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Today on Campus 4:30 p.m.: The Center for Jewish Life will sponsor a Muslim-Jewish Dialogue about Transmission of Authority. Carl A. Fields Center, Class of 1985 Meeting Room.

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April 20, 1977 A film crew from ABC television filmed discussions between students and activists on campus, as part of a documentary about gay rights in Florida that would debut two months later.

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News & Notes Yale to increase undergraduate student body by 15 percent

Yale will increase its undergraduate enrollment by 15 percent, or 200 students per class, with the addition of two new residential colleges, according to Yale’s website.

The colleges mark the first expansion of the residential college system since 1961, bringing the total number of colleges up to 14, and the enrollment increase will significantly increase the student body for the first time since Yale became co-ed in 1969.

At a ceremony on April 16, Yale president Peter Salovey, Yale president emeritus Richard C. Levin, university leaders, alumni benefactors, New Haven city officials and project team members celebrated the construction.

The speakers described how the project builds on Yale’s history in the present to prepare for the future.

“In the buildings taking shape just across the street, we can see a future with hundreds more Yale undergraduates each year — students who will be innovators, citizens, leaders,” Salovey said.

Ed Bass, a leader on the Yale Corporation, Yale’s governing board, said the new colleges reaffirm the university’s commitment to transmitting fundamental values over the generations, including the dedication of knowledge to the benefit of mankind.

LECTURE

Schiff talks national security

LEAP

By Nahrie Chung contributor

Congress faces an unprecedented conf lict between national security and individual privacy given the postEdward Snowden era and emergence of a new brand of global terrorism, Congressman Adam Schiff, ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, said at a lecture on Friday.

“It’s a really challenging time for our work on the Intelligence Committee for many reasons, not the least of which is in the wake of the Arab Spring we have greater instability than any time in the last half-century,” Schiff said.

He referenced a number of conflicts occupying the attention of the Intelligence Committee, including high casualties from the catastrophe in Syria, the ongoing war in Iraq, party clashes and terrorist profiteers in Libya, government crackdowns in Egypt and, more recently, the growing conflict in Yemen, where Saudis and Iranians have a new battlefield to clash in.

U.S. efforts to curb security challenges abroad have exacerbated domestic privacy concerns as well, Schiff said. “[We] also have a point of See LECTURE page 2

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Learning Enrichment in the Arts Program students visited campus on Friday to talk to the Princeton community about their artwork.

STUDENT LIFE

Rock band Valley Academy wins Battle of the Bands

By Olivia Wicki staff writer

The student band Valley Academy, which features David Lind ’18, Yaw OwusuBoahen ’17 and Ben Falter ’17, won the inaugural Battle of the Bands event on Friday.

The event, hosted by the Undergraduate Student Gov-

ernment’s social committee, was organized to decide the opener for the main act at Lawnparties.

The Battle of the Bands line up included student bands St. Danger, Thriller and Baker & Goods. Each band was given 20 minutes to perform.

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

Students push for Hindu space

By Cassidy Tucker contributor

Many students are interested in the idea of having a Hindu prayer space on campus, according to Rishika Dewan ’16.

Dewan spearheaded an initiative with Princeton Hindu Satsangam to send out a survey last month to students to

see if there was interest on campus for the creation of a Hindu prayer space.

“There is an interest from both Hindu students and non-Hindu students alike,” Dewan said. “Princeton is a great place to be Hindu, and we just want to see how we can further continue this trajectory.”

The Satsangam works

closely with Vineet Chander, Hindu life coordinator at the Office of Religious Life, according to Dewan.

The University is very accommodating to Hindu practices, Chander said.

“We are the nation’s first and only college or University to have a full-time Hindu life program,” Chander See HINDU page 5

VTONE

Aron Wander ’15 and Ryan Cody ’15 emceed the event, which took place on the Dillon Gymnasium Loading Dock and was sponsored by USG, the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students and the Lewis Center for the Arts.

USG president Ella Cheng ’16 said that Battle of the Q&A

Calif. Rep. Adam Schiff, House Intelligence Committee member

By Nahrie Chung contributor

The Daily Princetonian sat down with Congressman Adam Schiff, eight-term representative of California’s 28th District, who in January became the leading Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.

The interview followed a lecture he gave that highlighted Congress’ domestic surveillance debates and U.S. counterterrorism efforts in the Middle East.

The Daily Princetonian: What was your most memorable experience as an undergraduate at Stanford?

Adam Schiff: I would say life in the freshman dorm. I just loved everything about it. It was a great experience going away to college and getting to know people from all over the country. And it was just fun … I loved the independence of being on my own.

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VTone performed its annual spring show CITY LIGHTS in the Wilson Black Box this weekend.

Bands was organized to showcase and unify the diverse student bands on campus.

Cheng is a former staff writer for The Daily Princetonian.

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DP: Did that change by the time you finished college?

AS: At the end of my sophomore year it dawned on me that I was halfway through my college career and I was

really depressed it had gone by so fast. Senior year was just a blur. But it was a magnificent place to go to school and I really treasured the experience.

DP: Based on your experience as a former federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, what kind of legislative efforts have you made to improve public safety?

AS: A lot of the work that I’ve done in Congress in the public safety arena has been around DNA evidence. As a prosecutor, DNA has struck me as a very powerful tool, both for conviction and for exoneration. It also struck me as a tool that we’re not utilizing at all to the capacity that it has — to solve crimes, to take dangerous people off the street, and also make sure people on death row are not innocent and wrongly convicted. So I have worked for a number of years to expand DNA sampling, to make sure we have privacy protections, to reduce rape kit backlogs, which was a staggering problem in Los Angeles with See Q&A page 4

STUDENT LIFE

USG senate discusses Honor Committee constitutional amendments at meeting

By Katherine Oh staff writer

The Undergraduate Student Government senate discussed possible updates to the Honor Committee constitution on Sunday.

U-councilor and Honor Committee chair Dallas Nan ’16 suggested a provision that

would destroy any evidence concerning a case, should a student’s appeal prove successful. If the provision were to pass, there would be no record that the student had appeared before the Honor Committee after a given decision is overturned following an appeal.

“Destruction of evidence is

personally good for the students who have a graduate school or employer who ask for disciplinary records,” U-councilor Danny Johnson ’15 said.

