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The Editorial Board suggests improvements to campus dining and Julia CaseLevine discusses the benefits and harms of complaining.

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Construction on the planned apartment community in the town of Princeton by housing developer AvalonBay Communities is likely to start in mid-April.

AvalonBay needs to obtain building permits from the state before it can begin construction work, according to Mayor Liz Lempert, adding that these permits have not yet been granted.

The construction plans are still under review, Director of Communications for the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs Tammori Petty said. She said she could not comment further.

AvalonBay expects the project to be completed in late 2017, with the first apartments finished in 2016, according to its website.

Representatives of AvalonBay did not respond to a request for comment, nor did AvalonBay Vice President of Development Jon Vogel or attorney for AvalonBay Robert Kasuba.

Princeton land use engineer Jack West said the proj-

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The number of women in some of the University’s prominent leadership positions (USG president, editor-in-chief, chair of Honor Committee, etc.) in the 2000s.

News & Notes Dartmouth fraternity investigated for branding pledges

Dartmouth is currently investigating the Alpha Delta fraternity chapter, which inspired the 1978 film “Animal House,” for allegedly branding pledges’ skin, TIME Magazine reported.

A group of pledges asserted that they voluntarily agreed to be branded as a form of self-expression.

A lawyer for the chapter, George Ostler, said that the brands are a form of self-expression, similar to tattoos.

“The facts are that no hazing occurred,” he said. ”No one has been injured by this activity.”

In the last two years, Alpha Delta has apologized for hosting a ‘Crips and Blood’ party and for urinating on a woman from the balcony of the fraternity house, and it has been fined for serving alcohol to minors.

In response to these and similar incidents, president of Dartmouth Philip Hanlon banned hard liquor in January. The Interfraternity Council at Dartmouth also prohibited pledging in any form due to abuse.

The students were branded before these decisions were announced.

Krueger paper published on Uber receives criticism

By Grant Golub staff writer

After economics professor Alan Krueger published a paper he co-authored on Jan. 22 analyzing the ride-sharing service Uber, some have taken issue with his conclusions, which mostly favor the controversial company.

Uber contacted Krueger in December about conducting “independent analysis” of data they had collected through a survey of their drivers and of other data sets they collect, he said.

“I think they were looking for an economist that understood labor economics,”

Krueger said. “I think they were aware of research I had done in the past with occupational licensing.”

Uber did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Krueger co-authored the paper with Jonathan Hall, the head of policy research at Uber.

Hall did not respond to requests for comment.

“This is actually the first time I’ve co-authored a paper with the son of someone I’ve co-authored a paper with,” he said. “His father is an economics professor at Stanford. It was a very productive partnership.”

STUDENT LIFE

SPEAR relaunches campaign regarding U. admissions process

By Katherine Oh staff writer

Students for Prison Education and Reform has relaunched a campaign to persuade the University and the Common Application to eliminate questions about applicants’ criminal history.

Known as the Admissions Opportunity Campaign, copresident Daniel Teehan ’17 said the project aims to eliminate some of the more common obstacles that bar such students from pursuing a college degree.

He added that it was inspired by the national Ban the Box campaign, which calls for removing the box on application forms that applicants must check if they have been previ-

ously imprisoned.

The campaign was first started last year after a winter break trip to New York during which the students met with people doing advocacy work in criminal justice, Teehan said.

“We were looking to craft campaigns to respond to issues that are pressing,” he said.

“They encouraged us to pursue the same kind of movement for admissions to universities. We have previously worked on the Opportunity to Compete Act, which is Ban the Box for New Jersey, which just passed recently. We decided that would be a great way to focus on something that Princeton itself is involved in.”

Teehan explained that the See SPEAR page 2

Krueger said he thinks this report is the first comprehensive analysis of a company in the new sharing economy.

The company employs over 165,000 drivers, which is double the number it employed six months ago, he said.

“It appears the drivers are drawn to Uber because the hours are very f lexible,” he said. “They get to choose their own hours, their earnings are at least as high as what traditional taxi-cab drivers earn and the entry barriers are pretty low.”

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ect will be constructed on Witherspoon Street, where the former Princeton Medical Center hospital was located before demolition.

He added that preliminary site work, which includes moving earth, started on Monday.

“As far as starting to put pipe in the ground and do footings, [that will happen] probably sometime in midApril,” he said.

There will be five residential buildings built in total, West added, including two main apartment buildings and three townhouse buildings that will face Franklin Street. In total, the buildings will hold around 280 units, 56 of which are designated as “affordable housing.”

The construction process will take about two years to complete, he added. The two main apartment buildings will be built at the same time, with the smaller front building completed before the larger one. There is still a possibility that housing will open in stages depending on when construction is completed for a building.

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Women’s History Month: Campus Organizations

By Shriya Sekhsaria staff writer

Since the beginning of coeducation at the University, women have risen in visibility and prominence on the Street and in student organizations in general.

Some women experienced pushback at the beginning, though, as they sought to carve out places for themselves in campus life.

The Street Margery Hite ’74 said that during Houseparties she was treated like a visitor, with male students turning to her and asking her about which school she went to.

“The presumption was

that if you were a woman, you didn’t go to Princeton,” she said.

Lynn Nagasako ’70 said she was a member of Campus Club and often enjoyed afternoons playing bridge there.

“Those guys were really nice. It was kind of like a home away from home,” she said.

Sally Frank ’80 said that, in her first year, the only way one could get an appointment at Cottage Club, Ivy Club or Tiger Inn was to mark gender as male on the Bicker form.

Frank went on to file a lawsuit against Cottage, Ivy and TI, claiming that the See WOMEN page 2

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The diplomatic historian Frank Costigliola gives a lecture alongside the University archivist on the diaries of the George F. Kennan, former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union.

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clubs were public accommodations, meaning they were required to include females.

She said she felt isolated and was routinely subject to harassment during her time at the University.

Even after Frank graduated she was told that she did not belong during Reunions, she said, noting that there were people at the P-Rade who yelled, “Sally sucks,” and sold T-shirts that read, “Better dead than coed.”

“I actually thought that it was kind of amazing that somebody made a T-shirt with my picture on it,” she said. “My lawyer thought it was worse than I did.”

During “Take Back the Night,” a march for survivors of sexual violence, Janet Sarbanes ’89 recalled instances of sexual misconduct at eating clubs.

“A lot of the boys came out of the club and pulled their pants down and were shouting obscenities, and yelling and pouring beer,” she said, referring to TI. At Ivy, all the men stood up every time a woman entered the room, Sarbanes said. “[They did this] because they were being gentlemen,” she said. “They were served

by attendants. It was like something out of ‘The Great Gatsby’ or something.”

