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Jodi Picoult ‘87 will collect questions from students for her remarks for the first time in Class Day history.
Jodi Picoult ’87 to be 2016 Class Day speaker
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The Class of 2016 Class Day Committee announced Monday morning that the speaker for this year’s Class of 2016 Day will be novelist Jodi Picoult ’87. Molly Stoneman ’16, a member of the Class Day Committee, noted there have only been two women speakers, including Queen Noor of Jordan ’73 and journalist Katie Couric, as well as one person of color, Bill Cosby, in the history of Class Day. “We decided that we wanted to see more of the values of our class being reflected in the Class Day speaker,” Stoneman said. She added that Class Day speakers have tended to be
white males from Hollywood or business fields but that the committee has recognized that many more students from the Class of 2016 were interested in hearing from people in professions in the arts, screenwriting, creative writing or advertising. She noted that in the past four years she has witnessed seniors who have collaborated with Career Services, the Pace Center for Civic Engagement, the Women*s Center, the LGBT Center and other organizations on campus in order to find work after graduation, a departure from the stereotypical Princeton career path. This departure is reflected in the speaker choice, she explained. For the first time in Class Day
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history, Picoult has asked the Class of 2016 what they would like to hear about in her remarks. “I did ask the Class Day Committee to tell me a little about the things on campus during your four years that have been resonant, as I am sure the university is a very different place now than it was when I was there — and as a writer, I find it important to do my research,” said Picoult in an interview with The Daily Princetonian. “I was sure someone had made a mistake,” Picoult described her reaction when being asked to be the Class Day speaker, “I mean — Colbert, Stewart, Nolan, Couric — it’s See SPEAKER page 2
Posters with the words “Better Dead Than Ted” and “Ted’s a Mess” flooded various parts of the University this past week as part of a campaign by Princeton Against Cruz, a newly formed student group calling for the University community’s opposition to the presidential candidacy of Texas Senator Ted Cruz ’92. Walker Davis ’17, a member of Princeton Against Cruz and a self-described Democrat, said that the seven-member group believes Cruz does not embody the values of the University, namely that of “serving the nation.” Hence, the group is taking an anti-Cruz stance, Davis added. Davis said that, at its core, the Princeton Against Cruz campaign is meant to raise awareness about the election in the community, adding that the group does not speak for the University. He explained the purpose of posters was to “grab attention,” adding that in this day and age, putting forth a provocative message is one of the only ways to gauge conversation. He noted that he believes not only that Cruz embraces many conservative economic policies that are damaging to the economy but also that Cruz’s platform bears many striking similarities to that of Donald Trump, including Trump’s stances on immigration and treatment of Muslim minorities. On its website, the group further denounced Cruz’s health care platform, which calls for more money to be placed into health savings accounts, as
something that “understate[s] the complexity and scope of the nation’s health care woes.” The group also disapproves of Cruz’s policy towards ISIS, claiming that the senator “speaks casually of ‘carpet bombing ISIS until the sand glows.’” “One thing… about Cruz is that you can’t say he doesn’t believe in what he says.” Davis said, explaining that he believes that Cruz will bring an element of rigidity to his presidency. Davis explained that in order to show opposition to Cruz, many group members have exhausted their printer queues to distribute several hundred posters with six different designs across campus. Some of them were torn down last weekend, Davis said, but he and his team will be re-posting them in due time. “I’m finding it to be an emboldening thing. There’s discussion that’s going on, we can all relate to it and it doesn’t cost me too much other than time, so we’ll post it right back up,” Davis said. Paul Draper ’18, president of College Republicans and the State Director of the New Jersey Millennials for Ted Cruz, described the posters as “childish and irresponsible,” as they lacked substantive critiques of Cruz. Draper explained that Cruz has fulfilled the promises he made to his constituents, as he is willing to fight for the principles he believes in, including opposition to Obamacare and support for pro-life positions even when the higher echelons of the party don’t see eye-to-eye with him. “When many college students have grown up in a system where See CRUZ page 2
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Sanger discusses foreign affairs debate, CPUC discusses campus planning, U.S. involvement in overseas conflicts sustainability By Christina Vosbikian news editor
