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ON CAMPUS

Q&A with Maria Ressa ‘86, Filipina journalist

By Ivy Truong Head News Editor

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Classes in Fine Hall will not be held on April 8-9 after a fire around midnight on Sunday, April 7 broke out.

Public Safety investigates cases of arson on campus

By Mina Lee

Contributor

At approximately 4 p.m. on Monday, April 8, the Department of Public Safety alerted the University community to potential cases of arson on campus. Four cases of arson have occurred in the past four days.

According to the Tiger Alert, DPS is currently investigating these fires and whether they are connected.

The first incident occurred the evening of Friday, April 5, in the men’s restroom at Princeton Stadium, causing minor damages.

The second incident caused

the most significant amount of damage. The fire in the classroom on the 12th floor of Fine Hall on the evening of Saturday, April 6, similarly caused minor fire damage, but the building suffered from significant additional water damage. One of the firefighters needed medical assistance and was taken to the hospital.

That firefighter has since been released.

The DPS responded to the third incident in the women’s restroom at Princeton Stadium the morning of Sunday, April 7, which had burned itself out. The fire was apparently been set between Friday

night and Sunday morning and caused minor damages.

The fourth and most recent incident was reported the morning of Monday, April 8, in Jadwin Hall. The fire also caused minor damages.

Deputy University Spokesperson Mike Hotchkiss gave no additional comment when contacted by The Daily Princetonian.

The Tiger Alert also advised all members of the University to follow their general crime prevention tips and to contact the DPS at 609-258-1000 with any information related to these incidents.

Maria Ressa ’86, the chief executive officer for Rappler, has been named Time’s Person of the Year for 2018 for her work in defending press freedom in the Philippines under the Duterte regime.

In the past 14 months, she has had to post bail 11 times for charges that include tax evasion and cyberlibel. Recently, she was arrested when deboarding a plane at Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila.

At the University, she majored in English with certificates in theater and dance. She was also a premed student.

On Monday, April 8, she sat down with the staff of The Daily Princetonian in an on-the-record interview. Below is a lightly edited and condensed transcript of the conversation.

The Daily Princetonian: Since we’re at Princeton, your alma mater, can you describe your Princeton experience and how you made the leap into journalism?

Maria Ressa: I didn’t think I was going to be a journalist when I was at Princeton, and I had only visited The Daily Princetonian once and it was near graduation.

So I was pre-med — a good AsianAmerican — and then I did English with a certificate in theater and dance. I fell into journalism when I had a Fulbright [Fellowship] after I graduated to go to the Philippines.

I didn’t know what home was, and so I wanted someone to pay for me to go home. Then that was 1986 — the year of the People Power Revolt — and I just never left. My boxes with my notes from college are still at my parents’ house, and I haven’t

opened them since then.

When I graduated from Princeton, I felt like I could do anything, I could go anywhere, and it was about clarity of thought. It was about untangling what was front of me that could be messy, and finding the thread and pulling it out. I had applied to law school, I had jobs coming home, and I stayed in Southeast Asia and that determined my life.

It doesn’t matter whether you are Slavic or whether you are premed or [have] a certificate in journalism. I think the key thing is that you have to look at the world around you today, look at the discipline of teaching that this institution teaches you, and look at the opportunities around you … the most exciting thing is that technology has turned the world upside down … journalism as it is right now — the business of journalism — is disintegrating. Your generation will come up with this new form and substance that journalism will become. Your Princeton education — you won’t know how much you love it until you’re gone from Princeton, and, inevitably, whenever I’m confused about what the next step is, I come back.

DP: What was the moment for you where you knew you wanted to spend a career in journalism?

MR: It’s like a relationship if you think about it. I was doing breaking news for CNN, which meant almost every major story broke up a relationship. I was asking a good friend: “How could you commit to someone? How do you commit?” When you have so many opportunities, you sometimes don’t commit. The answer is similar to how I fell into journalism See RESSA page 3

U A F FA I R S

ON CAMPUS

Former Senator Jeff Flake calls for depolarization of American politics

By Claire Silberman Associate News Editor

Almost two years ago, on June 14, 2017, former Arizona Senator Jeff Flake was standing between home plate and first base on a baseball field in Alexandria, Va., when a volley of shots rang out. Seconds later, Representative Steve Scal-

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ise (R-La.) was hit in the hip.

