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Timeline, the University’s updated scheduling application, includes a variety of features meant to help students plan out their social, athletic, and academic lives.

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The University has revamped a scheduling software for students developed by the University Office of Information Technology.

The program, called “Timeline,” is now accessible as a mobile application for Android and iOS devices.

The application aims to facilitate the distribution of time-sensitive information to members of the University community and to

consolidate campus activities, class schedules, and deadlines into one convenient place for users.

Timeline was developed in response to concerns expressed by students and administrators regarding effective communication about University happenings, according to the program’s website.

Linked to Blackboard, TigerHub, and the academic calendar, the app shows students academic dead-

lines, including ones specific to certain groups, like concentrations.

Based on personal settings, Timeline can also display WASS office hour appointments, assignment due dates from Blackboard, and upcoming lectures and sporting events.

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Maya Lin, recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, will be designing an installment for the new Lewis Center for the Arts.

Maya Lin to create new installation at Lewis Center senior writer

The renowned designer and artist of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., Maya Lin, has been commissioned to create an installation on the grounds adjacent to the new Lewis Center for the Arts. In addition to providing an impressive setting for outdoor classes and performances, Lin’s work will

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intention for the app to simplify scheduling for students, faculty, and other members of the University community.

The Timeline project is led by an Oversight Committee, formed by Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer Jay Dominick, and an Infrastructure Committee, which manages administration and application maintenance.

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in the campus community.

“Targeted” posts are sent to people who are interested in certain categories of information available on Timeline.

Events can be synced to Google Calendar or Microsoft Exchange, and personal events can also be added to Timeline.

Timeline’s mantra, “Getting the right information to the right people at the right time in the right way,” illustrates the University’s

serve as a landmark for visitors, students, and community members.

Lin is best known for designing. Her design was chosen out of 1,441 other submissions in a national competition, though Lin was still just an undergraduate at Yale University. The memorial was completed in 1982 and depicts the name of every casualty from the war inSee MAYA LIN page 3

Columnist Jessica Nyquist applauds Betsy DeVos’ Title IX policy announcement and Guest Contributor Andi Zhou responds to a letter from Ivy League professors. PAGE 4

The University announced extended hours to campus buildings on Sept. 12. The new policy, which was implemented on the first day of classes, Sept. 13, allows students, faculty, and staff members to enter academic buildings from 7 a.m. to midnight during the week and from 7 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. on weekends.

In standardizing the hours of many campus facilities, the University hopes to maximize access to spaces used for academic purposes.

“We realize classrooms provide an important setting for academic success,” states the University Facilities website.

Prior to the implementation of this policy, the University did not have standardized hours specifying when academic buildings are open and closed. Rather, building hours were ambiguous, a policy that often hindered students wishing to take advantage of empty classrooms during evenings or on the weekends.

“Speaking from personal experience, my friends and I would always have difficulty finding a classroom in the standard buildings like Hargadon or Butler,” said Jonathan Yang ‘18, pointing out where students have gone for late-night study spots. “Students study at classrooms in the

Economics Building [Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building] past 9 p.m. or travel to Friend.” By arriving before the building was locked, students could remain inside even after it closed.

June Ho Park ’20 is among the many students looking forward to taking advantage of the new policy. He noted that there were many instances during his freshman year when students had trouble going to extra help sessions, typically held later in the evenings, because entrances to the relevant buildings were locked.

According to the University Facilities website, all rooms that are used as registrar classrooms will now be unlocked 24/7. Only interior doors that already have limited access, such as laboratories or department classrooms, will continue to be locked. University Facilities hopes that this will reduce the need for unlock requests, which were a common annoyance for both students and staff in the past.

According to University Facilities, the new policy will also enhance personal safety, as during late hours, individuals will need to scan their TigerCards to gain access to buildings.

More information, including a list of classroom buildings following the new standard hours, can be found on the Facilities website.

Today on Campus 4:45-6:15 p.m.: A conversation with Rahul Gandhi, MP. Reuhl Family Room 399, Julius Romo Rabinowitz building.

