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New genderinclusive language guideline issued

By Marcia Brown associate news editor

The University’s Office of Human Resources issued new recommendations for genderinclusive language. The recommendations, issued in August and updated in September, are to be used in official HR communications, policies, job descriptions, and job postings.

In the original recommendations, the Office of Human Resources and the Office of Communications defines gender-inclusive language as “writing and speaking about people in a manner that does not use gender-based words.”

University Media Relations Specialist Min Pullan wrote in a statement that the Human Resources Department “has for several years encouraged the use of inclusive language, in keeping with the University’s

overall effort to provide a welcoming and inclusive environment for all.”

“About two years ago, HR developed guidelines to be used in official communications from the department, as is common practice at other institutions,” the statement reads,“the guidelines encourage the use of language that is broadly inclusive in job postings, policy statements and other documents and reflect the inclusive culture and policies at Princeton University.”

The new guidelines were apparent during orientation for first-year students when administrators and other individuals addressed the Class of 2020 as “first-year student” or “frosh.”

“I think it’s a great idea,” Sera Gorucu ’20 said. “I think it’s very inclusive and especially nowaSee LANGUAGE page 2

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Entrepreneurship certificate program announced

By Claire Lee associate News Editor

The Keller Center and the Princeton Entrepreneurship Council announced a new Certificate Program in Entrepreneurship. The Program will continue to accept applications from juniors until Sept. 23, and the process for sophomores will begin in the spring.

Associate Dean of the College Rebekah Massengill said that the Certificate Program in Entrepreneurship was one of three programs approved last year, along with the Certificate Program in Archaeology and the Certificate Program in Music Theater.

Director of the University’s Keller Center and chair of the Princeton Entrepreneurship Advisory Committee Mung Chiang noted that the idea to create the Entrepreneurship certificate dates back to about three years ago when University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 and Provost

David Lee GS ’99 took office.

“They convened a committee of faculty, students, staff, and alumni to explore entrepreneurship the Princeton way,” he said. “The committee started working on this in 2014 and the report was issued in spring 2015, last year, with a response by President Eisgruber and Provost Lee also in spring 2015.”

Chiang added that the report of the entrepreneurship council was part of a larger strategic planning process, a series of task forces that were examining University-wide teaching and research. He said that part of the proposed actions in that report was to situate entrepreneurship education in the broader picture of the liberal arts environment at the University and to develop the proposal for the certificate program.

In the charge issued to the PEAC, Lee said that the number of entrepreneurship-related activities, curricular or otherwise, being offered on the Princeton

campus has grown considerably in recent years.

“These activities range from undergraduate and graduate course offerings such as ‘Entrepreneurial Leadership,’ ‘Social Entrepreneurship: Ventures to Address Global Challenges,’ and ‘High-Tech Entrepreneurship’; to internships coordinated through the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, the Pace Center, the International Internship Program, and Career Services; to a Summer Accelerator Program; to broad student-led programing coordinated through groups such as the Entrepreneurship Club and the Social Entrepreneurship Initiative,” he said.

Massengill said that the University’s primary consideration for new certificate programs is that the program meets needs that are not currently being met in the existing curriculum. She added that any proposed certificate has See CERTIFICATE page 2

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U. can withhold jurisdictional response map, according to court U N I V E R S I T Y A F FA I R S

Fire safety schedule changes over summer

By Charles Min associate news editor

The University’s Fire Safety Committee approved a series of revisions to the dormitory fire safety schedule, effective Sept. 1. The changes include an increased fee for fire safety violations and a required electrical system certification for hoverboards.

The decision was made in conjunction with Housing and Real Estate Services, the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, the Graduate School, the University Fire Marshal, and the Student Housing Advisory Group.

University Media Relations

Special Min Pullan noted that the increase in fines was a result of a restructuring of the fire safety fine schedule.

She added that the primary factors for the revision were to simplify the system so that students were more aware of the consequences, discourage further violations, and align the University with other institutions that operate in the same regulatory environment.

“I think it’s unfair for students, because the rules for fire safety are not communicated sufficiently enough, so we’re not aware of the violations we’re committing,” said Raj Patel ’17.

