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BEYOND THE BUBBLE

New orientation U. alum livens up Historical program focuses Society of Princeton on social justice

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Most first-year students are aware of the three most common options for orientation experiences — Outdoor Action, Community Action, and on-campus programming for in-season athletes. This year, however, a little-known fourth option was added.

This September, 40 firstyear students participated in Dialogue and Difference in Action, a pilot pre-orientation program that focuses on identity and inclusivity. Dwarfed in size by the OA and CA programs, which involve 600 students each, DDA provided participants a unique look at critical global issues.

DDA attempted to introduce students to new ways of critically thinking about issues of diversity, privilege, and difference, both in the University community and in the world at large. The program was hosted at the Garrison Institute, a meditation center in Garrison, N.Y. whose stated mission is to “cultivate caring, insight and courage in individuals, as well as shifts in collective values and worldviews needed to achieve positive social change.”

A typical day on DDA included a large group discussion — often with all 40 firstyear students and the eight leaders tackling a specific

issue — followed by smaller group discourses of eight or ten students each. At night, students took a break from the heavier topics of the day and got to know each other through ice-breaker games and casual activities. Unlike many Outdoor Action participants, who went the entire duration of their trip without taking a shower or sleeping in a bed, DDA participants were able to meditate on issues of global importance while enjoying modern comforts.

Nora Aguiar ’21, one of the first-year students who took part in DDA, said that the intimate, isolated setting helped program participants “[focus] on the people we were with and what we were doing.”

“If you’re at all passionate about equality or social justice or that kind of work in any way, then I definitely think that DDA is the place for you,” said DDA participant Nick Jain ’21. “Even if you just want to learn about certain topics that you may not have background knowledge on, especially with regards to identity, that might be a really good place for you as well.”

Like students who went on CA and OA trips, DDA participants completed orientation surveys on Your Path to Princeton, the matriculation website. Students were selected for DDA based on an interest in social justice. While this apSee DDA page 2

COURTESY OF ISABEL KASDIN

Isabel Kasdin ’14 was recently named executive director of the Historical Society of Princeton.

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

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David Frum, senior editor of The Atlantic, presented “How to Be a Conservative in the Age of Trump” on Wednesday.

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Conservatives must focus on policies that enhance their cultural power and prevent the weakening of bonds between Americans and the state, David Frum, political commentator and senior editor of The Atlantic, said in a lecture on Wednesday.

Frum said that his lecture, “How to Be a Conservative in the Age of Trump,” focused on a more personal topic than

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ON CAMPUS

Federal judge in Hawaii Tony Porter thwarts Trump’s latest talks about version of travel ban masculinity

ON CAMPUS

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nization. I really connected with the field that that volunteerism represented: the field of public history and museum studies,” she said.

Since then, Kasdin has done every possible job within the organization, taking her first paid position as a collections and research assistant after she graduated. Two years into her career, she was offered the full-time position of curator.

Having formed such a personal connection with the society, Kasdin is deeply aware of both the organization’s main goals and her own goals for it as they move forward.

Kasdin expressed that the main goal of the Historical Society of Princeton is to enhance community vitality.

“As a local history organization, it’s important that people feel connected to the sense of history and the sense of heritage in the place that they are,” she remarked. “Having a puttogether historic landscape makes us a more vital community.”

The organization’s second goal is enhancing historical literacy. “I firmly believe that we all have the ability to think like historians and also understand historical content: it’s essential to our democracy,” she said. “History teaches us how to think critically, how to look at context,

he typically discusses. A CNN contributor and former speechwriter for former U.S. President George W. Bush, Frum was one of the first eminent conservatives to express opposition to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. His tenth book, entitled “Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic,” is due to be released early next year.

“You cannot escape the fact of this presidency,” Frum said. He added that as a conservative opSee FRUM page 3

The jury is still out on President Trump’s travel ban, as a federal judge has once again temporarily prevented the ban from proceeding.

