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(09/30/15 10:20pm)
When October arrives, the seemingly nondescript brick and glass building lying next to Prospect Garden will begin hosting exhibitions of works from the twisting paths of the Chinese Silk Road and 1,000 year-old illuminated manuscripts from the Persian Empire. But before we make the trip into the ancient past, the “Cézanne and the Modern” exhibition takes us on the beginnings of a journey into the modern art world, showing the works of the man who Picasso and Matisse called “the father of us all.”
(09/30/15 10:15pm)
In which we take you around the world and introduce you to a cool STREET far from the well-trod gravel of Prospect Avenue.
(09/30/15 10:10pm)
If, like me, you got through half of your Princeton career without ever posting to Piazza, I would hazard a guess that, like me, you are a humanities major who has been steadfastly ignoring her QR requirement. (It would be nice if the two seconds I was in COS 126 were enough to make that requirement go away, but alas, that’s not how Princeton rolls.)
(09/30/15 10:05pm)
The last time I was in a formal dance studio was before I turned 13. It was my 10th and final year of dance lessons when I inevitably shifted into the musical world, playing bassoon in the pit orchestra with dancers onstage. Still, I like to think that I have a basic knowledge of dance. However, as I walked into the dance studio of Dillon Gymnasium, I reminded myself that belly dancing is very different from ballet.
(09/30/15 10:00pm)
SO Percussion performance
(09/30/15 9:55pm)
1. Your classroom crush dropped.2. Assignment is due tomorrow.3. No P/D/F.4. “Stars for Stoners” is not actually for stoners.5. You’re not a future leader in “Physics for Future Leaders.”6. Class starts at 8:30 a.m.7. Class ends at 10:20 p.m.8. You can just take five classes next semester instead.9. There are better ECs out there.10. N-Body.
(09/30/15 9:50pm)
USG senate reviews fall budget, plans to screen “Ex Machina” at Garden Theatre indefinitely
(09/30/15 9:45pm)
Dear Sexpert,
(09/23/15 9:59pm)
Bear Altemus ’17
(09/23/15 9:57pm)
In May, I showed my summer reading list to a well-read friend of mine. She said, “Did you know that this” — pointing to “On Beauty” by Zadie Smith(2005) — “was based on this?” — pointing to “Howards End”by E.M. Forster(1910). I did not. What were the chances?
(09/23/15 9:53pm)
Dearest Class of 2019 — already, you’ve had the privilege of participating in one of the University’s youngest-lived traditions. And we’re not talking about bickering Campus Club ironically. You see, two years ago, Christopher Eisgruber ’83 suggested that the entire freshman class read a book of the administration’s choosing. Basically, it’s Eisgruber’s attempt at Oprah’s Book Club, in the vain hope of elevating the sales of would-be esoteric works to New York Times platinum status. Mercifully, Eisgruber has yet to select a constitutional law dictionary for the Pre-Read (something tells me it wouldn’t sell all that well.)In its inaugural year, Eisgruber selected Kwame Anthony Appiah’s “The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen” (no subliminal messaging here), and in the second year, dear Chris selected Susan Wolf’s “Meaning in Life and Why it Matters” (trust us, Princeton students could use some self-help.) And in the Pre-Read’s third year, Eisgruber picked from the back rack of the academic bookstore a slim volume called “Whistling Vivaldi” by Claude Steele.As an Outdoor Action leader, I was also assigned this book as summer reading, wedging it between my time reading “Great Expectations” and “The Martian.” I like reading books people give me for free — but when you’re a writing tutor and an editor, it doesn’t take much for critical, editing impulses to take over. The following is my measured, frustrated take on “Whistling Vivaldi.”You can’t judge a book by its title, but “Whistling Vivaldi” sounds like the title of a poem read by an English teacher at your kindergarten graduation, or alternatively, the name of an indie rock band from Providence, R.I.As for its cover, it’s like the graphic designer ripped off the polychrome circles on the cover of Gary Shteyngart’s “Super Sad True Love Story” — but using the aesthetic of iOS 8. It manages to be minimalist, busy and as disappointing as the Apple Watch’s sales — all at the same time.But let’s get to content. “Whistling Vivaldi” documents some truly groundbreaking research in social psychology that revolutionizes the understanding of stereotypes, racism and group dynamics. Its findings are eye-opening and offers intuitive explanations for some vexing questions that are supremely relevant to Princeton’s privileged campus.That is to say, “Whistling Vivaldi” would probably make one of the greatest Atlantic or New Republic articles of all time, but instead is one of the worst books of all time. This is ironic because if you’re A.B., you’re going to be reading a lot of bad articles and good books. Eisgruber is preparing you for the challenges of reading the poorly written works of academia, because you can definitely win the Nobel Prize without a working knowledge of sentences. And by striving to be in the same genre as pop psychology as sociology New Yorker wunderkind Malcolm Gladwell, Steele’s work is like watery box wine to Gladwell’s Argentine Malbec, with a hint of hickory and a sprinkle of quirkiness. Malcolm Gladwell is still alive, but if he was dead, he’d be doing triple-axels in his tomb.