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In Opinion Zeena Mubarak discusses the poorly implemented restroom code change, and Ryan Dukeman argues that leadership cycles can be improved to support study abroad. PAGE 4

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Over 1,000 enrolled Board to review in Wintersesssion 7-Eleven proposal

By Olivia Wicki staff writer

More than 1,000 students enrolled in over 60 courses during the 2015 Wintersession program, but participation may have been affected by the University closing on the Tuesday of the Intersession break due to inclement weather.

Wintersession classes are personal enrichment classes offered by the Undergraduate Student Government at the end of January.

“I think that participation rates were affected on Tuesday when there was a good amount of snow on campus,” former USG president Shawon Jackson ’15 said. “Both the instructors and students were being cautious so some courses were canceled or postponed.”

Joe Rummaneethorn ’18 said that attendance was low at one of his classes in light of the weather conditions.

“There’s a class I signed up for and there was supposed to be 100 people who showed up,” Rummaneethorn said. ”Only, like, 20 showed up. It was pretty rough that day.”

U-councilor Katherine Clifton ’15, the project manager who helped to found the program last year, said that one-third of participants signed up for more than one course. She added that the most popular courses were “Getting Started With Excel,” “BodyHype Dance Workshops” and “Parkour and Freerunning,” among others.

“I think Wintersession this year and especially in the past year has been wildly successful for a couple of reasons,” Ucouncilor Jacob Cannon ’17, a

Wintersession project member, said. “I think everyone on this campus, no matter what background you come from, is interested in learning and passionate about so many different things. This place becomes so fast-paced sometimes that you forget to really invest in having relationships with others about exchanging passions and ideas.”

Hunter Dong ’17, who led “Wallstreet 101” on the Tuesday when the University remained closed, said he wished there was a way to enforce attendance at the courses.

Last year, USG estimated that 30 percent of students who signed up for courses did not participate at all.

This year, Clifton said, they added 30 percent to enSee WINTERSESSION page 3

FIDDLER IN FINE

By Aana Bansal staff writer

The town planning board is expected to review a controversial proposal on Thursday to open a 7-Eleven convenience store at the vacant West Coast Video property.

The town council voted 4-3 in December to pass an ordinance requiring businesses bordering residential zones to be closed between 2 a.m. and 5 a.m., which would cause a problem for 7-Eleven, which is an international chain of convenience store that is typically open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Under the new ordinance, 7-Eleven would be required to revise or retract its proposal.

Other local businesses that want to remain open between 2 a.m. and 5 a.m. must obtain special permission from the town for a maximum total of ACADEMICS

U. faculty codevelop free online course on Bitcoin

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News & Notes Princeton House Behavioral Health employee charged with sexual assault

An associate at Princeton House Behavioral Health was charged with sexually assaulting a patient, the Princeton Packet reported.

The Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office announced the arrest of Jonathan Hodges, 36, on Monday.

Hodges faces one count of second-degree sexual assault and will appear in Princeton Municipal Court on Feb. 9. He is currently free after posting $50,000 in bail.

Princeton House Behavioral Health, which is not affiliated with the University, offers treatment services for adults experiencing mental health problems or substance abuse issues. A spokesperson for Princeton House Behavioral Health said that Hodges has been suspended from his job pending an investigation.

A 34-year-old female patient of Princeton House had reported on Jan. 28 that prior to her discharge that morning, an employee came into her room, put his hand into her underwear and sexually assaulted her, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office said in a press release. Video surveillance showed Hodges entering the victim’s room several times for various lengths of time during a 14-minute period.

The investigation remains ongoing.

six nights per year.

“For example, if the Garden Theater were going to show a very late night screening, then they would need to get an exception,” Princeton Mayor Liz Lempert explained.

“Also Hoagie Haven, during Reunions, they stay open later so under the ordinance they are allowed to get an exception.”

Discussions regarding the new policy began in June with the intention of maintaining “quality of life.”

