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Today on Campus

By Grant Golub staff writer

7:00 p.m.: A screening of films by the largely anonymous Syria film collective Abounaddara will be followed by a Q&A with its co-founder Charif Kiwan. The collective’s work has won an award at the Sundance Film Festival. East Pyne 10.

The Archives

Feb. 14, 1973 The University was reported to be undergoing apparent grade inflation, with three-fourths of letter grades being A’s and B’s. The so-called “gentlemen’s C” occurred at only a 15 percent rate.

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STUDENT LIFE

Student enters pretrial intervention

By Grant Golub staff writer

A former member of the Class of 2016 alleged to have recorded a video of a female student while she was showering was admitted into a pretrial intervention program last week, according to a press release from the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office on Friday.

David Chesley voluntarily surrendered to and was charged by the De-

partment of Public Safety on Sept. 29.

A female student reported to DPS on the morning of Sunday, Sept. 28 that she had seen a cell phone pointed at her while she was showering and that she subsequently screamed. The individual allegedly fled the area before she could identify that person.

Following an investigation, a Department of Public Safety investigation identified Chesley as a suspect.

The 19-year-old was then charged with third-degree invasion of privacy

and entered a plea of not guilty on Feb. 3.

Chesley and Kim Otis, Chesley’s defense attorney, did not respond to a request for comment.

The conditions of the pretrial intervention program include Chesley having no contact with the victim, undergoing a psychological evaluation related to the charges, following up with any treatment recommendations and acquiring and sustainSee PRETRIAL page 3

There are 10 bridges in the Princeton area that are “structurally deficient” or “functionally obsolete,” New Jersey Department of Transportation commissioner Jamie Fox said last month.

There are 500 bridges around the state of New Jersey that fall under this category.

The 10 bridges in the Princeton area include bridges that serve important commuter routes, including Princeton Pike and Alexander Street, according to a Feb. 5 Walkable Princeton article about the bridges.

Upgrades and replacements are estimated to cost $400 million statewide, and the New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund is on the verge of depletion.

However, the bridges near Princeton are on the priority list for updates, upgrades and replacements, according to the article.

Politics Professor Emeritus Jim Doig said that Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie’s unwillingness to raise the gas tax, which funds road repair projects, has been an important reason why New Jersey has been unable to carry out needed work in the past three or four years.

“An important part of the solution is to raise the gas tax,” he said. “New Jersey bridges and roadways need maintenance and repair.”

On Jan. 12, Fox announced that the Prospect Street Bridge in Dover, a town in Morris County, had been closed because enSee BRIDGES page 2

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The number of structurally deficient or functionally obsolete bridges around Princeton.

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News & Notes Meningitis B case confirmed at Yale

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that a Yale student was diagnosed with a probable case of meningitis B, the Yale Daily News reported on Friday.

The student has already been discharged from the hospital after reporting there on Thursday with headaches and vomiting.

No other cases have been reported at Yale so far.

Medical services at Yale will begin to offer a vaccine for meningitis B at no cost to those with the college’s health insurance. Most of the students who have been in contact with the affected student have taken antibiotics.

Yale students are required to show proof of immunization for a vaccine that protects against four types of meningitis under Connecticut law, but meningitis B is not among them.

The Bexsero vaccine for meningitis B was approved in January.

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Laura Cooper ’15, Samuel Kim ‘15 and Cameron Langford ‘15 were the three winners of the Gates Cambridge Scholarships from the University this year.

3 seniors named Gates Cambridge Scholarship winners

By Pooja Patel staff writer

Laura Cooper ’15, Samuel Kim ’15 and Cameron Langford ’15 were among the 40 winners of the Gates Cambridge Scholarships that were awarded to students in the United States.

Another 55 international recipients will be announced

in the spring.

The Gates Cambridge Scholarships are awarded based on the criteria of intellectual merit, leadership and service. The scholarship program provides students from countries outside the United Kingdom with the opportunity to pursue a postgraduate degree in any subject at the University of Cambridge.

Cooper, a St. Louis, Mo., native who is an ecology and evolutionary biology major with a certificate in global health and health policy, said she couldn’t believe the news.

“The interview is only 20 minutes, so it’s really hard to know how it went or how you felt about it,” Cooper said. “It was funny because I walked out of the interview and im-

mediately called my friend and was like, ‘Oh it didn’t go well, I don’t think I got it.’ ” Cooper’s senior thesis focuses on mosquito biting patterns and the effect this has on malaria transmission.