“Whistling Vivaldi” follows a predictable format that kept me turning the same page, back and forth, not getting anywhere. First, Steele invokes an engaging hook, say about the remarkable former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, followed by an experimental design involving a test group of guinea pig students at Steele’s university-at-the-time. These students are forced time and again to take awful standardized tests for no apparent reason, the only difference being the phrasing of the instructions at the very beginning — such masochism! This is followed by the astounding announcement that without any caveats, Steele’s hypothesis was completely correct, which really saps the narrative tension of the work. Will Macbeth retain the throne? Will Harry Potter defeat Voldemort? What are the technical advantages of a lightsaber with a hilt? Doesn’t matter, because Dr. Steele is always correct. Except for that one time when the statistical test wasn’t significant, but after changing a single parameter, Steele was right!By the end of “Vivaldi,” we are exhausted by its repetitive structure. We are tired of its iOS 8 cover, its strange title and its ambition to be featured in the list of products on the bottom of the Amazon page for Malcolm Gladwell’s “Outliers.” By striving to be so much at once, “Vivaldi” suffers from its own type of stereotype threat. It psychs itself out. It never reaches its full potential afforded by its research and its genre. For this meta-dedication to its subject, I think “Whistling Vivaldi” deserves more respect. Dr. Steele, you fooled us all — this was your plan the whole time.Besides, it’s only a matter of time before the New Republic article about how the carefully curated study of Princeton freshmen reading “Whistling Vivaldi” affected their performance on a selected portion of the GRE to be given during the administration of the meningitis B vaccine. The phrasing of instructions was variable.
(09/23/15 9:50pm)
Haruki Murakami is affectionately known as the warmhearted Japanese grandfather of hipster literature. His novels and short stories are filled with the literary fantastic, protagonists who find themselves unmoored in place and/or time, emotionally unattainable women and a hard-to-describe sense of displacement and perpetual melancholy. “1Q84,” his 1,000-page magnum opus, checks off all of these criteria. Aomame, a woman who glides through life simply and without much impact, and Tengo, an aspiring writer with familial issues, cross metaphysical paths when they both become embroiled in a cult-cum-religion-cum-mythology. Add in magic, assassinations, immaculate conception, the possibility of parallel universes, repressed childhood memories, suppressed romance and a Murakami trademark enigmatic teenaged girl, and you have the parts of the novel. But the whole is more than just a slapdash potpourri.
(09/23/15 9:48pm)
The Multispecies Salon presents: “Suburban Foraging: Acorn Mush”
(09/23/15 9:47pm)
Neither News Nor Notes: Cotsen Children’s Library named Carle Honors Award recipient, Firestone Library named the Gates of Hell
(09/23/15 9:46pm)
1. Autumnal equinox
(09/23/15 9:45pm)
Dear Sexpert,
(09/16/15 9:58pm)
Nate Ruess
(07/20/15 8:39am)
Like all small, insular societies, students at Princeton University have a particular vocabulary and word choice that can prove to be a difficult dialect for some. Every year, we provide an updated dictionary for incoming freshmen so that they can more easily understand what the heck we mean when we say "bicker," "dead week" or the type of aggressive species most naturalists typically label as "squirrels." Read on, dear freshmen. Be prepared.
(07/20/15 8:11am)
Princeton town has a classy but expensive array of dining fare. If you like eating out or just trying the local sustenance, and you don’t happen to be the son or daughter of a wealthy oil family, then this food guide is for you. Read on, dear frosh, and explore some of our favorite food places where a meal can be had for under $10, if you’re clever about it.
(05/29/15 1:05pm)
At the far end of Prospect Avenue, a complex of courtyards and modern architecture is rising from a historic site. The complex, the future Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, seeks to introduce a new wave of architecture to campus, while the center’s design focuses on sustainability to demonstrate the University’s commitment to environmentalinitiatives.