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In Opinion Associate history professor Max Weiss argues that the Center for Jewish Life is preventing an open campus dialogue on Israel, and the Editorial Board suggests ways that grading could better realize its goals. PAGE 4

Today on Campus 8 p.m.: Sally Frank ‘80 will be speaking about a lawsuit she initiated making eating clubs equally accessible to men and women. Whig Hall Senate Chamber.

The Archives

Oct. 13, 1981 The University’s first informal administrative task force on sexual harassment is formed to create a new grievance procedure.

PRINCETON By the Numbers

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The number of disciplinary violations in the 2013-14 academic year.

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News & Notes Bill Clinton to speak at fundraiser in New Jersey

President Bill Clinton is booked to speak at a private fundraiser in Princeton later this month, The Jersey Journal reported.

Proceeds from the event will go to the campaign of Democratic congressional candidate for New Jersey’s 12th district, Bonnie Watson Coleman. New Jersey’s 12th district includes the town of Princeton.

A poll conducted earlier this month by The Wall Street Journal, NBC News and the University of Pennsylvania showed that a Clinton endorsement is more likely to benefit campaigns, compared to support from other leading politicians.

Coleman, currently a New Jersey assemblywoman, is running to succeed congressman Rush Holt, former assistant director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. She is running against Republican candidate Alieta Eck. Tickets for the event are priced at as much as $2,600 per attendee.

The event will be held at the home of Isabella de la Houssaye and David Crane.

Clinton’s visit will occur a week after a fundraising function for the Democratic senatorial race in Union, N.J., featuring appearances from President Barack Obama and U.S. Senator for New Jersey Cory Booker.

By Chitra Marti staff writer

The University is seeking to dismiss a number of claims, as well as the inclusion of former University President Shirley Tilghman as a defendant, in response to a lawsuit filed by a student in March, according to new court papers submitted last week.

The student alleged in his complaint filed in federal court that he was discriminated against by University administrators and forced to withdraw from Princeton following a suicide attempt.

The student, who is using the pseudonym “W. P.,” in the suit, is representing himself in this case.

This is the first formal re-

sponse submitted by the University and comes only weeks after it hired Saiber LLC to represent it in the case. The firm has represented the University in the past. Furthermore, the University is also seeking representation from D.C.-based firm Arent Fox LLP, whose lawyers are not currently licensed to practice in New Jersey.

The student’s complaint listed 10 causes of action, including violations of components of the Fair Housing Amendments Act, the Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act. In response to the motion to dismiss, the plaintiff can either submit a response challenging the motion or amend the complaint. In an interview,

the student said he plans to amend the complaint, which he expects to file next week.

William Maderer, the head counsel for the University, deferred comment to the University’s Office of Communications, which does not comment on pending litigation.

The motion filed by the University seeks to address and partially dismiss six of the 10 counts. Furthermore, the defense seeks to remove Tilghman from the list of defendants, to limit the individual liability of some administrators in some claims and to remove all defendants’ liability in three claims, including allegations of intentional infliction of emotional distress.

“The core of this dispute See MENTAL HEALTH page 2

By Chitra Marti staff writer

The University has brought on additional outside counsel in a discrimination lawsuit by a student who alleges that he was forced to withdraw following a suicide attempt.

In addition to William Maderer of Saiber LLC, who has represented the University in the past, the University has hired two lawyers from the firm Arent Fox LLP — Henry Morris, Jr., and Karen Vladeck — based in Washington, D.C. Arent Fox also has offices in New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and had revenues of $263.5 million in 2013, according to the National Law Journal.

The University’s current

lawyers, Saiber LLC, filed a motion for admission — called pro hac vice — for Arent Fox, moving that, although Morris and Vladeck are not currently licensed in New Jersey, they should be allowed to participate in this case in the New Jersey District Court. The motion was made without the defendant’s consent, and he is allowed to deny the request if he so wishes.

In an interview, the student said he hopes to block Arent Fox from participating in the case. The student has so far participated in the lawsuit anonymously.

Morris, a partner at Arent Fox, specializes in litigating employment, labor and education law cases, according to See LAWSUIT page 2

U N I V E R S I T Y A F FA I R S

Disciplinary violations remain relatively constant

Disciplinary Violations Through the Years Though the number of total violations has remained relatively constant, the distribution and types of infractions have varied. In the 2013-14 academic year, alcohol violations increased, while thefts decreased.

Academic Alcohol Disorderly Conduct Drugs Health and Safety Sexual Misconduct Theft

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By Chitra Marti staff writer

The number of students found responsible and the number of infractions committed in violation of University policies increased marginally in the last year, according to the annual discipline reports for the 2012-13 and 2013-14 school years released on Oct. 2.

The increase in the number of students found responsible was largely due to an increase in the number of alcohol infractions and number of thefts reported. However, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Students Victoria Jueds cautioned against drawing conclusions, saying that data is only available starting in 2009.

Although the reports are typically released annually, Jueds said the 2012-13 report’s release was delayed a year due to staffing issues. The reports are not required by law, Jueds said, as they deal with infractions of “Rights, Rules, Responsibilities,”

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over 90% of all disciplinary action consisted of Dean’s Warnings and Academic Probations.

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BEYOND THE BUBBLE

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5 students were accused of sexual misconduct and all were found responsible.

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FALL IN PRINCETON

STUDENT LIFE

USG senate addresses mental health

By Christina Vosbikian

By Olivia Wicki

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When U.S. Senator from Texas Ted Cruz ’92 set out on a bus tour last week, kickstarting the campaign for incumbent U.S. Senator from Kansas Pat Roberts, he also set out on a smallscale political battle against Greg Orman ’91, a Senate hopeful with whom Cruz spent three years at the University as an undergraduate. Orman, a businessman and independent candidate, has been accused by the Roberts campaign of being a stealthy democratic candidate.

“I’m reminded of another candidate who ran in 2008 who ran on empty promises. He ran on hope and change, and he figured a whole bunch of folks would like the rhetoric,” Cruz said of Orman, according to political website The Hill.

