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These statements were found by the steps of Nassau Hall, at the foot of the John Witherspoon statue by East Pyne Hall, outside of Firestone Library, on the pathway leading into campus from FitzRandolph Gate, outside of the Rockefeller-Mathey Dining Hall, and in front of Frist Campus Center.
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A group of students created a Room Draw Reform petition in response to errors in the 2018 and 2019 room draws.
Political messages found graffitied in Room draw reform at least six locations across campus petition seeks improved
By David Veldran staff writer
On the morning of Wednesday, May 1, at least six sightings of graffiti were found across campus with a host of political messages, including “Divest from Private Prisons” and “Title IX Protects Rapists.” Other graffitied messages students observed were, “Birthplace of Pton Colonization Society,” “FStone wanted Liberia for Rubber and Dead Black Workers,” “W/Carnegie millions $ for the Wilhelm Kaiser,” and “Stolen Land. Now What?” Sometimes difficult to read, these statements were found by the steps of Nassau Hall, at the foot of the John Witherspoon statue by East Pyne Hall, outside of Firestone Library,
on the pathway leading into campus from FitzRandolph Gate, outside of the Rockefeller-Mathey Dining Hall, and in front of Frist Campus Center. In an email to the The Daily Princetonian, University spokesman Ben Chang said the University is aware of the incidents and is working to have the graffiti removed. “Free speech is central to Princeton’s mission, and we welcome challenging conversations about difficult topics,” wrote Chang. “Defacing University property, however, is unacceptable.” Chang concluded by encouraging anyone with information about these incidents to contact the Department of Public Safety and stating that anyone found to be involved will face appropriate disciplinary action.
Amanda Eisenhour, co-president of Students for Prison Education and Reform (SPEAR), wrote in an email to the ‘Prince’ that SPEAR did not have anything to do with the incidents. “We just wanted to let the Prince know that SPEAR was not involved in the graffiti we just discovered around campus, concerning ‘Ban the Box’ and anti-private prison sentiments,” she wrote. “We had no prior knowledge of this action and were just as surprised as everyone else. While we did not coordinate these actions and do not support vandalism, especially when it inconveniences University workers, we welcome continued dialogue on these issues and the University’s role in them.”
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By Rebecca Han staff writer
In response to the controversy surrounding room draw randomization, a group of students created a Room Draw Reform petition with an action plan to ensure mistakes are not repeated in future room draws. The petition requests, among other items, that the University’s Housing and Real Estate Services (HRES) take steps to improve room draw feedback, testing, transparency, auditing, and infrastructure. The petition also asks HRES
to form a joint student-faculty committee to consider the requests, produce a report detailing the errors in the 2018 and 2019 room draws, and oversee an auditing process of the software used for next year’s room draw. As of 11 p.m. on Wednesday, the petition had 369 signatures. Betsy Pu ’22 first organized the petition’s group of student authors. She said their motivations in creating the petition were firstly to propose a solution to ensure the randomization error was fixed, and secondly, to demonstrate the magnitude of See PETITION page 5
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Class of 2019 honors faculty with invitation to Annual Gratitude Gala
By Zoya Gauhar contributor
Members of the class of 2019 invited their beloved professors to the fourth Annual Gratitude Gala, held on Wednesday, May 1, to engage in conversation and enjoy refreshments. The Gala gave graduating students the opportunity to honor faculty members who profoundly influenced their
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education at the University. Jill Dolan, Dean of the College, and Eduardo Cadava, a professor in the English Department and a recipient of the 2018 President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, opened the event by delivering brief remarks to a room filled with students and faculty. Dean Dolan emphasized the uniqueness of the event, noting that it is one of the few for-
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The ‘roast’ in which Kruse was featured was part of a recent episode of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee on TBS.
