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In Opinion The Editorial Board suggests improvements to midterms week, and Newby Parton questions the excessive dining hall prices. PAGE 4

Today on Campus 8:00 p.m.: Belly dance troupe Raks Odalisque will present its spring show, “Arzu.” The title means desire, wish or want. Frist Film and Performance Theater.

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News & Notes Dozens protest against UChicago over trauma care center

Dozens of protesters chained themselves together on Thursday to pressure the University of Chicago to open a trauma care center, NBC Chicago reported The demonstration occurred on Michigan Avenue and Pearson Street near a University of Chicago alumni fundraising event at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, according to the Chicago Tribune.

A spokesperson for the group said that the activists intended to rally and picket outside the hotel to call on alumni donors not to support the University of Chicago until it commits to opening a trauma center.

Protesters released a statement saying they were willing to risk arrest to send the message that “business as usual cannot continue while black lives are being lost due to a lack of adult trauma care on the South Side and the University of Chicago’s refusal to expand trauma care.”

The University of Chicago does not offer trauma care for patients 16 or older. Trauma centers offer more extensive care than do typical emergency rooms.

The protesters gathered outside the hotel around 5:30 p.m. to block rush hour traffic outside of the Ritz-Carlton hotel. By 6:45 p.m., nine activists blocking traffic on Michigan Avenue were arrested and traffic resumed, The Chicago Maroon said.

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2 U. faculty members receive Dan David Prize

GETTING TO CLASS

By Jessica Li staff writer

Two Princeton faculty members were named recipients of the 2015 Dan David Prize last month.

Both history professor emeritus Peter Brown and sociology lecturer Alessandro Portelli were awarded in the “Retrieving the Past” category of the prize.

They will be honored at a May 17 ceremony at Tel Aviv University in Israel.

According to its website, the Dan David Prize is an international enterprise that awards grants in three categories for outstanding interdisciplinary research in the sciences and humanities. Award recipients receive a monetary prize of $1 million. Dan David Prize laureates must donate 10 percent of their reward to support the studies of their graduate or doctoral students.

Brown and Portelli did not respond to multiple requests for comment, and representatives from the Dan David Prize declined to comment beyond a press release.

Brown earned recognition for having written a series of works on late Greco-Roman and early Medieval history throughout his career. Although these topics are ancient, there are lessons to be drawn for modern day’s numerous sociopolitical controversies, he wrote in a prologue to his book, “The World of Late Antiquity.”

“Only the ancient world in its fateful last centuries could explain the world in which I myself lived — a Protestant in an Ireland dominated by a Roman Catholicism which claimed direct continuity with the post-Roman, medieval past, and a boy who looked always to the Middle East where his father worked and where the ancient monuments of Egypt and the ruined cities of Hellenistic and Roman times stood in the midst of what are now Muslim societies,” Brown wrote.

According to a press release issued by the Dan David Prize, Brown’s work is made exceptional by his incorporation of a variety of sources written in a variety of languages, including English, French, Italian, German, Syriac, ancient Greek, Latin, Hebrew and Old Norse.

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The University was closed for non-essential staff on Thursday due to a winter storm. Classes were held as scheduled.

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Martinez ’15, Miller ’15 receive Labouisse Prize

By Zaynab Zaman staff writer

Yessica Martinez ’15 and Damaris Miller ’15 were awarded this year’s Henry Richardson Labouisse ’26 Prize, a $30,000 grant to support a year-long international civic engagement project.

The prize was formed in 1984 by Labouisse’s daughter and son-in-law, Anne and Martin Peretz.

Martinez intends to work with a community organization in Medellín, Colombia, which has been creating theater programs for almost 25 years. She will mostly be working with youth and younger children to develop creative poetry workshops focused around the urban environment, she explained.

“My dad is actually from that area, so that’s where my interest in that community comes from,” she said.

She noted that one of the requirements of the fellowship was that the project should be based on the applicant’s background and on his or her experiences, both intellectually and personally speaking. She noted that her proposal was very driven by what

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Journalism professor talks human trafficking

By Paul Phillips senior writer

Human trafficking is not merely about forced prostitution and sex slavery, but instead encompasses a much wider variety of issues related to coerced labor, independent journalist and visiting professor Noy Thrupkaew argued at a talk Thursday.

Thrupkaew will deliver the same presentation as a Technology, Entertainment, Design talk at the TED national conference in March.

The talk began with Thrupkaew’s account of her discovery that until the age of three she had been raised not by her parents but by her “auntie.”

