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Over 450 students and faculty have signed competing petitions in the last week about whether or not Princeton should divest from companies involved with Israel.

Forty-eight faculty members urged the University last Wednesday to divest its endowment funds from all companies that “contribute to or profit from the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and continued siege of Gaza.”

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News & Notes Yale approves joint Harvard-Yale Computer Science Course

The Yale faculty voted in favor of bringing Harvard’s most popular undergraduate course, Computer Science 50: Introduction to Computer Science I, to New Haven on Thursday at the faculty meeting, according to The Harvard Crimson.

The course would be called “joint Harvard-Yale CS50” and is likely to be offered in fall 2015.

The Harvard faculty has yet to approve the course.

Harvard CS50 Professor David J. Malan corresponded with Yale Computer Science Department Chair Joan Feigenbaum over the summer proposing the “joint Harvard-Yale CS50,” course.

The course is likely to consist of Malan’s lectures streamed to Yale along with an on-the-ground instructor and Yale support staff.

The “joint Harvard-Yale CS50” proposal was approved

by Yale’s Course of Study Committee on Oct. 16 for a threeyear trial period.

The vote at the monthly faculty meeting on Thursday officially completed the approval process on Yale’s end. The Harvard faculty has yet to approve the course.

consisting of faculty members.

The original faculty divestment letter was drafted by a committee of five faculty members in the history and Near Eastern studies departments: Molly Greene, Michael Laffan, Gyan Prakash, Cyrus Schayegh and Max Weiss, and invited tenured faculty to support divestment from companies such as Motorola and Hewlett-Packard. They are still adding signatories and plan to deliver the petition to the University administration before

Thanksgiving.

Princeton University Investment Company president Andrew Golden was traveling and unavailable for comment.

Gary Coombs, associate director of Princo, did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Schayegh, associate professor of Near Eastern Studies and one of the authors of the petition, said that the main purpose of drafting this petition was to ignite constructive discussion on campus about the Israel-Palestine conflict.

“I have family in Israel and I have friends in Israel, and I am very often talking to them, and it was very clear to me that things have reached a sort of a breaking point,” he said. “I felt that something also outside the country needed to be done.”

Schayegh said that he was drafting the petition because he believes that the only way forward is to have communities with high reputations, like universities and churches with high moral standing, show the See LETTER page 2

Going Abroad: A.B. vs B.S.E.

Studying Abroad: A.B. and B.S.E.

Approximately 56 percent of undergraduate students at the University engage in some study abroad program, although the number of students who study abroad for at least one semester from each academic department varies greatly. 72 students from the six B.S.E. departments and 225 students from 16 of the A.B. departments have studied abroad in the past three years, according to data compiled by the ‘Prince.’

Top 3 A.B. Departments French and Italian

Bottom 3 A.B. Departments Music

Near Eastern Studies

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The petition, which was published in The Daily Princetonian as an advertisement, has elicited mixed responses from the University community. A counter-petition was signed by over 300 University students and published on Friday, encouraging “investment in both Israeli and Palestinian society as the foundation for peace.”

A second counter-petition, spearheaded by the Center for Jewish Life, was published on Monday and signed by just over 100 individuals mainly

Molecular Biology - 3.3% (4 of 122)

Economics

Mathematics

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Top 3 Engineering Departments - Percent Studying Abroad from 2011-2014

CEE

13.6%

MAE 7.5%

COS 6.7%

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B.S.E. sports low numbers, ORFE lowest

By Ruby Shao staff writer

Approximately 5.4 percent, or 72 of 1322 eligible B.S.E. students, studied abroad for at least a semester during the last three academic years.

The civil and environmental engineering department saw the highest proportion of students studying abroad, with 13.6 percent, or 15 of 110 students, while

operations research and financial engineering as well as electrical engineering had the lowest percentage of students study abroad at 2.4 percent each.

All data was provided by School of Engineering and Applied Science Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs Peter Bogucki.

CEE undergraduate departmental representative Catherine Peters said she strongly See B.S.E. page 5

A.B. departments show marked differences

By Corinne Lowe staff writer

Approximately 56 percent of undergraduate students at the University engage in study abroad programs between semesters and summers abroad, and 27 percent do it more than once, according to Director of Study Abroad in the Office of International Programs Mell Bolen.

However, the number of students that spends a full semester abroad or more is much smaller.

225 A.B. students spent at least one semester abroad in the past three academic years, according to data disclosed by 16 academic departments to The Daily Princetonian.

11 departments did not disclose specific numbers or did not respond to requests for comment.

Looking at the trends in se-

mesters abroad by department from the past three years, there are marked differences in the numbers and percentages of students from students in different A.B. majors who elected to study abroad.

All departments have students involved in international programs each year, Bolen said, but the number of individuals who take a full semester abroad in a See A.B. page 4

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

STUDENT LIFE

Serious service disruptions may face rail commuters to New York in 2015 due to Sandy

USG talks changes to recruiting, fate of ICE

By Jacob Donnelly staff writer

Four rail tunnels connecting New York to New Jersey will be taken out of service in a phased process for repairs, due to damage caused by saltwater from Hurricane Sandy, Amtrak said in a press release last month. At least four of the them may have to be taken out of service for a year because of weakened concrete and corroding cast iron and steel.

Weekend crews have been working on the tunnels since the storm in October 2012, but Amtrak engineers discovered the damage was worse than previously thought.

About 400,000 passengers who normally ride trains through the tunnels to work each weekday will now have

to find a different transportation medium.

The lost capacity resulting from the two Hudson River and two East River tunnels being taken out of service could result in delays not only to New York commuters but also throughout the entire New Jersey Transit system and Amtrak’s East Coast operations, as delays on one part of the route reduce the number and timeliness of trains available throughout the entire system. Long Island Rail Road also uses these tunnels.

One of the tunnels under the East River is expected to close as early as late 2015, according to The New York Times.

Amtrak, which owns the tunnels, does not have a timetable for performing the

repairs but is linking the repairs to the completion of the Gateway tunnel. The Gateway Program, proposed in 2011, has not yet been fully funded.

“The rehabilitation work for both damaged tubes of the Hudson River tunnel cannot reasonably begin until after the new Gateway Tunnel is built and operating,” Amtrak said in the statement. “This will allow rail traffic to shift to the new tunnel and avoid major service impacts.”

However, Amtrak noted in a press release that the Gateway tunnel project was contingent on political support.

“The Northeast region needs to make the Gateway Program a priority, and we must get about the business of moving it forward as fast as we can,” the press release says.

New Jersey Transit is still assessing what it needs to do to respond to the situation on its end in conjunction with Amtrak and LIRR, New Jersey Transit spokesman William Smith told The Daily Princetonian, adding that it would be premature to speculate what the results of its assessment will be.

Dana Rubinstein of the media outlet Capital New York said Amtrak’s attitude toward the repairs may be overly optimistic.

“It plans to do remedial work on the tunnel during the few hours it can get in there, with the hopes that Gateway will be complete before the tunnel’s innards crumble. Should everything go according to Amtrak’s ideal plans, Gateway would See RAIL page 6

By Aana Bansal contributor

The Undergraduate Student Government discussed changes to Career Services, the Integrated Course Engine and Restaurant Week during its weekly senate meeting on Sunday night.

Executive Director of Career Services Pulin Sanghvi began the meeting by speaking to the senate about planning a major overhaul of Career Services.

Several senate members said that Career Services should do more to invite recruiters from fields See USG page 3

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American public that there is a way of putting pressure on the government to make it act on its proclamations of protest against the Israeli occupation of the settlements.

He added that not all five members of the committee had the same political opinions and that the petition represented a common denominator that everybody sufficiently agreed with.

