Daily Newsletter April 4, 2024
Charter Club Backtracks After Guest Policy Controversy: Your Daily ‘Prince’ Briefing
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Charter Club Backtracks After Guest Policy Controversy: Your Daily ‘Prince’ Briefing
The guest policy changed at Princeton’s sole selective sign-in eating club. Days later, it changed again.
The Class of 2024 Class Day chairs have announced that actor Sam Waterston, known for his role in NBC’s “Law & Order,” will be the 2024 Class Day speaker. In the video message announcing their pick, the Class Day chairs highlighted Waterston’s creative career and connections.
In Montgomery County, Maryland, where I grew up, the federal government was the backbone of the local economy. Over 10,000 people work at each of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Naval Hospital, with another nearly 10,000 employed by the Food and Drug Administration. Over one in five jobs in the county are in the government at some level — federal, state, or local. Civil service is woven into the fabric of the community.
On another rainy night at Sherrerd Field, the No. 14 ranked Princeton men’s lacrosse (7–3 overall, 2–1 Ivy League) defeated the Lehigh Mountain Hawks (4–6 overall, 2–2 Patriot League) 12–10 on Tuesday, April 2.
As a member of the fall semester sequence, I joined Princeton’s Western Humanities (HUM) Sequence class trip to the opera “La Forza Del Destino” last Friday, the final performance of the 2023–2024 season.
On Friday, March 29, the musical “She Loves Me” opened in Wallace Theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts. In lieu of a traditional paper program, QR codes on poster boards outside the theater led to a website. The welcome page opens to a note from Madeleine LeBeau ’24, the production concept and creative director, who explains, “Our updated portrayal of the Broadway classic ‘She Loves Me’ through a post-pandemic lens not only speaks to the unique “virtual” realities of the Class of 2024’s Princeton experience, but also transforms this golden-age Broadway musical into a modern commentary on our increasingly online world.”
Nassau Street and the surrounding commercial district have its fair share of pizza options: Proof, Teresa’s, Nomad, Pizza Den — the list goes on. This semester, Jules Thin Crust, located on Witherspoon Street, was added to the University’s list of approved off-campus locations where Dining Points are accepted. This means that students now have the ability to use their $150 in Dining Points at the small, Pennsylvania-based chain specializing in flatbread pizzas and specialty toppings. But at $10+ for a small pizza that is a little over one square foot in size, is it worth it? To determine the answer to this, I decided to have a tasting of their menu last week.
Princeton Trustees adopt 2024-25 budget, increasing financial aid: Your Daily ‘Prince’ Briefing.
Dillon Gym is changing. The gym, first opened in 1947, has seen everything from the advent of group spin classes to a newly-renovated fitness center in the past three years.
On Friday, March 29, the trustees of Princeton University adopted an operating budget of $3.1 billion for the upcoming academic year, a roughly 6.2 percent increase from the 2023–24 total operating budget of $2.92 billion. The budget also includes an increase in undergraduate financial aid from $268 million to $279 million.
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Meredith Martin is an associate professor of English and serves as the Faculty Director for The Center for Digital Humanities (CDH), which she founded in 2014. She is also the inaugural Faculty Director of the first Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities at Princeton and serves as an advisor for undergraduate students pursuing Certificates such as Applications in Computer Science, Statistics in Machine Learning, Journalism, or Technology and Society.
Last week, if I was given the choice between attending a stand-up comedy show versus an improv show, I would have picked the stand-up. Having never been to an improv show prior to seeing Child's Play, I've relied upon the stereotypes I've heard about this type of comedy — that it tries too hard to be funny and instead loses all humor entirely. I had this stereotype in mind while considering my weekend plans, but the improv group Child’s Play exceeded my expectations to deliver a hilarious and humorous experience.
With an NCAA Champion, an NCAA Semifinalist, six All-Americans, and two Olympic qualifiers, Princeton fencing has proven why it is a top-ten fencing program in the country this year.
Despite the fact that my high breasts and I do not have a man with an MBA to take care of us, we have yet to be crushed by the unbearable weight of the human experience. This may sound like preposterous brag coming from a 20-year-old Ivy-League student: how could I have lived long enough to be convinced of life’s tragedies, hardships, and the benefit of having a partner who went to business school? According to 27-year-old Grazia Sophia Christie, however, I’m already behind on feeling these burdens.
The opening chords of the “Little Einsteins” theme song boomed through Richardson Auditorium’s speakers, raising laughs from the audience as Naacho Dance Company’s new members flooded the stage wearing sparkling red and black outfits. From classical Bollywood to Doja Cat, Princeton’s premiere South Asian dance group Naacho presented a sweeping range of South Asian-based dance and musical styles in their show this past weekend, “Shastra: The Rise of Chaos.”
Postdocs push for first academic union on campus: Your Daily ‘Prince’ Briefing
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After announcing their intent to file a petition with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to form a union, approximately 50 postdoctoral scholars delivered a letter to Nassau Hall on Monday calling on the University to remain impartial during the anticipated election to unionize.