On Tuesday, one day before the ban was supposed to take effect, Judge Derrick Watson, a member of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii, criticized the Trump administration for failing to address concerns he and other judges had about the ban. The ban was set to bar immigrants from eight countries: Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, Somalia, and Yemen.

This is the third set of travel restrictions to be thwarted, in part or as a whole, by the judicial system. The Supreme Court was scheduled to review the second iteration of the ban at the time that the third one was issued, and it will likely direct its focus to the third version as well.

The ruling comes after the original travel ban underwent revision and scrutiny as the Trump ad-

ministration conducted a worldwide review of vetting procedures. According to Watson, their efforts have not been enough.

The University has stood in opposition to Trump’s travel bans in the past.

In February, President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 joined 47 other college and university presidents from across the country in sending a letter to President Trump urging him to “rectify or rescind” his order. Serving as a “friend of the court,” the University filed amicus briefs against the travel ban twice, first in March and then again in September. Eisgruber and the other university presidents stated that the ban prevents law-abiding and talented students from reaching their campuses.

Notably, the judge’s ruling affects only the six majority Muslim countries from the list, and does not apply to the restrictions against North Korea or Venezuela. Watson said he would set an expedited hearing to determine whether the temporary restriction should be extended.

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Activist Tony Porter wants to create a new normal.

“I’m here representing the men, the generation of men that comes before you. Most of what you know from being a man you learned from me. So I’m not here telling you what you did wrong and all of that stuff,” Porter said.

“I’m telling you that a lot of the things that I taught you we need to rethink and you have the opportunity to reteach.”

A cofounder of the nonprofit A Call to Men, Porter works to prevent domestic violence and promote healthy masculinity.

He has advised several professional organizations, such as the National Football League and Major League Baseball. He is also the author of “Breaking Out of the ‘Man Box’: The Next Generation of Manhood.”

Much of Porter’s discussion engaged the audience on the topic of masculinity and how a hypermasculine culture has perpetuated issues like domestic violence.

“Domestic violence is so prevalent, sexual abuse is so prevalent in our society. You can’t put this many people in the room and not have several of us … impacted by it,” Porter said.

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WEATHER

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“I’m passionate about bringing [the Historical Society of Princeton] into a new era and attracting a more diverse audience in terms of socioeconomics, ethnicity, and age,” Isabel Kasdin ’14 said.

In May 2016, Kasdin was named the executive director of the Historical Society of Princeton, a local organization dedicated to preserving the rich and varied past of the community. As director, Kasdin has dedicated herself to bringing the organization into a new age

that ref lects the diversity of the community it serves.

“New Jersey is slated to become a majority-minority state by 2020, and that’s huge. History organizations have a lot of work to do so that they’re not seen as just this place where old white people go to commune with old white people from the past,” Kasdin said.

Throughout her work at the society, Kasdin has watched the organization evolve. She began working with the Historical Society as a volunteer docent at the age of fifteen.

“As a docent, I formed a connection with the orga-

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proach ensured that all students included were invested in the subject material, it may have inadvertently shaped a group which lacked diverse interests and priorities.

“I think that a lot of times it can be interesting to learn about subjects that you’re not necessarily as interested in. To kind of create a community in Princeton that prioritizes the ideals that DDA values, it might be beneficial in the future to have people that don’t necessarily already prioritize them,” Jain said.

A common tactic among incoming first-year students who are knowledgeable about what each orientation program entails is to answer the orientation survey questions in a manner consistent with the constraints of their preferred experience. To this end, students familiar with the new DDA option but uninterested in participating attempted to frame their answers on the questionnaire in a manner they felt would be antithetical to DDA’s mission.

“I remember selecting options

to not be placed in an activity with similar topics discussed in DDA,” said Daniel Bracho ’21, who briefly participated in DDA before transferring to CA. The program’s progressive outlook proved a bit of a culture shock to some. Bracho found DDA “far [more] politically correct [than] what I’m used to — I’m an international student from Venezuela and therefore introducing myself with pronouns, et cetera, was somewhat uncomfortable.”

Still, Bracho noted the friendliness of all trip participants and the welcoming environment DDA provided.