“Mr. Orman seems to be taking a page out of Barack Obama’s book.”

Orman’s campaign has not kept quiet.

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Members of the Undergraduate Student Government senate gathered for their weekly meeting this Sunday to address the opening of Mental Health Initiative Board applications and explore counter-Yik Yak initiatives.

U-Councilor and chair of the Mental Health Initiative Board Zhan Okuda-Lim ’15 presented an update on the board, whose applications are due by 5 p.m. on Thursday. The Mental Health Initiative Board is composed of three subcommittees, including programming, policy and Mental Health Week 2015.

Inquiries from senate members revolved around potential issues to be covered by the board, including whether students who have taken a year off due to mental health problems are See USG page 3

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Fall colors flourish near Lake Carnegie, as temperatures over the weekend dipped into the 40s.

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

NBC crew quarantined due to Ebola

By Durva Trivedi staff writer

After violating a 21-day isolation agreement, NBC chief medical correspondent Nancy Snyderman and her NBC crew are under a quarantine mandated by the New Jersey State Health Department until Oct. 22, according to Planet Princeton.

Snyderman and members of

her crew were in contact with freelance cameraman Ashoka Mukpo, who was diagnosed with Ebola on Oct. 1.

As a result of the exposure, Snyderman and her team agreed to go under voluntary isolation 21 days out of an “abundance of caution,” according to a letter released by NBC News President Deborah Turness.

The voluntary agreement was

made between the NBC crew, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the New Jersey State Health Department.

At least one of the members of the crew violated that agreement, resulting in health officials turning it into a mandatory confinement.

Details of those who violated the agreement and how the state See EBOLA page 2

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can be simply stated: Princeton University refused to gamble with W.P.’s life,” the motion reads. “Plaintiff’s entire Complaint is groundless, as Princeton and the Named Individual Defendants will, in due course, demonstrate.”

In the case of Tilghman, the University’s argument for dismissal is that W.P.’s claims are speculative and insufficient to raise them above the factual level. In other words, that the plaintiff is unable to show that Tilghman played a role in his case.

In the case of intentional infliction of emotional distress, the alleged conduct of the University officials would not have been “extreme or outrageous” enough to meet the court’s standards, the motion argues. The student had alleged in the complaint that he had “experienced extreme embarrassment, continuing stress and mental anguish, as well as out-of-pocket expenses, foregone wages, and reputational injury.”

However, the University’s motion argues that even if W. P.’s claims were true, “such conduct, if it even occurred, falls far short of [the] high bar the courts have set for intentional infliction claims.”

In addition, the motion seeks to dismiss claims that involve the Rehabilitation Act and American with Disabilities Act. In removing them, the motion argues that while the institution receives federal financial assistance — and as a result is liable for violations — the individuals cited in the case do not.

The motion also seeks to dismiss the plaintiff’s allegations of fraud against the University, former Counseling and Psychological Services employee Dr. Anita McLean and Univer-

sity Health Services Executive Director John Kolligian. The student had alleged that both McLean and Kolligian had led him to believe that certain meetings were confidential but, the University’s motion argues, fails to specify exactly what statements led him to believe that.

Finally, the motion seeks to dismiss claims of breach of contract, alleging that the student has failed to prove that there was a contract in place to start with. The motion also seeks dismissal of the student’s good faith and fair dealings claims, arguing that “Rights, Rules, Responsibilities,” which the student claimed as a contract with the University, is only “intended to provide a concise reference and guide,”

and not an implied contract.

Andrew Miltenberg, an attorney with Nesenoff & Miltenberg LLP, said that often a motion to dismiss a cause of action can be motivated by a desire to limit the scope of the discovery process. Miltenberg recently filed a lawsuit against Columbia alleging that a sexual assault investigation had discriminated against a male student.

“Getting some of the causes of action thrown out necessarily limits the amount of investigation that the plaintiff can do,” Miltenberg said. “All of the

things that the plaintiff could want will be limited to those that are on these four causes of action.”

The motion itself also argues that granting the motion to dismiss will “enable the parties and the Court to conserve resources and narrow discovery.”

In addition, Miltenberg said, filing a motion to dismiss for only some of the causes of action means the University may only be trying to strike down those claims which obviously lack legal connections in an attempt to preserve credibility rather than dismiss the entire case.

Miltenberg said he believes that the student will be able to move forward with either the contract claim, or good faith and the fair dealing claim, as those are contractual and quasi-contractual claims which are mutually exclusive.

The alternative to filing a motion to dismiss a cause of action is answering to the cause of action, which the University is electing to do for the causes which are listed in the complaint but not in the motion to dismiss. In order to answer a cause of action that has not been dismissed, both the plaintiff and defendant will undergo a discovery process, during which each side can obtain the others’ pertinent records, find witnesses and depose each other under oath.

If, by the end of this process, the defendants feel there is insufficient evidence to prove the student’s claims, they can file a motion for summary judgment, in which a judge would decide to either fully or partially resolve the causes of action.

Otherwise, if there are any material facts in dispute, the causes will move forward to trial in front of a jury.

The motion will be heard in front of Judge Joel A. Pisano at the U.S. Courthouse in Trenton on Nov. 3 at 10 a.m.

ceedings, as well as in state and federal court litigation.

She advises employers in complying with federal and state discipline and discharge decisions, and has experience in fair housing litigation and defending employers against allegations of discrimination, according to her profile.

In the case, a student alleges that he was forced to withdraw from the University

following a suicide attempt.

He lists seven administrators and the University in his complaint as defendants in the case.

Among his causes of action are claims involving the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act and the Fair Housing Act, as well as breaches of contract, which the University is currently seeking to dismiss.

“... this dispute can be simply stated: Princeton University refused to gamble with W.P.’s life.” court filling

COURTESY OF THE LOOKING LAB

NBC chief medical correspondent Nancy Snyderman is under quarantine mandated by the New Jersey State Health Department after violating a voluntary 21-day isolation period.

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his profile on the firm’s website. He has also worked on breach of contract cases and often represents clients in the education industry or government entities.