She said she will be housed academically within the veterinary medicine department at Cambridge, where she will study vaccination

and meningococcal epidemiology.

“A year at Cambridge is going to be a great way to get exposed to doing research at a higher level and see if that’s right for me,” she said, adding that after attending Cambridge, she is considering pursuing an M.D.-Ph.D. program.

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STUDENT LIFE

USG discusses 24-hour study spaces, upcoming mobile calendar app

By Katherine Oh staff writer

The Undergraduate Student Government discussed their semester goals as a whole and for specific committees at their weekly meeting on Sunday.

USG president Ella Cheng ’16 said that the USG recently sent an email to the student body that included a list of the senate’s priorities for the spring 2015 semester. The list was

compiled based on the recent What Matters campaign, which gave students the opportunity to rank projects they would like to see the USG work on in the future.

“For the first time ever, USG can advertise our whole list of priorities,” Cheng said.

One priority the senate is working on is increasing the availability of 24hour study spaces on campus, Cheng said. Since having libraries open additional hours would require fund-

ing for late-night staff, USG plans to raise awareness of study spaces that are already available, especially those that are located in dorms.

Another ongoing project predicted to be completed in fall 2015 is the creation of a Mobile Meal Exchange App in conjunction with Campus Dining and the Office of Information Technology. The application would allow students to more easily trade eating club and dining hall meals, Cheng said.

She said that USG has also been working with University Services to plan focus groups with students in order to make transportation more efficient both on- and off-campus.

She added that no plans have been made yet.

The senate will also hold a midsemester retreat in March, in which members will have a chance to ref lect on the progress of current projects and brainstorm new projects.

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Students enjoy soul food and multicultural discussions at Shabbat in the Center for Jewish Life.

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gineers deemed it was “too feeble to carry the weight of traffic.”

A second bridge, spanning Amwell Road in Franklin Township which is 12 miles north of Princeton, was closed on Jan. 16 after it

was found to be in deteriorating condition, according to the Times of Trenton.

The failure to raise the gas tax was also an important factor in the cancellation of the Access to the Region’s Core project, which would have increased the number of New Jersey commuters able to travel to New York at a given time, Doig said in

February 2014. Doig said at the time that Christie canceled the project in order to avoid having to raise the gas tax, which he called a politically sensitive issue for Christie.

A Rutgers-Eagleton Dec. 16 poll said that nearly 60 percent of New Jersey residents do not support an increase in the gas tax.

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“This is always an ongoing process,” USG vice president Aleksandra Czulak ’17 said.

USG also plans to coordinate a panel of administrators with whom students can discuss dormitory bathroom codes, Cheng said. After the creation of a mobile application called GirlCode, which published all of the codes to the women’s bathrooms on campus, and the subsequent change of codes across campus, the question of whether all dormitory bathrooms should have codes has been a topic of debate among students.

U-councilor Jacob Cannon ’17 presented an update on the integrated mobile calendar app. Several USG members have been working with OIT on an application called Timeline, which will be a platform for different departments and clubs on campus to post deadlines or schedules for public events.

In addition to Timeline providing general information,

students will be able to personalize the app and use it to easily organize their personal deadlines.

The app will likely be available for beta testing this spring and be released for student use in the fall, Cannon said.

“What we really need you guys for is to make sure that we’re not experiencing serious groupthink,” he said.

“It’s not worth our time or OIT’s time to move forward with this if it’s not going to be a big thing.”

Projects in the past have experienced obsolescence, Class of 2016 senator Deana Davoudiasl said.

“So many technological things get built, and then there’s no use. They go into the graveyard,” she said.

“There needs to be a critical mass in order for it to be used.”

The senate also approved the Projects Board’s funding request for the second annual fashion show to celebrate African culture and passed an amendment to the constitution of the honor system to fill a vacancy in the clerk position.

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Aside from her studies, Cooper is a tutor for the Petey Greene Prisoner Assistance Program and an Outdoor Action leader.

Kim, a Los Angeles, Calif., native who is majoring in chemistry with a certificate in global health and health policy, said he will be pursuing a master’s degree in chemistry at Cambridge.

“It’s a great opportunity to be able to continue to research outside my time here at Princeton,” Kim said.

After Cambridge, Kim said he, like Cooper, also hopes to study within an M.D.-Ph.D. program. He wants to eventually work as a physician scientist, he added.

