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Dean of College Dolan: pioneer of feminist theater criticism

By Christina Vosbikian staff writer

In Opinion

Guest contributor Brian Zack ‘72 addresses concerns about “The Way You Move,” and columnist Erica Choi discusses public perception of eating disorders. PAGE 6

Today on Campus 4 p.m.: Ronald Larson, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Michigan, will deliver a lecture: “Industrial Strength Molecular Simulations” as part of the Wilhelm Lecture series. Friend Center Convocation Room.

The Archives

Sept. 23, 2002 A University planning committee presented the Board of Trustees with recommendations on how to best implement the new four-year residential college system.

Jill Dolan, the Annan Professor in English, Professor of Theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts and Director of the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, was named Dean of the College this June.

Dolan, author of the awardwinning blog “The Feminist Spectator” and expert in women’s and LGBT theatre, performance and popular culture and drama and performance studies, has taught at Princeton since 2008.

“I know one of the things that’s very important to Jill herself is being present to our undergraduate students and to the faculty as a dean who cares about what’s happening in the curriculum and who cares deeply about teaching,” University president Christopher Eisgruber ’83 said.

Appointment as Dean of the College “I’m delighted to be in this role,” Dolan said. “I think it’s one of the most interesting positions to be in at the University.”

She explained that she is excited to see how the University’s curriculum fits together as well as to work with myriad offices and staff across the University. Dolan explained that the first priority that she will be taking charge of is the General Education Task Force, a group that looks at reevaluating the University’s distribution requirements. The task force, she said, will be getting underway at the end of September.

“That’s going to be really exciting and forward-looking work because really what we’re charged with doing is thinking about what an educated person needs to know in the beginning of the 21st century,” Dolan said.

Other priorities, she explained, include thinking about online teaching methods as accessible means of education, expanding international projects like the Bridge Year Program, study abroad options and questions of diversity, belonging, inclusion and access at the University.

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COURTESY OF BROCK NEWS

English and theater professor Jill Dolan, who is also the former Director of the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies took over the position of Dean of the College on July 1.

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U. has lowest “annual cost” of Ivy League, College Scorecard says

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Cotsen Childrens Library named Carle Honors Award recipient

The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art named the University’s Cotsen Children’s Library a 2015 Carle Honors Award recipient, according to a press release from the library.

There will be a ceremony this Thursday in New York City at which representatives for the Cotsen Children’s Library will accept the “Angel Award.”

The award commends individuals and organizations who have worked to improve literacy among children. The recognition is one of the four awards that recognizes financial support for illustrated children’s book art exhibitions, related projects and education programs.

The Cotsen Children’s Library, which is open to public, has a research collection of illustrated children’s books, artwork, manuscripts and toys created since the 15th Century from around the world. The library is located inside the University’s Firestone Library.

The library took on the namesake of Lloyd E. Cotsen ’50, an Emeritus Charter Trustee of the University.

The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art is a non-profit organization in Amherst, Mass., with a mission of inspiring a love of art and reading through picture books. Eric Carle is an author and illustrator of more than 70 books, including “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” a 1969 children’s classic.

By Kristin Qian staff writer

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The Cambridge Footlights, the Oxford Imps and Quipfire performed at McCarter Theatre on Monday.

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Cruz ’92, Christie remain top 10 Republican presidential candidates

By Zaynab Zaman staff writer

Texas Senator Ted Cruz ’92 and Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie have favorability ratings of six percent and three percent respectively, according to a recent CNN national poll. These ratings keep both Cruz and Christie ranked in the top ten Republican presidential hopefuls, although they trail behind several other candidates.

Donald Trump is the party’s front-runner with 24 percent, followed by Carly Fiorina with 15 percent and Rand Paul with 14 percent.

Both Cruz and Christie have significant ties to the Univer-

sity. Cruz graduated from the University in 1992 as a Wilson School major, and he went on to pursue a law degree and later became involved in politics. Christie was born in New Jersey and was elected governor of the state in 2009. He won his re-election bid in 2013, was elected chairman of the Republican Governor’s Association and currently serves as an ex officio member of the University’s Board of Trustees.

Cruz was the first major candidate to announce a 2016 presidential bid, declaring his intention to run for president at Liberty University on March 23. Christie entered the race on June 30 as the fourteenth Republican candidate.

Neither the Christie campaign nor the Cruz campaign responded to requests for comment.

Associate politics professor Paul Frymer noted that neither Christie nor Cruz have a strong likelihood of receiving the Republican nomination, though he noted that situations may change during a presidential race.

Frymer explained that Christie and Cruz have not shown themselves to be very appealing thus far in the race, and the entrance of Trump has significantly damaged their campaigns.

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The University has the lowest average annual cost of $8,413 out of the eight Ivy League schools, according to The College Scorecard.

Annual cost is defined by the College Scorecard website as the average annual net price for federal financial aid recipients after aid from the school, state or federal government is taken into account. The website explained that for public schools, this cost is only the average cost for instate students.

The College Scorecard is an online tool presenting cost and debt data of higher education institutions in the U.S. that was released by the White House on Sept. 12.

This is nearly half of the national average and less than a third of the costs at Dartmouth, which averages $29,597, and Cornell, which averages $26,484.

College Scorecard is an interactive online tool developed to help families determine the cost and value of higher education institutions. The tool compares factors such as costs, financial aid and debt, graduation and retention, earnings after school, SAT and ACT scores, student body and academic programs.

A February 2013 press release by the U.S. Department of Education noted that the College Scorecard, as part of President Barack Obama’s continued efforts to hold colleges accountable for cost, value and quality, highlights key indicators about the cost and value of institutions

across the country. These efforts, the press release added, will help students choose a school that is priced affordably and consistent with their needs and goals.

The purpose of the Scorecard is to help families “compare schools based on a simple criteria: where you can get the most bang for your educational buck,” President Obama said in his 2013 State of the Union Address.

Of all the Ivy League schools, only the University’s and Harvard’s average annual cost of $14,049 are denoted less than the national average of $16,789, according to the College Scorecard, while Yale’s average annual cost is $16,743, which nearly aligns with the national average.

For former students who have received federal aid, the University’s alumni have the third highest median salary ten years after entering the school making about $75,100, following Harvard with about $87,200 and University of Pennsylvania with $78,200.

Seventy-five percent of the University students graduate debt free, the University’s Financial Aid website says.

The University’s no loan policy, implemented in 2001, has made student aid packages entirely covered by University grants, so that students are not required to borrow loans.

The loan option is still available for students, though. The University’s Financial Aid website says that for students who choose to borrow, the average total indebtedness is about $5,000.

This number differs from the See SCORECARD page 5

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message, but Trump is getting more attention,” he said.

Frymer added that Christie’s tactic is to bluster and call it like he sees it, but Trump uses a similar method far more successfully.

“Trump has stolen [Christie’s] thunder as well. He’s saying it louder and more successfully,” he said.

In the Sept. 16 Republican debate, Christie’s performance was considered strong by several news sources including CNN. However, Christie’s poll numbers have not increased significantly since then, and he continues to trail the other Republican candidates.

Cruz has also remained consistent in recent polls, but news sources have categorized his performance in the debate as a poor one. According to CNN, Cruz lost importance in the debate because he did not appear willing to face Trump

on pivotal issues.

Both Christie and Cruz have taken clearer positions on controversial issues as the race has progressed. In regards to immigration, Christie recently unveiled a plan for tracking immigrants who overstay their visas in a manner similar to how FedEx packages are tracked, according to CNN. Cruz took a hard stance on amnesty in immigration.

“A majority of the men and women on this stage have previously and publicly embraced amnesty,” Cruz said, according to politifact.com. “I am the only candidate on this stage who has never supported amnesty.”

Frymer noted that just as Governor Scott Walker dropped out of the race on Monday, more candidates will start to also drop out due to a number of factors. He explained that they need enough funding to continue running, as well as a strong voter base.

Thus far, he said, neither Christie nor Cruz have shown

that they have a passionate voter following, unlike Donald Trump.

He added that Christie would have a much stronger chance of receiving the nomination if former Governor Jeb Bush or Senator Marco Rubio were to drop out of the race, explaining that Bush and Rubio share the ideological space that Christie is trying to also occupy. However, since Bush has significantly more funding than Christie, and Rubio has more popularity, Frymer said it is highly unlikely that either will leave the race and open up more room for Christie.

Frymer noted that if Trump were to drop out of the race, Cruz would likely receive Trump’s voter base and thus get a large boost. However, he said this is also unlikely.

“At this point, it’s a lot about hanging in there and seeing what the opportunities are,” Frymer explained.

The next Republican debate will be on Wednesday, Oct. 28.

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serves,” Dolan said. “I think it’s really important for any administrator on a diverse campus to really know who it is we’re working with.”

Dolan says she finds out what students think and care about when she teaches. She said she hopes to continue teaching, though not this year as she adjusts to her new position of Dean of the College.

She noted, however, that she is still accepting invitations to speak on panels and events across campus.

“That’s really where you keep your ear to the ground and hear what’s going on and what people are interested in or frustrated by or excited about,” Dolan said.

Eisgruber noted that Dolan is assuming her role as Dean of the College at a time when the University is looking to undergo various key changes, namely the strategic planning of a reevaluation of the University’s distribution requirements and general education curriculum as well as the residential colleges. Eisgruber noted that, while the residential colleges are doing a terrific job, there is always room to look for improvement, something Dolan and Vice President for Campus Life Rochelle Calhoun will work on together.

