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

U. files amicus brief against graduate student unionization

By Christina Vosbikian news editor

The University filed an amicus brief to the National Labor Relations Board on Monday against graduate student unionization along with eight other private universities.

The brief was filed in a Columbia University case before the NLRB regarding unionization of graduate students at the school.

The brief argues that relationship between graduate students and private universities should be defined as strictly academic, and urges the NLRB not to reverse the 2004 Brown University ruling that graduate teaching assistants should primarily be considered as students, not employees.

“Amici believe that reversal or modification of Brown would significantly damage private sector graduate education in this country and will represent an inappropriate intrusion into long protected areas of academic freedom and autonomy,” the brief reads.

The brief explains that the

institutions who signed the brief do not measure teaching and research in commercial or economic terms, adding that the institutions consider teaching experience as a crucial component of preparing doctoral candidates for careers.

The brief further adds that the market value of teaching services provided by doctoral candidates is not taken into consideration when determining stipends provided to graduate student who teach. “Because the graduate student/university relationship at institutions like amici is not driven by economics, the rough and tumble of collective bargaining cannot be imposed on that relationship without doing irreparable damage,” the brief reads.

Collective bargaining will result in “disputes, litigation, and perhaps strikes such as those which have frequently occurred at public universities,” compromising academic freedom at the institutions, the brief notes.

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COURTESY OF PRINCETON FEMINISTS

During last week’s Princeton Feminists photo campaign, students shared their views on feminism .

Over 300 participate in feminist photo campaign

By Andie Ayala staff writer

More than 370 students participated in the “Princeton Feminists” photo campaign last week, which occurred during late meal hours from Feb. 22 to Feb. 26. The campaign was organized by members of the fall Pace Center Breakout Trip “Sex, Sexism and Sexuality in the 21st Century.”

According to project organizer Stephen Chao ’19, the

campaign chiefly consisted of an effort to raise awareness about feminism at Princeton by taking photos of students and other members of the university community holding up boards on which they wrote their respective answers to the hash tags #I’maFeministBecause and #MyFeminismIs. According to one of the leading organizers of the trip, Jamie O’Leary ’19, the

photos were uploaded to the group’s website and were also posted on the Princeton Feminists Facebook event and the Women’s Center Facebook page. They were also sent to the participants, who were encouraged to share the photos on their personal social media accounts. She added that the group plans to print the photos and post them around campus sometime within the See CAMPAIGN page 2

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

New Jersey Governor Christie endorses Trump for president

By Maya Wesby staff writer

New Jersey Governor and ex officio University trustee Chris Christie endorsed Republican businessman Donald Trump’s presidential campaign last Friday, Feb. 26.

“I can guarantee you that the one person that Hillary and Bill Clinton do not want to see on that stage, come next September, is Donald Trump. They know how to run the standard political playbook… They do not know the playbook with Donald Trump because he

is rewriting the playbook,” Christie said during a press conference.

He added that he will support the Trump presidential campaign between now and November.

“He is a good friend, he is a strong and resolute leader and he is someone who is going to lead the Republican Party to victory in November over Hillary Clinton, which is the single most important thing we can do,” he said.

Christie’s office did not respond to requests for comment.

University Media Relations Specialist Min Pullan

noted that Christie’s endorsement “has no bearing on the University.”

Meg Whitman ’77, Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO and former national finance cochair for Christie’s presidential campaign, publically denounced this endorsement on Sunday, according to a statement obtained by NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

“Donald Trump is unfit to be President. He is a dishonest demagogue who plays to our worst fears. Trump would take America on a dangerous journey. Christie knows all that and indicated as much many times public-

ly,” she said in the statement sent to NBC News.

She added she will not support Christie in this political decision and called on his donors and other supporters to reject both Christie and Trump.

“For some of us, principle and country still matter,” she said in the statement.

Mitch Zak, media representative for Whitman and a former advisor and spokesperson for Whitman’s 2010 gubernatorial campaign, declined to comment.

