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In Opinion The Editorial Board advocates for a longer preview program, and a coalition of student organizations presents a motion to make the undergraduate admissions process more fair. PAGE 4

Today on Campus 8:00 p.m.: The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, led by audience favorite Xian Zhang, will be performing Mozart’s 39th symphony.

Richardson Auditorium.

The Archives

May 1, 1967 Eleven freshmen played a prank on campus in which they built a seven-foot-tall outhouse and placed it in front of Nassau Hall late into the night. They left a note saying, “From the boys in Brown Hall.”

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STUDENT LIFE

U. sees increase in delivery services

TAKE BACK THE NIGHT

By Kristin Qian staff writer

The University has recently seen a rise in the number of delivery services marketed to students, including ontheway, Princeton Octopus and Delivia.

Delivia is an app that was developed to create a crowdsourced system in which students on campus can be both deliverers and customers, according to Max Shatkhin ’15, who created the app with Juan Albanell ’15.

The app started as a class project idea last semester for ELE 381: Networks: Friends, Money and Bytes, Albanell said, and was launched on March 22.

Albanell explained that it is inefficient for a person go to a store and go back to his or her room without knowing that, perhaps, someone living two doors down also wanted something from that store.

“We had a lot of friends who either were in Forbes or just in their rooms, and they were stuck and would say, ‘I would pay someone to deliver to me right now,’ ” Shatkhin said.

With Delivia, people can input orders into an order feed, and people en route can get paid to deliver, Shatkin said.

He added that users are also notified when someone is heading to a particular store, so students are then more willing to order something.

“People live pretty close to each other and there are See DELIVERY page 2

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Take Back the Night featured performances by Ellipses and the Wildcats, with keynote speaker Salamishah Tillet sharing her survival story. The event, hosted by SHARE, sought to break the silence surrounding sexual assault and domestic violence.

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

U. appeal to dismiss tax lawsuit declined by N.J. Superior Court

By Jessica Li staff writer

The Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court declined to hear an appeal earlier this month from the University regarding its tax-exempt status.

The University had motioned earlier to dismiss a lawsuit that challenged this status, but was ruled

against by the Morris County Tax Court.

Four town residents are challenging the University’s receipt of a property tax exemption from the town in 2014. This is separate from a 2011 suit challenging the University’s property tax exemption for 19 buildings alleged to have non-educational or primary uses.

The University will now

Though the case was filed in 2011, if a settlement is reached, adjustments would only need to be made starting this tax year.

In mid-February, Morris County Tax Court judge Vito Bianco upheld the right to sue for four local residents represented by attorney Bruce Afran.

Bianco deemed the See TAX page 3

ACADEMICS

LECTURE

U. hires Sanskrit lecturer for first classes next fall

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By Zoe Toledo staff writer

Clinton addresses criminal justice at Columbia

In her first major speech since announcing her presidential candidacy, Hillary Rodham Clinton addressed the growing issue of mass incarceration and criminal justice at Columbia’s David N. Dinking Leadership and Public Policy Forum, according to the Columbia Daily Spectator.

Clinton discussed the growing urgency for reforming the criminal justice system, mentioning policy options such as equipping police with body cameras and reevaluating the punishments for lowlevel offenders.

“It’s time to change our approach. It’s time to end the era of mass incarceration,” Clinton said. “It’s time to have the debate about how to reduce the prison population while keeping our communities safe.”

Columbia has recently taken up the issue of prison injustice and reform. After a recommendation from Columbia’s Advisory Committee on Socially Responsibly Investing that it should divest from companies in the private prison industry, a manager eliminated Columbia’s holdings in the Corrections Corporation of America in February.

take the case to trial, University Vice President and Secretary Robert Durkee ’69 said, although hypothetically the University could have appealed the case to the New Jersey Supreme Court.

With an unfavorable ruling in the trial, the University will be required to pay around an additional $40 million per year in taxes.

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Executive chairman of Google Eric Schmidt ’76 gave a lecture on campus on Thursday.

