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Princeton Citizen Scientists led a teach-in at Princeton Public Library on Thursday.

Princeton Citizen Scientists host teach-in at library Members of Princeton Citizen Scientists held a teachin program at the Princeton Public Library Thursday aimed at educating community members about scientific issues which may have an impact on them.

“I can’t think of a better place to have a teach-in than Princeton,” Mayor Liz Lempert said in a speech at the beginning of the event. “I think we all have so much to learn about what the latest is and to get informed about some of the most important issues facing our community and facing our country

and facing our world.”

The event was structured as a series of thirty-minute workshops centered around discussion, questions, and strategies for action. Topics included climate change, cyber-security, nuclear weapons, prison teaching, the costs of health care, and immigration and social justice.

“We’re specifically concerned with giving the public the tools to be able to separate signal from noise,” Vice President Krupa Jani GS said in an interview.

“When you’re inundated with a lot of information on all of these very impor-

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tant topics, it can be hard to sort through that if you’re a member of the public.”

The event was modeled on the Day of Action, a series of sixty-four teach-ins and discussions held at Frist Campus Center in March last year. Most of the teachins were led by University faculty members, whereas the library event was led by Princeton Citizen Scientist members and representatives from local civic organization.

“Our goal was to leave the University campus ground and come meet with the community,” President SeSee TEACH-IN page 2

The Undergraduate Student Government discussed Tigerbook confidentiality concerns and new position appointments, among other issues, in its weekly meeting on Oct. 15.

USG president Myesha Jemison ’18 informed the student body on Oct. 15 that the students in charge of Tigerbook have access to what is being searched and who is making each of the searches.

TigerApps chair Rushy Panchal ’19 addressed these worries over the storage of useridentifying information with respect to Tigerbook and other TigerApps.

According to Panchal, a few TigerApps such as ReCal, Wintersession, and Rooms Guide use Google Analytics, an anonymous and fairly common tool on most websites.

Although Residential College Facebook does store user profile views, searches are not stored, and movement to different hosts over the years has contributed to the loss of the majority of stored data.

“We want to work on a privacy policy that the people who work on these apps will agree to,” said Panchal.

Panchal also believes that making it transparent as to how opt out of public student directories would serve as a satisfying step forward.

In the first of the new position appointment presen-

tations, Honor Committee Chair Carolyn Liziewski ’18 presented the three nominees for the Honor Committee, all of whom are first-year students.

U-Councilor Ben Press ’20 asked how the Honor Committee would proceed to better represent STEM majors and promote a balance of A.B. and B.S.E. students on the committee.

Liziewski agreed with Press, stating that the Honor Committee would reach out to STEM professors who teach freshmen, student groups focused on the natural sciences and engineering, and STEM open houses in the future.

“I think the conception on campus is that you need to be a pre-law student to be interested in service on the Honor Committee,” said Liziewski.

“That certainly is not true.”

Both Academics Committee chair Patrick Flanigan ’18 and Honor Committee member and Class of 2019 president Chris Umanzor ’19 added that the Honor Committee should make an attempt to inform potential applicants that no experience is necessary.

Liziewski also later noted that the introduction of group case studies to the application process for first-years tested how applicants responded analytically and emphatically and how they interacted with one another.

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Trump Iran ReCAP adds 5 million decision records to U. library could affect Wang GS contributor

By Marcia Brown head news editor

President Donald Trump said today that he will not certify that Iran is complying with the nuclear deal negotiated under the Obama administration. Earlier, he had declared that Iran is not living up to the ‘spirit’ of the deal. By expressing this sentiment, Trump is effectively forcing Congress to decide whether or not to reimpose sanctions on Iran — sanctions that would kill the deal. If Congress doesn’t act, Trump has threatened to end the deal entirely.

The Iran nuclear deal requires that the U.S. certify Iran as compliant every 90 days — which Trump has done twice before, albeit reluctantly. As The New York Times explained, even when nuclear inspectors and U.S. intelligence agencies certify Iranian compliance, Trump is allegedly opposed to re-certifying every 90 days.

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On Sept. 25, 2017, the Princeton University Library announced that 5 million new records have been made accessible to students, faculty, and staff members. The records were added to the University’s catalog as a result of the Shared Collection Service, an effort to integrate the records of the Research Collections and Preservation Consortium. The consortium includes the University and its two partners, Columbia University and the New York Public Library.