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Contrary Capital, a university-focused venture capital fund founded by entrepreneur Eric Tarczynski, launched today at noon. The fund provides financial backing to startups founded by students, faculty, and graduates of top universities, including the University.

Tarczynski said he started the fund because of the exponential proliferation of entrepreneurs at U.S. universities. At the same time, he observed a gap between the few thousands of dollars of startup funding given by universities and the millions of dollars startups actually needed in earlystage funding.

“We’re basically investing in the brightest university entrepreneurs,” Tarczynski said. “Students, faculty, and recent graduates at the top schools across the U.S.” The “decentralized” fund features an investment team of over 100 students at universities across the country who will identify potential See VC page 2

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startups for Contrary to invest in and back. Eighty percent of Contrary’s “limited partners,” or investors, are top tech entrepreneurs affiliated with industry giants like Tesla or Twitch.

“As an investor for Contrary, my aim is to not just give strategic advice, make introductions, and allocate capital,” said Rohan Doshi ‘18, Contrary’s team member at the University. “I also get in the trenches with the founders I work with. For example, I’ve often received 3 AM calls to review pitch decks. And, I’ve had to help founders source talent within niche specialties at different schools using Contrary’s national network.”

According to Tarczynski, although the majority of Contrary’s backers are tech investors, the fund is open to investing in startups in any industry. However, many of the startups in which Con-

trary aims to invest are information technology or software companies.

“Officially, we’re industry agnostic, but we’re very strongly focused on IT, primarily software and hardware companies, although we will look at anything,” Tarczynski noted. “Maybe there’s a consumer goods company, all those things are fair game.”

Tarczynski explained that after the team identifies an investment opportunity and decides to back it, Contrary typically purchases up to a 10 percent equity ownership stake. According to Tarczynski, Contrary helps accelerate its portfolio companies in a few core ways, one being personal mentorship from the investors’ experience in entrepreneurship.

“I’ve spent the past six or seven years living and breathing university entrepreneurship on a personal level, building businesses,” Tarczynski said, “and now spending the past couple years meeting with hundreds, if not thousands of entrepreneurs across the U.S. I think we have a better understanding than most of what it takes to build a business at the university level.”

Contrary also has a competitive advantage in that it’s part of a multilayered network of entrepreneurs, investors, and business leaders across the world. The fund is connected to a university network of over fifty schools, as well as many investors and venture funds concentrated in Silicon Valley.

“We view Contrary as bringing a little bit of the Silicon Valley firepower to all these other places across the U.S.,” Tarczynski added. “If you’re looking for a connection at a top-tier venture fund, we can do that pretty easily.”

Contrary also features a summer program in entrepreneurship for the founders and managers of their portfolio companies where they bring the CEOs in their portfolio to the San Francisco Bay Area and work with them to accelerate their companies.

When asked what he felt the biggest challenge young entrepreneurs have to overcome was, Tarczynski answered “commitment.” It’s a difficult feat to start and grow a businesses, and this issue also lends itself to challenges on Contrary’s end, as they have to be absolutely sure of an entrepreneur’s commitment to the company before they can invest in it.

Tarczynski offered several pieces of advice to university-based entrepreneurs. He noted that many entrepreneurs seek validation through funding instead of consumer response to their products. Tarczynski encouraged entrepreneurs to focus on perfecting their goods and bringing them to market first, and seek funding second.

Contrary has purchased stakes in two companies so far: Additive Rocket Corporation, a University of California, San Diegobased startup that manufactures low-cost rocket engines for space companies; and Cortex Health, a Brigham Young University-based startup with a healthcare follow-up platform called CheckUp.

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Helena Klevorn ‘19 expressed excitement for the growth of the University public art collection, as the works inside the University Art Museum are sometimes forgotten by students. She added that it will be a step in the right direction to have Lin’s piece, as having work “by an artist who is both a woman and a minority is exciting in terms of diversifying the artists represented here.”

Erin Firestone, manager of marketing and media relations for the University Art Museum, was unavailable for comment at the time of publication.