Her “auntie” was stripped and beaten for offenses as minor as being late to pick her up and eventually ran away. Thrupkaew later learned that her “auntie” had been a trafficked worker doing domestic work in hopes of obtaining a visa.

Thrupkaew defined human trafficking as the “the use of force, fraud or coercion to compel another person’s labor.” She said that although most people think of human trafficking as a way of forcing helpless young women into prostitution, sex trafficking is not representative

of the crime of trafficking as a whole.

Prostitution accounts for only 22 percent of human trafficking offenses worldwide, she noted, while extortion of ordinary goods and services that we rely on every day accounts for 68 percent.

“When most of you think about human trafficking, you don’t think about people like my auntie,” she said.

She added that most victims of human trafficking are people of color, and that the criminal justice system is not effective in resolving human trafficking crimes. Out of the possible 21 million trafficked workers in the world, about 50,000 have been identified for certain, she said.

Law enforcement rarely investigates trafficking situations unrelated to sex or open violence, and most instances of labor trafficking are settled in civil courts, not criminal courts, she said.

Thrupkaew explained that trafficking occurs in environments where workers are excluded from protection and denied the right to organize.

“Trafficking does not happen in a vacuum,” she said. “It hapSee TED page 2

she believes she has learned at the University, as well as by her own personal experiences and her background. That focus is something that likely stood out to the committee who reviewed her application, she said.

Martinez added that, after her year of service, she is considering pursuing a doctorate in Spanish literature or urban studies, and potentially a career in academia.

Martinez was also the co-recipient of the University’s 2015 Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the highest undergraduate award.

Miller’s project centers around working with Tibetan Buddhist monks in their Himalayan monasteries to help improve their sustainability. She will travel to two clusters of monasteries, one in India, which she has previously visited, and another in Nepal, she explained. Part of her proposal includes working with residents to identify and locate projects that are important to them and helping find ways to make them successful.

Miller said she considers this project to be the natural culmination of all her

projects and experiences over the past five years, she explained. Her Bridge Year experience in India, through which she began learning Hindi, and her time spent abroad in India since then have been formative.

“All my independent work has been on religion and the environment, and my thesis is on religion and the environment,” Miller said. “If there is anything I am prepared to do, it is this.”

She said her extensive thought process and passion likely came across to the committee, which is why she may have been selected. Though the grant is only for one year, she can see herself working on her project for more time, she said. The woman who started the initiative and with whom Miller is partnering has a strategic plan that far exceeds one year, which is why Miller’s plans may be longer-term, she explained.

“I know the things that I’m passionate about and that I’m interested in, and this project is the intersection of so many of those passions and interests, which is really exciting,” Miller said.

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and poverty in the late Roman Empire.

“There are few scholars in the world with the skills to tap such a range of sources, and fewer still who can exploit them with such singular and prolific imagination,” the press release noted.

History professor Jack Tannous called Brown a supremely generous doctoral supervisor for his graduate work.

“I remember I once gave him several hundred pages of written material on a Monday and he had them back to me with detailed comments by Wednesday,” Tannous said, praising Brown for genuinely

caring about students. “People come from all over the world to Princeton to visit him, almost like making a pilgrimage. I honestly don’t know how he handles the volume of correspondence he gets and the number of visitors he receives.”

Tannous added that the breadth of Brown’s reading and the breadth of his experience are astounding.

“I mean, as a child, he was blessed by Haile Selaisse and the people he’s met and discussed and debated ideas with range from Michel Foucault to Isaiah Berlin to Joseph Ratzinger,” Tannous said.

Vanderbilt University history professor David Allen Michelson GS ’07 described Brown, his Ph.D. supervisor, as “one of the first scholars who

created the study of late antiquity,” which falls between the classical periods of Greek and Rome and the early Medieval Period.

Prior to Brown’s work, this transition period in history was often overlooked, Michelson added.

Portelli is a visiting professor and lecturer in the University’s sociology department.

His work uses an ethnographic approach and focuses on the practice of oral history.

“Oral history, then, is primarily a listening art … It is not only about the event. It is about the place and meaning of the event within the lives of the tellers,” Portelli explained in his paper “A Dialogical Relationship: An Approach to Oral History.” “Orality, then, is not

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pens in systematically degrading work environments, especially in places like the United States, where the echo of slavery has been enshrined in our economy and in the institutions that we keep.”

Echoing a statement by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar,

Thrupkaew said we should fight against labor exploitation by questioning the products that we buy and researching where they may have come from.

