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Fire on twelfth floor of Fine Hall extinguished Saturday around midnight

By Benjamin Ball Head News Editor

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As a result of the Saturday night fire, classes will not be held in Fine Hall on Monday and Tuesday.

A fire broke out in Fine Hall around midnight Saturday. According to a campus alert by the Office of Communications, the fire was contained to one classroom on the 12th floor and was quickly extinguished by the sprinkler system.

Classes will not be held in the building Monday and Tuesday, according the Office of Communications.

Affected students and faculty members will be further notified by email.

A section of Washington Road was closed early Sunday morning. Fine Hall was also closed for workers to clean up the water damage.

The Office of Communications reported that the fire department and University officials are “inves-

tigating the cause of the fire and assessing damage.”

A firefighter from the Princeton Fire Department was taken to the hospital and later released. No one else was hurt, according to the Office of Communications.

Other agencies responding to the fire included Kingston Fire Company, Lawrence Road Fire Department, Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office, Plainsboro Fire Company, Princeton Fire Marshal, Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad, and West Windsor Emergency Services. From the University, responders included the Department of Public Safety, the Facilities organization, Site Protection, and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Emergency Services.

STUDENT LIFE

Shabbat controversy divides Jewish community over attitudes toward Israel

By Zack Shevin Assistant News Editor

Due to controversy over attitudes surrounding Israel, the night of Friday, April 5 presented the campus Jewish community with a choice between two Shabbats: Israel Shabbat, put on

by Israel advocacy group Tigers for Israel (TFI), and #NotOurShabbat, a retaliatory event run by the Alliance of Jewish Progressives (AJP).

The Israel Shabbat was part of the Center for Jewish Life’s Israel Week, designed to “celebrate Israel as a Jewish and democratic state” through a week of events, including a “Hummus Making” event, an “Israeli Snacks Study Break,” and an “Israeli Elections Watch Party.”

Israel Shabbat attendees

wined and dined on a wide array of Israeli items, including beef kabab, chicken shawarma, baba ghanouj, and an Israeli salad. The CJL Dining Hall was draped with blue and white balloons, Israeli flags, and photos of University students in Israel. The CJL was packed for the event — both the Dining Hall and Wilf Hall were almost entirely full.

However, the CJL’s event generated controversy as AJP’s leaders felt it failed to acknowledge Israel’s occupation of the West Bank or mention Palestinians.

The AJP recognized TFI’s right to hold events in the CJL in an open letter, but felt that Israel Shabbat in particular violated a common space by holding the event in the main dining hall.

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Last Friday, two Shabbats were held less than 400 feet apart, split over attitudes toward Israel.

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The Office of the Dean of Faculty released updated policies to prohibit all nonpreexisting romantic and sexual relationships between faculty and graduate students on Monday, April 1.

In an announcement to University faculty on April 2, headlined “New policy regarding consensual relations with students,” Dean of the Faculty Sanjeev R. Kulkarni wrote, “Under the new policy approved at the faculty meeting yesterday, all sexual and romantic relationships between faculty members and graduate stu-

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dents are prohibited, paralleling the policy already in place for undergraduate students.”

Previously, the policy, which can be found in Chapter V.C. Consensual Relations with Students in the University’s Rules and Procedures of the Faculty, stated that faculty-graduate student relationships were only impermissible when the faculty member had advising, instruction, or supervisory responsibilities over the graduate student.

Kulkarni noted that no one specific event led to this change.

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Contributing columnist Khadijah Anwar discusses the history of gender inequality on campus and offers suggestions, while guest contributor Micah Herskind asks administrators to recognize “the Box” as racist.

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Many of AJP’s members depend on the CJL for their Shabbat dinner each week, and, according to AJP President Rafi Lehmann ’20, TFI’s co-opting of Shabbat made some AJP members uncomfortable.

Prior to Friday, over one hundred students agreed with Lehmann and signed AJP’s open letter, pledging not to attend Israel Shabbat.

About 50 students boycotting Israel Shabbat attended #NotOurShabbat in Campus Club, less than 400 feet away from the CJL. Students ate challah, donated by some members of the Pink House Co-op, as well as falafel, salad, and hummus from Mamoun’s Falafel and Bistro 70, a kosher restaurant in New Brunswick.

