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Latinx Heritage Month celebrates Latin American culture within U.

By Robert Hasbun Staff Writer

From a movie screening of “Selena” to a “Casino”themed fall gala, students have been celebrating Latinx culture on campus. Princeton Latinos y Amigos, Carl A. Field Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding, and Princeton University Latinx Perspectives Organization successfully organized the annual Latinx Heritage Month. The term latinx is a gender-neutral alternative to Latino or Latina.

“Latinx Heritage Month is meant to celebrate the many contributions that Latinx individuals have made to the larger society, while also affording us the opportunity to share our individual cultures and practices with one another,” said Kauribel Javier ’19, a member of the Princeton Latinos y Amigos executive board.

“It is a moment for us to ref lect on where the Latinx community has been, where we are now, and where we would like to be and how we wish to get there,” she added.

Latinx Heritage Month started Sept. 18 and will end on Oct. 24.

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tage Month began, other events were already under way. Campus Club hosted Caja Loca, one of the first events for the first-years where music and food were provided to greet the new first-years and give them a glimpse of Latinx culture at the University.

“I hope that many Latino freshmen had the opportunity to witness for themselves the vibrant Latinx community that exists on Princeton’s campus.” Javier said.

The Hermanitas kickoff was one of the first events for Latinx Heritage Month and was held on Sept. 15. The mission of Hermanitas is to encourage Latina empowerment on campus.

One of the most-attended events was the Latinx College Dinner in the Whitman Dining Hall. In this event, all of the Latin American f lags were put on display and students were able to enjoy traditional Latino food. The menu included pupusas, baleadas, f lautas de pollo, and yucca chips.

“I thought the dinner was very inclusive and fun. I had chicken enchilada, rice and more delicious food,” said Julia Walton ’21, who attended the dinner. Even though Walton is not part of the

Class of ’22 elects five class officers

By Zack Shevin Contributor

COURTESY OF THE ANIKA KHAKOO

Anika Khakoo ’22, Gabe Lebeau ’22, Mansi Totwani ’22, Santi Guiran ’22, and Sarah Lee ’22 will comprise the first-year Class Council.

USG discusses gym hours

By Claire Siberman Contributor

The Undergraduate Student Government discussed campus recreation, voter rights, and committee reappointments in its weekly meeting on Oct. 14.

Director of Campus Recreation Jessica Ward sought advice on ways to improve the student experience at Dillon Gymnasium.

“When you walk into Dillon, I don’t want you to look at Dillon as an athletics venue,” she said. “I want you to look at it as your space, your building, your place to feel comfortable.”

Ward said she plans for Dil-

lon Gym “[to become] more of a community center” for all of the students on campus. Currently, the student gym sponsors Special Olympics, wellness workshops, and professional development for student employees, but it is looking to expand its outreach.

“We’re trying to constantly improve. We’re always looking to see what we can do better. We need to hear from students,” she said. “We can change that concept of Dillon Gym being just a building on campus.”

Some of the concerns addressed were hours of operation and overcrowding in the Stephens Fitness Center.

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The exhibition will remain open until Jan. 6, 2019.

New art exhibit explores changing perspectives on the environment

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relationship between humans and the environment.

The exhibition features over 100 works, many from renowned names like Thomas Moran, Jackson Pollock, Maya Lin, and Georgia O’Keeffe.

The exhibition takes a look at early renderings of nature, which many works romanticized in order to attract colonists. Over time, works depicting American landscapes became more realistic,

Columnist Morgan Lucey argues that effective hurricane response requires socioeconomic sensitivity, while columnist Gabe Lipkowitz analyzes how Jim Sanborn juxtaposes art and science in his sculptures.

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After seven years of preparation, the University Art Museum has opened an exhibit on nature.

Last night, the museum opened its latest exhibition, “Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment.” Encompassing more than three centuries of history, it focuses on the portrayal of nature in North America as well as the

With the upcoming changes to the academic calendar, Ward broached the idea of closing the fitness center an hour earlier — 12 a.m. instead of 1 a.m. — to allow for an earlier opening time.

The idea was mainly met with disapproval as students brought forth concerns about the impact on students’ workouts and group scheduling.