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The Council of the Princeton University Community held a meeting Monday to discuss the future of campus planning and University sustainability efforts. The meeting highlighted the efforts of students involved in the CampusAs-Lab initiative, which seeks to use engineering techniques and data collection to shift the perception of sustainability on campus. University Architect Ron McCoy GS ’80 described the goals of the 2026 Campus Plan. “We use historical trends of understanding the growth of the University in order to plan for the future,” McCoy said. “Understanding where we have been in terms of growth is extremely important in order to plan and anticipate the future growth of the campus.” A crucial aspect of the plan, McCoy explained, lies in addressing parking and transportation for students, staff and faculty. He added that the University should continue to embrace biking culture as a more efficient and environmentally-friendly method of transport. McCoy also noted that if the rate at which cars are currently being
brought onto the campus community continues, the University will soon require six and a half more parking garages. McCoy said that the community should prevent this by using cars at such a rate that will necessitate adding only one additional parking garage. He recommended the University community reduce car usage habits by 35 percent over the next 30 years. “That has huge implications into the amount of traffic we bring into the community, the amount of land we have to use for parking garages, the opportunity costs of that land… and the quality of the parking garages,” he said, referring to how a lack of need for additional parking garages would save the University time and resources. Geocoding data reveals that most University staff live in the Trenton and Hamilton, N.J. areas, according to McCoy. This proximity, McCoy said, makes it easy to implement specific bus routes for staff members to get to and from campus in a more eco-friendly manner. Another key element of the 2026 Campus Plan is the reuse of empty or underdeveloped space, McCoy See CPUC page 2
It is important to think about where the foreign affairs debate fits in the current political discussion, David Sanger noted during a lecture Monday. Sanger is the chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times, specializing in U.S. foreign policy and the debate over
Sanger explained. Throughout the lecture, Sanger repeatedly noted how the lessons of the Obama and even the Bush administration regarding American involvement in foreign conf licts have shaped today’s debate regarding how Americans should respond to conf licts overseas, specifically in the Middle East. Sanger explained that See LECTURE page 2
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Journalist David Sanger discussed the Obama administration and Syria during a lecture on Monday.
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cyber warfare. He is also the author of two best-selling books and a two-time member of Pulitzer prize-winning journalist teams. “I came here to talk to you about Syria and the Obama doctrine not only because Syria is a huge humanitarian crisis but also because it poses such a challenge to us but because it’s typical of the kinds of crises we’ve seen in the past couple years,”
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presidential candidate Donald Trump, though criticized by many, is nevertheless echoing the thoughts that many Americans have about foreign engagement, namely that America has been involved in too many conf licts with too little payoff or success. In a personal interview with Sanger last Friday, Trump lamented that America has been “disrespected, mocked and ripped off” by nations it has tried to help for many years. The resonance of Trump’s message with many Americans is indicative of a delayed reaction to the bitter lessons learned in Iraq and Afghanistan, Sanger said. In both of these foreign involvements, Sanger explained how U.S. military involvement and strategy had little success in creating lasting peace or stability in the two nations. “My guess is 10 years from now, if you go back to Iraq
and look for traces of American intervention, it’s going to be hard to find any,” Sanger said. Sanger explained that President Barack Obama’s three-pronged approach in the Middle East of whitefootprint strategies including drone, special-force and other cyber attacks lost effectiveness during his second term. This was due to the eruption of the Arab Spring, which created an entirely different dynamic in the Middle East, by placing countries in the midst of revolutions often started on Twitter and Facebook but ended by the primitive, violent means of authoritarian regimes. It was in this climate that Obama had to face the question of whether or not to deploy U.S. troops to Syria. “When Syria began to unravel, president Obama did not see compelling interest in US entry,” Sanger said. He explained that this stance was likely largely affected by the president’s experiences with the reduced effective-
ness of American intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sanger concluded by considering the United States’ current stance on foreign involvement. He noted that Americans want to focus on America first. However, when the Russians or Chinese step up to intervene in foreign conf licts instead, the Americans complain that they are losing power. He explained that Americans are going to have to start thinking differently about what American power looks like in the next decade or quarter of a century if they are unwilling to intervene abroad. “If you think it’s going to be limited to Syria, I think it’s worth reconsidering that opinion,” Sanger said. The lecture took place at 4 p.m. on Monday in Robertson Hall and was entitled “Syria and the Obama Doctrine: Would American Intervention Have Avoided Tragedy?” The event was sponsored by the Wilson School.