As Flake rushed to plug his colleague’s bullet wound with his baseball glove, he couldn’t help but wonder: “Why us?

How could someone look out at a bunch of middle aged men playing baseball and see the enemy?”

According to Flake, such is the result of hyper-partisan

Senior columnist Liam O’Connor explains the upcoming USG elections and their impact on the Honor Code, and columnist Sebastian Quiroz argues for addressing concerns of elitism among prospective students.

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The University has cut funding ties with Chinese telecom giant Huawei in light of the company’s recent scandals.

U. cuts ties with Huawei after company scandals

By Yan Huang Staff Writer

In recent months, federal charges brought against the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei have prompted the nation’s research institutions, including the University, to cut funding ties with the company.

Huawei has long been regarded as a potential security threat, and with recent developments, the company has come under

Today on Campus 4:30 p.m.: Director and Professor of Creative Writing Tracy K. Smith moderates “Literary Stories of Migration,” a discussion with Imbolo Mbue, author of Behold the Dreamers.

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intense scrutiny. In December, Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s CFO, was arrested in Canada for extradition to the United States — and just under two months later, the government accused Huawei of a flurry of criminal charges, ranging from stealing technology to violating U.S. sanctions against Iran.

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Former Senator Jeff Flake (R - AZ) visited campus on Monday.

politics gone awry.

Flake spoke on the importance of depolarizing the American political system and defusing hostile partisanship in a lecture on Monday.

“Virtually all of the political incentives are now wrong.

On any given issue that we deal with in Congress, the political incentives say, ‘rush to your tribe, rush to the extreme, plant yourself, and don’t move,’” Flake said. “Don’t indicate for a minute that you might be open to persuasion, that you might change your mind, because as soon as you do, you’re a victim from both sides.”

Throughout his 18-year career in Washington, Flake suffered the consequences of straddling party lines. In 2017, his approval ratings in Arizona dipped to 18 percent.

During the talk, Flake lamented the disintegration of cordial personal relationships among members in Congress, when “the children of Democratic members of Congress and Republican members of Congress went to the same schools, played on the same sports teams, the families socialized together, recreated together, worshipped together.”

“The bonds that they built

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on the weekends outlasted the partisanship of the weekdays,” Flake said.

Now long gone, Flake also regretted the loss of congressional “pairing,” a tradition in which, if a member couldn’t make a vote, a member of the other party would vote the other way to even it out in deference to their counterparts across the aisle.

However, according to Flake the civility is long gone, and in its place is vitriolic intransigence.

For example, when former Democratic Rep. Gabby Giffords was wounded in a mass shooting, Republican leaders chastised Flake for standing up to help Giffords up at the State of the Union because it was perceived as support for President Obama.

During his time in Congress, Flake attempted to cultivate relationships across the aisle, sometimes in unorthodox ways. In 2014, he and Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) intentionally stranded themselves on a deserted island in the Marshall Islands in order to prove Democrats and Republicans could get along. The pair brought no food, no water, and only a machete between the two of them.

As for broader solutions to this polarization, Flake said that the current situation “won’t change until the voters value those who will occasionally stand in the middle.”

He said that senators should increase their cooperation in bipartisan “gangs” and protect the institution of the filibuster in order to keep parties accountable to one another.

However, Flake expressed his concern for the future of his party under Trump’s leadership, especially if the President wins re-election.

“You can look at four years as an aberration of some kind, but eight years is more of shift,” he said.

Flake noted he would’ve liked to run for a second term, but instead chose to retire from Congress after six years in the Senate.

“I couldn’t reconcile what I would have to do to stay there,” Flake said. “I would’ve had to accept positions that I could not accept — Muslim ban, positions on immigration, trade — and condone behavior that I do not condone.”

Ultimately, he called for an end to the demonization in Congress and society at large.

“There will always be partisanship. It’s part of the process,” Flake said. “We can agree and disagree but we can’t consider those on the other side of the aisle enemies.”

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with Huawei. According to data from the Department of Education, Huawei has given over $10 million in gifts to universities over the past six years. Cornell received the largest amount, but the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, UC Berkeley, Stanford, and the University have accepted gifts as well.

According to University spokesperson Michael Hotchkiss, the University “decided in July 2018 not to accept any new gifts from Huawei.”

