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The essence of predicting uncertainty, said Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering Warren Powell, is truly governed by “making a decision now before I know things.”

Powell, along with a team at Princeton and a team at the University of Delaware, was tasked by grid operator PJM Interconnection to create a model simulating how their power grid would respond after supplying it with wind from offshore sites.

The interest started with the deregulation of freight transportation in the ‘80s, Powell remarked, and how it led to the quick necessity for optimizing trucking routes along the country. This soon turned into optimizing not vehicles but energy, “something different and more current,” according to Powell.

Powell and his team were responsible for creating Smart-ISO, a stochastic model for the mid-Atlantic states which handles variability and uncertainty to a remarkable extent. After receiving grant money from SAP, Powell and others began building his “big battleship of a model” in order to pursue modeling unpredictable variables within the grid environment. Pow-

ell and his team were soon contacted by a team at UD to investigate the effects of offshore wind injection into the PJM grid itself.

“We built this model, carefully calibrating it, and then using it to ask what exactly happens when there is offshore wind,” Powell said about the building process.

According to Powell, SmartISO further examines the grid system, suggesting the most cost effective way to distribute energy throughout the states. He explained that there are problems which need direct attention from Smart-ISO. According to Powell, because the steam inside the steam generators cannot instantly be created, steam generators all have to be prepared a day in advance. This, noted Powell, makes for energy distribution within the grid quite a tricky endeavor. SmartISO maneuvers around this difficulty by suggesting which specific generators get switched on and off a day in advance. According to Powell’s, his team’s model shines in its use of controlling the grid’s energy reserves.

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The 17th annual Vagina Monologues are a series of vignettes performed by Princeton students that reflect the diverse expeiences of womanhood.

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From interpretive dances to think pieces to social experiments, the annual on-campus performances of Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues has always generated plentiful feedback from University students.

The episodic play, which consists of an unfixed number of monologues performed by an unfixed number of women, was first performed in 1996 at the HERE Arts Center in New York City. It made its way to the the University in 2001.

The content of these monologues - which focuses on women’s experiences and relationships with their bodies — has always been controversial.

Nevertheless, this year’s seventeenth consecutive perfor-

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Carney addressed students in Whig Hall on the subject of the press and journalistic diversity

Carney lectures on halftruths and fake news In a critique of The New York Times’ new motto “The truth is more important now than ever,” Tim Carney contends that the truth matters now more than it did from January 2009 to January 2017. “In other words, the truth matters less before Donald Trump was president,” Carney said, noting that he was being “very semantic.”

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she learned about the history of the Monologues as a freshman. She was in the production her freshman and sophomore years. She has also acted in productions of “I Was There In The Room” and “My Vagina Was My Village.”

“I knew that [the play] was a feminist piece and that of course it had to do with vaginas,” she said. “I knew it was blunt and graphic and honest.

I read the script and found out that it was about many other things including womanhood, motherhood, growing up, joy, healing, and self-discovery.”

Desrogène explained that she believes the play’s enduring resonance might be due to its adaptability as a work of art. She explained that she

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mance of the play at the University evidences that it has indeed stood the test of time.

Romie Desrogène ‘17, one of this year’s show’s co-directors, who first saw the Vagina Monologues when she was eleven years old, said that the play’s “radical” content had always fascinated her.

“I knew it [the play] was about vaginas and the fact that it was played in Haiti — a place where they were even more of a taboo — made the play seem even more radical to me.

I could not wait to grow up and be part in of it, even though I had not even seen the play yet,” Desrogène said. “You can say I was pretty psyched to be in [the play] freshman and junior year, and then directing it this year after a seven-year wait.”

Desrogène explained that

In an event co-sponsored by the Princeton Progressive, Princeton Tory, and the American Whig-Cliosophic Society, Carney, an editor at the Washington Examiner, delivered a lecture and answered questions for around 25 students in Whig Hall. While nearly every seat was filled, only two women were in attendance.

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Six University professors have been named Sloan Research Fellows for 2017. The Sloan Research Fellowships are two-year, $60,000 fellowships awarded to researchers by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation “in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field”.

Past University affiliated recipients include John Nash and Richard Feynman, both of whom went on to win Nobel Prizes in their respective fields. According to the foundation website, 226 University affiliated individuals have received the Sloan Fellowship as of 2017.

