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The percentage of undergraduate students who responded to the University’s sexual misconduct climate survey.

News & Notes New Jersey First Lady leaves job on Wall Street

New Jersey First Lady Mary Christie, wife of governor Chris Christie, said that her decision to leave her job as managing director at the Wall Street investment firm Angelo, Gordon & Co. is not an indication that her husband has committed to a 2016 presidential campaign, NJ.com reported.

A statement released by a spokesperson for the governor’s office said that Mary Christie had decided to take a hiatus from her work to spend more time with her family and young children.

She said in an April 16 interview with NBC that she was not sure if she would take a leave of absence from her job if her husband were to seek the presidency.

She also noted that the governor has not made up his mind on whether to run for president in 2016.

Mary Christie has accompanied her husband on recent ostensible campaign trips, including a trip to New Hampshire as well as fundraisers for his leadership political action committee.

LOCAL NEWS

DPS arrest man after pursuit in Friend

ACTIVITIES FAIR

By Ruby Shao associate news editor

The Department of Public Safety charged a 30-year-old man with aggravated assault and resisting arrest on Tuesday afternoon.

Reginald Murph, of Teaneck, N.J., was arrested after a pursuit that began in the Friend Center at approximately 1:30 p.m., Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office spokesperson Casey DeBlasio said.

Public Safety detective Michele Aversa first saw Murph on the third f loor of the Engineering Library, and recognized him because she had previously charged him for theft and unauthorized use of credit cards stolen from the Engineering Library, according to DeBlasio.

DeBlasio added that Aversa knew of active warrants for Murph from South Plainfield and New Brunswick municipal courts.

The Department of Public Safety deferred comment to the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office.

After noticing Aversa, Murph exited the Friend Center and confronted a University patrolman waiting outside. The officer identified himself and told Murph to stop, DeBlasio said.

The patrolman attempted to physically take Murph into custody, but he injured the officer’s leg and scratched his arms and hands before escaping the scene, DeBlasio said, adding that the patrolman was treated at and released from See ARREST page 5

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Students prepare to welcome prospective members of the Class of 2019 on Tuesday at the Princeton Preview Activities Fair in Dillon Gym. U N I V E R S I T Y A F FA I R S

U. sexual misconduct climate survey sees over 50 percent response rate

By Christina Vosbikian staff writer

Fifty-two percent of undergraduate students and 53 percent of graduate students responded to the University’s sexual misconduct climate survey, according to Vice Provost for Institutional Diversity and Equity Michele Minter.

The University’s goal was a 50 percent response rate, Minter added.

“This is a very high response

rate for a survey of its type, so we are very pleased,” Minter said. “It should allow us to draw some very good conclusions about the campus experience.”

Surveys of this type conducted at peer institutions end up with response rates of about 30 percent, Minter said.

When asked about when the survey’s findings will be published, Minter said they would likely be released early this coming fall.

“There’s a lot of work to do to analyze the data which is in a really raw form right now,” Minter said.

“We don’t want to release this at a time when students and faculty are preoccupied, and the campus doesn’t have time to take [the results] in.”

There needs to be a lot of work to contextualize the results to find out what they really mean, Minter explained. The findings of the Association of American Universities survey, which the University chose

not to participate in after some students raised concerns about its applicability to campus life, will also be released sometime in the fall, Minter said.

Minter said she understood that the student response rate to the survey was demographically representative of the student body as a whole.

Strong student-led efforts to boost participation, including video testimonials about why See SURVEY page 4

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STUDENT LIFE

Office of Sustainability, student groups discuss plastic water bottle use

GSG forum debates divestment referendum

By Melissa Curtis staff writer

The Office of Sustainability sent a survey to students last week about the use of reusable and plastic water bottles on campus and asked if the University should continue to sell plastic water bottles.

The survey, which also asked if anything prevents students

from using refillable bottles, was intended to improve the Office of Sustainability’s “Drink Local” campaign, according to Shana Weber, the director of the Office of Sustainability.

The “Drink Local” campaign provides tall spouts attached to water fountains around campus to fill water bottles.

Weber declined to say

whether there was a possibility of eliminating the sale of plastic bottles on campus, although she said that the Office of Sustainability is trying to change the University’s approach to water distribution.

“The Office of Sustainability is working in partnership with students, [Campus] Dining and the psychology See BOTTLES page 3

SPRING

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Flowers bloomed outside Blair Arch on Tuesday. See page 2 for a Spring on Campus photo spread.

By Katherine Oh staff writer

The Graduate Student Government held a forum on Tuesday to discuss the divestment referendum that the graduate student body will vote on from Wednesday through Friday.

Similar to the referendum that the undergraduate study body voted on last week, the graduate students’ referendum calls upon the trustees of the University and the Princeton University Investment Company to “divest from multinational corporations that maintain the infrastructure of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, facilitate Israel’s and Egypt’s collective punishment of Palestinian civilians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, or facilitate state repression against Palestinians by Israeli, Egyptian, and Palestinian Authority security forces, until these corporations cease such activities.”