“The issue has been a concern for years in several neighborhoods throughout town,” Lee Solow, the town planning director, said.

But the ordinance has attracted some criticism from local business owners.

“I don’t think it’s the problem these neighbors make it out to be. It just seems to me See COUNCIL page 3

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Three University faculty members, a former University postdoctoral fellow and a professor from the University of Maryland will be teaching “BTC-Tech: Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies,” an unofficial, free online course open to University students and the general public during the spring semester.

Bitcoins are units of a digital currency which operates free from a central bank and are encrypted.

According to the class Piazza page, the course starts on Feb. 16 and comprises 11 video lectures at the rate of one per week. Students will complete five programming problem sets and self-correct for accuracy.

Arvind Narayanan, an assistant professor in the computer science department and a code-

veloper of the course, noted that the class saw 1,000 registrations within 24 hours of being announced. So far, more than 1,800 students have enrolled in the course.

Faculty involved in the project are not receiving additional compensation.

“We are teaching this for knowledge’s sake,” Narayanan said.

The developers recommend that students take some form of a prerequisite introduction to computer programming before enrolling. No letter grades or formal certification will be awarded.

Narayanan said the unexplored territory and far-reaching implications of Bitcoin technology inspired the teaching project.

“A couple of us and our graduate students in the computer science department have been doing and publishing research on bitSee BITCOIN page 2

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

Dartmouth, Brown overhaul alcohol policies

By Annie Yang staff writer

Dartmouth recently banned hard liquor from its campus, and Brown banned alcoholic events in residential areas.

Liquor with more than 15 percent alcohol will be prohibited from Dartmouth beginning on March 30. In addition to the ban, those that provide alcohol to minors might face more stringent penalties.

The decision follows multiple instances of binge drinking on campus, a problem that Dartmouth president Philip Hanlon has recently highlighted.

Despite the alcohol policy changes at Brown and Dartmouth, some say it will be difficult for other universities to follow.

Kevin Kruger, president of the National Association of Student Affairs Professional, said enforcement is difficult despite the fact that drinking

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Dartmouth College president Phil Hanlon has been speaking regularly about his Moving Dartmouth Forward initiative to address risky behavior.

alcohol is illegal for underage students.

“I think you’re going to continue to see smaller efforts to step up enforcement, but not a lot of big statements like this,” he said in an interview with The New York Times.

University spokesperson Martin Mbugua said the University’s alcohol policies are periodically revisited and ex-

plained that any recommendations to make changes would have to be based on circumstances and facts specific to the University.

“While there are no changes in the works at this time, we continually review our policies and procedures with the safety and well-being or our students as a top priority,” he said.

Mbugua noted the Universi-

ty supports various initiatives intended to promote student well-being, including an alcohol education online course called AlcoholEDU that undergraduates must complete in order to matriculate, a prevention program for students at risk of alcohol abuse called Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students and medical care at University Health

Services day and night without disciplinary consequences if intoxicated.

Dartmouth and Brown have different social scenes than Princeton — the two schools have more active Greek life, much of which is officially recognized by those schools.

Students at the University agreed that the repercussions See ALCOHOL page 2

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of such an alcohol policy — both at the affected schools and hypothetically at the University — would be difficult to predict.

Katherine Raber ’16, a Wilson College residential college adviser, said the policies would be difficult to enforce and might encourage more surreptitious alcohol consumption. Strict policing, especially within the residential halls, might not facilitate the most cohesive community, she added.

“Taking away hard liquor or

drinks with more than 15 percent alcohol might be the best policy, especially for a campus where the majority of undergraduates are underage,” she said of Dartmouth’s and Brown’s changes.

She noted that the University’s current policy has been proactive as opposed to regressive, particularly through engaging student awareness.

“Princeton’s been increasing the amount of training that undergrads get in terms of alcohol and the social scene, and because of that, I think Princeton’s doing a pretty good job,” she said.

Amy Addo ’18 said that restrictions should be put in places regarding underage drinking under certain circumstances.