Wilson School lecturer Stanley Katz said that he was surprised by the endorse-

ment. Katz added that it is difficult currently to predict the long-term implications of this endorsement, as Christie is not particularly popular among Republican voters.

“While Christie is certainly not what I would describe as a Republican establishment, he is an established figure… Trump is sadly lacking in anything resembling the mainstream, and Christie is as close to resembling the mainstream as [Trump] got, so I suppose that’s going to be a plus for him,” Katz said.

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LECTURE

Gerberding discusses emergence of infectious diseases, zika virus contributor

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We must focus on anticipating zoonotic infection emergence, increasing protection and prevention capabilities and committing to sustained engagement, former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Julie Gerberding said in a lecture on Monday.

Gerberding explained that personal encounters with infectious diseases were what first opened her eyes to the complex ecosystem of people, animals and health in our current world. She explained that, as of now, her primary focus

for the future of medicine is the One Health Initiative founded

by Laura Kahn, University physician and Wilson school scholar, which emphasizes collaboration between scientific, health and environmental disciplines.

Gerberding, who currently serves as the executive vice president for strategic communications, global public policy and population health at Merck and Co., has worked on vaccinations for multiple infectious diseases throughout her career.

She discussed her experiences studying three types of infectious disease carriers: mosquitoes, bats and ticks.

Although the anopheles

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merus species is most widely known for its association with the transfer of malaria, Gerberding has focused particularly on the aedes aegypti and aedes albopictus species, as they have been associated with the recent spread of the Zika virus in the Americas.

There are currently 147 Zika cases in the U.S. as of Feb. 24, 2016. Gerberding explained that these species are especially tricky to deal with because they are particularly adaptable to urban environments and are even able to lay eggs in bottle caps.

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with birth defects, still-birth, miscarriages and GuillainBarré syndrome, which affects nerves in the brain and spinal cord. This issue is particularly prominent in communities with low diagnostic capabilities due to lack of experienced or qualified personnel.

“The question with this menacing mosquito and this particular virus, which is just getting started in this part of the world, is why is it here now, why is it so large-scale, why is it happening so fast?” Gerberding said, noting that none of these questions have been successfully answered yet.

Gerberding then expanded on bats, which she personally finds fascinating. She explained that bats have many ecological values, as they control insects, pollinate plants and provide models for signal processing.

They are also carriers of many diseases. Fruit bats were linked to the Ebola virus which broke out quickly in 2014 in West Africa. However, these diseases do not affect the bats themselves, and appear to only make humans sick.

“When [bats] fly, their temperature goes up, so by definition, any virus in a bat must be temperature tolerant. It must be able to tolerate fever,” Gerberding said. “So maybe that’s one of the reasons why they’re such successful hosts for viruses — that when transferred to human beings, we can’t ward off these viruses because they’re indifferent to our first line of defense.”

Another disease carrier, the tick, is particularly problematic in the New Jersey area, according to Gerberding. Lyme disease, which is spread by the Blacklegged (deer) tick, has only gotten worse and worse on the east coast of the U.S. The primary issue that Gerberding noted is that the question of why these diseases emerge at the exact time that they do has gone unanswered.

“The concept of emergence is easy to get - we can all see that something is emerging – but it’s very difficult to understand. We really are just beginning to have theories about what is causing emergence,” Gerberding said.

Gerberding mentioned some popular theories about what is causing emergence, including global demographic changes, global urbanization, social disruption and displacement and increased traveling.

Trveling is an obvious multiplier, since there are currently tens of thousands of commercial air flights each day, excluding cargo or other flights. Gerberding admitted that in a world of increasing globalization, we are not able to keep viruses contained in one place.

She said that the biggest unknown is climate change, since scientists can only hypothesize how changes in vector ecology may be a result of more extreme weather.

Gerberding concluded her speech by stressing her three policy priorities again. She emphasized that the third policy is essential, as it is important for society to stop being reactive rather than proactive when it comes to disease control.

“What I have seen is, a problem emerges, money comes. The problem is managed, the money goes away. So all the things we know we should do, are not done on a sustained basis.”

