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Anne Holton ’80 to speak at 2017 Baccalaureate Day

By Abhiram Karuppur senior writer

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Anne Holton ’80 has been selected to be the Baccalaureate Speaker for the 2017 Commencement in May. Holton was the former Secretary of Education for the state of Virginia, and is the wife of Virginia Senator Tim Kaine. Kaine was the Democratic Vice Presidential candidate in the 2016 election.

Holton is the daughter of former Virginia Governor A. Linwood Holton, and graduated from the University with a degree from the Wilson School. She was also a member of Colonial Club.

In 1983, she earned her JD from Harvard Law School, where she was on the Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee. In 1984, she married her husband, Tim Kaine, and moved to Richmond where

she still currently resides.

From 1985 to 1998, she worked as an attorney for the Central Virginia Legal Aid Society, where she established a volunteer lawyers’ program in Richmond. In 1998, she became the Chief Judge of the Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court in Richmond, where her husband had just been elected mayor.

In 2002, Holton became the Second Lady of Virginia following her husband’s election as Lieutenant Governor, and in 2006, she became the First Lady of Virginia. As First Lady, Holton started the For Keeps Families for all Virginia Teens initiative, which found stable families willing to take in older foster children. In 2008, she headed Virginia’s Women for Obama group.

In 2010, after Kaine’s term

as Governor ended, Holton became the director of the Great Expectations program, which helped foster children attend schools in the Virginia Community College System. In 2014, she was named Secretary of Education by Governor Terry McAuliffe.

Holton opposed high-stakes testing and charter school expansion, but supported teacher pay increases and curriculum changes. In 2016, she resigned to join her husband’s campaign for Vice President.

She received the Metropolitan Richmond Women’s Bar Association’s Women of Achievement Award in 1995 and the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Life Award of Distinction.

Holton serves on many education and youth development foundations, and is a longtime clog dancer.

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Charles Murray lectures Students, faculty protest on future of job market, against Murray lecture universal basic income

By Audrey Spensley staff writer

Libertarian commentator Charles Murray gave a lecture on his theory of a future jobs crisis caused by artificial intelligence and the proposed solution of a universal basic income.

Murray is the author of a 1994 book “The Bell Curve,” which attempted to analyze the role of IQ in shaping America’s class structure.

His works have been criticized as making the argument that social inequality stems from genetic inferiority.

After Murray was introduced, a group of student and faculty protesters staged a silent walk-out in protest of his speaking at the University.

Murray stated that technology is fundamentally changing the structure of the American economy. He added that the jobs market is being reshaped at an increasingly rapid pace.

“Like many others things in technology, these curves are not linear, they’re exponential,” Murray said.

Murray added that the artificial intelligence tool Watson, designed

by IBM, is being used to diagnose cancer patients.

“Watson is already better than the run-of-the-mill oncologist,” he said.

Murray gave further examples of the applications of artificial intelligence, including gaming systems and driverless cars.

“You can beat the world chess champion with a $35 software program,” he said. “The potential job

market applications are horrific.”

Murray said, however, that he did not believe that the software was beginning to approximate human behavior.

“I’m just saying that the software has gotten so good that it is making decisions that have the look and feel of judgement,” he said. “If you can do that, replacing the jobs of white-collar workers is very simple, by comparison.”

Murray also added that this jobs crisis could not be resolved in traditional ways.

“Can [the workers] be retrained?

Yes, they can,” he said. “Can they be retrained to be nuclear physicists?

No, they can’t.”

He also said there would be a gender imbalance between future available jobs.

“What’s the trait that you need most? Conscientiousness,” he said.

“Women are a lot better than that at men.”

Looking forward, Murray said he believes the world will enter a postjob state where many people are not employed for significant periods of time. He spoke about what he considers the core values to creating a happy life.

“There are four vehicles to achieving lifelong happiness: family, vocation, community, faith,” he said.

“You don’t have to tap into all of these, but you had better tap into more than one.”

According to this theory, Murray said, it is still possible to be fulfilled without a job.

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Many members of audience left the room immediately after Murray’s introduction in a protest.

By Christopher Umanzor senior writer

Just before Charles Murray’s 4:30 p.m. lecture was scheduled to begin, over 75 students and other University affiliates quickly filed in to the lecture hall. With every seat filled, the protesters silently gathered in the back, packing the room.