“I think Jill will be a terrific leader for that process,” Eisgruber said.

Eisgruber explained that, while there were many terrific candidates for Dean of the College, Dolan brought a remarkable range of talent and experience to the position, making her the right choice.

“She is someone who cares deeply about students and deeply about teaching and does it well,” Eisgruber said.

He noted Dolan’s extensive administrative experience within the University, explaining that she has served on the Committee of Three and Priorities Committee and has led the University’s Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies.

One of the most impressive things about Dolan, he said, in addition to her values and her caring for students, is her ability to get things done in administrative processes. Eisgruber added that Dolan has the ability to bring people together and make things happen with a light touch and charm.

Eisgruber further said that Dolan’s teaching experience will afford her a solid foundation to build upon during her time as Dean of the College.

“I think the fact that Jill has such a passion for teaching and scholarship and is so distinguished as a scholar will give her great credibility as she does that and will bring the right kind of vision,” he said.

Dean of the Faculty Deborah Prentice explained that the initial search committee for the next Dean of the College was made up of four faculty members and two students. According to Prentice, a

call went out asking people to nominate others or self nominate. There was also a town hall meeting for students to nominate people. People interested in the position were then interviewed and a short list of three names was forwarded to Eisgruber. Eisgruber then conducted a set of interviews with his cabinet and made the final decision.

“She’s done a great job of building the program in gender and sexuality studies as its director for a number of years,” Prentice said. “She has contacts across campus in many different units and across the divisions of the University.”

Prentice noted Dolan’s broad reach, explaining that Dolan has a very good way of listening to both faculty and students and building consensus around common ground. She noted that the search committee got nominations for Dolan from every corner of the University.

Eisgruber said that he knows Dolan will be an engaged and visible Dean of the College.

“I especially hope and I think she hopes that undergraduate students will be able to view her as their dean and one of the people who, when they talk to the University about their hopes and aspirations, they think about Jill Dolan and they think about the Dean of the College,” Eisgruber said.

Teaching Career Dolan served as head of the theater department at the University of Texas at Austin, on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the City University of New York Graduate Center before joining the University’s faculty in 2008. While at the City University of New York she was the Executive Director of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the Graduate Center, and while at UT Austin she headed the Department of Theatre and Dance’s MA/Ph.D. program in performance as a public practice.

Dolan received the Distinguished Scholar Award for Outstanding Career Achievement in Scholarship in the Field of Theatre Studies from the American Society for Theatre Research in 2013. She was also inducted into the University of Texas at Austin’s Academy of Distinguished Teachers in fall 2006, after receiving a College of Fine Arts teaching award earlier in her UT career.

Among her proudest accomplishments as a professor, Dolan said, are the teaching awards she has won over the course of her teaching career.

She said she is particularly proud of being part of UT Austin’s Academy of Distinguished Teachers, which, she noted, only about 5 percent of the school’s faculty were invited to at the time.

According to Dolan, the fields that she grew up in, theater studies and performance studies, were just starting to look at women and performance, feminist performance theory and LGBT performance

and theory when she was starting her career in the late 1990s.

She said that if there is one thing she is most proud of, it is that she got to help the field establish itself and flourish at the various academic institutions at which she worked.

“I’ve worked with a lot of different students, both undergraduate and graduate students, who have gone on to use the kind of feminist criticism work that I’ve done over my career in their own lives and their own theater practices or their own work as doctors or lawyers or wherever they’ve gone,” Dolan said. “I feel like I’ve been lucky enough, as any teacher is, to have some effect on the people that I’ve worked with just as they’ve certainly had an effect on me.”

Cameron Platt ’16 has had Dolan as a professor twice, once in Dramaturgy, the practice of doing textual, historical and visual research for the theater, and once in Performance Studies. Platt said that Dolan goes above and beyond to know her students outside of the classroom, attending many of her students’ events on campus.

Platt added that Dolan is also an excellent facilitator of discussion, often picking out what is insightful about students’ statements and then making that insight come to life for the whole class.

“She just cares so much and pours so much love and thought into her work,” Platt said. “She’s incredibly brilliant and so humble about it.”

Adin Walker ’16, an English concentrator with certificates in Gender and Sexualities and Theater, took Dolan and theater professor Stacy Wolf’s course in performance studies which he says was an amazing introduction to the field and first exposed him to the incredible teaching skills of Dolan. He described Dolan’s presence in the theater department and among her students as incredibly dynamic, explaining that Dolan will not only attend shows but also lead discussions and otherwise engage with students around campus.

Working with Dolan, he said, helped him find a sense of confidence as a student while navigating his gender identity and identity as an artist.

“It’s hard for me to put into words how much she has impacted my experience here,” Walker said.

Hendrik Hartog, Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty, said he and Dean Dolan taught at the University of Wisconsin at the same time, though they did not know each other at the time. He first got to know her, he said, when she began to run the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin and he was the director of the American studies program.

“She’s very principled. She has a strong vision of how a university should be run,” Hartog said.

He added that Dolan believes in the intersection between various academic

disciplines, adding that this intersection is just beginning to find its identity at the University.

Jessica del Vecchio ‘99, who was a graduate student of Dolan’s at UT Austin, says she was first exposed to Dolan’s “The Feminist Spectator as Critic” as an undergraduate at the University, but later got to know her as a mentor at UT Austin, where Dolan began the Performance as Public Practice Program in their theater department. Dolan was del Vecchio’s masters thesis adviser.

Del Vecchio described Dolan as a progressive and caring mentor.

“She is a person who is a wealth of knowledge and who is very generous with that knowledge,” del Vecchio said.

Del Vecchio also noted that when she graduated from the University in 1999, it was still a pretty conservative place.

“I emailed my friend [when I heard about Dolan’s appointment] saying the feminist spectator has been made Dean of the College,” Del Vecchio said. “If that had happened in ’99 I think our heads would have exploded off of our bodies.”

Career outside the classroom Dolan has been editor and publisher of various publications including her blog, “The Feminist Spectator.” According to its website, “The Feminist Spectator” discusses theatre, performance, film and television, focusing on issues such as gender, sexuality, race, other identities and overlaps and our common humanity. The blog also discusses the arts and the role they play in our lives.

Some of the recent works Dolan has enjoyed include Ava DuVernay’s “The Middle of Nowhere,” Olivier Assayas “The Clouds of Sils Maria,” Annie Baker’s “John” and “The Flick,” the musical “Hamilton,” Laura Hankin’s “The Summertime Girls” and Kent Haruf’s “Our Souls at Night.”

“I’m a cultural omnivore,” Dolan said.

Dolan says that her aim in the future is to write as much as she can and to enhance the conversation about the arts in general and theater, film and television from a feminist perspective.

“I feel like we just don’t talk enough about what we see, the theater we go to, the television that we watch, the films we go to see. There’s so much to say about how they influence who we are as people and how they help us to think about who we are as citizens, as a country and as a globe,” Dolan said. “I write about theater and film and television because I think they really give us information not just about who we are but also about who we could be.”

Dolan says she loves going to see theater, watching television and going to films. Criticism for her, she says, isn’t about negating that pleasure but, instead, about amplifying that pleasure. She said that the frequency of blogging may

decrease a little now that she has become dean of the college, but she hopes that will only be temporary.

Dolan edited “A Menopausal Gentleman: The Solo Performances of Peggy Shaw,” which won the 2012 Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBT Drama. Her other books include “Theatre & Sexuality,” “Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre” and “The Feminist Spectator as Critic,” which has been translated into Korean and was reissued in an anniversary edition in 2012. She is now working on a critical study of the plays of Wendy Wasserstein, a deceased playwright who has been described as an author of women’s identity crises.

Dolan is also a past president of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and a past president of the Women and Theatre Program.

She said that these kinds of organizations set the agenda for the field by gathering scholars and provide a platform for mentorship. In her position at these organizations, she said, she advocated for arguments about why people should study and write about theater as well as lesbian, gay and feminist studies.

Sara Warner, an associate professor in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell, where she is a core member of the Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, the Lesbian, Bisexual and Gay Studies Program, and an affiliate faculty member of both Visual Studies and American Studies, first encountered Dolan while reading her books as coursework in graduate school.

“My scholarship and course of study has been greatly informed by her pioneering efforts,” Warner said. “She is one of the founders of feminist theater criticism and of lesbian gay bisexual transgender queer criticism in theater studies.”

Warner explained that Dolan has been a leader in the field not only in terms of her scholarship but also in terms of her administrative expertise as President of the Women in Theater Society and of the Association for Theater and Higher Education and Director of the Center for Lesbian and Gay studies.

“It is absolutely important to have feminist leaders and queer leaders,” said Warner.

“You’re getting both of those in one package with Jill.”

Warner noted how lucky the University is to have Dolan join the ranks of its women leaders.

As far as where she sees the fields of feminine and LGBT studies heading, Dolan said developments are institutionspecific and have to do largely with faculty and student involvement.

“My sense is that, here at Princeton, feminist studies, LGBT studies are really going to grow together,” Dolan said, adding that she thinks those fields grow in conjunction with other interdisciplinary fields that are linked by an attachment to the social world

and what’s happening in contemporary struggles among people who are still marginalized by the global society. She says that these fields of studies are becoming increasingly global in their scope as well as focusing more on integrating community and service-based learning.

