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The University has released the findings from its third annual “We Speak” survey about the prevalence of sex discrimination and sexual misconduct on campus. In an email to the campus community Thursday afternoon, Michele Minter, Vice Provost for Institutional Equity and Diversity, stated that although most reported statistics in the survey were lower than in the previous two years, “they still show that too many of our students have been victims of sexual misconduct.”

The survey was distributed to all students last spring and was completed by 47 percent of the student body.

1 in 5 of undergraduate women who responded noted that they had experienced inappropriate sexual behavior during the past academic year, including nonconsensual sexual contact, stalking, sexual harassment, or abusive intimate relationships. This figure marked a decrease from those reported in the 2016 survey, which found that 1 in 4 undergraduate women were victims of sexual misconduct, and the 2015 survey, which found that 1 in 3 undergraduate women had been harassed.

Among female graduate students, 1 in 11 respondents

said that they had experienced sexual harassment in the past year. According to a University infographic compiled from survey results, 23 percent of those harassed said that the incident of harassment involved an employee or staff member, faculty member, or postdoc.

“There is a growing and important national conversation regarding sexual harassment occurring in situations where there are unbalanced power dynamics, including within academia,” Minter wrote in her email to the campus community.

In addition, 10 percent of all students and 18 percent of undergraduate women who responded noted that they had experienced nonconsensual sexual contact, commonly known as sexual assault, and two percent of all students and five percent of undergraduate women who responded noted that they had experienced nonconsensual sexual contact, or rape.

The email explicitly stated the percentage of women who had experienced inappropriate sexual behavior, but did not state the percentage of men who had experienced the same behavior. However, the full report of the survey reported that 12 percent of undergraduate men and five percent of graduate men had See WE SPEAK page 3

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Kevin Zhang, Albert Zuo, Bryan Zhu, Jay Lee, and Albert Zhang have recently launched an app that allows users to rank restaurants with photos.

New student app Fota allows users to upvote restaurant food pictures

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Fota, a student-created app that allows users to rank and choose restaurants based on photos of food, will launch on Nov. 10.

“When you open Fota, you see a stream of photos from restaurants around you,” said the app’s creator and CEO Kevin Zhang ’19.

“All these photos are ranked by users who upvote and downvote them, kind of like Yik Yak or Reddit.”

When users select a photo, they are presented with restaurant information

such as hours and pricing, as well as ratings and reviews by other users. The app is also linked with Google Maps to provide directions to selected restaurants.

In addition to Zhang, other app founders include Albert Zuo ’19; Head of Engineering Bryan Zhu ’19; Chief Operating Officer Jay Lee ’19; and Chief Design Officer, Zhang’s brother Albert Zhang.

The team got the idea for the app in January, developed a prototype in the spring, redesigned it over the summer, and started

beta testing when they came back on campus. In the process, the app was tested by 20 University students.

The app’s founders believe that Fota will cater to the rising “food porn” trend of presenting glamorized pictures of food on social media, and they consider their app to be the perfect app for foodies.

Audrey Shih ’20, one of the students who tested the app, said she likes how the pictures are not professionally shot and don’t make the food look nicer than it actuSee FOTA page 2

Yesterday, Mudd Library introduced a new historical exhibit featuring the University’s collection of warrelated artifacts.

The exhibition, titled “Learning to Fight, Fighting to Learn: Education in Times of War,” explores, through the lens of war, how education and the pursuit of knowledge evolved on Princeton’s campus over a 200-year period.

“Starting with the French and Indian War and ending with the Vietnam War in 1970, the exhibition is meant to capture the experience of Princeton students who were in school and had to go to war and what that meant for them,” said Sara Logue, the assistant archivist for public services who curated the exhibit.

Logue mentioned that the exhibit also highlights how the University mobilized to help soldiers adjust upon returning to campus after war.s Other displays focus on students who did not want to fight in wars and engaged in anti-war protests instead.

“It’s really just looking at how students educated themselves and how Princ-

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eton handled education throughout war in history,” Logue said.

In particular, the exhibition explores the adjustments made to the University during each period of U.S. involvement in war — including the American Revolution, in which British and American troops occupied Nassau Hall at various times, and the Civil War, when many southern students returned home to fight against their classmates.

