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In Opinion The Editorial Board argues for a postponed pass/D/fail deadline and Jessica N. Li reflects on the urge to fill up free time. PAGE 6

Today on Campus 4:30 p.m.: Muslim Jewish dialogue entitled, “Journey to the Divine: Mount Sinai & The Highest Heavens” hosted by the Center for Jewish Life at the Class of 1985 Meeting Room, Carl A. Fields Center.

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March 23, 1998 The University’s new financial aid program was the subject of a Webcast discussion among Director of Financial Aid Don Betterton and members of the University community.

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Ted Cruz ’92 will announce his candidacy for President on Monday at Liberty University in Virginia.

Cruz ’92 to announce bid for presidency on Monday By Zaynab Zaman staff writer

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz ’92 plans to announce a presidential bid on Monday, according to a Houston Chronicle article published on Saturday. Cruz did not respond to a request for comment. Cruz will officially declare his candidacy at a convocation ceremony at Liberty University in Virginia on Monday, according to the Chronicle. He is scheduled to make an appear-

ance in New Hampshire this Friday and in Iowa in approximately two weeks. Cruz was elected to the Senate as a Republican candidate from Texas in 2012 and is one of three Latino Senators currently serving. Liberty University, which was founded by the televangelist Jerry Falwell, is significant as a choice of venue for Cruz, whose advisers have been outspoken about their belief that Cruz could win the Republican nomination without large support

from moderates. Cruz is expected to focus on a host of issues in his platform, according to the National Journal, including repealing the Affordable Care Act, passing a flat tax and abolishing the Internal Revenue Service. He has also supported fracking, the Keystone Pipeline, expanding access to public lands for oil exploration and repealing certain regulations of the Environmental Protection Agency. Cruz graduated cum laude from See PRESIDENT page 4

A former Cornell University student who was suspended for alleged sexual misconduct is seeking monetary damages and a reversal of Cornell’s findings in a lawsuit filed on Thursday with the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York. On Dec. 14, 2013, the plaintiff, litigating under the pseudonym John Doe, allegedly engaged in sexual activity with Jane Doe after a party where the two had talked and danced. Both John Doe and Jane Doe were seniors at Cornell at the time. Though the two had been drinking, John Doe claimed that “no one was very intoxicated as there had been professors present.” Jane Doe invited the plaintiff to her dorm where the sexual activity allegedly took place. Two months after the incident, Jane Doe contacted Cornell’s Office of the Judicial Administrator and reported she was raped while incapacitated on the night of the party, according to the plaintiff’s complaint. An investigation process involving ten witnesses concluded with the recommendation that John Doe be expelled from Cornell, the complaint alleges. The complaint adds that upon further examination, the reviewing panel decided to modify the sanction to withhold John Doe’s diploma for two years. The complaint alleges the investigation was delayed and denied John Doe due process on the account of his sex, as well as that Cornell used a flawed evidentiary standard and a flawed single investigator model and ignored key evidence. It also alleges the sexual activity was consensual. Melissa Osgood, a Cornell spokeswoman, declined to comment, noting a policy of not commenting on pending litigation. Following Cornell’s investigation, the acSee CORNELL page 4

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Kimberly Theidon, a former Harvard associate anthropology professor, filed a lawsuit in federal court against Harvard in response to tenure denial. Theidon alleges that she was denied tenure in May 2013 because of her gender and because she opposed what she viewed as a “sexually hostile environment” for women who complained about sexual assault and harassment at Harvard. Theidon had expressed support for a student campaign to reevaluate how Harvard responds to sexual assault complaints on campus. She claims that she was held to a higher standard than male peers and received “less pay and work space than those accorded to males who had less experience or productivity.” Prior to filing the initial charge, Theidon had appealed Harvard’s decision to deny her tenure. Theidon joined Harvard’s faculty in 2004 and remained employed by the university until June 2014, when her contract expired and her formal relationship with the University ended.

The senior class voted Tumi Akinlawon ’15, Shawon Jackson ’15 and Hannah Rosenthal ’15 as finalists for the position of Young Alumni Trustee. The three seniors were selected from a pool of 28 candidates in an online primary election that took place March 3-12. The chosen Young Alumni Trustee will serve a fouryear term on the University’s Board of Trustees, with the same authority and responsibility as other board members. The position provides an additional perspective to the Board of Trustees on the recent undergraduate

experience. Akinlawon is concentrating in mechanical and aerospace engineering and has certificates in materials science and engineering, robotics and intelligent systems and the program in sustainable energy. As an international student from Nigeria, Akinlawon said he was invited to dine with members of the Board of Trustees his sophomore year. He said his interaction with fellow guest Josh Grehan ’10, a previous Young Alumni Trustee, was how he first learned about the position. Akinlawon is on the varsity track and field team, an Orange Key tour guide and a class co-chair for An-

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Graves, professor, leader of post-modernist architecture movement, dies at 80 years old By Jasmine Wang associate news editor

Michael Graves, a famous architect based in Princeton, died in his Princeton home Thursday. He was 80 years old. Throughout his career, Graves made many significant contributions to the world of art and architecture as an avid drawer, painter and professor. He also led the post-modernist architecture movement, introducing color and humanistic principles into architecture. He taught at the University for 39 years and directed the firm Michael Graves & Associates for 50 years. After becoming partially

nual Giving. He has served as a Wilson residential college adviser for the past two years. Akinlawon said his involvement with various groups of people on campus has allowed him to be in touch with many perspectives and understand how to best serve students. He added that former University President Shirley Tilghman’s opening exercise speech left him with one message — challenge yourself — that motivated him to get the most out of his Princeton experience by maximizing the number of people he met. “I learn from my peers as much as possible by interacting with them,” he said. See TRUSTEE page 2

By Jessica Li staff writer

The risk of contracting meningitis B at the University is now considered equivalent to the risk at any other college, the University announced on Friday. The announcement comes after University officials met with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC did not respond to requests for comment. The reduced risk is in part attributable to high levels of vaccination among students, University spokesperson Martin Mbugua said, adding that local, state and federal agencies involved during the outbreak share the credit. “The vaccination rate was so high because our students were very responsive to the

call,” he said. “To have that vaccination rate achieved is remarkable. We are very pleased to see that kind of response.” The University will not continue to provide the vaccine free of charge after the end of this academic year, as it is now licensed in the U.S. for people of ages 10-25 and widely available, he added. Ninety-eight percent of University undergraduates have received at least one of the doses of the vaccine. The University’s announcement is important because meningococcal diseases can cause significant morbidity in young populations, Nicole Basta, a visiting researcher in the ecology and evolutionary biology department who led See MENINGITIS page 3

THE TRIP HOME

paralyzed in 2003, Graves used his experience to focus on issues of accessibility for people with disabilities. President Barack Obama appointed him to the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board in 2013. “He didn’t belong to any one person. He belonged to the world,” Maximillian Hayden, architect and former employee of Graves, said. Building a Love for Architecture Graves was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1934 to a retired nurse and a livestock merchant. Although he considSee OBITUARY page 5

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Students pass by Pyne Drive gate as they return back to campus from Spring Break refreshed and anticipating the end of snow.

