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IN TOWN
Tenants of 20 Nassau Street to lose offices, storefronts By Evelyn Doskoch Contributor
The 140 tenants of 20 Nassau Street, recently sold for $32 million to the hotel chain Graduate Hotels, are not just shocked by the news that they will soon lose their long-held office spaces and storefronts in downtown Princeton — they are outraged. “It’s scandalous, unscrupulous, heartless,” said one tenant, whose business has occupied its current 20 Nassau Street location for 34 years. On Nov. 8, several tenants received a letter from Pablo A. David of Adventurous Journeys Capital Partners, the real estate developer that owns Graduate Hotels. The letter, which came after an “open house” meeting, held on Monday, Nov. 4 between tenants and the new owners, describes the options available to tenants in light of the building’s sale. “Rental rates will not change, and we recognize and respect the terms of all leases in effect,” the letter states. “If your current lease is monthto-month, know that we feel confident we can accommodate you through at least April 2020.” However, it has become clear that the transition will
not be quite so seamless. On the Chambers Street side of the building, four businesses have already shut their doors — including Gilded Lion Antiques, Pins & Needles, The Angel’s Touch Florist, and the Banmu Garden Gallery. In the next few months, others will follow. “Obviously we’re all upset,” said a representative of Bucks County Dry Goods, whose storefront on Nassau Street faces Rockefeller College. She explained that she received no direct notification of the sale and instead found out through an acquaintance that her store’s lease, set to expire in December, would not be renewed. “We’ve been here two, almost three years,” said the representative. “Our lease was up — we weren’t sure, to be honest, if we were going to sign or not — and they said, ‘no, you’re not getting a new lease.’” Others agreed that the notification process for tenants seemed abrupt or uneven. “We just learned they sold the building, and we were not really notified about that,” said the owner of CG Gallery. “On the first of November we learned we have a new landlord, and that’s basically it.” For still others, the first See NASSAU page 2
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Triangle Club rehearsal space asbestos-free, U. confirms By James Anderson Contributor
The University has confirmed that the Triangle Club has not been at risk of asbestos exposure while rehearsing at 171 Broadmead Street, despite misleading signage early this year. The two-story brick building is located beyond the stadium and the baseball fields and formerly housed the University NOW Day Nursery. UNOW, which has partnered with the University since 1970 and grants preference to children of University faculty and students, was moved in September 2017 to a new building across the
building but left immediately when their peers pointed out the signs at the entrance warning of asbestos. They decided to rehearse on the lawn that day instead. When the officers later asked the administration whether the building was safe, they were told to go ahead as long as they used a back stairwell rather than the main entrance. Several members have reported eye irritation and sore throats this year, and the choreographer has experienced headaches, which added to their concerns about the warning signs. See TRIANGLE page 2
BEYOND THE BUBBLE
Veterans of Future Wars: The U. satire that became a national controversy Senior Writer
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17 of the 135 estimated construction days have passed.
Alexander Road closure causes problems for local business owners By Omar Farah Contributor
This September, as part of a collaborative infrastructure project between the New Jersey State Government and Mercer County’s Department of Transportation and Infrastructure, it was announced that Alexander Road would be closed for a duration of six
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months. As of today, only 16 of the estimated 135 days of construction have elapsed. Yet the local business community is already feeling the effects of the closure. According to small business owners, the effects permeate far beyond Alexander Road and pose a serious threat to local businesses See ALEXANDER page 3
Editorial assistant Madeleine Marr continues to scrutinize gender disparities at Princeton and in academia more broadly, while columnist Braden Flax criticizes Cami Anderson’s educational policies in light of her recent visit to campus and the Princeton Iranian Students Association speaks out on recent protests in Iran.
