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Library exhibition shows Dionne talks campus during wartime Trump, politics, racial liberalism Senior Writer
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The exhibit shows how during WWII, the University amped up its science and defense research.
The exhibition “Learning to Fight, Fighting to Learn: Education in Times of War,” which gives a historical perspective on American wars’ impact on the University, is currently on display in the Mudd Library. The exhibition includes articles and photographs from the French and Indian War through the Vietnam War, artifacts on the Manhattan Project, as well as
personal information about each Princetonian who died in World War II. In addition to the main exhibit, there is a temporary installment on the Gulf War. The exhibit shows how, during WWII, the University amped up its science and defense research, contributing to the development of the atomic bomb. Sara Logue, April C. Armstrong, Christa Cleeton, and Rosalba Varallo Recchia, all librarians at the Mudd Library, curated the exhibi-
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A former Terrace Club employee made threats against the club, causing it to shut down starting at 4:20 p.m. on Tuesday, March 6. Former employee Darnell Pygum entered Terrace at 11 a.m. and made threatening comments to the club manager, according to an email distributed by Elizabeth Yu ’19, the club president. When Pygum refused to leave the premises, Terrace called the Princeton Police Department, but Pygum left before officers arrived. In the afternoon, Pygum called, threatening the club. Students have been instructed to alert an officer if they see anyone resembling Pygum, whose picture is circulating on a Terrace group chat, according to the email written by Yu. Terrace Club will be closed for dinner on March 6 and breakfast on March 7. Students have been cautioned to refrain from physically entering the club. The University has given Terrace students $15 See TERRACE page 4
In Opinion
By Mallory Williamson
The University is preparing for a snowstorm that will likely coat the Northeast late Tuesday into Wednesday. The storm will likely deliver five to eight inches of snow, according to the National Weather Service. University administrators will convene on a phone call at 5 a.m. at the latest on Wednesday to assess the weather and campus safety in order to make a final decision regarding a campus closure. If the University closes tomorrow or opens late tomorrow, students, faculty, and staff will be notified by 6 a.m. “We’re going to be checking the weather through the night,” said Assistant Vice President of Communications Daniel Day. “It’s not out of the realm of possibility that we’ll make an announcement [earlier than 6 a.m.].” Other than a full closure of the University, administrators could also choose to delay classes or to end them early. “One option that we have is that classes
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tion. Valencia Johnson, an archival fellow at the Mudd Library, designed the graphics for the exhibition. In the past, wars have had a big impact on the University, according to Johnson. The enrollment base of the University would fundamentally shift during wartime, she said. For example, WWI caused the University to amend its admissions requirements, requiring one less high school credit of matriculatSee EXHIBITION page 2
might go on but the University might be closed for other business,” Day said, since many students and professors live in close proximity to academic buildings. “We’ve had that situation in the past,” he said. Facilities will also be monitoring the weather in order to best combat the effects of the storm. “The number one priority is keeping everyone as safe as possible,” said Chris Lillja, the facilities communications manager. “[We] have to have a shifting game plan as the storm unfolds, depending on the type of precipitation and how much we get,” he said. If necessary, the University will open up Dillon Gymnasium as a storm shelter Wednesday at 3 p.m. for dining hall workers who either cannot drive home or choose not to. This is meant to ensure smooth operation of campus dining halls. If opened as a shelter, it would have partitioned living quarters for men and women, as well as separate gendered restrooms and showers. The storm shelter would then close at 8 a.m. on ThursSee STORM page 3
While discussing politics under and after Donald Trump’s presidency, EJ Dionne, who serves as a Brooking Institutes fellow and writes op-eds for the Washington Post, pulled out his iPhone to play a song that Michael Franti & Spearhead released during Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. It opens with an infectious, reggae beat that leads to the first lines: “Yes, yes, yes, it’s time/ Y’all come together, uh-uh.” Dionne, wearing steel wire frame glasses and a red tie tucked into a navy wool vest over a sky blue dress shirt, bopped along. Dionne, who spoke at the University yesterday evening on a new book he coauthored, “One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the NotYet-Deported,” is an optimist living in dark times. In an interview with The Daily Princetonian, Dionne discussed the unique threat that Trump poses, which is the impetus for co-writing his book. Dionne cited Trump’s predilection for authoritarianism (evident in his praise of strongmen such as Putin and Duterte and his infamous declaration, “I alone can fix it” in his inaugural speech); his refusal to cut business ties or release his tax returns; and the ethnonationalism that has fueled and sustained his ascendancy to