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In the shadow of Fine Hall’s imposing tower lies a curious steel-sheathed building, which in 2008 marked the beginning of a dynamic new space at Princeton. Besides having an iconic, abstract modern design, the Lewis Library also challenges the idea of what a library should be — but not without controversy.
This Saturday, alumni who have found success in the entertainment industry, as well as other industry professionals unaffiliated with the University, will arrive on campus to participate in a conference titled “Careers in Hollywood: Script to Screen & Everything in Between.”
Rising from a lawn shared with the Springdale Golf Club, the Graduate College has become a mysterious building that eludes undergraduates, situated so far from the rest of the University that most would describe it as off-campus.
“Do you know about the Waggle dance?” he asked.“No ... ” I said.“Oh. My. God.”On Sunday, I met the BEE Team. I met about a dozen people, each of whom seemed to have an unending knowledge of everything bee-related. For example, the “waggle dance,” as Ben Denzer ’15, former BEE Team president, explained to me, is a complicated — yet simple — way for a bee to let other bees know where a particularly nectar-filled flower is located. According to Denzer, a bee will circle around in a figure eight and waggle its butt, pointing other bees to the flower using the sun as a reference.“If you start looking into bees, it’s just like a never-ending pit of awesomeness,” he said.Last Sunday, the team held a mead-making event in the Brown Co-Op. Essentially honey alcohol, mead is made by fermenting honey with water, sometimes with added raisins or lavender. Although the BEE Team officers now feel as though they are experts in the art of mead-making, they will not actually get to taste the mead they made on Sunday, since it takes up to three years to ferment properly.“The goal is for current freshmen to get to taste the mead that they bottled when they’re seniors. They get to have mead from the bees from that year when they joined the club,” Denzer said.After the event, I sat down with Denzer and Louisa Willis ’16, current copresident, to talk about the history, mission and day-to-day life of the BEE Team.The BEE team was founded in Fall 2009 by Michael Smith ’10 — affectionately called “Panamike” as he was originally from Panama — who, Denzer said, maintained his own hives back home. Upon his arrival at Princeton, Smith wanted to continue beekeeping and founded the club at the start of his senior year to do just that. Originally developed as a means for Smith to complete his senior thesis — which was, of course, about bees — the BEE Team has maintained the hives ever since and continued Panamike’s tradition of studying and loving bees.Neither Denzer nor Willis had done beekeeping before arriving at Princeton, but that didn’t stop them from falling in love with it.Both Denzer and Willis said their favorite part of being on the BEE Team is visiting the hives, which they do twice a month. The hives are located just past the boathouse, a 10-minute walk from Frist Campus Center. The BEE Team usually visits the hives on Saturdays or Sundays twice a month at 2 p.m. The trips last about an hour and a half and often consist of both regular members as well as new students and curious community members.Once they get there, they open up the hives and look for new “baby bees,” a sign that the queen is still alive and the bees are well. Then they might look through the frames and see bees at different life stages, or try to find the queen bee. Sometimes, they have to give the bees medication to prevent them from getting attacked by mites, a problem that has gotten worse over the last 15 years.“Throughout that whole process, [we’re] just telling them cool facts about bees,” Denzer said. “They’re all like little awesome robots that are doing the exact same thing.”“You approach the hive, and you can feel you’re there, because there’s a little vibration in the air because all their wings are flapping, and you can hear it,” Willis said.When they asked me if I would be interested in joining them, I expressed a little bit of concern about visiting a hive — I once got stung by a wasp on my eyelid when I was eight years old, and I still haven’t fully recovered from the experience. But both Denzer and Willis reassured me and said that no one, besides officers, had ever been stung. “It’s like the bees just know who will still love them,” Willis said.“I’ve only been stung twice here, but they were both because I was being stupid,” Willis said.The BEE Team usually uses the honey they collect for events they host — like the mead-making one last Sunday — and packages the rest to sell to community members. With that money, they buy new equipment.“The architecture department really loves our honey,” Denzer, an architecture concentrator, said.Denzer and Willis said that while they’re happy with the progress the BEE Team has made over the past four years, they still have high hopes for the future of the club — perhaps adding more hives, selling more honey or working with other student groups to inform the greater student community about bees.“It would be really awesome if everyone went to the hives once when they’re [at Princeton],” Willis said.
Let’s be real: You’ve always wanted someone to give you a shiny trophy for being funny. On March 1, Princeton’s very own Quipfire! Improv Comedy achieved that dream by placing second in the national College Improv Tournament, hosted by Chicago Improv Productions. Street spoke to group members Amy Solomon ’14, Adam Mastroianni ’14, Nick Luzarraga ’15 and Lauren Frost ’16 about their experiences at the tournament.
