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Journalism course exposes students to trials of refugees

Wilson, Rockefeller college name new heads

By Rose Gilbert staff writer

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Jeremih will perform at the 2017 spring Lawnparties along with opener J.I.D on May 7.

Jeremih to headline Lawnparties

By Marcia Brown head news editor

J.I.D will open for Jeremih at the 2017 Spring Lawnparties, as announced by the Undergraduate Student Government Social Committee on April 6 at 9:30 p.m. Branded LWNPRTYS MMXVII, the picks were premiered in a video made available to the student body.

Chicago artist Jeremih is the 2015 iHeart Music Award winner, and is well-known for his hit single “Birthday Sex” and the more recent “Don’t Tell ’Em,” which was his third topten hit on the Billboard Hot 100.

“I’m absolutely thrilled,” Social Committee Chair Lavinia Liang ’18 said. “We wanted an artist who can cover multiple genres, which I think our headliner does.”

“We really wanted someone people can dance to and get excited about and get hyped about,” she added.

J.I.D, who originally hails

from Atlanta, Ga., just signed with J. Cole’s Dreamville Records label in February.

Additionally, the student artist choice is still up in the air, with applications for the student headliner competition called “Artist of the Year” closing tomorrow. Liang explained that general voting will take place next week, from April 10 to 14, with the winner being announced on April 17. The student headliner may perform on an alternate stage from Jeremih.

Liang added that more information regarding student wristbands and guest tickets will also come out next week.

The Social Committee will be staffing a table in Frist Campus Center starting tomorrow and running all through next week at which committee members will be raffling off Tshirts and signed Lawnparties posters. Merchandise such as shirts and stickers will go on sale next week.

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Former CIA director promotes “translucence”

By Ruby Shao news editor emerita

Espionage defends liberty by promoting national security, former Central Intelligence Agency director Michael Hayden argued in a lecture on Thursday.

“The secret pursuit of secret truth is not only compatible with, but essential to, American democracy,” he said.

Hayden directed the CIA from 2006 to 2009, and he also directed the National Security Agency from 1999 to 2005. As the principal deputy director of national intelligence, he represented the highest-ranking intelligence officer in the armed forces from 2005 to 2006.

Hayden explained that espionage reduces fear. Fear causes people to tread on the rights, freedoms, and privacies of others, and eventually themselves.

Therefore, security efforts deserve more credit.

“American espionage is as old as the republic,” he noted, saluting President George Washington as the nation’s first spy-

master.

The relationship between intelligence officials and any president of the United States fits a mold, Hayden said. Intelligence officials emphasize facts, deductive reasoning, pessimism, and the world as it is. Meanwhile, the president brings vision, inductive reasoning, optimism, and the world that Americans want.

“The CIA exists only to make the President wiser and more effective. Period,” he said.

According to Hayden, intelligence officials expected interactions to falter more than usual with President Trump, given the President’s known penchant for presuppositions. The President’s first security issue involved Russia’s interference in the United States presidential election. That problem grew when many Americans used the controversy over Trump’s victory to challenge his legitimacy as President-elect. It continues to wreak havoc even now, Hayden said.

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In the summer of 2016, the University launched a new five-week course in which six students traveled to Greece to report on the refugee crisis from its front lines, working as foreign correspondents. On April 5, the students sat down with an audience to talk about their experience in this capacity.

Over 30 people gathered in a meeting room in the Louis A. Simpson International Building to attend the panel discussion.

Sandra Bermann, University professor of comparative literature and the head of Whitman College, started the event by discussing different “narratives of migration,” artistic and political, that the media presents to the public.

She then introduced Joe Stephens, who is a Ferris Professor of Journalism in residence at the University and a veteran investigative journalist.

Stephens said that while teaching journalism at the University, he noticed that the “Orange Bubble ... was not a good place to be an eyewitness to history.” This realization drove him to help create a new kind of course that would allow students to engage with journalism more practically and intensely than was possible in classes. He noted that, due to its recent financial collapse and the influx of refugees from Syria, Greece “immediately came to mind” as the site of this new program.