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Tumi Akinlawon ’15, Shawon Jackson ’15 and Hannah Rosenthal ’15 were elected as finalists for the Young Alumni Trustee.

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“The relationships I have built with people have been the basis for my running for Young Alumni Trustee.” Both Akinlawon and Jackson said that if chosen as Young Alumni Trustee, they anticipate the difficulty of balancing multiple perspectives from the University community with their own perspectives. Jackson has been involved with the Pace Center Breakout trips, service initiatives and student government. Jackson said his time as an RCA in Forbes showed him the challenges students face when transitioning to the University. As a member of diSiac, he said, he was able to learn about the concerns and ideas students have about enhancing the arts at Princeton, and

as Undergraduate Student Government president, he gained the perspective of an administrator on how to address the concerns of students. Jackson said learning about the good the University has done for students helped inspire him to run for the position of Young Alumni Trustee. “I’m very committed to serving other people and want to ensure that the perspective of current students and recent alumni are considered when the board is making their decisions,” Jackson said. ”I think that perspective is truly rooted in the current Princeton experience, one that is important to have when considering the long-term interests of the University.” Rosenthal is a politics major with a certificate in African American studies. She said her academic interests

have paralleled her extracurricular interests. Rosenthal started a Black and Jewish dialogue program, an initiative through the Carl A. Fields Center and the Center for Jewish Life, the spring of her sophomore year. She was a member of the Black Men’s Awareness Group her junior year, a fellow at the Carl A. Fields Center for three years, an RCA in Wilson College for two years and the recent founder of a dialogue program across eating clubs called Club Nom. “Throughout my time here I have served as a bridge between communities,” Rosenthal said. ”I have tried my best to support my peers and help connect individuals with resources, a step in fostering a community where people feel valued.” She said her exposure to the diversity of Princeton has given her the opportu-

nity to learn a lot and understand the value of listening when leading. Last summer, Rosenthal interned in the Office of the Provost, an experience that she said helped her realize the extent of the trustees’ inf luence over the institution and added to her interest in running for Young Alumni Trustee. The current Young Alumni Trustees are Brian Reilly ’14, Kanwal Matharu ’13, Angela Groves ’12, and Aku Ammah-Tagoe ’11. The members of the Classes of 2016, 2015, 2014 and 2013 are eligible to vote in the general election. Voting will run from April 28 through May 20. The winner will be announced at the Alumni Council Awards Luncheon and at the end of the P-rade on May 29, according to University spokesperson Martin Mbugua.

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98 percent vaccination rate aided recent reduction in risk at the U.

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two studies on the effectiveness of the vaccine on University students last academic year, said. She is also an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota. “CDC’s announcement that Princeton students are no longer at increased risk of [meningitis B] is excellent news,” she said, noting how agonizing the outbreak was for the University and Drexel University communities. “It is reassuring that all evidence indicates that the outbreak is now over.” A Drexel University student died from meningitis B after coming into contact with a University student who was a carrier of the disease. Over 600 students enrolled in a cross-sectional serological survey to assess the extent to which the vaccine induced antibodies against the outbreak strain, she said. In fall 2014, the study enrolled approximately another 150 students. Blood samples were collected from participants before and after reception of the vaccine to evaluate immune responses. “We will follow up the cohort of incoming students next fall, as well, to assess the duration of the immune response,” she added. She will share the results of her research at the Wilson School on April 7.

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The Dinky approaches in the distance, bringing a new throng of returning students from spring break.

The University’s response was as optimal as could be hoped during the outbreak, Basta said. “University officials acted swiftly during a very challenging time to control the [meningitis B] outbreak,” she said. “The University partnered with local, state, and federal authorities to explore all avenues for containing the outbreak and protecting students, and they devoted considerable resources to bring the outbreak under control as rapidly as possible.” The University now recommends all incoming students receive the meningitis B vaccine through their personal physician prior to arriving on campus, Mbugua noted. However, the vaccine is still not required for college enrollment in New Jersey. “It’s always good to practice good hygiene,” he said. “Meningitis aside, taking good precautions is always a good idea.” Despite the remarkable progress, some reason for caution still exists, Gwen Lee ’16, chair of the Student Health Advisory Board, said. “Even though we’re at equal risk as other universities, I’d still say keeping safe and healthy measures in mind is still important,” she said. “We would never want to relapse. It’s important to keep all these safety measures in mind.” Nonetheless, the University’s ability to acquire an

exemption to use the vaccine while it was still unlicensed in the U.S. was remarkable, Lee said. “I think it’s amazing we were given access to this vaccine,” she said. No cases of serogroup B meningococcal disease have occurred on the University campus or affected students since the ninth case in November 2013. In December 2013, the University began to offer free meningitis B vaccines to all undergraduates, as well as some graduate students and other members of the University community, after receiving special approval from the CDC. At that time, Bexsero had been approved in Europe, but was unlicensed in the United States. The University did investigate at least one medical case relating to the reactions to the vaccine in February 2014, in which a student arrived at the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro with rhabdomyolysis less than one day after receiving the vaccine, according to a Daily Princetonian article on Feb. 24, 2014. Rhabdomyolysis is a condition in which a patient’s muscle tissue will break down and transfer muscle fiber and protein into the bloodstream and carries a high risk of kidney damage. Doctors later determined a link between the vaccine and rhabdomyolysis was unlikely.

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the University as a Wilson School major. As a member of the American Whig-Cliosophic Society’s Debate Panel, he won the top speaker award at both the U.S. National Debating Championship and the North American Debating Championship. Cruz was the University’s highest-ranked debater at the World Universities Debating Championship. The University’s annual novice championship is called the Ted Cruz Living Memorial Novice Championship. He won the U.S. National Speaker of the Year award and, along with his debate partner and roommate David Panton ’92, won Team of the Year. Panton explained that he and Cruz were very close, having roomed together for over three years at the University.