Through the Shared Collection Service, ReCAP is able to ensure mutual benefits for all three institutions by enhancing the accessibility of records and making effective use of space by sharing collections that are stored offsite.

David Magier, associate librarian for collection development explained that in the past, books from other libraries like Columbia’s were borrowed through the library loan system. Now, as a result of the Shared Collection Service, 5 million more books show up

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directly in the University’s catalog. Not only are these books directly accessible to users, but programmers have ensured that users can also search for keywords to facilitate research.

Magier also explained that the “collection collective” is motivated by the attitude that sharing initiatives such as ReCAP are essential for improving research. Sharing records in such a manner is not only cost-effective, but it is also more efficient in that the 55 University subject librarians can now partner with their colleagues in other institutions to decide how to re-deploy available resources to the “collective collection.”

According to Magier, the future looks promising as the general trend suggests that collectives such as ReCAP are emerging and expanding. For example, the Princeton University Library is also a member of the Ivy Plus Libraries, a similarly conceived partnership consisting of thirteen members. Of course, projects like ReCAP have their limitations, due to lack of digital and physical space.

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Student organization leaders discuss race and diversity on campus

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By Allie Spensley assistant news editor

On Sunday, Oct. 15, a panel of student group leaders convened to discuss race and identity in the United States before a public live-streaming watch party of Trevor Noah’s New York Times interview on the same topic.

The panel was moderated by ‘Prince’ Head News Editor Marcia Brown ’19, and featured leaders from several different student groups:

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Danielle Stephenson ’20 of the Black Student Union, Alis Yoo ’19 of the Asian American Students Association, Yousef Elzalabany ’20 of the Muslim Advocates for Social Justice and Individual Dignity, and Morgan Bell ’19 of Tigers for Israel.

The panelists began by introducing themselves and briefly explaining how their experiences before and after arriving on campus have See NOAH page 4

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Nevertheless, Magier speculated that it seems as though other universities, that are currently associate members, may become full-fledged members with time.

Magier also discussed

the idea that the physical location of a book is still relevant.

“It doesn’t matter [anymore] whose physical collection the book came from,” said Magier, adding that what matters is that a book can be found easily and delivered easily.

Funding for the Shared Collection Service was made possible through a gener-

ous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The five million new records will be accessible through the Library’s “New Catalog.” The “Main Catalog” will not include these titles and will be retired in late January 2018. By the start of the 2018 spring semester, the Princeton University Library will offer a single catalog.

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bastien Philippe GS said.

“We want to talk about the issues that are important for our group in the same format as the Day of Action.”

Although Princeton Citizen Scientists is a group mainly composed of University graduate students and postdocs in the sciences, the teach-in included topics on other issues related to democracy and social justice.

“Even at this event now, we have some speakers who are talking about immigration and prison, and these [topics] aren’t necessarily scientific,” Justin Ripley GS, a coordinator of the event and member of Princeton Citizen Scientists, said.

“Another focus of ours is to train scientists how to do outreach and how to speak to the public,” he added.

“This [teach-in] will be a learning experience for us today.”

“The Day of Action was more behind-the-scenes, and only a handful of [Princeton Citizen Scientists members] actually dictated the teach-ins,” Ashley Conard GS said.

“Our goal as citizen scientists is to better communicate and also to understand and inform public debate,” Philippe said.

Princeton Citizen Scientists sent members to Washington, D.C. in May to meet with legislators. Over the summer, they participated in the March for Science in

Washington, D.C. and also attended nuclear weapon negotiations at the U.N. The event was coordinated in conjunction with the library.

“Some of the biggest questions that we have at the library are related to activism, are related to what’s going on in the news,” Adult Services Librarian Kelsey Ockert, who coordinates technology and events at the library, said.

“I was looking for a place that people can come, get some questions answered, understand that there are scientists out there who care,” she added.

Ockert reached out to the Princeton Citizen Scientists, who took the opportunity to address the community rather than the campus.

“Our work is not just about being engaged but educating others so they can be engaged too,” Conard said.

Looking forward to the next year, the group hopes to expand its presence on campus, in the community, and in policy.

“We want to continue to have a positive impact on the campus,” Philippe said.

“One thing we’re heading towards is the anniversary of the [2016 presidential] election, which is why we were founded.”

“We want to try to understand what happened in the past year and how we go from there,” he added.

The teach-in was held at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 12th at the Princeton Public Library.

