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Eddie Glaude encourages critical thinking with Twitter platform

By Benjamin Ball Staff Writer

When political news breaks, the reactions it garners can elicit verbose and detailed responses from the nation’s elite academics. But, sometimes, in the limited space of Twitter, the only thing James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor Eddie S. Glaude GS ’97 needs to say is, “WTH?!”

In the past month alone, nine different articles, reports, and pieces of news have received that exact reaction from Glaude.

Despite the occasional brevity of his tweets, Glaude’s ultimate goal when approaching social media is to present information in such a way that his followers can think more carefully about “the issues at hand.”

“Part of what I try to do is provide material that will deepen people’s understanding of the issue at hand, try to offer a more nuanced account of the subject,” Glaude said. “As an academic I’m always trying to put more information in circulation so people can think critically.”

An expert in the fields of religion and AfricanAmerican studies, Glaude

chooses primarily to comment on issues of race and political institutions and the effects they have on democracy.

For example, during the Obama administration, Glaude would comment on the reported unemployment numbers and remind his Twitter audience what changes and trends in employment would mean for African-Americans specifically.

“When the unemployment numbers are reported, I will drill down into those numbers and disaggregate them about race,” Glaude said. “I’m always commenting on the issue of race in the country, and that can vary from encounters with police and police brutality to the state of economic realities within black communities … [or] around immigration policy.”

Glaude is one of several professors and public intellectuals who are referred to as #twitterhistorians.

Glaude has praised the work of his fellow Twitter historians, such as history professor Kevin Kruse’s Twitter debates with Dinesh D’Souza.

Glaude sees his style of advocacy on Twitter not simply as showing off his See GLAUDE page 3

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The 1971 sit-in resulted in the creation of the Third World Center, a University facility for minorities, now known as the Carl A. Fields Center.

Asian American Studies faces low enrollment

By Linh Nguyen Staff Writer

On April 2, the University approved the Asian American Studies certificate program after over 40 years of campaigning, protesting, and lobbying; however, this semester’s enrollment rates in the department were concerningly low.

In an email sent out on Sept.

18 to the Asian American Students Association listserv, American Studies professor and director Anne Cheng urged students to enroll in ASA 351: Asian American Affect, one of two ASA courses being offered this fall, taught by visiting Fordham University professor James Kim. At the time of the original email, ASA 351 only had two students enrolled.

“American Studies firmly

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believe that offering Asian American studies courses is a fundamental intellectual obligation for a program that studies American cultures, but at an institutional level, it is all about numbers,” the email read. “You and your predecessors have fought hard for this. Now that it has happened, please support it.”

Another ASA course, ASA 347: The Asian American Family, exceeded its expected capacity of eight students and currently has 15 students enrolled.

Both ASA 351 and 347 are new courses.

ASA 351 now has four students enrolled. According to Cheng, 22 students opted to be placed on the waitlist for ASA 347, most of whom did not enroll in ASA 351. Both classes are held on Thursdays from 1:30

Wang GS still imprisoned as Trump condemns Iran at UN General Assembly

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Jeff Bezos ‘86, right, and MacKenzie Bezos ‘92, not pictured, have pledged $2 billion to support homeless and low-income families.

Bezos ’86 founds charity focused on homelessness, early childhood education

By Rose Gilbert Senior Writer

On Sept. 13, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos ’86 and his wife, MacKenzie Bezos ’92, announced the creation of a $2 billion fund to support homeless and low-income families. The fund, named the “Bezos One

Day Fund,” will both support existing nonprofits and address immediate needs by providing shelter for homeless individuals and launching a network of full-scholarship, Montessoriinspired preschools in low-income communities.

In a Twitter post last week, Bezos wrote that the Bezos One

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Day Fund will use “the same principles that have driven Amazon,” adding that in his preschools “the child will be the customer.” The fund’s vision statement, “no child sleeps outside,” echoes that of Mary’s Place, a center for homeless women in Seattle, which See BEZOS page 4

Today on Campus

U.S. and Iranian leaders had a war of words Tuesday at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, while at the same time in Tehran, fourth-year history graduate student Xiyue Wang was presumably hoping for positive news from the annual meeting of world leaders.