The University should not benefit from the conflict in Israel, Kelly Roache GS said on behalf of Princeton Divests.

“The University’s current investment practices are inimical to Palestinian human rights, and it is incumbent upon us to end our complicity in that action and stand up,” Roache said.

While multinational corporations might participate in the Israeli conflict because of foreseeable profit, their involvement causes the average Palestinian to suffer, Alexander Berg GS, another represen-

tative of Princeton Divests, said.

Though students cannot know exactly which companies the University’s endowment is invested in, there are several known “economic ties” to companies like Caterpillar and Motorola, Roache said. She added that Caterpillar’s bulldozers have been involved in the destruction of Palestinian homes, while Motorola has also contributed to maintaining Israeli occupation.

On behalf of No Divest, Avital Ludomirsky GS said that since fear and violence are very real on both sides of the IsraeliPalestinian conflict, an open dialogue — rather than divestment — is necessary.

“It’s exciting that there’s so much political activism on campus now, more than when I was here [as an undergrad],” Ludomirsky said. “I think we should keep considering that dialogue is conducive to moving forward in peace processes.”

Divestment might change political morale but would not have a significant impact on corporations, Ludomirsky said.

Nevertheless, Roache pointed to the diversity of the coalition in favor of divestment, noting that groups like Students for Prison Education and Reform, the DREAM Team and various Christian fellowships have expressed their support for divestment.

Berg said that University students are not alone in See GSG page 5

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Spring on Campus

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department to develop a research-based approach that should significantly reduce bottled water usage on campus,” Weber said. “We are still in the process of working out the details of a multifaceted bottled water strategy with all our partners as part of developing Princeton’s Sustainability Plan 2.0.”

Reka Zempleni ’16, a project leader for the Office of Sustainability, said she is enthusiastic about the prospect of change.

She said that tap water is equally as good as, if not better than, bottled water.

“The Office of Sustainability is very concerned about this, but the thing is that they don’t want to force anything on the

student body,” Zempleni said.

“If it’s coming from the students, then they will help us make things change.”

Leigh Anne Schriever ’16 said she believes that the eventual goal should be to have zero sales of plastic water bottles on campus. Schriever is involved in the Princeton Sustainable Investment Initiative and Students United for a Responsible Global Environment.

Although the goal of selling no plastic water bottles is immense, making plastic water bottles not purchasable with late meal money would be beneficial to sustainability efforts, Schriever said.

“I think it’s a good idea, and I think it has a lot of support within the environmental groups on campus,” Schriever said about the total ban.

Zachariah DeGiulio ’18, co-

president of Greening Princeton, said that the debate over a ban on the sale of plastic water bottles was actually sparked by students working with Campus Dining, as opposed to the Office of Sustainability.

The ban that is being debated would also not affect the UStore, which is an independent organization, DeGiulio said.

“I think most of the people involved in the green groups agree that banning single-use water bottles would be extremely beneficial in promoting the use of refillable bottles on campus,” DeGiulio said.

Students interviewed who were not affiliated with environmental groups had differing perspectives on a potential ban on the sale of plastic water bottles.

Erin Nurre ’18 said she strongly opposes the purchase

of plastic bottles.

“I think that bottling water is one of the biggest scams that’s ever been invented, but we’re buying into it on every place on campus,” Nurre said. “Water is literally free, and the University offers so many water fill-up stations on campus that I just think it’s ridiculous that people spend $3 for a bottle of water and then throw the bottle out, not in a recycling bin.”

Trevor Klee ’15 said he thought the quality of sustainability initiatives could be improved in general.

“I mean they’re going to do what they’re going to do. I don’t know,” Klee said. “The sustainability initiatives get a little questionable sometimes, like with the plastic cups downstairs [in Frist Campus Center].

Is that really better than using plastic water bottles?”

SILENT SEX

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Professor Tali Mendelberg discussed her book, “The Silent Sex: Gender, Deliberation, and Institutions,” at a panel on Monday.

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students were choosing to take the survey as well as social media advocacy, drove the high response rate to the survey, Minter said. Creative reminders by the University may have also helped, she added.

“We tried, in putting together the publicity campaign, to stress the notion that we needed to hear all campus voices because it’s not possible to have a representative sense of what’s really going on around campus if the only people who respond are those who feel like this has direct relevance to them,” Minter said about what the University did to ensure that potential bias was eliminated. “The goal was to eliminate the potential non-response bias.”

If the University’s aim was to garner an understanding of the sexual misconduct climate on campus, getting a representative sample of students to respond to the survey is more important than getting a majority of students to respond to the survey, University of North Carolina at Greensboro social psychology professor and sexual assault researcher Jacquelyn White said.

White has conducted research

sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice on the risk factors of sexual assault and also criticized the methodology of the AAU survey earlier this year in an open letter signed with Georgia State University psychology professor and sexual assault researcher Sarah Cook.

