Community Without Campus

November 2020: Community without campus

This issue, gives rise to an important question: Does sustaining community require that we share a common campus? The answer, the pieces collected here suggest, is a resounding no. Click to read the full November issue.

This issue, gives rise to an important question: Does sustaining community require that we share a common campus? The answer, the pieces collected here suggest, is a resounding no. Click to read the full issue.

Newsletter: Community without campus

Originally published on December 6

Originally published on December 6

Letter from the Editor: Sustaining (campus) community

Community endures, even when we’re far from Princeton.

As COVID-19 upends Ivy League play, men’s soccer head coach Jim Barlow focuses ‘on the things we can control’

We talk with Jim Barlow, in his 24th year as head coach of the Princeton men’s soccer program.

A new Street: a suggestion for expanding the Carl A. Fields Center

With esteemed alumna Mellody Hobson ’91 giving the University a major gift, there will be a new residential college built where First College (formerly known as Wilson College) stands. The next steps to this process, however, should include changes that affect the dynamics of the University on both a micro and macro level. One step that can be taken from here is to focus on creating more spaces on campus that highlight diversity.

‘Talking to myself in my basement’: First-years share stories of making friends online

In a virtual semester, first-year students have had to get creative to make friends. Some jumped in headfirst and lived with people they’d never met before, some visited Princeton, and all are striving to recreate campus. 

When sport meets silence: the unraveling of collegiate athletics

During this time, coaches and athletes are especially in need of reassurance and guidance, yet the administration seems reluctant to offer a single word as to what we can expect in the spring, or even an inclination that they are attempting to find creative solutions to address the challenges we face. 

More than just a time difference: Reflections of an international student

Yes, we are international: that’s the label that we’re given for coming from opposite ends of the world. But before that, we’re simply students. Our passports might say South Korea, Brazil, or Kenya, but we all, including American students, applied to Princeton and rejoiced when we got in. We went through the same standardized exams and teenage melodrama, and still struggle through the same problem sets and cry through our papers. We are no different, and we deserve to be prioritized in the same way that students are. 

‘Deep in this voting thing’: Princeton athletes reflect on how they prepared for Election Day

The Daily Princetonian asked representatives from six different varsity teams about their team and personal involvement with voting initiatives this election season.

Eating clubs to hold virtual Bicker, Street Week in 2021

Street Week will take place virtually from Jan. 31 to Feb. 13, 2021, according to InterClub Council (ICC) president Karthik Ramesh ’21.

Outdoor Distractions

USG hosts $80,000 virtual Lawnparties with headliner Jason Derulo

Viewership for the virtual event averaged around 400 at any given point in time, peaking at around 500 near the end of Derulo’s act.  

Viewership for the virtual event averaged around 400 at any given point in time, peaking at around 500 near the end of Derulo’s act.  

‘A wake up call’: Princeton students recall the wildfires that seared California

As the fires begin to cool, The Daily Princetonian caught up with students living in California about their wildfire experiences, the intersection between pandemic and climate disaster, and what comes next. 

The Poll Hero Project: Princeton students bring Gen Z to the polls

A pandemic-stricken election has left states without enough personnel to facilitate poll sites. Eleven Princeton students are tackling this problem head-on.

Research Presentation

Zoom backgrounds and creativity collide in this year’s production of ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’

Every year, PUP and Theatre Intime put on a shadow cast performance of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”, where actors pantomime the actions of characters as the movie is projected onto a screen behind them. This year’s performance will take place entirely over Zoom. Cast members and the production team reflect on their experiences.

CAPTION CONTEST | Abigail Litvak

Songline virtual Newbie Arch: A new way to ‘slam’

Songline Slam Poetry held a virtual “Newbie Arch” on Friday, Oct. 16, featuring five new members.

You are not entitled to ‘civility’

Some ideas are not worth discussing; the basic and fully answered question of whether or not racism is real is a distraction from talking about how to handle its innumerable impacts.

When we come back

The Princeton many left, the Princeton many first-years never met, may be shadowed by health measures that leave us aching for our college experience. But in that slow and careful crawl back to normalcy, we might find comfort in people and places we have forgotten.