Furthermore, in January this year, the University did “not accept the third and final $150,000 installment of a gift in support of computer-science research,” Hotchkiss added.

There are currently no Huawei-supported projects at the University.

Prof. Colleen Kenny, coor-

dinator of the University’s undergraduate computer science program, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from “the ‘Prince.’”

Mechanical and aerospace engineering concentrator Will Kelly ’19 noted that “China is a totalitarian state with advanced data aggregation capabilities.”

“We have no reason to let Chinese state-sponsored telecoms operate in our domestic information domain,” Kelly said.

Jerry Wei GS ’19, a computer science researcher in the Center for Information Technology Policy, warned that software supply attacks, such as “target[ing] vendor equipment with malware” and “inserting unauthorized software backdoors during development,” present a real and dangerous threat.

“Huawei’s equipment, especially with its penetration in various states’ infrastructure, allows China to easily launch such attacks on the United States,” Wei added.

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and how journalism is such a large part of who I am: I love you today, I promise to love you tomorrow … when I fell into reporting, I didn’t set out to be a journalist. I was just at the right place at the right time. It was an exciting time when I became a reporter — it was People Power in the Philippines that sparked all these other movements all around the world. Certainly, the beginning part about my career was about covering countries that used to have authoritarian, oneman rulers. It was like they were released, and it was like the pendulum swung. In many instances, it would swing wildly because if you had an authoritarian-style ruler, it swings loudly. Slowly, a lot of my career, then, became [about] how democracy worked.

You don’t have to make a choice.

You just have to say: I love you today, I will love you tomorrow. And guess what? That becomes years and years and years.

DP: What moment of Duterte’s regime thus far has shocked you the most?

MR: Impunity. The reason Rappler became targeted is we did a series on the drug war — it’s called The Impunity Series. The UN [High Commissioner for Human Rights] Michelle Bachelet actually estimated that … 27,000 people [were] killed in this brutal drug war from July 2016 until December of last year. 27,000. The Philippine police will say that they killed 5,000 people, and they have 30,000-plus other homicide cases under investigation, so they splintered it off.

That’s 35,000 other people.

I’m shocked at the brutality of the drug war, the violence in the real world. The underpinning is violence in the virtual world, and that virtual world is social media.

Information warfare against its own citizens. We were targeted because we reported the drug war, and we were the only news group to report on the information operations on Facebook. Facebook is our Internet. Ninety-seven percent of Filipinos on the Internet are on Facebook … In January 2019, the Philippines is … number one in terms of time we spent on social media, which is essentially Facebook.

We are a Petri dish. What we’re living through is a bottom-up attack, triggered by fake accounts, astroturfing perspective that comes up months later top-down.

The attacks against Rappler came up as early as [January and February 2017] when the pro-Duterte bloggers began talking about how Rappler is foreign-owned. That is the charge. There are now 11 cases that we are facing. I’ve posted bail 11 times. I’ve had one criminal arraignment already, Wednesday last week … You never think that you’d sit in court and you go, “Not guilty.” When the judge asked me, “What’s your plea?,” I stepped on what he was saying, and I said not guilty. My friend, who was sitting next to me, said, “Maria, you smiled after that.” I said [that] I have to smile because if I’m not smiling, I would be yelling.

11 cases in 14 months that’s filed by the government and arrested twice in five weeks.

DP: Going off of that, 11 cases, 14 months — are you afraid at all of further escalation? What keeps you going?

MR: What keeps me going is I have the data. I know how we are being manipulated. Number two, we have a constitution. The constitution is patterned after the United States. There is a bill of rights.

My rights have been trampled upon, me personally. Freedom of the press, freedom of expression, right?

Yes. Of course, I get frightened at times, and I sit there — of course, you have parents, right?

My parents, they’re like “don’t go back to Manila.” “Mom I have to go back.” But, why? Because this is the time that matters. We have a very strong authoritarian-style leader.

He’s probably the most powerful man. He is popular. The most recent survey [shows] 80-plus percent popularity, unlike Trump here. But it’s also, the astroturfing on social media, with people — is this real, or is this manufactured, number one. Number three? The statistical surveys that are done.

They are done in the homes of

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“I think the key thing is that you have to look at the world around you today, look at the discipline of teaching that this institution teaches you, and look at the opportunities around you,” Maria Ressa ’86 said. people. If you’re living in a rural area where law and order is weak, would you really say you’re against Duterte?

