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U. switches Reunions water contractor from student agency

By Jacob Tyles Science Contributor

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The Water and Beverage Student Agency has traditionally supplied water for reunions; this year the University has instead switched to an in-house supply.

In January, the Committee on Reunions, upon reviewing upcoming contracts with several student agencies and other services in preparation for this year’s reunions, has decided to withdraw working with the Water and Beverage Student Agency. This will be a first for the committee, as they’ve worked with the Water and Beverage Student Agency for more than 10 years, according to Jackson Forbes ’18.

The two executives of the student agency, Kurt Holuba ’18 and Forbes, were dismayed to hear of this recent decision. Nearly half of the Water and Beverage Student Agency (WBSA) revenue comes from Reunions alone.

“There was no warning before signing with another distributor; it felt like there was no respect,” Holuba said.

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versity student agencies, covering a range of tasks from yearbook design to moving and storage. Students must interview and be selected among a competitive pool of applicants in order to participate in these agencies.

Once accepted, the agencies provide students with ample business, managing, and communications experience.

Holuba explained that this organization is the only proper way to successfully run a small business on campus.

Last January, the WBSA went to renew its contract with the Senior Associate Director and Student Liaison for Reunions Mibs Southerland Mara. The WBSA normally orders around 500 jugs of water at $2.69 per jug, and then marks up the price in order to make a profit. Adding this to the cost of 50 coolers, more than a dozen tables, and some 15,000 cups, the total price comes to around $8000, See WATER page 2

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U. sues Dept. of Education to David Miller: Religion professor and block release of documents for on-call ethicist for Citigroup undergraduate admissions

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On March 17, the University filed a lawsuit against the Department of Education in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

The lawsuit seeks to block the release of confidential documents relating to the University’s undergraduate admissions program.

The confidential material falls into two categories, denoted “Applicant Documents and Information” and “Admissions Documents and Information” by the lawsuit. According to the formal complaint filed on Friday, these documents entail personal information about applicants and the University’s “strategies and

methods” to recruit and admit students.

The lawsuit lies at the heart of a greater controversy that began in 2008 surrounding the University’s use of affirmative action.

After being denied admission to Princeton’s Class of 2010, Jian Li, now a graduate of Yale University, filed a civil rights complaint against Princeton. He argued that the University’s admissions policies violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which “prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, and national origin.”

When the Office of Civil Rights, a sub-agency of the DOE, launched an investigation, the University disSee ADMISSIONS page 3

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Judge Andrew Napolitano ’72 sidelined by Fox News after controversial remarks

By Allie Spensley staff writer

Fox News Channel senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano ’72 has been indefinitely sidelined from the network after making unverified claims that former President Barack Obama requested British intelligence wiretap Trump Tower. Napolitano has not spoken on the channel since March 16 and has been notably absent from the network’s coverage of hearings involving Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch and FBI Director James Comey,

according to the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times.

Napolitano has not yet responded to request for comment.

Napolitano’s statements were in response to an accusation President Donald Trump made on March 4 on Twitter, claiming that Obama had ordered a wiretap of Trump Tower in New York prior to Trump’s electoral victory in November.

In a Fox News column published on March 16, Napolitano wrote that “sources have told me that the BritSee JUDGE page 7

For the past three years, Professor David Miller has concurrently worked as an on-call ethicist for Citigroup while also serving as a University professor and lecturer in the Department of Religion. He works with senior management at the multinational investment bank, advising them on the intersections of banking, the pursuit of profit, and moral and ethical boundaries.

Miller was hired three years ago by Citigroup CEO Michael Corbat in response to internal findings that employees were uncomfortable raising concerns about possible moral transgressions in their work, according to The Wall Street Journal.

According to economics professor Jean-Christophe de Swaan, who has taught the freshman seminar “Ethics in Finance” for the past six years and is currently writing a book on virtue in finance, Citigroup’s hiring of Miller is the right one. An ethicist would be able to counsel and advise executives on morally-unclear financial decisions more effectively than the bank’s compliance officers and lawyers. The move is also the first time such an action has been taken by a large financial institution, setting a new precedent for self-regulation in the financial industry, according to The Telegraph.

