The sun sets later day by day in the southern hemisphere. By an unfortunate combination of Princeton’s academic calendar and the onset of COVID-19, I have lived through three consecutive autumn/winter cycles, so it’s a refreshing change of scenery to finally roll into summer. This also happens to be the first summer that I will spend on a gap year.
White Americans have participated in protests more than previous uprisings in response to police violence. In big cities and small towns across the nation, this movement has grown into perhaps the largest in U.S. history. Wellesley exemplifies this change.
It would be so satisfying to offer some kind of grand insight into the American people and all the places they inhabit, but my only conclusion is that America defies facile generalization.
Assistant Design Editor Harsimran Makkad ’22 reflects on her summer working with the non-profit, Give Like a Mother.
“To tell a story, I think, is to be a part of something bigger than yourself.”
Managing Editor Jon Ort ’21 grapples with the horrific crimes of Argentina’s military junta at ESMA, the regime’s largest torture and detention site.
Head News Editor Ivy Truong ’21 explores oft-overlooked corners of Philadelphia with newfound friends.
Associate Opinion Editor Rachel Kennedy ’21 investigates the intersections of artifice and aspiration that define Los Angeles.
Managing editor Samuel Aftel ’20 reflects on his heady experiences in Miami this summer, at once embracing and lamenting the impermanence of his stay.
As a marriage between the two colors, orange embodies the intensity of red and the levity of yellow. It is the essence of Princeton captured in a color.
