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STUDENT LIFE

Cadre of five pioneers campus veteran community

By Rebecca Ngu Senior Writer

In memory Opening the doors of Nassau Hall reveals an austere, dimlylit chamber encased in white marble — the Memorial Atrium.

Inscribed on the walls are the names of men who have died fighting in U.S. wars since the University was founded in 1746.

Those who died in the Vietnam War are the most recent names to be added.

A Latin inscription hangs over the columns: Memoria Aeterna Retinent Alma Mater Filios Pro Patria Animas Ponentes. Translated, it says, “In eternal memory our Alma Mater holds her sons who laid down their lives for their country.”

In the near subterranean light of the windowless room, the meaning of our University motto —“In the nation’s service and in the service of humanity” — sinks like an anchor.

Leaving the room feels like escaping a tomb. Closing the door and re-entering the liveliness of a college campus again is a relief, but the atrium is hermetically sealed, sequestered from the bustle of campus and town.

Military servicemembers are literally incorporated into the architecture and memory of this University.

But are they here in 2018?

A missing minority Though veterans have always been part of the University and the administration, faculty, staff, and graduate student body, they have historically been absent within the undergraduate stu-

dent body. Until this past fall, the University only had one veteran — who graduated last May — in the undergraduate student body.

The paucity of veterans has been a weakness in the University’s claims of featuring a diverse, well-rounded student body. In a 2012 Princeton Alumni Weekly article, critics voiced their discontent. The University has consistently trailed its Ivy League peers in veteran enrollment.

President of Student Veterans of America Michael Dakduk told Princeton Alumni Weekly in 2012, “If I could point to a university that is not doing all it could to attract veterans, I would point to Princeton.”

Veterans are generally overlooked as an underrepresented minority in elite colleges. As of November 2017, Cornell currently has 24 undergraduate veterans enrolled; Brown has 18, and has waived application fees for veterans this year; Yale has twelve 12, while Harvard has six. Inside Higher Ed conducted a survey of 36 selective schools, including the University, in November 2016.

Out of the 160,000 students included in the survey, 645 of them identified as veterans — less than one percent — even though there are an estimated 22 million veterans in the country.

A study conducted by the Student Veterans of America indicated that about 52 percent of veterans completed postsecondary education after being released.

But those veterans just aren’t coming here.

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Eisgruber explained, “It is not appropriate for me to be making judgements on the basis of which way public opinion stands.”

Eisgruber ’83 reflects on education, immigration

By Ivy Truong Assistant News Editor

Higher education is entering a new time, explained President Christopher L. Eisgruber ’83 in an interview with The Daily Princetonian. This new era requires him to be more vocal than has been common for university presidents in the past.

“I do think we’ve entered a time,” he said, “when it’s becoming increasingly important for university presidents to speak to the mission of higher education and to the principles and values that underlie higher education.”

For Eisgruber, immigration is just one of these issues —

along with higher education for low-income students and free speech — about which he feels “we need to be talking about what it is” that universities are doing.

In December 2017, Eisgruber became a founding member of the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, which is “dedicated to increasing public understanding of how immigration policies and practices impact our students, campuses and communities.”

Since he became University president, Eisgruber has issued 27 letters and statements that have been listed on the Office of the President website. Ten of

them have addressed or mentioned immigration. Seven of those 10 have come in the past 10 months alone, which doesn’t include the six amicus briefs that the University has helped file regarding immigration or the immigration case in which the University was a litigant.

These statements addressed the Trump administration’s proposals to bar the entry of individuals from targeted countries into the United States, to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, and to terminate the Temporary Protected Status program for individuals from selected countries.

Samuel Vilchez Santiago ’19, See EISGRUBER page 7

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Princeton community marches in mourning for lost Palestinians

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Towe ’70 and a friend snuck into Ivy Club and pulled a prank.

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University alumni shared their experiences as members of eating clubs with The Daily Princetonian, reflecting on food, friends, and farce.

Teri Noel Towe ’70, who says he was the last student selectively bickered into Colonial Club before the club went sign-in in the spring of 1972, shared a story he kept quiet for 20 years: He and a friend pulled

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a prank at Ivy Club.

“In the middle of the night, we snuck into Ivy and changed every light bulb to a 100-watter,” he said. “The majordomo comes down the stairs the next morning, turns on the lights, and blew out the circuit break.

They had to completely rewire.

My chum and I … kept our mouths firmly shut. Neither of us took credit for it.”

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Senior columnist Liam O’Connor encourages visiting alumni to ensure the Princeton Battlefield’s future existence, while a guest contributor reflects on his own behavior towards women, especially in light of Reunions.

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Marchers started from Hinds Plaza, wound through downtown, and passed FitzRandolph Gate.

By Rebecca Ngu Senior Writer

Protesters broke the calmness of downtown Princeton on Sunday, May 20, when approximately 60 people marched through the streets, chanting the names of the 62 Palestinians slain

by Israeli forces on May 14.

The tragedy coincided with the move of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem and marked Gaza’s bloodiest day since 2014. May 14 also marked

the 70th anniversary of the formation of Israel, a historic day of celebration for Israelis and catastrophe for Palestinians. The “mourners’ march,” which was organized by Jewish Voice for Peace — Central New Jersey, aimed to uphold and remember those who protested and were killed in Gaza by Israeli forces.

The march began at Hinds Plaza at 3:30 p.m. and wound its way through downtown Princeton, resting at Palmer

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Square brief ly before walking past FitzRandolph Gate to Thomas Sweets and then back to Hinds Plaza. All the while, protesters chanted the names of the 62 slain, including Laila Anwar AlGhandoor, an 8-month-old baby. The names were occasionally interspersed with chants of, “Why did they die? What did they do?

What was their crime? They were Palestinian! That was their crime!”

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of the transfer program in 1990, which was restarted this past fall.

Keith Shaw, who was hired as director for transfer programs, explained that the lack of a transfer program meant that applicants who had credits from other institutions were ineligible to be admitted because they would be considered transfer applicants.

The University is slowly changing the story. In 2013, it joined Yellow Ribbon, a government program that subsidizes tuition for veterans enrolled in private universities. That same year, it began participating in Service to Schools, a non-profit that provides free counseling to veterans applying to colleges. Two of the veterans, Tyler Eddy and Brendan O’Hara, used Service to Schools in their college application process. This summer, the University hosted the Warrior Scholar Project, a week-long boot camp to help veterans transition from the military to academia.

The fruits of this program are beginning to show. Five U.S. veterans were admitted and enrolled in the undergraduate student body as part of the Class of 2021, the first time in the modern history of the University. The five veterans are Eddy, Thaddeus Whelan, Jake Sawtelle, O’Hara, and Christopher Wilson. They range in age from 22 to 26, hail from Nashville to New Jersey, come from the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, and are interested in everything from business to astrophysics. Two of them are married and live with their partners in Lakeside apartments.

Admitted before the start of the transfer program, they will be joined by seven veterans and one reservist next fall in the first year that the University has accepted transfer applicants since 1990.

