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The march attracted a young and diverse set of participants and speakers.
U. students participate in ‘March for Our Lives’ rallies in New York City, Washington, DC Senior Writer
Saturday, several University students attended one of the major “March For Our Lives” events in Washington, D.C., and New York City to call for improved gun control in the wake of the Parkland, Fla., school shooting that took place this February. Amanda Eisenhour ’21, is from northern Virginia and regularly attends marches and rallies in D.C. She helped organize the large gun control rally that took place outside Frist two weeks ago. Nevertheless, she said that this one was special.
“Out of all the events I’ve been to, this one felt very unique and powerful,” she said. She added that most of the people attending the wave of rallies and protests in D.C. that began after President Trump was inaugurated have been older adults. “This isn’t a new insight, but the march was seriously populated by young people, and by people of color, and the speakers reflected that,” said Eisenhour. She said that having speakers from a variety of backgrounds was important, because people of color, especially black people, are often left out of discussions about
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gun control and gun violence, even though it disproportionately affects them. For example, Time Magazine reported last year that black children are 10 times more likely to die from gun violence than their white counterparts. Eisenhour also noted that many have criticised supporters of the “March For Our Lives” protests for not mobilizing for Black Lives Matter and other groups focusing on how gun violence affects communities of color. “I’m a target of that criticism,” she said “Looking back on it, I should’ve been there, marching in solidarity.” She cited an increase in pos-
itive media attention for the “March for Our Lives” movement, and said that she hoped participating in “March for Our Lives” would lead people to be more involved in other social justice groups like Black Lives Matter. Lizzy McGee ’18, who attended the New York City “March for Our Lives,” said that she “holds more conservative beliefs than 99.9 percent” of her friends on campus, but that she thinks that common-sense gun control is something everyone should be able to get behind. McGee said her personal experience with gun violence was one of the reasons she
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CPS offers team of professionals for help with eating disorders Staff Writer
Among the resources on campus to help meet students’ mental health needs, there is a specific interdisciplinary group of clinicians dedicated to helping students fight eating disorders. “It’s basically a team of clinicians who work together to assist students battling different kinds of eating
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concerns,” said Calvin Chin, director of Counseling and Psychological Services. “The team works together to make sure that all of the different pieces involved in treating an eating disorder are addressed for students.” Heading the team is Nathalie Edmond, psychologist and member of the CPS staff. According to Edmond, the team meets weekly to See RESOURCES page 5
Senior Columnist Ryan Chavez comments on the recent social media tension between Joe Biden and Donald Trump and Guest Contributor Carter Flaig calls for student to be more conscientious of the campus staff. PAGE 5
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U. admits Entrepreneur Greg Olsen 5.5 percent discusses space journey to Great Class of 2022 By Hector Cruz
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thought it was important to march. “I have a family friend whose son committed suicide with a gun they had in their house,” she said. She added that “the statistics speak for themselves,” referencing an Annals of Internal Medicine survey that found that having a gun in a home increases the risk of successful suicide attempts for all inhabitants and the risk of murder for women in the home. McGee, who is concentrating in history, also saw the march as an exciting way to participate in the democratic
At 7 p.m. tonight, the University will admit 1,142 new students to the Class of 2022, who along with the 799 students admitted during Single Choice Early Action will comprise the new accepted class. Overall, the University admitted 1,941 students out of an applicant pool of 35,370, representing a 5.5 percent acceptance rate. “The Admissions Committee was extremely impressed with the academic quality of all the candidates [for admission], especially those who were admitted,” Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said. The applicant pool included 14,273 students who had high school GPAs of 4.0, and 17,692 — 50 percent of the total applicant pool — had combined SAT scores of 1400 or higher out of a possible 1600. This year was the first year where an overwhelming majority of students who submitted SAT test scores took See ADMISSIONS page 3
Imagine you were living the dream of almost every child on Earth. You’re snug inside your Kevlar suit, wearing your fishbowl helmet, and someone straps you into your chair and seals the capsule’s hatch.
