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Tuesday April 18, 2017 vol. cxli no. 45
{ www.dailyprincetonian.com } BEYOND THE BUBBLE
Backer ’85 turns himself in after going missing for 1.5 years DJ Relley Rozay announced
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STUDENT LIFE
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Canadian investor and former Olympian Harold Backer ’85 turned himself in to the police last Thursday after disappearing in November of 2015. Backer, who lived in Victoria, British Columbia, is a former investment dealer and Olympic rower, having represented Canada in the 1984, 1988, and 1992 Olympic Games. According to the Victoria Police Department, on Nov. 3, 2015, Backer told his wife that he was going for a bike ride but never returned home. At the time of his disappearance, Backer was under investigation involving a probe by mutual funds company Investia Financial Services, Inc, for whom Backer was a representative and with whom he had 20 clients. According to the Huffington Post, Investia terminated Backer’s license after his disappearance because he had failed to follow policies requiring him to disclose all outside business activities.
In addition, financial crimes investigators from the Victoria Police Department started looking into Backer’s company, Financial Backer Corporation, after some of Backer’s investors received “concerning letters.” According to The Times Colonist, Backer sent his investors a letter expressing “deep remorse for decisions that cost them money” and noting that he was aware that he was “running a pyramid investment.” In the letter, Backer apologized and said he was “truly sorry for the effects of [his] poor decisions.” On April 13, roughly one and a half years after Backer’s disappearance, he turned himself in to the Victoria Police Department. He had a tele-bail hearing and was charged with two counts of fraud of over $5,000 each. Backer graduated with a degree in civil and environmental engineering from the University. His senior thesis was titled “The Efficient Markets Hypothesis — Fact or Fancy?”
U . A F FA I R S
as student LP headliner By Audrey Spensley staff writer
DJ Relley Rozay, also known as Durelle Napier ‘17, will be the undergraduate student headliner at the 2017 Spring Lawnparties, as announced by the Undergraduate Student Government Social Committee on Monday. “I’m definitely ecstatic, it definitely means a lot to me,” Napier said. “I’ve been wanting to be on the main stage of Lawnparties since I came in freshman year.” Napier has been DJing since his senior year of high school, and he has started a record label, G.O.A.T. Life*, with his friends. “I want to thank the Princeton community for supporting me these last four years of music and encouraging me to get better and pursue music after college,” Napier said. DJ Relley Rozay was selected to perform among six groups that participated in the “Artist of the Year” competition run by the USG. Online voting in this competition was open to all undergraduates from April 10 to
April 16, with video clips from each artist embedded into a Google Form. The form received 926 responses; 357 received DJ Relley Rozay votes, or 38.7 percent of the vote. He was followed by the group Daqa, with 262 votes or 28.4 percent. City in the Clouds received 105 votes, or 11.4 percent; DJ STORM received 98 votes, or 10.6 percent; Major Undecided received 51 votes, or 5.5 percent; and Sad Boys received 39 votes, or 5.5 percent. Over 400 responses were received when voting opened on Tuesday, and responses continued to be recorded through the entire five-day period, according to USG Social Chair Lavinia Liang ’18. “We’re really excited about how many votes came in,” Liang said, noting that turnout increased by almost tenfold since last year. The online voting represents a shift in the competition’s format. In previous years, groups competed at an event called
“Battle of the Bands.” “The problem was it deterred groups from competing,” Liang said. “And the event itself was a resources drain.” Moreover, since the event was termed “Battle of the Bands,” solo and duo groups were less likely to compete, Liang explained. “[The online form] was a new way to showcase work and to open up a broader platform for different kinds of groups,” she added. She also noted that students were able to provide feedback about the new format. When and where DJ Relley Rozay will perform is still being decided. In addition to Jeremih, J.I.D., and this student headliner, other groups will also be performing along Prospect Street on the day of Lawnparties. Although the overall Lawnparties lineup is not completely determined, the addition of the student headliner is an important gap that is now filled, Liang said.
LECTURE
Panelists discuss their work in activist journalism, photography staff writer
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The site for the new proposed residential college is shown here, viewed from the east.