Sarbanes added that she felt safer at “artsy, progressive and queer” clubs such as Campus and Terrace Club.

Director of the Women’s Center Amada Sandoval ’00 said that the social scene at the University makes people think about the meaning and role of gender, especially when eating clubs have party themes that demean women.

“I think women think, ‘What does it mean if I go to [parties with themes that demean women] and have fun? ’ But you know, I don’t think it’s right that women should be characterized that way,” she said.

University President Emerituws Shirley Tilghman said that an eating club task force that was formed in 2009 did not go far enough in eliminating the downsides to the experience on the Street.

“I wish I had made more progress in making the entire eating club selection process a more humane process,” she said.

Changes in leadership The number of women in leadership positions at the University today, particularly in visible positions, is much higher than when Tilghman arrived in 1986, Til-

ghman said.

“At every layer, you see more women,” she said.

“There’s just a significant difference in the almost 30 years that I’ve been at Princeton.”

“At every layer, you see more women.

There’s just a significant difference in the almost 30 years that I’ve been at Princeton.”

Shirley Tilghman,

University President Emeritus

There were six women in the 1970s in the University’s prominent student leadership positions, 18 in the 1980s, 22 in the 1990s and 12 in the 2000s. These positions included president of the Undergraduate Student Government, chair of the Honor Committee, editor-in-chief of The Daily Princetonian and president of the freshman, sophomore, junior and senior classes, according to the Report of the Steering Committee on Undergraduate Women’s Leadership.

A woman wanting to run for an office often thinks it

is safer to run for the post of vice president because she is discouraged from running for president either by someone else or by herself, Sandoval said.

“You [as a woman] have to consider your social reputation, your image, your personality, how you talk, how you look, and for men, a lot of those aspects are just, like, much more easy,” USG president Ella Cheng ’16 said. ”If you’re assertive, you’re confident, whereas if you’re a girl and you’re assertive, then you’re bitchy.”

Cheng is a former staff writer for the Daily Princetonian.

The first generation of women who came to the University were pioneers who fought for the place of women, while the current generation takes coeducation as a given, Tilghman said.

“There was nothing unusual about the fact that Princeton was 50 percent women, and I think that that has had an impact in the way women have fought for their place here at Princeton,” she said.

Women in the USG Susan Craig ’70 recalled convincing the Undergraduate Assembly president to allow her to run for the position of secretary and then launching a door-to-door

campaign.

Craig was a member of the University’s Critical Language Program at the time, and the University had told the women they would have to return to their home schools when the school began to admit women.

“Winning the election was my favorite memory because we were convinced that that would prevent our being ejected and sent back to our own school,” she said.

“I don’t know about how true it was, but we were convinced.”

At the time, the University was starting to involve students in more important decisions than ever before, Marsha Levy-Warren ’73, the first female officer of USG with her election as vice president in 1971, said.

However, some students were hostile to the changing dynamics in campus life.

When she was a dorm representative in USG, some junior and senior men introduced a resolution that there should not be women on campus, Marsha Rosenthal ’76 said. USG, by an overwhelming majority, decided against talking about the resolution, Michael Buchman ’73, who was on USG at the time, said.

“It was ludicrous and it wasn’t meaningful, but it gave a stark impression of the fact that for some people

having women on campus was not acceptable,” Rosenthal said.

Women in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps Kimberlee Thompson ’81, who was the first female cadet commander from the University’s ROTC program, said that she was determined to give back to the University when she was awarded the ROTC scholarship.

“Whenever something happens for the first time, it is certainly more about Princeton than it is you, and that was my 15 minutes to fame,” she said.

In 1972, the Navy ended its program, and Air Force ROTC was consolidated at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, 17 miles north of the University.

“The military presence is a really big part of Princeton history,” Christina Onianwa ’18, who said she was the only student in the restarted Navy ROTC program during her first semester at the University, noted. “You go to Nassau Hall and you see the names of people who died to serve their country, who came to Princeton and learned at Princeton. I just really want to celebrate that tradition.”

This article is the fourth in a four-part Women’s History Month feature series.

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work that the Admissions Opportunity Campaign does is important especially because many prisoners have financial difficulties. In addition, much of public funding for college or after-college educational programs was reduced in the 1990s, making it even harder for students to seek education.

SPEAR members have met with administrators, including University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83, Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye and Dean of the College Valerie Smith in order to discuss the possibility of altering the University’s admissions policies regarding formerly incarcerated students, Teehan said.

Eisgruber, Rapelye and Smith did not respond to requests for

comment.

“Any time you’re launching a campaign as students to change a longstanding policy of a university as large and financially conservative as Princeton, you’re going to run into barriers,” he said. “The default position of the University isn’t ‘Let’s change,’ it’s ‘Let’s stay the same.’ ” Another difficulty that SPEAR members have encountered in the past includes the initial negative response people tend to have regarding the topic of incarceration, advocacy chair Margaret Wright ’17 said.

“There is oftentimes a visceral response, people who haven’t necessarily spent a fair amount of time researching criminal justice issues don’t know the way our criminal justice system works,” Wright said. “So to us, it’s kind of an immediate thing to say, ‘We shouldn’t be using a system

that’s racially discriminatory and unjust and that targets certain communities that are less fortunate economically.’

But a lot of people don’t see the criminal justice system that way.”

While some have associated the Admissions Opportunity Campaign with affirmative action, Teehan said this is a misconception. “[The campaign] is saying that we shouldn’t impose this extra barrier on people simply by virtue of their past involvement with the criminal justice system,” Teehan said. “The fact that the University is kind of perpetuating the things the criminal justice system has already done to certain populations seems to us fundamentally unfair. Princeton University shouldn’t be part of the punishment that somebody receives when they’re arrested for whatever reason.”

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

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Joseph Nye, former dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and an influential international relations scholar spoke to students on the rise of China and its impact on the United States.

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Borough Council was steadfast that AvalonBay development would comply with local rules that 20 percent of housing be “affordable housing,” Lempert said, adding she believed the 56 units of affordable housing would fulfill a need in the town.

The Edgewater apartment complex in Bergen County that was ravaged in a fire in January was constructed

by AvalonBay, which raised concerns over fire safety.

AvalonBay decided to exceed current fire safety requirements by installing a more robust sprinkler system that includes sprinklers in the attic and masonry firewalls, Lempert said.

“I believe these improvements are in the best of interests of the future residents, the neighbors and AvalonBay itself,” she said.

“I also believe these elements should be required by state law for the safety of all New Jerseyans.”