In addition, the exhibition examines the University’s role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II. For example, contributions of several dozen University physicists, chemists, and mathematicians to the assembly of the country’s first nuclear weapon in Los Alamos, New Mexico are on view. The work of graduate students who refined uranium in the old Frick Chemistry Lab is also part of the exhibition. A poignant contrast sits next to the records from Frick: roof tiles from Hiroshima University’s original campus. These were a “thank you” gift to Princeton for its efforts to help rebuild the Japanese univerSee EXHIBITION page 3

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“A lot of the time my friends and I want to get food on Nassau but we don’t know where to go or we don’t really know what each restaurant serves,” Shih said. She believes that Fota would be the solution to these kinds of situations.

Fota also features a rewards system in partnership with the local eatery Fruity Yogurt, in which users who frequently upload photos and write reviews can get a discount on frozen yogurt and bubble tea purchases. Fota hopes to expand partnerships like this in the future.

The Fota team believes that the app’s emphasis on visuals makes it distinctive in mobile food searching.

“Once they see what the alternative is, I don’t think they’ll go back,” Zuo said.

“It’s just a really easy and intuitive way to find restaurants,” Zhang added.

Pragya Malik ’19, who also tested the Fota’s beta version, said she appreciated the app’s usability.

“I’m someone who loves looking at photos from restaurants, food blogs, travelers, and food magazines on

Instagram already,” Malik said, adding, “It was great to take that to a functional use with Fota. I now get to see food photos from my own backyard and decide where I could get it with just a click!”

Zuo said he discovered through Fota “how powerful photos are at conveying information.”

Fota is currently focused on a Princeton launch, but in the future, its founders hope to expand it to larger cities like New York, and even nationwide. “[The app] combines a lot of interest that already exists in food photos — whether on Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram, or INSIDER Eats ideas — with a functional purpose,” Malik said.

“I like that it’s made by students for students,” added Adam McClain ’21.

Fota is currently a part of the Keller Center’s eLab Incubator Program, which allows students to pursue their entrepreneurial ambitions. Its advisors include Brian Kernighan GS ’69, a professor in the Computer Science department, and Luke Armour, the founding and managing partner of Chaac Ventures. Fota’s founders received $500 of funding from the University for the app.

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New library exhibit showcases University’s role in development of American and world wars.

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sity after its destruction in the 1945 atomic bombing.

“We’re a country that is forgetting about war,” said Steven Knowlton, University Librarian for History and African American Studies.

“In WWII about 80 percent of Princetonians wound up in the military, but nowa-

days it’s fewer than one percent of all people of military age ever enlist. The experience of war therefore is becoming more and more distant from all of us. Since war is such an important instrument of national policy, it removes us all from being cognizant of what war does to a community. So I’m very pleased to see the experience of Princetonians at war.”

This exhibition will be on display until June 2018.

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described experiencing some form of inappropriate sexual behavior.

Similar to that reported in last year’s survey, 87 percent of respondents said they would know where to go on campus for help if they or a friend were sexually assaulted.

According to the survey results, undergraduates who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, asexual or questioning are about twice as likely to experience sexual misconduct than undergraduates who identify as heterosexual or straight.

The We Speak survey results are used by the FacultyStudent Advisory Committee on Sexual Misconduct as the basis for annual recommendations on improving campus climate around sexual misconduct and gender dis-

crimination. This year’s recommendations include additional training for graduate students, international students, and postdocs, as well as a bystander training workshop for faculty and a workshop for the eating clubs’ Graduate Interclub Council.

The infographic stated that 38 percent of survey respondents who experienced sexual assault first encountered their assailant in an eating club.

In her email, Minter stated that the survey’s results indicate the need for continued support of University programs designed to prevent sexual misconduct, such as the UMatter initiative.

“That our findings are similar to those from surveys at other campuses doesn’t make them less troubling,” Minter wrote. “The figures underscore the sustained need to address sexual misconduct.”

This story is part of ongoing coverage.

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Halfway to midterm elections: A call for continued action Krupa Jani and Mike Hepler guest contributors

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ou know it’s bad when the scientists are marching. In the months following the Nov. 2016 election, STEM-field graduate students rallied together for a multitude of causes, from prison reform to climate change.

