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May 11, 1983 The U-Council recommended that Firestone Library provide low-cost daily passes to people with no University affiliation.

PRINCETON By the Numbers

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The number of students who have committed to the University for the Class of 2019.

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USG hosted a study break with water balloons, squirt guns, snacks and therapy dogs on Thursday.

The University’s yield for the Class of 2019 is 69.4 percent, according to University Media Relations Specialist Min Pullan.

The yield is the highest in the University’s history.

Of the 1,909 admitted students, 1,324 have committed to the University.

This year’s yield represents a 0.2 percentage point increase from last year’s yield of 69.2 percent.

The University expects that over the course of the summer, the yield number will be reduced by 20-30 students because of “summer melt,” Pullan said. The target enrollment number for the Class of 2019 remains 1,310.

Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye was not available for comment.

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

Q&A: U. Trustee Lisa Jackson GS ’86

By Christina Vosbikian staff writer

Lisa Jackson GS ’86, a University trustee and the 2015 Baccalaureate speaker, has been the vice president of environmental initiatives at Apple Inc. since 2013, and served as the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from 2009 to 2013. The Daily Princetonian spoke with Jackson about her academic trajectory and her views on the University.

Daily Princetonian: What brought you to Princeton to get your masters in chemical engineering?

Lisa Jackson: Princeton is really generous with financial aid, and that makes a difference for kids who could otherwise not afford to come … To me, the first time I set foot on Princeton’s campus was when I showed up to go to school there. We didn’t have the money for a campus visit. I have kids today. I went on so many college visits with my boys, I can’t even count, but back in those days, believe it or not, all I knew was Princeton’s reputation. All of my professors at Tulane said you cannot make a bad decision to go there. They were very, See Q&A page 2

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Lisa Jackson GS ‘86, a University trustee, will speak at the Class of 2015 Baccalaureate ceremony on May 31.

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News & Notes Dartmouth fraternity banned from campus after losing appeal

After being accused of branding its pledges in the buttocks with hot pokers, the Dartmouth fraternity that inspired the movie “Animal House” lost a lawsuit appeal and can no longer stay on campus, according to the New York Daily News.

Dartmouth administrators announced the decision on Friday.

Alpha Delta had been previously disciplined for other misconduct, including hazing and illegal distribution of substances to minors.

Alpha Delta is one among many fraternity houses that have been closed in the backdrop of increasing national dialogue about sexual misconduct, racism and sexism on college campuses.

Last week, a fraternity at the University of Florida was shut down following allegations of intoxicated members yelling and spitting on disabled veterans.

In March, the University of Oklahoma shut down Sigma Alpha Epsilon after a video appeared in which members sang a racist chant.

In January, Dartmouth announced plans to reform its fraternities, including a ban on hard liquor.

STUDENT LIFE

USG holds last senate meeting of Ng ’16, Xiao ’16 academic year, wraps up projects found student-run

By Katherine Oh staff writer

The Undergraduate Student Government senate held its last meeting of the semester on Saturday, in which it wrapped up projects and invited committee members for an end-of-the-year celebration afterward.

At the beginning of the meeting, Honor Committee chair and U-councilor Dallas Nan ’16 introduced newly selected Honor Committee and Committee on Discipline members to the senate.

“We had a very strong applicant pool. It wasn’t hard to select

five candidates who were going to do extremely well,” Nan said of this year’s selection process.

The senate approved the selection of five new members and the reappointment of three candidates who currently serve on the Honor Committee.

Stuart Pomeroy ’18, Vanessa Phan ’18 and Angela Hillsman ’18 will serve on the Honor Committee, and Charlie Shaw ’17 and Gabi Agus ’18 will serve on the Committee on Discipline. Charlie Jacobson ’16, Matthew Silberman ’17 and Carolyn Lisiewski ’18 were reappointed to the Honor Committee.

Nan said that the returning

members will serve as great mentors for the new members.

The senate approved the fall Lawnparties fund request of $72,000, which will allocate $60,000 for the main act and $12,000 for operational and food costs.

Social chair Simon Wu ’17 said that approximately 1,100 students responded to a recent survey emailed to the student body

by USG president Ella Cheng ’16.

The survey asked students what genres they prefer for the Lawnparties act and the concert series for the fall.

“The act we’re choosing is See USG page 2

LOCAL NEWS

Municipality considering replacement of town parking meters downtown

By Olivia Wicki staff writer

Municipality authorities are looking into replacing current individual parking meters with newer multispace parking meters in the downtown area, the Princeton Packet reported.

Potential plans include new parking meter implementation near University Place around McCarter Theatre.

Currently, the central business district has single meters for each parking spot and each one uses coins or “smart cards,” that can be

loaded up with money to pay, Princeton Mayor Liz Lempert said.

The newer parking meter model would employ individual pay stations for multiple parking spots and would also allow individuals to pay using credit cards or their smartphones.

“Having something that interacts with smartphones is really appealing,” Lempert explained.

As of September, the municipality has been conducting a trial run with the newer parking meters in the Dinky Station parking lot, Lempert said.

Municipality evaluations of the technology have been positive, but some obstacles, including cooperation with American Express, still need to be addressed before municipality-wide implementation of the technology can be achieved, Lempert noted.

Lempert added that a number of towns, such as DuBois in Pennslyvania, that have similar downtown geographies to Princeton have implemented the newer parking meter technologies.

Currently, there are approximately 1,100 parking meters in Princeton.

investment fund

By Zoe Toledo staff writer

Mitchell Ng ’16 and Edward Xiao ’16 founded a student-run investment fund that currently manages $150,000 in assets.

The investment fund, Thessalus Capital Management, focuses on exchangetraded funds and large market cap stocks to minimize risk and maintain a stable portfolio, Xiao said.

“It’s about balancing risk, some high risk and high reward, as well as long-term stable investments, such as healthcare and technology, as well as [exchange-traded funds],” Ng explained.

Ng said the two main goals of the fund are to generate positive returns and to beat the Standard & Poor’s 500 index.