I’m a cautionary tale for journalists who talk too much and who question too much. That doesn’t mean I’m going to change who I am. That’s our job, and as long as our constitution holds, we’ll continue exercising these rights.

If the constitution changes, then easier for me. It’s — we got to fight.

Standards and ethics … when no one is attacking you, it’s easy to follow your standards and ethics, but when you’re under attack is the time when you must live by these values. You must model them, because it is for your community. It is for your publication.

DP: As CEO of Rappler, you’re not merely a journalist. You’re a leader for all your staffers, younger journalists. So what do you say to them, your manager editor recently being arrested?

MR: Rappler started with 12 people. There were four or five of us above 40, so we started in 2012. The rest were the smartest 20-somethings I could find. And right now, the energy and the mission of our young reporters and our staff — we’re about 85 or 100 people now, we vacillate between those numbers, they have free reign to continue doing stories that need to get done. They look at that as a privilege, cause other news groups won’t touch the stories.

Why? I’ll tell you one story we did on vigilantes who were told, given a list of people to kill, and were paid by the police to kill these people. It was a seven-part series.

No other newsgroup touched it because the threat — it’s an existential threat. They’ll file cases against you. The thing is, I have nothing else to protect. The largest group of shareholders in Rappler are the journalists and we’ve been journalists our entire lives, so it almost feels like if we don’t stand up now, if we don’t do these stories, then we lost the window to fight for the democracy we have.

I think that’s similar here in the United States, you know? We are a cautionary tale for you. Not saying that you should want to be arrested.

What do I tell our team? Our team has workflow. They’re the ones who protect me. I mean in many ways, what do I do? I can talk really fast. I can articulate what needs to be said … But these values and principles, they’re through our entire organization. There’s no better time to be a journalist in the Philippines than today because this fight matters, and the mission of journalism has never been as necessary as it is now. Because not only are you fighting against an authoritarian-style ruler who’s chipping away —think about it like termites. If this was a wood floor, tons of termites are eating the floor. You don’t see them, but at one point you’ll just drop.

We’re also fighting for the form of journalism … What about the

form, the substance, the style, the diction, the monetization of journalism — our whole industry is in creative destruction. There’s a part of me that’s excited … and then there’s the other part that knows that if we don’t fight this battle, then our system of democracy, our democracy, will fundamentally change.

DP: You’ve talked a lot about home in this interview and I’m just curious: what does home mean to you?

MR: For me, how do you define

home — I still don’t know in the sense that, when I’m with Filipinos, I’m American, [and] when I’m with Americans, I tend to be more Filipino. I think that used to be called ‘third culture kids …’ I think that helped make me a good journalist because I know that there isn’t one version of reality, and I know that glass half-empty and half-full is exactly the same thing, and your stories can have more nuance.

Identity is everything. The information operations in the United States on social media are happen-

ing with identity politics. It’s happening. You know the way it’s working, right? They’re taking fracture lines of society until it splits open, and you have probably been subjected to information operations, perhaps without you knowing.

Anyway, so, home. Where is home? I gave myself a deadline: I need to make a choice when I turned 40. And I chose the Philippines.

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Sebastian Quiroz

A “Princeton Preview” Case for More Inclusivity

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his is the time of year when many high school seniors have to make a decision about where to go to college. As many of us know, this can be quite a difficult decision to make, particularly if a student is faced with many attractive offers. The sentiment is best expressed by a student in that position right now: post #7534 on the Tiger Confessions page is a perfect expression of the justifiable anxiety caused by this decision. Our anonymous senior writes, “Current HS senior deciding between Princeton and a few other Ivies.

Leaning toward Princeton because of...the name? Because it seems like a better school?

But do I think it’s a better school because of the name?…

Is there really an elitist air?…”

The problem is that Princeton’s social environment is often seen as exclusionary and elitist. If we truly want to attract the best and the brightest, we have a responsibility to fix this problem.

The discussion generated by this post, and by others similar to it, points to an obvious problem, though not a universal one: the culture on campus can be harmful to many. An elitist and exclusionary culture, like the one our high school senior worries about, perpetuates hierarchies that are in and

of themselves wrong. Certainly, from these posts, it seems many of our own peers would change their decision to attend the University based on their experience here. We do not necessarily know why they advise this: many commenters do not give detailed reasons for why they would not come if it were up to them. That being said, it seems that both the highstress culture and much of the social environment are heavily influential in making these decisions.

