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Branches . even entire trees, toppled under the weight of heavy snow, blocking pathways and putting passersby at risk.

Winter storm Quinn buries campus, fells trees Associate News Editor

After the weather conditions on campus worsened yesterday afternoon, the University canceled all evening classes, closed all libraries as of 6 p.m., and shut down its shuttle service, TigerTransit, as of 4:30 p.m.

Normal operations will resume Thursday at 5 a.m., according to a statement issued through email and text to the University community. The University also included the information in their social media postings.

“University crews are working to clear roads and walkways, but conditions are difficult,” the message noted. “Be careful when walking on campus due to heavy snow on branches and wires.”

Branches and even entire trees toppled under the weight of heavy, wet snow. Campus Club saw large trees ripped up by the roots in its front yard. According eyewitnesses, multiple cars on Washington Street were backlogged in snow at about 4:30 p.m.

“I was walking from [Frist Campus Center]

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and a branch straight up fell from a tree,” Taylor Mills ’20 said. “It hit me on my backpack and pulled me down.”

The University asked Mills if she was “OK” in a response to her Tweet about the event.

“I think that classes should have been cancelled to begin with,“ said Soraya Morales Nuñez ‘18. “To be honest, I was a little freaked out when I walked out of Firestone for my lunch break and I saw branches all over the ground. I had never seen that at Princeton before.”

Morales Nuñez also

said that she saw thunder and lighting.

Ally Kim ’21, whose evening writing seminar WRI 124: Property, Wealth, and Equality was canceled, said that she was happy the University made the decision to cancel courses but wished it had reached the decision earlier.

“It might have caused some inconvenience,” Kim said.

Kim’s professor Steven Kelts, who lives in New York City, was already on campus when the University released the cancellation message at 5:45 p.m.

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Global study center named after its benefactor, Sumir Chadha ‘93

U. establishes M.S. Chadha Center for Global India

By Mallory Williamson Contributor

On Feb. 26, the University announced the founding of the M.S. Chadha Center for Global India, a center for Indian study made possible in large part by a donation from Sumir Chadha ’93.

In addition to Chadha’s gift, a donation from Sanjay Swani ’87 and his wife Preeti Swani will be used to establish a Global Seminar in India,

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which will be conducted in tandem with Ashoka University. The two also endowed a professorship with Princeton in India studies.

“I really love the Global Seminar, which allows Princeton students to spend time in India and really learn about the culture and history of the country firsthand,” Sanjay Swani said in an email. “There is nothing like being [in India] to See CHADHA page 5

New Contributing columnist Morgan Lucey argues that we must learn from all past shootings if we are to craft effective gun control policy, and senior columnist Jan Domingo Alsina makes the case for less rigid distribution requirements. PAGE 2

On Feb. 28, police officers from the Princeton Police Department were stationed around Terrace Club to issue warnings to students who jaywalked across Washington Road.

This isn’t the first time or the only road on campus where students have been penalized for jaywalking.

Students have been fined for jaywalking in other parts of campus, such as the crosswalk on Alexander Street between Forbes College and the Lewis Center for the Arts.

Obiageri Amaechi ’21 was on her way to turn in a chemistry problem set when she was stopped by members of the Princeton Police Department.

“I was very surprised,” Amaechi wrote in an email. “I did not know there were penalties from the Princeton Police Department for jaywalking on campus. I had always assumed that you would only encounter Public Safety officers rather than Princeton police while on campus.”

Warnings can come

with a standard $54 fine.

Amaechi said that she could either pay a $54 fine or be issued a summons. She chose to pay the fine.

“I think that the first time, officers should let students off with a warning. If they’re caught again they should be fined,” Zoya Shoaib ’20 said when asked about her reaction to the police fining students for jaywalking.

On Feb. 28, the Princeton Police Department had focused specifically on Washington Road, issuing warnings to students between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. as students commuted to class.