Schayegh added that the committee focused on Israel because American companies have more investments in, and thus more influence on, Israel, and therefore affect it more than Palestine, even though the latter is just as responsible for the conflict. He also add-

ed that Israel deserves special attention, not only because of the financial support it receives from the United States, but also because it is currently both a democratic country and a colonizing power in the West Bank and in Gaza, which is a legal contradiction.

Laffan, a history professor and co-author of the petition, also said that Israel warranted more international attention than places like Myanmar and Syria, where issues are happening within the countries’ boundaries. The action in Israel, however, is also taking place in territories occupied by the country.

“The level of sheer financial support built into that [American-Israeli] relationship is much more than other bilateral relationships in the world,” he said, “so there are different

stakes at play here.”

Laffan added that even though he does not expect universal agreement with the petition, he does not anticipate discussion on campus to be acrimonious. Schayegh said that he has talked to people who are against the petition not because they think the current situation is perfect, but because they think other responses would be superior to a divestment letter.

In response to the petition, the CJL’s faculty and alumni published a response letter calling for more discussion and a focus on a two-sided approach to a solution. The student response, which appeared Friday, gathered 300 signatories to reject efforts such as boycott, divestment and sanction campaigns by tagging them as counterproductive.

Daniel Kurtzer, professor in Middle Eastern policy studies at the Wilson School, former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt and Israel and one of the signatories on the CJL’s letter, said that

“To choose sides at this time is to trivialize history.”

Daniel Kurtzer,

professor of near eastern studies

the petition reflected a basic misunderstanding of the underlying conflict between Is-

raelis and Palestinians.

“To choose sides at this time is to trivialize history,” he said.

“Indeed, if someone believes in divestment tactics — which I don’t — it would be wiser in a conflict situation like this one to divest from companies that operate in both societies.”

He added that he took a back seat to no one, including those who signed the divestment petition, in demanding a stronger U.S. role in Palestinian-Israeli resolution of the conflict.

“In fact, the correct address for any of these efforts is the U.S. government, and the petitions should demand that the United States work more affirmatively and energetically to try to bring about a peaceful settlement,” he said.

Rabbi Julie Roth, executive director of the CJL, said that the purpose of the response letter was twofold. The first purpose was to demonstrate the lack of consensus in the University community on this divestment issue, which is one of the primary criteria for the Resources Committee to consider a call for divestment. The second was to show that more than 100 signatories believe that Israel was unfairly singled out in the divestment letter.

“The Center for Jewish Life is interested in a pro-solution approach to this very complicated two-sided Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” she said. “So when I saw the faculty petition to divest, I was struck by the onesided blame based on Israel and the missed opportunity to promote a more constructive prosolution conversation.”

Roth went on to praise the

student response, which called for direct negotiation between Israeli and Palestinian parties as well as saying that divestment is counter-productive.

“When we saw the divestment letter, we — or at least I — felt that it was important that students on campus saw that many people disagreed with it,” Samuel Major ’16, president of Tigers for Israel and one of the leaders in drafting the student response, said.

Katie Horvath ’15, current board member of the Princeton Committee on Palestine, said that she was glad that faculty in tenured positions had started dialogue on the issue, but she was disappointed by the student response and the reaction to the divestment letter.

She explained that the email circulated among students who supported the counter petition incorrectly implied that the petition called for divestment from companies operating in all of Israel, instead of divestment from companies that profit from or contribute to the occupation of the West Bank.

When asked about the future for the divestment petition, Laffan said that the committee that drafted the letter awaited a statement from University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83, and that he personally preferred dialogue to divestment.

Horvath said that the Princeton Committee on Palestine was in the process of turning the faculty divestment letter into a petition that will be open to the entire University community.

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beyond finance and computer science.

“Our … focus is to start putting the infrastructure in place to proactively reach out to a much broader and more diverse range of employers and alumni,” Sanghvi said.

He added that Career Services will encourage alumni to create internship and job opportunities for students within their companies.

Sanghvi said that Career Services hopes to become more feedback driven, adding that the Career and Life Vision workshops have received very positive student responses.

USG president Shawon Jackson ’15 addressed the Princeton Perspective Project, an initiative to drive conversation about struggling at the University, in his presidential report.

“The Princeton Perspective Project is obviously a top priority for me,” he said.

Since its launch last week, the website has received more than 1,650 views; nearly 50 students attended the Princeton Perspective Project open house last Friday, Jackson said.

According to the meeting’s agenda, the members of the Princeton Perspective Project are now planning a summit in which students, alumni and staff can discuss their personal experiences.

The USG also discussed the Integrated Course Engine, the popular TigerApps course planning system that will be replaced by Course

Planner, a feature of the University’s new student portal, TigerHub. While the University hopes to eventually incorporate most of ICE’s features into TigerHub, academics committee chair James Baase ’15 explained that some features, such as customized color schemes and sharing features, will not be carried over.

ICE has been maintained

by Gyeong-Sik Choi ’10, who built it for his COS 333: Advanced Programming Techniques project; according to Baase, he has expressed a desire to retire the app.

While information technology chair Clement Lee ’15 said the USG is trying to convince Choi to maintain the application for spring course offerings, it is unclear at this time whether Choi will agree.

Baase also discussed a recent meeting with the Faculty Committee on the Course of Study about potential changes to requirements for the molecular biology concentration. He said that the Committee is considering removing two of the currently required courses for the concentration, but he declined to specify which classes would be removed.

Finally, campus and community affairs committee chair Paul Riley ’14 spoke about Restaurant Week, which begins on Monday.

According to Riley, there are 18 participating restaurants, and this year, the program will also be open to Rider University students, which prompted concerns among some senate members that the restaurants may be overwhelmed.

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year might vary. For example, the astrophysics department had no students study abroad in the 201314 year, while 11 students in both the English and comparative literature departments studied abroad in the same year.

Several departments, including the art and archeology, and the physics departments, said they don’t keep records of the number of students who partake in semes-

“I do think there are some departments that are more open to approving courses abroad.”

Mell Bolen,

Director of Study Abroad

ters abroad or do not make this information publicly available, as is the case with the classics and politics departments. The ecology and evolutionary biology department, the Slavic languages and literatures department and the geosciences department did not respond to requests for these statistics.

The Wilson School did not provide statistics on the number of students who have studied abroad in the past three years, but did say that 40 students are anticipated to study abroad in 2014-15 alone.

Several departments were only able to provide rough estimates, such as the psychology department, which estimates that three to five students study abroad each semester. The Spanish and Portuguese languages and cultures department said that only eight students have studied abroad over the past three years, and the anthropology department said that 20 students have taken semesters abroad over the past three years.

Likewise, the German department reports three students studying abroad in the past three years.

The classics department is one of the departments that withheld numbers, but Jill Arbeiter, its undergraduate coordinator, offered a general sense of the distribution of students who have gone abroad in recent years.

“Some years there can be none, and I think maybe the most we’ve had in one year is three,” Arbeiter said.

This department has had approximately 30 students per class in recent years. Arbeiter described the department as very supportive of students taking semesters abroad, but noted that since language is an important component of classics, a student must have progressed through a certain level of language coursework to consider going abroad.

The percentage of students who study abroad from one academic year to another may vary widely, especially in smaller departments.

For example, in the art and archeology department between the 2012-13 and 2013-14 school years, the percentage of students in the department taking a semester abroad dropped from 13.5 percent to 2.7 percent, but that difference

accounted for four fewer students studying abroad.

In 2012-13, the comparative literature department had only four students study abroad; 2014-15 had only had two students opt to study abroad thus far, showing the fluctuations in study abroad trends within the department within the past few years.

Similarly, the molecular biology department saw two, then eight, then six students take semesters abroad in the past three years. This corresponds to 7.4 percent, 32 percent and 27.3 percent of students in the department studying abroad each year.

The music department, however, reports similar numbers each years, with four, three and five students studying abroad from the 2012-13, 2013-14 and 2014-15 years respectively.

The philosophy department reported three students studying abroad in 2012-13, then one student in each academic year since then.