She added that while underage drinking is against the law, allowing alcohol as a choice to students of drinking age is important because it allows a certain form of freedom.

“We know that a lot of negative things happen that are associated with drinking, but once a person reaches that age — 21 — they should be allowed to make that choice for themselves, and I don’t think that once they’re legally allowed to do that, that someone else

should come in and take that power from them,” she said, referring to Dartmouth’s hard liquor ban in particular, which applies to students of legal drinking age.

She added that substancefree dorms and buildings at the University serve as positive areas for those who choose not to drink. Alcohol is difficult to manage and cannot be entirely removed, she said.

“As we’ve seen in the past with Prohibition, which is on a larger scale, we can see that if people want to find a way to do something, they will find a way to,” she said.

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coins, and it’s been a fascinating system, bringing together cryptography, distributive systems and game theory,” Narayanan said. “Bitcoins put them together in a way the academy has never anticipated.”

A course called COS 597E: Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies was offered last semester at the University in a traditional classroom setting to graduate and select undergraduate students and explored a wide range of top-

ics ranging from the mechanics of Bitcoin to mining pools.

Students watched online lectures, discussed lectures and readings, gave presentations, completed programming assignments and conducted a final project on a topic of their own choosing, according to the course webpage.

“Many people who want to learn about bitcoins are not computer science majors or even university students for that matter,” Narayanan said. “In fact, we are so early in the technology that most universities have not integrated Bitcoin into their curriculum.”

The course developers are currently authoring a textbook on Bitcoin technology based on the content they designed for this past semester. Narayanan noted that students can access the first three chapters online from the course Piazza page.

He added that other colleges are in the process of creating a similar course and may use materials produced by his team.

In response to recent concerns about Bitcoin anonymity and the potential for its misuse, Narayanan said he believes wider knowledge about the technological ba-

sis of Bitcoin will help generate answers to pertinent political questions. He added that a small portion of the course will be devoted to addressing the disputed role of bitcoins in the economy.

Narayanan added that University students interested in pursuing research on Bitcoins can join his weekly reading group currently attended by graduate students.

“We are happy to have students who have learned the basis of Bitcoin to help them out and guide them with research,” Narayanan explained.

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to be completely unfair,” Richard Ryan, owner of the Ivy Inn, said. “If you’re going to allow it for one, you allow it for all. And all these different exceptions they’ve created with these different zones, it just seems to me like it’s unfair.”

However, Lempert said some criticism of the ordinance was incorrect.

“The ordinance does not change anyone’s hours at all because there are no businesses in the area impacted by the ordinance that are open past 2 a.m.,” she said.

Rupert Haas, who lives behind the vacant West Coast Video property, said he did not support the proposal for a 7-Eleven and believed it would detract from the town’s character.

Ryan, however, said that he could see the practical use of

having a 7-Eleven at the proposed location.

“I see [the ordinance] as being an inconvenience for people who get up in the middle of the night who don’t want to drive all the way across town to the Wawa for a quart of milk for their kid or a box of Benadryl,” he said. “Long story short, in my opinion, they were jumping the gun in creating a solution by law for a problem that really didn’t exist.”

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Caoimhin O Raghallaigh performed in Fine Hall. The event was presented by Princeton Sound Kitchen.

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rollment capacity of each class to accommodate enrollment and participation discrepancies. She added that USG is looking to find new ways to monitor and enforce enrollment.

“One thing that was proposed was having students putting down some sort of fee at the beginning,” Clifton said, adding that she felt students should not feel a financial burden to participate in Wintersession.

“In the future, I hope that Wintersession can become an institutionalized program,” Jackson said. “It will

be great for a particular University office to take on the development and execution of Wintersession so that it’s truly part of the Princeton culture.”

Clifton said USG wouldn’t have the means on its own to handle an expanded Wintersession, such as if the program became two or three weeks in length.

“I still would like USG to be very much involved, but it would nice if there was a little more oversight if it were to expand,” she said. “[Wintersession] brings together undergraduate and graduate students, students and faculty … It’s really incredible that there is this one thing that

“In the future, I hope that Wintersession can become an institutionalized program.”