New residential college may be located near Poe Field By Allie Spensley staff writer
The University has selected a potential campus site for a seventh residential college, which will accommodate a planned increase of 125 students in each undergraduate class. The site is located south of Poe Field and east of Elm Drive. “One of the attractions of the proposed site for the new residential college is its proximity to Butler, Wilson and Whitman colleges,” Assistant
Vice President for Communications Daniel Day wrote in an email. “The purpose of the new college is to accommodate the 10 percent growth in the size of the undergraduate student body that the trustees approved last year. Before we can admit additional students, we need to build a new residential college, and a first step toward doing that is deciding where it will be located.” In a press release sent out See RES COLLEGE page 3
The election of President Donald Trump has many members of the University community wondering whether levels of activism will increase, or whether normalization of Trump’s and others’ ideologies will result in never-before-seen levels of apathy, a Monday lecture emphasized. However, Head of Wilson College Eduardo Cadava said the relevance of the activism series stretches back to far beyond the most recent presidential election. As part of its Signature Lecture Series, Wilson College sponsored “How to Sustain an Activist Life” on Monday, April 17. The talk was co-sponsored by 11 other departments, offices, and University programs, and featured speakers journalist Chris Hedges, photographer Fazal Sheikh, Columbia University professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Liana Theodoratou, and African American studies Professor Emeritus Cornel West. Politics major Naomi Fesseha ’19 said she attended the talk mainly to hear about Spivak’s work. Spivak is originally from Calcutta, and has focused her career
on criticism of postcolonial narratives. Spivak is best known for her essay “Can the Subaltern Speak?” which challenges the ways once-colonized populations have been represented by anthropologists. Hedges, an author, former University professor, and Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for the New York Times, began by saying that “to resist radical evil is to endure a life that by the standards of wider society, is a failure.” He went on to give a passionate address about the ways in which activism, what some call “careerkilling contagion,” is fundamentally at odds with bodies of power that define twenty-first century life. “The state, the press, the church, the courts, academia, mouth the language of morality, but they serve the structures of power, no matter how venal, which provide them with money, status and authority,” Hedges said. Referencing his own experiences reporting on the fall of the Soviet Union, Hedges compared the revolutions of that era to others that are currently shaping the U.S. and the rest of the world.
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Today on Campus
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“We, too, have undergone a coup d’état, carried out not by the stone-faced leaders of the monolithic Communist Party, but by the corporate state,” Hedges said. He argued that in our current state of despotism, simple human kindness “becomes a subversive act.” Photographer Fazal Sheikh also painted a complicated picture of activist life. Raised in Kenya by South Asian and American parents, Sheikh often grappled with representing the lives of refugees of other ethnicities living in Kenya. Although Sheikh’s work often identified him as Kenyan, he did not identify with all the same narratives as his Kenyan subjects. Sheikh doesn’t consider himself an “authority” on activism. Instead, he works to recognize the value of the forces motivating his subjects. “I feel much more as though the true activists within my work are the people in the images,” said Sheikh. “Their activism is the strong thing I recognize.” For audience members hoping to receive concrete advice on leading activist lives of their own, Gayatri See PANEL page 3
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A.B. sophomores celebrate the start of major declaration period on the lawn of McCosh Hall
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by the Office of Communications this afternoon, University President Christopher L. Eisgruber ‘83 said that the site had been determined after “extensive assessments and consultations with multiple constituencies.” He also noted that there is more work to be done and consultations to be completed before a final decision may be made made on the new college’s site, and he welcomed input from members of the campus, town, and alumni communities. The creation of a new residential college on the site would require relocation of outdoor athletic facilities used by the softball and tennis teams. The campus planning team is working with the Department of Athletics to create new facilities for these sports on University lands south of Lake Carnegie. A potential location was also determined for an eighth resi-
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dential college, if needed in the future. This site is located near Butler, Wilson, and Whitman colleges, on the south side of the open area known as the “ellipse.” Preparations for the creation of a new residential college began in July 2014 as part of a campus planning process designed to produce a framework for University land use in the next 10 years. The planning process also focused on anticipating potential needs and developments in the University structure over the next 30 years, including taking input from students, faculty, staff, alumni, community groups, and local, regional, and state officials. The completed framework is expected to be made available to the public in the fall of 2017. Those looking for more information about the planning process and to ask questions or provide feedback may visit the University’s campus plan website or blog.