If the fund is successful, over time Thessalus will increase risk by incorporating long-short strategies similar to those of a hedge fund, Ng said, adding that Thessalus will provide seed funding for start-ups on campus.

Seed funding is an early investment in a start-up that helps pay the initial costs of launching a company.

Xiao said his team is not confining itself to any one sector.

“We are doing what tradi-

tionally investment funds do, but at the same time we are taking on a portion that is somewhat like a venture capital business in that we are investing in very small companies like start-ups,” he said.

Devansh Gupta ’16, the chief executive officer of Wolfpak & Pack Inc., will receive seed funding for his start-up from Thessalus management.

Gupta’s company, cofounded with Rutgers junior Felix Young, created a social networking app called Wolfpak that applies the anonymous social media concept of Yik Yak to photos and videos. Wolfpak aims to change the way users interact with their surroundings and to empower people at social gatherings, including hackathons, protests or sports events, so that people feel like one body, Gupta said.

Gupta said Wolfpak is one of the first investments Thessalus will commit to invest in over the summer.

“The capital we are receiving from the fund will go toward Wolfpak’s large viral marketing campaign in August, as well as maintenance costs,” Gupta said.

He added that his start-up is currently run on his savings, as well as Young’s.

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aligned with what people wanted,” Wu said.

Wu added that the artist the committee had chosen for the fall was “markedly neutral politically.”

U-councilor Danny Johnson ’15 noted that the last Council of the Princeton University Community meeting of the semester, which was held on May 4, included discussions about the Sexual Misconduct Policy, as well as updates from the Resources Committee.

“This meeting was probably one of the more active meetings of the CPUC. The Princeton Sustainable Investment Initiative had a protest during the Resources Committee presentation,” U-council chair Zhan Okuda-Lim ’15 said. “Great to see that students see the CPUC as a forum to express their views.”

Aleksandra Czulak ’17 said that the USG Students Groups Committee working group hopes to increase the transparency of student organizations on campus.

Chief elections manager Grant Golub ’17 noted that the spring elections are now officially over, since the Class of 2018 treasurer

runoffs concluded when Yash Patel was elected a week ago. The majority of the class council positions were unopposed, Golub said.

Golub is a former staff writer and senior copy editor for The Daily Princetonian.

U-councilor Jacob Cannon ’17 suggested that the elections committee make a “cheat sheet,” or a list of specific guidelines and deadlines, available to make it easier for interested potential candidates.

Okuda-Lim noted that if such a cheat sheet were to be made, it should include a disclaimer at the end, indicating that there is a discrepancy between the itemized guidelines and the official rules.

With regard to the recent divestment referendum, Golub said that both sides pushed boundaries of what was permissible under the USG’s election handbook. Golub suggested making the opposition group of any referendum subject to USG elections rules, and also make them transparent on the ballot itself. The No Divest side in this case was not technically under USG Elections Committee oversight, Golub noted.

University Student Life Committee chair Kathy Chow ’17 said

that the bathroom code survey will be coming out on May 18 via email. Chow said the results from the survey will be used to move forward with bathroom lock changes in campus buildings.

The earliest changes will be next summer, Chow said.

Campus and Community Affairs chair Andrew Sun ’17 said that the spring Restaurant Week is not as grand as the fall one, since the fall one usually corresponds to the week of the Orange and Black Ball.

He noted that some of the restaurants added new deals later in the week, and he said that he is working on a survey to collect feedback about Restaurant Week.

Although the committee doesn’t know how many students participated since restaurants don’t keep track, there has been positive feedback, Sun said.

Academics Committee chair Ramie Fathy ’16 noted that he had begun planning for the fall academic expo, as well as the fall Writing Center freshman seminars.

The senate also voted a second time to approve an amendment to the senate constitution regarding the senate’s attendance policy.

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very welcoming and encouraging, so I decided to give it a shot.

DP: What was the biggest thing you learned while at Princeton?

LJ: You know, for me, at least, it was the first time in my life that I met people who were genuinely, you know, just smarter than me.

Up until that point in my academic career, I had always been almost effortlessly really able to do anything that I set my mind to, and Princeton, of course, challenges you in a different way. That’s not to say Tulane wasn’t a great school. It was, but it was more of an undergraduate education. Princeton was training you for research and thinking. I found that the biggest challenge … in addition to ‘Here’s this girl from New Orleans who’s never lived away from home,’ [since] I had gone [to an undergraduate school] but lived at home. My world was very small, and my world got really big really fast.

When you go to Princeton, your world is not just 08540, it’s so much bigger. You have access to almost anything you can imagine and the resources to pursue it, and I think those things are hard lessons for people to really ingest when everything changes that fast. Biggest success? Finding my path. … I know that, with this generation, there’s so much pressure to save the world by the time you’re 21, but really the successes come in the journey. The four years you spend as an undergraduate are about this journey of

discovery, of yourself, but probably more importantly of others. So, for me, learning that I could go there, that I could find a path that worked for me. When I went to Princeton, I thought I was going to get a Ph.D in engineering, and I left after getting my masters, and that ended up being a great decision. Being okay with that and accepting it, and not seeing it as a failure, but as a championship, was a really important thing.

DP: Were there any professors, classes or clubs that you found particularly meaningful at Princeton?

LJ: I also sang in the Chapel Choir, so it’ll be fun to go back to the Chapel. But math, for me, was my big outlet. Classes were really hard. I was with the same group of about 20 or so in my chemical engineering class, and they were great and we were really close.

[Undergraduates] kind of exile us to the graduate college anyway, so we were over there doing our thing. That’s where I got to hang out with others. I also [liked what at the time was called] the Third World Center [now the Fields Center]. It was right next door to the engineering school, so I would be able to go there and really just feel comfortable amongst my peers. There were lots of parties there and lots of places to meet undergraduates there. So I guess I would say that it was the places where I could interact with the larger campus and the larger community that I found really cool.