Dolan noted that many of her former students are taking over the kind of advocacy and communicative work in which she has been heavily involved in in the past.

“I think it’s time to pass those batons,” Dolan said. “I plan to still go to conferences and be as actively involved as I can be, but I probably won’t have leadership roles in the same way that I did earlier in my career.”

Academic Beginnings Dolan holds a Ph.D. and masters degree in performance studies from New York University and received her bachelor’s degree in communications from Boston University.

“Everyone has such a circuitous route to whatever it is they’re doing now,” Dolan noted when asked about how her time as a student influenced her current work.

She explained she never expected to be a teacher, and started at BU as an acting major because BU was part of the league of professional theater training schools.

“The problem was, once I got there, I didn’t really want to act the way they wanted me to,” Dolan said. “They were preparing me for a very conservative and conventional career, and it just wasn’t what I was interested in.”

She switched to being an English major, then a broadcasting and film major. After she stopped acting, Dolan said, she began writing criticism for the BU Free Press.

“That’s kind of what became the thread in my career. When I went to graduate school at NYU, it was because I wanted to write feminist criticism in theater which didn’t even exist at the time, but I thought that graduate school would be a good place to figure that out,” Dolan said.

After she graduated from BU, she spent two years in Boston writing for a women’s newspaper.

“Even though that was a feminist paper, they didn’t know anything about theater criticisms,” Dolan said.

Once at graduate school, Dolan said, she could bring both of her interests together.

At NYU, Dolan worked at the drama review and continued to be a writer and an editor.

It wasn’t until she was almost done writing her dissertation, which would become her first book, that she set foot in the classroom for the first time as a teacher. It was at that moment, Dolan says, that all her interests came together.

“I actually realized that teachers are performers and students are audiences,” Dolan said. “The good thing about students is that they can talk back in ways that audiences can’t.”

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College Scorecard’s estimate of $6,810.

Region II Communications Director Jacquelyn Pitta and Press Officer Jim Bradshaw of the U.S. Department of Education did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

According to the College Scorecard, 5 percent of University students receive federal loans.

Although Harvard’s average annual cost is higher than the University’s at $14,049, 3 percent of its students receive federal loans, and its graduates have a typical total debt of $6,000, which is slightly less than the figure for the University.

For the first income bracket

defined by the College Scorecard, which is $0-$30,000, students at the University pay an average of $5,932 annually.

Brown, Harvard and Penn

75 percent of the University students graduate debt free, the University’s Financial Aid website says.

cost less for lower income families than the University, according to the College Scorecard. Students in this bracket pay $5,234 at Brown, $3,897

at Harvard and $3,847 at University of Pennsylvania, even though Penn graduates have the highest debt after graduation of $21,500, with 23 percent of their students receiving federal loans, according to the College Scorecard.

Assistant Director of Undergraduate Financial Aid Ben Eley did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

The College Scorecard is still being developed. In the College Scorecard’s “Technical Paper,” administration officials acknowledge the limitations, variations and gaps in the measurements of their preliminary data, saying that further research by academics, discussions with stakeholders and consultations with the public can enable further progress in measuring college outcomes.

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have a love-hate relationship with food. Often, I refuse to eat anything despite feeling hungry. Other times, when I feel very stressed, I do the opposite and gorge myself with every type of dessert the dining hall has to offer. But most days, I eat a balanced, nutritional diet. I’m aware of what I eat, and I watch to make sure I’m consuming the types of nutrients I need.

I’ve found it difficult to discuss this eating problem of mine with other people, mainly because admitting that I struggle with food is almost always followed by either “but you’re so skinny” or “you don’t need to lose any weight.” The problem with this sort of response is that it makes a false assumption that any eating issue must be due to body image insecurity.

My troubled relationship with food has always been first and foremost about control. This is an incredibly common root for any eating problem. It is on the days when I feel like my life is spinning out of control and I am stressed about the amount of work I have left to do that I refuse to eat. It is a symbolic gesture of regaining control over my life, because the amount of food I put in my mouth is the one thing over which I have absolute control. When I start binging on chocolate cake, it usually means I have reached a state of incredible stress and have given up on being in control.

It is a symbolic gesture of regaining control over my life, because the amount of food I put in my mouth is the one thing over which I have absolute control.

Of course, I am not denying the role of body image insecurity in anyone’s eating issue, including my own. I would be foolish to do so. After all, I grew up in Korean culture, where being skinny is the norm and people are even more willing to criticize someone’s body than they are in America. My relatives are happy to comment that I gained weight, or even that I should lose a few pounds.

Ultimately, however, I never viewed my eating problem as something to do with body image, because the root, to me, was still about control. Eating problems are always complex and multifaceted, and the problem is that a response like “but you’re so skinny” or “you don’t need to lose any weight” does not address the complexity of the issue. It makes a problem out to be about a singular desire to look thin and then delegitimizes it by dismissing its importance or relevance. I feel like people who said things like “but you’re so skinny” to me didn’t understand that I had a problem. I wasn’t dieting. I had a problem, and I was actively trying to solve it.

Actress and model Portia de Rossi, who published an autobiography titled “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain” based on her battle with anorexia nervosa, said on The Ellen DeGeneres Show that if you suspect someone of having an eating issue, you should comment on the fact that they are losing control (you look sick) rather than on their weight (you look too thin). That is because it has been well-documented that for a lot of people, eating problems signal the desire for control more than anything, and commenting on someone’s weight or appearance does not really achieve the same effect. If anything, said de Rossi, saying “you’re too thin” might be counterproductive because some people who struggle with an eating disorder may greet it as a source of pride.

Last academic year, Colter Smith and Kelly Hatfield started dialogues about the effectiveness of the As I Am campaign on campus. I would love to see the Princeton community extend this dialogue further into the misconceptions about eating problems and the appropriate ways to support people suffering from these issues. Too often, we ignore that eating problems can be caused by issues other than body image, and this makes it harder for people to address the root of the problem.

Erica Choi is a sophomore from Bronxville, N.Y. She can be reached at gc6@princeton.edu.

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erhaps it has already happened: you pass someone who you vaguely remember from a Community Action barbeque, or someone whom your hallmate introduced you to during Frosh Week. You might not know the person’s name but you know she or he’s important and you know that at one point you may have shaken hands with him or her, that he or she was yet another potential connection to make during your years at Princeton.

Maybe you were disappointed when this person instead took the easy way out, by avoiding eye contact until you were out of his or her field of vision.

And there you have it, the staggering realization that not everyone you will ever meet on campus is your friend, or even wants to be.

As a freshman, this came as a surprise to me. While I had no reason to expect practical strangers to welcome me with open arms, I was unaccustomed to an environment in which my peers could blatantly stare past me without even a smile. I appealed to a fellow Midwesterner who suggested that the “tough” stereotype of East Coasters, highly represented on Princeton’s campus, was fulfilled. In contrast to our home states, we were simply unprepared for such “ruggedness.”

While I have heard similar sentiments from others, now as a sophomore, I am unsure whether I can ascribe my observations to that particular cultural shift. Let’s not blame it on geography. Perhaps such behavior

is even more than just a rude awakening to the ways in which stressed young adults today interact within a 600-acre campus.

I must wonder how this is a testament to a much larger idea of passivity for others outside of a university setting. Are we missing something when we turn away, when we avoid eye contact? What are the ways in which we can truly see each other even if it is simply for a moment?

Around mid-October of freshman year I finally mastered the “glance away & distracted” method myself; that is, upon passing someone I vaguely know, I look away at an object of sudden interest (probably a squirrel), or I pull out my cell phone. If my journeys to and from class are any indication, I am not alone in doing this. A member of Generation X might attribute such behavior to rising levels of narcissism within the younger generations of Americans.

I do not think it is fair to continually pathologize our interactions. However, at least one thing is clear: we are all busy individuals, striking out on our separate paths across campus. We often don’t have time for the romance associated with random stranger interactions. We are on our cell phones perpetually, or focusing on the rote breathing required to walk up Princeton’s hills.

Perhaps above all, as Princeton students, we are afraid of disappointment and rejection. Some of us are constantly disappointed or rejected, be that academically, emotionally and within the confines of our friend groups. Is there any incentive to putting ourselves in a position where a simple smile to a practical stranger

could result in a blank stare?

Despite all of this, a method such as the “glance away & distracted” speaks to the passivity of our student population more than anything else does. It is this unwillingness to engage and interact even when it is inconvenient to do so that encapsulates how much work we must do in order to improve our student culture.

While it is easy to put on our best face when the benefits appear to be realistic and tangible, it is the face we put on in a crowd full of strangers that may be the best indication of who we are and what we can accomplish together. My guess is that while mere smiles or slight waves are not permanent solutions to improving campus relations, they may be a start to better understanding our peers who may not share our cultural, economic and racial backgrounds.

My call to action is a simple one: take the time to reach out because if we don’t, then who will? As common as this prompt is, it is worth noting how little it costs to reach out, even when it feels awkward or overwhelming. Smile at the guy that you met at that one lunch two weeks ago before you raced off to your seminar and wave at that girl who sits next to you in class when you see her at Frist. Get ready to be rejected; it might be okay.