“It makes a lot of sense for a financial institution like Citigroup to get external advice on ethics from an expert,” de Swaan said.

“An expert on ethics will have thought about these issues for a long time, will be able to provide an out-

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Professor David Miller offers ethical advice to Wall Street bankers.

side-in perspective that is inherently more objective, and can share some useful parameters or frameworks to guide managerial decisions.”

Miller’s employment by Citigroup was also motivated by Citi’s reputation for ethical problems, Public distrust of big banks has risen over the past few years, especially during and after the recent financial crisis, and Citi has not been immune to those tensions. Because of this fact, de Swaan believes Miller’s work at Citi is a logical move in the direction of public trust again.

“Financial institutions need to find ways to regain the public’s trust, and that starts with serving foremost their clients’ interests, even when no one is looking,” de Swaan added.

Miller’s work as a bank’s

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ethicist comes at a time when several banks’ scandals have recently been publicized. In particular, Citigroup has been included in a scandal in which large banks have hired the underqualified children of Asian foreign officials as interns and employees in order to build business relations in the area.

According to de Swaan, however, financial scandals are mostly carried out by a handful of people who knowingly and willingly breach moral standards in the pursuit of profit. The majority of bankers, traders, and executives behave morally and honorably; it’s only when the rules of the financial game become overly complex and “opaque” that good people are lead by cognitive biases to make ethically questionSee CITIGROUP page 5

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the usual year-to-year price.

Because 2016 boasted a possible heat wave, Mara and the WBSA agreed to add an extra 100 jugs of water along with other supplies and labor costs to the order for another $1000.

Mara did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Many of those who attended last year’s Reunions can recall the searing heat wave, which resulted in all sites running out of water well into the early stage of reunions.

“In order to save the weekend, we had to make an emergency order the next day of an extra 300 jugs,” Holuba said. This came with higher pricing, as the jugs were ordered on a Saturday morning at an extra $4000.

“I warned Mibs about the increased price, but she gave

me the OK and we placed the order,” Holuba explained.

The WBSA went to renew its contract with the Reunions Committee and Mara this past January, but she did not respond to the request.

Mara replied to the WBSA implying that they would be switching to an in-house supply, cutting out the WBSA for services that the Reunions Committee has relied on for many years and instead going straight to the distributor.

“This makes our agency look incompetent, even though we felt like we took the right steps,” Holuba remarked. When looking to renew their contract, Mara didn’t reply for several days, only to finally confirm after two weeks that the committee had already signed another contract.

One of the highlights of student agencies is the unique experience that it gives students.

“The idea of student agencies is that it’s a program built to give students business experience–– why you would cut out the middleman and go straight to the distributor, and not give students the opportunity to gain experience is beyond me,” Holuba said.

“You would think that the University would want to be a part of the agencies,” Forbes said. “I can understand that meeting the committee at a better price would teach us a valuable experience, but cutting us out completely takes our business.”

Both Holuba and Forbes stepped down this year, and the WBSA is soon to elect new student management.

Holuba is confident in the WBSA’s ability to continue to provide fair services to students and the University, as it has been doing since its inception. Forbes used this experience to create his own business, Robo, which focuses on teaching mental toughness from the perspectives of coaches, the military, and so forth. Forbes also plans on running a small clothing line in conjunction with Robo’s image.

“I took away a better sense of management, a sense of looking forward to development and continuous innovation, as well as being able to manage all aspects of the business on my own,” Forbes explained.

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closed the aforementioned documents in cooperation with the compliance review.

On Sept. 9, 2015 in a letter to University President Christopher Eisgruber ‘83, the OCR concluded that “there was insufficient evidence to substantiate that the University violated Title VI.” This led the anti-affirmative action group Students for Fair Admissions to request and eventually file a lawsuit, Students for Fair Admissions Inc. v. U.S. Department of Education, seeking disclosure of the aforementioned documents.

The University argued that these materials are exempt under the Freedom of Information Act, but the DOE’s rejection of these claims prompted the University to sue.

