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COURTESY OF ZACH WAHLS

The event was organized by the Canadian Studies Program and the Ferris Seminars in Journalism.

Second-year Wilson School MPA student Zach Wahls campaigning in Iowa.

Consul General talks NAFTA

By Natalie Nagorski Contributor

A Ford car physically crosses the border between Canada and the U.S. seven times before being sold in the U.S., according to Canadian Consul General Phyllis Yaffe, who spoke about the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the value of the relationship between Canada and the United States at Princeton on Tuesday afternoon.

The event was organized by the Canadian Studies Program and the Ferris Seminars

in Journalism. Deborah Amos, award-winning NPR reporter and visiting professor of journalism at the University, moderated the discussion, asking probing questions about the recent conversation on trade policy under the Trump administration.

After contentious talks on the NAFTA trade agreement between Canada, Mexico and the U.S. this January, there were questions of whether the United States might withdraw from the agreement. Despite her overall optimism towards See CONSULATE page 2

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WWS MPA candidate Wahls discusses run for Iowa State Senate

By Ivy Truong Assistant News Editor

A second-year MPA student at the Wilson School, Zach Wahls has been going to bed at 9:30 p.m. every night and waking up at roughly 5 a.m. every morning. He goes to a lot of meetings, has a lot of coffee.

He is also finishing up the coursework required to complete his degree.

But lately, he has been spending most of his time knocking on doors — about three to five hours of doorknocking a day. For him, it’s what has to be done to be elected to the Iowa State Senate for district 37.

Even though he’s only 26 years old, Wahls isn’t a stranger to media attention or advocacy.

In 2011, Wahls delivered an impassioned speech in front of the Iowa state legislature about growing up with two lesbian mothers. A video of that speech went viral and, soon enough, changed the trajectory of Wahls’s life from engineering to advocacy.

At the time, Wahls was a student in the civil and environmental engineering program at the University of Iowa, hoping to enter a career in environmental protection or the water quality industry.

Politics wasn’t supposed to be in his future.

After the video drew widespread attention — earning Wahls millions of viewers and an appearance on “The Ellen Show” — he dropped out of the engineering program to

become a full-time advocate in the LGBTQ rights movement. Only then did he really begin considering a career in politics and public policy.

“I got to see personally the difference you can make when you are willing to share your story and reach out to and connect with other people,” Wahls said.

So when he returned to the University of Iowa to finish his degree, he finished in interdepartmental studies with a focus on environmental science and economics.

These two focuses lend themselves well to his studies at the Woodrow Wilson School, where he is concentrating on domestic policy.

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On March 26, Dina Sharon, a Princeton graduate from the Class of 2014 with an A.B. degree in chemistry, and Colin Defant, a firstyear Ph.D. student studying mathematics received the Hertz Graduate Fellowship Award. They were among the 10 Hertz fellows selected out of 700 applicants from across the United States.

The Hertz Graduate Fellowship is a merit-based stipend awarded to graduate students from participating schools to pursue their Ph.D.s. The Hertz Fellowship ensures they will be funded for five years of Ph.D. work.

Both said they were very surprised and grateful to be among those chosen for the Fellowship.

“The shock was very much there; it gave way to immense gratitude and excitement,” Sharon said.

“It was great,“ said Defant.

“I got the email while I was at my house, went downstairs to tell my parents and celebrated. It was very exciting,.”

Both graduate students are looking forward to their Ph.D. research in their respective fields.

Sharon will be harnessing computational models

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to study how enzymes are created, “an active area of research where we can build on what nature has for billions of years and make it better,” she explained. “The hope is to eventually create better pharmaceuticals through understanding protein and enzyme reactions.”

Defant will begin by researching combinatorics and theoretical computer science, and wants to delve deeper into one of the two during his second year of research.

Both encouraged undergraduates to begin their research early.

“Stick with a problem, make sure you can persevere with the problem given, or see if you can try to turn the problem into something that will work,” said Defant, who studied at the University of Florida before coming to the University.

“Immediate advice is go for it; research puts you on the frontier from day one,“ Sharon explained. “My first research experience was at Princeton. Every day I was going after something that was not yet known.”

Sharon said she was glad to have been able to experience research opportunities in The Hebrew University of See HERTZ page 4

Contributing columnist Paige Cleary warns against the comfortable pattern of routines and contributing columnist Morgan Lucey criticizes Trump’s moves to shrink Utah’s national monuments.