In addition to educating the first-year students about social issues, DDA facilitated friendships between participants.

“Probably my closest friends at Princeton so far are people that I met at DDA,” Jain said.

Still, Jain believes that there is room for improvement.

“Having people that don’t necessarily already care about social justice and equality being a part of the program would make the results of the program more beneficial,” he said.

Similarly, Aguiar discussed the need for a larger program “so more people could get involved.”

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people believe that domestic violence consists only of physical abuse, but he wants to raise awareness of psychological and verbal abuse, which are important parts of female survivors’ narratives. “[Insults] become her name,” Porter said. “I have women tell me that ‘he even got the kids calling me the name.’ ” Instead of asking women why they don’t just leave, Porter encouraged his audience to ask another question: Why doesn’t he just stop?

Partly, Porter said that it’s because domestic violence can — not all the time — pass from generation to generation.

“This is what we know: if I have 100 men in this room who all admitted to being perpetrators of domestic violence, 80 percent of them, 80 of them would say that they grew up in the room where they were affected by it,” Porter said.

According to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, one in five women and one in 71 men will be raped in their lifetime. Among college-aged students, one in five women and one in 16 men will be sexually assaulted during their time on campus.

Mostly, Porter said, the violence against women can be attributed to a culture of unhealthy masculinity, which is kept alive by the silence of a majority of good men. “[Men] are taught that men are strong and women are weak, and we try to limit any association with the word weak,” Porter said.

From a young age, boys are conditioned to believe that they need to hide their feelings to avoid being seen as weak, according to Porter. At five years old, Porter said, boys are starting to have the idea hammered into them. At ten years old, they are expected to have perfected it.

Porter relayed his own fault in this matter. With his daughter, he allowed her from a young age to cry, and he’d offer her support. But, with his son, he had hardly any tolerance for crying.

“When you tell a little boy to stop crying, you tell a little boy to stop feeling,” Porter said.

This mindset, he believes, is what has allowed people to see domestic violence in action and not speak up against it.

“In our socialization, we have created the fertile ground for violence to exist,” Porter said.

Throughout the discussion, Porter interacted with the audience and called on people to speak and answer questions.

For his last activity of the night, he presented sample advertisements to the audience that denigrated women and asked student-athletes to describe why it is wrong that the image exists.

He believes that people need to be conscious of the less obvious dehumanization and objectification of women that exists in pornography, advertisements, and the overall pop culture.

“If we can’t put words to it, if we can’t challenge it, then the dynamics will stay in place,” he said.

Porter introduced Men’s Allied Voices for a Respectful & Inclusive Community (MAVRIC) Project to the audience at the end of his talk. The project works to foster a community that can talk about healthy masculinity.

The students, sports teams, and coaches who filled the room were deeply invested in the topics at hand.

Cade Keegan ’21 attended the discussion as a member of MAVRIC. “Like [Porter] said with … socialization and fragile male ego, these types of topics aren’t talked about in male conversation, and making athletes and all men think about these things and create an environment to discuss them can help curb those problems over time,” Keegan said.

Paul Casey, an assistant coach for the lightweight men’s rowing team, found the emphasis on communication, especially among male athletes, intriguing.

“As an athlete, I’ve had a bunch of different types of coaches, and the most effective ones I’ve had … engaged in a dialogue, like I don’t know what’s going on in a boat other than what I can see,” Casey said. “And, so, what I found is that it’s just easier just to stop and ask the guys after a piece or whatever, what’s going on, what are you guys feeling.”

The dinner discussion was sponsored by Campus Conversations on Identities, SHARE, and the Women*s Center. It was held in the Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding on Oct. 18 at 8 p.m.

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posed to Trump, he is often accused of bad faith by members of his party. However, he believes that Trump doesn’t endorse a conservative vision of American unity.

According to Frum, Trump stirred conservative fears that if the Republicans lost, they would never win a democratic election again. While Trump portrayed himself as an anti-establishment candidate, Frum believes that there is more to gain from the present state of America’s political system than there is to lose.