Johnson is a former senior writer for The Daily Princetonian.

However, U-councilor Jacob Cannon ’17 said he was wary of the deletion of evidence,

since it is important for accused students to understand that there have been successful appeals in the past. Nan explained that appeals are not general campus-wide information.

“If all records are destroyed, there’s no way for the Honor Committee 10 years from now that might commit the same

harmful bias to look back,” U-Council chair Zhan OkudaLim ’15 said. “You don’t have to name students, but just say, ‘There was a case where this procedural unfairness thing happened or this harmful bias thing happened,’ just so the Honor Committee or the administration could avoid that.”

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As an alternative, Johnson said USG should consider including the number of appeals that were successful in the aggregate statistics released every five years. Such a feature would maintain anonymity while letting students see that appeals had been filed, so as to hold the Honor Committee accountable, he added.

The ideas discussed were tentative, and the senate will vote on each revision during the meeting next week.

During the meeting, the senate reflected on the success of the Undergraduate Student Life Committee’s “As I Am” campaign from last week.

Johnson said that, while the “As I Am” campaign was

very well publicized, there have been a number of photography-related projects on campus, and that USG should keep in mind that the campus will become saturated by such events at some point.

The senate also approved the Projects Board’s fund requests for two cultural events.

Projects Board co-chair Tyler Lawrence ’16 explained that the Taiwanese American Student Association’s annual night market was a “massive undertaking,” requiring approximately $8,000 in total. The senate voted to fund $1,800 of that amount.

The second request was for the Korean American Student Association’s annual banquet, which is the group’s biggest ticket event for the year and open to any member of the University community. Proj-

ects Board co-chair Naman Jain ’17 said that the KASA banquet has been very well attended by people all over campus for many years.

U-councilor Dan Mozley ’17 asked whether any event theoretically open to the entire student body could obtain funding through Projects Board.

Mozley noted that he had been part of another group on campus that had trouble getting funding for a similar event, because not many people outside of the group were expected to come.

In response, Class of 2016 Deana Davoudiasl said the senate should try to do a better job advertising which campus groups aside from Projects Board, such as the East Asian studies department and the Davis International Center Advisory Board, are actually pro-

viding funds for big events.

This past week, Princeton Public Works held its first annual Arts Mixer. The event aimed to help visual artists on campus socialize and showcase their works.

While the event was originally supposed to take place in the University Art Museum, the location’s high rental costs caused the group to instead choose Murray-Dodge Cafe, according to USG social chair Simon Wu ’17.

Communications Committee design co-chair Lavinia Liang ’17 said that approximately 30 students attended the event, which lasted for a little over an hour. She described the mixer as a networking event for the visual arts community that is “kind of underground.”

Liang is a contributing columnist for the ‘Prince.’

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unprecedented conf lict between the pressures to protect the country and the pressures to maintain our privacy,” he said. “I can tell you that no matter what we do this year — and we’re going to take up [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] reform, I hope, this year — this problem is not going away. This problem is only going to become more and more challenging.”

While the debate over security and privacy is nothing new, it is unfolding in an unfamiliar context, Schiff said, explaining that the amount of public confusion following the revelations of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden requires a more honest examination of Fourth Amendment protections. Congressional action responding to domestic surveillance must balance these two legitimate national interests, he said.

According to Schiff, higher scrutiny and tighter standards for the way in which surveillance programs are conducted are key to safeguarding Americans’ privacy.

“I think all of the surveillance programs ought to meet at least three fundamental standards — they need to be constitutional, they need to be effective and they need to be structured in way that minimizes any unnecessary intrusion on our privacy,” Schiff said.

He said he believes that the NSA’s program of collecting telephone metadata fails to meet the third standard, but that there is an alternative approach.

“There’s no reason why the telephone companies can’t hold on to their own data as they do anyway because they’re required to by the [Federal Communications Commission],” he said. “We could go to those companies after court process … and say, ‘This is a number we’re concerned about — do you have this number connected to other numbers in your database?’

That is much more protective of the privacy interests of the public, and I think we can the answers in a timely enough way,” he said, noting that he

has been advocating for such reform for years.

Schiff said that the debate over telephone metadata points to the larger problem of the encrypted model. Phone service providers only represent one of many players. Other tech companies within the private sector are unwilling to decrypt their own information for fear that accessibility would open up vulnerabilities to malicious hackers.

Schiff offered a different position.

“The question is, is it a manageable risk? And does the risk that that poses outweigh the need that legitimate law enforcement has to investigate an ongoing crime?” he said. “I suspect that the answer may be that we have to figure out how to maximally mitigate that risk so that they have minimal exposure to hackers who would improperly gain that information. But the cost of going completely dark may be simply too great.”

Schiff also discussed the future of cyber warfare. North Korea’s January cyber attack worried him especially as a representative of California’s 28th congressional district, which includes Hollywood, Burbank, West Hollywood and Glendale.

“I found my two worlds colliding recently when Sony Pictures was attacked by North Korea because here you have the entertainment industry, which I represent, being attacked by a rogue nation using a cyber technology,” he said.

Elaborating during the Q&A session, Schiff noted that some had questioned whether the government should respond on behalf of a private company that failed to protect itself.

“From my own point of view, I view that [cyber attack] as an attack on our country, particularly so when the clear motivation was … to inhibit the rights of Americans to express themselves,” he said. “I think that is an attack on our values, on our property and on our country.

The event took place in the Whig Hall Senate Chamber Friday at noon, and was cosponsored by the American Whig-Cliosophic Society and the Princeton College Democrats.

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by Jack Mazzulo :: Contributing Photographer Each semester, diSiac Dance Company puts on a beautiful show for over 1,000 people. A lot of behind the scenes work goes into these shows to make the performances look and feel as they do. The stage is transformed, with marley put down and wings put in, props are meticulously crafted, posters are put up all around campus, and months of rehearsal culminate in a final week of constant runthroughs; all while the dancers lead normal Princeton lives and academics continue on the same. But what the audience sees from this complex process is one result: love -足 love for their audience, love for each other and most importantly love for dance.

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thousands and thousands of kits untested, as well as to try to increase response time.

DP: Moving to foreign policy, how concerned are you with U.S. counterterrorism efforts in Yemen right now?