“What would happen if each one of us demanded that the companies we support eliminate exploitation from their labor environment?” she said. “If all the CEOs out there went through their businesses with a finetooth comb and said, ‘No more.’”

just the vehicle of information but also a component of its meaning.”

One of his influential works, “The Death of Luigi Trastulli,” centers on the 1949 killing of a trade union protester by presenting a conflicting mosaic of print reports. Portelli also analyzed various acts of Nazi atrocity against both Jews and non-Jews. According to a press release by the Dan David Prize, Portelli’s works are a reminder that printed evidence is not more immune to falsehood than oral sources.

“No one has written more thoughtful, insightful, methodological reflections on the promise and perils of oral history. Portelli makes sense of its living sources as no other historian has done,” the Dan Da-

vid Award press release stated.

“It is hard for me to pinpoint ways in which doing oral history has changed me: I’ve been doing this for thirty-five years, and I guess I can say that most of who and what I am is a result of this work. Perhaps, the most important thing I’ve learned is respecting the agendas of other people. I hope I’ve been able to apply this lesson not only in oral history work but also in my own life,” Portelli wrote in “A Dialogical Relationship: An Approach to Oral History.”

Sociology professor Mitchell Duneier described Portelli as the leading practitioner of oral history today. His methodological and theoretical writings have set the new standards for collecting and representing the complexity of memory, Du-

neier added.

Duneier said he met Portelli in Rome two years ago while teaching a global seminar called “The Global Ghetto,” which examined the idea of the ghetto as a metaphor from 16th century Rome and Venice to the present.

“Professor Portelli is the author of an important oral history on the Nazi massacres of Jews in Rome,” Duneier said.

Portelli is a co-instructor of SOC 205: Sociology From E Street: Bruce Springsteen’s America.

When Portelli learned from Duneier about the course on Bruce Springsteen, he disclosed that he had been the translator for many of Bruce Springsteen’s albums and made arrangements to coinstruct the course.

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Exploited workers, Thrupkaew said, are in need of solidarity, not saving, and we need to show that we believe individual prosperity is not independent of the prosperity of others.

The event, titled “Dispelling Myths about Human Trafficking,” took place as part of the Butler and Wilson Colleges’ Current Affairs Roundtable. The event took place in a crowded Wu Special Dining Room at 6 p.m.

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The sell-outs and the self-righteous

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Tehila Wenger is a politics major from Columbus, Ohio. She can be reached at twenger@princeton. edu.

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t this point in my Princeton career, I can name a significant number of friends and acquaintances who plan on using their college degree to glorify the prestigious vocation of consulting after they graduate. Many Princeton seniors can. In fact, many Princeton juniors, sophomores and even freshmen can, although the numbers increase as each class approaches graduation.

Toward the end of fall semester last year, I was sitting around with three girlfriends discussing a future beyond Princeton, as overworked juniors who don’t want to complete their independent work are apt to do.

We were merrily disparaging the peers who would end up following a career path in finance or consulting, as idealistic college students with impractical majors are also apt to do. The insult of the hour was “selling out,” a term applied in tones of scathing criticism to the future employees of Bain, IBM and Goldman Sachs. We were the noble, artistic, aimless builders of tomorrow’s society, destined for careers in public service, environmental think tanks and academic fellowships. We were prepared to sacrifice job security and high salaries for our passions. In comparison, our peers who were following the typical fast track to consulting and finance appeared unworthy and conformist. They were lost little souls who had sacrificed dreams for money.

At a peak in this conversation, one of the participants — she had kept quiet for most of the self-righteous Bain-bashing — submitted for consideration the idea that it takes an incredible amount of privilege to label a secure, respectable, intellectually challenging career as “selling out.” We paused. We considered. The conversation continued on a different tack, but I’ve been stuck in that pause ever since.

What kind of young person dismisses an employment opportunity that promises financial stability, connections and career advancement? Who spurns a job sector that their university’s Career Services staff has the most experience navigating, or shrugs at the advantages of a large, influential alumni network?

It takes unbelievable strength of character or a very secure socio-economic background to become a professional artist or a social justice activist. Most of my friends fall into the latter category. Of course, the two characteristics aren’t mutually exclusive. But most of the counterculture Princeton students who abhor their classmates’ career of choice have a tendency to focus scornfully on the future financial security of their consulting-bound peers while ignoring the influence that this same characteristic played — and still plays — in their own lives.

I recently met a senior at Princeton who is as passionate about the consulting work he will do next year as any of my friends who want to become professional actors.

