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Photo by Thomas Chen
Three students of Seattle artist and Humanities Council visiting fellow Vannessa Tran work in 185 Nassau yesterday at the last of three painting workshops offered by Tran this week. Tran says her work is influenced by her Vietnamese heritage and her love of Chinese art.

Weird science loses its home

Nestled in the austere depths of the E-Quad, a laboratory decorated vibrantly with new-age posters, experimental apparatus and stuffed animals welcomed visitors into its quirky, old-fashioned atmosphere for 28 years.Until Tuesday, that is. That's when University staff dismantled the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) lab, and its doors were closed ...

Jewish students connect with Israel

Correction appendedThis past summer, Alex Ruda '08, Brian Extein '08 and Sarabeth Sanders '09 traversed the desert, slept in Bedouin tents and hung out with soldiers.Rather than undergoing a desert boot camp, however, the three students were traveling through Israel on a 10-day tour organized by Taglit-birthright Israel-Hillel. The trip ...
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Frank '80: U., clubs are too linked

Sally Frank '80, who spent 13 years in court fighting to force the then all-male Ivy Club, Tiger Inn and Cottage Club to admit women, praised the advent of the four-year colleges yesterday but said the University continues to send mixed signals about the clubs.Now an attorney and professor of ...

Is English still enough?

For each Chinese-speaking westerner, East Asian Studies professor Perry Link said, there are thousands of English-speaking Chinese."That leaves the question," Link said, "why do westerners learn Chinese?"Though English is spoken virtually everywhere — Link called it "a hegemonic language" — it is not always enough, a fact that students and ...

No. 4 Tigers welcome Canisius

The men's lacrosse team has won 13 of the last 15 Ivy League Championships. It has won six of the last 15 national championships. Clearly the Tigers, who are ranked No. 4 in Division I collegiate lacrosse by Inside Lacrosse, have a name to live up to, and they will ...

Princeton aims to snap losing streak

Losing streaks happen to every team, at all levels of play. The need to avoid them is a given, but it is the manner in which a team breaks such a streak that shows its true colors.This weekend the women's basketball team (10-13 overall, 4-5 Ivy League) faces a challenge ...