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In Opinion The Editorial Board suggests ways to improve allocation of Commencement tickets, and columnist Tehila Wenger reflects on her time at Princeton. PAGE 4

Today on Campus 3:00 p.m.:The Women’s Center presents “Battling Abortion Stigma: A Student Speaks Out About Her Story,” where a University student will speak about her experience getting an abortion. Frist 243.

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News & Notes Columbia Teachers College employees vote to strike Employees of Columbia’s Teachers College voted on April 29 to authorize a strike as a response to proposed cuts to their pension and health care plans, according to Columbia Daily Spectator. The employees, members of the United Auto Workers Local 2110 union, voted to authorize the strike by a 95 percent margin after three months of unsuccessful negotiations w ith Teachers Col lege representatives. Employees held a rally in March to protest the proposed cuts, but claim that negotiations have not made any progress since then. Union president Maida Rosenstein said that the Teachers College administration proposed reducing health benefits, requiring employees to contribute to their premiums and pay higher deductibles. The College also proposed cutting the current universitypaid pension plan in favor of one employees would contribute to. The Teachers College administration offered wage i ncreases, according to Rosenstein, but union members claimed that the increases would not be enough to make up for the proposed cuts. Final negotiations were scheduled for April 29 with union members set to schedule a strike date if negotiations continued to be unsuccessful.

ACADEMICS

Premeds explore social science majors

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By Melissa Curtis staff writer

Although many premedical students at the University concentrate in the natural sciences, data shows that a growing number of students choose to major in social sciences instead. The past four years of premed students have seen 143 molecular biology concentrators, 76 ecology and evolutionary biology concentrators and 111 concentrators in the social sciences, including anthropology, history, psychology, sociology and the Wilson School, according to Director of Health Professions Advising Kate Fukawa-Connelly. Premedical students are able to pursue any concentration at the University, regardless of its association to science, she said, adding that the most popular concentration among premeds over the past four years has been molecular biology. Fukawa-Connelly said that graduates who entered medical school in the fall of 2014 represented a variety of concentrations. Out of these medical students, 41 had concentrated in molecular biology, 19 in the social sciences, 18 in a STEM major outside of biology, 16 in ecology and evolutionary biology, 13 in engineering and computer science, and eight in the humanities. See PREMED page 3

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The Admissions Opportunity Campaign Teach-In opposes the policy of asking applicants about former involvement with the penal system. STUDENT LIFE

86 undergrads on waitlist for housing, will hear over summer By Do-Hyeong Myeong senior writer

When Christopher Cross ’18 saw his name on the last page of the room draw list for Whitman College, he knew the rooms would run out before his draw time. As of Wednesday, 86 undergraduate students have applied to the wait-list for the 2015-16 room draw, according to University Media Relations Specialist Min Pullan. Those students will

be notified of their room assignments sometime between the end of July and August 15, Pullan added. The University currently guarantees four years of housing for all undergraduate students. The wait-list for undergraduate housing exists because many rooms do not become available until students who are taking leave, living off-campus or studying abroad cancel their contract by July 15, Pullan explained.

“While there are enough beds to accommodate all students, many of those beds do not become available until students who have drawn rooms decide to cancel their contracts,” Pullan said. “We have to wait until after that time to begin housing the wait list.” While students who had to apply for the wait-list expressed some concern about not knowing where they will be living next year, they

also said the inconvenience is not significant. Frank Jiang ’17, who applied for the upperclass housing wait-list, said that although he thinks it is inconvenient that he won’t find out where he will be living next year until right before the start of the semester, he is optimistic about the room he will get through the wait-list. “A couple of my friends who were on the wait-list See HOUSING page 3

LECTURE

Congressman discusses economic recovery By Layla Malamut staff writer

The economic recovery from the recession of 2008 has been the slowest, statistically, since the Great Depression, House Budget Committee chairman Tom Price said at a lecture on Wednesday. Price, a former orthopedic surgeon, began his political career in 1997, and is currently the U.S. Representative for Georgia’s sixth congressional district. He has served in Congress as a member of the Republican Party since 2004. Price pointed out that even though the unemployment rate has declined to five percent since the stock market crash of 2008, the growth vitality of the economy and of the individual American has not significantly recovered. Sixteen percent of Americans and 20 percent of American children live in poverty, and real income has actually decreased by six percent.

The economy is not rolling as it normally would after an economic downturn because of ever-increasing national debt, Price said. “The federal government ought not to be able to spend money it doesn’t have over, and over, and over again,” said Price, noting that the case might be different if the country were sitting on smaller amounts of debt. ”A nation [that] has gotten as far as we have has two options — the nation can either solve the problem themselves, or someone else will solve it for them.” The three greatest factors that depress the U.S. economy are taxes, regulation and litigation expenses, Price said. In response, he listed three options for solving the national deficit: increasing taxes, decreasing government spending or growing the national economy. Price argued that growing the national economy best provides the economic vital-

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House Budget Committee chairman Tom Price discussed criteria for speedy economic recovery in lecture.

ity that the U.S. needs. He noted that this option was embodied in the Pro-Growth Budgeting Act, which he introduced to Congress and which passed in 2014. Price voiced a set of even more fundamental crite-

ria that must be met on the parts of both the government and the citizens for America to begin a speedier uphill tread. First, citizens must participate in the political process, he said.

