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Six current members and one former member of the Princeton Borough Police Department will receive a total of $3.925 million in settlements.
The panel, consisting of Helen Kioukis, Will Adler, and Hannah Wheelan, discussed the importance of redistricting in New Jersey.
Town council reaches settlement U. professor holds panel in police department lawsuit on NJ gerrymandering By Rebecca Han Contributor
The Princeton Council approved a settlement arrangement of $3.925 million on Monday, Feb. 11 in a lawsuit with seven members of the Princeton Borough Police Department concerninwg accusations of harassment and discrimination. Settlements will be awarded to seven officers, with $1.3 million to former officer Sharon Papp, $1.15 million to current officer Dan Chitren, $600,000 to former officer Carol Raymond, $500,000 to current officer Christopher Donnelly, $150,000 to former officer Christopher Quaste, and $125,000 to former officer Michael Bender. The
seventh settlement was awarded to former officer Steven Riccitello in November 2018 when he dropped his portion of the lawsuit. In the agreement, the town did not admit any liability, and the plaintiffs must agree to not file another lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed in 2013, alleges continued harassment and discrimination on the basis of gender, disability, and sexual orientation by former chief David Dudeck. The officers described instances in which he referred to women as “dykes” and used other derogatory terms. Dudeck retired in 2013 after reaching a separation agreement with the Town Council in which he
and the town were not allowed to enter into future litigation regarding his employment and he was forbidden to discuss the agreement. As part of the 2013 agreement, the police union also withdrew the allegations of its members against Dudeck, and the Mercer County Prosecutor agreed not to investigate previous charges by the union. However, agreements were not reached with individual officers. The Princeton Council stated that they are unable to comment until after the settlement is finalized. The Princeton Police Department has not responded to request for comment by the time of publication.
BEYOND THE BUBBLE
By David Veldran Contributor
On Tuesday night, professor of neuroscience and molecular biology and Princeton Gerrymandering Project director Sam Wang hosted a public forum outlining the importance of redistricting in New Jersey and the dangerous threat gerrymandering is to democracy. The event, entitled “Redistricting Reform for a Fairer New Jersey: Statewide Public Forum Series,” consisted of an introduction by Wang and a panel featuring Helen Kioukis of the League of Women Voters of New Jersey and Will Adler and Hannah
Wheelan of the Princeton Gerrymandering Project. Wang introduced the panelists and explained that recent efforts to change New Jersey’s process of redistricting was not about favoring one political party over another, but about preventing excessively gerrymandered districts. “This [project] was viewed in the national press as about right versus left, red versus blue,“ Wang said. “If you live here in New Jersey…you know it was about righting the rules that didn’t really make sense for the state.” Kioukis argued for changing See PANEL page 2
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Federal appeals panel questions Trump administration’s rationale on DACA
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The University is a plaintiff in the case against the Trump administration’s rescission of DACA.
By Katja Stroke-Adolphe Associate News Editor
On Friday, Feb. 22 at a hearing on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, a three-judge federal appeals panel questioned the Trump adminis-
tration’s justifications for ending the program. Judge Harry Edwards and Judge Thomas Griffith criticized the government’s argument for presenting explanations that were unrelated to legality for the decision to rescind DACA, despite
repeated requests for legal rationales. The hearing was held in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The University, Maria De La Cruz Perales Sanchez ’18, and Microsoft are plaintiffs in the case. In an email to the Daily Princetonian, University Spokesperson Ben Chang affirms the University’s continued agreement with U.S. District Judge John Bates’s ruling on April 24, 2018. “The government was wrong to rescind DACA on the basis it was unlawful,” Chang wrote. “Princeton, and higher education in general, benefit from the talent and aspirations of DREAMers, and we continue to urge Congress to enact a permanent solution.” Bates concluded in the April ruling that the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) rescission of DACA “was arbitrary and capricious because the Department failed adequately to explain its conclusion that the program was unlawful.” DACA protects undocumented immigrants who came to the country illegally as children from deportation. There are currently 800,000 recipients, known as “DREAMers”, within the program.
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Deputy University Spokesperson Hotchkiss confirmed there is no record of Imee Marcos obtaining her degree at the University.