Lempert is concerned about the scale of the project, she said, noting, however, that it is allowed by zoning rules.

Christina Keddie ’03, a longtime citizen of Princeton, said that although some residents argue that it’s necessary to preserve the town’s character, she believes this only leads to rising housing costs, changing the character of the town to that of a rarified country club where even upper middle-class families are priced out.

“Princeton used to be a place where the people who studied and worked here could afford to live in town,” she said. “This is no longer the case, and that’s entirely because of the restrictions on the supply of housing.”

The town needs more affordable housing units to

preserve its character, she said.

“We recognize that development is going to happen, given the number and distribution of jobs and other attractions in Princeton, and want to see that development happen in denser ways, both to protect the larger swaths of ‘greenfields’ in the surrounding area, and to create attractive, walkable, mixeduse development like that in the core of Princeton,” she said.

The housing situation in town most directly impacts University graduate students, as housing has always been in limited supply and many students cannot afford to live in Lakeside Housing or Lawrence Apartments, particularly those who are married and starting families, she said. Some housing in town that is remotely affordable is barely habitable, she added.

“The limited housing stock in town has serious negative consequences for the character of the town, and most impacts the least wealthy and most voiceless residents of our community,” she said.

The AvalonBay construction project has also faced opposition in the past few years from citizen groups, including the Association for Planning at Hospital Site LLC. Many residents are concerned about environmental and human safety due to potential contamination related to dismantling of biologically hazardous medical equipment. The Association for Planning at Hospital Site received an unfavorable ruling in their case against AvalonBay last April, and did not appeal.

The plaintiff in that suit, Evan Yassky, did not respond to a request for comment.

The lack of suitable offcampus housing is primarily due to price, said former

president of the Graduate Student Government Sean Edington GS, who coauthored a March 12 editorial in The Daily Princetonian about graduate housing.

“The annual income of a typical renter in Princeton is about double the annual stipend that most graduate students receive, so grad students are effectively priced out of nearly all of Princeton’s convenient off-campus housing,” he said.

It is likely that this situation would be true for the AvalonBay apartments, with the exception of the low-income units, Edington said.

“Any development that increases the number of convenient Princeton apartments financially accessible to graduate students is a good change in my book,” he said, ”but I don’t think this new complex will significantly change the graduate housing situation at Princeton or remove the need for new University graduate housing.”

Even if all 56 low-income spots were allocated to graduate students, this would only account for an additional two percent of graduate students, thus making little impact overall, Edington said. The complex also wouldn’t have access to the University’s TigerTransit lines, which many graduate students depend upon for transportation to and from departments, he added.

In University housing, students are part of a residential community, while with off-campus housing, there is also a loss of a sense of community between graduate students, Edington said.

“In the AvalonBay complex — though much closer to campus than existing options in Lawrenceville and Plainsboro — graduate students would still be isolated from the University community,” he said.

James Poole, the University’s manager of graduate housing, deferred comment to Mbugua.

The construction project is not a partnership or joint collaboration between the University and AvalonBay, University spokesperson Martin Mbugua noted.

“This is a private project that is not related to the University’s student housing plan,” he said. “However, graduate students who want to live off campus can seek housing wherever they choose.”

The New Jersey Council on Affordable Housing has regional income limits based on taxable income to qualify, and applicants must first qualify for low or moderate income status before purchasing Affordable Housing. For a single individual in 2014, moderate income in Mercer County was considered $51,864, low income was $32,415 and very low income was $19,449.

Qualification does not guarantee affordable housing, because selection criteria includes available units.

Scholarships and fellowship grants are not taxable income as long as they do not exceed expenses, are earmarked for expenses such as room and board or represent payment for teaching, according to the IRS. A tuition reduction for graduate education is tax-free if it is provided by an eligible educational institution and the graduate student performs teaching or research activities for the educational institution.

Graduate students are in a unique position in that many are not officially paid by the University but are often issued stipends for research. There are various tax categories that graduate students might fall under, according to basic tax guidelines published on the Graduate School website. Tuition

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also found that Uber drivers seem to enjoy the work, that there is a lot of demand for services of Uber drivers and that Uber is an example of new technology helping to make an old industry more efficient.

Krueger said he was surprised by some of the results he found, such as Uber’s chart for exponential growth.

“I think it is quite impressive,” he said. “It really jumps off the page that this is a company that has been growing by leaps and bounds.”

Especially in the U.S. economy, the nature of entrepreneurship is that most companies tend to fail while a select few f lourish, he explained.

“The research has found that there are some gazelles

that just run faster than everybody else and just take off, and a lot of failures,” Krueger said. “What’s important for the U.S. economy is that we have a dynamic labor market where companies can start up, some succeed and some fail, which leads to an outcome that is more efficient for everyone involved.”

However, some criticize Krueger’s findings, noting that his paper does not tell the whole story.

Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C., said it was “unfortunate” that Uber did not share its information on average miles per trip with Krueger.

“This is crucial for trying to produce an estimate of net pay after expenses,” Baker said. “Uber has this data, but

for whatever reason chose not to share it. As a result, we can only know the gross revenue for each driver. We don’t really have a basis for estimating their hourly takehome pay after expenses.”

Krueger said the issue is actually more complicated.

“The number one issue the U.S. economy has been facing is weak demand for workers with the kinds of skills that can provide for middle class income,” he said. “A company like Uber increases demand for drivers, and I think that’s positive for the economy.”

It is important to compare Uber employees to employees who work at Uber’s competitors, most notably traditional taxi cab companies, instead of just looking at Uber on its own, he added.

“I don’t think Uber has weakened the bargaining

power of taxi drivers,” he said.

Instead, Krueger explained that he thinks Uber has “reduced the value” of companies that had monopolies on the industry.

“I think that’s to the benefit of consumers,” he said.

“The evidence suggests that Uber drivers make as much as traditional taxi-cab drivers, even if one accounts for expenses.”

The traditional taxi industry is inefficient because it largely fails to take advantage of mobile technology, Krueger said.

Krueger does not expect Uber’s growth to slow down soon, he added. He said that he found that Uber’s growth improved as the economy improved, meaning that although drivers had other alternatives, they still chose to work at Uber.

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support is only taxable at the federal level, while assistantships in research and teaching stipends are considered paid salary and are taxable at the state and federal levels.

While most graduate students qualify for affordable housing, it is possible that some may not due to different tax classifications.

The AvalonBay construction project would be favorable if the rents are affordable, Ruthie Birger GS, a student in the ecology and evolutionary biology department, said.

“It would be great if graduate students were eligible for the Affordable Housing units,” she said.