“Our system only works if everyone is involved. We can only be representatives of the people when people engage us,” Price said. “Being informed and voting, that’s the minimum.” See LECTURE page 2

U N I V E R S I T Y A F FA I R S

Legacy status remains a factor in admissions, though has recently decreased By Shriya Sekhsaria staff writer

An applicant’s legacy status has gone from being an important factor in admissions to a factor that is given some consideration over the past decade, according to the University’s Common Data Set. All eight Ivy League universities now indicate in their Common Data Sets that legacy

status is a factor that is considered during the admission process. “Every year we review our process. Every year we look carefully at how we make decisions,” Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said. “What we try to do every year is balance out what we’re looking at, and I think that we have always valued our alumni ties.” The change in consid-

eration of legacy status as a deciding factor in the admission process came in fall 2004, which was a time when the University was receiving a great degree of criticism about admitting children of alumni, Rapelye noted. “Some of [the criticism] was even coming from the Congress and government officials,” Rapelye said. “However, I don’t think that influ-

enced our decisions.” According to the Princeton Profiles, the children and step-children of University undergraduate and graduate alumni have constituted between 10 and 15 percent of the enrolled classes at the University since the Class of 2000. In this time period, Yale has admitted between 8 and 13 percent legacy students, Harvard between 12 and 16,

Dartmouth between 8 and 14 and Cornell between 14 and 17. The University of Pennsylvania has 13 percent legacy admits in the Class of 2018. Columbia and Brown did not release these percentages in their admission announcements and class profiles. The acceptance rate for alumni children and stepchildren has wavered withSee LEGACY page 2

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out a specific trend between 35 and 42 percent since the Class of 2000, with the Class of 2018 hitting a record low of

30.8 percent, according to the Princeton Profiles. “We have no quotas for any group,” Rapelye said. “There’s no formula for what we do.” Harvard’s legacy acceptance rate has wavered around 30 percent, Yale’s between 20 and 25 percent, and Brown does not keep track of the data. Cornell, Penn, Dartmouth and Columbia University did not release this data. Archana Pradhan Lackey ’92, a parent of a student in the Class of 2018, said that it shouldn’t matter whether a student’s parents attended the University if the student deserves an acceptance. “At the same time, you want some level of [consideration of alumni ties] there because there is this sense of generational loyalty that the University as a whole wants to cultivate,” Lackey said. “But you know, you can’t have a legacy there without having somebody there who can make a difference just in the same way somebody else can.” Sherry Romanzi ’18, a fourth generation student, said that being a legacy student has not affected her personally or socially because a lot of people at the University do not even know which students are legacies. She added that she felt there was a stigma to being a legacy student at the University.

“Every now and again, you’ll hear someone in passing in the dining hall, you know, saying, ‘Oh yeah, those are rich kids that just get in because like their family donated a lot of money and blah, blah, blah,’ ” she said. “I think [a family history at the University] is something to really be celebrated and not to be hidden, and not be ashamed of, and not to be bragged about, obviously, but it’s something to be honored.” Lackey said she thinks it is hard to be a legacy student because people think that the legacy students received some special dispensation because of the legacy. Rapelye said that the children of University graduates genuinely tend to be good students. “They have had the fortune of going to good schools,” Rapelye said. “They have had opportunities that they’ve taken advantage of and are very strong applicants in our pool.” Rapelye said undergraduate and graduate alumni ties were given equal weight. She added that other familial relationships, such as that of University grandparents and siblings, are also noted but not added to the statistics in the Princeton Profiles. “We are aware of a sibling on campus or a sibling who has gone to Princeton,” Rape-

lye said. “But the sibling who is applying needs to be able to stand on their own.” Lackey said that her bond to the University has become stronger since she has become a Princeton parent because she has gotten to know the University on a new basis from a modern and different-career perspective. Lackey added that it was extremely challenging to not be biased towards the University as a choice for her daughter. “It’s very hard not to be an Orange and Black parent,” Lackey said. “From a very young age, you think ‘Of course that’s where my child is going to go,’ you know, not realizing, I think, how incredibly more competitive it’s become to get in.” Lackey said she realized how competitive University admissions were when she went to an admissions event at which Rapelye said she could fill five classes over with the applicants and still be happy with the quality of the classes. Rapelye said the admissions policy for children of alumni is reviewed every year and is unlikely to change next year. “We’ve tried to be very straightforward about the fact that we value the children of our alumni,” Rapelye said. “These students are strong students.”

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Secondly, he said Americans must demand honesty in the numbers being told to them. “The numbers are stark and the numbers are real, so there isn’t a reason we should be disagreeing on numbers,” Price explained.