Schmidt ’76 discusses machine intelligence, technological advancement, education

By Jessica Li staff writer

Technology will transform societies in big and small ways, but harnessing the distinctive intelligences of men and computers is key to materializing a better future, explained Eric Schmidt ’76, executive chairman of Google, at a lecture on Thursday.

We are in the era of apps, Schmidt said, citing whimsical mobile gadgets like Am I Going Down, Swearport, and SitorSquat that calculates odds of a f light crashing, translates curse words into foreign languages and locates proximal

bathrooms in all corners of the world, respectively.

With apps capable of predicting tomorrow’s hair conditions and automating text messages, it is foreseeable that in the near future, an intelligent alarm clock will be able to tell the user that he or she can snooze for eighteen more minutes because his or her boss is running late.

He said that credit for the blossoming of modern technology must be due in part to Vannevar Bush, a lifelong engineer who advocated for increased science research funding in the postwar era, ultimately leading to the creation of

the National Science Foundation.

With this stimulus, the government and private sectors collaborated together and witnessed unprecedented progress for the military and the public, Schmidt explained, fostering industries that are still growing very quickly.

But perhaps they are changing too quickly, he said, noting that while many people have just begun making websites, the current generation has already moved on to mobile apps.

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The University has hired Nataliya Yanchevskaya, an adjunct lecturer at Moravian College, to teach Sanskrit in the fall.

The main qualification for the position was a very high level of training in the Sanskrit language, Jonathan Gold, chair of the search committee and professor of religion, said.

However, the committee was looking for someone to teach not only the grammar and history of the Sanskrit language but also the wide range of literature available, Gold added.

Yanchevskaya has taught Sanskrit at Harvard and Brown.

She has worked on Vedic and Classical Sanskrit grammar, religion and philosophy with a focus on comparative mythology, according to the Office of the Registrar.

Yanchevskaya was not available for comment by press time, as she said she is traveling abroad.

Yanchevskaya, who is also fluent in Russian, is trained in a wide range of Sanskrit literature and has an interest in teaching Sanskrit poetry and poetics, Gold said.

The applicant pool was fairly large with 50-70 applicants from Europe, India and the United States, Gold said. From those who applied for the position, a small pool of excellent candidates were invited to campus.

When visiting the Universi-

ty, Yanchevskaya gave a sample lesson.

She began the class with a beginner topic, Sandhi, which comprises the rules of how vowels change in relation to other letters in a word, according to Vidushi Sharma ’17, who was invited to attend the lesson.

Sharma said she thought this was an appropriate topic given that the room had people with differing levels of exposure to the language.

Throughout the class, Sharma said Yanchevskaya spontaneously spoke a few Sanskrit sentences about University life, which those present said they enjoyed.

“She also sang a few lines from the Bhagavad Gita at the end of class to show the intonation and metrical progression that a Hindu pundit [priest] would use,” Sharma said. “At the end of the class, she showed us examples of Sanskrit in real literature and gave us excerpts from real texts.”

Naomi Lee ’15, an independent concentrator studying linguistics, also attended the sample class to see Yanchevskaya’s teaching style and said that Yanchevskaya’s organization and handle on the subject matter was impressive.

Yanchevskaya is an excellent teacher who stood out amongst the people interviewed and considered, Gold said.

“She is very personable and very fluid in her ability to interact with students,” Gold said.

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certain hubs of stores — for example on Nassau Street — if someone is going that way and coming back to Princeton, it’s very beneficial for them to just grab something and drop it off somewhere on campus,” Albanell said.

As of the first week of April, there are 250 users and 20 daily active users, according to Albanell, adding that they have been receiving a constant flow of orders as well.

While other popular delivery services hire carriers, Delivia works on the belief that people are willing to bring items back with them from a grocery trip

and get paid that way, Albanell said.

The chat function in the app allows the deliverer to arrange a meeting place with the customer, and payments can be done either through the app or through other apps like Venmo, Albanell explained.

Users can put how much they are willing to pay for a particular item they want and can set their own delivery fee, instead of a fixed price, Shatkhin said, adding that the carrier picks up the items within the price range set by the user and is then reimbursed for the items plus the delivery fee.