Then, all of a sudden, you feel the cabin rumble. The rocket engines underneath your capsule roar to life. You stare out of the window, watching the sky turn from light blue, to navy, to pitch black. You’ve just joined an exclusive club of humans who have left See SPACE page 5
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processes she has studied in class. “This sounds cheesy, but the democratic process has been on my mind lately,” she said. “If people don’t use their voices to speak out on issues like gun control, then nothing will change.” McGee’s friend Carly Maitlin ’19 hadn’t planned on attending the march in New York, but was glad she did. “It was my first march. I just tagged along,” she said. “I didn’t even know it was happening; I was planning on getting a manicure that morning.” However, once she saw some of her friends making posters for the march, she “got hyped and decided to take part in democracy.” Anna-Alexia Novogratz ’18 also attended the New York City “March for Our Lives.” “It was pretty amazing, because it was led by young people,” said Novogratz, who said she saw children as young as seven leading chants and carrying signs bearing slogans such as “Peanut butter is more regulated than guns!” In ad-
dition, toddlers too young to write carried signs with drawings they’d made. Novogratz said that regardless of how they participated, young people’s role in the march was inspiring. “It gave me a lot of hope that there’s a generation of kids growing up who are seeing marching and direct action as an agent for political change,” she said, adding that “political action wasn’t something I grew up with.” Novogratz also stressed that the march was about gun control, not just school shootings. She said the Parkland students who helped organize the event did a good job of including speakers with a variety of different experiences with gun violence, including students from the South Side of Chicago, which helped showcase many gendered and racialized aspects of gun violence in the United States. Novogratz said that attending the march in her hometown of New York City was an especially powerful experience. “Being with hundred of thousands of people in my city, seeing young people from my city marching … the energy was indescribable.”
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the new SAT. Princeton considers all sections of the SAT and ACT tests, including the writing component, in the admissions process. “We’ve continued to ask for the writing section of the SAT and the ACT, because writing is so important to the success of students on campus,” Rapelye said. “We do use that section of the test results. We will go in to look at the actual essay on a student’s test.” Forty-eight states, plus D.C., Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands were represented in this year’s cohort of accepted applicants. New Jersey, California, and New York were the top three states by raw number of applicants accepted, a figure which has been stable over recent years. Seventy-seven countries were also represented in the admitted class, including Rwanda, Estonia, Bahrain, Mauritius, and Serbia. “The committee is keenly aware of students who have endured hardship, whether due to weather or family circumstances. Some students in the path of the devastating [Puerto Rican] hurricane wrote about it, and we were able to learn of their experiences through their applications,” Rapelye said. Of the admitted class, 24.8 percent of students expressed intent to enter the B.S.E. program. Of those, 48.3 percent were women. “Certainly, [the number of women interested in the B.S.E. program] is a significant increase from several years ago,” Rapelye said. Seventeen percent of students admitted will be the first in their families to attend college, and 11.2 percent of admitted students are of legacy status. At Princeton, “legacy” is defined to be students who are the children or stepchildren of alumni. Recruited athletes make up 11.6 percent of the admitted class. A slightly larger percentage than normal — 64.5 percent of total admits — attended public schools. The target size for the Class of 2022 is 1,296 students, and 1,125 students were placed on
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the wait list. Last year, 101 students were accepted from the wait list, and over the past five years anywhere from 18 to 101 students have been taken from the wait list. The number of wait-listed students accepted will depend on the number of students admitted through SCEA and regular decision who accept Princeton’s offer of admission by May 1. This figure, called yield, has averaged about 66 percent over the past five years. For the Class of 2021, the yield after drawing from the wait list was 65.5 percent. “Predicting the yield is like predicting the stock market,” Rapelye said. In addition to the regular decision applicants who will hear back from the University for the first time, students deferred in the SCEA round will receive decisions. Normally, slightly more than 100 students are accepted from the deferred student cohort, a trend which held this year. The applicant pool this year, the largest in U. history, was 14 percent larger than last year. “[That growth] exceeded our expectations,” Rapelye said. “Our outreach to low income backgrounds, students who may be working with community-based organizations, and to schools we haven’t had applicants from before may have contributed. Our financial aid process is generous, and, we believe, second to none.” However, Rapelye underscored the impossibility of pinpointing a reason for growth in the pool. “It was a privilege to read these applications,” Rapelye said. “Because we’re a residential campus, we are limited only by bed space. We wish we could have taken more students, but even students we were not able to include will be successful at other colleges and universities.” Students admitted have the option to attend one of two Princeton Preview sessions, either on April 9–10 or April 16–17. “We very much look forward to seeing [admitted students] on campus in April,” Rapelye said. “We also hope our current students will be willing to be hosts for these students.”
