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Hindu Life Program campaigns for mental health

By Aishwarya Kalyanaraman contributor

“Issues around mental wellness must be destigmatized, pulled out from the shadows of taboo and shame, and brought into the light of day,” said University coordinator for Hindu life Vineet Chander, after the Oct. 10 launch of the #RedThread project, a campaign for mental health awareness in the South Asian community.

The campaign, launched by the Hindu Life Program, aims to promote awareness and solidarity within the University community in order to bring to light mental wellness issues faced by South Asians.

“Some of the most prevalent concerns I’ve seen in this community are around anxiety, depression, managing expectations and pressure, sexuality

and sexual identity, body image, eating disorders, and abusive or toxic relationships,” explained Chander.

The campaign consists of photographs of University students, faculty, and staff members, accompanied by handwritten stories that reflect mental wellness issues within the South Asian community. Acclaimed photographer and activist Adam Mastoon created the artwork for the exhibit, which is currently being exhibited in the basement of East Pyne, near Chancellor Green Cafe. Visitors to the exhibit can take home with them postcards displaying the photographs and stories.

Mastoon could not be reached for comment by the time of publication.

“Our hope was that by sharing our images and stories, we See RED THREAD page 2

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PHOTO C OURTESY OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY HINDU LIFE PROGRAM

The campaign aims to promote awareness and solidarity within the University community.

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Dohm Alley seeks to become town’s premier multimedia installation contributor

Tucked between Starbucks and the Landau clothing store on Nassau Street, Dohm Alley has been unremarkably empty for much of its existence. However, thanks to the work of the Design @ Dohm Alley team, the alley has been transformed into an outdoor art space and is hosting its first installation: the English Romantic Poets.

Design @ Dohm Alley is a project of Princeton Future, an organization comprised of Princeton residents with diverse backgrounds, interests, and talents that works to assist the municipality to take a forward-looking, comprehensive approach to planning and development that takes into account social, cultural, economic, factors, as well as architecture.

According to its website, Design @ Dohm Alley will showcase “art, sculpture and ideas in an open air gallery setting ... Part garden, part classroom, this dynamic sensorium will invite pedestrians into a lively and interactive experience unlike any sidewalk engagement previ-

ously witnessed.”

An impressive moon gate leads into the 80-foot-long alley. Currently, a number of sculptures honoring the Romantic poets, like Lord Byron and William Wordsworth, adorn the alley walls. In contrast stand several other landscapes, representing the Industrial Revolution against which the poets rebelled. A creative water feature also wraps around the alley, flowing through pipes into a limestone basin and back. Plaques give information on the Romantic movement, lending an educational value to the alley.

Occasionally, the alley hosts music performances, as it did last Sunday. Typically, hundreds of people pass through each day, with many slowing down to appreciate the art and learn something.

According to Peter Soderman, a member of the team and a landscape designer, the idea for the alley had been on the backburner for the past nine years. It is the third project that Soderman has been part of in the town, after “Quark Park” in 2006 and “Writer’s Block” in 2004. With Dohn Alley, Soderman and his team’s goal was See ALLEY page 4

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U. affiliates discover twin star formation, ‘Kronos’ and ‘Krios’

By Christina Vosbikian managing editor

University researchers have recently discovered twin stars, one of which has shown signs of ingesting a dozen or more of its own rocky planets, according to a University release. As a nod to ancient mythology, the researchers have named the newly discovered stars after Kronos and his lesser-known brother Krios.

The punchline? In mythology, the Titan Kronos devoured his own children, including Poseidon, Hades, and three of his daughters.

The paper describing the new

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stars and their discovery was authored by Semyeong Oh, Adrian Price-Whelan, John Brewer, David Hogg, David Spergel ’82, and Justin Myles.

Oh GS, a graduate student in astrophysical sciences who is the first author on a new paper describing Kronos and Krios, could not be reached by the “Prince” for comment by the time of publication.

