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Individuals peering into room windows reported

By Marcia Brown staff writer

The University’s Department of Public Safety sent a Campus Safety email alert to University affiliates on Tuesday afternoon about two incidents of individuals peering into residential windows on campus.

According to the email, both incidents were recorded by a University student, one on April 2 and another on April 24.

The first incident was reported to DPS by a female student. The student described the suspect to officers as “a Caucasian male, approximately 5’8” to 5’10” with a slim to medium build, wearing glasses, no beard but had a light ‘scruff,’ wearing navy or dark grey colored pants with running shoes or Teva sandals peering into residential hall windows.”

The second incident was also reported by a female student who described the suspect involved in her incident as “a Caucasian male, approximately 5’8” to 5’9” with a husky build, brown hair, wearing

glasses, wearing a blue shirt and blue jeans and sandals peering into a residential hall window.”

The email noted that it is unclear if the two incidents are related. The University is currently soliciting any information concerning either of the incidents.

“They occurred separately.

There are different levels of alert.

There is a sort of rationale behind reporting incidents to the campus community,” University Media Relations Specialist Min Pullan said.

The Department of Public Safety deferred comment to Pullan.

“The incidents described are not ones that are required to be reported as per the Jeanne Clery Act,” Pullan added.

Pullan explained that DPS made the decision to alert the University community when the most recent attack indicated a higher level of threat and the potential for a serial offender on campus. Pullan explained that the email is meant to advise University community members to See WINDOW page 3

STUDENT LIFE

Causes of gastrointestinal illnesses not confirmed

By Claire Lee staff writer

By Maya Wesby senior writer

There have been no conclusions made concerning the particulars of the connection between the reported gastrointestinal illnesses among students and their having eaten at Colonial Club, according to Assistant Vice President of Communications Daniel Day. Multiple students reported symptoms of gastrointestinal illnesses last Thursday and Friday after dining in Colonial, University Media Relations Specialist Min Pullan said.

The students who reported to

McCosh Health Center with gastrointestinal illnesses all confirmed eating at Colonial within the prior 48 hours, according to Pullan.

The cause of the illness has not been determined but sanitizing procedures have been carried out, she said.

Day added that administrators will produce a more comprehensive response as to the source of students’ illnesses as soon as more information becomes available.

Manager of University Health Services Kristen Palkovich did not respond to request for comment.

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Program of Archaeology approved as certificate

By Andie Ayala staff writer

The Program of Archaeology was approved as a certificate in Monday’s faculty meeting, according to Program Director Nathan Arrington ’02.

Dean of Faculty Deborah Prentice deferred comment to Dean of the College Jill Dolan.

Dolan deferred comment to Deputy Dean of the College Elizabeth Colagiuri.

“The proposal for the newly created certificate program in archaeology was reviewed by the Academic Planning Group and the Faculty Committee on the Course of Study before going the full faculty for approval,” Colagiuri said.

Arrington noted that the entire Art and Archaeology

Palestinian diplomat Areikat talks Palestinian-Israeli relations

By Kevin Agostinelli staff writer

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the study of archaeology as it stands at the University is more suited as a certificate program instead of a division within the Art and Archaeology concentration.

Arrington noted that the way that the program is currently written as a major track is limited because it isn’t interdisciplinary as it could be and is constrained within the field of Art History.

“The way that the archaeology track is written as a major always struck me as being very much like a certificate; it’s very interdisciplinary in nature and it was quite simple really just to take that model and translate it into a certificate, so it really seemed to See PROGRAM page 2

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“I do not see any other solution to the Palestine-Israeli conflict other than an independent, sovereign, viable, contiguous Palestinian state – and when I say sovereign I mean a state that will enjoy all attributes of sovereignty,” Ambassador Maen Rashid Areikat, chief representative of the Palestinian Liberation Organization to the United States, said in a lecture on Tuesday.

During the lecture, Areikat gave an overarching view of his position as a major Palestinian diplomat, offering a variety of reasons as to why a two-state solution is not just the best answer for Israel and Palestine – it is the only one.