Roughly a year before the program began, Stephens said he visited Lesbos, the Greek island closest to Turkey, to assess whether or not the island would be suitable and safe for a student trip. Stephens said that refugees had set up camps there in olive groves and on hillsides, supported by an unstructured but effective network of unaffiliated volunteers and NGO relief organizations.

Stephens planned to have students live and work alongside the refugees and volunteers while telling their stories. However, by early 2016, the EU-Turkey deal, which mandated that some refugees in Lesbos be sent back to Tur-

key, had come into effect, derailing Stephen’s vision for the course. Refugees became increasingly confined to formal camps, surrounded by barbedwire fencing and guards, he said.

In response to this sudden change, Stephens reorganized the course such that students would only stay in Lesbos for a week before moving on to Athens. He praised his students’ flexibility and composure in this, noting their ability to see through the “fog of the situation” to find a story worth telling.

Not all of the students initially felt confident in their ability to find and report on a specific, significant narrative.

Iris Samuels ’19 said she was “shocked and uncertain” when she first arrived in Greece.

However, she said she quickly decided to focus on refugee children’s education in Greece.

She presented the room with an image of an empty, fullystocked classroom in Greece, and she noted that although the United Nations had provided school supplies and furniture, the classroom remained unused when she visited — there was no teacher.

Samuels, a former columnist for The Daily Princetonian, is also a recipient of the McAfee Award for independent journalism, which allowed her to travel to Turkey and Bulgaria and to continue reporting on the refugee crisis after the course ended.

Hayley Roth ’17, who also focused on education in her investigation, said that she was “struck by the dichotomies” that existed between the Greece she saw as a tourist and the Greece she saw while speaking with refugees. Roth captured these dichotomies in photos, comparing the view of the Acropolis from her hotel to the abject conditions of the refugee camps.

These weren’t the only tensions, Ally Malkovich ’17 explained. She noticed the tension caused by religious differences between largely Muslim refugees and overwhelmingly Greek Orthodox locals. She explained that there was another reality besides that of Greek hospitality, and she noted the rise of antiSee GREECE page 3

IMAGE BY IRIS SAMUELS

Students in the journalism class visited this makeshift refugee camp in the Port of Piraeus near Athens.

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2 p.m.: Yan Bennett of the Princeton U.S. China Coalition will give a talk “Legal Reform Under Xi Jinping” at 2 p.m. Friday, April 7, in East Pyne Hall, Room 010.

By Allie Spensley staff writer

Professor of Religion AnneMarie Luijendijk and Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Clancy Rowley ’95 have been named the new heads of Wilson and Rockefeller Colleges. The professors were selected by Dean of Undergraduate Students Kathleen Deignan, Senior Associate Dean of the College Claire Fowler, and Dean of the College Jill Dolan through an application process open to all full professors, Dolan wrote in an email.

Luijendijk joined the University faculty in 2006 after receiving her doctorate from Harvard Divinity School. She specializes in the social history of early Christianity and is an associated faculty member in the Department of Classics and the Programs in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Hellenic Studies, Judaic Studies, and Medieval Studies. She also serves on Executive Committees in the Council of the Humanities, Iranian and Persian Studies, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, the Program in the Ancient World, and the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies.

Luijendijk said she has been interested in becoming a college head since she began teaching at the University.

“I really enjoy engaging with Princeton students, and I like teaching in the classroom, but my philosophy of teaching is that teaching doesn’t only happen in the classroom,” Luijendijk said. “That really appeals to me, the opportunity to meet wonderful young people, and also to forge new and different connections between faculty and students, because we’re all in the business of learning and enjoying each other’s company.”

Luijendijk said her experiences of traveling and dining with students have also contributed to her interest of becoming a college head.

“I really believe in meals as places where wonderful conversations can take place,” she explained. “Once you know each other better, then you can know who to approach if you have a question about something. We’re about creating diversity and [about] knowing somebody’s story instead of just seeing them from a distance,” she said.

Luijendijk anticipates that her first step as college head will be to “begin having conversations with the staff and with the students about what they think is important for the college.”