Daniel Day, Assistant Vice President for Communications at the University, wrote in an email that the University filed the lawsuit last week “to honor the promise of confidentiality we make to all applicants and their families.”

“This is important prospectively as well as retrospectively, so future applicants will be willing to provide materials to us knowing the confidentiality of their materials will be respected, and so previous applicants will have their personal information and materials protected,” his emailed statement said.

Day added that the lawsuit was necessary “so as not to make the University’s internal admission policies, processes and criteria available to peer institutions that may seek to use them to their competitive advantage.”

The official University complaint filed on behalf of the University by former U.S. Associate Attorney General Thomas Perrelli also explained that concerns about

confidentiality if the structure and proceedings of the admissions process were to be released would put the University at a “substantial disadvantage” to enroll the most competitive students.

Release of the documents would also allow high-price admissions counselors to tailor their clients’ applications, thereby “harming [the University’s] ability evaluate those students and placing less aff luent applicants at a competitive disadvantage,” Day said, expressing the University’s concern.

In response to the University’s lawsuit against the DOE, Edward Blum, president of SFFA and a legal strategist known for his work in cases like Fisher v.

Texas, an affirmative action case decided in 2013 and 2016 by the Supreme Court, expressed great skepticism about the University’s reluctance to disclose information.

“This lawsuit suggests that Princeton has something very revealing it wants to hide about its admissions policies,” Blum wrote in an email.

“The Supreme Court has consistently written that colleges must be transparent in their admissions policies and procedures,” Blum wrote. “By withholding that transparency, a program such as Princeton’s should be considered f lawed and thus, unconstitutional.”

Blum also deemed the University’s claim that the documents should be exempt as commercial information and trade secrets is “simply baseless.”

The Students for Fair Admissions website states that its mission is to “restore the original principles of our nation’s civil rights movement.”

Currently, the group is also involved in litigation against two of the University’s peer institutions, Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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able decisions.

“There is a way to uphold humanistic values while working in finance by both being a strong fiduciary, which means faithfully serve your clients’ interests, and by doing so in a way that adds value to the rest of the world rather than extract from it,” de Swaan observed. “But to do so, you need to constantly question the motivation behind your decisions and project their potential consequences, including spillover effects, rather than relentlessly play the game without being thoughtful about its impact on others.

Since starting at Citi, Miller’s ideas on ethics and morality in finance have already inf luenced the bank’s culture and training. Citi executives have used Miller’s ideas of three lenses in ethical decision-making to formulate their own standards for financial actions: serving clients’ interests, creating economic value, and remaining systematically responsible. According to The Journal, the lenses will be included in employee training manuals, in Citi’s mission state-

ment, and in Citi offices worldwide.

Miller’s qualifications for working as an ethicist in the financial industry in particular stem from his own prior education and work experience. Miller studied business at Bucknell University, and worked at several different wellknown financial services firms, including HSBC and State Street Bank. However, after his wife left her job at a law firm to become an ethics professor, Miller decided to return to school to study similar subjects.

Miller received a Master of Divinity degree in Theology from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1998 and a Ph.D. in Ethics from the same institution in 2003. After receiving both degrees, Miller served as the executive director of Yale’s Center for Faith & Culture. In 2008, he came to Princeton to found and direct the University’s Faith & Work Initiative.

June Chang ‘17, former VP of the Princeton Corporate Finance Club’s Equity Research Division, did not respond to requests for comment.

Miller did not respond to requests for comment.

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Urgent action today: supporting private prison divestment Guest Contributor

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oday, the University announces its decision to continue funding forprofit prisons and immigrant detention centers. The University thus defends its complicity in institutional violence against the nation’s most marginalized communities.

At the meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community at 4:30 p.m. today in Friend Center 101, the CPUC Resources Committee will publicly announce its decision to reject the Princeton Private Prison Divest coalition’s proposal to divest from 11 companies operating or exclusively contracting with private prisons and immigrant detention centers. We ask all Princeton students and residents to come to Friend 101 at 4:00 p.m. in order to demonstrate that our community stands unified against investments that disproportionately perpetrate violence upon people of color and undocumented individuals.

Before considering a divestment proposal, the University requires evidence that there is a campus consensus in favor of divestment.