He made managerial consulting sound interesting, a feat that my freshman year self would have dismissed out of hand as impossible. Once again, I was forced to revisit my assumptions about those who become consultants after college. I had originally believed that their standard of success was based on money, prestige and little else. Listening to this classmate review case studies with the enthusiasm of a child (a very bright, opinionated child), I felt the same admiration I feel when a pre-med student discusses a new scientific breakthrough in cancer research. It’s hard for me to relate, and I certainly don’t want to become a doctor, but I would never accuse said pre-med of somehow reneging on her dreams.

Do some Princeton students choose consulting because it’s easy? Probably. The negative connotations of the Princeton consulting stereotype have to do with materialism and conformity, and most stereotypes have an edge of truth. Do I have the right to condemn future consultants on the basis of my own vague aspirations to become a writeractivist-world-improver? Not really. That cheesy old platitude of ‘follow your dreams’ does not specify which dreams we’re supposed to follow for a reason. I am choosing a path somewhat less sure and certainly less lucrative than a job in consulting, but my background ensures that my chances of experiencing real poverty are slim to none.

My personal ability to chase down dreams is a freedom that my parents bought and cultivated for me. Any blanket condemnation of consulting and finance jobs would indicate a woeful lack of self-awareness.

So, to all of the kindred spirits who roll their eyes when yet another classmate announces that they just signed a contract with McKinsey, I advise you to revisit a piece of popular wisdom immortalized in an old Princeton Tory article written by my friend Tal Fortgang ’17: Check your privilege.

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Improve midterms week

onday begins the notoriously stressful week of midterms.

Whereas for final exams the University provides a reading period and a designated exam period, midterms week is hardly set apart from any other week of the semester, and the exams taken often carry significant weight in course grading. Midterms are often treated like other assignments that students should be expected to juggle; in some cases, students have had 150-minute exams on weeknights, in addition to class and precept. Meanwhile, since there is no special reading period or exam week, extracurricular activities still go on; athletes will have regular practice, clubs and student organizations may hold important meetings, campus events will happen, and libraries will operate at normal hours.

In keeping with the sensible restrictions and recommendations surrounding acceptable workloads during finals week, the Editorial Board recommends that University academic departments adopt a consistent and fair set of norms. Such a system would include making weekly assignments either optional or ungraded during midterms week.

This would resolve the frustration of picking between studying for exams and regular coursework that often has no specific bearing on the exam itself. For example, a student in the current system might have to submit a weekly problem set on

a topic not covered on the midterm.

Other classes require weekly blog posts during midterms week, and while these posts may have their merits, they are an unnecessary burden during midterms.

Such additional assignments force students to make decisions about how to divide their time within a single class, adding to the stress of finding strategies to divide time between other classes, activities and sleep. This plan would encourage professors and preceptors to assign homework that is directly relevant to students, who shouldn’t feel the pressure to complete an assignment during midterms week that would only detract from their time spent in preparation for the exam itself. While not requiring additional work from teaching staff or professors, this would ensure adequate preparation, sleep and, ultimately, student well-being.

Another academic practice that is not implemented consistently across University departments, thus adding unnecessary stress and confusion to students’ lives, is the practice of making previous years’ exams and solutions available on Blackboard. Making such a practice the norm, at least in introductory courses, would give students an idea of what to expect on their exams, avoiding the frustration of spending hours studying material that would end up not being remotely helpful. In the case of humanities courses, a helpful technique that some HUM sections have

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adopted is giving students access to sample ‘A’ papers. Access to such information on a consistent basis across classes, including freshman writing seminars, would require small up-front time investments from teaching staff in return for smoother and more positive midterm experiences for hundreds of students. For incoming freshmen, coming from varied academic backgrounds, such resources are inestimably helpful and reassuring.

Lastly, a formal system for rearranging midterms should be put in place, to allow students with more than two exams on one day to reschedule. Because the nature of our class schedule (with classes usually being held Monday/Wednesday/Friday or Tuesday/Thursday) makes multiple midterms on one day quite likely, the possibility of three exams on one day is both real and unreasonable.

Academic departments and professors who already follow such practices do a great service to their students. By codifying such practices and establishing a set of norms and recommendations, the University can maximize student benefit from midterms week while minimizing inconsistency and frustration.

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Run dining halls like a business Newby Parton columnist

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he night of Sunday, Feb. 15 was cold. The wind was biting. It was the kind of night my Tennessee mother fears I won’t survive. In short, Feb. 15 was a terrible night for leaving a cozy quad. But my roommates and I strapped on our trapper hats and marched off campus humming a battle anthem, forging past the dead souls of Princeton Cemetery until we reached our promised land: Hunan Chinese Restaurant.