Price-Whelan is a Lyman Spitzer, Jr. postdoctoral fellow in astrophysical sciences. Brewer is a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Astronomy at Yale University. Hogg is a profesSee STARS page 3

Senior columnist Max Grear exposes the not-sosecret St. Anthony’s and contributing collumnist Miguel Caranti makes a suggestion for the new Lewis Center for the Arts. Page 6

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Gauthier and his team have enhanced the efficiency of vertical farms in a number of ways .

Vertical farming project seeks to make campus self-sustainable

By Victor Hua contributor

Dr. Paul Gauthier, a postdoctoral research associate in the geosciences department, created the Princeton Vertical Farming Project (PVFP) this past April. The project is situated in Moffett Laboratory, which adjoins Guyot Hall, and was funded by the University’s Office of Sustainability and is directly related to the University’s Sustainability Plan.

In 2008, as part of the a larger plan to promote sustainability, the University committed to reduce its overall carbon dioxide emission levels to those of 1990 by 2020.

The University’s plan also set several more goals in the area of environmentalism and sustainable energy meant to address pressing environmental issues such as climate change, water scarcity, and air pollution.

According to Gauthier, the PFVP is a present-day attempt to expand upon these goals from almost a decade ago. Indeed, Gauthier identified the project as a key addition to the University’s larger sustainability plan.

“The goal of the project [PFVP] is to help students familiarize themselves with vertical farming here [at the University] and eventually create start-ups that employ the technique outside of the University,” explained Gauthier, adding that another goal of the project is to eventually provide produce to the dining halls as a step towards the University becoming completely self-sustaining.

Gauthier explained that, globally, the majority of startups utilizing vertical farming shut down after only a couple of years. This short life, he said, stems from the startups’ inability to generate enough profit to meet the costs of applying vertical farming to produce farming. PFVP, he hopes, will help advance vertical farming technology from a scientific standpoint to remedy this problem. This kind of technological advancement, he added, will encourage students to build their own startups utilizing vertical farming technology.

Gauthier noted that the issues with popular use of vertical farms include a shortage of adequate technology as well as

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a lack of proper experimental data on the optimization of vertical farming efficiency. To study these problems, Gauthier’s team is currently measuring the effectiveness of different vertical farming settings by testing how different lighting and water environments impact plant growth.

As a result of months of experiments and research, Gauthier and his team have enhanced the efficiency of vertical farms in a number of ways, such as reducing water usage and utilizing LED lights instead of sunlight to provide photosynthetic catalyst.

“We are using approximately 0.5 gallons of water for every kale plant,” noted Gauthier. “This is considered very efficient, and will save a significant amount of water when applied to large-scale fields.”

Gauthier added that vertical farming can be utilized not only as a reliable source of food in the future, but also as a means for capturing carbon dioxide emissions.

According to Gauthier, vertically farmed produce is not only sustainable and efficient, See FARM page 2

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could re-vision the community as a haven of support and understanding, rather than a source of judgment, fear, or shame,” Chander said.

One postcard is from an individual struggling with depression. “I discovered those two words of comfort in the Bhagavad Gita, ‘Fear Not,’ and tattooed them on myself to remind me,” the postcard reads. “Today, I look at my wrist and I remember the promise of love and Grace that

my Beloved whispers to me.”

Another postcard describes the individual’s unique perspective on dating and marriage. “I love my family, but sometimes I feel that my parents and I are living in diametrically opposed cultures,” it reads. “I just hope that someday I find ‘the one’ who will make me happy, and also be the ‘right category’ for my parents.”

Visitors are also encouraged to take a red thread and tie it around their wrist as an act of solidarity with mental health struggles. “Thread binds us together. The idea is that the red thread around my wrist is cut from the same spool as the one around yours,” said Chander.

“We are thus connected, even as we are unique individuals with our own stories and struggles.”

According to Chander, the red thread was chosen to be the focus because of its recognizability and significance in Hindu culture. “The red thread serves as a symbol of divine protection,” he noted. “It also sanctifies the body for ritual worship, symbolizing purity and intention, and serves as a reminder of one’s place in the cosmos.”

Chander said that as the Hindu chaplain on campus, address-

ing mental health concerns has always been on his mind. “A big part of chaplaincy is offering pastoral counseling, and as I did this and got to know students better in this context, I began to see themes emerge that I felt were linked to mental wellness,” he explained.