Wang has been arbitrarily imprisoned by Iranian authorities on an unlawful conviction of espionage since August 2016, and the University and Wang’s family are using the assembly as an opportunity to discuss the possibility of his release.

“We wanted to take advantage of the fact that so many world leaders are in one place at one time to focus attention on his detention,” Robert Durkee, University vice president and secretary, told The Daily Princetonian on Wednesday.

On Tuesday, President Trump spent much of his 35-minute speech targeting Iran’s foreign policy and threatening new U.S. sanctions. In separate speeches, Iranian leaders sharply criticized Washington’s decisions to pull out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and the Paris climate accord.

4 p.m.: Mariangela Lisanti, assistant professor at Princeton University, will present “Dark Matter in Disequilibrium” as part of the Hamilton Colloquium series.

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The price of crude oil, which hangs in the balance of sanctions decisions, reached a fouryear high Tuesday, according to Reuters, because of the imminent possibility of blocks to Iranian producers.

“Iran’s leaders sow death, chaos, and destruction,” Trump said to the assembly.

Meanwhile, Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani made judgements about U.S. leadership.

“Confronting multilateralism is not a sign of strength.

Rather it is a symptom of the weakness of intellect — it betrays an inability in understanding a complex and interconnected world,” he said.

Hua Qu, Wang’s wife, is in New York City for the U.N. General Assembly this week, along with Joyce Rechtschaffen from the University’s Office of Government Affairs in Washington, D.C. Qu said she hoped this year’s assembly meeting would be an opportunity for world leaders to work together to help her husband secure his freedom.

“I hope this is the last U.N.G.A.,” she said in an interview with the ‘Prince’ earlier this month, explaining that the assembly’s outcome could result in her family’s problems See WANG page 5

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History professor Beth LewWilliams attributed this low enrollment to the late addition of the class and the fact that it is being taught by a visiting professor.

“Students gravitate towards classes where they know the faculty, where it’s a class that’s taught repeatedly, and has some sort of reputation or buzz,” Lew-Williams said.

“And for that reason, it’s very difficult for a visiting faculty member to come in — especially for a class that was put on the books late — to get the same enrollment as a class that’s offered every year.”

Although she is on scheduled research leave for the 2018–19 academic year, Lew-Williams recognizes that she has been

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knowledge or intellectual ability as an academic, but also what his views are in light of his training. He seeks to bring his skills and perspective to the table.

“Typically [my goal] is … the dissemination of information, driving content to a particular public,” Glaude said. “To put it differently, offer more information to the people who follow me to think more carefully about the issue at hand.”

Despite the fanfare and noise that often accompa-

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nies social media, Glaude said he takes his presence on Twitter and Facebook very seriously and claims that he is only on those platforms to create an “occasion” to deliberate together.

“It’s not a micro-reality show to me,” Glaude said.

“The way in which I approach social media is to expand the scope and reach of the conversation, because what I want to do is to think seriously in public with others.”

Aside from his Twitter account, Glaude also has a Facebook.

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one of the only University professors to consistently teach a course on Asian-American topics. Since joining the faculty in 2014, Lew-Williams has taught HIS 270: Asian American History three times. HIS 270 has become a popular course among the student body. The course is usually offered in the fall.

“To build a sustainable program, we need more faculty,” Lew-Williams said. “We need permanent people teaching repeated classes for students to really seek them out.”

AASA co-president Toni Xu ’20 pointed out that the novelty of the ASA program may also be a factor in the lower-thanexpected enrollment numbers.

“Right now, it seems like ASA is more of a niche certificate because it’s still so new, and students are continuing to learn more about program and the courses it has to offer,” Xu said.

“But in spite of [this], there is already palpable interest in ASA courses. When we took a poll of the AASA student body last semester, there was certainly large support and interest in ASA.” Xu said she is hopeful for “an increase in enrollment in all future ASA courses offered by the department” after this semester.

Similarly, AASA vice president Chelsie Alexandre ’20 predicts that the low enrollment this semester will not “necessarily endanger ASA’s future.”

