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STUDENT LIFE

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Left: Students pick up packages using the current system.

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Student mailboxes in Frist Campus Center will be replaced with package lockers by next fall. These “smart lockers” combine modern software and hardware technologies so that students can pick up their packages anytime that Frist is open, according to Director of Print and Mail Services Ashley Gorfine.

Staff levels are not expected to change; instead, the manned station will be devoted to oversized packages and letters, Gorfine added.

Current plans involve

installing 990 package lockers over the summer, according to Gorfine.

Following this change, the University will become the first in the Ivy League to have package lockers. Although many institutions have been discussing similar plans, the University will be the first to actually implement it.

“The space issue was becoming so apparent that it was difficult to control the [number] of packages coming in,” Gorfine said.

Over 129,000 packages are currently handled by Print and Mail Services annually, compared to 109,000 in 2012. The peri-

STUDENT LIFE

New platform created for students dealing with grief

By Katie Tam Contributor

Kandace Rosser ’19 and Zoe Sudduth ’19 think that we should talk more openly about death.

The two have founded Death and Co., an online platform that aims to help people navigate the grieving process and its complex emotions in the supportive company of others.

“I think in terms of literature and things that are published, there’s often a lack of talk about death and grief, and I think that they’re very much subjects to be talked about,” Rosser said.

Rosser added that she wanted to create a platform “for people to know they’re not alone.”

Rosser and Sudduth created Death and Co. as an offshoot of the Hecates Society, an on-campus group for students who have lost loved ones or experienced death.

There were always great discussions during Hecates Society meetings, Sudduth said. But the two wanted to engage with a broader community.

“We know that there’s a wider audience that could benefit from a place where they could go to read about other people’s experience,” Sudduth said.

Death and Co. seeks submissions in the form of memoirs, essays, photos, drawings, and more. Rosser and Sudduth plan to debut content on their website on May 13, Mother’s Day. Although they are considering an eventual literary publication, the two want to make sure

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the platform remains accessible to all — not only those who submit work, but also those who read it will be a part of the Death and Co. community, Sudduth explained.

“Grief is so wide and encompasses a lot of different people, in different areas.” Rosser added.

Rosser and Sudduth want the platform to extend beyond the University, spreading not only to other schools, but also to spaces outside the collegiate sphere.

There has been a wide range of positive responses to their initiative. Rosser explained that since beginning the project, they have received numerous emails from people, all of whom were grateful that Death and Co. was created.

“People are just happy that there’s a place for this to exist,” Rosser said.

Experiences with death are “a lot more common than people think,” she added.

“Everyone experiences something,” added Sudduth. The point of Death and Co. is to capture the variety of these experiences: “It’s different for everyone.”

Rosser and Sudduth hope that everyone, from contributors to readers, gain something positive from the platform.

“People are engaging in a community around grief and death,” said Sudduth. “Grief seems like it has to be negative, but it doesn’t have to be.”

The Hecates Society gathers on Wednesday nights for informal meetings.

Contributing columnist Cy Watsky reckons with the advantages he held when he applied to Princeton, while a guest contributor encourages Princetonians to serve their nation.

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od between 2008 and 2018 saw a 50 percent increase in packages.

This sharp rise can be attributed to subscription delivery services such as Amazon Prime, Gorfine suggested.

“We needed to do something, and we needed to do something fast,” added Gorfine. “We didn’t want to leave Frist.”

In response to the limited operating hours and the 700-square foot package room space, Mail Services proposed smart package lockers, inspired by companies like Amazon. The new lockers will allow for 75 additional

hours a week of access to packages.

Students will be able to access the lockers via a self-service kiosk or directly from a smartphone app expected to launch in the fall.

“You’re not working on our clock; we’re working on yours,” said Gorfine in a presentation to the Undergraduate Student Government meeting on April 30. “This allows us to do our job more efficiently [and] more effectively for the students.”

The current plan involves installing extra-small, small, and medium lockers. The dimensions and specifica-

tions are yet to be determined, and Mail Services is currently testing sizes to determine exactly which size packages will fit.

In addition, each locker room will have at least two recycling bins where students can discard packaging materials, in hopes of promoting University sustainability initiatives. Gorfine believes that these changes will “bring us into the 21st century.”

Construction is expected to begin the day after Commencement, with the first shipment of lockers set to arrive mid-June.