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AEI president Arthur Brooks delivering lecture on happiness.

By Hamna Khurram staff writer

“People ask what the arts and behavioral social sciences have in common,” said Arthur Brooks at a lecture on the “The Art of Happiness.”

According to Brooks, the answer is everything.

Brooks holds a doctorate in public policy from the Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School and is the president of the American Enterprise Institute. He is also the author of 11 books, two of which are on The New York Times best-seller list.

His most recent work is “The Conservative Heart: How to Build a Fairer, Happier, and

More Prosperous America. “ During the talk, Brooks outlined three major reasons for decreased happiness in the general population, as well as four principles to live by to increase your personal level of happiness.

The first factor he outlined was age. Brooks displayed a chart illustrating how happiness steadily declines from childhood until the mid-fifties, after which the level of happiness can go up or down depending on one’s decisions.

The next factor Brooks outlined was expectations.

“You always think you’re going to be happier than you turn out to be,” Brooks said.

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These expectations turn into a “self-fulfilling prophecy,” he explained, where you’re not as happy as you could be with your current situation because you’re always looking ahead for more happiness.

The final factor he talked about was family complications, such as the stress of raising children.

Brooks’s first piece of advice was to take more risks.

He illustrated this point with composer Hector Berlioz, best known for the classical orchestral piece “Symphonie fantastique.” Berlioz was initially enrolled in medical school because of pressure from his family to become a doctor, but walked away and decided to join a conservatory instead.

“His music would not have happened if he had not decided to take that big personal risk,” Brooks said.

His second piece of advice was to be unafraid of change.

Here Brooks talked about his own experience as a classical musician.

“I wanted to be the greatest French horn player in the world,” he said. “I got better and better and then worse at 22.” When he was 24, he fell off of the stage and into the audience during a performance at Carnegie Hall.

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the U.S. Canada trade relationship, Yaffe did call the recent U.S. proposals “unusual.”

“We have not encountered these kinds of proposals in any other trade agreement that we’ve negotiated,” Yaffe said.

These doubts aside, Yaffe emphasized the importance of the U.S. Canada relationship, describing it as one of a kind.

“We aren’t just trading partners,” said Yaffe. “We share values; we share borders; we share oceans; we share air; we share hockey teams; we share everything.”

Simon Morrison, Director of the Canadian Studies Program and Professor of Music and Slavic Studies at Princeton, remembers when the NAFTA agreement was first introduced in the Canada.

“I remember when I was growing up and there was a lot of anxiety about the fact that the United States wanted to exploit us,” he said. Morrison noted that the very same arguments that take place in the United States occurred in Canada as well when the agreement was introduced.

But the world of trade has changed since NAFTA was first introduced in January of 1994.

Yaffe quoted the Canadian ambassador to the U.S. saying, “Amazon was just a river when the deal was made, the cloud was in the sky.”

Since the signing of the agreement, officials have amended NAFTA eleven times.

Yaffe emphasized the importance of negotiating the modernization if the agreement, rather than dispelling it altogether.

One section of NAFTA itemizes parts of cars, specifying where each part is typically produced and traded. According to Yaffe, this itemization currently includes cassette recording devices, but not computers.

“I don’t think people buy cars with cassette players anymore,” Yaffe said. “That’s in there because that was twentyfive years ago. Self driving cars or technology for computers in cars are not in there.”

According to Yaffe, the three countries are seeking to modernize the agreement. So far, the countries have re-evaluated six of the thirty chapters in the agreement and they hope to review all of them before the end of the year.

Yaffe mentioned that in recent NAFTA negotiations, Canada introduced a progressive agenda for the agreement with four major elements.

Those areas are labor standards, environmental standards, gender equality and the rights of indigenous people.

Jason Qu ’21, who attended the talk, is from Canada and wants to pursue a career in public service there after graduation.

“Especially given the current administration’s stance on trade and international relations,” said Qu, “I think it was quite refreshing.”

Describing Yaffe, Morrison said, “For any student on this campus who is interested in diplomacy or doing work for an embassy, these are the kinds of people that you would want to meet and talk about.”

Yaffe recently took a trip to the Eastern Air Defence Command in Rome, New York, where she witnessed collaboration between the U.S. and Canada.

When describing the plant, she said, “There are American service people and Canadian service people sitting beside each other doing exactly the same job, protecting all of us.

That’s not going to change.”

“We may have issues about NAFTA, but my favorite expression is ‘this too shall pass,‘“ she noted.