On campus, Kim has been involved with Manna Christian Fellowship, Innovation Magazine and the health organization MEDLIFE, which provides medically related volunteering opportunities.

Langford, a politics major from Davidson, N.C., with a certificate in creative writing and values and public

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life, said she plans to pursue a degree in political thought and intellectual history within the history department at Cambridge.

“It’s the perfect program for what I like to study, so I’m really excited to be able to do it for a year,” Langford said.

After Cambridge, Langford said she is debating between obtaining a Ph.D. and going into academia or doing communication work in politics or journalism.

Langford is a fellow at the Writing Center and has also been involved with the Nassau Literary Review. She has also interned with Sports Illustrated and the White House.

Langford is a former opinion columnist for The Daily Princetonian.

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ing employment or enrolling in school.

In New Jersey, any defendant charged with an indictable offense is eligible to apply for pretrial intervention, but state judicial guidelines explain that the process generally is not open to those with prior convictions.

If completed successfully, the program is expected to last for 36 months, at which point the charges will be dropped permanently.

University spokesperson Martin Mbugua declined to comment.

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Opinion

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Turning the tables on Susan Patton ’77 Will Rivitz

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n what I can only interpret as a consequence of near-total obliviousness to any sort of criticism provided to her, Susan Patton ’77, in an attempt to reassert her relevancy to current discussions on romance and sex, has inserted herself yet again into the national spotlight. She recently appeared on a segment of Comedy Central’s satirical news program The Daily Show covering Las Vegas students’ advocacy for better sex education in schools. Ms. Patton, in theory, is arguing against “sex education in schools at any grade.” In practice, her words instead serve to seriously strengthen the students’ argument. Over the course of the five-and-a-half minute clip, she grossly mischaracterizes students’ attitudes (“I think students want sex. I don’t believe they want sex ed”), claims that “sex education is something that should be taught by parents to their children” even as she can’t answer pressing questions the Las Vegas students have about birth control and STDs, and exhorts children with questions about sex to “Google it” as a legitimate alternative to structured sex education.

I don’t plan on spending much time in this column arguing against Ms. Patton’s viewpoints here or in any of her other interviews or columns, because I think it’s pretty much a given that many people affiliated with Princeton have spoken out against her ideas already. As a community, we saw this last week when members of the Class of 1978 penned an editorial in this newspaper speaking out against “the attitudes of the so-called ‘Princeton Mom.’ ” We also saw this in an open letter which hundreds of Princeton faculty members signed last year, siding with students in opposition to Ms. Patton’s statements of implicating survivors of sexual assault as complicit in the crime.

At this point, I think that we’ve run through most of the courses of action for dealing with the negative feedback those associated with the University receive at the hands of Ms. Patton. No matter whether we as Princetonians thoroughly debunk and rip open her claims or simply ridicule what she says, Ms. Patton will still receive a platform to speak because her thoughts fit into a pre-existing narrative about Ivy Leaguers.

Her words would demonstrate how out-oftouch we are as Princeton students with the world at large, locked up in our ivory tower with antiquated and harmful views on sexual assault. Her identification as “the Princeton Mom” further solidifies this image — note her use of “the” instead of a pronoun like “a,” establishing her voice as definitive. (Though Ms. Patton claims that “the media came up with” the name and that she “doesn’t speak for the University,” her Twitter handle (@ThePrincetonMom) suggests that she is very comfortable using her position as a University graduate to augment her legitimacy.)

Rather than relying on (somewhat ineffective) rhetoric against Ms. Patton’s ideas, I believe that the most positive and constructive solution to the situation at hand is to show that we as a community don’t agree with her conception of sexual well-being with actions as well as with words. I am glad that so many Princeton students and alums have shown solidarity with those Ms. Patton would denigrate, intentionally or otherwise. However, at the same time we should show that we are trying to change the status quo beyond what we say. When she says that sexual assault is a “learning experience,” we should point to the work that our SHARE peers are doing. When she objects to sex education in schools, we should contrast that with the efforts of our Peer Health Advisors. Actions speak much louder than words.

More than anything, we should show that the Princeton experience Ms. Patton embodies is not the Princeton experience that almost all of us try to live. It is no longer enough to verbally reject the advice she gives as not representative of the Princeton name. We must actively reject that advice as well — if we are to stand in solidarity against a model most of us believe to be retrograde and problematic, we must show that with our actions, whether by getting involved with a health organizations on campus or simply expressing support for those affected by the issues she trivializes.

