, as well as a stipend.

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

Early admission makes this significantly more difficult.

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

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

If a student feels that their finances potentially prohibit them from attending Princeton, then they could be disincentivized from applying early, which significantly reduces their chances of acceptance. Princeton has numerous programs to help low-income students, but those programs are useless if students don’t even apply. Unfortunately, Princeton does not release information of the breakdown of student economic status between regular and early admission, so it is difficult to know for sure what the effects of the policy are.

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

Beni Snow is a mechanical and aerospace engineering major from Newton Center, Mass. He can be reached at bsnow@princeton.edu.

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Women’s swimming and diving struggles against rivals Harvard and Yale

By Junghwan Lee staff writer

Last Saturday in their last regu lar-season meet of the season, the women’s sw imming and diving team suffered big losses against both the Bu l ldogs and the Crimson.

The hosts Yale (7-0) took the tri-meet as they triumphed 230-70 over Princeton (4-3) and v isitors Har vard 223.5-76.5.

The Tigers also lost the battle for second place, facing a 113-187 defeat against the Crimson (6-1) .

Even from the start of the meet, the Bu l ldogs put on exemplar y form, tak ing f irst place in the f irst eight events of the weekend. Am idst the chal lenges, however, the Tigers sti l l fought f iercely for the w in.

Fresh man Gian na Garcia f inished third place in the 100-backstroke in 56.09, whi le Sophomore Kate Did ion f in ished second soon after in the 100-breaststroke. Sophomore Joanna Curr y also took third in the 200-butterf ly in 2: 01.54.

Similar stories emerged th roughout the second half of the competition, as Ya le and Har vard dominated the charts in most of the events. Did-

ion secured another second-place f inish in the 200-breast w ith a time of 2:17.90, but the Tigers cou ld not take home any f irst-place f inishes from New Haven this year. In the last event of the weekend, The team of sophomore Isabel Reis, freshman Meghan Slatter y, ju n ior Madely n Veith, and sen ior Katie Di l ler f inished third in the 400free, w rapping up the meet to an end.

Despite f in ish ing 4-3 in the regu lar season, the Tigers stil l have a chance to w in the title later this month at the Iv y League Championships in Prov idence, R.I. Even am idst last weekend’s heav y defeat, hav ing displayed outstand ing ind iv idua l and group performances in earlier meets this season, Head Coach Susan Teeter w il l be hoping for a rewarding v ictor y in what w il l be the last Iv y League Championships of her sw imming and coaching career.

The Tigers w il l take on their Ancient Eight rivals at Brow n Universit y on Feb. 16th and the fol lowing weekend in their last meet of the 2016-2017 Iv y League season.

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Women’s tennis falls to Wake Forest for third straight loss

Men’s and women’s track and field dominate in three consecutive meets

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Nolan Liu

The Princeton women’s tennis team started off strong in their match against Wake Forest (6-2, 0-0 in-conference) but failed to pull off a victory, falling 5-2 in a hard-fought match this past Sunday and losing their third straight game after a red-hot start to the year.

The Tigers (3-3, 0-0 Ivy) began by clinching the first doubles point, with senior Caroline Joyce and sophomore Nicole Kalhorn overcoming their Wake Forest counterparts 6-4 to put Princeton ahead 1-0. However, the Tigers struggled in their singles matches. Playing at second singles, senior Sivan Krems barely dropped her first set 7-5 before bowing out and evening the score in Wake Forest’s favor with a 6-0 loss in her second set. At first singles, junior Katrine Steffensen dropped two tough sets to her competitor, allowing the Demon Deacons to pull ahead, while freshman Clare McKee and junior Sara Goodwin also fell to give Wake Forest a commanding 4-1 lead. Joyce would once again rise to Princeton’s defense, defeating her opponent at third

singles to make the score 4-2, but Wake Forest’s Joanna Zalewski defeated freshman Tiffany Chen in three tough sets to clinch their 5-2 victory.

