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(12/09/15 10:51pm)
Pride Alliance is a community building organization for LGBTQA+ people on campus. Street spoke to co-president Lily Gellman ’17 about the group’s initiatives and what’s next.Daily Princetonian: Can you describe the Pride Alliance and what it does on Princeton’s campus?Lily Gellman ’17: I would describe it as a community building organization for LGBTQA+ people on campus. We mostly do social events, and we say that we’re not explicitly a political group, but we do take sides on things on campus that are important to our community as long as we discuss them as a board and we agree on them. Right now we’re revising a letter of solidarity we’ve written to the Black Justice League and their actions.DP: What are some of the major events for Pride Alliance?LG: In terms of our own events, some of the regular events we put on are CafeQs, which are just informal gatherings that we put on every two weeks with a theme, and we have snacks and play games. We put on a faculty dinner series with professors called “Being LGBTQA in Academia,” where we invite professors to have dinner with us in the private dining rooms and have fun conversations with them. This past Friday, we had our second Queer Formal, which was a huge success.The biggest event we do every year is Pride Month, which used to be Pride Week actually, but under the administration of Diana Li ’16 and myself, we’ve expanded that to Pride Month because we found that we jam-packed the week with so many events in the past that people got overwhelmed. Last year’s Pride Month had a Queer Artistry theme, which ran from April 3-25, with events like an exHOTic other Burlesque Workshop and Performance, a Better Than Sex* (*to asexuals) Series and Queer Yoga and Karaoke. One of our more successful Pride Month events was a spoken word performance by Kit Yan, a transgender, queer, Asian American slam poet from Hawaii who explores being transgender and poor in the medical and social services systems and working through heartache in queer identity.DP: Why did you initially decide to join the Pride Alliance?LG: I wanted to get involved ever since I first visited Princeton. Seeing that there was a strong LGBT Center and small surrounding communities was a factor in my coming because I didn’t want to go to a school that had everything almost figured out already, and I did see that there was room for improvement at Princeton. It’s very meaningful to me to make spaces for people where they can be themselves and also talk to a huge diversity of people who identify in similar ways. It’s also just fun to plan the events that I would want to go to, while also redistributing our university’s capital into the hands of guest speakers and performers who are trans, queer, people of color ... who we can invite to spread their knowledge.DP: Is there a particularly memorable or meaningful experience that you have had while in Pride Alliance?LG: For the past couple of years, as part of Pride Month, we have done something called Queer Monologues. It’s not as performative in nature as something that Ellipses does, but in people write and submit their own stories and experiences. They could do it anonymously and have someone else read them, read it themselves or speak more extemporaneously from the heart. We held it in Cafe Vivian last year, and that was a really powerful event that was part of Pride Month. I was proud that we could facilitate that as a group.DP: Is there anything that you would like to say to those who are interested in becoming more involved with Pride Alliance?LG: Regardless of your previous level of involvement, if you have any interest in organizing events for and by the community, then you should apply to be a part of the board. We’re going to have the application out soon through a Google Form, and if you aren’t signed up for the listserv you can always shoot me or Diana an email. We also recently introduced associate membership, so besides the Pride executive board that does stuff, you can sign up to be an associate member to show your support.Ultimately, I think that the more we have student involvement and a robust community through student organizations, the more it will also happen naturally outside of the auspices of those organizations. It’ll just help people feel like they can find affinity and have a sense of place here.
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Tilghman to join nefarious-sounding but equally prestigious-sounding Harvard Corporation
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Music: Princeton University Orchestra presents “December 2015 Concerts”
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It’s “winter.” So dress “warmly.” Like that ice sculpture will melt. But — One week more. Another day, another non-date. This never-ending road to winter break. These people who seem to know my work. Will surely come back for a second twerk. Will we ever meet again? And yeah, still one week more.
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(12/02/15 10:57pm)
Most travel bucket lists might be considered incomplete if they neglect to include Peru’s Machu Picchu and the ancient Incan capital of Cusco, but if these places are on your list, here’s your chance! The course ART 367: Inca Art and Architecture, cross-listed as LAS 373 and ANT 379, offers students the occasion to travel to both one of the the oldest continuously inhabited archaeological capitals in South America and the world’s coolest lost city during spring break 2016.
