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GSG committee to conduct research on unionization

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After the Aug. 23 ruling from the National Labor Relations Board allowing graduate students to form unions on private university campuses, the Graduate Student Government organized a Unionization Fact Finding Committee to provide answers to questions graduate students might have about the possibility of unionizing.

“We’re trying to show students exactly what unionizing means,” Daniel Vitek GS, chair of the committee, said. Vitek is also the Academic Affairs chair of the GSG. While the GSG is not constitutionally bound to encourage graduate student unionization, Vitek noted, it has focused on providing impartial information on the issue of unionization for students interested in the issue.

“We’re not unionizing, we’re fact-finding,” he said.

Vitek added that there’s “not a lot of institutional knowledge among our peer private institutions about how do you go about unionizing.”

The committee will conduct an impartial research on the relevant questions and compile the results into a report before the end of fall semester. Once the report is released, the committee will disseminate the report to graduate students through email, Vitek explained.

According to Vitek, the committee will attempt to illustrate what unionization contracts look like at other institutions and what kinds of advantages and disadvantages the unionized graduate students at those institutions experienced.

Assembly members of GSG will distribute the report to their departments and the GSG plans to host a town hall meeting before the end of the semester.

At the town hall, GSG will invite representatives from the administration, the office of general counsel and some advocates of the unionization, according to Vitek.

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Gray discusses measuring CO2 in Southern Ocean

By Alexander Stangl contributor

Alison Gray, a postdoctoral fellow at the program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, presented her work on the ongoing Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling program in a lecture Monday afternoon.

SOCCOM seeks to fill in the gaps left by prior in situ studies of the Southern Ocean, which have had limited available windows for sampling, especially in the winter, due to the harsh conditions of the Antarctic.

Gray noted that current estimates allot to the Southern Ocean approximately 50 percent of the total global ocean uptake

of anthropogenic CO­­­­2, despite only accounting for 30 percent of the total global ocean surface area. Thus, climatologists are particularly interested in better understanding this system’s forcings.

This comes as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently reported the hottest August on record.

Global climate change is attributed to rising levels of greenhouse gasses including carbon dioxide. Average global temperatures for the past 16 months have set records, according to NOAA. Gray said more than 50 biogeochemical profiling floats have been deployed into the See SOCCOM page 3

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Misrach, Galindo present border-inspired artworks

By Simone Downs contributor

American photographer Richard Misrach and Mexican composer Guillermo Galindo discussed their photographs and music pieces on the U.S.Mexico border at a lecture on Tuesday.

The audience in attendance was composed of students, professors, and other University academics, looking at a table full of wires, bottles, shotgun casings, and other artifacts from the U.S.-Mexico border that had been transformed into instruments.

Misrach is an acclaimed photographer who pioneered color photography in the 1970’s, which earned him nu-

merous accolades including four National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships.

Misrach proceeded to present his photos of the U.S.-Mexico border, the first half of his collaborative project with Guillermo Galindo. The lights went down as Misrach projected the beginning photo from the first canto, focused on the wall itself. He introduced the differing styles the wall was built in.

“Whoever designed the wall was working with Richard Serra,” said Misrach, which elicited a laugh from the crowd. Serra, who has a sculpture at the University, was known for rustic, simplistic steel structures.

Misrach continued to note

oddities about the wall, saying “you can go around it,” as he showed pictures where the wall abruptly ends. He added that the gates are really just an “arbitrary line in the sand,” and that “money could be used for a range of things, from fighting terrorism to education.”

Misrach showed photos from different cantos in the project, ranging from “Effigy,” composed of long agave sticks stuck in the sand and dressed in Mexican clothing, to “Ballgames,” a collection of photos of stray sports balls that could no longer be retrieved as they had crossed the border. In “Target Practice,” Misrach recalled sneaking See BORDER page 2

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Oxford professor Matthew Erie talks on China and its fight against corruption

By Samuel Oh conributor

Oxford University Professor Matthew Erie gave a lecture Tuesday afternoon about U.S.-China relations in the midst of China’s bid to cut down on its corruption cases among domestic and foreign businesses.

Erie’s talk highlighted the numerous challenges U.S. and Chinese lawyers face attempting to practice law across borders. He went on to clarify and explain the laws and institutions in place within the PRC that allow the Chinese authorities to cut down on corruption within companies residing in the state.