“If there was anything in the method of recruiting students and putting things out there that encouraged certain students to respond and other students not to respond, then you don’t have a representative sample,” White said. “It seems like the University’s going to have to go back and, hopefully, they got enough demographic information that they can compare the demographics of students who responded to [the demographic of] their whole student body.”

In order to entice representatives from all groups to respond, White said she would recommend doing preliminary outreach to members of different races, clubs and sexualities to see what would make them want to respond to the survey.

“Given the context, that students were encouraging other students to complete the survey, I’d say that’s why you got to over 50 percent,” White said. “That’s a pretty good rate. The only way you can evaluate who’s in that sample, though, and how that compares to

who’s on your campus is [through] your survey.”

One of the biggest difficulties with conducting this type of survey is the type of people who are motivated to respond, Cook said.

Cook has also conducted research sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about sexual consent norms.

“There’s some general system that says that people who have complaints are more likely to answer surveys than people who don’t have complaints, but you won’t really know how that plays out in your survey until you look at the data,” Cook said.

She added that it is difficult to plan for how to represent the results of the survey, because how meaningful the results are depends on what one finds about the demographics of the sample after the survey is conducted.

“You have what you have,” Cook said.

The Office for Civil Rights, which mandated that the University conduct the so-called “climate check” as part of its resolution agreement with the University over allegations of violations of Title IX, and Vice Provost for Institutional Research Jed Marsh, who is analyzing the University’s data, did not respond to requests for comment.

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CORRECTION Due to a reporting error, an earlier version of the April 28 article, “Graduate students to vote on divestment referendum,” misstated the names of the pro- and antidivestment campaigns. They are Princeton Divests and No Divest, respectively. The ‘Prince’ regrets the error.

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pursuing divestment, since divestment campaigns have been gaining ground at other campuses, including those of Wesleyan University, New York University and the University of Pennsylvania.

Naima Hammoud GS said she wanted to debunk a few myths about divestment.

“People have insinuated that divestment is like taking sides as a university,” Hammoud said. “We are not. We already have investments in companies that are committing human rights violations.”

While some have suggested positive investment as an alternative, this alone is insufficient to bring about actual

change, Hammoud said.

A graduate student in the audience said that the referendum is not creating a new disagreement, since it does not have a binding consequence for the University and because this discussion would not be taking place at all if a disagreement did not already exist on campus. Instead, GSG will simply collect the numbers from the poll and present them to the Resources Committee of the Council on the Princeton University Community. “[GSG] will not push a particular interpretation,” GSG academic affairs chair Daniel Vitek GS said.

About 50 graduate and undergraduate students attended the forum.

Ludomirsky said the number of people who came to the

forum met her expectations.

“To me it’s a little disappointing that there aren’t more people who are interested enough to come out and listen to the conversations being had,” Ludomirsky said. “I also think it was pretty short notice.”

Roache said that she hopes the forum has increased student interest in divestment and encouraged them to vote.

“I’m actually thrilled that undergrads attended and took the time out of their days, because they’ve already cast their ballots,” Roache said. “To me that seems like a continued interest in perpetuating this dialogue on campus, and that’s deeply encouraging.”

The forum was moderated by Vitek and took place in Frist 302 at 5 p.m. on Tuesday.

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the hospital.

Officers from Public Safety went to the Princeton Junction train station in hopes of finding the suspect and members of the Princeton Police Department and West Windsor Police Department assisted, according to DeBlasio.

West Windsor Sergeant Michael McMahon said Public Safety requested his department’s aid at 2:19 p.m.

Sergeant Danny Mohr led WWPD’s efforts, according to a WWPD dispatcher who refused to identify himself.

McMahon deferred further comment to the Department of Public Safety, which deferred comment to the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office. Sergeant Steve

Riccitello, the Princeton Police Department’s public information officer, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Around 2:30 p.m., Murph was found and detained on Benford Drive, located in a West Windsor neighborhood called Benford Estates near the train station. He was taken into custody by West Windsor police, DeBlasio said.

She explained that after Public Safety processed Murphy, he was transferred to the Mercer County Correction Center in Hopewell, where he is currently being held.

There is no scheduled court date at this time, DeBlasio said.

Murph took credit-earning college courses through the University’s Prison Teaching Initiative in 2011 while incar-

cerated for the second time.

Two years later, the Office of Communications published a press release about the success of his rehabilitation.

When ref lecting on his experience in 2013, Murph said the University classes made him feel like a student, a feeling he appreciated while in prison. He credited the Prison Teaching Initiative with preparing him for an undergraduate career at Rutgers University and noted that education is necessary to propel forward.

Murph also spoke at a Center for Human Values panel of former inmates on April 19, 2013 as part of a conference on incarceration and communication. The event was held in McCormick 101.

Murph could not be reached for comment, as he was in a holding cell at press time.