This pivot to admit veterans and students from nontraditional backgrounds is motivated by a desire to expand the University’s definition of service to include military service.

Deputy Dean of College Elizabeth Colagiuri, who served in active duty in the Marines for five years, said, “The overarching motivation for including veterans in our student population really does go to the University’s motto, ‘In the nation’s service and in the service of humanity.’”

“In a place that really elevates the importance of service,” she continued, “we want to make sure that we are also including military and former military servicemembers.”

The inclusion of veterans provides an insight into the on-theground realities of the wars the US has waged for over a decade.

“We’ve been in a period post 9/11 where we have active conflicts going on, these are very long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,” Colagiuri said. “And yet we you have large percentages of the population who still don’t know people who are serving on active duty.”

Shaw, the administrator in charge of the veterans’ welfare, justified the move as a way to promote a richer marketplace of ideas.

“The wars are unpopular and not especially salient. It’s not like there’s a ’60s anti-war left,” he said. “It’s harder for [war] not to be real in a class with a person for whom it was extremely real. It might force us to pay attention to some things that matter.”

This cohort of undergraduate veterans arrived with the burden to represent and pioneer a path forward for a group historically absent from campus. This past year has been a time of surprise, challenge, and learning.

The following section features profiles of three of the five veterans and what brought them to the University.

Where They’re From Eddy dropped out of college in his freshman year. He was attending Ivy Tech Community College in Indianapolis.

While Eddy liked learning, he felt academically directionless while in college. Feeling constrained by the routines of school, he dropped out his first year and began working as an mechanic at an auto parts shop. While learning useful skills, Eddy knew it was ultimately a dead-end. He poked his head in a military recruitment office. The military offered leadership, trade skills, and a chance to travel. He joined the Marine Corps and worked for five years as an aviation mechanic, with one year of training.

In the meantime, Eddy married his wife, Kaitlyn, welcomed a baby girl into the world, twoyear-old Zoe, and naturalized into a U.S. citizen, as he was born in Canada.

A little over two years into his military service, while stationed in Camp Pendleton in California, Eddy caught sight of a big billboard advertising Yale’s Eli Whitney program. What was Yale doing in a military camp all the way out in California, he wondered.

“Enlisted people in military getting out are not thinking ‘I can apply to an Ivy League school,’” he said. The majority of enlisted soldiers join the military without having first attended college.

About 92 percent of military veterans have at most a high school degree or some college experience. Fewer than seven percent have a bachelor’s degree.

At his base’s education center, Eddy learned about a scholar leadership program that helps veter-

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Left to right: Thaddeus Whelan, Brendan O’Hara, Jake Sawtelle at Ivy League Veterans Council

ans apply to colleges. He began bumping into veteran advocates and college admissions officers at military bases, one of whom hailed from the University.

“A lot of hard working people, extremely dedicated people here, were rooting to try and get veterans to start coming here,” he said.

During the application process, the University was his dream, but he told himself that he’d be satisfied settling for a lower-ranked school. “Princeton was my shot in the dark,” he said.

He was accepted. By the time he attended Princeton Preview at the University last April, he had already committed. This year, Eddy, a 26-year-old married veteran with a toddler in tow, began college as a freshman. *** The military was an extremely formative experience in a different way for Whelan, a sharpspoken 22-year-old, as it enabled him to realize that he belonged in school. The military was a way out of a small town existence. He grew up up as a bright, but unmotivated student from a lower-class family in the tiny town of Springtown, Texas. Uninspired by his classes, he would sleep through them and play The Legend of Zelda. Upon graduation, rudderless and reluctant to accumulate debt from college, he enlisted in the Army as an intelligence analyst.

“People who are within military, especially the enlisted side, see the GI bill as a way out,” he said. “A lot of people join the military for the GI bill because they know that they can’t pay for college. It was one of the reasons I joined.”

He soon felt that its reliance on hierarchy and chain of command unduly constricting.

“I understand that in general, intellectualism is not nurtured in military. You are nurtured for following orders. And that was where I made my stand,” he said.

“I figured that my calling was to go to school where I would actu-

ally be pressed to question things.

Princeton is a place where everything is questioned.”

Whelan’s officer, a University graduate himself, recognized his mental acuity and recommended that he apply. Whelan, interested in physics, knew the University had the best physics program in the country. Figuring he had no chance of getting in, he applied and was accepted off the waitlist. By the time Whelan visited campus last April, he was acutely aware that he would be one of five veterans.

“I somehow made it in,” he said. “I still question it, but I’m here.” *** Wilson, a lanky and gentlespoken 24-year-old, was born in Florida but raised in Nashville, Tenn. as a military brat. Both of his parents retired from the military; his mother served for a decade, and his father served for 20 years. Growing up, he had always admired the kind of lifestyle that his parents cultivated for their family.

“I remember living on the military base and seeing their way of life,” he said. “It was simple, it was respectful, it was orderly.”

After high school, wanting to gain the professionalism and skills that he admired in military servicemembers and hoping to make a difference in the world, he joined the Marine Corps, ultimately spending five years there.

While there were signs growing up that Wilson wasn’t straight, he was raised in a conservative environment where he did not know a single out gay person, so Wilson put himself in a state of deep denial. While in Monterey for military training, he finally admitted his attraction to men. At a bar, he hit it off with a stranger, and they began dating.

At first, he was afraid of having his peers discover his sexuality and was extremely guarded. After being moved to southern California for the military, separated

from his partner by an eight-hour drive, he fell into depression and was encouraged to see the chaplain on base. The chaplain, after learning about his situation, told him, “All the bad in your life is because you’re gay. God is punishing you, and you’re going to hell,” Wilson said, quoting from memory. “Me being a religious person, it completely just ruined me.” He stumbled for words. “It really hurt me. I didn’t know what to think about myself. After that, I was so much more careful about everybody I tried to talk to.”

A year later, he finally summoned the courage to overcome his fear of being out. The day he showed up at Camp Pendleton, he introduced himself by saying, “Hi, I’m Chris Wilson, I’m from Tennessee, and I’m gay,” he said.

“Everybody was just like, ‘OK, yeah, good on you dude.’”

The demanding lifestyle of the military and its life-or-death stakes tended to smooth over fears or prejudices among the group, according to Wilson.

“I was always guarded about telling people, but the people I did tell, they were always supportive,” Wilson said. “The military is a brotherhood. You have to have each other’s backs, otherwise you can put somebody in danger.” He recounted the parties that would happen in the barracks every weekend — everyone was always invited. There were no worries of the exclusivity that might plague a college campus.

The environment in the Marine Corps, where men were away from their girlfriends and wives, also facilitated a few revelations.

Three of his comrades eventually came out to him, two as gay and one as bisexual. All three of them had wives and children at the time.

Two days before his first deployment, he and his partner married.

“In case I died, I wanted to make sure that he was taken care See VETERANS page 4

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Wilson: The demanding lifestyle of the military and its life-or-death states tended to smooth over fears or prejudices among the group.