Leading up to Shabbat, CJL and AJP leaders explored possible solutions to the dilemma, like moving Israel Shabbat to “overflow” space in the CJL’s Wilf Hall, but were unable to come to a compromise.

Addressing Israel Shabbat attendees on Friday night, CJL Student Board President Gabriel Swagel ’20 said that it had been a challenging week for the CJL community and for him personally.

“But we all are one community, and, as it has been for me over the past three years, the CJL remains a home for all Jewish students on campus,” Swagel said. “Tonight, I encourage you all to engage with people who hold different political opinions than you do, and to remain friends with these individuals through disagreement.”

TFI President Noa Zarur ’21 also spoke at the event about Israel Week and the controversy involving TFI and the AJP. “The goal of Israel Week has been to celebrate Israel in many different facets, including technology and culture, and also to engage in learning about the current political climate,” she said.

Zarur emphasized that TFI is local to Princeton and unaffiliated with any national advocacy organizations. She said that TFI’s membership holds a wide range of political perspectives.

“This week was upsetting because it shed light onto the fractures in our community,” Zarur added. “I am committed to giving it my all to help heal this, and I hope you’re all willing to do the same.”

Zarur did not respond to a request for comment from The Daily Princetonian.

The event also included a speech from CJL Israel fellow Tair Goldbarsht, who discussed her time serving in the Israeli Defense Forces and her complex relationship with Israel.

Additionally, Daniel Kurtzer, a professor of Middle Eastern studies at the University and a former U.S. ambassador to Israel, held a discussion over dinner, and Shabbat-goers were invited to a performance by Israeli comic Joel Chasnoff, which took place in the CJL’s Feinberg Hall.

Meanwhile, at #NotOurShabbat, Lehmann ex-

plained why the AJP chose to host the event.

“The CJL was claiming, and is continuing to claim, that [Israel Shabbat] is apolitical,” Lehmann said, a claim that he disagrees with due to his personal experience learning about Israel growing up.

Lehmann spent the first eighteen years of his life in what he called “orthodox, religious Zionist institutions,” where he learned a lot about Israel and was told that his education was apolitical. He noted an eerie similarity between TFI’s Israel Week events and his childhood education.

“We would celebrate hummus and falafel, which was apolitical. We would dance to Israeli club music, which was apolitical,” he said. “After sixteen years in these institutions and in this community, after all of this ‘apolitical’ education, I did not know that the occupation [of the West Bank] existed.”

After Lehmann spoke, event attendees sang the traditional Kiddush and ate, among other things, hummus and falafel.

“I spoke with almost everyone who came, and everyone seemed to be having a wonderful time,” Lehmann said. “The food was good, the turnout was good, the space was perfect.”

Still, Lehmann said that many of the AJP’s members were deeply hurt by Swagel’s letter to the editor, which Lehmann felt demonized the AJP. “It’s one thing to defend the CJL’s actions but, as a representative of the CJL, to demonize a significant fraction of the Jewish community was inappropriate and unnecessary,” Lehmann said.

Swagel did not respond to a request for comment by the time of publication.

The AJP’s letter to the editor criticized the CJL, but Lehmann noted that AJP leaders made it clear whose opinions were represented, through the use of “‘I’ and ‘We’ statements,” so as to avoid casting moral judgements. Additionally, Lehmann claims that the CJL has a greater responsibility than the AJP to show restraint when it comes to demonizing language.

“AJP does not claim to represent the entire Jewish community, whereas the CJL does,” Lehmann said. “For the CJL to take an aggressive stance against a section of the Jewish community had a different meaning than AJP critiquing the CJL or a member group of the CJL.” The AJP has not yet decided on their plans moving forward in respect to its relationship with the CJL. Though disappointed with the CJL, Lehmann noted that he is proud of the event that the AJP put together and grateful for all of the support that both the event and open letter received.

“The dinner was a really healing experience for many of us to be reminded that we are doing important work and that many people on this campus agree with us,” he said. “That was really powerful, and that’s something that we’re going to be carrying with us for a long time.”

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“Events and attention to these issues nationally and on our campus led to consideration of changes in our policies in this area,” he wrote in an email to The Daily Princetonian.

A University press release also assures students that only faculty members can be punished for violating this rule. Kulkarni said the provision is in place to protect those with less power.