“We believe there is still high interest in the subject — especially demonstrated through the enrollment for ‘Asian American Family’ — and we are confident that an increase of topics taught and professors invited will keep the momentum going,” Alexandre said. “Moving forward, we hope that the administration also understands that low enrollment in one class is not indicative of a broader disinterest in the subject.”

Nicholas Wu ’18, former AASA co-president and fouryear Asian American Studies committee member, echoed Xu’s and Alexandre’s sentiments but emphasized that students must still “continue to support the program to show the university administration that Asian American studies are worth creating and maintaining on campus.”

“If too few students sign up for classes, it’s harder for the American Studies staff to make the necessary asks for funding and staffing to support a larger program,” Wu said. “Then we run the risk of letting the program just wither and die before it even gets off the ground.”

Wu is former head opinion editor at The Daily Princetonian.

The beginning of the fight for the ASA program at the University is often attributed to the sit-in conducted at Firestone Library in 1971, which result-

ed in the creation of the Third World Center, a University facility to be used primarily by minority students. The Center is now known as the Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding.

According to a 2013 AASA report, it was at this time that Asian-Americans finally “had enough confidence, support, and enthusiasm to start providing an outlet through which to explore Asian American studies.” Students began to organize seminars examining AsianAmerican studies and formed AASA to create a community for Asian-Americans on campus.

Over the next two decades, Asian-American students continued to lobby for more classes and seminars on Asian-American topics, ultimately culminating in the creation of the first “Asian American Student Task Force” during the 1992–93 academic year.

In response to a “perceived lack of commitment” from the administration, 17 students organized another sit-in at Nassau Hall in 1995, leading to promises by the administration to begin creating a Latino studies program and an Asian-American studies program.

In 2011, almost 20 years after the Nassau Hall sit-in, still dissatisfied by the lack of an official Asian American studies program, AASA created the ASAM committee to specifically work on this program’s creation. Andrew Hahm ’17, who served as ASAM committee chair in 2014 and AASA vice president in 2015, recalls the vigor of the students who campaigned for the program.

“I think advocating for the program around the beginning of President Eisgruber’s tenure was exciting,” said Hahm, who was a first-year when President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 took office. “The student interest, I’d maintain, was always there and will continue to always be there.”

Hahm noted that while he “never sensed any open hostility or pushback” to the concept of the program, the lack of immediate action suggested that “there were many competing priorities for University-wide administrators.”

“I do appreciate that they took the time to do it right,” Hahm noted. “But I also think that if something is a priority for you, you will do it right and do it quickly.”

Rebecca Weng ’18, another former ASAM committee chair and AASA vice president, characterizes the ASA program as a collective effort that has required tremendous effort.

“It’s crazy because there was so much that happened before I came to Princeton, so much work that was put into the efforts for Asian-American studies, and so much more that still needs to happen,” Weng said.

“This is about an entire community pushing toward this one goal.”

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Eddie S. Glaude GS ‘97, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor., is a Twitter historian.

Weng attributed previous roadblocks to the program’s creation to the “existence of various committees, voting procedures, and other institutional hurdles.” However, she also said she believes that the student body holds significant accountability for preserving the work of their predecessors.

“New students enter Princeton every year, and Asian American studies advocates

graduate every year, hoping that they used their time at Princeton well enough,” Weng said.

As a Fulbright Scholar currently teaching English in South Korea, Weng urges current students to “take this chance that we fought for” and to “engage in topics we never had the opportunity to learn about.”

“As much as I wish I could, I

can’t audit a course from halfway around the world,” Weng said. “All I can hope to do is to move you with my words.”

The certificate program in Asian American Studies requires students to complete at least three courses in the department, take the American Studies course AMS 101: America Then and Now, and participate in a capstone seminar, recommended for senior year.

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partnered with Amazon in the spring of 2016.

Ironically, the website for Mary’s Place details how, after working with Amazon to convert an old hotel into a shelter, the shelter was soon demolished to make way for Amazon’s new headquarters.

Bezos’ announcement about the fund faced fierce backlash, with many criticizing his charitable ventures as an effort to distract from Amazon’s increasingly notorious workplace conditions.

Warehouse workers have complained that they are routinely denied bathroom breaks and punished for calling in sick.