As president of Student Veterans Aliance, Eddy feels passionately about increasing veteran representation at elite schools.

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of,” Wilson said. He was deployed once in 2015 to the Middle East in Kuwait and Bahrain for nine months. He worked as a ground radio technician, fixing radios needed to maintain communication. Upon returning to the United States, he began thinking about college.

Motivated from the start, Wilson had already been taking online classes and had managed to earn two associate’s degrees.

Returning from deployment, he began thinking about his bachelor’s degree, and nothing was off the table.

“I thought, why not? I’m going to shoot for the best,” he said. “It’s kind of like the saying shoot for the moon, if you miss, you’re still in the stars.”

He covered all his bases and applied to thirty colleges — including all the Ivies — while spending over a year undergoing the college application process.

After receiving his decisions, the biggest criteria for him was financial aid. Wilson identified as first-generation and low-income, and, by leaving the military, he was losing his sole source of income. His husband was also intending to enroll in graduate school, so their income was going to drastically decrease, a situation that many other veterans share when entering school.

“Financial aid was the biggest factor when it came down to choosing schools. I literally cried when I got my financial aid letter,” he said. “They were so wellprepared for us.” Wilson lives with his husband, Ray, as well as his two cats in a Lakeside apartment.

From soldier to student Sawtelle, a quiet and broadshouldered 25-year-old from Omaha, Neb., who describes himself as a more “old country” type, remembers a specific moment in freshman orientation.

The Class of 2021 was gathered for an event on recognizing diversity. Students were asked to stand

when an identity marker applied to them. They were supposed to remain silent through the process, reacting neither positively nor negatively. When the veterans were asked to stand if they identified as a veteran, the five of them stood up. The auditorium erupted in applause.

“Everybody clapped. The whole auditorium. That was amazing,” Sawtelle said.

Despite initial fears of culture shock, the veterans’ transitions have overall been remarkably smooth.

“This isn’t going to be about internal ability or merit — it’s about culture shock,” said Shaw.

He meets with the veterans regularly and serves as their go-to man for any questions or concerns.

“What happens when someone who hasn’t been in a classroom in a decade is suddenly in a Princeton classroom?” Shaw asked.

Last summer, in preparation for school, they either enrolled in the eight-week long Freshman Scholars Institute or an online equivalent to catch up academically after years of not being in the classroom. FSI is traditionally aimed at supporting low-income, first-generation students.

The veterans have also joined other social groups on campus.

Whelan plays in band; Sawtelle plays rugby; O’Hara does crew; Wilson wrestles. They’ve become friendly with the graduate student veterans.

Despite being older, Eddy professed that the age gap didn’t prominently figure in his daily life.

“I don’t even realize that half of you guys are 18, I really don’t,” Eddy said, although he admitted that the difference in responsibility sometimes jars him. When his friends mention sleeping through their classes, he reacts out of disbelief.

“How could you possibly do that? How could you possibly sleep through your first two or three classes?” he said. “And then I think about that, I totally did that when I was 18. Don’t be a hypocrite.”

The biggest challenge for the

veterans — academics — is familiar to most students. This has been exacerbated by their years away and the fact that many of them are first-generation college students During the fall, Whelan spent nearly every day in Lewis Library, laboring over problems sets for MAT 103: Calculus I. For Sawtelle, MAT 103 was his first math class after six years of being away from a classroom. He hadn’t even reached calculus in high school.

Beyond the traditional resources, the veterans are all part of the Scholars Institute Fellows Program, a program that provides mentorship, academic enrichment, and advising primarily directed toward low-income, first generation students. “We fit right in with the SIFP crowd,” Eddy, who is a first-generation student, said.

The time away from school, however, also allowed them to reflect on their interests, values, and goals , which has translated into a cohort of unusually focused freshmen. Almost all of them know what they want to study. For Whelan, it’s science public policy. For Eddy, astrophysics. For Sawtelle, business.

O’Hara has always wanted to be a doctor. Eddy has mapped out all his classes from freshman year to senior spring already.

Being a veteran and an older student can also bring challenges, such as balancing a family while being a full-time student.

Sometimes, Eddy will force himself to skip a chapter of a book or delay finishing a problem to spend time with his two-year old daughter, Zoe. On Saturdays, he is in charge of taking care of her, and schoolwork falls to the side.

“I don’t want to open my eyes and four years later, she’s six,” he said. He has been to Prospect Avenue — the hub of nightlife on campus where eating clubs host their parties — once during freshman orientation in September and hasn’t gone back since.

Getting organized Five students in a body of over 5,000 could have easily splintered and dissolved into the masses,

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Whelan, who served as an intelligence analyst for the army, is interested in the intersection of science and public policy.

but the veterans have chosen to organize themselves into a unit.

They have formally organized a Student Veterans Alliance, an undergraduate volunteer organization approved by the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students that allows veterans to continue service in a space of camaraderie, an essential part of the military experience with few equivalents in civilian life. The group, they hope, will be a resource for future generations of veterans.

“They’ve responded to the pressure of having to represent their constituency by dealing with it as a group rather than a series of individuals,” Shaw said on the veterans’ organization.

“They wanted to serve as an effective vanguard to figure out how the other groups that come after them can be made more comfort-

able.”

Their work in Student Veterans Alliance has been getting off the ground. They meet every two weeks and volunteer off-campus every semester. This past March, they volunteered to referee a basketball game for the Special Olympics.

The desire to represent veterans well hangs in tension with their desire to enter into this new stage of life without the badge and burden of service.

Eddy takes the burden of representation seriously. “I really want it to personally seem like it was a worthwhile decision to have us here,” he admitted. “A lot of people 18 to 22 might be getting their first impression of a veteran, and I want it to be a good one.

Sawtelle, however, admitted that most of his time is devoted

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Yet Sawtelle admitted that he would sometimes joke with the other veterans that they can’t screw up or else the school wouldn’t let any more veterans in.

The desire for veterans to be represented ultimately is not about showering themselves with undue valorization but instead recognizing the multiplicity of their identities.

“The biggest thing that I want to be understood is that veterans as a whole are human,” Whelan said. “We have done what we needed to do to get by, and we want to be a part of the school. We want to be part of Princeton. And we are very glad for the opportunity that we have been given to be test group zero.”

While reactions to the veterans have been overwhelmingly positive on the surface, deeper communication and engagement regarding their experiences as veterans have been rarer. For Whelan, even when they do talk about it, language is too imprecise of a tool.

“A lot of my own experiences in [the] military don’t really translate over. I can talk about them in very loose terms,” Whelan said, “but the actual nuances of it get lost.”

A high point for the veterans came in November when the Pace Council for Civil Values held a dialogue about service and the military. The veterans discussed how military experiences have influenced their relationship to service — marking the first time that many non-military students had even thought about the military as a valid form of service. Emma Coley ’20, co-chair of PCCV, remarked that the dialogue sparked the first time she had asked herself whether the University had any veterans.

