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(11/04/14 4:05pm)
It so happens that the Ancient Eight’s traditional Big Three have separated themselves as the league’s top contenders. The Crimson, the Bulldogs and the Tigers have all shown, at different times, why they deserve consideration as the league's top team. Take a look at how the Ivy League sides stack up going into the final two weekends of play. Harvard (12-7 overall, 8-2 Ivy League): Having blanked the Bulldogs 3-0 on the road last weekend, this squad has made an impressive run at the title. Sophomore setter Corrine Bain has proven an invaluable asset to the Crimson, following up on her 2013 Rookie of the Year honors with three Ivy League Player of the Week nods in 2014. Senior blocker Caroline Walters ranks first in the conference in solo blocks as well as hitting percentage. Yale (15-4, 8-2): Your two-time reigning champions have been impressive in their title defense. However, Harvard has twice gotten the better of them over the course of the season. The Bulldogs will travel to Columbia and Cornell in what should be a pair of comfortable wins before hosting Princeton and Penn for their Ivy League season finale. Princeton (12-8, 7-3): A three-game winning streak has followed a three-game midseason losing streak for the Tigers. Junior hitter Kendall Peterkin has made a strong case for Ivy League Player of the Year, holding a substantial league-lead in kills per set (4.62, second best being 4.02). Brown (9-13, 4-6): The Bears managed probably the most shocking upset of the season when they downed Harvard 3-0 in Cambridge. Otherwise, their consistency has been doubtful, as they dropped five-setters to Princeton and Dartmouth. Dartmouth (13-8, 4-6): The Big Green is currently riding a four-game losing streak as it heads into the final two weekends of conference play. This squad’s most impressive moment came during its Ivy League opener. It took Dartmouth’s women four sets to dispatch a visiting Harvard side. Penn (7-14, 4-6): Dropping a three-set match to a league-worst Big Red side should raise some questions about the Quakers. This side’s only conference wins have come against teams in the bottom half of the league table. Columbia (7-12, 3-7): The Lions, having won three out of their first four games, slid fast into a league-worst six-game losing streak. Sophomore outside hitter Zoe Jacobs recorded an impressive 3.50 kills per set in last weekend’s action, earning her a spot on the Ivy League honor roll. This, however, has been one of the few bright spots for the Light Blue this year. Cornell (5-15, 2-8): Cornell has suffered from severe inexperience. Seven of its 11 players are freshmen. Three sophomores and one senior brought the only collegiate experience to the Big Red this season. The leadership of that senior has, however, been invaluable, as libero Natasha Rowland leads all players in digs per set.
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Janet Ready began her role as president of the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro on Oct. 27 and also became senior vice president of the hospital’s parent company, Princeton HealthCare System, according to Planet Princeton.
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University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 discussed various issues, including plans to expand the undergraduate student body, the University’s recently modified sexual assault policy and the relocation of the University's Dinky station during his second annual meeting with town mayor Liz Lempert and other town council representatives on Monday night.
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The newly constructed Dinky train station running between Princeton and Princeton Junction will begin operating 460 feet south of its original location on Nov. 17, according to a University press release.
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie received national attention for responding to a heckler at a press conference on Oct. 29 in Belmar, N.J. by telling the heckler to “sit down and shut up,” mediaite.com reported.
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A report released on Thursday by the Rutgers School of Law-Newark concluded the stop-gap measures intended to allow people to vote in the days after Hurricane Sandy violated state law, according to NJ Advance Media.
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Two administrators perpetuated widespread academic fraud at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill within an academic department consisting of various athletic teams, according to a report published on Wednesday.
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A student sustained a knee injury after he was hit by a golf cart on a sidewalk near the Friend Center at1:27 p.m. this afternoon, according to University spokesperson Martin Mbugua.
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The Editorial Board of “The Dartmouth” published an article on Oct. 17urging its administration and president to abolish the Greek system.
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Eight sides turn their attention to the midpoint of their conference schedules. Six of these teams are within a single win of the Ivy League lead. With the regular season championship and the coveted NCAA tournament bid that follows up for grabs, let’s see how the Ancient Eight stacks up. Harvard (8-3-1 overall, 2-0-1 Ivy League): The Crimson’s last loss came at St. John’s on Sept. 13. Unbeaten through the last nine contests, the league leaders have outscored opponents 24-14. Interestingly enough, the NCAA’s Rating Percentage Index only ranks this side sixth out of the Ivy teams, due in part to the relative weakness of its schedule thus far. Harvard’s 218 shots are a league best by a very large margin (Princeton ranks second with 159).