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Fisticuffs and the future of the left Ryan Chavez Columnist
American politicians on Twitter have made determining what is and is not satire quite difficult lately. Former Vice President Joe Biden has insinuated on multiple occasions that if he were still in high school, he would beat up President Trump. Trump recently fired back on Twitter with the quip: Crazy Joe Biden is trying to act like a tough guy. Actually, he is weak, both mentally and physically, and yet he threatens me, for the second time, with physical assault. He doesn’t know me, but he would go down fast and hard, crying all the way. Don’t threaten people Joe!
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The tit-for-tat nature of the Biden-Trump brawl would be indicative of the left-right culture war coming to blows if not for the fact that it’s more worthy of a Monty Python skit than of New York Times headlines. While these audacious quotes garner laughs for their ridiculousness, they also bring to the fore the ethical dilemmas and rifts within left-leaning politics. There are, without a doubt, problems more important than two old men feuding about fist fights: gun reform, healthcare, avoiding trade wars, and the halted progress on fixing DACA, to name a few. The ethical dilemma of Biden and Trump’s statements does not hinge on whether or not the statements were in and of themselves appropriate; the general consensus seems to be they were rather undignified. Notwithstanding the propriety of their statements, Biden hit a nerve the Left has been grappling with since Charlottesville: “Is it ok to punch a Nazi?” Although Biden’s comments
were made in response to the Stormy subject of Trump’s statements about and treatment of women rather than his rampant normalization of white nationalism and racism, they highlight the broader divide of the Left. Will the moderate or progressive branch of the party provide the vision of the future? Are those who don’t mind punching Nazis going to lead? Or will the moderate Democrats who lost the house in the Obama years and lost the 2016 presidential race to the least popular president in history continue to determine the party line? The split on the Left seems to be over whether or not it is admirable to fight against hate and destructive policies beyond the polls and into the parking lot, at least metaphorically. To be clear, the normalization of real acts of identity-based political violence is not only dangerous but would breed discord and disaster in the future. Yet, I am eager to see the Left engage in more riled-up rhetoric. Biden should not be the
future of the American Left, but in this case he showed the Left a glimmer of hope. Biden expressing regret for his statements shows the usual complacency of shuffling meekly along the moral high ground while the Right took the low road to victory. The mixed response on the Left to Biden’s words is worrisome. The United States Capitol shouldn’t look like WWE, but a fighting spirit is exactly what Democrats need. And sometimes, when right wing radicals blabber fighting words, maybe a punch, at least in rhetoric, might be the proper response. The fact that Democrats seemingly cannot agree on fisticuffs among many more actual policy issues will sow the seeds of undoing between the moderates and progressives of the party. The 2018 midterms and the 2020 presidential race will reveal just how large this gap has become. Ryan Chavez is a junior in history from Arcadia, Calif. He can be reached at rdchavez@princeton.edu.
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n an op-ed published in the Yale Daily News last month, staff columnist Adrian Rivera claims that honesty may not exactly be the best policy. He recounts a predicament where reporting on an event at the law school, as a good journalist would, caused him to miss an economics pop quiz. Although Rivera was honest with his professor about his reason for missing class, he was not allowed to make up the missed quiz and ultimately dropped the course. Although the reason for dropping
the course isn’t explicitly stated, it is likely not a direct consequence of missing the quiz. Now, I can’t say that honesty is always the best policy because it worked for me in a particular scenario, but I can say that honesty is the best policy because the alternative — dishonesty — cannot possibly be. I believe Rivera was wrong not in his honesty but in his lack of proactivity. To the professor, Rivera’s email was probably only an attempt to make up the missed quiz. Maybe a simple warning of the student’s absence prior to the missed class would have made Rivera’s intentions more clear from the start. I think it’s fair for professors to set strict standards for their students, and proactivity always trumps reactivity in my book — regardless of the actor’s truthful-
ness or lack thereof. Let’s consider the alternatives. Were Rivera to lie to his professor with the standard “I woke up sick” excuse, who’s to say the professor wouldn’t stumble upon Rivera’s report in the Yale Daily News? The consequences for dishonesty in this case — probation, suspension, etc. — drastically outweigh the consequences for honesty. Even so, better consequences or the fulfillment of certain interests should not be the only factors we consider in determining the value of honesty. The idea of a “universal moral law” is often discussed in the field of philosophy. The crucial understanding here is that lying does harm to moral law itself — a consequence much greater than that of doing harm to an individual or
group of individuals. Some acts — lying, in this case — are wrong no matter the circumstances and no matter the consequences. Although I believe exceptions exist when acting according to interests, exceptions do not exist in determining the morality of an action. In other words, I may act immorally to get something I want, but just because my interests are met doesn’t mean what I did was right. Consider a scenario where a starving man must get money to feed himself. He spots a street performer with about $20 in her tip jar, quickly steals the $20 when she isn’t looking, and uses the stolen money to buy much-needed food. Although stealing the money saved the man’s life, we cannot say that theft is acceptable.