power. “A candidate for president who begins his campaign by saying that Mexican immigrants are rapists, who says the two sides in Charlottesville are equivalent, you can go down a long list,” Dionne said. Dionne criticized mainstream political discourse that has posited identity politics and the white working class as two separate and inimical political camps — a false dichotomy, in his opinion. Both sides have merits, he conceded, but neither sufficiently respond to the problem at hand. He argued that belonging to a “white working class” background is a form of identity politics. “The white working class is an identity just like another form of identity,” he said. “Secondly, I think there is a legitimate argument made particularly by African American and Latinos, that if you look at the whole working class, a very large segment of the working class is African American and Latino.” On the other hand, he acknowledged that those critical of identity politics have put their finger on the necessity of generating a “broader civic politics.” “In our book, we talk about E Pluribus Unum, out of many, one,” Dionne said. “That assumes both plurality and unity. I think that has always been the challenge of America, which is, how do you create a genuine sense of national unity while recog-
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nizing that we are a county of particularisms?” The basis for unity, Dionne argued, must come from a renewed politics of equality and commitment to a common good. African Americans, white working class folks, women, and LGBT people, he argued, all are making the same demand — to be recognized as human beings possessing equal worth and dignity. The key is to validate the particular identities while simultaneously acknowledging the necessity of a working towards a common good. “A genuinely intersectional politics recognizes that all these identities have legitimacy, but we are also looking for some kind of common good out of those particularities,” he said. “A politics of a common good linked to a politics of equality is what we’re looking for.” Dionne harkened back to the 2008 Obama campaign as momentary realization of this hope. Not only did Obama win the African American and Latino votes by huge margins, but about 57 percent of his voters were white, he said. While ultimately a transient triumph, he insisted that the campaign showed Americans that multi-racial democracy was possible. “It isn’t a crazy thing to hope for. That was only eight years ago,” he said. Citing a recent American Interest article on the collapse of racial liberalism, he admitted that the current racial politics, which can be framed shorthand as between white nationalism and Black Lives Matter, has exposed the limits an “older kind of racial liberalism.” The correction to racial liberalism, according to him, needs to debunk a belief in meritocracy in fixing problems and acknowledge that the structures of racism reach far deeper than most liberals would like to admit. Yet Dionne remains full of hope. He cited Martin Luther King Jr., one of his heroes, for the way he combined “an uncompromising militancy with a deep belief in the possibility of converting adversaries.” This deep hope in conversion, in changing the other side’s mind and ultimately working together, underlies Dionne’s optimism in the future. “I’m not willing to give up on the notion of multi-racial political coalitions,” he said. “I don’t believe that the interests of white people and the people of color are always and entirely in conflict. I think we have to find commonalities. I think we have been presented with a series of challenges that we have to grapple with. It’s harder than we hoped to pull this off. On the other hand, there’s no alternative.” His hope relies most ardently upon a profound belief and trust in young people. “A lot of people talk about the millennial generation as See DIONNE page 4
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ing students. The Latin requirement was also removed to increase the breadth of the University’s applicant pool during the war. “You see more enrollment of African Americans and women and African American Women,” Johnson said. WWII led to a program called “Seventy Books for Students in the Armed Forces” that allowed soldiers to receive three books from a list of 70 while they were at war. “Americans [soldiers] were not casual readers,” Logue said. “College students used these books as a way to enhance and keep up with their education.” These war-time programs were critical to helping ensure that education felt like a post-war possibility, according to Johnson. Student support of the country’s wars has decreased since WWI, Logue said. She added that there was a big difference between student
involvement in WWI and the Vietnam war, for example. “I believe every student would have gone to war in World War I,” she explained. Like a large part of the American public, Princeton students largely did not support the Vietnam War, according to Logue. “They didn’t feel they needed to be there,” she said. According to the exhibit curators, the current campus culture is very different from how the University functioned during wars, particularly during WWI and WWII. They stressed that the exhibit will help keep the current University community from lose its historical perspective. The exhibition will continue through Reunions of 2018. University Vice President and Secretary Robert Durkee ’69, Trustee Robert Rivers ’53, and Director of the Army Officer Education Program for ROTC Kevin McKiernan discussed the impact of twentieth-century wars on University life at a panel Wednesday, Feb. 28.