Understanding the purpose of a university illuminates why this is a problem in attracting the best students. In my view, universities exist to develop individuals who can think critically and engage with the world around them in new and interesting ways. These individuals, in pursuit of these goals, might be put off by the problematic aspects of the culture on campus and might, as a result, decide against coming to the University. Indeed, our high school senior seemed to be worried about Princeton’s reputation of elitist culture in their post.

Of course, Princeton is not the only school that has an elitist reputation. It is not worth dwelling on this too much: students like our high school senior are clearly worried about Princeton’s elitism, not necessarily that of other schools.

Furthermore, as our student points out, the elite name can

be a draw for many. But I think it is worth stating that there is a difference between being elite and having a reputation for elitism. Princeton can still be one of the best universities in the country without fostering a reputation for elitism.

Students can come to the University because they recognize the value of a Princeton education while still being worried about a culture of elitism on campus, without continuing to perpetuate social hierarchies and exclusion on campus that foster that reputation for elitism.

It seems clear, then, that if we want to attract the best students, we ought to work to make the culture on campus less elitist and less exclusionary — a topic which I have discussed briefly in a previous column. Anyone who wants to take part in the academic endeavor that Princeton promises should not have to deal with social exclusion and elitism on the part of the student body.

Certainly, I do not want to claim that every problem that exists at Princeton can simply be solved by the student body changing their attitudes and behaviors. For instance, the high-stress culture caused by the workload and course rigor is something that is largely out of our hands. That being said, there are things that we can do to change it. Changing how our student groups work is one way we can directly change this

environment. But we can also work through political activism on campus to pressure the administration to change the rest: we could organize around the obstacles the dining culture presents to encourage the University to change meal plan policies.

Attracting new students is not the only reason we have to reform our campus: this is simply a practical reason.

It seems clear to me that we also have a moral obligation — a natural duty of justice — to ensure that Princeton is a more inclusive and less elitist place. This natural duty of justice is best understood in the following way: our status as equal persons binds us to both uphold and promote just institutions. If we believe that this natural duty of justice has any moral force, then we must work to make Princeton more just. In my view, elitism and unjustifiable exclusion constitute injustice. As a consequence, we are morally obligated to eliminate them from our environment. This, of course, would bring even brighter and even more capable students to the University than those of us already here.

Sebastian Quiroz is a junior from Apopka, FL. He can be reached at squiroz@princeton. edu.

The most important USG elections that you don’t care about Liam O’Connor

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lass elections have descended upon us again, and — if they resemble those of the past — they’ll be uneventful. Candidates will post advertisements on Facebook. Their campaigns will be based upon the vague uncontroversial platitudes of class unity and free branded clothing. We’ll rejoice if even one of them campaigns in-person.

The average voter — who has probably never met most of the people running — will resign to indifference. They’ll vote for a recognizable name, a pretty profile filter, or abstain all together.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. We could have an energetic election that keeps everyone on the edge of their seats. In particular, the sophomore and junior class president races are the two most important offices

on any USG ballot, because that those officers sit on the Honor Committee.

Article I Section B1 of the Honor Constitution states, “The members of this Committee will be the presidents of the sophomore and junior classes, former sophomore and junior class presidents, [etc.].”

In other words, each class has the opportunity to elect a new Honor Committee member or to re-elect its incumbent member during junior year. The winners serve in this capacity for the rest of their time at Princeton. That’s a huge responsibility.

The student body has shown that it cares deeply about improving the Honor Code. One year ago, four referenda sparked passionate debates over concepts of justice. A fierce countermovement resisted the reform campaign. There was an outcry when the administration struck down three of them.

Now, debate has resurfaced after the Academic Integrity Report Reconciliation Committee issued its recommendations for diversifying punishments, and two more Honor-related mea-

sures are on the ballot.

USG referenda come and go. Sometimes they actually change things. Oftentimes they don’t. But, in any case, Honor Committee members have a tangible impact.

In practice, they set the tone for hearings. Theoretically, they should also call out violations of standard practices, though that doesn’t always happen.

