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Karen Finney is a political correspondent for CNN. She was the spokesperson for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, having previously worked with her on her first Senate campaign. The Daily Princetonian sat down with her to talk politics, journalism, and social media. The transcript below is edited for length and clarity. The Daily Princetonian: Something I noted that was interesting, when [University spokesperson Ben Chang said] that you were coming to speak with us over email, one way he introduced you was by linking to your Twitter account. I was wondering ... as someone who has that much experience in politics and journalism, how do you see that medium shaping the conversation of a lot of what you do, and how do you try to use it? Karen Finney: I think sometimes in political discourse we focus too much on what’s happening on Twitter, and don’t realize that is a segment of the population and that there are even people who have access to Twitter who aren’t using it, and so sometimes I think it has an outsized opinion, voice in what people think is important. That’s something I certainly always remind candidates, that, you know, just because those ten people didn’t like your speech, that does not mean it was a bad speech. There’s three hundred other people who saw it who thought it was great… People say a lot of things that they would never say to your face, particularly [to] women. My friend Kirsten Powers who’s at CNN — she used to be at Fox — we had this idea to do a website and try to out all the people who said nasty things and figure out who they were … If you had to actually own what you just said, would you say it? I think it’s good to have a space where you can express yourself and put ideas out there. I just wish people took a little more responsibility with making sure what you say is actually true and accurate. I research everything I’m going to say on television to make sure I can back it up. I do believe there are actual things that are
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facts. There’s not subjective facts. It is certainly a way to build a community, in a very positive way … There are people that I follow that I’m interested in what they have to say on different things or on different topics and issues so I think for that it’s of huge value… I think under Trump it’s gotten worse — much more racist, much more sexist. I felt like that was toxic … The Washington Post has eight people on the White House beat, and they split up overnights because the White House has taken the position that when the President tweets, that is on the record, so that means you have to cover it. Given that this president tweets all hours of the day and night … that is a huge shift for journalism, particularly given that the President will tweet one thing [and] it might be the exact opposite of what his spokesperson said earlier that day… It used to be the idea that social media was a great way for a politician to have more of a direct, two way conversation with people. Trump uses it as his megaphone … His ability to communicate a message is so outsized, and I think it’s a very different thing … to use Twitter as a means to make policy. We’ve never done that before … The implications of that are our allies and adversaries around the world all have to follow it because that’s a big part of how they figured out what’s going on in the country… DP: What was it like, being on [Clinton’s 2016 campaign] generally, and more specifically, what was it like being on that campaign on election day? KF: I had an interesting perspective because I had worked with Hillary in the White House, and I did her first Senate campaign. So I watched her become a governor’s wife, to the first lady of our country, and all that role encompasses … She’s a human being, so watching her go from a much smaller environment to, overnight, all of the country’s hopes and dreams and woes and emotions, it’s all on you. As a woman watching, that was pretty incredible... I used to say she is the most unknown known person, maySee STORY page 3
Columnist Julia Chaffers argues that sports and politics go hand in hand, and contributing columnist Richard Ma urges for more Asian representation in Hollywood. PAGE 4
In the November issue of “INSIGHT Into Diversity,” Princeton was granted the 2019 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award, standing alongside a field of 93 other colleges and universities across the United States. The HEED Award recognizes institutions of higher education for diversity and inclusion efforts across their campuses. “You should make a big deal out of it,” said Lenore Pearlstein, co-publisher of INSIGHT Into Diversity and
president of Potomac Publishing. “It basically says that you are very committed to diversity and inclusion across your campus and that it’s one of the pillars of the institution … Obviously, diversity and inclusion matter a lot to [Princeton].” This represents the second occasion on which the University has received the honor, with the first instance occurring in 2013. Columbia University is the only other Ivy League school to have earned the HEED award this year. “We’re extremely proud to again receive this award in
recognition of the many ways in which we’ve made Princeton a truly more diverse, accessible and inclusive institution,” Michele Minter, vice provost for institutional equity and diversity, wrote in a press release on Oct. 15. Pearlstein noted that schools which receive the HEED Award regularly have further success with diversity and inclusion initiatives on campus. “A lot of schools use the HEED Award to recruit more faculty, more underrepresented students,” she said. “We’ve been told that they’ve been very successful because … either students want to go See HEED page 3
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The Facebook group was shut down permanently on October 21.
