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STUDENT LIFE

NEU majors express concern over curriculum

By Linda Song staff writer

While members of the first class of concentrators in the new neuroscience program appreciate the concentration’s tutorial-based system and the chance to pursue their passion, some students expressed concern about heavy requirements and the lack of information regarding independent work.

Alice Tao ’17, a neuroscience major, said that she was initially planning to major in chemistry but was more interested in the required courses listed on the website for the neuroscience concentration.

“I just like the classes and I was thinking of about doing research at [the Princeton Neuroscience Institute] anyway and so it was just a better fit,” Tao said.

Dominique Fahmy ’17 said she came in already interested in neuroscience and the introduction of the program was an opportune moment to pursue the concentration.

“It was like a godsend because it was right when I was like ‘What am I going to do with myself?’ ” Fahmy said.

Nicole Katchur ’17, who started in chemical and biological engineering before switching to molecular biology, said she knew she wanted to concentrate in neuroscience when she was around pediatric neurologists after her younger sister had a traumatic brain injury.

However, students have also expressed concern about the major’s heavy requirements and prerequisites.

Neuroscience departmental representative and professor of psychology Asif Ghazanfar and co-director of the PNI Jonathan

Cohen did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

According to the neuroscience concentration’s website, the concentration lists a minimum of 16 courses required for the course of study. Four prerequisites are required to enter the NEU concentration – MAT 103: Calculus I, MAT 104: Calculus II, NEU 201: Fundamentals of Neuroscience (formerly NEU 258) and NEU 202: Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience (formerly NEU 259).

Concentrators must also complete two required core courses, two required cognates, five neuroscience electives and three cognate electives.

Tao said she is concerned about meeting the required courses for her concentration.

“There is a lot of requirements to graduate as a neuroscience major — as a junior I think I’m cutting it a little close,” she said.

Both Fahmy and Katchur noted that although they were fortunate enough to have completed many of the prerequisites and requirements before declaring neuroscience as a major, the situation is not same for many other students.

“I didn’t have much of a trouble switching. I’m not sure how it applied to rest of the students,” Katchur, an engineer, said.

Fahmy explained that she took part in the Integrated Science Curriculum and was able to fulfill almost half of the neuroscience requirements for science courses — leaving only core classes and electives to fulfill. However, Fahmy noted that the requirements would have been difficult to fulfill had she not done the program.

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The food waste in the dining halls will now be processed by a local company to make fertilizer.

U. partners with local company to compost food

By Zoe Toledo staff writer

The Office of Sustainability, Building Services and Campus Dining have partnered so that food scraps from the dining hall are now handled by a local company, AgriArk, which will process them into fertilizer at a local facility.

Director of the Office of Sustainability Shana Weber explained that, for a long period of time, local options for composting food scraps were unavailable, with the closest facility located in Wilmington, Del. She added that they wanted to avoid using landfills to dispose of food scraps.

“Food waste is very heavy, therefore it is very expensive to landfill,” she said. “The other piece to that is more of an ethical consideration. Nutrients captured in food scraps should be reused.”

AgriArk, based in Hopewell, N.J., will partner with the Uni-

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fungal operations,” Wisniewski said, explaining such a difference makes the capital cost and operational cost very low.

Weber said that the University strives to partner with local organizations to support the ideal that food scraps and nutrients need to be captured in a principled way, without waste.

“This is a core idea in sustainability planning. Where you look at the whole system, in our case that is the campus, and you look at all of the items leaving the campus in various waste streams and think very carefully about what is the best pathway for any given waste stream,” she said. “We really want to try to embrace this concept that there should be no waste, that there can be output that can be useful for something else.”

Weber explained that in previous years, food scraps from the dining halls were See COMPOST page 3

STUDENT LIFE

U. journalism program removes application requirement for classes

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By Kristin Qian staff writer

Among top 20 schools, U. ranks first in return on investment

The University ranks the first in return on investment among the top 20 private universities in the United States, according to a new report released by Lexington Law, a law firm specializing in credit repair services.

According to the report, the lifetime earnings estimate for University graduates is $4,935,817, compared to the University’s four-year cost of $223,328.

