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In Opinion The Editorial Board suggests ways to improve the referendum on Bicker, and Sarah Schwartz argues for the implementation of longer library hours. PAGE 4

By Christina Vosbikian staff writer

A donation fund launched by members of the Class of 1977 this Monday called “Not the Princeton Mom” on the crowdfunding website GoFundMe.com, has raised $5,444 as of Thursday night, exceeding the fund’s original $5,000 goal.

The money will be donated to the University’s Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education office.

According to an email obtained by The Daily Princetonian, members of the Class of 1977 were

Today on Campus 8:00 p.m.: Princeton University Players presents the musical HAIR in the Whitman Class of 1970 Theater.

The Archives

Feb. 27, 1981 The University signs the Sustainability Greenhouse Gas Action Plan in a move to decrease its contribution of greenhouse gases on the environment.

PRINCETON By the Numbers

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The dollars of funding granted to the University’s Princeton Center for Complex Materials (PCCM) by the National Science Foundation.

News & Notes Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory finds success with 3-D printing technology

The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory is using 3-D printing technology to create custom parts for experiments with support from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, a University press release reported.

Lab parts can be printed in a few hours, which reduces time spent waiting for custom products to be created.

“The versatility of the printer is such that our first reaction to an equipment need is no longer whether we can find or purchase the required piece of equipment, but can we print it?” Andrew Zwicker, the head of PPPL’s Science Education Department, said.

3-D printers work by layering materials such as ceramic, plastic or metal thinly over a build plate.

The nozzle is controlled by a computer program that follows the specified design and filament is often inexpensive and reduces the price of tools and components. PPPL conducts experiments using a plastic printing machine and currently owns two 3-D printers.

Zwicker said that replacement pieces such as handles and safety guards were produced for less than a dollar. He noted that the printing does not weaken the printed material.

emailed on Tuesday night about the fund.

The email said the fund’s goal was to express solidarity with victims of sexual assault in the face of what they perceived as offensive remarks by Susan Patton ’77. It also expressed concern that Patton was attempting to speak for the University community.

In December, Patton, who has called herself “the Princeton Mom,” appeared on CNN and discussed date rape.

CNN anchor Carol Costello asked Patton whether she had interacted with a victim of sexual assault, and See PATTON page 2

U N I V E R S I T Y A F FA I R S

KATHY ZHAO :: CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Glee Club presents Theatre of Voices — ­­ they are a choral group from Denmark, and they specialize in overtone singing. The choir pictures are from rehearsal of the William Trego choir, the newest choir in the Music Department.

National Science Foundation renews Center for Complex Materials funding staff writer

The National Science Foundation this week renewed its funding for the Princeton Center for Complex Materials until October 2020.

The funding for the University totals about $6.4 million.

NSF awards follow a six-year cycle, and the grant is conditional on following the research rules associated with the funding. These rules require faculty from different fields to collaborate while executing the plan outlined in their research proposal.

The PCCM is designated by the federal government as a Ma-

terials Research Science and Engineering Center. NSF program officer Daniele Finotello said that it is necessary to fund these centers to promote the type of interdisciplinary research required to make advances in materials research.

“In order to tackle a very complex problem, you need to gather people that have complementary skills, people that have complementary expertise,” he explained. “People may be affiliated with different departments. An MRSEC [Materials Research Science and Engineering Center] capitalizes on the interaction of faculty in several different departments. That guarantees a particular problem

will be understood and solved at a faster rate.”

PCCM researchers coauthor papers that demonstrate to the Foundation the intimate level at which they are collaborating, physics professor and PCCM director Nai Phuan Ong said.

“The activities run the gamut from condensed matter physics, to electrical engineering, to materials science engineering, chemical engineering, chemistry, even to biological materials,” he explained. “You have to show evidence that it’s not simply 20 faculty members funded to stay in their lab and work on their own project.”

The competition among See FUNDING page 3

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Black History Month: Looking back at the early 2000s and today

By Shriya Sekhsaria staff writer

The last 15 years have seen the Carl A. Fields Center move to a new location, as well as protests over the killing of Michael Brown by a Ferguson, Mo., police officer and the theme of American structural racism.

2002: Black Arts Company Nneka Nwosu Faison ’05, a former member of the Black Arts Company, said that in the fall of 2002, BAC Drama posters with quotes from W. E. B. DuBois promoting

By Do-Hyeong Myeong senior writer

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By Katherine Oh

Lakeside project to open on June 1

a play were torn down. The play was BAC Drama’s first attempt at serious theater, and the posters showcased quotes from someone whose work was taught at the University, Faison said.

“I spent all of my Thanksgiving making these posters and printing them out,” she said. “It was disappointing to have that ripped down.”

Morgan Jerkins ’14, former president of BAC Drama, said that she remembered having to fight for spaces to practice, unlike betterfunded clubs.

Jerkins is a former col-

While the Lakeside Graduate Housing project is scheduled to open on June 1 after a year-long delay, some graduate students say that lack of communication, financial burden and less-than-optimal living conditions in temporary housing for the affected students have been problematic.

The Lakeside complex was originally slated to open in July 2014, but was delayed to September, then to December and finally to June 2015.

Students who originally planned to live at Lakeside in the 2014-15 academic year were instead offered temporary housing at Butler Apartments, which were slated to be demolished during summer 2014, and at Stanworth Apartments.

The delays were rooted in the complexity of the contractual relationships among the parties working to build the project, according to an October 2014 article in The Daily

Princetonian.

Christine Philippe-Blumauer GS, chair of the Butler Committee and a Butler Apartments resident, said that although the complex has many advantages, such as cheap rent, good location for some purposes and a family-friendly atmosphere, the insulation and furniture are in suboptimal conditions. “[The] Butler [Apartments complex] was always supposed to be temporary housing,” Philippe-Blumauer said.

The complex was built shortly after World War II and was intended to last for only around a decade, according to an article published in June 2014 in the ‘Prince.’

The complex’s age and temporary nature make the living conditions there subpar, she said, adding that the complex is currently overcrowded due to the delay in the Lakeside project, and that the delay might have also led to less favorable living conditions than usual.

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umnist for The Daily Princetonian.

BAC has faced problems because it was not as wellfunded as other groups, and members were thus confined to Black Boxes instead of theaters, she added.

2008: The night of a historic election On Nov. 4, 2008, Barack Obama, husband of Michelle Obama ’85, became the first African-American president of the United States.

Student were following the election all over campus, See FEATURE page 3

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Students for Prison Education and Reform hosted a panel that included Raymond Santana, one of the Central Park Five.

LOCAL NEWS

Battlefield Society to appeal Institute plans to build faculty housing

By Linda Song staff writer

The Princeton Battlefield Society intends to appeal the Institute for Advanced Study’s plans to build faculty housing on what they contend to be hallowed and historically significant ground.

The Institute for Advanced Study is not affiliated with the University but has long been a fixture of the town, once hosting scientists such as Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer and Alan Turing GS ’38.

The Princeton Battlefield State Park was established in

1946 on land rented from the Institute to commemorate the Battle of Princeton. The park was made a historical landmark in 1961, and in a 2008 report to Congress, the National Park Service named Princeton Battlefield on its list of the top 29 endangered battlefields from the Revolutionary War.