“We want to create a community around a campus of people helping each other out, not just people delivering things as

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their job,” Albanell said.

Another delivery service app Ontheway, which was launched last Sunday, is the result of efforts from Victor Zhou ’18, Jason Jiang ’18, Nathan Lam ’17 and Murad Mahmudov ’17.

In the app, people can input “paths” that show where they are going.

The students started working on the app three weeks before spring break and it currently has about 300 downloads and 150 users, mostly from Princeton, according to Zhou.

The payment system is completely built into the app, Zhou said, which differentiates it from Delivia.

“People are always going places,” Zhou said. “There are people walking all over cam-

pus, and we just wanted to tap into that movement that was already there. We figured we could make a lot of people’s lives a lot more convenient.”

Zhou said the ontheway developers hadn’t heard of Delivia before launching their own product.

“The primary difference between Delivia and our app is that Delivia — it’s really simple — you find someone who wants something, you find someone who’s around that area and they deliver to you,” Lam said. “What we found was that in order to make it reasonably worthwhile for the person to make the delivery, we would find multiple people on the way.”

Ontheway links people to multiple locations, which is

a feature that differentiates it from the others, according to Lam. Representatives of Princeton Octopus did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

The trend in delivery services on campus started earlier this year, and many of the services launched around the same time.

“Honestly, I think the fact that all the delivery services have come out at the same time is weird,” Shatkhin said.

“I think that the success of companies like Airbnb and Uber that act like crowdsourcing marketplaces have brought people’s attention to this kind of business model.”

The trend may not stay necessarily localized on campus,

but might spread to big cities, he said. For example, he noted that InstaCart, a grocery delivery service, has taken over huge cities.

“There are a lot of people who are unemployed, and this is a very easy way to get employed and to make money on the side,” Albanell said. “I’m sure we’ll keep seeing this.”

Lam also said that the existence of several peer delivery services on campus fosters competition and demonstrates that there is interest in the area.

“If three teams came up with the same idea and built the same product in the same general amount of time, odds are that outside of Princeton there are other teams doing that,” Lam said.

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University’s argument — that the University’s “dominant motive” is to be an educational institution — irrelevant, a legal precedent that prompted the University’s argument to be overturned, Afran explained. Following the decision, the University immediately filed an appeal to the higher court.

The Appellate Court upheld Bianco’s ruling as there were never any legal issues, Afran said.

“The courts for many years have said that when a nonprofit shares profits and engages in commercial conduct, it is subject to lose its exemption in its entirety, and Bianco was just following the existing law,” Afran said.

Durkee said that while appealing a decision prior to trial is an atypical practice,

the University believed it was worthwhile to try.

“It is unusual to ask the court to consider an appeal prior to a trial court decision, and we knew it was unlikely that the court would hear the appeal, but we believe the law is clear enough that it was worth asking for a ruling now,” Durkee said.

Unless a settlement can be reached with the town and its residents, the University is at “serious risk” of legally losing its tax exemptions, Afran said. An agreement between multiple parties would entail a commitment from the University to appropriate to the township a reasonable tax payment each year, an amount Afran said would have to provide significant tax relief to residents.

“People here are paying 30 percent more in taxes than they should,” Afran said. “It’s hurting a lot of members in this community because Princeton is not paying its fair share. The

University needs to return to a position of being fundamentally honest.”

The University expressed some interest in an outside settlement during preliminary discussions, Afran said, adding that going to trial includes incurring significant legal fees for all parties and creates a “huge risk” for the University.

Unless the University can demonstrate at trial that it does not engage in widespread commercial conduct, it may lose the entire or a very significant portion of its tax exemption, Afran said.

“It’s just not fair that Princeton can pay millions of dollars to its faculty and endowment fund managers while refusing to pay taxes, leaving thousands in the community strapped of cash,” Afran said, adding that the town’s residents include many working class men and retired individuals with limited incomes.

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In September, Sharma circulated a petition for a Sanskrit language program at the University.