The PPPD coalition has been in conversation with the Resources Committee for over a year now. In this time, we have held multiple teach-ins, two referenda, a wellattended panel, and a faculty petition, and have continuously published updates on the campaign.

Over the course of this extensive, sustained public engagement, we have demonstrated a high degree of community interest on the issue of for-profit detention. Since its founding last year as a coalition of student groups, PPPD has grown as

a movement to include thousands of students, faculty members, and local residents who have voted or signed in favor and voiced their support at our events.

We have collectively proved that there is strong campus consensus in favor of divestment from private prison and immigrant detention corporations. Of the thousands of students who responded to our undergraduate and graduate referenda, the vast majority voiced their support. 89 percent of undergraduate students and 85 percent of graduate students voted in favor of divestment. We have gathered signatures from over 180 faculty members, making this petition one of the most widely supported expressions of faculty sentiment in recent memory. During this period of high public visibility, there has been no organized, sustained opposition to the divestment campaign.

We have fulfilled the two criteria established by the University in considering divestment proposals: campus consensus around divestment and a compelling body of evidence that the investments in question represent a conflict with core University values. The University defines these values as “integrity, respect for others, diversity, and freedom from bias and harassment,” all of which are flagrantly violated by for-profit detention corporations. The University’s investments in for-profit detention instead align Princeton with the blatantly racist agenda of the Trump administration and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

In our meetings with administrators, we have repeatedly called attention to the compelling empirical evidence illustrating the many failings of privatized incar-

ceration. Such evidence includes a Department of Justice report highlighting the frequency of safety and security incidents in privately-run facilities, an Arizona Department of Corrections study dispelling the myth of cost savings in private prisons and pointing to quality concerns, and a Minnesota Department of Corrections study revealing significantly higher rates of recidivism for people incarcerated in private as opposed to public prisons. As scholars and experts within correctional agencies have pointed out, the for-profit detention industry’s abuses include rampant sexual misconduct by employees and high rates of violence as well as lack of transparency on facility operations and massive industry lobbying against criminal justice reform.These are only a few of the numerous reports and studies by correctional agencies and scholars outlined in our proposal, which demonstrate the widespread agreement among experts with respect to the egregious flaws and abuses of for-profit detention.

It is troubling that administrators have paid so little attention to these reports and studies. Much worse, they have yet to acknowledge even the basic legitimacy of the voices and perspectives of those who are directly affected by forprofit detention. We have worked over the past year with formerly incarcerated or detained activists such as Eddy Zheng and Noel Micho, and will continue to organize such collaborations. Let us not as a community forget the urgent importance of the voices of formerly incarcerated people and of undocumented individuals, who unapologetically denounce the many abuses of the for-profit detention industry.The Movement for

Black Lives and the NAACP have both specifically called for an end to private prisons as well as other privatized criminal justice-related services. There is a clear consensus among those dedicated to racial justice that the for-profit detention industry constitutes a unique threat to the safety and dignity of communities of color.

Princeton Private Prison Divest is only one part of a growing national movement, which is increasingly demonstrating the degree to which Princeton University currently stands on the wrong side of history.

Today, the Resources Committee announces a truly shameful decision. By ignoring the campus consensus in favor of divestment, the Committee tosses aside any semblance of institutional accountability. The Committee’s decision is a slap in the face to the University community that has come out time and time again to support the divestment campaign.

The Resources Committee’s decision reflects a fundamental disregard for the safety and dignity of undocumented people and communities of color across the nation and within our own town.

But the Princeton Private Prison Divestment coalition will not stop here. Starting this afternoon at 4:00 p.m. in Friend 101, it is time that community members unapologetically make their voices heard.

Princeton Private Prison Divest is a coalition of University community members united in calling on the University to divest from for-profit detention corporations. The coalition can be contacted at princetonprisondivest@ gmail.com. More information about the coalition may be found at www. princetondivest.com.

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t the start of each April, freshmen, sophomores, and juniors eagerly make living arrangements for the following academic year through the room draw process.