As a final imperative, he said Americans should require the media to do its job. He noted that the press currently shows much more of an advocacy mission than a mission to educate the public. Price said he has optimism for America’s capability to reform and move onto a better and brighter future. “We believe in the great-

est number of opportunities, the greatest amount of success for the greatest number of Americans — so that the greatest number of American dreams can be realized,” he said. The talk on budgetary politics and policy took place at 4:30 p.m. in Frist 302 and was sponsored by the Princeton Tory and the Department of Politics.

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the previous year got really good rooms, better than a lot of people who drew [at the regular room draw], so I’m not going to complain about it right now,” Jiang said. Housing and Real Estate Services’ guidelines for applying to the wait-list say that students can indicate their room preferences in priority order, add a roommate if they want and note their dormitory choices and desired square footage on the wait-list application form. The guidelines also say that all wait-listed students who apply by the deadline are guaranteed housing, and that a student’s rank on the wait-list is determined by his or her original room selection time in the room draw.

Cross said that while he was initially disappointed, he is not experiencing any significant inconvenience. “We can’t move into our new rooms yet anyway,” Cross said. Cross added he is content with the current wait-list system. “The only alternative is to just automatically put you with whoever’s left over,” Cross said. “At least [with the current wait-list system] there’s a chance it will get sorted out, and you might even end up getting a single. The other alternative isn’t good.” Pullan noted that although the deadline to apply for the wait-list has passed, the application remains open for students who missed the deadline. Associate Director for Student Housing Lisa DePaul did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

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She explained that graduates who will begin medical school this upcoming fall had similarly dispersed concentrations — 35 concentrated in ecology and evolutionary biology, 34 in molecular biology, 27 in social sciences, 19 in STEM other than biology, seven in the humanities and four in engineering and computer science. Adel Mahmoud, a lecturer in molecular biology and public policy, said he works with premedical students in the Wilson School and molecular biology concentrations and thinks that an undergraduate concentration matters little for a medical future. He added that he believes students should pursue what truly interests them, because that will lead them to success, and one’s concentration is not too influential in an entry to medical school. “My best students have

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been those who really care about what they’re studying,” he said. “I really don’t think [the specific concentration] matters at all.” Premedical students who were interviewed for the article demonstrated a variety

“My best students have been those who really care about what they’re studying. I really don’t think [the specific concentration] matters at all.” Adel Mahmoud Lecturer

of academic interests, ranging from public policy to languages. Janine Cadet ’17 is a Wilson concentrator and said that

she has known since before high school that she wanted to become a doctor. In the 8th grade, she said that she and her family went on medical mission trips to impoverished countries, which she said inspired her medical aspirations. “I was always interested in public policy,” Cadet said, adding that although she considered chemistry, molecular biology never interested her as much as an undergraduate major. Cadet doesn’t feel that she is at a disadvantage by not concentrating in a strictly STEMbased field. “I think it will give me a more well rounded education than just focusing on sciences,” Cadet said. Bernardo da Silva ’17 also opted for a less scientific track and is concentrating in French and Italian language, though he said that he initially entered the University thinking he would concentrate in molecular biology. He has continued taking

the required molecular biology and organic chemistry classes, but he decided on his French and Italian concentration a few weeks before sophomores declared. “I just loved the department and the professors,” he said about the French and Italian department. By following this concentration, he said he is able to pursue a medical career while also studying what he truly loves: French, art history and Italian. Sarah Morgan ’15, a premedical student pursuing a concentration in English, said she knew she wanted to be premed coming into her freshman year, and she said she was pleased she could concentrate in English and still be premed. “It was an awesome discovery that I could do both,” Morgan said. Morgan said she believes it is becoming more accepted for premedical students to pursue concentrations that are not strictly science or math.

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EDITORIAL

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Tehila Wenger

Tehila Wenger is a politics major from Columbus, Ohio. She can be reached at twenger@princeton. edu.