“There is an enormous power differential between faculty members and graduate students. Because of their greater power/authority and their role in the educational mission of the University, faculty members bear the responsibility for adhering to this policy,” he wrote in an email to the ‘Prince.’

The full policy details the new provisions and provides information about how to voice complaints regarding consensual sex.

“Complaints regarding conduct of members of the Faculty should be addressed to the Dean of the Faculty,” the policy reads.

The policy change was based on recommendations from the Faculty-Student Committee on Sexual Misconduct and was introduced by the Faculty Advisory Committee on Policy.

Shaurya Aarav, a graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering, applauded this step taken by the University, noting that the disciplinary consequences would be entirely placed on the faculty in these scenarios. According

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On recommendations from the Faculty-Student Committee on Sexual Misconduct, the Office of the Dean of Faculty released updated policies to prohibit all non-preexisting romantic and sexual relationships between faculty and graduate students.

to Aarav, this is especially important considering the power dynamic between graduate students and faculty.

“The power dynamic ... between a PhD student and a faculty [member] is heavily

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skewed against the student.

A student’s present and future career often depend on one person, their advisor.

Thus, it is extremely difficult for a student to voice their concerns against the person in power, and avoid unwant-

ed advances,“ he said.

Aarav, however, doubted that this is an optimal solution.

“Ideally, the University should be a place where people understand professional and personal boundaries,

and don’t need a policy to keep them on their toes,“ he said.

Members of Princeton Graduate Students United did not respond to repeated requests for comment by the time of publication.

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USG approves four new clubs, discusses office hours

By Jacob Gerrish Senior Writer

The Undergraduate Student Government talked club approvals and USG office hours during its weekly meeting on Sunday, Apr. 7.

U-Councilor Rachel Hazan ’21 introduced to the Senate the following clubs for approval: Food for Thought, Israel TigerTrek, Knitting Club, and Australia Club.

Food for Thought will discuss the history and politics that shape the perception and role of different foods in society today. The club will focus on the cultural origins of particular cuisines.

Israel TigerTrek will travel to Israel to better understand entrepreneurship in the Israeli high-tech sector and to appreciate Israeli history and culture from an entrepreneurial lens.

Knitting Club will teach students how to knit and will create an environment for students to knit together in order to promote prioritization of mental health on campus.

Australia Club will seek to encourage a sense of connectedness among Australian students, spread Australian culture on campus, and build a stronger Australian alumni

network.

The Senate decided to approve all four of the clubs.

Additionally, Class of 2022 Senator Andres Larrieu ’22 reported on the effectiveness of a new structure for USG office hours. Starting last Wednesday, Senate members now table in Frist and use a spinning wheel with a list of premade questions and answers about USG’s role on campus in order to draw in passing students. “[Students] come because of the wheel, because they just want to spin the wheel,” Class of 2022 Senator Jasman Singh ’22 said. “That’s fine with us because they’ll be at the table, they’ll walk away with a fun fact, and they’ll be a little bit more informed about what USG does.”

Singh is a contributing columnist for the ‘Prince.’

Larrieu also stated that he will soon request USG task forces to send representatives to answer student questions at office hours as well.

USG President Zarnab Virk ’20 also talked about meeting with the new Graduate Student Government president and how GSG will be attempting to model USG social activities in the future.

USG will have its next meeting on Sunday, Apr. 14.

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The battle for coeducation isn’t over just yet Khadijah Anwar

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t was only 50 years ago

when Princeton opened its ivory gates to women students.

During the broad move towards coeducation in the sixties, many male applicants started to show a preference for co-ed institutions.

Princeton, however, remained adamant in its belief that it best functioned as an all-male institution. In order to stay in the market for the most talented male students, Princeton began attempts to convince Sarah Lawrence College, an all-female institution at the time, to relocate to NJ. Even the eventual decision to admit women in 1969 wasn’t founded in the desire to support women, but rather to entice men - when Yale announced that coeducation would begin in the fall of 1969, Princeton was pushed into doing the same.

In other words, Princeton’s first response to the plea for equal education was not to consider the talents of women, but to attempt to shake up the education of undergraduate women enrolled in Sarah Lawrence by pushing for a disruptive relocation. This captures a larger problematic trend that persists even today – women are always assigned secondary priority.