If these habits persist, we should be ready to carry them and that which they represent with us for the rest of our undergraduate careers and beyond Princeton’s campus.

Imani Thornton is a sophomore from Matteson, Ill. She can be contacted at it4@ princeton.edu.

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I would like to share a letter that I recently wrote to Jacqueline Deitch-Stackhouse, the director of the University’s Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education (SHARE) office, regarding “The Way You Move,” a freshman orientation core event. I would be very interested in students’ opinions and responses.

Dear Ms. Deitch-Stackhouse, I hope you will pardon some (hopefully constructive) feedback on “The Way You Move.” I sat in on a 12:45 performance and discussion.

Please bear with me for a few words of explanation regarding why I am interested. I’m an alumnus and the parent of an alumnus. More pertinently, I’m a retired physician, having trained in pediatrics and adolescent medicine, and I worked for almost two decades at University Health Services. During most of that time, I was the medical director of the sexual health unit, which back then was referred to as SECH (Sexuality Education Counseling and Health). During my time at Health Services I was very active in health education

Letter to SHARE activities regarding sexuality and sexual health, and I worked closely with our health educator and counseling center, as well as with SHARE. I have provided contraceptive counseling and prescriptions to hundreds of Princeton students, both undergraduate and graduate.

I bring all this up to stress that I was, and remain, very supportive of allowing young adults to make their own decisions regarding their sexual behavior and of providing whatever contraception and other health care they request to meet their individual needs. I have no moral or other motivation to push abstinence over informed sexual activity (with consent and appropriate contraception and protection against STDs). I am very concerned, like you, with the importance of consent and of making thoughtful and educated choices.

As you no doubt are aware, some faculty and alumni feel that the University’s approach encourages casual sexual activity by events such as “The Way You Move,” and its predecessor, “Sex on a Saturday Night.” As a local alumnus with experience in this area, I have been occasionally active in defending the University’s sexual health and relationship education efforts in discussions with other alumni. For example,

I have had an active and ongoing discussion with a prominent conservative faculty member, and I have at times spoken out at events of the Anscombe Society, as well as in occasional letters in the Princeton Alumni Weekly.

Apart from general interest, it was to gain evidence with which to argue for continuing the University’s efforts that I attended “The Way We Move.”

The performance was outstanding — the writing, acting and directing were superb, and the message of the unacceptability of sexual harassment, intimidation and violence and the importance of positive consent were conveyed in a powerful and effective manner.

However, I was astonished to find myself agreeing with at least some of the arguments of the critics. The strong impression left by the play was essentially that all students are, or at least want to be, sexually active and aren’t too concerned about the identity of their sexual partner or about how well they know them. Absolutely no indication was provided that it might be socially acceptable for a student to wish to remain abstinent for the time being, or that waiting to get to know someone well before physical intimacy might be a reasonable idea. Had I seen this

as the sexually inexperienced freshman I was, I would have concluded that I was an outlier who was missing out on the fun that everyone else was having, and my already shaky selfesteem at that time would have taken a significant hit.

This is not to mention the failure to emphasize the importance of knowledgeably considering contraception and prevention of disease, preferably before engaging in intercourse. And the blithe acceptance, if not encouragement, of drinking to excess was also disturbing.

I urge you to consider a rewrite for future productions, to portray abstinence as a valid and socially respectable choice, to include contraception and STDs in the discussion and to highlight the importance of drinking in moderation. If I remember correctly, all of these were essential parts of “Sex on a Saturday Night.”

I apologize for being so longwinded, but I feel strongly about all this and I wanted to express myself fully.

Should you have the time and inclination, I would certainly appreciate hearing your thoughts in response.

Sincerely, Brian Zack ’72, M.D.

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mate is still moving like he traded feet with a duck.

The shot goes up. I avert my eyes, unable to watch my winning chances drain away.

Thus goes the game: 7-2. A hero cannot lead an army all by himself, I suppose. After some half-hearted hand slaps, I walk out and turn in the ball, unable to face the defeat I’ve been handed.

My resolve is greater than ever. I’ll skip working on that problem set that’s due at midnight. I’ll skip my shift for the Daily Princetonian. I need to go to the gym, bulk up and continue working on my game.

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of 7) at the Ivy League Championship this past spring, the Princeton women’s golf team came out strong in its first competition of the year.

Traveling to Lewisburg, Pa. for the Bucknell Invitational, the team placed second in a field of 14 teams.

It was a newcomer who led the Tigers on the weekend. Freshman Amber Wang, competing in her first NCAA event, finished 21 above par, earning her joint eighth on the day. Following Wang were sophomore Tenley Shield, junior Hana Ku and senior Sydney Kersten, all of whom finished joint 12th

at 24 above par. Senior Alex Wong finished at 28 above par.

When asked about her performance, Wang expressed nothing but enthusiasm for getting to join this Tigers squad.

“This was my very first collegiate golf tournament, and being able to compete and be part of such an great team was an amazing experience,” Wang said. “Obviously finishing second was not ideal, but it showed just how strong our team was together, not just skill-wise but [also] mentally. It’ll also be a great motivator for the tournaments to come.”

Wang’s strong opening performance was certainly no f luke. She described how

she prepped for NCAA play by competing against top junior players in the country.

“I competed in a lot of tournaments this past summer to prepare for collegiate golf. I was able to compete with some of the best juniors (and now college players) in the world, which I learned a lot from,” Wang said. “It also helped me prepare mentally, because if I was able to play against the best juniors in the world, I should have no problem doing just the same in college. I had a fantastic summer, and it definitely was a confidence booster.”

The women’s golf team will compete at the Princeton Invitational at the Springdale Golf Club, beginning on Oct. 3.

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nior Josh Yablon and senior Mohamed El Tonbari, who won the consolation finals

for their draws as well, both in dominant fashion as neither of them dropped a set.

This weekend, the men’s tennis team will travel to St. Helena, Calif. to compete at the Porsche Napa Valley

Classic from Friday to Sunday, while the women’s team will open its season at home as it hosts the Princeton Invitational during the same time period at the Lenz Tennis Center.

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Colautti, men’s tennis see success

By Tom Pham associate sports editor

One week after competing at the Penn Invitational, the men’s tennis team returned to Princeton at the Lenz Tennis Center to compete in the Ivy Plus Tournament as it hosted 21 other tennis teams in the threeday tournament. The Ivy Plus Tournament was the Tigers’ first home tournament of the season and the Tigers looked to click into gear after a start-stop tournament in Philadelphia.

The players were split into many different draws, with junior Tom Colautti headlining the team in the

Tiger Draw. Colautti was recently ranked no. 118 in the nation in the ITA ranking and he took on some of the tournament’s toughest opponents in his draw. In a successful Friday for the team, the Tigers saw Colautti win both his games along with sophomores Luke Gamble and Kial Kaiser. The other players had mixed results, and so did the doubles teams.

By the final day of the tournament, only Gamble and Colautti were within grasp of winning their respective titles. Gamble had to face Igor Smelyanski from Tennessee in the Pagoda Draw, while Colautti

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would line up against Dartmouth’s Ciro Ricciardi in the Tiger Draw. Ricciardi had earlier defeated top seed Nick Bybel from Bucknell.

However, success for both players was not possible as Gamble dropped his match against Smelyanski in straight sets, losing 2-6, 5-7 against his opponent, but Colautti did manage to triumph against his Dartmouth foe as he beat Ricciardi 7-5, 6-4. This victory is bound to do wonders to Colautti’s confidence as he hopes to lead the Tigers to a great fall season. Also successful on Sunday were juSee TENNIS page 7

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The women’s golf team finished second at the Bucknell Invitational as they hope to improve on their 4th place Ivy League finish from last season. Freshman Amber Wang impressed, coming 2nd.

Both men’s and women’s golf have strong results in past weekend play

By Miles Hinson sports editor

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Junior Tom Colautti cruised his way to the title in the Tiger Draw at the Ivy Plus Tournament.

Men’s Golf It was a fine, fine weekend for the Princeton men’s golf team as they came out first in a field of 14 teams at the Cornell Invitational in Ithaca, N.Y. The team is continuing what has been a successful year so far after finishing first out of 10 teams at the Navy Fall Invitational on Sept. 13-14.

Leading the Tigers at Cornell was junior Quinn Prchal, who is fresh off of an excellent sophomore season that saw him compete as an individual in the NCAA Championships. Prchal finished 5 under par for the event this weekend, good enough for first place overall.

Following Prchal were sophomore Eric Mitchell and junior Alex Dombrowski, who finished two above

par and three above par respectively. Following them were sophomores Michael Davis and Marc Hedrick, who finished 6 above par and 24 above par respectively. Freshman Vinay Ramesh competed as an individual in the event and went 8 above par.

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After school hoops - a pickup basketball saga in Dillon

By Miles Hinson sports editor

A long day of class is over.

I’ve toiled through two inane lectures, a precept with that one annoying dude that won’t shut up, and that one class I actually enjoy but didn’t do the reading for. I return to my room, and discard the Sperrys, salmon shorts and white dress shirt for my true outfit — the tank top and basketball shorts. I’m ready to ball.

I walk into Dillon Gym, my strut exuding a combination of carefree-ness and invincibility. I come to the desk, trade in my measly prox for my most sacred object — the basketball. It’s time to enter and conquer my domain — I’m Caesar crossing the Rubicon.