History professor Kevin Kruse ‘roasts’ Trump in Full Frontal segment By Benjamin Ball head news editor
In a television segment dedicated to “roasting” President Donald Trump, Kevin Kruse, a history professor at the University, concluded his so-called roast on an oddly complimentary note, telling the president that he was
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“a hell of a guy.” Kruse then corrected himself, saying, “I read that wrong. Cheers, President Trump. You’re going to hell, guy.” The special segment in which Kruse was featured was part of a recent episode of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee on TBS, in which historians and professors from a See KRUSE page 4
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Members of the class of 2019 invited professors who profoundly influenced their education to the 4th annual gratitude gala.
mal settings in which students and faculty have the opportunity to show their gratitude to one another. She said that being a professor to students at the University has immensely impacted her life and relationships, mentioning that a number of former students have become more like friends, and even family. Interacting with students, Dolan said, helps her ideas constantly evolve. She explained her belief that relationships formed through advising can last forever. Dolan described the experience of independent research as a “rite of passage” and encouraged seniors to keep in contact with their most influential professors. “We are always curious about the surprising and exciting turns your lives will take as you begin and continue your careers,” she said. “Wherever you go, you take pieces of our hearts and our minds with you.” She went on to thank all faculty and staff at the University and congratulated the graduating class. Cadava said it is the emphasis on close interactions between students and faculty that has kept him at the Uni-
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number of institutions participated in a roast of the president. According to Kruse, the segment came as a response to the fact that a historian, Ron Chernow, was chosen to speak at the White House correspondents dinner, breaking the tradition of giving the keynote to a comedian. “Samantha Bee decided she’d round up some historians for her own ‘Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner’ this week,” Kruse wrote in an email to The Daily Princetonian. “Her staff invited eight historians — including Eric Foner, one of the most prominent figures in our field — to take part in a pre-taped roast of the president.” Kruse joined the University in 2000. He studies the political and social history of 20th-century America. Kruse has particular interests in segregation, the civil rights movement, the rise of religious nationalism, and the making of modern conservatism. Kruse and his fellow historians filmed the segment a few weeks prior to the show’s airing on Saturday, April 27. Kruse’s segment ultimately did not air on TBS due to time constraints, but remains available online. “Apparently, our segment got cut due to time constraints, but no worries, historians are used to hard edits,” Kruse wrote on Twitter. The roast featured historians’ satirical commentary on Trump’s
administration, general character, and temperament. “President Trump and I actually have a lot in common,” Kruse said on the segment. “I wrote a book about white flight, and he’s its mascot.” This is not the first time Kruse has criticized the president and his supporters in a public forum. Kruse is among a number of professors and academics, known as #twitterhistorians, who say their goal is to respond immediately to false representations of historical fact. On Twitter, Kruse has responded to prominent figures ranging from political commentator Dinesh D’Souza to rapper Kanye West. Some of Kruse’s Twitter commentary has reached beyond the strictly historical, such as a lengthy thread comparing various officials of the Trump administration to James Bond villains. Kruse concluded that while the segment was outside of the work he and other historians normally perform, he had fun doing it. “Reagan popularized ending speeches with ‘God Bless America,’” Kruse said in the segment. “Trump’s speeches have popularized God responding, ‘Nah, I’m good.’” The segment concludes with Angus Johnston, professor of American student activism at Hostos Community College of the City University of New York, saying that Trump does not need a historian to roast him. All of the historians immediately add in unison, “History will do that.”
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the problem and the concern of the student body. “There are some pretty blatant errors in the room draw randomization process, yet numerous attempts to bring this to the administration had very little impact, especially proportional to the problem,” she said. Pu is “optimistic” that the administration will respond to the requests if students are persistent about making next year’s process “transparent and functional.” The first section of the petition, titled “What Went Wrong,” describes HRES’ claims in their original email to undergraduates and summarizes the data analysis done by Adam Chang ’20 and Yang Song ’20. Next, it proposes an action plan requesting steps be taken to “review what went wrong, to discuss what can be improved, and to ensure past mistakes are not repeated in the future.” “The scope of systematic unfairness in both the 2018 and 2019 Room Draws — although inadvertent — is nevertheless
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extremely concerning,” the petition reads. The students ask for an “improved HRES feedback and review pipeline,” an HRES review of their internal auditing process, and an “overhaul of the Housing Portal interface,” among other things. They also request an investigation into the partnership between HRES and CBORD, “particularly with respect to the software specification HRES delivered to the vendor as well as the vendor’s internal testing process.” Yafah Edelman ’20 recalled that many of the group’s members had their own frustrations with room draw in the past. She drew as a single at the end of freshman year. According to Chang and Song’s analysis, single person draw groups tended to fare significantly worse in room draw times than larger draw groups. “I’m hopeful with the magnitude of the problem and with students really speaking out that the administration will see the steps that we propose to take in the petition and do something,” she said.