The musical genre of jazz embodies so many of the things that constitute a college environment. Jazz music draws from a deep tradition, while at the same time prompting innovation by recontextualizing certain intellectual and theoretical structures. At its core, jazz is social—relying on group dynamics and teamwork. It demands respect, dedication to the artistic process. Above all, jazz takes hours and hours of practice. In short, jazz encompasses academics, art, history, social interaction and a lot of work: Basically, a Princeton education in a nutshell.
Princetonians’ hearts should rejoice when they sing in praise of “Old Nassau,” according to the University’s centuries-old alma mater.
It happens to all of us. You meet someone, anyone —maybe by sitting in on a different section of one of your precepts or perhaps by bumping into someone while scooping ice cream in the servery. After introducing yourself, you enjoy a brief, but far too fleeting, conversation. For the next few weeks, you’ll smile in passing but soon even that minimal interaction fades.
At Princeton, students do pretty much everything — they write novels, record albums, create viral webpages and more. While some feats can be achieved individually, others require more experience or prohibitively expensive equipment. Filmmaking is one such activity. However, about 100 students have joined forces to expand the presence of film production on campus by forming a new club, Princeton Film Productions, to take advantage of their collective experience and University support.
Think Rubik’s cubes were buried in the 80s alongside neon legwarmers and mix tapes? Think again. The Cube lives on —both as a hobby and a competitive sport. This weekend, about 100 competitors from around the Northeast will flock to the University to compete in the fourth annual cube competition hosted by the Princeton Cube Club.
This Intersession, Princeton students had a third option beyond going home or staying on campus and hibernating for a week. The USG turned Intersession into Wintersession, offering 53 courses taught by a variety of instructors, including fellow students, graduate students, faculty and alumni, ranging from dance workshops to photography classes to introductory Esperanto. Over 1,300 undergraduate students enrolled, as well as over 100 graduate students. Beyond classes, the USG also planned social events, including a game night and a movie screening.
Although the Food Gallery at Frist Campus Center stays open late on Thursdays and Saturdays, selling the infamous pizza that has become a part of going out for so many students at the University, usually when we think of food in Princeton — a town filled with expensive restaurants and small specialty shops — pizza doesn’t come to mind.
Though established only two years ago, Advertise This is an exercise in successful self-promotion. It was born, in fact, on the floor of Dillon Gymnasium.
Since its establishment in 2004, Fuzzy Dice Improv Comedy has grown from a few friends doing shows in the residential colleges to an established troupe performing in packed venues before boisterous and enthusiastic audiences. Originally intended to bring long-form improvisational comedy to campus, Princeton’s self-declared “Most Attractive Improv Group” has since evolved to include short-form games as well. Perhaps most recognizable of these is the eponymous Fuzzy Dice game, a variation of a traditional improv game that involves four players scrambling and shuffling between different scenes at the ring of a bell. Indeed, Fuzzy Dice is no stranger to experimentation, and it often modifies classical improv to make it its own.
On Friday, Nov. 22, the atrium of the Frick Chemistry Laboratory will be transformed into the setting of an elegant dinner that is part of an age-old tradition. Unlike many other dinners (like the mysterious alumni conference whose perfectly level-floored tent took over Alexander Beach for three weeks), this event will be entirely student-organized, with a guest list that will be almost entirely students.
Within the first week of arriving on campus, students have been introduced to the concept of “arch sings” as a quintessentially “Princeton thing.” Many attend the longest song-fest they have ever experienced at Tiger’s Roar. Some may have even seen one a cappella group shoved around by Tina Fey in “Admission.” Unfortunately, aside from those select students who landed a room in Blair, many of us lose track of the goings-on of a cappella groups after the frenzied performances of Frosh Week. From gospel to beatboxing to good ol’ power ballads, Princeton a cappella does it all. But when? Where? How?
Defense courses for women have been around for a while — such courses even became the latest Hollywood exercise fad. But a lot of people on campus might not know about the Rape Aggression Defense System, or RAD, a program offered to women by Princeton’s own Department of Public Safety and co-sponsored by the Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education office.
Street sat down with Dean of the Faculty/computer science professor/amateur artist David Dobkin to chat aboutthe interplay between his mathematical background and his art, being self-trained within contemporary art and computer science communities, as well as the theme of creativity within both of these worlds. The Lewis Center for the Arts displayed his works of American Kitsch as an exhibition titled "Myself, I Think We Should Keep Collecting Titles," which closed last Friday.
One of the beautiful things about college is the copious amount of food available to students on a daily basis. But for those students with dietary restrictions and allergies, eating at Princeton can be rather challenging. I sat down with several students with different dietary restrictions to assess Princeton's ability to accommodate a diverse array of palates.
With 1,506 likes and counting, Humans of Princeton is making its presence known in the Facebook community just a few weeks after launching. Created to“serve as a tool to get a brief but impactful view on a range of people's lives as humans in this beautiful town,” the project is growing in popularity on campus. Scrolling through the page, one encounters photographs that tell stories of someone playing a ukulele in a hospital in Senegal or embracing the fluidity of life or expressing the desire to return to one’s own homeland.