Coley, who leans toward pacifism, is reserved about how the military figures into her definition of service. Service, to her, is a relationship that moves humans closer together, pointing toward a common vision, that the military, predicated upon war, does not share. Yet she was struck by the ethos of duty that the veterans articulated. She, as someone who grew up an in Catholic Jesuit tradition of service, recognized their commitment.

“There you see a form of service which is duty-based, it’s about responsibility to one another, it’s [a ] brotherhood, a fraternal bond,” Coley said.

Some who join are often motivated out of pragmatic self-interest because of the many financial, educational, and leadership opportunities in the military. But the five veterans insisted that the service members who stay and stick it out for years, even decades, must sincerely believe that they are serving something larger than themselves.

“You’re being asked to raise your right hand to swear to protect and defend the constitution of the United States, and implied is the willingness to lay down your life if that is what is required,” she said.

“It is easy to overstate that and make it sound more noble than it is. It is noble...but in a gritty day to day sort of way,” said Doyle Hodges, a Navy veteran and fourth-year graduate student in the Wilson School, referring to military service.

O’Hara’s background in military service gave him a perspective critical of the the rat race that can be a defining feature of college life where service becomes a side hobby. The idea of joining the military — a total commitment — is an unpopular, even unfathomable, option for elite college students.

“I wish more undergrads would look into service as a viable option after graduating. I’m tired of hearing about how everybody wants to go to finance and work on Wall Street,” O’Hara said.

Building a future together While the veterans are no longer in uniform, the desire and duty to serve still permeates their individual and collective lives.

At the end of March, they were huddled together around a wooden table in the Whitman College common room. Sawtelle was off to the side, doing childcare duties and entertaining Eddy’s baby girl. Eddy sat with a laptop taking notes, subtly in charge of the meeting, discussing how to secure funding to advertise at veterans conferences. O’Hara sat next to him, brainstorming ways to set up their own bank account and receive donations as a non-profit. Wilson, diagonally across the table, affably offered to design the group’s logo. Whelan interjected occasionally, reminding them to sign up for summer housing. A spirit of solidarity, a togetherness rooted in a shared mission of a creating a future for veterans at the University, was palpable.

At least two or three of the veterans eat a meal together every day, Sawtelle said. They have multiple group chats and poke fun at each other. O’Hara bashes Sawtelle for intending to major in Operations Research and Financial Engineering, a major notorious for being a pipeline to Wall Street. Sawtelle likes to poke fun at Eddy’s sense of righteousness.

Whelan hopes that the cadre of five could be a trailblazing group for veterans and non-traditional students. “One of my dreams is to be able to speak at my graduation ceremony and say, ‘I came in and there was [sic] five of us. I’m leaving and there are now 30 of us.’”

The University admitted eight servicemembers as transfers to matriculate in the fall—beginning to expand the definition of diversity and of understanding of who belongs in an Ivy League school.

Eddy, reflecting on how he got here, is still somewhat incredulous — not that he made it to the University, but that he almost never tried. Although a good student in high school and in community college, the idea of applying to the University had never occurred to him.

“It took a ‘I can? I guess I can do that.’ That was the moment that changed my life. I’m hoping to create that moment for other people, too,” he said.

This past weekend, Sawtelle flew to San Francisco on the University’s dime to represent the University at the Service to School’s Memorial Day Summit, a conference to assist veterans transition from military service to higher education programs.

As the University reinstates its transfer program and includes veterans as well as other non-traditional students in its student body, it is opening a new chapter in its history, one where veterans are not merely names or stars on our walls, but part of our com-

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advocacy chair of Princeton Latinos y Amigos, said he welcomes the University’s efforts to take “advocacy to a greater level” by challenging federal immigration policy.

“It speaks to a lot to [the University’s] commitment to supporting undocumented students not only within the University, but also outside of the University’s reach, which is, of course, positive for the country and the institution,” he explained.

Eisgruber told the ‘Prince’ that the decision to issue a letter or a statement comes down to two main criteria: whether the issue at hand directly and especially affects the University or whether the topic falls into his areas of scholarly expertise, constitutional law and religious freedom.

Immigration policy, explained Eisgruber, falls into the first category.

“We as a University are a very international place, and we depend on the free flow of talents and ideas to support our mission,” he said.

The decision to file an amicus brief, in particular, relies mainly on that first criterion.

“It has to bear a direct con-

nection to the University’s mission, and obviously we’re going to make a careful assessment under those circumstances of the pros and cons as a pragmatic matter of going forward,” Eisgruber said.

In the past two years, the University helped file six immigration-related amicus briefs: five against President Trump’s proposed bans on immigration and travel from several countries and one that concerns DACA. The most recent amicus brief, which was filed along with 30 other colleges and universities, favored the state of Hawaii’s case against the travel ban — echoing the same argument made in previous briefs. It emphasizes that the Trump administration’s proposal “threatens the universities’ ability to continue to attract the most talented people from around the globe.”

According to a statement released by the University, the University currently has 50 students and employees from the six countries affected in that particular case, including Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela, and Yemen.

Despite praising the University’s leadership on immigration issues, Vilchez Santiago finds that the University’s argument, supporting immigrants

on the basis that they contribute to the University or academia, is somewhat precarious.

This argument can help create a narrative where there are “good immigrants” who have value and “bad immigrants” who do not, explained Vilchez Santiago.

“We should be supporting immigrants because they’re human, not necessarily because they add value to our university or academia in general,” he said.

When deciding to speak out on an issue, the University is “always thinking” about the University’s different constituencies but doesn’t necessarily view student input or public opinion as major factors, Eisgruber explained.

“We take into account that kind of opinion insofar that it supplies reasons that are relevant to our judgement about advancing the mission [of the University],” he said.

Eisgruber emphasized that his responsibility as University President is to look at what is in the University’s best interests and what is most consistent with University values.

“It is not appropriate for me to be making judgments of this kind on the basis of which way public opinion stands in either the student body or the alumni body,” he explained.

In 2016 Eisgruber faced criticism from the student body for

his refusal to declare the University a “sanctuary campus,” a decision that he still stands by.

“I don’t think we have legal authority to declare ourselves as a sanctuary campus, and I think the term is misleading to students who rely on it,” he said.

Eisgruber had previously told the ‘Prince’ in November 2016 that the term “may wrongly suggest that somehow universities can insulate themselves from or exempt themselves from the application of law.”

Even though the University may not carry the “sanctuary campus” designation, Eisgruber pointed out that the University will try to do everything within its legal authority to protect the rights of undocumented students.

He referenced the University’s recent victory in a court case that was brought on by the University, Maria De La Cruz Perales Sanchez ’18, and Microsoft Corporation as an example of the University’s willingness.

The three parties alleged that the “termination of DACA violated both the United States Constitution and federal law.”

On April 24, a federal judge ruled in favor of the University, Perales Sanchez, and Microsoft.

The ruling requires the U.S. government to continue the program and reopen it to new applicants.

At the time of publication, Perales Sanchez has not yet responded to repeated requests for comment.

