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Dinky experiences further delays

By Hannah Wang senior writer

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Buses will continue to run in place of the Dinky until mid-2019 at the earliest.

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The Princeton Dinky, which was “temporarily discontinued” on Oct. 14 and expected to return in late January, will now remain out of commission until mid-2019 at the earliest.

NJ Transit announced in a statement on Jan. 25 that, during the second quarter of 2019, it hopes to start restoring rail services that have been “subject to temporary service adjustments.” Although there is no definitive date set for this restoration, NJ Transit promises to “communicate updates as new information becomes available.”

“We recognize the impact that these services adjustments have had on our valued customers, particularly those who use our ACRL [Atlantic City Rail Line] and Princeton Dinky services,” NJ Transit executive director Kevin S. Corbett said in the statement. “Our goal is to begin restoring a service that remains reliable and predictable for customers as quickly as possible.”

The Dinky is one of multiple trains that have been removed

from their original routes in order for NJ Transit to complete federally mandated installations of Positive Train Control (PTC) equipment on its rail fleet. Although these installations were scheduled to conclude by Dec. 31, 2018, they remain ongoing as of early 2019, and the restoration of regular service for all affected trains has been postponed accordingly.

The buses that have been substituting for the Dinky in the interim have prompted a variety of student complaints, largely because their reduced carrying capacity creates discomfort and delays during periods of heavy traffic between the University campus and Princeton Junction.

Olivia Guan ’21, who hails from Queens and makes occasional trips to New York City by train during the academic year, expressed a desire to return to the days of an operational Dinky.

“There is more space inside [the train],” Guan said. “Plus, its schedule is linked to the NJ Transit trip planner, so you don’t have to flip back and forth See DINKY page 2

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U. faculty participates in World Economic Forum at Davos staff writer

From Jan. 22 to 25, world leaders in all fields, including a delegation of University faculty, met in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, for this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF), themed “Globalization 4.0.” Dozens of political and business leaders, celebrities, economists, scientists, and journalists met to discuss the problems facing the modern world.

The University’s team consisted of President Christopher Eisgruber ’83, Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science Emily Carter, chemical and biological engineering associate professor Clifford Brangwynne, genomics professor Michael Levine, and University spokes-

person and media relations director Ben Chang.

The University delegation spoke formally at the bioengineering panel on the subjects of climate change, energy, plastic waste, and ocean pollution.

Aside from biotechnology, Eisgruber spoke on the importance of diversity and inclusion of varying opinions to find solutions to the problems of the future.

Professors also attended smaller private discussions behind closed doors with their peers from other academic institutions and corporations.

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STUDENT LIFE

U. pro-life club leads March for Life

By Roberto Hasbun staff writer

Born with a genetic bone disease, Ally Cavazos ’19 — president of the Princeton Pro-Life club — believes that, without protest against abortion, lives such as her own would have been terminated before birth.

That is why Cavazos delivered one of the keynote addresses at the March for Life rally in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 18. In her speech, Cavazos said that there are no genetic circumstances that justify abortion. She spoke in front of thousands of people.

Other speakers included Ben Shapiro, Congressman Chris Smith, Dr. Alveda King, and

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other renowned advocates of the pro-life movement.

She had arrived at the rally with 35 members of the Princeton Pro-Life club, who helped lead the march by carrying the Princeton Pro-Life banner in front of all the marchers.

The club aims to inform students on anti-abortion issues and raise money for anti-abortion non-profit organizations.

According to Jack Whelan ‘19, former treasurer of the club, current and emeritus members of the club together carried the banner “in front of half a million fellow marchers,” among them high-schoolers, college organizations, and families.

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Elias Menachem Stein, the Albert Baldwin Dod Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, in his office in Fine Hall in 2017.

Renowned mathematician, professor Elias Stein passes away at 87

By Allen Shen contributor

Renowned mathematician Elias M. Stein, the Albert Baldwin Dod Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University, passed away on Dec. 23, 2018, at the age of 87.