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In addition to the Honor Committee nominees, the Student Groups Recognition Committee presented two nominees, the Diversity and Equity Committee presented two nominees, and the Eating Club Referendum Response Team nominated Rachel Yee ’19 for the position of chair of the Subcommittee on Eating Club Relations. The Senate voted to approve all nominees.

Questions emerged during the review of the Sept. 25, 2017, meeting notes of the Council of the Princeton University Community. U-Councilor Diego Negrón-Reichard ’18 inquired into the lack of outreach by the University to students who have been recently affected

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by natural disasters in Puerto Rico and Mexico.

“I had to beg President Eisgruber for one tweet three weeks after the event to support relief efforts,” said Negrón-Reichard.

USG treasurer Alison Shim ’19 introduced the fall 2017 budget proposal and talked about the three major budgetary financial sources: income from student fees (94.9 percent), the University endowment (6.9 percent), and the Wilson School (1.8 percent).

Negrón-Reichard examined the possibility of converting the Student Fee Committee into a Financial Reform Committee in order to look into how University departments might fund events outside the limits of the USG budget.

The Senate voted to approve the fall 2017 budget proposal unanimously.

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fate of history graduate student Xiyue Wang, who was detained in Iran well over a year ago. Wang, a U.S. citizen, was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison for espionage.

Wang lost an appeal of his conviction in August, and a vigil was held in September in his honor.

Assistant Vice President of Communications Daniel Day explained in an email that the University is continuing to do everything it can “to be sup-

portive of Mr. Wang and his family and of efforts to seek his safe return home.”

Trump has also added more sanctions to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard for supporting terrorism, the Associated Press reported. Additionally, while Trump explained that he wanted to keep the 2015 deal intact for now, he will ask Congress to create “trigger points” that would, if crossed, prompt the United States to reimpose the same sanctions that existed before the deal.

This story will be updated as more information becomes available.

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shaped their perspectives on race and identity in the United States. Stephenson, who spent her formative years attending school in Guam, said that she worried she would be perceived as “not black enough” on campus before accepting that she didn’t need to prove her ethnicity to anyone. Yoo explained that growing up in a community with sharp racial division — her middle school was 70

percent Italian and 30 percent Korean — made the social complications of race prominent to her from a young age.

Elzalabany, a Pennsylvanian who was born in Egypt, said that his experiences in the Muslim community have led him to question how Americans construct the concept of whiteness. Bell added that arriving at the University made her explore and confront her Jewish identity in new ways.

Other questions to the panelists dealt with the effect of the Black Justice League’s 2015 protests on campus and the “outsider” perspective Trevor

Noah, who is South African, can bring to the conversation on race in the United States.

The panelists also discussed how they want to improve the ways race and identity are approached on campus, within and outside of the student groups they are a part of. Elzalabany said he hopes to continue his work in making the Muslim Students Association welcoming to black Muslims.

Yoo added that she wants to work to change the problematic way that East Asians are perceived as a “model minority.” Stephenson wants to use her position as social chair

of BSU to make its members feel more accepted. Bell said that she wants to lend a hand to Jewish students who feel uncomfortable at the Center for Jewish Life.

After the panel, audience members viewed a livestream of the New York Times-sponsored event, which featured comedian and “The Daily Show” host Trevor Noah in conversation with John Eligon, a New York Times national correspondent who reports on issues of race.

Noah began by reading a passage from his book, “Born a Crime: Stories From a South

African Childhood.” He described the moment when he realized the significance of racial distinctions in postapartheid South Africa, during a middle-school recess in which black children and white children played in separate groups.

Eligon’s questions dealt with colorism, the distinction between racial issues in the United States and South Africa, the way that Noah approaches race in his comedic work, and controversy over conservative speakers on college campuses.

Noah said that he had benefited from colorism and “light-skin privilege” in South Africa and in the United States, although he has dealt with racism in both countries from a young age.

“Your color would move you up a few rings on the ladder of oppression,” Noah said.

Noah also explained that he had seen the reaction to his race-based comedy change from “recognition to ridicule” as he went from performing for largely black audiences to doing shows for mostly white audiences.

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Eligon closed the conversation by asking Noah if he had a joke about race that would “get him in trouble on Twitter tomorrow.”

Noah replied that he had no way of knowing which of his jokes would make Twitter react.