Unlike other legal challenges involving the University, the University was a plaintiff in this case. According to Eisgruber, the University felt that it could contribute effectively as a plaintiff and could make marked arguments alongside Microsoft.

“We make decisions about when we believe that it’s appropriate to go forward in light of our principles and in light of pragmatic considerations,” he explained. “And we go forward in the best way we can.”

For Eisgruber, the best way forward for the University may mean signing an amicus brief along with a group of universities, becoming a plaintiff in an immigration-related case, or writing a letter to President Trump. Nevertheless, he hopes that it will include “taking a stand” that will inspire others “to take similar stands” and helping to obtain legislation and rulings that advance “the cause of education and … the cause of freedom for these hardworking and talented people.”

“Sometimes that will be with allies,” Eisgruber said, “and sometimes that means going at it alone and doing something ourselves.”

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Professor Mark Taylor, who teaches Christian theology at the Princeton Theological Seminary, waved the Palestinian f lag in front of the procession. He explained the importance of keeping the memory of the massacred Palestinians alive.

“I understand this event to be about remembering and not letting die the witness and protest of the 60 plus Palestinians who were slain last Monday the 14th,” he said. “They’re not terrorists. They’re people in an outdoor prison. They’re caged.”

He said that while many Christians uncritically support Israel, there are others like him who insist on speaking out. He observed that many people of different faiths — Jews, Muslims, Christians, and non-religious people — were present at the rally.

The May 14 protests in Gaza were part of a larger sixweek-long series of protests called the “Great March of Return.” The protests began on March 30 in commemoration of Land Day, when in 1976 six Arab citizens of Israel were killed by Israeli forces for protesting the confiscation of their land.

The protests were planned to culminate on May 15, the 70th anniversary of the Nakba — which means “catastrophe” in Arabic — referring to the displacement of over 700,000 Palestinians from their homes in 1948 for the establishment of the Israeli state. The executive director of Jewish Voice for Peace, Rebecca Vilkomerson, described the massacre on May 14 as part of an “ongoing Nakba” in a statement released that same day. Today, there are more than 5 million Palestinian refugees — defined as Palestinians displaced in 1948 and their descendants.

Tzvia Thier, a 74-year-old Israeli-American organizer who at age six f led Romania for Israel with her family after World War II, has been active in Jewish Voice for Peace over the past several years. The national leftwing activist organization focuses on the Israeli-Palestinian conf lict and supports

an end to Israeli occupation of West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem. It supports the Palestinian “right to return,” among other things. All people, regardless whether they identify as Jewish or not, are welcome in the organization.

“I want people to understand what really is going on,” Thier said. “First of all, there’s no conf lict. Conf lict is between two equal parties. They’re not equal parties. There is the oppressor and the oppressed.”

Thier talked about how the current situation in Palestine is the result of deep bias. She said that growing up in Israel meant she was constantly exposed to antiArab ideology.

“The indoctrination is so deep,” Thier said. “I’m not surprised that most Israelis just don’t care about [Arabs]. I know what I was told.

I was told that Arabs are primitive, cruel, they want to throw us to the sea.”

Thier’s friend Amala Awad, who is Palestinian, read the names of the 62 slain aloud and in Arabic during the march.

Awad said she was happy the march brought awareness to the plight of Palestinians since the move of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. However, she said she believes the violence was part of a longer massacre of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers in reaction to the Great March of Return.

Awad explained that Princeton’s Jewish Voice for Peace protest was an exercise of freedom and privilege that Palestinians are not afforded.

“We are here because we can speak,” she said. “Over there, when people protest, they get shot. Over here, we might get a counter-protest.”

The chants were also led by two small boys, brothers aged 12 and eight, who were brought to the protest by their father. Their young voices pierced the air and their shouts of “Free Palestine!” and “Free Gaza!” went quite far, reaching curious onlookers.

Alec Israeli ’21, a member of Young Democratic Socialists who attended the protest said that it successfully disrupted the daily lives of people and drew attention to the issue.

“I remember there was a car that honked their horn and someone raised their fist out the window out of solidarity,” he said in an interview with the ‘Prince.’

“There was definitely a reaction from the town, whether it was explicitly positive or negative is not really the question. The question is, ‘did people notice it?,’ and I think people did.”

Some passersby who had not heard about the march beforehand were sympathetic to its cause. One elderly woman said that while she wouldn’t join the protestors, she agreed that the Palestinians were in a tragic situation. University students who passed by the march said that it contrasted with pro-Israel activism on campus.

Students involved in pro-Palestinian activism on campus recounted how their work is an uphill battle.

When Sarah Sakha ’18, former editor-in-chief of the Daily Princetonian, first heard about the rising death toll of Gazans since March 30, she felt numb, she said.

Unarmed Palestinians dying at the hands of Israeli Defense Force soldiers was something she heard about all too often, and she found that the people bringing attention to the issue were the same people who had always cared.

Sakha expressed frustration that campus dialogue has not emerged in the past month, especially within campus Jewish groups, given that resistance and violence in Gaza has reached a critical point. She said that she wished she could discuss Jewish identity, Israel, and violence more openly on campus.

The Alliance of Jewish Progressives declined to give a statement for this story. The Center of Jewish Life did not respond to request for comment.

Tigers for Israel, a proIsrael group on campus, released a public statement on Friday, May 18 in response to the violence. The board accused media reports of misrepresenting the violence along the Gaza-Israel border by “wrongly absolving Hamas” for responsibility. The group also presented allegedly overlooked

information.

The group stated that the demonstrations had been co-opted by Hamas, citing a TV interview with a senior member of Hamas who stated that 50 out of the 62 slain Palestinians were members of Hamas. Tigers for Israel also reiterated a common line that Hamas is provoking Israeli violence by using human shields and encouraging women and children to the border. The Israel Defense Forces, additionally, remain committed to a code of ethics regulating lethal force, it claimed.

Alec disagreed with but was unsurprised by the statement from Tigers for Israel. He took issue with their claim of media misrepresentation, citing news headlines telling of dead Gazan protesters that fail to explain how they died.

Mohamed El-Dirany ’18, former president of Princeton Committee on Palestine, was also unsurprised when he first heard of Gazans being massacred by IDF soldiers a few weeks ago.

“This happens all the time and people ignore it,” he told the ‘Prince.’

“Being involved with Israel-Palestine advocacy means getting used to people hearing about innocent Palestinians dying and not caring,” El-Dirany said.

Even outside of Princeton, it can be hard to make the struggle of Palestinians feel close to home, familiar, and urgent, according to Sakha.

“It’s a world away. There’s physical distance; there’s cultural distance,” she said.

“We can’t fathom living in the world’s largest open-air prison that is Gaza.”

Despite the sense of hopelessness that can accompany Israel-Palestine activism, Princeton community members said they were affected by Jewish Voice for Peace’s “mourners’ march.”

Lamar Fair, a manager at a nearby restaurant who came out to watch the protest, liked the educational nature of the march.

“People aren’t aware of what’s going on in the world,” he said. “I’m the type of person who does research. Watching this now, I’ll probably go online and look and do more research about the issues.”

