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Anti-Racist Reading Review: Between the World and Me

“The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests,” he says. “The library was open, unending, free.” Graphic by Harsimran Makkad / Daily Princetonian

Anti-Racist Reading Review: Between the World and Me

Alex Gjaja

In the first installment of The Prospect's Anti-Racist Reading Reviews, Alex Gjaja reads Ta-Nehisi Coates’s profound work Between the World and Me in the context of 2020, reflecting on the visceral violence of racism and the lessons Coates's text offers to universities and university students.

July 30

How the eating clubs went coed

Harsimran Makkad / The Daily Princetonian

How the eating clubs went coed

Evelyn Doskoch and Alex Gjaja

Thirty years since the NJ Supreme Court ruled against Princeton’s last all-male eating clubs, The Daily Princetonian takes a look back at the decade-long fight for equality on the Street.

July 13

Pandemic perspectives: Elizabeth Bogan and Alan Blinder ’67

Senior economics lecturer Elizabeth Bogan (left) and Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs Alan Blinder (right).
Courtesy of Elizabeth Bogan; Courtesy of Princeton Office of Communications.

Pandemic perspectives: Elizabeth Bogan and Alan Blinder ’67

Alex Gjaja

In this series, The Daily Princetonian sits down with University professors who study the same discipline but whose views on coronavirus diverge. We began by speaking separately with senior economics lecturer Elizabeth Bogan and professor of economics and public affairs Alan Blinder.

April 15

‘The end of the world’: how students said goodbye to campus

Henry courtyard, one day after news of evacuation broke.
Photo Credit: Mark Dodici / The Daily Princetonian

‘The end of the world’: how students said goodbye to campus

Alex Gjaja

To walk through campus two weekends ago meant coming face to face with the mark of college students forced out in a hurry — and determined to make the most of their last few days.

March 23

On defense, handshakes, and bleeding orange: Carla Berube

Head women’s basketball coach Carla Berube.
Photo courtesy of Tufts University.

On defense, handshakes, and bleeding orange: Carla Berube

Alex Gjaja

New women’s basketball head coach Carla Berube has racked up a considerable — if clunky — list of accolades. She isn’t happy yet. “I think,” she said, “that I’m a work in progress.”

February 14

‘Building Monsters’: Football, food, and fitness at Princeton

The football team will face a radically altered season.
Jack Graham / The Daily Princetonian

‘Building Monsters’: Football, food, and fitness at Princeton

Alex Gjaja

On Princeton’s biggest eaters sweatshirts, sweatpants, backpacks, and hats are emblazoned two words: Princeton Football. Football players commit themselves to the team’s grueling practice and game schedule; they are expected as well to change their bodies for the good of the game. How do Princeton’s football players manage to pack on the pounds without sacrificing the fitness and dexterity that allowed them to play at the University in the first place?

November 21

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Anti-Racist Reading Review: Between the World and Me

Anti-Racist Reading Review: Between the World and Me

How the eating clubs went coed

How the eating clubs went coed

Pandemic perspectives: Elizabeth Bogan and Alan Blinder ’67

Pandemic perspectives: Elizabeth Bogan and Alan Blinder ’67

‘The end of the world’: how students said goodbye to campus

‘The end of the world’: how students said goodbye to campus

On defense, handshakes, and bleeding orange: Carla Berube

On defense, handshakes, and bleeding orange: Carla Berube

‘Building Monsters’: Football, food, and fitness at Princeton

‘Building Monsters’: Football, food, and fitness at Princeton

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