Nothing about Hunan is particularly special. Like every Chinese restaurant, its walls sport vaguely oriental decorations. Its food is Americanized, and Yelp reviewers have given it three stars out of five. If Hunan is extraordinary, it is because it manages to be the single most ordinary Chinese restaurant in New Jersey.

Fact: When you subsist on dining hall food, an ordinary restaurant meal is delicious. “I’m a changed man,” said Lawrence Cajuste ’18 upon cleaning his

plate of mu shu vegetables. Full and content, he read a faintly inspirational one-liner from his fortune cookie and produced a single $10 bill to pay his share of the tab.

Ten dollars covered the cost of his food, table service, a 25 percent tip, and it still left profit for the restaurant. But imagine, for a moment, a restaurant with no profits. You serve yourself and you leave no tip. The food, by most accounts, is blander than Hunan’s, and you must buy at least 95 meals at a time. Each costs $17.53 on average. That’s the deal served at the University’s dining halls, and everyone is buying.

This deal is horrible. It is scandalous. It would bankrupt a real restaurant in a week. Yet all students, at some point or another, have queued at a card-swiper, apparently eager to pay. We have no choice. The University forces freshmen and sophomores onto meal plans, a practice that a November state legislative bill hopes to ban. Expect no change soon: the University used its political muscle to earn the bill’s only exemption. Campus Dining is set to stay a bloated, money-

sapping monopoly.

The richest in our ranks may fail to notice the $6,000 dent, and recipients of financial aid may not care. But consider this: If dining halls were run efficiently, Campus Dining could write students a $2,000 rebate for every year on a meal plan. Think cash for your startup, a postgraduation nest egg, or money to buy 10,000 real eggs and cook New Jersey’s largest omelet. We could do so much!

Alas, this omelet money does not appear to be in our future.

Other universities boast hulking food costs, too: Rutgers University’s block 110 plan, for example, works out to $17.13 a swipe.

Some schools offer better deals — breakfast, lunch and supper from a Yale dining hall average $11.17 a meal — but I have not known a single college whose cafeterias can match the forces of capitalism. An all-you-can-eat breakfast bar in my hometown costs just $6.95, with food superior to the University’s. We too could drive our costs that low.

Accommodating all diets works against us, but the sheer number of patrons here will drive down overhead. Our workers earn more

than minimum wage, but there is no owner to take a profit.

I called Executive Director of Campus Dining Smitha Haneef to learn how dining halls spend the $17.53 entry fee. “Our goal is to provide f lexibility,” she told me. “The block 95 plan is geared to less frequent users.” It was a non-answer to a question I didn’t ask. “Why $18?,” I repeated.

“Where does that money go?”

“I cannot comment at this time,” she said. I asked why a $17.53 swipe at Late Meal buys less than $7 of food. She could not comment at that time, either.

Here is my prescription: Find the waste. Slash it. Give dining halls incentives to cut costs. Let students opt out of the meal plan after the first semester, but offer them a reasonable price so they will want to stay. Bring in restaurateurs to help.

Haneef explained, after some nudging, that fees pay for “labor, food and miscellaneous expenses” — another non-answer. Other than this, she never said what happens to our money.

Newby Parton is a freshman from McMinnville, Tenn. He can be reached at newby@princeton.edu.

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it could have, combining its performances to hit just above the Mendoza line, at .212. The team will hope for a better offensive performance this weekend, looking to add both contact and power to its game. The Tigers will also need to up their batting with runners on base; they left 24 players on base in the past week alone. Some clutch hitting may be important in the upcoming games.

Defensively, the team also remains a work in progress, having committed eight errors during this past weekend, twice as many as its opponent LSU. This eventually

led to 9 unearned runs for LSU, which certainly didn’t help remove the burden on their pitchers.

Although the start to the season could have been better, there is hope for better days for the team. There is hope that sophomore batters Zack Belski and Danny Baer and senior catcher Tyler Servais will round into form and start adding a bit more pop to their game. Both Baer and Belski put up impressive batting stats in their first year, with Baer batting .306 with six extra base hits and Belski hitting a .280 average with four extra base hits.

A win in the series could provide an important platform to a successful season for the Tigers.

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(15-11, 6-6) comes into this weekend ranked third in the league and have on its roster Nia Marshall,who ranks third in the Ivy League in points per game (16.7). Princeton, however, comes in with four players scoring in the double digits. Senior guard Blake Dietrick and junior forward Annie Tarakchian have been stars this year — Dietrick leads the Tigers in scoring at 14.9 a game, and Tarakchian has been averaging a near double-double with 10 points and nine rebounds per game. However, if any of the Ivy teams is going to give Princeton a fight for the boards (and not many have), it’d be Cornell, the team that gives up the second fewest rebounds in the league.