Mental health concerns in the South Asian community are complicated by the secrecy and shame which oftentimes surround them, Chander continued. This stigma discourages students from seeking help.

“Tragically, this isolation can often compound the challenges themselves,” added Chander.

Arjun Venkataraman ‘18, president of the Princeton Hindu Satsangam, expressed similar ideas. “In the South Asian community, there is a stigma associated with discussing negative mental health,” he said. “A campaign like #RedThread allows those who are struggling to see that they are not alone. It provides a sense of companionship on their journey that is often not found in their community.”

Mashad Arora ‘20, another Princeton Hindu Satsangam member, explained that he thinks mental health is an issue not properly addressed in the

South Asian community. “Sometimes being open about how you feel is the most important thing, and I think this campaign is a good way to start dialogue about mental health among South Asians, Arora added.

Arora is a former staff writer for the ‘Prince.’

According to Chander, he’s grateful that the project has received a tremendous positive response.

“I’ve heard back from students, faculty members, community members, even docents and folks affiliated with the [University] Art Museum, and everyone has remarked upon how moved and struck they are by walking through the exhibit or encountering it online via social media,” he said.

“Moreover, I’ve found people on campus, South Asians, but also non-South Asians, telling me how much they see themselves and their own experiences and struggles in the stories and portraits.”

The Office of Religious Life is also using #RedThread to run a social media campaign on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. A different photo and story from the exhibit is posted each day.

Gregory: Farm’s success “gives me hope for sustainability efforts at Princeton” FARM

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but grows rather quickly and is comparable in taste to commercial produce. Gauthier explained that basil plants in the vertical farm take approximately a month to grow, and with the use of special LED lights, are almost indistinguishable from basil sold in markets. According to Gauthier, this is attributable to his focus on the taste and quality of the vertical farm products rather than the quantity.

Kyra Gregory ‘19, a communications assistant for the Office of Sustainability and PVFP website manager, has been working with Gauthier from the start of the project and believes it will contribute to the University’s larger sustainability initiatives.

“Overall, seeing the vertical farm progress from its initial stage to where it is now is very inspiring for me. The amount of growth and student interest gives me hope for sustainability efforts at Princeton and in our generation in general,” said Gregory. She also

explained that the PVFP team, which includes other students, hopes to make a meaningful impact on sustainability at Princeton and to highlight the benefits of vertical farming.

In addition to being a great chance to improve sustainability on campus, PFVP has left a mark on the team members for other reasons. “It’s wonderful being involved with a team where people from different academic and social backgrounds can come together to work on this project that we all care deeply about,” Gregory said.

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sor of physics and data science at New York University. Spergel is a University astronomy professor and director of the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Astrophysics. Myles is currently a graduate student at Stanford University.

Price-Whelan, Brewer, Hogg, Spergel, and Myles could not be reached by the “Prince” for comment by the time of publication.

According to the University’s statement, the researchers have noted that, though other co-moving star pairs have had different chemistries, none are as dramatic as Kronos and Krios.

Most stars that are as metalrich as Kronos “have all the other elements enhanced at a similar level,” Oh said. She explained that Kronos instead has volatile elements suppressed, making the star stand out in the general context of stellar abundance patterns.

The press release and paper outline Kronos’ unusually high level of rock-forming minerals, including magnesium, aluminum, silicon, iron, chromium, and yttrium, without an equally high level of volatile compounds — those that are most often found in gas form, like oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and potassium.

In her research, Oh immediately observed that Kronos was low in all of the minerals that solidify below 1200 degrees Kelvin, while all the minerals that solidify at warmer temperatures were abundant.

“Other processes that change the abundance of elements generically throughout the galaxy don’t give

you a trend like that,” said PriceWhelan. “They would selectively enhance certain elements, and it would appear random if you plotted it versus condensation temperatures. The fact that there’s a trend there hinted towards something related to planet formation rather than galactic chemical evolution.”

According to the press release, this revelation marked Oh’s “Eureka!” moment.