Vladeck, an associate of the firm, often represents clients in mediations and agency pro-

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learned of the violation have not been released, although a state health department spokesperson told the Associated Press that Snyderman and her crew are still symptom-free and do not pose a significant risk to the community.

Planet Princeton reported last

week that Snyderman, who is a resident of Princeton, was seen in public in Hopewell Borough.

According to the eyewitness, Snyderman remained in a car while a man who accompanied her entered Peasant Grill to pick up take-out.

Although Snyderman’s team was reporting in Liberia during the outbreak, Snyderman reported being very vigilant and remaining at low risk of con-

tracting the virus.

The CDC reports that people exposed to Ebola develop symptoms two to 21 days after exposure.

Mukpo, the fifth American to battle Ebola, is now being treated in Omaha, Neb. Nebraska Medical Center’s isolation unit director told the Associated Press on Friday that Mukpo’s condition had slightly improved.

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the University’s main policy handbook.

The number of alcohol infractions nearly doubled from 45 in 2012-13 to 88 in 2013-14. However, Jueds noted that between 2010 and 2013, the University saw an uncharacteristic decrease in the number of alcohol violations. Jueds said she does not believe that the number of violations for alcohol necessarily decreased during that time, and that the FacultyStudent Committee on Discipline continues to adjudicate every report it receives from the Residential College Disciplinary Board.

Punishments for alcohol violations have regularly been either Dean’s Warnings for first-time violations, gatherings with low-proof or small amounts of alcohol, or disciplinary probation for violations that involved hard alcohol, drinking games or, in general, a higher risk to health, safety or well-being.

Students with previous disciplinary history also received campus service hours.

Drug violations jumped from 22 to 52 in the last year, ending a previously declining trend, even though there were only 42 unique offenders. The majority of these cases were resolved with disciplinary probation, although one student was suspended with conditions for a year following a series of infractions involving marijuana.

Academic violations stayed nearly constant, at 43 in 2012-13 and 40 in 2013-14.

Punishments in the 2012-13 school year, however, were more varied, with three students suspended with censure and three students having their degrees withheld, as they were seniors. The majority of these cases in both years were cases of plagiarism, with a few found in violation of gaining an unfair advantage or submitting the same work in two different courses without permission.

In these cases, Jueds said that the standard is whether or not the students “ought to have reasonably understood” they were in violation of “Rights, Rules, Responsibilities,” and that the punishment in that case is almost invariably a year-long suspension. If the student might not have reasonably understood — a “careless error” — he is typically awarded disciplinary probation. If a student has a prior violation, he might be suspended for two years or expelled, as was the case for one student

last year.

In addition, the University has seen an over 50 percent drop over the last five years in the number of thefts reported, from 175 in 2009-10 to 83 in 2013-14, perhaps due to a change in the nature of theft in recent years. Seventy-four students were given Dean’s Warnings or short terms of probation for illegal sharing of copyrighted material, such as digital music or movies. One student was also suspended for a year for making purchases with another student’s credit card.

Jueds said the decrease in thefts is largely within the subcategory of sharing copyrighted files, but that she could not speculate as to why this is the case.

“There is no behavior that had previously been permitted that is now going to be prohibited.”

Victoria Jueds,

Associate Dean of Undergraduate Students

The number of assaults was halved, although Jueds said she doesn’t believe there is a specific reason for this drop. Nearly all students were given disciplinary probation, except for a minor incident that earned a Dean’s Warning.

Changes to the report in the last two years include combining the previously separate Dishonesty and Fraud categories and the previously separate Information Technology and Computer categories, which Jueds said was due to the inherently similar nature of the categories. The report also began including Unauthorized Entry under Disorderly Conduct in the 2010-11 school year.

This is also the last year in which sexual misconduct violations will be handled by the Committee of Discipline Subcommittee on Sexual Misconduct. From now on, as noted by an updated section of “Rights, Rules, Responsibilities,” such cases will be handled by the University vice provost for institutional equity and diversity.

These changes took into account legislation from the Clery Act, the Violence Against Women Act and Title IX and, most significantly, lowered the standard for such cases from “clear and

persuasive,” which is generally used by the Committee on Discipline, to a “preponderance of the evidence” standard.

Jueds said there were no other significant changes to University policies on discipline in the last few years, only in terminology and categorization. For example, she noted, dating violence recently became a new reported category, but this does not mean that incidents of dating violence were previously permitted.

Instead, they were reported differently.

“We wanted to be more specific,” Jueds said. “There is no behavior that had previously been permitted that is now going to be prohibited,” she added.

Jueds said the Committee on Discipline would also continue to use the “clear and persuasive” standard when adjudicating cases.

Even though not every case is sent to a hearing, Jueds said that most are, as the standard for holding a hearing is much lower than the standard for actually finding a student responsible.

“It’s not for me to make decisions about what goes forward and what doesn’t,” Jueds said. “If there is any evidence to consider, [the Committee] must be allowed to consider it.”

The Annual Discipline Report is not required by law, in contrast to the Annual Safety & Fire Report, which was released two weeks ago by the Department of Public Safety and is required under the Clery Act. The Annual Safety & Fire Report lists violations of law that take place in the University community.

The Clery Act report covers campus geographically, while the Discipline Report covers all students on or offcampus, including sporting events and University-sponsored summer programs that take place abroad.

The Clery Act report also covers all reports for students and non-students, including non-affiliated persons charged with crimes

by DPS on campus, while the Discipline Report covers only undergraduate and, occasionally, graduate students.

The Clery Act report also includes all reports made, whether or not a person was found responsible, while the Discipline Report only includes students found responsible by the Committee on Discipline.

Finally, the Clery Act report covers calendar years, while the Discipline Report covers academic years.

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allowed to walk with their graduating classes.

Additionally, USG social chair Logan Roth ’15 noted the USG’s need to “[look] at continuing the conversation on the withdrawal policy.”

Okuda-Lim said he hopes to meet with administrators this week to continue to discuss programming collaboration and policy issues.