“When I first visited the Vietnam Veterans Memorial as a fifth grader, I thought it was beautiful and sobering,” said Julia Cury ‘19. “Now, as an Art History major,” she continued, “I have a better sense of the artistry Maya Lin put into the memorial. With that it mind it’s very exciting that Lin has been commissioned for the new LCA installation.”

Since developing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Lin has developed an inf luential body of work in sculpture and land art, completing designs for studio artworks, buildings, and landscapes. Lin has also completed historical memorials, designing the Women’s Table, an installation celebrating the role of women at Yale University, and the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, which commemorates 41 people who died in the fight for racial equality during the American Civil Rights Movement.

Many of Lin’s works are environmentally themed, as Lin uses her urban designs to promote the protection of nature. She is an environmental activist and is concerned with issues such as global warming, polluted bodies of water, and animal endangerment.

Lin was awarded a B.A. in 1981 and a Master of Architecture in 1986, both from Yale. She currently owns and operates the New York City-based professional studio Maya Lin Studio. Lin serves on the boards of the What Is Missing? Foundation, which commemorates biodiversity lost to environmental damage; the Bloomberg Foundation; and the Museum of Chinese in America. In 2016, Lin was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

The University will celebrate the opening of the new Lewis Center for the Arts complex with a Festival of the Arts on October 5-8, designed to celebrate the breadth and importance of the arts on campus. The Festival is open to the public and will include concerts, plays, readings, dance performances, art exhibitions, screenings, multidisciplinary presentations, and community workshops.

The University will announce additional details about the commission later this month.

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Letter to the Editor: Towards an inclusive free speech Andi Zhou

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ust before Princeton students returned to campus this year, an open letter signed by

16 Ivy League professors appeared online, calling on inbound college first-years to “think for yourself.” Though the call to think critically and maintain an open mind is benign on its surface, the letter is in reality a thinly veiled call for resistance against progressive campus activism. Our own professor Robert George, a signatory of the letter, removed all doubt of this when he appeared on Fox News’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on a segment titled “Professors to Class of 2021: Stop being snowflakes.” Neither the letter nor George’s televised comments ever call out the social justice movement by name, but the dog-whistle is unmistakable.

As a graduate student in the Wilson School (whose logo features prominently behind George in his Fox News appearance), I felt dismayed after reading the letter. Are these the trenches we are doomed to fight in forever? Are we trapped in perpetuity between the cause of justice, on one side, and free speech on the other?

Indeed, critics have long charged campus social justice movements with being anti-free speech due to demands, for example, to label course readings with “trigger warnings”

and cancel lectures by controversial speakers. The social justice movement, for its part, has failed to answer those charges. If anything, many activists seem to accept that free speech is a necessary casualty in the struggle for justice.

Instead, what social justice activists must argue, and what their skeptics must understand, is that free speech requires boundaries to protect those who engage in it.

Like any market, the marketplace of ideas is susceptible to market failure if left unregulated. If we are serious about guaranteeing everyone the right to speak freely, then we cannot tolerate speech that victimizes individuals and vulnerable groups by inciting physical violence against them or by otherwise silencing them.

Oliver Wendell Holmes famously pronounced that free speech does not give you the right to shout “fire” in a crowded theater. Laws, institutional policies, and socially determined taboos all define boundaries that separate “legitimate” speech from speech than can harm members of our community. The question now is where those boundaries should be, and more importantly, who gets to decide where those boundaries lie.

The professors who signed the letter have overlooked two things.

First, they seem to assert that all ideas should enjoy equal legitimacy in intel-

lectual discourse, when that has never been true in any academic forum.

They call on students to “to learn and honestly consider the strongest arguments to be advanced on both or all sides of questions.” Would they extend such fair-minded treatment to the “strongest arguments” for eugenics? For slavery? For fascism? We do not reject those ideas because they have somehow been intellectually disproven. We reject them because they threaten the humanity of people who are entitled to an equal and secure place in our community.