Areikat referenced the existing state of affairs with the Israeli occupation of Palestine, which has grown even tighter as a result of what he refers to as “the most extreme right-wing government in the history of Israel.”

According to Areikat, the growing number of legal Israeli settlements within Palestine is

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faculty approved the proposal earlier in the year, although they had started discussions regarding the program being offered as a certificate at least three years ago.

Arrington added that there are currently three tracks that concentrators in the Department of Art and Archaeology can take: History of Art, Studio Arts and Archaeology. He explained that most students pursue the Art History track while a substantial number of students also studying Studio Arts. According to Arrington, there are presently only two students from the Class of 2016 pursuing the Archaeology track within the Art and Archeology department.

Arrington explained that

an indication that pulling out of Palestine is not on the Israeli government’s agenda.

“You can see it with your own eyes,” Areikat said.

The ambassador described in greater detail what the terms of the proposed two-state solution would be in order for Palestine to be able to obtain its own legitimate autonomy.

“The reason in the past that our people had refused Israeli offers was because Israel wanted to continue to control the Palestinian people even after they [the Palestinians] established their own Palestinian state,” Areikat explained, “That’s why all the negotiations have failed – because Israel did not want the Palestinians to have sovereignty of the Palestinian state.

Areikat listed some of the terms of a two-state solution including no presence of the Israeli military in the future Palestinian state, no control of air space or international checking points and no control of local or natural resources.

He explained that the question now is not so much whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will support the Pal-

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estinian state – rather, it is what kind of Palestinian state Netanyahu would potentially approve of that is at odds with Palestinians’ own wishes.

“Imagine the occupiers turning into peacekeepers after nearly 50 years,” Areikat added.

“They [the Israelis] want the Palestinians to accept the presence of the Israeli military occupation as peacekeeping forces to protect the security of Israel,” he said.

Areikat admitted that this dilemma has convinced some Palestinians to abandon the notion of their own state and instead to promote a binational state between Israelis and Palestinians. To him, however, the historical and current troubles facing those Palestinians living in Israel strongly persuade him that he is fighting for the right decision. He explained that Palestinians who remain in Israel are, even in modern times, struggling to secure social justice. These Palestinians, he explained, are not treated as equal to Israelis.

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reflect the structure of the program much better,” Arrington said.

Though the study of archaeology is currently available as both a certificate and a concentration, Arrington noted that in the future, the certificate program may replace the concentration.

Deborah Vischak, a professor in the Art and Archaeology department, who is also on the Executive Committee of the Program of Archaeology, noted that changing archaeology from a major to a certificate would allow students to have more flexibility in working within archaeology and approach the program from a range of different disciplines and interests.

“The interdisciplinary aspect of archaeology is what makes it so vibrant,” Ar-

rington noted, explaining that students reading Herodotus, studying ancient Polish remains or compiling digital reconstructions of buildings all have something in common under the umbrella of archaeology. “I expect to be surprised and to find students coming at this [the archaeology certificate] from angles that I never would have dreamed of,” he added.

“This [interdisciplinary nature of archaeology] is a reflection of the fact that archaeology in itself is not a discipline on its own, it’s really a practice,” she said. In this way, Vischak said that the program recognizes that there is a rich history of fellowship between archaeology and a number of other areas of studies.

Vischak added that within the older tradition of European institutions, archaeology has always been associated with history. According

to the department website, archaeology has been a major at the University since 1883, when Allan Marquand began teaching art history at Princeton. However, Vischak noted that within the last 70 years, New World Archaeology in the United States has been based in anthropological studies.

Aaron Stevens ’18, who recently declared a major in Anthropology, said that at most universities archaeology would be paired with anthropology. He said that one of the reasons why he decided not to major in archaeology was because it was under the Art and Archaeology department.

Stevens noted that having archaeology as a certificate is great because it allows the student to minimize the art history aspect that the major previously had and focus on using archaeology in order to enhance their preferred area of study.

