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Alice McGuinness ’24 and Nathalie Verline ’24 win Sachs scholarships: Your Daily ‘Prince’ Briefing
1,193 sophomores, 80 percent of the Class of 2026, participated in this year’s Street Week, with 66 percent double-bickering. As in years past, Bicker and its merits were a source of contention among the student body. We asked our columnists to reflect on Street Week 2024 and Bicker, more generally.
On Feb. 15, Princeton University announced the 2024 recipients of the Sachs scholarship. Alice McGuinness ’24, a senior in the history department, received the David M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship, which enables recipients to study at Worcester College at the University of Oxford for two years. Nathalie Verlinde ’24, a senior in the molecular biology department, was awarded the Sachs Global Scholarship, which allows recipients to study at any foreign university or to pursue an independent program of study.
The Class of 2023 is one of the most memorable classes in Princeton men’s basketball history. Highlighted by Tosan Evbuomwan ’23, Ryan Langborg ’23, and Keeshawn Kellman ’23 — who led the Tigers to their first NCAA Sweet 16 appearance in the expanded tournament era — last year’s seniors are truly unforgettable.
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“To win in March, you have to lose in February,” wrote associate Sports editor Hayk Yengibaryan in our last edition of Staff Picks, before correctly predicting that the men’s basketball team would fall to the Yale Bulldogs on Feb. 2.
Editor's Note: Each week, Sports and Data editors analyze recent athletic competitions to provide analysis and insight on the happenings of Princeton athletics and individual players across the 38 intercollegiate teams at Princeton. Whether they are record-breaking or day-to-day, statistics deliver information in concise ways and help inform fans who might have missed the action. Read last week’s By the Numbers about indoor track and field success.
The add/drop period for the spring 2024 semester began on Jan. 22, one week before the start of the semester, and ended on Friday, Feb. 9, two weeks after the start of classes. In the 2022-2023 academic year, the University reported that 17 percent of classes offered during the academic year contained at least 30 students. This semester, after the add/drop period ended, 196 of the 1397 courses with at least one enrolled student, or 14 percent, had at least 30 students.
This past weekend, Princeton athletics faced both landmark successes and hard-fought defeats across the court, ice, and mats. As spring season sports commence and winter athletics playoffs approach, all Tigers are on the prowl for success. The Daily Princetonian recapped the performance of women’s tennis, men’s ice hockey, women’s track and field, men’s wrestling, and women’s golf.
Princeton employees have donated nearly $20,000 to help Rep. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) in his bid to unseat incumbent Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), who was federally indicted in September for accepting bribes, in this year’s contest for the Senate. Tammy Murphy, Kim’s main opponent, has no donations to her current campaign where Princeton is listed as the contributor’s employer.
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On a typical morning, Labyrinth Books opens its doors to patrons at 10 a.m. The morning of Tuesday, Feb. 13, the store’s opening was briefly disrupted by a demonstration inside the store. Around 20 people participated in the protest, including Labyrinth employees, Princeton students, and others who gathered for about ten minutes in the store to present a letter detailing complaints against the store’s management.
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When November 2024 election season rolls around, there will be two Princeton Council seats up for grabs. Both positions are currently uncontested.
In a world overflowing with challenges, from the existential threat of the climate crisis to growing economic inequality, innovation is a beacon of hope. But not all kinds of innovation contribute equally to human flourishing. As Princeton heads into the 21st century, it is crucial for us to discern between the transformative and the trivial: are we innovating for a better world, or just bigger profits?
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When Joe Haumacher was hired as pitching coach for the Princeton baseball team prior to the 2023 season, the program was in dire straits. The Tigers were coming off a season in which they went 7–33, finishing in the basement of the Ivy League. They also finished last in the league in both 2019 and 2020, with the 2021 season shelved due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For Princeton, Haumacher represented the centerpiece of a shifting philosophy under longtime head coach Scott Bradley. The baseball team would ride the wave of analytics revolutionizing baseball across the major leagues.