As the protesters filled the room, they were presented

with a flyer by Serena Stein GS about the silent protest to follow. The flyer asked readers to join “in a silent protest against the normalization of racism and classism in academia.”

“Charles Murray is an armchair demagogue who argues that blacks and the poor are intellectually and morally inferior, as the cause of social inequality in America,” the flyer states.

After Murray’s bio was read, protesters silently filed out of the room as he began speaking.

“We walk out to demonstrate that Murray’s work is unworthy of our attention – and even our anger,” the flyer said. “If possible, we would ignore him completely. However, his writings have been used by powerful policymakers to disenfranchise the See PROTEST page 2

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Philip Alston receives 2016 Adlai Stevenson Award staff writer

Independent actors in the United Nation’s human rights division face both challenges and possibilities in holding powerful institutions accountable, Philip Alston, human rights advocate and United National official, said Thursday in his acceptance address for the 2016 Adlai Steven-

son Award.

Presented by the PrincetonTrenton Area chapter of the United Nations Associations of the USA, the award is named in honor of former U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson ’22.

Alston received the award for “a career of service to the global community,” according to the chapter.

Alston serves as a U.N. Special Rapporteur on Extreme

Poverty and Human Rights.

His work in this capacity has included leading international missions to assess extreme poverty, promoting human rights policy in the World Bank, lobbying Detroit to turn water back on for homes too poor to pay their bills, and advising UNICEF on children’s rights. A native of Australia, he currently teaches human rights law at New York Uni-

versity Law School, where he founded its Center for Human Rights and Global Justice.

Alston opened his acceptance address with a discussion of the U.N. Human Rights Council and its role in establishing accountability for governments, lawyers, and institutions that commit human rights violations.

“The real question is how, if at all, accountability can

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be achieved,” Alston said. “I should note that accountability is a relatively slippery term in the sense that ‘accountability’ can cover almost anything.

In effect we are getting an actor to recognize that a policy is a human rights violation and to give a response in relation to that.”

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working class and the poor since the 1980s.”

“It was not even worth it to help legitimate that by engaging in his work,” Stein said.

An anthropology department graduate student, Stein said that anthropology professors in the 1980s and 1990s spent a lot of time writing against, refuting, and discrediting what he wrote.

Stein, who has been studying abroad, said she was only on campus for 30 hours and decided to see what events were happening on campus.

She said that she saw who the speaker was and “remembered from the earliest days of biological anthropology 101 that his text was held up as dubious scholarship and manipulative use of statistics.”

Stein brought the lecture to the attention of Chair of the Anthropology Department Carolyn Rouse, who was noted at the bottom of the flyer. Because it was a busy week, Stein and Rouse worked together to bring attention to the lecture. Rouse reached out to the anthropology department, while Stein contacted graduate students, included the Women of Color Caucus. Stein said that Rouse had many students in attendance and that she was handing out copies of her articles on race and genetics.

Rouse could not be reached for comment by press time.

“People were mobilized from different corners of campus,” Stein said. “We decided a silent protest would be an appropriate talk.”

Stein said that they thought attending the lecture and either interrupting it, or answering the questions at the end would not be enough.

“A lot of people have been doing this for decades,” she said.

“We would come in presence and be there to make a point and then immediately return to our regularly programmed lives,” Stein said.

“We just moved on, segued directly back into the processes that give valuable, credible, valid scholarship, and not the opposite.”

“I think it was really interesting when everybody was walking out of the protest,” Stein said, adding that the overwhelming feeling was of if the protesters should have done more.

“Should we have said something? Disrupted it? Made noise?” she said. “What is the shape of protest? What different forms does it take when the talk was already given that platform at Princeton? When it was already legitimized by university resources that go into bringing them to Princeton?”

Stein noted that there are many different ways to go about protesting, and that protesters have varying levels of experience. However, she said there there is a sense of urgency for how to be more committed and a desire to be

more politically active.

Murray’s Thursday afternoon talk was entitled ‘This Time Really is Different’: Coming to Grips With the Coming Job Crisis – a topic that, at first glance, is separate from what makes his appearance on campus so controversial.

