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On April 5, 1988, at 2:27 a.m., Christopher P. Lu ’88 put the finishing touches on his senior thesis, wrapping up the cover letter to his cheekily-titled research project, “The Morning After: Press Coverage of Presidential Primaries 1972–1984.” The subject of birth was evidently preoccupying him at the time. “In many ways, writing a senior thesis is like having a baby,” he wrote. “The idea for the paper is conceived one day unexpectedly and then gestates inside one’s head for nine months … I now submit this thesis like a proud father, confident that it will stand on its own two feet as a piece of scholarly research.” However, Lu, this year’s Baccalaureate speaker who is a former White House Cabinet Secretary and the current Deputy Secretary of the Department of Labor, had no idea then that his forays into politics and government, rather than over, were only in their embryonic stage. He would remain attached to Princeton as well, serving on the board of trustees of The Daily Princetonian and helping the University’s trustees navigate Washington.

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The Archives

April 21, 1980 The University’s Board of Trustees announced the receipt of a $5 million land gift from Charter Trustee Laurance S. Rockefeller ‘32 to establish two residential colleges.

PRINCETON By the Numbers

1 The number of Hertz Fellowship winners this year.

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News & Notes 2014 Boston Marathon to expect high police presence

One year after the bombing at the Boston Marathon finish line, runners will take to the starting line for the 2014 Boston Marathon on Monday. Last year, two homemade bombs made from pressure cookers detonated near the marathon’s finish line on April 15, killing three and wounding more than 260 others. Dozens of University students, faculty, staff and alumni either ran the marathon or attended the celebrations that accompanied the marathon, and were confirmed safe shortly after the bombs were detonated. There will be a higherthan-usual police presence at Monday’s marathon, in addition to other security measures, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday. “Somebody said it may be the safest place in America tomorrow,” Patrick said.

NASSAU HERALD 1988

Christopher Lu ‘88 was an undergraduate at Princeton, where he worked at The Daily Princetonian and the Mathey College Council before he became White House Cabinet Secretary.

“We weren’t totally uncool:” At Princeton Jane Martin ’89, a former sports editor for The Daily Princetonian, remembers Lu as a senior news editor for the ‘Prince,’ a fellow member of Cloister Inn and a good friend. “It makes me laugh just to think about him,

just because he was always making me laugh,” she said. “He was the kind of guy who could argue with you all day long, completely skewer what you were saying and make you laugh at yourself while he was doing it.” At one point, Martin and Lu both lived in Cloister with a group of friends. Martin characterized Cloister at the time as a club for people who might have been comfortable in a bicker club but weren’t. “We weren’t totally uncool, let’s put it that way,” Martin said, laughing. “It was a fun group, we played mini golf, I have pictures of us going bowling. Chris was one of the more responsible of the group. He would cook.” She added that, when she was bedridden with flu once, Lu checked on her continually and offered to make chicken soup. It was as a fellow Wilson School student that Karen Bowdre ’88 first met Lu, and she also remembered him positively. “I remember talking with him about international affairs,” she said. “He was always very focused, had a great sense of humor.” Bowdre remembered, however, that Lu might have been less memorable to some of his classmates due to a matter of names and chance. “He was always very kind and very quickwitted when people would mix [him and Donald Lu ’88] up,” Bowdre said. “They both went to Princeton, they both graduated in ’88, [and] they both went to the Wilson School.” It so happened that Donald Lu was USG presSee PROFILE page 4

STUDENT LIFE

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Students to vote on separating Senate, Class Governments

OIT suggests students change their passwords

By Ray Mennin contributor

Students will vote on a referendum to separate the Senate and Class Governments in addition to voting for Class Council and UCouncil positions. The voting period begins on Monday and ends on Wednesday. The referendum, which was written by Class of 2014 Vice President Dylan Ackerman, ref lects nearly a year of work for members of both Class Governments and Senate. It was originally proposed in the fall as part of a set of amendments to the USG Constitution; however the Senate did not pass the amendments. The USG is comprised of a Senate and respective Class Governments, which work collaboratively to serve University students. The primary difference is that members of the Senate are elected to represent the undergraduate student body as whole, while the members of Class Governments are elected solely by members of their own classes to serve their class. The current system allows for the Senate to review and modify the ways in which Class Governments operate. The referendum, STUDENT LIFE

Katsevich ’14 earns Hertz Fellowship

if passed, will create a Class Government Constitution different from the Senate Constitution. It would eliminate the political hierarchy between the two governing bodies, as members of Class Governments will serve with members of Senate as political equals in USG. “I’m glad that the referendum was proposed, and I think it would be a good change for USG,” USG president Shawon Jackson ’15 said, adding that his role as president would not change. The amendment had two primary components when it was originally proposed in November after much discussion in Senate meetings: one regarding the separation of the two governing bodies and another advocating transparency and accountability. The latter part was unanimously approved in early December, and required that all four Class Governments hold monthly public meetings and report their respective budgets each semester, while the former was tabled indefinitely. “I really do not see this as creating a situation where the Senate loses any authority,” Ackerman said. ”The aim is to ensure that officers for one class remain beholden to See REFERENDUM page 4

By Paul Phillips associate news editor

The Office of Information Technology sent an email to students on Friday asking them to change their passwords in response to “Heartbleed,” a security flaw in software used to protect private information on the Internet. Vice President for Information Technology and CIO Jay Dominick said Heartbleed is a function of a particular version of OpenSSL, a piece of software that encrypts Internet traffic. He explained that a certain functionality had been added to OpenSSL that allows for some information from a server, a “heartbeat,” but due to poorly programmed code, the server would respond with information in excess of what had been asked of it. “With that vulnerability, somebody could actually read the memory of the SSL server,”

Dominick said. Dominick explained that OIT had been working on responding to Heartbleed since it was made public Tuesday morning. Anna Kornfeld Simpson ’14, a residential college adviser and computer science major who is writing her thesis on computer security, said this withdrawal of information does not leave any record. Information that could be read in this way includes usernames, passwords, content stored on the server and, most seriously, the private keys used to control the entire server itself, she said. The email OIT sent out asked that students change their Princeton passwords, especially if they use Gmail, Princeton Secure Remote Access or their Princeton passwords for other websites. The email also warned students about possible phishing attacks. Kornfeld Simpson explained See SECURITY page 6

THE DROWSY CHAPER-

By Sheila Sisimit staff writer

Gene Katsevich ’14 is one of 15 students nationwide to be awarded a Hertz Fellowship this year. Katsevich, a math concentrator, will use the fellowship to pursue a Ph.D. in statistics at Stanford University. According to its website, the Hertz Fellowship is awarded to “exceptionally talented individuals studying in the applied physical, biological, and engineering sciences.” Katsevich said he found out he was chosen as a fellow in Firestone Library at the end of March. He then proceeded to call his relatives in the US and in Russia. “I was going to work on my thesis, and when I sat down at my computer, I saw the email, and when I saw it, I was in complete shock and disbelief,” he said, adding that “The money is one thing, but what is more exciting is the prestige. I can’t believe that only 15 people get this fellowship, and I got it.” See AWARD page 4

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The Princeton University Players and Theatre Intime put on a joint production of “The Drowsy Chaperone” this past weekend.