The natural sciences and mathematics departments send relatively low percentages of students abroad. An average of 1.7 percent of students studying mathematics have taken a semester abroad in the past three years. Likewise, on average 4.16 percent of students in the chemistry department and 4.31 percent of students in the molecular biology department have studied abroad in the past three years.

“I do think there are some departments that are more open to approving courses abroad in terms of meeting specific departmental requirements,” Bolen said.

The ease of studying abroad depends on the individual goals of the students, the correlation between their plans abroad and their academic focuses and independent work, and their prior academic planning, Bolen said.

The astrophysics department reported the lowest number of students taking semesters abroad, with no students opting to do so in the past three years. However, 65 percent of students in the department in 2012, 75 percent in 2013 and 25 percent in 2014 had international experiences abroad through various summer programs abroad, according to OIP. The astrophysics department was unique in that its collaborations abroad focused on research rather than coursework, as it has connections with telescopes in Chile and Japan, Bolen said. Therefore, students may often travel to one of these locations to work on their junior papers or senior theses.

Meanwhile, all students in the comparative literature department are mandated to spend time abroad, according to comparative literature major Victoria Su ’15.

Su said that everybody does summer programs abroad in her department; a fair number elect to study abroad for a semester and some spend an entire year abroad.

“Our department is known for being super flexible,” Su said in describing the ease of taking courses abroad. “We have very few requirements that are strictly within [comparative literature].

For a lot of it you can use interdisciplinary stuff.”

In the 2013-14 academic year, 25 percent of comparative literature majors took at least a semester abroad, although this number is somewhat higher than what has been seen in other academic years.

Students may study abroad

during the spring semester of sophomore year, either semester of junior year or fall semester of senior year, Bolen said.

“They basically have to meet with their departmental representative and discuss what it is they’re trying to accomplish and, if needed, get approval for the specific classes they plan to take abroad and/or approval for any independent working they’re going to do while they’re abroad,” Bolen said.

She explained that OIP talks to departmental representatives frequently to discuss and craft appropriate study abroad options.

For some departments, OIP is also invited to information sessions for students to talk about study abroad opportunities.

According to Bolen, the Study Abroad office at OIP had over 2,000 advising appointments between January 2013 and July 2013.

“We also work with departments to narrow down lists of programs that they think are a good fit for what they’re trying to do in their department,” Bolen said.

Director of the French Language Program Christine Sagnier explained that she collaborates with OIP by regularly visiting programs in France so she can best recommend programs to other students. When students approach her looking for opportunities abroad, she said, she connects them with OIP. According to Sagnier, her department encourages students to take as much time as possible abroad to gain a strong sense of linguistic and cultural immersion.

“There are so many skills; the linguistic skills are really just not the central part,” Sagnier said in describing the importance of study abroad. “They become less ethnocentric, they become more able to actually understand the multiplicity of perspectives.”

The way in which OIP reports study abroad data by major is a list of the percentage of students in each major that have had “international experiences,” a term that encompasses “study abroad, international internships, research abroad and service abroad” according to Bolen.

Comparing the data OIP reports and the data on semesters taken abroad recorded by departments highlights the large number of students who travel in the summer instead of during the semester.

For the Classes of 2013 and 2014 studying in the music department, OIP states that 78 and 70 percent of students, respectively, went abroad. But looking at all the academic years in which they could have taken semesters abroad — the 2011-12 through the 2013-14 years — between 15 and 27.8 percent of students went abroad for full semesters.

Likewise, only 4.84, 5.26, and 1.92 percent of students in the philosophy department studied abroad in the 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14 academic years respectively. However, OIP reported that 71 percent of philosophy majors from the Class of 2014, which could have only taken a semester abroad during the three years above, went abroad in one form or another during that time.

No strong trends emerge from the available data in terms of net increases or decreases in study abroad numbers in recent years, as they seem to fluctuate each year.

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encourages study abroad, as she believes that engineers must be prepared for work in a global environment.

She said junior spring is the most popular term for study abroad, as majors can take that semester’s courses in other years or at many CEE programs worldwide. In contrast, Peters said that sophomore year CEE courses form the foundation for upperclassmen years, while junior fall courses are often unique to the University.

Students who study abroad may only do so during the spring of sophomore year, either semester of junior year, or senior fall. They may also be allowed to study abroad during sophomore fall.

Peters noted that many concentrators return from study abroad with a well-formed thesis topic in mind based on their foreign university’s location, giving the example of a student whose professors in Brazil discussed the nation’s environmental problems related to the air and water quality problems from drought and deforestation. The student is now incorporating the material into her junior independent work and plans to continue doing so for her thesis.

“That’s exactly what we hope the students get out of their international experience, because civil and environmental engineering really is about the natural environment and the human-built environment. It’s very much about place — place matters,” Peters said, adding that study abroad is consequently more beneficial for CEE majors than for some other engineers.

7.5 percent, or 19 of 253 students, went abroad from the mechanical and aerospace engineering department. According to the MAE page on the Office of International Programs website, junior spring is the easiest term for concentrators to study abroad.

MAE undergraduate departmental representative Michael Littman did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

According to Bogucki, 6.7 percent or 23 out of 342 B.S.E. computer science concentrators studied abroad during the three-year window. In contrast, COS department undergraduate coordinator Colleen Kenny-McGinley said that 2.9 percent or three out of 102 A.B. COS concentrators did so.

COS undergraduate departmental representative Brian Kernighan GS ’69 said he supported study abroad for every discipline, noting that COS may be more flexible in allowing for overseas study than other engineering departments.

“We don’t have that much depth because the field is younger, and so it’s much more fluid, and therefore it’s much easier to go abroad and find a course that is sort of loosely equivalent,” he explained, adding that COS majors rely on laptops rather than any special equipment.

He estimated that at any given point, six to eight COS concentrators, including A.B. candidates, are studying abroad. The majority of majors participate for academic and cultural rather than language reasons.

Unlike the other department representatives, who cited only minor problems with the study abroad course approval process, Kernighan said that he always encounters logistical problems once the students go overseas.

“They get there and they discover that the course that they got approved isn’t what they thought. It’s been canceled, it’s been changed, the schedule is in conflict with something else,” he said. “And so then we have to do this long-distance rearrangement to say, ‘Oh, well, you were going to take this course that would work, but how about this course?’ It all works out in the end.”

B.S.E. and A.B. COS concentrators probably study abroad with

“Why should someone go spend one-eighth of their undergraduate experience at an institution that isn’t even as good as their safety school?”

Alain Kornhauser GS’71,

ORFE representative

equal ease, according to Kernighan. While B.S.E. students have more course requirements, he noted that they only need to do one semester of independent work, so they can gain flexibility by opting not to do independent work while abroad. On the other hand, A.B. students need to coordinate more carefully to complete their independent work overseas.

The chemical and biological engineering department saw 2.5 percent or five of 204 concentrators spend at least one semester at a foreign institution. CBE undergraduate departmental representative A. James Link said sophomore spring and junior fall are the best and most popular times to study abroad.

Lawrence Chang ’14, a CBE major who studied abroad his junior fall at Oxford, said everyone at the University encouraged him to go overseas. He noted that his B.S.E. status did not make study abroad inherently much more difficult.

“You have to be careful about, for example, your course counts, so that you have your 36 courses instead of your 32. And you’ve got to make sure that since engineering departments have a lot of requirements, you’re satisfying those while you’re abroad,” he said.

He added that majors in the humanities and social sciences often have greater academic incentives to study abroad than do natural sciences or engineering students.

For the most part, Link said that he has not seen study abroad affect the schoolwork or independent work of returning CBE students. Instead, he observed that they gain general enrichment from experiencing other cultures.

“A lot of times people want to do study abroad because it’s just going to be fun, too,” Link said.