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Mattingly discusses PRC political repression

By Anna Vinitsky Staff Writer

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DeNunzio Pool is the training facility for varsity water sports teams.

Juvenile female reports assault at DeNunzio

By Isabel Ting

Assistant News Editor

On Monday, April 30, a juvenile female reported to the Department of Public Safety that she was fondled by an adult male at DeNunzio Pool.

The incident occurred nearly a week earlier on Tuesday, April 24, at 6:45 p.m. during her swim practice, according to the email statement from the Princeton Alert system. The suspect was described as a white male, over five feet tall and of normal build, without facial hair or any other identifying features.

He was last seen wearing jeans, a Tshirt, and running shoes.

Assistant Vice President for Communications Daniel Day explained that it is difficult to say whether the perpetrator is a student or not, since there are

many swim teams from the Princeton area that visit the pool.

Day also acknowledged the gap between the day of the incident and report.

“Every victim processes these incidents differently, so we can’t speculate as to why there is a delay,” said Day, “but we’re really glad that this girl came forward to let us know about the attack.”

Day added that he is hopeful that that someone in the community will hear about the incident and will hand in information to help Public Safety catch the perpetrator. Public Safety is actively investigating the incident.

Public Safety was not available for comment at the time of publication.

Anyone with additional information is asked to call Public Safety immediately at 609-258-1000.

Today on Campus 4:30 p.m.: Benjamin Lee, associate professor of electrical engineering at Duke University, will present “Datacenters and Energy Efficiency: A Game-Theoretic Perspective.”

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Daniel Mattingly is not one to take conventional wisdom regarding political repression in China at face value. While scholars before him have stressed the role that explicit legitimation and repression play in coercing the Chinese people, Mattingly, an assistant professor of political science at Yale, suggested that there are more implicit mechanisms at play. He argued that the heart of informal political repression exists at the village, rather than the national, level.

“There are more informal institutions somewhere between formal institutions of repression and legitimation,” Mattingly said in a lecture at the University on Monday, April 30.

Mattingly began by highlighting the vast field of scholarship that paints civic society and social ties as crucial to institutional accountability.

However, Mattingly entered the scholarly debate at an angle. To him, kinship networks in China See MATTINGLY page 2

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Mattingly: Community groups serve as informal institutions of repression

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do not lead to accountable institutions. Instead, kinship networks often serve as informal institutions of repression.

Mattingly then discussed some of China’s repressive policies that he suggested go hand in hand with the country’s urbanization, mentioning the

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confiscation of land and the two-child policy. He wanted to know why Chinese people were likely to comply with policies that clearly infringed on their autonomy.

“Community groups also give officials leverage over citizens and can serve as informal institutions of repression,” Mattingly said.

In order to support his argument with raw data,

Mattingly conducted a survey to measure trust in hypothetical local elections that he conducted in villages across rural China in 2013. The survey gave participants hypothetical choices in electing candidates, randomly varying whether or not the candidates were part of kinship networks, attended the temple regularly, or were members of the Communist Party of China.

Mattingly found that people were less likely to trust CCP candidates at the local level. At the same time, however, he saw that local, civil society groups based in clan membership and lineage encouraged people to trust political candidates. Mattingly concluded that the way the CCP aimed to solve the problem was by taking advantage of informal repression.

Mattingly then presented some of his field research dealing specifically with informal repression in China. He introduced a case study in which he compared two nearby villages in China: Chalong and Kaijia. He chose these two villages because of

their similar characteristics, including the absence of well-developed or active lineage groups. The village of Kaijia hosted a temple fair each year to bring the community together, while Chalong did not.

Mattingly found that Chalong, the village with fewer social ties, also had less informal repression.

When local officials decided to confiscate some of the farmers’ land to build factories, the farmers surrounded the earth movers to prevent them from getting to the fields.

While the farmers in Chalong were successful in keeping the earth movers at bay, the villagers of Kaijia told a different story. Kaijia was headed by a Communist Party secretary who was a native of the village. The secretary aimed to cultivate tradition and social ties by hosting an annual traditional Chinese folk festival. Since there was a stronger sense of community in Kaijia, the farmers did not resist when the village officials came in to confiscate land.

Mattingly concluded his lecture by suggesting that

the way in which authoritarian figures nourish social ties and civil society groups to take advantage of people applies to many different contexts.