DP: Going off of a little bit of what you just talked about, what do you think the role

and place is for diversity on college campuses, and how do you think this role has evolved?

LJ: I think Princeton is to be commended for thinking hard about diversity, for thinking about its education and tradition, and challenging itself to build a more diverse student body that isn’t dependent on whether or not you can afford to go there.

The challenge for everyone is inclusion … I think we all have to work on inclusion.

I do think that [out of] private schools like Princeton, Princeton has taken the gift of its endowment and used it to try to think deeply about how to impact the diversity question … I think it’s very, very dangerous that we look so uni-dimensionally at what diversity potentially empowers … It’s almost, in some ways, a good thing to be challenged with all these diverse voices who want to be heard, and speak, and feel empowered to speak, rather than the alternative, which is homogeneous.

DP: How did your degree in chemical engineering shape your career path?

LJ: I think it teaches you to think about process f low and optimization. … I have always cared about people, so one of the reasons I knew a Ph.D. would never have been the right choice for me, in retrospect, is because I kind of love the idea of being very people-driven, and chemical engineering led me to the environment because the environment has a lot of chemistry in it and is very systems and processesdriven … I can’t imagine I’d be who I was without [my degree in chemical engineering].

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The South Asian Students Association invited students to throw dry powder and colored water to celebrate the Hindu festival of colors, called Holi, in the courtyard outside of the U-store on campus last Wednesday.

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a lot more to host on the internet than words, which translates to huge amounts of memory,” he said. ”Once you start reaching a lot of customers, that is a lot of server costs to sustain.”

Ng said that he decided to give seed funding to Wolfpak because he knows and trusts Gupta. Gupta said he met Ng at a summer camp in high school four years ago.

“When you are starting a new company, I feel there are going be roadblocks that you have never seen before,” Xiao said. “People who have known each other for a long time are people who are going to buckle down and face those roadblocks.”

Ng is also a founding partner of Think Ivy, a college consulting firm he started upon arriving at the University. Think Ivy, which has 20 employees and has worked with over 100 clients, gave him valuable start-up experience and quite a bit of money to invest, according to Ng. Ng said the revenues and contacts generated from Think Ivy as well as contacts in the finance industry are two major contributors to Thessalus. In addition, Ng said he personally will be contributing six figures and may increase the amount

depending on how successful the fund is.

“I think people trust us because we have a decent amount of knowledge and are realistic in our expectations. There are a lot of student-run funds in the country. One reason that we are the biggest is because we moderate our expectations,” Ng said.

Ng said the fund is collaborating with other top schools such as Yale, Duke, Columbia and MIT. “One of the great things that can come out of collaboration with these other schools [is that], not only do you get a larger pool of talented people, but also people who are on a different schedule,” Xiao said. ”Trading cannot just revolve around our lives, so at any point, we need someone who is able to manage the company.”

Both Ng and Xiao said they are interested in educating people to become their successors and ensure the long-term stability of management in Thessalus.

“We are looking for undergraduates interested in working as analysts, people who don’t have to contribute financially but have or desire financial experience and really want to learn,” Ng said.

Ng said the fund will also raise interest in investing

by advising talented local high school students about investment strategies.

Brennan O’Connor ’18 said he will personally work for Thessalus as a partner.

Although courses offer good theoretical strategies for analysis among other benefits, classes can only get you so far, he said.

“You don’t actually get a lot of hands-on experience, and this is the way to go about learning in a way that is going to be very beneficial down the road in the real financial industry,” O’Connor said.

He said Thessalus will be performing industry analysis as well as industry research.

“One of the biggest risks about it is if we don’t do our research,” O’Connor said. ”That’s when it becomes super risky, but we think that we have a good enough investment and analysis strategy that we can make strong investments and yield a very positive return.”

O’Connor said most group members are investing their own money into the fund.

“In terms of the specific dollar amount, that varies from person-to-person.

Obviously that depends on what people can or are allowed to do, but everyone believes in it,” he said. “There’s no better way to learn than with your own money.”

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Why I still have hope

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Editor’s note: The author of this column was granted anonymity due to the intensely personal nature of the events described previously.

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saw an anonymous post on Tiger Admirers the other day that broke my heart.

Someone wrote, “I literally have heard 0 good things about [Counseling and Psychological Services]. But I’m scared that without seeing someone I might hurt myself or worse. I have periods where it gets pretty bleak and I don’t think very straight…”

To that student: this column is the one good thing about CPS that you have not yet heard.

It’s the reason you should not hesitate to find help if you feel you need it.

Sometimes it’s really easy for me to get frustrated at the University administration for various things, and I’m tempted to write them off as stubborn individuals only looking out for their own interests. But despite my feelings, I don’t think that’s actually the case.

I admit it sounds like a non sequitur — but I know it’s not the case because they made me cry.

The tears came when I opened up one of the forms that I needed to fill out to apply for readmission to the University after taking a mental health-related leave of absence. The “Questions for Treatment Providers” form, previously a monstrosity of 14 detailed, invasive and alienating questions that prompted my op-ed last year, now only contained three questions: dates and types of treatment, thoughts about safety and simple recommendations for future treatment. Three small questions. That was it.

I cried out of relief, out of gratitude, and because I had a restored sense of hope in our administration. I almost couldn’t believe it — they actually responded to our requests for mental health reform.

We asked them to demonstrate trust in the counselors, psychologists and psychiatrists that students would have seen during their year off; they did exactly that by radically revising the readmission form.

We asked them for more transparency; they released a detailed FAQ about the mental health withdrawal and readmissions processes, and they set up recurring office hours open to any student who might have questions or concerns.

They showed their commitment to providing quality mental health services by increasing their hours of operation, including mental health programming during freshman orientation, reintroducing workshops about how to help a struggling friend and more.

Last year in my column, I wrote to the administration: “I understand that you are concerned for students who find themselves in these difficult situations and that you have to worry about liability issues, but the reality is that mental health’s stigma in our society presents an enormous obstacle that prevents students from reaching out. Please understand that Princeton’s current policies and procedures surrounding mental health and withdrawals do little to alleviate the fears of students who consider seeking help (or not). And though you may believe you have the students’ best interests in mind, you may in fact be contributing to the problem.”