In 1936, the Veterans of Future Wars began on the University campus as a joke between a handful of students, but soon exploded into a nation-wide phenomenon before collapsing, all in a little over a year. Named as a jab at the Veterans of Foreign Wars organization, the Veterans of Future Wars started as a satirical movement protesting the early payout of controversial “soldiers’ bonuses” to World War I veterans, as well as the possibility of the United States entering another war. They argued that, as long as Congress was handing out money, they ought to grant a soldiers’ bonus to every man between the ages of 18 and 35. The VFW reasoned that, since all men in that age group could potentially be drafted and possibly die in future wars, they should receive their bonuses in advance while they were alive to enjoy them. The movement was sparked in March 1936 when two roommates, Urban Joseph Peters Rushton ’36 and Lewis Jefferson Gorin, Jr., ’36, attended a film screening. Before the film began, the theater played a newsreel reporting on the Adjusted Service Compensation Act (ASCA), which sped up the payment of soldiers’ bonuses (totaling $2 bil-
lion) to World War I veterans, or almost $36.5 billion in today’s dollars. This accelerated payout struck Gorin and Rushton as irresponsible, as so many were still suffering from the hardships of the Great Depression. The two roommates met up with a group of friends and drafted a manifesto, which they published in The Daily Princetonian. At first, the document attracted little notice, but the group continued to publish ads — such as the one above from May 1936 — and newspapers across the country began to publish stories. Within weeks, what had started as a joke between frustrated students had become a national phenomenon. With the bloody shadow of World War I still looming over the country, the VFW’s cynical anti-war satire resonated with students across the country, who were scared of becoming cannon-fodder in another overseas conflict. Students at Vassar College attempted to form “the Association of Gold Star Mothers of the Veterans of Future Wars,” a group which would buy any mothers, or potential mothers, “an immediate trip to Europe … to view the future burying places of their present and future children.” The Vassar students’ efforts caused a “firestorm” and were denounced by Vassar Presi-
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dent Henry Noble MacCracken as a “breach of good taste.” The campus organizer, Mary Converse, was prohibited from forming an organization by that or any other parody name. Many other university administrations followed suit. “I don’t think anyone intended for it to be more than a joke,” said Joseph Fronczak, a history professor at the University, who includes the Veterans of Future Wars in his U.S. foreign relations class. “It’s just so cynical and ironic,” he said, referring to the group’s gloomy message that “war was imminent.” “They were a little condescending to the press. They were, to some degree, disrespectful of those who disagreed with them. And this is in the 30’s, so you imagine people are wearing suits and smoking pipes by the fire: you expect to be earnest. Instead they were this scathing critique of war, but also of the super-patriotic, worthier-thanthou attitude of some veterans groups who were lobbying for bonuses.” He added that part of what makes the group so interesting is their lack of a clear political alignment. “They don’t quite map out as left or right … they weren’t really even isolationists. They were idSee VETERANS page 3
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street. The building did contain undisturbed asbestos, but it was removed between Sept. 26 and Oct. 1 this year. “Some of the floor tile and some of the materials used to adhere the floor tile contain asbestos that is firmly bound into the matrix of the material,” Executive Director of Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Robin Izzo wrote. “A licensed abatement contractor removed floor tile in some of the renovation areas with a licensed consultant inspecting and monitoring the work activities.” The week of removal, a few Triangle members entered the
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Jammin’ Crepes, Small Bites among storefronts that will close
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news of the sale came from outside of 20 Nassau Street. “We found out about the sale actually in the local paper,” said Nicolina Brown of Camacho Mauro Mulholland LLP, a law firm with office space in the building. “It was listed in the local paper, and then they sent us a notice saying that there’s a new corporation that we could
make our rent checks out to. So at first, we didn’t think we needed to leave, and then after the building sent out their email … we realized, ‘okay, we need to call somebody and figure out what’s going on.’” “We called the management office, and they told us that ideally, we need to be out by April of 2020,” Brown added, “so we were a little taken aback.” There has been much debate among tenants regarding this notification process, with
some speculating that certain individuals were let into the loop before others. “We’ve only been really active in this building for three years,” Brown said, “so I do feel like the tenants that have been here a lot longer than us probably knew before we did, just because they’re obviously a lot friendlier with the management office and chat more than we do.” In addition to the lack of advanced warning, tenants
shared concerns about the repercussions of the change in ownership. These included worries about paying higher rents in new office locations, losing out on monetary investments in their properties, and having reduced access to University students, who supply a market for many local businesses. One mental health specialist, who did not wish to be named, told The Daily Princetonian that “two-thirds” of her clients are university students, and that she “[doesn’t] know” what they will do if she is forced to relocate farther from campus. “Maybe it’s naïve of me to talk about morality,” said Maurice Sasson, Executive Director of the international language company inlingua and a longterm tenant of the building. “The last thing I want is to be a victim. But they have the money. They have the power.” When April 30, 2020, arrives, some tenants will seek out new office spaces in Princeton, while others will return to other locations already owned by their businesses. “We were in Palmer Square for 10 years before, so we’re leaving Princeton,” said the representative of Bucks County Dry Goods. “We have a store in Lambertville. We have two stores there; we’ve been there 26 years.”