This year’s recipients are Dr. Amir Ali Ahmadi, assistant professor in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering; Dr. Han Liu, also an assistant professor in the ORFE department; Dr. Nicholas Sheridan, assistant professor in mathematics; Dr. Nathalie de Leon, assistant professor in electrical engineering; Dr. Matthew Kunz, assistant professor of astrophysical sciences; and Dr. Silviu Pufu, professor of physics.

Ahmadi’s line of research focuses on the “intersection of optimization and computer science.” The specific problems that he addresses in his work are polynomial optimization problems.

“It’s quite tricky to understand which subclasses can be solved with computers and algorithms,” Ahmadi said. “A lot of my work is to draw this boundary.”

One practical application of poly-

nomial optimization problems specifically includes finding optimal locations for buildings.

Although Ahmadi is affiliated with the ORFE department, he received a fellowship in computer science for the lack of a specific category dedicated to ORFE. He expressed gratitude that “people outside of [his] immediate field also recognized [his] work as of high quality and importance.”

Kunz expressed honor at being named a recipient of the fellowship.

Kunz received the fellowship for his work in astrophysics. Some of the problems that he and the students he oversees are working on include “why astrophysical systems have the magnetic field strengths that they do and investigating turbulence in solar winds,” according to Kunz.

He noted that one of the best aspects of the Sloan Fellowship is that the usage of money is not as restricted as it can be with other grants.

“The Sloan Fellowship doesn’t fund one project directly, but enables flexibility in each one of them,” Kunz said. He noted the example of purchasing a powerful computer needed for simulations that might otherwise not be approved for purchase.

De Leon’s research group focuses on materials science, an interdisciplinary field that brings together chemists, chemical engineers, physicists and electrical engineers in her lab. De Leon said her broad research program is working on quantum technology with color centers in diamonds.

“Working in this category involves a lot of surface science and

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materials chemistry, but on the other side of it there’s a lot of optics and quantum control techniques for learning how to control and manipulate these color centers,” she said.

Sheridan’s research in mathematics focuses on two types of geometry: “algebraic geometry, which has a long history going back to the Greeks’ work on conic sections; and symplectic geometry, which has its origins in celestial mechanics.” With his work, Sheridan hopes to answer difficult questions about symplectic geometry “by translating them into easier questions about algebraic geometry.”

In an email, Sheridan said that he is “very honored and excited” about the fellowship and said he immediately “Skyped with [his] parents back in Australia to tell them.”

Liu is affiliated with the Statistical Machine Learning Lab. Liu’s work focuses on a developing new field of theoretical science within called combinatorial interference, which studies both “informational complexity (amount of data) and computational complexity (running time).” In an email, he said that “success on this research will lead to a new generation of high impact applications, including computational neuroscience, genomics, finance, and social networks”.

Pufu is an assistant professor in the physics department whose work focuses on the field of high energy theory. He received his undergraduate degree in physics from the University in 2007 and his Ph.D degree in 2011.

Pufu did not respond to request for comment.

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ergy and adjust for unpredictable variability, such as spikes in temperature or weather. These reserves can be fired up within half an hour’s notice and can adjust for invariability in a remarkable way.

Smart-ISO seemed to suggest something profound in the energy distribution.

First, given a grid that uses both energy storage cells (i.e. batteries) and reserves to adjust energy distribution, the model would much rather suggest the use of reserves, rather than store energy into batteries. This could be explained by the cost of energy storage, as well as loss in energy based upon the efficiency of the converter for the storage cell. This is currently an active field of research.

The second and more noteworthy point from Smart-ISO was that the model seemed to suggest that with further dependence on renewables such as wind and solar, more re-

serves would be relied on for energy compensation within the grid. “If you move to solar or other renewables, our model seems to say that it would simply turn to these reserves,” Powell said. What others have done in forecasting plans for total reliability in renewable energy is “not carefully account for the variability in their models,” Powell added. “When you get to 2025 percent dependence on renewables, you start relying more and more on the reserves.”

Powell offered some examples of countries that have already tried moving to renewable dependence.

Denmark and Ireland have both “gotten good at balancing variability of wind with fossil fuels”; however, they have the advantage of size and location to take advantage of that wind, whereas most of the tristate area here has no sufficient access to wind. These countries have also incorporated an optimization algorithm to harness both renewable and reserve fossil fuel, rather than depend on only renewables.

Germany has also aggressively shifted its energy dependence to renewables, and even away from nuclear. However, Germany has ended up “burning more coal,” Powell said, since as “the wind varies, and as solar varies, you need more backup power.” He added, “and that backup power is called coal.”