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THE DROWSY CHAPERONE Based on the Broadway musical of the same name, "The Drowsy Chaperone" is a joint production by Theatre Intime and Princeton University Players that is directed by John Somers Fairchild '15. In this "musical within a comedy," Sean Peter Drohan '14's Broadway-obsessed character reaches out through the fourth wall to share with the audience his love of musical theater and the titular drowsy chaperone in particular. The story within the story revolves around the upcoming marriage of musical starlet Janet van de Graaf (Alex Morton '15) to Robert Martin (Josh Burd '17) and features an ensemble cast of actors playing actors playing characters, which includes Caroline Hertz '15 as van de Graaf's "drowsy chaperone." Photos by Lisa Gong, Contributing Photographer.

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Katsevich said that he chose to pursue a Ph.D. in statistics because he would like to learn more about machine learning and its various applications, including natural language processing and analysis of genomic data. Nearly 800 students applied this year for the Hertz Fellowship, and only 150 were selected to move on to a firstround interview. 50 finalists were then chosen from these applicants to move on to the second-round interview. The interview process, which tests the applicant’s knowledge of broad scientific principles, is a defining feature of the Hertz Foundation’s program.

“Universally, everyone thinks that they failed,” Katsevich said. “I definitely felt like I failed both of my interviews.” Katsevich has been conducting research over the past two years on the heterogeneity problem with math professor Amit Singer. The heterogeneity problem deals with combining the 2D images of a molecule back into a 3D structure and determining whether the molecule can exist in different structural states. Katsevich and Singer have come up with a solution to reconstruct all the variations of a molecule and are currently working on a revision of their paper to submit to the SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences. “He’s a wonderful kid. He’s very motivated and dedicat-

ed,” Singer said. “”He’s very organized and ambitious in trying to get everything to work. I don’t need to sit with him all day, explaining things to him.” Singer said that he was very happy for Katsevich when he heard the news. “From my experience with working with other students in Princeton, Gene strikes me as a student who has extremely high potential to become a researcher in applied mathematics,” Singer added. Mathematics professor Elias Stein, who taught Katsevich in Fourier analysis and complex analysis, said that he thinks Katsevich will go far. “He has great aptitude and great initiative, so I’m sure he’s going to go on to do great things,” Stein said.

In addition to the research he has conducted with Singer, Katsevich conducted research under his father’s supervision the summer after his freshman year. He worked in computed tomography and published a paper in the journal Inverse Problems in 2012. Katsevich, who is from Oviedo, Fla., served on campus as the social chair of the Brown Co-op and the academic chair of the Math Club. As chair, he helped create an online guide for math majors. He also served as the head problem writer for the University’s math competition. He was elected early to the Phi Beta Kappa honor society in 2013. He received the Goldwater Scholarship in 2012, and was awarded the Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence in both 2011 and 2012.

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members of that class alone, as is the intent of the class Government.” Ackerman added that the amendment would formalize the structure that he said is already in place in a more efficient way. U-Council Chair Elan Kugelmass ’14 voted against the December proposal that was initially connected with this amendment, and said that he also does not feel the need for the separation of the two governing bodies. “The role of the Class Government is for each Class Government independently

to make decisions affecting its class,” Kugelmass said, “and the role of the Senate, as I see it, is to make decisions that will affect the entire student body as a whole, including those decisions that have the same effect on each Class Government, and thereby having a universal effect on the students.” Kugelmass went on to state that he believed the idea of having Class Governments come together undermines the Senate’s duties, as well as the desires of the trustees. “I think it has been a very effective structure that we’ve had for quite a number of years now, and it would be a risk to see that changed,” Kugelmass said.

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ident, according to his Nassau Herald entry. When asked about the matter, Don Lu said that an alumnus who visited him recently in his office in India mistook him for Chris Lu. Chris Lu himself said the most formative part of his University experience was writing for the ‘Prince.’ Memorable stories include reporting on University President William Bowen’s retirement and Harold Shapiro being named as the replacement, alumna Sally Frank ’80 filing

suit against three eating clubs for accepting only males into their membership, going up into a glider while covering the “Princeton Soaring Society” and using his press pass with another news editor to get into the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City. “Our press passes looked like we literally ran them off at Kinko’s,” Lu said. “We were wandering right by the stage as the pageant is going on. It was one of the more hilarious things we did.” Lu added that ‘Prince’ alumni from the period often joke that former production manager Larry DuPraz was their favorite professor.

“We learned how to be good editors, how to be good writ-

“He was always very focused, had a great sense of humor.” Karen Bowdre ’88

ers, how to make deadlines,” Lu said.