Murray is the W. H. Brady Chair at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. He is most well known for his books The Bell Curve and Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 19501980. In the former, he argues that “the test score is a better predictor of job performance than any other single measure.” Consequently, Murray and co-author Richard Hernstein asserted in their book that African-Americans low test scores compared to those of whites and Asians could be attributed to genetic factors, according to an academic overview of his work.

After the talk, students offered comments on both the talk itself and the protest.

“I appreciate that the faculty that attended elected not to interrupt his speech and read a statement,” Mikhael Smits ’18 said, continuing “I think it’s a shame that faculty gave the appearance that they discouraged people from attending and hearing a lecture that was controversial.”

The talk was part of The Future of Capitalism talk series, a Comparative Political Economy Research Initiative.

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as a UN Special Rapporteur to illustrate how accountability can be achieved; he also described the setbacks he faced in trying to hold powerful actors responsible for their abuses of human rights.

Alston spoke first of his work in reducing extrajudicial executions by the Filipino military. In anticipation of his mission, the Filipino government created a task force to resist his efforts in revealing the military’s culpability for the executions.

“In the end [the government] gave me the propaganda version, which was the notion that the vast majority of killings were committed by members of the left, the New People’s Army in particular, killing each other in disputes but making it look as if the army carried out the killings,” Alston said.

Alston persisted in his investigation, and by the end of his visit he was able to secure a highly publicized meeting with Filipino President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.

“I told her, my report doesn’t hold you personally responsible but I think I’ve made the compelling case that the army is responsible for the vast majority of [the executions] and they have sought to cover them up,” Alston said. He recommended that she advise the army to stop all extrajudicial executions; as a result, the number of killings dropped by 70%.

Alston also discussed the issue of targeted drone killings by the American government. After writing a letter to American authorities describing the ways in which targeted killings are problematic, the government responded by adopting a new doctrine that in their view the U.N. Human Rights Council had no role in armed conflicts. Alston then presented a report to the United Nations on the legal issues that have arisen as a result of drone strikes. Although the United States did not officially acknowledge Alston’s report, he learned that there had been a series of internal meetings on the matter.

“It quickly became apparent that, in fact, the report had a significant impact,” Alston said.

The third case study Alston addressed was his work in holding both the United Nations and the United States governments accountable for their failures in dealing with the 2010 cholera outbreak in Haiti. In the aftermath of the

outbreak, the United States and the United Nations decided to focus exclusively on how to deal with the outbreak going forward rather than exploring where the outbreak came from.

“The approach of not worrying about where [the outbreak] came from was deeply problematic in epidemiological terms,” Alston said. “What happened after the outbreak was exacerbated by a number of factors, but it did have one specific cause.”

Alston worked with the U.N. Secretary General to reignite discussions about the issue.

His report to the United Nations on the cholera outbreak was leaked to and published in The New York Times.

“The United Nations then decided — no reference to my report — that it would adopt a new approach to Haiti and would for the first time include some form of financial support for the victims, and some sort of acknowledgment of the negligence of the U.N.,” Alston said.

“The outcome, and this is the bottom line, was remarkable in two ways, one incredibly positive and one incredibly negative. The U.N. has committed to trying to raise $400 million, some of which will go directly to the victims. They also issued an almost unprecedented apology last Friday, Dec. 1. That’s the good news and not to be underestimated.

The bad news is that they, I think heavily influenced by the US government, have adopted this policy but never, ever mentioned it in public. No legal responsibility will ever be accepted in this or any other situation. And so the apology by the Secretary General was a half-apology,” Alston noted.

“The tragic thing, then, is the role played by lawyers in preventing the only outcome that would have been decent in human rights,” he said.

Alston finished his address by encouraging students to find a way to advance human rights in whichever career path they chose.

Much has been accomplished in advancing human rights, Alston said, “but there is even more to be done.” “[Alston’s] career has consisted of advocacy for all children and their families,” Jeremy Zullow ’17 said. “His sincerity and conviction reminds us that we must not allow the progress of human rights to be rolled back.”

The lecture, which took place at 4:30 pm in Robertson Hall, was co-sponsored by Princeton-Trenton Area Chapter of the U.N. Association of the USA and the Program in Law and Public Affairs.

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Murray’s solution to these issues is the institution of a universal base income, or UBI. Under this system, every citizen would receive $10,000 a year and all other social security programs would be eliminated.