The University’s return on investment is 2,110 percent, slightly higher than MIT’s 2,004 percent.

Lexington Law researched the top 20 public and private universities using data from the most recent U.S. News and World Report ranking to analyze student debt data from the National Center for Education, as well as average starting and mid-career salaries, assuming a 1 percent growth from mid-to-end career salaries over a 22-year period.

versity to process campus generated food scraps. “[AgriArk] can produce a very high-quality compost from those food scraps and can then use the food compost as a growing media and fertilizer for an indoor greenhouse operation where they grow microgreens,” Weber said.

According to a December 2013 Daily Princetonian article, the company has been discussing this initiative with the Office of Sustainability since summer 2013.

AgriArk founder and CEO Rob Wisniewski was not available for comment.

In an interview with the ‘Prince’ in December 2013, Wisniewski noted the company’s composting technology was innovative and cost-efficient.

“It’s different than compost; it’s different than most fertilizers. We are not necessarily adding nutrients as much as we are fixing existing nutrients and adding a lot of microbe and

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Students made stuffed tigers at a Student Events Committee’s event in Frist Campus Center on Thursday.

Students no longer need to apply to enroll in journalism courses starting this semester.

The Ferris McGraw Seminars in Journalism, administered by the University’s Council of the Humanities, are taught by distinguished professional writers and journalists and cover topics ranging from magazine writing to investigative reporting. In previous years, students had to submit an application several months prior to the start of each semester to enroll in journalism courses.

“We are always trying to make our courses more accessible, more available to students, and make the process smoother,” Kathleen Crown, executive director of the Council of the Humanities said.

Most courses were very popular and had waitlists, Crown said. However, she explained, sometimes certain places would not be filled up because after going through the application process and submitting a writing sample students would encounter scheduling conflicts.

The problem, she said, would occur especially during the add-drop period, and the change was implemented

to ensure interested students would be able to get into the courses. Spaces would open up, but faculty couldn’t easily put somebody else in the course because the application deadline had passed.

“We don’t want to put an arduous process in place that then means that the courses — wonderful courses by our distinguished faculty — are not filling up when they could, so we tried opening the courses to see what would happen,” Crown said.

The change from application to none has shown good results, Crown said. All the classes filled up immediately.

“We are delighted that the courses are so popular and that so many students are interested in taking them,” Crown said.

This new system has brought in a good mix of students from different backgrounds and various class years, Crown said, although the courses are still restricted to sophomores and above.

There are five journalism courses taught this semester, including JRN 445: Accountability Reporting by The Washington Post investigative reporter Joe Stephens. This is Stephens’ second year teaching his course.

Stephens said that as an instructor he needs to come up See JOURNALISM page 3

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“It’s frustrating because there are a lot of classes that aren’t electives,” Fahmy said, noting that some of her credits for classes such as organic chemistry did not count toward any of the requirements for the neuroscience concentration.

While the neuroscience department has not made an announcement on the schedules and requirements for junior and senior independent work yet, the program’s website states that the concentrators must participate in small group tutorials to discuss research papers from primary literature in order to develop tools and ideas for reading and analyzing current scientific literature in the fall semester.

According to the website, concentrators will write two short papers for the fall tutorial.

“It’s not like independent work in the sense that you’re in a lab doing lab work and pursuing your own projects,” Tao said regarding the tutorials, but added that it is “a nice foundation for you to be exposed to what literature and research is out there to give you a better idea of what you could possibly be involved in”.

Katchur, who had already attended her first tutorial, said the tutorial was intimate and the professor engaging.

“I like how the advisers are very willing to help you. I don’t have any concerns yet,” Katchur said.

However, while Fahmy said she is excited about the tutorials, she also acknowledged that she finds the lack of available information regarding spring junior papers and senior theses unnerving.

“I know a lot of my friends have already submitted propos-

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als for their work and I’m just curious to know whether we are supposed to be doing that too,” Fahmy said. “I feel like we should probably be starting to figure out who our advisers are.”

She recommended more open communication and possible revision of some of the requirements.

“They just need to communicate more with us and be more open, and I think at some point they’re going to have to lower their requirements — unless you get lucky like I did, or you really know you want to do the major, but it’s not really practical to do,” she said.