Although the defeat stings, the Tigers can take comfort in the continued strong play from Joyce, who scored in both singles and doubles play and had a hand in all of Princeton’s points of the match, as well as the pluck and resilience shown by their freshmen. However, some of their greatest challenges still lie ahead: Princeton will next travel to Harvard as the team competes in the ECAC Championship, facing off against Brown, Columbia, and Cornell this coming weekend. For the Tigers, who started their season 3-0 before losing three straight to No. 15-ranked Texas A&M, Rice, and now Wake Forest, this tournament will serve as a benchmark for their continuing season.

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The Princeton track and field teams were busy this Intersession competing at the HarvardYale-Princeton meet, MultiEvent Meet, and the Villanova Wildcat Invitational. The Tigers had several standout individual performances and impressive team efforts as end of season competition draws near.

Princeton dominated the Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet held at Yale on Jan. 29. The men tallied 110.5 points, while Harvard and Yale scored 41 and 28.5 points respectively. The women recorded 73 points, while Harvard and Yale scored 48 points each.

On the men’s side, junior Carrington Akosa continued his terrific season with a victory in the 60m followed by sophomore Charles Volker in 2nd. Akosa also returned for the 200m, which he won in a PR of 21.46.

Freshman Joey Daniels won the 60m hurdles and was the first in meet history to run under 8.00 seconds.

Junior Joshua Freeman won the 400m with a PR of 48.16.

Junior Noah Kauppila won the 800m, while junior Zachary Albright claimed the mile with a PR of 4:05.93.

In the field events, senior captain Chris Cook won the shot put followed closely by junior Mitch-

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el Charles. Sophomore Adam Kelly easily took the victory in the weight throw with a PR of 71’ 9.”

Sophomore Stefan Amokwandoh won the triple jump, and senior captain Greg Leeper won the long jump.

Junior August Kiles claimed the pole vault victory in a PR of 17’ 4.5.” Senior Xavier Bledsoe and sophomore Andrew Diehl went 1-2 in the high jump.

Perhaps the most exciting event was the 4x400m relay, which concluded the day. The Princeton team held strong through the first three legs, and when Joshua Freeman took the baton for the anchor leg, he unleashed a devastating last 150m to claim the victory in a time of 3:14.61. The men also won the 4x800m relay.

The women’s team also put on an excellent showing. Highlighting the day was senior Katie Hanss who took runner-up in the 1000m with a new school record of 2:46.20. Sophomore Alie Fordyce and senior Zoe Sims also ran Princeton top 10 all-time marks.

Freshman Ashley Willingham won the 400m.

In the 500m, senior captain Elisa Steele continued her successful season with another victory and another PR of 1:14.11.

In the 3000m, senior Lizzie Bird won with a time of 9:34.89.

Colton Phinney saves 59 shots, and gets named ECAC Goalie of the Week.

In the field events, senior Julia Ratcliffe, the NCAA Champion in the event, won the hammer throw while junior Kennedy O’Dell took 2nd.

Senior captain Allison Harris dominated the pole vault with a mark of 13’ 7.25,” good enough to best the previous meet record which she already held.

The women’s team also claimed the 4x400m relay.

This past weekend, some of the team travelled to Staten Island for the Villanova Wildcat Invitational held at the Ocean Breeze facility on February 4th.

On the men’s team, freshman Conor Lundy took third in the 3000m with a PR of 8:15.44.

Senior captain Greg Leeper took third in the long jump.

The women’s team saw another stellar performance by senior captain Elisa Steele who captured the 400m in a PR of 55.45.

Senior captain Allison Harris was back at it again, and won the pole vault in dominating fashion, matching her 13’ 7.25” from Yale.

In between the Harvard-YalePrinceton meet and the Villanova Invitational, Princeton hosted a small multi-event meet for athletes competing in the heptathlon and pentathlon. Freshman Justice Dixon won the heptathlon, while sophomore Frances Lodge took the pentathlon victory.

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