Shawon Jackson ’15

former usg presdient

brings us all together for one week, and I just think that the more students involved, the more faculty, the more community members, the better.”

The spirit of Kobani

Opinion

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his week, we return to the Orange Bubble. Even those who did not leave Princeton over Intersession are returning to the familiar rhythm of problem sets and papers, applications and auditions, of immersion in ideas and academia.

Halfway around the world though, another community is making a very different return. After months of fighting, against all odds, the people of Kobani — the Kurdish outpost in Syria against the Islamic State — have driven the black f lags of the Islamic State from their city.

They return, not to a bubble, but rather to the rubble of homes, dreams and lives.

As we face classes and Bicker, these Kurds face violent extremists, starvation and apathy — but rebuild, hopeful in spite of it all. Do not ignore the fragile hope of this far-off land — let it discomfort and inspire you, and lift your isolation.

What happens when the homeland you fight for is gone? How do you carry forward, against impossible odds and reckless evil, when that evil has already destroyed everything you ever knew or lived for? This is the spirit of Kobani.

Perhaps because they have been used to decades of existential threats in Turkey, Iraq and Syria, the Kurds have shown incredible resolve against the Islamic State.

Where the Islamic State had modern heavy weapons stolen from the U.S.-supplied Iraqi army and Syrian revolutionaries, the defenders had ancient AK-47 rif les and trucks rigged with pipes and metal plates. Where the extremists had ransom, oil and drug money, the Kurds had reluctant support from a remote and fickle United States, and the obstruction and enmity of Turkey, on whose doorstep the battle raged.

And yet, outnumbered, face-to-face with the epitome of modern evil, they struggled forward. The ever-persecuted, defending their homes and families, beat back an army of hate and despair. At Kobani, a wave of darkness broke on their iron-clad resolve, and receded.

The defenders celebrated the liberation of a city which has, quite simply, ceased to exist. Hundreds of thousands of refugees from the city and its surrounding villages were forced to leave livestock and vehicles behind as they f led into Turkey.

Half the city was f lattened.

We can certainly never repay our debt to this people who have sacrificed their city to stop a tide of hate focused against American ideology, and we will likely fall short of even a worthy attempt. The Kurds proved to the world that this false caliphate — the enemy of our ideals — could be defeated, and for what? Whole villages are starving in Turkish camps or in the dust of their homes. Turkey, a U.S. ally, continues to prevent people and aid from crossing the border, while suppressing protests against the blockade with tear gas, water cannons and, allegedly, live ammunition. The Kurds will likely continue, stateless, a pawn of U.S. realpolitik.

This is your world’s gratitude for extremism’s foes.

Does this make you uncomfortable? Is this an inconvenient intrusion into your Princeton schedule and social life?

Good. Embrace it.

Isolation has never been acceptable. We cannot claim to study in the service of all nations while passively watching global struggles against hate and subjugation.

In Kobani, Nigeria and Eastern Ukraine, but also in cities across the country — even a train-ride away from campus — hate and despair live on.

Discrimination does not always wave a black f lag, but its spread is no less insidious — in the classroom, job market or poll lines. Hatred doesn’t always wield guns and tanks — it lives in harsh words, harsh policies or broken friendships. Dogmatism need not behead — sometimes, it can be found in our refusal to entertain uncomfortable ideas in the classroom or legislature.

Maybe you are lucky enough to have the resources or political capital to help rebuild Kobani, or to reverse decades of injustice in Kurdistan. If not, do not turn away from the good fight.

Your survival and home likely do not depend upon it, but that is no reason not to struggle forward. Root out evil in every form — whether you find it in institutional injustice, or in your own callous or simply thoughtless acts.

This struggle goes beyond the quintessential struggle bus. This is constant striving, with every fiber of our being, to make ourselves, our community and our world the best they can possibly be. This, too, is the spirit of Kobani.