Tiger Confessions shuts down permanently on Oct. 21, shortly before one-year anniversary By Marie-Rose Sheinerman Assistant News Editor
On Monday, Oct. 21, the Tiger Confessions Facebook group was shut down, and all of the past content in it was deleted. In an email to students who had applied to moderate the page, the group administrator Christine Hu ’22, also known by the alias Ty Ger, announced that she has decided to close the group. Hu went on to explain that there were so many responses to the admin interest form that she “didn’t have the means of running a fair selection process.” She added that for personal reasons, she currently does not have the time required to evaluate the applications.
“Over the past year, I have become anxious about the possible negative impacts of the group, such as the radicalization of political views, the alienation of students with dissenting opinions, or the enablement of stalking or harassment,” Hu went on. “When students tell me how the page has negatively impacted their lives, those comments weigh extremely heavily on me, and that weight finally reached a peak this weekend.” Hu explained she felt it necessary to her own mental health to know that all the Tiger Confessions posts were deleted, particularly the earlier ones that “might have been filtered according to laxer standards.”
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Since its inception nearly a year ago on Oct. 30, 2018, the closed group has garnered mass popularity among the University student body. As of Monday, it included 5,175 members and nearly 12,000 posts. The group featured near-daily anonymous posts submitted via Google Forms on a wide range of topics, including personal compliments, relationship advice, mental-health concerns, and political disagreements. For much of its run, the group was administered by the anonymous Ty Ger, who came forward with her identity in an interview with the University Press Club this past April. Some students interviewed See CONFESSIONS page 2
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by The Daily Princetonian expressed disappointment at the group’s closure. “[The University] has a stress culture and socialization culture around eating clubs that many students can find challenging, no matter how strong they are,” said Jessica Zheng ’19, a recent alum and frequent commenter in the group. “I’m disappointed because [Tiger Confessions] was a platform where people could openly talk about mental health and seek out support.” The platform, she felt, was particularly important for people like her who come from cultures where discussion of mental health may be stigmatized.
Colin Vega ’22, another frequent commenter, expressed that the closure was “for the best,” since “any system of anonymity can so easily hurt someone’s feelings deeper than you ever would with someone you don’t know.” Vega added that although the page “had its good moments,” it also promoted “an already prevalent Princeton mindset of complaining because something is mildly difficult, and instead of working through it, drowning in self-pity and the self-pity of people who are encouraged by your complaints.” Others did not see the platform as a vital mental health resource to begin with. “I’d say it’s something we just go to for our daily dose of comedy,” said William Gu ’23. Going forward, Zheng ex-
pressed hope for a “Tiger Confessions 2.0,” preferably on the Facebook platform. As of 8:45 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 22, a new group was shared on the Overheard at Princeton Facebook page called Tiger Confessions++ that has 122 members thus far, with Zheng among them. The message, from an account called Tyga Er, clarified that it is not affiliated with the original Tiger Confessions, but wants to “bring back some of the charm of the original.” Andrew White ’22 said he is interested to see what will fill the vacuum left by Tiger Confessions closing: “I know there’s that ‘Looped’ app that kind of has an anonymous platform but I don’t know. We’ll see.” In her announcement email to moderator applicants, Hu
encouraged looking toward the new Looped app as a replacement resource. She noted that the University alums who developed the start-up created a moderator process that would be “less time-consuming and stressful.” Hu herself does not plan to be involved with the app. Looped was launched by University alums and TigerLaunch winners Richard Adjei ’18 and Felix Madutsa ’18 on Oct. 16 and sees itself as a “digital town square,” according to Madutsa. An Undergraduate Student Government (USG) email sent out to the student body on Oct. 20 described the app as a place where “students can post in various channels to ask for/ give campus advice, share funny moments, promote events, send memes, and raise aware-
ness about protests and the important issues surrounding them.” “We do see ourselves filling the need that [the closure of] Tiger Confessions has left,” said Madutsa. “But we also see ourselves filling a much bigger need than what was already filled by Tiger Confessions before.” Adjei said that in the research phase of creating Looped, he and Madutsa spoke with Hu to understand what problems she has encountered in moderating Tiger Confessions, and used her feedback in guiding their process. “The anonymous channels for jokes and discussing things anonymously will be heavily monitored to make sure people aren’t using it for malicious activity,” Adjei added.
