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Gregory Katsas ’86 gains White House appointment associate news editor
Gregory Katsas ‘86 was named Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Counsel to the President. He will serve in these posts from the White House Counsel’s office. Katsas will report to White House Counsel Donald McGahn II, where he will advise President Donald Trump on all legal issues concerning the President and his administration. Prior to joining the White House Counsel’s office, Katsas served as a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm Jones Day. At Jones Day, Katsas worked on cases involving administrative law, employment discrimination, international law, and products liability. He has argued more than 75 cases before appellate courts in the United States, and has argued cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Most notably, Katsas was involved in the 2012 case
National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, which challenged the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate that allowed the U.S. Congress to force people to buy health insurance. Katsas argued that “the Anti-Injunction Act does not bar the Court from hearing a challenge to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate requiring the purchase of health insurance.” The case was eventually decided 5-4 in favor the administration. Katsas also served from 2001 to 2009 in the U.S. Department of Justice. He served as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division and the Acting Associate Attorney General. At the Justice Department, Katsas “handled or supervised most of the Federal Government’s leading civil appeals,” according to the Federalist Society, and oversaw enforcements of the False Claims Act and the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic See WHITE HOUSE page 2
COURTESY OF US EMBASSY IN IRELAND
COURTESY OF US EMBASSY & CONSULATES IN THE UK
Smyth and Lukens instated as acting ambassadors.
Smyth GS ’10, Lukens ’82 named ambassadors to Ireland, the UK By Abhiram Karuppur associate news editor
Lonnie Reece Smyth GS ‘10 and Lewis Lukens ‘86 GS ‘03 were named chargé d’affaires ad interim at the U.S. Embassies in Ireland and the United Kingdom, respectively. A chargé d’affaires is a diplomat who runs the U.S. Embassy in the absence of an ambassador, and is effectively an acting ambassador. Both Smyth and Lukens are holding temporary positions, and will vacate their positions once President Donald J. Trump’s nominees for U.S. Ambassadors are confirmed in Congress. President Trump has nominated Robert Wood “Woody” Johnson IV, the owner of the New York Jets, to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom. The former U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, Kevin O’Malley, and the former U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Matthew Barzun, resigned on Jan. 20, 2017, following Trump’s inauguration.
Smyth joined the U.S. Embassy in Dublin, Ireland, in September of 2016 to serve as Deputy Chief of Mission. Previously, Smyth served at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, where he was the counselor for Political and Economic Affairs. Smyth said he was looking forward to sharing his “experience of visiting this wonderful country and getting to know the Irish people.” Smyth also worked at the U.S. Department of State, where he was the deputy director of the State Department’s Office of United Nations Political Affairs with “responsibility for the conduct of multilateral diplomacy with the UN Security Council and General Assembly.” He served at the U.S. Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), where he was the action officer in the NATO-Russia Council. He was also a senior economic officer at the Department of State’s Office of Arabian Peninsula
U . A F FA I R S
Resources for students after announcement of revised travel ban By Marcia Brown head news editor
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The revised travel ban goes into effect on Mar. 16.
President Donald Trump’s updated travel ban executive order affects populations from six countries. On Monday, Trump issued the order, removing Iraq from the list of affected countries. In a Feb. 6 letter, Vice President for Campus Life W. Rochelle Calhoun, Dean of the College Jill Dolan, and Dean of the Graduate School Sanjeev Kulkarni sent a letter that offers advice to students impacted by the first travel ban. This same advice also pertains to Trump’s revised travel ban that affects six predominantly Muslim countries, blocking migrants from entering the U.S. The executive order also imposes a 90-day ban on travelers, but exempts permanent residents and current visa holders. Additionally, in a shift from his previous executive order, the ban no longer includes language that was seen as
favoring other religious groups over Muslims. As per Calhoun’s letter, ten percent of the undergraduate population is international and 40 percent of the graduate population is international. After Trump’s first executive order affecting immigration, the Davis International Center produced a fact page to help answer questions about Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and undocumented students, as well as other questions pertaining to the executive orders. Other resources available to students include the Migration Policy Institute’s website. The nonpartisan think tank’s research details how immigration policy and executive orders affect specific populations such as students. Additionally, according to Calhoun’s letter, the staff of Campus Life, the Graduate School, and the Office of the Dean of the College are available to answer any questions.