Emily Reardon ’16 said that for the past two summers she has attended the Art 304: Archaeology in the Field course taught by Arrington, which is a summer program on excavation and archaeological survey that takes place on the northern coast of Greece, acting as a co-registrar for her second year. She noted that though she is a senior in the sociology department, she would have loved to have had the opportunity to pursue a certificate in the Program of Archaeology. She said that the certificate program could have let her look at the social organizations of the dig, and how the discovery of material culture affects the way that history is interpreted from a sociological perspective.

Charlotte Williams ’17 said that she is majoring in Anthropology and was planning on getting a certificate in Latin American Studies, as well as Urban Studies. She noted

that with the introduction of this new program, she is now considering trying to fit in a certificate in the Program of Archaeology as well. She said that she had briefly considered being an archaeology major earlier in her university career, but ultimately decided she wanted a greater community of peers who were concentrating in a similar area of study.

Williams said that she was very excited about the certificate program, noting, “I really hope that it will draw people from other fields so it can be really more collaborative.”

The official undergraduate announcement of the program notes that the program will include courses in Meanings of Visual Arts, as well as Introduction of Visual Arts, and required components of fieldwork and independent research.

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She explained she thinks this email was sent out in part because of the close proximity in time within which these two incidents of a similar nature were reported.

“As far as these incidents are concerned, everything you see in the email is what we [the Office of Communications] have,” Pullan said.

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turn the conflict from a political one into a struggle for equality and social justice,” he explained.

“That would completely shift the paradigm and could make many countries around the world lose interest in this conflict to end an occupation.”

Areikat further noted that a binational state is an unreasonable solution because of what he claimed is Israel’s desire to limit the population of Palestinians in the country and especially to prevent the roughly four million Palestinians from becoming Israeli citizens.

During the lecture, Areikat also attempted to clarify an incident in 2011 in which his calls for separation between Israel and Palestine came under critical attack and harsh scrutiny.

Areikat explained that in 2011 that he was accused by both Palestinians and Israelis for supporting “population transfer” between the Jews in Palestine

or the Palestinians in Israel. He noted that some activist groups and media outlets went so far as to condemn him for tacitly supporting ethnic cleansing in Israel.

He explained that he had only wanted to convey how important it was to have two autonomous states between Israel and Palestine. According to Areikat, the Israeli military occupation must end to allow the Palestinian people to establish their own state.

“We [Palestinians] believe that we have better chances now as an occupied people fighting occupation and oppression to obtain freedom and independence by creating our own state,” he said.

Areikat’s lecture, titled “One State or Two States?” was open to the public and took place in Dodds Auditorium of Robertson Hall at 4:30 p.m. The talk, as a part of the “Conversations About Peace” lecture series, was co-sponsored by the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice and the Wilson School.

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for the town of Princeton, did not respond to requests for comment.

Colonial President Christopher Yu ’17 did not respond to requests for comment.

Colonial House Manager Andrew Ruchames ’17 did not respond to requests for comment.

In an email sent to members of Colonial, Yu said he received replies from almost 30 people who reported being sick with food poisoning, diarrhea and vomiting. Yu noted that this group included of those who had eaten at the Club, as well as those who didn’t, and added that the illnesses could be due to other causes, such a stomach flu going around campus. In addition, Yu noted that there was little commonality between the foods that sick individuals reported eating.

Multiple members of Colonial declined to comment, noting that they were unable to comment on the situation due to a lack of information concerning particulars of the illnesses.

Colonial member Sally Jiao ’18 said that the incidences were not confirmed to be food poisoning.

Another Colonial member Nuss Visatemongkolchai ’18 added that the incidents may be spread due to a contagious stom-

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ach flu rather than foods from Colonial, since people have been getting sick on different days and there perhaps isn’t a common denominator food that would make them sick. Visatemongkolchai added that she continues to eat at Colonial every day.