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day. Converting University facilities into shelter for dining workers has happened in the past. Last March, dining staff were housed in the Frist Campus Center Multipurpose Room during Winter Storm Stella. All students, faculty,
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highly individualistic, as obsessed with careers and the like, and I have a very different view of your generation. I view you as a much more
communitarian and social justice social justice generation,” Dionne said. His generation that grew up in the radical 60’s and 70’s, he argued, were often exaggerated as radical, when in fact, they were deeply fractured and less united in their
progressivism as millennials seem to be now. “You are the most liberal or progressive generation since the New Deal generation by the surveys. You’re also the most diverse generation in our history. That is part of your progressivism — your
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Penn Medicine’s acquisition of Princeton Health improves medical care Jared Shulkin
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he University of Pennsylvania Health System’s recent acquisition of Princeton Health is a major step in improving access to medical care for the region. Previously, Princeton Health — which includes Princeton Medical Center, a leading teaching hospital in New Jersey — had been “evaluating partnership opportunities to ensure its continued success in the future,” but ultimately announced its intent to partner with UPHS in 2016. This transaction officially took place early in January, making highly specialized care more accessible via Penn Medicine’s umbrella system. Major benefits to partnering with an extensive health system and academic medical center such as Penn include increased and easier access to care for complex conditions, innovative clinical trials, important medical advances and technologies, and specialized clinicians — all of which serve to improve patients’ ex-
periences at Princeton Health (now Penn Medicine Princeton Health), allowing for superior treatment of a wider range of conditions. The extent of this partnership will be far-reaching, as Princeton Health provides services to more than 1.3 million people in central New Jersey. In an article published in The Daily Pennsylvanian last year about Penn Medicine’s intent to partner with Princeton Health, Guy David, Professor of Health Policy and Medical Ethics at the Perelman School of Medicine, commented on the nature of health insurance models and hospitals’ adaptation to changes in insurance policies. Five years ago, the cost of procedures dictated how much money hospitals would receive from insurance companies. Recently, however, insurance companies have been rewarding hospitals for improving — in a more general sense — patient health, which would mean cutting down on the number of complex procedures conducted. Under this new insurance model, hospitals are thus incentivized to provide better, more efficient care with fewer procedures. Further, according to The Daily Pennsylvanian, this insurance model “encourages a
more clinically and financially integrated health system to facilitate coordination among all hospitals under umbrella systems.” Because of this, smaller healthcare systems (like Princeton Health) would need to pay more if inadequate care — due to, for example, lack of specialized physicians — resulted in poor patient outcomes or multiple re-admissions. Integrating into a larger umbrella system ensures that all patients are given the best possible care, maximizing both compensation from insurance companies and patient wellbeing. This also means that larger, more specialized hospitals will not necessarily see patients with the standard “coughs and colds,” according to Amol Navathe, M.D., of the Perelman School of Medicine. Instead, they will house patients with more complex, chronic conditions, which also affects how medical students are being trained. Acquiring smaller systems like Princeton Health will thus allow Penn medical students to observe patients of all types, not just those with a with a greater focus at the main hospital on campus. Larger healthcare systems’ acquisitions of smaller healthcare systems seem to be the national trend as a result of
changing insurance models, as described earlier. Vertical integration, in which healthcare systems can offer a broad range of patient care and support services, minimizes risk associated with lack of compensation under the newer health insurance models. Last year, UNC Health Care made a deal with Carolinas HealthCare System to create one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the country, and PinnacleHealth announced that it would merge with UPMC among many other similar acquisitions and mergers across the nation. Overall, however, this shift in the way hospitals and healthcare systems are operating both improves patient care and leads to increased revenue for healthcare systems. Higher specialization and better care, both of which we should expect in central New Jersey as a result of Princeton Health’s acquisition by Penn Medicine, will improve patient outcomes, aid in medical student training, and increase financial compensation for UPHS. Good deal? I think so. Jared Shulkin is a sophomore from Weston, Fla. He can be reached at jshulkin@princeton. edu.