Some of the most affordable graduate student housing was at the University, she said. She added that with the impending demolition of the Butler Apartments, which were affordable, it will be difficult to find housing close to campus that is comparatively inexpensive.

Finding affordable offcampus housing was difficult, as there is a very competitive market for such housing, Ryan Ly GS, a neuroscience Ph.D. candidate, said.

“The AvalonBay construction would create a lot more options for graduate students who are seeking offcampus housing as long as it’s reasonably priced,” he said. “It’s closeby, within biking distance and almost within walking distance.”

One of the main factors that inf luenced his decision to live closer to campus was the ability to commute without a car, which also meant a tradeoff in terms of rent, he said. “[Rent] depends on where you are,” he said. “I have friends who pay about $500 a month for housing in a shared house with four or five other people, which is

much cheaper than what you can get on campus.”

Ly said his housing costs slightly more than that of friends who live farther away but that it is affordable considering the proximity to campus and space.

“A lot of places are small, like the apartments near Nassau Street, and you pay about $1,200 to $1,500 a month,” he said. “I’m imagining that the AvalonBay housing would be reasonably priced given its distance from Nassau Street and the University, but it’s also a new building, so it might be higher priced than existing housing.”

Kevin Miller GS, also a neuroscience Ph.D. candidate, shares the same housing with Ly and said he agreed that housing close to the University is difficult but not impossible to find.

Olga Lositsky GS, who lives off-campus with family, said she understands the high demand for housing close to campus. Many graduate students live off-campus because there is more control over roommate choice and because they weren’t selected by lottery for desired housing, she said.

“I know that there are several groups of grad students who live on Nassau Street or very close off Nassau Street, like Bank Street and Witherspoon Street, so if they expand the number of apartments in that area, more people might consider living off campus,” she said.

The impact on graduate students seeking offcampus housing depends strongly on the price and quality of the apartments, she added.

“You can find prices in the range of $800 a month for your room to $1,200, but the housing you can get for that same price might be much better quality farther away from campus,” she said.

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EDITORIAL

Reducing waste in Campus Dining

Julia Case-Levine

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n the midst of a frazzled rant, a friend interrupted me to ask, “Is this making you feel any better?” Walking through campus, I had been poring over a seemingly endless list of upcoming projects, assignments and other miscellaneous problems I proclaimed simply could not be solved. Now we were eating lunch, and I had not touched my food or taken my jacket off. I had walked into the Butler/Wilson dining hall, sat down and, without taking a breath, delved right back into my tirade.

I grew up in a house where we talked about everything: what we ate for breakfast, what we ate for lunch, how we felt about said meals. Nothing was off limits. And, in the interest of not “bottling things up,” perhaps there was an inclination to dwell on meaningless difficulties.

I’m not alone in my partiality to selfpity; a cursory glance at Yik Yak reveals a campus penchant for commiserating.

From senior thesis woes to midterm miseries, complaints amass.

There is no doubt that talking about our problems is crucial. Certainly, nobody should feel pressure to present a perfect front when things are far from alright.

Forcing ourselves to disguise and conceal our problems does not make them disappear, and sometimes, just reading about others’ trials is soothing, reminding us of a larger, complicated and problem-filled world around us.

A psychological study published in the Journal of Social Psychology examines the benefits of whining — if done right. According to the study, if complainers focus on how their problems can be positively resolved, rather than simply on what the problems are, complaining can be a constructive activity.

“Perhaps people who are more mindful modulate the type of complaints they offer, preferring to engage in instrumental types of complaints over expressive complaints, thereby expressing complaints only when they believe they will accomplish desired outcomes,” the study says.

However, as psychiatrist Eric Berne writes in “Games People Play,” sometimes complaining is not about seeking advice and aiming to improve a situation. Sometimes complaining is satisfying simply because of the sympathy it solicits. Sometimes we just want people to commiserate with us, to validate our feelings and give us the right to be upset.

Furthermore, group commiseration can be bonding. One reason my family is close is certainly because we are able to share freely.

So, perhaps my ranting should have been a source of great relief. Whether it be in communally constructing a plan to tackle my problems or in soliciting sympathy, the virtues of complaining seem to abound. And yet, despite all of this, when my friend asked if our conversation was making me feel better, I answered “No.” No, discussing all of my assorted problems was not satisfying. Instead of feeling release, feeling my problems dissipate and dissolve by naming and sharing them, I felt weighed down and exhausted by our chat.

Research on teenage “co-rumination” found that individuals who spend time rehashing and revisiting problems without making any progress in tackling them are likely to experience emotional consequences. According to the study, “Because co-rumination involves a perseverative focus on the details of problems, it also may cause problems to seem more significant and harder to resolve. This could lead to more worries and concerns about problems and associated anxiety symptoms.”

Continually returning to the same unresolved problems can be exhausting, as well as anxiety and depression-inducing.

Obsessively discussing the same things and dwelling on the same complaints and concerns can enlarge our problems and get us stuck in a slump instead of preparing us to effectively confront challenges. The adverse effects of this negative mindset can potentially spread to our friends. Research shows that negative attitudes and anxiety are contagious; dwelling on our problems draws our friends into the same patterns.

While sharing is an important part of any relationship, there is a balance to strike between addressing problems and letting these problems define us. Some problems are solvable; sometimes when we seek assistance from parents and peers we get meaningful advice. But, sometimes, discussing stress only begets more stress. If we find ourselves talking about the same thing over and over again with no desirable outcome in sight, it may be time to change the subject.

Julia Case-Levine is a freshman from New York, N.Y. She can be reached at juliacc@princeton. edu.

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ampus Dining is managed with remarkable skill and efficiency. Even while serving thousands of students, staff and visitors each day, the award-winning residential dining program makes it a priority to offer nutritious and sustainable menus. The retail dining system, meanwhile, provides quality services in a number of easily accessible locations. However, there is still significant room for improvement, specifically in the area of waste reduction. The University could do much in the way of small adjustments to dining operations in order to promote financial and environmental efficiency. To that end, the Editorial Board offers two proposals. First, Campus Dining should gradually reduce the size of plates in the residential dining halls. Second, make the Princeton University water bottles currently sold in Frist Campus Center ineligible for the Late Meal allowance.

The plates currently utilized in the dining halls are generally quite large. While this may appeal to the appetites of a few particularly ravenous students, it is not conducive to an efficient use of resources.

People eating in the dining halls will naturally fill their plates with food but, because the plates are excessively large, will usually only eat a portion of their meal. Thus, people consistently take too much food and dispose of the excess. The Board recommends reducing plate size to encourage diners to take

less food and thereby reduce waste.