My army? The sweetest pullup jump shot you’ve ever seen.

Every great player knows you need to warm up before

you blow up. It’s time to get my free throws in — gotta #dominate in every facet of the game.

First one’s an airball? No one saw that. Just keep moving.

Few more airballs? No worries — even my man Jordan had his jitters before his best games.

After going 1-8 from the line, I decide it’s time to work on the jumper. The scouting reports describe my game as a prototypical catch-and-shoot type: I can run off screens like Ray Allen, take contact like LeBron and finish like Kobe.

Once I get going from the elbow, folks start to clear off the court.

I start at the top of the key, make a hard drive for the elbow and pull up. By hard drive for the elbow, I mean I tripped as I moved about 5 miles per hour over to the elbow, fell belly first and lost the ball out of bounds. There are a few guys on the opposite end

of the court — I don’t think any of them saw. This really cute girl saw, though, as she was walking out of the gym.

It’s cool though — ball before baes, right?

After my failed attempt at jumpers and missing a few layups (it’s harder than it looks, I swear!), I think I’m ready to ball out in an actual game.

This is the hardest part of being in Dillon — awkwardly waiting by yourself until you find an odd number of guys that you can approach to join.

It’s like asking a girl at a middle school dance to slow dance with you. It’s simultaneously thrilling and absolutely terrifying.

I struck out more than once before finding a group that would take me on. I thought about approaching this one group of guys until I watched them shoot, quickly realizing they were high-school varsi-

ty basketball talent. Yikes. I may be cocky, but I know my limits. There’s a group of total goobers in the back who look like they picked up a basketball for the first time today.

Absolutely not about that life.

Where’s a man to go?

I finally found the right squad — they have the look of casual basketball enthusiasts who do pickup once a week as cardio exercise. I introduce myself, give a nice, firm handshake and line up to shoot free throws to pick teams. All my practice paid off — I banked in a free throw. Shawn Marion would be so proud of me.

It’s a 3-on-3 game, play to 7, scoring by 1’s and 2’s, win by 2.

It’s a perfect chance to practice my pick and roll moves. I run to the top of the key, signal for a pick and do my signature — the hard right drive/pull up jumper. I clang off the back rim, but it’s fine — they know

they have to respect me now.

While I’ve talked much about my offensive prowess so far, my lockdown defensive skills are what set me apart.

It’s with my footwork and knack for steals that I won the “Most Improved Player” award in 4th grade summer basketball camp. I square up and get in my man’s grill.

My man drives left as I run right into a screen. He heads in for an easy layup. Brutal communication on the defense, but at least we know what to correct.

Next play, my man runs to the top of the key. I’m on him like chipotle sauce on a latemeal quesadilla, but he pulls up and drains the three. Ugh. It’s no more Mr. Softee — I’m turning up the heat. On the next play, after some questionably legal defense (may have dug into his ribs a little bit with an elbow — no harm

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no foul, right?), my team gets the ball back. It’s time for me to shine — this is what all the effort, the early mornings and late nights have been for.

Here we go. I square up and drop one in from downtown.

We’re down 2-3, and I’m just heating up.

And now cooling down. I chuck up an airball from behind the arc, and give it right back. My teammates look at me like I’m crazy. It’s cool — the mere mortals can’t understand what’s in store. I will rise again.

At least, I would’ve risen again if they had given me a chance. Dude, I’m guarding sets a pick. I call for a switch, my teammate doesn’t realize and suddenly we’re looking at a 5-2 deficit.

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FOOTBALL Tigers look to regain 2013 form

By David Liu staff writer

Coming off a season undated with injuries and inconsistency, Princeton football returns as an experienced team with high ambitions. With every defensive starter returning and an impressively large freshman squad, the Tigers hope to fuse experience with talent.

Last year, the Tigers sought to repeat their 2013 Ivy League title, the team’s ultimate annual goal.

Unfortunately, injuries to then junior wide receiver Seth DeValve and junior running back DiAndre Atwater stifled the season. Princeton eventually finished with an overall record of 5-5 and an Ivy League record of 4-3, placing them fourth in the conference. Although the Tigers displayed sporadic dominance over the likes of Davidson and Columbia, the Orange and Black fell to Ivy League football’s Big Three of Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth.

Following last year’s subpar performance, the team is ready to move past previous mistakes.

Princeton football head coach Bob Surace commented, “You move for-

ward. I don’t think our motivation concern, every one of Princeton’s opener of the Bob Surace era and and our work ethic were any less. opponents this season features a redeem itself from its 29-28 loss to We just got to continue to get bet- returning starting quarterback. the Mountain Hawks two seasons ter.” DeValve, who took last spring Turning to fresh recruits, Princ- ago. off from school to heal and returns eton brings in a large group of 31 In terms of Ivy League play, a this year as co-captain, said that freshmen this year, with many po- pre-season poll selected Princeton he’s “put that [injury] behind me.” tentially earning significant play to finish fourth again, also behind Turning to this season, the Ti- time. Hopeful coach Surace said, Harvard, Dartmouth and Yale – a gers offer an impressive veteran “During a pre-season JV game, we precise replica of last year’s final offensive and defensive line. Lead- really saw high quality play from top four standings. Harvard and ing the impeccable defensive line our young players. Maturity comes Dartmouth are neck and neck for are senior co-captain Matt Arends from repetition and building hab- the poll’s top spot. and All-Ivy senior defensive back its.”

However, looking past the obviAnthony Gaffney. On the offensive Leading these freshmen will be ous goal of winning the Ivy League side, the Tigers will feature two co-captains Arends and DeValve. title, coach Surace stressed the posAll-Ivy starters in senior Britt Col- Commenting on their leadership sibly even more important goal of colough and Spenser Huston. roles, both seniors emphasized the “continuous improvement.” Surace While the offensive and defen- importance of setting an example. further commented, “At the end of sive lines promise steadfast consis- DeValve said, “Attitude is very the day you and all your guys work tency, the Princeton quarterback contagious whether it’s positive so hard. Our long term goal is to be position remains a gaping hole in or negative. We’re always pushing the best we can be.” the Orange and Black game plan. other people to do their best.”

While questions continue Following the graduation of star Looking ahead at the Tigers’ 10- to cloud the Princeton season, quarterbacks Quinn Epperly ‘15 game season, Princeton will face Surace and his team remain comand Connor Michelsen ‘15, the Ti- its three non-Ivy opponents (La- posed, tackling one game at a time. gers must fill a major void. Looking fayette, Lehigh and Colgate) early Speaking on behalf of the entire for new players to step up, Princ- in the fall. While Princeton main- Princeton football team, Surace deeton head coach Bob Surace, who tains a dominant seven game win scribed, “We are going to come to is returning for his sixth season streak over the Lafayette Leopards, work every morning when it’s dark with the Tigers, will turn to junior Lehigh and Colgate both hold four- out and do everything to prepare Chad Kanoff, senior Kedric Bostic game win streaks over the Tigers. our guys. They work really hard. and sophomore John Lovett to fill In the case of Lehigh, Princeton We’re going to try to face all the these empty shoes. Adding to the will attempt to win its first home challenges.”

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The last year Princeton opened up a season with a victory, a year in which they also defeated both Harvard and Yale. The Tigers opened this season with a 40-7 victory over Lafayette.

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Field goal percentage by senior kicker Nolan Bieck last season, ranking 1st in the Ivy League in the category. For his career, Bieck is 27/36 on field goals.

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FIELD HOCKEY

Tigers will be tested against nation’s best

By Miles Hinson sports editor

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They continuously dominate Ivy League play, but this field hockey team looks for more than that when their season is said and done.

This Princeton field hockey team, fresh from their 10th straight appearance in the NCAA Tournament, will be put to the test this season.

They’ve already taken their lumps against two of some of the best teams in the nation, No. 3 UNC and No. 4 UVA (rankings as of Sept. 15).

The schedule won’t get easier down the road, as they will play more of the nation’s top teams later this fall.

But Tigers fans have more than enough to look forward to in this team, especially once league play kicks in. The field hockey team has had an amazing run at the top of the Ivy League — under coach Kristen Holmes-Winn, they’ve been the Ivy League 10 consecutive times.

Part of this domination, of

course, means that the Tigers need to seek extra challenge outside of the conference in order to be best prepared come November. The Tigers have already faced top-ranked UNC and UVA — they’ll be playing No. 1 UConn and No. 2 Syracuse later this season.

The players and coaches feel that these types of games will only strengthen the team for the playoffs.

“We want to be able to compete on the national stage, and in order to do that, we have to have a tough non-conference schedule,” HolmesWinn said. “We want to be objective about where we sit, and what we need to do to get better. We focus in on making improvements each day … so we can be really prepared for league play, and hopefully by the end of the season be prepared to compete in that first round.”

Junior midfielder Cat Caro expressed a similar sentiment.

“Our coaches want us to have a really tough schedule so we know how the best of the best teams play,” Caro said.

“So when we come to November where we’ve already seen them, and we’re not shocked when it really matters.”

Of course, the ability to continue such amazing performance and compete deep into November is contingent on the team’s senior leadership. The end of last season saw the departure of the Tigers’ top-two leaders in overall points, Allison Evans ‘15 and Sydney Kirby ‘15. However, the team now features a slew of high-performing returners to lead them back to the top. On offense, our eyes are on senior striker Maddie Copeland, senior midfielder Teresa Benvenuti, Caro and

sophomore striker Ryan McCarthy. In addition, freshman striker Sophia Tornetta has stepped up in her first few games, putting in two goals and four assists through the first five games of play.