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ecently, a “powerful” video highlighting the gender imbalance in the movie industry has been making rounds on social media. The 3-minute piece, produced by advocacy group The Make It Fair Project, rattles off statistic after statistic in an attempt to drive home the point that Hollywood is overwhelmingly male. The video’s main draw (and most likely the reason it’s gone viral over the past week or so) is the tone in which those facts are presented: it purports to highlight the “plight” of men in Hollywood, sarcasm dripping from every claim that only around nine-tenths of those in the limelight are male. The faux-uplifting, cutesy folk of the video’s chorus takes these statistics one step further to the absurd yet unfortunately almost inevitable conclusion many have drawn (whether seriously or, in this case, ironically) — that “it’s only fair that men should have it all.”

At first glance, the reasonable reaction to this seems to be a response of, “Yes, and…?”

I can’t help but find myself just a little bit annoyed by the surface-level stories on this video from sites like The Huffington Post and Jezebel, whose coverage pretty much amounts to agreeing wholeheartedly with the project’s message. Yes, of course men dominate Hollywood. We knew that in part because The New York Times, The Guardian, Buzzfeed, MSNBC and a whole slew of other news outlets have all covered that very topic in depth this past year. We knew that in part because of the related discussions on gender that this year’s #oscarssowhite movement spawned alongside the conversation on race.

Put simply, it’s not saying anything particularly groundbreaking to agree with the content of this video, and it smacks of laziness to view this video as a content-repackaging opportunity above all else.

However, what this superficial coverage fails to focus on is that the video actually accomplishes an important move in a new direction. Tucked into the end of the Jezebel story for three whole sentences, and not mentioned at all in the Huffington Post story, we find that the entire 70-plus-person cast behind this video — actors, writers, producers and everyone in between — was female. This, to me, seems huge. Not only is the #MAKEITFAIR video an indictment of the sexism of Hollywood, but it also takes tangible steps to combat that sexism. It’s one thing to complain about how terrible the misogynistic entertainment industry is, but it’s another thing altogether to actually create a concrete product that rallies around those without a powerful voice in that industry.

I bring what I view as the video’s main accomplishment forward because I want to be able to highlight what it does exceptionally right, something I feel was lost in the coverage of other blogs. I want to say this because I unfortunately see this kind of focus on message-above-all corrupted in other sites’ treatments of really cool new projects. In my experience, there’s typically something lost in translation when high-traffic commentary sites cover incredibly important issues of oppression embedded deep in our society. At some point, their think pieces and denouncements lose their meaning simply because they stop saying new things. Eventually, these sites fall victim to “preaching to the choir”: their pieces have no impact simply because everyone reading them already agrees with what they’re saying. And while this notion is true on a scale much larger than issues of oppression — we see this writ large with the increasing polarization of our news sources and, by extension, the one-size-fits-all political views which instantly follow — it’s especially noticeable when it revolves around that topic because articles dealing with deeply held bigotry tend to push less and less into constructive territory, instead opting for a “shallow but hyper-timely” format which accomplishes nothing except a small financial gain for those publishing the piece. Many of these articles don’t seem to be written in order to push forward radical new thinking or new forms of persuasion but because of precisely the opposite: because the idea is agreeable and easily shareable, the content seems worth writing.

However, in order to plow a new path through these issues, there’s a simple (if more time-intensive) solution: focus on not only what great new activism outlets are doing right, but also what they’re doing that’s new and exciting. In all this kerfuffle over how insightful or important the #MAKEITFAIR project is, we lose sight of what I think is the most important part of the video: it actually did something new. Its message is true, sure, but to me, it’s not so much about the message itself as it is about providing the appropriate vehicle for it. Lest we forget, it used its cultural power and production budget to actually create something out of the ordinary. It’s unfortunately uncommon to see anything like this project tread new ground, and as such we must celebrate the Make It Fair Project not only for what it said, but also for what it did.

Opinion

Wednesday april 29, 2015

Imani Thornton

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rowing up, I was kindly told that there are three things you never discuss in polite company: religion, money and politics.

I remember my parents telling me this at about age 12 in a matter-of-fact way and once again as a piece of advice before entering college. In the eight months since, I have mused over this piece of advice and, much to my parents’ potential disappointment, I find it difficult to follow.

Admittedly, we live in the age of the modern hipster, many of whom consider themselves to be independent contrarians (whether or not they wish to be labeled “hipster”). We defy older generations, at least on social media, in much the same way the hippies of the late 1960s vocally defied their Silent Generation parents.

However, since my time here, I have witnessed countless examples of this “hipster” culture falling flat. Unlike our parents, who likely grew up in the politically charged 60s and 70s, we avoid publicly discussing politics or religion at all costs. If Yik Yak’s response to the November campus protests are any indication, discussion of race outside Facebook posts and The Daily Princetonian articles is considered taboo. The few conversations I’ve had with

my peers concerning their economic statuses have often been stilted and awkward.