The Institute for Advanced Study contends it needs to maintain its own faculty housing due to rising real estate costs in town, while the Princeton Battlefield Society cited environmental reasons not to support the construction.

The Institute for Advanced

Study’s construction plans were approved by a 5-2 vote by members of the Delaware and Raritan Canal Commission on Feb. 18. The proposed project site lies directly between the Institute and Princeton Battlefield State Park on land owned privately by the Institute.

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Patton said she had. Costello then asked if she believed the victim’s claims.

“I believe she got very drunk and had sex with a man that she regretted the next morning,” Patton said on CNN. “To me, that’s not a crime.

That’s not rape. That’s a learning experience that has to do with making choices and taking responsibility for the choices you make.”

Patton, however, said her point was misrepresented in the media.

“I never said that date rape is a learning experience, but that is the headline that was posted in the ‘Prince’ and was picked up by other news media outlets,” she said.

Claims that she is misrepresenting herself as a representative of the University are also inaccurate, she said.

“No thinking person would believe that I speak for the class or that I speak for the University,” she said. “I love the name ‘the Princeton Mom’ because it combines two things that I love dearly, my alma mater and my children.”

Patton is also president of the alumni Class of 1977.

University Trustee Randall Kennedy ’77 said Patton’s remarks on CNN were inappropriate.

“I saw her described as ‘the Princeton Mom,’ and the Princeton connection was all over that broadcast,” Kennedy said. “Frankly, it put Princeton in a bad light … Speaking as an individual is one thing, but then if you are speaking in a way in which you associate yourself with your University connection.”

Patton should take more care to individualize her claims, Kennedy said.

“It’s one thing for Patton to say what she wants to say on her own,

but I think that she should be more careful about individualizing her statement and stay clear of any sort of association with Princeton that may lead people astray on [the University’s stance on sexual assault],” he said.

Julie List ’78, coauthor of a letter published in The Daily Princetonian earlier this month by the Class of 1978 said she was excited for the Class of 1977 to take its own action.

“SHARE by its very nature, acknowledges that date rape is real, that it exists,” she said. “I think [the members of the Class of 1977] were able to debunk the views of this socalled ‘Princeton Mom’ and say, ‘She doesn’t speak for her class.’ Even though [Patton] has appropriated the Princeton name, she doesn’t speak for the Class of 1977 … [The fund] is such a positive action to take.”

SHARE director Jacqueline Deitch-Stackhouse deferred comment to director of development communications Ruth Stevens, who did not respond to a request for comment.

The GoFundMe letter was signed by 38 alumni from the Class of 1977 as of Thursday night.

Several alumni who signed the letter either did not respond to a request for comment or deferred comment to Mark Nelson ’77, who created the GoFundmMe page.

Nelson declined to comment.

Fifty people, including both University alumni and faculty and individuals with no clear University affiliation, have donated to the fund as of Thursday night.

Donors contacted either declined to comment or did not respond to a request for comment.

Patton said the people organizing the fund were largely responding to remarks she never made.

“We are a diverse community with many opinions on a wide range of issues,” she said. “However, some

people are responding to opinions that I don’t hold and comments that I never made … It seems clear to me that there are groups that feel that their causes don’t receive adequate notice, and some of them have used my name and misrepresented my words in inflammatory headlines to draw attention to their causes.”

Patton also noted she believes media outlets have misconstrued her February appearance on The Daily Show, where she said, ”I think students want sex. I don’t believe they want sex ed.”

“No, I do think that sex ed is something that parents should teach very young children, but you understand that The Daily Show is comedy,” she said. “It’s a comedy program that is largely scripted and heavily edited for laughs, and a significant portion of my interview was edited out.”

Patton noted that in parts of her interview that were cut out, she advocated that high school students address their sexual health questions with their doctor.

Patton first gained national attention as “the Princeton Mom” when she wrote a letter to the ‘Prince’ advising women to find a husband while still in college.

Last March, Patton released her self-help bestseller, “Marry Smart: Advice for Finding The One,” and 123 members of the University’s faculty then wrote and signed an open letter published in the ‘Prince,’ stating they “do not believe that [students’] manner of dress or drinking behavior makes them responsible for unwanted sexual contact,” in response to claims they believe Patton made in her book.

“I am advocating for women to be smarter for themselves and take more responsibility for their own safety,” Patton said. “I’m not blaming victims. I’m saying, ‘Don’t be a victim.’ ”

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In January, the DRCC did not approve the Institute’s project proposal when it came before the panel. The rejection stemmed from the fact that the land is adjacent to one of the streams the DRCC protects and its associated corridor buffer.

Contacted members of DRCC deferred comment to Bob Considine, press officer of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.

A motion was made by commission member Mark Texel for the “reconsideration of the Institute’s Faculty Housing Project,” Considine said, adding that the motion was approved 6 to 1. “After that, there was a motion to approve faculty housing project with conditions. That motion was approved 5 to 2.”

The conditions include not disturbing the stream corridor buffer, building a temporary fence to keep work out of the canal area and having a DRCC engineer approve the drain plan, according to the Princeton Packet.

The process was fair, Considine said.

“The project fully complies with the Commission’s regulations, which is why the Commission voted as it did,” he said.

However, there was no basis for holding another vote without hearing opposing viewpoints, Jerry Hurwitz,

president of the Princeton Battlefield Society, said.

“We didn’t get to re-present our case,” he said. “This, to me, was a distortion of the process, of the governing process.

It should not stand, because were it to stand, there would be virtually no finality of any decision … They decided to have a do-over just because one person, who is a state employee who might have been pressured to do this [made an] outrageous maneuver,” Hurwitz said.

Marlen Dooley, executive director of the DRCC, said the commission believes it has the authority to hear additional motions for reconsideration but declined to address allegations of misconduct or applying political pressure.

The Battlefield Society would appeal the decision on grounds resembling due process violation claims, Hurwitz said.

“That’s just outrageous,” he said. “There’s no finality at all in any of that commission’s decisions, because somebody just needs to say at the next meeting, ‘I change my mind.

I want a do-over. I want to revote’ — crazy.”

The Institute will now move to complete the other procedural steps necessary to officially begin the project, Christine Ferrara, senior public affairs officer at the Institute, said.

“We are very pleased that the Delaware and Raritan Canal Commission decided to recon-

sider its vote last month and voted 5-2 in favor of the Institute’s fully compliant Faculty Housing plans,” Ferrara said.

An appeal would not be the first time the Battlefield Society took the DRCC to court, Hurwitz added, referencing a 2012 appeal in which the group filed an appeal of a default determination by the DRCC due to a lack of a quorum. That appeal also related to a lack of opportunity for the Battlefield Society to express its objections to the Institute’s original application for faculty housing. The Battlefield Society ultimately won the appeal.

“It’s a very bad precedent,” he said. “[The DRCC doesn’t] have any rules that permit them to do what they did.”

The conduct of the DRCC over the last few years has also contributed to public perceptions of New Jersey state corruption, he said.