Bennett McIntosh is a chemistry major from Littleton, Colo. He can be reached at bam2@ princeton.edu.

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here has been a lot of talk recently about GirlCode, and the ramifications it has caused on campus. GirlCode was an app, created by three University freshmen, which aggregated all the campus bathroom codes onto one easily accessible app. The app was available for anyone to download on their phones, including people who are unaffiliated with the University. Because of the security risk posed by this disclosure, the University proceeded to change all the bathroom codes on all the women’s bathrooms around campus.

So far, the focus of this issue has been on the very important topics of the fairness of a genderbased bathroom system and the ways in which students can try and effect change in their colleges. A recent column in the ‘Prince’ addressed this issue, but focused on the app itself and the intentions behind it. GirlCode was created as a sort of protest against the much-discussed University policy decision to have codes for all women’s bathrooms. Will Rivitz argued that the creators of GirlCode made a mistake by bypassing the established structure for suggesting changes in University policy.

I think the more immediate problem is the botched way in which the University handled its

reaction to the app. The response has been extremely inconvenient to female students and ref lects a lack of transparency on important issues of student life. Regardless of whether or not the creators of GirlCode were right to create the app, or justifiable in their attempt to change the system, the larger issue is that of the University’s response. The bathroom codes were changed unexpectedly over Intersession, and the new codes were not promptly or adequately distributed to female students as soon as the change took place.

The actual action of distributing the codes was left to residential college advisers, who were also on break like everyone else when the code change occurred.

As a result, many RCAs failed to promptly distribute the codes, but this doesn’t change the fact that the responsibility to make sure every female student gets the necessary codes still fundamentally lies with the University.

People involved in the administration, such as those affiliated with the residential colleges, should have made sure that the RCAs followed the instructions to distribute the new codes.

Additionally, administrative staff could have easily implemented a transition period, during which they could have sent an email informing all relevant students that the codes were going

to be changed and that their RCAs would have the new codes. Then, even if an RCA was neglectful, the members of their zee group could still take the initiative and contact them. The point is, they would have known where to go to get this vital information.

The impact of this inadequate preparation was immediate and completely ridiculous. Many female students woke up one day and found that they suddenly did not have access to bathrooms in their buildings.

I understand that the University was probably trying to minimize the number of affected students by changing the codes over a school break, but they apparently didn’t take into account that many students do in fact stay in the dorms over Intersession. Additionally, many University trips returned early that week.

Transparency in larger University issues is a must, especially when they affect so important and personal an issue. We can argue over whether the University should have changed the codes or not, or whether the codes should exist or not, but in any case, the University should have never stranded its female students without bathrooms to use in their own dorms.

Zeena Mubarak is a sophomore from Fairfax, Va. She can be reached at zmubarak@princeton.edu.

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Leadership and study abroad Ryan Dukeman columnist

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y the time we arrive on campus freshman fall, we’ve all been told that “the Senior Thesis is a defining aspect of the Princeton experience,” so much so that we just expect it will significantly affect our time here. We begin to understand the consequences the thesis has on the structure of our final year: most of us will only take three classes per semester senior year, and most clubs’ leadership terms are done by calendar year rather than academic year so that senior leaders’ terms end in the fall, allowing them to dedicate more time to the thesis. While I believe it’s important to allot sufficient time and energy to one’s thesis, and to make sacrifices in order to do so, I don’t think this necessarily means that clubs have to set leadership terms by calendar year just so no one is President during senior spring while finishing a thesis. This is not to say that no one can handle these two responsibilities simultaneously, but rather to point out that, to many individuals who may consider running for leadership, this is certainly a serious factor

to consider.

In most clubs now, across a variety of interests, leadership positions are often held by those elected as sophomores to serve during sophomore spring and junior fall, or by those elected as juniors to serve during junior spring and senior fall. I believe clubs should restructure leadership terms to be in line with the academic year rather than the calendar year. The solution is rather simple; most large clubs have some form of ‘junior officer’ or the equivalent (e.g. Social Media Chair, Recruitment Chair, etc.), roles traditionally held by second-semester freshmen or some sophomores.