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so many establishment politicians haven’t fought for the principles they espoused, it’s refreshing to see a candidate like Cruz,” Draper said. According to Draper, there is a lot of support for Cruz within the University community. “There are a lot of Princetonians, including myself, who are great admirers of him and his policies,” he said. Nonetheless, Draper noted that he fully supports free speech in the debate and expressed that he doesn’t endorse tearing down these posters in order to shut
down conversation. On its website, Princeton Against Cruz has a petition open for current University students to express their opposition against Cruz. Davis did not comment on the number of signatories on the petition. The group also launched an online merchandise kiosk to sell T-shirts as a way of fundraising. One of the T-shirts features a zodiac design, which is an allusion to a left-leaning poll that surveyed the public’s conception of Cruz as the Zodiac Killer. “It’s a childish gimmick,” Will Johnson ’18, a member of Princeton College Democrats, said, adding that Princeton Against Cruz’s campaign is “Trump-esque” and
“problematic.” “Even though I disagree with Cruz on a lot of issues, he is a serious candidate,” Johnson said, adding that students should be politically engaged in more constructive ways, such as actually getting involved in a candidate’s campaign. “The argument against Cruz is important and the Princeton community needs to communicate that it does not support him, but the price can’t be the dumbing down of discourse to cruel rhymes and offensive imagery. We are no better than Ted if the discourse is dead,” Kennedy O’Dell ’18, another member of Princeton College Democrats, said.
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daunting, to say the least. But I’m trying to push past my Impostor Syndrome, because it is an overwhelming honor to be invited back to speak at my own university!” Richard Lu ’16, Treasurer of the Class of 2016 Council, said, “I am confident that our class will walk away from Class Day grateful that Jodi Picoult, an accomplished author, pioneer for women artists and Princeton alumna, came to speak to us.” Stoneman further explained that the Class Day Committee decided upon the speaker based on an open-response survey sent to members of the senior class. The survey asked for names of potential speakers that students saw an interest in. Two seniors will also be selected from an application process to speak during commencement weekend as well. Stoneman noted that graduation ceremonies at the University include a Baccalaureate speaker, who is organized by the administration and a commencement speaker, who is typically secured by the president of the University. This year
the other graduation speakers will be Harvard Law Professor of Criminal Law and Regulation of Race Relations Randall Kennedy ’77 and University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83. Picoult, who graduated with a degree in English from the University, has published 26 novels in 22 years that have been translated in 34 languages in 35 countries. Eight of her books have been number one on the New York Times bestseller list, including “My Sister’s Keeper,” “Second Glass” and “The Story Teller.” She has addressed topics like stem-cell research, assisted dying, gay rights and school shooting in her novels. “Picoult’s characters often represent the misunderstood or disenfranchised, and it is because of her extensive research about and compassion for her characters that we have invited her to speak, Class Day Committee member Azza Cohen ’16 noted, “She is an author who lifts up the voices of the unheard, which, in this year of discourse and turbulence and questions of inclusion on our campus, will be especially essential and timely.” Cohen is a columnist for the Daily Princetonian.