Addressing an audience primarily attended by faculty, graduate students, and University residents, Erie explained the current battle against corruption infesting China and lobbied for conversation and discourse about the place of bi-cultural lawyers in the international stage. Erie entertained questions from the audience regarding the United States’

ability to cooperate with their Chinese counterparts as well as China’s future efforts in containing corrupt business dealings within its borders.

In an interview following the lecture, Erie said he chief ly wished for listeners “to better understand how the foreign corrupt practices… lead to the practice itself through internal investigations of lawyers in China.” Erie also added that he wished to “bring knowledge to conversations with law, specifically comparative law, and to understand transnational law [Between China and the US].”

Erie’s lecture drew praise and opened new lines of thought from students and professors alike.

East Asian Studies Professor David Leheny said that Erie’s lecture is a really nice extension of the type of work he’s done in the past.

“I think what makes his work remarkably quite different from anyone else I know in the field of Asian studies is the way in which he draws ethnographic in-

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sights as well as extraordinarily close attention to the functioning of the law and brings to bear really interesting issues,” Leheny added.

Wilson School first-year graduate student Andi Zhou GS complimented Erie’s talk, noting the lecturer’s clear speaking talent and his sheer knowledge of a previously obscure issue.

“I thought it was very interesting. I thought it was very informative,” Zhou said. “The subject was something that I don’t know enough about and would like to know more about.

He was a very good speaker and I thought he answered people asked very candidly and openly.”

Erie’s message was part of a greater movement let

by Princeton’s China and the World Program to bring greater awareness to China’s rising place in the international community. Co-director of the CWP Thomas Christensen, a William P. Boswell Professor of World Politics of Peace and War, See CHINA page 3

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through an electric gate that had been left open to find a border patrol practice target range. He said that “Agua” was a collection of photos that he “didn’t even know what it was at the time” and went on to explain that “humanitarian groups put water out along the border where people die most often.”

Galindo followed Misrach’s presentation by demonstrating the other half of this project: taking the artifacts that Misrach photographed in their natural context, and transforming them into the medium of music.

Galindo performed a selection by sampling sounds from each of his instruments — bottles, a wooden box with strings, shotgun casings, to name a few — and looping them to create a rhythm. He intermittently spoke phrases of his own: “hypothermia,” “mexico,” “fatal shooting,” and “skeletal remains” on top of the beat to create a haunting amalgamation of intertwining musical sounds.

The lecture ended with a question-and-answer session during which the floor was opened to audience members

with questions. Sarah Lopez, a Princeton-Mellon Fellow, raised the question of whether or not Misrach made a map of the locations he photographed.

Misrach said that he thought of his photos as a “family album” consisting of photos that take him back to the location, but there is no physical map.

“The work I’ve seen so far that has documented the border via photos or other schools that archive objects, hasn’t done anything like this that transforms them into another medium,” Lopez said.

“That’s a lot for us to think about, the lives that are lost, the stories that are lost.”

“I’m a researcher, so that’s why I asked the question about if he mapped,” she later added. “So the next question is where these images are coming from, are there patterns?”

Stephen Rossetti ’17 said the lecture was an “incredible experience” that “put you in like a trance of metaphorical realization.”

The lecture, titled “Border Cantos” was part of the Wilson College Signature Lecture Series and took place on Tuesday, Sept. 27 at 7:30 p.m. at McCormick Hall 101.

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He added that GSG is unsure who will represent the pro-unionization side.

“We want a graduate student perspective on what union experiences look like,” Vitek said.

He said that University graduate students do not really understand the advantages and disadvantages of these unions.

“If I don’t really understand, I’m pretty sure that most graduate students really don’t know what going on,” he said.

Notably, the ruling stipulated that students would only be represented by the union while they were teaching or researching for the University. This would create a situation where students would be moving in and out of the union if they are only taking classes.

“You could then move in and out of better or worse benefits from semester to semester,” Joshua Wallace GS said.

Vitek said the committee is trying to find out who could be part of and covered by the collective bargaining agreement. He noted that the committee is particularly looking into the union coverage for Master in Public Affairs students at The Wilson School, external and internal fellows, as well as students who bounce between statuses.