“It’s not good for the reputation of New Jersey,” he said, adding that the incident lends credence to the theory that New Jersey is a corrupt state.

According to the most recent copy of the proposal, the Institute intends to build seven single-family dwellings and two four-unit townhouses to serve as faculty housing for the campus. The construction would include a 1,000-foot-long asphalt cul-desac, a sanitary pump station facility, five parking spaces, a low retaining wall, sidewalks and storm water management structures.

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The University, however, has generally been efficient in dealing with maintenance issues, considering that Building Services has to deal with many different buildings on campus, she said.

Kyle Felker GS, another Butler Apartments resident, said that he has certainly heard cases in which maintenance has been slow, although that is hard to quantify. He added that he has experienced problem with insulation multiple times.

“It’s not really the fault of maintenance at this point, because it’s just impossible to heat,” Felker said. “Even if you set your heat to 75 degrees, the temperature in the bedrooms, without any state heaters, will get down to mid-50s.”

There is a tangible cost to the heating problems, he explained.

“The burden of heating the apartments is all on graduate students, and it’s not insignificant,” he said. “Especially given the temperatures last week, it can be hundreds of dollars.”

Another concern is the lack of transparency and communication in Lakeside project, Felker explained.

The initial delay was announced past the deadline for

housing applications, he said, which made many affected students miss the deadline to apply for other housing options.

Announcements for subsequent delays were also made on short notice and often without sufficient explanation, which caused frustration among students, he added.

After many concerned graduate students submitted a petition calling for greater transparency in September 2014, the University started to have a monthly information session on the progress of Lakeside housing, he noted, adding the compensation the University has offered has not been sufficient.

After the initial delay, the University offered two months of free rent for affected students to compensate for the inconvenience.

“To many people, it sounded reasonable given that it was only supposed to be a threemonth delay,” Felker said, “but then when [the University] announced two subsequent delays, there was no increase in compensation.”

Moreover, he said, students who are offered temporary housing in Stanworth had to pay higher rent than their original Lakeside rent, which created an additional financial burden for them.

The living condition of Butler Apartments has been a con-

cern for students and faculty in the past.

In December 2013, then-Dean of the Graduate School William Russel wrote an op-ed in the ‘Prince’ that said “the general deteriorating condition … became clear years ago.” The cost of frequent structural repairs was high, and the complex wasn’t necessarily entirely safe, he wrote.

University spokesperson Martin Mbugua said that students who have experienced a significant financial hardship due to the delayed opening at Lakeside will be eligible to apply for hardship assistance.

Graduate students who were previously assigned to Lakeside for the current academic year will be offered a renewal contract for the assignment, Mbugua explained, and students will be able to move in starting June 1.

“In recognition of the extraordinary circumstances around the Lakeside delay, any student who has initially assigned to Lakeside for this academic year will receive housing payment forgiveness of two months,” he said.

Philippe-Blumauer also noted that affected graduate students in their third year — students who do not usually have priorities in graduate housing — were also offered Lakeside contract again as compensation.

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Reginald Galloway ’11 said.

Organizations like the Black Student Union hosted watch parties to see the results live at venues like the old Fields Center.

“Just being on campus that particular night was a very special moment for a lot of people,” he said. “The campus atmosphere was electric.”

Galloway said that the night was particularly special for him because of an interaction he had with professor emeritus Cornel West GS ’80 at McCosh Hall.

“I was in the courtyard when Obama was actually proclaimed the winner,” he said. “I went up the steps and saw Cornel West, and he said something to the degree of, ‘It’s your time now.’ I’ll never forget that.”

Galloway added that the next day, professors in all of his classes, including Spanish, deviated to discuss Obama’s victory speech.

2009: Fields Center moves to its “rightful place” On Sep. 17, 2009, the Carl A. Fields Center was opened on its new location at 58 Prospect Ave. It had formerly been located on 86 Olden St. The Third World Center was renamed the Carl A. Fields Center in 2002 to both honor the legacy of former assistant Dean of the College Carl Fields and detach itself from the negative connotations of being labeled “third world,” Galloway said.

Galloway said he had been involved with the director of the center to try to rebrand the Fields Center, which was built in the place of an eating club that went bankrupt and was later purchased.

“The center of campus life — of campus social life, at least — is Prospect Ave. and the eating clubs,” he explained. “So we have the majority of the Princeton student body partaking in the eating club culture and the center of the African American social lives being held at the Carl A. Fields Center.”

The move was a powerful symbolic moment for the African-American community, Galloway said, because its social hub was now in the same place as the eating clubs and African-American alumni felt they had gained visibility.

April 2014: They, Too, Are Princeton Several University students took part in the “I Am” movement, which began with “I, Too, Am Harvard” and included posting pictures of African-American

students describing their experiences at their respective colleges on Tumblr.

Naimah Hakim ’16 said that the campaign sought to highlight issues of diversity.

The Black Student Union had held a meeting in April to discuss whether the University wanted to participate in the already-popular movement and later organized the campaign, Hakim said.

“It was a consensus toward the end of the meeting that it would be moving for members of our own community to see our faces to see faces that were familiar to Princeton,” she said, “and that for all those reasons and more, we decided to take part.”

However, some students did express concern about whether the University community would contribute meaningfully to an already highly publicized issue, she explained.

Jim Floyd ’69 said that he was deeply impacted by the “I, Too, Am Princeton” movement.

“What struck me most was that many of the comments that were depicted in those stills were things that I remember guys saying in my years, I know people said them in the ’70s, in the ’80s, in the ’90s, in the early 2000s,” Floyd said, “and it’s very disappointing at least to still hear students saying some of the same things in 2014, and having the same reported experiences or depicted experiences at this point in time after all that the University has gone through in identifying these problems and setting up various groups to address them.”

Movements like this one showed that though the University had made progress, there is still room for improvement, Melvin McCray ’74 said.

“When people feel alienated to an extent in which they’re willing to go out publicly and make statements, you know, you pretty much can’t deny that,” he said. “If students feel alienated, if students feel like they are the other, if students feel as though they’re not integral parts of the University, then you have to take note of it.

And you have to realize that there are some problems that lingered. And hopefully, they will be addressed.”

November 2014: Black Lives Matter On Nov. 25, over 300 students marched along Prospect Ave. with chants and signs that read, “Hands up, don’t shoot,” “No justice, no peace” and “Black lives matter.”

The protest came after a

grand jury decided not to indict Darren Wilson, a white police officer, in the killing of Michael Brown, an African-American teenager, in Ferguson.

Avanthi Cole ’18 said this demonstration made her feel connected to the University community, as people of all races were present at the protest, showing the belief that black lives mattered was not limited only to minorities.

“I can relate to [the subjects of police violence] in that, you know, that could have been me,” she said.

“That could have been my brother. That could have been any of the male members of my family. So I felt like I had to show my support.”

On Dec. 4, 600 students turned up at a walkout staged in response to the Ferguson proceedings, Hakim said, as well as another grand jury decision not to indict white police officer Daniel Pantaleo in the killing of Eric Garner, an unarmed African-American, in New York.