The lecture, titled “Menacing Mosquitoes, Biting Bats, and Tormenting Ticks: Health Protection Priorities,” took place in Robertson Hall at 4:30 p.m. on Monday as part of the Gilbert S. Omenn ’61 Lectures in Science Policy. Gerberding’s three-day visit was also supported by the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Leadership through Mentorship Program.

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Katz said that Christie is acting appropriately in his political capacities, and he wouldn’t rule out the possibility of an endorsement for Trump as a hopeful means of getting consideration as a vice presidential candidate

under his campaign.

“Whatever [Christie’s motivation] is, it’s an attempt to keep himself in the public eye and to keep himself viable as a political figure.

Because, otherwise, he just fades away,” Katz said.

Katz noted that Christie’s time as New Jersey governor is almost over and he won’t be allowed to run for anoth-

er consecutive term, leaving room for at least four years before Christie will be able to return to the political spotlight. “[Christie] has had a terribly unsuccessful career as Governor of New Jersey. He didn’t do well in the primaries. This is the only thing he can do to keep himself alive,” Katz added.

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student in any of the amici institutions has ever been required to join a union as a condition of receiving his or her education, nor have the academic or financial arrangements of any of the amici graduate programs ever been subject to collective bargaining,” the brief reads.

In 1989, graduate students of the University formed the Graduate Student Union, the predecessor of the current Graduate Student Government, to call for better conditions and support for the graduate student popu-

lation.

“How can we feel welcome at this University if we are not provided for out of our stipend with even the basic necessities of living? ” said then-GSU chair Alan Middleton GS ’90 in a Nov. 30, 1989 rally in front of the Nassau Hall to protest the budget cuts to services provided to graduate students.

University General Counsel Ramona Romero signed the brief on behalf of the University.

The nine schools who jointly filed the brief are Harvard, Yale, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, University of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford and the University.

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next week as well.

Maya Wahrman ’16, another member of the Break Out Trip and a coordinator of this project, noted that the website had 14,415 views and 1,142 visitors as of Monday.

Wahrman added that the main purpose of the photo campaign was to make feminism a present topic of discussion.

O’Leary commented, “It’s less about thinking about feminism itself and more about the kinds of conversations that feminism provokes.”

“This is so that people, whether walking through campus, or scrolling through Facebook, see this and have to think about this, and talk about it. Whether or not they decided to participate, it’s compelling everybody to be a part of it in someway,” explained O’Leary.

Chao said that the Breakout trip that had inspired the Princeton Feminist project revolved around visits to more than ten organizations that work with gender equality.

O’Leary noted that when she visited each of the organizations and asked what feminism meant to the people who worked there, she realized that there was no standard definition of feminism and that the term had different meanings for different people.

Chao said he found that the most interesting responses he encountered during the campaign were when people wouldn’t identify with the movement for valid reasons.

He recalled speaking to somebody who identified as a queer person of color and made the comment that although they supported equality, they could not identify as a feminist because feminism had not been created for people like them.

“My favorite moments have been when someone says, ‘This campaign is great, but I think it’s missing this.’ And that’s when you can say, ‘Well that’s why you can be a part of it and paint your own picture,’” commented Wahrman.

Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman ’19, one of many male students who participated in the campaign, said that he supported the project and emphasized

the simplicity yet importance of publicizing the scope of the feminist movement.

Herzog-Arbeitman explained, “Feminism is not a movement for only women; it’s a movement for anyone who believes that women should have the same rights as men.” He added, “I believe that everyone should be a feminist because feminists stands for equality, the most basic tenet of human rights.”

Preston Evers ’19, who also supported the project, commented that as a man, he doesn’t think that he’s ever had an at-length conversation with another man about feminism. Having helped man the campaign’s table in Frist Campus Center, he noted that he felt discouraged by how many people didn’t want to participate.

“The disinterest and discomfort I saw reflects, I think, the lack of priority and value people assign to women’s rights and interests. It was profound for me to experience firsthand the indifference and opposition, as opposed to simply being aware of it,” commented Evers.