Yet, in ignoring these issues, we ignore the very factors that are determinants of how included we feel on campus.

Perhaps these are simply strides to respect the privacy of others. And one should never be forced to talk about issues that make them uncomfortable. But, while considerate speech plays a major role in the way in which traditionally underrepresented groups feel included on campus, that should not become an excuse to avoid discussion about our own religious and political affiliations, as well as the way in which we think about race and economic background.

When we do not discuss these topics, we allow them to fester. As uncomfortable as they are to discuss, these topics can inadvertently manifest themselves in harmful ways, usually in the form of false assumptions and stereotypes. In this “post-racial” and politically correct era, in lieu of offending, we often gain nothing from multiple and informed perspectives.

In saying this, impertinence is not something for which I am advocating.

“Hipster racism”, often characterized by ironic uses of derogatory names and cultural appropriation (as seen by Urban Congo), is the misguided way in which some navigate between political correctness and offense. Finding a line between political correctness and offensiveness is difficult

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but I think it is a challenge that we must not be afraid to face head on. Of course, this common call for action can become rather banal, so where are the solutions?

We can first begin by being unafraid to ask questions. If someone has a genuine question about something, it is okay to ask it. Contrary to popular belief, it is permissible not to know something. Offense is often created when the offender (intentioned or not) assumes his or her offensive act is, in fact, acceptable. At the same time, we are not encyclopedias. While we are here to learn from each other just as we are here to learn from our books, we also have a responsibility to look for knowledge via books, magazine articles and other mediums. Friends and classmates do not owe anyone answers, and if they do happen to entertain questions, this is a luxury and not a right. In finding a solution, we must not place an educational burden on our peers.

Finally, we must be willing to simply argue and discuss. It is difficult to change opinions, especially concerning such personal topics, but intellectual argument can be an informative experience and later taken and applied to other areas of discussion. Political correctness is only a burden if we hide behind the walls of our fear and misconceptions.

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Misleading and factually incorrect coverage of animal research at the University

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wo articles published recently in The Daily Princetonian contained factual inaccuracies and misleading information about research conducted with animals at the University. As the directors of two offices — Laboratory Animal Resources (LAR) and Research Integrity and Assurance (RIA) — that support the University’s research and educational programs, including laboratory animal research, we are writing to correct these errors.

In an April 13 news article “U. accused of violating Animal Welfare Act in marmoset monkey incident,” contributing reporter Cassidy Tucker presented inaccuracies about two marmoset monkeys that escaped from their primary enclosures. In the incident, which occurred in December of 2014, two animals sustained injuries as a result of a fight between one of the escaped marmosets and another inside its primary enclosure. A veterinarian promptly treated the injured animals. The news article erroneously reported that an “outside firm retained by the University” investigated the incident. In fact, the University’s Office of Laboratory Animal Resources conducted the investigation.

As a result, we changed several of our procedures, including modifying the current caging to more easily determine the security status of the doors, developing new procedures to facilitate transfer of marmosets to and from their home caging, training animal care staff and research personnel on these updates and identifying new caging for purchase. The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), a committee comprised of University scientists and non-scientists as well as members of the public, was informed throughout. As required by policy, the University reported the in-

cident to the Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW), a regulatory compliance office under the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This is standard procedure for such incidents. By following applicable regulations and reporting significant incidents, the University works diligently and transparently with federal agencies to ensure animal welfare.

The article also reported that Michael Budkie of Stop Animal Exploitation Now (SAEN), an animal activist organization, had filed a complaint with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). According to Tucker, the complaint sought penalties of $10,000 per infraction per animal. To investigate this we obtained a copy of the SAEN allegation to review the concern, which is available here: http://www.princeton.edu/ria/ animal-research-protectio/documents/ SAENLetter20150406.

The complaint, which improperly refers to Princeton as Purdue and chooses to ignore the prompt corrective actions undertaken by the University as described above and in the OLAW documents obtained via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by Budkie, does not seek fines against the University. The ‘Prince’ chose to publish the article before we had an opportunity to verify the facts with the USDA. Commenting on an unverified allegation would have been irresponsible, thus we chose not to provide a statement to the reporter at that time.

Shortly thereafter, on April 20, Courtney Buoncore and Gwyndolyn Goldfeder, in a ‘Prince’ opinion article entitled “Opaque transparency: What we (don’t) know about Princeton’s animal experimentation,” published additional misleading statements regarding research with macaques. This piece implied that the research conducted using animals on campus was somehow hidden from the student body and lacked transparency.

To illustrate the claim, the opinion piece focused on a study conducted by the laboratory of psychology professor

Asif Ghazanfar. This research is in fact described both on Ghazanfar’s website and in full detail in peer-reviewed scientific journals. The relevant article, describing Ghazanfar’s research on speech production and face/voice integration, was published in the Public Library of Science (PLoS) where it is freely available to the public: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih. gov/pmc/articles/PMC3182859/.