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n “The Shawshank Redemption,” Morgan Freeman talks about the effects of long-term incarceration on prison inmates: “These walls are funny. First you hate ’em, then you get used to ’em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That’s institutionalized.” The quote could not have been more apt if it had been expressly written about my Princeton experience: just replace the “funny walls” with the FitzRandolph Gate. I loathed those gates and everything they stood for during the first half of freshman year, deliberately walking through them two or three times in symbolic defiance against the culture, expectations and traditions that had begun to weave a sticky orange web around me. It’s hard for senior me to understand just how much freshman me hated the University, but I will always regard the social atmosphere of that year as my own personal version of Sartrean hell. At some point in the middle of my first year, I was “used to” Princeton to the extent that I stopped mentioning transfer applications every time I called home. By May, I reluctantly admitted to myself that I was growing fond of this place. I wrote a column in which I compared the University to a cult and proudly announced that I did not intend to join. I would remain gracefully and gratefully on the sidelines, appreciating all the University offered without doing the weird chest salute gesture at the end of our Old Nassau theme song. An anonymous upperclassman left me an ominous message in the comments section: “Just you wait, freshman.” The Morgan Freeman quote came up recently when I was explaining to a friend why I couldn’t wait to leave Princeton. I genuinely love the University and everything it has given me: friends, ideas, trips to exotic locales and free laundry. But I am ready to leave. I have been ready to leave for weeks. I am ready to leave because of all the ways in which the University is like a prison. A magnificent, gilded prison that swallows you alive as a freshman and spits you out again after serving a four-year sentence. You will walk out of the gates with the University’s particular brand of f leur-de-lis etched so deeply into your psyche that you will carry this awareness of yourself as a Princetonian around like an ethnic identity for the rest of your life. You even have several orange uniforms pieced together from countless free clothing giveaways to point to as relics of your incarceration. The University is a place where students can successfully convince themselves that they are having the best four years of their life while they pull all-nighters on essays, scramble to f lesh out their summers with résumé-worthy experiences and cancel friend date after friend date because a social life is the one aspect of Princeton that is easily rescheduled. The academic demands are unrealistic (how much of the required reading did you actually complete this semester?) and the extracurriculars are often more stressful than the coursework. There will inevitably be multiple emotional breakdowns along the way but, if the mental pressure gets too high, you had best hide all that anxiety — the University doesn’t tolerate severe depression. And yet, like Shawshank, at the end of this harrowing, hammering experience, many of the inmates desire nothing more than to cower within these Gothic buildings for another four years, protected by the womb-like amenities and familiar though often brutally demanding campus culture from the uncertainty of everything beyond the gates. I wish I had the email address of the upperclassman who commented on my freshman year farewell column. I wish I could tell her that I still don’t do the Old Nassau salute, but that she may have been right about everything else. Because, like I said above, I am in love with Princeton. I love the challenging grind of an impossible amount of coursework, the sharpness of my friendships, the breathless race to keep abreast of too many extracurricular commitments. And most of all, I love the person I have turned into (or was it Princeton doing the turning?) over the past four years. At Princeton, I know who I am. Outside, I have to remake myself. And that is terrifying. I want to leave the University the way most Shawshank prisoners want to leave prison: The desire is strictly theoretical. I’m not sure how institutionalized I have become, but I am about to find out. And to all the underclassmen reading this, especially those who cannot wait to walk out the FitzRandolph Gate and free themselves in every way from the powerful, complicated, wonderful and arduous burden that is the University, I say: Just you wait.

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ommencement marks the end of of the undergraduate careers of Princeton seniors and includes four days of events for the members of the graduating class and their families. This is a time for great celebration that is meant to be shared with friends and relatives; however, given the differing capacities of the events’ various venues, seniors are given limited numbers of tickets for invitees. The number of allotted tickets is the same for all seniors, and those who want more are not allowed to buy them. The Board believes that the University should create a formal system for commencement ticket redistribution. The University currently distributes tickets for the four largest events. Every graduating senior receives three tickets for Baccalaureate, four for the Class Day ceremony, six for Prom and five for Commencement. This allowance of tickets is more than enough for some students, but not nearly enough for others. Students with smaller families or perhaps those whose families live abroad might not use all of their tickets, but some students with large families or many nearby relatives will not have enough for everybody. While this imbalance could be addressed by a market, the Board believes an alternative mechanism is preferable. Such a mechanism

should honor the University’s ban on ticket sales because a market policy would unfairly preference wealthier students. A market system would also create an inapproriate monetary incentive to not bring guests to commencement. Still, the absence of a formal redistribution system means that some people have extra tickets and some people want more tickets. It is possible to plead with other students in order to find unused tickets, and friends certainly help each other when someone needs a ticket or has a leftover. Nonetheless, a student’s ability to bring additional guests to commencement should not be entirely determined by the size of his or her social network; the size of a student’s social network is as arbitrary as his or her wealth. As good as friendship and word-of-mouth are, a central system through which students could submit their extra tickets and apply for additional tickets would be far more equitable. We propose a modest buyback system that would allow the University to redistribute extra tickets. Under such a system, students with unused tickets could give them back to the University in return for a $10 credit. The small amount would encourage people to submit their extra tickets, but the fixed price would not force students to choose between bringing an additional guest and making

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a large profit. This buyback would help the University gain possession of the surplus; therefore, it could redistribute additional tickets to students who apply for them. Through a lottery, students could indicate the number of additional tickets they want and would receive additional tickets. Such a system would not destroy the private exchange between friends; rather, it would provide a more efficient process for the allocation of extra tickets. By instituting a buyback mechanism and a lottery process for interested students, this formal system of commencement ticket redistribution would best accommodate the guests of as many students as possible. Students only graduate from Princeton once, and the opportunity for family and friends to recognize this milestone is extremely valuable. The Board believes that, by implementing this system, the University would more efficiently and fairly grant this chance to as graduates many as possible. Daphna Le Gall ’15 and Jillian Wilkowski ’15 abstained from the writing of this editorial. The Editorial Board is an independent body and decides its opinions separately from the regular staff and editors of The Daily Princetonian. The Board answers only to its Chair, the Opinion Editor and the Editor-In-Chief.