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By Abhiram Karuppur staff writer

Mercer County Superior Court Judge Mary Jacobson ruled on July 6 that the University must disclose a statement of responsibilities between the University’s Department of Public Safety and the Princeton Police Department to Planet Princeton under the Open Public Records Act. However, Jacobson also ruled that the University has the right to withhold a jurisdictional response map, which details emergency response protocols between the Princeton Police Department and the University’s Department of Public Safety.

The case was filed against the University by Krystal Knapp, the founder of the local news organization Planet Princeton, after she sought to access copies of the operating agreements between the Princeton Police Department and the University’s Department of Public Safety. The two departments are jointly in charge of the University’s and the town of Princeton’s safety. Their operating agreements detail responsibilities for both de-

partments and a map indicating the jurisdictions of each department.

Walter Luers, the attorney who represented Knapp, noted that both Knapp and the readers of Planet Princeton wanted to see the operating agreements.

“Krystal wanted these agreements, the maps and the schedules so that people can know what the division of labor is,” Luers said.

“You should know where someone’s jurisdiction ends and where it begins, and who’s responsible for what.”

Knapp did not respond to a request for comment.

Princeton’s Municipal Clerk, Linda McDermott, initially denied Knapp’s request for the agreements, so Knapp sued the town in Superior Court. Princeton then agreed to release the materials, but the University stepped in and withheld the jurisdictional response map and other sensitive material.

Luers did note that a couple of weeks after the suit was filed, the University released some of the materials along with a redacted schedule of responsibilities, but withheld the jurisdictional maps.

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Senior columnist Marni Morse makes a case for trigger warnings, and columnist Beni Snow argues that students should be able to go barefoot in the dining halls.

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Knapp and the University engaged in negotiations, but were unable to come to an agreement.

Executive Director of Public Safety Paul Ominsky deferred comment to Assistant Vice President for Communications Daniel Day. “The map and the statement of responsibilities include tactical and strategic information about police procedures in emergencies and other situations,” Day said. “We wanted to keep this information exempt from disclosure to minimize risk and better protect the safety of the community.”

In her ruling, Jacobson agreed with the University that the jurisdictional response map should not be released, since it could create a security risk if it fell into the wrong hands. However, she noted that the list of responsibilities would not pose a threat and said the University should release the schedule.

Luers said that he is satisfied with the decision, noting that Knapp received most of what she had wanted.

Day added that the court has given the parties two weeks to decide whether to appeal.

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to be distinct from a collection of courses in a department or an existing certificate program.

She noted that given the significant student interest in the entrepreneurship courses that have been offered in the past few

years, the Program seeks to provide more structure and guidance for students who seek that kind of mentoring in entrepreneurship.

The official undergraduate announcement of the program notes that there are three main aims of the new certificate program: “to create focused pathways through the curriculum that will allow Princeton undergraduates to sup-

plement work in their major departments with a systematic and coherent understanding of, and practice in, entrepreneurship; to leverage, expand, and enhance the University’s offerings across the liberal arts in order to fulfill the previously stated aim; and to promote an interdisciplinary academic community of undergraduate students, faculty members,

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and others who share an interest and commitment to learning from and contributing to these areas.”

Chiang said that the University defines entrepreneurship as a mindset, not vocational training.

“It is a mindset that any time you initiate transformation through risk-taking actions and create organizations, then you are an entrepreneur,” he explained.

“Viewed in light of that entrepreneurship — the Princeton way of defining it — there is a substantial surge in student interest, and this is indeed a response by the University to the mounting national and local to Princetonian interest.”

Chiang added that through the certificate program, the University hopes to expose students to the mindset of entrepreneurs and plant this as a seed that may bloom within their time at Princeton, right around graduation, or much, much later in their lives.

“Across the board, we always come back to this: how can we support these broadly defined entrepreneurs with this mindset and how can we provide yet another pathway for them to contribute to the common good in society?” Chiang said.

Massengill noted that in the liberal arts model, entrepreneurship is not disciplined in the traditional way that we think the University is organized. She said that the Program makes for an ideal certificate program because it engages interest and questions across a number of different departments.