“The tactic of informal repression is used by autocrats in many different contexts,” Mattingly said, mentioning Russia as just one example.

The question and answer session featured a lively discussion between Mattingly and the audience.

“Professor Mattingly’s discussion of some of the lesser-known instruments of state power demonstrated that the same institutions we often perceive to be conducive to healthy democracy can be employed towards authoritarian ends,” noted Kyle Zelenitz ’21 upon leaving the lecture. “And the diverse questions and comments of those in attendance were also really interesting and shed light on the processes of academic review.”

This lecture, titled “The Art of Political Repression in China” took place in A71 Louis A. Simpson International Building on Monday, April 30, at 4:30 p.m.

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I’m a real Princeton student, too Cy Watsky

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hen another admission cycle came to a close last month, I felt a familiar sense of unease with my place on campus, as it brought back memories from the first few months after I was admitted to Princeton. My father is a professor here, and my uncle was an undergraduate student, so my admission was almost guaranteed, so long as I maintained a good academic record in high school.

As a result, I have experienced a lot of resentment, both from students and otherwise, about how I was admitted. There’s a taboo against talking too much about where and how you got into college, and for me, that was taken to another level. Even now, when I’m not faced with the same level of scrutiny, I sometimes question whether I really deserve to be here, whatever that means.

A few months ago, standing in line at Whole Foods, a woman came up to me, eyeing the Princeton logo on my sweatshirt with an intense look of awe and curiosity. She asked me how I had gotten in, what my grades and standardized test scores were, and what extracurricular activities I had done.

Though this struck me as out of place and intrusive, I answered her politely. But her all-too-familiar line of questioning bore into me as I recognized what this woman really wanted to know — what does it take to be a Princeton student?

I felt myself shed the pro-

tection of my Princeton apparel as I told her that I did get good grades and received strong standardized test scores, but also that I had legacy connections and that my dad works as a professor at the University. Her face changed, as she realized that I benefited from advantages that her son in eighth grade would never have.

This sort of reaction is not unique. My ophthalmologist told me that I probably didn’t have very good test scores and I definitely wasn’t a “real” Princeton student. I told her that standardized testing was stupid, though I happened to be really good at it, and that I was as much a Princeton student as anyone else with “princeton.edu” at the end of their email address. But I knew what she meant, and sometimes I struggle to convince myself that I am a “real” student.

In the classroom, when I hear other students rattle off their high school achievements, or refer to philosophers I have never heard of, this nagging sense of not belonging creeps in. As I try to grasp at the core of why I belong, at understanding my admission as a result of an opaque and often unfair admissions system, sometimes it feels like there is nothing.

When it comes to figuring out what it means to be a Princeton student, my instinct is usually to remove the many privileges that paved my path to admission and try to get at my central justifications for being here. I try to convince myself that I’m smart enough, and that I can think quickly and speak convincingly. I’ve come to realize, however, that my approach is flawed.

Questions about my ability or worthiness to be a Princ-

eton student usually trigger this instinct.

The privileges I had in the admissions process — as a legacy and child of a faculty member from a high-income area — are not unique.

I see commonalities in the ways many students, from recruited athletes to legacy kids to graduates of elite private schools, explain their admission stories. And I see it in precept, when every single student describes their winter break trips as either skiing or traveling to warm places. Over 70 percent of the student body is from the upper 20 percent of the income bracket in the United States. It is also evident in admission statistics — almost 40 percent of the Class of 2021 went to private school, 13 percent of them were children of alumni, and around 17 percent of the previous class were recruited athletes, which most likely was pretty much unchanged for the Class of 2021. Though there is overlap between these groups, they get at how common these sorts of admissions boosters are and the kind of privileges that almost all students had in getting into Princeton.

Questioning the individual privileges that I, or any other student, had at gaining admission to this university can be not only hurtful but also misguided, because it assumes that I am the exception to the rule.

This is simply not true. The criticisms directed toward me have largely been motivated by a sense of personal injustice, as if my place at the University bumped the Whole Foods mom’s eighth grade child, or my classmate in high school, or my ophthalmologist’s son, out of their rightful spots at the University.

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This is also not true, as it would be implausible for their child to be the highest-ranked person on the waitlist who didn’t get accepted. It also puts me in an awkward spot when I have to respond because I do empathize with their general concerns with the admissions system. These concerns, however, shouldn’t be directed at me, or any other individual student deemed “not really a Princeton student.”