Both Panton and Cruz swapped roommates freshman year, so they lived together for some of their freshman year and the entirety of their sophomore, junior and senior years. They both attended Harvard Law School at the same time and roomed together there as well, he said. “I think Ted would make an exceptional and outstanding president of the United States,” Panton said. “If he does decide to run, then I’d be thrilled and he’ll have my full support … Ted, I believe, represents the goals and the leadership that America needs.” Cruz and Panton lived in Butler College, and Panton noted that Cruz joined Colonial Club, while Panton was a member of Tower Club. Cruz’s senior year thesis was called “Clipping the Wings of Angels: The History and Theory behind the Ninth and Tenth Amendments of the United States Constitution.” His advi-

sor was politics professor Robert George. “It was a pleasure to work with Ted,” George said. “I found him to be the kind of student who combines strong personal convictions with a genuine interest in ideas and arguments. Although we tended to agree about constitutional interpretation, we often found ourselves playing devil’s advocate with each other. Someone who was eavesdropping would imagine that we were bitter opponents.” After law school, Cruz clerked in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and later for Chief Justice William Rehnquist in 1996. After clerking, Cruz worked at Cooper, Carvin & Rosenthal until 1998, where he worked closely on cases about the National Rifle Association and helped prepare testimony against then-President Bill Clinton during his impeachment trial.

He later joined the Bush presidential campaign as a domestic policy adviser. After Bush took office, Cruz served as an associate deputy attorney general in the Justice Department and as the director of policy planning at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. In 2003, Cruz was appointed Solicitor General of Texas and served in that role until 2008. Cruz argued cases before the Supreme Court nine times, winning five and losing four. After leaving his position as Solicitor General, Cruz worked at a private law firm in Houston until 2013, at which point he was sworn in as a U.S. Senator. In September 2013, Cruz led a filibuster of the Affordable Care Act, holding the floor for 21 hours. A 16-day government shutdown ensued because congressional leaders felt pressured not to fund the government until the program was defunded, which it was not.

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cused male student was denied of a job previously offered to him by a well-respected employer, Andrew Miltenberg, counsel for John Doe, told The Daily Princetonian. “We are not suing to punish anybody,” he said. “We are suing for some justice to be applied to everyone.” The current goal of John Doe’s counsel is to expunge the result of the investigation from the plaintiff’s school record, Miltenberg said, adding that he believes the investigator who handled the case “didn’t present the full information to the panel.” “[Sexual misconduct] is a hot topic, and there is an active national dialogue about it,” he said. “We want to have a process that’s an environment where

[women] can feel comfortable in making those charges but also that the person accused has a real opportunity to present the case properly.” He alleged Cornell’s investigation collected four accounts that Jane Doe was not intoxicated, as well as affidavits contradicting Jane’s account, but the evidence was ultimately presented in a way detrimental to the plaintiff. Miltenberg also alleges the numbers used in Cornell’s blood alcohol concentration calculations were based solely on Jane Doe’s self-account. According to the complaint, John Doe said he was informed by the investigator that “seeing that [John Doe was] a graduating senior, in the worst case scenario [the investigator] will not recommend suspension or expulsion as [John Doe was] too close to graduation and this would not make sense.”

Miltenberg alleges specifically that Cornell violated New York state law, Title IX and other federal laws. He also alleges Cornell violated its own policies. Miltenberg alleges Cornell may have overreacted to avoid accusations of being too light on similar crimes. “I think it’s important that universities have very clear policies and procedures, and that procedure shouldn’t fail for the accuser or the accused,” Miltenberg said, adding that an environment that encourages young women to make valid accusations and an opportunity for the accused to properly defend themselves are not mutually exclusive. Miltenberg has previously filed similar lawsuits against Columbia, Vassar College, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Drew University. Princeton entered into an

agreement with the Office for Civil Rights in November to resolve the OCR’s finding that the University was out of compliance with Title IX. The OCR found the less stringent “preponderance of the evidence” standard should have been used instead of the “clear and persuasive” standard in adjudicating sexual misconduct cases. The preponderance of the evidence standard requires that at least half of the evidence points in the direction of guilt. The University, as well as Cornell, now both use the “preponderance of the evidence” standard for Title IX-related cases. The University has openly acknowledged that it was pressured by the federal government to adopt these changes, according to a Nov. 5 ‘Prince’ article.

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ered himself a jock who played multiple sports growing up, including football, wrestling and track, Graves gravitated towards drawing very early on and often told those around him that he planned to be an artist or painter. “It was the side of my brain that I guess I did the best at,”

“He didn’t belong to any one person. He belonged to the world.” maximillian hayden architect

Graves had said in an interview for Attention, an audio journal for architecture at the University. His mother, however, encouraged him to pursue a safer and more reliable professional field that involved drawing instead, such as engineering or architecture. After she explained what engineering was to Graves, who was 8 years old at the time, he immediately declared that he would be an architect instead. Although his mother had not yet had the chance to explain what architecture was, he said, “I’m not going to be an engineer and [architecture] has got to be better than engineering,” according to the Attention interview. He fell in love with architecture anyway. From the Midwest to the Big Apple to Rome Years later, Graves attended the University of Cincinnati, where he could pay for his tuition through a flexible workstudy schedule. He alternated between work in an architectural office for Carl A. Strauss and Associates and school every 2 months, which meant he had to stay on an extra year. He graduated in 1958 with a degree in architecture. Graves went on to pursue a master’s degree in architecture at Harvard, which he called a terrible place. Josep Lluís Sert, then the Dean at the Graduate School of Design, often criticized and threatened Graves for having different thoughts and opinions about architecture. According to an interview with the Berkshire Fine Arts Journal, Graves said that growing up in the Midwest had made him more of a Mies van der Rohe man and that Harvard instead emphasized the works of Le Corbusier, a Swiss-French architect who pioneered the emergence of modern architecture. Despite how he suffered at Harvard, Graves did love and treasure Le Corbusier, according to Peter Eisenman, Graves’ long-time friend and colleague as well as famous architect who joined Graves at the University in 1963. Eisenman and Graves first met in 1959 in Cambridge, Mass. while working for different architects. They had met again in Rome in the summer of 1961. After graduating in 1959, Graves worked for George Nelson, a French designer and architect, in a New York office for one year. It was during that time that Graves first met architect Richard Meier, who later became a member of the New York Five along with Graves. The New York Five was a group of five architects based in New York City who believed in pure modernist aesthetics. Having been the only student in his Harvard class not to have already travelled to Europe, Graves said in the Attention interview that he surprised himself when he won the Prix de Rome fellowship in 1960. The highly regarded scholarship allowed him to study architecture at the American Academy in Rome. There,