Lu also said that the Wilson School does a good job at recognizing the reality that policymakers can’t just be experts in one particular field but need a broad range of knowledge and experiences to be effective. Lu was a skilled writer and debater even before matriculating, according to Charlene Huang Olsen ’88. “He was an incredible debate guy. We did not go to the same high school, we went to rival high schools, and he was really, really good,” she said. “Our parents were good friends, and my mom and his mom in particular, and he and I attended a Chinese school on

the weekends to try and learn Chinese.” Lu recalled in an interview with Asian Fortune, a magazine focused on Asian-American issues, that his dad, an

“Works exceptionally well with people. Collegial. Perceptive. Has outstanding judgments.” Phil Barnett ’79

engineer, “was a history buff and a political science buff and I think that’s where I got my interest.” The two would read biographies of politicians and watch the evening news together, Lu said. Lu’s interest in journalism and politics led to his senior

thesis examining how media decisions affected the narrative surrounding the presidential primary election process. He concluded among other things that earlier primaries were more likely to be covered by longer articles and accompanied by a photograph and that the expectations of longer, evaluative articles that expressed an opinion as to “momentum” or expectations of victory were surprisingly predictive of the eventual outcome of the election. Some of Lu’s conclusions bore striking relation to his future work in politics. “The selection of presidential nominees is a critical point — some would contend the most critical point — in the process of democratic governance in the United States today,” Lu wrote. “Press expectations are critical to the success or failure of a candidate.” Lu’s intellect and work ethic helped his senior thesis turn out successfully, C. Anthony Broh, his thesis advisor, said. See CABINET page 5

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“You may read an entire article, and there was only one data point on what it is that you’re interested in, so it takes a considerable amount of time,” Broh said. “It’s meticulous, methodical, conceptual kind of work that needs to be done, and Chris displayed all of those attributes, not only in his research, but also in his person.” “The truth came out”: Life in government After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1991, clerking for a federal judge in Chicago and working for the law firm Sidley Austin in Washington, D.C., for fourand-a-half years, Lu worked as deputy chief counsel on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee from 1997 through 2004. Phil Barnett ’79, Minority Staff Director for the committee, remembered Lu’s work investigating Republican allegations of campaign finance violations by Bill Clinton’s 1996 presidential campaign in particular. “What he really did was to make sure witnesses, people brought before the committee … were treated fairly,” Barnett said. “Irresponsible allegations were tracked down, and the truth came out.” The Democratic minority on the committee eventually released a report sharply disagreeing with the Republican majority’s conclusion that, among other allegations, the People’s Republic of China had illicitly influenced the 1996 presidential election. The report pointedly opened by citing several articles critical of the Republican then-chairman Dan Burton. Barnett also noted Lu’s investigations into other highprofile subjects, including one into the Enron bankruptcy and another into alleged misrepresentations by the Bush administration regarding Iraq War intelligence. He

“We learned how to be good editors, how to be good writers, how to make deadlines.” Christopher Lu ’88, on his time at the ‘Prince’

also investigated substandard nursing home conditions. Lu left the committee in 2004 to work as a special adviser to John Kerry’s presidential campaign, where he coordinated the support of 9/11 victims’ families and helped to communicate Kerry’s positions on homeland security, especially with regard to tracking down the perpetrators of 9/11. “Having the support of families that had lost loved ones during 9/11 was an important part of validating Senator Kerry’s position,” Lu said. He then joined then-Senator Barack Obama’s office upon Obama’s election in 2005. As Obama’s legislative director, Lu oversaw a staff of 15 people, the drafting of all legislation and, according to Barnett, Obama’s schedule. Lu said his proudest accomplishments while working in Obama’s Senate office were helping to pass ethics reform and weapons of mass destruction nonproliferation legislation, as well as the Federal Funding and Accounting Transparency Act of 2006, which requires disclosure of all organizations receiving federal government money. “Works exceptionally well with people. Collegial. Perceptive. Has outstanding judgments,” Barnett said of Lu. When Obama ran for President in 2007 and 2008, Lu primarily remained to help coor-

dinate the legislative activity of Obama’s Senate staff, but he also advised the campaign’s policy team and ran the communications effort for the Delaware primary (in a parallel to his senior thesis work). He also began to coordinate the Obama White House transition as early as May 2008,

“In many ways, writing a senior thesis is like having a baby. The idea for the paper is conceived one day unexpectedly and then gestates inside one’s head for nine months.” Christopher Lu ’88

months before Obama knew he would become President. At the White House, Lu served as Assistant to the President and White House Cabinet Secretary, in which he served as the link between Obama and federal departments and agencies. “He was in a position where he knew everything that was going on in the White House, and he knew what was going on in the Cabinet agencies,” Bob Durkee ’69, Vice President and Secretary of the University, said. Durkee met regularly with Lu when Lu was a ‘Prince’ reporter covering the University administration, according to Lu, and the two kept in touch while Lu was in the White House, Durkee said. Durkee explained that the University has a Trustee Committee on Public Affairs, which holds a set of meetings in Washington, D.C., every year. Lu and fellow University alumni Lisa Brown ’82, White House staff secretary, and Peter Orszag ’91, director of the Office of Management and Budget, met with the trustees for about an hour, Durkee said. “Chris made the arrangements, and it was very helpful,” Durkee noted. “And along the way, if there was an issue where we were having trouble figuring out, ‘Who should we be talking to? How can we be sure that this concern gets put on the agenda as people are thinking about a particular issue?’, Chris would be a person who was helpful in doing that.” Lu also served as Co-Chair of the White House Initiative on Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders. In this role, he encouraged federal agencies to disaggregate their data on Asian-Americans which, when taken as a whole, can mask problems within certain parts of the community. He also traveled frequently around the country talking with and speaking to AsianAmerican and Pacific Islander groups. “There is a perception that Asian-Americans are a model minority and that they don’t have economic problems and educational problems, healthcare problems,” Lu said. “Even within the Asian-American community, a lot of people don’t know about … the problems of recent immigrants, the problem of hate crimes, about education disparities, or the fact that there are 2 million Asian-Americans without healthcare. It’s a very, very segmented community.” Don Lu noted that Lu always seemed passionate about Asian-American issues and studies. The two co-hosted a talk in June 2013 sponsored by the Asian American Alumni Association of Princeton about challenges and opportunities for the Asian-American community. “It is inexcusable that Princeton does not have an Asian-American studies program,” Lu said at the time. “This is a battle that we fought 25 years ago, and I suspect that

it’s a battle fought well before that.” In February 2013, Lu took time off from his life in Washington, D.C., to serve as a fellow at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics and at Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy as a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, where he gave speeches, consulted and wrote. “This is a chance to see what I want to do with the rest of my life,” Lu told the ‘Prince’ after a few months off. In January, Lu was nominated by Obama to be Deputy Secretary of the Department of Labor and was confirmed on April 1. As Deputy Secretary, Lu is the department’s chief operating officer, he said. He also enjoys running, has completed 28 marathons and often comes up with his best ideas while running, he added. “The most thankless role”: As an alumnus Bill Bowman ’88 got to know Lu as a hallmate and later as a fellow Class of 1988 Alumni Council officer. Bowman, as vice president, primarily fundraised for the class. “Some would say [my job’s] the most thankless role. I would say that Chris’s role as class secretary is pretty much up there,” Bowman said. “He had to write the class notes for every issue of the PAW [Princeton Alumni Weekly], and he never missed one.” Bowman also praised the breadth and depth of these reports, saying that while other class’s secretaries often focused on their immediate circle of friends, Lu frequently did significant research to report the most interesting occurrences. Lu would also arrange for alumni and their families to see the White House tours while he worked there, Bowman added. Moreover, Lu served as secretary beyond what was originally supposed to be a fiveyear commitment and only quit when he left his Senate position to work at the White House, Bowman noted. “They’d say ‘Who wants to be class secretary?’ and Chris would say ‘Oh, I’ll do it again,’” Bowman said. “So I think he made it a point to get to know people and was so easygoing and affable that it was easy for him.”