Frum explained that he has seen a deterioration of American pride and unity since the 1980s, which enabled Russian intervention in the 2016 election. To combat this, Frum said, conservatism must change — and this change must begin with a strong commitment to American nationalism and the promotion of a unified sense of American identity.

From the 1980s up to last year’s election, Frum said, American politics have not fundamentally changed; they continue to feature the same families, such as the Clintons and the Bushes, and center around the same issues of health care and taxes.

“We had 25 years of quite frozen politics — it polarized, became more intense, but did not change in shape,” Frum said.

Frum also identified a deviation of Republican political power from cultural power. Today, the places where movies and media are produced are the places where Republican presence is weakest, even though Republicans remain politically powerful on the national stage.

According to Frum, who has dual Canadian and American citizenship, one way that Republicans can develop a stronger national identity is to make it more difficult to obtain citizenship.

He said that his friends with dual citizenship, as well as his own family, maintain residences and ties to their home countries.

“We are going to have to find ways to thicken the bond of citizenship in material ways,” Frum said.

An example of this “material” tie to citizenship is the National Health Services in England. The

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how to understand bias, all these things that we should be doing when we look at the news.”

To Kasdin, these goals come at a particularly important time. She noted that it is becoming increasingly difficult for a museum to exist in this world.

“I’d like to see us triumph over these challenges and become a model for all history organizations,” she said.

With four full-time team members and trained staff with advanced degrees in their field, Kasdin recognized what a unique position the organization holds.

“I think that we have a responsibility because we do have these talented people here to really lead the way and bring other organizations that are volunteerbased and help pull them along into the future for museums,” Kasdin said.“I don’t think any of us really know what that will look like, but it probably needs to look different than what we are now.”

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NHS serves as a tangible symbol of British citizenship, Frum said, since even those who have recently obtained their citizenship are a part of it while those who leave the country for tax breaks are not.

Questions from the audience dealt with whether conservatism will be able to make inroads into traditionally blue areas, whether it’s effective to work to change politics from within the system, and how Frum connected an increase in immigration to the degradation of American society.

“It was interesting to hear David Frum’s complete thesis of what ‘conservative’ means now that Trump is president,” Luis Guerra GS said. “In the end, I think it’s such an incredibly naive worldview because David Frum is part of the Bush presidency, and throughout his entire lecture didn’t touch upon the Iraq War and the political trauma that it introduced in our country.”

The lecture, sponsored by the Wilson School as part of its Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Leadership through Mentorship Program, took place in Robertson Hall at 4:30 p.m. on October 18th.

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Combating Princeton students’ risk-averse culture Jessica Nyquist

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H

oards of blazerclad students shuffling nervously through upperclassmen dorms marks the beginning of job-application season.

It’s often a time of disappointment, frustration, and hits to students’ self confidence as peers compete for specific and limited positions.

I would describe the typical Princeton student as ambitious, self-motivated, and intellectually curious, but despite all this praise, I would also add risk-averse. We’re drawn to career opportunities that are obviously “good:” positions at high-profile, widely regarded, well-established companies.

I am constantly impressed by the diversity of passionate interests of my peers. Students dedicate time on campus carving a niche, whether it be academic, artistic, civic-service focused, adventurous, or athletic. But during the summer internship application season, I am surprised by the way these passions tend to funnel into a set of perceived ideal careers, mostly in finance and consulting. The University offers a variety of research, internship, and fellowship options that encourage students to pursue their unique interests, but these opportunities seem to serve a small percentage of students. Fellowships present an opportunity to develop an independent interest with the security of financial support and framework. These

opportunities support the University’s mission, so more resources should be allocated to providing this sort of personalized “niche” summer experience that the University provides to students during the year.

This issue of risk aversion among undergraduates is not limited to Princeton’s campus.