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While most students may see Latin as a dead language, one course this spring is bringing it back to life by immersing students in Roman terrain. In an email statement, Yelena Baraz, the professor of LAT 333: Vergil’s Aeneid, said that the course studies the epic poem in Latin by focusing on Italy’s landscape and topography to study how Roman identity was formed.
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President Barack Obama announced the restoration of diplomatic relations with Cuba last December, but if you’d like to visit Cuba before the embargo potentially ends, then take ART 466: Havana: Architecture, Literature and the Arts. Led by professor of art and archeology Esther Roseli da Costa Azevedo Meyer and professor emeritus in the english and comparative literature departments Michael Wood, you’d get to travel to Havana during spring break.
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Unlike many of the other trip-based classes offered next semester, SPA 327: Latino Global Cities isn’t going abroad, but to another corner of the United States: Puerto Rico. Traveling to San Juan over spring break, the course studies urban Latino cultures in cities throughout the United States, the Caribbean and Spain. Cross-listed as a Spanish, urban studies and Latino studies course, SPA 327 requires a 200-level Spanish course, or instructor permission, and a one-page motivation letter, followed by an interview, to be selected as one of 14 students allowed to take this course. Priority is given to students who are planning on concentrating in Spanish and Portuguese.
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To get to one of the most beautiful places on Earth, you have to drive through hell. U.S. Route 395 stretches from the Canadian border to the mouth of Southern California’s Interstate-15 in the Mojave Desert. As a Californian by birth, I tend to identify all interstates as “freeways,” but it’s roads like Route 395 that I specifically label as highways — the two-lane road that stretches endlessly through a desert horizon. The nature of this endless horizon means two things — there will be extraordinary beauty along the way, but this beauty is perhaps more appreciated with your growing familiarity with the great spaces of emptiness, landscapes without water, places with the haunting reminder of nature’s cruel power.
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sssssPoetry: Ellipses Slam Team presents “(AMPERSAND)”
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Through Arts and Transit Project,Fenwick Hospitality Group expands restaurant empire’s territorial possessions
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Dear Sexpert,
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When Naomi Lake ’17 decided to pursue a part-time position at Olsson’s Fine Foods and Cheese, part of her reasoning involved a desire to experience a little bit of life outside the Orange Bubble.
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As soon as I told our airport taxi driver the name of the street I would be living on for the next four weeks — “Rua Sá Ferreira,” I said, the unfamiliar whooshy h-like rr’s of Portuguese tumbling gracelessly out of my mouth — he nodded. “Ah, I know where that is,” he said. “In Copacabana.”
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Phil Klay is a veteran of the Iraq War, having served as an officer in the Marine Corps. His 2014 collection of short stories, "Redeployment," won the National Book Award for Fiction and has since been heralded as the next Tim O'Brien by critics. Klayis a 2015-16 Hodder Fellow in the Lewis Center for the Arts. In an email interview, Street asked Klay about his wartime experiences, writing style and future projects.
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For 23 hours between Oct. 22 and 23, many students crowded curiously around the outside of Frist Campus Center, watching a University student sit motionless and alone inside of a 7x9 foot box. Word spread quickly, and many students soon knew about the performance, also known as “7x9”; the box represents the size of cell that prisoners in solitary confinement live in. What some students may not have known was that “7x9” was planned by a student organization called Students for Prison Education and Reform.
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This weekend, the Princeton Program in Theater presents “Zoyka’s Apartment,” a play by Kiev-born Mikhail Bulgakov. Performed by Princeton students enrolled in THR 451: The Fall Show and directed by professional Alexandru Mihail, “Zoyka’s Apartment” takes place in a Soviet Russia trying to reconcile centuries of imperial tradition with the dawn of the New Economic Policy era.
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Comedy: Fuzzy Dice Improv Comedy presents “Sidekicks”