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explained, such as parking lots and buildings that are not being used to their full potentials. “When we talk about redeveloping a site on campus, people tend to think about the gardens and landscapes, but I don’t think anybody would miss Dillon Court,” he said, noting that redevelopment opens the opportunity for more sustainability efforts that could create a more polycentric and multimodal campus. Shana Weber, director of the Office of Sustainability, spoke to the multiple improvements that the University has made in terms of sustainability efforts since the office’s inception. She explained that, looking forward, one of the things that the Office of Sustainability is focusing on is how to take everything that it has learned about sustainability and using this campus to serve as a demonstration of smart, sustainable approaches that can be repeated in the future. “A lot of the toughest challenges we have in the sustainability field are all about our behavior, and that’s not a topic that people are entirely comfortable with sometimes,” she said. Weber said that the Campus-AsLab initiative is part of the effort to change perceptions of campus sustainability and that students involved have been studying how
the University uses its energy and noting how sustainable efforts are perceived on campus. Weber then introduced the students involved with the initiative, Olivia Grah ’19, Hannah Kraus ’17, Deborah Sandoval ’16 and Eric Teitelbaum ’14 GS. The students’ work ranges from live-tracking how University buildings regulate airflow to making sense of big-data findings and effectively communicating them to further the message of effective sustainability. During the meeting’s Q&A session, University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 answered a question about the recent University hacking incident by a white supremacist group. Eisgruber deferred comment to Vice President for Campus Life Rochelle Calhoun, who said that University administrators are thoughtfully and thoroughly discussing the proper course of action in order to respond. Executive Director of Public Safety Paul Ominsky confirmed that the University is using the Federal Bureau of Investigation to further examine the nature of the incident, and Steven Sather, associate CIO of the Office of Information Technology, added that over the weekend OIT took steps to prevent off-campus computers from having access to University printers. “We’ve taken technical steps to make sure it doesn’t happen again,” he said.
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A puff of hot air?
The inspiration paradox Bhaamati Borkhetaria
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o you remember the exact moment when that feeling of being inordinately lucky melted away? Was it a few days after the orange tiger flashed onto your computer screen with an invitation to join the ranks of the elite? Was it when you were walking back from a party at midnight during frosh week with crowds of other students who had received the same invitation? Was it when you pulled your first all-nighter trying to finish your R1? Was it during a training session for a volunteer group you joined simply to build your resume? I’m not sure when I stopped feeling like the world had been handed to me. Up until last semester I felt lucky observing all the exotic trees lining the Class of 1975 walkway on my way to my 9 a.m. class. I felt lucky as I thought up questions to ask the author of a book I’d recently read because she was coming to talk to my lecture class. I daydreamed about running into Joyce Carol Oates (who I admit to have stalked all the way to the faculty dining hall once). Even the COS 126 assignment I’d spent the night before trying to tackle felt like a privilege. The thought of having four whole years on this campus with the world’s academic resources at my fingertips: the books, the faculty, the campus, made me feel inspired to learn. It hasn’t melted away entirely. But my 9 a.m. classes don’t feel like a pleasure anymore, and I certainly don’t feel gratitude as I walk down that same 1975 walkway after four hours of sleep, having stayed up making budget sheets for some group I joined for no reason other than I am suddenly terrified of having a single idle moment. I no longer have time to feel like I’ll learn something that day that will stay with me. Instead, I have my schedule planned out for the day: precept at 9, lecture at 11, lunch at 1, writing seminar at 3, meeting at 5, dinner at 6, lab at 7, homework ’till 2, lie awake in bed stressing for the next day ’till 7:30 in the morning when I have to wake up. Where in that jam-packed day do I have the time to look up at the collegiate Gothic tower of Firestone and feel grateful for the access I have to scholarship that has been collected since the start of this country? There is a prevalent fear among the Princeton student body of