“The show of support from students across various departments affirmed to me that people do believe Sanskrit is a fundamental language to have in terms of studying classics, linguistics, philosophy and religion,” Sharma said.

Spencer Chen ’16, a comparative literature major who was one of the supporters of Sharma’s petition for Sanskrit last fall, said he wanted to take Sanskrit because he thinks that it is an important literary language.

“In general I feel that there is not enough focus on nonWestern languages,” Chen said.

“Languages such as Chinese and Arabic will be important because of [their] political importance.”

Looking forward, Gold said he is hopeful for the future and

that one of the main considerations for the program will be enrollment.

“It is exciting to know that Princeton has taken this step in adding Sanskrit as well as acknowledging and moving forward with a commitment to the importance of South Asian Studies,” Gold said.

Sanskrit classes will fulfill the University’s foreign language requirement. SAN 101: Elementary Sanskrit and SAN 105: Intermediate Sanskrit will be offered in the fall.

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far-f lung across disciplines, he said.

Improvements to photovoltaic cells, carbon dioxide processing and even the realization of automated driving are within our reach, Schmidt said. He added, however, that he is aware of the job losses triggered by technological progress, recalling that elevator operators a century ago were replaced by a few buttons in the elevators.

It seems that the current platform revolves around mach ine intel ligence, Schmidt said.

“Computers will do their best and we will. We are creative, we have emotions. Computers have far, far better memories than we do and can repeatedly perform the same difficult task,” said Schmidt. “This is called a division of labor: this split will occur natu-

rally and globally.”

Schmidt suggested that in the future, the University may have to offer a course on power dynamics between computer and humans.

The implications of government policies are enormous in an age of technology, especially the government’s enthusiasm for scientific funding, Schmidt said. Because the government has monopoly power to this extent, he said a society is needed that encourages new innovations.

The degree to which the government encourages or discourages open communication may also create significant disparities among various populations, he said.

Ultimately, Schm idt pointed to the importance of teaching entrepreneurship and increasing areas of experimentation.

“American universities are at the center of [the future],” Schmidt addressed

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the audience. “You as a collect group can [allow us to] move forward with incredible implications. I want you to make this happen and this is extraordinarily exciting.”

Schmidt delivered the lecture, titled “Computers and Humans Will Each Do Their Best” at 5 p.m. in McCosh 50.

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rinceton Preview is the University’s premier outreach event for admitted students. Prior to the meningitis B outbreak that occurred a year and a half ago, Preview was a three-day event that included extensive exposure to student life and overnight stays in the University’s residential colleges. Last April, we agreed with the University’s decision to shorten Preview to a daylong program in response to the meningitis outbreak. However, given that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now consider the University’s meningitis B risk equivalent to that of other colleges, the Editorial Board advocates that the University return to its overnight model for Preview.

The current schedule packs Preview into an intensive, 12-hour span. Extending the schedule would allow for more campus organizations to present to admitted students while simultaneously affording them a respite between events. In addition, an overnight Preview affords campus organizations more variety in how they choose to market themselves to admitted students, including evening social events and performances. Consequently, the Board believes that extending Preview improves the quality as well as the variety of its events.

Spending time at the University overnight for several days is also crucial to forming lasting bonds with other admitted students and current members of the University. Many current students express that people they met during Preview provided a supportive base of contacts and friends at the beginning of the year, when such support is most needed.

Likewise, more time at Preview allows admitted students to form deeper connections with the campus and older students. Unfortunately, admitted students who do not live within driving distance from the University and do not qualify for financial aid may reasonably choose to not attend a mere 12hour Preview. The Board believes that lengthening Preview would result in more of these students visiting the University, thereby expanding the geographic diversity of admitted students on campus during Preview weekends. Not every new student will take advantage of more time on campus, but affording the opportunity to admitted students is critical to enhancing their Preview experience and to allowing a full appreciation of the University.