Women have faced a long history of stereotypes surrounding their academic abilities. In her book “Keep the Damned Women Out”, Nancy Weiss Malkiel discussed the stereotypes in the early 70s that women were not serious about academics and were looking for husbands. Moreover, she also highlighted that women would be asked specifically for the female perspective on issues

by male professors, implying that their opinions were inferior or less intelligent.

While stereotypes about women have morphed, they have not disappeared. Today, women experience a serious underrepresentation in science, with teachers underestimating their mathematical abilities from a very early age. Research has found that in a classroom where teachers are asked to rate the mathematical capabilities of their students, female students with the same race, socioeconomic status, and performance on math tests as their male peers are rated as less able in comparison.

Teachers’ tendencies to underestimate the talents of their female pupils leads to a gender gap in mathematical performance developing as early as the second grade, when there was none in kindergarten. Such stereotypes persist and translate into a large gender gap in science wherein only 15% of engineers and 26% of computer scientists or mathematicians are female. A previous Daily Princetonian column focuses on the gender gap in our own campus, exploring the math department’s somewhat maleoriented advertisement to explain why only 20% of all math concentrators are currently women.

Moreover, social pressures are another heavy burden to bear.

Women are largely underrepresented in leadership roles on campus. The USG had only 4 female presidents in the 30 years spanning 1980-2010. Only as of 2014 has the pace of female leadership started to pick up, with elections having yielded five female presidents since then. Eating clubs, a powerhouse of social life on campus, are also only now starting to come around, with Cottage and Cannon electing their first female presidents - Casey Swezey ’19 and

Julia Haney ’19 - only last year.

These are wins for women, and should undoubtedly be celebrated, but there is still work to be done. We must work to further the fruits resulting from the diligence and hardships of the likes of Cynthia Chase ’75, our first female valedictorian, Barbara Barrow ’81, our first female Honor Committee Chair, and Michele Woods ’84, the first female USG president.

Women are still underrepresented in various organizations on campus, not to mention that male professors outnumber female professors 3 to 1 at Princeton.

For decades, women have fought to find a voice on this campus. Suman Sureshbabu, of the Graduate Class of 2007, spoke out at She Roars about the need to “shine a spotlight on women and girls” as their talents are too often overlooked otherwise.

Focusing attention not only on the accomplishments of our female leaders, but also the academic achievements of our female students, particularly those in STEM, is the road to overcoming stereotypes that have suppressed women for decades – stereotypes that they are inferior leaders and intellectuals.

The problem perhaps is that gender gaps on the Princeton Campus go unnoticed too easily.

The problem we tackle presently are seldom active acts of systematic discrimination against women, but systemized underrepresentation. A major solution then lies in educating incoming generations of students about the gender gap that exists.

Over the several days over which freshman orientation is spread out, a presentation on what it means to be a woman at Princeton can surely be integrated, drawing attention to gaps in the engineering department and

faculty ratio. If we aim to resolve issues of female underrepresentation, we have to foster equality within the next generation of leaders.

A university, where people earn the very qualifications that allow them to take up the roles from which women are currently absent is thus a very important target audience. In addition to discussions within orientation week, I believe residential college offices should also take a more active role in reducing the gender gap by reaching out to their female students and reminding them of the STEM and leadership opportunities available to them, as well as reminding students who do experience undercover sexism on campus of the support available to them.

We need outreach to outgrow the gender gap that has existed for far too long.

Educational history is sprinkled all over with instances of female underrepresentation. Fifty years ago, we fought for a place at Princeton. Today, we continue to fight for the equal representation of women in STEM fields, to deconstruct the related stereotypes surrounding women’s mathematical abilities, and to improve the male to female leadership ratio.

Now fifty years from the beginning of coeducation, we must realize that coeducation was not an opportunity joyously offered to women by higher institutions like Princeton. It was an opportunity seized by women to better the world for themselves. Nonetheless, the world is still far from equal.

The road to true gender equality is an ongoing battle — one we must join.

Khadijah Anwar is a first-year undergraduate from Dubai, UAE. She can be reached at kanwar@princeton.edu.