Past members and defendants alike worry that the committee is too punitive-minded: it decides guilt first and asks questions second.

About two thirds of all cases that proceed to a hearing result in a guilty verdict, according to statistics released in February.

While it’s anyone’s guess as to whether the evidence or confirmation bias is stronger to make conviction rates so high after hearings, we can pick people who vocalize their thoughts on procedural fairness.

Class presidents could be the chief spokespeople to communicate the committee’s activities, which includes publicly advocating for reform. Former class president Justin Ziegler ’16 went as far as to begin crafting a

referendum to fix the abuses of power that he witnessed.

Elections should be the time when we ask candidates about their beliefs on justice, plagiarism, mercy, and punishment.

These officers are directly accountable to their constituents, so they have to represent popular views.

It would be marvelous if we realize that our votes affect the honor system. This issue would become a wedge that divides the campus because of the strong, conflicting opinions on it. Candidates would have to gauge class support by talking to students, who would then be more inclined to vote in elections with this new engagement.

Instead — under the way that elections currently go — all that class president candidates have to do is create a funny video and write a snazzy slogan. They waltz into the solemnest duty any student could have, never to be heard from again.

Liam O’Connor is a junior geosciences major from Wyoming, Del. He can be reached at lpo@princeton.edu.

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Men’s tennis defeats Dartmouth, falls to Harvard during home Ivy League matches

By Elan Zohar Contributor

Coming off a solid win against Penn (16–8, 0–3 Ivy League) a week ago, the Princeton men’s tennis team (15–7, 2–1 Ivy) came back for more in a two-game home stand over the weekend. Their Ivy League opponents, Dartmouth (12–6, 1–1 Ivy) and Harvard (15–5, 2–0 Ivy), were both ranked ahead of the Tigers coming in to weekend play, but that didn’t seem to discourage them — Princeton was able to beat Dartmouth 6–1 on Saturday and then fell to Harvard in a tight 4–3 loss on Sunday.

“It’s a game of inches, and we’re all pretty evenly matched,” head coach Billy Pate said.

“Even the Dartmouth match, although though we won 6–1, it was really a close match.”

Dartmouth, ranked No. 39 in the nation, were the favorites heading into Saturday’s match, but early on it was clear that Princeton was no pushover.

To start the day in doubles, Princeton sophomore Ryan Seggerman and junior Payton Holden won 6–3 against Dartmouth’s Charlie Broom and David Horneffer, who were ranked

seventh in the nation. This win would set the tone for the Tigers’ performance the rest of the day. After sweeping the doubles matches, Princeton went on to win five of six singles matches, with four of them being in straight sets. Freshman Karl

Poling went on to defeat 53rdranked Broom 7–5, 7–6, and the sophomore Seggerman defeated Horneffer 6–4, 6–4. Junior Davey Roberts in the fourth singles slot capped off the day with a three-set win over Dartmouth’s Peter Conklin.

There was not much time to celebrate, however; a matchup against No. 45 Harvard awaited the Tigers less than 24 hours later.

“We enjoyed [the win], but we knew we needed to get back to work. [Harvard and Princeton]

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Ryan Seggerman ‘21 won both doubles and singles against Harvard.

know each other really well, and we knew their strength has been the 3–4–5 [singles] part of the lineup,” Pate said.

Princeton was a little too overpowered by those 3–4–5 players mentioned by Pate. After losing a tight doubles session 1–2, it was up to the singles players to win four of six matches in order to claim the victory.

The Tigers’ one and two singles players, Karl Poling and Ryan Seggerman, were able to come out with victories, but the rest of the team fell to the Crimson. In the fourth singles slot, Davey Roberts won the first set and was up in the second, but by then Harvard had already secured the victory. Roberts would end up losing 10–4 in a ten-point tiebreaker that replaced a third set.

“If we were able to get the doubles point, it would have changed the whole complexion of the match,” Pate said. “I feel pretty confident Davey [Roberts] would have won had the match been on the line.”

Princeton will see its last home game on Friday against No. 9-ranked Columbia before embarking on a three-game road trip to end league play.

BASEBALL

Baseball falls 1–2 in a three-game series against Columbia

By Mark Dodici Staff Writer

The baseball team picked up its third Ivy League win of the season against Columbia over the weekend, but with the victory came two stinging losses.