“Postering had happened all throughout the night before,” she said. “Posters had been placed underneath the doors of the entire school to get people to walk out of whatever class they were in at 11:30 a.m. with their hands up.”

After some speeches and chanting, there was a 45-minute “die-in” at Frist Campus Center where people lay on the ground to symbolically represent and call attention to police brutality, Hakim said.

It was very cold on the day of the walkout, she added.

“I think that most people who were lying on the ground were shivering,” she said. ”But nonetheless, a vast majority of the student body that attended the rally stayed through to the end of the die-in, even despite the weather.”

Both students and professors took part in the event, Hakim noted.

“Princeton is somewhat a microcosm in the sense that we don’t really experience what lots of other cultures or other areas do,” Cole noted. “We’re really privileged in that sense. But it’s still a concern of mine given that there have been so many injustices with the police and with law enforcement. I feel for them.”

1960-2015: The most challenging moments University trustee Brent Henry ’69 said that people would often say hurtful things that could either be ignored or confronted. He had a roommate who said the only African-Americans

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research institutions to secure funding from the NSF can be quite fierce, as approximately 200 universities feel they merit support and around 100 actually apply for funding at each cycle, Ong added. Only 12 institutions, including the University, received funding in this cycle.

“We’re delighted, because it is a vote of confidence for the team of investigators,” Dean for Research Pablo Debenedetti said.

In order to request funding from the NSF, a research center like the PCCM has to submit a detailed proposal, including a specific budget, as well as the institution’s research ideas, Debenedetti said.

“A proposal is a huge undertaking, it involves herding 30 cats — we call faculty ‘cats’ — getting them to chip in and write a coherent proposal,” Ong said. “We’ve been lucky in renewing this maybe six or seven times now.”

The renewed funding will support three major so-called interdisciplinary research

groups, also called “thrusts,” within PCCM, focusing on the topological phases of metal, including Dirac semimetals and semiconductors, glass formation in polymers and ultra-coherent quantum materials and quantum computation, Ong explained. Around eight faculty members are working together for each project.

Another component of the PCCM’s work involves outreach, both for education and industry.

About 40 percent of the funding from the NSF will be used for outreach purposes, Ong said.

One of the challenges of coordinating the educational component is making sure that all faculty at the Center have enough opportunities to get involved, PCCM Educational Outreach Director Daniel Steinberg said.

“The faculty are so busy. They are dedicated, but teaching children and working with the public is not their usual job,” Steinberg said. “I’m asking them to come out of their comfort zone.”

The Princeton University Materials Academy is among several educational outreach programs run by PCCM.

“We enroll roughly 20 students from Trenton high schools. These represent the best of high school students, and they come and work for nine weeks to acquire lab experience,” Ong said. “For many of them, this is the first time they’ve had a real science lab class. The success of them, first of all, graduating from high school and then going on to colleges, is very high, close to 90-95 percent.”

While the impact of these programs is hard to measure directly, the PCCM carries out surveys or evaluations to assess the results, Steinberg explained.

“The more we put out, the more people ask for it,” he said.

“I know there’s a tremendous demand we’re trying to meet.”

The Center also annually organizes calls for “seed projects,” which invite faculty or associate faculty all over campus to submit their best research ideas, Ong said.

“If we deem them to be promising, that will lead to a new kind of battery or solar cell, then we fund it out of our budget,” he said. “These seed projects sometimes blossom into new trusts for the next cycle of renewal.”

he’d ever seen before he got to Princeton were the people who cleaned his office, he added.

“People just didn’t understand the depth of feeling that a lot of black students and black people at that time really had,” Henry said.

Melanie Lawson ’76 said that when she was in the Wilson School, a professor told her that she could not compete on the level of the class, was not a good writer and was not an appropriate student for the class.

“To be told that I wasn’t enough by a professor that I admired was very painful,” she said, “and it took me a moment when I thought that well, maybe I am a terrible student.”

Lawrence Hamm GS ’80 said racism was real at the University, adding he had a racial epithet directed at him while standing at a corner on Washington Road.

“The most challenging was seeing so many of my friends unhappy about being there,” Rhinold Ponder ’81 said. “I think that Princeton did not have the type of support for people of color that was required.”

Eric Holmes ’85 said African-American students felt extremely isolated because neither their professors nor their classmates believed in and supported them.

Holmes added that a professor once told him during office hours that he did not “really expect” Holmes “to be able to understand this material.”

Karen Ruffin ’86 said everybody would view AfricanAmerican students as if they were experts on all things African-American. This was not necessarily done with any malice but mainly out of ignorance, she said.

“I had people say things to me like I didn’t know black people could have long hair,” Ruffin explained.

Joseph Robinson II ’04 said that it was not uncommon for African-American students to be denied entry into eating clubs that were still accepting Caucasian and Latino students because someone didn’t want African-Americans in the club.

“I think it’s very wrong that the students get to decide whether other students have the quintessential Princeton experience,” Cole, a current student, said. “And I feel like just because of my color I will be excluded by other students — by my peers.”

Cole added that she felt that African-American people need to work twice as hard to get half as much as other people do.

“Blackness is one step below every other minority based on the history of this country and opinions other people have,” she said.

“We’re considered secondclass citizens. We have to work twice as hard as other people do to get what we deserve.”

1960-2015: The stories of the Tigers’ favorite moments African-American alumni recalled a number of fond memories at the University as well.

Floyd said he remembered several times in 1967 and 1968 when all of the AfricanAmerican students partied together in one suite.

“The music was loud, and it was very hot, and everybody had a good time,” he said.

“One of my favorite memories was the first time it snowed — going out and seeing the snow not only all over the campus but going down by the lake and just seeing how beautiful the place was,” Lawson said.

Hamm said he was grateful for the Civil Rights Movement that enabled him

to enroll at the University.

“Regardless of how talented you were, there was a time when race was a bar,” he said.

Ponder and Ruffin said they had fond memories of their time at the Third World Center.

“I spent a lot of time with friends there,” Ruffin said.

“We would take study breaks late at night and you know, shoot pool and go to Hoagie Haven. We would just sit around and talk, and it was just a very nurturing and inspiring place to spend time.”

There were always lots of social gatherings at the Center, but one of the most special evenings was when Rosa Parks came there to speak, she said.

Holmes said the Center was exciting with a number of parties and performing arts programs. He added that a tradition called the Cultural Show, where people from all over the world would do things that were representative of their culture, was particularly exciting.

Charles Brown ’02 said that his favorite memory was graduating while having all his family and friends around.

“It was particularly important because both my grandmothers were there and I’m sure that it was pretty cool to have a grandson who was graduating from Princeton,” he said.

Spencer Merriweather ’00 recalled the exchange of culture as his favorite memory, like that of tasting the Indian delicacies of paneer and samosa for the first time at a South Asian Student Association event.

Efforts to improve the University for everyone shouldn’t stop, McCray said.

“The University is on a positive trajectory, but there’s still some ways to go, clearly,” he said.

Opinion

Friday february 27, 2015

On keeping libraries open Sarah Schwartz

opinion editor

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here is a special sense of hopelessness that accompanies leaving the Trustee Reading Room in Firestone Library at 2 a.m., paper unfinished and coffee in hand.