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Spivak provided more specific guidance. She encouraged audience members to evaluate the level of development their work is sustaining. Using the example of fundraising, she explained that fundraising for girls in underdeveloped countries does not dismantle the patriarchy. Spivak told audience members to focus on doing the most work for the largest number of
people. Contrary to many mainstream activists today, she said that participating in protests and demonstrations is not a force for change because these activities do not reach a larger audience and merely “preach to the choir.” Spivak emphasized that true democracy is about communicating with people whose backgrounds are different from your own. She urged audience members to aim their efforts at policymakers. The lecture was given at 5 p.m. on Monday, April 17 in
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In defense of same-sex marriage Lou Chen
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Debate f lared when Princeton received a visit from Ryan Anderson ’04, a fellow at the Heritage Foundation, on April 12. I attended his talk entitled “Marriage: What It Is, Why It Matters, and the Consequences of Redefining It,” which triggered exactly the response from the campus community that you’d expect: accusations of bigotry and hotheaded listserv battles. Though I’m a strong supporter of same-sex marriage, I didn’t approve of these complaints about Anderson’s presence on campus. Speakers like Anderson are those that I’m always the most excited to listen to, because there’s no better way to craft your own argument than to understand the opposition’s claims. Know thy enemy, after all. I emerged from Anderson’s talk a new man, in that my support for samesex marriage was stronger than ever before. It’s not that his argument was not sporadically compelling, well-crafted, or logical. Rather, like most arguments, his was delegitimized by the presence of a few gaping holes. For all his reliance on philosophical and sociological evidence, his talk did very little to advance the cause against same-sex marriage — a movement that is rapidly losing steam. Anderson’s speech bolstered my confidence in same-sex marriage because it helped me exercise my ability to rebut contrary arguments. And indeed, there was much opportunity to rebut him. Anderson began his lecture by returning to his philosophical roots. Aristotle taught that any community can be analyzed by looking at three aspects: actions, goods, and norms. By this definition, Anderson argued, marriage is a comprehensive union in that spouses engage in an act that unites them
(the action), which leads to the creation and raising of new human life (the good), and involves comprehensive commitment and the pledge of permanency and exclusivity (the norms). In other words, the action of love-making results in the good of lifegiving. Because same-sex couples cannot conceive through sex, they do not fit Anderson’s definition of marriage. As soon as I heard this, I immediately began wondering: what of heterosexual couples who do not have children, whether due to medical reasons or choice? They would no longer possess “the good” of child-bearing, and thus would not fit into this definition. I raised this question to Anderson, and he argued in response that couples who do not have children suffer from a void in their life from which they rarely recover. But this is demonstrably false, as concluded by a Princeton University report that found “very little difference” between the life satisfaction of parents and people without kids. It’s also utterly irrelevant — the question was not whether couples should have children, but whether their marriage retains legitimacy should they be childless. Anderson failed to negate this objection, which I next posed to him. My mistake in offering this objection was in asking if such couples who do not have children should have their marriage license revoked. This phrasing allowed Anderson to attempt to move from matters of philosophy to matters of public policy, by stating that the government isn’t in the “defining” business, which plainly makes no sense any way. The government is charged with making many definitions. In fact, the whole debate over same-sex marriage is predicated on the existence of two camps of people who have two very different views on how
marriage should be defined, and who are pushing for the government to codify their definition. Hence the Defense of Marriage Act, and hence Obergefell. Moving on from his attempt to define same-sex couples out of marriage, Anderson then brought up the so-called “social truth” of marriage as a public policy matter: that a child deserves both a mother and father. He highlighted studies that prove that girls who grow up without their fathers are more likely to engage in sexual activity at a younger age and have an abortion, and boys are more likely to engage in crime and end up in jail at a younger age. It was immediately apparent to me that these adverse consequences could have been the result of having a single parent — not of having lesbian parents. It is troubling that Anderson would equate the psychological trauma of being abandoned by one’s father to being raised by two very present mothers. Burrowing deeper, Anderson also highlighted the issue he sees in gay adoption. “No gay loving dads,” he argued, “can replace a mother.” There’s a lot to unpack here. Firstly, he assumes that heterosexual couples are intrinsically better at raising children than same-sex couples by virtue of falling into traditional gender classifications. Notice how he said, “gay loving dads,” but not “a loving mother” — just “a mother.” As if it is enough to be straight, regardless of personality. Shouldn’t adoption centers subject all potential parents to the same scrutiny, gay or straight, instead of immediately assessing them on the sole basis of their sexuality? Isn’t there the possibility that a perfectly horrible, potentially abusive heterosexual couple comes in to adopt a child? Are you still willing to maintain that two gay loving dads are the worse