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versity for nearly 30 years. He recalled numerous interactions with students over the years, due to both his interdisciplinary academic focus and his role as former head of Wilson College. “In every conversation I’ve had, I have learned something,” he said. “I have experienced the give and take that is the signature of the learning experience.” Cadava shared a passage from a poem written by Pindar, an ancient Greek poet. The poem speaks to the ways in which both teachers and students can lead one another. “When we as teachers convey to our students what we love and what we believe, they in turn incur a responsibility to convey what they have learned, and also, what they love and believe,” he said. Cadava went on to recall the manners in which his favor-
ite teachers conducted their classes. He closed by congratulating seniors for their accomplishments. Students attending the event said they were happy to have the opportunity to engage with professors outside the classroom. Chitra Kumar ’19 invited her former writing seminar professor, Dr. Maria Medvedeva. Kumar said that Dr. Medvedeva “was able to give a different perspective about writing and is still a great source of advice so many years later.” Dr. Medvedeva, who now serves as the Director of Studies for Rocky College, added, “the event is very special. It is gratitude for them [students] but is also gratitude for us, being able to see them grow.” The Gala was held in the Princeton University Art Museum at 4 p.m. and cosponsored by the Class of 2019, the Office of the Dean of the Faculty, and the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Studies.
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Bathroom: The Worst Part of Dorm Life Hunter Campbell Columnist
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t is no surprise that sharing a bathroom with many people is less than ideal. What makes it even worse is when none of the users have any enforced responsibility to ensure that the bathroom stays presentable. Staffers are given a break from servicing the bathrooms each weekend and thus these bathrooms frequently descend into miserable conditions. Yet, the problem here goes beyond cleanliness: there are issues with basic levels of etiquette, and the lack of obedience to them. If there is to be a cultural change at the University without wrongly punishing students or infringing on privacy, students need to lead the campaign to clean. Students should encourage one another to treat the common space with respect and become willing to take steps to stop particular offenders from ruining the space for everyone else. Before discussing solutions, we must establish what specifically makes a given behavior problematic. Any uncleanliness and encroachment on other people’s personal space should not be permitted. For something to be unclean or dirty, it
needs to be covered in something which does not belong there. Where do beard shavings belong? In the trash, not all over the sink and the counters. Where do paper towels and toilet paper belong? In the trash and in the toilet, respectively. Vomit and other bodily substances belong in the toilet, definitely not on or around it. Finally, where do toothpaste and soap go? Down the drain. While this information should be obvious to most people, it is important that we understand specifically why is not acceptable. Unclean substances, when left out in the open, pose a health and safety risk to those around them. Someone could slip on paper towels left on the ground, and having urine all over the floor certainly is not a way for people to stay healthy. Is it too much to ask that legal adults at the number-oneranked University in America do not act like feral children raised by a family of raccoons living in the darkest, deepest bowels of a landfill? Invading the personal space of others also counts as an improper bathroom behavior. Taking up so much metaphorical, or sometimes literal, space in an area that others cannot engage in normal activities is disrespectable to the dorm community. An example of taking up metaphorical space is blasting music at the highest possible volume while in the shower or talking loudly to friends who
are also in the room. Restroom doors are thin, and everyone else in the hallway can hear this music and screaming. Further, this behavior cannot be universalized: if everyone were to play music at that volume, no one would be able to hear their own music, and hence everyone would turn off cease to play any music while in the bathroom since there would be no point in doing so. In terms of taking up physical space, leaving shampoo and other hygiene products sitting around in the shower or sink is detrimental to the status of bathroom. Along with being gross, this creates an additional obstacle for our cleaning staff, just as all the examples of uncleanliness stated in the paragraph above. If some profligate can somehow argue that it is fine for bathrooms to be unclean, we can ignore their irrational opinions. Advocating for unsafe, vomit-covered bathrooms is absurd. What can be done? Ultimately, solutions are restricted, much more so than, for example, what the University could do to stop people from trashing hallways. Because of serious privacy concerns, surveillance of the bathrooms is not an option; it would be highly intrusive and offensive. Many theoretical punishments would harm innocent students as well. For example, facilities workers could stop putting toilet paper in the bathroom to limit litter, but that would be unfair to ev-
eryone who did not make a mess of the room. Along this line, the only thing workers could do without harming innocent residents is remove hygiene products whenever they are left in the bathrooms. The most meaningful changes will be from students themselves who confront those who use the bathroom improperly. No one likes confrontation, but it would be especially useful for bystanders to get involved not just for their own sakes, but for the sakes of University staff as well. It would be valiant for students to insist that if someone does not stop trashing the bathroom by, for example, dropping paper towels on the ground, that they will report that individual to the housing office. Yet, without any video evidence of what is occurring in the bathroom, proving someone had done this will be difficult. Ultimately, if we want there to be any kind of change to conduct in our bathrooms, we will have to speak to either the rambunctious defilers of our common spacers themselves, or we will need to be willing to pick up the phone and contact University administrators who can act. Either way, we need to get the fecal matter into the toilet, not on the seats. Hunter Campbell is a junior politics major from Sunderland, Vt. He can be reached at hunterc@ princeton.edu.
