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(09/24/14 10:05pm)
If you walked into Dillon Gymnasium around 6 p.m. last Saturday, you probably saw a row of students sporting marathon-style bib numbers stapled to their shirts waiting to climb the stairs to the Group Fitness Room. Fifteen minutes later, the doors to the room opened, and the crowd began funneling in. Auditions for Más Flow, “Princeton’s premier Latin dance group,” had begun. Inside the room, the 30-odd people who had come to participate in the three-hour audition process were directed into orderly rows of five. Marc Anthony’s “Vivir Mi Vida” played over unseen speakers.
(05/29/14 6:59pm)
Summer is on its way, and with it comes all the glistening glory of sweat. In February, Street featured WICK, a fashion start-up created by Liz Lian ’15 and Sanibel Chai, a rising senior at the University of Pennsylvania. According to its website, the fashion line aims to offer women a “no stress black dress” and clothing that is “100% party-proof.” The creators hope to achieve this using performance, washable fabric and pieces that include zippered pockets, built-in bras and spandex shorts. 2014 Princeton Reunions marks the one-year anniversary of Wick’s founding, and Street caught up with the founders to see how far the company has come as it launches its Kickstarter campaign, dubbed “Wickstarter.”
(04/30/14 10:07pm)
As the academic year winds down and Princeton students gear up for summer internships, the different opportunities run the gamut. Some will head to Wall Street to join the wolf pack. Others will head west in search of startups, and others still will take their talents out of the good old US of A to pursue some international adventures. Summer opportunities take Princeton students across the map, but not all adventures require extensive travel. Some can be found right here in New Jersey at the Princeton-Blairstown Center.
(04/23/14 10:07pm)
At the intersection of University Place and Dickinson Street stands a taupe-colored house with shutters the color of clay. There are no signs to indicate that this house is any different from the other picturesque houses that line this stretch of the street, but in fact, it is the home of 2 Dickinson St. Co-op, Princeton’s only vegetarian food co-op.
(04/23/14 10:06pm)
From the most delicious iced cappuccino at Rome’s Giolitti to subpar cappuccinos at the campus café, the cappuccino will forever be linked to my time abroad in a small town in Italy. Most memorably, each morning, I’d stop by Urbino’s Café degli Amici on the way to class, where the same two baristas would smile at me and knowingly ask, “un cappuccino?” before whipping up the drink with impressive speed.
(04/23/14 10:05pm)
Hoagie Haven – Mac Daddy $6 half/11 whole
(04/16/14 10:08pm)
The day after former University President Shirley Tilghman was nominated for the presidency, a student came into her office, imploring her to consider the plight of the arts on campus. The series of discussions with student groups that followed helped lead to one of the largest campus expansions in the University’s history. While most are familiar with the temporary difficulties of construction — such as the maze of fences obscuring Forbes College and the relocation of the Dinky — the plans for the Arts and Transit Project are as necessary as they are ambitious. Not only does the Arts and Transit Project seek to bring Forbes into the campus community with an expansion of public student spaces, but it will also create a unified physical home for the Lewis Center of the Arts, whose programs are currently scattered across various buildings on campus.
(04/16/14 10:06pm)
April 25 will be a far cry from your typical Charter Friday.
(04/09/14 10:07pm)
In a corner of campus where gothic, colonial and modern architecture collide, a throwback to the Parthenon stands in a monumental, classical plaza. Though the majority of Princeton buildings conform to an overarching style of grand avenues and courtyards, Robertson Hall, home of the Wilson School, wasn’t designed to blend in. It was built to announce the University’s commitment to democracy and public service. While Robertson Hall’s self-importance clashes significantly with the complementary situation of the majority of campus buildings, in many ways it successfully fulfills its mission as a temple of democracy.
(04/02/14 10:08pm)
Question: What group is Princeton’s oldest, youngest and only coed hip-hop and R&B a cappella group?
(04/02/14 10:06pm)
Is that a Nyan Cat on the window? Wait, just kidding, it’s a Pokemon now. What’s that Titan doing there? Above all, what does it all mean? While Street can’t help you on the interpretation front (that is a personal decision only you can make), we can shed some light on the masterminds behind the famed display. Streetinterviewed Jan Cash ’14, Asumi Shibata ’14, Molly Carton ’14 and Vincent Castaneda ’14, four of the residents of 011 and 012 Spelman Halls, about their life in Spelman, their friendship and of course, their eye-catching window display.
(03/26/14 11:10pm)
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.
(03/26/14 11:09pm)
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.”
(03/05/14 11:12pm)
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.
(03/05/14 11:11pm)
“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.
(03/05/14 11:10pm)
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.
(02/26/14 11:35pm)
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.
(02/20/14 12:05am)
Princetonians’ hearts should rejoice when they sing in praise of “Old Nassau,” according to the University’s centuries-old alma mater.
(02/13/14 11:22pm)
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.
(02/13/14 11:20pm)
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.