Yeou-Shiuh Hsu, one of the march’s organizers, em-

phasized the importance of not only educating ourselves of Palestinian oppression but also demanding accountability from the U.S. government for the aid they give Israel. He stated that in 2018, Mercer County gave over 7 million dollars to Israel, drawing from statistics provided by the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights.

About a dozen University students were present at the march. Nicky Steidel ’18, a member of Princeton Young Democratic Socialists, described his reaction at learning of the May 14 events.

“I’m here because the massacre of innocent people is completely unconscionable, and it’s even more unconscionable when it’s literally people trying to escape basically the world’s largest concentration camp,” Steidel said. “Literally 97 percent of the water is poisoned,” he said stating a statistic which has been confirmed by reports from a hydrologist who advises Palestinian Water Authority.

“UN human rights reports that Gaza is literally unlivable by their standards,” Steidel said.

Along with protesters and students, families were in attendance. A middle-aged couple, Mohammed and Azmina Salyani, brought their three daughters along to the march. As a member of Jewish Voice for Peace, Mohammed came after receiving an email, thinking that the march was something that the family could do together.

As observant Muslims, they were fasting for the month of Ramadan and were especially upset to see fellow Muslims die during the holy month.

“It’s a time for them to enjoy this month and not be worried about whether they’ll be bombed next or killed next,” Azmina said.

“We are in solidarity with the Palestinians.”

Hsu ended the march by asking protesters to believe in the power of organizing and education.

“A person tells a person and that person tells another person,” he said. “That is how we are going to get the word out about Gaza. Each one of us can be an educator on this issue.”

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Stephen Jones ’68, a member of Quadrangle Club, commented on his club’s presence on Prospect Avenue.

“Quad was a very social club back then…. It was considered a friendly club, where people from all different majors would get together,” he said.

Robert Wright ’97, a member of the now-defunct Campus Club, said the club served many roles: good company, good food, and occasional live band.

On May 31, he visited the club, which closed within a few years of his graduation.

“Two years behind me, they had a huge class; they completely filled out. It appeared to

be in pretty good shape when I was graduating, but dwindled within a few years,” he said.

Jessica Lautin ’03, former managing editor at the ‘Prince,’ was a member of Tower Club.

She reminisced about times before students carried around cell phones.

“It was just great that you knew you’d always run into your friends at the clubs. And it was free and entertainment and fun,” she said.

Anna Evans ’03, a member of Terrace Club, said the club was up and coming in her years.

“They had a lot of membership start with my year. It was fun,” she said. “The taproom was open Tuesday through Sunday. It was a good vibe in there — not that I went every day.”

She added that Terrace was

sign-in when she was a student.

Towe said he thinks the current Bicker system is unfair.

“I do not think it is fair either to the clubs or to force the students to choose what clubs they want to be bickered by. They should be interviewed by every single club that’s open,” he said.

This mirrors the Bicker system that, according to Towe, was in place when he attended the University. “[The clubs] went around and interviewed sophomores during the break between exams and the spring semester in the dorm rooms. So you didn’t go off for that break week,” he said.

Towe saw this as part of a larger issue.

“The problem with [the University] for an elderly flatulence like me is: too bureaucratic,” he added.

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or the next few days, legions of orange and blackclad alumni will be walking around the University’s campus. After graduating from the world’s top university, many became wealthy from stellar careers as financiers, entrepreneurs, professionals, and captains of industry. At Reunions, University administrators will be asking alumni to give some of the monetary rewards from their success back to the school that prepared them.

This year, I hope that alumni will divert some of their donations away from the University and toward another equally worthy cause in town: the Princeton Battlefield. It needs money to preserve a tract of land that was pivotal to the country’s history.

During the opening months of the American Revolutionary War, the colonists were getting walloped. Within four months of July 4, 1776, the Continental Army had lost Long Island, New York City, and New Jersey to the British army. If the American Revolution

were a football game, the British would’ve scored two touchdowns within the first five minutes and would have been well on their way to getting a third.

Most schoolchildren have heard the story of George Washington leading patriots across the Delaware River on December 25, 1776. But few learn about what happened next. After scoring a decisive victory over the Hessians in Trenton on December 26, he marched his army back to Pennsylvania and then crossed the river a third time to engage Charles Cornwallis’s soldiers in Trenton on January 2, 1777.

Under the cover of night, Washington maneuvered his forces around Cornwallis. The following morning, he struck at the British in Princeton. When the two armies were yards apart in Maxwell’s Field — less than one mile southwest of the University — Washington rode in front of his men to give them orders.

Although he was nearly shot, his bravery paid off.

The British retreated from the field and surrendered in Nassau Hall. Cornwallis ultimately gave up much of New Jersey. The Battle of Princeton solidified the December victory in Trenton and gave the U.S. soldiers momentum at a critical time. A portrait of Washington after

the Battle of Princeton hangs in the University Art Museum.

In 2015, the Institute for Advanced Study planned to build housing units on Maxwell’s Field. A legal standoff occurred between the IAS and Princeton Battlefield Society the following year. By December 2016, the IAS reached an agreement with the Civil War Trust to transfer 14.85 acres of Maxwell’s Field to Princeton Battlefield State Park for $4 million. As of April 27, NJ.com reported that the Civil War Trust has raised $3.5 million.

Donating to save the Princeton Battlefield isn’t as glamorous as increasing scholarship funds, supporting eating clubs, or getting one’s name on a building at an internationally renowned university. But it serves the same — if not a more important — purpose.

Battlefields strengthen our shared national identity. They remind us of our ancestors’ struggles to secure this country’s freedom and establish a democratic government.

Once preserved, they will forever be dynamic classrooms for future generations. Unlike museums and their “look but don’t touch” policies, visitors can walk around battlefields to experience what soldiers felt, and reenactments bring history alive from dusty textbooks.

The Princeton Battlefield is used by countless University students.

Many people, myself included, go there for jogs or to learn about U.S. history. Next fall, the Humanities Council will offer HUM 350: Battle Lab — The Battle of Princeton. It’s a class that will study the Princeton Battlefield and try to understand how events from centuries ago still affect the present day. Alumni donations would be going to a local attraction that students regularly use for leisure and education.

Last year, Annual Giving raised $74.9 million from 43,191 donors. Assuming that an equal amount is raised this year, the Civil War Trust would need just 0.66 percent of those funds to finish its purchase of Maxwell’s Field. That’s $11.45 per donor.

I know that alumni will be bombarded by donation requests over the next few days. But I hope that they seriously consider this one. It’s a rare opportunity to save a cherished piece of U.S. history. Had it not been for the actions of Washington and other patriots on that fateful field, Princeton wouldn’t be what it is today.

Liam O’Connor is a sophomore geosciences concentrator from Wyoming, Del. He can be reached at lpo@ princeton.edu.