This phenomenon reflected a widespread sense of alarm regarding the Trump administration’s disdain for crafting policies based on evidence and its active dismantling of vital government institutions, such as the Environmental Protection Agency. Our own student organization, the Princeton Citizen Scientists, was forged from an initial fervor of activism: for us, evidence-based policy is not just desirable, but fundamental — even imperative — to the structure of a healthy society. Achieving this requires fostering a sense of personal and collective responsibility within our community to create and

maintain conversations related to critical social issues and advocacy goals.

With these ideas in mind, we, alongside Princeton Advocates for Justice, organized the March 6th Day of Action. This full-day event saw over 1500 campus and community members come together to engage in dialogue, teaching, and learning through 64 teachins, as well as performances and town hall meetings. Our goal that day was to inspire critical discussion and to connect individuals with organizations and ways to get involved. Perhaps more importantly, we also aimed to establish an environment where intersectional coalitions and cross-disciplinary collaborations could be catalyzed in the pursuit of common advocacy goals. We consider the Day of Action to have been a successful experiment in community organizing in which we observed the convergence of a diverse community of individuals.

Many of the teach-ins from that

day were recorded. With permission, we have now released these videos and made them available for public access. We believe that they are valuable resources in continuing to educate the University community, as well as the general public, about current matters we are facing as a nation: nuclear weapons and the threat of nuclear war, race and activism, climate change and threats to the environment, U.S. immigration policies, and the media and the importance of the free press, to name just a few.

One year on, halfway to the 2018 midterm elections, advocacy and activist groups are now beginning the real hard work: sustaining the advocacy effort. With much of the initial passion drained, grit and determination become critical to maintaining the efforts that will lead to lasting change. In the year ahead, we must continue to highlight the pressing need for civic engagement and to stimulate vital discourse on the critical issues we face as a local commu-

nity, a nation, and a society. We have specifically chosen to release the Day of Action teach-in videos this week to remind ourselves (i) of the power, creativity, and passion we showed as a community in our ability to break traditional barriers of hierarchies, professions, and causes; (ii) that we can continue to come together; and (iii) that there is still a lot of work left to be done. The results of the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial elections this week, as well as numerous other elections around the country, indicate that the swell in involvement and energy we experienced one year ago is not diminished. However, we cannot afford complacency now.

Sustained and thoughtful action on the part of student advocates will prove critical in the year ahead.

Mike Hepler and Krupa Jani are the President and Vice President of the Princeton Citizen Scientists, respectively. They can be reached at citsci@princeton.edu.

When your bathroom is hijacked

Hayley Siegel columnist

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affectionately joke that the small community living in my Wilson basement is a nudist colony. Despite our limited interaction as nearly strangers, my dorm neighbors and I have a healthy sense of platonic camaraderie when it comes to accepting the unintended consequences of living with members of the opposite sex in tight quarters. If we accidentally bump into one another wrapped in towels having just left the shower, or see one of our ranks sleepwalking in their pajamas or folding laundry in the hallway wearing nothing but boxer shorts, we still manage a neighborly “hello” sans prudish judgement.

As a proud member of our group, I consider myself extremely liberal in my willingness to give my fellow neighbors the benefit of the doubt when it comes to their reasons for needing to be less than properly clothed; I assume that none of us mean any disrespect or are intentionally acting as a creepy exhibitionist.

However, I think a firm line needs to be drawn when it comes to men — both on my floor and from elsewhere — casually abusing the only bathroom in the basement (a designated women’s room) simply because the appropriate men’s bathroom is two floors up. In my housing contract, I never con-

sented to having a gender neutral facility as my primary bathroom, so I consider it a disturbing violation of privacy and space when a non-female walks in and thinks that they are entitled to see me and other girls in various stages of undress.

In the past few weeks alone, I cannot count the number of times I’ve found myself uncomfortable to leave the stall or shower upon noticing hairy size-twelve feet and bare legs outside. Don’t get me wrong — I am willing to excuse possible cases of dire desperation on others’ part. We’ve all had an “emergency” experience in which our needing to use the opposite gender restroom is not so much an act of rebellion as it is an awkward inevitability that could not have been avoided. However, I refuse to see anything innocent or justifiable in the case of a selfentitled male who simply is too lazy or ignorant to care that he could be violating someone’s privacy by using the women’s room.

There are two instances in particular that I think are unnerving enough to be worthy of University attention in some capacity.

At the beginning of the month, another girl and I were changing outside of the showers when a man that neither of us had seen before strode into the bathroom.