Those concerned about the logistical effort required to host an overnight stay might argue that, in spite of a shortened Preview, the University’s yield actually increased from 68.7 percent for the Class of 2017 to 69.2 percent for the Class of 2018. However, it is difficult to draw conclusions from this trend given that the data for this policy change only exists for one year. More salient is the long-term image of the University that a single-day Preview promotes: each of the seven other schools in the Ivy League offers some form of overnight stay for admitted students. The Board believes that Princeton Preview, in its current form, appears a mediocre gesture in the face of more concerted efforts from our peer institutions. This trend should also give our own admission office pause: there must be good reason that every other Ivy League institution has adopted an overnight policy.

As such, the Board firmly believes that returning Preview to its overnight, three-day stay will improve the University’s image and enhance the experience of admitted students. The current Preview schedule is too short for new students to make the most of their time on campus.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

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s an alumna, I was extremely disappointed to read two recent guest columns (“Princeton’s Laboratory Animal Research Program,” published on April 22, and “Misleading and Factually Incorrect Coverage of Animal Research at the University,” April 28), which mislead readers through fear-mongering and a broad mischaracterization of the treatment of animals in laboratories. In addition, they misrepresent the supposed benefits of experiments on animals as well as public perceptions of animal testing.

According to a recent Pew Research Center poll, 50 percent of Americans oppose experiments on animals. And opposition rises the more the public learns about the constant pain and misery that animals endure in laboratories, the failure of

animal experiments to provide accurate predictions of outcomes in humans and the availability of cuttingedge animal-free research methods.

In recent tax-funded experiments at Princeton, experimenters injected oxytocin and hormones into the brains of rats and deliberately put them in stressful situations before finally killing and dissecting them.

In another experiment, rats were videotaped having sex, injected with compounds to promote the growth of brain cells and then killed.

In reality, these types of crude, cruel experiments — which cost millions of dollars and kill many animals — very rarely help people, as evidenced by the Food and Drug Administration’s finding that more than 90 percent of drugs that may have worked in animal tests subsequently fail in human clinical trials.

Additionally, despite the mislead-

ing claims of the authors of these opeds, federal inspectors have found that the University has allegedly violated federal animal-welfare laws. In recent years, the University has been cited for failing to provide justifications for the use of animals in harmful procedures, failure to provide monkeys with adequate veterinary care, and failure to provide appropriate oversight by University officials.

Recent reports of the disturbing treatment of animals in campus laboratories are part of a system of institutionalized abuse at the University that should be roundly condemned by students, faculty, alumni and community members alike.

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University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83, Dean of the College Valerie Smith, Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye, Provost David Lee GS ’99, Vice Provost for Institutional Equity and Diversity Michele Minter, Executive Vice President Treby Williams ’84, Vice President for Campus Life Cynthia Cherrey: Over the past three semesters, members of the University community have come together in support of a simple yet important step that the University can take to further its commitment to institutional equality and social justice. It has become widely acknowledged that the U.S. “justice” system is broken. Our nation’s overflowing jails and prisons are physical manifestations of the institutional racism and socioeconomic inequality that have plagued this country since its inception. Like other systems of social control, this system functions largely by stigmatizing and disenfranchising entire segments of the population. A person who has been labeled a “criminal” in our society, often as a result of the under-funding and over-policing of low income communities of color, can be systematically stripped of rights including housing, employment, voting and education. By asking prospective undergraduates about former involvement with this system in

Open letter: abolish the box the application process (forcing them to check “the box”), the University actively supports racial and socioeconomic oppression, and consequently the decimation of communities, families and individual lives.

In certain respects, the University has endorsed policies that address the penal reality. Its support for the Princeton Teaching Initiative and the Petey Greene Program, which bring high school and college-level courses into prisons, reflects an appreciation for the transformative power of education.

The University does not require graduate school applicants to check the box, and as of this year, it delays such questions until the final stage of the hiring process. However, the University remains complicit in the dehumanizing process of criminalization through the factors it considers in its undergraduate admissions process. By receiving the information communicated by the box, it legitimizes a demonstrably unjust system. In order to end this form of discrimination, we call on the University to take a moral stand and refuse to accept information about an applicant’s history with the penal system in the admissions process.