Of the Princeton Class of 2016, 14.1 percent pursued a career in finance according to Career Services’ annual report. This number does not differ significantly from the national percentage of undergraduates pursuing these types of careers, which is 11.6 percent. But from personal experience, the career-focused culture here can be toxic to the blossoming of independent personal interests. The ideal summer pursuits of my peers do not reflect their diversity and ambitions but rather an obsession with aligning themselves with traditional definitions of success. Princeton students often feel they have much to lose after the unique opportunity to study at this University. Rather than exploring options that best apply their expertise, students hover around options that promise to validate their years here monetarily.

Career Services claims a purpose to “help Princetonians reflect on their values and strengths, pursue opportunities that match their unique interests and design personalized plans to achieve their goals.” Despite advising students toward a variety of diverse career paths, the student culture on campus still compresses students into

a narrow definition of success and expectations. Especially with interests that do not offer popular or accessible internship opportunities, like law or history, students often feel pressured to enter the world of finance or banking as a dependable marker of success. By no means is the entry easy or the work light in these fields, but they do provide a direct and secure path postgraduation. Many undergraduates came through a high school pipeline to college and crave that stability moving forward beyond Princeton.

Princeton offers diverse summer experiences both domestically and abroad that stretch students intellectually beyond specific career functions. The Office of International Programs claims the mission to “provide transformative experiences that enable participants to be agents of positive change in their communities and beyond,” through their fellowships, scholarships, and other programs.

But especially in our junior and senior year, these options seem secondary to the elusive brand name internships coming to campus and attracting applications and distributing rejections left and right. These established summer experiences promise stability and widely regarded “success.”

But fellowships provide alternative stability and credit as well while allowing students flexibility to use the summer for self development and exploration of their passions. Because Princeton students tend to crave structure and repute from their

summer pursuits, the University should work to allocate more resources to fellowships as well as promoting these programs so students view them as viable and worthy alternatives to traditional internships.

Career services provides strong and personalized support for the job search, often recommending a variety of options to explore, not pushing students in a specific direction. But because the affinity for reputable companies exists as a cultural token on campus, the University should do more to promote alternatives. For example, professors and department heads could emphasize the array of related fellowships available to their particular students.

The summer hiatus from classes offers students an opportunity to truly embody Princeton’s motto, “In the nation’s service and the service of humanity.” We have the time to travel and to immerse ourselves in culture and independent work. But the current career-driven, goal-oriented, and risk-averse dynamics on campus lend themselves to playing it safe and pursuing popular and well-traversed options. In a campus brimming with diverse interests and independence, our summers should reflect and foster these ambitions.

Jessica Nyquist is a junior in Computer Science from Houston, Tex. She can be reached at jnyquist@ princeton.edu.

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ast weekend, a mysterious procession of people weaved its way through north campus. From a distance, they emitted a collective murmur — a moan of mourning. If you got close enough, you could catch snippets of individual sentences.

Each participant in the procession was quietly reading aloud from books in Spanish, Portuguese, or English. The books were written or adored by the acclaimed Argentine writer and Princeton professor Ricardo Piglia, who died earlier this year. The procession was not a funeral march, but a parade of life. Each reader’s emergent voice blending with the voices of others sounded more like joy. A cacophony of words, reverberating and alive.

It was part of the appropriately-named “Live Art” sessions that occurred across campus this past weekend, sponsored by the Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS). Locations across campus, such as Firestone Library and East Pyne courtyard, were transformed into profound and public spaces, as a diverse group of artists, mostly from Argentina, enacted a series of interdisciplinary, uncategorizable, embodied art “actions.” Each of these actions required the participation of

show: they were the show. This is what Princeton’s investment in the arts looks like, they said.

This is how we care about you.

This is how we compete, how we keep up, how we grow. This is what education looks like.

This is in the service of humanity, they said. I just thought: this is how you spend $330 million.

Sitting on those couches whose price could feed a family for a year, one can wonder about the ethics of consumerist economics. One can look just across the trees to Trenton, which currently has $80,000 for their own attempt at an arts district, and ponder unjust concentrations of wealth.

One can sit there and think all day long about what $1 million would’ve meant to, say, 330 random cash-strapped community colleges (which serve nearly half of this nation’s undergraduates, but receive just a small fraction of annual giving to higher education — most of which goes to already-wealthy private universities like Princeton).

