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On Saturday afternoon, Princeton football (2–2 overall, 1–0 Ivy League) played their final non-conference game in their 53rd-ever matchup against the Lafayette Leopards (5–1 overall, 1–0 Patriot League). After a nine-point first quarter for the Tigers, Princeton struggled to put together anything offensively for the remainder of the game, notably missing two kicks, and eventually lost, 12–9.
Most people don’t find themselves yearning to grow up in a small Kentucky town. And as someone who grew up there, I spent years wishing I was anywhere else. Wishing I lived in a city where the best hangout spot wasn’t a run-down mall with a movie theater, Dollar Store, Roses, and Shoe Show. Wishing my hometown was known for something more than being a crater in the Appalachian Mountains — yes, my hometown was actually built in a crater. Wishing I didn’t have to drive two hours to go anywhere remotely interesting.
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Princeton’s Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE) department has described itself as a one-of-a-kind program that combines data-driven science with principles that can be applied to a wide range of fields, including finance, communications, and transportation. It is a department that prides itself on the study of “optimal decision-making under uncertainty.” Yet a failure in a different optimization problem — the optimal number of students to accept in 2020 — created a series of bottlenecks in the department.
In 2021, Atlantic reporter Emma Green pressed President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 on whether Princeton should exist, noting that compared to The City University of New York, for example, Princeton spends an extraordinary amount of money on its relatively few students. Eisgruber noted that Princeton’s purpose was to educate future leaders, but in recent years, Princeton has also focused on creating programs that serve more than the campus community, specifically aimed at helping students achieve social mobility. In 2022, Princeton formed a research partnership with five historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to facilitate inclusion in a variety of academic disciplines. Princeton has also recently started a program to help local community college students transition to four-year colleges, which Eisgruber recently touted while at the White House.
Beef is perhaps the most essential element of the American diet. We are carnivorous to a greater point than possibly any other country on earth. The carnal pleasure of sinking teeth into flesh has been painted as inexorably American in cowboy movies and fast food advertisements. Beef eating is so inextricably entwined with American cultural identity that not eating it may have been used as a justification to exclude people from the country. The extent of America’s addiction to beef is staggering. We use 654 million acres for grazing our 94.4 million cattle, an area larger than Alaska. This obsession comes at a staggering cost. Producing one kilogram of beef produces the equivalent of 100 kilograms of carbon dioxide, more than any other common food. Beef’s global warming potential is 7.2 times greater than chicken and 26 times that of lentils.
The men’s football team (2–1 overall, 1–0 Ivy League) will face off against the Lafayette Leopards (4–1 overall, 1–0 Patriot League) on Saturday afternoon in their final non-conference matchup of the season. The game will be at 1 p.m., live from Powers Field with streaming available via ESPN+.
There are no fewer than 11 construction projects currently underway on Princeton University campus. All are expected to be completed between the fall of 2023 and spring of 2027 according to the University's construction timeline.
One of Princeton’s most accomplished molecular biologists has been honored with a major award by a foundation connected to the Spanish aristocracy for her work studying quorum sensing, which could potentially provide an alternative to traditional antibiotics which have seen increased resistance in recent years.
More gender-neutral bathrooms would make Princeton more inclusive
After a win versus Monmouth and a draw against rival Yale, men's soccer (3–4–1 overall, 0–1–1 Ivy League) faced one of their toughest matches of the season so far against No. 8 Georgetown (7–1–1, 3–0–0 Big East) on Tuesday. The team attempted to replicate what Princeton women’s soccer did versus Georgetown a few weeks ago, but this proved easier said than done. The Hoyas have been dominant this season, with their only loss coming against No. 6 Stanford. In spite of a strong first half from Princeton, Georgetown took the game handily.
School of Public and International Affairs professor Noreen Goldman and her colleagues recently published “The impact of COVID-19 on life expectancy among four Asian American subgroups,” deconstructing aggregate data about Asian American life expectancies after the pandemic. Published in the Social Science & Medicine - Population Health journal, the study found that Asian Americans as a whole faced greater losses in life expectancy between 2019 and 2020 than the white population, losing 1.1 to 3.9 years, with the largest drops occurring among Chinese women and Filipino men.
Amid the rise in anti-trans legislation proposed to target trans communities across the country, as well as growing political opposition surrounding access to gender-affirming healthcare, it’s more important than ever for Princeton to support transgender and gender-diverse students. As an institution committed to representing a diverse community, Princeton can and should implement strategies that benefit these students' physical and social well-being.
On Nov. 6, 1869, Rutgers University defeated Princeton University 6–4 in the first-ever game of intercollegiate football. Over the past 154 years, football has grown in popularity and complexity, and Princeton’s typical roster has almost doubled in size.
It’s that time of year: the trees around campus are turning a brilliant yellow, filling Princeton’s signature cobblestone paths with crunchy leaves. Students feverishly study for their midterms at Firestone. And as the weather gets chillier, the Coffee Club’s doors are open, offering students a warm respite with its new array of fall drinks. As someone who spends most of their time split between Campus Club and the NCW Coffee Club, I decided to embark on the mission of trying the full slate of new beverages.