“They did tell us that they can make some accommodations if we need it,” Brown said, “but our thought process is that if the entire building’s going to be empty, we don’t want to be here. We really like it here, we love this office, and we worked really hard to put it together, but we understand that they are trying to make moves that are good for the neighborhood, and obviously it’ll be great for Princeton alumni to have that hotel.” “We’re obviously sad to leave,” Brown added, “but we get it: business is business.” When asked if her business was staying in Princeton, the owner of CG Gallery said she was unsure. “I hope I’m not leaving yet in April,” she said. “Maybe we will get an extension.” At this point, all the tenants of 20 Nassau Street can do is wait — wait until their leases expire, or until they find a new location and are ready to move. Many viewed the news as bittersweet, trying to balance their feelings of disappointment and even betrayal with more positive feelings of optimism and resilience. The representative of Bucks County Dry Goods expressed precisely this sentiment. “It’s small business against big business,” she said. “That’s life.”
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“I don’t have allergies, and yet I leave Broadmead with red eyes that are really itchy and a scratchy throat,” tour manager and cast member Jane Blaugrund ’20 said. According to EHS, the effects of asbestos are usually delayed at least 15 years from exposure, so the symptoms experienced by Triangle members must have resulted from other factors, such as dust from the construction. The first floor and basement of the building’s south wing are currently under renovation to create a laboratory for Professor David McComas’s research group. McComas has been selected by NASA to develop instrumentation for the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe. Ironically, the new facility will include a cleanroom, where airborne particles will be kept to extremely low levels for producing microscale instruments such as ion spectrometers. Club members saw the issue
as one of communication, even though it turned out there was no risk. “The signs were still up, they were not clearly indicating the procedure for having made sure it was safe for us, which is very unsettling for students,” Blaugrund said. “I didn’t know whether there was asbestos or not until last week.” Even without the threat of asbestos poisoning, the building is still in poor condition, besides its inconvenient location. The third floor, which the club uses, has warped funhouse mirrors not suitable for rehearsing dances. “All of the chairs, their upholstery is all ripped open,” Blaugrund said. “I don’t know if it’s cleaned ever.” There is only one restroom, and the performers drink from a work sink. Other rehearsal spaces on campus, such as McCarter Theatre Center and the Lewis Center for the Arts, are in high demand. “The problem is, we take up a whole day, Saturday and Sunday,” Blaugrund said. “They just don’t care where Triangle goes,” Blaugrund said of the administration.