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s graduating seniors, we have been repeatedly told the University’s unofficial motto over four years: “In the Nation’s Service and in the Service of All Nations.” Before we walk through the FitzRandolph Gate, we wanted to reflect on why service is such a valuable part of a University education. This column aims to highlight the importance of civic engagement in the lives of participating students. While the point of service and civic engagement is to serve others, there are invaluable benefits for participants themselves. We seek to disrupt the notion that service is about the privileged helping the poor, a one-way flow of resources from the University to the community. Instead, we argue that the most meaningful service is built on honest, compassionate relationships with those around us. These relationships, above all else, have sustained us and driven us in our individual attempts to positively affect our communities. Service and civic engagement can begin in one’s own backyard through showing compassion to those in our own circles. Damaris Miller ’15 noted, “In the drive to ‘go do service’ we can forget that there are people living with us on campus who are in need and often marginalized in some way.” Miller credits her Bridge Year experience with this perspective, reflecting that during her year in India, she began to feel that “the richest service I could do began with friendship and have striven to maintain that notion throughout Princeton, whether by serving communities off campus or seeking to aid those directly around me.” Zhan Okuda-Lim ’15 similarly looked inwardly to

Expanding civic service find his niche. Okuda-Lim has spearheaded mental health policy reform on campus as a result of his own experiences with mental health issues. Upon hearing that other students also had similar difficulties navigating health resources on campus, he worked with students and administrators to reduce the stigma surrounding mental health on campus and to expand access to campus resources. For others, service or civic engagement outside of one’s community is pivotal because it provides individuals with a more accurate sense of reality. For Logan Coleman ’15, serving as an active participant of DREAM Team, an immigration reform group with the Pace Center for Civic Engagement, has kept her grounded. Coleman says, “The perspectives that we gain access to through opening up our doors to the community have been pivotal in expanding and clarifying our vision of reality that can otherwise become overly isolated within Princeton’s gates.” Coleman highlights a powerful experience in which DREAM team helped stop the deportation of a New Jersey father. Logan says, “Seeing him reunite with his family in time for Thanksgiving will continue to live in my memory as one of the happiest moments of my life and would have never been possible without the two-way street of engagement.” Service and civic engagement also provide depth to one’s life by supplementing volunteers’ understanding of issues with real, lived experiences of those who are directly affected by them. Claire Nuchtern ’15 sees the inextricable link between service and her University education. By taking classes in African American Studies and sociology, Nuchtern was able to gain a critical lens

through which to view her volunteer activities at a local prison. Noting one of her reasons for continued involvement in service, Nuchtern says, “I fear I would have forgotten the stories and hopes and dreams behind the horrifying statistics.” For students with intense academic or extracurricular commitments, it can be a challenge to fit service into their schedule. However, for varsity athlete Joanna Anyanwu ’15, experiences with diverse communities through civic engagement informed her interactions with her teammates and friends. Anyanwu says, “It was paramount that I integrate community service into my Princeton experience despite the constraints posed by my athletic commitments.” To this end, Anyanwu became an active leader in Community Action, which allowed her the opportunity to apply the skills she had learned on the track to expanding and enhancing the program. Anyanwu’s experience highlights how service has the ability to enhance all aspects of a student’s Princeton experience, rather than being a simple activity on the side. Our collective experiences highlight the depth to which community engagement experiences have affected us. The University is a place of tremendous resources and incredibly passionate people who are here to learn and grow. We found that through engaging meaningfully with our own community here, and with communities outside Princeton, we have been challenged to make service not a box to check, but an integral part of our world view. We hope to draw upon our varied experiences to reexamine what it means to serve at the University. We hope to redefine how this campus views this

most crucial work and to challenge our community to reimagine service and civic engagement as not just an extracurricular activity, but as a broader system of ethics and way of engaging with the world that is at the heart of what it means to be a student at the University. Joanna Anyanwu ’15, Community Action Executive Board Katie Bauman ’15, Student Volunteers Council Executive Board Caleb Bradford ’15, Community House Executive Board Ray Chao ’15, Former Breakout Coordinator Board, Ban the Box New Jersey Executive Director Logan Coleman ’15, Former Co-Director of the Princeton DREAM Team Cara de Freitas Bart ’15, Pace Council for Civic Values Laura Harder ’15, Student Volunteer Council Board Chair, Outdoor Action Leader Shawon Jackson ’15, Former Breakout Coordinator Board, Former USG President Sarah Jeong ’15, Breakout Princeton Student Executive Board Janie Lee ’15, Pace Council for Civic Values, Former Students for Education Reform President Nihar Madhavan ’15, Breakout Princeton Student Executive Board, Community Action Leader Amantia Muhedini ’15, Breakout Princeton Student Executive Board, Poverty and Peacemaking Conference Organizer Claire Nuchtern ’15, Pace Council for Civic Values, Student Volunteers Council Project Leader, Former U-Councilor Zhan Okuda-Lim ’15, Pace Council for Civic Values, U-Councilor