Similarly, although Rivera’s interests may at times be met through dishonesty, dishonesty is still wrong and cannot possibly be “the best policy.” Withholding the truth from others suggests that those being deceived are used as a means to satisfying certain interests as opposed to an end in and of themselves, eliminating the intrinsic value of humans as individuals. The prevalence of honesty in our society makes us all better people. Were dishonesty to become the norm, how would we know what — if anything — to believe? What would this say about our society as a whole? Honesty, I believe, must be the best policy. Jared Shulkin is a sophomore from Weston, Fla. He can be reached at jshulkin@princeton.edu.
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terra firma to stare back at the little rock you call home. “You’re looking at a big blue sphere,” says Gregory Olsen, Entrepreneur-InResidence at the Keller Center at the University and the third-ever self-funded astronaut. “And you know,
you’re seeing this big blue sphere slowly recede in the distance, and you’re thinking, wow, that’s, that’s the world!” Olsen — and only four others after him — joined an elite list of entrepreneurs and inventors who paid top dollar for their ticket to the stars. After selling his company Sensors Unlimited Inc., a firm that made near-infrared
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cameras for NASA, Olsen was able to purchase the $20 million fare to board the Russian Soyuz, taking him on a 10-day trip to the International Space Station. Lifting off from Kazakhstan in October 2005, Olsen’s f light symbolized more than just a new type of vacation, but a new industry altogether: space tourism.
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talk about themes or cases they are seeing on campus. “My role is to coordinate the team, in terms of giving provision or consultation to providers on the team, looking at different ways we can do different outreach with them, or if there are particular themes coming up, [asking] is there a way we can provide resources,” Edmond said. “If there are challenging cases, I might provide more support, or I might coordinate discussion with administrators if that seems necessary.” Edmond added that conversation with administrators does not come up particularly often. The priority is simply making sure the student gets the best care possible, either through University Health Services or by giving referrals to an outside community provider. The team includes three psychologists, a psychiatrist, the University’s nutritionist, several medical providers, an advanced practice nurse, a physician, and an athletic trainer, according to Chin. “It’s really cool that it’s interdisciplinary,” Edmond said. “It’s really a holistic approach.” Both Edmond and Chin emphasized the importance of a multilevel approach. The medical perspective is important for understanding the possible negative consequences of eating too little, eating too much, purging, laxatives, or diet pills, as well as meal-planning and education on nutrition and getting the right amount of fueling for performance. The psychological perspective works in tandem with the nutritional or medical, investigating emotional triggers that cause changes in eating patterns. The psychiatric approach is the final component, determining if there is any need for medication. “The reason why there’s an interdisciplinary team is because oftentimes eating disorders involve not just psychological or emotional issues,” Chin said. “It’s really important that students who are battling are medically stable.” Beyond just making the team more capable, Edmond also said that the interdisciplinary nature of the team allows students to come to them through a variety of avenues and ultimately makes the team more available and helpful to students. “Students can enter from any doorway,” Edmond said. “They might be working with their athletic trainer, they might go in for a physical or an injury which could be disorder-eating-related or not; they might come in for depression and anxiety for counseling and then we discover they have some eating concerns … no matter where they enter that can be brought forth to a large team.” One example of raising awareness that the team has been involved in, Edmond mentioned, was working with the organization National Eating Disorder Awareness, which usually has a week promoting eating disorder awareness in February. As a part of that effort, Edmond and her team worked with the Women’s Center to put together a “Love Your Genes” event. “It’s a way to acknowledge that you can love your body at any time,” Edmond said. “We had people write bodypositive messages on the