AS: I’m very concerned about it. We had a good partnership with the Yemeni government, we had personnel in Yemen, and we’ve lost a lot of that capability. And we see the results: not only a loss of our capabilities but also the degree to which al-Qaeda has profited from the chaos in Yemen.

Al-Qaeda has taken over the fifth largest city in Yemen.

They had been very much on the run and now they’re resurgent. [AQAP] is the most dangerous al-Qaeda franchise that has tried to blow up our aircraft repeatedly, so it’s something I’m very concerned about. We still do have capabilities there and we have a lot of experience working in denied environments but nonetheless it’s been a real setback in our efforts.

DP: And do you see major differences between ground-

based intelligence versus overhead capabilities?

AS: Ideally, you have a good complement of both, and there are some things that each are better at doing. But if you lose your eyes on the ground it’s a real serious problem because that often helps inform your assets in the air, and vice versa. So there’s no way to sugarcoat it. We have a pretty much diminished capacity there but we’re going to have to do the best we can.

DP: So in March this year, you and 40 other House members introduced the Armenian Genocide Truth and Justice Resolution and you’ve also announced that you will read the names of those deceased Armenians for one hour on the House f loor next week.

What are you trying to communicate? You’ve had a history of fighting for international human rights issues and crises, so how does this recognition play into your efforts on that front?

AS: I think it’s really part and parcel of what America has to do to lead on human rights, and that is we can’t pick and choose when we’re going to recognize genocide or when we’re going to speak out on mass atrocity. It’s not a prin-

cipled position to take to say, “Well, we’ll recognize genocide if it’s committed by a government we oppose but not when it’s committed by the predecessor nation of an ally.”

So this is important, I think, to our present ability to speak out on human rights, but also it’s an open wound for millions of families, that their own adopted nation doesn’t recognize what happened to them … I don’t think it’s in our interest to be complicit in Turkey’s campaign of denial.

DP: How do you think this congressional push will affect our relationship with Turkey?

AS: It’ll prompt a usual indignant reaction by Turkey, just like they had when the Pope recognized the genocide this past week, but I don’t expect it’ll be much more than that. Turkey will do what is in its national interest. We have tried to get the Turks to do more in terms of combating ISIL — for example, by shutting down their border to foreign fighters going in and oil money coming out — with very limited success.

Turkey will simply do what it decides is in its best interest, and I don’t think that’s going to be cutting off its relation-

ship with the United States because we recognize the unquestioned facts of history.

DP: In 2010, President Barack Obama approved the Daniel Pearl Freedom of Press Act, which you authored in the Caucus for Freedom of the Press. How do you believe the Act furthers the cause of journalistic freedom around the world and holds governments under closer scrutiny?

AS: The goal of the Daniel Pearl Act was to shed a spotlight on the freedom of the press around the world: what countries are improving, which countries are moving backward, what steps the United States government can take to encourage a free press around the world and unfortunately we’re moving backward, not forward. The world is a more hostile place now than it was two or three years ago. So we’re moving in the wrong direction and many countries are becoming great big prisons for journalists … I think it’s really one of those fundamentals that America needs to champion, in its own right and in the interests of developing good economies and successful states that don’t become havens for bad actors.

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community,” said Anthony Sgro ’18, USG social committee member. “There is a lot of talent, and we felt like it doesn’t get enough attention.”

Twelve student bands had applied to participate in the competition, but the social committee only chose five to perform. The criteria for selection included overall strengths and completeness of the application, as well as band showmanship.

“We selected them based on their musicality, previous performances, experience and logistical purposes,” Sgro said.

USG social chair Simon Wu ’17 said the committee conferred with entertainment company owner Bob Sallade and Campus Club director Dianne Spatafore to decide which band could best utilize the musical and staging equipment USG had at its disposal.

Wu said he optimistically predicted student attendance would be around 250, but only 80 students came on Friday.

Social committee member William Aung ’18 explained that he thought attendance was lower than expected due

to the number of established events, such as dance shows and events at certain eating clubs, that also occurred on Friday.

“There were a lot of things that were unfortunate in terms of time, but aside from that, the people that came were very engaged,” Aung said.

According to Sgro, the winner was decided 50 percent by judge evaluation and 50 percent by audience member vote. Based on audience polls, Psychobaby was the runner-up.

“We didn’t want it to devolve entirely into a popularity contest,” Wu said.

The five judges were creative writing professor Paul Muldoon, Logan Roth ’15, Caroline Reese ’14, Evan Younger ’08 and Josh Hirshfeld ’08.

Muldoon, an award-winning poet and songwriter, is the founding chair of the Lewis Center, Roth is the former social committee chair and a member of the student band Honeyhead, Reese is part of a folk band, Caroline Reese & the Drifting Fifth and Younger and Hirshfeld are members of the Brooklyn-based band Miracles of Modern Science.

The judges rated each band on scoresheets from one to 10, in originality, musicality,

showmanship and songwriting.

At Battle of the Bands, Valley Academy played its original songs “Limitless,” which was the first track on its recently released extended play “Race Me,” as well as covers of “Shut Up and Dance” by Walk the Moon and “Thinking Out Loud” by Ed Sheeran.

Valley Academy’s musical inf luences include OneRepublic, The 1975, Twenty One Pilots and Ed Sheeran, according to lead singer and songwriter Lind.

“Our sound is a combination of a lot of music,” he said. “The goal is to get people, including ourselves, to think more about why we do what we do.”

Drummer Owusu-Boahen and Lind have been playing together since their freshman year, and Lind and Falter met on a train on the way to a concert this year, Owusu-Boahen said.

Valley Academy was formed a couple of weeks before the release of the Battle of the Bands application. Lind said that, prior to the Friday performance, the band had only one gig at a local fundraiser with an audience of two people.

Owusu-Boahen said that winning Battle of the Bands is a highlight of his time at

the University.

“We had a great time playing Battle of the Bands. People got to hear our music, we had a fun time,” OwusuBoahen said. “Just the fact that we get to open at Lawnparties — that is one of those moments you won’t get very often.”

Owusu-Boahen said that when the other bands were announced he was very excited because he really enjoys Psychobaby and Baker & Goods, and did not know how the judges would be able to decide a winner among groups with such different musical styles.