Student representatives of the Princeton Student Firefighters Association and the Princeton First Aid & Rescue Squad attended the meeting to outline the growth of its membership quota. Robert Keown ’17 said that PSFA is hoping to expand by accepting 20 to 30 new members this year.

Campus and Community Affairs Committee chair Paul Riley ’15 will lead a benefit cocktail party for the fire department and the first aid rescue squad on Oct. 17 to commemorate the student group’s achievement.

“It’s a great way to respond from the student’s side, the administration’s side, to appreciate the work they do,” Riley said.

The resolution for this event passed with a unanimous vote.

Members further discussed USG involvement in the anti-cyberbullying culture on campus, especially in light of the popularity of Yik Yak on campus.

Yik Yak is a location-based and anonymous Twitter-like application.

Undergraduate Student Life Committee chair Ella Cheng ’16 said it is important to counter the “Yik Yak culture” that has formed on campus and the cyberbullying that takes place within the application.

Cheng is a former staff writer for The Daily Princetonian.

Further issues on Sunday’s agenda included Wintersession updates, Global Opportunities and an air mattress pilot program.

U-Councilor Katherine Clifton ’15 presented the longterm goals for Wintersession, a week-long educational program for undergraduates during Intersession. The goals include continuing to provide student enrichment programs focused on leadership and community development, and having a target student enrollment of

around 1,000 students.

Last year’s attendance was great, Clifton said, with more than 600 students taking part in the program.

Global Opportunities, a project seeking to centralize study abroad opportunities at Princeton, is still in its initial phases. Class of 2016 senator Yoni Benjamoni said that the committee is currently collecting data to outline the project’s central goals, but that the committee is beginning to reach out to establish communications with faculty and academic departments.

Finally, Class of 2016 senator Michael Cho said that he hopes to revive the air mattress rental project that former Class of 2016 senator Eduardo Lima had attempted to implement.

The project would facilitate a system in which students could rent air mattresses from the USG. Cho said he has heard positive student reactions, with more than 30 to 40 sign-ups in preliminary interest surveys. Central questions revolved around holding renters accountable and creating an effective system with which to monitor the borrowing program.

COURTESY OF THE NEW YORKER (L.) AND THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS (R.)

Ted Cruz ‘92 and candidate Greg Orman ‘91 reportedly did not know each other while at the University.

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“Inviting the architect of last year’s government shutdown to Kansas is yet another example of how Senator Roberts is an enthusiastic participant in a broken system,” Jim Jonas, Orman’s campaign manager, said, according to ABC News.

Although the two studied at the University with only a year difference, friends of Cruz and Orman interviewed for this article all said they did not know whether the two had met during their time at the University. Catherine Frazier, Cruz’s press secretary, confirmed in an email that Cruz did not know Orman when they were undergraduates.

“I know no connection between Ted and Greg Orman on campus,” said David Panton ’92, Cruz’s friend as an undergraduate. “That’s not to say that there was no connection, but I personally know of none.” Panton and Cruz worked closely together in student government and the Cliosophic Society, were named Team of the Year of the Princeton Debate Panel and were roommates at the University, and later at Harvard Law School.

Cruz and Orman did not respond to requests for comment.

Even though both studied and were involved in activities conducive to eventual political careers, they were never members of the same club or organization. It seems as though Cruz and Orman never crossed paths

at all as undergraduates.

Cruz was a member of Colonial Club and Butler College, while Orman had no eating club affiliation and was in Wilson College.

Cruz, a concentrator in the Wilson School, was president of the Ivy Council, chairman of the Princeton University Council, chair of the Cliosophic Society, executive director of education for the Debate Panel and director of training for the American Parliamentary Debate Association in his time at the University, according to his yearbook entry.

Orman was a member of Model Congress, Financial Forum, the Princeton Post and College Republicans, according to his yearbook entry. He majored in economics.

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Is the Center for Jewish Life stifling free speech on campus?

Max Weiss

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I have never met Slav Leibin.

Nonetheless, it recently came to my attention that he vetoed, with the approval of the Center for Jewish Life, my right to participate in a proposed panel on the recent hostilities in Gaza. Apparently this preemptive act of exclusion was carried out on entirely political grounds. This strikes me as an attempt to stifle the exchange of views on an important, if contentious, issue of concern to many in the Princeton University community — an egregious violation of our community’s values.

Slav Leibin is the Jewish Agency Israel Fellow at the Center for Jewish Life, which is home to Hillel at Princeton. Founded in 1923, Hillel is the world’s largest Jewish student organization, with branches at more than 550 colleges and universities, guided by the mission of helping students “to explore, experience, and create vibrant Jewish lives.”

Beginning in 2003, Hillel International has partnered with the Jewish Agency for Israel in order to place some 60 such Israel Fellows on almost 70 North American campuses, including Princeton.

Prior to its creation in 1929, the JA was known as the “Palestine Zionist Executive,” and during the pre-1948 period it was responsible for Jewish settlement, immigration, and defense in Palestine. Since 1948, the JA has been the leading international Jewish nonprofit organization, funded by the Jewish Federations of North America as well as private donors in Israel and abroad, “providing meaningful Israel engagement and facilitating Aliyah” — literally, going up — that is, immigration of Jews to Israel and their naturalization as citizens there.

Although technically autonomous, the JA effectively operates as an advocate for the government of Israel. For someone representing the JA to bar a member of the Princeton faculty from sharing his or her expertise and perspectives is no more acceptable than it would be for an envoy of the Chinese, Canadian or any other government to do the same.

As a tenured member of the Princeton faculty with a joint appointment in the Departments of History and Near Eastern Studies, and as a scholar of the modern Middle East with considerable expertise in the history of Israel/Palestine, I am deeply troubled to discover that our campus life is not only being patrolled but even policed by nonacademic figures here with a political mandate.