Second, these professors fail to see that the boundaries that separate “legitimate” speech from harmful speech have historically been determined by a narrow segment of the population — one that is overwhelmingly white, male, and straight. The rest of our pluralistic society engages in speech subject to ground rules that they had no part in making. White taboos forced then-Sen. Barack Obama to disavow the Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s sermons, but allow a football team to be named the “Redskins.” Male taboos excuse boasts about sexually assaulting women as “locker room talk,” while labeling assertive women “bitchy.” Heteronormative taboos frown on public displays of same-sex affection but tolerate jokes that use the term “gay” as a pejorative. The ground rules will naturally shift

once underrepresented groups have the chance to shape them. To those who fail to see anything wrong with how the boundaries were previously drawn, these shifts will no doubt look like assaults on free speech.

The social justice community, for its part, will continue to evolve and mature. There is real peer pressure within the activist community to adhere to certain ideological maxims or outdo one another’s “radicalism” in order to avoid shame. On this score, the letter’s criticism contains a grain of truth. But addressing that criticism cannot entail, as the signatories seem to desire, placing all arguments on an equal moral plane for the sake of “robust debate.”

These are not trivial tiffs stoked by PC-crusaders gone amok. Rather, these are questions that necessarily emerge once we recognize that the ground rules of free speech were drawn up without the input of underrepresented groups.

Bringing those groups to the table will require revisiting the ground rules, and revisiting the ground rules will be a messy, anguished process. Until that process is complete, however, neither justice nor freedom will be fully served.

Andi Zhou is a second-year master’s student in the Wilson School. He can be reached at aczhou@princeton.edu.

DeVos’ assault policy essential for Princeton Jessica Nyquist Columnist

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ducation Secretary Betsy DeVos ignited a polarizing debate with her Sept. 7 speech explaining plans to repeal the Obama-era Title IX campus sexual misconduct guidelines. The Obama administration’s 2011 “Dear Colleague” letter addressed the problem of sexual assault on college campuses by offering guidelines for handling cases and threatening to withhold federal funds if universities failed to comply. These “suggestions” acted in practice as closely monitored rules as universities updated policies to avoid Title IX conflicts and potential punishments.

The “Dear Colleague” letter encouraged campuses to lower the burden of proof in sexual assault cases to a “preponderance of evidence” (more than 50 percent of evidence incriminating the accused), to end the cross examination of accusers, and to allow accusers to appeal notguilty charges. In her speech, DeVos emphasized her plan to update guidelines with a focus on restoring trial justice on campuses and protecting the civil rights of the accused.

Last semester, I wrote an opinion article addressing the issue of sexual misconduct trials on our own campus. I identified the failure of Princeton’s current system to adequately protect the rights of the accused and suggested updating the procedures to address this flaw. I argued for the return of student juries to the trials in order to provide greater understanding of campus rape culture and to add perspective to cases, going beyond the victim’s word against that of the ac-

cused. I support DeVos’ plans to revise sexual misconduct guidelines and her emphasis on protecting the rights of the accused. I agree that the updating of the “preponderance of the evidence” burden of proof will appropriate trial justice for the accused.

Ensuring a fair trial embodies America’s founding ideals and works to protect students’ civil rights by avoiding bias in trials in either direction. I argued in the spring that a fair trial procedure is the best way to take assault seriously on campus, and DeVos’ agenda champions this perspective. DeVos defended that “one rape is too many,” but one person denied due process is too many as well.

Although I am not alone in applauding DeVos’ efforts to remedy the flawed trial system, many — including outspoken critic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand — have condemned the administration for diminishing protections for victims. As DeVos’ agenda is constantly tainted

by Donald Trump’s own actions and marred reputation for handling and discussing assault, many accuse the administration of not taking sexual assault seriously. Despite her intention to consult diverse resources to craft appropriate policy, Devos’ procivil rights rhetoric is often perceived as skewed towards protecting the accused, as it lives in the shadow of Trump’s history and language regarding the subject.