It’s clear that Ms. Patton does not represent the Princeton to which we members of the wider University community are so inextricably tied. If we can show publicly that we not only believe her to be wrong, but that we have well-formed ideas about what is right, we will be a stronger community for it, and we will give society at large a better idea of what we stand for.

Will Rivitz is a freshman from Brookline, Mass.

He can be reached at wrivitz@princeton.edu.

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EDITORIAL vol. cxxxix

Reform Princeton’s academic calendar

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arlier this month, almost 40 percent of Princeton undergraduates voted in an Undergraduate Student Governmentsponsored referendum to “call on the faculty and administration to provide for a three-week winter recess during the 2015-16 academic year and future academic years.” Predictably, it passed, with over 96 percent of students voting in favor. This highlights an important issue with the way the University determines the start and end dates of winter recess: however, it also presents an opportunity to look at possible changes to Princeton’s academic calendar as a whole. Over the past three years, the Editorial Board has repeatedly called for various changes to the academic calendar, including making Thanksgiving break a full week and moving finals before winter recess. In light of the USG referendum and long-time student complaints about the University’s academic calendar, we believe that the University should always make winter recess at least three weeks long, and we renew our call for finals to be moved before winter break.

Currently, the Rules and Procedures of the Faculty of Princeton University state that Princeton’s winter recess will begin after classes end “on the Friday between December 12 and 18” and will conclude “on the Sunday between January 1 and 7.”

As the University has stated, this means that variations in the Gregorian calendar will occasionally cause winter recess to be only 17 days, as has occurred for the 2015-2016 academic year. This poses several problems for students. First, students who live particularly far from campus or have more expensive travel costs are further limited in the amount of time they can spend with their families over the holidays. Second, it reduces the amount of time students have to truly get a break

from classes and academic work before returning to campus for reading period and final exams. Lengthening winter recess next year and in future academic years has overwhelming support among students and would significantly benefit students, particularly those who live far from campus.

Princeton’s final exams have been after winter recess since the 1939-40 academic year, but despite all of our peer institutions changing their calendars in recent decades to conduct final exams before winter break, Princeton has resisted calls to do the same. When Harvard announced in 2007 that it would move its finals before winter break, Princeton investigated whether the University should make a similar change, but this effort failed because the University did not see a consensus among students on the issue, despite problems with the survey used to gauge support for moving final exams.

Moving Princeton’s final exams before winter recess would benefit students in several ways. First, it would free students from having to study or do academic work over winter recess. This would have immense benefits, including giving students time to explore other interests, work on internship and job applications, spend more time with their families, participate in winter internships or other programs, and give seniors an extended break to focus on their theses without other academic work. Second, it would eliminate the problem of students forgetting material over winter recess. Finally, it would reduce the pace of our academic calendar by giving students a solid, four-week winter recess that would combine the normal break with intercession. By not dragging out the semester from September to the middle of January, the new calendar would allow students to go home for the

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holidays with their semester finished and behind them.

Though this change would require beginning the academic year earlier and other major changes to the structure of the calendar, any negative consequences of these changes would be outweighed by the benefits of having exams before winter break. While lengthening winter recess because of pre-recess exams might negatively affect some students, such as international students, who normally choose to remain on campus during the holidays, a longer break might make it more feasible for them to go home, and universities with as many, or more, international students across the country regularly have longer winter breaks without issue.

Princeton’s academic calendar, with its incredibly late start, post-break finals and shorter winter break, has drawn student complaints for decades.

Though many faculty members and others on campus might feel attached to a calendar that has been a Princeton tradition since before the Second World War, Princeton was alone among its peers after 2007 in forcing students to take finals after winter break. The shortened winter break next year exacerbates the problems inherent in the structure of the University’s calendar, but it has served as a rallying point for student calls for change. Princeton needs to change its academic calendar, and continuing to ignore the issue is a disservice to students and the entire University community.

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Teachers who look as they may Erica Choi

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he Daily Princetonian recently published a column titled “Teachers who look like us,” written by Tehila Wenger. She argues in favor of professors who reflect the diversity of the student body which would provide mentorship and guidance that is more than simply academic. There are obvious benefits to a diverse faculty; a controlled experiment revealed “the level of critical analysis and alternatives was higher in groups exposed to minority viewpoints.” Puzzlingly, while Wenger cites these benefits of diversity as the reason to hire more underrepresented faculty members, she actually claims to learn best not from diverse professors, but rather from ones who look like her.