Class of 2021 Senator Kevin Zheng said that students may wish to work out after finishing an assignment with a midnight deadline. U-Councilor Isabella Faccone ’21 said the time change would limit valuable rehearsal space for dance groups on campus.

ON CAMPUS

By Asad Hussein

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The Undergraduate Student Government announced the election results for the Class of 2022 Class Council in an email on Friday, Oct. 12. Of 23 candidates, the five students with the most votes were elected.

Anika Khakoo ’22, Gabe Lebeau ’22, Mansi Totwani ’22, Santi Guiran ’22, and Sarah Lee ’22 will comprise the first-year Class Council.

According to the email, 619 firstyears voted in the election. Guiran received the most votes with 203 votes, followed by Lebeau with 200, Totwani with 183, Lee with 166, and Khakoo with 135.

Guiran was very unsure as to what the results would be, thinking of the election as a toss-up between all 23 canSee ELECTION page 3

STUDENT LIFE

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but they retained a certain folksy mood. A style called “picturesque” replaced wilderness scenes with more open landscapes that often featured mountains, rocks, and bodies of water.

Karl Kusserow, the John Wilmerding Curator of American Art at the University Art Museum, has been working for the past seven years with Alan Braddock, a professor at the College of William and See ART page 3

Today on Campus

At 10 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 13, in a lecture he delivered to a large audience of alumni, faculty, and other members of the Princeton community at McDonnell Hall, Alan Blinder, professor of economics and public affairs, discussed his new book entitled “Advice and Dissent: Why America Suffers When Politics and Economics Collide”, and called for public literacy in economic policies.

Blinder also criticized economists for ignoring policy issues and politics entirely. In his book, he argued that politicians use economists merely as a tool to garner support — what he dubbed “the lamppost theory” — to find credibility for policies in which they do not have a hand, have been crafted without their input, and will go into place anyway. This, he argued, is not good for either party, and it particularly harms the electorate.

“With economic illiteracy as widespread as it is today, a popular democracy is painfully vulnerable to the selfserving machinations and hucksterisms of economic

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snake-oil salesmen,” Blinder wrote in the book.

In the lecture, Blinder noted there is a wide gap between academics and politicians, and he said the former can learn from the latter. Economists should stop to focus too much on substance; they need to keep their messages simple, and above all, they need to pay attention to policy process.

Political policy-making tends to be path dependent, according to Blinder.

“We economists speak so logically and dryly. If you do that in politics, you don’t get very far,” he said. “We do our calculations with arithmetics; politicians do not do that — everything gets weighed by political influence. To succeed in economics, it helps to be smart and have good ideas. To succeed in politics, you need people skills.”

Blinder emphasized the need for economic education.

“Until we get some basic level of literacy in economics to be more prevalent in the voting population, we are not going to succeed. The president has a bully pulpit and he could use that to good See BLINDER page 3

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Latinx community, she felt included and welcomed. “The decorations were nice and it was interesting seeing all of the f lags. I think there should be more dinners like this,” she said.

There was an event for Latinos in STEM as well as Latinos who identify with the LGBTQIA community.

The diversity of events allowed different members of the latinx community to feel represented.

The fall gala titled “Latino Casino,” organized by the board of Princeton Latinos y Amigos, took place on Oct. 12. Guests took pictures at the photobooth and played classic Hispanic games like dominos and lotería. The

raff le included prizes like bluetooth speakers, planners, and magic bullet blenders. Around the end of the event, tables were put aside and everyone started dancing bachata.

Guests at the gala also contributed towards the Puerto Rico fundraiser, an initiative by the Association of Latinx Activism and Service. More than $350 was fundraised that evening.

María José Solorzano Castro ’20, co-president of Princeton Latinos y Amigos, has some advice for the first-years. “Never doubt your place at Princeton. You belong here!

Seek mentors. I would have not gotten through my first semester without the help of Latinx upperclassmen showing me the resources Princeton has to offer.”

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didates. Upon seeing not only his victory, but the fact that he had the most total votes, Guiran was overcome with emotion and “started bawling crying.”

“The idea of so many of my classmates having my back, believing in me, and supporting me really meant a lot to me,” he said. Guiran expects this emotion to drive him to do the best he can for his classmates going forward.