It’s clear that being an exceptional individual isn’t enough to get into Princeton. Almost everyone has had some sort of exceptional privilege, in their financial situation or a more specific admissions booster. A “real” Princeton student is a product of privilege, luck, and money, and I do think that needs to change. There are broader, systemic inequities in the admissions system, like the over-representation of certain races and income groups, and faculty and legacy preferences. When people question the legitimacy of my admission, it usually comes from a feeling of personal injustice.

But if we want to have honest conversations about the entire admissions system, we need to move away from pointing at individual circumstances, be it legacy admits, children of faculty, or varsity athletes, and look to broader, systemic inequities in the admission systems. Coming to terms with my place on campus meant realizing that there is no way for me to prove that I am objectively qualified to be here. But I do think I belong as much as anyone else.

Cy Watsky is a first-year from Princeton, N.J. He can be reached at chwatsky@princeton.edu.

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Princeton undergraduates should consider careers in public service Leyla Mocan

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rinceton University’s inspiring informal motto, “In the Nation’s Service and the Service of Humanity,” challenges the University’s students, faculty, and administration to pursue a higher purpose in life and broaden their perspective from personal gratification to the well-being of all members of the human community.

Given this University’s historical legacy in public interest and its embedded tradition of service to humanity, why did 33 percent of undergraduates from the Class of 2016 go into financial or professional and technical service jobs, while less than 2 percent went into public service? What can the University do to encourage more undergraduate students to pursue a rewarding career in public service after graduating?

This trend is not an anomaly. In 2015, less than 2 percent of Princeton undergrads entered into the public service positions compared to 33 percent that entered into financial or professional and technical service jobs. In 2014, the numbers were almost identical.

We live in a complex time, in which public servants are more important than ever. Our

nation is grappling with challenges of climate change, foreign diplomacy, poverty, and social welfare, and ensuring equitable growth of the economy. Maintaining a steady pipeline of bright and committed public servants is critical to navigating these complex challenges. And as the federal workforce ages and retires, the need for young, skilled talent is paramount to the functionality of our government. Perhaps most importantly — under a president who does not seem to understand the benefits of a functioning government and continues to undermine the bureaucracy — having a strong, principled civil service is more vital now than ever.

To be sure, there are structural barriers that make careers in government difficult. Having served in the federal government prior to coming to Princeton, I am the first to acknowledge the frustrations that these barriers can cause.

Many federal positions often require advanced degrees, and, as anyone who has tried to navigate USAjobs.gov knows, the systems for applying are less than intuitive.

Still, Princeton students have access to a well-resourced career services office, giving them the ability to find careers in federal government, to say nothing of

the multitude of career options at the state or local level. What’s more, the many accomplished public service practitioners on faculty at Princeton are very willing to offer helpful insight and advice for surmounting the hurdles that can obfuscate the process of entering into a career in public service.

One deterrent to students going into public service is the negative portrayal of government service in the media. We are all prey to the recency effect, where our overall impression of something is largely driven by our last interaction with that object.

A constant bombardment of negativity about the government and the bureaucrats who make it work deters students from these careers. That’s why Princeton should make a strong effort to bring in more government practitioners who can show students all the benefits that careers in government can offer or do more to elevate the voices of faculty and graduate students who come from a public service career background.

Judging from the many conversations I’ve had with both graduate students and faculty who have worked in government, I am confident that their perspectives will leave undergraduate students with a more positive view of public ser-

vice.

The large presence of the finance and consulting industries on campus also changes students’ reference points for salary offers. Behavioral science has taught us that people base their value of an object on a relative reference point.

For example, if you are a student who sees your peers getting finance and consulting job offers, the high salaries of those industries become the reference point from which you judge all other job offers. By comparison, government jobs appear to offer paltry salaries.

But government jobs also offer security, work-life balance, loan forgiveness, excellent health insurance benefits, and, most importantly, the opportunity to do meaningful work in service to your country. These positions also provide students with marketable skills and experience that are sought after by private sector employers, should they decide to leave the public sector down the line.

Princeton’s undergraduate Office of Career Services could create materials that encourage students to consider all aspects of a job offer, instead of just a high salary alone. Indeed, research has shown that advertisements for federal government jobs that emphasize the personal benefits of the job, such as the chal-

lenges or career benefits, increase the applicant pool while maintaining applicant quality.