“The enforcement and education program that we have with the community is part of our regular and ongoing pedestrian safety campaign,” Lieutenant Chris Morgan of the Princeton Police Department said.

In October, a cement truck struck and killed a woman as she was walking across a crosswalk at the Washington Road and Nassau Street intersection.

In the aftermath of See JAYWALK page 5

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Students fined for jaywalking on Washington Road

By Hamna Khurram

“It would have been great to have heard earlier in the day, because if we were teaching at night we were probably already on campus,” said Kelts.

“But if this is what’s safe for the students and best for the University, then I’m fine with it.”

“The professor sent us an email saying that the University had cancelled all evening classes,” said Kim. “He said he would be back in touch to reschedule.”

“I’m going to have to change what we do in classes next week during midterm week, but

Eisgruber criticizes endowment tax in letter to Congress

By Allie Spensley

Associate News Editor

On March 7, President Eisgruber and 48 other university and college presidents sent a letter to members of Congress expressing concerns over the effect that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will have on endowment earnings.

The Act calls for an excise tax on certain private colleges and universities consisting of 1.4 percent of their net investment incomes. The letter called this tax “unprecedented and damaging” and explained why it would prevent institutions of higher learning from supporting students and advancing research. Signers urged Congress to repeal or amend the tax in order to work towards increased access to affordable education.

The letter was signed by presidents and chancellors of diverse institutions ranging from medical schools to performing arts colleges, including all Ivy League schools except for Columbia University.

M. Craig Barnes, the president See ENDOWMENT page 3

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Rethinking distribution requirements Jan Domingo Alsina Columnist

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here’s nothing inherently wrong with the idea of a liberal arts education. The liberal arts model gives students a chance to explore a wide breadth of academic areas, meaning they can decide on a major through experience, rather than through parental pressure or other factors. I don’t envy my friends in Europe who have committed to studying one thing and one thing only, often running into trouble when they don’t find themselves actually enjoying their choice (I do, however, envy their tuition costs).

To make sure its students touch on different areas, Princeton has distribution requirements that we must take to graduate. At first glance, it all seems like a great mechanism for delivering the classic liberal arts experience. And the apparent sensibility of the requirements is strong enough that we rarely object.

The truth is that the requirements facilitate less of an intellectual exploration and more of a grocery checklist that we must complete before graduation.

The most obvious issue with the University’s checklist is that it is determined based on the academic preferences of administrators, preferences which are not necessarily correct. As an A.B. candidate, I must take: two Social Analysis classes, two Literature and Arts classes, two Science and Technology classes, one Quantitative Reasoning class, one Historical Analysis class, one Epistemology and Cognition class, and one Ethical Thought and Moral Values class. This list indicates a preference on the University’s part to put Social Analysis or Literature and Arts classes above history classes. Why should we accept this so readily?

One can most certainly make the argument that history classes are more relevant to delivering a proper liberal arts experience than literature or arts classes, for example.

There is just no objective reason for a Princeton education to be dominated by SA and LA classes. There is no universal doctrine on what constitutes a proper liberal arts education from which the University derives this decision — the way these distribution requirements are crafted seems arbitrary.

This reminds me about the lab requirement, which I find the most absurd. I do not

believe one needs a lab to experience the intellectual rigor of science, as science is a vast area that surely encompasses practical, labinclined practices but also the theoretical.

When universitylevel students who are not inclined towards practical sciences are forced to take a lab, we end up with classes like “Bridges” (CEE 102: Engineering in the Modern World). I’m sure the class is educational and I respect all the work the faculty has put into it, but the truth is, people take “Bridges” to fulfill a requirement: A.B.s take it to fulfill the STL requirement, and B.S.E.s take it to fulfill the LA requirement. The irony is funny. But if distribution requirements are causing students to take a class in which they have no interest, no passion, and no intention of working hard, then they are hindering the University’s core goal of facilitating higher learning.

I assume that the original, intended goal of these requirements is to deliver an all-encompassing education that intellectually challenges us on all fronts.