The event, hosted by the ‘Prince’ and sponsored by the The New York Times, was held in McCormick 101 at 7 p.m. on Sunday.

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Monday October 16, 2017 BEYOND THE BUBBLE

Princeton-CUNY biophysics center granted $13 M

By Samvida Venkatesh senior writer

Esteemed physicist Richard Feynman GS ’42 once said, “Everything that living things do can be understood in terms of the jiggling and wiggling of atoms.”

Now, the University will be doing just that through the establishment of a new collaborative effort.

Understanding life means understanding biological functions with unifying physical principles. The Center for the Physics of Biological Function is a collaborative effort between Princeton and the City University of New York that aims to accomplish that.

A $13-million grant from the National Science Foundation was awarded for setting up CPBF, according to Joshua Shaevitz, codirector of the program and University professor of physics and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics. This is one of 11 Physical Frontiers Centers funded by the Physics Division of the National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences.

The program website says that the CPBF has faculty working on a broad range of questions that all ultimately hope to understand life — behavior, from embryonic development to social interactions, the statistical mechanics of group interactions in cells and organisms, physical limits to information flow, and the dynamics of adaptation, learning, and evolution.

Experimental and theoretical faculty in the CPBF work on a variety of organisms including bacteria, worms, fruit flies, and rodents, Shaevitz said. He added that this wide interest in cellular to organismal level biology makes the CPBF different from the two other national biophysics centers — a theoretical one at Rice University and a molecular one at the University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign.

“Science moves forward when people talk to each other,” said Shaevitz. Although the scientists in the CPBF would continue

to work on their own research, Shaevitz explained that the Center would encourage more collaboration.

While there is no physical building to house the CPBF, collaboration between scientists at both the University and CUNY is being encouraged through weekly seminars at Princeton and monthly seminars in Manhattan, Shaevitz explained.

“They prepared a stack of train tickets so it’s easier for us to get to NYC,” said Farzan Beroz GS, a graduate student in the biophysics department at the University.

Beroz added that he felt like the CPBF was trying to encourage as much cross-talk between scientists as possible.

Shaevitz explained that part of the CPBF grant would also be used to fund research fellows doing biophysics work who were not in specific labs. Applications for next year’s fellows are open until next month, but Shaevitz said that the first batch of awardees would likely be drawn from existing fellows at Princeton.

The CPBF grant will additionally be used to establish a summer undergraduate research program to introduce biophysics research to young scientists, said Shaevitz.

“I haven’t heard anything about a summer research funding program,” said Debopriyo Biswas ’19, a junior doing the certificate program in biophysics. Biswas added that he hoped this new grant would establish research funding for undergraduates in the biophysics program since similar departments, like quantitative and computational biology, provide funding for summer research.

Shaevitz countered that the opportunity, like many NSF-funded research experience for undergraduate programs, would likely attract students from outside Princeton who might not have been exposed to such research before.

The CPBF also plans to invite speakers from across the field to Manhattan to discuss their work with the broader population, said Shaevitz.

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On the Catalan question

Jan Domingo columnist

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’ve never heard Catalonia being discussed so much here as I have in the past few weeks. My parents are from Barcelona, and I lived there for a bit, so I’d like to offer my view on the Catalan procés so far. As a disclaimer, I am pro-independence; however, I will not be arguing for independence.

Instead, I want to discuss how the process has been carried out so far, and why President Rajoy and government in Madrid are currently in the wrong.

The first main objection I hear to the whole Catalan dilemma is that there’s no reason for them to separate, and so they have no right to vote on the issue.

I’ve heard people liken the process to “as if California decided to hold a referendum because of its GDP.” Yes, Catalonia has the highest GDP in Spain, and more taxes go out to Madrid than are sent back in, but no, I can assure you it goes far deeper than economics. Rarely do countries become independent solely due to economics.

I invite people who think it’s solely a money issue to open a book and read about Catalonia. It has a rich history that goes well into beyond the middle ages; it has a vibrant culture that distinguishes itself from Spain’s through language, music, tradition, and much more.

More importantly, it has an anti-monarchist and anti-fascist tradition that markedly stood out in the 20th century. My point is that there is such a thing as a Catalan identity—and in these past 15 years, it has grown politically.

Another question: Since when were regions not allowed self-determination?

Do Americans forget what Wilson fought for after the first World War? We’re talking about a basic democratic right here.