So how do we best move towards using renewable resources in both effective and cost competitive ways?

“At the end of the day, everyone has to go back to the grid,” Powell noted. “It is dangerous to assume that we are going to solve all our problems with wind and solar,” Powell added. The best way to use renewables, then, is to “have multiple technologies” working together to best optimize the energy distribution problem in the face of marked uncertainty.

“We still need more research on different technologies,” Powell said. Even though he remained skeptical on total reliance on wind and solar due to variable unpredictability in both sources, Powell believes that the shift in focus on creating optimization models such as Smart-ISO will better help with configuring a system that will bring us closer to best utilizing the many sources of energy we already have.

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stitute and the author of “The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money” as well as “Obamanomics.”

“This means we have to dig up the truth now because we have a president more detached from the truth than before,” Carney explained regarding his Times remark.

“This isn’t totally off base,” he added in regards to Trump’s rhetoric.

“The normal way politicians lie and mislead — I think Donald trump goes a little beyond that,” Carney said. “All of those reasons are true to some extent; he cares less about speaking the truth.”

“Politicians, as a class, care less about speaking the truth than a normal person,” Carney explained. “But it’s hard not to look at what’s happened as a sort of awakening of the press.”

To explain, Carney told the story of former President Barack Obama’s first State of the Union address. In his speech, Carney said that Obama stated that he would be excluding lobbyists from policy-making jobs.

In his speech transcript, Obama said, “That’s what I came to Washington to do.

That’s why, for the first time in history, my administration posts our White House visitors online. That’s why we’ve excluded lobbyists from policymaking jobs or seats on federal boards and commissions.”

“But we can’t stop there,” Obama said in the address.

“It’s time to require lobbyists to disclose each contact they make on behalf of a client with my administration or with Congress. It’s time to put strict limits on the contributions that lobbyists give to candidates for federal office.”

Carney, who was at the time writing about lobbyists, said he spent the rest of the address

looking up how many lobbyists the administration had already hired. By the end of Obama’s administration, Carney explained that Obama had hired hundreds of lobbyists for policy-making positions. Carney said he preceded to call the White House and ask why they said they have excluded lobbyists from policy-making jobs when in reality the administration had hired some lobbyists.

“They said, ‘We can give you a list of many lobbyists we have excluded from policy-making jobs,’” Carney said. “They implied ‘some’ in that sentence, but basically Obama was lying to us. His sort of typical-politician adherence towards ... the truth so that there’s on interpretation close to the truth.”

Carney added that he then wrote a series of pieces about the lobbyists the Obama administration hired. He explained that The New York Times covered it differently, writing that this remark was made “in the context of addressing this deficit of trust, Obama said,” and that Obama issued an executive order that made it harder for lobbyists to land these jobs.

Carney said that in the past journalists have tried to present both sides of an issue in order to be unbiased.

“Liberals are the best to point out when this is done really dumbly,” Carney said, describing the typical example of climate change where a climate skeptic and an anthropogenic climate change scientist are presented as both sides of the argument.

“This is a faulty way to conduct journalism,” Carney said.

“This is a relativistic point of view.”

Carney also noted that The Washington Post changed its motto the same week as the Times to “Democracy dies in darkness.”

“I think The New York Times and The Washington Post generally came from a poor understanding of their job to a better understanding of their job,”

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In a room filled with over 20 politically active students, Carney discussed the role of representative coverage in journalism and the journalistic shift with regards to focusing on the truth.

Carney said. “They were largely asleep for eight years and they went from being asleep to suddenly swinging the bat around like a maniac.”

“It went from an over-slumbering press to an over-frantic press,” Carney said. “A press so sure that we would have an authoritarian president that they’re willing to swing the bat around.”

Carney used the metaphor of the boy who cried wolf to explain what the media is doing.

“The boy is the press, it’s us, the villagers are the rest of the country,” Carney said. “If they start crying authoritarianism, then when it actually happens — and it might happen with Trump — [the public] won’t respond.”

Carney went on to criticize Trump’s travel ban, calling it “a horrible abuse of power, not even in a malicious way, but a sloppy way.”

He said he covered many of the Trump rallies and that prior to that reporting, he spent a lot of time doing “bar reporting” where he talked to people in bars about politics. He described Trump as a “populist president” and that the people he interviewed were focused on

jobs, not free trade or entitlement reform.

