With candles, choreography, and colorful strip lights, a student-led spin class gets a community active
“You can do anything for 30 seconds!”
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“You can do anything for 30 seconds!”
There was nothing particularly unusual about Bridgette vonHoldt receiving an email from a man in Texas with pictures of strange-looking, reddish-hued coyotes.
While searching the archives of Mudd Library, Professor of History Alison Isenberg found a “beautiful, hand-created” photo album. The work inside, captured by documentary photographer Sol Libsohn, highlights a key moment in the University’s contentious history surrounding racial integration: the 1964 Princeton Summer Studies Program (PSSP). The program invited 40 public high school students — 30 of whom were Black — to reside on campus and attend classes at the University.
Princeton’s student-led dance community boasts more than 15 ensembles, each with unique styles, traditions, and requirements. These groups are known for their professional caliber performances and near-professional time commitments.
It takes a village to raise a child, and it takes several thousand employees to educate and care for Princeton undergraduate students once they begin their University careers.
Behind every great figure is a museum to preserve their legacy. The Elvis Presley Museum in Memphis. The Thomas Edison Center in North Jersey. The Albert Einstein Museum in Princeton. Well, not exactly.
On Jan. 13, 1947, an article ran on the front page of The Daily Princetonian entitled “Einstein Attends First Campus Jewish Service.” It described a Friday night of “discussions” led by Professor Albert Einstein — “the first opportunity for students of the Hebrew faith to worship on Campus.”
In June 2020, after months of doctors appointments and medical testing, Jennifer Lee ’23 was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. Although she had many of the typical symptoms of the condition, Lee said her doctors at first hesitated to consider Crohn’s because of its rarity among Asian Americans.
From weekend parties to meals in dining halls to extracurricular opportunities, Princeton undergraduates have many resources to turn to when they want to meet new people or spend time with familiar faces. Indeed, the close-knit undergraduate experience is often listed as one of the draws of the University to prospective applicants, particularly the statistic that 98 percent of undergraduates live on campus.
“I’ve been wanting to perform ever since I could open my mouth,” said Sam Spector ’24.
Adorned in flamboyant plaid orange and black suits and topped with their characteristic boaters, the Princeton University Band is not hard to spot on Princeton’s campus. Whether they are storming the athletic fields, clustered in a dining hall, or performing their traditional song set across campus on Dean’s Date Eve, the Band pops up everywhere.
In the early hours of Nov. 7, 2021, Ellen Su ’23 walked up to Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. Music blared in the background, announcers yelled encouragement into microphones. Su remembers taking in those final moments before her run, realizing she was a member of a community of runners all focused on the same goal. Then, to the tune of Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York,” the race began.
For University community members participating in a weekly COVID-19 testing protocol this semester, scrolling through the log of “not detected” results on the testing website is a familiar, even comforting, experience.
More elephants in Mozambique are being born without tusks. An ocean and thousands of miles away, researchers at Princeton wanted to understand why.
Before explaining the history of Louise Nevelson’s “Atmosphere and Environment X,” molecular biology graduate student Robbie LeDesma began his tour of the University’s campus art with a question: “What do you notice?”
On any given Saturday night, if a student wanders into the former taproom of Campus Club — now inhabited by the student-run Coffee Club — they can expect to be greeted by anything from a singer-songwriter jam session to a recycled cardboard crafting night.
“It is a truism that all Ivy League students experience imposter syndrome at some point,” says the description for “Overcoming Imposter Syndrome,” an event hosted by Princeton University Health Services in March 2019.
Before Camryn Stafford ’23 was the assistant artistic director of diSiac Dance Company, a member of Princeton University Ballet, founder of the non-profit Turning Tables project, and an African American Studies concentrator, she was a high school student attending a performing arts school in Dallas, Texas. She studied alongside other dancers, tackling a rigorous performance environment while simultaneously excelling in her academic studies.
Republicans picked up 15 new state legislative seats this year across New Jersey and Virginia. Democrats? Just one. Senator-elect Andrew Zwicker, Ph.D.
Today, the Garden Theatre is known as a community gem, a town cultural hub, and an oasis for the weary Princeton student. The theatre has kept its doors open for the past century thanks to the resolve of community members who kept it afloat through various ups and downs — most recently, the COVID-19 pandemic.