She is correct in pointing out that the University’s faculty is rather homogenous. A thorough investigation of Princeton’s diversity by the

Trustee Ad Hoc Committee revealed that the diversity at graduate and faculty level is far more limited than it is at the undergraduate level.

According to the report, an overwhelming 85 percent of our professors are white. Asians, the next largest racial group in faculty, make up 9 percent; blacks make up 4 percent and Hispanics 2 percent. Further, 80 percent of full-time professors are male while only 20 percent are female.

Princeton’s numbers reflect those of other universities in the nation.

However, Wenger also needs to recognize that the University has made efforts and realized moderate successes in increasing the diversity of the faculty member. From 1980 to 2010, every race other than white saw increase in its representation of associate and full-time professors.

Of course, the numbers still leave room for improvement. Specifically, the percentage of Hispanic associate and full-time professors at Princeton increased from 1 percent to 2 percent, and black associate and fulltime professors from 1 to 4 percent.

With gender balance, the University seems to have made greater improvements; female professors went from 3 to 22 percent. The University also has a “disciplinary ‘watch list’ to track promising scholars, especially those with the potential to be future Princeton faculty members.”

One thing that needs to be realized is that the creation of a true, diverse environment is not one that will come overnight. Superfluous attempts to do so will not only expose Princeton students to faculty members who may not be as qualified, but also might hurt those minority professors by creating a societal perception that their job owes to their race and gender. The University’s focus currently is appropriately placed on providing students with the best education possible, which necessarily means that it should hire professors who are top in their fields.

To increase diversity, we must look at the undergraduate level. Here, we should reward those who come from disadvantaged backgrounds who did not have the same resources avail-

able. The Orange Bubble may feel homogenous and blue-blooded, but this generation of Princetonians is more diverse than any that came before. The gender ratio is all but even and 60 percent of Princeton’s undergraduates are on financial aid.

Racially, African-Americans represent 8.1 percent of the University, Asians 21.4 percent and Hispanics 9.1 percent. It is undeniable that the University has grown in diversity and will continue to grow. AfricanAmericans, Hispanics and Asians who are current students and will grow into successful scholars under the guidance of the amazing faculty here will naturally add to diversity later on. This is genuine diversity: the nurturing of underprivileged minorities so that they can become successful and well-endowed, not the hiring of those whose primary contribution to the University will be their difference in the skin color.

Erica Choi is a freshman from Bronxville, NY. She can be reached at gc6@ princeton.edu.

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half.

The second half opened with a 6-0 run from the Bears and Wheatley responded to the Brown push with a jumper and layup to kick the Tiger gears into action. After a Miller three and jumper, the Tigers continued their dominance over the Bears, extending their lead to as much as 30 points with 1:23 left on the clock off of a three from sophomore guard Taylor Brown. The Tigers shot 59.3 percent during the first half of the game, shooting 48.3 percent overall. The Tigers held the Bears to 33.3 percent, showing how far their defense has come this season.

The Yale game saw Tarakchian net her seventh double-double of the season with 14 points and 11

rebounds, netting all five of her free throw attempts.

Wheatley scored a gamehigh 18 points, with Dietrick and Berntsen each scoring seven points.

The Tigers found themselves down 7-4 six minutes in, battling Yale to regain ground. Most of the first half was composed of the Tigers and Bulldogs gaining and losing the lead with the largest difference in points occurring with 2:53 left on the clock and the Bulldogs up by four points. Luckily, a Dietrick layup and free throw accompanied by Berntsen and Wheatley layups allowed the Tigers to regain control with 30 seconds left in the period to come out of the first half up 22-25.

Carrying forward with the momentum that put the Tigers up at the end of the first half, the Orange and Black opened with an 8-2 run. Yale’s Jen Berkowitz

stopped the Tiger run, closing the point difference to only three points on a pair of triples. Although the Tigers managed to stay ahead for the entire second half, the point difference was as low as one point three times, the last of which occurred with only four minutes left on the clock.

Saturday’s game against Yale marked the first game of the season in which the Tigers didn’t manage to build a double-digit lead during the entire game. The Tigers also shot uncharacteristically poorly, shooting 42.5 percent and a more astonishing 12.5 percent on three pointers, even more remarkable because the Tigers entered the game with the highest three-point shooting average in the country.

The Tigers held the Bulldogs to shooting 30 percent overall and 38.9 percent on three point shots.