Seventeen members of the Class of 2017 signed into the new neuroscience concentration last spring. Although there are some seniors who are independently majoring in neuroscience, the Class of 2017 would be the first official cohort pursuing the neuroscience concentration.

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sent to a local pig farmer who processed the food scraps into pig feed, making it so none of the University’s food waste went to landfills. According to Weber, the family who previously processed the food scraps was unable to do so anymore.

Weber said that how the campus handles its waste strains is part of the University’s sustainability plan. The sustainability plan will examine ways to develop a campus sustainably over time, is comprehensive and will emphasize the University as a demonstration of sustainable practices as a facility and in culture, she said.

“We run into questions all

the time that we can’t answer.

We often have these exciting partnerships with faculty and students using the campus as a living laboratory to start to fill in some of the gaps,” Weber said.

Executive Director of Campus Dining Smitha Haneef, who oversees the University’s residential and retail dining operations, noted that last semester a student-led project collected and quantified consumer waste in the dining halls.

Haneef said this initiative was part of the efforts by Greening Dining, a student-led group that works with Dining Services to develop sustainable practices and policies.

Reka Zempleni ’16, a member of Greening Dining, said that she is excited about the recent changes to compost in the din-

ing hall.

“We’ve been bringing it up for a while, so it’s great that the change happened,” said Zempleni. “The impact that we have through our dining habits can add up quickly to be really big on the environment, therefore I think it is essential to pay attention to what we eat and where our food comes from.”

In addition to Greening Dining, Haneef said for the first time this year a student advisory board has been established. The board will focus on the subject of food and campus dining and is co-chaired by Ella Cheng ’16, she said.

Cheng is a former staff writer for the ‘Prince.’

“In our approach, our goal is to involve the students and partner with them in finding solutions,” Haneef said.

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with a way to make it relevant to every student at every skill level. Although he noted that this task can be challenging, he said it works. He added that all of the seminars are kept at 16 students, so there is a lot of one-on-one time between students and the professor.

“I find that students that don’t have any journalism background get up to speed really fast,” he added.

D. T. Max, who is teaching JRN 440: The Literature of Fact: Narrative Writing, said that all of his students are strong in their writing regardless of their journalism background and experience. The discontinuation of the application pro-

cedure does not seem to have affected much, he added.

“They’re really high quality students,” Max said.

“I find that students that don’t have any journalism background get up to speed really fast.”

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The hope is that opening up journalism courses to all students will make these classes

more accessible and simplify the process, Crown said, noting that the journalism classes have had the highest enrollment numbers yet.

“We’ll see how this goes,” she said. “We’re trying this and we want it to work for students, and we’ll see how it works this semester.”

She noted that the fluctuation during add-drop period continues and several courses still have a couple of spaces available.

“We want students at Princeton to have thought about the media, to think about the future of journalism,” Crown said. “The idea is: let’s have a larger conversation. It’s a not a boutique course for a select group of students; it’s openhearted, grappling with big issues of our time.”

Why I skipped Nate Reuss

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y hours are flexible, and when I scheduled to work this past Sunday it hadn’t even occurred to me that I would be missing the main act at Lawnparties. Normally I look forward to the opportunity to see live music, but in retrospect it’s not surprising that I completely forgot about this year’s Lawnparties. My excitement for the headliner dissipated as soon as the news broke.

I want to make it clear that I don’t intend to criticize a show that I didn’t attend, nor to judge the decision of our hard-working Undergraduate Student Government that put in the time to make it happen in the first place. I’ve heard mixed reviews so far, but I’m sure that a lot of students enjoyed Ruess’ show. I also understand that there are limited options available to USG and that there are many factors at play in the choice of headliner. However, regardless of how the show went or how the choice was made, the fact of Ruess’ appearance on the heels of last spring’s Big Sean controversy has depressing implications about how pop culture, politics and student groups interact.