“Governmental agencies are the worst way of dealing with human beings,” Murray, who identifies himself as a libertarian, said.

Murray’s UBI would serve as a base income, and people would work to earn more.

“People can make up to $30,000 dollars a year under this plan without losing a penny,” he said.

“You don’t want a UBI that enables people to go off and live by themselves,” he added. “You want a situation in which people have the road open to them to making a decent

income really easily. And the $10,000 a year makes it really easy.”

Murray added that the system would be based in technological innovation, which would allow mild forms of regulation. “[The UBI] is deposited electronically into a bank account, another very important aspect of the way I want to do it,” he said.

Murray said that the UBI would give people an incentive to establish connections and live together because they could then share their UBIs. He added that this would help reverse the trend of America’s communities losing their traditional values.

“The secret to the UBI is not that I have $10,000, but that everybody has $10,000,” he said. “And furthermore, everybody knows that everybody has $10,000.”

Murray ended his talk by describing the current social problems fac-

ing America.

“I am afraid that the U.S. is, by any definition, in an advanced stage of institutional sclerosis. We have become a class society unlike any other in American history.”

Murray said that America is becoming increasingly polarized, with urban and intellectual areas behaving increasingly differently from the rest of America.

“We have become very good at living glossy lives, but our lives have lost a lot of their texture,” he said.

“That texture is best achieved by taking proactive steps to get yourself out of the bubble and be engaged in real communities.”

The lecture, titled “This Time Really Is Different: Coming to Grips With the Coming Job Crisis” was sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and was held in 219 Aaron Burr Hall on Thursday, Dec. 8.

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Standardizing independent work and considering dual concentrations

ontinuing our analysis of the General Education Task Force’s recommendations, the Board will comment on the fourth recommendation proposing the standardization of junior independent work across departments through “a credit-bearing junior methods seminar” and a “single, spring JP that counts for 2.0 units of credit.” In addition, we will consider a proposition from the Humanities Task Force calling for the creation of dual concentrations. The Board supports part of the first proposal; we concur with the authors of the report that students are more attentive and dedicated in credit-bearing courses. However, considering the variability between JP requirements across departments, it should be up to the discretion of each department to determine the value of assigning one JP per semester. Furthermore, we urge the Humanities Task Force to clarify their position on creating dual concentrations to allow us to articulate a concise position on the recommendation.

While the University’s first-year writing seminar prepares students in the “fundamental strategies of academic writing,” the General Education Task Force argues that the seminar lacks focus within “particular conventions and methods” specific to students’ disciplinary concentrations. Despite the fact that a particular student may be competent in writing a strong academic paper following the completion of first-year writing seminar, he or she may not be well instructed on how to adequately construct a discipline-specific argument.

The University’s current solution to this problem is the creation of some form of “disciplinary training and mentoring” during junior year. However, each department approaches this challenge in ways that best suit their specific discipline. For example, the politics department requires its students to complete a credit-bearing methods course in the fall term, with a mandatory workshop and plenary section rotating on a biweekly basis. Class participation and completion of assignments account for 60 percent of the student’s final grade. The economics department requires its students to attend some, but not all, lectures on a non-credit basis. Likewise, departments within the sciences provide a breadth of strategies for preparing students to complete independent research. The molecular biology department offers a 1.5 hour-long fall tutorial once a week in which small groups of students “learn to read and analyze critically the primary scientific literature” within the field.

The tutorial is followed by completion of a single junior independent research project in the spring term. Finally, students in the computer science department are instructed to sign up for a spring semester independent work seminar at the end of the fall semester.

Despite the structural differences in junior independent work instruction across departments, the Board concurs with the authors of the report that all

University students would benefit from the creation of a single credit-bearing methods course for students in their junior year. The proposed course should be credit-based so that students are motivated to be diligent in the completion of their assignments and ultimate finished product: a strong JP. In addition to supporting the creation of such a course, the Board encourages departments to specialize class instruction to match the needs of specific academic tracks.

This challenge is present in departments with multiple, distinct academic tracks. Students who are concentrating in politics on the political theory track gain little insight from the quantitativebased instruction provided in the department’s current methods course.

Therefore, the Board proposes that in such instances departments make an exception to the standard of mandating all students take an identical creditbearing methods course. Departments should play an active role in creating curriculum that is not only disciplinespecific, but also specific to the individual tracks within each discipline.