the “idle moment.” An undesignated stretch of time is essential for us to celebrate the prospect of unrestricted learning and to feel like we are fortunate. It is this feeling that makes us, as a student body, want to seize every opportunity we can get. This very inspiration is what makes us do too much and lose our interest in the things that made us feel fortunate in the first place. All my friends have schedules as packed or busier than mine. We, Princeton students, are known for doing a lot on campus and the pressure on us to be constantly at work is immense. It is an entirely novel concept for most on campus that we do not need to fill every moment of every day with some activity or another, yet without time to reflect on the privilege that each of us has as a Princeton University student, we are robbed of one of the necessary aspects of our education: the notion of unlimited possibility. Every time I force myself to take a step back from my endless stream of work, I feel the stirrings of my previous excitement at walking through FitzRandolph Gate. The prospect of going to lecture, of poring through an endless number of books, of writing dreaded papers becomes a little less daunting. In the large scheme of things, Princeton is a resource for me to grow, not a factory for me to grind at. On occasion, we all need to take this step back and give ourselves time to remember how we all initially felt when we got into Princeton. After all, we only have few years to do the things that we really want to do on campus. We don’t need to do a billion activities to fill up the time when we could be looking for the thing that will actually make us intellectually and mentally satisfied. Above all, we need to remember that no matter how daily life on campus consumes us, it is perfectly all right to let ourselves be “unproductive” sometimes and remember exactly how lucky we are. Bhaamati Borkhetaria is a freshman from Jersey City, N.J. She can be reached at bhaamati@princeton.edu.
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n an effort to stave off environmental degradation, the Chinese government recently announced its latest measure to disperse the country’s pollution: five “ventilation corridors” in the capital city of Beijing. The idea behind the new wind tunnels is to increase the general airflow around the city, allowing the smog that often lingers above the city in a dense haze to disperse, thus both cleaning up and cooling down Beijing. Until the pollution problem is attacked at its source, these wind tunnels ultimately represent a lack of commitment on the part of the Chinese government to live up to its environmental obligations as put forth by the COP21 in Paris, as they offer a way simply to mitigate the problem rather than advance a solution. Pollution has, since the era of China’s mass industrialization, plagued the manufacturing nation. According to CNBC, 1.6 million people in the nation die each year from breathing the toxic air. Pollution in China is also troubling from an economic standpoint. Government-mandated factory shutdowns to mitigate smog cost the nation an estimated 6.5 percent of its annual GDP. Furthermore, pollution has infiltrated to the essential agricultural sector, contaminating as much as 20 percent of China’s arable soil. Thus, ridding the nation of pollution is of paramount importance for all facets of China’s quality of life and economy. The city government of Beijing has put forth a multi-tiered plan to limit the ef-
fects of the pervasive smog and pollution. Centered around the 500-meter wide ventilation corridors, the plan also includes strict maintenance of the city’s green spaces and a limit on building height in order to rid the structures that limit air flow and thus trap pollutants. The goal is to diffuse the smog around the city. However, as Wang Bing, a Beijing-based author, lamented, “this isn’t controlling pollution. It’s diverting it” — and this is under the assumption that the corridors work, which remains questionable in and of itself. Even the limit on building heights, perhaps the most straightforward aspect of the government’s plan, has debatable impacts: since much of the city is already highly developed, limiting future building heights will clearly not bring many net benefits. At the Paris Climate Change Conference held in November, China, according to CCTV-America, ”pledged to slash its carbon emissions per unit of GDP by 60–65 percent of 2005 levels by 2030.” Pouring money into these ventilation corridors simply diverts attention away from what should be China’s number one priority. It can be said that any step by the notorious polluter of the PRC, regardless of magnitude, is a step in the right direction. While there is truth in that argument, the government must understand that these corridors are only a mitigating measure. The pollution problem still must be attacked at its source: transportation, factories and power plants.