Colonial member Daniel Pan ’18 said that he sometimes eats at Colonial for dinners and study breaks and added that the illnesses going around could be due to people hanging out with similar social groups and giving it to each other, rather than getting sick from the food itself.

Pullan noted that there have been no other reported cases of food poisoning at other eating clubs nor at the U-Store.

U-Store President James Sykes said that he was unaware of any illnesses and that no incidences of gastrointestinal illnesses have been reported to him or others at the U-Store.

Sykes added that all foods at the U-Store are temperaturecontrolled and are checked three times a day. He said that foods are taken off the shelves when, for instance, the temperature has been too high for too long.

“That doesn’t happen very often, but we obviously follow those processes,” he said, “I’ve been here for 20 years and never had a problem with food safety or any concern like that.”

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n April 11, President Eisgruber announced that the University has decided to discontinue the sprint football program.

Princeton sprint football, until two weeks ago, was mostly notable for its comically tragic win-loss record: in 18 consecutive seasons, it have had no wins. In fact, starting next year, incoming freshmen will have been born after sprint football had its last victory.

But the lack of success of the team on the field wasn’t why the team was canceled. If it were, then I would not be writing this column. The reason the team was disbanded was, in Eisgruber’s own words, that “the risk of injury to players is unacceptably high, and the University could not responsibly permit the program to continue in its current form.”

Seems, reasonable, right?

The team had a high injury rate, and the University is just looking out for the athletes’ best interests. And I’m sure the injury rate had nothing to do with the University not allowing sprint to recruit athletes, as essentially every other varsity sport is allowed to do.

In any case, why the injury rate was higher than average is irrelevant. Discontinuing a team because of its injury rate is misguided at best and downright dangerous at worst.

Now that Princeton has made it clear that a sport may be canceled if it has too many injuries, all other teams know that to continue, they have to keep their reported injury rates low enough. The keyword in that sentence was “reported.” Princeton has created a huge reason for teams to underreport injuries and dismiss minor problems. (redundant; can we delete?) There is now a tremendous incentive for players and coaches to shrug off what they consider minor injuries rather than take them seriously.

Maybe, fearing that yet another reported concussion could jeopardize the team’s future, a player will not mention to a coach a persisting injury incurred after that last hit. Even if it is reported, maybe a coach will be biased, consciously or not, to assume that the injury isn’t worth mentioning to anyone and send the player right back into the game, even though the player really shouldn’t be playing.

So what’s the correct response to a team with unacceptably high injury levels?

Work with coaches and players and medical professionals to find a way to make the game safer, but don’t punish the team. All that does is encourage other teams to pretend that injuries don’t happen.

Canceling a team due to injuries sends a crystal clear message to players and coaches: shut up or lose your team. Princeton is telling all athletes in the clearest terms possible to not mention injuries and to ignore pain on penalty of disbandment.

A further concern is the truthfulness of the University. Although the University claims that the reason for ending sprint football is because of the injury rate, I can’t help but be suspicious. I think I am not alone here. Sprint football suffers from a lack of recruited athletes and has difficulty winning games, almost definitely since it does not get to recruit. It looks to me like Princeton was withholding recruited athletes from the sprint team and is now depriving them of their entire team under the guise of safety.

What is the safety threshold that a team has to meet? If regular football had a higher injury rate, would it be disbanded? I seriously doubt it. Princeton clearly favors some teams over others. Regular football has almost 100 players on the roster. In the NFL, the maximum size for a roster is 53.

I’m sure if it were really a priority, Princeton could have taken a few of the recruited athletes’ spots from regular football and given them to sprint.

But instead, they let the team get to the point where it are winless, and then eliminate the team, claiming that it’s about safety. Even if it were about safety (which is not certain at all) then disbanding a team over safety sets a very dangerous precedent.

Does President Eisgruber want to have players get seriously hurt at Princeton?

Then he made the right call with sprint football.

Beni Snow is a freshman from Newton, Mass. He can be reached at bsnow@princeton.edu.