While some might think it best to avoid reopening this can of worms, I think it worthwhile to revisit the Big Sean debate as a way to contextualize this year’s controversyfree headliner. As an additional stipulation, I want to make it clear that I agree with some of the objections raised by those who created or signed the petition to boycott Big Sean for his frequently misogynistic or homophobic lyrics, as well as his alleged history with sexual assault. I declined to sign the petition because it failed to locate this misogynistic or homophobic language in the context of the anti-blackness permeating the music industry or in the context of Big Sean’s working-class background.

Still, I do stand with the spirit behind the petition. By now we have all heard countless attacks on and defenses of political correctness — or political sensitivity — on campus.

I believe that individuals should not have to endure the constant targeting of their marginalized group identity, no matter which form this targeting takes. Safe spaces are important and necessary in the right context, and while I don’t think that classrooms can or ever should be considered safe spaces, it’s not unreasonable to hope that a campuswide activity meant to provide entertainment for all students be free of threatening, problematic or triggering language.

The problem is that a space free of threatening, problematic or triggering language excludes a large fraction of the pop music that is subversive, relevant to conversations about injustice and unsettling to the status quo in music and culture, even as it seems on the surface to rest within a corporate context. Any of this dangerous music will be deeply particular, concerned with detail, informed by lived experience in a society shaped by structural inequality. Big Sean is no Tupac or Kendrick, but his moderately detailed (if still quite generic) narratives about black working-class roots and the material excess of the music industry are comparatively artistically rich and relevant when one considers the unparticularized, generalized fill-in-the-blanks anonymity and blandness of Nate Ruess’ pathetic nice-guy schtick.

Nate Ruess is the corporate answer to the safe space. He is Coldplay sans catchiness.

He neither offends nor uplifts anybody, in a streamlined package that may as well be focus group-tested. In lieu of attending a performance that would have cost me a long day’s paycheck, I combed through the lyrics on his solo album. I watched a couple of videos, one of which looked like a skinny Mark Wahlberg hopping around New York in Urban Outfitters clothes. Almost nothing disrupted the sense that this could be any selfindulgent, obnoxious 20-something white male ever. Some piano here, maybe some cheery strings, some yelling about being a romantic or something. I already forget.

I realize that Lawnparties is supposed to be a good time, not a celebration of our generation’s Greatest Living Artist. But it’s still worthwhile to note that Nate Ruess represents a calculated corporate strategy to appeal to the widest demographic by erasing the particular, the dangerously personal, the controversially honest. As I have already acknowledged, there are certainly many factors that go into the choice of a headliner each year, but it’s not far-fetched to imagine that the USG social committee might have been reluctant to pick a mainstream rap act right after the controversy generated by Big Sean.

It would be awesome to see a woman or queer person of color headlining soon (props to USG for picking Angel Haze as an opener last year). Still, if the choices were limited to another human blah like Ruess or an artist more similar to, say, Vince Staples or Kendrick Lamar — both of whom have been vocal on issues of poverty and police brutality, but could conceivably be the target of some petition due to potentially misogynistic lyrics — I would much prefer the latter. #nomorefun Max Grear is a sophomore from Wakefield, R.I. He can be reached at mgrear@princeton.edu.

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On Peter Singer In a letter to the editor published on Sept. 7, Luke Koppisch, deputy director of the Alliance Center for Independence noted that, while the University seeks robust academic freedom, it also requires that all of its members show each other mutual respect and understanding. Koppisch went on to criticize bioethics professor Peter Singer for publishing views Koppisch likened to hate speech. He isolated Singer’s publications as endorsing non-voluntary euthanasia of severely disabled infants and the elderly.

The Editorial Board believes that the University should continue to support Singer in spite of the backlash against the opinions voiced in his academic publications. Singer, the author of over a dozen books, is one of today’s most well-known public intellectuals. His opinions are, at times, controversial, but that does not warrant his resignation. The purpose of academic institutions like the University is to expose young and often dogmatic students to perspectives and beliefs that may differ markedly from their own. Professors should be able to speak freely on contentious issues without fear of retribution or censure, since part of their purpose is to lead academic debate.

Indeed, University faculty came together in April to affirm the notion that debate and deliberation ought not be suppressed, even if certain ideas are found by “members of the University community to be offensive, unwise, immoral.”