“Our band is more upbeat pop, exciting, outgoing type of music, the type of thing to dance to, and I think that is what made us stand out,” Owusu-Boahen explained.

Wu said the main act artists Alus, Luke Christopher and Big Sean will decide whether they want to interact with and meet with Valley Academy members.

“In terms of meeting the artist, that’s not something we can ever promise because a lot of the times you don’t even meet the artist, it’s up to what the artist wants to do,” Wu said.

Cheng said this year’s Battle of the Bands will hopefully start a new annual tradition.

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noted.

University media relations specialist Min Pullan deferred comment to Chander but noted that there is an interfaith prayer space at Murray Dodge Hall.

Courtney Balgobin ’15, who participated in the survey, said she believes that the University is very accommodating, but that there is still a need for a Hindu prayer space.

“The Chapel is non-denominational, which is really nice, but it is also customary

for Hindus to sit on the floor when they pray, so that is another reason why this new prayer space could be convenient,” Balgobin said.

Non-Hindu students interviewed also supported the creation of a Hindu space.

“I think it’s important for us to continue supporting diversity, especially in faith,” Alex Rodgers ’15 said. “As a religious student, I know the value of my spiritual experience at Princeton when times can be really challenging and stressful, and I think that everyone deserves the opportunities to fulfill their spiritual needs here.”

Zachary Kuehm ’18 said

that he had not participated in the survey but that he supports the push for a Hindu prayer space.

“The University should be accepting and supportive of all religions,” he said.

Molly Contini ’17 said she thought the University should be responsive to the push for a prayer space.

“I think the University actively tries to accommodate diverse religious traditions, and I would hope that they would be responsive in this case, too,” she said.

Dewan said she is optimistic the University will implement a Hindu prayer space. Both Dewan and Chan-

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der said they have not yet encountered any negative feedback.

Green Hall is a likely spot for the prayer space if the University decides to create it, Dewan said.

“I think the administration is understanding, and if we approach them in the right way expressing our need for this, then I don’t see any reason why they would deny us of that need,” Dewan said.

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CORRECTION Due to a reporting error, an earlier version of the April 16 article, “Get “Messy” with Songline: Q&A with Aron Wander ’15 and Ryan Cody ’15,” misstated the time of the show. The show is on Thursday and Friday at 7 p.m. The ‘Prince’ regrets the error.

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A responsibility not to divest Caroline Snowden

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hen we signed “Rights, Rules, Responsibilities” at the beginning of our freshman year, we committed ourselves to creating a “community in which all members can participate fully and equally.” As Princetonians, we are both honored and compelled to be part of this effort for positive impact in our school, our country and the world.

It is therefore imperative that, when our Princeton community is challenged to respond to a complex and divisive issue, we remember our promise. This week there will be a vote on a referendum to divest from multinational corporations involved in Israel’s military operations in the West Bank. Needless to say, the conflict in Israel is nothing if not complex.

Yet the divestment referendum creates the impression that there is only room for binary judgment. It represents an attempt to make a public statement about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, using Princeton’s name to legitimize condemnation of what is termed the “collective punishment” and “state repression” of Palestinian citizens. In reality, the pro-divestment group does a disservice to peace by creating false dichotomies.

The concern for basic human rights is important, and it definitely deserves our attention. The present situation in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank is undeniably heart-wrenching.

Compassionate people cannot fail to be moved by the devastating violence that fills newspaper images; rational individuals cannot condone hunger or fear. It is not only appropriate but also essential that we feel a desire and a responsibility to end the conflict that has caused misery for so many years.

In the grip of such powerful and basic emotions, it is tempting to see the solutions to such conflicts as equally clear-cut. When considering those who suffer in this war, however, such oversimplification is a dangerous trap. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has affected lives throughout the entire region, drawing upon generations of religious and cultural hatred to fuel acts of violence against both parties.

Palestinian citizens live in a well-documented state of chaos, but Israeli citizens must conduct their daily business as missiles rain upon their country and terrorists detonate explosives in their streets, buses and marketplaces.

In 2014, Israel was criticized for bombing a UN school in Gaza, but many failed to mention that the UN found Hamas missiles stored in three different schools. While the divestment group references the demolition of Palestinian homes, it neglects to mention the tunnels constructed in order to attack Israeli residential communities on one of their holiest religious holidays.

The language and mission of the divestment referendum suggests that one must choose to support the oppressed or side with the oppressor. In this situation, divestment from certain Israeli and American businesses is equated with opposition to Palestinian suffering. Divestment supporters argue that divestment “should not be controversial,” pointing to their 500 signatures on a related petition obtained in January as proof of such fact. However, the 1,000 signatures collected against divestment in January reveal a different truth: that this conflict is far from clear-cut, and to suggest otherwise would be both impractical and dishonest.

Some still might argue that action, any action, in the face of suffering is superior to inaction. But what is the action of divestment intended to accomplish? Ultimately, this referendum serves little humanitarian purpose. Its economic impact is unlikely to be felt, since this situation does not meet Princeton’s preexisting criteria for divestment. This referendum does not forward reconciliation and resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, since organizations like Tigers Together are already leading campus efforts to engage both parties in dialogue. In many ways, this referendum undermines the campus atmosphere of tolerance and collaboration that is essential for positive change. Divestment is an assertion that two-party discussion is over, that we want to end relations with one of the two sides to this story.

In the debate on divestment, we do, as divestment supporters have suggested, have an opportunity as Princeton students to send an important message. What message will that be? Will it be obstruction: Princeton has determined that open debate is no longer practical or worthwhile? Or will it be a message of cooperation and understanding?

At the beginning of our freshman year, we made a promise to ourselves and to this university. We promised to create and maintain a community that seeks to resolve complex problems with both respect and openness to diverse perspectives. It is clear that we are therefore honor-bound to vote “No” to divestment, reasserting our commitment to forwarding positive change both in our community and in the world.

Caroline is a sophomore from Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. She can be reached at cks2@princeton.edu.

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Vote “No” on divestment

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rom noon today through noon on Wednesday, voting will take place in the Spring USG Elections. The ballot includes a referendum to determine if Princeton students will call on the Trustees “to divest [the University’s endowment] from multinational corporations that maintain the infrastructure of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank.” The Board urges students to vote no on the divestment referendum. We believe that the University should not directly insert itself in heavily politicized issues like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, especially when such issues have been the source of widespread disagreement on campus. Further, we consider the specific condemnation of Israel’s actions without similar condemnation of worse conduct exhibited by other nations to be a philosophically inconsistent show of ‘selective outrage.’