He glanced at us with complete disregard for our privacy and then proceeded to use the toilet in front of us without even clos-

ing the stall door. As casually as he had come in, he then left, but not before banging the stall door behind him while turning back to nod at us. We were both too stunned to say anything in the moment, but afterwards we mutually agreed that this behavior was beyond crude and that we should have spoken up because he had violated our rights.

I had almost forgotten about that night, when, during fall break, I ventured downstairs to use the bathroom at two in the morning. Half-asleep, I opened the door, thinking that I would be alone, when I was greeted by another man that I had never seen before. This individual was less than half undressed, to say the least, and was simply standing in the middle of the bathroom, doing nothing; clearly he had no intention of leaving, nor was he particularly perturbed by my being there. Finally, perhaps in response to my horrified gasp, he begrudgingly apologized and left, clothes in tow.

I don’t want to seem extreme and try to force a feeble connection between these examples, as disturbing as they are, and a pseudo-feminist argument. Still, given the setup of male bathrooms, I believe that as a woman, it would be more than a little awkward if I were to use one with a similar level of nonchalance and openness. I think it’s fair to argue that there is a double standard

when it comes to my having the same rights as a man to use an opposite-gendered bathroom at my convenience. Furthermore, it would be naïve to ignore the fact that in both the cases that I described above, there seemed to be a mild gender-based motivation underlying the men’s behaviors. Both guys knew that at any moment a girl could rightfully walk in half-undressed, and yet assumed that they had every right to see her or to show some part of themselves to her without her consent.

While it would be unreasonable to view these isolated occurrences as indicators of the prevalence of sexism or harassment on campus, I still have my suspicions that this is an under-highlighted phenomenon, due to the fact that it enters the hairy terrain of modern gender politics. However, I want to take a stand — I can’t deny or ignore my gut feeling that there is an inherent wrong underlying the Trumpian ballsiness of the actions of the men using my bathroom. I don’t doubt that my floor’s particular women’s bathroom is not unique in experiencing this issue, and so I believe that some public outcry is warranted, especially if it draws awareness to the problem and convinces people to be more mindful of their actions.

Hayley Siegel is a sophomore from Princeton, N.J. She can be reached at hsiegel@princeton.edu.

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The Ivy League’s insincere quest to recruit low-income students Lou Chen

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rinceton has been patting itself on the back a lot lately.

In May, the New York Times ran a glowing article about Princeton’s efforts to recruit lowincome students. The article, titled “Princeton — Yes, Princeton — Takes on the Class Divide” included everything you’d expect: concessions to Princeton’s history of exclusion, favorable Pell Grant statistics, and uplifting quotes from President Eisgruber.

“I get up in the morning thinking about how I can bring [the transformative Princeton] experience to more people,” he said.

But it seems that even Eisgruber is guilty of that most stereotypical of Ivy League behaviors: thinking, but never doing.

The upbeat Ivy League progressiveness featured in the article felt wholly untethered from the college admissions experience of me and my high school classmates. We grew up in San Bernardino, California, where the median household income is $17,000 below the national average and the poverty rate is 21 percentage points higher. Of the city’s student population, 85 percent are eligible for free or reduced-priced lunch. In other words, ours is just the sort of low-income youth community that the Ivy League claims it wants.

But at San Bernardino’s annual College Night that I attended my senior year, not a single repre-

sentative from an Ivy League university showed up. I saw the blue and gold of the University of California schools, even the cardinal red of Stanford — but no crimson, and no orange and black. Hundreds of local students had gathered to survey their college options and plan for their futures, but these were futures in which the Ivies apparently had no desire to play a part.

Out of curiosity, I reached out to the college counseling staff at Harvard-Westlake School, one of the most prestigious schools not only in California but also in the nation. With an annual tuition of $37,100, students at HarvardWestlake tend to be wealthier than those at most other high schools. So I had a feeling that Harvard-Westlake might be higher on the Ivy League’s list of priorities than, say, any school in San Bernardino.

I wasn’t wrong. According to Sharon Cuseo, one of the school’s Upper School Deans, HarvardWestlake was visited by five Ivies over the past school year: Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, Yale, and Harvard.

When was the last time an Ivy League university dropped by one of San Bernardino’s high schools?

I called up all seven of them to find out. “Three years ago,” said Eric Sanchez, the IB coordinator at Arroyo Valley High School.