Another challenge is that on many campuses, there are strong prescriptive norms around going into careers in finance or consulting. In other words, students feel that it is socially acceptable, if not encouraged, to follow these career choices rather than those in public service.

Norms are hard to change, but Princeton could begin to shift them by highlighting students who choose careers in public service, providing more resources for students interested in that path, and routinely bringing alumni to campus who work in government at all levels.

We can measure the success of these efforts by comparing how many students go into public service before and after these interventions. We should also compare ourselves to our peer schools as a control group, which would account for broader trends affecting who chooses public sector work.

Encouraging careers in public service would truly make this a campus in service to the nation, and humanity.

Leyla Mocan is a firstyear masters student studying public affairs. She can be reached at lmocan@ princeton.edu.

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Tigers suffer heartbreaking loss to Wolverines in CWPA championships W O M E N ’ S W AT E R P O L O

By Paige Thompson Staff Writer

The Princeton women’s water polo team (23–8) suffered a season-ending heartbreaker this past weekend at the Collegiate Water Polo Association Championships at Bucknell University. Defeating the No. 23 Harvard Crimson and the No. 14 Indiana Hoosiers in the first two rounds, the Tigers made it to the championship game, only to fall to their long-time rivals, the No. 11 Michigan Wolverines, 11–8.

Earlier this month, the Tigers beat the Wolverines in conference play in double overtime, 8–7, marking their first win against their rivals in three years, breaking their 20-game win streak. This was particularly satisfying after Princeton’s 5–4 loss in the CWPA championships last year.

Princeton entered the tournament as the No. 1 seed, with a perfect conference record at 8–0.

Friday evening, Princeton took on Harvard, handily crushing it 12–4, despite a slow start, with the Crimson going up 2–0 in the first quarter. The team regained momentum for the rest of three quarters, with junior utility Lindsey Kelleher and senior 2-meter Chelsea Johnson each finishing with a hat trick. Freshman goalie Marissa Webb had 11 saves in the game.

The semifinal game against Indiana on Saturday made for a stressful afternoon as the two teams went into overtime. Again, the Tigers made for a slow start, with the Hoosiers going up 20 in the first quarter. But, just like the Harvard game, Princeton came back out strong in the second quarter to go 5–4 at half. Tied 6–6 by the buzzer, the teams entered overtime. With both opponents retying

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Despite strong performance against Harvard and Indiana, the Tigers fell to long-time rivals Michigan.

the score several times within the overtime quarters, Kelleher and junior attacker Eliza Britt put the game away with two more goals to win 10–8. Senior utility Haley Wan led the team in points with four goals, two assists, two steals, and three blocks.

Johnson finished with an impressive five drawn ejections, and Webb with another 11 saves.

In the championship game, the Tigers’ typical slow start proved too advantageous for the Wolverines.

They went up 6–2 in the first quarter, crushing Princeton’s defense with continuous drives from the perimeter. At halftime, Michigan was still up with a wide margin at 8–3. Still fighting, the Orange and Black clawed

their way to get within two tallies, 9–7, to enter the fourth quarter. However, unlike the first two games, the Tigers could not finish, and the Wolverines took home the CWPA title and automatic NCAA bid with an 11–8 win.

Wan, who had four goals in the loss, commented on the team’s fighting ability.

“I am the most proud of how the team came together to rally behind each other and fight together.

Everyone on the team bought in to our goals and the chemistry among the girls was what we owe our successes to. Although we did not start games off well, we fought together each quarter to battle back from being down,” she said.

Sophomore attacker Amy Castellano added her support for the grit of the team.

“Although the outcome of the CWPA championships was not in our favor, I thought the tournament demonstrated our team’s persistence and determination. In all three games, our opponents scored first, yet we did not let the early goal deficit impact our ability to perform. I think in the end, the little mistakes that we made early on in the championship game caught up to us, but I am still in awe of my team’s ability to never give up.

This tournament truly highlighted our team’s poise and desire to fight back in times of adversity,” she said.

Wan and Johnson were awarded

CWPA Championship All-Tournament first-team selections. Webb was named Rookie of the Tournament, and head coach Rebecca Dorst was selected as Coach of the Tournament.

Dorst was also named of Coach of the Year in CWPA All-Conference Selections for the regular season.