Since there is a considerable disparity in the quality of different housing arrangements, the rules for room draw enhance living choice for some students while restricting it for others. In the past, a limited number of rooms on campus had been designated “gender-inclusive” and thus were available to be selected by mixed gender draw groups. In January, the University lifted this restriction on the number of such rooms available, making all multiple occupancy rooms on campus gender-inclusive. The Board broadly supports this housing policy change; however, we believe careful implementation of the policy is necessary for the well-being of all students.

First, the Board, like Housing Services, strongly discourages couples in romantic relationships from drawing into the same rooms or suites. While it may be the case that a particular couple is confident they will not split during the coming year, it is also the case that

Princeton is a high-stress institution and cohabitating with a partner for the first time is similarly, but independently, high-stress. Further, the Board has concerns related to partner cohabitation if one student in a relationship no longer wishes to live with their partner, irrespective of whether the relationship has ended.

Discomfort living with a partner is significantly different than discomfort living with a roommate due to the emotional element of romantic relationships. A student may be more hesitant to seek alternate living arrangements mid-year, even in cases of discomfort, due to a perhaps heightened fear of retaliation from their current or former partner.

Second, the Board encourages Housing and Real Estate Services and Directors of Student Life in residential colleges to be particularly thoughtful when creating genderinclusive living arrangements for freshmen. On the housing survey for incoming students, a student may check a box indicating interest in gender-inclusive housing; however, a student who expressly needs gender-inclusive housing must contact their DSL to indicate as such. Merely checking the box does little to reveal

to a DSL a student’s gender identity, and it similarly does little to reveal to a DSL how a student’s gender identity shapes a student’s housing preferences. Accordingly, the Board encourages DSLs to place students who express need for gender-inclusive housing in single dorm rooms for their first year at the University. In instances where it is not possible to place a student expressing a need for gender-inclusive housing in a single, the student should receive written notice that expressing the preference or need for such housing may result in sharing a multiple occupancy room with men, women, trans-men, trans-women, or any other students of any other gender identities.

Third, the Board acknowledges that a gender-inclusive housing policy confers special treatment to a particular group of students, albeit benevolently, on the basis of gender.

The Board cautions the University from expanding its housing inclusivity policy on the basis of other mutable and immutable personal characteristics such as race, ethnicity, and religion. We believe gender is distinct from these categories because it is intimately related to housing-specific concerns, such as

comfort showering, dressing, and sleeping in the vicinity of other students. Broadly, living in a diverse community with peers who share different backgrounds from one’s own is an important hallmark of the University experience; accordingly, the University should not adopt any form of affinity housing following successful implementation of a gender-inclusive housing policy.

Finally, the Board encourages Housing and Real Estate Services to keep intact the current single-sex housing options in the residential colleges, such as the affectionately termed Forbes “Nunnery” and Butler “Monastery.” The Board believes these options strike the correct balance. They are not an overly restrictive barrier to the promotion of diversity in the dormitories, but they do provide an excellent option for students from perhaps a more religious or socially conservative background who may be uncomfortable, for example, walking in a towel through a co-ed hallway. We do not believe these preferences typically erode during a student’s college years; accordingly, we encourage Housing and Real Estate Services to extend single-sex housing options to

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upperclass dormitories, which currently lack single-sex housing areas.

In conclusion, the Board is optimistic that a broader gender-inclusive housing policy will better serve the needs of all undergraduates at the University; however, we hope that students and administrators alike will exercise caution when implementing the policy this year and considering similar policies in subsequent years.

Cydney Kim ’17, Jack Whelan ’19, Paul Draper ’18, Caden McLaughlin ’20, and Rachel Glenn ‘19 abstained from the writing of this editorial.

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 Co-Chairs, the Opinion Editor, and the Editor-in-Chief. It can be reached at editorialboard@dailyprincetonian.com.

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ish foreign surveillance service, the Government Communications Headquarters, known as GCHQ , most likely provided Obama with transcripts of Trump’s calls.” He reiterated the claim while on the morning show Fox and Friends.

The GCHQ stated that Napolitano’s allegations were “utterly ridiculous” and “should be ignored.”