According to Stein’s family, his death was caused by complications related to mantle cell lymphoma.

Elias Menachem Stein was born on Jan. 13, 1931, in Antwerp, Belgium to Polish citizens Chana Goldman and Elkan Stein, the latter of whom was a diamond merchant. In 1940, the Steins fled Belgium amid the German invasion. In April

of the following year, Elias Stein entered the United States with diamonds hidden in the insoles of his shoes aboard the U.S.S. Nyassa.

According to Stein’s daughter, Karen Stein ’84, during the three weeks that he spent on Ellis Island, Stein noticed “a strange game with sticks” that children played. Baseball, a sport he would later come to admire, was part of the peculiar culture of the new homeland for which, along with its fascinating democracy, Stein developed great affections.

After the Stein family settled on the Upper West Side in New York City, Elias studied at Stuyvesant High School, where

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he captained the math team and graduated in 1949.

Upon graduation, Stein enrolled at the University of Chicago, where he studied mathematics and earned a B.A. in 1951, followed by his Ph.D. in 1955 under the guidance of Polish mathematician Antoni Zygmund.

After a brief professional appointment in Chicago, Stein accepted a position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. According to Sylvia Nasar’s book, “A Beautiful Mind,” he befriended future Nobel laureate John F. Nash Jr. *50 and utilized his father’s connections in the diamond industry to help Nash buy a ring for his future wife.

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between the train schedule and the modified bus schedule.”

However, upon learning that the Dinky would remain out of service for at least a few more months, Guan resigned herself to taking the bus as her primary method of transportation to Princeton Junction. She stated that she did not foresee it affecting the frequency with which she made use of NJ Transit rail services.

Carol Lee ’20 offered a counter to the discontent that has

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been voiced elsewhere in the student body, citing financial benefits.

“Even though it’s less direct and takes longer to get to the station, I don’t think the bus is that much worse than the Dinky,” Lee said. “The bus actually saves me a few dollars every trip because I don’t need to buy a ticket just to get to Princeton Junction anymore.”

NJ Transit had offered a 10 percent discount on all tickets as compensation for any inconvenience caused by the PTC installations. The discount concluded on Jan. 31, 2018.

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In an interview with The Daily Princetonian, Cavazos said that she was honored to be selected as a speaker and proud to represent the University. She noted that she was especially “awed” to express herself in front of thousands.

“The event is about drawing attention to the tragedy of abortion, but also about celebrating human life, welcoming all the joy and unexpectedness that it entails,” Cavazos said. “The March for Life is one of the most joyful and happy events that I continually attend.”

“I will always speak up for those who cannot yet speak for themselves,” she added.

Cavazos during the interview also encouraged the University community to learn more about the pro-life movement.

Several students who attended the rally declined to comment to the ‘Prince.’

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built on biological substrates to solving major global challenges like energy and climate change, to advanced therapeutics approaches to cure diseases like cancer and ALS,” explained Brangwynne.

Aside from formal discussions about scientific advancement and developments, Davos provided a unique opportunity for world leaders and celebrities to meet in an unsupervised, relatively private environment.

“In these interactions, partnerships, collaborations, and future work is important,” Chang noted. “Engaging key influential media figures is the groundwork for future conversations.”

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According to Chang, it is critical for universities, corporations, and celebrities to meet in one place to further the diversity of backgrounds, opinions, and points of view. Additionally, it allows organizations who can afford to take long term risks, such as the University, to make plans and discuss future projects and developments with corporations, which are less willing to take financial risks that may devalue their shares, but are capable of marketing and implementing the solutions to today’s global challenges.

“The mixture of people is quite potent,” Chang said. “It makes the forum very exciting.”

The WEF 2019 was the 48th annual meeting since the Forum was founded in 1971.

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from MIT, Stein spent an academic year at the Institute for Advanced Study and was offered a tenured faculty position at the University, which he joined in 1963 and remained at for the rest of his life. At the University, Stein twice chaired the math department and held an endowed chair as the Albert Baldwin Dod Professor of Mathematics for decades.