“They get to go to another place that they haven’t been before, and it’s a pretty unique opportunity, and to do that in your twenties, because once you have a real job, it’s hard to go to another country for three months most of the time.”

Seven of 286 ORFE concentrators, or 2.44 percent, enrolled in courses overseas during the three-year period.

ORFE undergraduate departmental representative Alain Kornhauser GS ’71 said that he approved of time abroad at academically comparable institutions such as Oxford or Cambridge, but he questioned the value of studying at less rigorous universities or at universities whose opportunities can be found at Princeton.

“Why should someone go spend one-eighth of their undergraduate experience at an institution that isn’t even as good as their safety school when they were applying to schools?” he said. “And if they really want the safety school, why’d they come to Princeton? There are a lot of people who would love to be here.

They took somebody else’s place who wanted to be here and obtain the full eight semesters of the Princeton experience, which some of us think is a really good one.”

From electrical engineering, three of 127 majors studied abroad, or 2.36 percent. Department representative Andrew Houck said that the department embraces the chance for students to have a significant international experience, especially if they want one.

He noted that to improve access to study abroad, the junior fall is designed to have the least requirements, and ones that are most easily found at other universities. Sophomore year and junior spring, however, conflict with introductory classes and core lab experiences, respectively.

Houck said ELE concentrators mostly pursue study abroad to experience a different academic or international culture.

Peters said CEE students primarily choose English-speaking countries because they want to study engineering courses in English. She explained that taking engineering in a foreign language could cause problems in later courses, such as if they misunderstand foundational material or learn terms in another language.

Even students fluent in a foreign language may struggle to learn technical language, which foreign language departments generally do not teach, according to Houck.

“My impression from talking to people more broadly than insemester independent work is that people often want to go to a country that’s not English-speaking as a country, but they get nervous when instruction is not in English, so they want English instruction in many non-Englishspeaking countries,” he said.

Kornhauser said language immersion and immersion in a different culture can take place during the summer so as to not take away one-eighth of the Princeton experience. He also said that students wanting to attend another institution could do so for graduate school.

When students return from

abroad, Houck said that he observes no major difficulties aside from brief moments of confusion that are easily fixed.

“They’ll have had a slightly different experience than everybody here, so sometimes there will be courses that refer to some content in a required course that maybe someone learned a little differently, but those are relatively minor hiccups,” he said. “And they’re completely surmountable.”

Similarly, Kernighan said that students who study abroad face no academic disadvantages when they return. Instead, their exposure to different ways of thinking about computer science, social

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“A lot of times people want to do study abroad because it’s just going to be fun, too.”

A. James Link,

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interactions, and culture creates a net win.

“That’s going to stand them in tremendous good stead in future life in a way that having a slightly stronger data structures course isn’t,” he said.

Bianca DiGiovanni ’15, a CEE concentrator who spent a semester at the University of Auckland, said that she found it easy to study abroad as an engineer.

Wanting to see the world outside New Jersey, she picked New Zealand because its citizens lead a greener, more carbon-sensitive lifestyle and speak English.

While she said that she did not learn much academically while abroad, she called the experience an amazing opportunity to learn about a different culture.

Both Chang and DiGiovanni recommended that other engineering students study abroad.

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be complete some time in the middle of the next decade,” Rubinstein wrote. “But Amtrak’s CEO has also said that the tunnels have fewer than 20 years left in them. The railroad declines to be more precise, probably because it’s impossible to say.”

The tunnels are over 100 years old.

Another article by Rubenstein says the consensus among officials is that Gateway may be 25 years off.

Amtrak’s tunnels in the Hudson and East Rivers were already nearing capacity in 2009 and comprised the most serious bottleneck in Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor line, which connects Boston to Washington, D.C., Rubinstein said, adding that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s cancellation of the Access to the Region’s Core construction project exacerbated the seriousness of the damage from Hurricane Sandy.

Christie, also an ex officio trustee of the University, directed the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey in 2011 to divert $1.8 billion in funds earmarked for Access to the Region’s Core to highway projects in New Jersey only.

The Securities and Exchanges Commission was investigating the Christie administration this summer due to allegations of misrepresented bonds relating to the switch, but it could not be reached for comment as to the current status of the investigation.

Access to the Region’s Core was a commuter rail project to increase passenger service capacity on New Jersey Transit between Secaucus Junction and Manhattan.

A spokesman for Christie did not respond to a request for comment. However, Christie commented publicly on the matter in October, saying, “I’m simply not going to allow real estate values in New York to be increased without New York taxpayers picking up some of that tab.”

Kristin Appelget, University director of community and regional affairs, told the ‘Prince’ it would be premature for the University to comment on the rail link situation, as there are no firm upgrade plans in place, adding there have been a number of similar proposals over the years.

Jameson Doig GS ’61, professor emeritus of politics and public affairs and currently a visiting professor of government at Dartmouth, said the strain imposed by the ARC cancellation was predictable even before Hurricane Sandy in light of an increasing number of passengers using the rail system. Doig added that the political repercussions

might be slight for Christie if he ran for president in 2016, but if he ran in New Jersey for a position other than governor, an able opponent could link him to delays in transHudson rail crossing.

Alain Kornhauser GS ’71, professor of operations research and financial engineering, said that automated collision avoidance could be put into all the buses.

“That would increase the capacity of the exclusive bus lane by 50 percent, and it could handle most of the displaced volume,” Kornhauser said.

He noted these changes could not be implemented quickly, but added that the ARC project would not necessarily have been built quickly

“I’m simply not going to allow real estate values in New York to be increased without New York taxpayers picking up some of that tab.”

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This solution is cheaper than building a tunnel, he added. He added that expanding the ferry service to a very significant extent between Jersey City and New York is also an option.

“I can’t believe they’re about to close … the rail tunnels to New York, because that would be an enormous disruption,” Kornhauser said. “If the question is, ‘Are the rail tunnels between New Jersey and New York really important to New Jersey?’ It is very important …

They’ll go in and patch those things and make sure they remain operative because they carry way too many people way too efficiently to lose them.”

Saunghee Ko ’17, who is from New York, said she travels there three to five times a semester to visit family and friends and see productions, in addition to going home for breaks. She said the potential repairs are an annoyance but added that she wasn’t yet concerned about them.

“I would probably be more concerned if it were happening right now,” Ko said.

An Associated Press article published on Wednesday noted that service has already been reduced from 24 trains per hour to six on weekends even in the absence of more extensive repairs.

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t was heartening to see the racial diversity at the screening of the phenomenal new movie, “Dear White People,” at the Princeton Garden Theatre on Nov. 5. From my quick glance at the packed theater as students streamed out at the end of the movie, it seemed like people from a range of races had attended the showing.

The crowd, moreover, was almost universally impressed with the quality of the movie, a sleek, savvy take on current issues of racism and racial oppression in the country. It was filled with nuanced characters and adroit takes on microaggressions, and had a noticeable and laudable lack of moralizing or preaching; it invited the viewers to draw their own conclusions from the artfully woven strands of plot loosely tied in a bow at the end.

However, I worry that some white people, members of an absurdly and unfairly privileged race, will view this movie as the final step in their conversion from racist to open-minded ally. I can only speak from my own personal experience with race-related issues, and that experience is admittedly incomplete, as I am only in the opening phases of a lifetime of confronting my thoughts on race. That said, “Dear White People” should not, under any circumstance, be the end of a short fight against racism out of which everyone emerges victorious. It might mark the beginning or continuation of some people’s race considerations, but it is absolutely not the final step. The fight against racism is a lifelong battle, and “Dear White People” might be a significant moment in that battle, but white people must never allow themselves to become complacent with their attitudes about oppression.

We are all racist to some extent. We are all conditioned by society to make prejudiced assumptions about people based on their gender, race, dress and other visual factors. An important clarification to make, though: racism in the “Dear White People” sense is not necessarily that everyone is of the opinion that people of color are fundamentally worse than whites, but that everyone makes assumptions based on the appearance of others and that everyone has misconceptions of people of color based on society-wide stereotypes.