In the wake of Operation Protective Edge, Princeton students attempted to organize a public event that would address the context and consequences of the Israeli assault on Gaza in July that left over 2,100 Palestinians and nearly 70 Israelis dead. Students then reached out to the Center for Jewish Life for co-sponsorship, presumably for an event to which I was going to be invited (I did not know of these plans at the time). In response, Mr. Leibin wrote in an email on Sept. 8, “I would like to bring to your attention that Max Weiss has recently signed a public statement supporting boycott of Israel. This issue complicates the program for us, as it is Highly [sic] sensitive for a CJL ASG to sponsor a program with a speaker who made a statement like this, which is one of the red lines in our Israel policy.”

This point about “red lines in our Israel policy” needs to be understood in a larger context. Hillel International has a policy barring local chapters from sponsoring talks by, or symposia including, people whom Hillel deems overly critical of Israel.

This policy has prompted a revolt by many students in Hillel chapters around the country, who insist they have a right to hear all perspectives, and a national Open Hillel movement, which held its first national conference this past weekend at Harvard.

On October 10, president and chief executive officer of Hillel International Eric Fingerhut affirmed in the Israeli newspaper Ha`aretz that Hillel is committed to promoting “an environment that is “intellectually rigorous, respectful of difference and committed to honest conversation.”

What Hillel International will not do, Fingerhut wrote, is “partner with organizations that espouse anti-Semitism, apply a double standard to Israel, spout racism or promote Islamophobia.”

Recently Fingerhut met with Open Hillel activists, however, and told them, “every student is welcome at Hillel regardless of his or her personal views on Israel or any other topic in Jewish life.”

Apparently, at Princeton, the same does not hold for faculty.

I therefore ask the CJL to explain whether it believes that Mr. Leibin’s decision to bar a faculty member from sharing his expertise and perspective on an issue of concern to many members of our community is acceptable behavior and serves our students by promoting the free and full exchange of ideas and opinions. According to its own mission statement, the CJL “acts as a liaison with Princeton University on matters related to Israel.” How does the CJL understand the role of such a liaison? Is the CJL committed to sponsoring open debate and the free exchange of ideas with respect to “Israel or any other topic in Jewish life?” Or, does the CJL favor excluding some viewpoints and certain members of the Princeton community based on political criteria?

Princeton must remain a place where open debate and academic exchange is encouraged and allowed to flourish, even on the most controversial issues.

Now is a particularly urgent moment for the Princeton community — faculty and students alike — to sit up and take notice of the struggle to protect free speech and academic freedom in this country.

After all, it’s happening in our own backyard.

Max Weiss is an associate professor of history and near eastern studies, and an Elias Boudinot bicentennial preceptor. He can be reached at maxweiss@princeton.edu.

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Toward meaningful grading

ast Monday, University faculty members voted to revoke the policy of grade deflation implemented in 2004 and to move towards a grading system based not on numerical targets, but on standards determined by each individual department. As administrators and individual departments work to develop new guidelines for monitoring the general distribution of grades, the University community has an opportunity to reflect upon the priorities of its grading practices and to address the culture that surrounds grades on campus. In speaking to Monday’s faculty meeting, Dean of the College Valerie Smith recognized that “meaningful [grading] standards should be course- and discipline-specific.” In order for grades to be meaningful in the way that Dean Smith envisions, students should be able to privately view the breakdown of grades in courses they have completed and, additionally, the University should publish the general distribution of grades by course level (e.g., 200-level, 300-level) in each department.

The ability for students to contextualize grades more meaningfully within their particular courses would greatly contribute to the emphasis on feedback that the University is working towards. Expectations can, and often do, fluctuate dramatically from course to course (and sometimes even from precept to precept) as a result of factors

such as the preferences of particular instructors and the curve established by enrolled students. These inevitable inconsistencies make it imprudent to assess grades in a vacuum or to mistake them for universal indicators of aptitude. Students often wonder how their work compares to the average and what kind of performance level their grade really indicates. The University’s silence on these questions — a failure to supply the crucial other half of the story — leads students to view grades as rigid and inaccurate tools for judging students against one another rather than catalysts for intellectual growth.

To demystify grades, the University must be more open about them.

This openness must extend, at least to some degree, beyond the immediate University community. By publishing the general distribution of grades by course level in each department (a relatively abstract and yet muchneeded measurement), the University would ensure greater levels of fairness in outside assessments of students’ performances, whether for prizes, internships, fellowships, graduate school admissions or jobs. While the University has historically included a letter explaining the grade deflation policy with each official transcript, releasing grade distributions would be more meaningful in the context of the department-dictated standards.

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student seeks out require just as much consideration as the student’s grades themselves. Many students suffer or benefit unduly from misleading stereotypes about the relative difficulties of departments and course levels, and providing rough data on such matters would enable more responsible readings of these students’ grades. The ability for students to point to the difficulty of their courses would also encourage them to challenge themselves in their studies: As the committee charged with reviewing grade deflation observed, the concern that grades will be misunderstood and viewed out of context has a stifling effect on students’ academic development. Students are frequently unwilling to take classes which they view as disproportionately challenging, regardless of their interest.

In lieu of standardizing grades across courses and disciplines, the University should become more vocal and forthcoming about the discrepancies in evaluations of student work.

What is needed most of all is context, from which students can come to understand the real meaning of their grades — and learn from them.

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Toward a safe space in feminist discussions Will Rivitz

contributing columnist

“Oh, I get it. You’re a feminist until it’s hard.”

A fellow Princeton classmate dropped this insult on me during a heated discussion about the sexism of Reddit, and it stung. As a self-identified feminist (and, believe me, I know how toxic many articles can become when they begin with that phrase), I like to think that I’m doing something to dismantle sexism, or at least my own personal sexism, on a day-today basis. Even though I’m from the North, I’ve taught myself to use the phrase “y’all” instead of “you guys” because it is genderneutral. I stay away from words like “bitch,” “bossy” and “slut” because I believe they perpetuate a very real culture of violence towards women, and I have called out people who use them in my presence. Most of all, I’ve been learning to recognize the absurd privilege I’ve inherited as a male (especially one who is also white and straight) in a society that is patently unfriendly to anyone who doesn’t identify as such.