Despite the unquestionable flaws within our nation’s punishment system, the University and an estimated two-thirds of all universities fashion themselves into an arm of the punitive state by asking questions about past

convictions on their applications. More than just facilitating an applicant’s rejection, this has a huge deterrent effect on people applying to colleges. A recent report done on the topic found that in the State University of New York system, for every applicant denied admission after checking “yes” when asked about past convictions, 15 other applicants who checked “yes” failed to complete the application form. Moreover, the median attrition rate for those with felony convictions was found to be three times higher than the median attrition rate for the general applicant pool. We are effectively dissuading or turning away an enormous block of potential applicants.

Most University students can admit that they have committed “crimes,” like underage drinking, illegal drug use, minor driving infractions or maybe even more serious infractions.

That we are here reflects the fact that we were never caught, or perhaps that we were fortunate enough to have legal representation capable of securing expungements or getting convictions overturned. Marginalized individuals from policed communities do not have these luxuries. What this means, practically, is that a question about past involvement with the punishment system asks more about applicants’ race, socioeconomic status or birthplace than about their moral standing.

Inquiring about past convictions has

never been proven to make campuses safer; universities that do not ask such questions do not report higher levels of violence or crime. We believe that the box represents a profound and harmful form of discrimination that the University should have nothing to do with. We do not accept that having been caught committing a crime disqualifies a person from having an education.

While we believe that the University has both a moral imperative to remove questions about involvement with the penal system from its application process and the power to effect real change by doing so, we recognize that these questions must be addressed on a broader scale. For this reason, over the course of the past year, students at the University have been organizing alongside formerly incarcerated individuals, advocacy groups and students from over a dozen other institutions to form a national coalition to abolish the box. Given the recent attention to the inequities of the American penal system, the implementation of “ban the box” fair hiring practices in various jurisdictions (including New Jersey), and the rapidly expanding base of students and activists seeking to remove questions about past involvement with the penal system from college admissions, we believe that the success of this movement is imminent. Abolishing the box on the undergraduate

application is an opportunity for the University to emerge as a leader in the fight for a more fair admission policy.

This past year, over 600 University students, faculty and alumni have joined their voices to this call for more fair admissions. More recently, several campus advocacy groups have joined a coalition calling on the university to change. Among these are Students for Prison Education and Reform, Princeton College Democrats, Princeton Committee on Palestine, The Princeton Progressive, the Muslim Association for Social Justice and the Princeton Equality Project. In order to further educate the campus community about this issue and its intersections with other areas of social justice, members of the coalition will be hosting a teach-in during the coming week. We invite Eisgruber and other members of the University administration to join students, faculty and community members in attending this event in order to better understand the nature and broad range of support for this movement.

Signed, Black Student Union Executive Board Muslim Association for Social Justice Princeton College Democrats Princeton Committee on Palestine Princeton Equality Project Students for Prison Education and Reform

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The women’s water polo team has had a stellar season and will look to continue dominating this week.

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recorded 17 saves against Indiana in the tournament, which is especially impressive given how many power play opportunities the Hoosiers had.

Hatcher, for her part, has been a killer on the offensive end this season, as she’s amassed 78 goals in her 28 ap-

pearances so far. She too has brought her A-game when her team has really needed her, scoring 4 goals in the game (the Tigers scored only 7 total). Her efficiency has also been a marvel — she’s had a shot percentage of 59.5 on the season, and shot 66.7 percent in the game against Indiana.

Their threats certainly don’t stop there. Freshman utility Haley Wan has had an

excellent rookie season, putting up 33 goals on the season, including a goal against Indiana in that crucial victory. Other players to watch out for will be senior utilities Jessie Holechek, who accompanied Johnson and Hatcher with All-CWPA First Team honors, and Taylor Dunstan, who was All-CWPA Second Team and player of the game in the Tigers’ 15-2 romp against George Washington.

Tigers look to continue momentum Volleyball concludes successful season in postseason conference games M. V-BALL JACK MAZZULO :: SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

The men’s volleyball team fell to rival Penn State in the EIVA Championship Tournament.

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reigning player of the year.