Call it racist, President Eisgruber Micah Herskind

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Editor’s Note: This article represents the views and opinions of the author only and does not necessarily represent the views of The Daily Princetonian. President Eisgruber has answered the questions of “Ban the Box” campaigners in meetings that the ‘Prince’ has covered; more information can be found in our coverage of CPUC meetings.

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niversity administrators have an incredibly hard

time calling something racist, and Princeton University’s own President Eisgruber is no exception. In fact, as a recent interaction with student activists demonstrates, he’s part of the problem.

Last Monday, members of Students for Prison Education and Reform (SPEAR) — myself included — confronted President Eisgruber about his insistence on retaining the “box” regarding a criminal record on Princeton’s application despite the Common Application’s decision to remove the box this past summer, and the many arguments against its preservation.

The interaction began when a SPEAR member asked how President Eisgruber could reconcile his decision to protect the “box” with the overwhelming evidence of the criminal justice system’s racism and classism. Indeed, ours is a penal system that is 40 percent black and 60 percent people of color, and composed of people who have an average income 41 percent lower than “non-incarcerated people of similar ages.”

In response to the question, President Eisgruber recycled a potpourri of sterilized, administrative terms: “We use a holistic admissions process for all of our students, which takes into account a wide variety of information. That can include information that might

create [a] negative impression. It also enables our Dean of Admission and the others who are on the admission committee to evaluate that information in the context of a student’s entire record.”

We hoped Eisgruber’s response would say something; instead, it screamed nothing. Indeed, for a man who pointedly assigned a book about campus free speech in the wake of a white professor using the n-word, President Eisgruber’s language is strikingly vague. “Holistic admissions process,” “wide variety of information,” “enables our Dean … to evaluate.” What?

The heart of the matter, as we then explained to President Eisgruber, is this: when we say we want to keep the box, we’re saying that we know that the criminal punishment system is a warehouse for poor black people and other poor people of color.

We also think this system has valuable — perhaps crucial — information to offer Princeton University. Why, we asked President Eisgruber, is the University working so hard to preserve this information?

To this, President Eisgruber responded, “I appreciate that there’s a disagreement here,” as if the leader of the nation’s premier research university did not know the difference between a disagreement and sheer denial of the scholarship produced by professors at our own university and elsewhere.

“Is there a disagreement that the system is racist and classist?” we asked. A pause, and response: “I have actually responded to that allegation in previous meetings, so I’m not going to simply continue to respond to the same statements.” As the exchange continued, an exasperated Eisgruber assured us that he would not give us an answer — he would not call the system racist, nor would he call it not racist — and that we could refer to the carefully-kept minutes and Daily Princetonian

coverage of past Council of the Princeton University Community (CPUC) meetings.

I went through the CPUC records from the last two years.

There’s no record of any answer to this question, nor any statement to indicate Eisgruber’s beliefs on racism. In one meeting, Eisgruber indicated his openness to restructuring the box “in ways that may mitigate some of the negative effects” and in another he hoped to “ask the question better so that it mitigates some of the detriments” — two overwhelmingly milquetoast references to racism, if that’s even what they were.

If I’ve learned one thing from Princeton’s administrators, it’s that language is one of the most effective tools in any cover-up job.

As Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has written, “language can illuminate truth as much as it can obfuscate it.” Benign language, Adichie explains, erases violent impact. Such is the case in Princeton’s response to the “ban the box” movement, wherein administrative language continues to disguise racism and conceal meaning.

For example, why would President Eisgruber say that the University is more worried about the legal liability that stems from admitting a student with a criminal record than it is about challenging racism, when he could instead assure us that Princeton uses a “holistic admissions process?” Why say that the University would rather rely on racist systems than open itself to bad publicity, when he could point to the Dean’s evaluation of “a number of positive indicia and evidence?”

University administrators have an incredibly hard time calling something racist. They work tirelessly to find words that soften the blow of racism, or better yet, that erase racism’s appearance altogether.

To be clear, calling something

racist is different than acknowledging race. Indeed, those in power are at their most creative when finding ways to speak around racism. Ask an administrator how to avoid calling something racist, and you’ll want to bring a pen: sometimes “a product of racial bias,” other times “racially tinged;” in some cases “the hold-over of a problematic past,” in others “likely a result of some people with racist attitudes;” or, in one of our blander inventions, “containing elements of racial discrimination.”