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Fronczak: VFW were idiosyncratic Vitella: A lot of people VETERANS don’t even want to come into Princeton Continued from page 1
............. iosyncratic, politically.” The movement was not without its critics. Veterans’ organizations condemned them and the group received hate mail calling its members cowards, communists, and Nazis. Representative Claude Fuller of Arkansas denounced the Veterans of Future Wars on the floor of the U.S. Congress, calling the group communist, fascist and pacifist — and the National Legionnaire magazine referred to the group as the “Pansies of Princeton.” Except for one student who was hurt in an automobile accident, every one of the University students who founded the Veterans of Future Wars served in the armed forces of the United States in World War II. However, Fronczak asserted that those who thought the VFW was primarily targeting veterans were “missing the mark.” “To some extent, they were mocking veterans, but their satire was sharper towards the idea of another war,” he explained. “It was directed towards the policymakers that were going to push the U.S. into another war, one they would have to fight in.” Fronczak added that he thought University students could learn from the meteoric rise and fall of the VFW, and apply those lessons within their own activism. Although the movement was short-lived — having lost momentum by the summer and disbanded by the spring of 1937 — it is nevertheless an example of a moment in which a group of University students shaped the national conversation and political landscape. “It’s such a wonderfully intelligent critique, and part of that is that they didn’t take themselves too seriously, which allowed them to not take authority too seriously,” he said. “Allow people to laugh. There’s a lot of learning in laughter.”
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across Princeton moving into this holiday season. Tony Vitella, the owner of Alexander Road’s Metro North restaurant, responded emphatically when asked if he had begun to feel the impacts of the road closure. “Absolutely. We are usually busier because a lot of our lunch customers comes from the Route 1 office buildings.” According to Vitella, many have wrongly assumed that the effects of this closure are going to be localized to businesses on Alexander Road itself, emphasizing that many parts of Alexander remain open to automotive and pedestrian traffic alike. The main problem, he predicts, is that consumers will be deterred from entering the town as Princeton’s main vessel of traffic from Route 1 is cut off. Vitella went as far as to say, “I think everyone in Princeton is probably having some sort of issue, because I have been hearing a lot of people saying that they don’t even want to come into Princeton.” The co-owner of Skill-
man Furniture, Michael Oliver, poses a counter to these predictions of grand impact arising from the Alexander Road closure. So far, Oliver has not seen an impact to business. “It hasn’t seemed to affect us much,” he said. “If they had closed it sooner, when school was opening, that could have been a problem, but going into the holiday season, not many people are looking for used furniture.” He theorizes that it is what, not where, you are selling that becomes the biggest factor in how much this closure will affect your business. “[My business] is not like anything on Nassau Street where people might be walking by and say ‘hey let’s go look in this shop’. [Our clients] are looking for used furniture and they know about us.” As for now, the city maintains that the contractors tasked with this infrastructure project are pursuing an “aggressive” construction schedule. With 119 days left to go, many of those during peak holiday shopping, local business owners are counting the days and their dollars.
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Immediately extend application deadlines for Iranian students Iranian Students Association To the Princeton administration, faculty, and student body: We are a group of graduate students at Princeton from various departments and members of the Iranian Students Association here. Today we are writing on behalf of our Iranian compatriots. You may know that over the past few days, there have been violent protests in Iran against the Iranian government as a result of the 50-percent gas price hike, and the govern-
ment has shut down the Internet in the entire country; no one inside the country has access to the Internet, and thus, the country has gone almost completely offline. While some have regained connectivity, many others have not. WhatsApp has been blocked as well, which is a key means of communication from within Iran to beyond. The death toll ranges from 30 to 300, with no means of confirmation, let alone reaching loved ones. There are far-ranging implications for the lack of access to Internet, something we may take for granted in the
United States. On behalf of many current and future applicants and students, we are asking Princeton to please consider extending all submission deadlines for those who are currently inside Iran and do not have access to the Internet. McGill, Stanford, NYU, Boston University, Brown, Harvard, and the University of Arizona, among many others, have already elected to extend their deadlines given the situation. We would be very grateful if the administration could consider this request, extend the deadlines, and give bright,
ambitious, talented Iranian students the opportunity to submit their applications and other required documents later, when they have access to the Internet. And we ask students here to serve as allies and advocates and urge the administration to do the same. In gratitude, The Princeton Iranian Students Association The authors have been granted anonymity given the sensitive nature of the material written and of the situation in Iran.