The goal of these requirements should be to spur us into taking classes in new fields so that we may discover the breadth of our passions; instead, it is as if we take classes for the purpose of fulfilling

these requirements. If we already know that our passion does not extend to a particular distribution area, then enforcing the distribution requirement is pointless. It will not lead to the discovery of a new passion, or an unexpected major.

In a practical sense, I suggest that the University adapt its system of distribution requirements to protect students from being forced to take classes in fields in which they already know they have no interest. Perhaps students should be able to elect one distribution area to omit. Perhaps a wide distribution of classes should be incentivized, but not enforced. Either way, the University should consider an alternative system that ensures its students are passionate about their studies, and that the resources of this great university are not wasted on classes taken for the sake of fulfilling a requirement.

Jan Domingo Alsina is a sophomore from Princeton, N.J. He can be reached atjalsina@princeton.edu.

Morgan Lucey

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attended a small preparatory high school, the Episcopal School of Jacksonville, known colloquially as Episcopal.

For about 890 students, ranging from sixth to 12th grade, the school provides a sense of home, safety, and possibility. It’s the type of school generations of families attend with its manicured courtyards and stately brick buildings.

In early spring of 2012, this sense of safety was shattered. Shane Schumerth, a Spanish teacher who had been fired the previous day, returned to campus with an assault weapon. He entered the administrative building and shot the beloved headmistress of the school, Dale Regan, before being stopped by another faculty member. With this obstacle preventing him from escaping the office, he shot himself. *** This past weekend, the Florida State Senate indicated support for a bill to arm teachers as a method of protection.

Supporters of the bill have argued that the recent Parkland shooting could have been prevented had a teacher

been able to intervene, armed with their own gun to stop the student shooter. Although, hypothetically, this is possible, it’s equally as possible that a teacher could use this gun for harm, instead of good, just like at Episcopal.

The Florida State Senate’s decision completely disregards past school shootings within its own state and ignores evidence that this method could be dangerous and ineffective.

This Tuesday, March 6, marked the six-year anniversary of the shooting at my high school. Six years is hardly enough time for the incident to be forgotten: Former students and their families posted something in memorial of Dale Regan and many former students of Schumerth’s — including myself — spent the day in counseling. The only people who have been able to forget the shooting seem to be the members of the Florida State Senate, who seeks to arm teachers in the name of protection.

This indicates an erasure of the trauma of March 6, 2012 for most of the population of Jacksonville, Fla. As made clear by Schumerth, teachers are just as susceptible to the social constructs and mental health issues that culminate in

extreme. And though he was certainly an exception — every other teacher I interacted with throughout my high school years cared immensely about their students’ well-being — there is no guarantee that a similar incident will not arise in the future.

The sense of protection that the student body felt when arriving on campus every morning, had been destroyed post-shooting.

The school took immense precautions to prevent another security breach, including hiring more security guards and limiting older students’ trips off-campus during school hours. However, for those of us who had experienced the panic and fear of huddling in a classroom with the lights off and doors locked, the sense of protection never truly returned. To this day, I suffer panic attacks when people around me are armed, even if it is a part of their job.

Imagine the anxiety that students at Episcopal would feel if we had returned to campus to find that the solution was to distribute guns among other teachers.

The amount of firearm training teachers would receive under the new bill does not change the fact that students cannot be expected to feel safe when

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there are guns in the classroom. The anxiety that students would feel if teachers were armed shouldn’t just be an unfortunate side-effect of policy; it should be prevented.

Some might argue that Episcopal performs extensive background checks on each teacher or faculty member that is hired. But this doesn’t change the fact that a woman died

by Schumerth’s hand.

If teachers had been armed in 2012, who knows if the Schumerth shooting would’ve happened earlier or been even worse.