In doing so, the University would very easily decrease its financial burdens regarding the purchase of food as well as the disposal of excess waste. Furthermore, the costs associated with a reduction in plate size could be kept at a minimum through careful planning by simply waiting until a regularly scheduled purchase date to introduce a new set of smaller plates rather than discarding all the current plates immediately.

Campus Dining could further reduce waste by removing bottled water from the products covered by the Late Meal allowance in Frist.

Presently, the Food Gallery offers Princeton University water bottles as a product covered by the Late Meal credit allowance afforded to all students with a meal plan. Because it is covered by the Late Meal allowance, students have no reason not to purchase bottled water. Indeed, far too many University water bottles are purchased by students seeking to use the entirety of their Late Meal allowance. This allowance was designed to provide an alternative meal time to students with demanding class schedules, but the availability of bottled water during Late Meal only fuels waste and environmental harm.

The situation is made worse by the presence of many water fountains and bottle filling stations around campus. Rather than encouraging the student body to utilize these fountains and stations, current re-

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tail dining policies simply encourage unnecessary waste. To remedy this problem, the University’s retail dining services should no longer offer bottled waters as a product covered by the Late Meal allowance.

In addition, the University should supplement this change by expanding the number of bottle filling stations around campus. There are multiple major buildings without such amenities, notably East Pyne and Robertson Hall, and decreasing this number would incentivize students to use refillable bottles instead of purchasing and discarding numerous University water bottles.

Dining hall tendencies and Late Meal purchases are an important part of the University student’s daily life. In order to improve its efficiency, both in a financial and environmental sense, the University ought to reduce plate size and remove bottled water as a product eligible for a Late Meal swipe. Doing so would also make for a more pleasant dining experience and a more sustainable campus overall.

For these reasons, the Board strongly urges the University administration to adopt these proposals.

Allison Berger ’18, Connor Pfeiffer ’18, and Theodore Furchtgott ’18 abstained from this editorial.

The Editorial Board is an independent body and decides its opinions separately from the regular staff and editors of The Daily Princetonian. The Board answers only to its Chair, the Opinion Editor and the Editor-In-Chief.

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Avaneesh Narla

Does the P/D/F option dissuade learning and exploration?

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n Sunday, the Editorial Board wrote an editorial encouraging the University to adopt measures relating to the current pass/D/fail policy. While I don’t believe that the measures promoted by the Board are necessarily the best solution to the issue, I believe that the University’s P/D/F policy for undergraduates needs to change in order for the University to truly promote its ideals as a center of liberal arts education and an institution of scholarly exploration.

While “P/D/F”-ing a class is a great option for those who wish to explore a field but fear that a bad grade might hurt their future goals, it also leads to a very common narrative: students are often no longer incentivized to engage in the class.

Most students recognize the significant difference between the effort required to pass a course and the effort required to get a good grade.

The question of whether or not one will P/D/F a class becomes a strategic one: students often find that P/D/F-ing a class will enable them to focus on and perform better in their other classes. While ideally students would continue to put effort into their P/D/F class (and their intention may be to do so), due to the pres-

sures of other classes, P/D/F classes often take a backseat.

Having the P/D/F deadline midway through the semester means that students are participating minimally in a class for almost half a semester, as once they declare P/D/F, they resign themselves to the least amount of work required to pass a class. This is harmful for everybody participating in the class with them: students, instructors and preceptors. In fact, there is vast literature (An Evaluation of Pass/Fail in Princeton and A National Evalution of Pass/Fail) in post-secondary pedagogy documenting the large drop in performance and change in attitudes due to the P/D/F option.

Further, students may find that they are performing better than they expected. Some classes consider only one piece of assessment for the reported midterm grades, which is not indicative of the student’s final performance in the class. Often, students find that they are P/D/F-ing a class they enjoy and could do well in, but are not receiving due credit for any additional effort beyond the minimal.

I believe that it is imperative that the administration reconsider its P/D/F policy after collection of student and faculty feedback. I have outlined a few of the possible changes (extending upon those proposed by the Editorial Board), but hope that

they are criticized and developed upon, and that other modifications emerge and are considered.

One modification that would likely be met with positive feedback by students would be to push the deadline for electing the P/D/F option until later in the semester, for example allowing for electing a P/D/F grade after receiving the final grade, as proposed by the Editorial Board. This will ensure incentive to engage in the class throughout, but may pose its own problems. Other possible deadlines include after the final exam but before receiving a grade, after the last week of classes and possibly even course-specific P/D/F deadlines decided on by the instructor. Variations of these deadlines exist in universities across the country and around the world, and often act as fail-safes in case the student finds that they were not able to perform adequately in a class due to illness or other circumstances.

Many may argue that having the deadline after receiving the grade would make the Pass grade equivalent to a C, but isn’t that already the case? Undergraduates currently P/D/F a class because they believe it would significantly lower their GPA. Students would still not be able to PDF most classes, and most importantly all departmental requirements. Thus, the GPA would still be relevant, but the hope of a good

grade would incentivise further exploration.

Another modification, albeit an unpopular one, would be to make the requirements to pass a course more stringent. Currently, according to the University’s grading policy, a pass grade reflects that the final work is at least “acceptable, while falling short of meeting basic standards in several ways.” The requirements could be raised so that the work reflects a higher standard of learning, which would force a student to engage in the class more.

However, this could dissuade students from exploring and tighten the spectrum of grades, and thus increase competition. I’m no proponent for fear as a motivator (despite its pedagogical benefits), but I recognize the benefits this alternative modification could present.

As a proponent of the liberal arts curriculum, the University should reflect on the practicality of the P/D/F option and gather relevant feedback from all members of the community. While no particular modifications seem obvious, the University must not believe that the policy as it is now is successful in encouraging scholarly exploration in diverse fields.

Avaneesh Narla is a freshman from Calcutta, India. He can be reached at avaneesh.narla@princeton.edu.

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Caputo leads Brown’s offense out of the midfield. In last year’s iteration of this fixture, he tallied four points on two goals and two assists.

“The main focus will be playing our regular defense while not letting their attackmen dictate the pace of the game,” Rotatori explained. “We’ll have to stay on their hands on them and force them to do things they’re not used to doing by pressing out.”

Faceoff specialist Will Gural has been instrumental in establishing possession for his Bruno’s playmakers. The junior has been successful on 119-188 of his draw attempts, a ratio good for ninth in the NCAA’s Division I. This spells very bad news for Princeton. Of late, faceoffs have been almost a futile endeavor for the Tigers. Rutgers University and Yale combined to outdraw the Tigers by an absurd 50-15 margin.