In a tight race, one candidate Grace Wang ’22 was only two votes shy of Khakoo and received 133 votes. Five other candidates received more than 110 votes.

“I think that it [the closeness of the

race] serves to show that there were so many qualified candidates,” Khakoo said.

Though a USG election is on a much smaller scale, Khakoo felt that the tight race proved the importance of voting in general.

“A lot of people experience the tragedy of the commons — thinking that their vote won’t matter — but everything matters,” Khakoo said.

As members of the Class Council, the newly elected officers will create class-specific programs, plan social events to foster class spirit, design and distribute class gear, foster relationships with parent and grandparent alumni classes, and establish class identity and unity.

Voting was open Oct. 8–10.

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To mitigate the issue of overcrowding, Dillon Gym is discontinuing its membership programs for community members. While the change was met with what Ward called “hate emails” over the summer, students expressed support for the move. Class of 2021 Senator Elizabeth Bailey said students expressed frustration with the space being taken up by people “with no affiliation to Princeton.”

Later, Students for Prison Education and Reform representatives Masha Miura ’21 and Leila Ullmann ’21 spoke on voting rights for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people. Citing the disenfranchisement of 100,000 people in New Jersey, they sought support from USG for increasing student engagement on campus.

“Voting is a right, not a privilege,” said Miura. “We really want to emphasize that we are not trying to make this a partisan issue.”

While Academic Chair Olivia Ott ’20 noted that USG normally “does not comment collectively as a body on external issues,” Campus and Community Affairs Chair Caleb Visser ’20 noted the possibility of a resolution in support of SPEAR’s efforts. “[This issue] is something where we can see substantial change, it’s something that’s affecting our immediate community,” said Visser. He encouraged students to “take a trip to Trenton, go down to the assembly, engage.”

The Senate voted to approve the consent agenda, which confirmed Christina Wang ’22 to the Communications Committee. The agenda also reconfirmed Mahishan Gnanaseharan ’20, Sarah Deneher ’20, Aisha Tahir ’21, Annie Sullivan-Crowley ’21, Jenna Shaw ’20, and Eliza Wright ’19 to the Campus and Community Affairs Committee. To the Academics Committee, the Senate reconfirmed Andrew Ma ’19, Samantha Zalewska ’19, Yoni Schoenberg ’19, Nicholas Ritter ’20, Sarah Malik ’20, and Sara Hailu ’21.

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Mary, to bring together the exhibition.

“The overarching story of the show is to show how art helped people come to terms with the one-eighty degree shift in conceptions…about the natural world,” said Kusserow. “If you go back really all through history until the end of the 18th century, people thought of the world as static, immutable, God-given, and therefore perfect ...

And then in the 19th century during the Industrial Revolution, people recognized that not only does the world change but that humans have an impact in that change.”

Many recent depictions of nature have explored the role that industry and technology play in shaping it, and they have often strayed from previous styles’ idealism.

Remi Shaull-Thompson ’19 is in Kusserow’s course “Exhibiting Nature’s Nation: Ecology and Environment in American Art” and is one of the students who got a sneak peek of the exhibition this past week. She called the exhibition “revolutionary,” noting that she was especially impressed by the diversity of the artwork.

In addition to being home to works from a wide range in time, the exhibition boasts of the works’ diversity of mediums. Alongside paintings, the exhibition incorporates three-dimensional pieces, such as “Browning of America,” which contains various symbols and newspaper clippings, and a large, mahogany chest from the 18th century.

The chest — assembled by slaves

and made of Jamaican mahogany, English brass drawer pulls, American tulip poplar and white cedar framing, and North African varnish — is one way that the exhibition links cultural and social issues to its discussion on the environment.

“One thing the exhibit shows through its examination of art and art materials is that there is a link between our country’s exploitation of people and its exploitation of nature,” Shaull-Thompson said.

A painting by the artist T. C. Cannon, showing a Navajo woman standing in front of a mushroom cloud, furthers this idea.

“A big part of the show is the issue of environmental justice,” said Kusserow. “Environmental effects are not evenly distributed around the world. Who you are ... really factors large in how you relate to the environment. Indigenous peoples have been victimized by having nuclear test sites in their backyard.”

In addition to exploring these deeper concepts, the exhibition hopes to offer a pleasant experience for viewers.