Thus, rather than leave secondsemester juniors without options for staying active in their club, clubs can give these lower-level positions to sophomores for their full sophomore year, and juniors would serve in the senior leadership positions for their duration of their entire junior year as well.

This also gives sophomores more time and a more natural pace to decide whether to study abroad junior year. There is a certain rhythm to each year where major things take up time and space such that we can’t often devote serious energy to planning that far ahead: moving in, settling into new classes, then all

of a sudden it’s midterms, then Thanksgiving, then winter elections for many clubs. A similar rhythm exists in the spring. It would be better to have leadership elections at the beginning of the year (after pick-ups/new members have been welcomed by clubs). This leaves more unencumbered time open during the year, during which one can seriously consider things like study abroad. Having to choose between a leadership opportunity in an organization one is passionate about and study abroad is a major decision, one that requires serious ref lection and can’t be made lightly. By realigning leadership terms, one can serve as a junior leader sophomore year, and still go abroad during the junior year if he or she should so chooses. And if one chooses to serve as a leader junior year, it won’t be with regret over not having studied abroad, because he or she will have had more opportunity for ref lection and consultation before taking this decision.

If terms were aligned with the academic year, leaders of student organizations would have a much greater degree of flexibility in determining when to study abroad.

If a club has the goal of developing sophomore leaders, the soph-

omores could serve during their entire year and also be free during both semesters of junior year to study abroad if they choose to do so. If one chooses not to go abroad, one can serve in a more senior role, without that bleeding over into senior fall when the thesis process begins. This is better both for juniors and seniors, who can re-evaluate their priorities regarding leadership and studying abroad after each summer, and don’t need to worry about obligations carrying over to the next year.

By better accommodating both leadership and study abroad into more students’ lives, Princeton can more fully live up to its stated goals of service and international exposure. This simple change can easily be affected across a wide variety of campus-wide organizations, as there would only be one adjustment year during which leadership terms would be shortened or lengthened. If we are truly to be a community of globally-minded students with an eye toward serving others, we need to encourage the development of both these faculties, rather than pitting one against the other.

Ryan Dukeman is a sophomore from Westwood, Mass. He can be reached at rdukeman@princeton.edu.

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League opponents this season.

Sophomore Deborah Daly finished third on the one-meter, less than a point more than the next Crimson diver. After Nguyen finished second in the 200m IM (2:04.77) and sophomore Olivia Chan finished in fourth (2:05.64), both teams knew how many points they needed to win the meet. The

Tigers needed a win in the final event, the 4x100m free relay, which guaranteed them no worse than a tie. The team of Diller, Larson, McIlmail and junior Mallory Remick rose to the occasion, winning in 3:23.96, less than a quarter of a second faster than Harvard.

The Tigers will conclude their regular season on Friday at Columbia, after which the Tigers will return to Blodgett Pool for the Ivy League Championships Feb. 19-21.

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Patriots star tight end Rob Gronkowski kisses the Vince Lombardi Trophy as the Pats beat the Seahawks 28-24 in Super Bowl XLIX.

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and in the final quarter the fans put their hearts on display. As Tom Brady drove down the field for his first touchdown to Danny Amendola, Pats fans regained life and hope, roaring their approval. After a quick threeand-out by the Seahawks, the

Patriots drove again, with the crowd growing rowdier and rowdier after each of Brady’s eight completions, culminating in a madhouse as Julian Edelman torched Tharold Simon on a whirl route and saluted the crowd.

But then came Jermaine Kearse’s miracle catch, which from the crowd’s perspective appeared incomplete until the replay showed, and then

as Beast Mode pounded the ball to the one, all seemed lost for the Patriots.