Graves immersed himself in a magnificent city, unique in its vast and rich history and architecture. “It was a real awakening for me,” Graves said of his time in Rome, adding that he particularly loved to dine well and walk in the streets afterward, observing the buildings and how happy the people were. Focusing on the work of Francesco Borromini, an Italian architect who contributed to the rise of Roman Baroque architecture, Graves occupied himself with selling sketches and washes of Borromini’s buildings that he had drawn or painted himself. He used the money he earned to take a Grand Tour throughout the Mediterranean, where he studied architecture from both the past and present. Wreaking Havoc at Princeton Upon his return to America in 1962, Graves received a partnership offer from George Nelson. Doubtful of whether his vision aligned with Nelson’s, Graves declined and decided to teach instead. The University offered him a full-time teaching position on the condition that he live in Princeton rather than commute from New York. The University’s School of Architecture, which had only been recently founded at that time, had no dean, unlike the other professional schools at the time. Robert McLaughlin served as the director. Graves became the Robert Schirmer Professor of Architecture and held the position until his retirement in 2001. Graves was a refreshing addition to the faculty, Eisenman said, especially because

“Everyone else’s studios were regular and his was a major. He expected you to bring it. You worked hard in that studio. He pushed you, he challenged you. This was joy and passion, this was for the love of it.” Patrick Burke GS ’82

the University had not made a new hire in the architecture department in the 17 years beforehand. Eisenman and Graves worked as junior professors with offices in the basement of the architecture building. Together, they “caused a lot of havoc,” Eisenman said, and spent a great deal of time together, so much so that philosophy professor Arthur Szathmary once asked a colleague on McCosh Walk, “Who is this man, Eisenman Graves?” The powerful duo spent several years together at the University, where they worked on multiple competitions together for projects in Boston, California and Washington D.C. In 1966, Eisenman and Graves began gathering ideas for a large-scale project in New Jersey called the Jersey Corridor project. The proposal involved transforming a 20 mile long strip of land into a linear city that would consist of two parallel strips, one for homes and stores and the other for industry. The headline of a December 1965 issue of Life Magazine described it as “self-sufficient structures” that would “carry a metropolis across New Jersey.” Robert Goheen, then the President of the University, appreciated the idea and helped raise $100,000 to fund the project, which at that time, was a tremendous amount of money, Eisenman said. The sixties and seventies were an incredibly exciting and forward-looking era for architecture and the arts, Eisenman

said, noting that their work at the University was set against the backdrop of the 1960s, a period of student revolt and cultural shift. “It happened in Princeton as well as other places. We were right in the middle of it,” Eisenman said. A Career of Color and Commercialism Graves was considered in the 1960s and 1970s to be a member of the New York Five, along with other architects Peter Eisenman, Richard Meier, Charles Gwathmey and John Hejduk, a group that took a powerful stance in supporting a pure form of modernism. While the definitions and standards of modernism vary widely today, the movement is often associated with the use of industrially-produced materials, simplicity of form, elimination of elaborate furnishings or details and the idea that form should follow function. In the early 1980s, however, Graves broke away to pursue and explore post-modernism, for which he became widely known and respected. Bringing color, different textures, materials, decorative and fine arts back into architecture, many of which had been missing from architecture in the period after World War II, Graves wanted to bring humanistic principles back into contemporary architecture, said Tom Moran, chief curator of Grounds for Sculpture, a sculpture museum and park in Hamilton, N.J. In 1982, Graves built the Portland Building in Portland, Ore., which many regard as the first large-scale creation constructed in post-modernist style. The building, consisting of municipal offices, was later added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. Throughout the end of the 20th century, Graves produced a number of acclaimed works, including the Denver Public Library, a building that featured an atrium with large wood bracings and testified to Graves’ inventiveness, according to Moran. Graves also worked extensively with and designed many buildings for Disney. The Team Disney Building built in 1991 in Burbank, Calif., features the Seven Dwarves as caryatids and exemplifies Graves’ love for infusing joy into the things he built. Graves also designed Disney’s Hotel New York in Paris and other resorts at Walt Disney World. Graves began the steep rise to the commercial pinnacle of his career with his work with Alessi, an Italian company. In 1985, Graves helped design a teakettle with a red birdshaped whistle that became overwhelmingly popular and grew to become a symbol of his designs. Some of Graves’ notable projects throughout the 1990s include buildings for Rice University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, the American Academy in Rome and the International Finance Corporation Headquarters of the World Bank in Washington D.C. In the 2000s, Graves’ work on the scaffolding for the restoration of the Washington Monument caught the eye of a Target executive. Soon after, Graves began designing consumer products for Target stores throughout the country, and then exclusively for J.C. Penney. Expanding the boundaries of his design to kitchen products, jewelry, watches, rugs and other similar small-scale objects, Graves firmly believed that architects can build more than just buildings, according to a 1994 interview with The Indianapolis Star. As a result, Graves became extremely well-known for the way he transitioned across the barrier between architecture and the mass market, Mario Gandelsonas, an architecture professor at the University, said. Among some of Graves’ work in the 2000s are the U.S. Em-

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Michael Graves, former professor and Princeton-based architect, passed away in his home last week.

bassy Compound in Korea, the Trump International Hotel in Florida, the National Automobile Museum in the Netherlands, additions to Chancellor Green for the University and additions and interiors for Wu and Wilcox Halls at the University. Graves also contributed to the so-called linguistic turn of architectural theory, Hans Tursack GS ’13, who interviewed Graves for an audio architecture journal last year, said. The linguistic turn, he said, refers to the 1970s when architects and architectural theorists began using semiotics and structuralism to talk about buildings as a linguistic system. “A column was like a word, the whole building was like a paragraph,” Tursack said. ”Graves’ greatest contribution to architectural design-theory was his idea that a building’s elevation, as in its frontal view, could be thought of as a painterly surface to be read by the viewer.” A Mentor to Many Although Graves went on to explore many new projects and ventures throughout his career, he remained constant in his teaching. Graves strove to help his students realize their visions and to help them understand how their own work related to the long arc of architectural history, Stanley Allen GS ’88, acting dean of the School of Architecture, said. While he was not influenced stylistically by Graves, Allen said that Graves’ parallel commitment to both creative work in architecture and teaching was an example for him. Patrick Burke GS ’82, who

“He left a legacy that is astounding. When you see the exhibition, it hits you. It hits you hard. You realize that this one individual envisioned all of this work.” Tom Moran graduated from the University with a master’s degree in architecture, studied in Graves’ design studio and had him as a thesis adviser. Working in Graves’ studio was like entering the playoffs or major tournaments for a sport, Burke said. “Everyone else’s studios were regular and his was a major,” he said. “He expected you to bring it. You worked hard in that studio. He pushed you, he challenged you. This was joy and passion, this was for the love of it.” Burke added that Graves emphasized design by drawing and compelled his students to think beyond the simpler, functional issues of their projects. Rather than engaging in overly intellectual and somewhat pretentious debate about architecture like many others, Graves tried to ground the con-

versation on the fact that, in the end, buildings are designed for people. Students from all over the world travelled to study with Graves, Eisenman said. “He was Princeton,” he said.