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he National Labor Relations Board is currently considering a petition from the Graduate Workers of Columbia University (GWC), a graduate student union, to be officially recognized as a collective bargaining unit, legally entitled to negotiate with Columbia on behalf of graduate students. If the NLRB recognizes the legitimacy of the GWC, it would overturn a 2004 ruling disavowing a graduate student union at Brown University.

The Board ruled then that graduate student instructors and research assistants at private universities in the United States are not employees as defined by the National Labor Relations Act. Overturning the Brown decision would mean, in principle, that graduate students at private universities have the right to unionize if they so wish. (Graduate students at public universities are subject to state laws. Some, notably in California, have robust student unions; Harvard and Yale also have unrecognized graduate student unions organized on their campuses.)

On February 29, Princeton jointly filed an amici curiae brief with the NLRB, alongside Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, MIT, UPenn, Stanford, and Yale, arguing that the Board should deny the GWC’s petition. Princeton’s signing of the brief was not heavily publicized; neither the Princeton faculty nor the Princeton graduate student government was notified.

The GSG assembled a committee to investigate the decision-making process behind the filing of the brief, sending inquiries to the graduate student governments, the faculties, and the offices of the presidents of the co-signing institutions. To our knowledge, only Cornell notified its student government of the filing of the brief, and even then Cornell did not solicit input. None of the faculties indicated that they were notified or consulted.

The University’s response to an inquiry from the GSG about the lack of notification was as follows (via Hilary Parker, Assistant Vice President): “Please note that this is a legal matter, and that decisions on such matters are made by the University’s General Counsel in consultation with

appropriate University officials. My understanding is that the recent amicus brief in the Columbia case reflects arguments consistent with the position the University has taken in the past and thus our involvement raised no new substantive issues.”

We are deeply concerned, as representatives of graduate student government and as graduate students ourselves, about the University’s actions. The University’s lack of consideration in not informing its graduate students is dismissive at best and disingenuous at worst.

While it is true that the University has taken a public stance on graduate student unionization in the past, co-filing a brief against union recognition in a 2000 case at NYU , the University did not, as far as GSG is aware, involve itself in the 2004 Brown decision. Furthermore, the amount of time that has passed since the last University involvement in a graduate student unionization case renders the issue new (and clearly substantive) to the graduate student body, if not to Nassau Hall.

Though the GSG has yet to take a position on the status of graduate students, we understand the University administration is entitled to its position on this issue and to advocate as such.

It is, however, disappointing that the University neither consulted nor notified its graduate students on its decision to co-sign the brief, particularly given that, unlike peer institutions Harvard, Yale and now Columbia, Princeton does not have a graduate student union organized on its campus.

The impact of unionization on graduate students cannot be overstated. A union would change how graduate student stipends are set and could drastically impact negotiations surrounding housing and rent, health coverage and more. We urge the University to consult, or at the minimum notify, its graduate student community before undertaking similar actions with the potential to so drastically impact graduate student life here.

Signed, The Graduate Student Government

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Rebranding is not enough

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ear Daily Princetonian, I must take issue with Newby Parton’s column from April 13, specifically his call to “strengthen [Princeton’s] brand and reputation, provided we do not compromise our commitment to undergraduate education.” Mr. Parton has evidently failed to consider that fully one-third of Princeton’s student community is made up of graduate students, who are consistently marginalized by University institutions. For example, the Undergraduate Student Government has a four-office suite dedicated to its use at the Frist Campus Center; the Graduate Student Government has a dedicated closet space in that suite.

If Princeton University’s reputation among scholars — who have attended graduate school — is dwarfed by that of Harvard’s, perhaps it is because of the graduate student experience at Princeton. Fixing this requires more substantive solutions than mere rebranding.

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David Austin Walsh Ph.D. Student, Department of History walshd14@princeton.edu

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avid Walsh rightly states that a better graduate school experience could strengthen the University’s reputation. I had already addressed this point in the second paragraph of my April 13 column, “Officium: The case for a new official motto.”