Make no mistake — the issue with gun-based suicides is guns Ben Bollinger
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Life is more frail than we often perceive. In moments of grief, this truth becomes particularly palpable. I still remember one such instance from my junior year of high school. As I was leaving school late one Friday afternoon, shuffling across the empty parking lot, I received an unexpected call from my mom. She spoke quietly, as if trying to soften the blow of what was to come: A student I had gone to middle school with had just taken their own life, dying from a self-inflicted gunshot. I sat down in the car. I didn’t know them well, but there is something strikingly raw about the first time you lose someone you considered your peer, something that suddenly makes the fragility of life much more tangible than you ever realized. That night, I drove home and cried in the driveway. Of course, I do not claim to draw any comparison between my reaction and the devastation that close friends and families of suicide victims experience — that level of personal despair remains inaccessible to me. Yet, simply as two humans whose lives briefly overlapped, this tragedy forced me to consider the way we value life as a society. How, and why, could something like this happen? The answers here are not as elusive or transitory as you may think, nor are they unique to this situation. Selfinflicted gun death, contrary to the conventional narrative that emphasizes mass shootings, is by far the largest contributor to the public health crisis of gun violence
in the United States, with gun-related suicides accounting for a jarring 62 percent of all gun deaths combined. But before this piece is co-opted by opponents of gun restrictions and touted as evidence of the need for mental health reform, let me be clear: The issue here is with the guns. It is true that mental health plays a discernible role in this issue. However, in terms of actual physical harm, firearms themselves, owing to their lethality, are the overwhelming primary cause of instances of death. There is ample evidence for this. Firearms are used in only 5 percent of all suicide attempts, yet they result in over 50 percent of all suicide deaths per year. This means approximately 85 to 91 percent of gun-based suicide attempts end in fatalities. By comparison, many of the most commonly used methods, such as drug overdose, have a lethality rate below three percent. The presence of guns means that momentary suicidal impulses can quickly and easily turn into irreversible mistakes. This is especially tragic considering that, overall, 90 percent of people who survive suicide attempts do not later die of suicide. In the long term, people are able to recover and rebuild, but the high lethality of firearms means that many who attempt suicide are never afforded a second chance. This is something that weighs heavily on my mind when reflecting on the student I knew. I often wonder if their momentary turmoil was catalyzed by the ready availability of a firearm, with the result of extinguishing a life full of meaning and potential. So, where does this leave us? We can no longer ignore the huge loss of life occurring
in the United States. Thankfully, there are several sensible gun reform policies that address the underlying issues of firearm accessibility and are proven to help curb selfinflicted gun deaths. First and foremost, we should demand nationwide Extreme Risk Protection Orders, which allow for immediate family members and law enforcement to present evidence that a person in turmoil is too dangerous to possess a gun. A judge can then rule for said person to surrender their firearms, thereby eliminating their access to household guns for a short period of time. In Connecticut, which has enacted these ERPO laws, research suggests that from 1993–2013, one suicide was successfully prevented for every 10 to 11 gun removal cases. Secondly, a federal firearm purchase waiting period of several days should be instituted. In the nine states with waiting periods of some kind, these policies have been highly effective. Furthermore, we need nationwide gun lock rules to secure domestic firearms and mitigate teenager suicide. In states where tight gun storage laws exist, one 2004 study showed that there was an 8.3 percent decline in suicides. Opponents of gun reform routinely label gun-based suicides as purely an issue of mental health and argue, therefore, that gun reform is not necessary or won’t be successful. They say that the majority of these people would find other ways to commit suicide, signaling that a gun is not the defining factor in their death. Surprise — this is a half-baked, empirically false assertion. A recent study in Switzerland concluded that a sustained decrease in the population suicide rate
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was associated with gun restrictions, and “only about one in five of the prevented gun suicides resulted in a substitution of suicide by other means.” Guns are clearly the factor that precipitates instances of death. Furthermore, gun reform is effective, and victims of firearm suicide should not be painted as lost causes who would have died anyway. They are people who, if not for the presence of firearms, had more than a decent chance at life. There is nothing crazy about sensible gun reform. The only truly disturbing thing here is that we have let our national gun fetish dominate the conversation on firearms thus far. Even here at Princeton, the anger on this subject is lacking. Especially considering Undergraduate Student Government President Rachel Yee ’19’s push for campus mental health reform, we should be particularly attuned to this national epidemic. The pervasiveness of guns poses a uniquely potent threat to the sanctity of life. We can either choose to flippantly blame mental health for firearm-based suicides, or address the core issue of gun accessibility. If we have any respect at all for the 20,000 annual victims of firearm suicide in our country, or for ourselves, we should be utterly incensed. Now is the time to push for change. Do not sit idly by — get involved, sign up to participate in future events with Princeton Against Gun Violence, call your legislators, and come protest with us on March 14th. Benjamin Bollinger is a first year from Morristown, N.J. He can be reached at bjb4@princeton.edu.