On the defensive end, the Tigers have seen strong performances from senior goalie Anya Gersoff, especially against aforementioned powerhouses UNC and UVA. She racked up a career high in saves against the Tar Heels, and matched that number against the Cavaliers, en route to Ivy League Player of the Week honors.

In short, the best seems yet to come for this field hockey squad. After weathering the storm of the early season, expect them to come out roaring once it’s time to face the other Ivies. And you’d be wise not to sleep on this team when the postseason rolls around.

MEN’S WATER POLO Team bolsters roster and looks for NCAA bid

By Jack Rogers senior writer

Despite an impressive 23-4 mark, which included a perfect 11-0 record at Denunzio Pool, the men’s water polo team had a frustrating end to its 2014 season. Tied at six apiece with two and a half minutes remaining in the fourth quarter of the Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) Championship game against Brown, the Tigers surrendered a late goal that proved the difference maker. A narrow 7-6 victory earned Brown the CWPA title, and with it, an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

With the return of a strong veteran core and the addition of a talented freshman class, head coach Luis Nicolao’s squad looks to push its level of play even higher this fall in hopes of reaching the NCAA Tournament.

Despite a later start to Princeton’s academic year, the Tigers have kept busy over the last few weeks, already amassing a strong 7-3 record through their first 10 games. Princeton kicked off the season with three consecutive wins at the Navy Invitational on Sept. 5 and 6, dominating Cal Lutheran, Iona and Gannon. At the Princeton Invitational the following weekend, Princeton took down Harvard with a strong 16-12 victory but could not keep pace with No. 5 Pacific in a 15-9 defeat.

With a strong start on the East Coast, the Tigers have set their sights on West Coast competition over the last several days. The Tigers got a warm-up for the weekend against Santa Clara, who they took down 12-7 on Thursday evening. With a rest day from competition, the squad took the short drive over to Stanford for the NorCal Tournament. The Tigers fell to No. 8 UC-Irvine 14-6 on Saturday af-

ternoon, but rebounded in the evening with a 14-6 win over Redlands.

Sunday brought the Tigers up against both UC San Diego and UC Davis, both tied at No. 10 in the nation. In a mixed day for the squad, the Tigers started off strong with a 12-9 victory over UC San Diego. An evening matchup against UC Davis did not fall the Tigers’ way, though, as Princeton fell 10-7 in a tight contest.

Despite mixed results over the weekend, the Tigers return to the East Coast battle, testing against some of the nation’s top teams and with high expectations for the rest of the season.

Senior center and co-captain Tommy Nelson stressed the strong impact that the freshmen have had through the first few weeks.

“I’m very pleased with the start of our season so far,” Nelson said, who currently leads the team with 23 goals. “While we lost a top scorer to graduation, the freshmen class was able to quickly adjust to college play and begin contributing early on. Our biggest strength this year is our speed. The freshmen class of field players are all quick, which adds to our already fast upperclassmen. It is going to be hard for teams on the East Coast to keep up with our counterattacking and sprinting abilities.”

Despite being one loss away from matching its entire loss total from last season, the team has had a significant number of early games against top opponents, which Nelson hopes will pay dividends for the team as the season progresses.

“While the focus of our season is to win Easterns and progress to the NCAA Championships, we always challenge ourselves to play the West Coast teams,” Nelson said. “Inviting Pacific to play us at home and

flying to Stanford this past weekend to play in the NorCal Invitational allowed us to see how we match up to the West Coast talent. The top ten teams stay together and train through the summer, so they are already well-polished at this early point in the season. While our team has only trained together for a month, our ability to compete and place 10th out of 16 teams is an encouraging sign this early in the season. Playing in California allows us to see where our strengths lie and which areas we need to improve upon as we progress through the season.”

The Tigers will decrease the frequency of competition over the next few weeks, with just three more games before the Ivy League Championships on Oct. 17 and 18. Princeton will travel south this weekend to take on Johns Hopkins and George Washington and will have a two-week break from competition before playing Bucknell on the road on Oct. 10.

Game time is set for 8 p.m. this Saturday night in Baltimore against Johns Hopkins.

Game time against George Washington will be at 12 p.m. on Sunday afternoon in Washington, D.C.

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A 7-3 record to start the season is an excellent sign for the Tigers, and they look to keep the momentum going forward. Their keeping a solid core and obtaining young talent also bode well as they look to make a splash in the postseason once more.

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SPRINT FOOTBALL Under Morey, the search for wins goes on

By Grant Keating staff writer

The sprint football team looks to find victory after a rough season last year. This is the team’s second year with coach Sean Morey at the helm, and the team will look for its first win with their new coach. Morey, an Ivy league product from Brown who was drafted by the Patriots and whose stops in the NFL included the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles, will look to continue the team’s improvement during his tenure after seven Tigers were recognized as All-CSFL selections.

The varsity schedule looks more favorable this year. After opening up their season on the road against the Chestnut Hill Griffins, the team will return to Princeton for a tough home match up against Army.

They then go back on the road to face Ivy League rivals Cornell and Penn before finishing the season at home with another game against Chestnut Hill.

The hope for improvement this year lays mainly on the shoulders of the offense. Princeton sprint football only scored 13 points over five games last season compared to the opponents’ 282. Those two touchdowns were both passes, as the team’s attack was dominated last year by passing.

In fact, the running game actually averaged negative rushing yards per game last year. As weigh-ins approach for the team, hopefully this year’s offensive line will have beefed up to improve their run-blocking ability.

With eight incoming freshmen on the roster, there is plenty of potential for new playmakers on both side of the ball. The defense will need new talent and old to shore up its run defense, which was gashed for 5.7 yards per carry last season and gave up 26 rushing touchdowns. Look to see the sprint team in their three home games this season. The home opener will be Friday, Sept. 25, in Princeton Stadium at 7 p.m.

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CROSS COUNTRY Both squads look to cement places as teams to be feared

By Andrew Steele senior writer

Men’s cross country poised to continue Ivy dominance Fall 2015 looks to be yet another successful season for Princeton’s male distance runners. In their first race, the Tigers topped Harvard and Yale by a convincing margin.

The runners’ accomplishments during the 2014-15 season earned them a place alongside renowned thoroughbred American Pharaoh as “triple crown” winners — who inspired whom to athletic greatness remains up for debate — as the Tigers took first place in fall, winter and spring conference championships. Last year’s Heptagonal Championships sweep marks their second under head coach Jason Vigilante and the program’s third since 2011.

A pair of scorers from last spring’s Heps 5K race have raced their last for the Orange and Black. Mike Mazzaccaro ’15 and Sam Pons ’15, second- and fifth-place finishers respectively, made impacts that will

not be trivial to repeat. Pons garnered further accolades at the national level. Placing ninth in the 10K NCAA Championship, the California native capped off his impressive four years with a second-team All-America performance. In addition, he found the podium in last fall’s Heps final, placing third among Ancient Eight runners.

Fortunately for the returning Tigers, Princeton maintains a core of strong athletes while adding a measure of promising talent.

Runners from across all four classes have impressed in this early season. Senior Michael Sublette, runner-up in last fall’s Ivy League 8K final, placed third in the season-opening Harvard-YalePrinceton contest. His final year should see him lead the Princeton pack with a series of strong performances.

Junior William Bertrand and sophomore Wolfgang Beck f lanked their senior leader with second- and fourth-place finishes in the year’s first race.

A couple of Princeton’s

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Women’s cross country has been in some close seconds last season and this, coming behind Dartmouth at Heptagonals last year, and behind Harvard at the recent Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet. This season, they look to make a change.

rookies got in on the action, in addition. With a time of 25:13, freshman Jeremy Spiezio of Greenwich, N.Y. took ninth place in his first collegiate race. His classmate Steven Sum of Saratoga, Calif., finished 13th among Big Three runners.

Oct. 3 marks the next chance to see the Tigers on home turf at the Princeton Interregional Meet. While the sport is not particularly conducive to spectatorship, support in a race’s opening and closing moments makes no small difference.

In alumni news, all-time Princeton great Donn Cabral ’12 recently placed 10th in the IAAF World Championship Steeplechase. The 3000-meter obstacle race, run on Aug. 22 in the famous Bejing National Stadium, saw Cabral leading the pack through the halfway mark. With a final time of 8:24.94, the former Tiger was the third American to finish.

Rio de Janeiro’s 2016 Olympic Games will give Cabral, who took eighth-place in the 2012 games, the opportunity to shine once again on the world stage.

Women distance runners look to take next step in Ivy League Princeton’s female cross country runners cannot lay claim to as much recent success as their male counterparts. However, the squad has consistently applied pressure to the Ivy League top finishers. The Tigers took second in last fall’s Heptagonal Championships, marking the third time in four years that the Tigers took home silver or bronze.

An upsetting second-place finish came for Princeton in their season-opening race against Harvard and Yale. According to senior Emily de la Bruyere, this result failed to live up to the expectations the Tigers set for themselves.

“We should not have lost to Harvard by any number of points, least of all one,” the senior explained. “We dropped the ball in a couple of ways. I personally dropped the ball. It didn’t bode well for our season, but I don’t think it’s going to happen again.”