Vitek also noted that the University is particular in its opportunities for graduate students.

“Princeton is a remarkably endowed institution and even from a grad student perspective that’s obvious,” Vitek said. “When I was applying to and choosing between graduate schools, the financial situation here was a lot better than at competing institutions.”

“Relative to concerns other institutions have had, I think we’ve got it somewhat better, so there’s been a lot of discussion,” Vitek said.

Wallace said he agrees with Vitek.

“Princeton has the highest stipend of anywhere I was accepted

or anywhere I’m aware of,” Wallace noted. He said that the stipend issue — as it is an issue of wages — would always be present with a union.

“There’s not really bargaining power, because Princeton does pay so much to grad students,” Wallace said.

Vitek said that although GSG has been vocal about many issues in the past, “[Unionization] is not a question of principle for most Princeton graduate students, it’s a question of would [a union] actually help.”

Vitek noted that graduate students are concerned about union dues, continuing administration support and the strikes — since if the union goes on strike, students will have to strike. Vitek said that he can’t speculate about what would happen if it were put to a vote. He said about half of the people he’s spoken to are in support of unionization, half in opposition.

However, he also said that people in favor are totally in favor, but people in opposition are less sure.

Wallace said that he is not in favor of unionization but that most of the the students in his astrophysical sciences department are less active on the issue than his friends from other departments.

“I think it’s probably a bad idea and definitely merits very very careful consideration,” he said. “Of the problems that grad students face at Princeton University, not all of them would be able to be addressed by a union which can only address employer-employee relationship.”

Wallace said the the administration has been responsive to concerns brought up by GSG in his experience, though they may not always do what students want or they may be slow to respond. Wallace said he thinks there are other channels to relay issues without needing to unionize.

Wallace noted that because New Jersey is not a Right-to-Work state, unions can force people to pay agency fees instead of union dues. As a graduate student with a family, he said that budgets are often tight and that adding a fee might be difficult — even if the union were able to increase representation.

To certify a union, one would have to start collecting support cards where eligible individuals would indicate that they support creating a union. Under federal

law, there is a 30 percent threshold of support to put unionization to a secret ballot. Once certified, there is a bargaining and negotiation process that can add another one to two years to the process. The following certification process can also take a year to complete.

Vitek said that if unionization were initialized at the University, he would be “shocked” if the process was complete before the 201819 school year.

According to the NLRB ruling, the 3-1 decision of Columbia over Brown University views “student assistants working at private colleges and universities are statutory employees covered by the National Labor Relations Act.” The case, begun by a Columbia University graduate student who wished to be represented by the United Auto Workers, comes as a reversal of a 2004 ruling from the NLRB that barred graduate students the right to unionize, according to The New York Times.

New York University graduate students are already represented by the UAW, an affiliate of the AFLCIO. Public university students began to have recognized unions in the 1960-70s, notably at the University of Michigan and the University of California Berkeley.

The University filed an amicus curiae brief in opposition to unionization in the Columbia University case with the NLRB. After the August ruling, the University compiled an website to answer some of the most commonly asked questions regarding graduate student unionization. This website shares similar language to those websites on unionization created by Yale or the University of Pennsylvania — institutions for which Fisher & Phillips LLP filed the amicus brief for the University.

Other institutions represented by the firm include the other Ivies, Stanford University, and MIT. In this FAQ , the University wrote that “Princeton disagrees with the notion underlying the NLRB decision that a graduate student who is engaged in research or teaching in a given semester is transformed during that semester from a student into an employee.”

According the University’s FAQ page, 20 percent of the University workforce is represented by six staff unions.

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noted after the lecture that the program on China and the World “focuses not on China per se but Chinese foreign relations… We have speakers who study the cause of China’s foreign policy, people who study other countries’ policies towards China, China’s multilateralism, China’s International political economy, and China’s security.”

Christensen enthusiastically encouraged more stu-

dents, especially undergraduates, to attend the speaking series. As Erie himself aptly said, “I think inviting scholars like me… is a part of this effort to increase engagement between the Princeton community and China studies internationally.”

The lecture, entitled “(Self-)Disciplining the Corporation: FCPA Practice, Compliance, and Global Anti-Corruption Regimes in China,” was held in the Aaron Burr Lecture Hall at 4:30 p.m. and was hosted by the University’s China and the World Program.