Ruby Guo ’19, another of Kusserow’s students, said, “The design of the exhibition itself has so many elements that aren’t noticeable to the casual visitor but really affects their experience … the panels, lighting, and positioning of the works, for example.” Several sculptures and videos throughout also help to enhance the experience.

The exhibition, which will remain open until Jan. 6, 2019, also has plans to host speakers such as Bill McKibben and Naomi Klein.

After its time at the University , it will travel to Salem, Mass., and then to Bentonville, Ark.

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effect, if he chooses to,” he said.

Attendees of the lecture praised the economist for sharing his insights publicly.

“In the current environment, it is important that academic economists present their ideas directly to the public, as Professor Blinder is doing with his book,” said Smita Brunnermeier, a University lecturer of economics and public affairs.

“Not every economist will have the same policy prescription for the same problem. Still, it is better for society if there is a healthy competition of ideas,” she added.

Many agreed with Blinder’s main argument.

“The clear take away is economics education. It really needs to happen at the high school level and the undergraduate level, but the economists are only interested in scholarship and re-

search. Economic education is something institutions like Princeton Economics Department are to be interested in doing but are not,” said Rene Chalom ’17, who attended the lecture.

“There is a divide between the political world and the analytical world, but you cannot argue against the need for education,” said

Arch Davis ’69, who was also in the audience.

“To influence public policy debates, economic knowledge must be made accessible, intelligible, and believable to the body politic — even if it is just a matter of getting the facts straight. That is why people like me occasionally write books like this,” Blinder wrote in his book.

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Hurricanes reflect America’s socioeconomic inequality Morgan Lucey

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rowing up in Florida, hurricanes were just a part of life. There were usually one or two hurricanes or tropical storms a year, and some years saw even greater numbers. In 2004, there were four hurricanes: Charley, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne. Though each of these hurricanes caused significant damage, my memories are rosy: having hurricane days off from school, spending the day building forts with flashlights, and even a trip to the beach in Tampa when we had to evacuate from hurricane-stricken Orlando.

When I heard of Hurricane Michael, my first thought was that Florida has had enough experience with hurricanes and that surely there wouldn’t be much damage or inconvenience. Reports from the Panhandle, however, have made me realize that growing up in a place of privilege deeply affected my perception of the consequences. Although my family might never have needed aid or experienced significant damage, there are thousands of people who have not been so lucky.

Their experiences highlight the

need for better disaster relief services, especially for those most affected by hurricanes.

Hurricane Michael was one of the worst hurricanes in American history, with winds up to 155 miles per hour and heavy rainfall. The most significant damage has occurred in the Florida Panhandle, which is home to some of the state’s most rural and poorest neighborhoods, such as Panama City Beach and Mexico Beach. Most of these neighborhoods were not built with the same durability as more affluent districts and have not been renovated with new technology. In the storm’s aftermath, 3,000 people are living in shelters, and space is continuing to run out. Many of these neighborhoods have been without running water and electricity for days, leaving residents to scramble to find resources.

Anticipating these issues, the state government advised Panhandle residents to evacuate, but they did not provide instructions for residents who lacked the economic means to do so. The government assumed all residents possessed the privilege to evacuate, even though many stayed in highrisk areas because they had no other options. Those residents had to consider the cost of the damage to their homes caused by the hurricane, as well as the cost of basic necessities such as food and water. After those ex-

penses, many were left with few resources for the transportation and housing required during an evacuation. The federal government often advises those in poverty to turn to their neighbors for help with transportation and housing, but such recommendations hardly constitute a comprehensive plan for disaster relief.

Given this reality, it is clear that the state and national government need to provide disaster relief for people of all socioeconomic classes. Aid workers for the Red Cross stockpiled millions of pounds of supplies before the hurricane made landfall, but they now lack vehicles robust enough to make it through the debris and flooding, which limits their ability to deliver supplies. The National Guard has these vehicles, and thus, should be fully dedicating its efforts to relief in the Florida Panhandle. The National Guard is already working in the Panhandle, but with only a subset of their available members and resources; this subset is not enough to fully handle the devastation facing many residents.

Given the current conditions, relief efforts in the Panhandle should take precedence.