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Christopher Lu ‘88 titled his senior thesis, “The Morning After: Press Coverage of Presidential Primaries, 1972-1984.”

Bowdre, Lu’s friend from the Wilson School, also served as the class Alumni Council president alongside Lu. “Lots of things are easy when you’re on campus, but once you leave campus, it becomes challenging to collect information,” Bowdre said, adding that she never had to ask Lu twice to obtain the information the council needed. Lu’s service to the Class of 1988 was notable for what he continued even after beginning to work for the White House, Olsen said. Lu helped to organize the Class of 1988 Memorial Scholarship in 1990, originally founded because of the death of a classmate in a car accident, and “even though he’s not class secretary, he continues to manage the fund and the contributions,” Olsen noted. In addition to his work as an alumni class officer, Lu also maintained involvement with the ‘Prince’ after his graduation by serving as a member of the Board of Trustees. “You were right, he was amazing”: As public speaker Chris Lu has spoken to other University audiences in the

past. In addition to headlining the panel on Asian-American issues at Reunions last year, Olsen explained that she recruited Lu to give the keynote address at the Princeton Club of Chicago’s biggest annual event. At first, some of her friends who didn’t know

“He was in a position where he knew everything that was going on in the White House, and he knew what was going on in the Cabinet agencies.” Bob Durkee ’69 vice president and secretary of the university

Lu didn’t understand why she was so insistent on having him speak. “I think many people were expecting him to speak and just toe the party line and be very evasive or defensive

with anything going on in the White House, but I think he was very candid,” Olsen said. “Many people who did not know him but knew that I had been pushing him to be keynote speaker, said … ‘you were right, he was amazing.’” Olsen added that she didn’t believe Lu to be a stereotypical politician even though he worked in politics. Durkee said that Lu had already shown interest in making his message relevant to the Class of 2014 by asking Durkee how he could get in contact with current seniors and talk about the issues that were important to them. “I think that’s part of what makes him an excellent choice for this role that I think he’s very excited about,” Durkee said. Martin said that as well as informative, Lu’s speech is likely to be entertaining. In September 2013, Lu gave an orientation address to the Pace Center for Civic Engagement, in which he told students, “You have to give back.” The topic of Lu’s Baccalaureate speech on June 1 will be public service and civic engagement, Lu said. He will be the University’s first Asian-American Baccalaureate speaker.

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that there are two steps to fixing the bug; the first step is to apply to update the server, and the second step requires users to take action themselves. As attackers can pull information from the server without leaving a record behind, individuals can never know if their usernames and passwords have been leaked until they are compromised; the safest course of action is therefore to change usernames and passwords. OIT’s first action, accord-

“This was such a pervasive problem — literally just a huge chunk of the Internet was made vulnerable concerning this.” Jay Dominick vice president of information technology

down, patch and reissue certificates to the OpenSSL servers on campus. Once it had repaired the damage, it was time to let students, faculty and staff know about the importance of changing passwords, Dominick said. “This was such a pervasive problem — literally just a huge chunk of the Internet was made vulnerable concerning this — that I think it’s worth our time letting people know in general that they should be changing their passwords,” Dominick said. Staff writer Chitra Marti ’17 contributed reporting for this article.

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Guests from the Graduate Student Government and Counseling and Psychological Services spoke at Sunday night’s USG Senate meeting. Dr. Calvin Chin, the director of CPS, addressed ways that CPS and USG can collaborate to spread the message that it’s important to “not be afraid to acknowledge vulnerability, and to not be afraid to reach out and get resources.” Chin said that on their end, CPS is expanding counseling services’ availability hours in the fall, developing their new initiative which places a CPS wellness outpost in the EQuad for drop-ins, working on a bystander intervention program in partnership with SHARE, putting together training so that students, faculty and staff can be trained to act as allies and working on destigmatizing mental illness. Chin said he wants students to know that “it’s okay to have stress, it’s okay to feel displaced, it’s okay sometimes to feel not okay, it’s okay to feel overwhelmed.” Chin said he hopes to communicate that message through a variety of video projects, including a Princeton Speaks Up initiative of short student, faculty and staff testimonial videos. He added that despite all these new efforts, he would like to continue conversations with USG about where to improve. “None of this is any reason not to push for changes in policy that might make Princeton a better environment in terms of mental health,” Chen said. GSG president Sean Edington said that he wants to focus on more integration of graduate students into the “vibrant campus academic community.” Edington said that he hopes that the University can find a

way to make more on-campus housing available to graduate students, and he said he wants to start discussion about “creating a social space that graduate students can call their home on campus” by building a graduate student center. Additionally, Edington said he hopes to find more support for graduate students with family and dependents, find ways that mental health programs can be expanded and tailored to the needs of graduate students, increase Career Services’ involvement for graduate students and expand GSG collaboration with USG. “We’re really interested in working together,” Edington said. Social committee chair Logan Roth ’15 said that he plans on sending out a survey soon in order to get feedback from students about their reactions to the choices of GRiZ and Mayer Hawthorne as the Lawnparties headliners and TEAM Charter Schools as the charity. Additionally, at the meeting, Projects Board presented an internal request for funding of $2,200 for Fashion Speaks: Service in Style, an event that donates all proceeds to a charity called the Eden Institute. U-Councilors Elan Kugelmass ’14 and Zhan Okuda-Lim ’15 asked clarifying questions to confirm that none of the Senate money would be going to the charity before the Senate unanimously approved the funding request. The Student Groups Committee presented four new groups for USG recognition, including Princeton Operations Research Society, Princeton Wilderness Society, Princeton Brewing Club and the Undergraduate Engineering Council. Meanwhile, in his President’s Report, USG president Shawon Jackson ’15 urged Senate members to work on increasing voter turnout during this week’s elec-