“The sort of realm that we were reporting in was a totally different realm from most Republican realms and what we were encountering was that none of us who were reporting on this were talking about what was important to them,” Carney said, noting that the government shut-down — a huge story in Washington — was not even an influence on their 2016 vote.

Carney described a media event he attended where all of the journalists in attendance had an Ivy League degree and a post-graduate degree, but he was the only one without a post-graduate degree. He said that this creates a kind of echo chamber where journalists are not reporting on what matters to everyone.

At the Washington Examiner, a conservative weekly magazine on Washington politics, Carney focuses on issues such as lobbyists in Washington.

Carney is also a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute who focuses on crony capitalism, political economy, civil society, and electoral politics, according to the Facebook

event.

During his introduction, Jonathan Feld ‘18, a member of the executive council of the Princeton chapter of AEI, noted that Carney is also the author of “The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money” and his written pieces have been featured in news outlets such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Feld organized this event.

“What we’re trying to do on campus is bring people from across the spectrum and talk about issues that are relevant to campus,” Feld said. “I think it was a really good event and we like to keep things relatively small. It’s important to us to get the Progressive, the Tory on board.”

On the other hand, three members of the Princeton Progressive, a left-leaning on-campus magazine, also attended the event.

“I enjoyed this,” Progressive writer Nate Lambert ’20 said.

“I made an effort to disengage from the tendency to be a part of groupthink and consider things from other points of view.”

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The Orwellian media - or why you don’t care about newspapers anymore Luke Gamble

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After Donald Trump referred to the press as the “enemy of the people,” there’s been a lot of talk about keeping journalistic integrity and protecting the First Amendment. For all his blubbering, Trump won’t silence the media. But I’m afraid that, in some ways, the media has already silenced its own voice.

Shows like The Newsroom and House of Cards glorify the role that journalism plays in informing the electorate. But all too often, media organizations have gone from informing the electorate on facts to advocating for an ideology.

We need to ask ourselves what will happen when we lose faith that the media or anyone else can accurately tell us what’s going on, not just try to convince us of their own interpretation of “the facts.” When everything is “true,” nothing is meaningfully aligned with what’s real. All the chatter is reduced to mere babble.

All that matters is whose narrative garners the most attention and followers.

As David Brooks notes, “There is no longer a single media establishment that shapes how the country sees the president.” This

election made the brokenness of media giants Fox and CNN all too obvious. With a limited amount of time and space, some decisions need to be made about what to draw attention to through a broadcast. But their portrayals of the candidates were so polar that it was comical. CNN featured almost nonstop coverage of Trump’s latest antics, serving up hour after hour of “analysis” of his “grab her by the p*ssy” recording. Meanwhile, Fox somehow managed to make three months worth of television out of no new updates on the Clinton email “scandal.” This wasn’t reporting.

This was advocacy wearing the names of “news” and “journalism.”

When the news is determined by what makes good ratings, the networks cater to their audiences’ biases. In a vicious cycle, an initial slightly red-shaded audience at Fox is fed demonizing news about Democrats, shifting the audience’s opinion further right and making them trust the alternate point of view even less.

The same thing happens on the other side.

Those of us in the middle are left feeling that we can’t really trust what either media establishment is saying. We understand they are arguing from a pre-established ideological point

of view, rather than seriously and soberly paying attention to what is happening in our country. Important ideological discussions and battles need to be fought, but those cannot be conducted by those who claim merely to be reporting “the news.”

In his journalistic career, George Orwell embodied a democratic approach to “the truth” that can serve as an alternative to the mere advocacy which journalism has descended to as of late.

Orwell was wary of pure ideology, of what the human brain was capable of when it lost touch with reality. As David Brooks says, “Orwell was famous for sticking close to reality, for facing unpleasant facts, for describing ideas not ideologically but as they actually played out in concrete circumstances.”

He adds that Orwell’s “other lesson for writers, even opinion writers, is that it’s a mistake to think you are an activist, championing some movement.” We aren’t, as is commonly supposed, meant to be entirely operating in the realm of ideas. When we express our understanding of what is going on, that is by definition our point of view. When we seek to simply understand and explain what we see, we still are “opining.”

Orwell was tapping the core

of democracy, the belief that the electorate can be informed, that the populace does have a good sense for what’s important. As Lionel Trilling said of Orwell, “He told the truth, and told it in an exemplary way, quietly, simply, with due warning to the reader that it was only one man’s truth.