The second half of the General Education Task Force’s proposal calls on departments that currently require two JPs to consider the possibility that “their concentrators might be better served by a single, spring JP that counts for 2.0 units of credit.” The Board strongly advocates against this measure. While it may be better suited for some departments such as sociology and anthropology to assign one single spring JP, for the purpose of recognizing and respecting the distinct methodologies and approaches specific to each of the University’s departments, the Board argues that this standard should not be extended to all disciplines.

The methodological tools required for independent work vary across departments. For instance, many students concentrating in politics or economics are required to master novel techniques in quantitative analysis that are best executed within a single long-term project. However, independent work within other disciplines such as history or english involves a cumulative understanding of previous knowledge that is more suitable to the completion of multiple independent projects. Moreover, some departments offer two JPs which are drastically different from one another.

For instance, third year students in the Wilson School complete independent work for a fall Policy Task Force and a spring Policy Research Seminar.

Therefore, the Board recommends that departments retain their own jurisdiction in determining whether to assign one or two JPs for independent work.

Finally, the Board concurs with the the General Education Task Force that dual concentrations would be difficult to integrate within the Princeton curriculum.

The Board further emphasizes that given “the importance of the Senior Thesis as the capstone experience for under-

graduate students”, allowing students to pursue multiple concentrations would result in a distorted and unfocused thesis. We urge members of the Humanities Task Force to provide further information on the proposed recommendation, specifically on whether students would be permitted to trim off departmental requirements, before the Board can provide a concrete stance on the issue. One solution prior to such revisions might be to allow students to attain minors. The certificate programs currently offered by the University allow for students to both “pursue a special area of interest that closely complements their departmental concentration,” and “pursue intellectual passions” unrelated to their primary field. While the ability to attain an interdisciplinary education is possible within the certificates options currently offered by the University, these programs are specific in their content which ultimately limits students’ flexibility in choosing a secondary or tertiary field of study.

Whereas the University does not offer its students the opportunity to minor in Sociology as a general subject matter, the field is broken down into various certificate options such as African American studies or American studies . Furthermore, instead of offering a minor in economics, the University offers separate certificate programs in entrepreneurship and finance. The Board encourages the Humanities Task Force to explore the possibility of allowing students to minor within existing departments, such as sociology and economics, as an alternative to pursuing dual concentrations.

The proposals offered in the fourth recommendation of the General Education Task Force’s report all reflect a general motive of providing students with more specialized instruction during the process of writing a JP, while also attempting to expand the current University-constraints upon pursuing more than one academic concentration. The Board firmly advocates for the department-wide standardization of a credit-bearing methods course during junior year but encourages departments to retain autonomy in deciding the number of JPs to assign to its students.

Furthermore, the Board takes a neutral stance on the Humanities Task Force’s proposal to allow for dual concentrations, given the limited details provided within the report. However, the Board does encourage the Task Force to consider the possibility of allowing students to pursue departmental minors as an alternative to dual concentrations.

Connor Pfeiffer ’18 recused himself from the writing of this editorial.

The Editorial Board is an independent body and decides its opinions separately from the regular staff and editors of The Daily Princetonian. The Board answers only to its Chair, the Opinion Editor, and the Editor-inChief.

This is why millennials never want to grow up Beni Snow

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uzzfeed ran a story a few weeks ago about a bar in London that has a ball pit in the basement. Adult coloring books top the Amazon best-sellers list, and there are camps for adults in Brooklyn. Last semester, Princeton University’s Mathey College held puppy study breaks to help students de-stress. It’s clear that the millennial generation does not want to grow up.

Even our vocabulary reveals our disdain for growing up. “Adulting” is a versatile verb we use to describe boring or responsibility-laden activities, such as paying taxes, cooking dinner, or even doing laundry (since apparently kids don’t do laundry). It’s our way of saying that growing up is an undesirable thing to have to do.

Some have blamed this Peter Pan phenomenon on millennials as the coddled generation. Others say it’s a sign that millennials enjoy fun and care less about social norms than previous generations.

Neither story is complete. The real reason we don’t want to grow up?

Our generation is watching as the

“real” adult world goes to crap due to mistakes of older generations — and we want none of it.