They listened. They considered our appeals.

They changed.

And I really appreciate that.

Just one small caveat — I still had to be “evaluated” by someone at CPS after returning to campus in February, and I was encouraged (but not absolutely required) to sign a release form that would allow the CPS personnel to discuss a limited amount of information with the administration. I opted to sign the form (as a show of good faith), but even this caveat wasn’t a bad experience at all; the evaluator assured me she would only tell them things I was comfortable with her sharing. We spent the last 15 minutes of the evaluation going through what she would say, nearly word for word, until I felt okay with it.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not arguing that the administration has responded perfectly in every way or that there’s nothing left to be done. For example, I know there has been some disappointment with this year’s Mental Health Week programming. Additionally, when students do make a decision to take time off for mental health reasons, it is still inherently a difficult and scary process; there is a lot the administration could do to alleviate this, ranging from anything as small as giving students “going away” care packages to creating a specific staff position for providing compassion and encouraging support to students during their withdrawal process.

The administration might still mishandle some individual cases; after all, they’re human. But if this were to happen, we could and should bring it to the surface, so they have a chance to take that feedback into account moving forward, just as they did with last year’s op-ed — because I do believe they care for us students, deep down.

In closing, I am encouraged by Princeton’s compassionate responses so far, and while acknowledging that the journey to quality mental health policy is not over yet, I am confident that we can continue to make progress if we work together.

My hope perseveres.

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hen I introduced the 139th Managing Board of The Daily Princetonian in my first Letter from the Editor in February, I wrote that the new group of editors planned to work constructively with the Princeton community throughout our year at the helm of the paper.

Throughout the course of this last semester, we have been hard at work in our newsroom producing content.

We covered protests and petitions, referenda and reforms, admission and academics. We sought to share the

facts behind controversies and events with our readers, and we sought the perspectives and voices of members of our community.

I wrote this in my last letter, but I think it bears repeating: This newspaper cannot operate in a vacuum; we are nothing without you, the Princeton community.

That is why we are asking for your feedback. Today we are introducing a reader survey through which we would like to learn more about how you connect to us. We want to ensure that the content is easily accessible to our readers and we want to constantly strive to ensure that our content is what you want to see and of the highest quality.

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our online reader survey, which can be found at this link: goo.gl/7yX1sV. In addition to this feedback form, we encourage you to send us an email with your thoughts on our content throughout the year at eic@dailyprincetonian.com.

This is the last paper we will print during the semester, but we will publish again during Reunions. We will then be back to our regular publishing schedule in September when classes start. Until then, we will continue to publish online throughout the summer. Keep in touch!

Anna Mazarakis, a politics major from Montclair, N.J., is the Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Princetonian. She can be reached at annacm@princeton.edu.

EDITORIAL

USG Referendum Campaign Spending

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his academic year, Princeton’s undergraduate student body voted in a series of contentious referenda. While Undergraduate Student Government elections are governed by campaign finance regulations outlined in the USG Elections Handbook, students involved in referendum campaigns are only bound by Princeton’s “Rights, Rules, Responsibilities,” as well as New Jersey law. As a result, referenda become an electoral free-for-all during which student advocacy organizations have the ability to spend unlimited funds in support of their causes without listing their donors.

This issue was brought to light after the recent referendum on divestment. During the period leading up to the election, several students noted increasingly expensive and sophisticated campaigning techniques such as targeted Facebook advertising. The Editorial Board calls on the Undergraduate Student Government to institute greater transparency in referendum campaigns by requiring student advocacy organizations that participate to report and publish their donors and total expenditures.

The Board recognizes the impracticability of implementing USG election-style campaign finance restrictions for referenda. USG candidates are given an allowance of $50 that cannot be supplemented using outside funds, which ensures an even playing field. Such a solution would not be applicable to University referenda. Since there are often several groups defending

and opposing a referendum topic, imposing a maximum expenditure per side would force USG to decide what organizations are officially supporting and opposing the referendum when allocating the allowance. We believe that this would unfairly silence other organizations that wish to be involved with the referendum and offer different perspectives.

Since certain student organizations by their very nature advocate for issues often-related to the subjects of referenda year-round, a spending cap could prevent these organizations from conducting scheduled programming if such programing would cause them to surpass the spending limit. We do not want to prevent organizations such as the Princeton Committee on Palestine or Tigers For Israel from planning events that otherwise would have taken place.

Rather than limiting spending, the Board believes that the best way to improve the referendum process is to increase transparency. Many referendum topics involve controversial issues, and outside advocacy groups may intervene by funding Princeton student advocacy organizations.

The student body has an interest in knowing how much money goes into advocacy campaigns related to USG referenda, and from whom this money comes.

The Board calls on USG to require all USG-recognized student organizations involved in referendum campaigns to list their donors and publish expenditures that expressly support one side of a referendum. This would let interested students know how much each side is spending, and where funds are coming from.

Organizations would be required to report expenditures to the Chief Elections Manager. As under the current system for USG elections, individual students would be able to report suspected undeclared expenditures to the Chief Elections Manager for review.

In USG elections, candidates are deducted points for campaign finance violations. The Board believes that the point system would be inadequate in the context of a referendum, as referenda are designed to measure popular opinion and it would be unfair to penalize an idea. Rather, the Board trusts that creating public accountability for campaign finance violations would be sufficient to deter rule breaking.

This solution is not perfect, but it is a necessary step towards improving the referendum process. As with all campaign finance regulations, there are loopholes. The University cannot stop outside groups from placing advertisements in University publications, nor is it in a position to prevent expensive advocacy conducted in an individual capacity. That being said, the Board believes that this proposal will increase confidence in the referendum process through muchneeded transparency without silencing discourse on campus.