James Bloodworth, who went undercover as a worker at an Amazon warehouse, said in a BBC interview that there was “something slightly ironic” about Bezos’ choice to support the homeless.

“There have been credible reports of Amazon warehouse workers sleeping outside in tents because they can’t afford to rent homes on the wages paid to them by the company,” Bloodworth noted.

Bezos was also accused of hypocrisy in light of Amazon’s successful efforts to evade an employee head tax that would have funded homelessness relief efforts in Seattle, where the company is headquartered.

Neither Jeff nor MacKenzie Bezos responded to requests for comment.

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being solved.

Qu has continued to live in the family’s apartment in Lakeside graduate housing with her and her husband’s 5-year-old son.

Durkee explained that the University is in frequent contact with advisers and experts who may be able to help Wang’s case. “These individuals are also attending the U.N. General Assembly this week, talking to representatives from other countries and even some of the Iranian leaders,” Durkee said.

When asked how the University reacted to pointed remarks made by U.S. and Iranian leaders Tuesday, Durkee said, “We’re focused on conversations that we think we can have with people who we think might be able to help achieve his release.”

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Advisor John Bolton both made comments at this week’s United Against Nuclear Iran summit, naming Wang and other Americans imprisoned in Iran, and demanding their release and return home.

Bolton stated that Iran is the “world’s worst kidnapper” of U.S. citizens.

In a Wednesday email to the ‘Prince,’ Rechtschaffen wrote, “We hope the speeches by the Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Bolton will help focus world attention on Wang’s unjust detention.”

Like Durkee, Rechtschaffen

also said the University is trying to take advantage of U.N.G.A. this month, holding many meetings for the purpose of trying to secure Wang’s release.

Last year, the University “didn’t do anything,” for her husband at the U.N. assembly, said Qu. According to Durkee, many conversations surrounding the possibility of Wang’s release occurred away from the U.N. General Assembly at this time last year.

This fall, pressure on Iran ramped up with the release of an opinion from the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions which concluded that Wang should be released immediately.

“If Iran is not going to be responsive to concerns expressed by the United States, they might be responsive to concerns raised by other countries,” said Durkee.

He said other world leaders will be able to point to last month’s U.N. opinion, which states that Iran’s arrest and imprisonment of Wang are unlawful and arbitrary.

Iran has provided no evidence to support Wang’s conviction of espionage, and denied Wang’s appeal of his sentence.

“We don’t have any case file,” Qu said.

Wang was doing archival research for his history dissertation on regional governances in 18th and 19th-century Eurasia when he was arrested.

His research was financially supported by the University’s Sharmin and Bijan MossavarRahmani Center for Iran and

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Persian Gulf Studies, among other sources.

Former director of the center John Haldon spoke with the ‘Prince’ about the nature of Wang’s struggle with Iranian authorities.

“Iran’s judiciary is a stronghold of Iranian conservatives opposed to the country’s rapprochement with the West,” Haldon said. “Under the current system, prosecutors regularly

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lack evidence and punishments are harsh.”

“He’s just the victim of someone else’s game,” said history professor Ekaterina Pravilova, who taught Wang in her graduate seminar, Imperial Russia.

She has been in contact with him since his imprisonment.

“Every day is a new judgment about who can be helpful,” Durkee said, explaining that not a day goes by without someone

pushing Wang’s case, whether it be in Washington or through diplomacy abroad.

Tuesday marked the first day of the General Debate of the 73rd United Nations General Assembly. The General Debate will continue for nine working days.

Qu did not respond to requests for comments about her experiences at the U.N. General Assembly.

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How safe should I feel on campus?

Rachel Kennedy Columnist

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espite reports of bikes and jackets being stolen on campus and the occasional f lashing event on the towpath, Princeton feels like the safest place on earth.

So safe that laptops and phones are left alone at Frist Campus Center for hours, and 5-foot-2-inch girls like me don’t even think twice about going for a run at night. But should we?

The town of Princeton had 24 reported violent crimes last year. The odds of falling victim to a violent crime here are 1 in 1,302; the odds throughout New Jersey are 1 in 408.