Saying you’re not affected by society’s racist influence is essentially equivalent to saying you are totally untainted by anything you’ve consumed visually or aurally. This can be as small as saying that a black person doesn’t act black — something a friend who attends Harvard has had to deal with on a far-too-regular basis — or calling an opinionated black woman sassy. However, as “Dear White People” points out eloquently, such miniature displays of racism are hurtful. The only way, then, to counter this innate racism is to confront it constantly. It’s a good idea to always check yourself as a member of a privileged class, and it’s worthwhile to realize what you think racial minorities experience and what those minorities actually experience might differ.

The movie does a good job in dealing with this, even though the everyday racism and microaggressions are shoved somewhat to the background. Although the white characters in the movie are admittedly caricatural to some extent, there are a lot of very minor, insensitive comments which contribute to the overall unfriendly environment the movie portrays quite well. These comments, unlike the blatantly racist, although unfortunately not unrealistic, party thrown near the movie’s climax, are things you or I might say without a second thought, and it’s worthwhile to consider how potentially hurtful our words can be. The movie’s exposé of these microaggressions is very valuable in confronting our own microaggressions. For example, I know I’ve said a black friend was acting white more than once, something I’m not proud of, but it’s important to understand where I’ve gone wrong so I can improve myself.

What’s important, though, is that by not providing a clear solution to fixing the racism inherent in our society, “Dear White People” heavily implies that we are to create our own unique solutions. To me, this is the crux of the movie: it’s a conversation-starter, not a conversation-ender.

In general, people who are the target of largely unintentional microaggressions need to understand that many white people (including myself, until about three summers ago) simply haven’t talked extensively about these issues of race and therefore don’t understand how their language could be hurtful. Conversely, white people have to realize that to at least confront their own racism, they need to keep an open dialogue running with ourselves and with others. This leads to my biggest problem with the movie: despite its title, it doesn’t actually address this possible solution. It ends on an “everything is terrible” note instead of suggesting that white people can overcome these barriers by constantly checking themselves at every turn, suggesting that there’s nothing white people can do about their racial biases.

Still, I was thoroughly impressed with “Dear White People.” The important thing now, though, is that white people not let the opportunities the movie presented slip away. Confronting racism is a lifelong task, one of which we’ll never really be free, and it’s necessary to continue these discussions. Although each person can choose how to talk about societal norms and pressure, the important thing is that each and every one of us engages in the fight in the first place. “Dear White People” is a fantastic starting point to a thoughtful rejection of racism — let’s just not make it the end.

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

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idterms week is an inherently stressful time when students are required to study for comprehensive tests, learn new material in class and complete papers and problem sets. At the conclusion of midterms week, students are given a week-long break to relax, recuperate and pursue out-of-classroom experiences that supplement their time at Princeton.

Unfortunately, the lack of University policies surrounding the administration of take-home exams detracts from the fairness of the examination process and adds stress to the week.

Further, the lack of University policies regulating work assigned during fall break dilutes the break’s purpose and is unfair to students attempting to pursue extracurricular, academic and personal opportunities.

For students in any given course, schedules during midterms week vary. While one student may have only the take-home exam assigned by the given course due during the week, others may have to study for in-class exams, complete problem sets, draft midterm papers, prepare for precept presentations or any combination thereof. Many take-home midterms, however, do not have a set time limit. This imbalance creates an unfair situation for students who, because of scheduling constraints, do not have as much time to devote to a

take-home exam as others. In light of this imbalance, the Editorial Board recommends requiring professors to specify a reasonable amount of time that can be used to complete a take-home exam over the course of an assigned period. Assigning a take-home exam that could be completed in six hours over the course of five days, for example, would standardize the amount of time students could spend on an exam while allowing the flexibility to work around busy schedules. By requiring professors to assign a limited amount of time to complete a takehome midterm, like many already do, students will not be disadvantaged by their choice of course load or break plans.

Further, University policy surrounding assigned work during the break following midterms week could also be improved. Originally intended to allow students to participate in national campaigns in the 1970s, Princeton’s fall break lasts the week after midterm periods and allows students to participate in preelection day campaigning. Though contemporary students are more likely to spend the week on class trips, Breakout trips, completing research for independent work or visiting friends and family, fall break is a critically important time for learning outside the classroom or simply taking a break from the daily stresses of life at Princeton University. Policy, however, does not disallow professors from making midterm papers, take-home

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exams or other course assignments due during fall break or on the first day of classes following students return. This detracts from the impact of activities undertaken during break and dilutes the full benefits the break is intended to provide.

In order to strengthen the benefits of fall break, the Board calls on the University to ban assigning due dates for academic work during fall break and discourage professors from assigning work due on the first meeting of classes after the break’s conclusion. Work assigned so close to the conclusion of fall break implies that the work be completed over break. Such a policy would allow students to focus on the activities they choose to pursue over break. As these activities are worthwhile tools of learning — both as learning experiences outside of the classroom and as respites that allow students to work with renewed vigor upon their return — such a policy would inherently benefit the educational process. By returning academic breaks to their true purposes and addressing inequities in take-home midterms, the University would markedly improve the quality of learning at Princeton each fall.

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Why working on Wall Street hurts the economy Coy Ozias

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y house in the wealthy suburbs of Cherry Hill is predicated on a place like Camden.” I listened to the president of the Center for Environmental Transformation, Mark Dooly, say these words during my Community Action orientation. He explained that most of the local politicians say, “Where should we put the industrial waste plants? Put them in Camden where the people are too poor to protest.”

No one wants these things in the suburbs. Camden exists as a slum to support the flourishing of the surrounding exploitative cities.

When one brings up these injustices, the common answer is, “Hey, that’s just how capitalism works.”

If Cherry Hill exists at the expense of Camden, at whose expense do the University’s wealthy alumni exist?

Whenever I tell people that I go to Princeton they seem to always go on about the great, well-paying job I am going to get after college and the fancy cars and houses I am going to be able to buy. Many students came to Princeton for that very reason — to get a high-paying job. But is this endeavor all that noble? Many opinion

columns have argued against solely seeking money after graduation, arguing that you should spend your time doing something more productive or fulfilling. I agree with these past columns, but I’d argue that there’s really an economic argument against seeking high-paying jobs as well.

The income gap in America today is staggering. It has been growing since the 1970s and continues to widen.

What’s even more astonishing is that most people have no idea how large the gap is. When asked to plot on a graph the extent of the gap, most people are grossly off the mark. The top 1 percent of Americans owns 35 percent of the country’s wealth. The bottom 90 percent own only 27 percent of the country’s wealth. Today, the richest 400 Americans have more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans, or half the entire population of the United States. However, this situation is not unprecedented.

A similar separation of wealth existed in 1928. This grossly unequal distribution of wealth heralded the stock market crash and the Great Depression.

Similarly, in 2007, the country was hit with the “Great Recession.” And what was similar during these two periods?

Leading up to the crash, the wealthy continued to turn toward the flourishing financial structure. This helped create a speculative bubble, a bubble that would eventually burst and send millions of Americans into financial

ruins. When Princeton students similarly turn toward the financial structure, they are potentially laying the groundwork for another speculative craze and resulting crash.

By going after high-paying “1 percent” jobs, Princeton students are actually hurting our economy and increasing the vastly unequal distribution of wealth that debilitates the middle class.

“Sure, major in history, you can still get a job on Wall Street after you graduate.” I have heard many people say this to justify the “study what you love” philosophy at Princeton. Some say that’s what makes Princeton great.