It’s a contradiction to call yourself democratic and not allow for self-determination. It’s even more of a contradiction to call yourself democratic and beat up people who are trying to vote (more on this later).

And no, self-determination does not mean having Spain as a whole vote on the issue (I have also heard this), for there is a “self” in the term. I would expect any politically modernized country to allow for this, but I guess that’s why Spain isn’t like the UK (remember the Scottish referendum?); 36 years of fascism leaves pretty lingering wounds.

The biggest objection to the Catalan question, however, is that it’s unconstitutional. Nowhere in the constitution does it allow for self-determination, and so the Catalans don’t have a right separate.

Even funnier, some people will claim that the Catalans willingly accepted the constitution in 1978 and so it’s hypocritical to want to separate now. Both of these claims are featured in a brilliant article from the Economist I recently read: “Why the referendum on Catalan independence is illegal.” This in itself is not wrong. The problem is the assumption that follows: because it’s illegal, they don’t have the right to vote.

First, the Catalans were in no position to reject the constitution of 1978 because it came after decades of a Falangist government that had done everything in its power to suppress Catalanism. (A wonderful example is how Catalan, as a language, became prohibited. The repression

goes far beyond this, sadly.) What a surprise then that the Catalans accepted this constitution! Also, do we seriously believe that, after 36 years of a dictatorship that openly supported the Nazis and Mussolini, the Catalans were now going to reject a constitution that didn’t allow for “self determination”? At that point, any step toward democracy would have been accepted. The Catalans accepted what they could.

How do you think Madrid would have responded if, instead of approving it, the Catalans had sent back the constitution and asked for a clause that allowed for referendums?

And so for the followup: because something is illegal, that does not necessarily make it unethical. The logic is that, because of this constitution, Catalonia is in the wrong. I believe it’s the other way around, and I would argue that in 2017 it is an embarrassment to modern politics when a Western European country sends its police force to beat up voters (see the images yourself), even if the vote is illegal. This is a pathetic cop-out of an excuse, and it’s shameful that the EU hasn’t done more to condemn what happened in Catalonia on October 1 (when voters went out to vote in this referendum; police sent from Madrid responded with violence). You can argue that the Catalans don’t deserve to vote, you can argue that they’re political hypocrites, but to be an apologist for any form of state violence is sad at this stage. To those so bent on legality, it’s funny that the Spanish police used rubber bullets against voters—ironically, that’s illegal in Catalonia.

Imagine that in the

Send help, missing home Lourdes Santiago

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looked down at the shiny metal serving platters in front of me, one which had a piece of paper that read “Filet Mignon” and another one that said “Ratatouille.”

Considering that I had to look up how to spell these words to write this article, it was obvious to me that I was far, far away from home – in every sense of the word.

I’m from a small suburban town 2,000 miles away, in Gilbert, Arizona and I had never been to the East Coast before. I had never been on a train and I had never lived anywhere where there was snow. In addition to the physical distance, there were many differences between the culture in the “Orange Bubble” and the culture of my home. I had never been exposed to a place that seemed to be overf lowing with money, where people would casually talk about their

yachts back home and how they vacationed in places where I could only dream of going.

Like dozens of other college students, both at Princeton and at colleges all across the country, I felt the symptoms of homesickness. I cried when the plane took off and I cried as soon as I landed in the dimly-lit Newark airport. I called home often and I looked at old pictures of me and my friends, wondering why I took all the time we had together for granted.

I had gotten so used to the people around me and the place that I called home, that the idea of anything different seemed like a completely radical idea.

If you’re like me, it’s not so much a physical place that you miss, but it’s the idea of the past. But homesickness, while a side effect of moving, is also a part of growth.

Being homesick is a phenomenon that can affect the way you talk to other people and the way you perceive the world around you. You find

yourself as an imposter in your own life, unable to create a unified version of who you are. You find yourself split between your old life back home and the new one you were seemingly thrown into.

Addressing and validating these feelings is key to fostering an environment that really is all- inclusive and aware of all the troubles plaguing students.

With an increased attention to these issues, the Princeton community would show compassion and unity for those students who might not feel included or welcomed just yet.