Stein, along with then-graduate student Rami Shakarchi *02, wrote the “Princeton Lectures in Analysis,” a series of textbooks for the teaching of real analysis, functional analysis, complex analysis, and Fourier analysis.

These books accompany the courses MAT 325, MAT 335, MAT 425, and MAT 520, which make up a sequence also created by Stein.

Stein’s contributions to mathematics were mainly in the field of harmonic analysis, which studies structures and patterns by breaking them down into

wave-like components. Stein’s research has been used in numerous applications, including the study of financial markets and gravitational waves.

Among Stein’s honors include the Schock Prize in 1993, the Wolf Prize in 1999, and the National Medal of Science, awarded

by President George W. Bush at the White House, in 2002. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Stein received honorary degrees from his alma mater, the University of Chicago, in 1992 and from Peking University in 1988, after his efforts to restore their mathematical community following the catastrophe of the Cultural Revolution.

Charles Fefferman *69, the Herbert E. Jones Jr. ’43 University Professor of Mathematics, a 1978 recipient of the Fields Medal, and a Ph.D. student of Stein’s, voiced his admiration for Stein’s qualities as both a teacher and research mathematician.

“He thought very carefully about viewing every problem

and every topic from the correct point of view,” Fefferman said to The Daily Princetonian. “But, much more than the quality of the individual explanations, there was a feeling of optimism that he conveyed to everybody with whom he interacted. Math was exciting and you could do it.”

The reverence for Stein’s teaching is shared by DoWon Kim ’19, a current undergraduate concentrator in mathematics.

“Elias Stein’s complex analysis course [MAT 335] was the reason I decided to become a math major,” said Kim to the ‘Prince.’

Terence Tao *96, a 2006 Fields Medalist and the James and Carol Collins Chair in Mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles, was also a Ph.D. student of Stein’s. He echoed Fefferman’s sentiments with regards to Stein.

“Sometimes, when you are doing mathematics, you lose sight of why you are doing things. He would isolate the simplest, most elegant questions that, if answered, would give us the tools and insights to attack the [other

questions],” Tao said. “Through him, I saw that mathematics could actually have a plan.”

Stein’s son, Jeremy Stein ’83, also spoke about his father’s inquisitive nature and suggested that he learned from his father about how to be a professional academic.

Jeremy Stein is currently the chairman for the economics department at Harvard University.

“He was just incredibly curious, optimistic, [and] interested in everything,” Jeremy Stein said to the ‘Prince.’ “I think that was his most defining set of qualities. As I progressed into [my academic career], [he influenced] my notion of how to conduct myself.”

Stein’s daughter, Karen Stein ’84, discussed her observations of her father’s vocation as a mathematician and her memories of political discourse with him.

“We spent countless hours discussing the intricacies of some current events,” Karen Stein said. “He had an amazing memory and command of detail.

When it came to politics, he re-

membered [things like] who was on the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1972.”

“As a child, my memory of my father working was him sitting with a pad of yellow paper [and] a pen in his hand, staring into space,” Karen Stein continued.

“I came to understand that it was like, in a way, being an artist.”

Stein’s death coincided with the passing of Jean Bourgain and Sir Michael Atiyah, two other prominent mathematicians whose contributions have been recognized with the Fields Medal.

Elias Stein is survived by Elly Intrator, his wife of 59 years; his brother, Daniel; his son, Jeremy Stein ’83, who is a former member of the Board of Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve; his daughter, Karen Stein ’84, an architecture critic and former member of the jury of the Pritzker Architecture Prize; his daughter-in-law, Anne; and three grandchildren, Carolyn, Alison, and Jason.

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Karen Pence and the culturally acceptable Ben Gelman

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The news that Karen Pence, wife of Vice President Mike Pence, will return to work at a Virginia school that requires its employees to denounce homosexuality and transgenderism has generated much controversy.

The news was met with predictable and justified outrage.

Several op-eds and public figures criticized the second lady for expressing support for an institution that delegitimizes and demeans LGBTQ+ people.