Vigorous campus debate on divestment this year demonstrates the divisive nature of the issue within the University community. During the fall semester, a petition calling for divestment from companies that “contribute to or profit from the Israeli occupation of the West Bank” and two counter petitions were circulated. Similar activism has occurred during the spring semester. We believe that robust debates regarding important issues are essential to a healthy university community; however, the spirited debate on divestment shows precisely why students should vote no on the referendum.

The Board believes, as we have in the past, that divestment should only be reserved for issues about which there is sub-

stantial consensus among members of the University community. The endowment implicitly represents the entire University community not only because it is funded by alumni donations, but also because it is Princeton’s primary source of revenue.

As a result, the endowment’s neutrality should be maintained and its investment practices should not be politicized. If the University were to divest from corporations involved in the occupation of the West Bank, it would be taking an official stance on one of the most controversial political issues in both campus and international politics. This would not only politicize the endowment, but it would also be counter to the University’s commitment to healthy academic discourse.

Campus discourse will not end after the student body votes on the referendum.

If the University divests, it will, therefore, adopt a political stance on a divisive and complicated disagreement. Given the University’s commitment to fostering discussion and dialogue where controversy exists, divestment is improper. The University should not intervene.

The divestment referendum’s focus on Israel’s actions in the Israel-Palestine conflict is problematic because it ignores immeasurably worse conduct by other nations around the world. At a recent forum sponsored by No Divest, Institute for Advanced Study Professor Emeritus Michael Walzer criticized the divestment movement because, he argued, the left cannot maintain what he characterized as ‘selective outrage’ towards Israel alone.

We agree with Walzer that divestment is ‘morally untenable’ because it condemns Israel for purported atrocities that pale in comparison to others on which the

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movement remains markedly silent. We have not, for instance, seen active movements to divest from Chinese companies for profiting from oppression in Tibet or Iran for its active support of violent terrorist groups. Some might argue that there should be a higher expectation of conduct for liberal democracies such as Israel; however, we consider this argument to be misguided because any nation, democratic or not, can perform an action that produces certain unfavorable consequences. Given that harms caused by Israel’s actions exist on a much larger scale in other parts of the world due to the actions of other nations, we believe that these nations should be similarly condemned irrespective of their governing philosophies. In this way, the democratic nature of the Israeli government is not a proper justification for condemnation; hence, we still do not condone selective outrage.

Divestment has been one of the most active and controversial campus debates of this academic year. The Board firmly believes that a university community should be one committed to encouraging open discourse on important issues, and forcing the University to take a stance in these politicized debates undermines that commitment. We strongly urge students to vote no on the referendum.

Mitch Johnston ‘15, Jeffrey Leibenhaut ‘16, and Jillian Wilkowski ‘15 abstained from this editorial. Allison Berger ’18 recused herself from this editorial.

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Lina Saud

Divestment: It’s about real people

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e grew up in a world intimately tied to the land of our parents and grandparents. Olive oil, in particular, has always been a staple of daily life. We ate bread soaked in olive oil with breakfast, lunch and dinner. We drank a spoonful of olive oil when we had a sore throat. We rubbed olive oil on our rashes, used it as a hair mask, and reached for it when our bikes have a squeaky wheel.

Ours is an unexplainable cherishing of olive oil.

I only recognized where my Palestinian-American family’s obsession stemmed from in my travels to the West Bank to visit my grandparents.

In this village near Ramallah, olive trees dot hills as far as the eye can see. To the right is Jerusalem, far in the distance. And a lone Israeli settlement stood a few hills away. Each summer we returned, and each summer it seemed that another hill was cleared of its olive trees, bearing another settlement on confiscated Palestinian land closer than the one before.

When I was a teenager, my grandfather walked me to the olive orchards near his home.

“They’ve been annexed,” he explained in Arabic — this land, these olive trees, they were no longer his.

I looked at the trees around me, and understood for the first time why olive oil was like gold to my family.

On April 20-22, University undergraduates will vote on the Princeton Divests Coalition’s referendum calling on the University to divest from multinational corporations that profit from the military occupation of the West Bank and the blockade of the Gaza Strip. As one of the few (or maybe only) Palestinian undergraduates on campus, my involvement stems from personal experiences above all else.

I have waited at Israeli-administered military checkpoints to travel throughout the West Bank: to get to Ramallah, from Ramallah to Bethlehem, and then crossing the border from Bethlehem to Jerusalem for Friday prayer. But it is not the hours spent at these checkpoints that make them contemptible as much as the humiliation exacted on Palestinian civilians who wait there. People are penned close together in a winding line, waiting to approach a metal detector surrounded by two soldiers with AK-47s and another soldier aiming a machine gun at the next Palestinian in line.

Meeting the eyes of that soldier was probably the most disconcerting mo-

ment of my life — he saw no humanity in my eyes, the object of yet another security check. And I could certainly see none in his, aiming a machine gun at my chest.

Considering solely the experience at a typical West Bank checkpoint, it is no wonder that this conflict has not reached even the semblance of a solution. Forty-eight years of occupation have bred deep mistrust, scuttling hopes for a peaceful solution to the conflict. Dismantling this systematic oppression would create a space to improve relations. Divestment is a key step toward achieving this critical goal.

Perhaps the most antagonizing element of the occupation that I have witnessed is the constant Israeli patrol over Palestinian villages, aided by tools of discriminatory surveillance from which the referendum seeks to divest. A sniper tower stands at the outskirts of my grandparents’ village guarding a settlement highway that only Israelis—not Palestinians—are permitted to use, threatening anyone who comes close to it. A tank rides through the village regularly, backing up when children chase it and fling whatever rocks they could find at it.

Once, when a group of teenagers were throwing rocks at the tank as it rolled down our street, they were blasted

with a stun grenade. Coming from suburban New Jersey, I thought it was a bomb. Little did I know the unconventional tools of occupation.

I’ve known the occupation all too well, and I know that no Princeton student would support the repression it breeds. I speak here only to give perspective on an issue that has thus far been treated as a political debate and a set of statistics on this campus.

