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LEFT: COURTESY OF GILBERT COLLINS, RIGHT: COURTESY OF JEOPARDY

On the left, Gilbert Collins and Alex Trebek. Right depicts the game dynamics of Collins’ first episode.

U. Director of Global Health racks up Jeopardy wins Associate News and Film Editor

Starting on Jan. 10, the University’s Director of Global Health Programs, Gilbert Collins GS ’99, racked up five consecutive wins on the television game show “Jeopardy!” The winning streak puts Collins, who holds a Master in Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School, in the running for the Tournament of Champions, an annual competition featuring the longestrunning champions and biggest winners from recent seasons.

Filmed in October 2017, the first episode Collins appeared in aired on Jan. 10, and he competed against an archivist and a proofreader/editor.

After a strong performance during the first two rounds, he ended the game with $8,399 af-

ter answering the Final Jeopardy question incorrectly – a practice he would quickly discard after his second appearance. Collins’ five day total was $84,201, twice as much as the average champion’s earnings of $40,467.60.

“It went better than I ever would’ve hoped,” Collins explained in an interview with the ‘Prince,’ adding that no contestant should be too confident as “there are three smart people, and two of them are going to lose.”

Collins said he was overjoyed to win on the first episode because he’d always be able to say that he was a “Jeopardy!” champion. Each successive win was incredible, explained Collins, but after the third win, “it becomes a blur.”

During the interviews with the show’s host,

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U. early acceptances trend lower this year

By Mallory Williamson Contributor

On Dec. 13, the first 799 members of Princeton’s Class of 2022 became the seventh cohort to be admitted to the University under the single-choice early action program.

SCEA, unlike traditional early action plans, restricts how many schools a student can apply to in the early round. Students who apply to the University under SCEA cannot apply to any binding programs and are not allowed to apply to any early programs at private universities.

There are some other options open to students applying under SCEA, however. Students are allowed to apply to nonbinding programs at public institutions, service academies, and international institutions. They can also apply to any college or university with a non-binding rolling admission process.

The University first instituted SCEA in 2011, intended as a more accessible successor to its longabandoned early decision plan. In 2006, Princeton,

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along with Harvard and the University of Virginia, announced it would end its early decision plan to “ensure equity for all applicants,” according to University President Emerita Shirley Tilghman.

When other peer institutions failed to follow suit, however, all three universities reinstated early plans. While Virginia instituted a non-restrictive early plan, both Princeton and Harvard turned to restrictive options.

Although the University’s plan is termed “single-choice” early action and Harvard’s is called “restrictive” early action, the plans are essentially the same.

“We’ve reinstated the single-choice early action after we had had several years of having only one admission plan: regular decision,” University Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye explained.

“We’ve been happy with the pool of applicants we’ve been receiving and also to be able to give students the opportunity to See SCEA page 2

Columnist Allison Huang explores why she has taken a step back from writing, while Guest Contributor Carolyn Beard argues for the necessity of mental health peers.

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Alex Trebek, Collins talked quite a bit about his hometown: Milwaukee, Wis. He also talked about the time he spent in Namibia as a U.S. Peace Corps Country Director and in Botswana as Associate Director.

Collins explained that he made a promise to his two children, Timmy and Nicki, that he would give them 1% of his winnings on “Jeopardy!” On Jan. 17, “Jeopardy!” posted an “allowance tracker” on its Twitter page — featuring a video of Collins’ son snapping his fingers in the audience — “to hold [Collins] to his word” that he would pay him the 1%, or $842.01.

Collins watched the game show ever since he was a young boy growing up in Milwaukee. He went on to compete in quiz bowl in high school and college bowl as an

undergraduate at Harvard University. However, his dream of being on “Jeopardy!” quickly faded into the background as he focused on his career and work.

When Collins completed his work with the Peace Corps, his desire to be a contestant on “Jeopardy!” returned in full force. He decided to give the online test, which serves as a first screening for potential contestants, a shot. Participants who correctly answer at least 35 out of 50 questions are randomly selected to advance to a next round where they compete in mock games.

Collins took the online test in 2015, and again in 2016, but was not selected. This time around however, he was lucky enough to be invited to New York City for an inperson round.

“There were 21 poten-

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tial contestants that were invited to meet with producers and to take a written test of 50 questions of broad knowledge, partly to make sure you didn’t cheat on your exam,” explained Collins. Following the written test, potential contestants participated in a simulated round of “Jeopardy!” and were interviewed in front of a camera.