There isn’t much to be afraid of. But I wonder if our constant sense of safety allowed us to feel less accountable — not only for ourselves but also for staying aware of the happenings on this campus.

When my friends at

Yale or the University of Pennsylvania hear that on many occasions I have chosen to walk home from the Street alone, they laugh a bit and say they would never, and their friends would never let them. Friends at Cornell speak of the emails they receive about breakins to dorms and violence each week. Attending larger or more urban schools comes with pros and cons, such as more non-university affiliated people on campus. But contrary to popular belief, Princeton University is not an isolated oasis.

We may not have many, but instances of outside disturbances are wiped quickly from student memory — has anyone mentioned the Panera gunman this year? We are so attached to the concept of the Orange Bubble that even when it is popped, we cling to it.

Prior to writing this article, the examples of campus crime I could think did not sound insidious enough to scare me. Following a scan of PRINCETON ALERTs emails in my inbox and searching through The Daily Princetonian’s on-

line archive, more instances were rescued from the abyss of my memory. Last spring, there was one report of fraud and three reports of lewdness or unwanted sexual contact that the University issued alerts about. While this is only a sampling of the incidents reported to officials, the alerts about someone taking cell phone pictures of men in the bathroom of Firestone Library and a man fondling a juvenile female at DeNunzio Pool served as unfortunate reminders that it is important to be aware of surroundings, even in a place as serene and serious as Firestone, or as bustling as Dillon Gymnasium.

A full year of those alerts went by and not one etched its way into my memory. I’m thankful that they are not consistent, but in being more aware of what is going on on this campus, perhaps I will become more aware for when I leave it.

A ‘Prince’ column published last spring presents a real-world example of being snapped out of the Orange Bubble. Rather than being snapped

out, I’d rather respect its fragility and limits a bit more.

I do not think I will stop leaving my phone on a table when I am getting food at a dining hall, but I do think it is important to view Princeton more as a public shared space than a self-contained shell. Interacting with (visiting, reading, volunteering, etc.) with local cities such as Camden and Trenton could help me see Princeton as among the rest of the world. This life isn’t a big game of capture the f lag and campus is not an automatic safety zone, despite looking like one.

Writer’s note: There are many kinds of crimes, and while this column refers to acts of physical violence or robbery, I acknowledge that other traumas such as sexual assault happen more frequently and are more likely not to be reported. For more information on those statistics, consult ‘Prince’ archive or the University’s annual report on the topic.

Rachel Kennedy is a sophomore from Dedham, Mass.

She can be reached at rk19@ princeton.edu.

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Women’s soccer crushes Yale in Ivy opener

By Tom Salotti Staff Writer

Princeton women’s soccer (6–2–1 overall, 1–0 Ivy League) dominated Yale (5– 3–1, 0–1) this weekend, netting three goals and conceding none.

The Tigers, fresh off a successful non-conference season that saw them with five wins, two losses, and one tie, started off Ivy League play with a crushing win over the Bulldogs. Senior Mimi Asom earned her first hat trick of the season, earning her the title of Ivy League Player of the Week and a place on Top Drawer Soccer’s team of the week.

The first half saw plenty of back and forth between the two teams. Princeton had five shots versus Yale’s six.

Junior goalkeeper Natalie Grossi saved four of those, while Yale’s keeper saved one. The game was tied 0–0 until seconds before the half, when junior Tomi Kennedy launched one on goal after a pass from junior Courtney O’Brien, hitting the crossbar. Asom capitalized on the rebound, netting Princeton’s first goal of the game. In the first half,

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Senior Mimi Asom recorded her second career hat trick in the Tigers’ win over Yale.

Princeton had three corners to Yale’s one.

Fewer than 10 minutes into the second half Princeton earned a corner kick, and junior midfielder Sophia

Gulati sent a cross to Asom, who headed the ball into the back of the net. Then, in the 72nd minute, Asom dribbled past Yale’s unsuspecting defense and hit the top right

corner, earning her a hat trick and the Tigers a sure victory.