After taking on Cornell, the Tigers will travel to the Big Apple to engage in a battle of the jungle cats. The

Columbia Lions (8-18, 2-10) currently rank dead last in the Ivy League and are hoping to get a signature win to counterbalance their rough season. History certainly doesn’t favor their side; the last time these two teams met, Princeton annihilated Columbia 83-44. However, Columbia’s stats aren’t as bad as its record might imply. Although the Lions rank sixth in field goal percentage, they rank around middle of the league in many other statistical categories. While the Tigers have beaten more challenging teams than Columbia, the Lions certainly don’t look to go down without a fight.

Men’s Basketball With its four-game road trip behind them, the Princeton men’s basketball team will return home for its final home games of the season, taking on the Big Red and the Lions.

The Tigers (13-14 over-

all, 6-5 Ivy League), ranked third in the Ivy League, look to end their regular season on a high note after getting knocked out of the Ivy League title race this past weekend. They went 2-2 in their four-game road trip, falling to Harvard and Yale (who are tied for No. 1 in the conference), and defeating Dartmouth and Brown. This weekend’s home games look to be exciting ones, as the Tigers’ opponents are ranked directly behind them in the Ivy League standings.

Cornell (13-15, 5-7 Ivy League) looks to get a second win against the Tigers this year. Unlike Princeton, the Cornell team has had its fair share of struggles on the offensive end, ranking seventh in the league in points per game and dead last in field goal percentage. Even during Princeton’s loss to Cornell earlier this season, the Big Red had its usual trouble from the field. However, in that particular game, a nor-

mally strong Tigers offense shot worse, shooting at a 32.7 percent rate in the loss.

The Big Red offense and defense center around forward Shonn Miller, who has bounced back marvelously this year after missing all of last season because of injury. Putting up 5.33 points, 8.3 boards and 1.9 blocks a game, he will be on the Tigers’ radar every minute he is on the f loor. In addition to Miller, guards Galal Cancer, Robert Hatter and Devin Cherry round out the offense.

While all of these three players score around 10 points a game, they’ve struggled with efficiency — none of them shoots above 40 percent.

In contrast, the Tigers have had very strong offensive production this season.

Sophomore wing Spencer Weisz has continued his great playing after earning Ivy League Rookie of the Year last season; he’s displayed allaround excellence on the season, putting up 11.7 points,

4.9 steals and 2.7 assists per game. Alongside with Weisz, Cornell must watch out for sophomore guard Stephen Cook, who at times has been lights out, and junior forward Hans Brase, who is able to both stretch the defense and get points down low.

Tiger faithful hope Brase and Cook can avoid a repeat of their performances the last time facing Cornell, where Brase went 0-7 and Cook went 3-15.

After Cornell, the Tigers will play Columbia at Jadwin Gymnasium, their last home game in the regular season.

The Lions (13-13, 5-7) hope to avenge a home court loss against Princeton earlier in the season. They will certainly rely heavily on Maodo Lo, who leads the Ivy League in points per game, scoring 17.6 on an efficient 48.1 percent shooting. Against the Tigers last time, he stuffed the stat sheet with 21 points, 5 boards and 5 assists. Moreover, Kyle Castlin has been a revelation

for the Lions, as he’s currently second on the team in scoring, bringing in just over 10 points a game.

This weekend’s games look to be exciting ones, as the [men’s team’s] opponents are ranked directly behind them in the Ivy League standings.

Columbia doesn’t have much trouble with scoring — it’s in the upper half of the Ivy League in terms of points.

In its last game against the Tigers, defense was the main issue. The Lions gave up 74 points on 54 percent shooting (60 percent from behind the arc). If the Tigers run the offense the way they have all season, the Lions could be in for a long night on Saturday.

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infielder Haley Hineman home, and another in the top of the sixth when senior catcher/first baseman Cara Worden batted Pierce home.

UCF scored one more run in the bottom of the sixth and shut the Tigers out in the seventh inning.

Saturday’s opening game against Long Island proved difficult for the Tigers, as the Blackbirds scored the first three runs of the game in the bottom of the sec-

ond, scoring again in the bottom of the fifth to put Long Island up by four. The Tigers fought back, scoring two runs in the top of the sixth inning on a two-run home run hit by Jerpbak.