DeVos’ proposals also draw into question whether university campuses should handle sexual misconduct cases at all. Critics argue that assault cases are better handled by criminal justice courts. In the spring I argued that campuses are better prepared to

handle these cases than government courts because of the specific knowledge and understanding of particular campus culture. I maintain that campus courts have advantages in best understanding cases, but only if these procedures vow to protect a just trial and due process.

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), in their “Spotlight on Due Process 2017,” also questions whether these cases should be handled by criminal courts, and it emphasizes universities’ current failure to “provide even the most basic procedural protections that should accompany accusations of serious wrongdoing.”

The organization conducted an investigation and evaluated the top 53 U.S. News & World Report-ranked universities’ misconduct trial procedures, based on principles of fairness and due process. The report finds that 74 percent of evaluated universities do not guarantee students the right to be considered innocent until proven guilty, an essential American safeguard and fundamental citizen’s right.

With regard to assumption of innocence, Princeton’s policy was rated by FIRE in between “absent” and “enunciated” for both types of misconduct cases.

Our administration uses the preponderance of evidence standard, and this should be updated to adequately protect trial rights. But, according to the report, in sexual assault cases specifically, Princeton failed in three essential areas: access to evidence, right to counsel, and cross examination. Without these fundamental safeguards, Princeton fails to protect its students.

In an article in the Harvard Crimson, the Crimson Editorial Board responded to De-

Vos’ announcement about Title IX by asking the Harvard students and administration to “combat the narrative of DeVos’ decision — automatically doubting survivors’ allegations of sexual assault” and “to take decisive action to protect the safety and rights of its students.” Prioritizing education of students about sexual assault and protecting them from sexual misconduct is important, but this shouldn’t undermine a fair and unbiased trial system for the accused.

Duke University has meanwhile formed a task force to investigate sexual misconduct procedures that recommends reworking the school’s “preponderance of evidence” standard. The task force also suggests measures to ensure specificity of cases, rather than generalized procedures and punishments for misconduct cases. In this way, Duke is concurrently protecting trial rights and protecting students from sexual assault.

It doesn’t have to be either/or.

Critics of DeVos question, if college campuses should manage sexual misconduct cases at all, whether criminal trial protections are required for university campuses. The Washington Post emphasizes lower responsibilities for university trials by claiming DeVos’ proposal “confuses a school’s obligation to protect the civil rights of its students under Title IX with a defendant’s rights in the criminal-justice system.”

While a University is able to limit students’ civil liberties on campus, a commitment to fairness in trial is essential to protecting students. Specific procedures may be more negotiable than in criminal courts, but students’ access to fundamental rights and fairness are not.

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Critics also condemn Devos’ policy changes for failing to take assault seriously and for abandoning the plight of victims in favor of protecting the accused. For example, the Post criticizes a “false equivalence between the experience of a student reporting a sexual assault and that of the student accused of the assault.”

As I argued in my previous article, the most effective and consistent way of protecting all students is ensuring fairness in every aspect of misconduct trials. My sentiment, as The New York Times put it, is that “due process for students accused of assault is not a fringe or right-wing issue.”

Jessica Nyquist is a junior in Computer Science from Houston, Tex. She can be reached at jnyquist@princeton.edu.

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Volleyball splits weekend, prepares for Penn in Ivy League opener

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The women’s volleyball team closed off their final week before Ivy League play with a balanced performance at the American Volleyball Challenge. The Tigers managed to claim a convincing win over the Howard Bisons, but fell to both Iowa University and their host, American University. The Princeton team, now 7-3 overall, will look to improve this record against their Ivy League-rival Penn in their conference debut.

Princeton opened the week against American University. Debuting after a preseason injury, sophomore outside hitter Devon Peterkin came off the bench to notch six kills for the Princeton side. While the Tigers split the first two sets against the Eagles, they were unable to mount a comeback as American University distanced themselves in the final two sets.