option? Anderson also assumes that for every samesex couple wanting to adopt a child, there exists a heterosexual couple waiting right behind the door, ready to take their place. But reality is not so optimistic. According to AdoptUSKids, of the 400,000 children currently in foster care, more than 100,000 are waiting to be adopted. Clearly there are not enough heterosexual couples in the country to adopt all of these children — maybe because the majority of them can just conceive a child naturally. Is anyone really going to look a 10-year-old orphan boy in the eye and tell him that two loving parents want to adopt him — but because they’re gay and “untraditional,” he’s going to have to stay in the foster care system? Are you willing to rid him of the chance to be a part of a permanent family? Anderson’s visit to campus was a gift to advocates of same-sex marriage. It has made our case all the stronger. The poster that was distributed throughout listservs to advertise Anderson’s talk was accompanied by the blurb: “Ever wanted to hear arguments for traditional marriage that aren’t based in religion and aren’t motivated by prejudice? ” If Anderson’s argument is the best that opponents of same-sex marriage can produce when thinking independently of their religion or prejudice, then there’s a bright future ahead for same-sex couples and the children they may adopt. Visits from Anderson and similarly controversial speakers should not be feared; they sharpen our opposition, and the weaknesses inherent in their arguments gives us hope that reason and logic will win out in the end. Lou Chen is a sophomore from San Bernardino, Calif. He can be reached at lychen@princeton.edu.
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I’ll admit that I take part in my fair share of “man bashing.” Any evening with my girlfriends used to involve talking about how much we “hate men,” how terrible our dating experiences have been, and how foolish our exes were. But we also spend hours getting over ex-boyfriends and complaining about being single, often to the detriment of our other pursuits. Our obsession with dating took valuable time out of our lives that we could have spent on self-improvement and learning, while we created an atmosphere of negativity and hopelessness instead. When I broke up with my ex, I spent several months trying to maintain some kind of friendship with him, only to force my roommates to put up with my inevitable crying and confusion. Not a single day went by when I didn’t prepare for
a text from my ex, saying that he wanted to get back together. I worked out so that I would look better, read more books so that I would sound smarter, and bought new clothes so that I could dress more elegantly. I did everything for him, rather than for myself. I took countless hours out of my day in these pursuits and even more time out of my friends’ lives through my complaining and emotional breakdowns. It got to the point where my roommates sat me down and told me that my fixation on dating and relationships was harming everyone — and that I had to stop. And, over the course of several months, I did. I stopped ranting about how frustrated I was with men in every conversation. I started doing things for myself — and not my ex-boyfriend. I maintained friendships with the people who will continue to play large roles in my life, no mat-
ter what relationship I’m in. I’ve had numerous meals with peers to hear them voice similar feelings: that dating is exhausting, that they “hate all men (or women),” and that they don’t want to be single anymore. Although I can absolutely empathize with them, I feel the duty to encourage my friends to focus their energies elsewhere. Romantic relationships can be incredibly fulfilling, but stressing about them as often as I did earlier this year can seriously detract from our other relationships and endeavors. We have a limited amount of time at Princeton — and to spend it complaining about dating is a waste. We should spend every moment grappling with our intellectual pursuits, engaging in meaningful relationships, and discovering new interests. If dating happens to fall into one of those categories, so be it. But if it
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negatively impacts our overall experience — it’s not worth it. In my case, complaining about how much I “hated men” dragged me into a vicious cycle of unhappiness. Breaking down in front of my best friends tired them out and made them want to spend as little time with me as possible. Pursuing activities for my exboyfriend rather than for myself meant that I was ignoring my own health and happiness just so that I wouldn’t have to be single. Somewhere along the line I realized that it wasn’t so bad, and that by stopping all my datingrelated neuroses, I freed up so much time in my schedule to do the things I loved with the people I cared about — whether I was dating them or not. And I won’t lie to you: a small part of me still hopes I’ll get that text from my ex. But another far greater and happier part of me knows that there’s so much more to life than the pain that
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comes with waiting to hear from someone who doesn’t care anymore. We should, rather, spend our time on those who do care, and on the things that make us happy. So I urge everyone: spend your limited time here on improving yourself. Spend it on taking proper care of your mind and body, getting to know your friends better, and on the things that make you happy. If the right person comes along, so be it. But with that said, if they don’t right now, don’t worry. You’ve got plenty to do in the meantime. Leora Eisenberg is a freshman from Eagan, Minn. She can be reached at leorae@princeton.edu.