But liberal guilt does no good.

Art, at its best, does. Art at its best — as the Live Art sessions reminded me — is about a radically engaged re-seeing of the present (and the past contained) to imagine a more just, more communitarian, more beautiful future. It makes us more human. Art springs out of necessity, not excess.

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the public and brought in the voices of the little-known and little-heard in the dominant “dialogues” of the University.

They enacted a theater of “the every day,” calling our attention to how we read, examine, and navigate our world as an unavoidably political and interpersonal space. I walked away changed.

But I couldn’t help but think about the Festival of the Arts, the official opening of the new Lewis Center for the Arts complex that happened the weekend prior. The events of the Festival itself were well-produced, the complex buzzing with people, and the building nothing if not impressive and striking.

But in comparison to the Live Arts sessions of PLAS, which set out to re-envision the spaces we already inhabit, this new space felt strangely dead.

It felt as if the building didn’t care about the people who inhabited it; it didn’t care about who it welcomed in and who it kept out. Someone said that being in the space made them feel like one of those 2D people in an architect’s computer simulation, and I knew exactly what they meant.

Every designer chair and patterned rug and fancy projector and flat-screen HDTV and grand piano and echoing room and hallway are all new — thousands or tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars each.

Yet, it didn’t feel like they were there for me to use to put on a

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My worry is that the new Lewis Arts complex, in all its shiny, spiky modern glory, in all its dizzying newness, will make us forget this. In its masculine concreteness and surety and willingness to interrupt the skyline; in its great gleaming whiteness that swallows up the casual passerby; in its unthinking wastefulness and belief in the inevitable narrative of growth; in its fabulous wealth and cleanliness and confidence — in its unflinching belief in its own righteousness, its own rationality, its own ways of knowing — the new Lewis Center complex threatens to become a synecdoche for the downfalls of the University writ large. It threatens to defang and assimilate the arts into the moderating modes of production the neoliberal university demands.

But it doesn’t have to. It is up to us, as students and staff and community members at large, to challenge the assumptions that are built into the very architecture of our new art building. We must reclaim the radical space of the arts within this new space. Ironically (or perhaps not), this will require great artistry. It will require examining our assumptions about what matters in education. It will require us to ask what the arts are for, anyway.

It is up to us to make the arts at Princeton alive, with the sort of radical engagement with each other and the issues of

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We artists of Princeton University must ask ourselves what it is, exactly, that we stand for and make.

Kyle Berlin is a senior studying Spanish and Portuguese from Arroyo Grande, California. He can be reached at kmberlin@princeton. edu.

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Photo recap: Tigers draw against No. 22 Lions in wild 2 OT match

By Chris Murphy

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It was a wild weekend for the Princeton soccer teams this Saturday. Myslik Field at Roberts Stadium played host to some doubleheader action, as the men took on Columbia in the afternoon before ceding the pitch to

the women for their Saturday night showdown, also against Columbia. The men got things rolling with a wild 0-0 draw against the No. 22 team in the nation that went into two overtimes.

The Tigers hung around for

the entire afternoon despite being outshot 21-6 by the Lions. Sophomore goalkeeper Jacob Schachner had a career-high seven saves for the Tigers in net and spearheaded an impressive defensive effort which led Princeton

to its first Ivy League point this season. Despite the lack of scoring by both teams, the Tigers and Lions played a tightly contested and very entertaining game that was an awesome start to the doubleheader.

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Despite loss to Columbia, Tigers can still claim Ivy title and NCAA birth

By Chris Murphy

associate sports editor

What happened Saturday night no one could have predicted. The No. 11 Tigers — winners of five straight matches and heavy front runners for the Ivy League women’s soccer title — were upset at home by Columbia 2-0. There is no way to describe it other than as a shocking upset; the Lions did come into the game undefeated in conference play as well, but many saw the Tigers as a dominant, perhaps even an unstoppable, force in the Ivy League. Princeton got blitzed by Columbia; the Lions scored two goals in the first 11 minutes of the game and the Orange and Black could not manage a retaliatory score despite having 21 shots on goal. Now, the Tigers are left to lick their wounds and respond with a strong showing in their final games. Despite, the loss, the Tigers can still claim the Ivy League title and even a birth in the NCAA Tournament. Let’s take a look at the current situation for the Tigers and their outlook for the rest of the season.