It will take a good deal of creativity for the Tigers to get possession against Browns more accomplished faceoff unit. Variably positioning wing players may help throw off Gural and company.

“Even if they are winning clamps, we still want to make it a fifty-fifty ground ball,” DeButts said. “We’re confident on the ground with [sophomore midfielder] Zach [Currier] and [freshman midfielder] Sam [Bonafede], guys who are like

vacuum cleaners.”

Should Princeton hope to emerge on the favorable side of a shootout, they will likely look to their two star seniors.

After being held scoreless by a stifling University of Maryland defense, midfielder Kip Orban and MacDonald have combined for 25 goals and 12 assists over the past three games. Worthy of note, solo-captain Orban ranks first among Division I midfielders in goals per game while the Canadian sensation MacDonald has earned three Ivy League Player of the Week honors in 2015.

While this duo has been prolific, Currier has been the Xfactor for the Tigers. He leads his team with 28 ground balls and ranks second with nine caused turnovers. Creativity is the hallmark of Currier’s approach on offense. His dynamic dodging regularly draws double team, opening up scoring opportunities for his teammates.

“He’s developed every part of his game,” Rotatori said.

“Right now he’s not getting too many points. That’s because he does everything for our team.

He gets ground balls. He’s on the wings facing off. He faces off himself. He’s causing turnovers. After the [Johns] Hopkins [University] game somebody made the joke that they even saw him selling popcorn in the stands.”

Spring break wins over Rutgers and Yale by scores of 12-11 and 11-10 showcased the young team’s resilience and poise in the face of a severe possession

disadvantage.

How young exactly? Five sophomores and a freshman feature in Princeton’s starting lineup. With injuries to defensemen sophomore Will Reynolds and junior Mark Strabo, second-year defenseman Bear Goldstein is the lone close defenseman to have started a game prior to the season.

“There were a lot of question marks for our defense even before the injuries,” DeButts noted. “So it’s crazy how much the new guys have improved.

We haven’t quite put it together for all four quarters. Brown is a high-powered offense. For us to come out and make a solid statement against them would be a huge confidence boost for our defense.”

Individual improvement regarding communication along with a team-first defensive strategy has allowed the Princeton defense to survive what DeButts called their “baptism by fire.”

For the Tigers, last Saturday’s result against the Bulldogs ends up marking the season’s most meaningful performance. Two frustrating losses preceded the 11-10 win. In the 2013 Ivy League tournament final, Yale outmatched the Tigers by a final goal margin of 12-8. Junior midfielder Jake Froccaro, who has been sidelined for all but two contests in 2015, scored 10 goals in a single game against the Bulldogs last season. Nonetheless, Yale defended their home turf with a 16-15 win.

“It felt great. Liberating,” Ro-

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The Tigers look to stay perfect against Ivy League opponents this season, having already beaten Yale and Penn.

tatori explained. “We’ve always come up short against them, even though we know feel like we’re the better team. This time, from the first whistle, we were beating them up from end to end. Our defense was breaking down well. Our offense was getting goals when we needed it. We had no second thoughts about winning.”

Four wins. Ten losses. Over the past three years, men’s lacrosse compiled a 4-10 record

in games decided by a single goal. In 2015, the Tigers have discovered that elusive, lategame magic, emerging victorious in all three of their one goal contests.

“Honestly, it’s a mental thing that you have to overcome,” Rotatori said. “You can never waver. In the past, we’ve worried about who can step up. But now we know that someone will be able to make a play on offense or a stop on defense.”

DeButts echoed how his team has focused on developing their finishing form.

“Coming out of last year, that was something that we really focused on,” he said. “A team that wins one goal games as a certain edge to them. They find a way to execute in late game situations. For the last few years we’ve been the team that’s lost those close games. It’s great that we’re right there and now on the other side of it.”

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Black the following day against the Ball State Cardinals.

The home side took the first set by a narrow 26-24 margin before Princeton charged back to win the second by a dominant 25-15 margin. The Tigers’ powerful attack, which had converted at a 50 percent rate in the previous set, faded in the following two. Ball State dominated late in the third set to take away a 25-22 win before Princeton edged out a 25-23 set win to equalize at 2-2.

In the decisive fifth set, three points marked the largest lead for either team. Ball State had this advantage only once with the scoreboard reading 5-2. Otherwise, almost nothing separated the two sides.

Princeton established a 14-13 lead to earn the first of its two match balls. The Tigers could not convert either of their game-winning opportunities, allowing the Cardinals to complete their home defense with a 20-18 final set win.

Senior outside hitter Cody Kessel was the most prolific Tiger against Ohio State, registering 10 kills on 25 total attempts. Sophomore blocker

Junior Oboh managed a highly efficient five kills on 7 attempts.

Against Ball State, Kessel and Oboh were once again dynamic, registering 23 and 21 kills respectively. Meanwhile, senior blocker Will “Wild Bill” Sirkoy and freshman outside hitter Kendall Ratter each tallied three service aces. Junior outside hitter Devin Stearns led all players with 13 digs while adding 26 kills.

“Junior in particular has been crushing it out of the middle,” senior libero Tony Ensbury remarked of his team’s younger talent. “He’s really become a primary threat in the league. He’s a huge force and really alters other team’s game plans. Also, Kendall Ratter, the freshman, has been playing a lot better in the last few games. There’s a lot of pressure to come in and deal with passing and hitting in your first year. He’s really handled it well and picked up his game as the season’s gone on.”

This weekend, Princeton will return to conference play with away matchups against Penn State (10-9, 4-0 EIVA) and St. Francis (4-14, 2-2 EIVA).

No. 8 Penn State boasts one of the EIVA’s greatest-ever talents and one of the most dominant players in collegiate

volleyball. Senior outside hitter Aaron Russell, a first-team all-American in 2014, has won back-to-back conference player of the year awards. It will take a complete effort from the Tigers to match the completeness of Russell’s game.

Five additional all-EIVA selections from 2014 round out the Nittany Lions’ roster. With this squad, Penn State pulled off a 3-2 win over Ohio State this past weekend.

“It really comes down to serving and passing,” Ensbury said when asked what would make the difference against their long-time rivals. “Penn State always plays well in their gym. They serve really hard and are always really good. But this year we’ve kind of changed our philosophy. We’ve taken the reins off and are hitting our serves as hard as we can. If we’re serving and passing well, I think we have a good chance to beat them.”

Ensbury recalls last year’s home win over the Nittany Lions as one of the proudest moments in his collegiate career.

“That was the first time we’ve done that since 1998,” he noted. “We’d been close.

My freshman year we almost beat them in four games but couldn’t put it away.”