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My new prospective on prison abolition Julia Chaffers
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ften in the movement for criminal justice reform the question is, “How do we reduce mass incarceration?” What if we asked, “How do we eliminate incarceration altogether?” When someone talks about prison abolition, the first response is usually something along the lines of, “What about the violent people?” The recent conference Tracing the Violence, organized by Students for Prison Education and Reform (SPEAR), tackled that very question and changed the way I thought about abolition. Abolition is not about closing every prison tomorrow and just releasing everybody. Rather, as Michelle Alexander put it, it is a “theory of change.” Abolition challenges us to imagine what a world without prisons would look like, and what it would take to get there. In other words, how
do we solve the problems that prison responds to? How do we erase the need for prisons in the first place? The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, locking up 716 per 100,000 people. We account for five percent of the world’s population, but 25 percent of the world’s incarcerated population. To many, these numbers are a familiar refrain, and indeed the push to end mass incarceration has become a mainstream position. But is it enough? Much of the conversation about reforms to the criminal justice system focuses on decreasing penalties for nonviolent and drug offenses. For example, the recently passed bipartisan First Step Act — the first federal prison reform in nearly a decade — is very limited in scope. It will only allow for the release of about 7,000 of the approximately 2.3 million people incarcerated around the country. This is because it will only affect federal prisons, which account for fewer than 10 percent of the prison population, and only nonviolent offenders within the federal system. In state prisons,
people convicted of violent crimes — a categorization that encompasses a wider range of offenses than you might expect — account for the majority of those incarcerated. While reforms like this are positive steps, they are just that: small bits of progress. But to what end? Abolitionists like scholar and activist Ruth Gilmore argue that “debates over which individuals to let out of prison accept prison as a given.” She argues that this mindset will in practical terms allow the problem of mass incarceration to continue. Litigating who deserves mercy from the inhumane prison system implies that some people deserve to remain caged. Debating who deserves freedom accepts the legitimacy of the system, and thus justifies the dehumanization inherent within it. But if we keep turning to incarceration as the solution to our problems, we will never solve the root issues, and the cycle of harm will continue. What if we tried to alleviate the conditions that lead to crime? What if we committed to ending poverty in the rich-
est country in the world? What if we approached substance abuse and mental illness as public health problems, instead of criminalizing them? What if we used new creative strategies to prevent violence? What if we invested in the education of every child? James Forman, Jr., Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Locking Up Our Own, explained this idea, saying that abolition “is the idea that you imagine a world without prisons, and then you work to try to build that world.” Abolition is not simply the absence of prisons, but the presence of systems that support people so they never turn to crime or violence in the first place. As the speakers at the SPEAR conference, many of whom had themselves experienced incarceration, attested, prison does not get us to a more just world. Responding to violence with state-sanctioned violence does not solve the issue; it merely models violence as a solution to problems. Throwing lives away does not cure the communities they leave behind; instead, it tells people their lives might not matter either. In many ways, incarceration
exacerbates the problems it claims to solve, tearing apart families, disrupting communities, and destroying lives, even after people return home. If you are interested in thinking more about this issue, want to make an impact in this space, or just want to learn more about the injustice of the prison system, SPEAR is a great community to get involved with on campus. Abolition may seem unrealistic or extreme at first, but the more you look into the criminal justice system, the more you realize that its entire premise is flawed. Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote that “the degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” Enter America’s prisons and it becomes clear that we are nowhere near as just a society as we claim to be. If we want to get closer to the values we idealize, we should rethink whether incarceration is the answer at all. Julia Chaffers is a first-year student from Wellesley, Mass. She can be reached at chaffers@ princeton.edu.