Correcting the record on Cami Anderson Braden Flax Columnist
Recently, the The Daily Princetonian interviewed Cami Anderson, the CEO of ThirdWay, an organization supposedly dedicated to a progressive redesign of discipline in schools, such that the most marginalized might be less disadvantaged by a system that emphasizes punishment over instruction. Insofar as it is true, this is a commendable project. But as those jaded enough to recognize the ominous character of a CEO in such close proximity to anything education-related might expect, the organization is perhaps less benevolent than its primary spokesperson would have us believe. The alleged merits of ThirdWay are predicated on Anderson’s own credentials, which, given her behavior as superintendent of Newark Schools, bodes ill for the organization so long as she heads it. Those who wish to see Anderson speak for herself can easily do so in the pages of this very paper. That being said, it’s fairly easy to summarize the main points of her complimentary self-presentation: she has pure motivations, she understands how to really achieve and measure success, her departure from Newark Schools was both voluntary and casual, and her realism informs her
that combating such vices as racial disparity will not be easy. This last part is certainly the case; as we will soon see, this is so much the case that she has, in effect, chosen not to take the task on at all. Over five and a half years ago, attorney and journalist Bob Braun laid out the true costs of Anderson’s leadership: nothing less than the wholesale eradication of hope for those students under her control who expected (and deserved) not only viable but excellent education. Having done nothing to improve the material infrastructure of school buildings, for instance, Anderson cynically appealed to their neglected state, thereby opening the door to the privatization that her friends in high places so ravenously coveted, as Braun addresses. In other words, these places were hopeless failures, judging by their physical appearance, so Anderson felt sure that the communities meant to be served in those buildings should be only too happy to hand them over without a fight. To the credit of her victims, however, Anderson was proven incorrect. Apparently, a groundswell of opposition built up, since it was perfectly clear to parents, teachers, and students alike that criticizing the pedagogy of an underfunded school is some-
thing akin to pronouncing a cell phone worthless, all the while holding its battery behind your back. Fortunately for those of us who still hold integrity and accountability in higher esteem than the slick politicking of selfserving power brokers, community members saw right through the cloud of verbal excrement directed at them by Anderson. Evidently, this lackluster credulity rubbed Anderson the wrong way, given that at a panel discussion, she fantasized about bringing forth her brothers against any critics. Frankly, I was unaware that a good way to show one’s commitment to improving a community was to openly contemplate brutalizing the people on the ground trying to make it better. I’ll admit, though, that I don’t quite have her educational expertise, which she cultivated thoroughly at out-of-state conferences that were a sufficient distance from the people for whom she was responsible. When she goes on to call Newark “horrible,” though, this demonstrated her boundless dedication, and I confess that I was “schooled,” as they say. But her incorrectness is not limited to this; one might think that schools are destined to perform uniformly badly, presided over by a malicious supervisor who starved every
resource and would terminate an employee at the drop of a hat. Even this, as it turns out, is not true, at least if you take seriously not just the numerical evidence of test scores, but the direct, nearly unanimous testimony of parents and even some students themselves. The politics of the matter, unluckily for journalists, educators, and others partial to the truth, require that such perspectives be erased through obfuscation, evasiveness, and deception. When Grace Sergio, at the time the outgoing president of the Hawthorne Avenue School parent organization, posed the question, “What more do we need to do?”, she was given no satisfying response. But when an anonymous, unofficial digital contributor can more accurately represent an interviewee than she can herself, it’s clear what we need to do. We must recognize her past and, more broadly, advocate against entrusting her further with the education of those that she has already so direly failed. The fact that this effort is necessary is, to quote Braun, “sad.” Sad it may be, but necessary it remains, and this piece is intended to drive it forward. Braden Flax is a junior from Merrick, N.Y. He can be reached at bf lax@princeton. edu.