Singer has introduced a controversial and robust debate on campus in his discussion of the rights of the terminally ill and infants.

The protest on Sept. 10 to condemn Singer’s views and call for his resignation is evidence that the presence of figures like him on campus is crucial to spurring academic and public discussion. Koppisch and other critics of Singer most certainly have the right to disagree with him. However, seeking to bar Singer from free academic discussion is actually counterproductive to the protestors’ goal of exposing what they believe to be hateful viewpoints. If Singer were fired, there would be no opportunities for students in his classes to dissect and question his views in discussions or precept. The Board believes that discussion of controversial views with those who espouse them, rather than blind censorship, is the most productive means of reaching consensus and understanding.

The Board also believes Koppisch’s criticism misses the point of Singer’s beliefs. Singer, a preference-satisfaction utilitarian and welfare ethicist, argues that healthcare is a scarce resource that must be allocated to maximize expected preferences. In a 2009 New York Times piece titled, “Why We Must Ration Health Care,” Singer argues that rationing in the context of the elderly and severely-ill will save the lives of people with much more optimistic prognoses.

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He notes that, “If the U.S. system spent less on expensive treatments for those who, with or without the drugs, have at most a few months to live, it would be better able to save the lives of more people who, if they get the treatment they need, might live for several decades.” We do not view this argument to be motivated by hate for the disabled or elderly.

Instead, we understand Singer to be arguing from a point of respect that acknowledges that difficult decisions may require difficult, sometimes unintuitive solutions.

The Board does not take a position on the topic of health care rationing, but it encourages thinkers on both sides of the issue to engage with the topic in a manner that is respectful and intellectually rigorous. If Koppisch disagrees with Singer, he should criticize the underpinnings of Singer’s philosophy that lead Singer to what Koppisch argues is a repugnant conclusion. In any academic debate, we should be cautious to label speech we merely disagree with as hateful. In accordance with the faculty statement in April, the Board supports a campus conducive to free academic publication and debate, bereft of censorship and personal retribution.

The Editorial Board is an independent body and decides its opinions separately from the regular staff and editors of The Daily Princetonian. The Board answers only to its Chair, the Opinion Editor and the Editor-In-Chief.

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Will Rivitz columnist

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ou’ve all probably heard “impostor syndrome” discussed at some point on campus.

The story goes like this: As Princeton students, we see the ridiculous accomplishments of our peers firsthand on a neardaily basis — national awards, startups which earn multimillion-dollar investments and groundbreaking research seem almost the norm. Naturally, many of us feel inadequate comparatively. “How did we get here?” we ask ourselves. “I’m nowhere near as accomplished, smart or talented as anyone else in my class.”

Those who try to dispel this notion typically do so by explaining that this feeling isn’t a unique one. They bring up studies to show that it is common to feel this way, like the oft-cited paper which found that up to 70 percent of people have worried exactly about this at some point in their lives. They explain that everybody brings something unique to the community and that even the students who feel most helpless on campus are here for a reason.

They tell us, in short, that we’re all in this together, and that your loneliness and fear of missing out

A part of a whole are not things that you’re dealing with uniquely.

This line of reasoning is all well and good — it’s obviously nice to know that even if we’re suffering alone, we’re not alone in our suffering. However, there is something else we should also keep in mind whenever we try to deal with these self-conscious nightmares: those who suffer from this toxic self-image are almost without exception seen by many of their peers as the very image of that success themselves.

Obviously, everyone views themselves and their place on campus differently, and there is no one-size-fits-all response to the “syndrome.” However, this exact approach has helped me put my own self-image issues into perspective — and if it worked for me, it might help others on campus as well.

Like many students, I came onto campus believing that my own admission to the University had been, if not a mistake, at least more generous than I deserved.

I’m part of the 4 percent of the student body who was not in the top 10 percent of his graduating high school class. I also had no grand vision for my life or even a particular direction I wanted to go in terms of major or postcollege career. As I received rejection notices from almost every

on-campus group I applied to or auditioned for, the thought of my own inferiority continued to eat away at me.