“I think it’s going to be really exciting to see entrepreneurship be a way that students in our liberal arts curriculum can think about how they can be involved in solving some of the significant challenges that we face as a society and how the kinds of handson processes of entrepreneurship might help them learn how to do that even more effectively,” Massengill said.

The certificate program will have limited enrollment during the first year of the operation, but the enrollment cap may be removed afterwards, Chiang said.

The application deadline for seniors has passed and admitted students have already been notified.

“If you want to be an entrepreneur or learn more about it in a systematic way, now you can do it within the best liberal arts education in the world,” Chiang said.

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days I think a lot of people feel the need to have more inclusive language in terms of gender.”

“I’m very supportive of the work HR is doing in being thoughtful about how we speak in official documents,” LGBT Center Director Judy Jarvis said. “I think it’s actually quite common sense to want to feel like as many people as possible are being spoken to in official and employee communications.”

Gorucu said that it’s not a “hassle” to change something small like “freshman” to “firstyear student” and it “can make a big difference.”

“Gender identity is something that really affects you,” Gorucu said. “So I think if we can just take a small step I think it’s pretty helpful.”

Nicolas Freeman ’18 also expressed their support for the new guidelines.

“I know that, as a transgender student, I’m often not represented in language,” Freeman said, adding that they want to move toward more gender inclusive language of “not only women, which has a long history of changing the institutions and the system to be more reflective of the population, but that it’s also focusing on improving the environment for gender queer and gender non-binary students.”

“I think a memo like this definitely supports the kind of environment that is inclusive of all folks,” Women’s Center Program Coordinator Jordan Dixon said.

“When we’re talking about a person in abstract we’re usually talking about a man and that’s what a lot of our language refers to,” said David Cruikshank ’17. “I do think it’s really important we don’t just kind of complacently say that’s how it works but we do make these strides of change the way we think about how language is used.”

Cruikshank said that English isn’t quite as “overt” in its use of masculine words as other Romance languages, such as Spanish.

Jarvis said that English is very gendered, which influences the society as well.

“Using “he” as the default all the time is really not inclusive and leaves out a lot of people,” Jarvis said.

“I do think it’s admirable that they’re trying to make an effort to use more gender neutral language,” Cruikshank said. “A lot of studies have shown that if you do use truly neutral language things are usually better

for women and minorities.”

Other students however, think the changes are not achieving a more desirable result.

“I feel that the University is making conciliatory changes that weren’t asked for and avoiding making changes that people weren’t actually demanding,” said Annabel Barry ’19. “Even if that isn’t the intention, it is the result.”

Barry also said that because of the nature of language, most words that people use “mean something other than what they originally meant.”

“It’s intellectually irresponsible to pretend that the connotations of words don’t evolve and there are all sorts of words than we use,” Barry said.

Other prominent examples of changes include the phrase “best man for the job” which is now “best person for the job.”

In a relic from when the University first admitted women in 1969, the memo notes that “coed,” which used to mean a female student, is just “student” now.

The memo includes a number of tips that change the sentence structure to eliminate the use of gendered pronouns such as “he” or “she” such as rewriting the text to plural, eliminating the pronoun, repeating the noun, using the second person voice or using gender-neutral occupational titles.

In columns labeled “Don’t Use” and “Use”, the memo stipulates various recommended words in categories such as “Occupations” and “Generic Terms and Expressions.”

Noting the press coverage of the memo this summer, Jarvis said she “had a hard time understanding the hysteria over this memo . . . because it just seems very common sense to me.”

Freeman said that they think the University still has room to improve. They said that it “could be as simple as asking for students’ gender pronouns.”

“If the University is trying to be more inclusive of the diverse array of genders on this campus, taking a top-down approach is one way to do that but we should also focus on the classroom level,” Freeman said. “I think the University has power to ask professors to be more aware and cognizant of gender pronouns.”

Pullan affirmed in the University’s statement that the University has not banned any words or phrases because it “places a high value on free expression.”

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Life safety device violations, including the intentional activation of fire alarms and tampering of smoke detectors, are now charged a $200 violation for first and subsequent violations. Possession of appliances that are in violation of fire safety are now confiscated and fined $100 instead of the $50 violation in previous years. Taping or propping the door is now a $200 fine after the first citation.