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Southern Ocean across four different regions. The floats store the collected data and later transmit the information to satellites upon resurfacing.

Gray said that the floats’ primary strength is their autonomy.

“They don’t mind being out in the Southern Ocean when it’s windy, […] cold,” Gray said in the lecture.

The floats can also collect data when the surface has iced over, giving them another advantage over the existing method of collecting data from cruises.

Of the nearly 50 floats deployed thus far, 13 have collected more than a year’s worth of data, which comprises the team’s initial analyses. Gray added that, while her team’s calculations were dependent upon alkalinity levels in the water near the floats, the floats have not been designed to measure this property. However, using existing, shipboard measurements made in the region, she and her team were able to approximate this value. She justified this approach by noting that her team’s calculations were not particularly sensitive to alkalinity, meaning, a reasonable approximation for this value suffices. She stated that current estimates place the ap-

proximate uncertainty associated with the pCO2 in their calculations at two percent.

With this information, Gray and the team were able to determine the annual air-sea CO2 flux in the region. The results already distinguish themselves from those of prior studies, with significantly higher measurements for these fluxes than have been provided by estimates based on existing datasets. The implications, however, suggest that researchers must review the current understanding of forcings at the level of the sea-atmosphere interface.

Gray chalked the stark difference present in the graphs she provided to three potential causes.

The first is that one cannot discount the possibility of a sampling bias in the study.

“It’s pretty concerning that we’re extrapolating from a relatively little number of data points,” she said.

Her team further investigated this lead in their analyses, studying the locations where the operational floats had been placed, and comparing their measurements to those of existing climatologies in those regions. Although sampling bias obviously factored into their calculations, it alone was not enough to account for the significantly higher levels of outgassing that their study indicated.

Gray said that if a sampling bias could not wholly account for this deviation, then perhaps the conditions of the time period during which these floats were operating was just particularly exceptional. She noted that, since 2014, wind speed and sea-surface temperature have been particularly anomalous, possibly affecting the fluxes the team found. Once again, however, their analyses showed that even this possibility insufficiently accounts for the deviation.

Gray then rested her case on a third option – that existing climatologies are severely underestimating the flux during wintertime. This proposal does not come as a surprise, given the scarcity of data collected in the winter.

Of course, there is still more work to be done to lend more credibility to this idea, she said.

16 floats will have collected a year’s worth of data by the end of this year, at which time their data will be incorporated into the aforementioned study. Furthermore , over 100 additional floats will be deployed over the span of three years.

The lecture, titled “A Southern Ocean source of carbon dioxide detected with autonomous biogeochemical floats,” took place at Guyot Hall Lecture Hall 10 at 12:30 p.m., and was sponsored by the Department of Geosciences.

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On bias, nuance, and fact-checkers vol. cxl

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O, MONDAY night was pretty disheartening. But instead of complaining about the presidential debate, I want to offer one nonpartisan reflection on the recent proliferation of fact checkers and the involvement of the media in “fact checking” the election. However, before doing so I want to note three basic premises that inform my views on this topic.

First, we need to recognize that everyone is biased, knowingly or not. This includes everyone in the media, everyone in politics, you, and me. Everyone. This bias cuts across education level, socioeconomic status, skin color, and every other identifying characteristic out there. Second, the issues we are debating in the election are complicated. Despite what many say, there is no easy solution to racism, our vulnerable energy situation, radical terrorism, cyber warfare, the American manufacturing crisis, etc. The world is unfortunately broken, and we as humans are quite bad at solving many problems. Third, massive quantities of facts, information, and data relate to each one of these issues, to say nothing of philosophical ideals and moral principles. As much as we may want to boil a subject like the state of the economy down to three or four statistics, it’s simply not possible. Nuance exists, and we should embrace that difficult principle rather than blindly run into the arms of ignorant simplic-

ity.

Given these three considerations, I urge you to be skeptical of all media figures that attempt to either support or counter the claims of the two candidates by “checking the facts” or looking at the evidence. After all, these people are biased too, and they are attempting to discuss complex issues in 300-word snippets using a small amount of the overall information available out there. They simply can’t engage with the issue in a meaningful way or conclusively prove the candidates right or wrong on the basis of their carefully selected facts (most of the time anyway).