You can get a degree in classics, but you can still work in New York and make half a million dollars a year after you graduate. But I contend this is not what makes Princeton great. In fact, it’s what makes Princeton and the entire free market capitalist system shameful. The richest Americans can only buy so many products. The richest 400 Americans cannot buy as many cars as the bottom 150 million Americans. And if all of the excess money the rich have is just being reinvested or saved, it cannot be pumped back into the economy. This concentration of wealth actually hurts our economy and destroys its backbone: the middle class.

Princeton students should stop seeing Wall Street and finance jobs as noble and necessary goals because

they perpetuate the unequal distribution of wealth that is so harmful to our economy. Many students think that by going to the best university in the nation, they are required to take the highest paying jobs in the nation.

With parents paying close to $60,000 a year to send their kids to Princeton, many believe that this investment demands a lucrative career in the financial sector. It’s no wonder the most popular major at the University is economics. It seems most students may not be heeding the “study what you love” mantra and are focusing on economics for a financial payoff after graduation.

There should be a greater emphasis placed on opportunities that are less focused on one’s self interest and personal income. Princeton should give greater support to jobs outside of the financial sector. But if you study what you love, why not find a job that allows you to do what you love and avoid hurting the economy in the process? If you are a history major, search for careers that interest you in that specific field. Do not give up on your passion just to make more money on Wall Street. The money won’t make you happy, and in the process you will help create an immoral separation of wealth that hurts all Americans.

Coy Ozias is a freshman from Christiansburg, Va. He can be reached at cozias@princeton.edu.ton.edu.

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hockey.

After Cornell won an offensive zone faceoff and furiously attempted to get a shot past Phinney, the puck squirted into the neutral zone where sophomore forward Garrett Skrbich scored an empty net goal. Racing at full tilt for the loose puck, the sophomore barely managed to flick it down the ice before taking a monstrous hit near the leftside boards at the red line. Baker Rink erupted as the puck glided through the crease and into the back of Cornell’s vacant goal.

The Big Red were relentless though, and spoiled Phinney’s shutout by scoring a goal with

16 seconds left after pulling their goalie for a second time.

In the waning seconds, the Tigers managed to hold on, starting out ECAC play on the right foot and winning the home matchup, a feat they accomplished just twice last season.

Unfortunately for the Princeton faithful, Saturday night’s game was a vast departure from Friday’s. Colgate, ranked fourth in the nation entering the matchup, had lost 5-0 to Quinnipiac on Friday and was determined to right the ship. The Raiders played at a physical, fast pace, and each team laid some big hits early.

The visitors scored twice in the opening period, first on a rocket slap shot from the point and then on a shorthanded effort that barely got by Phinney.

Early in the second period, the Tigers caught a break, as a Raiders goal was disallowed after a lengthy video replay determined that the play was dead before the puck found the net. However, the team from Hamilton would quickly bury another one, with Tyson Spink going bar-down to increase the differential to three. The final blow came late in the second, as Colgate scored on an odd-man rush on the power play just moments after it seemed as though Princeton had notched its first tally. Senior Tucker Brockett’s shot hit the post before landing behind Charlie Finn, Colgate’s goalie. While some Tiger players thought that the original shot had gone in, play continued.

After a Raider defender kicked the puck to safety, Tyson Spink

scored on the other end to put the game out of reach.

Down 5-0 after conceding

The game was notable for the number of penalties committed by both teams, with the Tigers responsible for 13 to Colgate’s 11. another goal early in the third, the Tigers went on the power play with 38 seconds left in the game. Refusing to quit and de-

termined to end Finn’s shutout, first-year head coach (and Colgate alumnus) Ron Fogarty pulled Phinney for an extra skater. The move paid off, and sophomore defender Tommy Davis notched his first collegiate goal with just seconds remaining. The final scoreboard read: Colgate 5, Princeton 1.

There was a scary moment in the second, when junior forward Kyle Rankin dove to block a slap shot from the point on a penalty kill. The shot struck him in the face, and after briefly going down, he skated to the locker room, bleeding heavily. Rankin later returned to action, to the relief of concerned Princeton fans.

The game was particularly notable for the number of penalties committed by both teams, with the Tigers respon-

sible for 13 to Colgate’s 11. Once again, the Tigers were outshot, this time by a margin of 40 to 23.

While Saturday’s result was not optimal and the young Tiger team will have to play with more discipline going forward, the home squad surpassed expectations this weekend. The win over a talented Cornell side has the Tigers halfway to matching last year’s win total at Baker Rink, and Friday’s performance shows that the they are capable of winning games against good teams in one of the nation’s deepest and most competitive conferences.

The Tigers return to action next weekend as they travel to New York to challenge current ECAC leader Rensselaer (4-6, 3-1) and defending national champion Union (5-4-1, 0-3-1).

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of the game with an assist from Jules Provini in the 10th minute. Quaker Kaitlyn Moore scored in the 41st minute with an assist from Erin Mikolai, who leads their team with six assists, to put Penn up 2-0 at halftime.

Reflecting on the game, senior forward and co-captain Gabrielle Ragazzo said, “We were trying to move the ball and keep pressure on them.

We managed two goals; it was unfortunate we didn’t score another.”

The close game kept fans on their toes during the second half but ultimately ended in a heartbreaking defeat in the final minutes. The Tigers fought back ferociously in the second half to break through the Penn defense and even the score 2-2. The first goal was scored by senior defender Lauren Lazo on an assist from sophomore forward Tyler Lussi in the 48th minute. The second Tiger goal of the game came with less than five minutes left on the clock, when sophomore defender Jesse McDonough broke through a gap in the Quaker defense to the left side, passing it back to freshman forward Beth Stella for the goal.

With less than two min-

utes left on the clock and the crowd going wild, the Tigers and Quakers were at a standoff, each fighting for the upper hand. Unfortunately for the Tigers, Midgley got possession of the ball on a pass from Penn’s Lindsey Sawczuk and managed to score on a breakaway, shocking the entire stadium and winning the game for the Quakers.

Despite the loss, the Tigers dramatically outshot the Quakers 21-9. The Tigers dominated the Ivy League of-

“One of the biggest things she taught us was to always hold ourselves accountable for mistakes.”

Gabrielle Ragazzo,

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fensively this season, topping every offensive scoring category in the league and ranking highly in a number of categories in the NCAA. Both Lazo and Lussi finished the season with 28 career goals, tying them for fifth place on the Princeton all-time career

list. Lazo also ended the season in a tie for the most career assists in the program’s history with a total of 26. The Tigers also end a successful season with a strong roster complete with young developing talent that brought the team so far this year.

“We’re a pretty young team,” Ragazzo said. “There were a lot of underclassmen that came in and had to make an impact right away. It really speaks to them that they came in and made such a large impact.”

The game concluded the Princeton careers of seniors Lazo, MicKenzie RobertsLahti, Jessica Haley, Liana Cornacchio, Melissa Downey, Lindsey Heigh, Lynessa McGee, Ragazzo and Darcy Hargadon. Shackford also ended her legendary Tiger career with the Penn game, closing the book on a career that includes 203 wins, seven Ivy League titles and eight NCAA tournament appearances, one of which included a run to the NCAA semifinals in 2004.

With respect to Shackford, Ragazzo said, “I learned a lot from her. One of the biggest things she taught us was to always hold ourselves accountable for mistakes. She expected a lot from us because she knew we could bring it. She taught us accountability and to always bring our best.”

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alty corner, found prime open space just feet from the cage.

Senior midfielder and captain Sydney Kirby, who has been the core of this Princeton side, located her second-year teammate with a precise pass.

Penn’s Allison Weisenfels was helpless to stop the pointblank attempt.

Little time separated that score from the Quakers’ first, as senior captain Alex Iqbal converted a penalty corner from some distance at the 11:31 mark. Penn’s Emily Corcoran, her side’s second leading scorer, took possession in Princeton territory and found teammate Elizabeth Hitti, whose strike snuck past Boyle to earn the visitors a 2-1 lead.