Filipino governor falsely claims to be U. graduate By Karolen Eid Contributor
A Filipino governor has stirred up controversy recently after falsely claiming that she graduated from the University. Imee Marcos, a current candidate for a Philippine Senate position and the daughter of
former Filipino President Ferdinand E. Marcos, says she graduated from the University in 1979. Although she enrolled in the University in 1973, no record shows that she graduated. Marcos has yet to respond to request for comment. Marcos’ biography on her official Facebook account See GOVERNOR page 2
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New Jersey’s state constitution in order to make our system fairer to voters. She called redistricting a “key part of our democracy” and said that it was “just as important as going to the ballot box and choosing who you want to represent you.” “No one knows your community better than you do,” she said. She outlined the dangers of gerrymandering, which she described as politicians choosing
which communities they want to represent. Kioukis explained that gerrymandering is not as rampant in New Jersey as it is in other states, but it nevertheless is an issue to solve. Wheelan explained that New Jersey’s current process of legislative redistricting involves a group of ten commissioners appointed by both a Republican and Democratic party chair in New Jersey. This commission has one month to vote on a legislative map. She noted the small number of rules that the commission must abide by: its mandate to not vi-
olate the U.S. Constitution and federal law, to keep the population of each district equal, and to keep the districts “contiguous” and “compact.” She claimed the process has issues with transparency, since the commissioners only have one month and no public hearings are required. She emphasized that the goal of a constitutional amendment is to change how this commission is elected and its operative standards. “We do have a couple of best practices that any good reform would include,“ Wheelan said.
“The first and most important is independence. It’s important for a reform to remove the conflict of interest that comes when politicians are choosing the districts they represent.” Wheelan said it was important to learn from the example of other states, including California, which adopted an independent commission consisting of five Democrats, five Republicans, and four independents to decide on the districting map in 2008. Adler elaborated on the difficult process of drawing districts. Factors in this process include
keeping certain racial and ethnic groups together, increasing competition in races, and avoiding splitting up municipalities. Kioukis expressed hope that the state constitution could be amended before the next redistricting in 2021 and that it would be a potential ballot question in November 2019. “When political power is redistributed, we need to make sure it’s distributed in a way where everyone’s votes matter, everyone’s votes carry the same weight, [and] that no community’s power is diluted,” Kioukis said.
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states that she is “one of the first female graduates from an Ivy League School — Princeton University, graduating with honors.” The 63-year-old former representative for the Philippine House of Representatives also included this information in her official curriculum vitae during her time in the Philippine House of Representatives. In an email to The Daily Princetonian, Deputy University Spokesperson Michael Hotchkiss wrote that Marcos attended from fall 1973 to spring 1976 and returned again
for fall 1977 to spring 1979. She had an independent concentration in Religion and Politics. “Our records do not show that Ms. Marcos was awarded a degree,” Hotchkiss wrote. On Feb. 14, Marcos posted photographs of an invitation to the Class of 1979 reunions to her Facebook account. The validity of the invitation, which was dated August 2018, has not been confirmed. When Marcos first enrolled in the University, her father was a dictator ruling under martial law in the Philippines. Records show that Marcos was not an average student during her time at the University. In a letter from Philippine
Consul General Ernesto C. Pineda to Dean of Student Affairs Adele S. Simmons dated July 30, 1973, Pineda described different accommodations that would be arranged for Marcos. She would live off campus, be escorted by Philippine security personnel, and be driven to and from campus by a Filipino chauffeur. According to an article in the ‘Prince’ on September 11, 1973, the Asian-American Students Association (AASA) protested the University’s acceptance of Marcos and held negotiations with Simmons regarding her matriculation. The AASA worried that the presence of Marcos and her security personnel would be
threatening to students who were critical of her father’s government. This is not the first time Marcos has been involved in such a controversy. Her alleged graduation from the University of the Philippines College of Law has also been disproven. Earlier this month, the University of the Philippines’ Executive Vice-President Teodoro Herbosa told Rappler that although Marcos did attend courses in the university, there is no record of her receiving a degree. In 2015, the academic background of Marcos’ brother, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., was also brought into question. Although the former senator
insisted that he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Oxford, the university stated that he only earned a “Special Diploma in Social Studies.” The Marcos family has also been involved in several scandals throughout the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos from 1965 to 1986 and the political careers of his children. In the 2015 leak of the Panama Papers, Imee Marcos was listed as a beneficiary of offshore holdings belonging to the family. The 2019 Philippine Senate elections, in which Imee Marcos is running for office, will take place on May 13.