Though it ended in a tearjerker, the end of the season marked an incredibly impressive underdog story from the team’s beginnings in February.

Two weeks before season began, former head coach Luis Nicolao resigned to become the Naval Academy head coach, with former assistant Dorst stepping up to be interim head. The first tournament of the season, in Arizona, saw the team go 0–4. In March, the team lost in a shocking defeat to No. 13 Hartwick Hawks, 12–13, and a suffered a crushing defeat to Michigan, 4–13. By the end of the season, the Tigers went on to beat No. 15 Loyola Marymount University, to whom they had lost in the Arizona tournament, and beat both Hartwick and Michigan in the teams’ second meetings of the season. The team started out ranked No. 7 in CWPA polls, finishing as No. 1, and improved from No. 22 in NCAA polls to No. 10.

Castellano remarked on the success of the season.

“Overall, I think this season was revolutionary. As Coach Dorst said at the end of the final game, the season that our team had this year has definitely forever changed the culture of the program. By upsetting Michigan, the number one ranked team in our league at the time, we were able to prove to everyone that we were a force to be reckoned with and that Princeton water polo was much more than just a water polo team on the East Coast,” she said.

MEN’S LACROSSE

Tigers defeat Cornell in season finale, fall just short on making playoffs

By Owen Tedford Senior Staff Writer

On Saturday the men’s lacrosse team (8–5, 3–3 Ivy League) hosted No. 6 Cornell (10—4, 4—2) in its last game of the season. The Tigers struck first just over two and a half minutes into the game on an unassisted goal from sophomore attack Michael Sowers.

Princeton would not trail the rest of the game after this, leading 6–4 at halftime and then going on to win 14–8 behind a big third quarter where the Tigers outscored the Big Red 5–1.

Offensively, Princeton was led by Sowers with four points (two goals, two assists), but — compared to the past few games — there was a wellrounded attack by the Tigers on Saturday with 10 different players scoring goals. In addition to Sowers, sophomore midfield Connor McCarthy, sophomore attack Phillip Robertson, and senior midfield Riley Thompson all had two goals as well. The only player with multiple assists, other than Sowers, was senior midfield Austin Sims. Sowers broke the single-season record for points on Saturday, reaching 83. As a freshman last year, he had what is now the second-best season in Princeton history with 82 points.

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George Baughan holds Jeff Teat, ranked 1st in points per game, scoreless for entire game to help Princeton upset Cornell.

Saturday’s break out star was freshman defense/longstick midfielder George Baughan. Baughan had the task of shadowing Cornell’s Jeff Teat, who leads the country in points per game. Last

Tweet of the Day “Holding the nation’s leading scorer to no points on one shot....and scoring your first career goal? That’s good enough to warrant @warriorlax/@USLacrosse Player of the Week honors for @TigerLacrosse’s George Boughan.”

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year, Teat burnt Princeton for twelve points, but Baughan held him to zero points and only allowed him to get one shot off. Baughan even outscored him as he scored a goal early in the first period on

a fast break, the first in his career. Two Tigers who had strong performances in their last games for Princeton were senior midfield Sam Bonafede and senior goalie Tyler Blaisdell. Bonafede was dominant

Stat of the Day

83 points

Michael Sowers broke the men’s lacrosse record for most points in a single season. He set the previous record of 82 last year.

in the face-off winning 14 of 24 in the game, allowing the Tigers to dominate possession. Blaisdell made ten saves on the day and was crucial in limiting the nation’s highest scoring team to a season-low of eight goals.

Coming in to the game, Princeton needed a win to stay alive in the race for the Ivy League tournament. The Tigers got this win and just needed to hope for a Dartmouth win against Brown.

Unfortunately for Princeton, Dartmouth did not clench the win against Brown and the Tigers lost the competition for a spot in the Ivy League Tournament to Penn and Brown.

That said, the Tigers ended on a very strong note with promising performances by the younger classes.

One thing to watch out for, in the end of season awards, will be to see if Sowers is named as a finalist for the Tewaaraton Award, given each year to the most outstanding male and female players in college lacrosse, or for USILA’s Player of the Year. Currently, Sowers was named as one of the 25 nominees for the Tewaaraton Award and named to the 17-member Player of the Year watchlist. He is one of 13 on both lists. The five finalists for the Tewaaraton Award will be announced on May 10.

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