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Today on Campus
Contributor Ryan Born questions the effectiveness of comedy, and Senior Columnist Beni Snow critiques the University’s recruitment practices. PAGE 4
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Affairs. In addition, Smyth served as a watch officer in the Operations Center, and worked in Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Pakistan. Smyth joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 1999, and previously worked as a senior trade consultant in London and New York. He graduated with an undergraduate degree from Baylor University in Texas, and earned his Masters in Public Policy from the Wilson School in 2010. He also holds a master’s degree from the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, Belgium. Lukens was named chargé d’affaires ad interim at the U.S. Embassy in London, where his job is analogous to the chief operating officer of the U.S. Mission to the United Kingdom. In 2016, Lukens was named Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in London. From 2014-2016, Lukens was the U.S. Department of State’s Diplomat in Residence for the See AMBASSADOR page 5
STUDENT LIFE
Princeton Student Climate Lobby tackles climate issues By Jacob Tyles science contributor
“This is a difficult time for liberals and conservatives alike. People are stressed –– and the climate issue is one that has been ignored for a long time,” Jack Lohmann ’19 said. Lohmann is a co-founder of the Princeton Student Climate Lobby (PSCL), a PACE Center group that was created in January. PSCL is a campus climate change advocacy group working in collaboration with Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL), the national chapter organization and a force for climate change activism. “We’re interested in providing an outlet for students to learn about, engage with, and have a positive impact on climate change,” Jonathan Lu ’18, another cofounder of PSCL, said. According to Lu, the group’s inception arose from a need to address current issues surrounding just how instiSee CLIMATE page 4
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Gregory Katsas ‘86 was named Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Counsel to the President.
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Act. He also handled cases involving enemy combat detainees at Guantánamo Bay, the applicability of the state secrets privilege involving clandestine CIA activities, and “the constitutionality of federal statutes on subjects ranging from the Pledge of Allegiance to partial-birth abortion.” In 2009, Katsas received the Edmund Randolph Award for outstanding service, which is the highest award that anyone can receive at the Justice Department. Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey described Katsas as “widely regarded as one of the Jus-
tice Department’s most outstanding civil and appellate attorneys.” Katsas clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Judge Edward Becker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He graduated from Harvard Law School, where he was the executive editor of the Harvard Law Review. He is also currently a member of the Federalist Society. At the University, Katsas majored in Philosophy, and his senior thesis was titled “Proper Names and Descriptive Senses.”
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tutions and lawmakers are handling climate change, as well as a marked lack of discussion at the time within campus itself. PSCL arose in an environment where climate science is under debate within the federal government. President Donald Trump’s pick of Rick Perry for secretary of the Department of Energy was confirmed as well as his pick for administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Scott Pruitt on Feb. 2. Perry has previously recommended getting rid of the DOE, though he regrets this now, and Pruitt was boycotted by Senate Democrats over worries about his doubting whether or not climate change is anthropogenic. Lu explained that he noticed that discourse around climate change and the direct impacts on people it has was lacking. Due to this concern, he and other co-founders decided to avail other existing climate change advocacy groups on campus, as well as the Princeton Environmental Institute, for guidance. After sending a Google Forms poll to listservs of the student body, Lu noted that the response for what the students wanted was overwhelmingly cogent and clear. Out of the 260-plus responses, most students wanted to learn about climate change solutions. PSCL had been in contact with Citizens Climate Lobby in order to see how to best meet student desire to better understand not only the possible solutions to climate change, but also the feasible politics of it, as well
as how to take part in such politics. “We decided to stick with advocacy,” Lu said. “The CCL is dedicated to lobbying representatives and legislators” on effective climate activism. He noted that one such solution for the national chapter, the “crux of a solution to climate change,” is the carbon fee and dividend policy. In short, this policy takes form as a steadily increasing tax on fossil fuels at the point of extraction, for example from an oil well. That money would be collected and redistributed via a check to American households. Those who use less energy on average are issued a tax benefit, whereas those who use large quantities of energy will end up paying an extra tax. “Overall this helps the majority of households, because of the equal distribution,” Lohmann said. Other sources of activism come from the Put a Price On It campaign, which calls for pricing carbon pollution to encourage solutions to climate change. PSCL asked University President Christopher Eisgruber ‘83 to offer an official statement on where the University stands on the carbon tax, as well as to have a meeting with him to further discuss this issue. Eisgruber declined to meet; however, he clarified that the role of an academic institution such as the University is to promote academic scholarship and not take a stance on technical matters that few people are knowledgeable in. Director of Media Relations John Cramer wrote in an email that he cannot answer questions about Eisgruber’s schedule but “that in many cases where students
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request a meeting with the President they are advised of the office hours he conducts periodically at the residential colleges, which students are welcome to attend.” According to the website of the Office of the President, these Conversations with the President and office hours will be held four times this spring. Feb. 10 office hours in Butler have passed, but office hours will be held Mar. 28, Apr. 18, and May 5 for one hour each. They will take place in Frist, Whitman, and Mathey respectively. “We were a little bummed at first, but we laid out other plans to search for other possibilities in engaging in political awareness,” Lu said. On Mar. 6, the University held its Day of Action, where many advocates held teach-ins and talks on important matters in light of recent political disinterest in climate and social issues. According to Lu, many students expressed interested in being a part of PSCL and taking part in climate change activism. “We’re going to have a slew of events in the coming future,” Lohmann said. “We’re going to have study breaks, speakers come in, panels, lunch breaks, coordinating with other groups and professors, and our goal is to invigorate the student body to contact their representatives and debate these issues.” In fact, PSCL’s goal is centered on this debate. “People are responding to the Trump administration, from either side of the aisle, but it’s important to not just fight Donald’s battles, but the battles we’d like to fight, including climate change,” Lohmann said.