The occupation of the West Bank is more than that. It is not the answer to Israel’s security concerns, nor does it make a peaceful two-state solution possible. It, instead, is the destruction of the Palestinian economy. It is the stifling of young Palestinians’ educational and employment opportunities by restricting freedom of movement via checkpoints and an arcane permit system, rendering a commute to work or school nearly impossible. It is the forced removal of Palestinians from their homes in al-Khalil (Hebron) to make way for an imported settler family. It is the confiscation of land and olive trees.

This is the Israeli military occupation that the divestment campaign hopes to bring to an end.

Lina Saud is a Wilson School major from Princeton, N.J. She can be reached at lsaud@ princeton.edu.

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did not fail the Tigers, who scored the game’s first three goals and have outscored opponents 40-26 in first quarters this season.

The scorer of the second goal from that opening salvo, senior attackman Mike MacDonald, a contender for Ivy League Player of the Year, became the first ever Princeton player to record at least 40 goals and 20 assists in a single season. His season totals of 40 and 26 puts him second in the conference point tally and fourth among all Division I players. MacDonald’s linemate, junior attackman Ryan Ambler, led all players with four goals.

Scoring the team’s third, sixth and ninth goals, se-

nior captain and midfielder Kip Orban now stands tied with Josh Sims ’00 for most goals scored by a Princeton midfielder in a season, at 36.

Converting a league-high 35.7 percent of their shots (good for fourth nationally), the Tigers’ offense has been remarkably efficient. And necessarily so, considering the lack of success experienced on faceoffs. Opponents have won possession at a rate of 55 percent.

When Princeton’s starting specialist, freshman Sam Bonafede, struggled against Harvard’s Austin Williams, sophomore midfielder Zach Currier gave his side life from the draw. In addition to his six wins off 10 attempts, he collected a gamehigh seven ground balls and caused a pair of turnovers.

Currier was not the only standout underclassman

in the win. Freshman goalkeeper Tyler Blaisdell set a

“Sophomore midfielder Zach Currier gave his side life from the draw.

In addition to his six wins off 10 attempts, he collected a gamehigh seven ground balls and caused a pair of turnovers.”

personal-best save mark that will be difficult to beat. He rejected 15 Harvard shots in the third win of his young

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lot of matches against ranked teams.” Goepel said, “We didn’t let it get to us. We kept our heads up, working really hard, and didn’t let those early matches affect the rest of the season.”

Senior Joan Cannon pointed out that the attitude through the losing streak was lightened knowing that individual performances were not a huge source of concern.

“We knew individual people were playing really well, even though we had those losses. It was easy to keep our heads up.”

Cannon explained.

Traces of those early matches seemed long gone in their most recent outing. The Ti-

gers opened up strong Sunday against Cornell (9-9, 3-4) with a fantastic doubles performance.

Junior Amanda Muliawan and sophomore Dorothy Tang took their doubles match 8-2, with junior Emily Hahn and freshman Katrine Steffensen earning the same result at 8-5 to clinch the victory.

Singles play proved to be much tighter competition than doubles. The Tigers and Big Red split the matches 3-3. Muliawan, Steffensen, and senior Lindsay Graff got the three crucial wins that earned the Tigers the title of outright Ivy League champions.

NCAA Tournament now looms for Tigers With the regular season behind them, the team can now prepare for the NCAA Championships, slated to begin Friday,

May 8.

After the amount of success they’ve experience in league play this season, Cannon pointed that one of goals for the next three weeks is to keep the team hungry and wanting more, even after the success from last year.

“We knew that we wanted to do bigger and better things.

We had the same starters come back, we knew we could do more than we did last year.”

Cannon said, “We started preparing really early.”

The losses, Cannon said, are just learning points by which the team will improve and be ready when the games really count.

“We had had a few tough losses,” Cannon said. “We knew that would just prepare [us] come later on in the season.”

career.

Since Blaisdell replaced senior Eric Sanschagrin, Princeton’s defensive unit has consisted mostly of underclassmen. Despite their youth, they have shut down some of the nation’s strongest attackmen in recent weeks. Harvard’s Devin Dwyer, an all-Ivy first-teamer from 2014, managed just a single goal on four shots.

Cornell, the nearly unanimous preseason favorite to repeat as regular season champions, suffered a shocking loss Saturday, dropping the Big Red into a three-way tie for second place. Accordingly, at least a share of the regular season title will come for the Princeton men. What remains to be seen is whether the postseason tournament will be held in New Jersey or New York.

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The last game for men’s lacrosse will take it to Ithaca to face Cornell.

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Dietrick is a proven winner who can contribute immediately. She expressed an eagerness for the Mystics in part because of the team’s hightempo offense, a system similar to the one she played in under Banghart.

Banghart emphasized the unique chance Dietrick has been given.

“You only get 15 spots in WNBA training camp. Being invited to training camp is a bigger deal then being drafted,” Banghart explained. “She has an opportunity in front of her.”

However, Dietrick still acknowledges the road ahead will be hard. She understands that the focus has to be less on connecting with her potential teammates and more on looking out for herself.

“While training camp is going on, I’m still not signed, fighting for a job, doing everything I can to get that spot,” Dietrick said. “[O]nce I do, I’ll worry about being friends with everybody.”

Both Dietrick and Banghart reiterated the importance of the shift from a team-first to a me-first perspective.

“When you come from such a successful team, you’ve gotten there because its been a team,” Banghart said. “For a pro game, it’s about your job, and everyone else is fighting for your job.”

The difference is all the more notable given that the success of the Princeton program has built on a culture of camaraderie between its players. “[In a successful program], your piece in the team mentality is critical,” Banghart said. “If you’re not coming from a successful program, there’s not as much emphasis on team.”

Of course, one of the biggest differences between

collegiate and professional basketball is money. Dietrick knows that she isn’t just playing for the pride and glory of a program anymore — bad play comes attached with detriments to her life outside of sports.

“The thing everyone’s really stressed is that it’s a profession, it’s not college basketball anymore, livelihoods are on the line. It’s just much more serious when you’re on the court,” Dietrick said. “It’s real life. I am a pleaser, trying to make everyone happy.

Coach Banghart told me ‘You need to be focused on you.’