In short, by thoroughly cleansing his language of racism, scrubbing away any direct link between the carceral state and racial oppression — unless you count his watered-down version of events acknowledging “various kinds of bias” in society — President Eisgruber has continually proven just how many words can be used to say absolutely nothing.

Why am I targeting President Eisgruber, who is merely the head of an operation that traffics in exclusion? Indeed, it’s rarely productive to single out individuals as the cause of problematic dynamics; though it might appear to be a chicken, Princeton is undoubtedly a hydra. In the case of banning the “box,” however, the decision ultimately falls with President Eisgruber alone.

And yet, as someone who could unilaterally begin to disentangle Princeton from the criminal punishment system, Princeton’s president is going to extraordinary lengths to rescue racist institutions from themselves.

Where we need a bulldozer, President Eisgruber has brought a chisel, determined with all his might to carve a non-racist face out of a racist mountainside.

To be sure, banning the box won’t solve the problem. Criminalization is pervasive and corrosive, and admitting formerly incarcerated students won’t bring about the system’s demise. But it’s

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one tangible step Princeton University can take to begin combatting its record of injustice. That, alongside a commitment to stop burying meaning in meaningless words, and to say for once what has long needed to be said: the criminal punishment system is racist, and Princeton University’s involvement with it makes Princeton racist as well.

Micah Herskind is a senior from Buffalo, N.Y. He can be reached at micahh@princeton.edu.

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Men’s lacrosse dominates Stony Brook 14–4 after going 1–4 in past five games

By Tom Salotti

Associate Sports Editor

Men’s lacrosse (4–6, 0–3 Ivy) defeated the Stony Brook Seawolves in Stony Brook, NY (6–5, 2–1 AEC) 14–4 on Saturday afternoon.

In a break from Ivy League play, the team got a morale boost after going 1–4 in their past five games.

Princeton’s senior attacker Emmet Cordrey had the first shot of the game at 13:11 after Stony Brook went a man down for a loose ball violation. A minute later, Stony Brook found the back of the Tigers’ net and brought the score to 1–0, the only time the team would lead for the entire game.

At 10:23 sophomore middie Luke Crimmins, assisted by junior attacker Michael Sowers, tied the game for the Tigers with a goal. Princeton shut out Stony Brook for the remainder of the first quarter and brought their lead to four goals. Sophomore attacker Chris Brown had two goals and an assist, and Cordrey and senior middie Mike Morean each had one goal.

The quarter finished 5–1.

11 seconds into the second quarter, sophomore

long-stick middie (LSM) Andrew Song, after winning a ground ball out of the face off, scored his first goal of the season and brought the score to 6–1 in Princeton’s favor. Cordrey scored again with six minutes remaining in the quarter, assisted by Brown. Stony Brook was able to sneak one past Princeton’s goalie sophomore Erik Peters in the 10th minute, but additional goals from Morean at 2:17 and Cordrey at 0:05 kept the Tigers well positioned going into the half at 9–2.

The third quarter was more evenly split than earlier in the game as both teams scored twice. SBU’s Connor Grippe scored a minute into the quarter. Four minutes later, at 9:51, Princeton’s junior attacker Phillip Robertson scored his 12th goal of the season. Two minutes later, Cordrey scored again, his fourth so far in the game.

SBU responded with a goal with five minutes left and the quarter finished 11–4.

Princeton dominated the fourth quarter, shutting out Stony Brook and scoring three goals themselves.

Robertson had his second goal of the game at 12:34, assisted by Cordrey, and

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In the first quarter of the game, Luke Crimmins, pictured above, tied the game for the Tigers with a goal.

Brown scored again at 2:34, assisted by first-year middie Alexander Vardaro. SBU’s Chris Pickel was handed a cross-check penalty with a minute remaining in the game and Robertson capitalized on the man-up offense, scoring at 0:44, assisted by Sowers. The game

Weekend Review

finished 14–4.

Even though Stony Brook outshot Princeton by almost double, 45 to 29, the Tigers had better accuracy.

They had 24 shots on goal compared to SBU’s 18. The Orange and Black had 14 saves to Stony Brook’s 10.

And, despite the score dif-

ference, Stony Brook won more face offs (14 to 8) and ground balls (32 to 23) than Princeton.