Currently, state officials are focused on search-and-rescue efforts rather than bringing supplies into the area. Both areas of work are crucial, so a choice between one or the other should not be made. Rather,

amassing supplies and distributing them throughout the state should be done before the threat of a hurricane, so that it does not take so much time and effort when one does make landfall.

Similarly, during periods when a disaster is not imminent, the government should focus on providing subsidization for renovating houses most at risk for demolition. Though some might argue that private housing conditions are not the government’s responsibility, few would extend this point to disaster relief efforts after a hurricane. If these neighborhoods are better prepared for the hurricanes that hit Florida every single year, then the disaster relief efforts will not be so all-encompassing after the storms make landfall.

I might have enjoyed hurricane parties and days off from school, but I was lucky not to deal with challenges of infrastructure and accessibility, which many Panhandle residents are currently facing, in suburban Jacksonville. It is incumbent upon the government to provide the preparation and disaster-relief efforts to lessen these challenges for Florida’s most vulnerable residents.

Morgan Lucey is a senior studying neuroscience from Scottsdale, Ariz. She can be reached at mslucey@princeton.edu.

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Response to Jim Sanborn: On the relationship between art and science (again) Gabe Lipkowitz

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n the evening of Friday, Oct. 12, acclaimed American sculptor Jim Sanborn delivered a lecture to a crowded audience of students and community members at the University’s Art Museum. In his talk, Sanborn described much of his life’s work that, in his own words, seeks to “bring science and art closer together.”

The talk was particularly timely, given recent discussion on campus surrounding the controversial Art of Science exhibit displayed at the Friend Center. While some, including myself, have reacted to this exhibit by arguing that “there is no art of science,” others have claimed that differentiating these two pursuits is, for reasons often unclear, invalid.

On the surface, one might take Sanborn’s work as justification for the latter argument, that art and science are identical. Along these lines, the Student Advisory Board’s introduction to Sanborn claimed his work “seeks to soften the distinction between art and science.”

A deeper, more nuanced appreciation of Sanborn’s work suggests otherwise. Rather than eliminating the distinction between art and science, Sanborn’s pieces powerfully demonstrate how art and science can find inspiration from and inform one another in intriguing ways, while remaining distinct pursuits with disciplinary boundaries.

To see this, we can start with Sanborn’s most famous project: Kryptos. Completed in 1990, the sculpture is situated in the CIA’s headquarters and consists of four large copper plates, accentuated with petrified wood, quartz, granite, among other materials. The sculpture is best known, however, for the codes displayed on these materials: four separate encrypted messages, 869 characters in total, which contain riddles within riddles. To Sanborn’s amusement, these messages have fascinated cryptographers for years, and one plate’s puzzle remains unsolved to this day.

So how do we interpret Kryptos? Computer science as art?

Not quite. True, these two elements co-exist in Sanborn’s work, but to equate them fails to do justice to the more complex relationship he creates between them. As Sanborn beautifully articulated in his talk, art and science are juxtaposed in Kryptos in a way that allows the latter to make insightful

commentary about the former.

Namely, his sculpture expresses the ambiguity and confusion inherent to the nascent discipline of computer science in the early 1990s. Additionally, the sculpture conveys a message about CIA employees, who must use computer science in their everyday work and experience Sanborn’s sculpture most often. Like those human beings, Sanborn explained in the talk, his sculpture “must keep a secret its whole life.”

These deeper meanings are subjective in origin and interpretation, making them more deserving of the classification of art than those technicallyfocused and objectively portrayed images presented by our campus’s “Art of Science” exhibit.

As a second example, we can look to Sanborn’s portrayal of “implied geometries” in nature. As Sanborn explained in his talk, these massive pieces involved overlying intense beams of light onto natural landscapes of vast proportion.

With this light, the artist outlined Euclidean geometries he saw in hills, valleys, caverns, and mountains.

Once again, this represents not so much an equation of art and science as an intriguing juxtaposition of the two – in this case quite literally in the natural world, rather than in a museum or artificial settle-

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ment. Specifically, Sanborn’s drawings reveal what he calls the “pre-form” of the landscape, distilling what he sees into beautiful patterns that he creates. Unlike the images displayed in the “Art of Science” exhibit, this project demonstrates a subjective and humanistic interpretation of Nature, rather than an objective and uninterpreted replication of it.