“All of the elements that would make up a rocky planet are exactly the elements that are enhanced on Kronos, and the volatile elements are not enhanced, so that provides a strong argument for a planet engulfment scenario, instead of something else,” she said.

Following this revelation, Oh and her colleagues calculated that it would require engulfing roughly 15 Earth-mass planets to gain this many rock-forming minerals without many volatiles.

Eating a gas giant wouldn’t give the same result, Price-Whelan explained. Jupiter, for example, has an inner rocky core that could easily have 15 Earth masses of rocky material, but “if you were to take Jupiter and throw it into a star, Jupiter also has this huge gaseous envelope, so you’d also enhance carbon, nitrogen — the volatiles that Semyeong mentioned,” he said. “To flip it around, you have to throw in a bunch of smaller planets.”

This research has implication for stellar formation models, noted Price-Whelan.

The Flatiron Institute is the intramural research division of the Simons Foundation. The Simons Foundation could not be reached for comment by the time of publication.

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to transform a bare alley in the town into a space where visitors are robbed of wide angle vision and forced to watch

and listen. Soderman calls it a “cerebral carwash”, a place where people can quickly walk in, learn something, and walk back out.

Michael Mahoney, a member of the team who designed the chimney installation and

the stone walls, thinks that this concept has been successful. “When teenagers walk into the alley, they put their phones down, look around and have conversations with others about the poets!”, he said. “A great thing about the

alley is that everyone shares their abilities, so it’s an inspirational place to be. You can’t walk past anybody.”

According to Richard Chenoweth, another important member of the team and the designer of the alley’s metal

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Have you seen Dohm Alley? The Alley’s present installation in Princeton is meant to be a “cerebral carwash.

arches, which are reminiscent of the University’s gothic architecture, says that realizing the project has been hard work. “It’s difficult to put a project together like this on a tight budget, but it really took off when Princeton Future got involved with financing it”, he says. He’s pleased with how the “negative space” of the alley has been well adapted for the installation.

Though Dohm Alley’s current installation focuses on Romantic poets, the alley’s format means that there is great potential for promoting all kinds of important causes, ideas, or simply time periods, he said. “We want to promote ‘literacies,’” said Soderman. “[The Alley’s focus] could be climate change literacy, financial literacy, etc.”

He noted that there have been talks about hosting a climate change exposition in the alley.

Soderman wishes that the University administration would pay more attention to the exhibition. “I would love for someone from the University to come down and take a tour [of Dohm Alley]!” he said. He touted the Alley as an opportunity for the University to get involved in the town’s happenings and perhaps eventually sponsor or host an exhibition.

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Tradition in art: Why it matters Miguel Caranti

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ith the opening of the new Lewis Center for the Arts, the University bristles with opportunities for engagement and exchange in the creative arts. Combining the disciplines of music, theater, creative writing, painting, and much more, the new center furthers the University’s efforts to promote the creative humanities as a fundamental element of a liberal arts education. But, as has been the case for a long time now - even amidst such apparent flourishing in the arts, real progression is seldom made.

There is great drive to move forward, but because no one wants to look back, we are left with art, but no heritage - nothing to relate to. Traditions, and thus culture, lie outside the picture.

A few days before the opening of the new center, Princeton was pleased to receive a fitting visitor: poet Alice Oswald. She recited from her Iliad-inspired poem “Memorial” and gave insights into her work in various lectures and presentations. Though a contemporary poet, Oswald’s main focus is not to produce innovative work, but rather to visit and revisit the past. In her poems, she told students at a lecture, she

tries to imitate as best she can the language, imagery and “vitality” of Homer’s epics because she considers the Odyssey “a living poem.”

In our ever-changing culture, especially in a university setting- where innovation is revered among creative artists - Oswald clearly shows the success of reworking past art into the contemporary without being trite: she explores the classics in the context of present.