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ast Friday, over a typical drunk meal of chicken fingers and fries, a conversation with my friends took a philosophical turn when one friend offhandedly noted how “people here always want to talk about things even when they don’t know what they’re talking about.” In my own insecurity, I wondered if he was talking about me. The more I thought about it, though, the more I realized that this peculiar behavior was not unique to me. And the more I listened, the more I noticed this behavior in my peers. It’s an old observation. In 399 B.C., Socrates gave a speech known as “The Apology” in which he argued that men with the “highest reputation” in society — the poets, the politicians, the writers — were actually the most deficient. Because of their success in one area of expertise, these men considered themselves to be wise in most other subjects as well. This false sense of intellectual confidence overshadowed what wisdom they did have and made them not only ignorant, but also harmful to society. Socrates’ observations are timeless
and applicable. Princeton students live in an environment that is conducive to creating exactly the type of people Socrates condemns. We are the poets, the politicians, the writers — and sometimes the ignorant. We don’t want to be the only one in the conversation that doesn’t understand the framework of the Iran nuclear deal, so we deliberate anyway. We don’t want to be the only one who is uninformed about the platforms of the Democratic presidential candidates when our friends start comparing, so we compare anyway. We don’t want to be the only person in class who raises their hand when the professor asks “Is anyone here unfamiliar with the Nuremberg Trials?” So we don’t raise our hand, and we discuss anyway. What causes our refusal to admit our intellectual shortcomings? You could probably come up with a list of reasons, each with some validity. Perhaps it is because admitting a lack of knowledge on a subject would be admitting an insecurity, and in an environment as competitive as Princeton, insecurities are magnified. Perhaps it is because of our innate desire to be accepted by our peers on all fronts — not excluding intellectual conversation. Perhaps, though, it
just stems from our desire to be heard. Now, this is not to say that everyone here at Princeton is unwilling to concede when they’re not knowledgeable in a certain area of expertise or about a certain topic, and it is also not to say that there aren’t people who actually do know everything about everything, but they are the exceptions to the rule. So I’m not advising you to silence yourself, and I’m not claiming that discourse is a bad thing. Discourse is great — it is how we become that kid who knows everything about every subject. The point is, we’re not “that kid” now, and most of us probably never will be. The pressure to pretend to be that kid isn’t helping anyone. I know what you’re thinking: This sounds like someone I know, but I don’t do that. Yes, you do. And so do I. But perhaps if we become more conscious of this phenomenon, we can curb it. Don’t let the wisdom you do have — whatever it may be — become overshadowed by your false sense of wisdom in other areas. If Socrates advises against this, we should probably take heed. Jacquelyn Thorbjornson is a freshman from South Thomaston, Maine. She can be reached at jot@princeton.edu.
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can represent a team at NCAAs so we had a good chance for a great result.” The fencers didn’t disappoint. The women competed first in the three major events: sabre, foil and épée. After two days of competition, they finished narrowly in third, four points behind first-place Columbia and a mere two behind Notre Dame. Impressively, returning senior sabrist Gracie Stone, a vaunted All-American who has previously claimed third place twice, and Liu both advanced to the finals, where they narrowly fell to Jessie Gottesman-Radanovich of Penn State and Adrianne Jarocki of Harvard, respectively. In addition to Stone and Liu, two other female Princeton fencers, junior foilist Ashley Tsue and senior épéeist Isabel Ford, also clinched All-American honors with top-12 finishes. The men’s team began competition on Saturday. The first day of matches saw the Tigers place in fifth, falling behind St. John’s and Ohio State, but on the last day of competition
on Sunday, stellar individual performances once again propelled the Tigers to third. Four Princeton men won AllAmerican honors: sophomore sabrist Edward Chin, junior sabrist Peter Pak, sophomore foilist Thomas Dudey, and junior épéeist Alex House. Both Chin and House placed in the top five in their competition, and Chin was able to secure a coveted position in the semifinal match. In a tough bout that was deadlocked at 9-9 for much of the time, Chin was eventually eliminated by Penn State’s Andrew Mackiewicz and went on to claim third in the entire tournament. Though this year’s season may be over, the Tigers are already looking to improve on their performances and reach new heights in next year’s season. Next year, with almost all of the championship squad returning, the Tigers will be looking to wrest the gold away from Columbia. Chin explained, “We want to keep on improving, and we definitely want to keep the streak alive. Hopefully next year we can win.” With their tenacity, drive and talent, any rival should fear the might of the Tigers’ blades.