Current Standings: After their loss to Columbia, the Tigers now sit at 3-1 in league play, tallying nine points, which is good enough for second in the Ivy League.

League-leading Columbia — winners of five straight — now have a 4-0 conference record and 12 points.

Princeton has a two point lead over Yale and Penn, who

both currently have seven points. Each of these teams has three games remaining in their Ivy League schedule. By beating Princeton, Columbia is in the driver’s seat for the remainder of the season to clinch the Ivy League title.

Remaining Games: The Tigers have games each Saturday from now until November 4th. They will travel to Harvard this weekend, host Cornell October 28th and travel to Philadelphia to play Penn in their final regular season game. Meanwhile, Columbia travels to Dartmouth this weekend before heading home for its final two games against Yale and Harvard. Looking at the two teams directly below Princeton, Yale and Penn will play this weekend in a game that will probably decide who the final contender for the Ivy League title is going to be.

How Princeton can win the Ivy League: Because each team in the Ivy League plays every other team only once, the Tigers are in a tough position to try and catch Columbia. The Tigers trail the Lions by three points — a whole win — and have lost the tiebreaker as well. Thus, the Tigers will have to theoretically gain four points on the Lions in the final three weeks to win the Ivy League title. Princeton really cannot afford another loss if they want to compete for the title. They’ll have to beat a tough Harvard team on the road this weekend and then in three weeks go up against

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Penn, which may be fighting for second or even first place in the Ivy League. In terms of scoreboard watching, the Tigers will have to hope that Columbia loses one at home to either Yale or Harvard and then ties the other. Fortunately for the Tigers, they have already won their matchup against Yale, who played them extremely tough earlier in the season. If the Bulldogs can bring that same fight to New York City, they may become Princeton’s best friend, if only for a day. Then, it will come down to which team plays better against the Crimson, who represented the Ivy League in last year’s NCAA tournament.

How Princeton can make the NCAA tournament: While their Ivy League chances took a big hit with the loss, the Tigers’ hopes of making the NCAA tournament remain relatively unchanged. After the loss, the Tigers dropped from No. 11 to No. 17 in the United Soccer Coaches Poll. The Tigers also come in with the seventh hardest schedule in the nation, according to the latest women’s soccer RPI. With quality road wins against a ranked NC State squad and a Wake Forest team currently No. 15 in the poll, in addition to a respectable 1-0 defeat at the hands of No. 7 West Virginia, the Tigers have a pretty strong resume as it stands.

None of this will come into play if the Tigers can overtake Columbia; the team that wins the Ivy League

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Junior Mimi Asom and the rest of the Tigers will be looking to put the Columbia loss behind them

receives an automatic birth to the NCAA tournament.

However, even if Princeton does not win the Ivy League, their resume should get them into the tournament as an at large bid, albeit probably at a lower seed than if they were to win the Ivy League. The big thing the Tigers cannot do is lose another game; losing one game to the eventual Ivy League champion would not be all that drastic of a loss, but a loss to any of their three remaining opponents would seriously hurt their chances their second tournament berth in three years.

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364 days Prior to Saturday, Princeton women’s soccer last lost by 2+ goals 364 days ago...that loss was also to Columbia

At this point, there is nothing the Tigers can do except play the same effective style they have been all season. If Princeton plays as well as it started to finish out the season — and there is little reason to think otherwise — then the Tigers should still be able to achieve the goals they set out to achieve earlier in the year. While the Tigers may have things a bit harder now, anyone on the team will tell you they are up for the challenge and are going to give it their all in these final three weeks to try and reclaim the Ivy League title.

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