“Harvard visited us because they accepted one of our students a few years before. It was the first time in at least seven years.”

That was the good news.

“Never,” says Carlos Solorio, the

counselor at Middle College High School. “It’s never happened.”

The conclusion I reached was stunning. The Ivies have made more visits to Harvard-Westlake in this past school year alone than they have to all high schools in San Bernardino combined, at least in recent memory. This is despite the fact that Harvard-Westlake’s upper school population is just 7 percent of the total number of students enrolled in San Bernardino high schools.

Betty Jo Knick, the college readiness resource teacher at San Bernardino High School, finds this persistent lack of attention frustrating. “I really think that there’s untapped talent at these schools that [the Ivies] are not accessing,” she said. “If they had more of a presence, the students would see them as a distinct possibility.”

But, because representatives from these schools are absent, Knick’s students often adopt an unfortunate mindset that only reinforces the ugliest notions of Ivy League exclusivity. “My students think, ‘If they don’t care enough about us to come here, why should we come there and be ignored?’” she said.

Sadly, Knick is right. During the college application process, I asked many of my friends — students with high test scores, stellar essays, and impeccable resumes — why they weren’t applying to any Ivies. The most common responses? “I’m just not good enough.” “What’s the point?” Or, “They don’t want kids like me.”

As for why I applied to Princeton? During my sophomore year,

I flew over for a college tour and fell head over heels in love the moment I stepped onto its campus. But I was one of a handful of students at my school who could afford that kind of spontaneous cross-country air travel. For the rest, the closest they could get to visiting a faraway college — let alone an Ivy League university — was visiting its website, which is a poor substitute for the real thing.

These students can’t visit the Ivies. So you’d think the Ivies would visit them. But they don’t, and Knick knows why.

“I have a feeling that they’re avoiding us because they’re not getting the bang for their buck,” she says. “If they only get one student, they think it’s not worth it.”

But if the Ivies are truly committed to taking on the class divide, then they must accept that there are things more important than simply getting the biggest bang for their many buck. If that were all that mattered, then there would be no point in recruiting outside of the Harvard-Westlakes, the Phillips Exeters, and the Stuyvesants. There would be no point in taking a chance on schools in communities like San Bernardino if so many safer bets exist.

I like to think the Ivies know better than that. I like to think they understand the importance of uplifting low-income youth — not just as another public-relations opportunity, but as an ideal that is worth all the time, effort, and sincerity put into achieving it, even if it comes at a greater cost than what Ivies might be used to.

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Compromises can be made.

Skype presentations are one seemingly-obvious solution offered by Knick. But people like Knick, who represent these lowincome communities, shouldn’t have to — and often can’t — make the first move. The balance of power is heavily tilted toward the Ivies. Will they do something with their power to create equal opportunity for all prospective students, of all socioeconomic backgrounds? Or will it just be more of the same?

None of this is intended to dismiss the progress that the Ivy League has made in raising enrollment among low-income students. But it is one thing for the Ivies to accept a few select students from low-income communities, and another for them to demonstrate a willingness to engage with these communities, many of which view these elite schools with an understandable wariness. If the Ivies want lowincome students to inhabit their spaces, they must first enter the students’ spaces themselves.

Until then, it’s time to pull back the curtain on the Ivies’ insincerity. They aren’t interested in taking on the class divide.

One hand may be brandishing a sledgehammer, seemingly poised to break down historic barriers to access, but it’s just waving for the cameras. As for the other one — it’s still busy shaking hands with the same wealthy crowd.

Lou Chen is a music major from San Bernardino, Calif. He can be reached at lychen@princeton.edu.

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Football honors seniors, preps for upcoming game against Yale

By Owen Tedford staff writer

This weekend, Princeton football (5-3 overall, 2-3 Ivy) returns home after a tough stretch to take on Yale (7-1, 4-1) at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 11. The game will prove incredibly important. Not only is the game Senior Day for Princeton because it’s the last home game of the season, it’s also the highlight of homecoming weekend. The Bulldogs are currently atop the Ivy League, and a win will clinch them a share of the Ivy League Title. On the other hand, the Tigers are playing for their Ivy League title hopes, needing a win to have a chance at the title at all.

Yale’s running game will be a big focus for Princeton’s defense to contain.