Head of Rockefeller College and English Professor Jeff Nunokawa said that for his photo, he wrote “world of my mothers.”

He explained, “My mom did a lot for me. She brought me into the world, raised me right and taught me right from wrong. My mom happens to be a woman. The least I can do, by way of paying her back for all she did for me, is to support her gender as best I can. Why do I think men should be as interested in feminism as women? I think feminism is about fairness, and I think everyone should be interested in fairness.”

O’Leary said that there currently is no group on campus that promotes gender equality that includes both men and women. She noted she hopes the photo campaign will help engender an interest group for the issue.

“I would love to see a group that is completely studentrun that is started about gender equality and to harness the kind of manpower that is collected in this campaign and put it into action,” added Wahrman.

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The politics behind political rhetoric Déjà vu: comparing different grad Samuel Parsons student protests columnist

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he President of the United States has historically been regarded as the most powerful individual in the world, and that perception holds true in many ways today. Thus, one would expect the process of deciding upon a president who will best lead America and constructively influence world relations to be taken very seriously — at least, it is taken seriously by concerned voters. So far in this presidential campaign many of the candidates have behaved in a way that reflects an utter disregard for the importance of the office they are pursuing.

The candidates, from Donald Trump to Bernie Sanders, undoubtedly understand in their own minds the responsibility of the role they are vying for. Rather, the issue lies in the fact that the campaigns they present to the public are not constructed with the nuances of their policies and the ethical reasoning behind their conservatism or progressivism, but rather the façades of their expertly crafted personas.

Very few of us will ever have the pleasure (or, depending on the outcome of the 2016 race, the misfortune) of meeting a president face-to-face, and thus we are significantly less affected by the personality of the individual than we are by their policies about education, healthcare, the distribution of income, immigration and foreign policy. In electing a president, U.S. citizens would be better prepared to make a decision that represents their legitimate interests if the candidates were characterized by their policies, not their hair color, age, religion or gender.

I blame the candidates, not the media, because even when given the opportunity to speak directly to the public, the candidates’ comments often deteriorate into a battle of cheap wit and irrelevant personal attacks, as they did in the recent GOP debate. The conversation began with policy, facilitated by moderators who sought to begin a real discussion. The candidates then managed to expertly deteriorate into an exchange of ad hominem attacks. The topic of financial management ended with Marco Rubio telling Trump he’d be “selling watches in Manhattan” without the wealth he inherited. Discussion of insurance proposals turned to childish bicker about who repeats himself more. The conversation on immigration ended with Rubio calling Trump a “lousy businessman.” Cruz told Trump he could “get back on [his] meds now,” the response to which was “you’re the basket case.” Trump concluded the whole debate by remarking, “This guy’s a choke artist, and this guy’s a liar” referring to Rubio and Cruz respectively.

In their own rallies following the debate, personal attacks ranged in content from the puddles of sweat that Rubio apparently leaves at the lectern to the manner of Trump’s application of makeup on his mustache (what mustache?).

Americans deserve a higher standard of political debate and professionalism.

Yet it is not just with frequent ad hominem attacks that candidates let down viewers and constituents, but in their aversion to critical questioning and public scrutiny. At a recent Hillary Clinton rally, a U.S. veteran was escorted out by security for questioning Clinton’s alleged lies regarding the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi.

The veteran invoked the belief that U.S. citizens, and the families of the deceased, deserved the truth, and his passive, non-violent speech was effectively met with a gag order. It isn’t hard to imagine the circumstances under which people with different views (or perhaps just different ethnicities) contrary to the majority at Trump rallies are ejected in a similar fashion.

In silencing opposition and discounting diversity of political belief and affiliation, candidates not only act against the spirit of the First Amendment, but they injure the quality of the American public discourse, which is essential for a functional democracy.

This presidential race needs to be refocused and refined. Policy needs to be the topic of the campaign, and on a deeper level than repetitive references to “the wall” and taxing the “CEOs of Wall Street.” After all, it is policy, not personality, and free and multilateral debate of policy that will shape the lives of Americans and the global position of America over the next four years.