By rejecting traditional or previous aesthetics, many artists have made their ateliers and works domains for the intellectual elite only. Art produced by a self-conscience striving to be different only wins respect for its originality, not necessarily its quality. As a result, the study of past art remains open only to academics, because the content has no significance in the present. The making of art becomes a practice only of the sophisticated – at least the art that we are supposed to take seriously. I am in no way speaking of social classes here, for it seems clear that art attempts to make itself accessible to all. What occurs is that is that the traditional is pushed aside as common and naïve. The adherents to culture and tradition, generally the consumers of art, are thus denied participation because the “progressives” who cast off heritage succeed precisely in making art inaccessible.

For the sake of uniqueness,

there is a growing drive to sever the connections between art and tradition. Art presents a means for self-expression and innovation. The result is the appreciation of old art only in the context of its own time of creation, and with no reference to other periods. Art seems to progress because so many forms are arising and they are all accepted as valid because they are charged with personal meaning. Yet, without connection to the past in structure, theme, and ideas, how can this be called progressive?

This is not to say that innovation and quality are mutually exclusive, but rather that uniqueness is not the end goal. Art must be continuous and informed by past works. If the artist continues to separate his creations from “the old stuff,” crucial ideas are lost and could very well lead to bad art – self-contained art that won’t make it out of its own era, if its only significant for a single population.

The “new” or “unique” cannot be substantial without relying on deep reflection of what already exist. The best art, just like the greatest inventions, depends on previous science and heritage, only understood by masters. Selfacknowledgement of temporal context allows the artist to reach new levels of understanding and mastery.

The traditional is communicable. It keeps the capacity to awaken the imagination of the

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audience. It directs towards ideas greater than the thoughts of the artist.

On entering the new Lewis Center, one can sense a great potential for creation. It may simply be its newness, its size, or the blankness of many of its walls, but what is sure is that art will be made. Yet, like the building itself, this art must have structure if it wants to achieve a proper place in the University, among disciplines that make no sense without structure. Both the humanities and the sciences all move forward (or at least they should) by contextualizing a position within their past.

The Lewis Center should present a great opportunity to change the approach to the arts. More emphasis must be placed on ideas, and not just feeling. Classes or art workshops must approach past works with the respect of an open mind and not disregard the meaning. Students should be encouraged to create and to become versed in tradition. Alice Oswald proves that this can be done with great success. She acknowledges how Homer is not just a master in his own time, and so she contributes to the themes, questions, and simply beauty that he created. In this way, artists can enter a great conversation with the past and truly add to the contemporary.

Miguel Caranti is a first-year from Houston, Tex. and can be reached at mcaranti@princeton.edu.

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St. A’s: the nicest, artsiest bullies

Max Grear

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Their membership is so exclusive, it makes Soho House look like a halfway house.”

In the Gossip Girl episode “The Undergraduates,” this is how the wealthy Columbia student Blair Waldorf describes an elite secret society called the Hamilton House to her best friend Serena van der Woodsen. Once the two arrive at the Hamilton House, they discover that only Blair has been accepted as a member. “I’m sorry, Serena,” the Hamilton House “keymaster” says as the friends stand there awkwardly, “but this club is for members only.”

Serena leaves with a strained, hurt smile.

As it turns out, the fictional Hamilton House is based on a real-life organization: St. Anthony Hall (or simply “St. A’s” or “A’s”), a coeducational fraternity founded at Columbia that has chapters on elite college campuses across the country. Not one to miss out on WASP-y traditions, Princeton boasts its own chapter.

The fictional Gossip Girl portrayal of a one-percenters’ clubhouse deviates little from the organization’s reputation at Columbia, rife with vivid stories of wealth and excess.

At least at Princeton, the group seems to bear little connection today to its unsavory origins — but the gilded apple can only fall so far from the tree.

Ask around among this year’s participants in the “secret” society’s rush process, and

you’ll discover a not-so-secret fun fact: the majority of this year’s bids went to alumni of elite prep schools like Dalton, Hotchkiss, Harvard-Westlake and Lawrenceville (likely no different than the organization’s first, mid-19th century crop). It’s also common knowledge that the organization expects members to pay significant dues. Some members excuse this practice by pointing out the financial aid policy, as if extending paternalistic, class-based hierarchies into every aspect of our social lives is somehow necessary or admirable.