He used no political jargon, and he made no recriminations. He made no effort to show that his heart was in the right place, or the left place. He was not interested in where his heart might be thought to be, since he knew where it was. He was interested only in telling the truth.”

This Orwellian approach to media is the sober antithesis to the babble that the public dialogue has descended into. Trump has done shameful and newsworthy actions, but he is not totally misguided in the notion that some people hated him before any of his antagonizing words or actions — hated for mere ideological reasons, which is nothing but a sophisticated form of prejudice.

That’s fine for private citizens, but just don’t call it the news or journalism.

Luke Gamble is an English major from San Jose, Costa Rica. He can be reached at ljgmble@princeton.edu

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The freedom to debate Sinan Ozbay

Guest Contributor

This Monday, Ryan Chavez ’19 penned an article in The Daily Princetonian about the Whig-Clio Senate Debate press policy. He argued that because press cannot record debates or publish direct quotes, the Senate debates are somehow both illiberal, having abrogated a right to journalistic freedom, and uninformative, having limited the scope of awareness with respect to these debates.

Both of these criticisms are unfounded. Far from illiberal, the closed-press policy we maintain actively preserves and enables free

speech on campus that otherwise might never occur.

As the president of the Senate, I’m writing to clear up what it is we do at the Senate Debates and why we do it.

To be clear, the Whig-Clio press policy allows for reporting on the debates, their subjects, and the types of discussions had during the debates — we even let press interview participants and speakers after the event is over. We simply do not allow recordings and direct quotes from the debates.

The idea that the debates aren’t transparent or that something insidious might be happening under the nose of campus media is ludicrous: if you were looking

for some far-fetched secret society, you missed it by about two rankings down the US News college lists.

The debates, by construction, are open to the public.

We even had community members at our last debate.

But a press policy that allows for involuntary direct quotation would demolish any and all pedagogical value the debates currently confer. The debates are not a place where only experienced debaters gather to intellectually self-satisfy, but a place where people unaffiliated with Whig-Clio regularly participate, speak, argue, and learn about debating and political discourse. This means that, in the process of experiment-

ing within the forum, people often say things that are conjectural and that they might not hold as their own beliefs. Developing skills in argumentation and advocacy nearly always involves arguing for a side you don’t believe in. It’s easy to take such things out of context and thereby vilify those who simply wanted to enter and be a part of the sphere of political discourse. In this respect, an open-press policy would chill discourse and prevent students unaffiliated with Whig-Clio from joining in these debates.

The upshot is this: the purpose of our debates is not to recite op-eds for each other. Their purpose is to inform those who come,

while maintaining an environment that is amenable to true discourse, which requires participation. Discourse not heard may be diminished in value, but discourse monopolized by a few experienced people isn’t discourse at all.

Sinan Ozbay is a sophomore from Princeton, NJ. He can be reached at sozbay@princeton. edu. The sentiments expressed in this piece do not necessarily ref lect the views of the Society, of which Ozbay is the President of the Senate.

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saw the Haitian Creole/French Version of the play that was directed by her first theater mentor in October, just before the University group started with auditioning and rehearsing.

According to Desrogène, this experience impacted her creative choices with this year’s Princeton productive of the Monologues. She also noted that past directors’ use of current “Princeton-specific facts” helped the play stay interesting to a 2017 audience.

Desrogène’s co-director, Nicole Acheampong ‘17, echoed this sentiment, explaining that past University productions of the Vagina Monologues have impacted both her own performances as an actress and her artistic decisions as a director.

Acheampong noted her and Desrogène’s choices differed from other directors.

“One year it [the play] was performed in a rather minimalist way, in the Forbes Blackbox, with a red cushion

as the main prop for all the pieces,” she said. “While Romie and I opted for a more detailed set, I think that shared first performance of the show was still a great influence in our directorial choices.”

Acheampong said she considers the power of the show to be grounded not in the ways it shocks, nor in its potential to be grand and hugely performative, but in the way each monologue is intimate and personal.

She noted that the show has remained relevant with women on campus because of its adaptability.

Indeed, the show’s intimate nature has manifested itself in ripple effects the Monologues has had on the wider University community. For example, the Vagina Monologues has inspired University students to explore the play through dance. This year, February 13 and 14, Madeleine PlaneixCrocker, ‘17, directed “Vagina,” in which she adapts the Monologues into a multimedia combination of dance and theater with the mission of exploring female identity in as many ways as possible.