After the in-person try out, prospective contestants are told nothing. They remain in a pool for 18 months before they can try out again if they have not been called on the show.

Out of the 3,000 people in the contestant pool, only 400 are given the chance to appear on the show each year.

In September of 2017, Collins got a call from See JEOPARDY page 5

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U. service Eisgruber speaks at World Economic Forum helps

By Allie Spensley Associate News Editor

President Eisgruber and five members of the University engineering faculty attended the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum on Jan. 23-26. The meeting, held in Davos, Switzerland, brought together leaders in politics, business, and academia from around the world to discuss global challenges and solutions.

University professors participated in a panel on “Understanding Neural and Digital Networks” as part of the Forum’s “IdeasLab” series, in which academics present their research findings to a small audience of international leaders, who examine and discuss these ideas.

Eisgruber introduced the panel, which included faculty members Jennifer Rexford ’91, an engineering professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science, Yoram Singer, a professor of computer science, and Sebastian Seung, a professor in neuroscience and computer science.

Rexford also spoke on

a panel about the impact of artificial intelligence on society, alongside Microsoft president and University trustee Brad Smith ’81 and McKinsey Global Institute chair and director James Manyika.

Eisgruber participated in the Global University Leaders Forum, a community of 27 university presidents that focuses on research and educational agendas, and serves as an intellectual advisory body for the World Economic Forum. On Jan. 23, Eisgruber hosted a “Princeton in Davos” reception for alumni and the media.

In addition to the engineering professors, other Princeton faculty attended the meeting, including Nobel laureate and Wilson School professor emeritus Sir Angus Deaton and professor of politics Jan-Werner Müller.

Eisgruber participated in the 2016 forum as well, where he gave a talk with Smith about how universities can foster innovation by collaborating with non-academic partners.

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pronounce student names

By Jane Sul Staff Writer

The University introduced a new service on Jan. 23 that allows students to record the correct pronunciation of their names, as well as indicate phonetic spelling. Students can access the service, known as NameCoach, on TigerHub. “The University community wishes to pronounce your name correctly,” University Registrar Polly Griffin wrote in an email to graduate and undergraduate students. In her email, Griffin explained that advisors and administrative staff will be able to listen to the voice recording and view the phonetic spelling provided by students. This information can also be linked to class rosters along with other PeopleSoft Student Records pages.

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apply early,” she said.

Yale and Stanford also maintain SCEA and REA plans, respectively. The other five Ivy League schools all have retained early decision admission plans, wherein students are obligated to matriculate if admitted. All Ivy League schools, as per a common admission procedure agreement all eight members have entered, must honor a student’s accepted ED offer to another Ivy League institution.

ED programs produce a near-100 percent yield rate — the calculated rate at which students accepted to a school matriculate and an important metric used in many college rankings — but early action programs, even the

SCEA or REA programs used at three Ivy League schools, do not have the same effect.

Despite this, Princeton’s SCEA program was reinstated with two goals in mind: “[to] provide opportunities for early application for students who know that Princeton is their first choice, while at the same time sustaining and even enhancing the progress we have made in recent years in diversifying our applicant pool and admitting the strongest possible class,” Rapelye explained in a 2011 statement announcing the return of early action.

The University’s SCEA program has proven to be increasingly popular since it was instituted in 2011. Overall, SCEA acceptance rates have decreased slightly over the same time period.

In the first year of SCEA, 3443 students applied and 726 were accepted for a 21 percent acceptance rate.

The SCEA admission rate dropped to 18.3 percent in 2012 — the lowest until the then-record low of 15.4 percent last year — before rising slightly to 18.5 percent in 2013, 19.9 percent in 2014, and 18.6 percent in 2015. The SCEA acceptance rate for the Class of 2022 was 14.7 percent, the lowest ever.

The general trend of increasing selectivity in the University’s early admissions is driven by a ballooning application pool.

The most recent SCEA pool saw a 56.9 percent increase in size over the first pool in 2011, but only 10.1 percent more applicants were admitted.

Notably, the SCEA admission rate is significantly higher than the regular decision admit rate. Last year, 15.4 percent of SCEA applicants were accepted while only 4.3 percent of regular decision applicants gained admission to the University — a staggering 358 percent difference.

“We apply the exact same standards in the early pool as we do in regular decision,” Rapelye said. “[SCEA applicants] are ready to apply early and tend to be excellent students, so the quality of that pool is higher.”

The University, like many other schools that offer an early option, maintains that it is not easier to be admitted through the early round.