Focusing on the substantive details of an argument, rather than obsessing over the character of the person or party presenting it, is an ideal that we too, as Princetonians, should strive to hold ourselves to. Whether it is healthy debate and argument between individuals, the University and the Undergraduate Student Government, or the Black Justice League and the Princeton Open Campus Coalition, in the halls of Whig-Clio or your own dorm room, the discussion both on and off campus is more constructive when our attention is on the content.

In a recent context, as we discuss the legacy of Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, and the potential changes that may ensue, we must hold our focus on the merit of the arguments that our community is putting forward, not on the motivation or personal interest of the individual or group making the argument. Though one may argue that it is relevant in some ways, our debate should not be dominated by considerations of the racial demographic of BJL’s membership and accusations of racism or prejudice in the POCC’s stance. None of this directly contends with arguments on the other side, and it is in this contention that our debates will find the soundest outcomes.

This year’s campaign may not offer a lot of inspiration or exemplary conduct. Yet Princeton is an institution that is looked to as a proponent and contributor of national debate and scholarly discussion in the United States and the larger world. Though the presidential hopefuls may not be setting the best example, we can do better, for our own benefit and for the sake of sound debate.

Samuel Parsons is a freshman from Wangaratta, Australia.

He can be reached at samueljp@princeton.edu.

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tanding in front of Firestone Library Thursday, watching the graduate student demonstration, I found myself feeling a sense of déjà vu. Four years earlier, as a night student at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, I participated in the successful graduate student strike for higher stipends and better housing.

The two situations have their parallels: an unresponsive administration, quality-of-life issues, complaints about cutbacks, no strong organization for graduate student concerns. Even the rhetoric used about graduate-undergraduate student solidarity sounded very familiar, as it was used to urge us not to cross graduate student picket lines.

However, the differences in many ways outweigh the similarities. Grad-undergrad unity was a given at Stony Brook. We were all, well, students.

Even the speech by USG president Jason Weinstein ’90 Thursday mentioned that at Princeton there are areas in which graduate and undergraduate student concerns differ, a sort of hint at the fact that because of the precept system here, there is a natural tension between the two groups.

At Stony Brook, the drive for a union was a drive for a real union, such as the United Automobile Workers union, not for a “union.” That Weinstein mentioned the fact that undergrads revolted in order to get the USG did not strike me as a pleasing precedent. But it is a good warning.

There seem to be two obvious choices that need to be made in the wake of the successful demonstration Thursday: Is the GSU going to end up serving as a network of committees to explore problems with administrators, or is it going to serve as a bargaining agent, either as a traditional incorporated labor union or as a less formal but still powerful voice for bread-and-butter concerns?

Looking back on the lessons of last year’s Nassau Hall sit-in, it would seem that the first option is pointless. Several sit-in demands were granted by decree of King Harold, but for the most part, nothing has changed. Committees such as the one on military recruitment prove that it is not difficult to find students and faculty members willing to affix their names to documents of questionable intellectual validity that offer rationalizations for injustice and administrative negligence.

The other option has its drawbacks. There really is little or no precedent of Ivy League grad students striking on economic issues. Though grad students at the University of California at Berkeley recently won recognition for their union, and the students at Stony Brook received a $1,000 stipend raise for their strike, to believe that the same would magically occur here is unreasonable.

The question is whether the time and effort re-

quired to build support for such a strike among grad students and working to educate professors, staff and undergrads about the need to support the strike would be better spent in other ways.

There are other considerations, though, that are just as important. I found the strike at Stony Brook empowering. In the class I was taking at the time, our grad student teaching assistant took the time to explain why they were going on strike and asked our support. We had a frank discussion of what this would mean in terms of undergrads (there was talk of grade-burning as protest) and decided to support the strike. As students, we were involved in the process of discussing what we, as a community, felt were the problems of the university, and then we acted on them.

The strike was successful, as professors cancelled their classes and students also honored the picket lines. Though only a few of the demands were granted, it was clear that the balance of power on campus had changed a great deal. Though the president (a Princeton trustee, no less) still continued to rule the campus like a prison camp, it was obvious that the inmates would have to be treated with a little more respect.