That being said, I think that in some forms of feminism, especially the more radical ones, there is some aggression towards men who may not think in the exactly

same manner. In a recent column for the The Daily Princetonian, contributing columnist Newby Parton recounted his experience at USG town hall meeting in which he voiced a concern about how the University’s new policy towards sexual assault cases might increase the likelihood of false convictions.

As he puts it, “I was accused of being ‘steeped in rape culture.’ [...] I did not dare speak again — my ideas were not welcome.”

I do not entirely agree with the claims Parton makes in his editorial. I do believe that rape culture is a very real facet of our society, and the statistic that one in three American women will be abused sexually during her life provides ample proof of that. I also believe that misandry is a flawed argument – verbal attacks against men do not equate to deeply-rooted societal oppression. The only reason this column does not delve more deeply into issues of misogyny and rape culture is because there are countless other writers who have already done that better than I will ever be able to do. Finally, I don’t plan on making the #NotAllMen argument, because I believe it’s not true. We all have inherent sexist biases, no matter how much we try to ignore them, and the only way to have any hope of terminating those biases is to struggle actively against them at all times.

However, Parton’s column raises a concern that has been troubling me for a long time: there seems to be a tendency in certain schools of feminist thought to jump down the throat of any man who makes a comment which doesn’t fully line up with that school’s way of thinking. Feminist discussions often claim a “safe space” in which any topic is valid for consideration.

This safe space needs to include all people, not just members of the societally oppressed group.

In my opinion, any all-inclusive discussion on misogyny should not include vitriolic anti-male polemic. If anything, every opinion should be treated as legitimate and should be critiqued and discussed respectfully.

I’m not trying to argue that feminism should be easy for men to participate in. As Mia McKenzie writes for Black Girl Dangerous, feminism “requires [men] giving up power and all evidence suggests that’s not their super-fave thing. Share a link about gender equality? Sure! Count me in! Give up real power in real ways? Nope, not really.” Ideally, being a male feminist means fighting with all your might against a power structure favorable to you, and that can be very difficult. It’s especially because of this that comments like the one at the top of this article can be hurtful. Being

a male feminist absolutely should not be glamorous, but at the very least I should be able to express potentially controversial opinions I truly hold without immediately feeling attacked unconstructively.

Pragmatically, I’m more likely to critique my own opinion if the response to it is a civillyworded counterargument rather than a vituperative accusation.

At the farm I worked for in high school, one of our central tenets was the quote, “We are not to blame, and we are responsible.”

The quote refers to privilege and oppression — we are not to blame for our own inherent biases and the current structures of power in place in America and the world, yet at the same time we are responsible for confronting those biases and demolishing those structures. To me, an important piece of feminism is holding lengthy discussions in an actual “safe space” without the fear that I’ll be massacred for a potentially controversial thought I’ve had.

Unless we realize that everyone’s experience with sexism is unique, that confronting one’s own bigotry is hard work and that not everyone is already at the same point, this “safe space” will not exist.

Will Rivitz is a freshman from Brookline, Mass. He can be reached at wrivitz@princeton.edu.

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At heart, maybe that’s what drives us to call anything a sport: respect for passion and competitive fire. On the topic of video games, I can’t fathom how much skill and practice it takes to become good enough at a video game to compete

At heart, maybe that’s what drives us to call anything a sport: respect for passion and competitive fire. at an international level. In turn, many of my friends tell me that they could never sit down long enough to study volume after volume of chess literature, or spend three to four hours staring a chess board during a tournament.

They may not yet revere Bobby Fisher like Michael Jordan (as they clearly should), but I think they understand that it takes no less of a commitment

to be outstanding in my field as it does to be outstanding in theirs.

When I applied to Princeton, one of my essays described how my journey to become a great chess player lets me appreciate the struggle required to become good at any kind of sport. It’s one thing to watch Kobe Bryant make a beautiful shot or Tom Brady make a pinpoint pass; it’s another thing to appreciate the work behind the scenes, the late night practices and the agonizing frustration that is a constant companion on the road to success. And of course, the disgust and bitterness of each loss, the mental rewinds of every mistake you made in a game that haunts you for days after.

All those who commit themselves to a sport have something in common: an inner drive, a competitive spirit that roars like a fire within. In any endeavor, there’s no greater feeling than crushing your opponents, that invigorating rush that causes all the pain felt along the way to fade into the background.

So to all those who love their sport, but wonder whether what they do counts as such, I say this to you: play on. If anything defines a sport, it’s the passion and competitive fire of those that play.

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the Princeton aerial attack.

As the grueling season rolls on, the Tigers will hope to improve in all facets of play as they await the return of

First half lead fades in second

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Senior tailback Will Powers ran for 43 yards on nine carries and a touchdown, while Epperly added 28 yards on the ground, including one touchdown.

Sophomore linebacker Rohan Hylton led the Tigers with 18 tackles, including 1.5 tackles for loss and one sack for 16 yards. Fellow sophomore defensive back Dorian Williams added 12 tackles, including 1.5 tackles for loss and a fumble recovery. Meanwhile, sophomore linebacker RJ Paige and senior linebacker and co-captain Mike Zeuli added 11 and 10 tackles respectively, as well as a tackle for loss apiece.

some of the injured players in their ranks who were unable to suit up against Cornell. A deep, powerful Army (4-0) side will provide the next test for sprint football, arriving in Princeton to face off against the Tigers at 7 p.m. on Friday night.

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Senior forward Gabrielle Ragazzo has started in nine of Princeton’s contests. Four of her eight attempts have tested the opposing keeper.

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novitch and senior defender Lauren Lazo. Symanovitch sent the ball forward, while Lazo redirected it, allowing Lussi a one-touch into the net. Symanovitch and Lazo assisted Lussi again in her next goal in the 57th minute when the ball rebounded off Lazo across the end line, and Symanovitch passed it to Lussi for the goal. The final goal, completing Lussi’s hat trick, came in the 61st minute with junior defender Catherine Hartigan passing the ball from midfield for Lussi to volley it into the goal.

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season’s Ivy League campaign.