The Orange and Black quickly rebounded, however, as they faced the Bisons. Starting strong from the start, the Tigers won the first set with a 2516 score line. The offense was led by the reigning Ivy League Rookie

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The women’s volleyball team will host Penn this Friday in Dillon Gym to open Ivy League Conference play.

of the Year, sophomore right side hitter Maggie O’Connell who led the team with 13 kills. Outside hitters Peterkin and sophomore Natasha Skov each added another 11 kills to the Princeton effort. Although the Bison managed to tie the game 1-1, they were unable to

rally in the face of an efficient Princeton offense that hit .379 in the fourth set.

The Tigers closed the tournament by dropping their last game against a tough Iowa University team. The Hawks had only two losses this season, with one to NCAA cham-

pions Stanford. The Iowa team proved too much for the Tigers, sweeping them in three sets to be the weekend champions.

The Princeton team will have little time to dwell on this loss as they look forward to Ivy League play on Sept. 22.

The team will open the

season against a tough Penn team as they look to repeat the successes of last season. Indeed, the Princeton team has quite the record to maintain, having won the last 20 of its 21 conference matches. More importantly, the team will look to defend its Ivy League title and earn another bid to the NCAA tournament.

The Quakers have proven to be tough opponents in the past, and if this year is like the others, fans will have a must-see thriller on their hands.

Last season, the Tigers narrowly edged Penn out in a tight 3-2 match. It took career efforts across the board for the Orange and Black to come out on top.

During that same game, then senior and cocaptain Brittany Ptak led the offense with a careerhigh 21 kills. O’Connell also added a career best 18 kills and then-sophomore setter Claire Nussbaum paced the offense with 62 assists and an impressive 22 digs. The Tigers will look to match this intensity in the coming season as they start their Ivy League campaign.

Princeton will host Penn at Dillon Gymnasium this Friday at 7 p.m.

CROSS COUNTRY

Women’s team wins HYP, men compete in Iona

By Chris Murphy Associate Sports Editor

The Harvard-YalePrinceton meet is one of the most historic events and rivalries in collegiate athletics. Varsity cross country competition among the Harvard, Yale, and Princeton men first began in 1907 and the schools held their first official meet in 1922.

Since this first meet, this competition has occurred annually with only three disruptions.

The women’s teams of each school began to compete against each other in 1976 and varsity status was obtained at all three schools starting in 1977.

This year’s women’s HYP meet was held at The Course at Yale on Sept.

15 in New Haven. This was Yale’s first race of the season, while it was both Princeton’s and Harvard’s second. Last weekend, the Tigers sent their middle-distance squad to compete in the Fordham Fiasco at Van Cortlandt Park in New York City. There, they came in second, so the team is very excited for this first-place follow-up at HYP. Junior Gabi Forrest commented, “HYP was a very solid start, setting us up for a strong cross country season.” The team is currently ranked at an impressive No. 7 in this week’s U.S. Track &

Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Mid-Atlantic Region poll.

Because of its depth, Princeton won the meet with an overall score of 32 points, while Yale and Harvard trailed behind with scores of 39 and 59.

At first place overall was Bulldog Andrea Masterson by a wide margin with a time of 13:45.1 — a full 10 seconds ahead of second-place Bulldog Kayley DeLay. The Tigers really came out strong this year, with all five scorers finishing in the top 10 of the race.

At third place overall was junior Brighie Leach, with a time of 14:00.4. At only the second official cross country race of the season, the Orange and Black had a strong performance from their firstyears. Following close behind Leach was an impressive race from firstyear Sophie Cantine with a time of 14.02.3. In third place for the Tigers and fourth overall was fellow first-year Melia Chittenden with a time of 14.09.1.

The four remaining scorers were junior Allie Klimkiewicz at 14.11.8, junior Maddie Offstein at 14:18.6, Forrest at 14:20.8, and sophomore Madeleine Sumner at 14:22.6.

The next contest for the Tigers will be Friday, Sept. 29, at Lehigh’s Paul Short Run.

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The women’s team beat Harvard and Yale this past Friday. The men’s team claimed sixth at the Iona meet.

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20 out of 21 The women’s volleyball team have won 20 of their last 21 regular season conference matches.

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