I’ve spent more nights than I would have liked searching for a quiet study space after the libraries have closed.

During the regular academic year, Firestone closes at 11:45 p.m., while the Trustee Reading Room and Lewis Library remain open until 2 a.m. The University does not have a 24-hour library, so after 2 a.m., students are on their own.

Granted, the University does have all-night study rooms, mainly in the residential colleges and upperclassman dorms. However, students have argued that that is not enough. In the recent Undergraduate Student Government “What Matters” campaign, students specifically identified a need for longer library hours. Sixty-two percent of poll responders wanted Firestone to be open 24 hours during midterms and finals, and 60 percent of poll responders wanted to expand Firestone’s hours, especially during exams and before Dean’s Date.

It’s clear that students want at least one library with 24-hour access, especially during crunch times. Despite this student support, USG recently decided against pursuing this policy change due to the additional funding that would be required to support after-hours staff.

Instead, they plan to “raise awareness of study spaces that are already available.”

While some sort of study space map may be helpful, it does not fill the need that students have identified. A library is not just a study space; it provides so much more than just a quiet room. For instance, libraries act as safe environments; entry to Firestone requires a prox and is monitored by a security guard.

Libraries provide reliable access to the books, computers and scanners that students often need to complete their work.

In a Library Journal article about the growing popularity of 24-hour academic libraries, the library director of Whitman College, a small liberal arts college, explained the importance of 24-hour access: “Our students have come to depend upon the library being open. They all say that just knowing it is open is important. If they need a quiet place, or if they need to get a book, they know they can get it. I think especially at a residential liberal arts college the library as place is enormously important.”

Unfortunately, 24-hour library access has long been a losing battle at the University. For over 10 years, USG has led multiple efforts to designate a 24-hour library study space. The initiatives have always been defeated. Administration raised concerns that keeping a campus library or libraries open 24 hours would compromise student safety, promote poor study habits and, most importantly, prove too expensive. As USG argued this time around, the University would have to pay for additional staff and the cost of utilities for the extra hours.

However, it seems unlikely that keeping one library open 24 hours would be financially impossible for a school like the University. Most of the other Ivy League universities have longer library hours than we do, and several have libraries open 24/7. In order for us to do the same, we may not have to make any radical changes or incur radical costs.

In a 2013 study of academic libraries’ transition to 24-hour schedules, several schools found they were able to successfully manage their operating costs by only being open 24 hours a day for several nights a week. Even keeping Firestone open for 24 hours once or twice a week — or only keeping one section of Firestone open 24 hours — would be a massive improvement over the current situation.

Given over 10 years of pushback and inaction from the administration, it is understandable that USG has changed its tactics, and is no longer advocating for 24-hour library space. But, as the polls have shown, the need among the student body still exists. Hopefully, the University will respond to its students and consider keeping one library open 24 hours, even if it is only for one or two nights a week.

Sarah Schwartz is a history major from Silver Spring, Md. She can be reached at seschwar@princeton.edu.

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EDITORIAL

Reform the Referendum

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everal weeks after its conclusion, Bicker remains the word on the street. Continued campus conversation about Bicker owes much to the recent “Hose Bicker” movement. While dialogue about Bicker reform is certainly worth having, the framing of the current referendum to end the Bicker system is problematic — and harmful — to productive conversation. Proponents of the “Hose Bicker” referendum shortsightedly narrow the conversation by setting the cart before the horse: they set the goal to eliminate Bicker and then propose the formation of a committee to work toward that specific end. The Board urges that the referendum be amended to remove its “end Bicker” formulation and instead simply propose the creation of an ad hoc committee to discuss all eating club member selection processes, not just Bicker.

Attempting to reform private independent institutions through the Undergraduate Student Government is necessarily a futile enterprise. Eating clubs are private institutions, entirely outside USG’s limited jurisdiction. The most a referendum could achieve, therefore, is to stimulate a vigorous campus discussion about Bicker.

However, the current referendum undermines this outcome in two ways: first, any conclusions drawn from the referendum results will come from skewed sample populations and limited data points; second, the referendum’s measures preempt discussion and polarize relevant participants.

The results of the referendum are unlikely to reflect accurately the feelings of the entire University community due to the voluntary, non-random nature of the USG referenda voting. USG elections are often characterized by low voter turnout.

For example, only 40 percent of the student body voted on this year’s winter break referendum, and this year’s presidential runoff election’s unusually high turnout featured just 3,116 votes. Elections plagued by low voter turnout often overrepresent extreme voices, thereby failing to represent moderate voices in the outcome. The practical reality of a limited participant pool is further complicated because different class years experience different facets of the eating club selection system, and USG voting participation is almost always uneven across class years. Going through with the USG referendum to end Bicker would place a rubber stamp on the view of a misrepresentative sample of the stu-

dent body and skew the direction of the conversation. Proper discussion of the issue requires a framework that gathers the thoughts and opinions of all voices.

Not only will the circumstances of the polling produce false conclusions, but the framing of the proposal polarizes relevant participants. The current wording of the referendum ballot includes a “call [for] each bicker eating club to end bicker not later than the first day of the 2019-2020 academic year” and directs, “the USG Senate to … establish an ad hoc committee to facilitate ending bicker.” This undermines campus discourse. The option presented is not, “What could we do about Bicker?” but rather, “Let’s eliminate this system.”

This proposal casts its own final judgement and in so doing antagonizes those who support the Bicker process, including the officers of Bicker eating clubs. Many who participate and facilitate the Bicker system are put on the defensive, instead of welcomed to discuss the system’s merits.

Eating club officers who best know the flaws of the system and can speak with more authority as to possible alternatives are almost inevitably estranged.

Instead of assuming that the only issue left is the method by which to eliminate Bicker (which is again, beyond USG jurisdiction), the referendum could welcome the insights and experiences of eating club officers to understand fully the problems with Bicker and other membership selection mechanisms. Membership selection is done differently by every eating club on the Street, and the specific mechanisms and consequences of each system vary.

Welcoming knowledgeable officers to the discussion table would help the community explore the issue thoroughly. An ad hoc committee with a broader scope than “facilitating the end of Bicker” could also contribute to better understanding the merits and faults of every club’s member selection systems.

Bicker is a complex and contentious issue. All of us in the University community would do well to consider and discuss Bicker and potential reforms in a cooperative and fruitful manner. The current referendum falls short of this, and its authors and proponents would do well to modify their approach.

Mitchell Johnston ’15 recused himself from the writing of this editorial.

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endum is faulty for two main reasons: the invalidity of the USG voting process and the referendum’s language itself. Both of these arguments are unsound.

First, the majority argues that the polling process administered by USG fails to represent the entire student body. Yet the participant pool is “limited” not by a fault in this process (as the majority opines), but by the choices of students. Simply put, students, including upperclassmen in eating clubs, who want their voices heard can do so through the ballot box. Furthermore, why has the majority just now chosen to criticize the USG voting process? By its logic, the USG presidential election and the winter break referendum were unfairly decided. In addition, every class has an opinion on the Bicker system and will, at some point or another, be affected by Bicker. While underclassmen might not be in eating clubs now, 70 percent of them will be in two years. Thus as an aggregate, the referendum process is the best way to gauge student opinion across campus.