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Lightweight men march through Yale, claim first HYP home title since 1998
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HYP week is always a big one for the men’s lightweight crew with a chance to best their two biggest rivals - the Crimson and the Bulldogs. However, few expected this season’s racing would produce results as exciting as last year’s. In 2018, Princeton’s first varsity eight bested then No. 1 Harvard by just 1.2 seconds on Yale’s home course. This year, the Tigers entered the regatta as the clear favorite, ranked second in the nation and already in possession of a big win over the reigning national champions from Columbia. It was No. 5 Yale, though,
who took a big lead early in the race, jumping out to a boat-length advantage in the first 750 meters. Princeton chased after the Bulldogs, easily shaking off No. 4 Harvard in the process; the Crimson finished a distant 13 seconds behind the leaders. By 1,250 meters down in the 2,000m race, the Tigers had taken back a few seats, but were still struggling in the windy conditions on Lake Carnegie. Both Princeton and Yale kicked it into high gear with 500 meters to go. With only 250 meters left, Princeton still faced a six-seat deficit. They didn’t give up. With each stroke, the Tigers took half a seat. They beat Yale by the narrowest of margins —
just 0.2 seconds. Men’s lightweight head coach Marty Crotty was thoroughly impressed by his crew’s performance. “I’m ecstatic about the way the first eight rowed, despite being so far down early in the race,” Crotty said. “I’m so happy that the seniors could race their last race on Carnegie like this. Anybody in the race or watching will be taking about this one for the next 100 years.” This year’s win also marks the first time Princeton lightweights have won the HYP regatta at home on Lake Carnegie since 1998. The team retained its No. 2 ranking despite a second-place finish by the second varsity eight and third place finishes for the
third and fourth boats. Next year, the HYP regatta will move back to the Charles River Basin in Boston. But before that, the Tigers will focus on the first of this spring’s championship races, Eastern Sprints to be raced in Worcester, Mass. on May 19. The seventh-ranked heavyweight men were also in action this past weekend, traveling to Derby, Conn. to take on the two-time defending national champions, No. 1 Yale and No. 16 Cornell. The first varsity eight fell to the Bulldogs by 4.7 seconds, but earned a win over the Big Red. The Heavies’ second varsity eight posted the best margin of the day, crossing the finish line just four tenths of a second behind Yale. The seventh-ranked women’s openweight team played host to No. 12 Wisconsin, No. 14 Rutgers, and Columbia. Both the first and second varsity eights posted comfortable wins over their challengers, but the varsity four finished third behind Rutgers and Wisconsin. This week, the women’s team was also excited to see senior Hannah Paynter named one of eight winners of the Spirit of Princeton Award. The award annually honors “students who have made a strong commitment to enhancing the undergraduate experience through
contributions to student organizations, athletics, community service, religious life, residential life and the arts.” Paynter is a two-time Ivy League medalist in the second varsity eight and a psychology major who will also earn certificates in teacher preparation and African American studies. She served as the president of Cloister Inn and the Interclub Council for the 2018–19 term. She is also a front desk monitor at Dillon Gym and has been involved with a variety of clubs and organizations on campus, ranging from TigerCall to the Vote 100 initiative. “I’ve been called a ‘hype train’ on the women’s open rowing team since my sophomore year,” Paynter said. “To be recognized on a campuswide scale for not only that same attitude but for actual contributions on campus is incredibly validating. We get to be here for four short years, and I’ve found time moves a bit slower when you’re giving your all and having fun along the way, in whatever you do.” Paynter is beloved by her teammates, who say they are lucky to have her. “She has been relentless in her pursuit of excellence while being endlessly positive,” says senior Lauren Barnard. “She is really one of a kind, and this award is perfect for her.”