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I used to be a copycat Sarah Dinovelli
Contributing columnist
Whatever my brother Ben did, I ended up doing too. He joined the Tball team, so I joined the softball team. He formed a Model United Nations Club, so I became its second president. He attended Princeton University, so I applied too. I had hobbies that I considered to be my own — reading, running, music. But I still felt like I was my brother’s shadow, following him through life and mirroring his every move. Once I began my freshman year at Princeton, that feeling only worsened. No matter where I went on campus, someone called me “Ben’s younger sister.” Each reference to my brother stung like a barb. I wanted others to see me as “Sarah,” an independent person with her own interests. Instead, they seemed to view me as an extension of my brother, something that I already feared was true. But it was so easy to follow Ben’s lead when I lacked direction. I worried about setting myself down a “wrong” path, and figured that emulating my successful brother would minimize that risk. I also knew that if I followed Ben’s lead, at least for now, I would not
disappoint my parents. Neither of them attended a four-year university, so they based their expectations, albeit loose ones, for my college career on my brother’s example. My parents did not compare my brother and me, but they had nothing else to go on when trying to help me make the most of my Princeton experience. If I copied my brother, at least at first, they would not worry and I would have breathing room to figure things out. So when I had no idea what I wanted to major in, I tried to become the Dinovelli family’s second Wilson School major. The course of study sounded interesting, and I knew through Ben that I could find a job by majoring in this area. When I felt that I needed a profitable internship-that-hopefully-turns-into-an-offer, I tried consulting because it was Ben’s dream career. Other times, I wrote off activities just because my brother already participated in them. I actually avoided writing for this paper for two and a half years just because my brother worked for it. Despite using Ben’s life as a roadmap for my own, I wanted to distance myself from him when I could. Especially during my freshman year, I found myself constantly asking
myself, “Am I interested in this activity because I want to do it, or because my brother did it?” Two and a half years later, I admit to still struggling with that question. But I am increasingly confident that I am forging my own path, not just following my brother’s. My final major — history — and my interest in media serve as tangible evidence of this. But more importantly, I found what I care about at Princeton. And even when my path overlaps with Ben’s, I know that I am not copying him. Just because my brother shares my interests does not mean that I am disqualified from having them too. All of this being said, I still stand by what I told my friend’s sister a few weeks ago: one can be related to a Tiger and still find her own place at Princeton, even if at times a sibling occupied that same place. Now, I am a member of Ben’s old eating club, and I write for the same section of the same publication that he did for four years. But I do not consider myself to be a copycat anymore. I am just me. Sarah Dinovelli is a history major from Groton, Conn. She can be reached at sarahmd@princeton.edu.