“For him to come up with a very bright color palate and a sense of human scale was earth shattering at the time. Maximillian Hayden

“It was really important to be with Michael.” Michael Graves Architecture and Design Firm Graves inspired other younger aspiring artists outside the classroom as well. In 1964, he established Michael Graves & Associates, a public practice in Princeton with an office in New York City. The firm grew larger and stronger throughout the years, and became one of Graves’ proudest accomplishments. Hayden, a Princeton-based architect, first heard about Graves through his work on the Fargo-Moorhead Cultural Center, which had been published in many architectural magazines at the time. Hayden began working for Graves’ firm in 1988, and compared the experience to being in a musical or play production. “There are so many characters. It was very personal and surprisingly small,” Hayden said. “There were a lot of very young people and it was very exciting.” At that time, there were only about 100 employees total, 80 of whom were based in Princeton and the rest in the New York office. The office environment was personal and enjoyable, according to Hayden, who recalled that Graves often brought his dog to work and that they would have birthday parties in the office and eat lunch out at the nearby park. The employees also often travelled together across the country for “class trips.” Not all who worked under him agreed with all aspects of his design philosophy, Hayden said, but his work demanded to be respected and appreciated. “For him to come up with a very bright color palate and a sense of human scale was earth shattering at the time,” he said. “It made us all think that buildings are for our use, not for giants, not to be unemotive and cold, but supposed to be useful for us and make us feel good in them. And that’s what he did.” A Wheelchair and a Vision When a spinal cord infection paralyzed Graves from the waist down in 2003, his perspective on the world shifted noticeably, several people interviewed said. Forced to spend an extended amount of time in the hospital during his medical difficul-

ties, Graves became extremely frustrated with the way hospitals were designed, with both unattractive and non-functional furnishings. He shared examples, including the mirror being settled so high that wheelchair-bound patients could not see their own reflection or the sink positioned in such an uncomfortable angle that one could not reach it, according to Janie Hermann, public programming librarian at the Princeton Public Library who often interacted with him when coordinating lectures and series. Although Graves’ illness and subsequent paralysis was a tragedy, he continued to paint and draw as often as possible. “I think that was a great source of solace for him at a difficult time in the last 12 years of his life when he was in a wheelchair,” Allen said. Afterwards, Graves dedicated himself to improving hospital design and creating medical equipment and furniture that were both functional and aesthetically pleasing. In 2011, Clark Realty Capital commissioned Graves and his firm to help design homes that could accommodate injured or disabled service members, in an initiative called the Wounded Warriors Home Project. President Barack Obama appointed Graves in 2013 to become a member of the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board, which focused on improving access for people with disabilities. Graves was also working on an ongoing project before his death at the Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska. The hospital provides specialized programs to rehabilitate patients with severe and traumatic injuries and Burke said the hospital hired Graves’ firm because they believed Graves could empathize with the patients. Burke said that redesigning the hospital was good for Graves. “He felt like he had a chance to get it right,” he said Loving a Community That Loved Him Back Graves always wanted to give back to the community he lived in, Hermann said. She added that Graves had always been flexible with his schedule and willing to involve himself in community programs and lectures at the Princeton Public Library’s request. One of Graves’ happier moments took place in October 2014, when Grounds for Sculpture opened the exhibition season with an installation of Graves’ work, titled, “Past as Prologue.” The exhibition includes paintings, sculptures and drawings and demonstrates the magnitude and significance of his contributions across the last 50 years, and will be open until April 5. “It’s incredibly sad to lose him,” Moran said of Graves. ”He left a legacy that is astounding. When you see the exhibition, it hits you. It hits you hard. You realize that this one individual envisioned all of this work.”

Thoughts on the value of free time Jessica N. Li

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aving lived in Arizona my entire life before coming to Princeton, this past March 8 was my first year experiencing the magic of daylight saving time. Late that Saturday night, like the typical student before midterms, I was poring over notes and textbooks strewn across my table at Frist Campus Center when I glanced up at the digital clock in the top-right corner of my screen: 1:59 a.m. A blink later, the dots and squiggles quietly rearranged themselves: 3:00 a.m. An hour of my life had been whisked away, as though by Hermione’s Time-Turner. I laughed brief ly (alone in Frist, like a crazy person), massaged my eyelids and returned to my books. I laughed because to me, daylight saving time seemed like a funny metaphor for the way time works in college. Around three weeks into the year, I finally articulated in my mind why the rhythm of time felt disrupted from the original pattern. It was both a shrinking and a stretching: the individual seconds and minutes and hours slipped by faster, but each day in my “new” life seemed to fit three “old” days. Each day here holds so much walking and conversing and laughing and writing and coding. There is so much doing. But there is so little time to actually be, to feel the seconds and minutes and, dare I say, hours drawn out in all their slow glory, as they move by. I’m a freshman, so I think I can say that I remember my high school experience closely. I was busy. We all were. I was always running from point A to B to C, endlessly and tirelessly. Now I still try to run from A to B to C, but halfway between B and C the fatigue catches up to me. At the end of the day, when I sink into my bed, I feel the tiredness in my bones. It makes sense too. Classes are harder. Work, both academic and extracurricular, requires more thinking. I probably spend a good 45 minutes each day just walking. Sometimes doubt sneaks in. I’m in fewer student groups, and I’m only in class for an average of three hours a day versus