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Coming around the corner Chelsea Jones

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t the final Senior Pub Night, it became painfully clear that I do not know a large portion of the senior class and this seemed to be the consensus among many people I spoke with that night. Despite sharing four years on the same 500 acres — the same study spaces and dining spaces and workout spaces and social spaces — the senior class, as a whole, remains largely unfamiliar. The subset of the senior class that pushed their way towards the free beer and quickly disappearing French fries was full of — for lack of a better word — strangers.

The realization seemed sad to me. I was standing in a room of people who had struggled through Princeton alongside me, had maybe watched the sun come up from the window of a study room after the same frantic all-nighter, had maybe walked a few steps behind or ahead of me after a night on the Street that wasn’t what we’d hoped, had maybe called home at the same time I called home just to talk to Mom or Dad because

the day had been rough and we still hope that our parents might have all the answers. But my chance to meet these people had come and gone. I had fallen into a routine and these people had theirs and it just so happened that our routines did not quite line up. As a senior, everything is filtered through a nostalgic lens. So, it seemed sad to me that I was graduating without knowing more of these people, for they represented all the groups I hadn’t joined, the auditions I missed, the classes I did not take.

I felt like I might be graduating with more missed opportunities — be it new friends or experiences or interests — than I had realized.

But this column, my final column, is not about regret. It is too easy to look over these past four years and see all the things we should’ve, would’ve, could’ve done. And that is exactly what I did after the staff of Triumph politely kicked out the few stragglers and another “last” — in this case the “last” Pub Night — was checked off my long list of “lasts” as the year comes to a close. I thought I would write about taking every opportunity, trying to meet as many people as possible so that your Senior Pub Night is filled with friends and

acquaintances — not strangers.

But you’ve heard that, or some metaphor like it, before. It is no less true, of course. I’ll just throw it in here for good measure — do everything you can!

But even if you fill every minute of every day with wonderful Princeton opportunities you’ll still find yourself with regrets.

You’ll still have your “what if.”

That is okay.

It is the blessing and curse of Princeton students — highachieving, hyper-aware, analytical — to always see how things could be better. But it takes a distinct effort to step back and acknowledge the things that have been so very good. So, yes, I did not know everyone at the Senior Pub Night, but I knew quite a few. One time, they too were strangers — just another person attending a free Broadway show freshman year, laughing at the same terrible joke in a precept my sophomore year, traveling abroad to the same university my junior year, attending the same Last Lecture my senior year. They represent the opportunities I did take and, when I look upon them, my regrets pale in comparison. So much of being happy, finding comfort in how the past four years were spent, comes from that shift in perspec-

tive. My glass is half-full these days.

In fact, I’ve begun to see something exciting in the notion that even after four years in this rather small place you’ll never know everyone. W.B. Yeats wrote, “There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t met,” and I wish I had taken that to heart as a lost and somewhat jaded underclassman. There is always the possibility that someone you’ve never seen, not even once, will turn the corner and bump into you and change everything. It could be a friend or a significant other or even a professor who takes you under his wing and opens doors you could not have imagined. Any one of the people at Senior Pub Night could be my friend by Reunions — this year’s or next year’s or the one after that. Princeton is full of people you haven’t met and maybe it’s sad but maybe it’s wonderful and challenging and will always keep this place exciting and new. On the hard days at Princeton, when everything seems wrong and your Mom and Dad don’t have the answers, that is a comforting thought.

Chelsea Jones is an English major from Ridgefield, Conn. She can be reached at chelseaj@princeton.edu.

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senior utilities Taylor Dunstan and Ashley Hatcher, it wouldn’t be enough to surmount the early deficit as the team would fall 7-2.

Despite the loss, junior goalie Ashleigh Johnson turned in another stellar performance, making 18 saves in the game.

Knocked out of the running for the national championship, the Tigers entered their first consolation game against the University of Hawaii (19-10, 3-2 Mountain West Conference).

It was the Tigers’ chance to get revenge, after falling to Hawaii 7-6 at the Aztec Invitational over spring break.

The game was tightly contested end-to-end: neither team would get ahead by more than two goals. Heading into the final period up 5-4, the Tigers pushed their lead back out to two via a breakaway by junior utility Pippa Temple. It was at this point where things got tense – Hawaii scored the next two goals in just over a two-minute span. With the game level, Hawaii got their next big chance with just under a minute to play, as a save by Johnson just prevented the Rainbow Warriors’ go-ahead goal.

The tide, however, turned soon after. Following the Johnson save, the ball found its way to senior utility Jessie Holechek.

With just seconds to go in the game, Holechek buried the ball in the back of the net to put the Tigers up for good, giving them a 7-6 victory.

In the Tigers’ final battle of the weekend, facing the University of California – Irvine (21-9, 4-1 Big West Conference), Johnson would shine once again, setting a record for saves in the NCAA Tournament with 22. The game, like the previous one, was a neck-and-neck affair, neither team able to break away. The Tigers entered the fourth quarter with a 4-3 lead — an exchange of goals by UC-Irvine’s Mary Brooks and senior utility Ashley Hatcher pushed the score out to 5-4. UC-Irvine, however, would convert on a power play to bring the score level. Afterward, in a counterattack off of a Hatcher near miss, Brooks would put in the go-ahead goal to put the Anteaters up 6-5. The Tigers were unable to capitalize in their final offensive opportunities, and fell in their final game of the tournament.

The game marked the end of a career for six seniors on the team: Dunstan, Hatcher, Holecheck, attack Cece Coffey, utility Camille Hooks and left attack Kelly Gross. These players have gone to the NCAA Championships in three of their four years at Princeton and have helped the Tigers amass a record of 119-19 in that time span.

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ter said. “I think going into the year that was more the goal than anything, and to just have all that come as a byproduct of it is awesome.”

“He’s got a lot of qualities that make him valuable,” head coach Jim Barlow said.

“His speed and strength and athleticism certainly help but he’s also very comfortable on the ball. His instincts are to go to the goal and to take people on and get shots off. He just brings so much energy to the field and so much competitiveness too.