After falling at home to Dartmouth 2-1 in overtime in its first Ivy League game last Saturday, Princeton needed a win to bolster its push for the Ivy League title.

Saitta’s goal proved a timely antidote, providing Princeton with some momentum as league play picks up again next weekend.

“I think this gets us back in the race,” Barlow told GoPrincetonTigers.com. “If you lose the first two, and both at home, it’s really very difficult to have a chance to win the league. With how much parity there is in our league I think we’re right back into the thick of the race now. We still need to take care of business outside the league and see if we can keep climbing up the RPI, but it was a really important win to get back in the race.”

Now, Princeton will turn its attention to a non-league opponent as Loyola (4-5-2, 2-3 Patriot

“With how much parity there is in our league I think we’re right back into the thick of the race now.”

Jim Barlow ’91 head coach

League) comes to town Tuesday evening. The Tigers will resume Ivy League play at Columbia (4-5, 1-1 Ivy League) on Saturday. Last season, Princeton defeated the Lions 2-1 at home.

Lussi’s three goals were a career high, putting her at nine goals so far this season, leading the team. The last Tiger to score a hat trick was Lazo in 2012. Lazo has 25 Princeton career goals and is one place above Lussi, who is in 13th place, in Princeton’s all-time career list. Lazo, with the second-highest number of goals this season, now has a total of five goals and six assists, the most assists of any player, while Symanovitch, with the secondhighest number of assists on the team, has three.

Hargadon played exceptionally well in goal, completing her second shutout this season and seventh in

her career. Hargadon, who played the entire 90-minute

“Looking ahead, we’re confident and playing even better than expected.”

Tyler Lussi Sophomore forward

game, had one save on only six shots from Brown. In con-

trast, Brown’s goalkeepers had one save on a total of 18 shots from Princeton.

“Darcy had an incredible game,” Lussi said. “She has the toughest job and performed perfectly, motivating the rest of us to play even better.”

Saturday’s game marked the first time that Princeton scored five goals in a game against Brown and brought the all-time series total closer to being even, with the Bears leading 17-16-4.

Optimistic after the win, Lussi said, “Looking ahead, we’re confident and playing even better than expected. If we keep this up, we can take this all the way.”

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Miles mills over how to define sport, competition

By Miles Hinson staff writer

One of the greatest struggles I faced as a prepubescent youth was convincing my friends that chess mattered. Or rather, the chess could be considered as much of a sport as the more “mainstream” physical activities, such as soccer and basketball. Chess has thousands of professional players, competitions with fantastic monetary compensation and even its own Olympiad. How then, is one to say that chess is not a sport, despite its lack of physicality (assuming the players are reasonably cordial)?

To be fair, I was a pretty round kid in middle school. I probably would have argued the merits of chess ad nauseam to make up for my inability to do ten pushups. However, the point still remains: to what activities can we confer the title “sport”? Certainly physical activity can’t be the only criterion – I’d never look at my five-year-old cousin playing tag and proclaim she’s competing in a sport.

However, claiming that chess’ status as a sport is validated because there’s an Olympiad dedicated to it is just as absurd an idea. My apologies to the Princeton mathematics department and the many mathletes on campus, but I’m not quite ready to call competitive math a sport based on the existence of a math Olympiad.

But I digress. Perhaps the notion that a “sport” must be physical reflects a standard to which we hold young men and women, a standard that may indeed be anachronistic.

It has become more commonplace for children and teenagers to spend their afternoons in front of a screen rather than out on a field; in the same vein, sedentary activities are much more a staple of the typical person’s childhood. Hence, the people who are inclined to spend hours and hours on end perfecting their skills at Call of Duty or in their favorite chess opening are not outcasts or oddballs but rather receive respect and recognition from many for their passions.

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Tigers top Bruno at home to take first in-conference victory MEN’S SOCCER

By Mark Stein senior writer

The men’s soccer team earned a hardfought 2-1 home victory over Brown PRINCETON 2 (3-4-3 overall, 1-1 Ivy League) on SatBROWN 1 urday afternoon, when senior defender Joe Saitta scored the first goal of his college career in the 84th minute. Saitta collected a wellplaced cross from sophomore midfielder Vikran Pothuri on the left side of the box and finished clinically. His far-post strike catapulted the Tigers (5-3-2, 1-1) to a 2-1 victory and to their first win over Brown since the 2010 season.

But Princeton had to win the hard way, climbing back from a 1-0 firs- half deficit. A 12th-minute Bear throwin sent the ball soaring high into the Princeton box, as midfielder Jack Gorab perfectly timed a keen run. Gorab beat junior goalkeeper Ben Hummel off a deflection, giving Brown an early 1-0 lead and setting the pace for continued Brown dominance. The Bears, who earned a 1-0 victory in their first Ivy League matchup against Columbia last weekend, had not allowed a goal in over four consecutive games. The two goals necessary for a Tiger comeback seemed difficult, if not impossible.

“I thought we didn’t have our best

first half, but we still felt at halftime that we had the ability to win the game,” Princeton head coach Jim Barlow ’91 told GoPrincetonTigers.com. “I didn’t think our passing was great in the first half; there were too many plays that went backwards or stalled and allowed them to get a lot of numbers behind the ball.

They weren’t taking any chances and were keeping guys back, and we had a hard time breaking them down. In the second half, I thought we did better at getting the ball moving and getting more dangerous plays moving forward.

Certainly the penalty helped break the ice, and I think we were pretty good after that.”

The breakthrough penalty kick occurred in the 69th minute as Princeton continued to fight for the equalizer. Senior forward Cameron Porter, no stranger to scoring big goals, notched his eighth goal of the season on a wellplaced strike. Even so, Brown did not relent, and the Tigers were forced to fend off four shots and two corner kicks over the ensuing 15-minute period. But the Tigers’ defensive resolve paid off, and Princeton put the nail in the coffin with Saitta’s 84th-minute go-ahead goal.