Me, too Sri Nimmagadda

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he #MeToo movement has come, but it has not yet gone; while the testimonials of women who were sexual harassed have largely faded from our Facebook and Twitter feeds, the issue of sexual harassment — in the workplace, in the classroom, at the bar — has continued to dominate public discourse. In the wake of the allegations against numerous seemingly laudable men — Harvey Weinstein, Louis C.K., even our own Professor Sergio Verdú — I’ve come to reflect on my own experiences with women on Prospect Avenue. I’d like to say me, too. I, too, have been the problem through what seems to be innocuous behavior typical on the Street, and I posit to you that in order for men to become more effective allies as we work to create a more equitable and safe world for women, we must accept and grapple with our own socio-sexual transgressions and their consequences to create a dialogue in which men can positively contribute to the #MeToo movement.

When I was a freshman, I found myself largely confused by what appeared to be the murky sexual politics of the college campus. It’s no secret that Princeton is a campus largely hostile to

dating, as many students largely prefer to engage in non-committed sexual relationships. The standard cost-benefit analysis appears to suggest this method of engaging in relationships extricates students from the stickiness of feelings and emotional attachment, while continuing to fulfill sexual desires. However, it fails to account for the growing pains many students, including me, face when first coming to Princeton, struggling with questions such as the following: What does it mean to hook up with someone? What does that body language look like?

How does one initiate a hook up?

Now, it isn’t that hooking up is in and of itself a bad thing; however, I found that the tendency for students to hook up complicated the ways I approached women and the bandwidth of behavior I believed was acceptable. What initially appears to be cute persistence quickly gives way to sexual coercion. We see this in the cases of Aziz Ansari and Michael Ellsberg, and I found myself in a similar situation with a girl I’d asked a little too obstinately to dance my freshman year, to the point that she’d left the club, clearly uncomfortable. Upon speaking to many of my male colleagues, I found that they too struggled with similar questions, and

had been in similar situations.

After this event, I was bothered for years. As a senior at the University, I consider myself a feminist, and an advocate for women. I strongly believe in the importance of sexual consent. I was ashamed of the way I’d acted. The girl I’d approached at the party was a friend at the time, but took a couple years off school. I happened to run into her out of the blue a couple months ago, and mustered up the courage after small-talking with her for a couple minutes to apologize for my behavior that night. Don’t worry, it wasn’t a big deal, she smiled. All’s forgiven.

I was initially afraid of how she would react, but after she and I spoke, I came to the realization that the acceptance of my behavior allowed me to better understand how and why people — especially college students — so often struggle with issues of consent and sexual coercion. As a former eating club officer, I found myself on the lookout during nights out on the Street, sensitive to the needs of individuals in potentially uncomfortable positions.

Most importantly, it allowed me to expose and counter my biases to better hold myself and other men accountable for their actions with regards to women on the Street. Candid ref lection

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on my own behavior allowed me to approach and mentor underclassmen on the importance of consent without a holier-than-thou approach.

Dancing closely with others, or pressuring someone to drink, or even asking someone to dance too persistently can seem like small transgressions, but they total toward a University environment that is fundamentally unsafe. If we cannot hold ourselves accountable for our behavior, how can we hold others accountable?

I did not write this piece to suggest that women are weak, or need protecting.

With Reunions around the corner, I wrote this piece for two reasons: For one, it is crucial that we emphasize the importance of communication in all of our sexual and even non-sexual relationships in order to create a safe environment for everyone. But most importantly, some of the questions men have frequently asked over the course of the #MeToo movement have been the following: What can we do? How can we be better allies? Accepting that we have been part of the problem — and inf luencing others to be better through our candid selfref lections — seems like a pretty good start.

Sri Nimmagadda is a senior in the Wilson School. He can be reached at sriduttn@ princeton.edu.

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2017–18 highlights in Princeton sports

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Starting at the seventh seed, the men’s hockey team clinched the ECAC championship title in a late-season surge.

By Chris Murphy Head Sports Editor

The 2017–18 academic year gave Tiger fans their fair share of memorable sports moments. From incredible comebacks to heartbreaking losses, from breakout performances by freshmen to career milestones attained by seniors, this year gave us plenty of unforgettable moments across Princeton sports. And as this year comes to an end, The Daily Princetonian takes a look back at some of the best memories from this season and counts down the top 10 moments of Princeton sports.

10. Men’s basketball defeats Southern California in Los Angeles 103–93 in overtime The list starts with perhaps the best victory for men’s basketball this season. While this was not an Ivy League game, this matchup between 2017 NCAA tournament teams combined a thrilling game with critical non-conference implications, making it one of the most memorable non-conference games in recent memory. Starting the season with some tough losses, the Tigers knew they needed some key victories during winter break if they were to enter Ivy League play with a strong nonconference résumé. Facing off against the No. 10 Trojans in Southern California seemed like no easy task, but on the national stage the Orange and Black came through, pulling off the upset to start the year. Princeton let the Trojans back into the game late, but closed it out in overtime with some clutch baskets by juniors Myles Stephens and Devin Cannady. Stephens shattered his old career high in

points by scoring 30 in the contest, as the Tigers lit up the floor with over 50 percent shooting for the game.

While most of the season didn’t go as expected, Princeton still was able to garner national attention with this stunning upset of a perennial basketball powerhouse.

9. Women’s golf wins its second straight Ivy League Championship With a plethora of talent returning for the women’s golf team, a second straight Ivy League Championship seemed like it could be attained. The Tigers did it in style by coming from behind on the final day of the NCAA tournament and beating No. 2 Harvard for a second straight year, this time via a playoff hole. The Tigers were three strokes back entering the final day, but carded a team low round of six over 288 to put themselves in a position to win their sixth Ivy League Championships. Freshman Anabelle Chang — a key addition to the Tiger squad — finished second overall individually in the tournament, while and sophomore Maya Walton, the Ivy League Player of the Year, finished the tournament tied for fifth. Rounding out the top ten was junior Amber Wang, the 2017 Ivy League Tournament champion and the third member of this year’s Tiger team to crack the top 10. The victory sent Princeton to the NCAA West Regional, and gives it a chance to make history next year as it shoots for its first ever three-peat.

8. Women’s basketball extracts revenge on Penn, winning 2018 Ivy Madness Last season, the Tigers finished second to Penn

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in the Ivy League regular season and in the inaugural Ivy League Tournament.

In 2017, the Quakers swept the Tigers and proved that they were the better team.

This season, the Tigers extracted revenge, sweeping Penn by victory margins of 15, 20, and 29. The sweetest of the three was without a doubt the victory in the Ivy League Tournament final; Princeton used its trademark suffocating defense — ranked first in the league throughout 2018 — to win the second annual Ivy League Tournament and punch their ticket to the NCAA Tournament. Sophomore Bella Alarie turned in a career high of 17 rebounds, and the Ivy League Player of the Year also took home the hardware for tournament MVP. Also named to the All-Tournament team were senior Leslie Robinson and freshman Abby Meyers, who was a menace from beyond the arc throughout the tournament. The win gave the Tigers their 24th victory of the season, and they cut the nets in the Palestra to celebrate their trip back to the Big Dance.