While St. Francis does not

pose nearly as great a threat, six of the seven sets the Tigers contested with the Red Flash in 2014 were decided by five or fewer points. To emerge with a 3-1 away win last season, Princeton had to outlast its conference rivals in a 31-29 fourth set.

In some disappointing news, Princeton lost some depth this past week with junior hitter Mike Bagnell suffering a season-ending injury.

“He’s a very good passer and is good outside,” Ensbury said.

“He doesn’t necessarily get in as many games. But it definitely hurts us in practice. Not having him there will make it a little more difficult to prepare for deep teams like Penn State.”

The EIVA postseason is fast approaching, marking the final opportunity for Princeton’s seniors to take home a conference championship.

“We’ve had some great matches and those have been fun. What it comes down to is that we want to win the EIVA. It’s not necessarily about beating Penn State or George Mason or Harvard at their gyms.

It’s about making the playoffs and playing the best volleyball we can then. The best moment for me would be winning when it matters at the end of the season.”

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every weekend, you really have to be able to let go of the last game and pick up another one a couple hours later.

We’re fairly experienced … in being able to learn from our mistakes … and keep moving.”

The Tigers showed this resilience and ability to improve on past performances soon after this loss, as they faced the host San Diego State University. This was another low-scoring, defensive struggle, with the Tigers coming out victorious with a score of 6-4. In addition to Hatcher, who scored two goals, junior goalie Ashleigh Johnson is to thank for this Tiger win. The All-American put up 16 saves against the Aztecs to help bring the Tigers to victory.

After a grueling first event, the second part of

their trip, the Loyola Marymount University Invitational, was relatively lighter.

The Tigers swept in their 4 games, with most being easier than the trials they endured at the Aztec Invitational. The one exception was against California Baptist University, against whom the Tigers faced another halftime deficit, down 7-4. However, unlike in their game against Hawaii, they would go on to beat CBU and take the game 11-9. The rest of the games came out to be a fair amount easier than the contests the Tigers had endured previously — they defeated LMU, Concordia and Whittier with scores of 11-6, 16-5 and 13-6, respectively.

With sunny California behind them, the Tigers will prepare to take on George Washington University, the first of their upcoming sixgame stretch against league opponents. Hallock noted that while the focus in

California was more on just getting through the slew of tough teams thrown at them, the focus for the Tigers now

“Ultimately, it’s not about how many games you lose, but which games you win ... the ultimate goal [for the team] is to win, and win the right games.” morgan hallock,

sophomore center defender

is internal development: “In California, we wanted to focus on our opponents, but I think that from here on it’s going to be more about us … [on how] to be able to play our game the next five-six weeks … we [will] keep train-

ing and playing hard ... now we’ll focus on more technical things to get better”.

The ultimate goal for the Tigers is not too far in the distance. They will compete in their first CWPA Championship match April 24; winning that tournament will send them on to the NCAA Championships, a stage they last reached in 2013. The Tigers were tantalizingly close to another appearance in the tournament last season, but were taken down in the final round of the CWPA Championships by the Indiana Hoosiers.

As with this season, the Tigers had a phenomenal record last year, going 31-2 overall. However, as Hallock pointed out, a few games in the season count for so much: “Ultimately, it’s not about how many games you lose, but which games you win … the ultimate goal [for the team] is to win, and win the right games.”

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with Nori pitching only 1.2 innings so far this season and Christian pitching 20.2.

Brown (5-7) is coming off of a split doubleheader against St. Mary’s College on March 24 and will face off against Cornell on Friday the 27 before it plays Princeton.

Princeton’s last four games against Brown have seen the Tigers dominate, with Princeton either splitting or sweeping the last 17 doubleheaders. Janet Leung leads the Bears with a scorching .429 batting average on 42

appearances at bat, with four more Bears batting between .295 and .286 on at least 17 appearances at the plate.

Scouting the pitching staff, Katie Orona has a 2.04 ERA on 37.2 innings, followed by Jessica Cherness, who has a 3.12 ERA on 24.2 innings.

Princeton was originally scheduled to face off against Yale and Brown on Friday and Saturday, respectively, but the games were moved and rescheduled due to field conditions and weather, with the Yale games rescheduled for April 22. Princeton will play Brown at 2 p.m. at Bordentown Regional High School.

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the season.

Sophomore Jordan Lippetz was fantastic throughout the tournament, finishing with a score of +2 and tying with Sofia Molinaro of SCAD Savannah. Lippetz finished the first round with a score of 73 to place her in first place overall, and a second round score of 73 was enough to secure her first individual title of her Princeton career. Lippetz and Molinaro easily distanced the rest of the field, with third place Lauren Dunbar from Wofford finishing with a score of +6.

The rest of the team’s four golfers finished in the top 35, with sophomore Hana

Ku finishing in 10th place with a score of +11 and junior Alexandra Wong finishing in 20th with a score of +15. Freshman duo Caroline Araskog and Shield finished in 29th and 33rd places, respectively, with scores of +17 and +19.

With great starts to their spring seasons, the two teams will travel in different directions for their next games. The men’s team will fly to California to compete at The Goodwin on Stanford Golf Course in Palo Alto this weekend, in a three-day competition from Thursday to Saturday. The women’s team will stay nearer to home as it faces off in the Pirate Invitational in Bedminster, N.J., at the Trump National Golf Club next weekend.

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Men’s lacrosse to face No. 15 ranked Brown

Tigers face high ranked teams in spring break trip

By Andrew Steele senior writer

By Andrew Steele senior writer

Earlier this season, a home win over then-No. 13 Harvard marked just the third time in program history that the Princeton men’s volleyball team (8-7 overall, 4-1 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association) had registered two wins over ranked opponents — its first had come against Cal State Northridge. During their spring break trip to the Rust Belt, the Tigers faced a pair of ranked opponents in No. 11 Ohio State (16-6, 7-3 Midwest Intercollegiate Volleyball Association) and No. 14 Ball State (12-11, 5-6 MIVA) but failed to grab that elusive third top-15 win.

The Buckeyes edged out Princeton in all three sets by scores of 25-20, 25-21 and 25-21.

A perhaps more frustrating 3-2 loss came for the Orange and See M. V-BALL page 5

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After taking on No. 11 Ohio State and No. 14 Ball State over break, the Tigers now prepare for No. 8 Penn State.

Boasting four of the country’s top 20 teams, the Ivy League doubtlessly ranks one of college lacrosse’s most challenging conferences. Following an emotional 11-10 win over Yale, men’s lacrosse (6-1 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) turns its attentions to its third Ancient Eight challenger: No. 15 Brown (7-1, 1-0). The No. 10 Tigers face an offense which trails only Lyle Thompson’s University at Albany-SUNY in goals scored per game (16.88).