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Extend the pass/D/fail deadline

ith midterms week, today begins the period during which students can elect to use the pass/D/fail grading option for one class in lieu of receiving a letter grade. According to the University’s 2014-15 Undergraduate Announcement, the P/D/F option is in place in order to “encourage exploration and experimentation in curricular areas in which the student may have had little or no experience.” The P/D/F option allows students to take classes that interest them in areas outside their comfort zone without the added pressure of the usual grading system and its effect on their GPAs. Despite the many merits of the P/D/F option, however, the Editorial Board proposes that University’s existing policy could be improved by extending the P/D/F deadline to the beginning of reading period and allowing students to rescind but lose a P/D/F selection after seeing their final grade in a class. The current P/D/F selection period, beginning the seventh week of the semester and ending during the ninth week of the semester, largely undermines the University’s original intent for the P/D/F option: the encouragement of intellectual curiosity and exploration. When students permanently select the P/D/F option for a class, they no longer have as significant of an incentive to complete the class’s required readings, care-

fully complete problem sets and diligently study for exams. This is problematic because many of the assignments or discussions that carry the most intellectual weight often times occur at the end of a semester when students have developed a thorough understanding of a class’s subject material. Risk-averse students who select the P/D/F option are placed in a position where it makes sense to focus on graded courses and ignore their P/D/F course. These students rationally choose to forgo full engagement with a class’s most valuable material. A reading period deadline and an option to rescind a P/D/F selection, for many, would change incentives to encourage working diligently in all classes through the entire semester. The current policy also asks students to select the P/D/F option without complete information. The late assignments that tend to be more rigorous also tend to have a significant impact on students’ grades. These assignments have the ability to generate course grades that are much higher or lower than the grade a student receives on a midterm. When the deadline is only after midterm exams are completed, students simply do not have the necessary information needed to make a well-informed decision. In addition, many students in seminars without a traditional midterm exam experience even more difficulty in choosing whether

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to use a P/D/F since they have little to no way to assess their performance in a class until they receive a grade for a paper or project late in the semester. The Board fears that the early deadline deters students from taking courses with uneven and unpredictable grade distributions. The Board believes placing students in a position to make better informed decisions is the solution to this problem. Finally, the Board believes that students who elect the P/D/F option and proceed to earn a high grade in a class should be have their achievement recognized. In such cases, the Board proposes that students be given the option to have their grade converted to a letter grade but still have one fewer P/D/F selection available for the rest of their time at the University. Extending the P/D/F deadline would encourage students to genuinely explore topic areas unfamiliar to them and allow students to make better informed decisions. The Board encourages the University to adopt these measures to encourage intellectual curiosity and improve the overall academic experience for its students. The Editorial Board is an independent body and decides its opinions separately from the regular staff and editors of The Daily Princetonian. The Board answers only to its Chair, the Opinion Editor and the Editor-InChief.

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“I now seek to find

empty pockets of time in my days. I’ve come to value time that is completely free and unstructured, when I can set aside “doing” and just focus on being.”

eight. My daily list of things-to-do has become shorter, but it’s harder to finish. I worry if, somehow, I’ve become less efficient at managing my time. Yet every time I see an email on Wilson Wire advertising an event or a club that piques my interest, it’s hard not to feel like I’m letting go of an important opportunity. I wonder if this is a position or club that will make my time here more alive and meaningful. Which is why, for a period, I let a manageable level of busy become overwhelmingly busy. I let my workload slip out of my control, let it grow like a cute little monster that never stops demanding sustenance. Suddenly, my day-to-day schedule had compressed the seconds into slivers of time f litting by at an unbearable speed, and my days were achingly long. I think everyone learns this at some point in her Princeton career, some earlier than others, and I finally did too. I try my best to do what’s healthiest for me: check the box, and move it to my folder titled “Later.” The reality — good or bad — is that time works differently here, and I repress the need to fill my time with more doing. I now seek to find empty pockets of time in my days. I’ve come to value time that is completely free and unstructured, when I can set aside “doing” and just focus on being. When I realized that I hadn’t read a book for fun in months, I walked to the public library to find a new book. It was a weekday afternoon after my last class. My shoulders were light after dumping my backpack, and I felt so at ease, taking in the sunshine and the strange almostspring air. There was a blank space in my schedule, and I was content with leaving it empty rather than filling it with activity. I had carved out a moment for me to be rooted in the present, compartmentalizing the past and the future for another time. Jessica Li is a freshman from Chandler, Ariz. She can be reached at jnli@princeton.edu.

Empower the future through teaching

Nikki Bowen ’08

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his February, my students joined their peers across the country to celebrate Black History Month. My primarily AfricanAmerican students became fired up as they learned about the incredible contributions their ancestors have made to society, often going home to research the figures on their own and coming back into school the next morning with notes about what they had discovered. As the principal of an all-girls school in Brooklyn, nothing could excite me more than seeing my students so engaged and passionate about what they’re learning. I know the odds they face — just 6 percent of students growing up in lowincome communities like them will graduate high school by the time they are 25. But I know that with confidence and drive, they can overcome those odds. I first got involved in education because of my own experiences in school. Growing up, my mother insisted I get

up much earlier than I wanted to every morning to attend a school across town. The kids on my block, who all walked to the neighborhood school, would tease me as I waited for the bus. Once I got to class, I was further ostracized. Until fourth grade, I was the only black person in the room. It didn’t take long to realize that I was both poor and different. But my mom knew how important a great education was, and once I got to Princeton, I understood why. Through the Princeton Inmate Outreach Program, I tutored inmates at Albert C. Wagner Prison. I was shocked by what I found — so many of them couldn’t read, write or do basic math. As I learned more about the correlation between illiteracy and incarceration rates, I decided to put my law school plans on hold. As a lawyer, I couldn’t fix the problems that would land my clients in my office in the first place. As a teacher, I could have a hand in changing their trajectories. So I joined Teach For America, determined to give my kids the basic foundational skills that would set them up for future

success. Some of my students struggled — one in particular, Challah, struggled immensely with reading. But one rainy, dreary morning, as I sat in the cafeteria and greeted my kids, Challah bounded up to me with a grin. “Good morning!” she cried. Then she pulled out the book she had been reading — above her grade level, no less — and excitedly started telling me all about what she was learning from the book. Against all odds, Challah had learned to read. In her eyes and mind, there was nothing she couldn’t do. Whenever I feel defeated or frustrated, I think of that morning with Challah. I think of how incredible it is to see the impact of a tough job and realize that we, as educators, are helping shape the future. My girls have and will continue to face challenges in life simply because they are black and female. But we can give them the tools and skills they need to rise above those challenges and create futures for themselves that defy the statistics – the ones that tell them they are unlikely to graduate high school, go to college and break the cycles of poverty into

which they were born. We have a long way to go as a country before we truly achieve justice for all. To fix the systemic oppression that has created the gross inequality of the present will take the hard, dedicated work of countless leaders and change-makers — many who have experienced it first-hand, others who bear witness to it from further away. We must work toward these long-term changes as well as the immediate, urgent opportunities to change the way our students view themselves and their futures. As teachers, we can play a central role in this. Everyday, we can remind our kids that their thoughts, ideas, identities and opinions are important. We can share our own stories so that when our kids look to the front of the room, they see a little bit of themselves ref lected back. We can remind them that they matter, that they always have and that they always will. Nikki Bowen ’08 is an alumna of Teach For America New York City. She is the principal of Excellence Girls Charter School in Brooklyn, N.Y.