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Men’s tennis triumphs over Yale, Brown in Ivy League matchups By Nolan Liu Staff Writer
After unsuccessful outings April 7 and 9 that saw them drop matchups against No. 24 Cornell and No. 22 Columbia, the Princeton men’s tennis team members (12-11 overall, 2-2 Ivy) turned their fortunes around with a 4-3 win over Yale (16-7, 2-3) on Saturday and another victory over Brown (11-9, 0-5) on Sunday. In their first match against Yale, Princeton faced a formidable opponent right out of the gate. A feisty Yale squad scored points at first, second, and third singles, winning all three matches in straight sets and jumping to a commanding 3-0 lead. However, the Tigers refused to be cowed by this rough start, and they soon returned to form. Senior Alex Day and junior Luke Gamble were the No. 31-ranked pair in the nation heading into their first doubles matchup, and they more than verified their ranking with a 6-3 triumph that put Princeton on the board. The Tigers then rallied through the bottom half of singles play: senior Jonathan Carcione swept Yale’s Fedor Andrienko 7-5, 7-5 in sixth singles, while Gamble overcame a stumble in his first set to defeat Yale’s Stefan Doehler at fourth singles. With the match outcome riding on the results at fifth singles, sophomore standout Jimmy Wasserman rose to the occasion, taking the
first set against Yale’s Andrew Heller, 7-5, before dropping the second. However, Wasserman coolly engineered a 6-3 third set to take the match and allow the Tigers to escape with a 4-3 triumph. The next day, Princeton would find themselves tested again, this time by Brown. The duo of Day and Gamble stumbled in this match, falling 6-2 to the Bears at first doubles and surrendering the first point. Senior Tom Colautti responded with a 6-2, 6-3 win at first singles over Brown’s Lucas Da Silveira, but Wasserman unfortunately then dropped a match at fifth singles, putting the Bears up again. However, the Tigers stood firm for the remainder of the day, with junior Kial Kaiser and Day winning at fourth and second singles, respectively, to put Princeton ahead, 3-2. Ultimately, Carcione again swept sixth singles to clinch the final match point and grant the Tigers a 4-2 win. These two road victories have pulled the Tigers back to .500 in-conference, a record that they will attempt to improve on as they take on Harvard and Dartmouth at home this coming weekend. The Tigers will head into their next matchup a match and a half behind conference leaders Harvard, Cornell, and Columbia; but, they will look to do some damage as the season winds down.
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Jonathan Carcione played the final match to clinch a win at Brown on Sunday
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Softball maintains first place ranking By Audrey Spensley Staff writer
The Princeton softball team swept Penn 4-0 on April 15 and 16, retaining its first-place position in the conference and keeping its lead in the Ivy South. This is huge turnaround for the Tigers. It is the first time in nine years that they have completed a four-game road sweep; the last one was against Columbia in 2008. The team also hadn’t won more than a single game against Penn from 2009 to 2015. Now, the team is fresh off a victory against their rivals and are looking to maintain that momentum throughout Ivy League play. Princeton showed dominance from the beginning of the series, winning both doubleheaders on Saturday. In the opener, sophomore Alex Viscusi scored three of Princeton’s four runs. Although Penn responded with runs in the fourth and sixth innings, the Tigers closed the game with a 4-2 lead. In the second game, the Tigers scored all of their runs in the second inning with a double from Viscusi, an error that let sophomore Keeley Walsh on base, and singles from junior Danielle Dockx and freshman Megan Donahey. Penn managed one run each in the bottom of the second and third, but Princeton took home the win at 3-2. Princeton kept that momentum rolling into Sunday. In the opener, a three-run home run by Walsh put the Tigers at 3-0 in the fourth inning and brought freshman Allison Harvey and
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sophomore Mikayla Blaska home. Penn responded with a home run in the bottom of the fourth, but Princeton followed up with a base hit by junior Kylee Pierce and a single by senior Marissa Reynolds to end the game at 4-2. The Tigers finished strong in the series with a 12-8 win that night. Although they were behind for the first time in the series after a first-inning threerun home run for Penn, the team rallied with a home run by Reynolds and a two-run home run by Dockx that brought sophomore Kaitlyn Waslawski home from a single. Penn again surged ahead in the bottom of the second to a 6-3 lead, but the Tigers responded with a six-run inning at the top of the third. Walsh, Waslawski, Viscusi, Donahey and Dockx all scored. With a league record of 10-2, Princeton is leading the division strongly, leading its closest competitor Columbia by three games. In the north division, Dartmouth — which also pulled off a four-game sweep against Brown — is trailing by one game. Since Dartmouth swept Princeton at a doubleheader, the Tigers will need to pull ahead by at least a game to host the Ivy League Championship Series. Princeton will play its final non-league game of the regular season this Wednesday, hosting Lehigh University. Fresh off a stunning victory, the team is looking to roll into the remainder of Ivy League play with the goal of taking the title.
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Softball sweeped the 4-game series against Penn this weekend.
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Penn and kept its lead in the Ivy League.
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