She said that one aspect of Wilson College that appealed to her was the social activism at its roots. Wilson is the only residential college founded by students, inaugurated in the late 1950s as an alternative to exclusive eating clubs.

“What I really like about Wilson is the history of social justice,” Luijendijk said.

“That’s definitely a vision that I think is very important.”

Luijendijk added she was looking forward to meeting students by inviting them to See HEADS page 2

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her house for dinner and via conversations in the dining hall. She was also excited for students to meet her husband and four children.

Rowley received an undergraduate degree from Princeton in 1995 and a doctoral degree from Caltech in 2001, both in mechanical engineering. He joined the University faculty as an assistant professor in 2001 and was appointed associate professor in 2007 and full professor in 2012. Currently, Rowley is an associated faculty member in the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics and the Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering. His research focuses on reduced-order models suitable for analysis and control design.

Rowley has also served as director of graduate studies in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering since 2015 and has been a faculty fellow of Whitman College since 2007 and of Rockefeller College from fall 2001 to spring 2007.

“Since I was an undergraduate here, I feel strongly about

the undergraduate experience.

I think the residential colleges are a great way to build community amongst the undergraduates,” Rowley said.

Rowley said that his experience serving as a freshman adviser contributed to his interest in becoming a college head. “I see that as being a big role of the college head, to welcome new freshmen into the colleges,” he said.

“I want to make sure that Rocky is a welcoming community for everybody, [where] everybody can feel like it’s a safe home and a place where they can have open conversations without feeling like they’re being judged or threatened,” Rowley said. “I want it to feel like home for the people who are in Rocky.”

Although Rocky is a twoyear college, Rowley said that one of his goals as college head is to increase interaction between the college’s upperclassmen and underclassmen. He thinks it would be beneficial for both seniors and new freshmen to meet.

“I would love to think about ways to bring juniors and seniors back to Rocky and be more engaged in the community,” Rowley said.

“One thing I’m excited about is involving my family in the

college,” Rowley added. “I’ve got a wife and two young kids, a nine-year-old boy and a seven-year-old girl, and they’re really looking forward to it.

I think they’re going to love coming to Rocky and eating with the students.”

In an email to the ‘Prince,’ Dolan wrote that she expected Rowley and Luijendijk to excel as college heads “because they bring a perfect mix of scholarly vitality and personal warmth and engagement to this new commitment.”

“In our conversations with them as we moved through the vetting process, Clancy and AnneMarie appeared full of ideas and creativity, and demonstrated genuine curiosity about the past, present, and future of Wilson and Rocky Colleges,” Dolan said. “Their commitment to building our residential college communities is exciting and admirable.”

Rowley will succeed Jeff Nunokawa, a professor in the Department of English who has served as the head of Rocky since 2006. Luijendijk will succeed Eduardo Cadava, a professor in the Department of English who has served as Wilson’s head since 2009. Both new heads will begin their four-year terms on July 1.

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deteriorating. The former CIA director argued that, lacking democracy, Russia has a colonial economy colonized by other Russians, where the elite exploit declining nonrenewable resources like oil and gas. The population, Hayden added, is also dropping because of a low birth rate and high mortality rate. Violence, traffic accidents, and substance abuse mark the leading causes of death for Russian men.

In addition, Hayden mentioned that Russian President Vladimir Putin has also attempted to redress Russian historical grievances, including in the Ukrainian territory of Crimea, in a desperate bid to salvage his reputation. To obtain domestic validation, Hayden added, he needs to instill pride in Russians — hence his opposition to the EU, support for Brexit, hostility to NATO, and other attempts to demean Western institutions, Hayden explained.

Moving forward, he reiterated that U.S. intelligence agencies must grow not more transparent, but rather more translucent. Translucence reveals the outline of affairs without the operational details, he said.

“To be successful, we all need to be two things: secretive and powerful. And we exist inside

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a political culture that’s frightened and stressed over two things: secrecy and power,” Hayden noted, recounting his words from when he directed the NSA. Hayden’s experiences have made him a supporter of whistleblowing, he said.

