Daily Newsletter: December 6, 2022
(12/06/22 10:03pm)
Professor Imani Perry honored with National Book Award for nonfiction; Town Council hears community thoughts on master plans
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Professor Imani Perry honored with National Book Award for nonfiction; Town Council hears community thoughts on master plans
Spring of 2022 was a semester of loosening restrictions: The University-wide mask mandate was lifted and classes were held in person. As the semester kicked off, students “signed a petition requesting remote options for teaching and learning throughout the full spring semester.”
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Saskia Vogel, a translator in residence at Princeton for the fall of 2022, is a writer, screenwriter, and translator from Swedish and German into English. In 2021, she received an English PEN Translates Award and her novel “Girls Lost” was a PEN America Literary Award Finalist. Her debut novel, “Permission,” was published in five languages and longlisted for the Believer Award. She’s currently translating Linnea Axelsson’s epic poem “Ædnan,” which explores Sámi history as experienced by two Sámi families. The Sámi are an indigenous group recognized as one of Sweden’s official national minorities.
Making art is one of the earliest memories for Omar Farah ’23. They were raised by a mother with a talent for painting and drawing, and their childhood home’s basement was an art studio. This early exposure to artistic practice quickly proved itself to be quite influential: Farah remembers filling their sketchbook with fashion designs and forcing their younger sisters to star in their feature-length home movies from an early age. For them, practicing and engaging with art was never a question.
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“We’re not hip-hop, we’re not anything,” Stage Manager Etiosa Omeike ’24 told the audience before the show started. “We’re African.”
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The Princeton women’s ice hockey team (5–6–1, 3–5–0 ECAC) had a busy weekend, competing in two conference games. On Friday, Dec. 2, the Tigers won against the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (4–13–1, 0–6–1) by a score of 5–1, but on Saturday, Dec. 3, they lost against Union (8–6–1, 3–3–1), 4–1.
An analysis of campus crime data for the past seven years by The Daily Princetonian revealed that a plurality of campus crimes occur in the Frist Campus Center. Petty theft is the most common incident on campus followed by harassment.
In 2020, many businesses, particularly restaurants, were closing or struggling to stay afloat due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite this, Aliia Ulukbek took a risk and opened a small pastry shop on Spring Street in Princeton. Ulukbek remembers how fellow business owners thought she was “crazy to open [a restaurant] during this time.”
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On Nov. 16, Professor Imani Perry of the Department of African American Studies received the National Book Award for Nonfiction, honoring “South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation.”
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