FBI Director Comey said in a House intelligence committee hearing Monday that there was no evidence that Obama had wiretapped Trump. At the same hearing, Admiral Michael Rogers, director of the National Security Agency, said that the agency had not found evidence that the British had been involved in wiretapping Trump Tower.

Fox anchor Shepard Smith said on Friday that “Fox News cannot confirm Judge Napolitano’s commentary.

Fox News knows of no evidence of any kind that the now-president of the United States was surveilled at any time, any way. Full stop.”

Richard Thaler ’73, managing partner of Lieutenant Island Partners, LLC and a former classmate of Napolitano’s, wrote in an email that “while Andy and I did not agree politically,

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we were and still are good friends. He was and is a genuine mensch with a warm heart and a terrific sense of humor.”

Thaler is a trustee of the Daily Princetonian.

Thaler made no effort in his email to defend Napolitano’s comments and expressed curiousness as to where he got his information and why he believed it.

According to the New York Times, it is not known whether Fox is planning to remove Napolitano temporarily or for a longer period of time.

While at the University, Napolitano concentrated in history, was a member of the Princeton Debate Panel, and served in ROTC, where he commanded Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito, Jr. ‘72. Napolitano was also president of the conservative group Concerned Alumni of Princeton, which Napolitano described as an organization designed to end the University’s “antitraditional leftist urges.”

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Water polo enjoys success on West Coast campaign

By Miranda Hasty associate sports editor

The women’s water polo team (16-2) had an eventful spring break, claiming two victories in a three-game series in California following the successful Roadrunner Invitational. The team faced Pomona-Pitzer (8-16), No. 16 Long Beach Island (119), and No. 1 USC (22-0) on their mid-week road trip along the West Coast that concluded with conclusive wins over Pomona-Pitzer and Long Beach State.

The team had just competed in the two-day Roadrunner Invitational in Bakersfield, Calif., where they topped No. 12 San Diego State, No. 22 CSU-Bakersfield, and Cal State East Bay, but succumbed to No. 6 Arizona State.

The Tigers kicked off the following week with a Tuesday match against the Sagehens. The team left Haldeman Pool with an 11-6 victory, while junior utility Haley Wan scored a career high of

five goals to contribute a total of six points.

Junior 2-meter Chelsea Johnson and sophomore attack Eliza Britt also had standout, multi-goal performances. Sophomore utilities Charlotte Valentine and Lindsey Kelleher also contributed goals to bring the scoreboard to 11 for the Orange and Black.

Though Pomona-Pitzer was able to knock in six goals, senior goalkeeper Ashleigh Johnson saved 15 other shots in the net.

The team then headed to the Lindgren Aquatics Center in Long Beach the next day to compete against the 49ers, ranked No. 16 in the nation.

Wan again proved to be a valuable player, earning CWPA Offensive Player of the Week honors and scoring four goals.

Chelsea Johnson and junior 2MD Sydney Cheong contributed the remaining three goals for a final tally of 7-2.

Ashleigh Johnson, selected as CWPA Defensive Player of the Week, stopped 15 shots again

for the Tigers. Freshman goalkeeper Kasey Bersh finished the game off for Johnson, saving one shot from entering the back of the net.

The Tigers faced the biggest challenge of the seven games they played in California in USC, ranked No. 1 in the nation. The Trojans defeated Princeton 12-3 at the Uytengsu Aquatics Center on Thursday.

The three goals came from Wan, who scored her sixth consecutive hat trick and scored a total of 24 goals on the West Coast trip, which included the Roadrunner Invitational and following three straight games. She now stands at 41 for the season and 133 for her collegiate career.

Ashleigh Johnson had 11 saves and now more than 200 for the season and 1000 for her career.

The team will take on Saint Francis (10-12), Bucknell (11-11), and No. 7 Michigan (18-8) in Pennsylvania on the upcoming weekend.

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The Tigers’ strong showing over spring break bodes well for conference play.

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Princeton splits weekend against GCU

By David Xin Head sports editor

The men’s volleyball team wrapped up the regular season by splitting their games against Grand Canyon University this past Thursday and Friday. The Tigers (1010) held off a surge from the Antelopes in their first meet-up to grab a narrow 3-2 win over Grand Canyon (159). However, the Antelopes would rebound in their second match to earn a 3-1 victory.