“Whistleblowing is good, because by definition, a whistleblower is blowing a whistle on something that should not be done,” Hayden said. “A true whistleblower who courageously stands up and points out something that’s inconsistent with law or policy — you’ve got to have that.”

Yet he cautioned that the public often uses “whistleblower” to describe anyone who exposes what they dislike. For example, Edward Snowden labeled himself a whistleblower, even though his leaks concerned conduct that was perfectly legal.

Hayden criticized such “disclosures of massive amounts of information by someone who has stolen them.”

Hayden added that the emergence of a whistleblower signals trouble within an organization, which must lack internal channels for resolving concerns.

Titled “American Intelligence in the Age of Terror,” the lecture was sponsored by the Wilson School and took place at 4:30 p.m. on April 6. The audience filled the Dodds Auditorium at Robertson Hall.

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immigrant, neo-Nazi political groups in the area.

Renowned journalist Deborah Amos, concluding the event, spoke about her 30-year career in journalism, which she spent reporting on a wide variety of immigration waves.

Now, aside from teaching at the University, Amos reports on the Nassau Presbyterian Church’s efforts to welcome immigrants. She added that it is important to report on immigrants as individual, human “survivors” rather than as “nameless, faceless bogeymen,” or as victims incapable of contributing to society.

Louise Sandberg, an attendee of the panel, is the cultural orientor at Interfaith Rise, an organization focused on pro-

viding immigrants and refugees with housing, jobs, and support. Sandberg said that she liked to stay informed about the University’s interaction with the refugee crisis, and she added that she hoped the University would become more involved in helping immigrants and refugees who have resettled nearby.

Other attendees were motivated by personal background to attend, including University Professor of Philosophy Alexander Nehamas ’71, who is from Greece. The professor felt motivated to attend in order to support his colleagues, and he noted that he was also interested in the subject.

Though Nehamas praised the students as good journalists, he emphasized that stories about migration always have two sides: “the story of the refugees and the story of

the locals who have to deal with a huge influx of people who don’t know how to integrate themselves.” He added that Greece’s financial crisis made it difficult for the government to provide adequate support to the refugees, and he noted that it was politically inviable for politicians to spend on aid when they had “hungry voters.” Nehamas said that presentation photos also didn’t show how ugly the conditions were, stressing the importance of accurately portraying these conditions.

The panel discussion, titled “The Refugee Crisis: Reporting on the Front Lines in Greece — and New Jersey,” was sponsored by the PIIRS Research Community. The discussion took place at 4:30 p.m. in Simpson 144.

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Reforming the room draw process

he last two weeks have been a flurry of excitement as students participate in room draw, selecting where and with whom they will be living for the next academic year. However, room draw can often be incredibly stressful, as freshmen have no experience with the process and sophomores and juniors are choosing between the various upperclassmen housing and meal plan options. For a more efficient and satisfactory room draw experience, the Editorial Board calls for University Housing and Real Estate Services to better publicize information on all aspects of room draw, allow mutual swapping of draw times within a two-hour window, clarify Housing’s online room blueprints, and revise the shared meal plan policy.

First, the Board calls for better publicity of information on all aspects of room draw.

While the Housing website is quite useful, it would be beneficial if Housing sent out additional emails or notifications broadcasting the material found there. This would be particularly helpful for topics such as the proxy system, which causes confusion for many students, especially freshmen who have never been through the room draw process. An email sent after draw

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n a recent series of op-eds in The Daily Princetonian, a colleague of mine, Jacquelyn Thorbjornson ’19, and I have been exchanging arguments surrounding the issue of bias in news coverage. Both guest contributor Alis Yoo ’19 and I have rebutted Thorbjorson’s original piece. I believe the points made in both my piece and Yoo’s are still valid and remain largely unanswered. Thorbjornson argues that an alleged rape by undocumented immigrants in Rockville, Md., should be the subject of national outrage. Whereas Thorbjornson sees a liberal conspiracy to suppress truth, I see local news and good reporting.