I’m not really sure what changed, but at some point during my freshman year I suddenly realized that almost nobody had any clue I was dealing with any self-confidence issues at all. My friends and acquaintances didn’t see me as anything less than a competent, hardworking Princeton student. I remember feeling shocked that I’d manage to “hoodwink” so many of them. What’s more, other students whom I saw as incredibly smart, talented and motivated confessed to me around this time that they were suffering under the very same inferiority complex. I was stunned — how could these people think they were anything less than completely qualified to come here?

It was at this point that it hit me: Not only are we unjustified in thinking we’re the only ones who are pretending to fit into the campus community, we’re not even “pretending to fit in” — we are fitting in. We’re passionate about so many different things and eloquent about such particular topics that what might be mundane for us is revolutionary and astonishing for somebody else. We might think we’re “impostors”

because we can’t do some difficult thing that seemingly all our friends can do, but chances are we’re taking another difficult thing we can do incredibly well for granted.

Of course, we do bring up this corollary sometimes — Dean Rapelye’s remark that the admission committee “doesn’t make mistakes” at a frosh week speech comes to mind — but if we are to make everyone here feel their place on campus is deserved, we need to talk about it a lot more. I won’t pretend that the overarching campus culture, one so focused on achievement and success, can be easily dismissed.

However, in the f lurry of exams, meetings, projects and grunt work in which we almost always find ourselves mired, we could use a little more affirmation. It doesn’t require much to make a meaningful difference: the occasional compliment or bit of positive feedback from the people that we respect, trust and admire can go a very long way. After all, no matter our GPAs, extracurriculars or social networks, we’re all Princeton students for a reason.

But sometimes it helps to hear someone else say it.

Will Rivitz is a sophomore from Brookline, Mass. He can be reached at wrivitz@princeton.edu.

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Field hockey goes 1-1, preps for Dartmouth

By Miles Hinson sports editor

After a dominant win and a loss to one of the best teams in the country, the field hockey team now looks toward Ivy League play.

The Tigers (2-4 overall), currently ranked 20th in NCAA Division I field hockey, proved their mettle with a 5-1 beatdown over the visiting the American University Eagles (5-3 overall). Princeton took a 2-0 lead before halftime thanks to goals from junior back Hailey Reeves and freshman back Nicole Catalino, and continued the onslaught from there. The star of the game was senior striker Maddie Copeland, who scored all three goals of the second half of the game, earning her first career hat trick.

The Tigers then hit the road to face a daunting task – battling the University of Maryland Terrapins (6-3 overall) on the road.

The Terps were the aggressors on the game, holding a 24-5 shot advantage over the Tigers on the day. Despite an 11-save effort from senior goalie Anya Gershoff, Princeton ultimately ended up falling 3-0.

When asked about potential areas for improvement

after the Maryland game, head coach Kristen HolmesWinn pointed out that offensive fundamentals are key against top teams like Terps.

“Maryland is a very good defensive team — it’s about figuring out how to manipulate teams with a sound defensive structure.” HolmesWinn said. “For us, it’s part of the little things that are going to give us higher quality opportunities, doing some of the off ball work, even against the best teams.

We didn’t do enough of that to open up the game for ourselves.”

With the Maryland game in the books, the Tigers hit the road again this weekend to face the first of their Ivy League opponents — the Dartmouth Big Green (3-3 overall). The Tigers have had tremendous success in the Ivy League for an astonishing period of time, having won the league title ten years straight. In their last three matchups against Dartmouth, they’ve won by an average of 4.3 goals a game.

Despite their recent positive results against this team, Holmes-Winn reiterated that her team heads into every game with the same type of preparation

— objectively judging the strength and weaknesses of their opponents.

“We see where the opportunities will be for us, [and] where the threats will be.

That’s how we analyze our opponents.” Holmes-Winn said.” “Every single time we step on the field, we want to be the very best. We try not to let [the past] come into our mindset at all.”

With the season just about a third of the way over, the Tigers are already in full swing. Holmes-Winn said that, in their quest for a strong postseason, the team needs to remain focused on their craft both on and off the field. “[It’s about] staying as present as possible, making sure we are dialed into the little things we know are going to make a difference in the long term — eating properly, sleeping properly, the small details of the game, the core principles that we’ve identified as central to the kind of hockey we want to play.” Holmes-Winn said.