tion. Academics committee chair James Baase ’15 presented an update after meeting with University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83. “To talk about the grading policy, I would rather move into executive session,” Baase said. IT committee chair Clement Lee ’17 said he was recently approached about possibly building a new car-sharing TigerApps service and is engaged in preliminary conversations about that. Additionally, he nominated four new members to the IT committee, and the Senate unanimously voted to approve them all. Kugelmass presented a Discipline Report and Student Bill of Rights update during which he highlighted several points of controversy including the inquisitorial process used by the Committee of Discipline and the fact that the Committee of Discipline’s primary concern is to maintain community standards rather than the education of the student under investigation. Additionally, Kugelmass said of the committee of Discipline that “there is no right to silence, and I think that’s something we should continue to push buttons on.” In an update from the Happiness Project, Claire Nuchtern ’15 said she is looking forward to a ball pit party that will be hosted on May 1 on Frist Campus Center’s North Lawn from noon to 5:30 p.m. Finally, before setting the agenda for the next meeting, Kugelmass expressed the concern following a recent article in The Daily Princetonian about the SURFACE project censorship surrounding allegations that the University removed a panel of the art project. “Let’s try to the get to the bottom of this because it’s honestly pretty disturbing if the allegations are true,” Kugelmass said.

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My lying, smiling face Editor’s note: The author of this column was granted anonymity due to the intensely personal nature of the events described.

am writing this column because I am genuinely concerned about the well-being of my fellow students here at Princeton. I wish to share my own story, first, to try to push back against our very real and human tendency to prefer silence over any difficult conversation, and second, because I hope to reignite this crucial discussion regarding mental health at Princeton. Surrounding the University’s Mental Health Week last month, a few perspectives and opinions were raised regarding voluntary or involuntary withdrawals and Princeton’s related policies. While it is laudable that efforts were made to promote discussion on this topic, the momentum from that week seemed to stop short of meaningful change. During that time, there surfaced only a couple articles highlighting students’ concerns, a single article from the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students and University Health Services in response, and then… nothing. To clarify up front, I am currently in a year-long leave of absence from the University. In just the first two months of focused treatment, I am already infinitely better and look to the future with hope. But my situation was not always so positive. The first two-anda-half years of my Princeton career were filled with an ongoing battle with clinical depression. Beginning in my freshman year, I began to suffer the classic symptoms: sadness, lowered energy and self-esteem and a loss of interest in activities I used to enjoy (this occurrence is not uncommon; a great number of individuals who will deal with mental illness begin to experience symptoms in their late teen years). This continued through my sophomore year, and it prompted me to intermittently visit Counseling and Psychological Services and talk to a counselor. I generally had a good ex-

perience there, and even wrote a few comments on previous years’ mental health-related articles to reassure concerned and stressed out individuals that not all CPS counselors were the enemy, as many feared. And as long as my condition stayed manageable, I was content using campus resources as part of my mental and emotional support. But then it got worse. Toward the end of the summer and continuing through this past fall semester, my depression became more severe than anything I could have ever imagined. My brain, which was formerly one of my greatest assets, turned against me with a vengeance. I was constantly in a state of inexplicable self-loathing, and if anyone presented “a substantial risk of self-harm,” it was me. Entire lectures would pass by without me hearing a single word the professor said; I had to focus all of my mental energy and effort on not scratching myself with the cap of my pen. My daily commute back to my dorm required that I convince myself not to “accidentally” crash my bike on the steps leading to my entryway. I encountered these types of thoughts and impulses several times an hour, nearly every day of every month, and the severity continued for the entirety of the semester. I regularly saw a counselor off-campus (a privilege that not all students are fortunate to have), but once things got worse I stopped scheduling appointments with CPS; I stopped because I was terrified of the horror stories I had heard. I was scared that Princeton would force me to involuntarily withdraw. I was scared that they would only hear the details that threatened their reputation and liability, and would neglect to consider qualities that my friends and mentors recognized in me — strength, resilience, perseverance and, most importantly, the fact that I had already overcome literally hundreds of dangerous situations in my own head and reached out for help when I knew I shouldn’t attempt to conquer them on my own. In short, I was scared of being labeled, stigmatized and de-

In just the first two months of focused treatment, I am already infinitely better and look to the future with hope. But my situation was not always so positive.

fined by my struggle. Though I was already (very seriously) considering a leave of absence, I was thoroughly convinced that if Princeton knew the truth about me, I would lose all autonomy and the ability to make my decision without overwhelming pressure from the administration. My conclusion? Silence was the only option. During the first of many “check-in” meetings my Director of Student Life requested throughout last semester, she asked me directly, “How is your depression going?” I plastered a smile on my face, told her my depression was “much better, thank you,” then immediately returned to my room to cry. After fall break, with encouragement and support from my family and close friends, I made the choice to take a year off in order to more effectively focus on my treatment and overall health. I was still concerned about losing autonomy, however, and knew that the process would become much more complicated if the University knew the underlying reasons behind my decision. I told those officially involved with my withdrawal that I was leaving for “medical reasons” and they were content to leave the situation ambiguous for a while, until they eventually found out it was for unspecified “mental health” reasons. Then a f lurry of evaluations, recommendations and confidentiality waivers ensued mere days before my departure. And the complications only multiplied from there: a month later, via a letter in the mail, I found out that, among a large number of other requirements, it would be “necessary” for me to “sign two copies of the ‘Authorization for Release of Information’ form: one authorizing your treatment providers to discuss your progress with our clinical staff at CPS, and one authorizing CPS to discuss your readmission evaluation with us.” The implications are sobering. If I ever want to return to Princeton as a student, I will have to ‘voluntarily’ waive my right to doctor-patient con f identia lity by signing those two forms. To the administration, to ODUS and to the direc-