Junior midfielder Teresa Benvenuti gave the Tigers team a much needed boost heading to the halftime break. With just seven seconds remaining in the period, the second-year starter

took a pass from her captain Kirby and fired a shot along the turf to the far side of the cage and past the opposing keeper.

This momentum carried over into the second period. Within

Princeton’s 10 consecutive conference titles stand as the longest active championstreak in the Ivy League. three minutes, the Tigers had taken the lead off a shot deflection by senior striker Allison Evans — Benvenuti had fired off the initial attempt.

Following Penn’s equalizing penalty stroke, junior striker Maddie Copeland had the con-

test’s last word, scoring the game winner at the 61:04 mark.

A Quaker penalty corner broke down and set up a potent Princeton counterattack. Copeland, facing only the opposing keeper, stood available for senior striker Stephanie Goldberg far down the field. The ball skidded across midfield and onto the stick of the junior striker, whose backhanded strike rocketed past Weisenfels and into the netting.

The team’s official Twitter feed described the finish as “Probably the greatest goal of Copeland’s career.” This is no small statement considering the consistent quality of her attempts.

An ecstatic Princeton side relished the satisfying conclusion to what had been a trying regular season. It was announced Sunday night that Princeton will face MAAC champion Monmouth in nearby West Long Branch, N.J. The last matchup between these two sides was in 2006. The Tigers dominated the Hawks 8-1.

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with a vengeance. Once the Tigers got back onto the attack, they outshot RIT in the two remaining periods.

“We had a rough first period in the game on Friday, but once we got a good sense of their playing style, we were able to beat them,” junior forward Jaimie McDonell said. “After the first period, our coaches pretty much told us that we needed to get our stuff together but that we still had two more periods to come out with a win. When you get down, you have to go back to basics and just keep working.”

RIT was a skilled team that moved the puck well, and their players had a great sense of where their teammates were on the ice.

“They had a play that they used over and over again, which gave them a lot of scoring opportunities. They would move the puck around a lot to confuse our defense, and this would allow one of their players to get open and they could score,” McDonell said.

However, once the Tigers figured out how to handle this play, RIT did not score again the entire weekend.

The Tigers showed great perseverance and were able to change the tone of the game quickly going into the second

period. Sophomore forward Hilary Lloyd scored Princeton’s first goal, which helped change the momentum of the game.

“She just kept doing what she had to do, and she came out with a forecheck that gave us the push we needed,” McDonnell said.

Sophomore forward Morgan Sly also had her first collegiate goal on Friday, clinching the win for the Tigers.

On the defensive end, sophomore defender Kelsey Koelzer helped the team by staying calm despite all of RIT’s aggressive forechecks against her.

“She played very well, and she kept her cool even when they were taking a lot of lib-

erty shots against us in the

“I think RIT got frustrated because their systems were not working against us on Saturday.”

Jamie McDonnell junior forward D-zone,” McDonell said.

Going into Saturday’s game, the Tigers had a very good sense of RIT’s playing

style, and they managed to force a scoreless draw. However, the game was tough, with RIT forcing many penalties.

“All the penalties kept the game from flowing the way we like it to. It was a real grind, and RIT was getting chippy,” McDonell said. “I think RIT got frustrated because their systems were not working against us on Saturday.”

RIT threw many bodychecks, and there were a few instances were RIT players even tried to hit Princeton’s goalie Kim Newell. McDonell left the weekend with an injured wrist from a bodycheck.

Despite this, the Tigers were focused and were able to control play on Saturday.

“Coming off this weekend, we know that we need to get stronger in the D-zone and in one-on-one battles,” McDonell said.

Looking ahead, the Tigers will face Rensselaer and Union, two opponents that have a similar playing style as RIT — gritty and hard-working. Princeton’s strength is in its teamwork.

“There are some teams that have Olympians and some really big names, but I think we are stronger as a team.

We have a team that plays together, and we could beat any other team on any day. Coming back on Friday says a lot about us. We’re strong, and we don’t take losing lightly,” McDonell said.

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But with the surge the Tigers have had in the second half of the season, which included an incredibly strong win against American University last week, they realize that an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament is still a possibility for them.

This possibility makes a win against Yale a necessity, regardless of Dartmouth’s performance against Brown.

“Now we have to win at Yale in order to keep our season alive,” Hurtado said. “We know it isn’t gonna be easy, because all Ivy League games on the road are tough and it’s the last game for Yale’s coach before he retires, so I’m sure they’ll be pumped for that.

We have everything to play for at Yale, as we’ll have a chance to be Ivy League champions, which was one of our goals set at the beginning of the year, as well as making the NCAA Tournament.”

The Tigers square off against Yale (1-12-3, 0-5-1 Ivy) in New Haven on Saturday afternoon. The kickoff whistle is set to blow at 3 p.m.

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field goal for junior kicker Nolan Bieck in the game. Though the Tigers struggled early with finding the end zone, the sophomore kicker continued to come through as he has all season. Bieck remains perfect on the season and set a new career high with a 46-yard field goal in the first quarter.

Penn targeted the Princeton secondary all day, but while they threw for 399 yards, two interceptions and a fumble, ill-timed penalties cost them scoring opportunities at crucial moments. Williams added an interception to his fumble recovery in one of the best performances by the Tiger secondary all season.

“It’s kind of an insult … the fact that they just keep going after one thing, trying to expose one thing on our defense, so I think it kind of motivates us,” Williams said.

Junior safety Matt Arends added 12 tackles and an interception to Williams’ 13 tackles,

interception, 85-yard fumble recovery and 3 pass breakups.

And while the Tiger offensive line gave up three sacks on the day, the Tiger defense downed Penn’s quarterback in the backfield five times to push the Quakers out of scoring position and end potentially game-tying drives. Sophomore linebacker RJ Paige and senior linebacker Mike Zeuli recorded a sack apiece, while sophomore defensive lineman Ty Desire led the team with two sacks on the day. “[The secondary] started communicating a lot more and just focusing on what we needed to do, and I think that definitely showed in the second half,” Williams added.

Despite taking an early 12-0 lead, the Tigers went into the locker room at halftime only leading 19-10. However, they were ultimately successful in exploiting both senior quarterback Connor Michelsen’s passing ability and senior quarterback Quinn Epperly’s rushing ability.

“We always want to score more than we did tonight, but

the games that you grind out … they almost taste a little better to you,” Epperly said.

Though initially having trouble finding the end zone, the Princeton offense did not punt once in the first half and outran the Penn rushing game 184 yards to four. Sophomore running back DiAndre Atwater returned to play to lead the Tigers with 98 yards on 17 attempts, while senior running back Will Powers added 62 yards on 12 attempts. Epperly added 37 rushing yards and a touchdown.

“We played with such great heart and how we finished that game with a stop on defense, and running out the clock is how we had to play today,” head coach Bob Surace ’90 said.

“I just loved how physical we played, and we finished terrifically on both sides of the ball.

[We] came up with some huge stops on defense.”

The Tigers will try to keep their chance at an Ivy League Championship alive next weekend when they head to Yale for their final road game of the season.

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FIELD HOCKEY

Princeton grinds out close win over Penn

10th straight title comes for Princeton

By Hillary Dodyk

By Andrew Steele

senior writer

sports editor

It wasn’t always pretty, but the Tigers (5-3 overall, 4-1 Ivy) got it done when it counted and came out of Saturday’s PRINCETON 22 m a t c h u p PENN 17 a g a i n s t Penn with a 22-17 win to keep their hopes of an Ivy title alive. Twentytwo points may not seem like a lot for an offense that has shown explosive potential almost all season, but it was enough in the end as the defense stepped up to frustrate the Penn offense all afternoon.

The Tigers capitalized on Quaker turnovers at key moments, a facet of the game the Tigers have been working to improve all season, giving them momentum and preventing the Quakers from scoring on a couple of drives that could have made all the difference in the win/loss column. Though, if you ask the Quakers’ coach Al Bagnoli, the game was “stolen” from them by the officials.