7. Ryan McCarthy stuns UVA with a game-winning double OT goal If the women’s field hockey team was going to advance to its third straight NCAA Tournament quarterfinals, it was going to have to get by a tough Virginia Cavaliers team on its home turf. Trailing 2–1 in the second half against the No. 5 team in the nation, senior Ryan McCarthy put the team on her back and carried the Tigers to a thrilling victory that took a second overtime period to decide. McCarthy scored her 16th goal of the season in the 57th minute off of

a penalty shot to even the game at two. Then, she almost ended the game in regulation with two fantastic chances in the closing minutes. But it was the double overtime chance — a back hander to the right side of the Virginia goalkeeper — that found the back of the net and sent the Tigers into the next round to take on North Carolina. It would be her final win as a Tiger, but scoring the game-winning goal in double overtime will probably be one of the most unforgettable moments of McCarthy’s illustrious career.

6. Men’s track and field wins the Ivy League Triple Crown It’s quite difficult to be a champion at just one of cross country, outdoor track, or indoor track; how about winning it for all three? That is what the men’s track and field team did this season, winning for the ninth time in program history the cross country, indoor track, and outdoor track Ivy league Championships all in the same season to claim the “Triple Crown.” Even more impressive may be the fact that it’s the fourth time it has done it in the past eight seasons, continuing a trend of absolute dominance in the Ivy League. Starting in the fall, the Tigers won the Ivy League Heptagonal Cross Country Championships with the lowest score since 1987, with senior Noah Kauppila leading the way with a second place finish.

Then, the indoor track team — finishing in the top two for the 25th year in a row — won by 68 points in the Indoor Track Ivy Heps to claim the largest margin of victory in the tournament’s history. Finally, the Tigers rallied in the Outdoor Heps

Stat of the Day

234 goals Senior Haley Wan of women’s water polo scored 234 goals in her collegiate career to be nominated for the prestigious C. Otto von Kienbusch Award.

after starting the final day in second, scoring in 14 of the last 15 events and emphatically closing out the final leg of the Triple Crown.

5. Chad Kanoff begins his pro career, signing with the Arizona Cardinals Senior quarterback Chad Kanoff was one of the key pieces to the success of the Princeton football team in the past few seasons. At times, Kanoff looked like the best quarterback in Division I football and certainly showed the potential to make it on a pro roster.

Kanoff got the chance to prove what he’s made of earlier this year, when he was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League. Kanoff gets a chance to compete with other quarterbacks — including Sam Bradford, Mike Glennon, and the number 10 overall pick Josh Rosen — for a chance to make the 52-man roster this summer. Kanoff finished his senior year with a career best 73.2 percent completion percentage, 3,474 passing yards, 29 touchdowns, and only nine interceptions. His best performance this season came against Yale, with a season high 454 passing yards and four touchdowns, including a career long 88yard touchdown bomb. And while the team may not have had the season they would have liked this year, Kanoff certainly left his mark, and he will look to join former teammate Seth DeValve ’16 on an NFL roster.

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on this list, this time due to the individual performance of senior Leslie Robinson.

A standout throughout her four years as a Tiger, Robinson will get to continue her career after being drafted 34th overall by the New York Liberty in the WNBA. In her final season, Robinson averaged 10.2 points per game for the Tigers and finished with 129 assists, the sixth highest single season mark in school history. Perhaps her most important accomplishment, however, was the leadership she brought to the team throughout her four years as a Tiger. She helped lead the Tigers to three NCAA tournament appearances, and she has been critical to the development and growth of the current young crop of Tigers on the team. Leslie became just the second player in the history of the Ancient Eight to be drafted into the WNBA and the second Princeton player ever to play in the WNBA.

3. Women’s lacrosse snatches Ivy League title, then downs Syracuse in same week Go, women’s lacrosse! As the year wound down and attention for many students turned toward reading period, the Tigers were still focused on unfinished business in the postseason.

Hosting the 2018 Ivy League Tournament, the No. 1 Tigers looked to take care of business and secure their place in the NCAA Tournament. After easily handling Columbia, the Tigers won a back and forth showdown against Penn 13–10 to win the tournament. Hours later, they found out that they would be squaring off against No. 19 Syracuse in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Having already lost an epic 17–16 dogfight at home, Princeton looked to exact revenge. The two teams played another classic, with the Tigers taking a six-goal lead midway through the first only to watch Syracuse tie it up in the second half. Senior

Colby Chanenchuk, playing in her hometown in front of friends and family, would seal the Tiger victory in double overtime with a brilliant shot on the Syracuse goalkeeper. The goal sent the Tigers into a frenzy, and onto the next round of the NCAA tournament.

2. Men’s hockey shocks the ECAC, clinching a spot in the NCAA tournament Our Cinderella story of the year is without question the men’s hockey team.

The Tigers were uncertain of their ECAC playoff fate heading into the final game of the season, which they won 4–3 against St. Lawrence to clinch home ice and the No. 7 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Expected to win a few games but fizzle out, the Tigers shocked the ECAC and the rest of the NCAA by winning six games in a row, punching their ticket to the NCAA Tournament in the process.

Not only did the Tigers not drop a single series in the ECAC playoffs, they didn’t

drop a single game. And it was one storybook moment after another for the Tigers.

First up, Princeton defeated Union — a team it had not beaten in its last 20 attempts — in back-to-back games to make the ECAC semifinals.

Then, the Tigers shocked the nation by thrashing the No. 2 Cornell Big Red 4–1 in the ECAC semifinals.

Already riding a Cinderella story, the Tigers took it a step further by winning the final game and getting to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in nine years.

On the same ice where the United States shocked Russia in the 1980 Olympics, the Tigers shocked No. 10 Clarkson when senior Max Becker roped a shot into the net 2:37 into overtime, sending the Tigers back to the biggest tournament in the sport. From No. 7 seed to ECAC champions, the men’s hockey team had a run that will never be forgotten.

1. Women’s soccer defeats UNC 2–1 in overtime to advance to the NCAA Elite 8

When you beat the best team in the nation, perhaps the best college program in the history of the sport, you are going to create the top moment of the year. The women’s soccer team took No. 2 UNC — holder of 21 national titles and the most wins of any NCAA school in history — and knocked them out of the tournament with a thrilling 2–1 victory in sudden death overtime.

Despite being outshot 24–8 for the game, Princeton did enough to send the Tar Heels home on their home field. It was Abby Givens — the sophomore forward who was one of the team’s catalysts all year — who scored the game-winning goal in overtime. Beating a defender, then redirecting the ball in midair, the hometown player sent the Tigers into the Elite 8 for only the second time in school history.

Givens and the Princeton women’s soccer team provide us our best moment of the 2017–18 year in sports.

Here’s to hoping for just as exciting a season in 2018–19.

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Junior Devin Cannady posted nine rebounds and four assists in the thrilling match against USC in December.

The Tigers celebrate their upset victory against UNC that propelled them into the NCAA quarterfinals in November.

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The men’s track and field team earned their ninth triple crown in program history this year.