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to a school or faculty want to work at a school that they know is very diverse and very inclusive, very welcoming.” According to the press release, INSIGHT Into Diversity highlighted the University’s recruitment of students from historically underrepresented backgrounds, financialaid program, and recently reinstated acceptance of transfers for undergraduate admission, among other initiatives. The magazine also featured a write-up on the University’s
“Dialogue and Difference in Action” (DDA) orientation trip on its website, noting how “[DDA] participants examine concepts of identity, power, privilege, and difference within the context of the Princeton University community and in society at large.” “[Princeton] actually did extremely well in the HEED application,” Pearlstein said. “They were one of the very top schools that scored … We were very impressed with it. [Princeton has] a very diverse student base, extremely diverse for an Ivy League school. We were really surprised.” 56 percent of undergradu-
ates admitted to the class of 2023 identify as students of color and 18 percent identify as first generation, and 24 percent are eligible for federal Pell Grants, placing the University first among Ivy League schools in all three categories. According to submissions to the Common Data Set, the University also leads the Ivy League in instructional faculty from minority groups, sitting at 27 percent. The University of Pennsylvania follows at 22 percent, and Columbia University is third at 21 percent. Despite strong numbers on minority groups, the Uni-
versity has the sixth lowest percentage of female instructional faculty, with women making up just 37 percent of the group. The University of Pennsylvania and Yale University lead the Ivy League with 46 percent and 40 percent respectively. “Winning the HEED Award shows the diligence and support for diversity and inclusion at the institutions that are selected,” Minter wrote in INSIGHT Into Diversity’s November 2019 issue. According to Pearlstein, roughly 350 institutions applied for this year’s HEED Award while only 94, a little over a quarter of applicants,
were recognized. “The HEED Award just keeps growing every year,” Pearlstein said. “We keep getting more and more applications, we raise the standards and people know that. They know it gets more competitive every year … We’re very picky about who we give it to … It’s just a very well recognized award across higher education now.” The University has publicly expressed an interest in furthering their efforts in diversity and inclusion in the future. “We look forward to continuing to build on this progress,” Minter wrote.
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be in the world, certainly in our country … She’s obviously been in public life [for] a long time and there’s a lot of narratives already set in about who she is and what she’s about. Part of the challenge was: Can you reintroduce that person to people? Yes and no... As I watch Elizabeth Warren now, it’s just interesting to me. She’s got a plan for everything, and she’s a bookworm and a policy nerd, and Hillary was too, and yet, a lot of the coverage focused on all of the atmospherics, like her emails, or her tone, or her this or her that … instead of the substance… As a Democrat who had worked for President Obama, and Obama was still in office, it also creates a challenge because there were things she disagreed with him on but she didn’t want to say that publicly … It creates a really interesting and tough dynamic … If you’re trying to make the argument that we need to do better in the economy, you don’t want to be saying “Obama sucks, and I’m gonna do better.” How do you say we can just keep doing better, but then to also be seen as your own person and not, as people were saying, Obama Round Three... Election day … I was with Tim Kaine, and we were in Virginia. It was so sweet. He went to vote and the first person in line was this old lady getting to vote for a woman, and it was so charming. Cut to: We’re in a hotel in midtown Manhattan. The Javits Center was gonna be where we were gonna celebrate … We were in our hotel, and the idea was at some point, we’re gonna all get in the van, and we’re gonna go over to the Javits Center, and she’ll give her acceptance speech, and that’ll be great… We have the five o’clock call, we have the six o’clock call, and then the seven kept getting put off, and that’s either a really good sign or a really bad sign, and friends at the Javits Center were texting me, “Are we gonna be okay? Are we gonna be okay?”