That’ll mean distributing when you need to distribute, but shooting when you need to shoot.”

Another adjustment will, of course, be Dietrick’s role in her potential new team.

She has to go from being the clear leader to a newbie to the squad.

“It’s a different atmosphere. I was the leader of a team, and I’m going back to being the rookie, the newbie, the kid who doesn’t know any of the plays. Hopefully I can learn really quickly and figure everything out. It’s a different dynamic,” Dietrick said. “Figuring out how to try and be as much of a leader as I can while being a first-year player is definitely going to be really tricky.”

Dietrick still preparing with and receiving support from Princeton community In order to pursue her dream, Dietrick will logically be spending the majority of her time on basketball. While she took some time off as she finished her thesis, she is now going through rigorous training to be ready for camp in May. Dietrick will do her training with people both in and out of Princeton to get ready for this opportunity. She intends to work both with Banghart and the Mystics’ po-

sitional coach, Eric Thibault.

Her potential position with the Mystics is still up in the air. At Princeton, Dietrick evolved into a ball-dominant guard, who could create plays for her entire team and still get her own shot. According to Banghart, head coach Thibault sees potential for Dietrick to continue that role and to be more of a catch-andshoot player.

“Thibault said she can be used as a combo guard and a lead guard, initiating with the ball or receiving the ball,” Banghart added. “We need to make sure she’s that versatile come training camp. Part of [her appeal] is her ability to shoot the ball.”

As Dietrick works out some of the more technical details of joining the Mystics, she is also continuing to work with her Princeton teammates in their spring training.

Fellow star on the 2014-2015 team, junior forward Annie Tarakchian, said that Blake’s drive to get the WNBA appears just as strong as her desire to win a championship. Like with many in the Princeton community, Tarakchian’s faith in Dietrick is unwavering.

“We all have utmost confidence … She’s a rock star on the court,” Tarakchian said.

“If they see her play, and the competitive edge and versatility she has, they can’t say no.”

As she works with Dietrick, Tarakchian herself has a training camp to prepare for that’s coming up shortly. A strong scorer and Princeton’s leading rebounder, she is heading to Colorado Springs, Colo., for the junior national team tryouts May 14-17.

Tarakchian’s preparation for success can only be aided by working with Dietrick, an elite player and a fierce competitor. “[Dietrick] does not need to be pushed. She is so competitive. She knows what to

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Dietrick’s ability to both create her own shot and act as a catch-andshoot player is a large selling point for coaches at the pro level.

do; she’ll go after it every day with everybody,” Tarakchian said. “[There’s no] forcing her to do anything. When she has her eye set on something, you have to back off.”

It is this competitiveness that Banghart expects Dietrick to maintain throughout her professional career.

“She’s an elite competitor. [The Mystics front office members] were talking, ‘[She] doesn’t sound that nervous,” Banghart said. “Blake competes. She’ll know on that very first session of training camp, she’s competing with

everyone else. She was really competitive when she was a starter. That’s gonna come with her.”

When speaking with Dietrick, her desire to push herself to the highest level is always evident. Her enthusiasm for top-level competition can be just as valuable as her skills on the court itself. “[The WNBA] is the opportunity to play basketball at the highest level,” Dietrick said, and she looks forward to the chance to be “playing against the best players in the world.”

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Despite not hearing her name during the draft, Dietrick still has the chance to get on a WNBA team.

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when a team goes on a run because that’s when you start to question yourself. “ After handling situations like the Cornell game and the Columbia game, McMunn expressed confidence that her team knew what to do when facing a deficit on the scoreboard.

“You have to keep chipping away, keep fighting,” she said. “We know that we can come back from it. “ McMunn stated that adding to the Tigers’ hunger for victory was the sense of redemption and the desire to prove themselves to this team after not putting on their best performance in the Ivy League title game.

“The biggest difference was that in the Penn loss in the Ivy tournament, we didn’t play a full game,” McMunn said. “The whole second part of the first half was turnovers and poor decisions on our part. Knowing that wasn’t the team we wanted to be and that wasn’t the team that we were.”

Sophomore attack Olivia Hompe expressed a slightly different sentiment. While getting to face the team that knocked them out last season is clearly important, this Princeton team tries to approach every game with the same high level of intensity and fervor.

“This year, we were treating every game as if it was the Ivy Championship, and that’s been a huge focus for us,” Hompe explained.

“Penn’s a great team … we certainly marked this game out as special, I don’t think we tried to play anything super differently than we normally do.”

Tigers think about Ivy League tournament and NCAAs While the Ivy League rivalry is always an exciting topic, the Tigers have goals even beyond the confines of the Ancient Eight: an NCAA title. The Tigers are ranked 16th in the nation as of April 14, and given their play in the Ivy League have every reason to shoot for the stars.

Their postseason per-

formance last year speaks volumes to this team’s talent and preparation. They knocked off Penn State, ranked eighth at the time, in the first round of the NCAA tournament, and lost by just two goals to 11th-ranked University of Virginia.

Similar to her fellow attack, Hompe has noticed the improvement of this team throughout the season, especially in the way they stepped up against Penn. She says that the ability to maintain the belief in themselves will be a critical point for postseason success.

“As seniors, we’re becoming hyperaware of the fact that are careers are coming to a close faster than we want them to ...

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“Our team has gotten a lot more confident over the course of the season. As a team there was a lot of belief that we could win [the Penn game],” Hompe said. “That’s really important going into the playoffs. For us it’s really just a matter of taking it one game at a time.”

Certainly, this time of the year is bittersweet for the seniors on the team. After a fantastic career at Princeton, McMunn notes that she certainly doesn’t want her last Princeton game to be a loss.

“As seniors, we’re becoming hyper-aware of the fact that our careers are coming to a close faster than we want them to,” she said. “We’re just trying to enjoy every game we have left together, and leave everything that we have out there, and take it as far as we can go. We don’t want to be done yet.”

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Women’s tennis team wins Ivy League title

By Miles Hinson sports editor

After coming out of January with five straight losses, it was hard to guess what was in store for this Princeton women’s team.

The program was coming off its first victory in the NCAA tournament (defeating Arizona State), but in this season saw early struggles. Granted, one of those losses was to the Stanford Cardinal, ranked 8th at the time, but fans certainly

may have been worried.