We’re the first generation that will have a lower standard of living than our parents. We collectively have $1.3 trillion of student debt, largely due to the cost of college increasing by 1,100 percent in the last 30 years.

The climate is a mess. Even the more optimistic models call for significant warming by 2050, as well as stronger storms, harsher droughts, and rising seas. And we’ve just elected a president who thinks climate change is a myth.

The adult world is a depressing place, and the sad state of current affairs isn’t our generation’s fault.

We’re tired of fighting fights that should have been settled for decades. Roe vs. Wade was decided in 1973, but we’re still having to fight laws that restrict a woman’s right to choose. The Civil Rights Act was signed into law over 50 years ago, but basic civil rights are still sadly lacking for many people of color.

Can you really blame millennials for wanting ball pits and coloring books? The world is going to hell, and it feels like there’s nothing we can do about it. Maybe some of this is just false perception created by a constant stream of negative news, pressuring us to give up and pretend that we will never need to grow up.

But millennials are the largest generation in America. We are the future, and Princeton students are supposed to be the future leaders — we can’t stay in Neverland forever. So take your puppy study break. Enjoy some quality time at an adult playground. But don’t forget that it’s our job to be responsible adults some of the time. Because we certainly can’t trust the current “adults” to get us on the right path.

Beni Snow is a mechanical and aerospace engineering major from Newton Center, Mass. He can be reached at bsnow@ princeton.edu.

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way with eight rebounds, and junior Tia Weledji was right behind with seven.

The Tiger defense also added 14 steals — a season high for the Tigers. Freshman Bella Alarie proved a force inside, stuffing the Leopards shooters all game and finishing with four blocks. While the Tigers did turn the ball over 20 times, they still won the turnover battle, forcing Lafayette to commit 26.

The offense did not need to do much work in the win, but still recorded an impressive showing. Princeton as a team shot 38.5 percent from the field and 36.8 percent from beyond the arc. These two marks near their season highs. The team also improved from the charity stripe, shooting 61.5 percent from the free throw line which is their best performance in three games.

Three Tigers led the way with double digit point totals. Weledji had a team leading and season best 20 points. Smith added 11, while senior captain Taylor

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Brown added 14. The Tigers also added 15 assists as a team.

The win gives head coach Courtney Banghart’s 196th career victory. Should the Tigers continue on their pace, her first shot at win number 200 will be December 29th at Georgia Tech.

However the Tigers continue to focus on one day — and one game — at a time.

Next up for the Tigers is a trip to the city to take on Fordham University. The Tigers will look to get above .500 for the first time this season and will lead on both sides of the ball to continue their great work. Princeton currently is No. 8 in the nation in three point field goal percentage, first in the Ivy League in team assists, and holding opposing teams to only .222 in three-point field goals. They look to continue their success in New York against their foe from the Atlantic 10.

Ivy League play is still a few weeks away. But if this current win streak is any indication, the Tigers look prime to make a run at the Conference Championship and a tournament berth.

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{ www.dailyprincetonian.com } TRACK AND FIELD

Track to host New Year Invitational

By Grace Baylis contributor

This Sunday the mens and women’s track and field team will be competing at home in Jadwin Gymnasium hosting the New Year Invitational, beginning at 11 a.m.

As the teams begin to head into the indoor season, this weekend will be a chance for them to carry the momentum through before they break for the winter.

Both teams competed last weekend at the Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex, the women’s team saw their indoor campaign kick off with a great start. The team won six team events and five of the Tigers recorded their personal bests during the weekend. There were a myriad of achievements across the women’s team last weekend, notable junior Maia Craver, a multi-sport athlete, set a personal record in the 60 meters hurdles. Craver ran an 8.75 second race and also finished first in the quali-

fying heats for the 200 meter race with a 24.83 second performance, being the only runner to make a time under 25 seconds. This was Craver’s fastest lifetime PR. Sophomore Ellie Randolph won the 60 meter hurdles final, finishing in 8.80 seconds which was also a PR. Sophomore Maddie Offstein, who ran in the mile distance, clocked a 5:06 minute mile placing her third in the race. Offstein led the race for the majority but was picked for first and second in the final stretch. The Tigers took first and second place in the 4x100 meter relay with the winning team finishing in 3:48 minutes.