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Secret hack for brown people at U.S. airports Bhaamati Borkhetaria Senior Columnist
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o to U-Store. Online or in person, doesn’t matter. Buy a Princeton University shirt or hoodie. Make sure that the big, orange letters of “Princeton” are emblazoned across the front. Wear the gear to the airport. Enjoy not getting stopped by the metal detector that always mysteriously beeps when you get close to it. It’s worked every time for me. It’s kept me from having to stand in a humiliating position with my hands up and legs spaced apart as a Transportation Security Administration agent searches over my body for proof that the color of my skin is dangerous. Instead, I get to watch the Sikh person behind me walk through a beeping metal detector. Although it is likely a coincidence that the Princ-
eton hoodie has protected me from the TSA, it got me thinking about what it means to be from a marginalized group in America but to also belong to the privileged group that is Princeton. To be at the University is to belong to the elite. But how do you reconcile with the fact that once you take the hoodie off or erase Princeton University from your resume, you sink right back into marginalization? I believe that the University confers a certain privilege even to people who belong to traditionally marginalized communities. Many of the benefits we have as a result of being Princeton students could hardly be considered privileges. The ability to speak our minds without being physically hurt. Access to safe spaces. The capacity to have our voices be heard. The potential to go out into the world and be treated as though we could potentially have something to say that might be worth hearing. However, there are a whole set of privileges that
come with being a Princeton student that we share with our less marginalized peers. For example, the incredible access we have to important people in academia and the world. There’s also the resume booster that Princeton’s very name provides. Then there’s our elite eating club culture, our expectation of what a campus should provide us with, our lack of wonderment at how much money the University casually throws around for clubs, research, programs, and much more. We are coddled to the point of privilege. In a way I think it’s wonderful. It allows us to beat our circumstances. But it means we can no longer entirely claim the identity of the marginalized. The point I’m trying to make is epitomized by the story Morgan Jerkins ’14 tells in her article for The Guardian. She calls herself a “gentrifier in Harlem.” Whereas she does belong to the African-American community, she is no longer able to identify with the extremely
marginalized because she herself has risen to a social status afforded to her by a Princeton education and the resulting earning potential. In fact, she counts herself among those who are making it harder for AfricanAmerican communities to exist in historically black areas like Harlem. Jenkins occupies a place of privilege. Her recognition of it makes the conversation much more complex. I think we, marginalized people, should take a leaf out of her book and acknowledge our privilege because it will give us more license to point out why we still retain the right to resent the systems of power that give our white peers much more privilege than we can rope up even at this elite university. It is important to acknowledge this privilege because it is the first step to having a balanced conversation about what it means to occupy a place of privilege. Of course, our white peers will be treated like respectable human beings with or without the Princeton name. But we oc-
cupy a place that is slightly above the people in our marginalized communities. I am not saying that there isn’t racism or sexism on campus and in the world at large. There’s lots of it, but it doesn’t negate the fact that we, as Princeton students, are given a better lot in life just because of the fact that we fell into the small minority of people whose hard work paid off. I get stopped every single time when I go through security. And when I wear my hoodie with the large orange letters on it, I feel a bit of self-satisfaction that there’s a great chance that Princeton will save me from discrimination. Maybe the privilege is in my mind, but I can’t shake the feeling that it’s very much made me a different person. I need to acknowledge that to have a productive conversation about privilege in our society. Bhaamati Borkhetaria is a sophomore from Jersey City, N.J. She can be reached at bhaamati@princeton.edu.