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Wahls has also written the bestselling book “My Two Moms: Lessons of Love, Strength, and What Makes a Family” and created The Women Cards — a deck of cards featuring original portraits of 15 American women who contributed to change — with his sister.

The decision to run for elected office came after the results of the 2016 election. He noticed that Iowa, which Obama had won by six points in 2012, was won by Trump four years later.

“It was clear to me that I had to get back to Iowa as fast as possible,” Wahls said.

But he didn’t think the opportunity to run for office would come so soon. Less than a year after the 2016 election, Wahls’s state senator, Bob Dvorsky, announced his plans for retirement. Several people urged Wahls to consider running. And in December 2017, Wahls officially

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announced his candidacy.

These past three months, Wahls worked hard setting the priorities on his agenda, listening to the concerns of his fellow citizens, and getting to know voters.

“The most important thing [about campaigning] is simply to have an open mind, to listen and to try to understand people, and to first seek to understand others before being understood yourself,” Wahls said.

The emphasis on listening seen on the campaign trail is entirely different from studying in the Wilson School, said Wahls. Most of the learning that goes on in Robertson Hall comes from discussing and debating the nitty-gritty aspects of policy.

“My natural tendency is very much to get into the weeds and be as granular as possible, but what most people are looking for out on the campaign trail is not a detailed policy brief,” Wahls explained.

He credited the Wilson School and its professors with helping

him see the “forest among the trees.” He specifically spoke about a class he took with Anne Case, professor emerita of economics and public affairs. Learning about her research with “deaths of despair,” or deaths by drugs, alcohol, and suicide, greatly helped shape his views.

Wahls explained that he sees the problems of deaths of despair in Iowa, where suicide rates in rural communities have gone up, especially among those without a bachelor’s degree.

“I think you forget when you’re on campus, but most Americans don’t have a college degree,” Wahls said.

His return to Iowa was never in question. After all, it’s his home, where he grew up and where his family still resides. But he also feels like it’s his civic duty to return to Iowa.

“A lot of people, after Princeton, they’re going to be going to New York, to Washington, to San Francisco, and that’s easy,” Wahls said, explaining that he understands the plethora of opportunities that can be found in those big cities.

Wahls is motivated by his desire to rebuild Iowa and advocate for his fellow Iowans, citing healthcare, workers’ rights, and education as his top priorities if elected.

“What I see very clearly is if we

page 3 don’t get new leadership, if we don’t rebuild that foundation … the [citizens’] lot will just get get worse and worse.”

Jordan Stockdale, a fellow MPA at the University, said Wahls “is a person who has real progressive credentials, who’s been an activist, and who genuinely wants to help people.”

Both Stockdale and Wahls were Eagle Scouts, and Wahls had sent his badge back when he heard that the Boy Scouts of America would not accept gay scouts.

“He’s gonna fight for their [Iowans’] rights,” Stockdale added.

And, for Wahls, that begins one door at a time.

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Dina Sharon and Colin Defant received the Hertz Graduate Fellowship Award.

Sharon: Go for it; research puts you on the frontier HERTZ

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Jerusalem and her current place of work at D. E. Shaw Research.

Defant noted that he wishes to thank his professors and mentors: Miklos Bona, Krishnaswami Alladi, Peter Johnson, Padraic Bartlett, and Joseph Gallian.

Sharon expressed enormous gratitude towards professors John Groves, Jeffrey Schwartz and Michael Kelly, as well as the entire chemistry faculty, which was very supportive of her application to both the Fulbright and Hertz fellowships. She is also grateful to her other fellow graduates.

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“Think of that as a metaphor for my musical career,” he joked.

He pushed on for seven more years before finally walking away from a career in music at 31.

“I was raging against the dying of the light,” he said, referring to the poem “Do not go gentle into that good night” by Dylan Thomas.

“To rage against change delays progress to new phases in life,” he said.

His next point centered on neophilia, or the strong affinity for new and novel things.

“The love of new things improves health, friendships, emotional stability, and well-being,” Brooks said.

“Stay open to new ideas and experiences to unlock more happiness.”

Brooks’s last point was to

“master yourself.”

“Happiness and health are improved by living within moral boundaries,” Brooks said. “Give your work purpose. People never ask you why you do what you do, but what you do. You should have an answer to the ‘what’ question.”

He quoted a response that J.S. Bach once gave about why one does what they do: “The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.”