The art-science distinction is critical to appreciating Sanborn’s message in this work.

Imagine if a viewer looked at Sanborn’s lines through a scientific lens—for instance through the lens of cartography, whose practitioners “draw” lines on natural landscapes with the intention of gaining quantitative, objective insights. In doing so, one would profoundly misinterpret what Sanborn is trying to do.

Sanborn is emphatically not trying to yield experimental cartographical data about his subject. Rather, he is communicating his own subjective interpretation of a scene’s most meaningful qualities. His project is far more aesthetically insightful than, say, depictions of molecular structures, whose primary purpose is scientific communication rather than artistic appreciation, a subtle distinction understandably misunderstood by some.

As a final example, we may turn to Sanborn’s Atomic Time:

Pure Science and Seduction. In this piece, as its name suggests, Sanborn gathers nuclear technologies scientists employed to create the atomic bomb to recreate a hypothetical nuclear bomb laboratory. A powerful artistic depiction of the scientific process, certainly, but not science itself. Sanborn, as he described himself, acted in this project as a “curator of objects,” arranging the technologies of the Manhattan project in very particular way that was both historically accurate and aesthetically pleasing.

While the scientists whose workplace Sanborn depicts did pursue scientific understanding about how to construct an atomic bomb, the purpose of the artist decades later is fundamentally different. Namely, he seeks to capture what he calls the “inherent beauty” that exists in physics, but is not reducible to or provable by equations and experiments. Articulating that beauty required an artistic, rather than scientific, epistemology.

Jim Sanborn shows us that art and science, while distinct pursuits, often relate in intensely enriching and informative ways.

Gabe Lipkowitz is a senior concentrator in molecular biology. He can be reached at gel@princeton. edu.

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Football stays undefeated with 48–10 ‘Alumni Weekend’ win over Brown

By Jack Graham

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Throughout the season, Princeton (5–0 overall, 2–0 Ivy) has proved it can beat teams decisively, entering the weekend with four blowout wins in four games. This week, the team showed it could do the same without its star quarterback, with junior Kevin Davidson filling in for injured senior John Lovett at quarterback. Davidson threw for four touchdowns, and the Tigers put up 559 yards of total offense in a 48–10 “Alumni Weekend” win over Brown (1–4, 0–2 Ivy), earning its second Ivy League win and staying undefeated on the season.

“Nobody said a word [about Lovett’s absence],” said head coach Bob Surace ’90. “There’s confidence in everybody, and you saw it in the way we played today.”

Davidson may be a backup quarterback, but the Princeton coaching staff did not treat him that way Saturday. On the first play from scrimmage, offensive coordinator Sean Gleeson dialed up a deep pass, and Davidson delivered a beautiful ball downfield to senior wide receiver Stephen Carlson for a 39-yard gain.

Later that drive, Davidson found junior running back Ryan Quigley on the goal line for a short touchdown to give Princeton a 7–0 lead.

“It was a great feeling when Steve came down with that one,” Davidson said of the opening play.

“He has such a strong arm,” Surace said about Davidson. “We were planning to take more shots downfield.”

On the next drive, Davidson found senior wide receiver Jesper Horsted open downfield, and Horsted did the rest of the work, running for a 62-yard touchdown. Princeton would go on to score touchdowns in four of its first five possessions, taking a runaway 28–0 lead in the middle of the second quarter.

While Princeton’s explosive offense may have grabbed the headlines, the defense was no less dominant in the early part of the game, holding Brown scoreless and allowing just four first downs in the first half. Brown quarterback Michael

McGovern was uncomfortable in the pocket all day, as the Princeton defense recorded five sacks. Senior linebacker Mark Fossati, who has played well this season after missing most of last year with an injury, led the way again with 12 tackles and a sack.

“We came out strong,” Fossati said.

“We had guys flying around the ball all day, and we did a great job limiting them.”

“They challenge you every play,” said Surace of Brown’s offense. “It tests your responsibilities every play, and I thought we handled the responsibility portion really well.”