Moreover, the majority criticizes the referendum’s language as overly sweeping and misaligned with proper campus discourse. In reality, if this referendum passes, campus opinion on Bicker will be clear. Every year around Bicker season, this campus discusses the faults of Bicker, yet fails to properly poll the student body or enact real change. Voting on this referendum will provide an adequate indicator of student opinion. The majority rightly points out that the clubs are independent, and we agree that the ad hoc committee should include more Bicker club representation. However, the USG voting process currently provides the best way of properly polling student opinion, in the actual results of the vote, the discussion the referendum has sparked, and the conversation to follow.

Ultimately, the majority opinion trivializes the current conversation around the harms of Bicker, especially considering the majority’s silence on the plethora of alternatives to Bicker released by the “Hose Bicker” campaign this week.

Signed, Brandon Holt ’15, Lily Offit ’15, Aditya Trivedi ’16 and Andrew Tsukamoto ’15 The Editorial Board is an independent body and decides its opinions separately from the regular staff and editors of the ‘Prince.’ The Board answers only to its chair, the opinion editor and the editor-in-chief.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Concerning the Wendy Davis lecture Elly Brown

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esterday’s coverage of a lecture given by former Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis was entirely one-sided, recounting only her talking points. In abandoning all pretense of balance and in overlooking any tough questions asked of her following her talk, the ‘Prince’ failed to recognize that the content of Davis’s talk is controversial and subject to legitimate debate.

Wendy Davis spent most of her lecture expounding the idea that

expanding women’s reproductive choices, particularly abortion, is essential to guaranteeing women’s equality. Moreover, she alleged that many conservatives use these issues as mere political ploys while ignoring those who are affected. As a woman and president of Princeton Pro-Life, I strongly object to Davis’s claims.

Her remarks grossly mischaracterize the pro-life movement in an astonishingly intolerant manner. I, and many Princetonians like me, oppose abortion because we sincerely believe that life begins at conception and that all human life has inherent dignity.

Sadly, yesterday’s account of

the lecture neglected to mention the controversial nature of the event. The ‘Prince’ neither mentioned my question challenging her problematic conception of gender equality nor the former state senator’s woefully inadequate response. As a result, the ‘Prince’ failed to recognize the diversity of thought among students, and women specifically, on campus. Presenting such differing viewpoints in a balanced manner is the duty of a respectable newspaper. I urge the ‘Prince’ to bear this in mind going forward as it continues to inform the Princeton community.

Respectfully, Elly Brown ’18 President of Princeton Pro-Life Editor’s Note: The Daily Princetonian’s coverage of public lectures is designed to report the substance of the speaker’s remarks. Though many speakers on campus discuss potentially controversial policy issues, it has been the practice of the ‘Prince’ to report on the speaker’s comments without necessarily invoking all sides of the debate. While questions or answers during the Q&A portion of a public lecture are sometimes quoted, the purpose of the coverage is primarily to report what the speaker said during the event.

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COURTESY OF PRINCETON ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS

After going 1-4 last weekend, the softball team hopes for better results as they battle teams from both Florida and across the country.

for the rookies, all of whom made a significant impact on the field. Dockx and freshman outfielder Kylee Pierce started in all five games, while LaGuardia pitched 21 of the 32 innings played over the weekend in a strong opening weekend. LaGuardia will likely see a lot of time on the mound this season due to injuries across the rest of the pitching staff. The top two returning Tiger pitchers are both still recovering, and even though Christian pitched well last weekend through two innings against FAU, it’s questionable how much she will be able to play so early on in the season.

Klausner will also likely see pitching time during the upcoming weekend.

Two Tigers came out of last weekend’s games with batting averages above .300 on over 10 at bats, with senior infielder/ outfielder Rachel Rendina bat-

ting .333 and Worden batting .308. Junior first baseman/ third baseman Kayla Bose batted .500 on two at bats, while Klausner and senior first baseman/ third baseman Sarah McGowan batted .333 on three at bats. Sophomore Haley Hineman, the only returning player this season to bat over .300 last season, went .200 on 15 at bats last weekend, and will likely be another player to watch in this weekend’s games.

This weekend’s matchups will likely be difficult ones for the Tigers against strong teams. The Tigers will rematch Florida A&M, while playing UCF for the second year in a row after falling last year to the Knights 4-0. The Tigers haven’t had a match against Long Island since 2007, which the Tigers won 7-5.

This weekend will be the first time the Tigers have ever faced off against Iowa, but the last time the Tigers were victorious over a Big 10 program was in 2006 against the University of Illinois.

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What’s more, the Bobcats average 1.12 goals against per game are good for a tie for first in the nation.

If they are to challenge Laden and Quinnipiac this weekend, the Tigers will need their playmakers to play a key part.

Contini, the leading goal-scorer (16) and point-scorer (28), will need to catalyze the offense.

Princeton will also look toward sophomore defenseman Kelsey Koelzer (26 points) and junior forward Jaimie McDonnell (24) to emerge in leading roles in the weekend’s competition.

Protecting the Tiger net, junior Kimberly Newell will need to stand tall and shut down a talented Quinnipiac attack.

There are some accolades to report as the Ivy League season came to an end last week.

Head coach Jeff Kampersal ’92, in his 18th year at the helm, was voted the Ivy League coach of the year. Four of his players also earned Ivy League honors.

Koelzer was selected as a unanimous pick for first-team AllIvy, while Newell and McDonnell landed on the second team, and Contini earned honorable mention consideration. Additionally, freshman defenseman Emily Achterkirch was named the ECAC freshman of the week for her efforts in last weekend’s play.

The puck will drop on 3:30 on Friday, 3:00 on Saturday, and (if necessary) 1:00 on Sunday afternoon in Hamden, Conn.

With a stiff task ahead, the Tigers must play at their best to

extend their season.

Men’s Hockey While the women have finished their regular season, the men have one last ECAC weekend remaining before next weekend’s postseason opener. The Tigers will travel north on Friday and Saturday to snow-covered Hanover, N.H., and Cambridge, Mass., in what could potentially be a preview of an opening round ECAC postseason matchup.

Regardless of this weekend’s events, Princeton (4-19-3, 2-16-2 ECAC) will finish last in the ECAC, in which all 12 teams are guaranteed a playoff bid in men’s play. Much of the rest of the league, though, remains in flux. As the top four schools are guaranteed first-round byes, much lies at stake this weekend for contending teams.

By way of finishing 12th, the Tigers will square off against the No. 5 team in a best-of-three road series next weekend. Five teams — Yale (25 points), Colgate (23), Harvard (23), Dartmouth (22) and Cornell (21) — remain vying for spots three through seven in the ECAC, and Princeton will meet one of these teams next weekend.

Before the Tigers reach the postseason, however, they still have unfinished business, as they will seek revenge for prior losses on Friday and Saturday nights.