After Long Island scored another run in the bottom of the sixth, Princeton scored another two in the top of the seventh on Rendina and Hineman singles, which just weren’t enough to clinch a Tiger victory.

The Tigers notched their second run-rule win of the weekend against Iowa on Saturday afternoon in an in-

credible 10-2 victory. Iowa opened the game strong, up 2-1 going into the bottom of the fourth inning with a Tiger run coming from a Worden homer in the bottom of the second inning.

The Tigers evened the score when Worden scored on a Jerpbak double to left field.

Princeton blew the game open in the fifth inning when Princeton scored eight runs on four hits and a walk, combined with poor fielding from Iowa. Hineman had a four-hit game, her first of the season and second of her career.

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one of the nation’s top netminders following the first team All-America campaign of Terrapin Nick Amato. The Pennsylvania native Amato was the first-ever goalie to be named first team All-ACC four times.

The Tigers will be glad they won’t be facing Amato, but perhaps even more glad that they missed first team All-America midfielder Mike Chanenchuk, the Terps offensive dynamo who graduated in 2014. The Long Island native matriculated at Princeton and was unanimously selected as Ivy League Rookie of the Year for 2010.

Despite its star man’s grad-

uation, Maryland retains much of the core which carried it to the NCAA Tournament semifinals in 2014.

Sophomore attackman Matt Rambo, scorer of 30 goals in 2014, has started strong with 12 points off of 8 goals and 4 assists.

Senior Princeton goalkeeper Eric Sanschagrin will direct the effort to slow the Maryland offense. In his first year as a starter, Sanschagrin has averaged an impressive 12.33 saves per game.

A young backline stands in front of the senior, with two sophomores and a freshman likely starting at close defense. First year defenseman Aran Roberts won Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors for his two ground balls and two created turnovers against the

Blue Jays, including a clutch takeaway late in the contest.

It has been some time since Maryland featured on Princeton’s regular season schedule.

The last non-playoff meeting between the two teams was in 1977 during the unremarkable administration of President Jimmy Carter. Prior to that point, the Terps had held a dominating 28-7-1 series lead over the Tigers in an intermittent rivalry which stretches back to 1927.

Those acquainted with the golden age of Princeton lacrosse may be most familiar with Maryland as the side twice consecutively routed by the legendary 1997-98 NCAA champion Orange and Black squads. Since 1997, the Tigers hold a 5-1 advantage over the Terps, all in playoff contests.

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The Princeton women’s softball team finished the second of back-to-back tournaments in Florida.

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Women’s team tries to hold streak; men return home

By Miles Hinson sports editor

Women’s Basketball In a season that has defied even the loftiest of expectations, the No. 13 women’s basketball team looks to keep its perfect season alive. The Tigers will travel through the Empire State in the second half of their road trip, taking on the Cornell Big Red and the Columbia Lions as the season nears its end.

Princeton (27-0 overall, 11-0 Ivy League) has been at the top of the Ivy League

statistical measures across the board — it ranks first in points per game (by a 12-point margin), field goal percentage (shooting nearly 50 percent as a team on the season), rebounds per game (42.4) and assists per game (17.3). Having all but secured a bid to the NCAA March Madness tournament, the Tigers look to take down two teams they absolutely demolished earlier in the season.

Of the two New York teams, Cornell looks to be the bigger challenge. The Big Red See B-BALL page 5

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The men’s basketball team come home this weekend to take on Columbia and Cornell, ranked 4th and 5th in the league respectively.

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Tigers look to clinch first win of the season

By Tom Pham associate sports editor

After being trumped 3-0 last weekend in a disappointing series against Louisiana State University, the men’s baseball team will travel to Greensboro, N.C., to face the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in a four-game series. The first two games will be played on Saturday at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m., respectively, followed by another doubleheader on Sunday, with games at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.

The Tigers, hoping to improve on their 14-26 record from last season, will be looking to bounce back and mark their first win of the season. The team will also

look to return to winning ways in the Ivy League after posting a 8-12 record against Ivy League opponents last season.

With their 0-3 start to the season, the Tigers are currently rock bottom in the Lou Gehrig Division of the Ivy League. However, none of the teams ahead of the Tigers look particularly frightening. Cornell has started 1-5, while Penn has opened its season 1-2, and division leader Columbia is the only team above .500, posting a 2-2 record this season. Should the Tigers claim a victory in the series against UNCGreensboro and should other results fall their way, they could go on to claim the first

place in the division.