“We’re admitting the same quality [of student] early and regular,” Rapelye explained. “I think the percentages are misleading. They don’t give the whole story.”

Though the University does not openly provide data, some of this increase may also be attributable to the acceptance of recruited athletes, many of whom commit to Princeton well in advance of the admissions process and thus would apply in the SCEA round.

“If a student has received a likely letter in October or November from us, they are in the early pool,” Rapelye said.

“There are recruited athletes in the early pool, but there are athletes in regular as well.”

Peer institutions, however, acknowledge a potential distortion in See SCEA page 3

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numbers correlating with athletic recruitment.

“Keep in mind that the published higher percentage of applicants accepted early is somewhat misleading because it includes recruited Division

1 athletes, whose credentials have been reviewed in advance,” reads Dartmouth College’s early decision FAQ page.

Another potential factor in the higher SCEA acceptance rate is the higher proportion of legacies accepted. For example, 16 percent of the SCEA applicants admitted in 2016 were children of alumni,

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while the overall proportion that cycle including regular decision applicants was only 10.1 percent.

However, most students who apply early to the University are neither admitted nor denied. Instead, they are deferred and placed into the regular decision pool, where they are evaluated once

more by the admissions office.

“The majority of students are deferred,” Rapelye said. “We do refuse some students in the early pool where we believe it isn’t fair [for them to continue to think] that they may be admitted. We know that in December we need to give them indication that they need to

look elsewhere.”

The Undergraduate Admission Office does not publicize the exact number of students who are deferred from the SCEA pool to the larger regular decision pool.

All admitted students have until May 1 to make their final decision.

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Mental Health Peers: A needed support system Carolyn Beard

Guest Contributor

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hat sucks.”

“Thank you for sharing that with me.”

“I’m really sorry you’re going through this.” “How can I be here for you?”

During my time at Princeton, I have been blessed to find a group of amazing women that I call my closest friends, my support network, my team. These Princetonians are the leaders of our biggest, most productive student organizations, they organize social programming, conduct scientific research, and create campus art: These women drive conversation on mental health at Princeton.

When not organizing the Mental Health Week, performing in the Me, Too Monologues at Theatre Intime, or conducting longterm research on depression in the University’s worldclass labs, my friends are just that — friends. When I’m struggling, my friends show up. When I’m anxious, my friends call me. When I’m crying, my friends cry, too. And that support system is a two-way street: As a vital member of our team,

I am expected to show up, respond to late-night text messages, bring soup and soda. Within this group of friends, I am both supported and needed — I have a purpose.

Like so many members of this support system, I would likely not be here without my team. Over the last four years, I have relied on my support network of family, friends, chaplains, and mental health professionals. When my father was killed in June 2014, just months before I matriculated at Princeton, I was told so many wrong things by so many well-meaning people.

“Everything happens for a reason.” “You need to stay strong — for your mother.”

“This, too, shall pass.” It was a breath of fresh air, then, when people told me the right things. “This sucks.”

“There are no words.” “I am so sorry.” “I am here for you.” These simple statements — often preceded or followed by silence — were exactly what I needed to hear. Instead of brushing away my pain, these statements affirmed that I was hurting, these people told me I was allowed to not be okay. These statements made me feel heard, seen,

understood.

While at Princeton, I have grieved the loss of my father. My friends cannot make my grief go away.

My friends cannot bring my dad back to life. But my friends can make me feel seen, heard, understood, and valued. And they do.

My friends make me feel loved and needed with their simple statements, actions, and — most often — just by showing up. “I’m really sorry you’re going through this.” “How can I be here for you?”

Like so many of my peers, I am hurting at loss of yet another Princetonian to mental illness. For my classmates, Chester Lam ’19 is the third student our institution has lost to mental health in four years — he is preceded by Wonshik Shin ’19 and Audrey Dantzlerward ’15. While our campus continues to grieve the loss of Jacob Kaplan ’18, who passed away after a brave struggle with cancer this winter, I believe it is important now — more than ever — for Princeton students to form support networks. As a member of the Great Class of 2018, I urge my classmates to consider the improvement of the campus

conversation about mental health as the best possible legacy we can leave for current and future Princetonians.

In an effort to encourage a student support system, I propose the establishment of Mental Health Peers.