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finish Saturday 2-0; the Tigers’ scoreless effort was led by senior infielder Billy Arendt, who registered two hits. Princeton’s fortunes changed in the third game, as they opened off Sunday’s doubleheader with a 4-1 win. After a scoreless first inning, Princeton finally got on the scoreboard with a tremendous three-run series to start off the second. Runs were scored by junior right-handed pitcher Chad Powers, who demonstrated his offensive versatility, junior infielder Cody Phillips and senior infielder Danny Hoy. However, Navy responded with a score in the third from outfielder Stephen
Born to cut the Tigers’ lead to two. From then on, however, senior right-handed pitcher Cameron Mingo held the Midshipmen scoreless, allowing only two more hits during the remainder of the game. Powers would score one final run in the sixth, allowing Princeton to walk away from its third game with a 4-1 victory. However, Navy would take the final match of the weekend in a frustrating contest that again ended with the Midshipmen on top, 1-0. The Tigers tallied nine hits over the course of the contest and even had a runner in scoring position to open the first, but two consecutive strikeouts from Navy quashed Princeton’s hopes of opening the fourth game with a quick score. In their first turn at bat, Navy received its
lone run of the game off of an RBI ground out from outfielder Sean Trent. Junior lefthanded pitcher Keelan Smithers then held Navy scoreless in the second, producing a double play that aptly countered the Midshipmen’s loaded bases. However, the Tigers never succeeded in evening out the score, with their closest attempts coming from a double by junior infielder Zack Belski in the seventh and a man on third in the eighth. The Midshipmen prevented both of these opportunities, walking away with a 1-0 win to finish the weekend 3-1. Princeton will now begin a six-game homestand, playing Seton Hall on Wednesday before opening Ivy League play against Dartmouth and Harvard next weekend.
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Fencing caps season with third place finish at NCAA Championship
By Michael Gao Contributor
The Princeton men’s and women’s fencing teams capped their seasons with impressive performances in this weekend’s NCAA championships at Brandeis University. For the sixth year in a row, Princeton placed in the top four in the tournament, taking home an NCAA trophy. After a weekend of tenacious competition, the Tigers clawed their way up to a third-place finish, just outperforming St. John’s University. Ohio State University narrowly finished ahead of the Tigers with a score of 167-160, while the Columbia Lions won their second straight title with 174 points. The Tigers came into the match on the hunt for a top finish in the tournament. They qualified the maximum
12 fencers for the tournament, including nine previous AllAmericans. Only three other schools achieved this feat, which is usually predictive of outstanding team performance at the championships: Columbia, St. John’s and the University of Notre Dame, all of which would finish in the top five. Both the men’s and the women’s teams also claimed Ivy League championship titles this previous year. The squad had both fresh talent and experience — eight of Princeton’s 11 championship competitors from last year were headed back. Expectations coming into Brandeis this weekend were high; freshman qualifying épéeist Charlene Liu noted that the team’s goals were “definitely at least a top three finish going into NCAAs. We qualified the maximum number of fencers who See FENCING page 5
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Fencing finishes the season with an impressive third-place showing and several All-American Honors.
BASEBALL
Baseball goes one for four at Navy, slump continues By Nolan Liu Associate Sports Editor
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Baseball will look to find its rhythm before Ivy League play begins.