It was also important in really making people think about what education is about. Unfortunately, this university is still run like something out of the Middle Ages, with an ideology that stresses a guild-like sense of profession and a “holy mission” of the university as an institution. The strike brought home what bullshit that really is.

The modern university is run like every other American corporation: heavy in upper management, responsive to a pathologically profit-minded governing board, short on any sort of innovative thinking.

The most important thing, for now, is for undergrads to really support the graduate students no matter what they decide to do. If there is a chance that the administration will deal humanely with these grievances, it should be pursued. But judging how things are going, I think it is also important to investigate how these situations have evolved on other campuses and how our president has dealt with these situations.

President Shapiro faced a similar situation as president at the University of Michigan, proving once again that the trustees chose well in finding a man who deals badly with graduate students, as well as faculty and undergraduates, to be our president. Most of all, it is important to realize that the problems of students here are also part of a societal crisis in health care, insurance and real wages, which need to be addressed.

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ainly where she wants to be. So we must conclude after watching the abler members of the opposite sex gain seats in the House of Commons, capture municipal and state offices, and even run taxicabs.

We never had the matter brought so strongly to our attention as we have by the appearance on our formerly strictly masculine Campus of a group of girls whose presence here is a challenge to male forensic superiority.

We are not inclined to regard this invasion of our cloistered life here as an attempt to insinuate feminism into

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Princeton. We do not look askance at these visitors from a neighboring institution of learning. Nay rather, we welcome them. They afford us a pleasurable relief from our humdrum existence. If Alexander Hall can stand the strain, it requires no great effort from us. On with the debate, but we hope that the motto of the occasion will not be “To the victors belong the spoils.”

It is a wholesome sign, however, of the broadening interest of the eternal feminine that these daughters of Vassar are daring to enter what was formerly a masculine province, politics.

Many of us had almost been forced

to agree that the only thoughts that ever stirred the vacuity of the normal female mind were of parties, petting, and prohibition. We are glad to be disillusioned.

On behalf of the Campus, we extend to our visiting rivals a hearty welcome.

Such incidents as this come only too rarely. If Princeton loses, may we hope for a return engagement, maybe about the time of prom at Poughkeepsie?

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ing her 18th career doubledouble with 20 points and 11 rebounds. Tarakchian is now the eight player in program history to surpass 700 career rebounds and stands seventh best in Princeton history.

Smith scored 12 points and also added four assists and seven rebounds.

Overall, the Tigers shot 67.3 percent while holding Cornell to just 32.8 percent. They also out-rebounded the home team 41-23. Cornell’s guard

Maddie Campbell and forward Nia Marshall scored 22 and 11 points respectively,for the Big Red. Marshall, who played highschool basketball with Princeton’s Smith at the Hathaway Brown School in Ohio, came in as the Ivy League’s leading scorer. On Saturday, however, Princeton held her to just 11 points on 4-of-15 shooting, pushing her to below her average 17 points a game.

After two weekends of play off-campus, the Tigers will return to Jadwin Gymasium this Friday to face Harvard and this Saturday to face Dartmouth.

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with double wins over five Cornell sprinters. Then to enlarge the Princeton lead, sophomore Noah Kauppila and senior Luke Brahm claimed the 1,000m. Describing the crucial victory, Kauppila said, “It was crazy and we took the lead from the start. It went really well for us. We took command and it was at a tight point in the meet.”

With a modest lead, junior Xavier Bledsoe surprised many with a personal record and victory in the high jump. Bledsoe was the first to eclipse 2.13 meters and

his victory prevented Cornell’s attempt at a comeback. At the end of the day, Princeton walked away with a 23-point lead over Cornell, disproving prior predictions.

On the women’s side, several Tigers posted records over the weekend. Highlighting the women’s performance was senior Cecilia Barowski, who has proved to be one of the team’s most talented.

Additionally, junior Allison Harris claimed the Most Outstanding Field Performer of the Meet award with a first-place finish in the pole vault. The Tigers also scored points in the distance medley, 4x800m and 4x400m relays. At the end of Saturday, the Tigers

finished fourth behind Harvard, Cornell and Dartmouth.