Based on the precedent of set by SHARE Peers, Peer Health Advisors, and UMatter, Mental Health Peers will provide a concrete service in the University community by training students how to be friends in mental crisis. With guidance from professionals at Counseling and Psychological Services, we will train our friends, classmates, and peers how to talk about mental health, what to say when a friend is in crisis, and what medical, professional, and confidential resources exist.

Through grassroots training that benefits from institutional support, I believe Mental Health Peers can fundamentally change conversation on mental health at Princeton.

Carolyn Beard is a senior in the Department of Comparative Literature. She can be reached at cebeard@princeton.edu.

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Why I no longer write (poetry) Liam O’Connor

contributing columnist

Five months, three days, and 22 hours after I got into college, I realized that I had not written a single poem.

There was one exception: a night when I wrote what it meant to be a young, young 18-year-old waiting for 19 and all of its independence to rocket me away from my parents. That night, words poured forth in a tirade. I remember one word I had used, a sweet word, corpuscle (which means minute particle) that I realize now should have been crepuscule (meaning twilight).

I left that poem in the back drawer of my desk.

If writing is revision and commitment to growing a seed of thought, I no longer wrote. I could not count myself among the faithful, fervent creators who woke at 5 a.m. to tunnel into words, who sat down often enough to experience writer’s block.

Months after I got into college, my roommate learned that I was once a poet. Or, I once wrote poetry (there is a difference).

I had also worked as a waitress the summer before college. I would have been the quintessential working-byday, writing-through-twilight, hidden-in-plain-sight poet — except that the periods of working and creating did not overlap. Once I’d stopped writing poetry for contests (around Nov. 1, 2016), I stopped writing for good.

Contests. I remember scouring Google. My search bar lexicon: “Poetry” and “writing” were too general.

“Competition” garnered few hits. “Contest” revealed a land-mine (though not all gold for the young inexperienced writer. In my gleeful greenness, the first contest I submitted to was a general contest by Boston Review — which is not a literary magazine — and it

had an entry fee of $20). The word “contest” is fitting. It does not directly imply that one writer is pitted against another, though ostensibly one writer is pitted against the other. It establishes a legacy of past victors and it creates prestige (and thus readership) around writing of a particular kind.

I love games, and I welcomed this challenge too.

How much could I imitate those who came before me?

Their language became my language. I wrote about yellow girls and sweet baby Jesus and bodies and blooming and mouths and gashes, everything I could do to prostitute and magnify my “condition.” I could not write a metaphor of beauty unless I perverted it. I could not describe the flight of a dragonfly unless it withered, a process that I then had to link back to my own identity, or struggle, or personal angst.

The literary world graft-

ed expectations onto me.

Later, I learned that my predecessor-writers had articulated this phenomenon.

Poet Jenny Zhang says that all the literary world wants to see from writers of color is trauma: Surely there are amazing Chinese writers who don’t just identify as political dissidents just as there are many amazing white American writers who don’t identify, or rather, are not identified as one thing. Why are we so perversely interested in narratives of suffering when we read things by black and brown writers?

Where are my carefree writers of color at? Seriously, where?

I’m right here, Jenny! I cried. Carefree poems stagnated in my mind. I always wanted to write like Billy Collins or Kay Ryan, but at 18 years of age and with a name like mine, I would be seen as an immature writer because I had not engaged

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with my “suffering” or contested heady questions of my identity as a colored person. The literary world wanted my pain. But I tired of brandishing the kind of pain it was looking for.

Poetry has been good to me in this: It is language, and perhaps one day I will speak. I do not know if time will reincarnate my voice into its own entity, or if one day my old age will legitimize my words and open up an unbridled spot for my voice. I only know that for now, I cannot write words I (or others) will find worthy.

Allison Huang is a firstyear from Princeton, N.J. She can be reached at ah25@ princeton.edu.

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the “Jeopardy!” producers – he would appear on the show in October.

“Preparing for ‘Jeopardy!’ is challenging because you can’t learn anything from scratch,” explained Collins. Contestants, expected to have a broad foundation of knowledge, can be asked anything during the show and are given no materials or categories in advance. Collins reviewed literature, history, geography, art, and music – areas he knew well, but wanted to be able to recall instantaneously. He also studied old movies, an subject matter he felt less comfortable with.

“Jeopardy!” films five episodes a day on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

Collins filmed his first three episodes on a Wednesday, then flew back to New Jersey. He returned back to California the following Tuesday to film the next two episodes.

Collins joins other

University community members who have been contestants on the game show. In 2014, Terry O’Shea ’14 won the “Jeopardy!” College Championship tournament, collecting the $100,000 grand prize.