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Digitality vs. physicality in the campus environment Gabe Lipkowitz
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H
ow does personal digital technology
affect how we interact within our campus environment? Such a question, it goes without saying, is of great relevance to our lives as undergraduates. The argument that such technologies — smart phones, earbuds, smart watches, etc. — undermine personal interaction in the real world is not a new one. Here, however, I seek to more concretely articulate, through an architectural lens, the threats that such digital technologies pose to the uniquely spontaneous interactions that arise in our physical campus environment. There exists a fundamental opposition between the experience of digital technology and that of physical space. Others have already defined such a growing gulf in our contemporary world. “Digitality” is what the Greek American architect Nicholas Negroponte calls it in his book Being Digital, making note of the profound difference between embodying a discrete longitude and latitude and interacting in a digital environment that has few definable physical bounds. While Negroponte does not use the term in his book, I’ll use “physicality” here to denote that human experience of interacting with the three-dimensional space around us, which could previously be assumed but indeed no longer. It is relatively easy to prove that there is a conflict between these two realms, digitality and physicality. Our limited attention can only truly be in either: if we direct our focus to the
screen of a phone as we walk, we pay less attention to the sights of space, building, and/ or people around us. If we walk with headphones or earbuds, likewise, we hear fewer sounds from without. In the most extreme case, that of virtual reality, we are totally and intentionally disconnected from our surroundings. Before focusing on the problems that arise from this digital intrusion, I should acknowledge those advantages, all-too-well understood by our tech-savvy generation, which digitality offers. A legitimate interpretation of personal digital technologies, after all, could be a narrative of empowerment. By “liberating” us, and our communications, from the confines of our physical location, these technologies enable us to construct and reinforce connections between us across both space and time. Against these advantages, it often seems that the arguments opposing the intrusion of personal technology into our lives are weak. They are frequently vague and nondescript lamentations citing the unusualness of such technologies, compared to traditional forms of interaction. “Why do young people spend so much time staring at screens?” a parent might scoff. I do not wholly buy such assertions, since they can likely be attributed to general discomfort with any new disruptive technology. Such qualms can be overcome with the passage of time and generations. Yet these expressions of concern still hint at true and lasting risks posed by digital technologies. To discern them, I argue we should turn to the discipline of architecture. Architecture, after all, provides important lessons about interactions between individuals in the physical world. In particular, we may turn to Mario Gandelsonas, professor of architecture here at Princ-
eton, who explains in his book “In Search of the Public” that “public place […] provides the context for the accidental encounter with the other.” Indeed, while we may not often make note of it, interactions in and between buildings within our physical college campus are surprisingly unpredictable. These are infinitely numerous, but a few examples suffice: a random crossing between two friends at a Washington Road intersection, the sight of another student just before lecture, or the sound of a friend laughing at another table at late meal in Frist. To make this point more formally, picture our campus in the middle of a weekday during the semester. At this time, some fraction, likely substantial, of our over five thousand undergraduates are walking from one building to the next, from class to class, lab to lab, dorm to dorm. While the probability of one particular student intersecting with another might be low, the sheer volume of path intersections, especially around central campus, makes spontaneous interactions quite likely. While we may rarely make conscious note of these interactions, exactly because they are so unpredictable, these are a most distinctive, and special, quality of a college campus. It goes without saying that the pleasant surprise that comes from such an unexpected runin with a friend, a smile from an acquaintance, or a casual hello to a faculty or staff member tangibly increases the quality of our day-to-day experience. In few other built environments are such spontaneous interactions between individuals so frequent. Certainly not in the private realm of the house or apartment we will inhabit once we leave college... Perhaps it is because we have not sufficiently recognized the importance of such unpredict-