Still, for all this backstory, it may seem unreasonable to single out St. A’s. This is Princeton, after all — we’re all members of an elite, wealthy, historically white, perhaps cult-like organization. The campus’s more traditional fraternities, sororities, and eating clubs have much uglier legacies of social exclusivity and classism (issues which I along with many others have commented upon in the past).

But St. A’s is more than deserving of critique. The organization’s relatively small size and friendly facade make its exclusionary practices all the more intimately hurtful to dozens of sophomores who “rush” each year. Perhaps even more than eating clubs or Greek life, A’s preys on students’ loneliness and insecurities. I have known many individuals who rushed because they had not yet found a campus niche that fit their personality and interests, and were all the more des-

perate for a welcoming social space. I have heard again and again from peers who rushed with the hopes of finding, for the first time on this isolating campus, a close-knit group of friends — only to be crushed by the emailed excuse that “our numbers couldn’t accommodate you” (as if the precise group size was dictated by Saint Anthony the Great’s mystical preachings).

So, are members really that insensitive, or are they just clueless? Perhaps, sometimes, both. I’ve heard from hosed students who have been bombarded with unwanted, performatively apologetic messages from A’s members (oftentimes people they’ve barely even met before). Some A’s members choose to unload their guilty consciences onto the very individuals who have been hurt, demonstrating empty virtuesignaling, rather than empathy and respect. If they were genuinely sorry, they’d drop A’s and not look back.

Niceties aside, there’s no kind or “chill” way to advertise your friend group to someone, evaluate that person purely on the basis of intangible personal qualities, and then tell them they can’t join.

The most troubling part, however, is that A’s members do not typically resemble hostile Gossip Girl characters.

Actually, I’ve known plenty of friendly (and sometimes even politically-conscious) A’s people, and I count many current and former members as friends. Why, then, are these individuals so casually cruel

as a group?

St. A’s is evidence of how thoroughly we have normalized social elitism on campus, to the point that even the nicest and artsiest among us will institutionalize exclusivity. All of us are implicated to some degree in this pattern; even dance, a capella and other groups have been known to make decisions based on surface-level social factors. But it’s uniquely shameful to promote social exclusivity for its own sake (without even the pretense of more impersonal criteria like musical experience).

As one commentator put it, St. A’s fetishizes social skills while “refusing to acknowledge what it’s doing.”

By admitting those individuals with the hippest, most marketable, and oftentimes most expensive personal brands (which typically entail a palatable degree of quirkiness and maybe a dash of Nietzsche), St. A’s contradicts its own mission of cultivating an air of mystery and uniqueness.

In reality, A’s is fundamentally, transparently mundane — just another smug, elitist group on a frequently smug, elitist campus.

But, let’s imagine otherwise for a moment. Can’t we set up “coffee dates” with strangers without turning them into confusing and intimidating auditions? Can’t we find close friends without having to formally compete for their approval and acceptance? Can’t we share our passions without implicitly (or explicitly) evaluating some as more or less

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Max Grear is a Spanish and Portuguese major from Wakefield, R.I. He can be reached at mgrear@princeton.edu.

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Men’s and women’s cross country teams turn out strong performances in weekend meets

By Michael Gao staff writer

Both the men’s and women’s cross country squads turned in impressive results at their weekend performances in the Princeton Invitational and Penn State National Open, respectively. This sets a strong precedent for what many consider to be the most important meet of the season, the Ivy Heptagonal Championships.

The men’s team played host this weekend, as sixteen teams converged on West Windsor Fields to race the Tigers. Princeton benefitted mightily from strong performances from its veterans. Senior Noah Kauppila, a regular scorer at Heps, led the Tigers with a third place finish with a strong 24:08, while sophomore Conor Lundy, who placed third at Heps last year and went on to run in the national championship in Terre Haute, Ind., nabbed fourth just behind his teammate.

Princeton had four other top twenty finishers, with seniors Garrett O’Toole, a formidable force in the indoor mile and NCAA regional qualifier; Will Paulson, another perennial Ivy League Heps scorer; Rob Stone; and Wolfgang

Beck, all clocking in under 24:40. Such strong performances netted the men’s team a decisive first place finish in the meet, with all eyes looking toward the pivotal Ivy League showdown next weekend.