So where does this leave us?

Who checks the fact checkers?

You. You are responsible for understanding the issues, for looking at the information out there, engaging in arguments with those who agree and disagree with you, and reaching a supported position.

You can’t read just Vox or RedState, and claim the other side is crazy.

It’s not. Nor can you read the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal and pretend that you’re getting your information from an unbiased source. You’re not. Nor can you watch one John Oliver segment and presume that you’re suddenly an expert on charter schools or Medicaid. Oliver’s not and neither are you.

For some reason, we’ve chosen to delegate thoughtful engagement with the issues to fact check-

ers and pundits who purport to tell us who is wrong and right in short web posts and YouTube videos. But it’s more complex than that. We all have different premises, different goals, and different values. We can’t expect to reach the same answer if we start at different places, but we can hope to sometimes reach a compromise by understanding each other and listening with real concern.

So what now? What do we do?

Start small. You can’t hope to know everything about everything, especially in the beginning.

Wisdom is more about knowing what you don’t know than what you do. So start with one step.

Start with an issue you really care about, whether it be social or fiscal, international affairs or racial reconciliation. And just because you’re a Princeton student doesn’t mean you have some sort of special claim to knowledge or objectivity on these issues. You don’t.

For example, take the issue of guns. Look at statistics about gun violence in America, where it happens, why it happens, how guns laws contribute to the issue. Understand the supply chain, figure out what a gun show is and what constitutes a background check.

Look at the text of the Second Amendment and understand how different sides view the right to bear arms. Understand the difference between an AR-15 and a Glock handgun, and think about whether that distinction matters. Maybe

it does, maybe it doesn’t. Compare the U.S. with the rest of the world, and figure out how and why we are different. Ask questions. What about your personal experience?

Have you shot a gun? How does that inform your position? Realize your own biases. Get outside of your friend group and listen to someone who opposes you. Talk to someone who agrees with you, but continually ask them why, why, why. Pick apart your own arguments, and reconstruct them with sturdy reasons.

But isn’t that hard? Who has time for that?

It is hard. It does take time. And once you start, you’re never finished.

On a personal note, I often spend late nights rethinking my positions on critical issues, wondering if I’ve missed something or failed to understand the opposition.

However, the task is well worth it. A nation full of uninvolved citizens who don’t take time to understand the issues has given us the two nominees on stage Monday night, two wealthy, white, elderly, flip-flopping New Yorkers tainted by scandal and driven by personal ambition. So take the time to figure out the issues. Discover what you believe and why. And listen to everyone. We owe it to each other, our country, and ourselves.

Owen Smitherman is a Politics major from Austin, TX. He can be reached at obs@princeton.edu.

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his year, many Wall Street investment banks, including J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, and Credit Suisse moved their application and interview processes for summer internships even earlier in the fall. As part of a continual effort to hire the best talent ahead of other industries, this change will prompt students to make decisions about their summers and eventual careers sooner than ever before.

Many are paralyzed by the fear that if they graduate from college without a job or graduate school admission lined up, they’ve made some cataclysmic mistake and are destined to have mediocre pay and monotonous misery for the rest of their lives.

As a result, many students give into this fear and end up taking respectable, well-paying jobs, but ones that deep down, they know probably don’t suit them.

The great American writer Ralph Waldo Emerson weighs

in, “If the finest genius studies at one of our colleges, and is not installed in an office within one year afterwards in the cities or suburbs of Boston or New York, it seems to his friends and to himself that he is right in being disheartened, and in complaining the rest of his life. A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont, who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always, like a cat, falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days, and feels no shame in not ‘studying a profession,’ for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.”

Emerson wrote this more than a hundred years ago, but it’s probably more applicable to our mentality today than it was even then. Today there are more ways than ever to develop your own skills, determine your own career

path, create your own job, and get involved in meaningful and enjoyable work.

The epidemic of worry and job insecurity threatens to affect students’ psychologies and outlooks. During frosh week, the first question often asked after, “How was your summer?” is “Do you know what you are doing next summer yet?” The student is rarely allowed to live in the present with the work that is presented to them. Even a high-powered banking or consulting intern spends a great deal of time distracted from the work given to them because they are compelled to consider how they are coming across to their superiors.