Walsh errs, however, in taking issue with my opinion that we should not compromise our commitment to undergraduate education. First, this dichotomy is false: We can improve the graduate school experience while maintaining our commitment to undergraduates.

Second, by taking issue with this statement, Walsh implies that we should, in fact, sacrifice some commitment to undergraduate education in order to refocus on the graduate school.

To do so would be to give up Princeton’s competitive advantage. We are recognized as the best university in America for undergraduate education, and keeping this distinction benefits the University as a whole.

Newby Parton

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When Walsh chose to come to this University, he had full knowledge that we emphasize undergraduate education. For him to claim that he is “marginalized” is dishonest and disrespectful to groups who face real, systemic discrimination. Marginalization in America is mass incarceration, unjustified use of police force, surveillance of religious minorities and workforce discrimination against women who take maternity leave. Marginalization is not a white, male, Ph.D. student’s dissatisfaction with closet space at his Ivy League university.

Walsh’s self-centeredness of focus reinforces the second point I made in my column: We need the motto “officium” — service — to remind us to look outward and serve communities that struggle with real injustice.

Newby Parton is a Wilson School major from McMinnville, TN. He can be reached at newby@princeton.edu.

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ing the home team 8-1, fueled by an explosive third inning as the Tigers jumped out to a 4-0 lead off of a double from sophomore shortstop Danielle Dockx and a three-run homer from senior catcher Skye Jerpbak. Grant and junior outfielder Marissa Reynolds would hop in on the action as well, with home runs of their own in the fifth and sixth innings respectively to widen the lead. While the Lions would finally manage to put themselves on the scoreboard in the sixth, another RBI from Dockx would push the lead out once more, causing the Tigers to walk away with an 8-1 victory.

Unlike the first game, the Lions would remain within striking distance for the majority second contest. However, with the score tied at 2-2 after the fifth inning, the Tigers would take complete control as scores from Reyn-

olds, Waslawski and junior Haley Hineman gave the Tigers a threerun lead. This quickly turned into a six-run lead as Jerpbak crushed another ball for a three-run homer, en route to an 8-2 victory for the Orange and Black.

With a dominant weekend in the books, the Tigers will take on the Cornell Big Red for four games — the first two in Ithaca, N.Y., the second two at the Class of 1895 Field — to finish their season. Should they finish strong, they will face the winner of the North Division of the Ivy League North Division for a spot in the Big Dance. The Harvard Crimson and The Dartmouth Big Green are currently jockeying for first.

Dartmouth, the reigning Ivy League champion, would prove to be a fearsome matchup for whoever comes its way.

The Tigers’ final two games of the season are scheduled to take place at 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. on Sunday. The games will be viewable on the Ivy League Digital Network.

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was Princeton’s Gamble, who sailed comfortably, 6-3, 6-3.

Day was the second Tiger to complete his match, winning 6-3, 0-6, 7-6. The third set was a seesaw affair with Day and Penn’s Josh Pompan trading breaks twice in the middle of the set before going to the tiebreaker, where Day prevailed.

Vives ran into some trouble early on in his match, dropping his serve immediately, but recovered well and snagged the first. In the second, after trailing early, he fought hard to level the score at 5-5, only to be broken again by Penn’s Vim de Alwis who ended up taking the second 7-5. Vives however did not let the momentum swing the Quaker’s way, as he took control early on in the decider 4-0, en route to a 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 victory that gave the Tigers a 3-1 edge.

The other three matches of Yablon, Colautti and freshman Jimmy Wasserman all went to third set tiebreakers that these Tigers unfortunately lost. Yablon and Colautti both started strong, grabbing the opener, before faltering in the latter stages, while Wasserman’s comeback didn’t come to

fruition. Yablon even pushed through some tough pressure moments, such as serving at 15-30 at 5-6 in third set, only to lose in the breaker. With the three singles matches lost all coming through tiebreakers, this match was unbelievably close and just within the grasp of the Tigers’ outstretched hands.