He’s got so many qualities that made him a really special player for us.”

“It’s so great to see him rewarded because he deserves it and he had such an incredible year, both on the field and off the field,” Barlow said.

Barlow brought up Porter’s academic successes as well.

“It’s great to see someone so talented on the athletics field be equally successful in the classroom.”

In the fall, Porter helped the Tigers clinch a share of the Ivy League title, which they split with Dartmouth after winning their final game of the season against Yale, but unfortunately it wasn’t enough for the Tigers to receive a bid to the NCAA tournament. Porter finished

the season with 15 goals, 34 points and 79 shots on the season.

“This year Cam was just a dominant player in our league. He has the ability to create so many chances and get up and score goals, even during stretches of games where we weren’t necessarily on top of the other team or dominating the game,” Barlow said. “He was a threat in so many ways, he could get behind defenses with his speed, he could hold guys off with his athleticism and he could take people on, on the dribble. He was just so strong and hard to knock off the ball, [and] in the box it led to a lot of teams fouling him.”

But Princeton’s star player didn’t just play well in the NCAA. Porter also found his place on the larger stage, playing for the Impact.

“It’s been an interesting transition from a state of experience where you’ve been there for four years to one where you’re the new guy, you’re the rookie, and you have to learn how to play again, just at this higher level. And I think I was prepared well for that by the coaching staff at Princeton,” Porter said. “The biggest difference is that you’re playing against guys who are more talented and think faster on the soccer field than before. But I think you get used to that day-to-

day in practices when you’re playing with so many experienced veterans who are there not only to improve, but also to help you along the way.”

Porter showed his ability to play at professional level right off the bat, making his Major League debut with a

“It’s so great to see him rewarded because he deserves it and he had such an incredible year, both on and off the field. It’s great to see someone so talented on the athletics field be equally successful in the classroom.”

Jim Barlow,

men’s soccer head coach

bang and scoring the gamewinning shot against Pachuca that sent his team into the CONCACAF Champions League semi-finals in early March.

“It’s amazing to even have the opportunity to play on the professional level,” Porter said. “Once I got to that level, just being in the game, I thought that was cool, and then to score the goal in front of almost 40,000 fans, its just

another level of excitement that you don’t expect in your first couple weeks of playing professional soccer.”

Barlow said, “I think it would have been hard for anyone to predict the success he had as a professional right away. We all were hopeful that he had the tools to be able to succeed at the next level but It’s hard to know if his special qualities are going to be special enough at the next level until he actually steps in and tries to prove himself.”

After Porter’s goal against Pachuca, with hard work Porter found himself in the starting lineup, but in a stroke of bad luck, Porter tore his anterior cruciate ligament in just his fifth professional game, leaving him sidelined until the start of next season. And we at the ‘Prince’ can’t wait until this rising star gets back on the field and continues to play the game as beautifully as we have come to expect from him.

“My recent successes, I would attribute to living by the motto, ‘Work hard, have fun,’ ” Porter said, “as long as you’re doing that I’m pretty sure you’re going to either be successful or be happy with what you’re doing, so that was the idea going into this whole experience, do those two things, and I’m sure the results will be good.”

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32.8 minutes per game, she played every single minute of the Tigers’ two NCAA games.

Against the Maryland Terrapins, No. 1 seed and one of the strongest college basketball teams in the nation, she put on one of her finest performances for the season, nearly setting a career high with 26 points on a scorching 10-18 shooting performance.

Her on-court accomplishments are certainly top level. But perhaps what is most stunning about Dietrick is her relentlessness, the competitive drive that seems evident both as she plays the game and as she talks about her goals for the future.

When asked whether she ever needed any kind of external motivation, Dietrick quickly brushed the question aside.

“I’m extremely competitive.” Dietrick said. “I’ve always pushed myself to be the best that I possibly can.”

Indeed, the notion that Dietrick might need someone other than herself to push her onto greatness seems ridiculous to anyone who has been around her. Her intense desire to succeed is evident to those that talk with her, and certainly to those lucky enough to call her a teammate.

“She’s the type of kid that will just keep on fighting no matter what and I think that’s the very best type of leader and teammate anyone can ask for,” sophomore guard Vanessa

Smith said. “But at the same time, her love for the game is contagious and you can tell playing with her or from the stands what it means for her.

Her work ethic and mental toughness is what has brought her and our team success this season.”

Indeed, it would be remiss to talk about Dietrick’s immense success this past season without noting the work she has put in from her freshman year onward to grow into the player she is today. In addition, her role on the team has evolved from a catch-and-shooter — high three-point percentages and very few assists are evident from her freshman year statistics — to the all-around playmaker she is today.

While a regular contributor from early on in her career — she played in 23 games her freshman year — Dietrick points out that her adjustment from high school to college ball was a tough shift to handle.

“I didn’t adjust very quickly to the college game.” Dietrick admits.

The solution to the problem?

Just more time in the gym.

“I just kept working at it,” Dietrick said. “The difference between the player I am now and the player I was then is crazy.”

Just like her competitiveness, the amount of progress she has made in her game is not lost on her teammates.

“Having played with [Blake] for 3 years, I have seen her grow tremendously to become a dynamic player with a high

basketball IQ ,” junior guard Michelle Miller said. “Her competitiveness and will to win set her apart, and I think these qualities will make her successful on the next level.”

As Miller points out, Dietrick’s amazing year has not finished yet. After receiving an invitation to training camp from the Washington Mystics of the WNBA, Dietrick will find out in late May if she gets the opportunity to continue her passion at the highest level.

Dietrick has taken no time off in preparing for this dream.

While a post-thesis life is normally the most relaxing time for most Princeton students, she has worked to prepare herself physically and mentally for the next great leap.

“Physically, I’m prepared” Dietrick said. “Mentally, [it’s about] understanding that everyone is fighting for their job.

The mentality [of the WNBA] is a work environment.

The need for a little bit more selfishness appears counterintuitive. Dietrick has expressed earlier that the work mentality and the need to look out for one’s self in the workplace goes against the skills she’s developed as a leader for this Princeton team.