Sophomore cornerback Dorian Williams led the team with an 85-yard fumble recovery that set up the second

In 1994, Princeton field hockey began a run of dominance against its Ancient Eight opponents. During these past twenty years, only Dartmouth has topped the Tigers in more than one contest. The record against Harvard? Perfect. Against Yale? Perfect. 2004 marked the last season during which the Orange and Black ceded two conference PRINCETON 4 losses.

PENN 3 Since then, head coach Kristen HolmesWinn’s side has earned an Ivy League title in every successive season.

This 10th anniversary of that runner-up 2004 season looked as if it would bring the same fortunes to bear, as Princeton struggled to fill the voids left

by Class of 2014 Olympic talents Michelle Cesan and Julia Reinprecht. Columbia’s Lions emerged as league favorites after topping their New Jersey rivals for the first time in the program’s history.

This past weekend, the Tigers (7-10 overall, 6-1 Ivy League) seized the opportunity before them and earned their 10th consecutive and 23rd all-time Ivy

See FOOTBALL page 9

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Senior running back Will Powers carried the ball 12 times against Penn, totaling 62 yards of offense.

League Championship. A hardfought, 4-3 win over Penn (8-9, 3-4) coincided with a shocking 4-1 Harvard win over leagueleading Columbia. Suddenly, Princeton sat alone at the top of the table with no more regular season hockey left to play.

With the victory, Princeton’s record against Penn improved to 25-15-3 overall, including 10 straight wins. What’s more, this 10-season run of consecutive conference title stands alone as the longest active championship streak in the Ivy League.

Princeton heralded the contest by honoring their seniors prior to what could well have been their final game in orange and black uniforms. Accordingly, senior captain Julia Boyle, who had started in one contest during the course of the season, stood in the cage for the Tigers. She allowed three goals while making a trio of stops, including one lead-preserving save with just over five minutes to play in regulation.

The first score came for Princeton just inside the 10-minute mark. Sophomore back Hailey Reeves, having inserted the ball to the top of the offensive zone on a penSee HOCKEY page 8

MEN’S SOCCER

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Tigers retain top mark in Ivy League

Close loss closes out Shackford’s career

By Jack Rogers associate sports editor

Clutch play continued this weekend for the men’s soccer team, as the Tigers (10-3-3 overall, 4-1-1 Ivy League) took down Penn (6-8-2, 2-2-2) PRINCETON 3 by a 3-2 marPENN 2 gin at home on Saturday evening. The result led the Tigers to keep pace with Dartmouth in the Ivy standings, as the Big Green defeated Cornell 3-0 to also maintain a 4-1-1 conference record. Saturday’s win extended the Tigers’ unbeaten streak to eight games.

Senior forward Cameron Porter put Prin..ceton on the board early in the match with a shot which the right inside edge of the

goal in the seventh minute. Junior midfielder Brendan McSherry extended the Tigers’ lead in the 16th minute, as Penn keeper Max Polkinhorne could not corral McSherry’s close-range shot toward the left post. Penn would come back 15 minutes later with forward Alex Neumann finishing on a loose ball inside the box to cut Penn’s deficit in half.

Action right before the half ultimately decided the match differential, as junior forward Nico Hurtado found the back of the net to put the Tigers up 3-1. However, the Quakers responded just 18 seconds later with Neumann once again scoring for his eighth goal of the season. The score at the half read 3-2, and remained that way for the entirety of the

second half to seal the Tigers’ fourth consecutive win as well as their third straight in Ivy play.

The Senior Night victory was also particularly sweet for the Tigers, as they had revenge on a Quaker squad that knocked them out of the running for the Ivy title just one year ago.

“It was another great team victory,” Hurtado said. “We faced a lot of adversity in warm-ups after finding out that [senior back Andrew] Mills and [senior back] Joe [Saitta], both seniors, wouldn’t be able to play because of injury.

Our attack was playing really well in the first half and got the goals, but we weren’t good at keeping the same intensity short after scoring, as we gave up our two goals really quickly after one of

our goals. The second half was played more in the midfield and battling, and we were able to be a really solid defensive unit and get the shutout for the second half.”

The Tigers now have one game left to determine the ultimate outcome of the Ivy League Championship. But despite the Tigers’ brilliant performance as of late, their fate is not entirely in their own hands. Should the Tigers beat Yale on the road on Saturday, they would need Dartmouth to either draw or lose against Brown in order to clinch the Ivy League Championship. If Dartmouth wins, they automatically win the conference, as well as the automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

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MEN’S HOCKEY

No. 4 Colgate proves too much for Tigers

By Mark Goldstein contributor

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Princeton managed 20 shots against Cornell’s keeper. The Big Red, however, fired a veritable barrage of 41 shots against keeper Colton Phinney.

Men’s hockey returned to Baker Rink this weekend as the Tigers (1-2-1 overall, 1-1-0 Eastern College Athletic Conference) PRINCETON 2 hosted CORNELL 1 two ECAC foes to PRINCETON 1 i n i t i a t e COLGATE 5 con ference play, besting Cornell (03-1, 0-2-0) but falling to No. 4 Colgate (7-3-0, 1-1-0).

The Tigers, who entered play this weekend with a record of 0-1-1, started their conference schedule on a high note, besting Cornell (0-3-1) in a tightly contested 2-1 game that came

down to the wire. The home side started strongly, scoring just 3:14 into the game. After Cornell’s Jared Fiegl was sent to the penalty box for hitting from behind, senior defenseman Aaron Ave’s slap shot from the point found twine and put the Tigers on the board.

Following Ave’s goal, the Big Red controlled play for most of the first and second periods, largely due to five Princeton penalties. Constantly on the penalty kill, the Tigers relied on sophomore goaltender Colton Phinney to preserve the narrow lead. Phinney impressed in the net, never losing focus despite facing a barrage of Big Red shots. Through two

periods, the goalie out of Chatham, N.J., made 32 saves, effectively controlling rebounds and making athletic stops in tough spots when necessary.

The pace settled down in the third period, with scoring chances coming at a premium. Playing at even strength, the Tigers were better able to stymie Cornell’s attack, only conceding nine shots. After neither team could notch the all-important second goal, the Ithaca squad was forced to pull their goalie following a timeout with just a minute to play. Fans who stayed for the entirety of the match were rewarded, as the next 60 seconds provided some thrilling See M. HOCKEY page 8

By Sydney Mandelbaum staff writer

The women’s soccer team closed its season with a disappointing 3-2 loss to Penn. The game was the career finale for nine seniors on the team and for head PRINCETON 2 coach Julie Shackford, PENN 3 who is leaving after 20 seasons with the program. The Tigers (7-6-3 overall, 3-3-1 Ivy League) finished the season in a three-way tie for third place in the Ivy League with Penn (8-5-3, 3-3-1) and Yale (8-4-4, 3-3-1).

Penn’s Clara Midgley scored the first goal See W. SOCCER page 8

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Furious comeback yields win over RIT

By Christine Kong contributor

This weekend, the women’s hockey team fought hard to close out the weekend with one win and one draw against RIT. Princeton (4-1-1 overall, 2-0-0 Ivy League) walked away with a 4-3 win in overtime PRINCETON 4 on Friday and a scoreless RIT 3 draw on Saturday. Overall, the Tigers are happy with PRINCETON 0 their performance, but RIT 0 they also know what they need to work on looking ahead.

On the whole, RIT was a predictable team.

Going into the weekend, the Tigers knew that RIT, while not star-studded, was a hardworking team that would stick to its systems. What the Tigers were not prepared for was their opponents’ aggression. In the first 12 minutes, RIT scored three goals. Coming off the ice, Princeton took time to reevaluate its performance and came back into the second period See W. HOCKEY page 9

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