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Tigers defeat Brown in final home series of the season By Mark Dodici staff writer
Princeton baseball (13–23, 8–10 Ivy) won its last home series of the season last weekend, taking two out of three games against Brown (11–25, 8–10 Ivy) for their second consecutive series victory. The Tigers benefited from strong outings by senior left-handed pitcher (LHP) Ryan Smith and junior righthanded pitcher (RHP) James Proctor to sweep the Saturday doubleheader, but a lateinning comeback by the Bears in the third game spoiled the efforts of Princeton’s junior RHP Andrew Gnazzo, keeping the Tigers from a perfect record in the final conference series on Clarke Field for the Class of 2019. “I knew it was my last time getting to pitch on this beautiful field,” said Smith after Saturday’s games. “I told Mike [Russo] earlier this week that I was going to finish one this year after eight innings against Cornell last week, so I came out with the mindset that I was going to finish and that we needed to win.” The mindset paid off, as Smith held the Brown batters to just one run on five hits in a complete-game gem in the series opener, striking out eight on the way to his fourth win of the season. The one run — a solo shot in the fourth off the bat of Brown’s pitcher, Garett Delano — gave the Bears a 1–0 lead to open the scoring, but it was a lead quickly erased
by a three-run fifth for the Ters, led by junior first baseman Ramzi Haddad’s two-run single. Haddad, who starred in Princeton’s series win over Cornell a week earlier, went 1-for-3 in the Brown game with two RBIs and two runs scored, helping his side to a 4–1 victory. Proctor took the mound in Game 2 for the Tigers and found similar success. Backed by a pair of runs in the first and another two in the fourth, he allowed three runs (two earned) over six innings, striking out 11, but received a no-decision after a solo home run for the Bears tied it in the eighth. The Princeton response was quick, as junior right-fielder Conor Nolan knocked in his second run of the game with a sacrifice fly to put the Tigers up 5–4 in the bottom half of the frame. Head coach Scott Bradley called on junior outfielder and pitcher Conor Nolan, who leads the team with four saves, to close the game from the mound, bringing him in with two on and two outs in the ninth. After a long at-bat ended in a walk, the junior induced a ground ball to short for a fielder’s choice to end the scare and sweep the twin bill. Though the Tigers sat in fifth place in the Ivy League standings at the end of Saturday’s competitions, this was Princeton’s seventh win of the last eight games, and the run of good form had inspired some confidence in the team. “We’re still mathemati-
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cally alive,” said Smith, on the team’s chances of making the Ivy Championship series. “We know we need to win every game, and that’s what we came out here to do.” Bradley would turn to Andrew Gnazzo to close the series and keep the Tigers in the
the jam, however, allowing a triple, double, and walk for three runs, giving Brown a 6–5 lead. The Tigers could not respond, and Nolan returned to the mound for the ninth. He was unable to hold the Bears at bay, loading the bases with two outs before allowing
gers drop out of contention for a spot in the Ivy League Championships, as they fell four games from of second place with only three games of conference play remaining. For Princeton, those games will come in two weeks in New Haven against third-place
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Sophomore shortstop Jake Boone went 3–4 with an RBI in Sunday’s loss to Brown.
running on Sunday, and the junior delivered with a seven-inning, three-run performance that brought Princeton into the eighth with a 5–3 lead. Sophomore RHP Jack Anderson entered and got two quick outs before putting two men on, and Bradley was quick to pull him for Nolan. The junior could not escape
a two-run single that would signal the end of his afternoon. First-year pitcher Reece Rabin tried to stem the damage but gave up a three-run home run before recording the final out. Princeton went down quietly in the bottom half of the frame, missing out on the sweep with an 11–5 loss. The blown lead saw the Ti-
Yale (16–23, 10–8 Ivy), as they will look to spoil a late-season push from the Bulldogs. Before that, the Tigers travel to St. John’s (24–17, 5–7 conference) for a doubleheader on Saturday and host the Red Storm for a single game on Sunday when the Class of 2019 will look for a win in their final game at Clarke Field.
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The men’s volleyball team ended their season with 18 wins, the most in a season under head coach Sam Shweisky.