O’Shea considered the opportunity to meet the fellow contestants a highlight of the “Jeopardy!” experience, referencing a quote from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: “there are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.”

While competing, Collins formed “tight bonds” with his fellow competitors, many of whom he still keeps in touch with.

“Someone might imagine there’d be tension,” Collins said. “That is not the case. There’s a lot of camaraderie, a lot of understanding that you’re in the same boat.

You’re having this very bizarre experience but you’re having it together.

There’s a lot of relationships that I’ve made and maintained since then ... which is a neat thing.”

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troduced, 120 students have recorded their names on TigerHub, according to Griffin. The Office of the Registrar has also received messages of appreciation from students along with feedback suggesting that it should be extended to all sectors of the University.

According to Griffin, University officials were introduced to NameCoach two years ago when it was still being developed.

The University proceeded to adopt the software because of the ease with which it benefits the University community.

After logging into TigerHub, students select “Record Your Name” under Personal Information.

Then, they are prompted to provide the correct phonetic spelling and record with an automated phone call or web recorder. Graduate students can follow a similar process using the Advanced Degree Application.

According to the company’s website, NameCoach was created by Stanford University graduate students to solve the challenge of name pronunciation in an academic setting. NameCoach also provides services for name reading at graduation ceremonies. So far, it has expanded to over 100 schools, including Stanford University, the University of Chicago, and the

University of Virginia.

Griffin said that NameCoach will help build stronger relationships between students and faculty.

“Our hope is that NameCoach will facilitate a respectful and appropriate use of one another’s — correctly pronounced — names,” she said.

Dean of Forbes Residential College Patrick Caddeau also noted that the service will help the University community recognize the diversity of its student population.

“We are fortunate to have so many different nationalities, languages, and perspectives represented on campus and it will be very helpful for anyone to get immediate assistance in correctly pronouncing a name with which they might be unfamiliar,” he said.

The service will benefit students whose names are often mispronounced.

Since advisors and professors will know the correct pronunciation of students’ names beforehand, students will not have to awkwardly correct, or worse, hear their names mispronounced repeatedly.

“As someone whose name has been mispronounced a dozen different ways, I think NameCoach will be a valuable addition to TigerHub,” said Urvashi Uberoy ’20. “I’m sure that the many other students with ethnic names on campus will feel the same way.”

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Women’s Squash split weekend matches, Men lose Ivy doubleheader

By Miranda Hasty associate sports editor

After a thrilling victory against Penn on Wednesday, Jan. 31, the men’s squash team looked to defeat Harvard and Dartmouth to continue the same momentum during their weekend road trip through New England.

The Tigers, however, faced tough losses on Saturday and Sunday, finishing 9-0 against the Crimson and 5-4 against the Big Green.

The women’s team also defeated Penn before facing Harvard and Dartmouth, succumbing 8-1 to the Crimson but beating the Big Green at 9-0 to conclude the weekend.

The two-match weekend began at the Murr Center squash courts in Boston for the men. The team hoped to stack up another win, but the Ivy League champions controlled the match from start to finish, clinching a 9-0 victory.

Though Harvard triumphantly walked off the courts with a considerable margin of victory, the match wasn’t without honorable individual performances. Harvard sophomore and reigning Ivy League Rookie of the Year Saadeldin Abouaish faced off against Princeton firstyear Youssef Ibrahim in a

highly contested match.

The back-and-forth competition resulted in close scores of 11-8, 10-12, 11-6, 6-11, and 11-8, with Abouaish securing the win.

First-year Duncan Joyce and Alex Engstrom also boasted individual wins, while junior Cody Cortes competed in two close games against Harvard’s Madhav Dhingra.

Though Saturday’s match dampened Princeton’s spirits heading into Sunday, the seventh-ranked team mustered enough energy to contend in a thrilling match against fifth-ranked Dartmouth. Joyce, Ibrahim, and junior Clark Doyle each won their respective matches to garner three points for the Orange and Black. Lagging behind the Big Green at 4-3, first-year Cole Becker equalized the match at 4-4 with a victory at the third position. Dartmouth, however, took the lead after Jack Harvey defeated Engstrom to finish off the match, a third consecutive win over Princeton.

After the weekend matches, Princeton currently sits at 3-2 in the Ivy League conference and 8-3 overall.

Looking ahead, the men’s team will compete against first-ranked Columbia on Friday in New York City and Cornell on Sunday in the Jadwin Gymnasium to

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Princeton squash will end Ivy League play next week with doubleheaders against Columbia and Cornell.

wrap up Ivy League play.

