Hispanic/Latine Identity, Belonging, and Community: a Project by The Prospect

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Earlier this semester, The Prospect sought out Self essays specifically from Hispanic and Latine Princetonians in order to celebrate this vast and diverse section of our community that has not always been adequatley covered in our pages.

To start, you can read Head Editor for The Prospect José Pablo Fernández García’s essay on his experience pushing back against the bureaucratic molds that don’t make room for his Spanish name — including at Princeton.

Then, you can check out Frida Ruiz’s guest essay on searching for a sense of belonging while navigating culturally isolating environments. And lastly, read Sophia Colmenares’s guest essay which begins with an anecdote about making arepas, and expands into a greater meditation on how one makes sense of one’s identities in the face of so many external and internal expectations.

Beyond elevating these three voices, the hope is that these pieces are only be the beginning of a larger endeavor by the ‘Prince’ to emphasize the contributions of Hispanic people in our campus commutniy.

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NEWS | VIS Students call on U. to re-open investigation into Joe Scanlan’s use of the n-word

185 Nassau Street, which houses the Program in Visual Arts
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Today’s Briefing:

SOME CALL FOR PROFESSOR JOE SCANLAN TO BE FIRED: Juniors and seniors in the University’s Program in Visual Arts displayed posters calling for Professor Joe Scanlan to be fired on the evening of Nov. 15. This was in response to Scanlan's use of the n-word in his seminar VIS321: Words as Objects on Nov. 3.

Students in the VIS program also authored an open letter calling on the University to re-open the investigation into Scanlan’s use of the word.

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UNIVERSITY OFFERS 200 NEW COURSES FOR UPCOMING SPRING SEMESTER: As registration opens to seniors at 7:30 a.m. on Nov. 29, the University plans to offer nearly 200 new undergraduate courses in the upcoming semester. Registration continues throughout the week, concluding with first-years on Dec. 2. New courses are offered on subjects such as HUM 402: Making the Viking Age and ANT316: Asian American Perils: Virus, Vermin, Machine.

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OPINION | As Princeton looks to the future, current students are deprioritized

Construction begins on a multi-year project to expand and renovate the southern portion of Dillon Gymnasium.
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Opinion Columnist Tara Shukla argues that the scale of on-going campus construction “creates a sense of administrative deprioritization of student comfort and wellbeing.” While she acknowledges the University’s commitment to a net-zero campus and expanding the student body, she also writes, “Princeton should focus on prioritizing the needs of its present community.”

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SPORTS | Football sees 16 players named to All-Ivy teams

Three Tigers received unanimous votes for first-team selections, including junior linebacker Liam Johnson.
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Sixteen players on Princeton’s football team received All-Ivy honors, and seven players received First Team recognition, the most of any team in the League. “I have enjoyed every moment — recruiting them, watching them progress their first year, seeing them begin to reach their ability as sophomores, and then becoming elite players and leaders as juniors,” Head Coach Bob Surace ’90 said.

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Read more from Sports:

First-year football standout Ryan Butler enters transfer portal

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