able interactions that we have so willingly abandoned them for the very different sorts of interactions we experience in the digital world. By “abandon,” I mean our choice to flee the physical world, instead opting for digitality, as we walk through campus. Indeed, it seems to have become essentially a social norm for us to text, write emails, or listen to music as we walk, outside or inside. Perhaps even wearing virtual reality glasses will soon not be laughable any longer! Embracing digitality as we move through the physical world, while seemingly trivial, has major consequences. Namely, it greatly reduces the probability that we experience those spontaneous interactions described above. By virtue of the phone, or the headphone, or the earbud, we consciously, or subconsciously, tune out all those potentially unique, yet unpredictable, connections that arise in our built environment. In the case of the earbud, the sounds of a friend calling out in greeting go unheard. In the case of the smartphone’s screen, the sight of that friend’s face nearby is left unseen. I do not make an argument here against the use of personal digital technology at all, of course. Indeed, I acknowledge how these can, and do, foster connection between individuals. I merely make the plea that we use these technologies not at the sacrifice of, or at least with the least possible damage to, interaction in the physical environment. Perhaps by walking to class without earbuds, or not while texting, we may regain some of those special, yet less easily predicted, interactions that arise from a physical college campus. Gabe Lipkowitz is a senior concentrator in molecular biology. He can be reached at gel@princeton.edu.
Don’t take learning for granted Morgan Lucey
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I
’ve never been lucky
with course registration. Most of my experiences have been stressful and chaotic, like when I initially got into zero of four desired classes in my sophomore fall, or when the neuroscience department only offered one class, at one specific time, in one specific semester, to fulfill a requirement. This past fall, however, was the worst course registration of them all. Not because I was stressed about getting a certain class or fulfilling a requirement, but because it very suddenly hit me: these were the last two classes I would ever take at Princeton.
It would have been easy to fall into the trap. I could’ve taken the easiest possible classes, especially since thesis deadlines are fast approaching, but this seemed like a waste of the last two course credits I would ever obtain at Princeton. After all, no one came to Princeton because they thought it would be easy. Instead, I chose two courses that are out of my comfort zone, rather thoughtprovoking, and in areas that I truly know nothing about. And I am so happy that I did. So much so that I hope that every student at the University takes the same approach. It’s true that many departmental requirements, though necessary for a comprehensive understanding of the field, are not as fascinating or groundbreaking as one would hope for a Princeton class. However, I urge students to use their depart-
mental electives wisely and choose the courses in your field that make you glad you declared it. Maybe this means sacrificing an A for the sake of taking a difficult graduate level course or a small seminar on a niche topic. Or, when there is an opportunity to take a course outside of your department, perhaps you should veer away from taking courses specifically because they are recognized as “easy A’s” throughout the University and instead choose a course on an entirely unknown topic. Ultimately, what you gain from courses that are interesting and challenging pays off more than taking a class that is easy but boring. The second semester of senior year represents the end of a chapter, and the start of a new one. This is exciting — don’t get me wrong — but also signals a dra-
matic change in opportunity. Most of us will never be in an environment where you can learn about Mohandas Gandhi on the same day that you learn about the basal ganglia, or simply, where you can be challenged to grow and learn in the same way. Though there is a lot to learn in a graduate program or a new job, there aren’t many opportunities to learn about something relatively irrelevant but fascinating or something entirely out of your comfort zone. I hope that students at the University take their last classes at Princeton as opportunities to challenge themselves and learn something new, not just opportunities to boost one’s GPA. Morgan Lucey is a senior neuroscience major from Scottsdale, Ariz. She can be reached at mslucey@princeton. edu.