Colautti looked back on the season as a whole that ended less fortunately than what the team expected, stating, “Well, I think the biggest for me is if you look at the results of the matches we lost, we lost three matches 4-3 and were in the position to win those. So the biggest positive is that we weren’t really outplayed by any teams in the Ivy League this year despite our disappointing record.” Colautti’s assessment is accurate, as many of the matches were close, and the Tigers were never really outmatched by any opponent.

Looking ahead to next year, Colautti is optimistic: “We return all of our starting players next year and gain some new guys that hopefully will bring a different dynamic. Another positive is that we can only really improve come next year when we also will be able to play most of our difficult matches at home.”

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man Jeremy Spiezio and senior Sam Berger will compete in the 5,000-meter championship. Finally, freshman Steven Sum will race the 10,000-meter finale.

Competition will kick into gear again on Friday. LIke the day before, Friday will begin with the men’s 400-meter hurdles, high jump and pole vault championships. On the men’s side, junior Greg Leeper, senior Jordan Myers and sophomore Spencer Long will compete in the hurdles. Junior Xavier Bledsoe will represent Princeton in the high jump while junior Ben Gaylord takes on the pole vault.

In the afternoon, the men’s team will begin the sprint events as well as the infa-

mous distance medley championship. Just three years ago, Princeton won the event, featuring a fantastic perfor-

“Competing at a track meet with so much significance places me in a much bitter lineage.”

Adam Bragg’16 pole vaulter

mance from Donn Cabral ’12.

Additionally, senior Jake Scinto and Leeper will represent in the long jump. Finally, sophomore Mitchel Charles and juniors Jared Bell and Chris Cook will all compete for the shot put.

On Saturday, junior Vic Youn and freshman Adam

Kelly will launch their ways into the hammer throw competition. Meanwhile, senior Adam Bragg and fellow teammate sophomore August Kiles will compete in the pole vault championships.

Bragg, who qualified for the Olympic Trials with a recordbreaking performance, will undoubtedly be looking to end his senior year with some remarkable performances.

“Ultimately, the goal is to cap off my last year at Princeton,” Bragg said. “I think it could inspire some big performances. It’s going to be a strong field and getting the victory will be tough.”

Regardless of the results, each Tiger representing the Orange and Black this weekend has already excelled beyond expectations in order to reach the highly competitive, historic stage of Penn Relays.

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Men’s and women’s track teams prepare to compete at Penn Relays

By David Liu and David Xin sports editors

Over 22,000 track and field athletes will converge onto the Penn Relays this Thursday for three days of recordsetting competition. As one of the nation’s largest and most elite track and field competitions, the annual Penn Relays feature the top high school and collegiate athletes.

Although Princeton has competed in plenty of large tournaments before, the traditions of the Penn Relays continue to mark the competition as a historic and prestigious event. Senior pole vaulter Adam Bragg noted, “Competing at a track meet with so much significance places me in a much bigger lineage.”

Princeton will begin competition on Thursday with the women’s 400-meter hurdles,

high jump and discus throw championships. Representing the Orange and Black will be sprinters senior Meghan McMullin and freshman Carly Bonnet, senior high jumper Taylor Morgan, and senior discus thrower Brielle Rowe.

On Thursday afternoon, the women’s team will continue with the hammer throw, pole vault and 4x100 initial heat.

Sophomore Kennedy O’Dell and Rowe will represent the Tigers in the hammer throw.

Meanwhile, junior Allison Harris will command the fourth seed in the pole vault.

To conclude the first day of competition, the men’s team will begin Thursday night with a few long distance events. First, senior Eddie Owens will participate in the 3,000-meter steeplechase championships. Then, freshSee TRACK page 7

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The track teams will continue a historic tradition as they take on a host of competitors at the Penn Relays.

SOFTBALL

Softball defeats Columbia, leads Ivy League South

By Miles Hinson sports editor emeritus

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The softball team went 3-1 in its matches against Columbia.