It’s funny writing about Dietrick’s successes when potentially even greater successes are just on the horizon. It may be impossible to predict the future, but if Dietrick’s time as a Tiger is any indication, the Athlete of the Year award will not be the last she receives for her basketball prowess.

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put the game away. Fairfield would score their lone goal of the half after nearly 23 minutes had expired.

Many members of the Tigers’ offense got in on the goal-scoring action in this game – eight different Tigers managed to find the back of the net. Leading them was sophomore attack Olivia Hompe, MVP of the Ivy League tournament, with four goals.

The next battle proved to be much more of a grinder.

Stony Brook, having lost

in the second round of the NCAA Tournament in 2014, much like the Tigers, looked ready to go toe-to-toe with the Tigers. Neither team could either score in bunches or break away from the other — they were tied at just 3-3 going into the half.

However, a hero emerged to push this onto the next level: freshman midfielder Abby Finkelston. Coming off the bench, Finkelston put in three of the Tigers’ five goals in the half, and had four goals on the game.

Continuing that stiff second-half defense exhibited in the first game, the Tigers would win 8-4 and kept their

hopes of a championship alive.

The prospects look as bright as every for the Tigers. The last time they won two games in the NCAA Tournament was in the 2004 season, when they were runner-ups in the championship match.

In addition, the Tigers will have the chance at revenge in their match to get into the semifinals. They will get to face the Duke Blue Devils (15-4, 5-2 Atlantic Coast Conference), the same team that knocked them out in a double-overtime loss in the first round of the tournament back in 2013.

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was senior Tumi Akinlawon, who placed first in the long jump with a distance of 7.43 meters. Akinlawon was not the only Tiger to score well in the event — junior Jake Scinto was runner-up in the event with a distance of 7.29 meters.

After the first day, Princeton held the lead, having earned 46 points to secondplace Dartmouth’s 39. The winners of last year, Cornell, found themselves in just third with 26 points.

However, the Big Red came out to play the next day. They placed first in the 400m relay, 110m hurdles, the 1600m relay, the high jump and the shot put — all these in conjunction with strong performances in many events where they didn’t place first led to them taking over the lead. Luckily, the Tigers were able to keep themselves close enough in the hunt due to victories by junior

John Hill in the 100m dash and by senior Nana Owusu-Nyantekyi in the triple jump.

By the end of the day, Cornell still holding onto a slim lead, the winner of Heps would come down to the results of the decathalon. Senior Stephen Soerens, the Tigers’ competitor for the event, would save his best for last as he sprinted into first in the 1500m run — the final event of the decathalon — to secure the victory for the Tigers on the weekend. They would win by a mere four points, 163-159.5.

With the victory, Princeton claims the triple crown, earning first in Heps across the fall, winter and spring.

Women’s track and field The women’s track and field team continued their strong season behind great showings from of their top performers. Sophomore Megan Curham continued her fantastic season, earning first in the 10,000m run on Saturday to start the day.

The field events also saw the Tigers’ success. Junior superstar Julia Radcliffe continued her great throwing, placing first in the hammer toss with a distance of 68.16 meters.

Second-place finishes went to junior Sara Ronde in the long jump (5.66 meters) and sophomore Allison Harris of the pole vault (3.75 meters).

After the first day, Princeton held first place with 39 points, as Harvard trailed in second with 26.

Unfortunately for the Tigers, the tide would turn in the Crimson’s favor. While Princeton continued to get first place results on the second day — sophomore Lizzie Bird took first in the Steeplechase, and Curham won the 5,000m race — a slew of Harvard first-place finishes wore down on the Princeton lead.

A victory in the heptathlon by the Crimson certainly did not help the Tigers’ chances.

Ultimately, Princeton earned second place and 118 points on the day.

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how he wanted to go out.

“It’s really an amazing feeling to be able to say we made history,” Richardson said. “To put our team in the same conversation as some of the greatest teams to ever play here is incredible. …

I couldn’t have asked for a better way to end my tennis career.”

Women’s Tennis: Another successful season for the Princeton women’s tennis team came to a close on Saturday morning, as they fell in the Round of 64 to the University of South Carolina Gamecocks.

The match proved to be a thrilling one, as the Tigers (12-9 overall, 6-1 Ivy League), despite falling behind early, came just short of taking the game and moving on to the Round of 32 in back-to-back years.

After falling in the doubles sets, the Tigers looked to be in trouble after junior

Amanda Muliawan finished the first singles match with a loss. However, the Tigers came right back, as they took three of the next four matches behind strong play from freshman Katrine Steffensen, sophomore Alanna Wolff and senior Lindsay Graff. All three were able to win just two sets.

With the Tigers and Gamecocks tied at 3-3, the Tigers’ fate came down to the match of sophomore Dorothy Tang, doing battle against South Carolina’s Ximena Siles Luna. While Tang was successful in taking the first set 6-3, Siles Luna rallied to take the final two sets 6-3 and 6-2 respectively, putting an end to the Tigers’ season.

Despite the loss, the Tigers conclude another season as Ivy League Champions. Moreover they are well aware that, just as with this season, they will enter next season as the team to beat in the Ivy League.

“I think next year, we just have to try to do the same thing we did this year,” Steffensen said. “We knew that

teams would be coming after us, but I think we did a good job of dealing with the pressure and using it to our advantage.”

Wolff expressed confidence in the team’s drawing from the additional attention to achieve even better results next year. “It’s definitely easier being the underdog, but having the confidence and experience from being defending champs the past two years will also help us.”

Seniors Graff, Joan Cannon and Katie Goepel will certainly leave on a high note after seeing their team in these back-to-back trips to the NCAA, including the program’s first win in the NCAA Tournament last year.

“It has definitely been exciting and rewarding to be able to represent Princeton at NCAAs, especially since the program has not historically had too many postseasons,” Goepel said. “I truly feel I was part of something special here and am honored to be part of this team.”