… As it goes further and further, you start playing this game of “It’s okay if we lost Michigan. We can still win Arizona.” … The more we were playing that game, the more I was like, “This ain’t happening.” I didn’t know, and I didn’t have enough information to know, how bad it was … Having been through both the 2000 election and 2004 where we came so close, I didn’t know if it was gonna be one of those scenarios, where you’re up all night and you’re counting, or if it’s gonna be clear and it’s gonna be over. We did a conference call and at that point they thought we were at about 260 … This was feeling like another 2000, we’re gonna go into full battle mode, and count every piece of paper. John Podesta went to the Javits Center to say, “Go home, this isn’t over,” and then I look on Fox News and it says Hillary Clinton has just conceded to Donald Trump, and I went batshit … and I think what happened was in the interim,
she decided … if we take the country through this again, you guys are too young to remember how awful it was in 2000, but it was really ugly, and 2004 was pretty brutal the first couple of days. Her feeling was if we’re gonna do this, we have to know that we can get there … I think she just felt like she didn’t believe we really could and didn’t want to go through hanging chads and all that mess. I was still sitting in my hotel room, and I opened up the minibar. Well, time to start drinking. DP: …Do you see hope or reason to get into the fields of journalism or politics or things like that, and in particular what do you see as the future of that field being for women and people of color, from your experience in it? KF: Absolutely. It’s more important I think than ever. A lot of problems we’re talking about today, you guys are gonna be the ones dealing wzith it, right? I’ll do my part, but most of this is gonna be what you inherit, right? When I made the decision to go to the White House, I certainly viewed politics as service. I felt like it was a way to serve my country… There’s still an opportunity to do big things and important things, and whether that is in local politics or in national politics. I actually think your generation is going to approach this a little bit differently because you’re much more diverse. My generation is more diverse than my mother’s generation, and I don’t just mean racially. You’re more diverse in the way you think about the world, and the way you think about issues. So no pressure, but don’t screw it up… Getting involved with politics can be activism, it can be an issue that you care about … I’m also on the board of NARAL Pro-Choice America because that’s a really important issue to me. Find whatever it is that matters to you and be involved… Journalism is a lot harder than it used to be, for a lot of reasons, but I think it’s still one of the most important professions … Journalists are part of telling the story of our country and our democracy and what’s happening … I hope that the future finds an economic model where we make it more accessible to people. I hope that we also don’t end up in a place where we have such distrust of “the media” that we don’t know where to go for facts and truth. So, fix that, and that’ll be great… Since you asked about people of color, I’m glad to see more voices and faces, and not just talking about black issues, or women’s issues, but talking about everything. I’ll tell you something that’s really interesting in the aftermath of 2016. Seven studies have now said or pointed out that the highest motivator for people who voted for Trump was racism and sexism. That’s what he was tapping into with “Make America Great Again.” Very misogynist, very white male. Love white men, but we’re all here, right? We’re a multicultural society, we’re not really
going anywhere, so we have to learn how to live together. Anyway, the black journalists that I’ve spoken to from the Post, the Times, the Atlantic — there’s this whole story interviewing a bunch of them. Journalists of color and women all picked up on it in 2016, that something was going on. That that’s what they were tapping into. None of the white journalists were picking up on it, and none of the organizations would print those stories, because they kept saying “No, no, it’s economic, it’s economic, people are worried that their kids aren’t going to do as well as them.” But what these studies showed after, right, and it’s pretty obvious, is what they were saying is “because those people are taking the jobs.” ...So when Hillary Clinton is saying $15 minimum wage, that’s not exactly what they’re worried about. They’re worried about “Okay, I might get 15 dollars, but will my job still be there for my kid if you’re gonna let all these people into the country?” I feel like that is the best example of why more voices and faces around the table and reporting the news is a good thing.