As the season draws to a close, the Princeton softball team has put itself in excellent position as it look for its first bid to the NCAA tournament since the spring of 2008. They have put themselves atop the South Division within the Ivy League, going 3-1 on the road against Columbia on the weekend.

The Tigers (17-25 overall, 10-6 Ivy League), after starting out league play in the middle of the standings, have surged ahead of the field, with just one weekend remaining in the regular season.

With a three-game lead over their nearest division rivals, the Penn Quakers, they are in control of their destiny as they look for a

chance to compete for the Ivy League crown.

This past weekend, the Tigers asserted their dominance over the Lions (13-30, 5-11) once more, a team whom they swept last season. The Lions managed to start the weekend out on the right note, defending their home turf and defeating the Tigers 4-1.

The Tigers’ sole score of the day would come off of a home run from freshman third base Kaylee Grant. Grant has been one of the most consistent performers offensively for the Tigers all season, having started in all but two of the Tigers’ games on the season and posting a .330 batting average to date.

Despite the early loss, the Tigers would not be daunted heading into the second game of Satur-

day’s double header. Grant shone once more, picking up a two-run homer in the top of the second to open things up. Two more scores in the fifth, coming off RBI’s from senior first base Kayla Bose and freshman outfielder Kaitlyn Waslawski, doubled the lead. In addition to a strong offensive output, the Tigers benefitted greatly from the solid pitching of sophomore pitcher Ashley LaGuardia, who shut out the Lions up through the first six innings of the game.

A final push by Columbia in the seventh would ultimately fall short as the Tigers emerged from the second game of the day victorious 6-3.

Sunday’s contests turned out to be far more one-sided. The Tigers began the day by clobberSee SOFTBALL page 7

MEN’S TENNIS

Men’s tennis finishes season with close loss to Penn

By Hamza Chaudhry staff writer

The Princeton’s Men’s tennis team capped off its regular season with a tough loss against Penn. After grabbing a pair of victories against Yale and Brown to open the Ivy League season earlier this month, the Tigers faced an onslaught of fierce competition within their own conference and finished at an underwhelming 2-5.

Heading into the weekend’s action against Penn, the Tigers were looking to redeem themselves after they had dropped four consecutive matches against Ivy League opponents. The previous weekend saw a decisive beating at the hands of the Columbia Lions (who wrapped up their third straight Ivy title) and a gutwrenching loss against Cornell. With the score level at 3-3, the match came down to junior Josh Yablon’s encounter against Cornell’s Casares Rosa. Though Yablon was up a break 4-1 in the decider, Rosa mounted an impressive comeback to steal the match for the Big Red. Needless to say, the Tigers were hungry

Tweet of the Day

for redemption in their final match.

Action in Philadelphia commenced at 1 p.m. with a set of tight doubles matches. Although things were looking good for the Tigers on Court 3 with captains Yablon and Tom Colautti up a break 5-3, Penn proved too strong on courts 1 and 2 and captured the all important doubles point. On Court 1, the 76th nationally ranked pair of junior Alex Day and sophomore Luke Gamble fell 6-4, while sophomore standout Diego Vives and junior partner Jonathan Carcione lost control of their match after Carcione was broken on a deuce point at 3-3.

Having found themselves in this position several times before, the Tigers looked to switch gears in singles play and bounce back — their mission seemed promising at first, as the first three singles matches to end all went Princeton’s way. The singles matches were fiercely contested, as 5 out of 6 went to three sets, four of which included tiebreakers. The only player to win in straight sets See TENNIS page 7

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The men’s tennis team dropped a heartbreakingly close match against the Penn Quakers this weekend.

Stat of the Day

“looked for a tweet of the day section in my home76th nationally town newspaper today, not sure if that’s awesome The doubles pair consisting of junior or embaressing” Alex Day and sophomore Luke taylor williams (@ preTAYY), senior forward, basketball

Gamble is ranked 76th in the country.

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