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struck first, as Terrance Amorosa netted his first goal of the season at 13:15 in the first period to put his team ahead. However, there was no panic for the home side as senior forward Aaron Kesselman evened the score at 5:38 of the second period. Senior defender Tom Kroshus and freshman forward Eric Robinson assisted on the goal — Kesselman’s third of the season. After each team successfully killed two penalties, the score remained locked at one entering the final frame, where senior forward Tucker Brockett would have the final word.

Following a stellar effort from junior forward Jonathan Liau to deliver the puck to Brockett’s stick, the senior buried the game-winning goal past Clarkson goaltender Greg Lewis at 7:06 in the period. Freshman defender Joe Grabowski and Liau were credited with assists on the tally, Brockett’s third of the season. From there, sophomore netminder Colton Phinney took care of the rest.

Phinney stopped all 12 shots he faced in the third period, finishing with 28 saves on the night to send the Princ-

eton faithful home happy.

The following night, 1,790 spectators filled Baker Rink to watch as the Tigers hosted No. 20 St. Lawrence (16-11-3, 12-5-1) in another conference battle. Once again, the home side went down a goal in the first period, as a defensive breakdown allowed St. Lawrence’s Patrick Doherty to beat Phinney on a breakaway for a shorthanded goal at 9:47.

The second stanza saw some great hockey between the Saints and Tigers. After killing a penalty early in the period, Princeton took its turn on the power play at 11:06. On the man advantage, the line of junior forward and alternate captain Mike Ambrosia, junior forward Kyle Rankin, and sophomore forward Ryan Siiro went to work. The line, stellar all weekend, leveled the game at one as Ambrosia beat goalie Kyle Hayton glove-side for his second tally of the season. Siiro and Rankin registered assists on the goal.

Back-and-forth play characterized the remainder of the game, with each team unable to break through against the opposing goaltenders. Phinney continued his great play in net, stopping all 16 shots he encountered in the third, and 34

in total on the night. Tied after a full 60 minutes of regulation, both teams lined up again for five minutes of bonus hockey. Brockett almost played the role of hero once again, as he seemingly scored what would have been the game-winner in the first minute of overtime. However, after a video review, the officials ruled that the puck had been covered up before crossing the line — no goal. Despite good looks on both sides of the rink in the remaining minutes, neither team could score, and the exciting game ended in a 1-1 tie.

After registering just three points in their first sixteen ECAC games of the season, the Tigers doubled their total this past weekend. In a league where every team makes the playoffs, Princeton could be primed to turn some heads as the postseason nears. The improvement of the team over the course of the season has been evident of late, with the Tigers playing highly competitive hockey.

Princeton will welcome Ivy foes Brown (7-17-1, 4-13-1) and Yale (15-7-3, 10-6-2) next weekend as they try to build upon their impressive recent play in the final home games of the season.

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production will suffer all that severely. Seven different players scored for Princeton in an offense which looks more dynamic than in years past.

No Jasper managed more than a single goal while senior standout midfielder Andrew Hurst picked up a pair of assists.

Next week will provide Princeton with a far more legitimate test. Hofstra will come challenge the Tigers on Sherrerd Field to renew a tight series in which Princeton holds a 15-13 lead. ESPNU will broadcast the contest, which is schedule to start Friday at 3 p.m.

to challenge Brown’s big men combo. Kuakumensah leads the league in blocks at 2.6 per game, and Brown stands third in the league overall in blocks. Given Brown’s strong interior defensive presence, the thought that the Tigers would go on to shoot in the 50 percent range was a rather optimistic one.

The Tigers exceeded expectations on the offensive end.

No player on the starting lineup shot below 50 percent, and the Tigers would finish the game shooting at a remarkable 52.9 percent clip. In terms of points, sophomore guard Stephen Cook led the way with 18 points on 7 of 13 shots.

Compared to Brown’s woeful 34.8 percent shooting for the game, it’s obvious the Tigers were the superior team on the offensive end. Combined with their great rebounding effort,one can see how the

Tigers controlled this game from start to finish on both ends of the floor.

Amazingly, in the game against Yale (18-7, 7-1), the Tigers kept up their excellent shooting percentage, as they made 25 of 48 shots — 52.1 percent — against the Bulldogs en route to 71 points.

This is certainly no small feat, given that Yale has held the rest of its Ivy League opponents to an average of 60 points per game.