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There is no division between sports and politics Julia Chaffers Columnist
The past few years have brought renewed focus on the intersection between sports and politics, from Colin Kaepernick’s national anthem protest to Megan Rapinoe, co-captain of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team, calling out President Trump. But while many fans celebrate these players using their voices to stand up against injustice, often those in power, including leagues and the media, have sought to uphold a barrier between sport and politics. The NFL and U.S. Soccer banned kneeling during the anthem after Kaepernick’s and Rapinoe’s protests. On the media side, multiple ESPN hosts have faced controversy for being perceived as too political. After the Charlottesville attack in 2017, Jemele Hill was criticized, including by the White House, for tweeting that Trump was a white supremacist. Hill left ESPN last year to write at The Atlantic. Last summer, Dan Le Batard also faced backlash for speaking out against Trump’s racism, this time in the wake of Trump saying “send her back” in reference to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. Le Batard also called out ESPN for its apolitical model, saying “we here at ESPN don’t have the stomach for the fight. We don’t talk about what is happening unless there is some sort of weak, cowardly sports angle that we can run it through.” But throughout all of this, one league has stood out as particularly progressive: the NBA. The foremost figures of the league, such as the Golden State Warriors’
head coach Steve Kerr and Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James, have spoken out strongly against Trump, police brutality, and other social issues. But now the NBA finds itself at a crossroads of an international political controversy, and it is struggling to react. Last week, Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey posted just a sevenword tweet that turned the league upside down: “Fight for freedom, stand for Hong Kong.” The fallout from China has been swift. State-run television has stopped airing preseason games, and the Chinese government has strongly criticized the league. The NBA has scrambled to respond. The NBA did not discipline Morey for his statement, even as China pressured them to fire him, and that is important. But they also took many days to come out and say that. Their first response was to put out two separate statements, one in English and one in Chinese. The first said that the offense Morey’s comments caused in China was “regrettable,” though he had a right to say it. The second said the league was “extremely disappointed in the inappropriate comment.” There cannot be any clearer demonstration of the intersection of sports and politics than for the NBA to tell one thing to its American fans, many of whom support Hong Kong, and another to its audience in China. While the NBA delayed an official follow-up and backlash grew in response, players were put in front of cameras and reporters while executives, owners, and league officials were nowhere to be seen. So while those responsible for the controversy got to hide away, players were put between a rock and a hard place, having to choose between either speaking their
mind and risking blowback from their teams or staying silent and appearing to side with the Chinese government, possibly against their own values. The league took the decision away from players anyway — when reporters asked Rockets stars James Harden and Russell Westbrook if they still felt free to speak about political and social issues, a spokesperson said they would only answer basketball questions. In other words, keep politics out of sports. But politics in sports is nothing new; last week was the 51st anniversary of Tommie Smith and John Carlos’ demonstration on the medal stand at the Olympics, when they raised their fists to protest racial injustice. In the 1936 Olympics, Jesse Owens’ dominance in track and field was a direct rebuke to Hitler’s regime. The NFL is political when it has military flyovers before every game and when teams require their players to stand for the anthem. Sports are not played in a vacuum; athletes leave the court or the field and live among the rest of us. LeBron’s house was vandalized with racist graffiti. Michael Bennett, a football player for the New England Patriots, was tackled by police. They cannot and should not pretend as if they are not affected by politics, as we all are. Sports journalists cannot and should not put on blinders and plug their ears about political news just because they primarily cover sports. Just like everyone else has a responsibility to engage with this political moment, those in sports also have the right to speak their minds. “Politics” is not some abstract term, some definable thing we can cordon off in one corner of society. “Politics” encompasses everything in our lives, and touches everything we do. The current
situation in Hong Kong is not a minor issue happening across the globe, but a fundamental struggle for their rights. People often quote Dr. Martin Luther King’s “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” but rarely feel required to honor its meaning. Daryl Morey tried to. Colin Kaepernick tried to. Leagues should stop hiding behind a disingenuous stance of apoliticism and use their power to do the right thing. Perhaps the NBA has significant financial interests in expanding into China, but at some point, something has to outweigh money. If pursuing those business interests require that they turn a blind eye to misconduct by the government and suppress players and executives from voicing their views on important issues, then what good are the “values of the NBA” that commissioner Adam Silver said “travel with” the league wherever it goes? Values are not context-dependent. Values don’t change when you cross a border. If a league holds a set of values, they should uphold them even and especially when they come into conflict with their financial interests. If they don’t want to be guided by something higher than money, they should not pretend as if they are, and they certainly should not require their personnel to act according to the league’s views even in their personal capacity. Politics has never been separate from sports, and it never should be. Athletes are the people with some of the most power to affect change, and media the best able to amplify that, and our society would be better off if they were free to do so. Julia Chaffers is a sophomore from Wellesley, Mass. She can be reached at chaffers@princeton.edu.