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Men’s lacrosse falls to Hopkins, rebounds with win against NJIT By Owen Tedford Staff Writer
This past weekend, the men’s lacrosse team (2–2) travelled down to Baltimore, Md. to take on No. 17 Johns Hopkins (2–2). Unfortunately, the game did not go in favor of the Tigers, losing 16–9 to the Blue Jays who pulled away in the second half after a half-time score of 6—5 in favor of Johns Hopkins. On Tuesday, Princeton got a chance to rebound when they hosted the New Jersey Institute of Technology (0–7) at home on Sherrerd Field at the Class of 1952 Stadium. The Tigers responded in strong fashion, beating NJIT 15–8. Saturday’s game saw a continuation of a trend over the last eight times these teams have met where the winner of the previous match-up has not been able to repeat as the winner the next year. The story of the night was the Blue Jays’ dominance at the face-off X where they won 20 of 28 face-offs. Johns Hopkins’ face-off specialist, Hunter Moreland, has won almost 55 percent of his face-offs since his firstyear season on just over 500 attempts. The story was the opposite last year when Princeton won 17 of 28 face-offs, taking advantage of Moreland’s absence. The Tigers’ standout
performance came from sophomore attack Michael Sowers who had three goals and three assists giving him 97 career points in his 18 career games. Sowers was Princeton’s honoree for the Chris Gardner Player of the Game, an award that honors a former Johns Hopkins lacrosse player who died from cancer his sophomore year in college. Moreland was the Blue Jays’ honoree for the award. Sophomore attack Phillip Robertson continued his sharp shooting on the season adding another two goals on two shots, making him eight-foreight this season. In Tuesday’s game, Princeton was able to improve its face-offs against an NJIT team that had also been struggling at the X. The Tigers were led by sophomore face-off Ralph Chrappa who was 11 of 14 on the X. In addition, firstyear attack Chris Brown continued his hot start of having at least a goal and an assist in all four of Princeton’s games so far this season. He added one of each last night. Lastly, the story of the night was Sowers who had eight points on the night with three goals and five assists. This put Sowers over the 100 career points mark, making him the fastest player by three games to do so in Princeton histo-
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Princeton was able to improve its face-offs against an NJIT team that had also been struggling at the X.
ry. Sowers started strong in the first quarter with a goal 49 seconds in, and had three more assists before the quarter was over. His second assist of the quarter with 4:56 remaining put him over the 100-point mark in just 18 games and
one quarter played. The Tigers will next be taking on Rutgers (4–1) this Saturday at 1 p.m. at home on Sherrerd Field at the Class of 1952 Stadium. This is Princeton’s last nonconference game before its first Ivy League game of
the season on March 17 at home against No. 19 Penn (3–2). Saturday’s game can be watched live on the Ivy League Digital Network or listened live on TuneIn. com at the Princeton IMG Sports Network.
MEN’S AND WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD
Men’s T&F wins fourth consecutive Ivy Heps title, women’s finishes sixth
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The men’s track and field team won its fourth consecutive Ivy Heptagonal Championship title.
By Alissa Selover Staff Writer
Princeton’s track and field teams showed their abilities
two weekends ago at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships. The men’s team finished first of eight teams and the women’s team finished
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sixth of the eight teams, creating much excitement for the upcoming outdoor season. Here’s a recap of how the teams did:
Despite the low overall team score, the women’s team finished Heps with many strong individual scores. Senior Christina Walter had stellar performances in both the 60m and 200m dashes, breaking Princeton’s record in the 60m with a personal best time of 7.56 seconds. In the one-mile race, first-year Sophie Cantine placed fourth with a time of 4:52.97 and junior Madison Offstein placed sixth with a time of 4:53.32, a personal best. In the 500m race, sophomore Devon Block-Funkhouser and junior Allison Glossinger placed fifth and sixth, respectively, each earning points for the team. In throwing, senior Kennedy O’Dell threw a personal best in shot put and placed third overall in the weight throw. Triple jump competitor junior Kerri Davidson placed fourth, adding on points for Princeton. The Tiger women wrapped up their last indoor meet with many personal bests and a few school records. They will continue with their outdoor season at the UNF Spring Break Open in Jacksonville, Fla. on March 23. The men’s track and field team won its fourth consecutive Ivy Heps title with the largest margin of victory ever
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recorded, winning with 68 points more than second place Penn. Junior Adam Kelly won the weight throw and senior Mitchel Charles won the shot put, adding points to Princeton’s total. Mile runners, seniors Garrett O’Toole and Noah Kauppila, won first and second, respectively, in the event. Sophomore Joey Daniels ran an Ivy League meet record and a new personal record to win the 60m hurdles in 7.81 seconds. Daniels was also named the co-Most Outstanding Track Performer during the meet. Seniors Josh Freeman and Josh Ingalls both added points to the Tigers’ total with a win in the 400m and a fifth place finish in the 500m, respectively. First-year Jeffrey Hollis and junior Andrew Diehl took fifth and sixth place in the high jump while senior Lane Russell and junior Stefan Amokwandoh took third and sixth place in the triple jump. Adding some excitement to the Heps victory, senior William Paulson lapped Cornell’s anchor during the 1600m relay race which allowed for a final victory for the Tigers. The men’s team will also continue with the kickoff of the outdoor season at the UNF Spring Break Open on March 23.
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