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FOOTBALL

Missed point-after attempt gives Big Red win over Tigers

By Hillary Dodyk senior writer

Despite an impressive 16-0 first quarter, the Tigers could not hold COLGATE 31 on and fell to Colgate 31-30 in PRINCETON 30 their final nonleague game of the season. They will continue Ivy League play with a 2-2 overall, 1-0 Ivy record.

The Tigers could not have asked for a better opening to the game, with junior running back Dre Nelson returning the opening kickoff 100 yards for a touchdown. However, the Tigers could not score the two-point conversion, a decision that would ultimately come back to haunt them as they would eventually lose the game by a single point.

The first quarter continued to go the Tigers’ way, including a 59-yard run by junior running back DiAndre Atwater to set up a one-yard touchdown run by senior quarterback Quinn Epperly. Only four of the Tigers’ scoring drives this season have lasted more than three minutes, consistent with their fast and physical style of play. But they

could not continue the momentum throughout the second quarter, and while the Tigers were up 16-0 at the end of the first quarter, they headed into halftime with their lead cut to 23-21.

Again the Tigers came out strong at the beginning of the half, scoring on their first possession of the half to bring their lead back to nine. However, Colgate quickly countered and so the Tigers would head into the fourth quarter with only a two-point lead and Colgate in possession of the football. With only three seconds gone on the clock, Colgate made a field goal that gave them the 31-30 edge that would be the final scoring play of the game.

Epperly threw for 217 yards on 19 of 29 attempts, including a gamelong completion of 38 yards to senior wideout Matt Costello. However, he also threw two interceptions on the day. Costello led the team with 87 yards receiving on five receptions and one touchdown.

Atwater led the team in rushing with 131 yards on 18 carries.

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Senior signal caller Quinn Epperly picked up 217 yards through the air Saturday.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

SPRINT FOOTBALL

200th career victory comes for head coach Julie Shackford

Under Friday night lights, sprint football fails to earn first victory in Ivy League matchup with Cornell

By Sydney Mandelbaum

Contributor

staff writer

Women’s soccer head coach Julie Shackford registered her 200th career win as Princeton’s head coach PRINCETON 2 Saturday when Princeton domiBROWN 1 nated Brown, winning by a final score of 5-0. The Tigers have played well the past four games, beating Yale, Lehigh and now Brown, as well as tying Dartmouth. The win placed the Tigers (4-4-4 overall, 2-0-1 Ivy League) in a two-way tie with Harvard for first place in the Ivy League, and dropped Brown down to a tie for last place. The Tigers played incredibly well, with notable performances by senior goalkeeper Darcy Hargadon and sophomore offensive players Haley Chow and Tyler Lussi, who scored two and three goals, respectively.

“We were so excited to be able to deliver 200 wins to Coach Shackford during her last season. There were no gaps in our lines. We were first to every ball, and we worked

as a unit moving well off each other. Coming off of Lehigh, we had the confidence and the motivation to put Brown away,” said Lussi.

Schackford announced earlier this year that this would be her 20th and final season.

The first two goals of the game were scored by Haley Chow in the first 16 minutes. The first goal happened at 2:19, when Chow shot the ball from 25 yards away straight into the goal, unassisted. At 15 minutes, Chow headed a ball into the net off a free kick by freshman defender Natalie Larkin, giving Princeton a 2-0 lead. Saturday’s game was Chow’s first career two-goal game.

“Haley has worked so hard through this season becoming a dominant midfielder,” said Lussi.

“The early goal inspired us, and everyone responded. It was Coach Shackford’s own brand of beautiful soccer.”

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By Mark Goldstein

The sprint football team (0-3 overall) lost its home opener on Friday PRINCETON 0 night to Cornell (2-2). Featuring a CORNELL 55 roster plagued by injuries and playing without two of its three captains, the undermanned Princeton squad was overmatched from the outset, unable to stop Cornell on offense and playing in its own half for virtually all of the game.

The Big Red threatened early and often as the offense punched in short touchdown runs on its first four drives, quickly building a 27-0 lead through one quarter of play.

Cornell’s offense proved largely unstoppable in the first half, compiling 48 unanswered points on the Tigers’ defense. The Ithacan side also enjoyed phenomenal field position throughout the half, dominating the battle for territory and operating with a short field for the majority of play.

Cornell’s top performers included quarterbacks Rob Pannullo and Kar-

riem Royster, who combined for 114 yards on 7-9 passing and two touchdowns. Pannullo also added a touchdown on the ground, one of five Big Red players to do so. Running back Benjamin Herrera also looked strong for Cornell, rushing for 83 yards and two scores.

For the Tigers, playing for the first time this season on home turf, the game proved out of reach early. Sophomore quarterback Chad Cowden, pressured heavily all night by the Cornell defense, could not find a rhythm for most of the game as the Tigers’ offense looked out of sync. The defense, too, struggled against the stiff challenge posed by Cornell and was battered up front by strong opposing line play.

While the Tigers struggled in the first two quarters, their toughness and perseverance showed after the halftime break. Down nearly 50 points, the defense tightened up and improved tremendously in the second half, only allowing 35 yards and one first down. The Tigers nearly shut out the Big Red in the final 30 minutes, only conceding a single touchdown after a

Princeton fumble gave Cornell the ball within five yards of the Tigers’ end zone.

The highlight of the night for the home team came with only minutes remaining in the game. After junior linebacker Nick Barnett forced a Big Red fumble and senior defensive back Mulay Sarbanes recovered it at the Cornell 19-yard line, the Tigers, led by Cowden, drove toward the goal line, determined to put points on the board. Much to the dismay of the Tigers’ sideline, however, the offense was denied by a gritty Cornell goal line stand that kept the shutout intact.

While the result was far from what the home team had hoped for, there were some standouts for the Princeton side. Junior A.J. Sibley continued his strong linebacker play, recording a game-high 10 tackles.

Additionally, Barnett and senior defensive lineman Dan Paolillo piled up eight and seven stops, respectively. On the Cowden-led offense, freshman Tyler Kaye and sophomore Ahmed Musse combined for nine catches and 103 yards to vvaavlead See S. FOOTBALL page 5

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