Historically, Princeton holds a 31-23 advantage over its rivals from Rhode Island. Last year, Brown withstood a five-goal fourth quarter from the Tigers to preserve a 12-11 win.

“This is big game for us, because they beat us by one goal last year,” junior midfielder Will Rotatori said. “So we come into it with some vengeance in mind.”

Against Yale, Rotatori, a member of the second midfield unit, recorded his first goal of the season on the first career assist from sophomore linemate Bear Altemus. Coinciden-

tally, the former had assisted the latter in Princeton’s season opener against Manhattan College, marking the sophomore’s first-ever goal.

Brown’s attack trio of Dylan Molloy, Kylor Bellistri and Henry Blynn have emerged as one of the country’s most complete units. The six-foot, 220 lb. junior Molloy leads the conference with 41 goals and 57 points. (The next highest totals are 27, tallied by Cornell’s Matt Donovan, and 41, tallied

by Princeton senior attackman Mike MacDonald.)

“They’re definitely not the Brown of the past,” junior defensive midfielder Austin DeButts said. “They’ve turned a lot of heads. We’ve been watching their film, and they’re very explosive on offense. Dylan Molloy is as good a goalscorer as there is. And they have a sort of run and gun mentality. So a big focus on defense has been stopping transition.”

DeButts, whose created turnover and ground ball punctuated Saturday’s win over Yale, leads the Tigers with 10 takeaways.

Junior midfielder Brendan See M. LAX page 5

W O M E N ’ S W AT E R P O L O

SOFTBALL

Tigers deliver strong showings in trip out west

Softball team gets ready for Ivy League play and home openers

By Miles Hinson

This weekend, the women’s softball team will open up Ivy League play in a doubleheader against Brown on Saturday and will then take on Rider University on Sunday. The Tigers (7-13) have played all of their games away so far this season and will host their first home game at 1985 Stadium on Sunday against Rider.

The Tigers, after a successful spring break trip in which they went 3-2, losing two games by one point, are coming off a disappointing 2-4 loss against Monmouth University on Wednesday.

Monmouth got on the board in the first inning,

sports editor

The women’s water polo team has kept up its successful season over the last two weekends, winning seven of their eight games over spring break. These are the last games before the Tigers play six straight intraconference games, leading up to the Collegiate Water Polo Association Championships.

It appears the Tigers (21-2 overall, 4-0 CWPA) look ready to go as their postseason begins to draw near. Their trip to California over spring break featured all-around strong performances from players across the team. In the team’s first game, taking on University of the Pacific, the leading scorer was freshman utility Haley Wan with three goals. Wan’s freshman season has been an impressive one – she leads the team in starts, with 21, and is fifth on the team in goals, with 22. Wan supplemented her three goals with two assists, as the Tigers went on to win comfortably 10-5.

Princeton’s next game, against the University of California, San Diego, was more of a struggle. Despite heading into intermission behind 5-3, UCSD came roaring back, taking a 9-8 lead in the waning minutes of the game. The Tigers, however, would not give in and scored the final two goals of the game to win 10-9. The top scorers on the day for Princ-

By Sydney Mandelbaum associate sports editor

scoring two runs in the bottom of the first, with another run in the third before Princeton managed to score two runs in the top of the fifth inning. No Tiger made it past first base during the final two innings, with Monmouth scoring a run in the bottom of the sixth to secure its victory.

The Tigers have started the season with a lot of new talent and have lost seven games by only one run. Two Tigers have been batting at .300, senior infielder Alyssa Schmidt on 50 at bats and junior first baseman Emily Viggers on 40 at bats.

Schmidt has scored 5 runs

this season, while Viggers has scored 3. Junior catcher Skye Jerpbak follows closely behind, batting .286 on 49 appearances at bat, and is tied with senior catcher Cara Worden and freshman outfielder Kylee Pierce for a team-high 10 runs so far this season.

Turning to the pitching staff, freshman pitcher Ashley LaGuardia leads the pack with a 3.09 ERA on 63.1 innings pitched and a 4-8 record. Veteran pitchers sophomore Erica Nori and junior Shanna Christian have started easing back into play after injuries, See SOFTBALL page 5

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Women’s water polo went 7-8 in its road trip through California.

eton were senior utility Taylor Dunstan, freshman twometer Chelsea Johnson and sophomore center defender Morgan Hallock, each with two goals apiece. Wan had another impressive performance, contributing 5 assists.

At this point, the Tigers had a 14-game win streak behind them, their last loss having come back in early February. This streak, however, came to an end against No. 8-ranked University of Hawaii. In their third game at the Aztec Invitational, the Tigers found themselves in the unusual position of being down at halftime, trail-

ing 3-1. While they were able to close the gap in the waning minutes of the game, they would nevertheless just fall short, losing 6-7. Leading the Tigers in scoring were senior utilities Jessie Holechek and Ashley Hatcher, each with two.

In a jam-packed schedule like this, however, there is little rest for the weary.

When interviewed, Hallock commented on not only the intensity of the game but also the need to quickly brush off losses: “It was a good game against a great team, [but when] playing multiple game tournaments See WATER POLO page 5

Both golf teams prep for spring season

By Tom Pham associate sports editor

In their first events of the spring season, both the men’s and women’s golf teams impressed. The men’s golf team traveled to Athens Country Club in Georgia to compete in the Southern Intercollegiate, while the women’s team travelled to Moss Creek Golf Club in Hilton Head Island, S.C., to compete in the Low Country Intercollegiate.

The men’s golf team finished seventh out of 14 teams with a score of +27. They were some way off from first place University of Georgia, which

finished under par with a score of -1, an impressive 13 shots ahead of second place Georgia State University.

A total of eight Tigers competed in the tournament, with five underclassmen making up the starting lineup, all of whom were extremely impressive in the tournament. Most impressive was the freshman duo of Michael Davis and Marc Hedrick who led the way for the Tigers, combining to shoot only three shots over par for the whole tournament. Davis ended up in 10th place and Hedrick in 12th for the tournament. Sophomores Quinn Prchal and Alex Dom-

browski finished in 30th and 70th places, respectively, with scores of +7 and +17.

The women’s team was faultless in its performance in South Carolina, sweeping all of the individual and team titles. The team finished in first place, with a score of +42, tying with Wofford College and ending three shots ahead of SCAD Savannah. However, the Tigers won their tiebreaker, with their fifth golfer freshman Tenley Shield’s second-round score besting that of Wofford’s fifth golfer by four shots. This was the Tigers’ second team title of See GOLF page 5

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