The Tigers will take on Sienna (5–4, 3–2 MAAC) at home on Tuesday before heading to Dartmouth next weekend to resume Ivy League play.

Players of the Weekend

Baseball vs. Columbia: L 8–2, W 8–6, L 2–1 Princeton baseball has played three series in Ivy League play and hasn’t won any of them.

The highlight of this weekend’s series against Columbia was a comeback win in the second half of Saturday’s doubleheader. Princeton didn’t record a hit through the first five innings and trailed 6–2 going into the bottom of the eighth, but a six-run inning propelled the Tigers to an 8–6 win. Neither of the other games went Princeton’s way. In the series opener, Columbia took an early lead and held onto it for a comfortable 8–2 Lion win. In the rubber match Sunday, Princeton squandered several late game scoring opportunities and a complete game from junior RHP Andrew Gnazzo, losing 2–1. Princeton fell 3–6 in Ivy play.

Softball @ Brown: W 1–0, W 6–0, W 6–1 After a middling 3–3 start to Ivy League play, Princeton softball finally broke out this weekend with a series sweep at Brown. Princeton only allowed one run in the series, and sophomore Allie Reynolds and first-year Ali Blanchard threw a pair of shutouts in Saturday’s doubleheader. Senior outfielder Kaitlyn Waslawski scored the lone run in the first game, and two RBI’s apiece from senior Keeley Walsh and junior Alex Colon boosted Princeton to a 6–0 win in the second. In the series finale, Reynolds threw another complete game and allowed just one run in a 6–1 Princeton win.

Women’s Lacrosse @ No. 25 Dartmouth: W 14–12 Princeton handed Dartmouth its first Ivy League loss in a narrow game in Hanover.

Princeton started strong and took a 9–5 lead at halftime, but Dartmouth clawed back in the second half to take a 12–11 lead with 10 minutes remaining. Then sophomore attack Kyla Sears took over. She scored the tying goal, assisted senior midfield Kathryn Hallett on the go-ahead goal and assisted junior attack Tess D’Orsi with one minute remaining to secure a 14–12 win. Sears had two goals and five assists for the Tigers, and D’Orsi added five goals.

Princeton improved to 2–1 in Ivy play.

Allie Reynolds, Softball The sophomore threw 14 innings this weekend and only gave up one run. Her two complete game wins helped lead Princeton to a sweep over Brown.

Men’s Lacrosse @ Stony Brook: W 14–4 The Tigers bounced back from a loss last weekend to Brown with a convincing win at Stony Brook on Saturday. Stony Brook scored the first goal of the game, but Princeton responded with seven unanswered goals to take a 7–1 lead midway through the second quarter. Senior attack Emmet Cordrey continued his breakout season with four goals, junior attack Michael Sowers had five assists, and sophomore goalie Erik Peters saved 13 of 17 shots on goal. The only unfortunate aspect was that Stony Brook is not in the Ivy League. Princeton remains 0–3 in Ivy play and will have the chance to earn its first win next Saturday at Dartmouth.

Men’s Volleyball vs. Harvard, Sacred Heart: W 3–2, W 3–0 With another pair of wins this weekend, Princeton men’s volleyball improved to 11–1 in EIVA play and has a chance next weekend to secure the conference regular season title and the right to host the tournament. Friday night’s win over Harvard at Dillon was a thriller from start to finish — Princeton needed extra points to win the opening set and all five sets to eventually defeat the Crimson. Saturday night was significantly less stressful, as Princeton disposed of Sacred Heart in straight sets. Penn State and St. Francis are tied for second in the EIVA at 9–3. Princeton plays both next weekend and would earn the EIVA top seed with a win over either.

Tweet of the Day

“Congrats to Kathryn Hallett [Women’s lax]! She is the 4th Tiger to make the 100 club this season - joining Tess D’Orsi (100 goals) Kyla Sears(100 points) and Elizabeth George (100 goals and points) #EarnYourStripes” Princeton Tigers (@PUTIGERS)

George Huhmann, Men’s Volleyball The junior had 40 kills this weekend to lead Princeton to a weekend sweep over Harvard and Sacred Heart.

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Amy Castellano of Women’s water polo has 67 goals so far this season. She scored 6 points in the team’s last match, tied for the third most in a single game in program history.