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Men’s squash caps season with eighth place College Squash Association finish By Samantha Shapiro Features Editor
Princeton Men’s squash concluded its grueling, nearly four month long season with a solid result — an eighth place national finish in the College Squash Association. With a 7–9 overall record and a 4–3 Ivy conference record, Princeton’s season was marked with hard-fought wins alongside close, bitter losses. Through the ups and the downs, the team had a respectable season. “Different people won crucial matches at different times and there was no dependence on a single player. We faced adversity at multiple points but did not back down,” wrote junior Adhitya Raghavan, in an email to the Daily Princetonian. Raghavan competed in the number one spot for the team during the whole season. Altogether, the season followed an upward trajectory. In their opening match against Virginia, without three starters, Princeton was handed a disappointing loss from a team that they were anticipated to beat. Another loss to Trinity, a strong competitor who finished No. 2 in the nation, ensued the following weekend. But Princeton rebounded, seizing wins out-of-conference against George Washington, St. Lawrence, and Drexel. With winter break and finals throughout December
and January, Princeton had a long break before commencing Ivy League play. Although the team is in-season for months, the majority of the team’s games were condensed into a short time period. During league match-ups against Penn, Harvard, Dartmouth, Columbia, and Cornell in the span of 12 days, Princeton brought focus and intensity. With a win against Brown, followed by a loss against Yale, Princeton’s record was split on the weekend. Then, during an epic Wednesday weeknight battle, Princeton tested Penn to its limits, walking away with a 5–4 loss. “As far as a match that we bought in, that was a turning point. Penn was expected to win by all means, but we pushed them pretty close.” After the Penn matchup, Princeton brought energy against Dartmouth in a triumphant 8–1 win. “We hadn’t beaten Dartmouth in 3 years, but everyone played with a ton of belief and conviction,” said senior Clark Doyle, who competed in the number two spot for the Tigers. The following weekend, Princeton squeaked out wins against Columbia and Cornell, 5–4. The Columbia victory was an upset. “We grinded it out, and snuck out a bunch of wins against Columbia,” said Doyle. “Our captain Gabriel Morgan
[was] a pillar of strength,” junior Adhitya Raghavan wrote. “[Morgan] was injured all of his sophomore year and this year he has lost just one match the whole year, all this in spite of the fact that he not completely recovered from his hamstring injury,” Raghavan added. “The icing on the cake was when he pulled off a thrilling victory to beat Columbia 5–4, a match that will be remembered for a long time.” Princeton’s season concluded with disappointing performances in the 2019 CSA Championships. Unable to pull off repeat upsets against Columbia and Dartmouth, Princeton’s season ended. Princeton will suffer with the loss of a strong senior class of seven. Although not all worked their way into the starting lineup, the seniors offered energy and fervent commitment to the program. In the starting lineup, the loss of Clark Doyle will be felt acutely. “In a high pressure spot… he held his own,” wrote Raghavan. But Doyle sees a bright future for the team ahead. “They’re going to be really good next year, and it’s exciting,” said Doyle. In the years ahead, the team will benefit from its strong underclassmen presence. Firstyear Daelum Mawji holds the number three spot, while firstyear Howe Cheng remained undefeated the whole season, until the final match. “I hope that we can keep be-
ing cohesive and continue the tight knit culture,” remarked Doyle. With a huge smile on his face, he paused, “We’ll see if we can pull off more upsets.” This coming weekend, Doyle, along with Raghavan and Mawji, will compete at the College Squash Association Individual Championship Tournament, in Providence, R.I. At this tournament, the top 16 players in the nation contend in the “Pool Trophy: A Division” bracket. The top 10 become First-Team All-Americans, and the remaining six are Second-Team All-Americans. Outside of the A division are 4 “Molloy Divisions,” with 16 players competing in four distinct brackets. The winner of each of these brackets achieve Second-Team All-American
status. The tournament is elimination style, with consolation brackets. With a maximum of four potential matches over the course of three days, the weekend is a physically demanding final hurrah to the season. Raghavan, Doyle and Mawji will each vie to become AllAmericans. The schedule is yet to be released, but Raghavan should hopefully be entered in the Pool division, while Doyle and Mawji will be in the Molloy Divisions. With All-American status on the line, the stakes are high. “I just want to have fun with it, enjoy what I’m doing, stay healthy, and see what happens,” said Doyle. The event can be streamed on csasquash.com.
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Wrestling cruises by Drexel 27–13 despite No. 3 Kolodzik’s upset loss By Josephine de la Bruyére Assistant Sports Editor
Last week, as Princeton wrestling (9–6 overall, 4–1 Ivy League) prepared to face Drexel University (4–11, 1–5) for the team’s last regular-season match, No. 3 junior captain Matthew Kolodzik offered a warning. “It’s tempting to look at Drexel’s record and just assume we’re going to dominate,” he said. “But we can’t. We learned the hard way what happens when you take an opponent too lightly.”