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ahead to bring Green Bay within three with 6:30 left in the first half. Green Bay played with an exceptional turnover margin, which explains the mere three point Tiger lead despite the incredible shooting that the Tigers are known for. A Wheatley jumpshot tried to pull away, but the Lukan sisters worked together for a layup before Green Bay’s Weitzer netted a jumper that brought the Phoenix within one point of the Tigers, 31-32. After a scoring drought of nearly two minutes, Green Bay scored again to take the lead 33-32. A fierce battle ensued for

the last minute of play in the first half, but Green Bay’s Tesha Buck scored a second basket in a row to bring the score up to 35-32 before a Miller jumper brought the Tigers within one, leaving the Tigers trailing at halftime 35-34 despite a significant rebounding advantage. The second half opened with Wheatley finding an open shooter in Tarakchian, passing for a three that put the Tigers in the lead right away. Phoenix Mehryn Kraker put in another three to pull Green Bay into the lead again, but another exciting Tarakchian three allowed the Tigers to regain the lead, solidifying her 11th doubledouble of the season. Again, the Tigers and Phoenix traded shots, alternating which team led un-

til a Wheatley layup at 13:44 gave the Tigers the lead they held onto for the rest of the game. The Tigers continued to increase their scoring margin in pursuit of perfection, with another Tarakchian basket and Wheatley jumper after a freethrow from Greenbay’s Allie Leclaire pushing the Tiger lead up to five points. A great block shot from the center and pair of free throws in succession from Smith left the Tigers up by 10, 58-48, and gave the Tigers more momentum, with which they rolled over the Phoenix. With just six minutes in between the Tigers and their victory, Princeton was on an offensive blast as Wheatley and Tarakchian scored a pair of free throws. Buck then

scored a three and Smith traded free throws with Kaili Lukan, leaving Green Bay down by six as the clock counted down and less than three minutes left in the period. The game started to take a turn, and it looked as though Green Bay was putting together a rally with another two points with just over two minutes left, but the Tigers were not going to relinquish their lead, and pulled ahead again with a Wheatley layup. After Kaili Lukan tugged on Dietrick’s jersey in an attempt to keep her from breaking away, a pair of Dietrick free throws put the Tigers up by eight points with just a minute left. A basket from behind the arc scored by Green Bay’s Sam Terry came with just 48 sec-

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he would live to see Day 2 of competition by dominating West Virginia’s Jakob Scheffel in the first consolation round. Harner unfortunately drew Nebraska’s TJ Dudley in the second consolation round, where he fell 9-0 to the eventual eighth-place finisher at 184 pounds. After turning heads by marching all the way to the finals of EIWAs, Laster continued to turn heads by advancing the furthest of any Tiger in the NCAA Championships. Wrestling in the pigtail round on Thursday morning, Laster battled his way to an impressive 4-2 decision over Rider’s Chuck Zeisloft in sudden victory. Laster’s luck did not continue in his next match, as he drew three-time defending national champion Logan Stieber of Ohio State. Stieber defeated Laster by technical fall, and would eventually go

on to capture his fourth national championship, becoming just the fourth wrestler in NCAA Division I history to do so. Laster turned it on in wrestle backs, though. Down by two points against Michigan’s George Fisher, Laster scored a crucial takedown to take the lead in the dying seconds of the third period to advance to Friday’s competition. After winning via medical forfeit in the second consolation round, Laster took out Nick Lawrence of Purdue in a hardfought 3-2 decision. Despite peaking at exactly the right time in the season, Laster’s effort fell short in the Round of 12 against Virginia Tech’s Devin Carter. Carter, the returning national runner-up at 141 pounds, had been upset early in competition, and proved too much for Laster in an 18-7 major decision that clinched him All-American status for the third and final time of his college career. On the wings of a terrific regular season, one that

earned him Princeton’s first ever Ivy League Rookie of the Year honor, Schleifer drew a tough opening match against third-seeded Isaac Jordan of Wisconsin. Schleifer would fall 9-3 but rebounded with a strong win later in the day against Adam Fierro of CalState Bakersfield. Eventual All-American Nick Sulzer lay waiting for Schleifer on Friday morning, though, and knocked him out of the tournament with a major decision. In a season that saw six starters place at EIWAs, in addition to five qualifying and winning matches at NCAAs, the Tigers further elevated the program’s reputation on a national level. But there is little doubt that jumps of similar magnitude lie in the cards for the Tigers next season. While the team will miss the leadership it received from its senior starters in 125-pounder Ryan Cash and 157-pounder Rich Eva, the Tigers will return eight of their ten start-

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at 8th place by the 2000 meter mark. Battling off Emily Sittes of William and Mary, Curham finished five places above her initial qualifying rank. A lthough Curham didn’t reach her personal goal of 8th place, she showcased an amazing performance for her first run at the NCAA Indoor Championships and boasts a bright future. As one of only five underclassmen at Friday’scompetition, Curham’s indoor prospects remain high for the years to come. More impressively, with Friday’s All-American Honor, Curham has become only the second athlete in Princeton history to complete the trifecta and earn All-American Honors in Cross Country, Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field. With four Honors and just in her sophomore year, Curham is on pace to smash Princeton’s record of five All-American Honors, set by Cack Ferrel in 2006.

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yearns for the longer distances offered in the spring. Hopefully, she will continue her success at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in June.

ers, including all five NCAA qualifiers. After going toe to toe with the nation’s best on a team and individual level this winter, the Tigers look poised to launch themselves into the national spotlight next season with a veteran core and a lineup that is hungry and gifted from top to bottom. What’s more, next season holds special significance for Chris Ayres’s squad: the EIWA Championships return to Jadwin Gymnasium, and the NCAA Championships will be held just a short train ride away in the Big Apple, hosted at Madison Square Garden. With talent and experience from the 2014-15 season meeting vast opportunity for the 2015-16 campaign, the possibilities for Ayres’s squad are endless, and Old Nassau could soon see the greatest season its grapplers have ever produced.

onds left on the clock, to put the score at 68-73. The last minute was intense, with a pair of Miller free throws and Kaili Lukan coming back with a pair of her own before Dietrick and Tarakchian combined to score another three points

with just 17 seconds left on the clock, with the score at 80-70. The Tigers will return on March 23 at 6:30 p.m. to face off against the winner of the game between no. 1 seeded Maryland and no. 16 seeded New Mexico State.