Entering Saturday, Princeton had yet to concede a single point in the second half in the 2018 season. That remarkable streak came to an end, as Brown kicked a short field goal on its second possession of the third quarter. Princeton responded with a methodical 13-play drive down the field, capped off with a leaping catch by Carlson in the back corner of the end zone to make the score 35–3. Princeton scored two more touchdowns in the fourth quarter and Brown scored one, much of which happened with backups on the field.

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Kevin Davidson put on a show in his first collegiate start at quarterback, leading the offense to a 48-10 victory over Brown.

39 passing with 304 yards. He wasn’t perfect — he overthrew a few receivers and nearly threw interceptions on two consecutive plays in the second quarter, but his overall solid performance made losing Lovett much less painful for the Princeton offense.

“Nothing changes,” Davidson said about his transition from a backup to starting role. “Coach Gleeson does a great job of getting everyone ready to go. When your name is called you’ve just got to step up.”

Davidson’s day was made easier by another dominant performance by Princeton’s standout receiving duo of Carlson and Horsted. The pair combined for 21 catches, 296 yards, and three touchdowns. “[Davidson] played a great game, and Steve and I were making some plays out there too,” Horsted said.

“They’re two of the best in college football,” Davidson added. “You’ve just got to give them a shot.”

While Saturday’s game showed Princeton is still a formidable opponent without its starting quarterback, the team would obviously benefit from Lovett’s return as it continues Ivy League play next week at Harvard (3–2, 1–1). Lovett’s athleticism and running ability give Princeton’s offense another threat that Davidson, who had no designed rushes against Brown, doesn’t pose. The team said Lovett would be re-evaluated early next week, and Surace described the injury as day-to-day.

As for Harvard, Davidson, Horsted, and Fossati each had the same response: “Can’t wait.”

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Women’s soccer trounces Columbia 1–0

By Thomas Salotti Staff Writer

Women’s soccer earned a tight victory over Columbia University in New York on Sunday, Oct. 14, scoring one and keeping a clean sheet for themselves.

The Tigers were off to a dominant start, with two shots in the first ten minutes. A corner kick by junior midfielder Sophia Gulati in the ninth minute led to a shot on target by junior Tomi Kennedy, which was blocked. Sophomore defender Tatum Gee hit one wide in the next minute.

Columbia’s first shot on Princeton came in the eleventh minute. Lions midfielder Jessica Schildkraut had a chance on goal but shot it wide.

Princeton senior forward Mimi Asom hit a header in the 25th minute but the ball went over the crossbar.

In the 34th minute Princeton junior Courtney O’Brien was substituted in for Kennedy. Three minutes later, freshman forward Amelia Paternoster was subbed in for junior Abby Givens. Both players were vital to the Tigers’ only goal of the match, just a few minutes later.

In the 38th minute as the half drew near, O’Brien gained control of the ball outside of Columbia’s goal box and hit a well-placed cross to Paternoster, who

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Freshman Amy Paternoster scored her first collegiate goal to secure a 1-0 victory against Columbia this past Sunday.

was wide open in front of the goal. As Lions keeper Sophie Whitehouse rushed at her, Paternoster shot right through the keeper’s legs, finding net and giving the Tigers their crucial goal.

The first half saw Princeton with four shots to Columbia’s three. The Tigers also had more fouls than the Lions, five versus four. Both teams had one corner kick and no saves.

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Princeton’s goalie, junior Natalie Grossi, had her first save three minutes after the half started after a shot by Schildkraut. She saved another in the 52nd minute, after Columbia forward Jordyn Geller hit one on target.

Princeton’s Kennedy had another opportunity on goal in the 81st minute, but it was blocked by Columbia’s keeper. Columbia went on the counter-attack and had

two shots in ten seconds, one saved by Grossi and the other blocked. In the last minute, forward Asom hit one off the post. The game ended at 1–0.

Grossi’s clean sheet against Columbia on Sunday puts her in second place for the most number of clean sheets in a career at Princeton, tied with Jordan Rettig ’01. The goalie finished the game with three saves.

Paternoster’s goal was the first goal that Princeton has scored against Columbia since the 2015 season three years ago. The past two years the Tigers have lost to the Lions 2-0, at home in 2017 and in New York in 2016. The last time Princeton won — or even scored — against Columbia in New York was in 2012, when the Tigers earned a 2–1 win.

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Football’s win over Brown gave the Tigers their first 5-0 start in 12 years.