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Buoncore and Goldfeder described the macaques staring “for hours at a screen” when in fact, the paper describes behavioral sessions “spanning durations of 25 to 50 minutes.”

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The games in Ithaca did not go much better for the Tigers either, as they were blown out 10-0 in the first game and edged out 2-1 in the second game. The Tigers collapsed in the sixth inning in the first game, allowing six runs. Princeton’s offense was also stif led by Cornell’s starter Brian McAfee, who had a complete game shutout and only allowed four hits. Freshman infielder Asher Lee-Tyson had a 2-3 day.

In the nightcap, the Tigers wasted a fantastic pitching performance from junior

starter Luke Strieber as they could not muster enough offense and fell 2-1 to finish their season. Despite a home run from junior infielder Danny Hoy in the first inning, the Tigers were held scoreless the rest of the way.

Strieber threw a gem, allowing only two runs on five hits and struck out three in eight innings.

With a 1-3 weekend to end the season, the Tigers will look forward to next season with hopes of improving.

The team regressed this season from last, when they had a 8-12 Ivy League record and was 14-26 overall.

The Ivy League was dominated by three teams, as Columbia, Dartmouth and

Penn all went 16-4 in their 20 games this season. Cornell were one game away from going .500, finishing with a 9-11 record. However, Harvard, Yale, Brown and the Tigers must look to improve next season, with Harvard finishing 7-13, Yale and Brown finishing 6-14, and the Tigers finishing with a measly four wins this season.

However, there are many positives for the Tigers, as they will retain their core group of players next season. With dominant performances from the likes of Powers and Strieber this weekend, the Tigers have a lot to look forward to next season.

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team than the women’s. For the NCAA Men’s and Women’s Tennis Tournaments, a team that placed first in their conference automatically qualified for a tournament spot.

The women’s tennis team clinched their place in the tournament outright after becoming Ivy League champions. The men’s team, having placed fourth in the Ivy League, was more on edge.

Senior Ben Quazzo, however, said that looking at brackets from previous years, this Princeton men’s team had achieved a high enough ranking that their spot was reasonably secure.

“The at-large cutoff has normally been around 4243 [ranking],” Quazzo said.

“We were kind of stressed ... [but] when the final rankings came out, we all kind of knew

we were going to get a spot.”

While both teams will finish their seasons at the NCAA tournament, the two took rather different paths to get there. While the men’s team had a strong season overall, their momentum was certainly slowed by a threegame losing streak during league play, which all but cost them a chance at the Ivy League title. They did, however, right the ship with a road win against Cornell to end the season.

The women’s team, on the other hand, is riding the wave after a slow start to the season. When they started their matches over Spring Break, something appears to have clicked with this team. They won their last 8 of 10 matches in the regular season.

Senior Katie Goepel noted that the team wanted to keep these most recent performances in mind.

“We were hoping to con-

tinue the way we’ve been playing, [though] we didn’t have the greatest start to the season,” Goepel said. “We’re just trying to carry the momentum.”

Should these teams win their first two matches, their next trip will be to Waco, Texas for the Round of 16.

For both teams to get there, however, they must each play University of Virginia, who finished the season with no. 5-ranked men’s and no.

10-ranked women’s teams.

Despite this, both Goepel and Quazzo sound confident in their teams’ abilities to step up next weekend. “[Going into Tuesday] we knew that if we continued playing the way we had been playing, we would be fine no matter what,” Goepel said.

Quazzo expressed a similar sentiment about his team’s chances in the tournament: “There’s no reason we [can’t] do some damage.”

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4x400 was sufficient to qualify the team for the elite Championship of American Relays later in the weekend.

When the nation’s most elite runners converged upon the Championship of America Invitational, Princeton’s 4x400 team came prepared to compete. The team actually improved by a second to finish at 3:42.7. However, this time placed the Tigers at 8th place out of nine teams.

Similarly, the 4x1500 team of sophomores Megan Curham, Katie Hanss, Lizzie Bird and Zoe Sims also qualified for the Championship of America Invitational. The

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game opened with strong performances from the Tigers all around and RBIs from sophomore outfielder Marissa Reynolds, junior catcher Skye Jerpbak, sophomore catchers Kelsey Smith and Haley Hineman to put the Tigers up 4-2 after the third inning before the Tigers scored two more runs in the sixth innings to lead by four. Cornell scored in the bottom of the seventh, but Christian fended off the Big Red to clinch the win.

Game two was disappointing for the Tigers,

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Kip and some classic Canadian plays by MacDonald, including an underhanded scoop shot and a one-handed bounce pass assist while falling to the ground. It was a show of two great seniors continuing to do what they have done all season for the Tigers. The two highest scoring players on the team have shattered records this season, and play off of each other, as MacDonald has assisted a third of Orban’s goals this season.