Few students believe the truth that if they operate entirely in the present for these four years, taking care to do justice to the myriad of opportunities Princeton throws their way, they will graduate, actually get hired, and be successful in whatever opportunity they are next given.

The insecure student who takes the job they know isn’t right for them might ironically work to bring about their own fears. They want a well-paying job, financially secure future, and potential for social mobility. We all do, especially the English major behind this column desperately trying to convince himself he’s not going to be unemployed for the first two years after college.

But if we accept a job that does not genuinely feel like it is the work for us, we may have delayed the certain symptoms of failure we are so terrified of being associated with — moving back in with our mom, unemployment, an embarrassingly low-paying job — but we really are only delaying the start of our own lives. When I talk to students who are heading into finance, many of them are actively eager to finish their two years of being an analyst first. Far from being excited for their first job, they soon express that what they are really looking

forward to is not this job, but the one they hope will come after. Like Emerson says, they are postponing, waiting to begin what they imagine as their real lives.

I hope that it does not pass you by. I hope that two years and then sanity in private equity does not become, “three years then I’ll be a CEO,” or “five years then I’ll be a millionaire,” and then “15 years till I can retire to Malibu.”

If an illustrious and taxing (and taxable) career path is the one for you, then really live that. If how you spend your days is how you spend your life, whatever job you take, do not wait for that life to slip away; start this very moment. Be here. As C.S. Lewis writes, “The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life.”

Luke Gamble is an English major from Eagle, Idaho. He can be reached at ljgamble@princeton. edu.

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Princeton Running Club: A diverse and inclusive community

By David Liu Sports Editor

Starting this semester, the Daily Princetonian will publish a weekly feature centered on one of the University’s club sports every Wednesday. Clubs interested in a feature should contact sports@dailyprincetonian.com.

A dedicated and close-knit group of running enthusiasts, members of the Princeton Running Club enjoy anything from light runs through the Institute Woods to nature-bending runs in the chill of winter. An expanding organization on campus, the club has grown from a small band of graduate students to a major, organized group of over 50 student runners in just under five years. Now, with a fresh cohort of talented freshmen and enthusiastic, core leadership, Princeton Running Club hopes to make a significant national impact this year.

While some club sports on campus struggle to organize or compete, PRC has solidly established its reputation as a serious, competitive organization. A member of the National Intercollegiate Running Club Association and frequent competitor in national and regional meets, Princeton’s own running club has defied its doubters.

Club race coordinator and leader sophomore Liam Collins explained, “We have people training on the varsity level every day.” This elite

level of competition was perfect for current vice president and women’s captain junior Lindy Zeng, who came into college “looking for something similar to what [she] had in high school.”

On the other end of the spectrum, the club makes a conscious effort to create a supportive atmosphere such that even the novice runner could find a place in the community. In fact, when asked to distinguish the club from others on campus, PRC guru and active presence junior Zartosht Ahlers applauded the leadership’s extensive efforts to “make [PRC] as inclusive as possible.”

At the same time, it is important to note that the club did not always enjoy its current level of diversity and widespread reach. Club president and women’s captain junior Avery Kratzer explained, “Going back just five years ago, there really weren’t many girls.” But since then, under the leadership of two female captains, Kratzer explained, “Our women’s team has expanded exponentially over the past few years. There’s a really great balance of girls who’ve raced in high school and those who just want to come out.”

The schedule and timing of the club operate on a regular basis: on any given day, the club’s members assemble in front of Dillon Gymnasium shortly after classes have ended. The members then voluntarily divide themselves

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into groups of different paces and intensities so that any runner can participate at an appropriate pace. During the run itself, passive onlookers can overhear the members actively engaging by shouting chants, encouraging each other or vigorously debating the meaning of life.

The down-to-earth nature of the leadership has proved beneficial for a club that, practically speaking, operates on a predominantly student-run basis. The officers tackle everything from organizing transportation to national tournaments to handling the logistics of hosting Princeton Invitationals.

However, one could argue that PRC’s greatest and most precious moments take place beyond the scope of running itself. When probed about the impact that the club has had on their college experiences, members of the club fondly recalled perilous runs in foot-deep snow, club-wide dinners in the Forbes dining hall on Friday nights, and middle-of-the-night conversations on the car ride back from nationals.