The team’s offense and defense are still in the works, as the team shakes off the preseason rust and rounds into gear for the new season. The group is hoping to see more great performances from senior Peter Owens in his farewell season, especially with his returning home to play in his home state this weekend. Having hit 0.400 so far, Owens is looking to continue his hot start to the season.

Sophomore Paul Tupper has also gotten off to a decent start this season, batting .333 in the past three games, including a double.

However, the team hasn’t fared as well offensively as See BASEBALL page 5

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An undefeated men’s lacrosse team will go on the road to take on the Maryland Terps, one of the NCAA’s best.

No. 10 Tigers look to claw past No. 9 Maryland Terrapins

By Andrew Steele senior writer

No. 10 men’s lacrosse (3-0 overall) will face its third Top 20 opponent in three weeks as the Tigers travel to face No. 9 Maryland (3-1). A win would put an exclamation mark on Princeton’s pre-conference play — Ivy League rivals Penn follow the Terps on the schedule — and secure its place among the nation’s top teams.

Saturday’s matchup embodies the classic “irresistible force vs. immovable object” paradox. Princeton’s offense, one of the best in the nation, ranks seventh nationally in goals per game (14.67). Appearing unstop-

pable at times, senior attackman Mike MacDonald leads the Tigers in points with 19 off of 10 goals and nine assists. His fellow Canadian, sophomore midfielder Zach Currier, has emerged as one of the nation’s best young players. His outstanding effort against Johns Hopkins (5 points, 8 ground balls and 6-8 faceoff wins) earned him NCAA Offensive Player of the Week honors.

Having held their first four opponents to an average of 5.25 goals per game, the Terps rank first in NCAA Division I scoring defense. This absurdly low mark is due in large part to the 12-3 embarrassment of Drexel University last weekend in College

Park, Md., as well as the season opening drubbing of the Naval Academy by a score of 8-1.

Long stick midfielder Matt Neufeldt has been prolific for Maryland of late. In a win over Penn, the Illinois native picked up three ground balls while causing five turnovers, before helping stifle Drexel with four turnovers and five ground ball collections.

Princeton shooters will have to be even more precise than usual this Saturday, as Maryland goalkeeper Kyle Bernlohr ranks first in the nation in save percentage with a mark of 68.3. What’s remarkable is that Bernlohr has emerged this year as See LAX page 5

Softball team goes 2-2 as they make road trip through Sunshine State

By Sydney Mandelbaum associate sports editor

Last weekend, the Tigers pushed through strong matchups, coming out 2-2 on the weekend with their first victory over a Big Ten program since 2006. Two Tigers also received Ivy League weekly honors, with junior catcher Skye Jerpbak named Ivy League Player of the Week and freshman pitcher Ashley LaGuardia receiving both Ivy League Rookie of the Week and Ivy League Pitcher of the Week honors. The Tigers (3-6) played games against Florida A&M University, the University of Central Florida, the University of Iowa and Long Island University. The Tigers split their matches on both days, coming out victorious over Florida A&M but falling to UCF on Friday, while falling to Long Island and besting Iowa on Saturday. The Tigers were also scheduled to

take on Florida A&M again on Sunday, but the game was washed out.

Looking at the two Ivy League honorees of the week, Jerpbak really got into the groove of the season last weekend, going 9 for 14 over the last five games to bat .636 during the tournament.

LaGuardia also had an incredible weekend, throwing 13 2/3 innings over the weekend, earning a 2.05 Earned Run Average and pitching incredibly well on Friday, finishing the day with a 0.72 ERA and 1-1 on the day.

The Tigers beat Florida A&M 9-1 in a strong start to the weekend. The Tigers scored the first two runs of the game in the bottom of the second. The Rattlers tried to rally with a run in the top of the fourth, but the Tigers quickly responded with four runs of their own in the bottom of the inning. The Tigers closed the game with three runs in the

bottom of the sixth inning, winning with the run-rule.

LaGuardia pitched the entire game, holding off Florida A&M well. Seven Tigers had hits during the opening game of the weekend, with Jerpbak, freshman outfielder Kylee Pierce and junior first baseman Emily Viggers all batting two-hit games, and Pierce, sophomore outfielder Marissa Reynolds and senior infielder/outfielder Rachel Rendina driving in two runs each.

Friday evening, the Tigers fell 3-2 in a close game against nationally ranked UCF. UCF, ranked No. 15 in the ESPN.com/USA Today poll and No.17 by the NFCA, scored two runs in the bottom of the first inning, and the Tigers spent the rest of the game trying to even out the score. The Tigers scored a run in the top of the second when Jerpbak hit a double to send sophomore See SOFTBALL page 5

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