For the Tigers, the weekend victories were especially sweet given the team’s resilience. Again, Kauppila spoke for the team when he said, “For the team, we have a lot of guys who tried hard the entire season. They were trying to get back, especially the injured ones. When you cap it [the season] off with a Heps victory it’s like icing on the cake.”

Following a weekend of exhausting competition, both track and field teams will receive a short reprieve before a spring break training trip to Orlando, which kicks off the outdoor season.

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By David Liu sports editor

KATHERINE TOBEASON:: PRINCETONIAN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

The men’s team placed first and the women’s fourth in the finale.

This past weekend, the wait for the highly-anticipated Ivy Indoor Heptagonal Championships finally came to an end. After two days of competition, the men’s team concluded the winter season with an upset, the 19th victory in program history, while the women showcased an array of stellar individual performances in their fourth-place finish.

Taking place just as temperatures begin to rise and clouds clear, the annual indoor Ivy Heptagonal is the most significant track and field meet of the winter season. The most impressive members of the men’s and women’s teams train assiduously weeks and days before the compe-

tition to prove themselves against fellow Ivy League foes.

Heading into the weekend, the teams had their sights set on Cornell, which had proved to be one of the most talented teams in the Ivy League. In fact, despite Princeton’s first-place finish at Harvard-Yale-Princeton this year, many analysts had predicted a double-digit Cornell victory.

Fortunately, the Tigers had other plans.

When asked to describe the challenge and pressure of this year’s Heptagonals, sophomore middle-distance runner Noah Kauppila said, “We were unsure because you never know what the other team is doing. It was pretty crazy. There are a lot of fans so it’s really intimidating sometimes.”

In response to the pressure,

Kauppila explained, “I’ve raced a lot and practiced preparing for those emotions. It’s basically just about experience, which helps a lot.”

To be sure, the men’s victory did not come easily. In fact, the Tigers finished the first day of competition in third place behind Cornell and Dartmouth.

On the second day, the Orange and Black comeback began with a second-place mile finish from sophomore distance runner Garrett O’Toole. Princeton further reduced the deficit when the duo of junior Chris Cook and sophomore Mitchell Charles won first and second place in the shot put.

After taking the lead, freshman Charles Volker and sophomore Carrington Akosa surprised See TRACK page 5

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Women’s basketball runs by Columbia, Cornell

By Berthy Feng contributor

With this weekend’s wins over Columbia (12-14 overall, 1-10 Ivy) and Cornell (14-12, 6-6), the women’s basketball team has swept 39 out of its past 42 Ivy League weekends.

On Friday, the Tigers beat Columbia for the 16th time in a row, running past the Lions, 77-48. Princeton started off strong, quickly gaining a nine-point lead in the first several minutes and finishing the first half with a 6-0 run to make it 41-28. Senior guard Michelle Miller and senior forward Alex Wheatley helped their team dominate the first half by scoring a combined 17 points through 8-of-11 shooting. The Tigers then outscored the Lions 21-5 throughout the entire third quarter and went on to claim a convincing victory against Columbia.

Impressively, Princeton had five players reach double figures. Miller and Wheatley led with 18 and 10 points respectively. Junior guard Van-

essa Smith and senior forward Taylor Williams both scored 11 points, and senior guard Amanda Berntsen put up 10. The Orange and Black shot 53.7 percent while holding Columbia to just 28.1 percent shooting.

Columbia’s forward Tori Oliver carried much of her team’s weight, scoring 14 points and spending the most time on the court. Forward Devon Roeper grabbed an impressive 10 rebounds.

Meanwhile, three Princeton players had five rebounds or more: seniors Annie Tarakchian, Berntsen, and Miller.

The win was an important one because it put Princeton in the top spot in the Ivy League along with Penn.

With Penn’s loss to Cornell the same night, Princeton and Penn are now tied for the best conference record.