Still, a spokesperson for Mrs. Pence defended her, saying, “It’s absurd that her decision to teach art to children at a Christian school, and the school’s religious beliefs, are under attack.”

This sentiment was echoed by an article in National Review

by David French, who called criticisms of Mrs. Pence’s job “intolerant” and commented on the danger of shaming people for maintaining anti-LGBT values: “fear and shame will do what censorship cannot —

drive the Christian faith from America’s public square.”

However, there is a crucial distinction that must be made here. Karen Pence’s values are not being criticized for their supposed Christian origins — a claim, by the way, which is contested by some Christians.

Whether or not her views have a basis in any religious tradition is immaterial. All that matters — and all that is being criticized — is that such an influential figure has endorsed a school with abhorrent restrictions on its students, parents, and teachers. The idea that this is purely religious is absurd, and the truly shameful thing is that Mrs. Pence would refuse to take responsibility for her beliefs and claim these views as her own and instead offer her religion as an excuse for supporting discrimination.

This incident is one in a long line of perceived anti-Christian bigotry controversies regarding the Pences. Other disputes include Vice President Pence’s mixed history on endorsing conversion therapy and his support for a bill in Indiana that would allow for discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in the name of “religious freedom.” Each time, like clockwork, the Pences were attacked

for being anti-LGBTQ+, and then their supporters responded with accusations of religious discrimination and hatred toward the faithful. Vice President Pence’s support for a President who has called for a ban on Muslims entering America and displayed affinity for anti-Semitic conspiracy theories usually goes unmentioned in these responses.

What these supporters are missing is that the issue concerns homophobia and transphobia, not the religious devotion of public figures. Taking an anti-LGBTQ+ belief and calling it religious does not make it any less malicious or any more legitimate, and it serves only to distract from what is really being debated. President Trump, a predominantly secular figure who barely pretends to be religious, is attacked just as often for his anti-LGBTQ+ policies, such as banning transgender people from the military.

This is useful to remember as debates about what should be culturally acceptable expression and religious freedom continue to take place on our campus and others. Whether or not a certain belief is something we want promoted at Princeton or in mainstream culture is an independent evaluation, separate

from whether that belief has its roots in any sort of theology. Exempting hateful views as long as they claim to be religious would enable anyone with anti-LGBTQ+ sentiments to advance their agenda, free from the necessary public backlash.

Our collective ability to decide what is considered acceptable in our culture is a valuable tool in the effort to make LGBTQ+ acceptance the societal norm and push any type of anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination, such as the type that Mrs. Pence’s school practices, beyond the domain of what is tolerated. Expecting these sorts of standards from our leaders and their families is part of creating this norm.

The strategy of calling hateful views part of one’s religion is a useful tactic meant to guilt people into allowing homophobia in order to appear tolerant toward people of all faiths. We must realize that we can remain tolerant of every individual of every religious group without having to normalize any institution that refuses to recognize LGBTQ+ rights.

Benjamin Gelman is a first-year from Houston, Texas. He can be reached at bgelman@princeton. edu.

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The media’s responsibility to call out racism Julia Chaffers

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The first step to solving any problem is admitting you have one. As America in the age of Trump grapples with the consequences of his rhetoric, this first step seems hard to take.

The media in America serves a vital role in shaping national discourse and how we see ourselves and our society. As such, when covering the issues of the day, the media has a responsibility to be intentional about how it characterizes events and provides impressions to readers. On the subject of race, it has largely failed.

Over the past few weeks, there have been a number of stories that have exemplified this blindspot in media coverage.

On a Jan. 27 Meet the Press panel discussing the politics of President Trump’s proposed border wall, veteran journalist Tom Brokaw said, “the Hispanics should work harder at assimilation. That’s one of the things I’ve been saying for a long time.”