In Hanover on Friday, Princeton will meet streaking Dartmouth (13-10-4, 10-8-2), which brings a 7-2-1 record in its last 10 games into the meeting. In the first matchup between the two Ivy League schools, the Big Green bested the Tigers 4-2,

firing 42 shots on Princeton sophomore netminder Colton Phinney. Goals by senior Aaron Kesselman and junior Jonathan Liau were bright spots in that matchup, but Princeton will need to bring its best form if it hopes to compete with what will be a highly motivated Dartmouth team.

The Big Green will play with added fire, as Friday’s decision could be the difference in the race for the Ivy League Championship. Yale, playing Cornell on Saturday, leads Dartmouth by one point, with this weekend’s matchups carrying huge implications in both the ECAC and Ivy leagues.

The following night in Cambridge, Princeton will battle Ancient Eight rival No. 16 Harvard (14-10-3, 10-7-3). Unlike its counterparts in Hanover, the

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ever, she has gone to a new level as of late. This weekend, she just missed out on a triple double against the Dartmouth Big Green, posting 11 points, 14 boards and 8 assists. The following day against Harvard, she had a monster double-double of 17 points and 14 boards. Just as impressive, she shot an efficient 66.7 percent during hte weekend. Her great play earned her a second Ivy League Player of the Week award.

However, Tarakchian and Dietrick aren’t the only stars this team boasts. Junior forward Alex Wheatley averages 11 points per game on an insane shooting percentage of 59.8 percent. Michelle Miller averages 12 points a game with lights-out 45.9 percent shooting from downtown.

Funnily enough, she’s still second on the team in threepoint shooting behind Tarakchian, who shoots threes at a 50.6 percent clip. All these players have helped lead Princeton not just to the perfect record but also to a league-best offense, putting up 77.6 points per game.

Given the stellar play of this team, their opponents this weekend will have all they can handle.

However, the Bulldogs (1111, 5-3), ranked No. 4 in the Ivy League, definitely have reason to maintain hope going into this game. They gave the Tigers their closest game of the season this year, edged out 56-50 in a battle at New Haven.

Early on the season, Yale was neck-and-neck with Princeton for the Ivy League title, despite having lost captain Sarah Halejian to a torn ACL. However, a fourgame losing streak caused the Bulldogs to fall out of

the thick of the race.

As with the previous matchup, one of the biggest questions facing this team will be whether it can generate any offense against the Tigers. Yale currently ranks seventh in the Ivy League for points per game, at 60.1.

Moreover, it will be going up against what’s been the league’s best defense. The Tigers have held their opponents to a league-low 51.5 points per game and have also been taking away second chances from their opponents, grabbing a leagueleading 42.4 boards per contest.

Unlike the Bulldogs, the No. 5 Bears (10-14, 4-6) did not put up much of a fight against the Tigers in the previous matchup. Like many teams, Brown fell to Princeton in a blowout, 86-58.

However, unlike the Bulldogs, the Bears don’t seem to have a problem scoring.

They put up 66.1 points per game, good for second in the league (though still 11.5 points behind league-leading Princeton). However, this team ran into a buzzsaw against the Tigers’ defense in the last meeting.

In addition, the Bears will have to worry about the Tigers’ rebounding prowess.

Brown stands last in the league in rebounding, and going against the Tigers could painfully highlight this weakness.

Having already achieved the highest ranking in history of any Ivy League basketball team, Princeton fans might begin to get excited over a probable NCAA tournament appearance. However, the season still moves one game at a time; the Tigers intend to perform the same way they did in the previous meetings against these two teams as the regular season begins to wind down.

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was forward Justin Sears, who has thrust himself into the center of the Ivy League Player of the Year discussion.

Sears went off for 25 points and nine rebounds in a victory over the Tigers, and is averaging 14 points and 7.5 boards per game this season.

Sears’ great play isn’t the only source of offensive production for Yale. Guard Javier Duren has excelled this season, contributing on both sides of the f loor with his 13.5 points, 5.4 boards, 4.2 assists and 1.3 steals. Moreover, Yale’s offense has been excellent this season, leading the Ivy League in points per game at 68.8 and holding third place in field goal percentage at 44.3 percent.

That said, no one who has seen the Tigers play this season can doubt their offensive prowess. Yale may be top in the league at scoring, but Princeton is a very close second, scoring 68.1 points per game. The Tigers have also been more efficient than the Bulldogs this season, holding the top spot in both field goal and three-pointer percentage.

This comes as no surprise.

All of Princeton’s top three scorers are excellent shooters from downtown. Junior forward/center Hans Brase poses a difficult problem to defenses in his ability to bang down low (averaging 7.7 rebounds per game) and his touch from outside; he hits at a 35 percent clip and averages 11.1 points per game. Helping out with the offensive load are sophomore guard Stephen Cook and sophomore wing Spencer Weisz, averaging 10.6 and 12.0 points, respectively. They’ve also been on point from downtown; Cook shoots it from deep at 38.1 percent and Weisz at 39.4

percent.

These three certainly aren’t the only ones supporting Princeton on the offensive end. Freshman guard Amir Bell has had an excellent first year in the Ivy League, scoring 9.1 points on 49.4 percent shooting, highly efficient for a player of his position.

The Tigers’ offense could very well be on full display when they travel to Providence. At first glance, the Brown Bears’ (12-15, 3-7) defensive stats might seem impressive; they grab a leagueleading 36.8 boards a game and are third in the league in amassing blocks, swatting away 4.6 total per game.

However, they have not been able to stop opposing offenses at all: they currently give up a league worst 68.4 points a game, landing them in 6th place in the conference and another season without an NCAA tournament bid.

However, despite their defensive struggles, the Bears are not a team that can be easily overlooked. Brown comes in third in points per game, after Princeton and Yale, scoring 65.9 points per game and boasting one of the most balanced starting lineups in the league. Four members of Brown’s starting five score in the double digits; forward Leland King leads the group, putting up 14.6 points and 7.8 rebounds per game.

Brown’s scoring, however, did not faze Princeton when these teams last met in Jadwin on Feb. 13. Princeton was lights out on the day, shooting an incredible 52.5 percent and having four of five starters scoring 12 or more.

In particular, it was apparent that Brown’s team has little chance of winning when the offense isn’t there; the Bears shot a woeful 34.8 percent game, ineffective on both sides of the f loor.

As they go against a top dog and a bottom feeder of the Ivy League, the Tigers continue to try and keep hope alive. Another loss would really put their chances of reaching first in the Ivy League in jeopardy.

Crimson is trending downward, compiling a 3-6-1 record in its last 10 contests. Once ranked No. 4 in the nation, Harvard has found itself in middling form of late.

In the first battle between the two Ivy opponents, thenNo.9 Harvard managed a whopping 55 shots on goal. Phinney, in a stellar effort, managed to stop a career-high 51 of these salvos. Despite their young goaltender’s phenomenal effort, as well as goals by sophomore Tommy Davis, freshman Joe Grabowski, and Kesselman, the Tigers could not reel in the victory, falling 4-3.

Princeton and Dartmouth will face off at 7 p.m. on Friday, and the Tigers meet the Crimson at 7 p.m. on Saturday. Both games can be found on the Ivy League Digital Network.