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Asians in the ‘White Castle’: Why diversity in Hollywood matters Richard Ma
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Princeton may have the most beautiful architecture of any school campus. It may have an endowment larger than many countries’ GDPs — and more Olympic gold medals, too. But those facts didn’t shock me as much as what I witnessed when I first set foot on campus, as a prospective student at Preview. I filed into Richardson Auditorium for “This Side of Princeton,” a yearly show that features a capella groups, dance companies, stand-up comedy, and more. I was most struck by the dance acts — I’d only ever seen Asian men depicted as bumbling, effeminate calculators devoid of charisma, but the performers on stage rejected that image with every step. Confident, talented, and explosive, they not only defied the stereotypes, but also seemed wholly unaffected by them. It was a jarring — and very welcome — ex-
perience. I grew up in a rural Midwestern town with two, maybe three, identical Asian “brothers.” I was the guy who was good at school, because it was in my genes. I was the guy who couldn’t outgrow the stereotype, no matter how hard I tried. Many of my peers and teachers back home hold an unshakeable, often unconscious view of Asian men and an equally problematic perspective of Asian women as exotic trophies. It’s an issue not just in my town, but across America. Currently, Hollywood productions tend to both marginalize and flatten Asian characters. By developing deeper and more accurate depictions of its minority characters and resolving its current underrepresentation of Asians, the film industry can begin to address the problematic stereotypes that pervade America today. Hollywood’s problem is twofold. Historically, Asians
have been tremendously underrepresented, making any individual appearance all the more significant. Unfortunately, when there are Asian roles, they are often reduced to lazy, offensive caricatures that influence the beliefs of millions of viewers. In the ’80s, an entire generation grew up with Sixteen Candles’ Long Duk Dong, a fobby, pathetically comedic character always accompanied by the sound of an off-screen gong. Although movies today largely avoid such blatant mischaracterizations, Asians still often fulfill quiet stereotypes as the submissive model minority. Though recent and upcoming films such as Crazy Rich Asians and Marvel’s Shang-Chi are a breath of fresh air, both still rely upon well-worn Asian conceptions of tiger mothers or martial arts. And this conversation occurs only after the unlikely event that Asians show up in the first place: a USC study
found that only 1 percent of leading roles go to Asians, despite 6 percent of Americans being Asian. TV shows set in cities with significantly higher Asian populations such as San Francisco, where a third of the city is Asian, rarely feature Asian cast members. At a decade and a half old, the stoner comedy Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle pales in comparison to rich Singaporeans and superhero headliners. John Cho stars as Harold alongside Kal Penn, who plays his man-child roommate Kumar. At best, the movie is irreverent — at worst, it’s inane. But as I watched it for the first time, seventeen years old and having never seen someone like me take up so much screen time, I was completely taken aback. In one of the final scenes, Harold confronts his bullying coworkers and became an assertive, powerful person, who I had never seen before. A person I’d been told that as
an Asian, I almost couldn’t be. My experience at Richardson that night over a year ago jarred me, because I did not know it could exist. Part of me couldn’t believe that Asians could be not just physically competent, but also so charismatic and assured in their movements. What was happening right in front of me was taking a wrecking ball to my own unconscious ideas, and building stronger ones in their place. Hollywood may seem frivolous, but it packages and sells ideas to millions, if not billions, of people. I’d been told my whole life I was supposed to be one way. What happens when that assumption is completely repudiated? What happens when you grow up knowing you have power, instead of ceaselessly trying to prove it? Richard Ma is a sophomore from Kirksville, Missouri. He can be reached at richardma@ princeton.edu.
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Women’s volleyball defeats Harvard and Dartmouth to extend win streak to four By Cassy James Contributor
On the heels of two wins against Brown and Yale last week, Princeton women’s volleyball (10–6, 6–1 Ivy League) went on the road and extended its winning streak, beating both Harvard (4–12, 2–5) and Dartmouth (5–11, 1–6) in three sets. The Tigers began the weekend in Cambridge, where back-to-back kills from senior outside hitter Natasha Skov put the pressure on Harvard right from the start of the first set, and Princeton later went on a 7–0 run to take command of the set. Harvard wasn’t able to recover, and the Tigers took the set 25–15 with a kill from senior outside hitter Devon Peterkin. Unlike the first, the second set started out tight. The Crimson fought to keep the score tied at 4–4, but two big kills from Skov and a 3–0 run pushed the Tigers into the lead. Another kill by Skov closed out the set for a Tiger win, 25–18. After struggling to catch Princeton over the course of the match, the Crimson fought their way to a 10–6 lead in the third set. Princeton responded with a run of its own to take a 23–17 lead, but Harvard came back with
a fierce 8–2 run, knotting the score at 25–25 and forcing extra points. When the Crimson took the lead with 27–26, they seemed poised to clinch the impending match point. But Princeton fought back again, and junior middle blocker Clare Lenihan scored the decisive points for the Tigers, who won the final set 29–27. Coming off their sweep in Cambridge, the Tigers went into their match against the Big Green with a 5–1 record in Ivy League play. Both teams fought for dominance at the start of the first set, neither one able to secure a definitive lead. But a kill from senior right side hitter Maggie O’Connell gave the Tigers the edge they needed, fueling a 6–0 run in the middle of the set. Not giving the Big Green any room to flip the score, Princeton closed out the first set 25–14. Dartmouth came out strong in set two, taking a 3–0 lead that put the Tigers on the defensive. But the Tigers tied up the score with a kill from Lenihan and maintained momentum, not looking back as they took the second set 25–17. In set three, the Tigers seized the lead right out of the gate, but the Big Green pushed back, bringing the score to a head at 6–6. A key
kill from first-year middle blocker Olivia Schewe allowed the Tigers to take a narrow 9–8 lead. While the Big Green fought hard to overtake them, the Tigers were able to hold the lead, and a Lenihan kill closed out the final set 25–22. Skov contributed a matchhigh 13 kills to lock up the win against the Big Green, while O’Connell contributed 12 kills and Lenihan 10 kills.