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Is Satire Enough? Ryan Born
Contributing Columnist
The most vocal and effective response thus far to the Trump presidency appears to be comedy; it often feels like the liberal left has a powerful command of comedy beyond that of the conservative right. At the very least, as Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman ’19, a member of Quipfire! Improv Comedy, notes, “The left is much funnier because the right is largely the party of tradition, and it’s much more satisfying to laugh at our old mistakes than our new progressive ideals.” It is this idea of being “funnier” that I argue leads to the idea that comedy allows one to defend against Trump. As my fellow columnist Kaveh Badrei ’20 argues in a March 2017 opinion piece, “Comedy can cut through falsehoods and clearly critique society.” While I agree that comedy has its uses in providing critical perspective and holding politicians accountable, it is also limited. Foremost among these issues is the subjec-
tive nature of humor. Is liberal comedy funny to those who aren’t liberals? Humor is very subjective, and political humor that is funny to liberals is unlikely to be funny to conservatives, and vice versa. I have often been accused by more conservative Facebook friends of “not getting the joke” when they post a particular political meme. And they’re right: I don’t. As Herzog-Arbeitman notes: “Tons of people have coined terms to describe the echo chamber effect of social and conventional media, and comedy is beholden to the same effect.” In a powerful piece, New Yorker writer Emily Nussbaum argued that one of Trump’s main advantages in the election was his grasp of comedy. He was funny to conservatives, which increased his appeal. Herzog-Arbeitman seems to agree and disagree with the notion that Trump effectively uses comedy. Trump has a strong understanding of how to engage an audience. His campaign was more game show than
politics or comedy, and his victory is more akin to reality TV refusing to cut a poor contender because of his or her knack for creating drama.” Yet I again wonder if these sorts of arguments leave out what appears to be substantive evidence that he is utilizing comedy in ways we simply are not accustomed to. Still, I believe liberal humor is not effective with conservative (or undecided) voters, given that political humor is inherently polarized. It makes sense to imagine this is lost on left-leaning political observers due to their bias; when I say humor is useful when it is “politically effective,” I am speaking to the sense that political effectiveness is used to gain votes and win elections. Conservative humor and Trump’s humor were more effective than liberal humor, given the results of the election. Therefore, we should be weary that an “army of comedy” would generate any different results. Some will argue that we don’t expect SNL or
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The Onion to swing the results of an election. Yet we’re no longer interested in the results of an election, but rather the ability to project political objectives and hold elected leaders to bipartisan standards of accountability. Does comedy help us with these goals, or does it distract us? We should be leery of comedy’s effects alone. We cannot only make fun of policies or criticize ideas. We should actively consider our use of comedy as part of a larger struggle to defend our political values. Princetonians who are invested in the wellbeing of the country are obligated to laugh, sure, but we also have to be able to take Trump seriously. Trump has proven himself incompetent and dangerous. Against a man like Trump with his little hands on the nuclear buttons and the armed forces, can anyone seriously believe that satire alone is enough? Ryan Born is a sophomore from Washington, Michigan. He can be reached at rcborn@princeton.edu.