The Tigers (6–18, 3–6 Ivy) came into the weekend 2–4 in conference play, still looking for the elusive first series win of their 2019 Ivy campaign after dropping back-to-back sets to Dartmouth and Harvard. The Lions (10–14, 6–3 Ivy) had proven to be a formidable foe early in the season, having taken down Cornell and Dartmouth to enter the weekend in a three-way tie atop the Ivy League standings.

The series opened Saturday morning at Clarke Field. Senior Ryan Smith took the mound for Princeton, fresh off a strong effort against Harvard the weekend prior in which he allowed just one earned run over 7.1 innings.

The Lions’ potent offense made sure this performance could not be repeated, scoring one run each in the second, third, and fifth innings. Princeton scored twice in a sixth inning rally highlighted by an RBI triple from first-year center fielder Nadir Lewis, and the Tigers were back in the game.

Things quickly got out of hand, however, as Smith put runners on first and second with two outs in the top of the seventh. After a lengthy mound visit, the senior stayed in the game to face Chandler Bengston, Columbia’s power-hitting first baseman, who sent a threerun home run over the Lions bullpen in right-center to make

it a 6–2 game.

The Tigers failed to put any pressure on the visitors over the final three innings. Insurance runs for Columbia in the eighth and ninth brought the score to 8–2, and Princeton went down quietly in the ninth to close out the series opener.

In game two of the doubleheader, Columbia starting pitcher Saajan May dispatched fourteen consecutive Tigers before allowing a baserunner, a streak broken with a two-out walk in the fifth inning. The Lions already had a 3–0 lead.

The Princeton offense showed signs of life in the sixth and the seventh, scoring a run in each frame, but the Lions tacked on three more, leaving the Tigers in another 6–2 hole after seven and a half innings.

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Columbia’s stellar pitching staff struggled to find the zone in the bottom of the eighth, walking the the leadoff man before senior left fielder Chris Davis tripled to deep center field.

Davis was brought around by a single from sophomore shortstop Jake Boone, bringing the Tigers within two. Three consecutive walks brought in another run and brought catcher Max West to the plate with the bases loaded and nobody out.

The senior delivered with a single to left field, plating two and giving Princeton a 7–6 lead, its first of the day.

The Tigers tacked on one more in the eighth, and firstyear Reece Rabin swiftly handled the Lions in the ninth to close out a come-from-behind, 8–6 victory and send the series

into the third game tied at one.

Sunday afternoon at Clarke Field saw a true pitchers duel, with Princeton junior Andrew Gnazzo and Columbia junior Ben Wereski going toe to toe in the rubber match.

The Lions got on the board first, putting up two in the fifth after failing to bring in runners in scoring position in three of the first four innings. Wereski dominated through the first five, scattering four hits, before losing the strike zone in the sixth. After a one-out walk, he hit Harding in the foot and walked sophomore third baseman Taylor Beckett to load the bases, bringing up West in another big moment.

West could not deliver this time around, popping out to the shortstop in shallow left

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Max West strikes out in game one of the Columbia series.

field. Senior designated hitter Joe Flynn, however, worked a walk, and the Tigers were on the board without a hit in the sixth.

Wereski was relieved by junior Jimmy Smiley, who induced a weak groundout to end the inning.

It was the last threat the Tigers would create. Despite a two-run complete game by Gnazzo (the first of his career), the game finished in a glum 2–1 defeat for Princeton.

“We just couldn’t do the job when we needed to,” said West after the game. Despite extending his hitting streak to nine games, the catcher had been one of many Tigers who missed out on opportunities throughout the day. “A lot of times we didn’t even need a hit, we just needed to put the ball in play… that’s what stings the most.”

Regardless of the team’s third consecutive series loss, West had a positive outlook for the rest of the campaign.

“I don’t think we’re done this year,” he said confidently. “We have every piece of the puzzle that we need to be a winning team, and in these next coming weeks we’re just going to have to put it all together.”

The Tigers next chance to connect the pieces will come on Wednesday, when they host Seton Hall, but the focus will be on this weekend’s three-game set at Penn. The Quakers (17–8, 6–3 Ivy), coming off of a sweep on the road against Dartmouth, will take the field in Philadelphia in a three-way tie atop the conference, while the Tigers will be looking to climb out of sixth place before the second half of the season.

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