Thorbjornson’s response to my original rebuttal confuses the issue and makes an appeal to the alleged sexism of my rebuttal. Just like her original piece, her response relies on a weak contention, attempting to justify a false equivalency. She contends that an article in The Guardian and an article in the New York Daily News on the case of Brock Turner constituted a significant amount of national news coverage before the victim’s testimony was made public. Two articles are not national outrage. Her account of events also conveniently ignores the string of similar controversial

times are released, clearly outlining how the proxy system works and whom it applies to, would be helpful. Moreover, more emails containing important dates regarding room draw would also promote clarity and reduce stress in the process.

Because room draw occurs when classes are regularly scheduled, many students encounter time conflicts. They may skip class or other commitments to draw a room.

Changing the time range of room draw to a later time that would conflict with fewer classes would force the Housing staff to work overtime as well as conflict with athletes’ and others’ extracurricular practices. Instead, the Board proposes the option for students to swap draw times with another draw group within a two-hour window, one hour before and one hour after their initial draw time. With this option, students will have more flexibility in solving scheduling issues while maintaining academic performance by staying attentive in class.

Furthermore, the Board advocates for more clarity and consistency in terms of Housing’s online room blueprints, specifically through clearer indication of room occupancy numbers and bathroom gen-

der in the blueprints. Currently, there are floor plans for all living spaces at the University, but these plans often vary in quality, some containing more information than others. For instance, Witherspoon Hall’s floor plans include details such as room occupancy, while Walker Hall lists only the room number. Room occupancy for every available room can be found on a separate room selection page, but we believe it would be more convenient and less confusing if that information were directly placed on the blueprints. Students would not have to continuously switch back and forth between pages to find out if a dorm was a single or a double, for example. Additionally, the Board recommends including the gender of bathrooms on all floor plans, which will allow students to view the closest restroom and choose rooms accordingly.

The Board’s final suggestion relates to revising the shared meal plan policy. With the availability of more dining options, students should be equipped with enough information to understand which plan works best for them.

Shared meal plans are one option that should be explained more thoroughly. In addition, we believe that the maximum

Searching for demons sexual assaults on college campuses that would sensitize media to other similar cases. This is just one of the many clear differences between the Turner case and the case Thorbjornson wishes to put into national conversation.

Thorbjornson’s second and more incendiary contention is largely an attack on my journalistic integrity for making what she believes to be “ad hominem attacks on my argument” by calling into question her choice of this particular case. Alleging a bias without evidence would be ad hominem, but that is clearly not what occurred. I reiterate: Why should this particular piece of local news be brought to the national conversation? Having still given no reason why this particular case should be national news when so many other cases of sexual assault are not, I must again call into question Thorbjornson’s original argument. The difference between Rockville and any other local case rests on the identity of the accused. Thorbjornson could have answered in a single sentence. Instead she chose to repeat that Rockville should be an outrage on the national level simply because it is a case of sexual assault. Tautology does not a reason make.

She then, using what by her standard is an ad hominem attack, decries my title — not the

substance of my contentions — for what comprises the rest of her piece. She alleges that the title of my response piece, “Becky with the Bad Bias,” was misogynistic. A general misunderstanding of this title has caused some confusion for multiple readers. I may have misjudged the degree to which the phrase referenced in my title had reached the mainstream and would like to clarify for the record.

The phrase “Becky with the Good Hair” has taken on meaning outside of the context of a Beyoncé song. As explained by Emma Pettit for the Chronicle of Higher Education, “‘Becky with the good hair’ became a succinct phrase on the internet to call out white privilege.”

That meaning was further politicized in the Fisher v. Texas case regarding one student’s challenge to affirmative action, as the hashtag #beckywiththebadgrades took off on Twitter.

More recently, #beckywiththepinkhat exploded as people criticized the lack of intersectionality at the Women’s March.

The phrase “Becky with the ‘adjective noun’” has become a rallying cry to expose subtle and at times overt racism at large, even within feminist movements. Thorbjornson’s column is either unaware or willfully ignorant of this and dismisses the voices of people of color by

number of shared meal plans allocated to each eating club should increase, because such plans are quite popular and allow students to stay connected to a residential college community while still experiencing an eating club. By implementing this proposal, more students in eating clubs would have the option to draw into four-year residential colleges, which are only open to those with University meal plans.