Since the Parkland shooting, there has been an uptick in policy discussions. Now, not before, but now, when more people have died, policy-makers are paying attention. But it is critical that an emphasis be placed on using all past school shootings in policy decisions, not just the most recent ones. There is space for student activism that exists now did not exist in 2012, especially in the predominantly Republican, pro-gun Jacksonville that Episcopal’s student body grew up in. I believe that had this sphere to speak out existed in 2012 and had there been institutional support, then most of the student body would have marched and protested for as long as necessary.

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Thus, the experiences of students before guns were a national issue cannot be forgotten — they’re not inconsequential. To create the most effective solution, the Florida State Senate must look at the problem of school shootings as a trend rather than an isolated incident.

I’ll never forget that day — and just because “only” one person died – Florida State Senate, you shouldn’t either.

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

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Students complain of class in frightful conditions

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Car traffic on Washington Road slowed to a crawl as snow piled up.

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we’ll make it work,” Kelts added.

“My preceptor had to drive back to Philadelphia,” explained Mills, referring to her course AAS 235: Race Is Socially Constructed – Now What? The precept ended at 3:30.

Additionally, witnesses said that police had to help people off the Dinky

train due to the snow’s effect.

Other students felt that they were unaffected by the announcement.

“Two of my precepts were canceled, but I’m not really worried,” Jad Bechara ’20 said.

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy issued a state of emergency in New Jersey effective 8 p.m. This is the first time that Murphy has issued a state of emergency during his governorship.

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On March 7, President Eisgruber and 48 other university and college presidents sent a letter to members of Congress expressing concerns over the effect that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will have on endowment earnings.

The Act calls for an excise tax on certain private colleges and universities consisting of 1.4 percent of their net investment incomes. The letter called this tax “unprecedented and damaging” and explained why it would prevent institutions of higher learning from supporting students and advancing research. Signers urged Congress to repeal or amend the tax in order to work towards increased access to affordable education.

The letter was signed by presidents and chancellors of diverse institutions ranging from medical schools to performing arts colleges, including all Ivy League schools except for Columbia University. M. Craig Barnes, the president of the Princeton Theological Seminary, signed the letter as well.

“The net investment income tax will impede our efforts to help students, improve education, expand the boundaries of knowledge, advance technological innovation, and enhance health and well-being,” the letter said.

In addition, the letter emphasized the importance of endowment funds to the daily functions of academic institutions. For many schools, the letter said, these funds account for up to half of annual revenues.

According to the Office of Communications, endowment earnings at the University make up more than half

of the annual operating budget and fund initiatives such as increasing the size and diversity of the student body.

The letter countered the idea that the tax will reduce the cost of attending college or the issue of student debt by arguing that the endowment reductions will make it more difficult for universities to lower their costs for low- and middle-income students.

The University’s financial aid system operates on a grant rather than loan basis, meaning students don’t have to repay financial aid.

According to the University’s admissions website, students in the Class of 2021 with family incomes below $65,000 do not pay for tuition, room, or board. Over 60 percent of undergraduate students receive financial aid.

The letter also stated that the new tax will threaten not only universities but all charitable institutions. It drew a distinction between colleges and non-operating private foundations, which are subject to an excise tax and which primarily pursue their missions by making grants.

“Where foundations have their own operations, like an art museum or library, they are exempt from taxation.

Colleges and universities, by definition and like other public charities, have significant operations, and that is to the benefit of us all,” the letter said.

The letter concluded by urging members of Congress to “revisit this misguided policy in the near term.”

The letter was addressed to Senators Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer, and Orrin Hatch; Representatives Paul Ryan, Nancy Pelosi, and Kevin Brady; and ranking members Rep. Richard Neal and Sen. Ron Wyden.

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Mr. and Mrs. Swani will establish a Global Seminar in India to be conducted in tandem with Ashoka University

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learn about it.”

According to a University statement, The Center for Global India, which “will bring together scholars and students from all disciplines to broadly explore contemporary India including its economy, politics and culture,” has yet to announce a specific opening date or a leading scholar.

The Center can also be seen as part of a larger University-wide effort to develop global studies programs. The University’s Strategic Planning Framework, published in 2016, highlights the University’s aim to expand global affairs programming.