“I left music because I wanted to ask this question,” Brooks said. Now, settled in a career where his work is about “lifting up people” and “the limitlessness of human potential,” Brooks said he helps answer this question daily.

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The importance of preserving Utah’s national monuments Morgan Lucey

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’ve spent a lot of time in Utah throughout my life, including this most recent spring break. I’ve gone back to visit family and hit the slopes of Park City every year for as long as I could remember.

Though this tradition has fallen to the wayside since coming to Princeton, it only took a few days in the mountains to remind me of Utah’s unique value, with all of its wild and natural spaces.

These spaces are facing an attack from the current U.S. administration, as President Donald Trump and members of his cabinet seek to reduce the size of two of Utah’s most important national monuments. These monuments are crucial to our national identity, as they have served towards conserving important aspects of Native American culture as well as many plant and animal species. Thus, the preservation of these monuments is not only important because of their beauty and escapism from everyday life but also because of the cultural and research opportunities they offer. No matter how many thousands of miles away from New Jersey the national parks and monuments of Utah are, the responsibility of getting involved and fighting for their preservation largely falls on students. Even after the initial rush of headlines and news anti-preservation decisions re-

ceive, we must maintain the momentum and passion for conservation and continue to make our voices heard. This momentum is the only way that this detrimental decision

by Trump can be reversed, and the only way that similar policy changes in the future will be prevented.

In December of 2017, President Donald Trump, alongside U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, announced plans to reduce the land of two protected national monuments in Utah. Bears Ears National Monument, a 1.35 millionacre region including several critical Native American archaeological sites, will likely be shrunk by 85 percent. The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, which currently encompasses 1.87 million acres, will be shrunk by approximately 50 percent. The policies effectively went into place immediately, despite numerous lawsuits by environmental groups and Native American tribes. Though the reduction of the monuments has not had a significant effect on the land itself, a recent move by the Trump administration indicated how this might change. The Bureau of Land Management began selling off plots of the land adjacent to Bears Ears National Monument to drillers in early March and recently completed the sale of all available plots.

It seems that the land formerly a part of the national monuments might face the same fate.

Trump has stated that he is reducing these acreages because parts of the monuments “are not unique to the

monument” or “are not of significant scientific or historic interest.” These spaces, like all national monuments and parks, are far more than places to hike or take pictures; they are a part of the identity of the United States. They provide an escape for those burnt out by technology or work or politics, they provide insight into a Native American culture largely on the defense against the current U.S. administration, and they provide a reminder that the world is far bigger and far more beautiful than our small campus in New Jersey. However, the reduction of the spaces will likely result in drilling or development, endangering plant and animal species as well as negatively affecting air quality. Furthermore, reducing these spaces in favor of a “more efficient” use loses sight of why they are special in the first place. The value of time spent amongst nature cannot be measured in efficiency or scientific significance.

Some Princeton students are already acting. Princeton’s Conservation Club ran an initiative to petition Zinke and Trump to maintain federal government protection of the original land designation of the two monuments. According to Noah Mihan ’19, a leader of the club, many students who attended the Conservation Club’s event “actually call[ed] their congressmen on the spot, which is so much more powerful than signing petitions or sending emails.” Some Princeton students have recognized the sacredness of the national parks and monuments of the Western United States; they

have dropped their problem sets and papers in favor of trying to make their voices heard.

But efforts such as those of the Conservation Club must be continued in order to truly make a difference.

When Zinke and Trump first made the announcement that they would be shrinking the national monuments, there was outrage across the country, particularly among college campuses. As the following months went by, this outrage subsided, and the initiatives lost momentum. Historic preservationists are still fighting the sale of portions of the national monuments to oil and gas companies, but they are not receiving the same support that they did back in December. It is up to students who realize how special the spaces are to put these events back in the headlines with renewed efforts to make their voices heard. Mihan believes that “the pressure that students have pushed upon the opponents of environmentalism in our government is just part of a larger movement sweeping the nation,” one that has the potential to truly have an impact. As potential members of this movement, we must maintain the momentum for issues we are passionate about; thus, I am calling for students to continue to pressure the government to maintain the natural spaces that are formative to our national identity.

Morgan Lucey is a junior studying neuroscience from Scottsdale, Ariz. She can be reached at mslucey@princeton.edu.

On the never-ending routine Paige Clearly

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o you ever feel like you’re on an episode of the Truman Show?