De la Bruyere along with senior Kathryn Fleur will lead the way for Princeton with the senior leadership necessary to any fruitful season.

Fleur took 10th place in the

season opener and showed she has the potential to race with the Ivy League best with her fifth-place finish in last spring’s Heps 5K final.

As with the men, the Princeton women saw strong early performances from all classes. Junior Lizzie Bird earned a convincing first-place finish — the runner-up followed by seven seconds — against Harvard and Yale. Sophomore Natalie Rathjen just outpaced Fleur to take ninth place.

First-year runner Bridgie Leach took 12th in an impressive inaugural performance.

According to de la Bruyere, “[Leach] did phenomenally well for her first collegiate cross country race, which is not easy. It’s a big change from high school training to college training.”

Twelve freshmen joined the Princeton ranks this season.

“Off the cross country course, they’re a really tight group with a ton of personality. They introduced themselves perfectly into the team,” said de la Bruyere.

“They should definitely be contributing members of the team. And not only now are they going to contribute, but as a class they have a fantastic foundation for the next four years.”

In order to realize the success this talented squad is capable of, Princeton has identified the strategy of pack running as the means for achieving the goal of a Heps Championship and strong national performance.

As de la Bruyere explained, “This year is going to be about team running and pack running, which is fundamentally what cross country is as a sport. We haven’t had the kind of team that can focus on those things in the past few years. But right now we have a team that’s very strong top three, four and five. So we’re going to be training together and racing together in a way that we can use that critical mass.”

The Princeton Invitational on Oct. 17 will give the Tigers a chance to improve their individual and team performance in front of a home crowd.

“In terms of team performance, in the past few weeks we’ve seen phenomenal strides,” said de la Bruyere.

“And all signs indicate that those are going to continue for the next three months.”

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PLAYERS TO WATCH

These Tigers are ready to roar this fall

#9

TYLER LUSSI

#22

TOM SANNER

Women’s Soccer - junior forward I haven’t seen a Tyler this destructive since I saw “Fight Club.” Lussi was absolutely dynamite last season, leading the league in goals last season with 18. She’s gotten off to a hot start this season, having already scored six this year. The Tigers’ chances of getting their first league title since 2012 depend on her continued stellar play.

Men’s Soccer - senior forward With the departure of Cameron Porter ’15, Sanner intends to be the go-to guy for his squad this season. Two goals and two assists is a solid start through the first four contests, but if the Tigers want to get to the NCAA tournament for the first time in five years, he’ll need to go above and beyond.

#22

MADDIE COPLAND

#11

CHAD KANOFF

Field Hockey - senior striker

With the departure of the team’s top two scorers from last year, Copeland has risen so far to the leading role expected of her. She has already started off with strong scoring, tied for first on the team with three goals so far. This team, young as it is, needs as much production and leadership from its upperclassmen as possible in order to keep itself in the hunt once the NCAA tournament rolls around.

Football - quarterback

He’s spent two years getting to watch former QB Quinn Epperly lead the way. Now Kanoff, a former four-star recruit who chose Princeton over Vanderbilt, has the chance to show his stuff as the focal point of the offense. A strong showing against Lafayette bodes well – 20-31 for 256 yards – and we can’t wait to see what else he’s got.

GAMES TO WATCH FOOTBALL - VS. YALE - @ POWERS FIELD - 11/14 This is the game that could earn Princeton back the Bonfire, the celebration held when the football team defeats Harvard and Yale in the same season. Getting this victory – provided Princeton defeats Harvard on the road, no small task – will certainly give the Tiger faithful that warm, fuzzy feeling again.

MEN’S SOCCER - VS. AMERICAN - @ ROBERTS STADIUM - 9/29 After just missing out on an NCAA bid last season, this soccer squad comes into this season hungry. Nothing could send more of a statement to the rest of the league than a win over currently no. 21 ranked American, who holds a record of 6-2 so far this season.

WOMEN’S SOCCER - VS. YALE - @ ROBERTS STADIUM - 9/26 Two of the last three matchups have gone into overtime. The most recent matchup needed a late goal from junior forward Tyler Lussi for the Tigers to come out on top. If the trend continues, the Tigers’ Ivy League opener this Saturday could very well be a thriller.

FIELD HOCKEY - VS. PENN STATE- @ BEDFORD FIELD - 10/4 When you crush the Ivy League like this field hockey team, you better hope your out of conference games will put you to the test. After hosting tough teams like UVA and UNC, they’ll get another shot at taking down one of the nation’s best at home in Penn State.

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL - VS. YALE - @ DILLON GYM - 11/6 After coming third in the Ivy League race last year, the Tigers could use nothing more than a victory over league champions Yale. The Tigers fell to the Bulldogs twice last season – getting this home win could go a long way in an NCAA bid.

MEN’S WATER POLO - VS. BUCKNELL- @ DENUNZIO POOL - 10/31 What better way to ring in Halloween than a bloody battle? These two teams went toe-to-toe in their three matchups, with Princeton coming out ahead all three times. You can’t sleep on the Bisons, though – they’re 7-2 right now, and if they stay hot, a duel with the Tigers could make for a fantastic showdown.

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WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

By Mark Goldstein staff writer

After compiling a solid 14-10 record during a 2014 campaign that included a third-place Ivy League finish (9-5), Princeton women’s volleyball (5-4 overall, 0-0 Ivy League) has already kicked off its 2015 season. Seeking their first Ivy title since 2007, the Tigers boast a strong core of returning veterans along with an impressive freshmen class that could give the team a boost to compete for the league championship this season.

Senior co-captains Kendall Peterkin and Sarah Daschbach will lead the Tigers this year, and the duo already hold prestigious positions in the program’s record books.

Daschbach, a four-year starter at libero, has been a bea-

con of consistency for the Tigers over the span of her career, ranking fifth all-time in career digs at Princeton.

A right side hitter, two-time All-Ivy League first team honoree, Peterkin now sits at 1,027 career kills, good for 11th in Princeton history, and continues to be one of the most dominant offensive forces in the Ivy League.

Complementing the senior captains will be a host of other veterans. Head Coach Sabrina King ’01 believes this year’s team is notable for its depth, adding, “We have a lot of different offensive weapons this year.” Among those weapons are the outside hitters, led by junior Cara Mattaliano, who hopes to return to her freshman year form that earned her All-Ivy League first team honors. The Or-

ange and Black also return sophomore Kelly Matthews on the outside, who averaged 2.79 digs and 1.14 kills per set last season. Sophomore Pauli King also returns at the position. Junior Lauren Miller, a two-year starter for Princeton at setter, has compiled more than 1,700 assists in her career and will reprise her role working with the hitters this year.

While Princeton features a lot of veteran talent, there is a big void to fill at middle blocker this season. While junior Brittany Ptak — an All-Ivy League honorable mention last season — is back to protect the middle, the other half of last year’s fierce duo is missing. Nicole Kincade ’15, who was a first team All-Ivy selection and four-year starter, has graduated, and perhaps the

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After going 5-2 at home last season, this Princeton women’s volleyball team will have to defend Dillon well once again if they want to become Ivy League champs.

Tigers boast deep roster as hunt for league title continues

biggest question of the preseason has been who would emerge to fill her shoes. “The experience and the volleyball IQ that she had is really difficult to replace,” remarked King. Senior Stephanie Marani adds experience at this position, but it is freshman Nnenna Ibe who has seized the job with some great preseason and early season play, earning praise from King and emerging as Kincade’s successor.

Ibe leads what is a very promising class of 2019. Fellow freshman Brooke Hershberger has already contributed as outside hitter, earning her coach’s confidence as an impact player off of the bench. Two more members of the young class have also earned substantial roles, as setter Claire Nussbaum and right side hitter Brittany

Smith are both playing significant time already.

The Tigers have competed in three tournaments thus far this season, posting a 5-4 record against some strong competition. “We haven’t performed up to our potential,” King said, referring to her team’s performance early on before the Rutgers tournament, “but we have a lot of good pieces, and we have more depth this season than in the past.” King’s squad starts its Ivy campaign on Friday Sept. 25 at Dillon Gym against Penn.

Other key home matchups include Harvard on Saturday, Oct. 31, and Yale on Friday, Nov. 6.

Last year, the Tigers managed to win 9 out of 10 of their Ivy League games against the five teams that finished below them in the

standings but dropped all four to rivals Harvard and Yale. From a physical standpoint, King believes that her team is equipped to match up well against the two teams, but the Tigers will have to fortify themselves mentally. Against the league’s top teams, the Tigers “kind of psych[ed] themselves out,” according to King, who added, “I think they need to focus on the process and play the way they play in practice,” in order to make the jump this year and beat the Crimson and the Bulldogs.

With a combination of exciting young talent and some record-chasing senior leadership, if women’s volleyball can heed its coach’s advice, the team seems poised to compete for the Ivy League Championship this season.

A QUESTION FOR EACH TEAM Football

Men’s Socccer

Was 2014 just a blip?

Can they get an NCAA bid without Porter?

2012 and 2013 were golden years — the Tigers were blazing on Cannon Green both times.

2014, however, was a crash back to earth, after the Tigers took a rough loss to Harvard at home and fell to Yale on the road. This year’s team, however, certainly gives good vibes after its excellent victory against Lafayette.

Field Hockey Can they go far with such a youthful team?