Though the men’s team will undoubtedly face some formidable battles — Columbia is ranked in the national top 25, while Penn is not far behind — there is no doubt the Tigers are well-trained, wellrested, and dangerously experienced.

While five runners on the women’s team also ran in the Princeton Invitational, the bulk headed out west to State College, where they competed in the National Open hosted by the No. 10 Penn State Nittany Lions. In the face of strong opponents — in addition to Penn State, three of the other squads racing were also ranked in the top 30 — the Tigers performed strongly, with four runners placing in the top 30, and six in the top 50. Princeton was anchored by the resurgent return of five-time AllAmerican senior Megan Curham, one of the most decorated cross country runners in Princeton history. A U.S. Olympic Trial

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U.S. Olympics qualifier in the marathon and senior runner Megan Curham ran in her first race in two years.

qualifier in the marathon, owner of three Princeton long distance records, and two-time NCAA championship participant, Curham had not run competitively in the Princeton uniform for two years until she claimed 10th this Saturday with a time of 20:42. Also finishing un-

der 21:00 was junior Gabi Forrest, who placed 15th, while junior Allie Klimkiewicz and freshman Melia Chittenden were both able to nab spots in the top 30. The Tigers walked away from the meet with a solid fourth-place finish, falling short of Penn State, No. 15 Villanova,

and Ivy rival Dartmouth.

While they, too, will face tough battles next week — Yale, Columbia, and Dartmouth are all highly touted squads — there’s no doubt that Princeton has what it takes to make a lasting impact on the field.

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Weekend sweep for women’s field hockey against Brown and Northeastern

By Claire Coughlin associate sports editor

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Women’s Field Hockey had a successful weekend with wins against Brown and Northeastern.

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The Princeton women’s field hockey team had an extremely successful weekend, with two consecutive wins against the Brown Bears and the Northeastern Huskies.

The team was all about one thing on Saturday at Goldberger Field in Providence, R.I. — unity. With 11 goals coming from nine different players, it seemed like almost everyone got their chance at goal. The scoring began right off the bat, with freshman midfielder Clara Roth scoring just 77 seconds into the game off a corner rebound, sending the ball right into the cage. Brown’s Katherine Kallergis responded with a shot just minutes later, but this would be Brown’s only goal of the game.

Roth took her lead back just 90 seconds after and sent yet another rebound into the goal to make it 2-1.

Once junior striker Sophia Tornetta scored the team’s third goal, the team’s

play spiraled into major offensive success.

Princeton had three more tallies during a six-minute span to move the score to 6-1 by halftime. Of the six goals in the first half, four came off penalty shots. The game also presented sophomore midfielder Taylor Nolan with her first two career-goals in the game. The rest of the team’s goals came from senior Ryan McCarthy, juniors Jane Donio-Enscoe and Casey Swezey, and freshmen MaryKate Neff and Julianna Tornetta.

The Orange and Black’s 11 goals are tied for the second most in a single-game in program history.

The Tigers finished the game with a 36-1 shot advantage, a 9-0 lead in penalty corners, and some solid confidence to stand on going into Sunday’s game.

On Sunday, the Tigers made their way to Dedham Field outside Boston to face the Northeastern Huskies. Once again, the team started off with

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the goals right away, as McCarthy knocked off her 12th leading goal of the season. Offensively, Princeton kept taking shots at Northeastern, sending four more shots on the cage during a five-minute span, but couldn’t get one through. Then, the home team earned a corner as the clock expired, but both its attempts were blocked.

In the first 35 minutes of the game, Princeton had a 9-3 shot advantage. McCarthy’s goals were finally followed by two more later in the game from junior Elise Wong and Neff to make the final score 3-0.

The Tigers advance to 4-0 in the Ivy League and 8-6 overall in the season. Their next game will be on the road at No. 13 Harvard next Saturday at noon. Harvard won the title last year and both teams are both 4-0 in the Ivy League, so it’s sure to be a hard-fought battle in Cambridge.

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