Following a rigid, agonizingly repetitive script that you aren’t sure you wrote? Like, Eisgruber is secretly some major Hollywood producer and there’s an entire audience at home, sick sociopaths filled with joy while watching the pain of your struggling to hand in your paper on time? Ever feel like you’re not really alone as you pull that all-nighter? Perhaps you’ve experienced some form of existential dread while walking from your dorm to Frist, feeling glued to the pressures of student life? If you answered yes to any of these questions, welcome to the abyss of routine.

The first day of college is the first day of the rest of your life.

At least, that’s what I thought when I first stepped foot onto Princeton’s campus and saw it through pure, untouched (read: naive?) freshman eyes.

Despite getting lost almost every day for the first few weeks of class, the promise of com-

ing across a never before seen building, a shortcut, or a new shop on Nassau always came with a spark of excitement. The spark, however, seems to fade sometimes. Hours turn into days, days into weeks, weeks into months, and look — it’s halfway into spring semester.

I don’t know when the gleam of the gold started to disappear and the sparkle dimmed, but they did. But why?

I start every day the same: early and accompanied by the overwhelming sense of gravity pulling me into bed. I use the same face wash, toothpaste, and morning playlist that I’ve used since September. Next, the pre-class omelet from Whitman (without fail, three eggs, broccoli, and cheese). I attend my classes, break for lunch, and then head down to the boathouse for practice.

And then the next day, the script starts anew.

It’s easy to feel stuck on this campus, in class, and even in the dining halls. Often, the best way to deal with stress is to hunker down into some kind of a routine. This keeps me on track with my normal behaviors and responsibilities and creates a habit of strong work ethic. We all have our favorite libraries, dining halls, coffee shops… but this is really an insidious mindset. We get comfortable, muscle memory

develops, and before we know it, we find ourselves mindnumbingly stumbling into Firestone, full from the same meal we’ve ordered at late meal three times that week. And it is only Wednesday.

The problem may also have to do with the universal lack of free time. And I’m not talking about the scheduled “free time” that I try to fit into my schedules for naps or study breaks. I’m talking about the moments that come with a sense of spontaneity. While it may feel as though I am seeing the same things every day, listening to the same music, and drinking the same coffee, perhaps the spark can be renewed by keeping an eye on the present and looking into the negative spaces. The other day at practice, in the middle of a long (and somewhat mindnumbing) workout, a hawk f lew over the hull of the boat.

This gigantic bird who, like me, claims Lake Carnegie as its home, had interrupted the steady f low of my daily practice routine. This hawk, probably like plenty of other secrets on campus, has been a part of my routine, my script, but has been overlooked.

Perhaps the secret to breaking the abysmal feeling of routine and the rereading of the script is to stay present. Rather than focusing on the fastest,

most efficient route from Frick to the Friend Center, I’ve started to keep my head up more and look for the small sparks — a father walking around with his toddler daughter, bundled up head to toe in various brightly colored winter items that she clearly picked out herself, or even the rare sighting of a puppy walking around with its owner, excited by each noise and movement that it notices.

What I have come to find over these last demanding six months is that routine kills our sense of purpose. Living becomes doing, and we forget why we are here. We forget what drew us to Princeton in the first place. We lose sight of the shine that its gates first gave us. With so many different things going on in the life of a Princeton student, whether it be a club, a sport, or a dance group, it is absolutely imperative that we take a step back from the comfort of routine (some might call it a rut), and find a new approach to going through the day. And when that one starts to drag you down, find another. And another. If we let routine take over natural instinct, then we let it take over the creativity and the originality of our lives.

Paige Cleary is a first-year from Darien, Conn. She can be reached

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Men’s lacrosse falls to Penn Quakers, Yale Bulldogs in start of Ivy League season play

By Owen Tedford Staff Writer

The Princeton men’s lacrosse team (3–4, 0–2 Ivy League) has had a difficult start to its Ivy League season. Facing two of the conference’s top teams in No. 20 Penn (5–4, 1–1) and No. 4 Yale (6–1, 2–0), Princeton lost 14–7 to Penn and 16–8 to Yale. The Tigers came into these two games after an exciting 15–14 overtime win against No. 10 Rutgers (7–2) in which senior midfield Austin Sims tied the game with 49.7 seconds left and won the game in overtime with a goal 1:28 in to the period.

The game against Penn on Saturday, March 17 at Sherrerd Field in the Class of 1952 Stadium continued the trend of the last four years of the road team winning in a blowout. Princeton lost to the Quakers 14–7, which was the closest game in the past three years. The game was close going in to the fourth quarter with the Tigers only down three, 8–5, but a strong fourth quarter performance from Penn saw them pull away, outscoring Princeton 6–2 in the final period. The Quakers’ performance in this period was led by goalie Reed Junkin, who made 11 of his 20 saves in the fourth quarter.