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joins McMunn up front. A unanimous all-Ivy first team selection, the second-year standout tied for team lead with 63 points on 40 goals and 23 assists. Bannantine described the underclassman as a complete player with “incredible stick skills” who “knows where to be at the right time.” On the other side of the field, Princeton’s sophomore goalkeeper Ellie DeGarmo has started 16 of the 17 contests she has appeared in. She boats a save percentage of 46.0 along with a 9.16 goal against average. “She has absolutely sparked our defense this year,” Bannantine explained. “I knew as a freshman that she was going to be a playmaker throughout her career here. She makes those saves that you’re not supposed to make and is also solid on the ones you’re sup-

posed to. That spark carries all the way through to the attack.” One outstanding feature in Fairfield’s résumé is its perfect 7-0 away record, contrasting with its 6-4 home record. On the somewhat novel situation of facing a new opponent, Bannantine said, “We’re doing the same things we usually do: scouting them, making a game plan for what to expect. But we’re definitely going to focus on our game first. And we know that we can’t take them lightly. They’re obviously in the tournament for a reason.” The Stags have limited opponents to an incredibly stingy 6.83 goals per game while notching 9.89 per game themselves. A shot disparity of 406-337 gives good account of this differential. However, the performance of junior goalkeeper Chelsey Sidaras has been instrumental in keeping Fairfield’s opponents off the board. The New York native earned all-MAAC first team

honors for the second straight year thanks to her save percentage of 53.5, a mark good

“We’re doing the same things we usually do: scouting them, making a game plan for what to expect. But we’re definitely going to focus on our game first.” Liz Bannantine, junior defender

for second best nationally. Also featured on the allMAAC first team was senior Fairfield midfielder Meghan Reda. A standout defender in 2014, Reda has continued to disrupt opponents’ possession in her final year. Her 28 caused turnovers and 43 ground balls lead the Stags. Action is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. on Friday.

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spring after guiding the Tigers to an outright Ivy League Championship. After watching the selection show, in an interview on the Ivy League Digital Network, Granville echoed the visible enthusiasm of her team, saying, “We’re excited. We’re ready to go.” She also pointed toward her team’s experience last season in the NCAA tournament as an important factor in their preparation for this weekend’s events. “I think it will be a really big help … I think it’s going to be huge for [the women],” the Chicago native said. “They will just be … a little bit more comfortable

playing this year.” If the Tigers are to advance past the Gamecocks, they will need their three All-Ivy selections to play at the top of their games. Senior Lindsay Graff, a unanimous first team selection and the 2014 Ivy League Player of the Year, will play a prominent role in the action, playing at Princeton’s first singles and first doubles positions. Graff and her doubles partner, sophomore Alanna Wolff, were also selected as a unanimous All-Ivy pairing. Amanda Muliawan, a secondteam All-Ivy selection, joins Graff and Wolff at the top of the Tigers lineup. On the other side of the ledger, the Gamecocks boast some talent with national pedigree. Elixane Lechemia

(43) and Caroline Dailey (123) both figure into the ITA national rankings for singles. Three different doubles pairings — Hadley Berg and Caroline Dailey (41), Meghan Blevins and Brigit Folland (61), and Berg and Lechemia (81) — all enter play with a national ranking, demonstrating the extent of the depth of the Gamecocks. Waiting for the Tigers if they should advance would be the victor of the battle between No. 10 Virginia (21-5, 11-3 ACC) and VCU (16-8). A bout against host Virginia would be a rematch of the 2010 NCAA opening round matchup, which the Cavaliers narrowly won 4-3. The Roundof-32 matches will begin at noon on Sunday.

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given its staunch home record. The Cardinal is 11-0 there this season, and has not dropped a game in its home pool since 2009. Adding to the impressiveness of Stanford’s ability to defend its turf is that it plays in arguably the toughest water polo division in the nation. This is evidenced in the fact that the MPSF has sent four teams this year to the NCAA tournament. Though Stanford and its unbeaten record may be daunting, junior goalie (and member of the U.S. National Team) Ashleigh Johnson maintains that the team focuses not on the past successes, but solely on the coming game. “We’re not focusing on the accomplishments of the past,” Johnson said. “We’re taking this game as our next game, and we’re going to play our game.” Should Princeton pull off the upset, it would most likely remain the underdog throughout the tournament. The winner of their game will face the winner of the University of Southern California and the University of Hawaii on Saturday at 8:15 p.m. Given that Stanford, USC and Hawaii rank second, fourth and fifth in the NCAA respectively, the No. 9 ranked Tigers will be facing heavyweights throughout all their games in the tournament. Senior utility Ashley Hatcher also pointed out that there’s a certain freedom allotted to the Tigers as the underdogs in the game. “It’s just exciting to play them because we have nothing to lose … They’re already looking forward to their semifinal game against USC on Saturday, and not even considering [us] … That really works to our

favor.” Given the way this Princeton team has handled hostile crowds in the past, Tiger faithfuls certainly have reason to be hopeful come this weekend. Wagner fans invaded DeNunzio Pool in their game against the Tigers on April and were subsequently quelled by a roaring Tiger offense. Indeed, the Tigers have fed off this kind of electric-