After facing stiff com-

petition from BYU earlier in the week, the Princeton team traveled to Phoenix to face a strong GCU team that nearly broke into the top 15 for the first time in program history. However, the strong competition did not faze the Tigers as they kept their composure throughout the game.

While the Antelopes took an early lead to grab the first set, the Tigers responded with a balanced offense to take the next two. The Princeton team would then fend off a surge in the cru-

cial moments of the fifth set to earn their tenth win of the season.

GCU would return the favor the next day, however. The Antelopes started off strong, cruising past the Tigers in the first two sets. The Princeton squad would respond to edge out a third set victory, but would be unable to complete the comeback.

With the loss, the Tigers fall to 10-10 overall, showing their improvement from last season. While they have struggled on the road at

times, they have made up for it with an impressive 7-1 home record.

With their final nonleague match behind them the Tigers can now focus on the EIVA conference.

Although the Tigers share second place in the EIVA, the competition remains close with the five teams behind Penn State separated by only one loss. Therefore, each game will be crucial for Princeton’s playoff hopes as they enter the last five games before the EIVA championships.

The Tigers will kick-off conference play after spring break with a tough weekend doubleheader against Penn State and Saint Francis University. The Tigers beat St. Francis earlier in the season and narrowly lost to Penn State in a grueling five-set match-up.

Undoubtedly, the Princeton squad will be similarly challenged as they face-off against these longtime conference opponents.

These games will be important as the Tigers look to secure a top four finish and a ticket to the postseason.

TRACK AND FIELD

Tigers show promise in Spring Break competition

By Claire Coughlin

associate sports editor

The men’s team took three titles at Penn challenge, coming in fourth.

The Princeton men and women’s track and field teams were both lucky enough to escape the colder weather over spring break and head down south to face fresh competition. The teams travelled mid-week, but runners of both teams didn’t compete until this past weekend. The separate meets were held in Florida and North Carolina.

Members of the women’s track team left the Orange Bubble last Wednesday to f ly down to Jacksonville, Fla. to compete in the North Florida Invite. The team was excited for the trip, especially the “warmer weather and new competition” that they would be facing, according to sophomore mid-distance runner Jackie Berardo.

The two major highlights of Friday’s meet were senior Julia Ratcliffe’s win in the hammer throw and senior Elisa Steele’s win in the

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400m race. Ratcliffe threw 205-3 (62.57m) to win the event by 17-2 (5.25m) over runner-up Claudia Ababio from Maryland. Steele was first of two Tigers in the 400, winning with a time of 55.78 seconds — just half a second before freshman teammate Ashley Willingham crossed the finish line.

Other notable performances came from junior Gabrielle Forrest and sophomores Jackie Berardo and Brighie Leach — all achieving third place in their events.

Leach crossed the 1500m finish line with a time of 4:33.90 with Forrest right behind her with a time of 4:35.12. Berardo clocked in at 1:12.58 in the 800m race.

The female Tigers are scheduled to return to the South for the Florida Relays in Gainesville which begin on Thursday. Those who don’t compete in Florida will be heading to Yale University to compete in a separate meet.

The men’s team also

6th hat trick Haley Wan recorded her sixth consecutive hat trick in the Tigers’ seven games in the West Coast.

had a successful and busy spring break in Raleigh, N.C. The team arrived on Wednesday as well to compete in the Raleigh Relays hosted Friday by North Carolina State. Princeton was represented in only three events, as only the distance members of the Princeton’s team made the trip.

Junior Noah Kauppila finished his 1500m event in 3:45.09, less than three seconds off the pace set

by Yale’s James Randon, who won the race in 3:42.33. Kaupilla’s fifthplace finish in the 1500 was the best among the Tigers.

The only two other events Black and Orange competed in were the 5k and the 10k. Freshmen Conor Lundy placed 16th in 5k with a time of 14:09.45 and junior Wolfgang Beck finished the 10k with a time of 30:42:62 in 51st place.

Princeton will compete next at the Colonial Relays hosted by William & Mary beginning Thursday.

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