The club is excited for a dominant year ahead. Though some have jokingly labeled the PRC as the “Perpetually Recovering Club” due to several injuries in recent his-

tory, the club believes that its revived health and new talent will be keys to success.

Leaders in the club specifically commended freshman Bennett Weissenbach for his tremendous spirit and commitment just a few weeks into the year.

Up next, the PRC plans to host other collegiate clubs in the region for the annual Princeton Invitational this weekend. Though the Tigers won’t be engaging in their typical shouting and debating discussions during this serious competition, onlookers will be sure to see a family of proud, competitive, and dedicated Princetonians.

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Mixed Results for Tigers at Mountain Pacific Invitational

By Michael Gao Staff Writer

The University men’s water polo team continued their season in the MountainPacificInvitationalatthe University of California Berkeley during this past weekend, Sept.

24-25. The Tigers played four close games — winning one and dropping the other three in close heartbreakers.

Princeton entered the Invitational on a high point, having jumped to ninth place nationally

after a string of successful matches.

The Tigers, though relatively lacking in experience, have risen in the rankings thanks to a potent combination of aggressive offense and one of the strongest goalkeepers in the sport, junior All-American Vojislav Mitrovic. As the Tigers begin warming up for regular conference play and the potential for another postseason NCAA tournament run, they hope that extensive play against some of the nation’s top teams will help mold this year’s talented squad into yet another

formidable national contender.

As Jordan Colina, junior attacker, notes, “We have not played too many games yet with this group of players, so finding a way to gel and play together is something that we need to look to improve on.”

The Tigers opened play against the strong, sixth-ranked UC Santa Barbara team (UCSB was defeated only by second-ranked University ofSouthernCalifornia).Bothteams fought doggedly in the pool, with the score tied at 5-5 by the third quarter. With four and a half min-

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The Tigers will look to rebound as they face St. Francis-Brooklyn in their conference opener.

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utes left on the clock, UC Santa Barbara’s Tor Jensen had seemed to decisively settle the game by giving the Gauchos an 11-8 lead.

Improbably, the Tigers went on a furious 3-0 run, the only such run of the game for either side, to force the game into overtime, with sophomore driver Matt Payne scoring two of his four total goals and senior utility Jovan Jeremic scoring the tying goal. After two scoreless overtimes, heartbreak struck the Tigers, as a single golden goal from UC Santa Barbara’s Boris Jovanovic handed them the 12-11 victory.

Princeton bounced back from its defeat, however, with a solid 15-9 victory over Whittier College.

With the Tigers holding a respectable — but by no means solid — 7-5 lead by halftime, impressive offensive play and 15 saves from Mitrovic eventually helped Princeton attain a decisive victory. On the scoring end, sophomore utility Ryan Wilson and sophomore driver Michael Swart led the way, scoring four and three goals, respectively.

Unfortunately, the Tigers would suffer two tough losses in their final matches of the tournament against the University of California Davis and the United States Air Force Academy.

The Tigers and Tritons were tied at 7-7 in the middle of the third quarter. This time, however, it would be UC Davis who would go on an improbable 5-goal run,

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11th The Men’s Water Polo team was ranked 11th in the CWPA National Poll.

opening the score to 12-7. Princeton was unable to respond, though they would score two more goals.

Princeton would concede the match 13-9 to the Tritons.

Princeton’s final match of the tournament would be against Air Force, which they would fall to 1110. Despite 14 saves from Mitrovic, the Tigers found themselves playing catch-up to the Falcons for much of the game. An impressive first-half showing from Air Force gave them a seemingly insurmountable 7-3 lead by halftime.

Princeton clawed back to an 8-8 tie, but when the Falcons responded with another 3 goal run, the Tigers were overwhelmed. It is a testament to the fighting spirit of Princeton that they were able to score two more goals to bring the score to within one goal.

While the weekend’s showings may not have been what the Tigers were hoping for, the closeness of the matches and the ability of the team to fight its way back from tough deficits amply demonstrated the team’s quality of play and fighting spirit. Princeton remains unfazed from its losses: Swart notes that “playing high level games, of which our schedule has no shortage, has been really helpful in the overall improvement of the team’s play.” This will prove important in more critical matches. Princeton’s next match will be Sept. 28 against St. Francis Brooklyn in the Denunzio Pool.

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