The Tigers, along with their two goals, dominated the stats in the second

half, with 10 shots to Yale’s five and four corner kicks to Yale’s zero. Each team’s keeper had one save. Grossi’s clean sheet this past weekend was her 20th while playing for Princeton, the third in program history, and the ninth in Ivy League history.

To add to her accolades for Ivy Player of the Week and a team of the week spot, Asom’s second career hattrick puts her at 40 total goals in the Ivy League, the fourth in Princeton history, and 88 career goals, the fifth most in Princeton’s history.

As head coach Sean Driscoll pointed out, “Yale is the first game in the [Ivy League] season every year,” making the game something of a recurring rivalry.

In last season’s conference opener Princeton faced Yale at Roberts Stadium. Asom scored the first goal, and then-freshman Olivia Kane netted the Tigers’ second for a 2–0 win.

Women’s soccer takes on Dartmouth (5–3–1, 1–0) next Saturday in their first home game of the season. The Tigers look to continue their excellent form and are aiming for a championship season.

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Men’s soccer sees positives in loss to Loyola, prepares for Ivy League opener

By Sam Shapiro Staff Writer

Men’s soccer (4–4 overall) is gearing up for its first Ivy League matchup this Saturday at 1 p.m., home against Dartmouth (2–4–2). The Tigers are vying for the Ivy League title, and every game counts: the team with the best conference record wins the title and ensures an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

The Big Green will certainly be a competitive match-up for the Tigers — Dartmouth has won the Ivy League title for the past three years. Last year, Princeton lost to Dartmouth 1–2 in overtime. Dartmouth’s current record is 2–4–2; they had a slow start in non-conference play, but they are coming into Saturday hot after two wins, both in overtime. Most recently, they took down University of Albany (3–6). Midfielder Justin Donawa, 2017 First Team All-Ivy League player, recently returned to the field for the Big Green after recovering from an injury and has helped lead them to their last two victories. Princeton and Dartmouth faced different preseason competition, apart from Boston University: Princeton beat Boston University with a 1–0 win, while Dartmouth walked away with a 2–2 tie.

Princeton’s non-conference record is 4–4. Most recently, they ended their three-game winning streak with a tough 1–0 loss against Loyola (4–2–1) this Tuesday. In the pouring rain, Princeton held Loyola scoreless until the second half.

Loyola had 17 shots against Princeton’s nine. The Tigers’

defense shined against Loyola’s strong offense, even in the face of injuries and lineup changes.

Junior defender Benjamin Issroff was unable to start after straining his quad in the pregame warmup; junior defender Bobby Hickson and sophomore defender Richard Wolf both had to come off the field at points in the game.

Freshman defender Ben Bograd and sophomore defender and midfielder Michael OseiWusu have both stepped up as key defenders for the Tigers.

“Against a good group of attackers, we made it pretty far

holding it together without conceding,” said Bograd. OseiWusu spoke highly of Bograd’s performance. “Ben Bograd doesn’t look like a freshman on the field… he’s adapting so fast.” Osei-Wusu also commended the other seven freshmen on the team, who have “defined themselves as D1 soccer players.”

On offense, Osei-Wusu says the team is hoping to work on converting chances to score.

“A strength of the team is how we’re moving the ball,” said Osei-Wusu. Bograd echoed Osei-Wusu’s remarks; he talked

about how the team is working on their speed of play and moving the ball in the midfield to “combine up top.” Recently dubbed Ivy League Player of the Week, senior forward and midfielder Jeremy Colvin has been a key offensive player for the Tigers, leading the team to victories with three gamewinning goals.

Going into this weekend, the Tigers are feeling confident, even coming off a loss.

“We were able to take it in perspective, and recognize that there were a lot of positives to draw from the game in terms

of creating chances on offense.

Our run of form in terms of how we’ve been playing these last few games is overall pretty positive,” said Bograd.

Confident in their depth, athleticism, and talent, this year’s team believes it has what it takes to make a push to the top of the Ivy League standings.

“Our team is looking really good going into Ivies against Dartmouth,” said Osei-Wusu.

Come and support the Tigers at 1 p.m. this Saturday as they battle the Big Green on the field.

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First-year Ben Bograd and the rest of the Tiger team struggled to find offense in the rainy conditions on Tuesday night.

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