This past weekend, the Princeton men’s baseball team (6-10 overall, 0-0 Ivy League) traveled to Annapolis to take on the United States Naval Academy (18-6-1) in a four-game series. The Tigers dropped two back-to-back games in their first doubleheader against the Midshipmen on Saturday before splitting a pair of games on Sunday to finish the overall contest with a 1-3 record. The first game was a lowscoring affair. Navy managed to place a runner in scoring position to open the contest, but senior pitcher Luke Strieber struck out the next two Mid-
shipmen to prevent Navy from capitalizing on the base hit. In the top of the second, junior outfielder Paul Tupper hit a single, but his effort also ultimately failed to result in a run for the Tigers. For the next several innings, Strieber dominated, retiring seven out of Navy’s next eight batters from the second through fourth. However, in the fifth inning, the Midshipmen finally broke through. Firstbaseman Ben McGrath hit a single and made it to second off of a sacrifice bunt. Outfielder Robert Currie then smacked a base hit that drove McGrath home and put Navy ahead at 1-0. Tupper attempted to even the score in Princeton’s final
turn at bat, drilling a double to right center, but two ensuing Princeton outs doomed his effort. The Midshipmen escaped with a 1-0 win in the first game, although Strieber still recorded a strong performance with only one run allowed through six innings. Later in the day, the Midshipmen ran away with the second match of the doubleheader, scoring two runs in the first inning, adding a third score in the fifth and piling on three in the sixth to build a commanding 6-0 lead that the Tigers never threatened. After a final Navy score in the eighth, the Midshipmen walked away with a 7-0 win to See BASEBALL page 5
WOMEN’S TENNIS
Princeton women’s tennis beats Penn to begin Ivy League play By Berthy Feng contributor
The Princeton women’s tennis team (9-7 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) ushered in Ivy League play with a 5-2 victory against Penn (7-6, 0-1) on Saturday. The win extends the Tigers’ streak to three consecutive victories and sets an optimistic precedent for the six remaining games against each of the Ivy League teams. The Tigers, ranked 60th in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association, faced No. 67 Penn at the Lenz Tennis Center. The annual matchup of the two neighbors consistently marks the beginning of Ivy League tennis at the end of March. With Saturday’s win, Princeton women’s tennis has now begun conference play with a victory over Penn for eight consecutive years. Princeton won the first point of the matchup by winning two of the three doubles sets. The No. 3 doubles team of junior Caroline Joyce and
freshman Nicole Kalhorn won 6-2. In No. 1 doubles, the team of senior Amanda Muliawan and junior Dorothy Tang lost 5-7 to the Penn duo of Kana Daniel and Sonya Latycheva. Princeton senior Emily Hahn and sophomore Katrine Steffensen closed out the doubles matchups by beating their opponents, securing the doubles point for the Orange and Black. Yet the point did not come easily for the Tigers, who relied on a dominant 7-1 tiebreaker victory. With the competition so tight in the doubles portion of the competition, urgency rose for both teams heading into the singles matches. In the end, Princeton won four of the six singles matchups in straight sets. Though not victorious in doubles, Dorothy Tang, in No. 6 singles, beat OJ Singh in two quick sets of 6-1 each. In No. 2 singles, Steffenson beat her opponent 6-2, 6-4. In No. 1, Amanda Muliawan won 6-0, 6-3. Finally,
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Nicole Kalhorn, playing No. 5 singles, won 6-4, 6-3. Turning to the losses, Penn’s Lina Qostal won the No. 4 singles match against Joyce in two close sets of 7-5. In No. 3 singles, Ria Vaidya beat Princeton junior Sivan Krems. The win helped to build the momentum that the women’s tennis team began in Texas a week earlier. There, the Tigers beat both the University of Houston and Rice. The 4-3 victory against No. 46 Rice was especially encouraging and pushed Princeton into the ITA rankings for the first time since February. With a win against another ITA-ranked team, the women’s tennis team will look to continue its rhythm against other Ivy League teams. This Friday and Saturday, the Tigers will take on Brown and Yale at their respective home courts. After winning six of the seven conference matches last season, the Tigers have set a high bar for themselves.
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Women’s tennis opens the Ivy conference with a convincing win.
Stat of the Day
No. 60 For the first time in March, women’s tennis ranked on ITA’s list of top Division I teams, at No. 60.
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