tors of UHS and CPS: I understand that you are concerned for students who find themselves in these difficult situations and that you have to worry about liability issues, but the reality is that mental health’s stigma in our society presents an enormous obstacle that prevents students from reaching out. Please understand that Princeton’s current policies and procedures surrounding mental health and withdrawals do little to alleviate the fears of students who consider seeking help (or not). And though you may believe you have the students’ best interests in mind, you may in fact be contributing to the problem. For example, the rigorous readmission process is counterproductive. It hinders the effectiveness of a student’s treatment while at home — if I know that anything I say during a counseling session might end up on the desks of those who wield the power to potentially reject my return, I will not feel the freedom to be open and honest when it matters. And the policy that apparently allowed you to ban one student from campus until he was forced to withdraw (despite the abundant support of his psychiatrist and professors) is gravely dangerous, because it dissuades those who need help from ever reaching out. These policies might be in place to reduce the University’s risk of liability, but ironically they increase it. The University may seek to protect students from themselves, but in an environment of stigma, it unfortunately sends a message that students in dire need of help must choose between rejection or the isolation of silence. How long will it take before we become the next Penn or Harvard? As long as these concerns remain unaddressed, students will continue to choose silence over seeking assistance. Respectfully, I don’t think that advising students to talk to you if they are fearful of talking to you is going to work. This is circular reasoning and fails to acknowledge the salience of students’ deepest concerns. If you don’t believe me, simply look back at the comments under a March 9 letter to the editor: not a single person felt that their worries were alleviated by the administration’s response. I am hesitant to give any specific policy recommendations to the University; though I have a few ideas, I am not adequately familiar with the intricacies and nuances of mental health policy. But until staff and students work together to find an innovative solution, nothing will change. And change is imperative. It could be a matter of life and death.

If I ever want to return to Princeton as a student, I will have to ‘voluntarily’ waive my right to doctor-patient confidentiality by signing those two forms.

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George Mason. Down 15-23, the Tigers had their longest streak of the first set with three consecutive points, but could not complete the comeback and fell 18-25 in the first set. The second set started out similarly to the first, as both sides traded points early on. But team-wide contributions shot Princeton ahead in scoring, and the tables seemed to have turned as the Tigers held a 21-15 lead late in the set. But six consecutive George Mason points put the Patriots right back in the set, and Princeton took a timeout to collect with the score even at 21 apiece. The Tigers would grind out the last sev-

eral points and take the set to even it at one set apiece. Consecutive bursts of scoring were hard to come by for

Princeton and George Mason exchanged blows in what had quickly escalated into a war for postseason aspirations. both sides for the next two sets, as Princeton and George Mason exchanged blows in what had quickly escalated

into a war for postseason aspirations. But the Tigers were able to limit their errors better than the Patriots, and were able to take the third set 25-20 and the fourth set 25-22 to secure a crucial victory on Senior Night. Junior outside hitter Cody Kessel led the Tigers with 15 kills, which included the match winner, and added eight digs and three blocks. Sophomore outside hitter Devin Stearns and senior outside hitter Pat Schwagler combined for 25 kills and 13 digs. Freshman setter Chris Kennedy added 50 assists, while junior libero Tony Ensbury had 14 digs. The Tigers will take on second-seeded Harvard on Thursday night in the semifinal match of the four-team EIVA Tournament.

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freshman Sivan Krems were both up a set, but trading games in their second sets. Junior Katie Goepel had forced a third set at the sixth position and Sanon had kept the Lions alive by winning her second set against Wolff. Soon, Graff found herself serving for the match up 5-4 and Krems dueled with Leung in a tiebreaker. Then, in a matter of seconds, Krems won the tiebreaker, Graff closed out No. 121 Vaidya and the Tigers were Ivy League champions. “I didn’t know I was the clincher,” Graff said. “Then all these people started rushing at me. It was an unparalleled experience in my college career.” The Princeton faithful erupted and the players celebrated,

but there was still tennis to be played. Goepel played a brilliant last couple sets to win 6-7, 6-0, 6-3 and make it 5-1. Wolff and Sanon were still locked in a fantastic match, with Wolff up a break in the third set. They traded breaks and then holds to make it 5-4 in Princeton’s favor. Both teams stood on their respective sides of court one, cheering as if this match would decide the team outcome. Wolff jumped out to a 30-15 lead and two points later she served for the match. Sanon played with all the vigor of a senior in her last singles match, but her forehand went a bit long and Wolff was able to put the cherry on top of a great day for Princeton tennis. “At the beginning of the Ivy League season, and even towards the middle, we were individually-oriented,” said Graff.

“The Yale match triggered a huge switch. Now each of us is fighting for the team. It carries you through the close sets and matches.” With the win, the program, among Princeton’s first and best women’s teams, earned its 11th Ivy League crown and first since 2010. The Tigers now have twoand-a-half weeks to prepare for NCAA regionals. The selection show is at 5:30 p.m. on April 29 and will determine Princeton’s first round opponent and location. The individual selection show will take place 30 minutes later, where players like Graff and Wolff learn if they have made the singles or doubles draw. “There’s no telling how far we can go. I truly believe we can win at every position against the best teams in the country,” said Graff.

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center field on an RBI triple. The Tigers scored twice more in the inning to tie it up. A two-out walk in the eighth led to more runs for Princeton, as Owens doubled in a run and freshman third baseman Chad Powers plated two more runs with another line drive double. Senior closer Jonathan York gave the Quakers one run back but still shut the door, earning his fifth save as the Tigers won 6-4. Keller kept the pressure on Penn on Sunday, knocking in two runs with a double down the right field line after sophomore shortstop Danny Hoy singled in a run in the third. Three innings later, Keller struck again, giving Princeton its fourth and final run of the game with a solo home run. Senior lefty Michael Fagan was dominant again in his Sunday start, going six and a third innings and fanning 11 Quakers while letting up just two runs, only one earned. York faced four batters but let up no runs in relief, earning his second save in as many games. The pitching looked like it was going to hold strong in the

finale, as junior pitcher Nick Donatiello went six innings without giving up a run. He lost control, however, in the sixth, when two walks resulted in a meeting on the mound. Head coach Scott Bradley visited the mound but left Donatiello in for the next batter, Mike Vilardo, who doubled in three runs to break the 0-0 tie. Sophomore pitcher Chris Bodurian and sophomore Luke Streiber worked the remainder of the game, letting up three more runs. The Tigers managed just one run, which freshman third baseman Zack Belski drove in in the seventh, on eight hits. Though this weekend gave Penn two more league losses than it had had all season, that may come as little comfort to the Tigers, who are now mathematically eliminated from Gehrig pennant contention. Penn and Columbia each sit at 13-3 in the league and will face each other in four games next weekend to determine the division winner. Princeton, meanwhile, will wrap up its Ivy season with four games against Cornell next weekend in an effort to salvage a winning league record.