genes and displayed them at UHS.” Edmond emphasized that the team’s work is not solely for people specifically with eating disorders, but that it also deals with a wider range of issues and conflicts students may have when it comes to their relationships with food. “[The team] encompasses the wide range of concerns that we see along the disorder-eating spectrum,” Edmond said. Eating disorders and concerns regarding relationships with food have been a concern of members of the University student body as of late. Zach Feig ’18 is organizing a series of monologues, submitted anonymously by students and performed by other students, about struggles with eating disorders. Feig expressed some concern over the resources the University has attributed to eating disorders, but said he believes that the monologues can go a long way to bring more resources to those who struggle with the issue. “It can be very hard to see that nutritionist because she sees all the athletes; that’s nearly a third of the campus,” Feig said. “Considering we’ve got one nutritionist whose job is to look after a third of the student body, if we double that, with one more nutritionist, that’s pretty big.” Although he did say that the campus nutritionist’s role in seeing all student athletes does preclude her from taking general nutrition questions from the student body, Chin addressed that concern by saying that the team as a whole was able to handle student demand, and the variety of perspectives they had made them well equipped for treating the entirety of a problem a student might have. “The team is adequately used. There is definitely a demand for services, there are students who battle a variety of eating disorders who are a part of our community,” Chin said. “They’re definitely active and working.” Feig said his other primary goal in the monologues is to promote discussion among students to better understand the struggles fellow go through and what can be done to help one another. “The goal is to spark dialogue and get people talking,” Feig said. Edmond’s emphasis, aside from directly providing student care, also consisted greatly of raising awareness among the University committee as a whole, about having a healthy relationship with food and body image. “The clinicians on the team are really dedicated to helping people understand the mind-body connection,” Edmond said. “There are a lot of cultural or societal pressures that can contribute to people having concerns around eating and body image, and we look to increase body activity and increase ways people can manage and express emotions.” Ultimately, according to Edmond — although the team’s means may be varied, through medical, nutritional, or psychological treatments — the ends are always the well-being of the student. “We often joke in our team meetings that it’s about the food, but it’s not about the food,” Edmond said. “We try to really involve the students in the process, and what is the best treatment for them.”
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Baseball ends losing streak with 6–5 win against local rival Rutgers By Tom Salotti Staff Writer
On Wednesday, baseball (3–10) defeated the Rutgers University Scarlet Knights (13—9) 6—5 at Rutgers, ending the team’s twogame losing streak. On a cloudy evening at Bainton Field in Piscataway, N.J., the Tigers earned victory against their local rivals. Rutgers scored first with Nick Matera hitting a single to rightcenter, batting in Mike Nyisztor in bottom of the third inning. In the top of the fifth inning, Princeton roared back with four runs, three hits, and leaving two on base. Junior infielder Joseph Flynn grounded one out to third base, allowing sophomore infielder David Harding to score, unearned. Sophomore outfielder Conor Nolan then homered out of right field, earning junior outfielder Jesper Horsted and senior infielder Asher Lee-Tyson each a run. At the bottom of the fifth, Rutgers came back to tie the game 4—4 with Matera hitting a double and allowing Jawuan Harris and Nyisztor to score. In the next inning, Princeton scored two more, with sophomore outfielder and left-handed
pitcher Chris Davis and Lee-Tyson each clinching a run thanks to Nolan. Rutgers responded in the bottom of the sixth with another run by Nyisztor as a result of a hit by Harris. The game wrapped up at the bottom of the ninth inning 6—5. Their all-time record with Rutgers now stands at 74—77—3. The last time Princeton squared off against Rutgers was in 2012, when the Tigers fell in a close game at Bainton Field. The Tigers held a lead over the Rutgers until the eighth inning, when the game became tied. Then, in the bottom of the ninth inning, Rutgers’ Nick Favletta hit a solo homer and clinched the game for the Scarlet Knights. In the last game before Wednesday’s against Rutgers, the Tigers lost to the University of Richmond Spiders (15—9) on March 19. Despite a home run from Flynn and runs by Nolan and Davis, the Tigers fell short. Last weekend, the Tigers had been set to take on Harvard for three games at home in their Ivy League opening series. The games, however, were cancelled due to snow from the recent nor’easter and a suitable venue was not found in time. The
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The Tigers held on to claim a narrow victory over their local rivals. 6—5
games will take place on future dates. Now, first up in the Ivy League for Princeton is Cornell University (2–9). The team will take on the Big Red this weekend in a three-game series taking place
over Saturday and Sunday. Last season, the Tigers won two and lost two against Cornell, finishing in fourth behind the Big Red in the Lou Gehrig division of the Ivy League conference. The Tigers are hoping for bet-
ter conference play than last year, where they finished with a record of 7—13. Their hopes lie parallel to their 2016 season, which culminated with an Ivy League championship victory.