While it’s something that a lot of students face, it’s something that isn’t formally and explicitly talked about – and that is something that should actively changed. The idea of independence is often glamorized, and missing home is seen as a sign of weakness or a sign of immaturity, which is simply not the case. It’s absurd to invalidate someone’s feelings of loneliness and uncertainty, but it’s some-

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build-up to October 1, 2017, Spanish President Rajoy had decided to sit down and negotiate with the Catalan president, Puigdemont. Imagine if he had granted the Catalans the right to a legal, binding referendum. The reality is that the Catalans would have totally accepted that. In other words, had they been able to propose a legal referendum, they would have done so. But this option was not given. Instead, Catalans were given the option to either vote and risk being hit by a baton, or stay home. What a surprise that the turnout was so low! My 90-yearold grandfather certainly wasn’t convinced by the whole police option, so he decided to stay in his flat.

The fact that the turnout was above 40 percent is incredible considering that police injured over 800 people. And the truth is, I would love to see Catalonia have a legal referendum.

But that’s precisely why I (and so many Catalans) want to separate: because we our country won’t even give us this option. We try to negotiate, it responds with the baton. Rajoy has ignored the Catalan problem and let it fester over the years, and look at what it’s turned into.

Spain is not as monolithic as people think it is — just as the Catalans want autonomy, so do the Basques. The constitution calls for the “indissoluble unity of the Spanish nation,” and that’s certainly how Spain is perceived here. Still, regardless of the misconceptions, I’m happy people are finally talking about the Catalan question.

Jan Domingo Alsina is a sophomore from Princeton, N.J. He can be reached atjalsina@princeton.edu.

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thing that happens all the time. More than once, I have heard my friends say how they initially feel lonely and how they feel like everyone already has a friend group, when no one really knows what they’re doing.

In the end, your feelings of confusion and uncertainty and doubt are all normal — it’s all a part of what it means to grow. Often times people ask you “What are you going to be when you grow up?”, and while ideal in thought, it’s a question that never has one answer, especially when remembering the very essence of what it means to be a person. As a person, you are ever changing and multifaceted, and home is something that can be found in more than one place. While it is big and intimidating, Princeton can (and will) become one of the new places you call home.

Lourdes Santiago is a first-year from Gilbert, Ariz. She can be reached at lourdess@princeton.edu.

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Tigers dominate Brown, cruise to 53–0 victory in first Ivy League win

By Jack Graham staff writer

From the fumble recovery on the opening kickoff onwards, Princeton football was dominant against Brown, cruising to a 53-0 victory, earning its first Ivy League win of the season, and improving its record to 4-1.

Princeton scored early and often in Saturday’s game, while Brown struggled to move the ball against a stout Princeton defense. The team was led offensively by junior running back Charlie Volker, who rushed 16 times for 163 yards and four touchdowns. Volker’s most notable carry came late in the second quarter, when he received a handoff from senior quarterback Chad Kanoff near his own goal line, exploded into the running lane and outraced the defensive secondary on his way to a 96-yard touchdown run. Volker’s run, which extended the score to 29-0, broke the record for the longest rushing touchdown in school history. Freshman running back Colin Eaddy was also effective in the backup running back role, rushing for 77 yards and

one touchdown on 10 carries.

Kanoff was once again efficient and consistent in his passing, completing 21 of 27 passes for 231 yards and two touchdowns. His favorite two targets were junior wide receivers junior Jesper Horsted and Stephen Carlson, who led the way, receiving once again with 92 and 66 yards, respectively. Sophomore receiver Tiger Bech hauled in his first touchdown reception of the season on a 16-yard pass from Kanoff at the end of the second quarter.

While the offense put up points with ease Saturday, the Princeton defense was equally stellar, posting a shutout and limiting the Brown offense to a mere 170 yards. Princeton’s defense front shut down the Brown rushing attack throughout, limiting them to just 1.9 yards per carry, and 55 yards total. Senior defensive lineman Kurt Holuba led the way for the Tigers, with two sacks and six total tackles. The Princeton secondary also was effective, limiting Brown to 115 yards passing.

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The Tigers made an emphatic return to Ivy League play with a record-setting performance.

After a disappointing loss against Columbia to open its Ivy League season, Princeton knew it would have to be nearly perfect for the rest of the season if it wanted any chance of a reprisal as Ivy

Weekend review Women’s Volleyball @ Columbia: L 2–3 The women’s volleyball team fell to Columbia in a tough-fought five-set series. Despite a strong performance from the team’s top hitters, the Lions grabbed crucial points down the stretch. The loss, combined with a Yale win over Harvard, put the Bulldogs in the number one spot with a 6–1 record. The Tigers are tied for second with the Crimson.