However, the Tigers’ struggles in the game were all on the defensive side. Princeton may have shot 52 percent, but Yale topped that with an astounding 58 percent on the game, include 46 percent from the three-point line. Yale’s aggressiveness on offense was on display for the entire game — looking at the foul statistics, one notices how Yale drew more fouls and got more opportunities at the line overall.

The story of the game for Yale was the play of their star

forward Justin Sears. Coming off a solid performance against Penn the previous day, he lit the Tigers up in this one, going 8 of 11 from the field, and 9 of 11 from the line. Finishing with 25 points, 9 rebounds and 2 blocks, he was borderline unstoppable as he carried the Bulldogs to victory.

Sears’ great play, however, can’t totally overshadow some fantastic performances from the Tigers’ squad. Sophomore wing Henry Caruso deserves a lot of credit for keeping Princeton in the game with his strong play. Caruso scored 25 points on an extremely efficient 9-of-11 shooting. With his performance this weekend, he surpassed his previous career high of 23 points scored in a win over Penn earlier this season.

Again, it wasn’t that Caruso didn’t receive any help offensively. Cook again came to play and scored 15 points on the day. Weisz and Bell chipped in with 13 and eight points

It’s amazing!

respectively, each on 50 percent shooting. The Tigers’ offense was fantastic, but their inability to shut down the hot hand led to their downfall in this one.

With this weekend com-

With this weekend complete, the Tigers are 2.5 games behind Yale and Harvard, both of whom are tied for first place in the league. The Tigers have only seven games left.

plete, the Tigers are 2.5 games behind Yale and Harvard, both of whom are tied for first in the league. The Tigers have only seven games left to make a move if they want to make it to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2011.

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Hockey delivers in two strong home games

Cagers rack up wins over Brown, Yale

By Mark Goldstein

By Sydney Mandelbaum

contributor

associate sports editor

In what has been a long and arduous season for the men’s hockey team, the Tigers (417-3 overall, 2-14-2 Eastern College Athletic Conference) are finally heating up, grabbing a tie and victory this past weekend against two tough conference foes. UnYALE 81 der firstPRINCETON 73 year head coach Ron BROWN 75 F o g a r t y, PRINCETON 64 the young team has experienced its share of struggles on the ice in the 2014-15 campaign, but following a three-point weekend at Hobey Baker Rink against Clarkson and St. Lawrence, the Tigers are on the upswing.

Flash back to the third weekend in November, when the Tigers traveled to New York to take on St. Lawrence and Clarkson on opposing ice. The then injury-ridden team dropped both games, failing to register a goal in the 3-0 and 4-0 losses.

On Friday night, the Orange and Black set out to avenge the loss to the Golden Knights of Clarkson (11-15-4, 8-8-2) in front of 1,735 fans at Baker Rink. The visitors

This weekend was an important one for the women’s basketball team as they extended their undefeated season to 23-0 with a 7-0 record in the Ivy League. The Tigers, ranked no. 16 in the AP poll (18 in the USA today poll), put on strong showings in an 86-58 victory over Brown on Friday and a much tighter 56-50 victory over Yale on Saturday.

YALE 50 T h e PRINCETON 56 g a m e BROWN 58 a g a i n s t B r o w n PRINCETON 86 saw the Tigers break the program record for the most consecutive wins (22) in program history, and the Tigers extended that record in the game against Yale. The Yale game also saw Tiger head coach Courtney Banghart notch her 161st career win, which leaves her only two wins away from tying former head coach Joan Kowalik for the most wins (163) in program history.

Six different Tigers scored in the double digits during the game against Brown for the second time this season.

Senior guard Blake Dietrick led the team with 18 points, seven rebounds and four as-

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Despite a rough season so far, men’s ice hockey performed well over ECAC rivals this weekend.

sists. Junior guard/forward Annie Tarakchian posted her sixth double-double this season, posting 13 points and 10 boards. Junior guard Amanda Berntsen, junior guard Michelle Miller and senior forward Mariah Smith each also scored 12 points, a career high for Smith. Junior forward Alex Wheatley rounded out the group with 11 points of her own.

After finding themselves down 8-6 a few minutes into the game against Brown, the Tigers settled into a groove on a Dietrick three-pointer and held the Bears scoreless for almost three minutes, going 8-0 on that run. After a quick three from Brown’s Megan Reilley and a layup from teammate Natalie Ball, the Tigers managed to hold Brown scoreless again for almost four and half minutes, leaving the score 22-13.