Kolodzik’s teammates — if not the wrestler himself — seem to have taken his advice. Thanks entirely to the team’s underclassmen, Princeton left Philadelphia with a commanding 27–13 win. Up first in the heavyweight division, sophomore Kendall Elfstrum faced No. 14 Joey Goodhart. Goodhart had 68 pounds and a national ranking on Elfstrum; Drexel’s 12–2 major decision came as little surprise to Princeton’s bench. “Every time Kendall goes out there, he wrestles hard,” said
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Marshall Keller was one of several Princeton first-years to earn wins over Drexel this weekend .
first-year Travis Stefanik. “But it’s so difficult to be able to use techniques and pull off a win when you’re giving up that much weight and strength.” Then, No. 10 first-year Patrick Glory walked onto the mat, and the Tigers breathed a little easier. Glory won by fall only a minute and 49 seconds into the Drexel match. “Glory is just special,” said men’s wrestling head coach Christopher Ayres. “He gets better every week. It’s scary. We have some good guys on the team. But I’ll say it: Glory is one of the best — if not the best — freshmen I’ve ever had.” Glory’s win set the tone for the rest of the dual meet. One hundred and thirty-three pound sophomore Jonathan Gomez won by fall in the first period, and 174-pound first-year Travis Stefanik earned a decision over his Drexel opponent. First-years Marshall Keller and Quincy Monday did the same at 141 and 157, respectively. And with those victories, both wrestlers had recorded their 20th win of the season. “That was just awesome to see,” said No. 3 sophomore captain Patrick Brucki. “I’m so happy for those guys. It’s not very often you see true freshmen in Division I wrestling succeeding like they are. They work so hard.” Brucki’s own hard work paid off at Drexel. Two weeks ago at
Cornell, he faced the nation’s then-14th-ranked wrestler, Ben Honis. After a bitterly contested match, Honis walked away with a 7–6 victory. Since then, said Brucki, he’d thought about the loss “every day.” His Drexel opponent, junior Stephen Loiseau, offered him a shot at redemption. Like Honis two weeks ago, Loiseau is currently ranked No. 14 in the 197-pound division. Like Honis, said Ayres, Loiseau is “dominant on top — that’s his position.” But despite those similarities, Brucki mounted a strikingly different performance. He routed Loiseau, posting a dominant 13–6 victory. “At Cornell, Brucki just didn’t wrestle the second period,” said Ayres. “Against Drexel, he did. And in the third, he broke the kid. I think the loss actually helped him.” Ayres has said that last sentence before when — three weeks ago — Matthew Kolodzik fell 10–2 to Cornell’s Anthony Ashnault. In Ayres’ estimation, that loss served as a wake-up call. But it evidently was not shocking enough to make a permanent impression on Kolodzik. In the 149-pound division, Drexel’s unranked Parker Kropman scored a late takedown to best Princeton’s star wrestler 3–1. Shock rippled through Drexel’s arena — and the internet — at the news. But no one on the Ti-
gers’ side of operations doubts Kolodzik’s abilities. “I’m not worried about Kolo at all,” said Brucki. “Last year around this time, he lost to an unranked nobody — and then won EIWAs. He comes through when he knows everything’s on the line. I think he’s going to have no problem showing up when he has to.” Kolodzik’s loss marked the low point of an otherwise exciting day — and a day that showcased the remarkable potential of Princeton’s young team. “Having such strong underclassmen is exciting for this year and for years to come,” said Stefanik. “We have so much room to get better. Looking ahead two years, we’re going to be unbeatable.” The team’s confidence will be put to the test on March 8, when the Tigers head to Binghamton, New York for their conference tournament. And Ayres cannot wait. “I’m excited to see the end of this all,” he said. “This is the celebration of all the work the guys have put in. As cliché as it sounds, I just want to see them go out there and have fun in the postseason. Win or lose, if you put out the best you can do, good things will happen.” As for how the team will ready themselves for EIWAs? Brucki had four words: “Listen to Chris Ayres.”
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