The Strategic Planning Framework requires that the University “add to its scholarly strength in the study of key regions and cultures in the contemporary world.”

“India represents 20 percent of the world,” Swani said. “Indian immigrants are becoming a more inf luential [and] important part of the U.S.,” specifically in ar-

eas of technology, literature, academics, finance, and politics, he said.

Swani also highlighted the relationship between the United States and democracies in Asia as key to the global future.

Karin Meyers, a visiting professor in the religion department, underscored aspects of India’s culture as key for University students to understand.

“The religions originating in India … contain some of the most subtle and sophisticated philosophical, theological, grammatical, poetic, and aesthetic thinking the world has seen,” she said in an email. “As global citizens they are also part of our intellectual heritage so should be placed alongside the other great intellectual and cultural traditions in our curricula,” she said.

Other individuals who made significant contributions to the establishment of the Center for Global India are Sheila Patel ’91, Aliya Nedungadi ’97 and Ajit Nedungadi, Kush Parmar ’02 and Princess Padmaja Kumari Mewar, and Peter Wendell ’72 and Lynn Mellen Wendell ’77.

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the accident, the town of Princeton appealed to the New Jersey Department of Transportation in October of 2017 to take steps to make crossing the intersection safer, according to centraljersey. com.

Specifically, the town

requested that “all pedestrian scramble signals” be installed. Such signals work by stopping all traffic with a red light so that pedestrians can cross using a green light.

“I think jaywalking is a big issue with students because we assume that we are always safe being that we are insulated within Princeton’s campus,” Amaechi said.

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On tap with Kyla Sears, three time U.S. Lacrosse All-American midfielder

By Miranda Hasty

Associate Sports Editor

Freshman midfielder Kyla Sears of women’s lacrosse was nervous before the team’s opening match against Temple on Feb. 17. She usually listens to music or braids her hair to calm her nerves before a game, but before the start of the first game of her collegiate career, she relied on her teammates.

“I think I would’ve been a lot more nervous if it weren’t for the people around me. Being surrounded by the people that I’m so comfortable with and trust so much really helped ease everything,” Sears said.

Despite her initial jitters, the freshman from Skaneateles, N.Y., went on to contribute four goals and two assists to Princeton’s 17–4 victory against Temple in Philadelphia. She scored a combined total of six goals in the team’s subsequent loss against Virginia and win over Lehigh, then smashed in a personal record of six goals in the 12–10 finish against Brown, which opened Ivy League play last Saturday. The performance rounded up

her early season total to sixteen goals and twenty points. As a result, Sears currently leads the team in goals and points, a successful start to the season and her career that can be attributed to the hustle and achievements of her high school years.

Before becoming a Tiger, Sears was a Laker and already an accomplished lacrosse athlete at Skaneateles High School and in the club lacrosse scene. The 2015 No. 1 Young Gun Junior, 2017 Nike Northeast Player of the Year, and 2017 U.S. Lacrosse National Player of the Year received U.S. Lacrosse All-America for three consecutive years and Under Armour All-America honors amongst other accolades in recognition of her talent and hard work that culminated in 282 goals, 138 assists, and 244 ground balls.

She credits the success she achieved during her high school years to the level of competition of the club lacrosse scene in her area of upstate New York.

“Especially when I was younger and learning, I played really competitive club lacrosse in the

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Freshman Kyla Sears leads Princeton with a remarkable 20 point season so far.

area outside high school in the offseason. I owe a lot of that experience, playing with really good players around my area to how I developed into the player I am now,” she said.

But before her high school success and string of accolades came a passion for the sport that she inherited from her father.

“I’ve been playing since I was around five years old. It’s kind of a family thing. My dad was really into lacrosse, so it was a bonding thing for us, and I really took to it, had a lot of fun with it, and

played ever since,” she said nostalgically.