A jumper and a three from Brown’s Ellise Sharpe and a pair of Jordin Alexander free throws closed the point difference to 12, but a series of free throw shots topped off with a pair of layups and a three pointer from Berntsen followed by a three points from Dietrick allowed the Tigers to solidify their lead, 51-31, going into the second See W. B-BALL page 6

MEN’S B-BALL

Men’s basketball splits games over weekend

By Miles Hinson sports editor

It was an up and down weekend for the Princeton men’s basketball team as it split a pair of games in this weekend’s homestand. After defeating the Brown Bears and falling to the Yale Bulldogs, the Tigers find themselves stuck at the same place in the standings they were a week ago.

Princeton (11-12 overall, 4-3 Ivy League) entered and exited this weekend ranked third in the Ivy League.

With Yale leading them by just 1.5 games, the Tigers knew that these two games could be a prime opportunity to get deeper into the thicket of the league title tussle.

The win against Brown (10-14, 1-6) showed only encouraging signs. Of

particular note is the incredible rebounding effort of the Tigers against Brown’s formidable big man combination. Brown both leads the league in rebounds and has a starting lineup that contains two players among the conference’s best in that category: Rafael Maia (8.3) and Cedric Kuakumensah (7.3). However, junior forward/ center Hans Brase brought his A-game to Jadwin this weekend, posting a monstrous double-double of 14 points and 15 boards against Brown’s duo.

The strong rebounding didn’t stop with Brase — sophomore wing Spencer Weisz and freshman guard Amir Bell posted seven and eight boards, respectively. In addition to the team’s excellent rebounding, the Tigers garnered high-percentage shots by continuing See M. B-BALL page 7

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Though presented with an opportunity to climb the rankings, the Tigers couldn’t beat the Bulldogs this weekend.

MEN’S LACROSSE

Men’s lacrosse opens strong in cold, wins first game handily over Manhattan College

By Andrew Steele senior writer

Princeton men’s lacrosse (1-0) could hardly have hoped for a better start to their 2015 season.

Manhattan College’s Jaspers (02) visited 1952 Stadium Saturday afternoon and left with a 14-4 drubbing not even as closely c o n t e s tMANHATTAN 4 ed as the PRINCETON 14 s c o r e l i n e would indicate.

College lacrosse’s first faceoff took place a week earlier

than in previous years. Mother Nature responded to the ambitious scheduling change with below freezing temperatures and snowfall which had covered the field by game’s end.

Princeton’s effort Saturday proved thoroughly domineering despite the rough conditions.

Ground balls found themselves in Princeton sticks 32 times as opposed to 18 for Manhattan.

The Tigers outshot their challengers 47-31 with Princeton goalies stopping 14 of 18 shots on target. Senior netminder

Eric Sanschagrin lived up to his name with a nine-save winning effort.

Sophomore goalie Matt O’Connor relieved the senior at the onset of the fourth quarter and was replaced in turn by freshman Tyler Blaisdell after just under eight minutes. The first-year keeper managed two saves early in his shift. Conditions had made the ball almost invisible by the time the Jaspers beat Blaisdell for their third and fourth goals.

Sophomore midfielder Bear

Altemus, a convert from attack, tallied his first career shot and goal at the 8:16 mark in the first quarter. He was one of several relatively new faces to see substantial playing time. Altemus’ classmates midfielder Gavin McBride and attackman Adam Hardej, a convert from midfield, likewise recorded their first career goals.

Altemus’ marker sparked a five-goal run for Princeton which spanned the entirety of the first quarter. Junior midfielder Jake Froccaro, one-time

scorer of ten goals in a single game, proved his versatility by tossing three assists in that dominant first period.

Froccaro took eight of 22 faceoffs, winning three. The true star at the ‘X’ was freshman midfielder Sam Bonafede, who won nine of 11 ground battles. The Chaminade graduate joins the Tigers following a stellar senior season in which earned Under Armor All-American honors.

Junior attackman Ryan Ambler, a reputed distributor, found the back of the net a

game-high four times Saturday.

His linemate, senior Mike MacDonald, showed no regression following a pair of off-season surgeries. The Canadian lefty scored twice while adding three assists.

From last season’s end, fans and pundits questioned how the Tigers would cope with the graduation of two-time Tewaaraton Trophy Finalist Tom Schreiber greats. Despite the loss of a oncein-a-generation talent, it’s not evident that Orange and Black See LAX page 7

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