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Cagers look to maintain perfection

By Miles Hinson sports editor

The Tigers look to continue their still-perfect season as they take on the Yale Bulldogs and the Brown Bears this Friday and Saturday at Jadwin Gymnasium. Princeton (25-0 overall , 9-0 Ivy League) currently holds the No. 14 ranking in the nation in both the AP Poll and USA Today Coaches Poll, the highest rankings simultaneously held by an Ivy League team.

The Tigers have seen incredible performances from their starters this year. In particular, the play of senior guard Blake Dietrick and junior forward Annie Tarakchian has been abso-

lutely superb. Dietrick has been named Ivy League Player of the Week five times this season and has been stuffing the stat sheet for the Tigers all year. She currently leads Princeton in scoring at points per game (14.8) and assists (5.16), and makes a strong contribution in the rebound department at 4.9 per game. Dietrick is also the only player in program history to be named the United States Basketball Writers Association National Player of the Week, receiving her second honor on Jan. 6.

Tarakchian’s play has been excellent throughout the season, averaging 10.2 points and 9.3 boards. HowSee W. B-BALL page 5

TIFFANY RICHARDSON :: CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Hoping to turn a magical season into a magical postseason, Princeton women’s basketball hopes stay perfect after games against Yale and Brown.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

SOFTBALL

Tigers to face Yale and Brown as season nears end

By Miles Hinson sports editor

SEWHEAT HAILE :: ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR

Princeton looks to get revenge against the Bulldogs after a loss at Jadwin.

As the season enters the home stretch, the men’s basketball team will face the Bulldogs and the Bears in the second half of a four-game road trip.

Princeton (12-13 overall, 5-4 Ivy League) is currently No. 3 in the Ivy League and has only five games remaining in the regular season.

The Tigers have alternated wins and losses over the past six games, unable to make

headway in their goal of an NCAA berth. They trail Harvard, ranked No. 1 in the conference, by 3.5 games, and No. 2 Yale by 2.5.

However, the previous game between these two teams is not a positive indicator for the Tigers. The Tigers are looking to avoid being swept after falling at Jadwin Gymnasium 81-73 to the Bulldogs (19-8, 8-2) on Feb. 14. In that game, as with so many this season, the key to victory for Yale See M. B-BALL page 5

HOCKEY

Both hockey teams prep for playoff matches

By Mark Goldstein contributor

Women’s Hockey In women’s NCAA Division I collegiate hockey, there is no league as deep or as talented as the Eastern College Athletic Conference. In last year’s ECAC tournament, Clarkson University, the eventual national champion, could not even emerge victorious from its own league, losing to Cornell in a hard-fought title game. This year, with four of the eight competing teams ranked Top 10 nationally, the Tigers (15-12-2, 13-81 ECAC) will have their work cut out for them, as they hope to beat the odds and reverse some recent history, starting with their upcoming best-of-three quarterfinal matchup at No. 6 Quinnipiac University (24-7-3, 15-5-2).

In 10 previous trips to the ECAC quarterfinals, the Tigers have only advanced twice since 2006 and have never reached a championship game. Blocking the road to the semifinals this winter stand the ferocious Bobcats of Quinnipiac.

The Bobcats and the Tigers have met twice already this season, with Quinnipiac

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Women’s hockey faces Quinnipiac on Friday as the first round of ECAC championships begins.

winning both showdowns by two goals. In the first matchup on Nov. 25, the two teams skated through a highly competitive game in which the Tigers were unable to break through against their opponents’ defense and goaltender Chelsea Laden. In an even more closely fought rematch, sophomore forward Molly Contini’s goal in the third period brought the Tigers within one late in the game, but an empty net score with

32 seconds to play allowed the Bobcats to exhale and cement their victory.

As evidenced by the results against Quinnipiac this season, the Tigers will need to solve the puzzle extended by Laden and Quinnipiac’s staunch defense if they hope to advance. Laden (23-7-2) leads the nation in shutouts with 14 and ranks fourth in goals against average, at 1.16.

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Tigers look forward to second week of play

By Sydney Mandelbaum associate sports editor

As the season kicks into gear, the women’s softball team has a lot to look forward to in games played away from its frozen home field. Last weekend, the Tigers played four games in a tournament at Florida Atlantic University, coming out of the weekend with a 1-4 record. This weekend, the Tigers will return to Florida to play four games at the University of Central Florida. Princeton will face the Florida A&M on Friday at 11:30 a.m., University of Central Florida at 4 p.m., Long Island University on Saturday at 9:30 a.m. and Iowa on Saturday at 11:30 a.m.

Last weekend, the Tigers got off to a rocky start before sweeping the University of North Florida on Saturday.

They opened their season with games against the University of Albany and Florida Atlantic University on Friday, falling to both teams 12-4 and 5-0, respectively. The Albany game opened with six runs against Princeton freshman pitcher Ashley LaGuardia in her collegiate debut, which gave the Great Danes a lead they held for the rest of the game. Albany led 8-1 going into the bottom of the third, but the Tigers responded with a strong inning that saw runs batted in singles from senior catcher Cara Worden, junior first baseman Emily Viggers and freshman shortstop/second baseman Danielle Dockx.

Unfortunately for the Tigers, the Great Danes picked up another two runs in the top of the sixth inning to take the game into run-rule territory, ending the game and giving Albany the win.

Junior pitcher Shanna Christian started the second game of last weekend against FAU, pitching two scoreless innings. The Owls pushed back against relief pitchers LaGuardia and sophomore Claire Klausner to score two runs in

the bottom of the fourth inning, one in the fifth inning and two more in the sixth.

FAU pitcher Tatum Buckley only gave up one hit to the Tigers on a two out single, hit by freshman outfielder Kylee Pierce in the top of the third.

Last Saturday began with the Tigers falling to A&M 9-5 before they rallied to defeat North Florida 6-0. The top of the first inning of the A&M game opened with two Rattler runs, but the Tigers responded with three of their own in the bottom half of the inning on a home run from Worden. In the top of the fifth the Rattlers scored three more runs to pull ahead, and during the bottom of the sixth inning the Tigers scored two runs of their own to tie the game. The Tigers, unfortunately, were not able to fend off Florida A&M during the seventh, when the Rattlers scored four more runs to win the game.

The second game of the day saw an incredible performance from LaGuardia, as she began to come into her own as a collegiate pitcher to mark her first collegiate win. LaGuardia shut out North Florida, giving up only five hits and three runs, striking out five batters. The Tigers scored two runs in the first, fourth and seventh innings, with Dockx hitting her first career home run in the fourth.

A rematch against North Florida on Sunday didn’t turn out quite as well for the Tigers as the first meeting of the weekend, with the Tigers falling 3-0 despite outhitting the Ospreys. LaGuardia gave up only for hits and three walks, striking out five batters. UNF scored its first run in the bottom of the first with a walk, a single and a sacrifice fly. The last two runs of the game were also scored in the first inning on a home run. Six Tiger runners were in scoring position through the game, with Tiger hits in five of the innings.

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