“It’s a bit ridiculous how much the fine is,” said Chi Suck Kang ’17. “$200 is a lot for some people, and especially since these violations come after a small mistake, I think it’s a big price to pay.”

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ence of hoverboards on campus, the University also announced new fire safety policies for hoverboards or any “self-balancing, hands free scooter.”

The University now requires all hoverboards ridden on campus to be accredited by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Hoverboards must now bear the seal confirming that the scooter has been independently tested for fire safety.

The announcement follows more than 99 incidents of batteries in hoverboards “sparking, smoking, catching fire and/or exploding including reports of burn injuries and property damage,” according to the CPSC. All violation fees will continue to be forwarded to the University’s general funds.

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Trigger warnings: actually a way to open discussion to all Marni Morse columnist

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s we were all packing to either first arrive or return to Princeton, fall semester had already begun at most other colleges.

And along with the return of classes came the return of the debate over trigger warnings. This fall the debate was re-triggered, so to speak, by a letter to all freshmen against such notices from the Dean of Undergraduate Students at the University of Chicago.

It was supposed to be a welcome letter, but in reality it was anything but. He blatantly stated that “our commitment to academic freedom means that we do not support so-called trigger warnings.”

Yet such warnings do not hinder debate or aid students to “retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their own,” as the Dean claimed. Trigger warnings actually accomplish just the opposite — they allow more students to actively engage with the material of a course.

Trigger warning have received a lot of pushback over the last year or so, but they are actually quite a simple and longstanding concept. Trigger warnings originated in 1918 after World War I. It was just a notice meant “to flag content that depicted or discussed common causes of trauma, like military combat, child abuse, incest and sexual violence.”

In classrooms, the cautions tend to take the form of a note in the syllabus or a professor warning that material some week might contain discussion of sensitive material that could be difficult for some students. For example, a trigger warning might alert students that some book in a literature course contains a graphic depiction of sexual violence. Essentially, it is a content warning regarding subjects that touch on trauma, be it sexual assault, military PTSD, or something else.

The presence of a trigger warning does not automatically entail that someone will not engage in material. Rather, it simply provides students with advance information to prepare themselves and enable them to fully engage in class.

Perhaps it means students will have the chance to communicate with the professor about their perspective in advance.

Perhaps it just allows a student to internally prepare to discuss an issue publicly.

How one chooses to act on the information provided in a trigger warning is their prerogative. What is clear, though, is that without said information, they might not be able to fully engage with the material, if at all. Triggering trauma

unexpectedly, particularly in a public classroom setting, can lead someone to disengage. Content warnings minimize the likelihood of that happening.

Understanding what trigger warnings actually are makes it clear that they do not “scrub campuses clean of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause discomfort or give offense” as The Atlantic article that led the charge against trigger warnings claims. The goal is not to erase discussion of traumatic subjects — it is to provide in advance the information that allows all to engage.

Content warnings aren’t new or rare.

They have long been used to give the audience, in whatever forum, the right to make informed decisions for themselves. There are warnings at the beginning of TV shows ranging from “Law and Order: SVU” to “That 70’s Show.”

Movies are rated with memos as to what material led them to be classified as such. Like trigger warnings for certain classroom material, such notices do not restrict any content but allow consumers to adjust their actions accordingly.

Opponents like to say that trigger warnings coddle students and don’t reflect what will happen in the real world. But it is also true that conversations regarding traumatic events, such as sexual violence, also don’t spring up out of the blue in ways one can’t escape either. Just as such material isn’t applicable in many real world situations, trigger warnings are not applicable in all classes — I haven’t come across the need in the math, science, or economic courses I’ve taken, for example. But a heads-up can help students engage with uncomfortable and challenging topics when it is pertinent, both in real life and especially in a classroom where a student cannot otherwise escape or disengage.

Sensitivity to others is not coddling.

Ironically, the same people who led the charge to have content warnings for TV shows and movies are now arguing that similar warnings in classrooms are coddling over-protected millennials. They are also wrongly comparing efforts to prevent controversial speakers from appearing on campus to trigger warnings. They are not the same.