It was all so fast that the euphoria of the comeback hadn’t worn off, and most Pats fans seemed to be in a state of confusion and shock as the Seahawks stood poised to win the title. And then from nowhere, Malcolm Butler made the perfect play on the perfect read,

and the building erupted. As John Madden said, “That’s the biggest gap in sports, the difference between the winner and loser of the Super Bowl,” and this year that was proved true in the most dramatic of ways. You go to the Super Bowl for the emotion, to experience the game firsthand and really feel it in your soul, and this year certainly did not disappoint.

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Tigers tie for first place in HYP meet

By Sydney Mandelbaum associate sports editor

In an exciting and unprecedented showing, the Princeton women’s swimming and diving HARVARD 150 team tied PRINCETON 150 with Harvard for YALE 130.5 first place PRINCETON 169.5 at the annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet at Harvard’s Blodgett Pool, drumming up excitement for the highly anticipated Ivy League Championships. All three teams entered the HYP meet undefeated, and despite Harvard sweeping the meet the past three years, the Tigers (5-0-1) pulled out a 169.5-130.5 victory over Yale (4-1) and a 150-150 tie with Harvard (6-01), the first in program history.

Sophomore Rebecca Fleming gave the Tigers their first win of the weekend in the 1000m, the first individual event of the meet, finishing in 9:58.48, less than a second faster than Yale’s Cailley Silbert. Sophomore Isabel Shipman also placed in the 1000m, finishing in third.

Freshman Claire McIlmail finished third in the 200m freestyle (1:50.35), while sophomore Olivia Chan finished

third in the 100m breaststroke (1:04.90). In the 200m butterfly, freshman Elsa Welshofer and junior Beverly Nguyen finished in second and third at 2:01.85 and 2:02.53, respectively. Wins in the final two events allowed Princeton to pull ahead, with juniors Nikki Larson and Elizabeth McDonald finishing first (23.35) and second (23.42), respectively, in the 50m freestyle. Sophomore Caitlin Chambers won the three-meter diving event with 330 points, while sophomore Lisa Li finished fourth. At the end of the first day, Princeton lead Harvard by four points and Yale by 17 points.

After falling behind initially during the second day, the Tigers rallied for the final four events to bring about a tie against Harvard. In the first event of the day, Larson tied with sophomore Katie Diller in the 100m freestyle at 50.64, but the Crimson won the 200m backstroke, 200m breast and 500m free to pull ahead. McDonald, Larson and Welshofer lead the rally, beating all Crimson swimmers in the 100m fly while Chambers completed her sweep of the diving events, coming in first on the onemeter with 298 points. Chambers is undefeated against Ivy See W. SWIM page 5

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The women’s swimming and diving team convincingly beat Yale and rallied for a tie against Harvard in the HYP meet.

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FENCING

Fencing succeeds at Northwestern

By Miles Hinson sports editor

By Grant Keating

Out in Evanston, Ill., both the men’s and women’s fencing teams had solid outings in their matches at the Northwestern Duals.

Princeton’s opponents came from a variety of regions across the country.

While a few were from the Big 10, which includes Northwestern, present at the meet were teams from both the east and west coast, as well as from middle America.

Men’s Fencing The men’s team, ranked seventh nationwide going into this weekend, performed in accordance with its ranking on the first day of the meet. The Tigers were defeated in tightly-contested matches against No. 2-ranked Notre Dame and No. 3-ranked Ohio State, losing to the latter by only one victory. However, they proceeded to win handily their remaining five matches. One of their most impressive results on the day was a victory over No. 10-ranked Stanford, with Princeton eking out a win by one mere victory.

The Tigers saw far greater success the following day. With all the matches against ranked opponents out of the way, the rest of the field would prove easy pickings for the men’s team. In its five matches, the sabre team picked up two clean sweeps. Moreover, the smallest margin of victory for the Tigers on the second day was a hefty 11, against Lawrence University. The largest was an ugly 21 victory differential as the Tigers steamrolled the hapless team from the California Institute of Technology.

After the second day, the men ended up with a 10-2 record for the weekend, having swept the rest of the field on Sunday 5-0.