Brokaw hastily followed it up with a series of muddled apologies, but the sentiment of his words remains insidious. The notion that the xenophobic and racist rhetoric aimed at Hispanic people is their own fault, and that they must align themselves with white people’s idea of American identity in order to be accepted, is racist. It fuels the Trumpian conception of Amer-

ica, wherein you either blend into a whiter America of the past, or you don’t count at all.

In the hours following Brokaw’s comments, an argument ensued online as people debated whether or not his statements should be called racist. A constructive debate would center on Brokaw’s words themselves, and the connotations they carry. However, the conversation drifted away from the objective definition of “racist,” and moved to litigating the credentials of Brokaw himself. How, his defenders argued, could a man with such a well-respected career of journalism now be condemned as racist? For example, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough wrote that Brokaw “hopefully will be shown grace for his half century of civil rights reporting.”

The real question, however, has nothing to do with the quality of Brokaw’s work. Rather, the issue is whether it is racist to say that a group cannot be considered American because of their culture or language they speak. The racism behind this statement is clear. No journalist should get a pass from criticism when they give voice to such ideas.

A few days later, a similar debate played out, this time over the translation of racist sentiment into a violent act.

On Jan. 29, actor Jussie Smollett was attacked in what the FBI is now investigating as a potential hate crime. His attackers beat him, poured a chemical on

him, and tied a noose around his neck, while yelling racist and homophobic slurs and “MAGA country.”

Media reports of the attack also showed an unwillingness to call the act what it was. According to Anne Branigin in The Root, many outlets called it homophobic, but simultaneously refrained from acknowledging it as racist, instead using the phrase “racially charged,” or omitting that dimension altogether. There are few symbols more closely associated with the history of racism in America than a noose; to interpret it as anything but is disingenuous.

“Racially charged” is essentially meaningless, an empty phrase used to avoid the assumed controversy of calling something racist.

Both of these characterizations by the media reflect an environment in which calling someone racist is viewed as worse as the actual act of racism, where journalists bend over backwards to find some combination of words that is close, but not quite the same.

The failure to label these incidents racist, the choice to instead tiptoe around it, to hedge their language, effectively excuses the offenders. In doing so, the media gives cover to the offenders, failing to condemn their acts with the strength necessary to truly bring change.

Each of these incidents are cases in which white men — Brokaw and Smollett’s alleged attackers — define the param-

eters of what is acceptable to be American, and act on those definitions to marginalize people they see as outside that definition. The rhetoric exemplified by Brokaw feeds into the violent actions against Smollett. The failure to call out verbal instances of racism allows people to transfer the ideology into action. Brokaw’s comments suggest that difference is necessarily harmful, that discrimination against Hispanic Americans results from their supposed refusal to see this.

Smollett’s attackers took this concept one step further. They saw Smollett’s deviance from their idea of acceptability and targeted him for it. In effect, they were executing the spirit of Brokaw’s comments, policing with force the boundaries of what is acceptable to them.

Of course, Brokaw did not suggest that Hispanics who do not assimilate should be targeted with violence. But he made his comments in the context of explaining the appeal of Trump’s border wall, which is the physical manifestation of racial animus. By giving mainstream voice to the racism behind the wall, Brokaw advanced the normalization of these harmful views. This normalization then gives encouragement to people who are willing to act on their prejudice, as Smollett’s attackers did. When the ideology becomes real, it affects anyone from the average person to a famous actor; everyone becomes vulnerable.

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Indeed, hate crimes are on the rise in Trump’s America. According to the Anti-Defamation League, domestic extremists — with all but one attack being tied to right-wing movements — killed at least 50 people in the United States last year, the fourth-deadliest year for such crimes since 1970. But this trend does not get the coverage it deserves; instead the media amplifies Trump’s racist rhetoric about immigrants and crime, and balks at opportunities to confront its consequences.

The failure to definitively contextualize his statements within the realities of immigration and the harmful effects of the hate he advocates for allows for an environment where these crimes take place. If we are to change this reality, the media cannot treat the label “racist” as more dangerous than the hateful acts at issue. Veteran journalists must learn how important this is and young journalists and readers alike must challenge the media to live up to its responsibility to speak the truth, even and especially when doing so causes controversy.