Having these speakers on campus promotes academic freedom. Students who would be upset by such presenters may simply choose not to attend. Having these speakers allows their offending views to be challenged and discussed.

But describing trigger warnings as an infringement of academic freedom, as the University of Chicago welcome letter describes, is not only wrong;

coming from university leadership, it is also dangerous. The leadership appears more concerned about pandering to conservative funders by bashing so-called political correctness than it is concerned about respecting students.

And that should be a warning to us all.

Perhaps what the critics really mean is to debate what constitutes as likely trauma-inducing and thus deserving of a trigger warning. The more reasonable debate centers around this empirical question.

Many of trigger warnings’ critics conflate what they see as the unreasonable breadth of issues that require trigger warnings as the problem — not necessarily the existence of a policy to warn in cases of what they see as actually traumatic.

There are legitimate empirical questions here. Experts can evaluate them and their factually supported conclusions should be employed in the execution of trigger warnings. But I, for one, have neither the personal experiences nor the psychological expertise to be qualified to tell anyone their trauma is not legitimate. Neither do most, if any, students.

As Imani Thornton stated in her column last week, “It is easy for someone who considers [trigger warnings] dispensable to overlook them and even consider them detrimental, without weighing the costs and benefits to others, namely those who do need trigger warnings.”

To me, trigger warnings as a theoretical policy, regardless of the details of the empirically supported extent, are such an obviously positive action that the pushback is really frustrating. A good friend of mine was sexually assaulted a few years ago. Understandably, certain related content sets off panic attacks.

She also has been diagnosed with severe migraines for years; for that disability, one wouldn’t question that a professor ought to give a warning before showing a video full of flashing strobe lights.

Likewise, she, or someone in a similar situation, should not be forced to have panic attacks triggered by sexual violence while in a classroom setting and in front of her professor and peers. Trigger warnings allow her to mentally steel herself and engage with the material.

Anything else is an able-ist framework that denies the real mental health effects of trauma. Trigger warnings helps someone like my friend without any detriment to others. Where is the harm in that?

Marni Morse is a politics major from Washington, DC. She can be reached at mlmorse@princeton.edu.

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read an article about the Princeton HR Department publishing a memo about removing words containing “man” from their approved vocabulary. Normally, I would see this as relatively harmless silliness but, if the University spent much money on this effort, it is double plus ungood.

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rinceton needs to fix some seriously absurd rules. I think most students agree that the new $200 ($200!) fine for propping a dorm door is ridiculous. Also, if you’re anything like me, your first thought after you heard about the Nude Olympics was, “someone needs to bring this back immediately.” But Princeton isn’t going to change these things, so I’ll settle for advocating for an important change that I think has potential: removing the requirement to wear shoes in the dining hall.

I don’t wear shoes. It’s not that I never wear shoes. That would be ridiculous. It’s just that I don’t wear shoes a lot of the time.

When the weather is nice and I’m just going to class or hanging out, I’m frequently barefoot. This means that I sometimes walk into dining halls barefoot, and I’m normally kicked out if the staff notice.

People working in a kitchen may be subject to OSHA rules about footwear, but people eating the food are not. Health code regulations don’t require restaurant patrons to wear shoes, although some restaurants may make their own rules about required attire. There

is no law requiring me to wear shoes in the dining hall, just Princeton’s silly rules.

Do I really need shoes to eat food? That seems excessive. In fact, I guarantee that my bare feet are more sanitary than anyone’s shoes. After all, they get washed pretty frequently. When was the last time you washed your shoes?

The health benefits of not wearing shoes are unclear. Sure, there are lots of websites that tout the advantages of going barefoot, and companies like Vibram have somehow convinced people to spend $100 to mimic not having shoes. But, at the end of the day, it’s just personal preference for me, and I don’t think it’s too absurd of a preference. It wouldn’t cost anything to accommodate me and my fellow shoeless diners. There might not be a lot of us, but maybe if the dining halls changed the rules, our numbers would grow.

I don’t think it’s that big of a deal to be barefoot. It’s certainly a lot more comfortable and saves water and energy, since I have fewer socks to wash. A lot of people don’t even notice. But it would be really nice if I didn’t have to borrow a friend’s f lip f lops to

eat or carry around a pair that I’ll take off as soon as I step outside the dining hall.