Men’s track and field opens season at UNF Spring Break Invitational MEN’S TRACK AND FIELD
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yeing a strong start to the outdoor season, men’s track and Field was provided with nearly perfect conditions at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Fla., last week. A trio of personal-best performances from senior sprinter and captain Carrington Akosa, sophomore hurdler and sprinter Joey Daniels, and junior thrower Adam Kelly were the highlights of a very promising first meet. At the Spring Break Invitational, Kelly was arguably the performer of the meet. The 2018 Ivy League Indoor champion dropped a bomb in the hammer throw, blowing away the field with a mark of 69.68m. His throw was more than 15m beyond that of the second place competitor, and it places him sixth in the entire NCAA this year. Kelly has made the NCAA National Championships in both of his previous two years at Princeton, but his Florida opener indicates that 2018 could be especially fruitful. Despite a preceding week of hard weightlifting and throwing practice, Kelly looked strong and fast, pivoting through his four-turn technical sequence before releasing the 16-pound metal ball into orbit. Head coach Fred Samara punched the air as he saw the hammer land virtually on the 70m line, but — despite the personal record —
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A trio of best performances from senior Carrington Akosa, sophomore Joey Daniels, and junior Adam Kelly highlighted the first meet.
an animated Kelly called out to Samara that the last turn could have been that little bit better. As the outdoor season progresses, Kelly will look to refine the technical aspects of his throw and become even sharper, pursuing conference and regional success. Ultimately, Kelly’s goal is to compete for the NCAA National title this June at the historic Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. Personal records also fell on the North Florida
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track. Akosa capitalized on the good conditions to run 10.46 seconds in the 100m and 21.07s in the 200m, two personal records and Ivy League-leading times. Meanwhile, Daniels decided it was time to reset his own school record in the 110m event. Testing a new sevenstep approach to the first hurdle — something rare for college athletes, who mainly take eight-step approaches — he was matched by a Clemson athlete until
the fourth barrier. However, a specialist in the longer, 10-barrier-long outdoors event, Daniels eased away to take the win comfortably. His time of 13.88s places him first in the Ivy League and 11th in the NCAA. Looking at the race result with a hint of disappointment, Daniels explained that while “it was important to get the win and gain confidence with the new sevenstep approach,” he “wanted to open a little faster.” These
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No. 15
After a 6-1 West Coast trip, which included wins against two ranked opponents, the Tigers are now ranked No. 15 in the CWPA Varsity Poll.
frustrations emphasize the big ambitions he has for the upcoming season, in which he’ll look to gain Ivy League glory and represent Princeton nationally in Oregon. There were also strong performances from Princeton’s reliable team captains, as senior Mitchel Charles took second in the shot put and senior August Kiles won the pole vault. The younger Tigers backed up these results, as — making their outdoor debuts — first-year throwers Kelton Chastulik and Robbie Otal demonstrated their potential for greatly successful college careers, placing third in the shot put and second in discus. Having traveled to Florida for a training trip, the Tigers’ focus was on using spring break to work hard and transition from indoor to outdoor track and field. “The spring trip is a very important part of our preparation for the outdoor season,” Samara explained. He said the trip served as a chance to “work on events we don’t do during the indoor season, such as 400m hurdles, hammer, discus and the 4x100m relay.” With a week of good work behind them, and several strong competitive performances, the Tigers now move on to the outdoor season with great confidence. This weekend, in Raleigh, N.C., the distance runners open up outdoors, where they’ll look to build on the momentum established in Florida.
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