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Princeton Admissions: Recruitment Beni Snow
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Princeton is one of the most selective undergraduate colleges in the world. That is guaranteed, as there are more students who want to attend than spaces. The criteria by which Princeton decides who is allowed to be a Tiger and who is not are not set in stone. In this column, the final part of a three-part series on admissions, I examine recruitment; the first column explored early admissions and the second column discussed legacy. In addition to its cutting-edge research and world-class education, Princeton is a Division 1 school for many sports. And like all collegiate sports teams, access to top talent is required for Princeton to compete. But recruiting the best players is more difficult at Princeton. The University doesn’t give out athletic scholarships, a key incentive. Athletes here must meet the same
rigorous academic standards that apply to all students, which further winnows the field. Recruitment is essential to attracting the most talented athletes to become Princetonians. In fact, recruitment should expand to other activities. Not everyone agrees. Some, like the author of a recent Yale Daily News column, believe that some student athletes are less deserving of attending a top school, that they are less intelligent, and that they got in on just the merit of their sport. As our own Luke Gamble points out, that isn’t true. On the 240-point Academic Index used by the Ivy League schools, athletes fall within a hair — just five points — of the rest of our student body. The dumb jock stereotype isn’t true at Princeton, since dumb jocks are not accepted. Nevertheless, the Yale column argued that recruited athletes are accepted not on their academic merit, but on the
merit of their extracurricular activities. As if anyone at top schools isn’t accepted based on factors other than their academic performance. Princeton could easily fill a class with people who got 2400’s on their SATs and 4.0 GPAs. They chose not to do this because there is value in people having skills, talents, and passions outside the classroom. Or, as Gamble wrote, “Harvard didn’t accept Yo-Yo Ma because of his stellar high school grades, but rather because of so much else that he brought to the university.” I am sure that Yo-Yo Ma was essentially recruited to Harvard. By the time Ma applied to Harvard, he was already a renowned cellist and alumnus of the Juilliard School. He brought a level of expertise in his field that Harvard valued. That is the same principle on which elite schools recruit athletes. And if the University recruits
students with the greatest talent on the field, court, or rink, then I see no reason why this same system should not apply to students with other talents. The orchestra should be able to recruit top violinists. The debate team wants the best debaters. Sports are not the only way that Princeton advertises to the world how impressive Princetonians are. Just as coaches are given a number of recruitment slots, leaders of performing groups should be given slots, too. Princeton is a collection of some of the most driven, impressive people I have ever met. Part of what makes Princeton a remarkable place is student groups participating within their fields at the highest level. Allowing recruitment across all the disciplines of human achievement would allow Princeton to better showcase itself to the world and further attract top talent in sports, arts, and yes, intellectual en-
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deavors. As with recruited athletes, these slots should not be a free pass on academic requirements. Rather, they should simply be an endorsement by the head of an organization within Princeton signaling that the applicant has a skill valuable to the University community. The current system allows only sports teams this luxury. The signal that sends from the University is that while athletic skills deserve extra consideration, non-athletic skills do not. Beni Snow is a mechanical and aerospace engineering major from Newton Center, Mass. He can be reached at bsnow@princeton.edu.
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Northwest, where he maintained an office at the University of California, Berkeley. As Diplomat in Residence, Lukens was responsible for “recruitment and outreach” for the State Department in Montana, Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and northern California. In 2011, former President Barack Obama nominated Lukens to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Senegal and GuineaBissau, where he ran one of the largest embassies in Africa. From 2008 to 2011, Lukens was executive director of the State Department’s Executive Secretariat, where he “directed all management support for [former] Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, including her overseas travel.” From 2005 to 2008, Lukens served as the Consul General in Vancouver, where he managed U.S. relations with Western Canada. From 2001 to 2005, he held multiple positions, including the Senior Director for Administration at the National Security Council, the Management Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Ireland, and the Executive Secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Iraq. Lukens has also worked in Australia, Côte d’Ivoire, and China. Lukens was asked to testify in the case revolving around former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server. In May 2016, he gave a deposition to the public interest group Judicial Watch, which filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit over Clinton’s emails. During the deposition, Lukens “testified that he communicated with Clinton aide Cheryl Mills in 2009 about how the secretary could use her email for personal use, for what he thought would be keeping in touch with friends and family.” He added that he “suggested setting up a stand-alone computer in the secretary’s office but that Mills said that Clinton did not know how to use one for email, relying only on her Blackberry for that purpose.” At the University, Lukens majored in history, and wrote his senior thesis on “American Foreign Policy toward French West Africa: 1953-1963.” He also obtained a Masters of Public Policy from the Wilson School in 2003. His father, Alan Lukens ‘46, was also a career foreign service officer, as he served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of the Congo in Brazzaville.