Wearing shoes is like wearing gloves: It makes sense if it’s really cold or if you’re working with heavy machinery, but it’s kind of weird to have them on all the time. If Princeton doesn’t make me wear gloves for sanitary reasons in the dining hall, then I don’t see why shoes should be any different.

There are a lot of problems in the world right now. Millions of people are refugees, diseases decimate large swaths of the world, the climate is totally messed up, and a racist orange combover has a serious shot at becoming the president. I can’t easily fix those problems, and neither can the administration. But the tyranny of forced shoewearing isn’t a hard problem to solve.

Beni Snow is a sophomore from Newton, Mass. He can be reached at bsnow@princeton.edu.

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substitutions in the second half. In the end, following the two Cavalier goals, Princeton outshot Virginia 12-8, yet none of these attempted managed to get past Lucas.

Looking ahead, the Tigers are tasked with the challenge of moving past Friday’s loss and protecting home turf from powerhouse No. 7 Maryland this Tuesday. In fact, a major focus and goal for the team has been being able to rebound from setbacks. A victory against the

Terrapins could very well offset the cavalier loss.

Similar to the Virginia game, history follows both teams into the Tuesday matchup on Bedford Field. Last year, the Tigers upset then-No. 5 Maryland at the game’s highest stage – the NCAA tournament. Though Maryland had defeated Princeton five consecutive times prior to the elimination, then-freshman Sophia Tornetta alone outscored the Terrapins with two goals of her own. Come Tuesday, eyes will be on the Tigers to see if they can rebound from the loss and repeat last year’s success.

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possession of the second half, Rhattigan capped off a 10-play Princeton drive to put the home team ahead, 28-24.

Both teams would then suffer offensive hiccups, with Lafayette losing a fumble and senior quarterback Chad Kanoff getting picked off in the Tigers’ ensuing possession. Ultimately, the Princeton defense came out on top in the turnover battle, picking off Drew Reed on Lafayette’s next drive and

setting off a second unanswered touchdown for the Tigers to give them a 35-24 advantage.

From there, Princeton found a way to hang on to their 11-point lead. The Tiger defense forced two punts before Drew Reed’s heroics resulted in a fourth Lafayette touchdown to pull the visitors within four. However, the Tigers never allowed the Leopards another chance at a score, running out the final two minutes to walk off with a 35-31 victory.

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outing for the Tigers, who put up 416 yards against a strong Lafayette defense.

The Princeton defense also demonstrated its potential, picking Reed off twice and winning the turnover battle 3-1. The Tigers also stif led the visitor’s run game, allowing only 60 yards rushing.

With this win, the Tigers start their season off on a strong note. They will continue non-conference play against Lehigh next week before facing Columbia in the Ivy League opener on Oct. 1.

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Princeton rallies in third quarter to claim tough win in season opener

By Nolan Liu associate sports editor

Fireworks danced outside of Princeton Stadium on Saturday night as the Tigers (1-0, 0-0 Ivy) came storming back to erase an early Lafayette lead and beat the Leopards (1-2, 0-0 in-conference) 35-31 to open the 2016 season.

Princeton would strike first, with senior running back Joe Rhattigan breaking out for a 23-yard run to cap a nine-play scoring drive.

However, Lafayette soon countered with a seven-play drive of their own, and followed that one up with a second successful series to take 14-7 lead with 0:05 remaining in the first.

The Leopards’ explosive offense was anchored by senior quarterback Drew

Reed, who completed 28 out of 38 passes and amassed 356 yards over the course of the contest.

The teams would trade punches during the game’s second quarter. Junior quarterback John Lovett punched into the end zone to tie the game for Princeton with 8:25 remaining in the half, but Drew Reed engineered another pass-heavy drive to put Lafayette back on top, 21-14.

However, with only two minutes remaining in the half, Princeton found time to put together another 11play scoring drive that left the game tied at 21 at halftime.

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Field Hockey stumbles against No. 14 Virginia

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Despite a strong performance, missed opportunities hurt the Princeton effort.