Men’s Soccer vs. Columbia: T 0–0 The men’s soccer team managed to grab a point at home as they faced off against No. 22 Columbia. Despite a heavy advantage in shots, 21–6, the Lions never managed to convert their chances as the Tigers held on in overtime. The Princeton squad will continue the season this Saturday against Harvard.

Women’s Soccer vs. Columbia: L 0–2 The women’s soccer team fell behind by two goals for the first time all season. Just 97 seconds apart in the 10th and 11th minute, the shots put the Tigers down 2–0 and in unfamiliar territory. Despite a strong advantage in shots, 21–12, the Tigers were unable to turn the game around, losing their first conference game of the season.

Men’s Water Polo vs. Bucknell: W 12–7 Princeton men’s water polo has now won nine of its last 10 games and advances to a 17–4 season record after its match against Bucknell on Sunday. The Tigers pulled away in the third period after scoring five times and only letting one goal get past them in the final 11 minutes.

Juniors Matt Payne and Michael Swart scored a combined total of seven goals.

League Champions. While the team has much work left in front of it, Saturday’s blowout win was certainly a step of the right direction. Princeton will remain on the road next Saturday and travel

Performance of the week Charlie Volker Volker had 16 carries for 165 yards and four TDs in the 53–0 win over Brown. He scored touchdowns on three consecutive drives early in the game and then his fourth touchdown broke history. Breaking a tackle right near his own goal line, Volker would burst through the hole and take a carry 96 yards for a touchdown, setting the record for the longest touchdown run in Princeton history!

Megan Curham Five-time All-American Megan Curham ran her first cross country race in nearly two years. She placed first for the Tigers and 10th overall with a time of 20:42. The last time she raced was at the Penn State National Open in the 2016 NCAA Championships.

Women’s Cross Country: 4th out of 17 Princeton women’s cross country finished fourth overall in a race of 17 teams with a score of 125 at the Penn State National Open on Friday. Top Tiger finishers were senior Megan Curham, junior Gabi Forrest and freshman Melia Chittenden. On Saturday, women’s middle distance got some cross country experience ran at the Princeton Invitational. First-year Sierra Castaneda crossed the finish line in first for the Tigers, followed by junior Jackie Berardo.

Football @ Brown: W 53–0 Princeton earned its first Ivy League win of the season in a commanding fashion, defeating the Brown Bears 53–0 in Providence on Saturday. The Tigers struck early with a field goal after recovering a fumble on Brown’s opening possession. After that, the Tigers rattled off touchdowns on five straight drives and were well on their way to their first win in Providence since 2003. Princeton’s highlight of the first half was a run by junior RB Charlie Volker that went for 96 yards and a score; Volker’s run broke the record for the longest scoring run in Princeton history, replacing the 93 yard score by Homer Smith on Nov. 15, 1952. The defense, of course, was also impressive in the game; the Tigers held Brown to 33 rushing yards, 12 first downs, and recorded their first road shutout since a win at Dartmouth in 2005.

Women’s Field Hockey @ Brown: W 11–1 The women’s field hockey team got over .500 for the season with an impressive 11–1 win at Brown. The Tigers are now 4–0 in Ivy League play and defeated the Bears for the 18th consecutive time. Freshman Clara Roth opened the scoring for the Tigers with two goals in the first five minutes. Tied 1–1 early, Princeton would rally off 10 unanswered goals with eight different Tigers getting involved in the scoring. On the other side of the ball, the defense was suffocating as they only allowed one Brown shot in the entire game. Up next in conference play is a battle against No. 13 Harvard this Saturday in a game that may decide the regular season Ivy League champion.

Tweet of the Day “Congrats to @PUTigerFootball’s Seth DeValve on his third career touchdown today! #TigerUp” Princeton Tigers (@ PUTIGERS),

to Harvard for a rare Ivy League night game. Given the history between the two programs and the quality of their teams, it will be an intriguing and important matchup for the Tigers.

Natasha Skov Sophomore Natasha Skov, the current Ivy League leader in points and kills, continued her stellar performance this season by tallying 14 kills against Cornell and 15 kills against Columbia this past weekend. Despite a strong performance, the Tigers fell to their Ivy foes this week.

Stat of the Day

96 yards Charlie Volker set a Princeton record with a 96-yard touchdown, breaking a 65-year record for the longest rushing score.

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