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for Princeton came from Sims with two goals, senior midfielder Riley Thompson with another two goals, and sophomore attacker Michael Sowers with three assists, continuing his streak of at least two points in every game of his career.

Perhaps most notable was the Tigers’ strong performance in the face-off X where senior midfielder Sam Bonafede won 15 of 24 face-offs. Prior to this game, the face-off X had been a serious source of struggle for Princeton.

Just like the game against Penn, the game against the Bulldogs followed a familiar script.

Yale dominated in the face-offs against the Tigers, the 18th time that has happened in the last 19 meetings. Yale controlled most of the game, dominating time of possession and outshooting the Tigers 51–20.

Princeton was in the game at the half with the Bulldogs only ahead 7–4, but Yale pulled away in the second half, winning 16–8. Sims had another two goals for the Tigers, giving him 15 on the season to lead Princeton in goals scored. Senior goalie Tyler Blaisdell also played well, making 18 saves, two short of his career high. These saves also moved him into 10th place for all-time most saves in school history

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at 442. Lastly, freshman midfielder Chris Brown scored another goal, continuing his streak of having a goal in every game of his Princeton career.

Leading up to the game earlier in the week, Brown had been named the seventh-best freshman in Division 1 men’s lacrosse

by Inside Lacrosse. Freshman longstick midfielder Andrew Song was also named on the list as 14th, making Princeton one of four schools with two players on the list.

The Tigers will next take the field on Saturday at 1 p.m. in Providence against Brown (3–

4, 0–1), where they will be looking for their first road win of the season.

The game will be available for viewing on the Ivy League Network and can be listened to live on TuneIn.com. Princeton’s next home game will be April 7 at 1 p.m. against Stony Brook.

MEN’S TENNIS

After loss to Penn, men’s tennis finishes non-conference play with Florida trip

COURTESY OF PRINCETON ATHLETICS

Men’s Tennis travelled to Florida for Spring Break

By Alissa Selover Staff Writer

After coming off of a 4–3 loss at Penn State, the Princeton men’s tennis team (15–7) traveled to Florida over spring break to compete in its final

series of matches before Ivy League play begin this weekend. The 46thranked Tigers faced the 40th-ranked University of Central Florida (9–6), University of South Florida (11–7), and Florida Gulf Coast University (5–9).

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The Tigers kicked off their spring break trip in Tampa, Fla. on Wednesday, March 21 with a 4–3 win over South Florida.

After facing defeat in doubles, the Tigers were able to bounce back with wins from senior Luke

Gamble and sophomore Davey Roberts. Senior Kial Kaiser also defeated 72nd-ranked Alberto Barroso-Campos, clinching his third win in the last four matches against an ITA-ranked opponent. The Tigers were able to clinch the victory after a forfeit handed them the point.

Coach Billy Pate explained that during this first matchup, the Tigers battled “some tough, windy conditions and didn’t play [their] best,” but they are still pleased to have defeated a quality team.

On Friday, March 22, the Tigers faced University of Central Florida at the USTA complex in Orlando where they were defeated 6–1. While the men were able to pick up the doubles point, the singles were taken by UCF. Gamble and freshman Damian Rodriguez defeated seventh-ranked pair Korey Lovett and Eero Vasa in a tiebreak 7–6(3) while senior Diego Vives and junior Jimmy Wasserman clinched the doubles point for the Tigers with

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a win at third doubles.

While the Tigers played great doubles matches, they couldn’t execute in their singles matches to get the victory over the top 50 team.

Finishing up its spring trip on Sunday, March 25, the men’s tennis team traveled to Florida Gulf Coast where it picked up a 4–3 win, coming back from the loss on Friday to execute its singles matches for the win. After losing the doubles point, the Tigers needed to pick up their performances for singles matches. Kaiser, Roberts, and freshman Ryan Seggerman all won their matches to put Princeton up 3–1. Gamble’s win clinched the victory for the Tigers, wrapping up their spring break trip.

Finishing on a positive note will surely boost the team’s confidence as it prepares for Ivy League play.

This Saturday, March 31, the Tigers begin their conference schedule at Penn. That game kicks off a seven-match Ivy League run ending with Dartmouth on April 22.

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