Princeton field hockey (3-2) failed to capture its first away game of the season this past Friday, falling to UVa (4-3) by a score of 0-2.

Despite leading the Cavaliers in shots-on-goal, including nine team-leading shots from sophomore striker Ryan McCarthy, Princeton could not breach the Virginia defense.

Most notably, Virginia’s goal keeper Carrera Lucas made 14 consecutive saves on the game.

Coming in, both teams were fairly matched for the season.

No. 14 Virginia entered Friday’s match with an even 3-3 record, while higher-ranked No. 10 Princeton had only lost to pow-

erhouse UNC. Furthermore, the two frequent foes carried memories of last year’s matchup, when Virginia outlasted Princeton 4-3 in overtime, into Friday’s rematch. While Virginia retained many of its key players from last year, nine seniors to the Princeton’s three, the Tigers brought a fresh roster of new faces hoping to redeem 2015’s loss.

Turning to the game itself, the majority of the first half remained scoreless on both sides of the field. Midway through the first half, the Tigers were awarded two consecutive penalty corners, but both shots from freshman striker Maddie Bacskai were slightly off the mark.

In a story of missed con-

versions on offense, the Tigers were awarded 10 penalty corners over the course of the game, compared to Virginia’s three corners, but missed the opportunity to get on the board on each attempt, a rare occurrence for the thus far offensively dominant Tigers.

Turning to Virginia’s offense, the Cavaliers scored both of their goals midway through the game, the first taking place right before the half, the second right afterwards. The first Cavalier goal was the culmination of a successful penalty corner shot, while the second resulted from a tapped loose ball.

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Men’s Cross Country claims top spot at HYP meet, Women’s Cross Country struggles against stiff competition

By Claire Coughlin staff writer

This past weekend, the Princeton men and women’s cross country team competed in the annual H a r v a r d -Ya l e -P r i n c e t o n race at West Windsor Fields on Saturday. The first men’s triangular meet was held in 1922 and is a tradition that has lasted almost a hundred years, with minimal interruptions.

For the third year in a row, not only did the Tigers win, but also dominated both Yale and Harvard. With a final score of 23 points, the team placed 2-3-4-5-9.

It was a very close race, with the top 30 athletes all within five seconds of each other at the three-mile mark.

First for the Tigers was junior Noah Kaupilla with a time of 25:01.0, immediately followed by freshman Conor Lundy with a time of

25.01.7. In fourth was senior captain William Bertrand with a time of 25.09.6, and fifth was sophomore runner Jeremy Spiezio with a time of 25:12.3. The last scorer for the Tigers was another freshman, Gannon Wilcutts, in ninth place with a time of 25:16.3. For their sixth and seventh men, junior Wolfgang Beck ran 25:25.5 and freshman Perrin Hagge placed 14th with a time of 25:34.2.

Yale took second place with a score of 49 points.

The top finisher was a Bulldog, James Randon, with a time of 24.58.9. Randon placed tenth last year and showed major improvement this year.

The Crimson, on the other hand, had a rough race, unable to place any athletes in the top six. The men’s next races at Lehigh’s Paul Short Invitational on Saturday, Oct. 1.

In the women’s race, Yale won with a score of

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20 points, Harvard took second with 53 points, and Princeton finished third with a tally of 63 points.

Senior Ally Markovich finished first for the women Tigers in ninth place with a time of 19:29.9. Junior Melinda Renuart also finished three places behind, in 12th, with a time of 19:54.3.

As the final three scorers, freshmen Alexandra Rome was 13th at 20:00.5, Rachel Granovsky 16th at 20:05.9, and Madeleine Sumner 18th at 20:11.0. Junior Melissa Reed and sophomore Allie Klimkiewicz were, respectively, the sixth and seventh scorers with times of 20:25.3 and 20:34.0.

The strong freshmen show the young strength and the potential the program has under its new coach, Coach Hunt. The Orange and Black return to the course next Friday, Sept. 23 to race in the Virginia/Panorama Farms Invitational in Charlottesville.

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Both the squad showed potential in their first meet against Ivy rivals.

Stat of the Day

137 yards Senior tri-captain Joe Rhattigan rushed a career-high 137 yards in season opener against Lafayette.

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