For fans that remember their performance in league play last year, such worries needed not be present. With their win this Sunday against the Cornell Big Red at the Lenz Tennis Center, the Tigers (12-8 overall, 6-1 Ivy League) clinched the league title. This women’s tennis team had a dominant showing in Ivy League play, putting up a 6-1 record against others in the league. A loss to the Columbia Lions (12-8, 4-3) on Friday was

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the only blip in their quest to repeat last year’s 7-0 showing in Ivy League play from last year.

Katie Goepel, a senior on the women’s tennis team, noted that the Tigers’ victory in the postseason actually proved an important rallying point for getting through the tough times at the beginning of the season.

“We [knew] that after last year, we belong with those teams, even though we lost a See W. TENNIS page 7

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Despite a rough start to the season, the women’s tennis team dominated once again in league play.

MEN’S HEAVYWEIGHT ROWING

Men’s crew continues its unbeaten season, crushes Harvard and MIT in Compton Cup to earn first victory in the event since 2006 season

By Tom Pham staff writer

After starting the season with a win against Georgetown and two cup triumphs in the Navy-Princeton Rowing Cup and the Childs Cup, the Princeton heavyweight rowing team continued their success with a stunning victory at the Compton Cup against Harvard and MIT. The Tigers came into the weekend ranked third, while Harvard was fourth.

The Compton Cup has eluded the Tigers’ grasp since 2006, but this year, the varsity eight was able to clinch the cup for the 15th time as they finished first with a time of 5:43.9, which beat Harvard’s time of 5:48.4 by almost five seconds. MIT finished in third place some 20 seconds behind with a time of 6:04.5. The Tigers’ victory also marks the first time the team has won the Compton Cup at Lake Carnegie since 2001, ending a 14-

year drought.

The Tigers also easily dominated all three of the other races, winning all three of the other varsity eight races. In the second varsity eight, the Tigers clocked a time that was faster than the varsity side, as it finished the race with a mark of 5:42.6, beating two Harvard boats. In the third varsity eight, the Tigers went head-to-head with the Harvard third eight, and cruised past with a five-sec-

ond gap, while in the last race, two Tiger boats came in first and third, with the winning boat finishing with a time of 6:02.6.

The heavyweight rowing team will be competing in the Carnegie Cup against Cornell and Yale this coming Saturday in Ithaca, N.Y., at 8 a.m. and hope to continue its undefeated start to the season. Both Cornell and Yale are ranked opponents, with the hosts ranked ninth and Yale ranked fifth.

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The women’s lacrosse team weathered a strong run by Columbia.

Women’s lacrosse clinches share of Ivy League title

By Miles Hinson sports editor

The Princeton women’s lacrosse team continues their remarkable run at success, as they defeated the Columbia Lions on Saturday to maintain a perfect record in Ivy League play.

The Tigers (11-3 overall, 6-0 Ivy League) had to weather some hard times before they took the game against the Lions (5-9, 1-5). While starting off strong to take a solid lead, they would then see the tide turn against them as the Lions came back to tie the game 6-6 with about 17 minutes to go.

This, however, is a position with which the Tigers are well acquainted. Against the Cornell Big Red in Ithaca on April 11, the Tigers found themselves on the wrong end of a run that started in the first half and carried over to the second.

In the Columbia match, Princeton finished the first half with a 5-1 lead. After about 13 minutes in the second half, the game was tied at 6-6.

The Tigers, however, responded with fervor, absolutely dominating the rest of the way. They would score 6 straight goals to take

down the Lions, and in the win clinch at least a share of the Ivy League title, and are guaranteed to be hosts throughout the Ivy League tournament.

Tigers look ahead to postseason, build on huge win against Penn on Wednesday The lowly Brown Bears (7-7, 1-5) are the last game remaining for the Tigers before the Ivy League tournament. The Tigers are all the more invigorated after grabbing the win over Penn on Tuesday. This same Penn team defeated Princeton in the Ivy League tournament final last year.

Dealing with runs was a problem in that game too.

The Quakers opened the game with a 6-0 run, a deficit the Tigers would be unable to make up.

Senior attack Erin McMunn spoke about how to deal with being on the bad side of a run in situations when the stakes have been raised.

“In terms of leadership, you have to give each other energy and you have to give each other support,” McMunn said, commenting on her role as a senior and captain for this team. “You have to not get quiet and internal See W. LAX page 9

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The Compton Cup was a race that Princeton had not won since the spring of 2006, and this year, it came back with a vengeance.

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Tigers defeat Harvard to earn share of league title

Blake Dietrick earns spot on Mystics’ training camp roster

By Andrew Steele

By Miles Hinson

sports editor

Orange and Black fans at the Class of 1952 Stadium had plenty to smile about Friday night, as No. 19/20 men’s lacrosse (8-4 overall, 4-1 Ivy League) downed conference rival Harvard (6-7, 1-4) by a score of 12-11. Princeton amassed a 12-7 advantage through three periods that even Harvard’s 4-0 final quarter run could not assail. After the win, the Tigers stand alone at the top of the Ivy League table with only an away tilt against Cornell remaining on the schedule.

Princeton extended their all-time advantage over the Crimson to 58-22-1. During head coach Chris Bates’ tenure, the teams have split their six matchups 3-3.

There was a sense of desperation among the visitors during the tilt, and an added sense of satisfaction for the home team following.

Thanks to the loss, Harvard has been eliminated from Ivy League postseason contention, much like initial “r” has been eliminated from the pronunciation of the school’s name in a Boston dialect.

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With her thesis finished and the WNBA draft over, Princeton senior Blake Dietrick can now focus solely on being ready for training camp.

Dietrick, the star and leader of the 31-1 Princeton women’s basketball team, will be traveling to the capital for the Washington Mystics’ training camp. Her job will be to convince the Mystics’ front office to sign her for one of the team’s 12 spots on the season roster.

Draft night was a rollercoaster for Dietrick. While

projected to be a second- or third-round pick when she first declared, she spent draft night watching pick after pick go by.

However, during the third and final round, a call from the Mystics’ coach Mike Thibault would change the entire night. “[Thibault] called my coach [Courtney Banghart] and said ‘We’re drafting this girl [Marica Gajic], we’re not drafting Blake, but we want her to come to training camp,’ “ Dietrick said.

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