If the transitive property could apply, Princeton demonstrated its superiority over Penn by beating Cornell the next day. The Tigers took down the Big Red 94-57 to se-

cure their 10th straight win.

The two sides were well balanced in the first quarter, though Princeton came out slightly on top, 15-11. The Tigers began separating themselves in the second quarter, scoring eight consecutive points early in the period.

Later in the period, Princeton went on a 21-6 run to put the game out of reach for Cornell.

The visitors continued their offensive dominance into the second half, outscoring Cornell 21-10 in the third quarter and 26-22 in the fourth quarter.

Wheatley scored an outstanding 23 points, a new career high, on 11-of-14 shooting in just 19 minutes of play.

As a result of her forceful play this weekend, Wheatley was named the Ivy League Co-Player of the Week. This is her third career POTW recognition and second this season.

Senior Annie Tarakchian also had a stellar night, postSee W. B-BALL page 5

TIFFANY RICHARDSON :: PRINCETONIAN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Senior forward Alex Wheatley scored a career-high 23 points against Cornell.

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Women’s Tennis stumbles at Blue Gray National Tennis Classic

By Helen Zhang contributor

Princeton women’s tennis suffered tough losses to No. 28 Alabama and No. 58 Texas in the Blue Gray National Tennis Classic in Montgomery, A.L. this weekend.

After leading early in doubles matches against Alabama, Princeton lost the opening point against Alabama due to a late effort from the Crimson Tide. Freshman Amber Park and junior Dorothy Tang lost to the Alabama pair 6-3 while Princeton’s number one pair of freshman Nicole Kalhorn and senior Amanda Muliawan also lost 6-3 in a tight match against the tournament’s 20th-ranked pair Andie Daniell and Erin Routliffe.

With a 0-1 disadvantage going into the singles, the Princeton Tigers fought hard in the next three singles matches before falling to the Crimson Tide. Sophomore Katrine Steffensen was ousted by Alabama’s Routliffe in a tight 6-4, 7-5 af-

fair while senior Emily Hahn fought fiercely to reach a first set tiebreak before also falling in straight sets 7-6, 6-1. Alabama’s Aryn Greene wrapped up the clash in three sets (26, 6-4, 6-3) after a brave effort from Princeton’s Dorothy Tang, handing the Crimson Tide an unassailable 4-0 win.

Following a tough loss at the hands of Alabama on Friday, the Tigers set out to redeem themselves on Saturday against No. 58 University of Texas at Austin. However, the Tigers started off poorly with a doubles loss. The opening pair of Muliawan and Kalhorn fell to the Texan pair of All-American player Breaunna Addison and her partner Dani Wagland 6-2.

Princeton’s Park and Tang put up a gritty fight in the second doubles clash, matching Texas pair Lana Groenvynck and Katie Poluta game for game before losing in a tight tiebreaker, with final score 7-6.

Princeton recovered in the singles with two successive wins at fourth and fifth. Junior

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Sivan Krems played with both power and poise as she scored Princeton’s first points of the day with a comprehensive 6-1, 6-2 victory, while Dorothy Tang also cruised to an impressive straight sets win with final score of 6-1, 6-2. Unfortunately, the momentum stopped there for the Tigers, as the Bevos scored critical wins at the second, third and fifth singles positions to give Texas a 4-2 victory. Princeton’s Steffensen put up a strong effort in the first set to reach a tiebreaker, before losing 6-1 in the second, with a final score of 7-6, 6-1, as Senior Emily Hahn fell in straight sets 6-2, 6-1 in a tough encounter.

The Bevos closed out the match with Kalhorn falling short in a tight, bravely fought match against Texas’s Dani Wagland, with a final score of 6-4, 7-5.

Princeton comes away from the Blue Gray National Tennis Classic this weekend with a 5-6 season record and will return home to play Georgia State next Saturday.

DANIELA COSIO :: PRINCETONIAN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

The Tigers faced stiff competition in U. of Texas-Austin and Alabama.

Stat of the Day

2.13 meters Junior Xavier Bledsoe’s high jump personal record of 2.13 meters helped seal the Heps championship.

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