Women’s Fencing Similar to the men’s team, women’s fencing performed at a level their ranking would have suggested. Going into the Duals ranked no. 3 in the country, the only loss they would experience on the day was a close bout against Notre Dame, the No. 1-ranked women’s fencing team in the country. After the loss to Notre Dame (the first match of the day), the women’s team exacted their revenge on every other team that they

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Both the men’s and women’s fencing teams had considerable success at Northwestern.

played. They defeated the only other ranked opponent they would see that day, No. 5-ranked Ohio State, and make light work of all their non-ranked Saturday opponents.

Their performance on the second day outshined their great efforts on the first.

The women’s team managed to dispatch the ranked teams they had to face, crushing No. 10-ranked Temple 19-3 and handily defeating No. 9-ranked Northwestern 22-5. In addition, none of the unranked teams the Tigers faced that day proved much of a challenge at all. Thus, the women’s team swept their competition Sunday to the tune of 6-0, and obtaining

a fantastic 11-1 record for the weekend as a whole.

The Northwestern Duals certainly looked like a success for the Tigers, but it looks like the match is just the eye before the storm. This was the last competition before the Ivy League Round Robins this Sunday and Monday, and the other Ivies certainly have their fair share of talent.

Along with Princeton, three other Ivy League schools stand in the top ten of NCAA fencing – No. 2-ranked Columbia, No. 6-ranked University of Pennsylvania, and No. 7-ranked Harvard. There is no doubt the Round Robins will put the Tigers to the test.

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If you ever want to see the full range of human emotion, just find the nearest Seattle Seahawks fan and ask them to relive the last minute of the Super Bowl.

It won’t be pretty, and you might get punched in the face, but it’s a truly enlightening experience. I was fortunate enough to go to this year’s Super Bowl in Glendale, Arizona, and, in the middle of the Seahawks’ fan section, I saw firsthand thousands of fans’ hopes and dreams shattered in just a few seconds. Men, women and children cried to each other, sat broken and lowered their heads in disbelief. It was incredible in a slightly sadistic way, but as a lifelong Patriots fan I really don’t feel any remorse for the immense joy I took in seeing them suffer.

The most remarkable part about the Super Bowl is the raw emotion in the air. Blessed as I am to have grown up in the great city of Boston, I’ve been to the World Series, the Stanley Cup, and the NBA Finals, but none have the same buildup and hype as the Super Bowl.

Maybe it’s because those championships are series and not a single game, or maybe it’s the size of the crowd and the stadium, but from the minute you start tailgating you can feel the buzz in the air. The Super Bowl is a production on the biggest stage, and a daylong affair, with every form of entertainment imaginable. Marching bands, rock climbing, day drinking, food and more food. It feels more like a festival than a

game until you enter the stadium.

Once inside, the tensions begin to rise, and the crowds become large. “Sea… Hawks!” and “Go Pats” chants can be all over the place as fans start building the energy. As the seats fill in, different fans start trash-talking depending on how drunk they are off $12 beers (cheaper than the $14 beers last year, still outrageously expensive). The stage had been set perfectly, with so much meaning for each team. For the Patriots, a win would validate Tom Brady as the greatest man on earth and the leader of a dynasty that had overcome heartbreaking losses and scandals to earn their fourth Vince Lombardi Trophy in this century. For the Seahawks, a win would vault them to the first team to win back-to-back Super Bowls in a decade, and certify everything Richard Sherman has ever said and everything Marshawn Lynch hasn’t.

Trust me, the fans energy ref lected perfectly just how much this game meant.

However, it is often overlooked just quite how long a football game is, especially in person. As the teams entered and the crowd went wild, adrenaline was pumping. As the second quarter came along, some fans started to tire a bit, now only cheering on big plays. After Katy Perry rode around on a lion and then a star for half an hour, performing for the cameras and not the audience, the stands became a war of attrition, with energy fading through the third quarter.

But this game had it all, See SUPER BOWL page 5

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