Though they were defeated by Harvard in Saturday’s match, the women’s squash team claimed an impressive victory against Dartmouth on Sunday.

The team headed into the set of weekend matches with an exciting 6-3 win over Penn, but the reigning Howe Cup champions overtook the Tigers to finish at 8-1.

All-American senior Olivia Fiechter picked up the individual win for Princeton, defeating former Ivy League Player of the Year Sabrina Sobhy with 14-12, 11-9, and 11-8 final tallies.

First-year Raneem El Torky,

junior Samantha Chai, and sophomore Madison Soukup also won individual games in their respective matches, but Harvard proved to be the stronger opponent, taking the match at 8-1.

The Tigers bounced back on Sunday with a stunning 9-0 victory over the Big Green with notable performances from Fiechter and junior Kate Feeley. While Fiechter followed up on her exceptional win the day before with a win over Dartmouth’s Anne Blasberg, Feeley returned from an injury to claim an individual victory at the eighth position.

To round off the final score at 9-0, El Torky, Chai, Soukup, junior Isabel Hirshberg, and first-years Grace Doyle, Emma Leonard, Mia Rosini also picked up individual victories in their respective matches.

The Tigers now stand at 4-1 in the conference and 11-1 on the season, with Harvard responsible for their only loss in conference and regular season play.

The women’s team will also face Columbia on Friday and Cornell on Sunday to complete Ivy League play before heading into the Howe Cup Championships.

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Wrestling splits Ivy League doubleheader against Harvard and Brown

By Jack Graham associate sports editor

Princeton wrestling traveled to New England this weekend to kick off their Ivy League conference schedule with matches against Harvard and Brown. The team split the decisions, earning a 21-16 win against Harvard but falling 17-15 to Brown.

Princeton began the weekend with a dual meet at Harvard, in which the Tigers earned their first road victory of the season. Princeton and Harvard each won five of the 10 matches, but Princeton earned the victory due to bonus points granted for several more convincing victories.

In the 133-pound weight class, first-year Jonathan Gomez fell behind early to Harvard’s Ryan Friedman but managed to pin Friedman early in the 3rd period and earn six points for Princeton.

Also victorious for Princeton were sophomore Matthew Kolodzik, who won a 10-1 major decision at 149, senior Jonathan Schleifer, who won another major decision 14-4 at 165, first-year Patrick Brucki, who won a 22-8

major decision at 197, and sophomore Leonard Merkin, who won a closely contested 6-4 decision at 157. Meanwhile, four of Princeton’s five losses on the day came by simple decisions — sophomore Kevin Parker and senior Michael Markulec both lost by just one point.

This differential allowed Princeton to end the match with a 21-16 margin.

Princeton traveled to Providence the following day to compete in a Sunday dual. As with Saturday’s matches, Princeton earned five out of 10 victories. This time, however, the major decisions went Brown’s way, allowing the Bears to squeak by with a victory. Brown took a 10-3 lead early in the match. Gomez lost a major decision 12-4 and Kolodzik, ranked 10th in the 149-weight class, suffered his first ever loss in Ivy League play to Brown’s Zach Krause.

The deficit left Princeton struggling to come from behind for the rest of the match. Merkin and Schleifer earned a pair of decisions at 157 and 165 respectively to cut the deficit to 10-9. However, sophomore Matthew

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The Tigers earned their first road win of the season with a 21-16 victory against Harvard this weekend.

Gancayo lost a major decision 13-5, and Parker lost a 10-6 decision, giving Brown a 17-9 lead.

This left Princeton’s final two wrestlers, Brucki and senior Ian Baker, needing to score some extra points to give Princeton a chance at the win. Both won their matches, but neither was able to secure the necessary pin or

major decision. Baker defeated Tucker Ziegler in a 5-2 decision at 197, and Brucki defeated Ian Butterbrodt in a 4-1 decision in the heavyweight category. Thus, the comeback fell short as Brown secured a narrow 17-15 win.

Having wrestled well against a pair of tough Ivy League opponents, the Tigers will look to

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27 / 30 The women’s squash team won 27 out of their 30 individual games to sweep Dartmouth 9-0 for their 11th win of the season.

continue to improve as it moves into the thick of their Ivy League schedule and prepares for its postseason tournaments. The team returns home this weekend to face another pair of Ivy League foes, Columbia and Cornell, on Friday and Saturday, respectively.

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