Senior setter Jessie Harris led the match with 43 assists. While reflecting on how the Tigers will maintain their Ivy League streak, firstyear outside hitter Melina Mahood said, “We’ve been talking a lot about having ‘last game’ mentality, meaning that every game is the last game of the season. We did that with Harvard and Dartmouth, and we want to
do that with Penn again. We want to do that with the rest of the games for the season, making sure that every game we play as hard as we can.” The weekend’s results allowed Princeton to claim the second spot in the Ivy League standings, with Cornell just ahead. On Friday, Oct. 25, the Tigers will face the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia at 7:00 p.m.
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Princeton women’s volleyball beat Dartmouth and Harvard this weekend.
Women’s soccer draws Columbia 1–1, remains sixth in Ivy League standings By Tom Salotti Assicuate Sports Editor
Women’s soccer (5–5–3, 1–2–1 Ivy League) tied the Columbia Lions (8–3–2, 2–1–1 Ivy) 1–1 on Saturday night after a contentious match that ended the Tigers’ hopes of a repeat Ivy League championship this season.
Twenty minutes into the first half, a throw in from first-year defender Madison Curry was one-touched by senior midfielder/forward Courtney O’Brien down the line toward the corner for junior midfielder Olivia Kane. Kane crossed the ball into Columbia’s goal box where it bounced three times, right to the feet of
senior forward Abby Givens. Wide open, Givens took a shot right down the middle of the goal that went through Columbia keeper Liz Matei’s arms. The Tigers kept their lead for the next 25 minutes and finished the first half 1–0. A goal kick by Princeton’s keeper, senior Natalie Grossi, was knocked out of the
air by a Columbia header. The Lions quickly counterattacked, and after bringing the ball out wide to the same corner that Kane had her cross-assist from, it was worked inside the box to Columbia’s Shira Cohen. Cohen cut outside of the defender and knocked the ball into the top right corner of Princeton’s goal, out
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Tatum Gee and Princeton earned a draw against Columbia Saturday.
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of reach of Grossi’s hands. The two teams exchanged shots for the remainder of the second half but nothing got past either team’s defense or keeper. Columbia’s Taylor Penn earned a yellow card in the 87th minute. In the first overtime period, Princeton didn’t hit any shots while Columbia had one. Sophomore forward Gabi Juarez got a yellow card in the 95th minute. The two teams exchanged attacks in the second OT period, but once again, nothing got through to the net. Notably, Grossi saved a shot from Columbia’s Jessica Schildkraut with seven minutes left in the game. This weekend’s 1–1 tie puts the Tigers at 1–2–1 and in sixth place in the Ivy League. With three games left, Princeton needs a miracle for another Ivy League championship. Brown, who beat the Tigers 1–0 earlier this fall, sits atop the league with four wins. They would have to lose every single remaining game while Princeton would have to win their final three in order for the Tigers to beat the Bears in the standings. Furthermore, this doesn’t account for Harvard and Yale, who currently sit at 3–1 each. The Tigers head to Cambridge this weekend to play Harvard (10–3, 3–1 Ivy).
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The number of goals, assists, and points that junior FH striker Clara Roth recorded this weekend.