Julia Chaffers is a first-year from Wellesley Hills, MA. She can be reached at chaffers@princeton. edu.

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Kuffner sets program record as men’s hockey heads into season’s second half

By Molly Milligan Staff Writer

Men’s ice hockey (6–13–2, 4–9–1 ECAC) capped off Intersession with a road trip through New York, playing at St. Lawrence University (4–21– 1) and No. 9 Clarkson University (18–8). Though the Tigers fell in both matches, it was a record-setting weekend for senior forward Ryan Kuffner.

Less than two minutes after the opening puck at Clarkson, Kuffner scored his 68th career goal. He takes the title of Princeton’s all-time leading goal scorer from John Cook ’63, who held the record for the last 56 years. Kuffner’s goal was assisted by senior forward Max Véronneau, who has assisted on 63 percent of Kuffner’s career goals. Kuffner ranks second in the nation in goals per game this season and, along with Véronneau, is a candidate for the Hobey Baker Award, collegiate hockey’s top individual honor.

Kuffner and Véronneau are unmatched as a scoring duo.

They rank fourth and ninth in the nation, respectively, in points per game. They have contributed to Princeton’s rank as the number one team in senior class scoring in the

United States as well as the only senior class in the NCAA that averages more than four points per game. In December, Véronneau was honored

converted on a power play opportunity in the first period and added two goals in the third. Despite momentum appearing on Princeton’s side, a

off Kuffner’s stick. It was the most shots on goal for the Tigers since Feb. 16, 2018, when Princeton had 51 in a 7–2 game over Rensselaer Polytechnic

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Ryan Kuffner became men’s hockey’s all-time leading scorer during the game against Clarkson.

as the Eastern College Athletic Conference Player of the Month — he accounted for 11 points in just six games.

Kuffner’s goal gave the Tigers an early lead over Clarkson, but the Golden Knights mounted a comeback. They

goal by the Tigers was waved off with 1:06 remaining in the second period as a kick-in.

At St. Lawrence, the score was also tied entering the third period. Princeton would outshoot the Saints 50–39, with 13 of those shots coming

Institute. Daniel Mannella made 48 saves for St. Lawrence, and the game ended 3–2 in its favor.

Princeton now turns its attention to weekend matchups against Brown University (8–10–3, 5–6–3 ECAC) and

Yale University (11–7–3, 9–4–1 ECAC).

Brown sits in the middle of the ECAC standings but suffered a defeat at the hands of Yale in its latest game. In that meeting, Yale jumped out to a two-goal lead in the first period. The Bears scored two goals in the final four minutes of the game, but Yale held on for the 4–3 victory. This weekend’s game could have an action-packed first period, as both Princeton and Brown trend towards early scoring opportunities.

Yale currently holds the third spot in the league standings. The Bulldogs’ resume includes an impressive earlyseason win over Clarkson, but the Golden Knights returned the favor a month later in New Haven. Yale is a riding a twogame win streak that could extend to three if it can beat No. 4 Quinnipiac this Friday.

Princeton lost to Quinnipiac, then ranked ninth in the nation, by a score of 6–3 in December.

Princeton will host Brown and Yale at Hobey Baker Rink on Friday and Saturday, respectively. The puck will drop at 7 p.m. both nights.

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Bittersweet weekend for Wrestling: Ivy League victories but star Kolodzik falls short

By Jo de La Bruyere Assistant Sports Editor

After a two-week break from competition, wrestling (6–5, 2–0 Ivy) began its busy weekend with dominating victories against Harvard University (1–7, 1–5 EIWA) and Brown University (4–6, 2–5 EIWA). But in a battle for the unofficial New Jersey state wrestling title, the team fared worse, falling to Rutgers University (9–5, 2–3 Big 10) by just one point.

In the first of two Saturday home meets, Princeton faced Harvard. First-year Patrick Glory, No. 10 at 125, opened the dual with a win. After back-toback losses from sophomore Jonathon Gomez at 133 and freshman Marshall Keller at 141, Princeton’s next wrestler got the team back on track.