Yale freshman running back Zane Dudek is having an all-time great season, having already racked up 889 rushing yards and 11 rushing touchdowns so far this season. In Yale history, this is the best for a freshman ever, and the most since Levi Jackson had more than 800 rushing yards in 1946. Dudek was put on the STATS FCS Jerry Rice Award Watch List, an award given to the top rookie in the FCS. He’s racked up a number of awards so far this season, including four Ivy League Rookie of the Week awards and the FCS National Rookie of the Week award.

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Tigers football has been busy preparing for its homecoming game against the Yale Bulldogs.

season; it’s all about senior quarterback Chad Kanoff.

Kanoff has had a historic season so far, ranking first in FCS completion percentage (74.4 percent) and fifth in passing efficiency (166.6). Kanoff has also broken a number of records this season; but, with two weeks left, the one left that he’s closing in on is the single-season passing record held by Doug Butler ’86, who threw for 3,175 yards in the 1983 season. Kanoff so far has thrown for 2,576 yards through eight games, meaning that an average of

300 yards per game over the last two games would be good enough to break Butler’s record. So far this year, Kanoff has averaged 325.8 yards per game. While this could be good enough to break Butler’s single-season record, to break Butler’s career passing record of 7,291 yards, Kanoff would have to average close to 340 yards per game.

As mentioned before, Princeton is still mathematically able to win a share of the Ivy League Title. In fact, the Tigers are a part of a potential seven-way

tie to share the title. This is possible largely because there is no tie-breaker for Ivy League titles; winning the title is based only on regular season record. With two weeks left in the season, there is one scenario that could see this result with the title being shared among the seven three-loss teams and just Brown missing out at 0-7. Obviously, as a part of this scenario, Princeton would have to win both of its remaining games against Yale and Dartmouth, but this alone would not be good enough

to guarantee Princeton a share of the title. No twoloss team has claimed a share of the Ivy League title since 1982, so this would be a truly rare feat.

If you are unable to make the trip down to Powers Field on Saturday afternoon, there are a few other ways that you can watch the game. Eleven Sports will be carrying it live and the game will be streamed on the Ivy League Network. Radio coverage will be provided on 103.3 FM, which can also be accessed through the TuneIn App.

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The Princeton’s women’s cross country team continues its season at the 2017 NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional race.

By Claire Coughlin associate sports editor

The Princeton women’s cross country team has had quite a season and continues to pursue success at the 2017 NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional this Friday, Nov. 10 on Lehigh University’s campus

in Bethlehem, Penn. Tiger ladies will step up to the starting line for a brutal 6K race at 10:45 a.m.

Only the top two teams in the race will continue to the NCAA championship meet, which will be held Nov. 15 in Louisville, Ky. The Tigers are currently ranked fifth in the national poll of the

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Mid-Atlantic Region, so placing top two in the race won’t be easy.

But, it is definitely a possibility for the Tiger ladies.

This season the team has had some incredible depth, with number one finishes from multiple athletes this season. One of the most exciting races of the sea-

son was the team’s most recent performance at HEPS, in which junior Gabi Forrest won the race and was named the Individual Ivy League Champion. She has performed fantastically all season, scoring in every race she’s competed in and earning the No. 2 runner spot at Penn State

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and Paul Short. Senior runner Megan Curham will also play a key role in the team’s race. She is a five-time All-American and was the team’s top finisher for the Tigers at Penn State and the No. 2 at HEPS. Curham has certainly performed well in the past; she was named All-Region in the two times she raced at the NCAA Regionals in 2013 and 2014. Two other notable runners are Junior Allie Klimkiewicz and freshman Melia Chittenden, who have run very consistently and have been in the top seven in every meet this season, with Klimkiewicz the No. 3 at Heps and two previous No. 4 spots. Chittenden has had a strong presence on the team for a freshman, placing third in the first three races before taking the No. 7 slot at HEPS. Other competitors of the team are junior Maddie Offstein and freshman Sophie Cantine, who have both scored in three of four meets. Sophomore Rachel Granovsky has scored twice.

The Tiger’s biggest contenders are all the usual teams, including Villanova, Penn State, Georgetown, and West Virginia. In the past, Princeton has claimed the regional title four times (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008). Considering the regionals race began in 2005, this is definitely an impressive record, one that may foretell a positive turnout for the Tiger squad this year.

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