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Pursuit of perfection continues for Tigers in NCAA tournament By Sydney Mandelbaum associate sports editor

The Tigers continued their perfect season on Saturday, winning their first round matchup against the University of Wisconsin— Green Bay 80-70 in the NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship tournament. After picking the Tigers to be in the Final Four in his March Madness bracket, President Barack Obama was in attendance for the Tigers’ dominant victory. The stands were a sea of Orange and Black as Head Coach Courtney Banghart led the Tigers to today’s win, the first in an NCAA tournament in program history and the second in Ivy League history. Princeton received a No. 8 seed for the Spokane region of the tournament, lower than anticipated for an undefeated team ranked 13th in both the AP Top 25 and USA Today Coaches Poll. This was attributed to the

Tigers’ difficulty of schedule, as Princeton was the only school in the tournament not to face off against another top-25 team during the regular season. Both Princeton and the no. 9 seeded Green Bay Phoenix are very physical teams, playing man-to-man, which resulted in a thrilling game that only saw the Tigers begin to pull away in the last 13 minutes of play. Five Tigers scored in the double digits, led by junior guard Michelle Miller with 20 points, seven rebounds and two assists. Junior guard/forward Annie Tarakchian and junior forward Alex Wheatley, who both posted double-doubles, notched 17 points and 16 rebounds and 15 points and 10 rebounds, respectively. Tarakchian also had five assists, while Wheatley had two. Senior guard and co-captain Blake Dietrick scored 11 points with three rebounds and five assists, and sophomore guard Van-

essa Smith rounded out the group with 11 points, four rebounds and two assists. The game began with Princeton winning the opening tip and scoring the first point on a Miller three from the right. Green Bay got on the board not long after, with a jumpshot from Lexi Weitzer and a layup from Kaili Lukan separated by a Dietrick three. Green Bay pulled ahead for less than thirty seconds off of a three from Mehryn Kraker before Miller took the lead again with a shot from behind the arc. The Tigers and Phoenix traded layups before a pair of freethrows from junior guard Amanda Berntsen, a long distance three from Tarakchian and a Vanessa Smith layup offset the balance and put the Tigers up by seven. Princeton and Green Bay remained close, with the Phoenix closing in every time the Tigers tried to pull See W. B-BALL page 7

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The Princeton women’s basketball team pushed past Green Bay on Saturday, winning the first game in program history and advancing to the second round to face off against No. 1 Maryland on Monday night.

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Curham finishes 10th at NCAAs

Wrestling makes strong showing at NCAAs, sets the stage for more success

By David Liu staff writer

Battling illness and steep competition, sophomore Megan Curham won 10th place in the 5K at the NCAA Indoor Championships this past weekend. Curham, a star yearlong runner, was the only Princeton Track and Field athlete — among both the men’s and women’s teams — to qualify for the championships, representing the Tigers at the sport’s top level. By the end of the day, she had ran with the top 16 athletes in the event and walked away

with All-American Honors. The annual NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships amass the top qualifying athletes from across the nation and mark running’s transition from indoor to outdoor events. This year, the tournament was hosted in Fayetteville, Ark. from Friday March 13 to Saturday March 14, with athletes representing over 80 different schools. Two weeks prior to the Championships, Curham won 1st place in the 5K at the Ivy League Heptagonals, featuring the conference’s top athletes. Her time of 16:01.59, just

over her PR of 16:00.71, not only made her the fifth fastest 5K runner in Ivy Heptagonal history, but also earned her the 15th of 16 qualifying seeds at the NCAA Championships. Heading into the event on Friday, Curham faced numerous disadvantages, making her a prime underdog contender for the Tigers. Just a week before the event, Curham suffered an unfortunate sinus infection. While the star runner said she’d mostly recovered, there’s no doubt Curham also faced a mental battle to maintain focus after months of preparation. Furthermore, despite her

conference shattering times, 13 of her opponents had run sub16 minute 5Ks, a barrier that Curham has yet to break. At last, the stage was set for the run on Friday night. Televised on ESPN3, the event featured athletes from some of the top Track and Field schools in the nation, including Arkansas and Oregon, as well as the country’s top college 5K runner: Emily Sisson, whose record-breaking PR of 15:12.22 competes without comparison. During the heat of the race, Curham persevered and stayed within the main pack, peaking See TRACK page 7

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President Barack Obama was in attendance at Saturday’s basketball game while supporting his niece, freshman forward Leslie Robinson.

By Jack Rogers senior writer

Back in the fall, Chris Ayres and his coaching staff established the mantra of “In the Hunt” for the 201415 wrestling season. Ayres’s grapplers lived up to that standard over the course of the season. After qualifying just one wrestler for NCAA Championships in 2014, the Tigers tied a program record by sending five individuals — half of the starting lineup — to this year’s championships in St. Louis, Mo. All five wrestlers — junior 197-pounder Abram Ayala, junior 149-pounder Chris Perez, sophomore 184-pounder Brett Harner, sophomore 141-pounder Jordan Laster and freshman 165-pounder Jonathan Schleifer — advanced to the second day of double-elimination competition. Returning to NCAAs for the second straight year, Ayala held the seventh seed at 197 pounds after knocking off multiple ranked opponents over the course of the season. A strong 3-2 decision over Old Dominion’s Kevin Beazley put Ayala in the pre-quarters against returning All-American Conner Hartmann of Duke. Despite a quick takedown in the first period, Ayala was unable to handle the Blue Devil’s strength on top and fell in a 5-2 decision. In an attempt to wrestle back for All-American status, Ayala fell against Cornell’s Jace Bennett, falling just short of an outstanding comeback after falling behind early.

In his first outing at NCAAs, Perez built off his second-place performance at the EIWA Championships to wrestle well against a number of tough opponents. Facing Old Dominion’s Alex Robertson in the first round, Perez fell behind early after surrendering a takedown and back points to the eighth seed. A valiant comeback came just short for Perez, as he fell 8-6 and moved to the consolation bracket. After winning via medical forfeit in his first consolation, Perez posted an impressive 10-6 decision over Ken Theobold of Rutgers. The victory not only advanced Perez to among the final 16 wrestlers alive in his weight class, but was a piece of sweet revenge for him against nationally-ranked Theobold, who he had lost to in a close bout in February. Just two wins shy of All-American status, Perez’s ride at NCAA’s came to an end against another New Jersey opponent, this time in the form of Rider’s Bryant Clagon. After falling behind early, Perez posted an impressive comeback to tie the match in the third period, but Clagon used a late takedown to seal an 8-6 decision and advance. After being unable to wrestle at EIWAs due to injury and receiving an at-large bid to NCAA’s, Harner faced the Herculean task of trying to wrestle the nation’s best with a foot injury sustained just two weeks before. After falling to Wisconsin’s Ricky Robertson in a close 4-0 decision, Harner made sure that See WRESTLING page 7

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