But the Tigers’ 149-pounder was not the usually undefeated No. 1 junior Matthew Kolodzik, a favorite for this year’s NCAA championship.

Instead, it was first-year Josh Breeding, who walked off the mat with an 11–3 victory and the first dual win of his collegiate career under his belt.

Breeding’s success animated his teammates; Princeton claimed five of its next six matches, with No. 3 sophomore Patrick Brucki posting his 20th win of the season.

In all, the match ended 31– 12 for the Tigers. Despite the impressive margin, however, Princeton’s wrestlers weren’t satisfied.

“We were definitely pretty rusty,” Glory said. “A win is obviously nice, but we didn’t wrestle our best.”

Just hours after the showing against Harvard, Princeton faced Brown. Last year, the Tigers fell 15–17 to the

New Jersey’s best wrestling program.

Glory began the dual with an exciting victory, turning and pinning opponent Shane Metzler with just one second remaining in a match that head coach Christopher Ayres

seemed to strike a nerve with the Rutgers star. In the last seconds of the match, in front of a crowd of 5,200 Rutgers fans, Ashnault, leading 10–2, held up a defiant ten fingers towards Princeton’s bench.

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First-year Pat Glory defeats his Brown opponent on Saturday.

Bears, losing their shot at an Ivy League title in the process.

In a stunning showing, Princeton avenged last year’s defeat. First-years Travis Stefanik and Quincy Monday, Brucki, Glory, Gomez, Keller, and Kolodzik all earned victories; the day ended with a definitive 25–10 win for the Tigers.

The real challenge of the weekend was still ahead. On Sunday, Princeton traveled to New Brunswick to take on No. 18 Rutgers. Both teams had snagged wins against Rider University earlier in the season; at stake was the title of

called “absolutely incredible.”

After Gomez lost by technical fall, things didn’t seem to be going much better for 141-pounder Keller. But he overcame an early takedown from Rutgers’s Mike Van Brill, battling his way to an 8–5 victory.

At 149 pounds came one of the most anticipated matches of the wrestling season: a faceoff between No. 1 Kolodzik and Rutgers’s No. 2 Anthony Ashnault, both undefeated.

Three days earlier, head coach Ayres had made a bold claim: Ashnault would not score a point on Kolodzik. That

tion’s new top wrestler.

But for Kolodzik’s teammates, the unexpected outcome of the match did not change their perception of or admiration for him.

“Matt’s in a great place,” said Brucki. “We’re confident he’s going to get that win in March and be at the top of the podium at the NCAA championships.”

Coach Ayres echoed him.

“The loss actually helps Matt,” he said. “If we hadn’t seen that match, we would have had a problem at NCAAs. Now that we’ve seen the match, seen the loss, we’re going to solve some

problems.”

And, said Stefanik, when Kolodzik fell short, the rest of the team battled extra hard.

Sophomore Dale Tiongson, junior Kevin Parker, and Stefanik appeared in three consecutive overtime matches.

Brucki dominated, as has become his custom. And sophomore heavyweight Kendall Elfstrum put up an admirable fight against an opponent 50 pounds his heavier.

The day did not end in Princeton’s favor, however — the final score stood at 19–18 for Rutgers. But to the wrestlers, the result didn’t matter.

“We were scrappy,” Brucki said. “We did our jobs.”

Stefanik agreed.

“We showed that we’re right up there with the best teams,” he said. “We can compete with anyone.”

This weekend will serve as the ultimate test for that claim. Princeton will face Cornell in Ithaca; the Big Red has reigned victorious over the Ivy League for the past 16 years.

“From where we started as a program,” said Ayres, “Cornell’s coach never thought we’d ever be a factor in his world.”

But Princeton’s wrestlers are ready to show Coach Kole just how far they’ve come.

“We’re going to do what we always do,” Brucki said.

“Wrestle hard, try to impress some fans, let some guns fly, and see what happens:”

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