The comeback fell short as Cornell rallied in the fourth, but it bodes well for this Friday when Princeton will face Cornell again in a rematch of 2013’s OT victory in the semifinals. Cornell remains a tough matchup for Princeton, perhaps the worst out of all three remaining teams, but Princeton has shown that it can outplay Cornell, at least in short intervals. The difficulty with Cornell is its face-off unit, as midfielder Domenic Massimilian is having the best season of his career. He ranks sixth in the nation and broke the Iv y

League Record for face-off percentage this year.

Cornell also runs hard with its first midfielders and gets most of its production from first string players, similar to how Princeton plays. If Princeton can run with its first line and compete on face-offs, the game should be an incredible one.

Look for the defense to key in on midfielder Connor Buczek, who put up four goals this weekend and led the Cornell charge.

The matchup will take place at 5 p.m. on Friday, May 1 in Providence, R.I. and will be shown on ESPNU.

possible.”

One of these athletes was freshman Mitchell Charles who finished 17th in the shot put at Relays but then went on to win first at the TCNJ Invitational.

Results aside, at the end of the day, for Rushton and the rest of the track and field team, this past weekend was an opportunity to grow and support each other. Rushton said, “Teams come from around the world so it broadens the spectrum of our competition… It was intense but everyone was pushing each other to do well. In the end, everyone helps everyone else do well.”

The team now looks forward to the Princeton Open this upcoming weekend.

Softball completes a solid season in second place behind Penn in the Ivy League South Division.

SOFTBALL

Men’s lacrosse dropped the chance to host the Ivy League title with an agonizing defeat to Cornell.

sophomore squad would go on to place 7th in its event.

On the men’s side, much of the team could not compete at the Penn Relays. Of those who could, senior Nana Owusu-Nyantekyi led the cohort with a third-place finish in the triple jump. OwusuNyantekyi’s jump of 15.65 meters was far enough to earn the senior a personal record.

Senior captain Scott Rushton, who also competed at the Relays, finishing 15th in the shot put, explained that for those who did not qualify for Penn Relays, the TCNJ Invitational was the next option. In fact, many of those who did compete at the Relays also competed at TCNJ to, as Rushton explained, “get as much exposure as

who led until the very end of the game before the Big Red scored three runs in the bottom of the seventh on a three-run home run from Tori Togashi to tie up the game and take it into overtime, where Cornell won in the eighth inning with three more runs off of a three-run walk-off home run from Cornell’s Michiko McGivney.

The second day saw the Tigers drop their first game 5-7 before rallying to win 3-1 in the afternoon. The Tigers scored the first two runs of the day in the third inning after Rendina singled home a double from freshman outfielder Kylee Pierce

before Worden batted Rendina home. The Tigers fell behind in the bottom of the fourth when the Big Red pulled ahead 6-2, but the Tigers didn’t give up and came within one point of Cornell.

But with another hit in the bottom of the sixth, Princeton wasn’t able to rally.

In the final game of the series the Tigers scored in the second inning after a Viggers double and Reynolds single and a pair of groundouts giving Hineman an RBI. The Tigers furthered their lead in the top of the seventh inning to 3-0 before Cornell attempted to rally, scoring one run, and the Tigers ended the game.

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TENNIS

Tigers end season in 2nd behind Penn

Both tennis teams secure NCAA spots

By Sydney Mandelbaum

By Miles Hinson

associate sports editor

sports editor

This week has been a big one for the Princeton women’s softball team, who finish their season ranked second in the Ivy League South Division. The Tigers (22-18 overall, 10-9 Ivy League) finished just behind Penn after winning one game against Yale and splitting two doubleheaders against Cornell last weekend.

The Tigers took on Yale last week in a face-off rescheduled after the first meeting was rained out. Junior pitcher Shanna Christian was on fire, coming within one out of Princeton’s first complete no-hitter in 10 years in an incredible showing that saw the Tigers win 2-0. The Tigers got on the board in the bottom of the first inning after a single from senior infielder/outfielder Rachel Rendina and a double from senior infielder Alyssa Schmidt allowed junior catcher Cara Worden to single home and junior first baseman Emily Viggers to hit a f ly that brought Schmidt home. Yale’s Rachel Paris got a hit in the bottom of the seventh inning before Christian got the third out of the inning off of a ground ball along the first-base line.

The twinbills against Cornell opened with a 6-3 Tiger win, but in the second game of the weekend the Tigers fell 7-10 after going into the bottom of the seventh inning leading 7-4. The

With the regular season now long behind them, both the men’s and the women’s tennis teams will now prepare for their ultimate goal: the NCAA Tournament.

On Tuesday evening, both the men’s team (19-7 overall, 4-3 Ivy League) and the women’s team (12-8, 6-1) found out their opponents in their respective NCAA tournaments, which commences Friday,

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Tigers fans will be able to watch both the men’s and women’s tennis teams in the NCAA Tournament.

May 8. The men’s team, who finished the season ranked no. 36 in the nation, will take on the Minnesota Gophers (20-7 overall, 10-1 Big 10). The women’s team, ranked no.