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Male Athlete of the Year: Cameron Porter

By Sydney Mandelbaum associate sports editor

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Dietrick led the Tigers to one of the best seasons in Ivy League history.

Princeton soccer’s own senior forward Cameron Porter has had incredible success both in his Princeton and professional careers and is The Daily Princetonian’s 2015 Male Athlete of the Year.

After finishing the season leading the NCAA in goals and points per game, Porter

Female Athlete of the Year: Blake Dietrick

By Miles Hinson sports editor

This season, Blake Dietrick has been absolutely stunning.

She’s had one of the best seasons for any Ivy League athlete. An all-around stud on both ends of the floor, she led the Tigers and ranked among the top of the league in points per game (15.1), assists per game (4.9), field goal percentage (48.9) and steals per game(1.2). The accolades followed the on-court performance: she was named to the Women’s College Basketball Association All-Region Team, an honorable mention for the Associated Press AllAmerican team, and was the

unanimous choice for the Ivy League Player of the Year.

Dietrick now has another honor to add to what is already an extensive list: the Daily Princetonian’s Female Athlete of the Year.

Of course, her great individual accomplishments are all the more magnified when taking into account the unbelievable heights to which she took her team. Captaining a team for the ages, Dietrick led her squad to its highest ever ranking in the AP Poll (13) and a perfect 30-0 regular season.

The postseason saw her step up when the team needed it most. Already averaging a workhorse amount of See F. ATHLETE page 5

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received Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year and ECAC Offensive Player of the Year honors before he was drafted in the third round of the MLS SuperDraft by the Montreal Impact in January.

“You always want to leave a mark in your senior year, like any other person, and make sure you leave the program in a better state than when you came into it,” PorSee M. ATHLETE page 5

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Cameron Porter has succeeded at Princeton and in the pros this year.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Women’s lacrosse moves onto NCAA quarterfinals

By Miles Hinson sports editor

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After this weekend’s victories, the Tigers next face the Duke Blue Devils.

It’s been a magical spring for the Princeton women’s lacrosse team. After becoming Ivy League champions in the regular season by winning the Ivy League tournament, they have followed up with two wins in the NCAA Championships to put themselves in the quarterfinals of the tournament.

The Tigers (16-3 overall, 7-0 Ivy League) looked in top form this weekend as they rolled through the Fairfield University Stags (14-5, 7-1 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) and the No. 6 seed, Stony Brook University Seawolves (18-2,

6-0 American East). With the two wins, the Tigers put themselves in the quarterfinals for the first time since 2011.

A dynamite offense was on display in the game against the Stags, as the Tigers scored 10 goals by the end of just the first half, finishing the game victorious at 18-8. While the first half was certainly not a blowout — the Stags responded to an opening 4-0 run by the Tigers to keep the score at 10-7 by halftime — the Tigers totally ran away with the game when the second half rolled around. They came out even stronger than they did in the first, scoring eight straight goals to See W. LAX page 5

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Both tennis teams fall in 1st Men in 1st, women 2nd at round of NCAA Tournament Ivy League Championships

By Miles Hinson sports editor

Men’s Tennis: The Princeton men’s tennis team saw a successful season end on Friday evening, as they lost in the Round of 64 of the NCAA Tournament to the Minnesota Gophers.

The day started out strong for the Tigers (19-8 overall, 4-3 Ivy League), as they won in doubles to kick the battle with Minnesota off. However, things would turn south as the men went into singles play. Zack McCourt, Tom Colautti, Joshua Yablon and Dan Richardson took the four losses that cost Princeton the chance to advance.

The Tigers can consider this season a success given their long-standing postseason drought: no Princeton men’s tennis team had made the NCAA Tournament since the spring of 1998. In fact, their regular season record is the best the program has seen since the 1999 season.

Richardson noted that both the season as a whole

and the trip to the NCAA Tournament leaves the team in excellent position to continue building the program.

“It was a huge step for us to get to the NCAA Tournament, but we also proved to ourselves that we could beat some of the best teams in the country [such as Clemson, Mississippi State, and Harvard],” Richardson said.

“Playing in the NCAA Tournament was a great learning experience for the team, and I know they will use this experience to help them advance in future years.”

The Tigers now bid farewell to a strong senior class of McCourt, Richardson, Ben Quazzo and Michael Katz. McCourt and Richardson in particular have had fantastic final campaign.

McCourt earned first-team All-Ivy honors and went 25-12 in singles play for the season. Richardson, for his part, put in an excellent 2312 in his singles play.

Richardson noted that, despite the loss, ending his career with this appearance in the tournament is exactly See TENNIS page 5

By Miles Hinson sports editor

It was a weekend of great success for both the men’s and women’s track teams, as the men claimed first at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships in a nail-biter, and the women’s team claimed second on the weekend.

Men’s track and field Senior Matt McDonald

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Both track teams experienced a thrilling battle at Heps this weekend.

W O M E N ’ S W AT E R P O L O

Women’s water polo comes 6th in NCAA Tournament

By Miles Hinson sports editor

Battling in a pool of the best teams in the nation, the women’s water polo team (31-5 overall, 9-1 Collegiate Water Polo Association) finished its season at Stanford, Calif. in the NCAA Championship Tournament. It went 1-2 in its time there, earning sixth place in the tournament.

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earned his first individual Heps title by placing first in the 10,000m race. Moreover, McDonald was not the only one to stand out above the rest on the day. Junior Adam Bragg, coming off earning a school record in the pole vault, continued his success by earning first at Heps, getting up to 5.10 meters. The final one of Princeton’s individual title winners on Saturday

The Tigers opened up the weekend with a daunting task — taking down the hosts and reigning NCAA Champions the Stanford Cardinal (24-2, 6-0 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation). The Cardinal came out ready to go — it held Princeton scoreless in the first half and scored six goals. While the Tigers were able to get themselves on the board via goals from See W. WAPO page 5

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The Tigers concluded their season with a loss to UC-Irvine on Sunday.

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