Dartmouth: A scoring margin of seven goals-for and four goals-against gives the Big Green the Ancient Eight's best in-league differential. By virtue of a strong schedule, this side boasts the conference's best RPI, coming in at 37thnationally. Senior forward Alex Adelabu has taken 26 shots, scoring a team high of five goals. Dartmouth’s unbeaten streak of eight is one less than their Cambridge, Mass., rivals. Penn (6-6, 2-1): A strong start for last year’s champions could not sustain the Quakers in their home conference opener against Columbia. Holding a 1-0 lead at halftime, Penn surrendered a pair of second-half goals to the visiting Lions. This side’s offense boasts two of the top five Ivy League scorers. Princeton (6-3-3, 1-1-1): Characteristic of the Ivy League’s parity, little separates Princeton from the sides above and below it in terms of demonstrated quality, save the sheer explosiveness displayed by Princeton’s offensive duo of senior Cam Porter and junior Tom Sanner. These forwards rank first and second in goals scored among Ivy Leaguers. Columbia (4-5-1, 1-1-1): In a recent Spectrum, the Spectator's blogging arm, contributor Saranna Rotgard wrote the following regarding her experience attending last weekend’s drawn fixture between Columbia and Princeton: “I don’t have a deeper understanding of human existence after attending a soccer game, but the trip was not in vain.” Should the Lions continue their form, further trips to the school’s distant athletic fields may not be at all in vain. Brown (3-4-5, 1-1-1): While ranking second-worst among Ivy League sides in scoring, Bruno has held opponents to a second-best mark of .99 goals per game. Though this statistic is somewhat arbitrary, Brown leads all teams in yellow cards acquired with 16. No player on this squad has managed more than three goals during the 2014 campaign. Cornell (8-4-1, 1-2): Junior Zach Zagorski, an all-Ivy honorable mention from last season, has been the league’s premier goalkeeper. His save percentage of .878 ties him for fifth in the NCAA’s Division I. Champions two years ago, this side has seen its title hopes severely hindered by consecutive one-goal losses to Ivy rivals Penn and Harvard. Yale (1-9-2, 0-3): Two overtime periods were required for the Bulldogs to pick up their first win of the season: a 1-0 home victory over Temple University. Still, according to the NCAA’s RPI ranking, Yale ranks within the bottom 10 Division I teams in the nation, just behind Houston Baptist while edging out Gardner-Webb University.
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The announcement that the University’s Office of Technology Licensingestablishedthe position of executive in residence to help commercialize its research comes in the midst of alawsuitagainst the University regarding its tax-exempt status.
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House of Cupcakes has reopened after a hiatus due to a fire that destroyed the store nearly seven months ago, the Times of Trenton reported.
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The University’s Office of TechnologyLicensing hashired Bradford Middlekauff as its first executive in residence, a part-time consulting position to assist researchers and students in translating their technologies into the marketplace, Office of TechnologyLicensingDirector John Ritter said in a phone interview.
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1. Dean Malkiel deflated.
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A group of 28 Harvard Law School professors said Harvard University’s new sexual assault policy is “overwhelmingly stacked against the accused” and “in no way required by Title IX law or regulation” in a letter published in the Boston Globe.
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Local community members will have the opportunity to register online Tuesday Oct. 21to participate in a random drawing for a limited number of free tickets still available for the Dalai Lama’s public address, according to an update on the University event’s website.
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House of Cupcakes is scheduled to reopen this Friday, according to the Times of Trenton.
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Three swastikas were found chalked outside a Yale University freshman residence hall lateSundaynight, the Yale Daily News reported, the second such swastika incident at Yale in the past month and a half.
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The scoreboard read 1-1 at the end of one quarter. Nothing separated undefeated No. 1 UCLA from the underdog Tigers. This past weekend, a No. 10 Princeton water polo squad (14-3 overall, 6-1 CWPA Southern) traveled to Southern California looking to solidify its position as one of the sport’s top competitors.
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It’s been almost a full month since our last ranking of Ivy League football. Not unexpectedly, parity abounds at the top of the table. Yale, the most impressive during the first few weeks of play, fell at home in a shootout against Dartmouth. Let’s see how the teams stack up leading up to the season’s midpoint.