As Smithers went the next seven innings without giving up a run, the Tigers gave their starter solid support.

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opportunities. Dartmouth would eventually cut the gap to two goals with less than a minute left on the clock, but did not have the time to solidify its comeback. Thirtysix seconds later Princeton emerged victorious, carry-

ing with it the regular season Ivy League title and the right to host the Ivy League Tournament. “It’s a huge win for the program,” head coach Chris Sailer told GoPrincetonTigers. com. “It’s our first regularseason title in seven years. As a coach it’s awesome. We have great assistant coaches who do a phenomenal job. The team has been driven.

They’ve worked hard, they’ve embraced the work. They do what you ask. They are confident and they rise to challenges. The senior class created a great culture here. Ever since they were freshmen, they’ve had an impact on the team — how close they are, how giving they are, how hard they work. They put a lot into it this year and I’m just so happy for them.”

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Disappointing finishes have been common this season. The loss to Harvard makes it three league defeats.

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A combination of upperclass and underclass performances have yielded convincing wins of late.

pain made sharper by such slim margins of defeat. Before this season, the Tigers were hailed as one of the country’s top contenders. Offensive firepower was the storyline. Folded into that narrative was the presumed monarchy of senior midfielder and co-captain Tom Schreiber. But these notions were nothing beyond a series of educated guesses. Effectively, all of them missed the mark. Likewise, the Princeton men have missed the mark. All three in-conference losses were single goal results. Large negative gaps in scoring indicate a team has insufficient potential. A pattern of tight losses denotes a team for whom things just have not gone right. Junior faceoff specialist Justin Murphy was the presumptive ace at the X. His just-above50-percent winning ways in 2013 have not carried over into 2014. Forces beyond Murphy’s control held him back from play, with a head injury sidelining him for the middle chunk of the season. Faceoffs grant possession. Possession grants both goals and, sometimes just as valuably, an

opportunity to control the pace of the game. On Saturday, Princeton was outfaced 13 out of 22 opportunities, giving Harvard a solid leg up. A dozen turnovers from the Crimson certainly did not help the winning side, but Princeton was not able to muster much offense while the opposing attack was bearing down on them. Only three shots came for the visitors in the second quarter; two of them went wide. As it appears to have gone all season, the final minutes would not break in the Tigers’ favor. Two shots, potential equalizers, from Schreiber in the final four minutes of play ended up hitting off the opposing goal post. The last effort came with 1:18 left to play. Harvard’s Jake Gambitsky managed a save of sophomore midfielder Jake Froccaro’s shot. A successful clear by the Crimson ensured they could evade the Princeton defense until the clock showed zeros. For only the third time in his career, Schreiber was held goalless. In a week following the breaking of his two-plus season streak of three-goal games, the senior broke another streak which had seen him tally at least a score since a 2011 9-8 home loss to Harvard.

However, streaks only provide positive meaning while a team is winning. Further, it appears that while Schreiber’s usage has been among the league’s highest, his success rate is no longer among the conference’s best. None of his six shots were recorded as on goal. On the other hand, the scoring touch of sophomore attackman Ryan Ambler has seen significant refinement throughout the season. He notched three goals on six shots. His 23 finishes rank third on the team behind Schreiber’s 29 and Froccaro’s 26. Princeton’s goalie play has been questioned throughout the season, manifest most clearly in the earlier regularity with which the different keepers were rotated. Junior Eric Sanschagrin saved a solid 13 of 22 shots on goal, but will be credited with the loss for the first time this season. One more contest awaits the Tigers. Next weekend they will take a short journey north to Bethpage, N.Y., to play in Schreiber’s native Long Island. Perhaps it is fitting that the all-world sensation will play his final collegiate game on turf perhaps even more familiar than 1952 Stadium. But perhaps his team’s work is not quite done.

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Crucial loss may sink postseason aspirations

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Convincing win grants share of title By Eddie Owens

By Andrew Steele Sports editor

A postseason bid will have to be at-large for the No. 14 Tigers (7-5 overall, 2-3 Ivy League) following a crushing 9-8 loss at No. 20 Harvard (8-5 overall, 4-1). In what was effectively a mustwin game, Princeton dropped yet another close one which will most likely leave the Tigers out of the tourHARVARD 9 n a m e n tPRINCETON 8 qualifying top-four. A win next week over No. 12 Cornell could still yield a non-automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, but it’s unclear how likely this scenario is. The first goal came from a Princeton player. But after junior midfielder Kip Orban’s first minute strike, the contest was all Crimson. A 7-0 run by Harvard lasted from the 11:57 mark in the first quarter to the 2:52 mark in the second. A strong rally came from the visitors in the second half, resulting in a 6-2 score in the final two frames. But the leading home team was able to ride their prohibitive advantage out and, for the most part, limit the explosive offense of Princeton. Even while the Tigers’ slow start was crippling, the contest became incredibly close in a few possessions. There is a crushing pain in not living up to expectations, a See M. LAX page 9

6-0 the same day, the stage was set for a virtual playoff match. “We weren’t nervous at all since we had clinched at least a share of the title. We were hyped up and energetic,” Graff said. “They had something to lose.” That attitude was on full display from the get go. The doubles point was hotly contested, as Columbia’s 36th-ranked pair of Crystal Leung and Tina Jiang routed sophomore Emily Hahn and Joyce 8-1. Princeton evened it shortly thereafter with an 8-3 win on court three, and it came down to the leading duo of junior Lindsay Graff and freshman Alanna Wolff. Their opponent was the formidable pair of Bianca Sanon and Kanika Vaidya, 12th-ranked in the country and undefeated in the Ivy League. The Tigers fended off a fierce attack to hold serve and go up 4-2. This proved to be the breaking point for the Lions, as Graff and Wolff cruised the rest of the way to an 8-3 victory, the team point, and that all-important thing called momentum. The Tigers huddled after the somewhat surprising doubles point and resolved to maintain the same energy and unity that has gotten them through the last nine matches unscathed. They ended up needing it. All but one of the first sets were won 7-5 or 7-6, but Princeton found itself on top of five. Freshman Dorothy Tang was the first to wrap up her match, 7-6, 6-1. Columbia’s Jiang fought back very well against sophomore Emily Hahn to earn a 1-6, 6-3, 6-2 victory and give the Lions their first point. At that juncture, the match hung in the balance. Graff and

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It took a full team effort to dispatch the Lions of Columbia at the Lenz Tennis Center. This Princeton side has demonstrated a deep understanding of what it means to play for each other.