Lastly, the Board encourages Housing to implement a feature on the Housing website to see the remaining number of shared meal plans available in real time, as they do with rooms.

Room draw can be quite stressful, and the Board encourages the University to consider these recommendations to make it more efficient and enjoyable.

Connor Pfeiffer ’18 recused himself from the writing of this editorial.

The Editorial Board is an independent body and decides its opinions separately from the regular staff and editors of The Daily Princetonian.

The Board answers only to its Co-Chairs, the Opinion Editor, and the Editor-in-Chief. It can be reached at editorialboard@ dailyprincetonian.com.

distilling the phrase to a Beyoncé lyric alone. She rhetorically asks in her response if I would have chosen that title if she were a man, and if it would still be relevant. The title is not only relevant, but pointedly so with regards to the still unanswered contention about the identities of the accused in Rockville.

The feminism that would scapegoat immigrants in this case, without giving compelling reasons, is not my feminism. The feminism so unaware of its interaction with status and race is not my feminism. The feminism that would exploit a young girl’s story, without her having any say in it, is not my feminism. Thorbjornson’s feminism is not my feminism.

My title has little to do with gender and everything to do with Thorbjornson’s argument’s profound lack of awareness about racial issues. Thorbjornson laments that this dialogue has become about the authors; that applies on only one side here. Just like her search for bias in reporting on Rockville, Thorbjornson is again searching for a demon where there is none.

Ryan Chavez is a sophomore from Arcadia, Calif. He can be reached at rdchavez@princeton.edu.

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Men’s tennis set for Ivy League season kickoff against Cornell and Columbia

By Owen Tedford staff writer

With two weeks of rest since its last match during spring break against the University of California, Santa Barbara, the men’s tennis team (10-9 overall, 0-0 Ivy League) is getting ready to start its Ivy League play this weekend.

Princeton will be looking to improve upon last year’s 2-5 season, when the team earned a sixth-place finish.

This weekend, the Tigers will play two tough opponents as they travel to Cornell (15-3, 0-1) on Friday for a 2 p.m. match and come home to face Columbia (12-3, 1-0) on Sunday at 1 p.m. Both of these teams are ranked in the Top 25 of the ITA Division I Collegiate Rankings, ranked at No. 24 and No. 22 respectively; the teams are the only Ivy League teams to have this honor at this point in the season. Each team also has a marquee win: then-No. 7 Oklahoma for the Big Red and current No. 9 TCU for the Lions.

When Princeton travels to Ithaca on Friday, both Princeton and Cornell will be looking for their first Ivy League win of the season; while the Tigers will look to get their season off to the right start, the Big Red will look to put last week’s loss

to Columbia behind them.

Cornell has been unbeatable at home so far this season, going 7-0. In addition, two of its three losses so far this season have come against the Lions.

The Big Red is led by David Volfson, who came into the spring season ranked just outside of the Top 100. He was last year’s Ivy League Rookie of the Year, and he is also the lone returning First-Team All-Ivy selection. Chris Vrabel is another strong player for Cornell and will be feeling confident after having won the ITA Northeast Regional singles championship. Most likely it’ll be up to senior Tom Colautti, a Second-Team AllIvy selection last year, to face Volfson, and for junior Luke Gamble, another Second-Team All-Ivy selection, to face Vrabel.

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In addition, when Columbia comes to the Cordish Family Pavilion and Lenz Tennis Center on Sunday afternoon, watch out for Shawn Hadavi and Victor Pham, ranked No. 55 and No. 113 at the end of the fall season. The Lions also have strong doubles players who achieved an all-Columbia final at the ITA Northeast Regional doubles final. This strong pair should create an

exciting matchup against the nation’s No. 25 doubles team in Princeton’s Gamble and senior Alex Day. The Lions began their hunt for their fourth straight Ivy

League title well, with a 4-1 win over the Big Red. The team will also face Penn (136, 0-0) on Friday before traveling to Princeton.