Russell racked up 19 kills and 5 service aces on the game.

With this loss, the Tigers will say farewell to seniors libero Tony Ensbury, setter Conor Dube, middle blocker Will Siroky and outside hitter Cody Kessel. Siroky and Kessel will go out on the high

note of having received AllEIVA honors this season — Siroky on All-EIVA Second Team, Kessell All-EIVA First Team. Ensbury, for his part, was on the All-EIVA First Team in the 2014 season.

Dube is a former associate photo editor for The Daily Princetonian.

Kessel in particular has finished a career at Princeton few will repeat. He has helped bring his team to four

straight trips to the postseason in his time at Princeton and has been All-EIVA First Team in each of those years.

One of the highlights in his time at Princeton came against Penn State, where the Tigers earned a thrilling victory 3-2 over the Nittany Lions in Dillon Gymnasium.

Kessel’s performance in that game was sensational, as he went off for 14 kills and 2 services on the day.

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said. “[We do] anything we can do to create chaos.”

DeGarmo’s comments indicate the mentality the team has going into the weekend — the strong results of the past have to be left behind if they want to come out on top.

Lynch herself noted that while the successes of the regular season may have built the team’s confidence, winning in the postseason requires a solely forwardlooking mentality.

“What we have already done is great, but it means little and less up against new opponents.” Lynch said. “We treated each Iv y game this season like its

own championship, and we’re going to approach each new post-season game with a similar mindset.”

DeGarmo spoke similarly about the intensity of the postseason.

“Anything can happen on any given day.” DeGarmo said. “You can’t go in with any given complacency … we have to go in like we’re hunting for the game.”

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{ www.dailyprincetonian.com } WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Women open Ivy League tournament against Harvard

By Miles Hinson sports editor

DANIELA COSIO :: STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

After a successful season, the women’s lacrosse team will take on Harvard in its first postseason game.

The regular season has come and gone, and the postseason starts now.

On Friday at 7 p.m., the women’s lacrosse team (12-3 overall, 7-0 Ivy League) will play its first match of the Ivy League tournament, taking on the Harvard Crimson (8-7, 4-3). As the league champions of the regular season, the Tigers will host all of the matches of the tournament.

The other match on Friday will be between the University of Pennsylvania Quakers (12-3, 6-1) and the Cornell Big Red (9-6, 4-3).

Despite being regular season champions, the Tigers come into this weekend with more to prove. The 9-6 loss to Penn last year cost them the first place spot in the tournament. Now, the Tigers have a chance to avenge themselves for what could be some of these players’ last games on Tiger turf.

Princeton looks to continue the high-scoring offense that has been one of the cornerstones of its success. Led by senior midfielder Erin Slifer, senior attack Erin McMunn and sophomore at-

tack Olivia Hompe, the Tigers have become the second highest scoring offense in the Ivy League, putting in 11.4 goals per game.

While the statistics may seem to indicate that defense has been an issue, the Tigers have found themselves improving on that end as the regular season concluded.

They gave up 8.25 goals per game in the first four Ivy League contests but brought that average down to just 7 goals per game in the final three games of league play.

Junior defender Maddy Lynch pointed to improvement in transition defense as one of the keys to the Tigers’ recent success.

“Defensively, we have really improved our transition game, and it’s great to see. As a unit we’ve gotten much better at utilizing the speed we have.” Lynch said.

“As a team, we have grown to celebrate all the little things that go our way in a game.”

As for areas of focus on the defensive end, sophomore goalie Ellie DeGarmo discussed the importance of communication for Princeton defenders, through both the Ivy and NCAA Tourna-

ments. “[Communication] is probably the biggest focus that we’ve had.” DeGarmo said. “We’ve been able to get away with not talking as loudly throughout the season because we’ve been so strong, but as the competition gets higher and higher communication is going to be huge. “ Another focus for the Tigers, on both the offensive and defensive end, is the ability to deal with long possessions. Particularly evident in the second half of the Brown game was the Princeton team’s ability to get moving in transition, as it had multiple instances of fast down-field movement to convert quick goals.