“It’s easy to get distracted, and we just have to stay completely locked in. [It’s about] making sure we’re dialing into the details of the physiology and taking care of ourselves.”

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After strong showing against Lafayette, football hosts Lehigh for home opener

By David Liu staff writer

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After this weekend, only one game will stand between the men’s soccer team and Ivy League play.

Men’s soccer hits the road, women to defend home turf

By Gordon Moore staff writer

The fall season is young, but for Princeton men’s soccer, the next few days hold a lot of promise. This Saturday they’ll face Binghamton (5-3) in an away game and on Tuesday they’ll challenge No. 19 American University (6-2) in their second game at home. The Tigers currently stand at 2-2, and a pair of wins (and especially a win over American) would provide just the spark the team has been looking for heading towards their first Ivy League opponent of the year, Dartmouth, the fol-

lowing Saturday. Having just missed out on an NCAA bid last season, expect this team to send a message over the next week and a half.

Women’s soccer stands at a solid 5-3 on the season but they’ll face their first conference opponent, Yale, this Saturday at home. The Princeton-Yale matchup has historically favored the away team, with the guest claiming victory the last eight years. However, the women are coming off a strong 2-1 overtime win against William & Mary, their first win over an NSCAA-ranked team since 2012, and are currently on a three-game win streak,

so they look primed to walk away the victors on home turf. Furthermore, the Tigers have outshot every opponent except Rutgers this season and have averaged three goals in each of their last three games. If the Tigers keep it up, Saturday should be a thrilling contest with plenty of fireworks.

This week both the men’s and the women’s teams earned the NSCAA College Team Academic Award for having a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better during the 2014-15 academic year, making it clear they’re stars in the classroom as well as on the field.

Coming off its first season opener victory in nine years, the football team hopes to carry the momentum of last week’s dominant victory over Lafayette into Saturday’s game against Lehigh.

Despite this, the Mountain Hawks’ consistent success over the last few seasons will present a much greater challenge than Lafayette did last week.

Lehigh comes into Saturday’s match having already played three games. In fact, Princeton will be Lehigh’s second straight Ivy opponent after the Mountain Hawks defeated Penn 42-21 last weekend. Between the two teams, Lehigh holds a fourgame win streak over Princeton with its previous meeting ending in a 29-28 thriller.

Commenting on the challenge that Lehigh presents, senior co-captain Seth DeValve said, “Lehigh is always a tough opponent. They play hard and run to the football. They’re not the type of team who is going to try to trick you; they just line up their 11 against their opponents and try and outwork them.

That’s why Lehigh has been good for many years.”

“Our preparation for them is the same as any other week. We work hard during practice to be in shape and to know our opponent. The game is always won or lost between Tuesday and Friday,” he added.

Comparing the two teams’ styles, Princeton’s running game far surpasses Lehigh’s.

The Tigers rushed over 300 yards against Lafayette while the Mountain Hawks average

only 166 yards through three games.

Heading into the 2015 season, the quarterback position has been the Tigers’ biggest question mark. Following the graduation of star quarterbacks Quinn Epperly ’15 and Connor Michelsen ’15, an offensive void widens. Fortunately, in his starting debut, junior quarterback Chad Kanoff rose to the occasion. Kanoff threw 20-31 for 256 yards.

Meanwhile Lehigh quarterback Nick Shafnisky comes off a career-high game of five touchdowns over Penn, passing three and rushing the remainder.

Shafnisky accounted for near-

ly 70 percent of the Mountain Hawk yardage, accounting for 345 of the team’s 495 yards.

The Mountain Hawks also feature an impressive host of freshman. In fact, a Mountain Hawk has won the Patriot League Rookie of the Week award for three consecutive weeks.

Fans hoping to catch the challenging home opener at 5 p.m. on Saturday can also participate in Community and Staff Day. Faculty, students, and local residents can enjoy a Family FunFest and an assortment of entertainment. Princeton student athletes will also host a youth sports clinic before the game.

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Princeton has fallen to Lehigh in the teams’ last four meetings.

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