“It’s going to be a little nerve racking but also very exciting. It’s going to be loud, and that’s going to be really fun for us.” Morgan Hallock, sophomore center defender

ity from the crowd, either on their behalf or otherwise. “It’s going to be a little nerve-racking but also very exciting,” sophomore center defender Morgan Hallock said. “It’s going to be loud, and that’s going to be really fun for us.” After drawing eight ejections in both the Indiana and Wagner games (and earning crucial power play goals in each), it’s clear that aggressiveness is a part of the winning formula for the Tigers. One can imagine this tendency for aggressiveness could increase when playing under the bright lights and in front of a boisterous, antagonistic crowd. Nevertheless, though they may thrive off this energy, the Tigers have to avoid being

overeager and playing out of the flow of their offense. “We [will] just try to take it play by play and slow the game down,” senior utility Jessie Holechek said. “That will be our key to success against Stanford: slowing the game down and making them play at our tempo.” Hallock echoed a similar sentiment, saying that the balance between intensity and moderation will be key to the Tigers’ maintaining their success. “Being aggressive on offense but also being patient on offense will be our biggest strong suit,” Hallock said. Admittedly, this is a Princeton team that likes to score. Averaging 11.5 goals on the season and coming off a 15goal outing against Wagner, the offense is probably raring to go. Hatcher points out that the need to be patient cannot devolve into a refusal to maintain aggression. “While we do want to slow the game down, we can’t come out and be timid,” Hatcher said. “We can’t do that with the kind of teams we’re about to go play. [Continuing] the aggression is really important.” Whether going full throttle at Stanford’s defense or dragging at possessions, this Princeton team seems to have a clear goal for victory in mind: play their game. Only by playing the game on their own terms will they give themselves the best possible chance to advance to the next round on Saturday night. Johnson said that this game, like any other game, depends on the Tigers not being reactionary, but forging their own path in the game. “We’re not preparing any differently. We’re just going to go out and play our best game,” Johnson said. “It’s an exciting opportunity.”

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Tigers head west for NCAA tournament By Miles Hinson sports editor

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The women’s water polo team has been on a roll this season and will compete against Stanford in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

Having shown itself to be the beast of the east, the time has come for the women’s water polo team to take its talents out west and fight for the ultimate prize in collegiate water polo. After a 7-6 nailbiter of a closeout against Indiana University and a 12-2 drubbing of Wagner College, Princeton (30-3 overall, 9-1 Collegiate Water Polo Association) finds

itself as one of eight teams still hunting for the NCAA championship. Its path to glory, however, is not without major obstacles. Playing in Stanford, Calif., it opens this part of the tournament with a game against the Stanford Cardinal (22-2, 6-0 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation), reigning NCAA champions and winners of three out of the last four NCAA Titles. The task of beating the Cardinal looks all the more tough See W. WAPO page 5

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Women to face Fairfield in first round of tournament By Andrew Steele senior writer

As May’s superlative weather heralds, it is NCAA tournament time for successful spring teams. Well-acquainted with success of late, No. 11/12 women’s lacrosse (14-3 overall, 7-0 Ivy League) has plenty cause for confidence heading into its NCAA tournament first-round matchup with Fairfield University (144, 7-1 Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference). Princeton carries a six-game win streak into the first-round matchup. What’s more, the Orange and Black has secured the program’s first perfect conference record since 2004 — that year, the Tigers fell to Virginia in the tournament semifinals — and its second-ever Ivy League tournament win. The 2015 tournament championship came over perennial rival Penn and avenged last year’s final loss to the Quakers. “It was definitely very satisfying,” junior defender Liz Bannantine said. “We knew going into the Ivy season that that was a goal for us. But a

bigger goal was to beat every Ivy team. We treated every conference game as a sort of championship. But to end on the note that we did, beating a great overall team like Penn in the final, was icing on the cake.” The Fairfield Stags, unranked in the coaches’ and Inside Lacrosse polls, earned an automatic bid thanks to their 9-7 defeat of Canisius in the MAAC tournament final. The two sides have never met and do not share any common opponents from the 2015 season. Our old friend the Ratings Percentage Index (which ranks teams by wins and losses with reference to strength of schedule) locates Princeton at 10th in the nation and Fairfield at 30th. On her team’s poise approaching the matchup, Bannantine said, “It’s higher than I’ve ever experienced going into the tournament. Winning the Ivy tournament and the Ivy League so decisively has definitely given us that boost of confidence. Having confidence in each other and knowing that we are a formidable opponent is something