It graduated 6 seniors and are bringing in 9 freshmen — it’s safe to say that this field hockey team has more than its fair share of young talent waiting to grow. This team, however, not too far removed from a 2012 NCAA Championship, is always looking to win now. Coach Kristen Holmes noted that “[though] there’s a learning curve … every day, they get a little more comfortable.” Will this team be ready in time to make noise in the playoffs?

Superstar forward Cameron Porter led the NCAA in goals last year with 15, and his accolades in his senior season could fill a page. Even still, the Tigers were just edged out by the Dartmouth Big Green last year for a bid. While there is definitely talent to take his place — senior forward Tom Sanner, senior midfielder Brendan McSherry and senior midfielder Nico Hurtado among them — replacing a player of that caliber is never an easy task.

Sprint Football Can they pull themselves out of the slump?

The sprint football program continues forward, despite rough results. The season opener against Chestnut Hill may not bode great results, but fans can hope that — under the guidance of NFL Super Bowl Champion Sean Morey — this team has brighter lights in its future.

Cross Country Women’s Volleyball Can they follow up last year’s success with more?

Both Princeton men’s and women’s cross country teams established themselves at the top of the Ivies last year — the men’s team came first in Heps, with women taking second. Each team sees a solid core of returners — this is especially important for the women’s team, which is bringing 12 rookie runners into their ranks.

Men’s Water Polo

Who’s providing support at middle blocker While the women’s volleyball team returns an excellent junior in middle blocker Brittany Ptak, it’s never easy to replace a talent like Nicole Kincade ’15, who earned First Team All-Ivy Honors to cap an amazing career. Freshman Nnenna Ibe has come out strong at the position so far this year, but for a team eyeing the Ivy League Champs title, stellar performance all-season will be a must.

Can they close out down the stretch?

Women’s Soccer

A fantastic regular season for the men’s water polo team didn’t translate into an NCAA bid as the team found itself downed by the Brown Bears in the finals of the CWPA championships. The Tigers are looking to grab their first NCAA appearance since 2011 and have done well so far, going 7-3.

Of course, it’s the crucial games down the road that will make or break them.

Will injuries hinder them in Ivy League play?

According to head coach Sean Driscoll, the women’s soccer team roster, already relatively small at 23 players, had only 17 healthy bodies at the start of the season. While their recovery has been swift, the Tigers will need all of its members operating at full strength if they want to become league champs once more.

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MEN’S SOCCER

Sanner, Hurtado will fill void left by last year’s seniors FILE PHOTO

Senior midfielder Nico Hurtado, who’s picked up 1 goal and 3 assists so far this season, will be a key component for the Tigers as they look to become league champions once more.

By Tom Pham associate sports editor

The Princeton men’s soccer team had a successful 2014 where they shared the Ivy League title with Dartmouth after five wins, one draw and one loss, but sadly missed out on the NCAA Tournament because of their head-to-head record against Dartmouth, whom the Tigers lost 2-1 to in a heart-wrenching overtime loss at Roberts Stadium.

The Tigers will be looking to do one better this year and claim another Ivy League title, which would be head coach Jim Barlow’s fifth in his 20 years at the helm. The Tigers will also be aiming to return to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2010, the season when the team went undefeated and cruised to the Ivy League title.

Coach Barlow is excited for the

upcoming season and has high hopes, he said: “We think we have a strong team and hope to repeat as Ivy champs and get deep into the NCAA tournament. We know every team in our league believes it can win the Ivy League, and every game is close. We think we have the experience and leadership to help us during crucial moments of the season.” He then added: “Right now, Brown and Columbia are both undefeated, and we know the league title chase will be incredibly close again this year.”

However, the team will face its fair share of challenges, especially with the loss of key players who have recently graduated, such as midfielder Myles McGinley, defenders Andrew Mills and Joe Saitta, and most notably, forward Cameron Porter. All four were considered indispensable starters and their con-

tributions were also recognized by many others as both Saitta and McGinley received Honorable Mention All Ivy-League, whilst Mills was voted into the Second-Team All-Ivy League.

Porter’s successes were even greater than his teammates’. He finished with 15 goals and four assists from last season. His 15 goals led the NCAA and he was subsequently voted the Offensive Player of the Year for both the ECAC and the Ivy League. The forward’s success saw him greatly rewarded as he was selected with the 45th pick in the MLS SuperDraft by the Montreal Impact where he will have the opportunity to train and play alongside football legends such as ex-Chelsea star Didier Drogba. Although an unfortunate knee injury ended his 2015 season prematurely, Porter had already become a house-

hold name in Montreal after scoring an injury-time winner in the CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinals against Mexican club C.F. Pachuca.

Although replacing the likes of Mills and Porter will be a big challenge, the Tigers are fully capable of doing so. The Tigers will look to the trio of seniors Thomas Sanner, Nico Hurtado and Brendan McSherry to lead the attack this year. The three players had a successful 2014 season in their own right, scoring a combined 13 goals and had 11 assists as well, but will need to push their own game to a new level to drive the Tigers to another Ivy League title.

“We did lose a talented group of seniors last year, and Cam did score a lot of big goals for us,” Barlow commented. “However, we return three senior forwards who have all started many games and have

scored big goals for us, and those guys have the talent and potential to help our attack be strong again this year. In the midfield, back and goal, we return a good number of players who played a huge role in our Ivy championship last year. We are also excited about our freshmen class, and we are confident that we have talent and depth in all the parts of the field.”

The Tigers have already started their season, having already played three away games so far at St. John’s in New York and FGCU and Florida International, both in Florida. The Tigers have had mixed success in these games, winning 2-1 against St John’s to extend their unbeaten streak to ten games, before dropping both games in Florida after conceding late goals. Although the Tigers did not have the most desirable of starts, the team came

out strong in their home opener against Boston University, winning 2-1. They will look to improve on this victory as they play on the road this Saturday against Binghampton.

“Right now we are focused only on our next match. We hope to get a lot of fans to come out and support us,” coach Barlow said.

The team will need to start building some momentum before they kick-off their Ivy League campaign; the first team they will face will be co-defending champions Dartmouth, as the Tigers hope to avenge the 2-1 loss from last season. With a strong returning squad and exciting new additions from the freshman group, the Tigers hope to continue their success against Ivy League opponents as they aim to defend their Ivy League title this year.

WOMEN’S SOCCER A team loaded with offensive talent hopes to set itself apart in league

By Sydney Mandelbaum associate sports editor

With five new freshmen and new Head Coach Sean Driscoll, the Tigers (5-3) are back and better than ever and ready to take on the Ivy League after last Sunday’s takedown of the No. 23-ranked William & Mary.

Last year, the Tigers were one of the top offensive teams in the NCAA, but closed the season with a heartbreaking loss that left the Tigers in a three-way tie for third place in the Ivy League. This year was marked with a lot of uncertainty and the team has seen a lot of change — nine seniors graduated at the end of last year and former Head Coach Julie Shackford left the program after 20 seasons at its helm. The Tigers returned this season with a new head coach, five new freshmen and a re-imagined intensity.

With regards to the team’s new approach, Driscoll said, “Our number one focus coming into the season was to try to improve our goal differential, goals against versus goals scored. We’re a little ahead of where they were last year, so there is an improvement. We still need to get better, but our main focus was in our defending, our overall defending, our individual defending and doing our best to hold our opponents at bay a little bit more.”

“We see his level of commitment and it drives us harder,” junior forward Tyler Lussi said on the team’s new head coach. “This

team has really pulled together under [coaches] Sean, Kelly, Ron and Mike.”

But upon returning to campus for pre-season training, the Tigers were faced with injuries that set them back in their training.

“A lot of teams have 30 players in their rosters and we only have 23,” Driscoll said. “Of those 23, we had 17 that were healthy to start the season… it’s taken some time to get back to full health and we’re just getting back to that now.”

Six of the seven players who scored in the 2014 season are back again this year, led by Lussi, who scored 18 goals and was named Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year last season. She’s already scored six goals this season and was named this week’s Ivy League Player of the Week. Nine of the eleven Tigers who assisted goals in the last year have returned for the 2015 season, led by sophomore midfielder Vanessa Gregoire, who picked up seven assists last season. Freshman forward Mimi Asom has also been taking the field by storm, and was just named this week’s Ivy League Rookie of the Week for scoring the golden goal to beat William & Mary.

On the younger skew of this year’s team, Lussi said, “The younger players… are very talented and fortunately they are learning how to adjust their high-level club games to the more physical and tactical college games.”

“I think the cohesion of the team is great, their incredible competi-

tive drive is exceptional, the attitude is very positive and I would say that they’re the brightest group of players in terms of understanding things that we do, changes that we make in the game,” Driscoll said. “They’re pretty good at making adjustments on the fly, which is always a challenge for a coach, and they’re really adept at doing it.”

The Tigers will take on their first Ivy League rival of the season, Yale, this Saturday in Roberts Stadium at 1 p.m.

“I think we’re in a good place mentally, we’re in a good place physically,” Driscoll said. “As a group they’re much more cohesive and I think they’re really excited about getting into the Ivy League season.”

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This 2015 women’s soccer team hopes to build off of their joint third-place finish last season. Sophomore forwards Mikaela Symanovich (top) and Beth Stella (bottom), strong performers in their rookie seasons, will definitely be looked upon for more.