43 to end the season, will take on the South Carolina Gamecocks (14-10 overall, 6-7 Southeastern Conference).

While Selection Day is always a nerve-wracking experience for any team involved, it may have weighed a little more heavily for the men’s See TENNIS page 7

TRACK & FIELD

Tigers compete and succeed on two fronts

By Davud Liu staff writer

An annual national spectacle that attracts thousands of spectators, the Penn Relays showcase talent ranging from the high school to Olympic level. Through three heavy days of sprints, relays, throws and jumps, the 112th annual Penn Relays extended from last Friday to Sunday.

Princeton saw representation from both the men’s and women’s teams but the Tigers also devoted the second half of the weekend to competing at the TCNJ Invitational, a smaller scale competition compared to the relays.

Junior Julia Ratcliffe blew away the competition with a 66.31 meter throw to win her second title in the hammer throw, continuing to bring success to the Princeton team. At

the same time, junior Brielle Rowe marked a personal record this weekend, throwing 45.65 meters.

The women’s team also displayed a strong showing in the 5k event. All three of Princeton’s runners, junior Kathrn Fluehr, junior Kathryn Little and senior Erika Fluehr achieved personal records to place 11th, 21st and 24th, respectively, in the event.

Although already in late April, Penn Relays also offers the opportunity for the Ivy League schools to finally compete amongst each other and get exposure to major competition. This year, the 4x400 team of senior Jasmine Blocker, senior Joanna Anyanwu, senior Kim Mackay and junior Cecilia Barowkski placed second in the Heptagonals, behind only Cornell.

Princeton’s time of 3:43.93 in the See TRACK page 7

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With strong performances, the track and field teams impressed this past weekend.

BASEBALL

Baseball closes out season with 1-3 weekend against Cornell to finish 4-16

By Tom Pham associate sports editor

The Princeton baseball team (7-32 overall, 4-16 Ivy League) closed out the 2015 schedule after completing a four-game series against the Cornell Big Red (12-26, 9-11).

The first two games of the series were played at Clarke Field as the Tigers closed out their home schedule before both teams travelled to Ithaca, N.Y. to wrap up the regular season.

The Tigers edged out the first game by a score of 1-0 after a fantastic pitching performance from sopho-

more starter Chad Powers.

Powers went the whole seven innings and notched a complete game shutout, allowing only four hits and one walk, striking out two batters. The Big Red’s starter Kellen Urbon went toe-totoe with Powers, allowing only five hits while striking out six, but the Tigers scored a solitary run in the bottom of the six as junior third baseman Billy Arendt came through in the clutch to score senior catcher Tyler Servais.

The nightcap offered less success for the Tigers, who lost 13-4. The Big Red jumped

onto the Tigers’ pitchers early, scoring ten runs between the second and fourth innings. Cornell’s hitters dominated the Tigers’ pitchers, putting up 13 runs on 14 hits, and the Tigers’ four errors did not help out their pitchers either. The Tigers did manage to put up four runs, including a home run from sophomore right fielder Nick Hernandez in the third inning. Senior DH Mat DeNunzio finished the day with a 3-4 game with one RBI too, while sophomore left fielder Paul Tupper went 2-4 with a run.

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The baseball team completed a disappointing season in which they only managed seven wins in 39.

MEN’S LACROSSE

Men’s lacrosse loses to Cornell 15-10, splits Ivy League title with Cornell and Brown

By Grant Keating staff writer

The Princeton men’s lacrosse team fell to a strong Cornell team Saturday 10-15, splitting the Ivy League title with Cornell and Brown.

With the loss, Brown took possession of first place and will host the Ivy League

Tournament this weekend.

Cornell took second place and Yale rounds out the group in fourth.

The Tigers opened the game quickly, dominating time of possession and going up 5-0 with goals from senior attack Mike MacDonald, senior midfielder Kip Orban, junior attack Ryan

Ambler and sophomore attack Gavin McBride. The offense was clicking on all levels, moving the ball and getting open looks, going 50% on face-offs and holding Cornell to only three offensive possessions, all of which ended in saves by freshman standout Tyler Blaisdell. It was one of

Princeton’s better quarters, close to a perfect one.

However, Cornell somehow upped the Tigers in the second quarter, playing some of the best lacrosse I have ever seen. Cornell won 9-10 face-offs as face-off specialist Matt Schattner dominated, f lipping the game.

Cornell rattled off nine goals

in a row, all coming from its first line. It was Princeton’s longest scoring draught of the season, lasting 19 minutes from the first quarter to the third. Cornell outshot Princeton 25-4 in the quarter, and none of the Tigers’ shots were on the cage.

Princeton rallied with gritty play in the third

quarter, closing the faceoff gap with hard wing play on groundballs created by sophomore midfielder Zach Currier at the X, as he took over from freshman faceoff man midfielder Sam Bonafede. Orban and MacDonald powered the comeback, with hard shots from See M. LAX page 7

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