that helps us. But we know we can’t be overly confident, because every team we face is going to be good.” Stony Brook University will provide the venue for the matchup between these conference champions, with the winner earning the right to challenge the America East champion Seawolves in round two. Should the Tigers advance, they will have a quick turnaround before challenging Stony Brook, another new opponent for Princeton. “[The second round] is definitely on everyone’s mind,” Bannantine said. “Because while we know that we can’t overlook Fairfield, we have to be realistic and know that we have to prepare for another opponent in Stony Brook. They have a lot of weapons on their team: a lot of fast kids, very athletic. But we have to stick to our game plan, because I think that we’re peaking at the right moment.” In last year’s NCAA tournament, the Tigers contested with then No. 8 Penn State and No. 11 Virginia in rematches of regular season meetings. As clichéd as it is

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to point out the difficulty of beating a team twice in the same season, reality brought the pundits’ adage to bear in the 2014 Princeton postseason. First, Ivy League rival Penn took revenge for their 6-9 regular season loss at Class of 1952 Stadium with a 9-6 win over the Orange and Black in the conference tournament final. Thanks to their overall body of work, the Ti-

gers received an at-large bid and looked to face Penn State, which had taken its regular season finale meeting by a score of 13-12. Princeton reversed its previous outcome with a 16-13 NCAA tournament first round win, its first since 2011. Virginia, who lost at 1952 Stadium earlier in the 2014 season, emerged from the ensuing round with a 13-11 home win.

This storyline will be absent from Friday’s tilt on Long Island. Present and impactful will be Princeton’s senior duo of midfielder Erin Slifer and attacker Erin McMunn. Ivy League Midfielder honors came for Slifer, whose pace and power compliment the finesse and vision of her attacker classmate. Sophomore Olivia Hompe See W. LAX page 5

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Big games ahead as tennis teams begin postseason By Mark Goldstein staff writer

After 17-year absence, men’s tennis returns to NCAA tournament While third-year head coach Billy Pate is no stranger to the NCAA tournament, when his team squares off in Charlottesville, Va., on Friday against the University of Minnesota in opening round play, the Tigers will break a drought 17 years in the making. The No. 36 Tigers (19-7, 4-3 Ivy League) will battle the No. 25 Golden Gophers (20-7, 10-1 Big Ten) at 10 a.m. in Princeton’s first return to the national tournament since 1998. “This is something we’ve been building towards since the day we arrived three years ago,” Pate said in an interview on the Ivy League Digital Network, after watching the selection show with his team. Pate, who led Alabama to seven NCAA tournament appearances in his 10 years at

the helm from 2003-2012, will bring crucial postseason experience to a team that lacks it. And standing in between the Tigers and a trip to the next stage of the tournament — the Sweet Sixteen — which Pate reached twice in his time at Alabama (2003, 2007), is an impressive opponent. The opening round matchup in the single-elimination tournament will pit the Tigers against the Golden Gophers for the first time since 2002. Minnesota enters as the favorite, though by a slim margin. Minnesota feature two nationally ranked singles players: Leandro Toledo (25) and Matic Spec (57), who will match up against All-Ivy selections senior Zack McCourt (first team) and sophomore Tom Colautti (second team) on the first two singles courts. McCourt, for his part, is also ranked nationally, entering play at No. 79. The McCourt/Colautti combination will also figure in the dou-

bles competition, as the duo, ranked No. 48 in the nation, match up against Minnesota’s 56th ranked pair Mathieu Froment and Jack Hamburg. While Minnesota’s strong team and impressive record might seem daunting, the Tigers’ strength of schedule has left them unfazed. The team faced 17 ranked opponents over the course of the season, six of which compete in the Ivy League. Pate called this season a “banner year” for the conference, saying that the “tremendous” depth of the league helped his team develop. No. 34 Harvard and No. 17 Columbia join Princeton as the other two representatives to the national tournament from the Ivy League. Against a strong Golden Gopher team, prior experience against deep, talented teams could be a crucial factor. Should Princeton beat Minnesota on Friday, the Tigers would face off on Saturday against the winner of

the matchup between No. 5 Virginia (23-3, 12-0 ACC) and St. John’s University (15-8) on Saturday at 3 p.m. Women set to make second consecutive NCAA tournament appearance A year removed from its first postseason victory, a 4-2 win over Arizona State, No. 43 Princeton (12-8, 6-1 Ivy League) will return to the tournament this weekend in Charlottesville, Va., to take on No. 30 South Carolina (1410, 6-7 SEC) on Saturday at 9 a.m. With the tournament berth, head coach Lauren Granville becomes the first coach in Princeton’s history to lead her squad to consecutive NCAA tournaments. The third-year head coach will lead her Tiger team with some new hardware, as Granville became the inaugural recipient of the Ivy League Coach of the Year award this See TENNIS page 5

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Both tennis teams are preparing to compete in the NCAA tournament.

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