A Nude Olympic flame, lit and extinguished
“Of course, we took the robes off to race,” John Miller ’73 said. “The only thing I had on was a pair of sunglasses.”
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“Of course, we took the robes off to race,” John Miller ’73 said. “The only thing I had on was a pair of sunglasses.”
A mile north of campus lies 400 acres of forests and streams, stretches of public land filled with hickories, flowering dogwood, and boulders. 75 of these acres constitute the Billy Johnson Mountain Lakes Preserve, which is only partially a misnomer: the relativity flat woodlands encircle a lake banked by beaver dams and blueberry bushes.
Many Princetonians understand photosynthesis and can calculate the pH of soil, but few have knowledge of what occurs before food reaches their fork. With a 3.5-acre seed farm just a short drive from campus, more and more students are learning about the science behind native crops, as well as the cultural significance of the University land to the Lenni-Lenape peoples.
The ‘Prince’ staff sat in Wawa for 24 hours, observing the rotating cast of characters who enter and exit its doors, and the stories of those who work behind its counters. Reporters switched off hour by hour, each observing a part of the Wawa tapestry.
Will Aepli ’26 spent the summer after his freshman year working at Hungry Jack’s, a general store in Wilson, Wyo. that sits near the base of Teton Pass. Bounded on both sides by Fish Creek, the store is both a “supply hub and neighborhood checkpoint” for the surrounding community. A sign on its exterior from 1954 reads, “Pop: 35, Elev: 6146,” though now it serves more than a thousand people with food, alcohol, holiday cards, and fresh-roasted coffee.
As the tallest and shortest guys, respectively, in the Princeton Footnotes, Rupert Peacock ’24 and Koda Gursoy ’26 might not have much in common at first glance. But what brings the two singers together is their unconventional childhood performance careers.
In a festive, wreathed home just down the street from Forbes College, Head of Forbes College Maria Garlock and Dean of Forbes College Patrick Caddeau sit amidst a tornado of fur. Fonzie, a one-year-old golden retriever, and Lionela, a black Puerto Rican street dog, occasionally approach their humans for nuzzles. Lionela eventually races off after the toy in Fonzie’s mouth.
Underneath the Princeton Public Library flows a hidden brook. Before Princeton was settled and developed, Harry’s Brook comprised the entirety of Spring Street, where the public library is now situated. Today, it runs via a concrete culvert beneath the streets of town. If someone were to put their ear to the pavement of the library’s parking lot, they might hear the river burbling away beneath.
While many students returned home to spend Thanksgiving with family, those who stayed on campus over break — due to travel distance, concerns over productivity, and other reasons — celebrated with a different type of community.
The long-running debate about whether or not universities should release statements on national and global events debate has been thrust into the limelight with recent Supreme Court decisions on affirmative action and abortion, as well as international conflicts that impact members of the student body. The recent conflict in Israel and Gaza, for instance, has placed considerable pressure on universities across the nation regarding their official statements, and different University leaders have taken different stances on how to respond.
Yana Prymachenko helped her 67-year-old mother flee her home in Chernihiv as Russian forces advanced through Ukraine in March 2022. They packed into a car with complete strangers, bringing only important documents, a laptop, and their cat. “I left all my life behind,” Prymachenko said. She arrived at Princeton six months later after receiving help from the organization Scholars at Risk. Prymachenko is now a visiting research scholar in the Department of History, having left the Institute of History of Ukraine.
Universities are cyclical in nature. Each fall, new undergraduates matriculate, and four years later, they graduate. As I look ahead toward my own graduation, I find myself reflecting on the brevity of my Princeton experience in comparison to the University’s 277-year history. By May, I will have overlapped on campus with only seven class years of students, and I will have been taught only by the professors and scholars Princeton employs right now.
“Not coming straight from high school, I have different life experiences of interacting more with the ‘real world,’ like having a job and interacting with so many different types of people of different ages and backgrounds in community college,” said Ixtle Montuffar ’27, a transfer student from the Community College of Baltimore County.
Professor Pramod Viswanath, an Electrical and Computer Engineering professor, calls his creation “Blockie.” It's an Artificial Intelligence teaching assistant fed with lectures and notes from his advanced engineering class.
Students camped in the bushes around New South, waiting for the janitor to open the doors. As the janitor opened then, the students approached him, told him they were taking over the building and that he should take the day off. By 7 a.m., the 11-hour occupation of New South had begun.
On commencement day — June 29, 1866, one year after the Civil War — William D. Johnson addressed his classmates, the newest graduates of Lincoln University.
In 1835, the College of New Jersey was on the brink of financial ruin.
On the border of England and Scotland stands an 800-year-old pink-stoned castle. Once the home of the bishops of Carlisle, within its grandiose walls, visitors marvel at the lush gardens and intricately-decorated interiors.
Amid the ongoing conflict in Israel and Palestine, political speech has been in the spotlight on campus. University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 spoke with “Bloomberg Markets: The Close” on Oct. 10 about protecting free speech on campus in light of the war. He referenced an orientation module that first-years complete about respecting free speech and engaging in civil dialogue.