Where Are All the Women: Part Three Madeleine Marr
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This semester I have been writing a series of articles calling attention to gender inequality among Princeton’s faculty and the various factors that cause that disparity — while those contributing circumstances are noteworthy, the lack of action within the University should be scrutinized. Princeton, as a self-proclaimed “firstclass” institution, should lead educational institutions in gender equality, not lag behind. Yet Princeton is not unique — the culture of academia perpetuates the dismissal of female work. Where are all the women? Unread. To reiterate the data yet again: according to Princeton-provided data, of the 1,289 faculty members, 405 are women — 32 per-
cent. Only 26 percent of full professors are women. As of last year, only 162 of the 862 tenured faculty members were women — 19 percent. Most U.S. fouryear colleges hired female applicants for one-third of their faculty positions in 2013, and Princeton fell in the middle of the highestranked universities for gender parity in hiring. Women authors are much less likely to be cited than their male counterparts; in academia, where discourse and amplification is central to prestige, this citation gap is particularly problematic for women looking to advance. In economics and science — traditionally male-dominated fields — men were roughly half as likely to cite women authors as men. Part of this, feminist scholars argue, stems from the gendering of certain, “hard” approaches (quantitative, abstract, “rational” research) as masculine and “soft” approaches (feminist science, constructivism) as feminine; the feminine
and subsequently femaledominated research styles led to less-cited research. This gap is observed even when female academics co-author articles with men. Kieran Healy, a philosopher and researcher, found that of all articles written in the top four philosophy journals from 1993 to 2013, 87.5 percent were written by men. Within those articles, women authors wrote 3.5 percent of the 500 most-cited items. She concluded that this phenomenon has implications outside of journal publications: “successful, highlycited articles don’t simply accrue status rewards in the abstract (or just actual money rewards for their authors). They also become centers of gravity that define what a field is about. Newcomers must orient themselves to those articles and the debates they have begun.” Women who aren’t cited don’t get to set the academic agenda; their concerns and ideas are shoved aside. Researchers in this field
blame implicit biases for these observed gender differences, implicating a problem that surpasses the jurisdiction of one university. However, encouraging and educating students on these trends and ways to counteract them would help establish a culture of gender-equal research. At a Women*s Center-sponsored dinner I attended last year, Princeton post-doc Catherine Clune-Taylor explained that she purposefully wrote philosophy syllabi with no cis white male authors because she wanted to demonstrate the importance of citations and gender equality. Incorporating this lesson into the methodological education associated with independent work at Princeton would demonstrate the University’s commitment to improving gender equality within the academy. Madeleine Marr is a junior from Newtown Square, Pa. She can be reached at mmarr@princeton.edu.