The Tigers will sure to be

tested in this first weekend of Ivy League play against what seem to be the Ancient Eight’s top two teams, based on their successes prior to conference play.

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Men’s tennis will face Cornell and Columbia on Friday and Sunday in their first Ivy League matches of the spring season.

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Women’s lacrosse aims to secure fourth consecutive Ivy League title

By Audrey Spensley staff writer

The Princeton women’s lacrosse team is poised to secure its fourth consecutive Ivy League title this spring. With a record of 8-1 overall, 2-0 Ivy, and a strong legacy of success, the team has built great momentum going into the second half of the sea-

son.

“One of our team’s biggest strengths is that we have a lot of depth,” senior defender Madeline Rodriguez said. “We have a lot of players across the entire field who can come in and step up in big games when we need them to.”

The team has been putting in hard work throughout the sea-

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With the leadership of Olivia Hompe, Madeline Rodriguez, and Ellie DeGarmo, the women’s lacrosse team will open their Ivy League season on Saturday against Harvard at 1 p.m. at Sherrerd Field.

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son, opening its season with a huge 19-3 win over Temple University and proceeding to win four more consecutive games.

After a single loss to Penn State over spring break, the team rallied for three more consecutive wins.

According to Rodriguez, the team’s depth has been a major factor in its success this season, with many returning players and a strong freshman showing strong performances.

The number of returners has also benefited the team’s chemistry.

“We all really love playing together, and that’s an intangible factor that has really helped,” Rodriguez said.

“We definitely have good chemistry,” senior goalie Ellie DeGarmo said. “We work so well on the field because of our bond off of the field.”

Individual performers have also played a large role in the Tigers’ impressive season. DeGarmo was named the best goalie in the nation last year after receiving the C. Markland Kelly Division I Goalkeeper of the Year Award at the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association All-American Banquet; she now serves as the backbone of the team’s strong defense. Rodriguez has also been dominant on the defensive side; this week, she was named the Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week.

On the offensive side, All-

American senior Olivia Hompe has demonstrated an impressively high scoring rate throughout the season, currently holding the second most scores in the Tigers’ history. She was also selected to play for the English national lacrosse team after completing training visits in September and January. Freshman Tess D’Orsi has also been scoring very frequently.

Along with strong team chemistry comes a competitive attitude that is even more focused than it has been in previous years, both Hompe and DeGarmo agreed.

“Our senior class brings a lot of talent,” Hompe said. “But also I think it’s a sort of a culture shift.

We all buy into the team and buy into the same goals for success.”

“Top to bottom, our team is really cohesive and motivated,” she noted.

“This year in general we’ve held each other more accountable, even just in the workouts leading up to the season,” DeGarmo added.

Not only have practices become more game-like, DeGarmo said, but the team is also clearly focused on a single goal: to go as far in their season as they can.

The regular season Ivy League champion is determined by the team’s record; the teams with the four best records will compete in the Ivy League Championship at the end of the season. Winning that championship grants

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the team an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

“We’re aiming to win the Ivy championship, which I think we have a really great shot [at],” Rodriguez said. “Beyond that, we are sure looking to win the tournament and get the automatic bid to the NCAA.” One challenge is the competitiveness of the entire Ivy League this year. Rivals Penn (8-2, 3-0) and Cornell (8-1, 1-1) have both had strong seasons and, like Princeton, are ranked in the Top 10 nationally.

“It’s really good for the Ivy League that so many teams are doing so well,” Hompe said. “It’s a really competitive conference and that’s been a great thing for the League thus far. The games coming up are going to be really intense.”

The Tigers will face Penn and Cornell in away games on April 19 and 22, respectively.

Hompe noted that there are many expectations resting on the Tigers, and the senior class in particular, to earn their fourth consecutive Ivy League title, which has only happened once before in the program’s history.

Ultimately, the well-prepared team members believe their confidence and training will pay off.

“I think performing in the moment and executing will be important,” Hompe said. “The coaches do a really great job of preparing us mentally.”

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