As the competition becomes steeper, however, the Tigers might have to deal with slower paced games.

For the defense in particular, this means knowing how to be continuously disruptive, and break up the pace of the opposing offense. “[We want to] not necessarily check them, but stress them out a little bit, make them fumble it.” DeGarmo See W. LAX page 5

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MEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Volleyball ends season with loss to Penn State in tournament

By Miles Hinson Sports editor

The men’s volleyball team has reached the end of its season, after its 0-3 loss on Wednesday to the Penn State Nittany Lions on the latter’s home court in State College, Pa. The odds looked against the Tigers (11-13 overall, 6-6 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association) from the beginning, as they had little luck against the defending champions both in past seasons and now. This loss in the EIVA tournament semifinal round marks the fourth straight year that the Tigers have had their season ended by the Nittany Lions.

Adding to the rough outlook for the Tigers was the fact that Penn State continued to show off its dominant form this season, both against the Tigers and other EIVA opponents. The Nittany Lions (19-9, 12-0) went into this game ranked No. 6 in the nation and had won both matches against the Tigers in the regular season, 1-3 and 0-3.

However, the Tigers showed their mettle, putting up some solid performances on the game before bowing out. They came out raring to go in the first set, going up early on 10-5. An 8-3 run in response by Penn State brought the game back level, at which point these

two teams began to go tit for tat. Neither team could gain a lead of greater than two, until Penn State grabbed a 21-18 lead and managed to slowly press down on the Tigers from there. Despite Tiger efforts, the Nittany Lions took the first one 25-20.

The second and third sets, with scores of 25-17 and 25-10 respectively, did not feature the same Tiger burst to take the lead as the first one had.

While the Tigers managed to stay close with their opponents for the early stages of the game, Penn State busted the lead wide open, turning what was a deficit of 2 at 10-8 into one of 7 at 18-11. The Tigers would never get closer than 6 thereon as Penn State rode that momentum to victory.

The final game was a tough one for the Tigers, as the home team jumped on them from the beginning and did not let up. Leading by as much as 11 in the early stages, Penn State continued to roll as the Tigers would ultimately fall 25-10.

It seems that throughout the game, consistent offense was a problem for the Tigers, as they hit at just .105 for the game – well below their mark of .262 for the season. On the other side, the Tigers had to deal with a world-class performance from Penn State outside hitter Aaron Russell, the EIVA’s See M. V-BALL page 5

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The women’s water polo team had an incredible season - after winning the CWPA Championships last weekend, they head to the NCAA Championships.

Water polo heads to NCAA tournament

By Miles Hinson sports editor

The women’s water polo team has exorcised the demons of last year. But the hard part, it seems, is yet to come.

A thrilling victory over the University of Indiana Hoosiers last Sunday gave the Tigers (29-3 overall, 12-1 Collegiate Water Polo Association) a spot in a field of 10 teams now vying for the NCAA Championship. After losing the chance at such a

spot last year to Indiana in the final round of the CWPA Championship Tournament, this opportunity must come as extra sweet for the Tigers.

On Saturday at 1:00, the Tigers will compete in a playin game against Wagner College (25-8, 10-2 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) to see which of the two teams will travel to compete in the final bracket, which will consist of eight teams. The Tigers have the home field advantage and hope to repeat the success of last weekend.

Of course, the battle will only grow harder if Princeton can get through this initial round. Should the Tigers defeat the Wagner Seahawks, who were champions of the MAAC this year, they will have to face the Stanford Cardinals, winners of the NCAA Championships last season.

Moreover, the battle will be made doubly hard given that the Cardinals will be hosting the final bracket of 8.

Despite this uphill battle to the championship trophy, the Tigers look like

they have the tools to compete with anyone, based on their performance of last weekend. Senior utility Ashley Hatcher and junior goalie Ashleigh Johnson will be threats any scouting report would have heav y details on. Johnson, who was named Most Valuable Player in the CWPA Championship Tournament, has a save percentage of 72.5 in the tournament itself. She has shown she can step up in huge moments, as she See W. WAPO page 5

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