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Men’s water polo to compete in Northeast Water Polo Conference Championship
By Rachel Posner Contributor
This coming weekend, Nov. 22–24, the Princeton men’s water polo team will compete in the Northeast Water Polo Conference Championship. There will be seven games throughout the weekend, played by six teams: sixth-seed Iona College (6–21 overall, 0–10 conference), fifth-seed Massachusetts Institute of Technology (10–13, 2–8), fourthseed St. Francis Brooklyn College (18–12, 5–5), thirdseed Brown University (20–11, 6–4), second-seed Princeton University (15–14, 7–3), and first-seed Harvard University (27–0, 10–0). The games will take place at MIT in Cambridge, Mass. The Tigers’ first game will be Saturday, Nov. 23, at 5 p.m. against the winner of Brown versus Iona. If the Tigers lose, they will play again Sunday, Nov. 24 at 10:30 a.m. against the loser of Harvard versus either MIT or St. Francis Brooklyn (depending on who wins the first game). If the Tigers win, they will play on Sunday at 12:30 p.m. against the
winner of the Harvard game. The Tigers have experience playing all of these teams this year. Princeton beat Iona on Oct. 12 (10–6) and Nov. 9 (19–12). They have played Brown twice, winning on Oct. 6 (12–9) but losing Nov. 2 (8–10). The Tigers are also prepared to play MIT, who they beat on Oct. 6 (9–8) and Nov. 3 (16–9), and St. Francis Brooklyn, who they beat on Oct. 13 (13–5) and Nov. 9 (13–10). The Tigers’ most formidable opponent will potentially be Harvard, who they lost to on Oct. 5 (9–12) and Nov. 3 (6–10). As the second seed in this NWP Conference Tournament and the winners of last year’s conference championship, the Tigers are in a good place. Senior attack Kyle MacMillan remarks, “we’re approaching [the conference tournament] with the same mentality we approach any game.” Head Men’s Water Polo Coach Dustin Litvak and the players have been focused on consistency all year long, and they’re not looking to change much going into this weekend. Litvak and the players re-
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f lects on the year, particularly commenting on the strength and promise of the team. “The first year guys have played an important role,” Litvak said. “My hope is that they [have built] confidence throughout the season.” Litvak also took note of the senior class as a whole, who have been “phenomenal leaders” and extremely
“dedicated to this sport.” Although he has only been working with them for two years, Litvak is confident that his seniors will be “going on to bigger and better things.” Nonetheless, he wants them to enjoy the last bit of this “unique experience” of competing in a team sport. The players feel similarly grateful. “We have a great
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group this year that’s grown close as the season has progressed. We wouldn’t be where we are without everyone on the team,” MacMillan said. Fans looking to cheer on the Tigers this Saturday and Sunday as they face the conference’s strongest teams can do so through the livestream located on the GoPrincetonTigers website.
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Women’s basketball falls to Iowa in wild finish By Jack Graham Head Sports Editor
Princeton women’s basketball (4–1 overall, 0–0 Ivy League) first loss couldn’t have come in a more thrilling fashion. Despite a buzzer-beater at the end of regulation to send the game into overtime, as well as several chances at the end of overtime to force double overtime, Princeton fell 77–75 to Iowa (3–1) on Wednesday night. With the Tigers trailing Iowa by three with just under a second remaining, sophomore guard Julia Cunningham received an inbounds pass and threw up a desperate heave towards the basket. The ball banked off the backboard and went through the net, tying the game at 67, and, later that night, putting the Tigers on the ESPN SportsCenter Top
10 Plays segment at No. 8. Princeton got off to a hot start in overtime, as four points from sophomore guard Grace Stone followed by a layup from senior forward Bella Alarie gave Princeton a 73–67 lead with three minutes remaining. From that point, Princeton’s offense went cold, and Iowa rattled off eight unanswered points to take a 75– 73 lead with 19 seconds remaining. The Tigers had two chances to tie the game and force another overtime period with free throws. First, Alarie drew a foul with five seconds remaining, but she could convert only one of the two free throws. Then, after Iowa made two free throws, Cunningham drew a foul and earned three final free throw attempts and another chance to tie the game. This time, however, she
wouldn’t be the hero. She missed the first attempt, and Princeton fell 77–75. Princeton held Iowa to just 14 points in the first quarter and 13 in the second quarter, taking a 37–27 lead into halftime. The Hawkeyes dominated the third quarter to cut Princeton’s lead to 47–45. The teams traded baskets throughout the fourth quarter until Cunningham’s final three-pointer sent the game to overtime. Despite missing most of Sunday’s game against Florida Gulf Coast University with an injury, Alarie played 44 minutes against Iowa and recorded 26 points, seven rebounds, and four blocks. Cunningham added another 17 points for Princeton, and Stone contributed 13. Princeton will return home this weekend to face Monmouth on Sunday at 1 p.m.
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Bella Alarie led Princeton with 26 points in 44 minutes against Iowa.
WOMEN’S HOCKEY
No. 8 Women’s hockey prepares for Black Out Baker night vs. No. 5 Clarkson
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Sarah Fillier and Princeton women’s hockey will take on Clarkson tonight.