Junior Captain Kennedy O’Dell said after last week’s results “The energy and excitement the team had at the first meet was exactly what we were hoping for, everyone came out ready to compete and as a result we had some exciting times and distances.” She added, “It’s a sign of great things to come

OLIVIA TOBEASON :: STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

The mens’ and women’s track teams will look to build on recent successes at home this weekend.

that there were PRs at the opener.”

This season the women’s track and field team has also seen a change in their coaching staff, welcoming Michelle Eisenreich from Stanford as their new head coach. New leadership is not an easy transition for any team but the Tigers looked to have dealt with it well.

Eisenreich helped Stanford achieve four top 10 NCAA finishes during her four years there, and she is only the second coach in the 39 year history of the Track and

MEN’S BASKETBALL

contributor

As we get closer and closer to conference play, the Tigers are looking more and more like a team ready to compete for a tournament bid.

Princeton heads into the weekend with a record of 4-4 and their sluggish start way back in the rearview mirror. After a 0-4 start that left many questions for the team, the Tigers have responded to the adversity

with a bang; they have rattled off four straight wins and suddenly seem like once again like one of the teams to beat in the Ivy League.

The Tigers last win came against the Lafayette Leopards Wednesday night at Jadwin Gymnasium. Princeton defeated the Leopards by a score of 65-27, dismantling the Lafayette offense on their way to a convincing win.

The defense starred once again in the Tiger victory.

27 points is only the second

time since 1981 that Princeton held a team to under 30 points (the other being Penn in 2011 also at 27). The defense outrebounded the Leopards 52-31; it was the fifth straight game the Tigers outrebounded the opponent. Rebounding has been critical to the success of the team over the last few weeks, and the Tigers are earning a wider margin in this category with each passing game. Senior captain Vanessa Smith led the See W. BBALL page 5

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The Tigers, who dismantled Lafayette Wednesday, will face a crucial test as they travel to Fordham.

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But junior distance runner, William Paulson, took the group by storm, finishing 19 seconds ahead of second place in the 3 km race. Paulson recorded a time of 8.22 seconds and this currently places him first in the Ivy League, and sixth in the National Indoor qualifying rankings.

This weekend will be of great importance for Princeton, as they look to maintain the momentum from last weekend and make their first indoor home opener a successful one.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Women’s basketball heads to New York, hopes to continue recent strong play

By Chris Murphy

Field program at Princeton.

The men’s indoor team also saw a successful start to their indoor season. Junior Carrington Akosa picked up first place for the 60 meter and 200 meter sprint, while also being part of the winning 4x100 meter relay.

Akosa finished the 60 meter sprint in 6.84 seconds, the only athlete to clock in a time less than 7 seconds.

Freshman Joey Daniels, tied for first place in the 60 meter hurdles, with a matching time of 8.14 seconds as the Wagner’s runner.

Men’s basketball to take on Liberty after splitting pair of contests at Pearl Harbor Invitational

By Miles Hinson sports editor emeritus

Fresh off of splitting their two game homestand, the Princeton men’s basketball team is set to hit the road once more this weekend. They will travel down past the Mason-Dixie line, taking on Liberty University this Saturday afternoon.

The Tigers (3-4 overall) have seen their fair share of travel so far this season, as they have been away from their home in Jadwin for all but one of their games. They enter Virginia coming fresh from the Pearl Harbor Invitational in Honolulu Hawaii, having split a pair of games against the California Golden Bears and the University of Hawaii.

The Tigers put out a rough performance from the field against California (7-2), shooting just under 30 percent from the field for the game.

Despite this and a significantly better shoot-

Stat of the Day

38 points The Princeton women’s basketball team defeated Lafayette by 38 points on Wednesday.

ing performance from the Bears (around 43 percent), they managed to stay close throughout until a late run from Cal put the game away.

Against Hawaii (4-5), the Tigers were far more successful in finding the mark, shooting at 46 percent on the game and getting a season high performance from senior guard Steven Cook, who picked up 21 points on the game, going 5-7 from deep. He also managed to assert himself on the boards, picking up nine rebounds on the contest.

Against Liberty, the Tigers will battle a foe against whom they eked out a narrow victory, 7772 on the Tigers’ home turf last year. The Tigers will look not only to Cook for more production but also fellow senior guard Spencer Weisz, who shot a scorching 85 percent from the field against Hawaii, and 3-4 from deep.

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