Though her passion continued well into high school, her last two years, were defined not just with success, but also with injury — an anterior cruciate ligament tear as a junior and meniscus tear as a senior. After a year-long rehabilitation for the ACL injury, Sears was sidelined the first day of her return in her final year. On an optimistic note, she attributed her improvement as a player to her ability to overcome the physical and mental obstacles of her recoveries.

“It was a feeling of pride to keep playing.

It’s something I love, and I realized how much I missed it when I couldn’t play for a year. I think that’s a big part of why I’m still into it now.

In the end, I think everyone who’s come back from an injury like that becomes a better player,” Sears said.

After three months of healing from her torn meniscus, Sears returned to garner 65 goals, 35 assists, and 69 grounds balls in the remainder of her final season.

Sears then headed to

Princeton where she has quickly adjusted to academic and athletic demands with the help of her teammates.

“It’s a learning a process, and it will be a learning process until I’m a senior. But I do think I have adjusted a lot already, and it couldn’t have been possible without the support of the entire team.

Our freshman class was brought in so readily and welcomed in all aspects, and I think our adjustment would have been a lot more difficult if it weren’t for the support system that we have in place,” she said about her transition from high school to college.

Having rapidly established herself in college lacrosse, Sears has set her sight on one goal which she shares with her teammates — to become an Ivy League champion. The Tigers have held the Ivy League title for three consecutive years.

For inspiration she looks to her father again, who first instilled her passion for lacrosse. His advice is simple: “Play if it was your last game ever.”

MEN’S TENNIS

Men’s tennis sweep 3-0 home stand against Binghampton, Charlotte, W. Michigan

By David Xin Head Sports Editor

Back-to-back games fatigue the best of teams, but the men’s tennis team showed its grit by sweeping the weekend. The Tigers (11–5) topped Binghamton (3–10), Charlotte (7–8), and No. 39 Western Michigan (11–4) in their three-game home stand. Princeton extended its win streak to five games as they look to build momentum heading into Ivy League play at the end of the month.

The Tigers opened the week against Binghamton with a resounding 7–0 victory. It was the first time the Princeton side had returned home since a doubleheader in January. The Tigers looked sharp early, grabbing the doubles point. While the team had struggled at times earlier in the season, they seemed to have come together for an emphatic win.

“One of the best things we’ve had this year has been the team unity. All the guys on the team get along re-

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Tigers look to extend its five-game winning streak with back-to-back games against Temple and Monmouth next week.

ally well,” said senior Luke Gamble. “They have a lot more fun than we have had in previous years. We have also been competing a lot we’ve been close in everything single match, which with our schedule is no small feat.”

Gamble is a former opinion for The Daily Princetonian.

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The next day Princeton returned to the court to face off against Charlotte. Princeton again took control of the match, clinching five of the six singles matches. The Tigers were unable to hold off Charlotte’s No. 77 Luca Keist despite being held to three sets by senior Kial Kaiser.

Despite struggling in doubles play earlier in the season, Princeton would also clinch doubles play against the 49ers to beat Charlotte 6–1.

The Tigers would need the momentum as they faced No. 39 Western Michigan next.

Princeton claimed another point in doubles

Stat of the Day

No. 17 The Tigers jumped to No. 17 in the CWPA poll after taking down to nationally ranked opponents, Wagner and San Jose State at the Harvard Invitational.

play and won three of the first four singles matches off the court.

Kaiser matched off against No. 88 Maik Steiner, beating him in straight sets. Junior Jimmy Wasserman won in both singles and doubles play in the Princeton victory.

The three wins improved the Tigers to 11–5 overall and helped the team build the momentum they will need heading into a challenging season. Despite the difficult road ahead, the team is excited for the new challenges it brings.

“Those are the really fun moments, when you beat teams you can beat and you know you can beat, but it really takes a full team effort,” Gamble said.

“You need to be playing as good as you can.

Those only really come maybe once or twice every year.”

Princeton will continue its season Sunday, March 11, with a doubleheader against Temple (7–3) and Monmouth (3–9).

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