By Owen Tedford and Chris Murphy Senior Staff Writer and Editor-in-chief
The women’s ice hockey team is ready for the Black Out. On Friday night, the eighthranked Tigers (7–2–0, 5–2–0 ECAC) take on the fifth ranked Clarkson Golden Knights (10– 1–3, 3–0–1) in the first game of a critical weekend series at Hobey Baker Rink. The following day, Princeton will do battle against St. Lawrence University, who they last met in the first round of the 2019 ECAC Tournament. To say the Clarkson game is an important game may not be doing it justice. The Tigers will take aim against a team that swept last year’s season series, and has won 15 of the last 17 meetings. With two of the na-
tion’s top 10 teams taking the ice, the ECAC — and perhaps the rest of the nation — will be watching to see which team sets the tone and collects a critical early season win. Perhaps adding a bit more pressure for the Tigers is their loss to No. 3 Cornell (7–0–1, 5–0–1 ECAC) in Ithaca earlier this year; a loss to Clarkson would put them behind two ECAC teams in the early jockey for the conference title. Fortunately, the Tigers will have some help off the ice, thanks to Black Out Baker. Chosen by the team prior to the season, the special night seems to bring out the best in the Tigers. Last season, an audience more than double its average size watched the home team thrash defending national champions Colgate 6–0.
Head Coach Cara Morey hopes for similar results this year. “Our girls are real high energy team and they feed off the energy of others.â€? Morey said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian. “The more people are cheering ‌ they rise to that level of energy.â€? Princeton is coming into this game off of what Morey describes as its best weekend so far this season, but not the highest point it can achieve. Morey hopes to see the Tigers’ offense again clicking on that level, while also upping the team’s physicality this weekend, as it will face one of the best teams on its schedule. “I think we need to be more difficult to play against,â€? Morey said. “We need to be grittier and more physical.â€?
Princeton will certainly have its fair share of impact playmakers, including sophomore forward Sarah Fillier and senior defender Claire Thompson, on the ice for this contest. Fillier and Thompson were deeply missed when they played together for Team Canada in exhibition matches against Team USA two weekends ago; both missed the Tigers’ disappointing loss against Harvard (5–0–0, 5–0–0 ECAC), which was — per Morey — the season’s low point. Fillier is sixth in the nation in points per game and assists per game. The most interesting matchup, however, will be the battle between senior forward Carly Bullock and Golden Knights junior forward Elizabeth Giguère, two of the top scorers
in the country. Giguère is averaging one goal per game, and Bullock has tallied eight goals in the first nine games, giving her the fourth best goals per game average, at 0.89. Meanwhile, Giguère is first in the nation with an average of a goal a game, and is sixth in the nation in points per game. “Clarkson is always a very fun game to play because they are an exceptional program,â€? Morey noted. “They play a trap style game we are not used to. They trap you in the neutral zone and make it really difficult to sustain any type of offense. They are a physical team, it’s going to be a fast game.â€? So far this season, the Tigers have also been fortunate to have two strong goalies — senior goalie Stephanie Neatby and junior goalie Rachel McQuigge. This duo has worked tremendously well, with a combined save percentage of nearly 93 percent, a 6–2 record, and two shut-outs (one each). Morey admitted, “I’ve been told it’s a good problem to have.â€? She added, “They are both great; they both dominate the net. It’s harder to scheme against our goalies because they don’t know which one will start.â€? Princeton knows that a weekend slate features more than one game; taking on SLU will be a challenge of its own come Saturday. But for now, all the focus is on the showdown between top ECAC teams — one looking to usurp the recent dominance of the other — as the season kicks into high gear. No. 5 is taking on No. 8, with a raucous crowd expected to fill the stands. Even though it’s only November, could the Tigers be gearing up for the game of the year? Morey’s response said it all. “Yes.â€?
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