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Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues is based on her interviews with 200 women.

The monologues are individual stories whose only uniting theme is that they concern women’s experiences with and relations to their vaginas. Ensler’s play is “both a celebration of women’s sexuality and a condemnation of its violation.”

The Vagina Monologues showed in Theatre Intime, a small theater made for an intimate experience. The performance took place on Thursday, February 16 at 7 p.m., Friday, February 16 at 7 and 9:30 p.m., and Saturday, February 18 at 7 p.m.

The performance included several of Ensler’s monologues — typically performed solo, sometimes involving two or three actresses at a time — including “My Angry Vagina,” “The Woman Who Loved to Make Vaginas Happy,” “I Was There in the Room,” “Because He Liked to Look At It,” and “My Vagina Was My Village.”

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Women’s hockey advances to ECAC seminals after defeeating Quinnipiac

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After falling in the first game in a threetest series against Quinnipiac, the women’s ice hockey team came back to win the next two games of the weekend.

They are now heading to the ECAC semi-finals next weekend.

Lasting 106 minutes and 34 seconds, the first game was the longest in both University men and women’s ice hockey history, taking the game into three overtime periods. After a hard-fought battle by both teams, it was Quinnipiac that came out on top, scoring from a 3-on-2 situation at the 6:34 mark in the third overtime period.

Freshman goalkeeper Steph Neatby, who saved 60 of the 63 shots from the Bobcats, set a program record for most amount of shots saved in one game. Neatby told The Daily Princetonian, “I never could’ve made it to the saves record without my teammates being relentless and pushing for the win the whole game. Watching them put their bodies on the line, blocking shots and doing whatever it takes was incredible.”

Princeton led the game in the second third, 2-0 with goals from freshman forward Carly Bullock and senior defender and captain Kelsey Koelzer, but a strong comeback attempt from Quinnipiac took it to overtime where the Bobcats snatched the win and led the series 1-0.

The next game then became a must-win for Princeton, which proved no easy task after playing three overtime periods. The remainder of the weekend came down to which team was fitter and could play under fatigue.

After a long review by the officials, sophomore defenseman Kimiko Marinacci was granted her first goal of the season and of the game in the second period, ensuring that the Tigers took the lead.

Senior forward Cassidy Tucker then doubled Princeton’s lead just two minutes later as she was fighting to keep her collegiate career going.

In the same situation as the first game, 2-0 up

at the end of the second quarter, Princeton managed to hold onto their advantage, and Neatby shut out Quinnipiac, saving a total of 29 shots, arguably a quiet day compared to the 60 saves the day before.

The series now stood at 1-1 and was set up for a winner-takes-all game on Sunday.

Playing for the chance in the ECAC semifinals this weekend, facing Clarkson, Princeton would be trying to accomplish something that the team has not done since the 20052006 season. Senior forward Molly Contini and freshman defender Sylvie Wallin beat the Bobcats’ defense, both scoring in the first period, which gave the Tigers control for much of the game. Quinnipiac ended up chasing the final game in a comeback attempt similar to the first game, and although they did get one past Neatby when they pulled their goalkeeper, time expired before the Bobcats had a chance to level the score.

In a physically and emotionally demanding weekend, Princeton won the test series 2-1 overall, with six different players scoring their six goals and Neatby making a total of 117 saves, allowing just four goals.

The goalkeeper said, “I am extremely excited for the ECAC semifinals.

My teammates were unbelievable this weekend and I think we showed that we are capable of anything.

Pushing through the adversity of the triple overtime loss showed so much character and grit, and I am very proud to be a member of this team.” She went on to say, “I know that we want to shoot for more than just making it to the semifinals.

I believe in this group of girls and know that we would do anything to keep the run going.”

The Tigers now face Clarkson this weekend on Saturday at 1 p.m. at Clarkson’s Cheel Arena.

Princeton met Clarkson twice earlier this year, losing both games narrowly, so the ECAC semi-final will be an interesting matchup.

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The Tigers defeated Quinnipiac in three-game quarterfinal series this past weekend in ECAC tournament.

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The women’s ice hockey team advanced to ECAC semifinals for the first time in 11 years and hope to clinch the championship title.

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The team (20-9-3) is scheduled to face first-seeded Clarkson in competitive semifinal match this Saturday.

Stat of the Day

65.8 Only two games into the season, senior goalie Ellie DeGarmo of women’s lacrosse ranks second in the nation for save percentage at 65.8.

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