It was close early, but Princeton pulled away and ended up laying quite a beating on Columbia to claim sole possession of the Ivy League title and the resulting NCAA berth. The No. 59 Tigers (17-5 overall, 7-0 Ivy League) had already clinched at least a share of the championship, but the 6-1 win over the No. 37 Lions (16-4, 5-2) earned them their first NCAA berth in four years. Friday’s match at Cornell offered Princeton a chance to clinch a shared of the league title, and the Tigers capitalized by easily defeating the Big Red (7-10, 0-7) with a 6-1 victory. The doubles point came courtesy of a pair of 8-3 wins at positions one and three. The singles matches took barely an hour as there was only one match that went to three sets, and a tiebreak was substituted for a real last set, as CORNELL 1 is often the PRINCETON 6 case when PRINCETON 6 the team outcome is COLUMBIA 1 already decided. Freshman Caroline Joyce won it 12-10 after losing and then winning by the same 6-3 score in the first two sets. Junior number one Lindsay Graff and freshman number two Alanna Wolff made particularly short work of their Cornellians, forfeiting just four games apiece their entire matches. “It was one of those matches you have to go in and be focused for,” Graff said. “We were able to take care of business without much trouble.” When Columbia swept Penn

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Tigers win, earn home-field advantage By Mark Stein Senior writer

The women’s lacrosse team defeated Dartmouth 12-10 at the Class of 1952 Stadium on Saturday afternoon, securing its third consecutive victory and clinching the regular season Ivy League ChampionPRINCETON 13 ship for the DARTMOUTH 10 first time since 2006. With the win, the Tigers (10-4 overall, 6-1 Ivy League) earned their ninth victory in their last 10 games, while the Big Green (5-8, 2-4) dropped their fourth straight contest. Prince-

ton will wrap up the regular season on Saturday, April 26 at Penn State before returning home for the Ivy League tournament. The Tigers’ victory marked the first time in seven seasons that the team has won the regular season Ivy League Championship, earning along with it the right to host the Ivy League Tournament in May. The last time the Tigers took the regular season title, the team went 6-1 in the Ivy League and eventually advanced to the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals. The Tigers fell to Dartmouth 7-6 in overtime in that round while the Big Green went

on to lose the championship against Northwestern. Princeton has high hopes again this year, especially given its current momentum heading into the end of the regular season. Since opening the season 1-3 the Tigers have gone on a tear, winning nine of their last 10 games. In the process Princeton defeated then-No. 6 Virginia (97, 3-4 ACC) and No. 10 Penn (8-4, 4-1 Ivy League), falling only to No. 2 Maryland (16-1, 6-1 ACC). The Tigers lost in only their first Ivy League matchup this season, losing 14-13 in overtime at Brown (9-5, 2-4 Ivy League) in March.

Princeton is 6-0 in the Ivy League since then. The Ivy League dominance culminated in Princeton on Saturday afternoon, when the Tigers beat Dartmouth 12-10. The Tigers opened the contest on a 4-0 run, closing the half with a comfortable 4-1 cushion. But in the second half the Big Green fought back, three times cutting the deficit to two goals. Junior midfielder Erin Slifer led Princeton in scoring on the afternoon, tallying three goals on six shots. Attacker Sarah Byrne led Dartmouth with three goals on four See W. LAX page 9

MEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Third seed guaranteed with win over George Mason By Jack Rogers Associate sorts editor

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It appears that the talented Tigers have found the form requisite for postseason success in their latest rebound win over the rival Patriots. They face Harvard next.

After falling to George Mason (14-13 overall, 8-6 EIVA) on the road the previous week, the men’s volleyball team (15-9, 10-4) avenged its loss to PRINCETON 3 the PatriG. MASON 1 ots with a home win on Friday night in front of a packed Dillon Gymnasium. Not only did the win end the Tigers’ regular season on a high note, but it also gave them the third seed for the EIVA playoffs. Gaining the third seed is crucial because it puts Princeton on

the opposite side of the EIVA bracket from 15-time reigning champion Penn State, which sits atop the conference rankings. In front of nearly 900 fans in Dillon, the Tigers got out to a slow start on Friday night, and were quickly forced to play catch-up during the first set. After trailing 6-5 early in the first frame, the Patriots scored four consecutive points to go up 9-6, and would not relinquish the lead for the remainder of the set. Tiger points were sparse in between bursts of scoring for See M. V-BALL page 8

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BASEBALL

Princeton and Penn exchange wins in four-game series By Stephen Wood Sports editor emeritus

With Princeton coming in last place in the Gehrig Division of the Ivy League, it looked like there was a legitimate chance of Penn sweeping this weekend’s four-game PRINCETON 0 set. Instead, the Tigers (12-22 PENN 2 overall, 7-9 Ivy League) did about as well as could have PRINCETON 6 been expected, splitting the PENN 4 weekend with the Quakers (22-14, 13-3). Saturday’s first game was a pitcher’s duel all the way, with both freshman starter Chad Powers and Penn’s Connor Cuff throwing completegame four-hitters. Powers kept the Quakers to one unearned run through six innings before letting up a solo homer in the final frame, but Cuff’s performance made even that insurance run unnecessary. Throwing with velocity and great control, Cuff struck out seven without surrendering a walk. The Tigers looked like they had found a chink in Cuff’s armor when junior catcher Tyler Servais doubled on a hard-hit ball that bounced off of Penn third baseman Mitch Montaldo, but when junior pinch runner Peter Owens was caught between third and home on a ground ball Princeton lost its best opportunity to score. Princeton got another solid start from a freshman in the next game, as rookie hurler Keelan Smithers gave up three runs — two earned — over eight innings. All of those runs came in a shaky first, which started with Smithers hitting the leadoff man and included a run scored on a throwing error. As Smithers went the next seven innings without giving up a run, the Tigers gave their starter solid support. After manufacturing a run in the fourth, freshman second baseman Danny Baer singled in the sixth and senior center fielder Alec Keller gave Jake Cousins’ offering a ride to right See BASEBALL page 8

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