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Men’s squash finishes off season at CSA individual championships By Miranda Hasty Associate Sports Editor
The men’s squash team concluded its season this past weekend at the College Squash Association Individual Championships at Dartmouth College, sending four athletes to compete for individual titles and All-America honors. The men’s CSA championships are divided into five draws: Molloy North, Molloy South, Molloy East, Molloy West, and the Pool Trophy. The last draw is the top division of the tournament, guaranteeing All-America titles for each of its sixteen competitors, and the previous four offer second-team All-America finishes for each of its final winners. Sophomore Cody Cortes and freshman Gabriel Morgan were selected to compete in the Molloy South group, while freshman Shehab Thabet was drawn into Molloy East. Freshman Adhitya Raghavan was Princeton’s sole competitor in the Pool Trophy division and was thus ensured an All-American status in the CSA conference for the 201617 season. The team kicked off the tournament with three wins in the Round 16 stage last Friday. Cortes, Morgan, and Thabet each earning victories against their opponents in their respective decisions. Raghavan dropped his
Friday match, losing to University of Rochester’s fourthseeded Ryosei Kobayashi. It was a hard-fought game, however, with two narrow 1513 finishes. Raghavan’s season wasn’t over, as he was still in the running for a top-ten finish and first-team All-America honors. He faced off against Trinity’s No. 2 Rick Penders in the consolation round, claiming two 11-9 wins, but ultimately losing the match to Renders. His teammates, however, moved forward to the Saturday quarterfinals. Though Cortes was unable to clinch a spot in the semifinals, both Morgan and Thabet advanced to semifinal matches held later on in the day, both having claimed five-game wins in their quarterfinal games. The two Tigers couldn’t up keep up the momentum of their first two matches, both falling to competitors in their draw group on Saturday, who would go on to compete in the finals the next day. While Morgan was defeated by George Washington’s Jamie Oakley, Thabet lost to Rochester’s Ricardo Lopez, disqualifying themselves for second-team All-America honors, granted to the winners of the Molloy divisions. The team finished its season the week before at the CSA Howe Cup Championships at 6-10 for the season and 2-5 for the Ivy League.
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Freshmen Gabriel Morgan and Shehab Thabet had the longest run in the CSA Individual Championships WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY
Women’s ice hockey concludes season with loss in ECAC, earns post-season honors
By Grace Baylis STAFF WRITER
The Princeton women’s ice hockey team suffered a 4-0 defeat in the ECAC semifinals last weekend when they faced Clarkson. The Tigers had beaten Quinnipiac in a threegame series last weekend, playing the longest game in Princeton hockey (both men’s and women’s) history. However, the Tigers will not be heading to the ECAC final. Despite a hard-fought game from Princeton, they could not contain Clarkson sophomore Loren Gabel, who scored two goals and had two assists. The forward skated through the Tigers’ forward line and found her teammate, who managed to put it in past freshman goalkeeper Steph Neatby early into the second period. Princeton was outshot by Clarkson 40-26, with Neatby making 36 saves. The Tigers stood strong for the remainder of the second period, despite suffering two penalties, but less than a minute into the third period, Gabel doubled Clarkson’s lead.
But Princeton was not without opportunities. Seniors Molly Contini and Cassidy Tucker, along with fellow senior defender Kelsey Koelzer, tested the Clarkson goalkeeper, forcing her to make two saves. However, the Tigers could not steal a goal back from Clarkson, which made it hard for them to get back into the game. The ECAC Player of the Year, senior Cayley Mercer, added another to Clarkson’s tally. Mercer leads the ECAC in points (57) and goals (26). Gabel then sealed the deal, ensuring Clarkson would be heading to the ECAC final with a 4-0 win over Princeton. Although the Tigers will be disappointed with the result over the weekend, they have seen some incredible individual success since then. Freshmen forward Carly Bullock was named the ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Year and Neatby was named the ECAC Hockey Goaltender of the Year and was selected to be on the firstteam All-ECAC. Both were named to the ECAC AllRookie team. Sophomore forward Karlie Lund and
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Koelzer were both named to the second-team AllECAC and were both finalists for best player in their respective positions. Helping lead her team to an ECAC semifinal, Neatby has come in as a freshman this year and broken records along the way. Ranked second in the nation in both save percentage (0.953) and goals against average (1.38), Neatby also broke the 20plus year record for saves in a game, which had been held by Susan Gouchoe since November 1985. Gouchoe made 58 saves in one game, but known by the team as ‘Stneatby’, Neatby bettered that by two saves this year with 60 saves in the triple overtime game against Quinnipiac. For some the hockey does not stop at Princeton. Koelzer has just been signed by the New York Riveters of the National Women’s Hockey League for the remainder of the season. Although Koelzer has finished her career in collegiate hockey, the AllAmerican Princeton women’s ice hockey captain has exciting times to look forward to.
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Though the Tigers lost in the ECAC semifinals, individuals earned top honors, including Goaltender of the Year, Rookie of the Year, firstteam All-ECAC, and All-Rookie.
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128 career games Senior defender Kelsey Koelzer of women’s ice hockey concluded her collegiate career with 128 career games and signed to the New York Riveters of the NWHL.”
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