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Unfamiliar Street: Richter Farm Road in Germantown, Maryland

Unfamiliar Street: Richter Farm Road in Germantown, Maryland

Catherine Wang

“Unfamiliar Street” is a travel series in which we introduce you to streets from all around the world, far from the well-trod gravel of Prospect Avenue.For ten years after school ended, regardless of heat, rain or snow, I would make the same seven-minute walk home.

FEATURES | 02/17/2016

"The Vagina Monologues" showcases female experience

Angela Wang

“The vagina becomes a site for women’s empowerment and individuality among women,” Olivia Robbins ’16 said, in reference to the play she is co-directing with Azza Cohen ’16, Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues.”Ensler, the play’s author, interviewed over 200 women about the female experience and compiled them into her 1996 play.

FEATURES | 02/03/2016

Q&A with Matthew Romer ’18, Print Leader from Princeton 3D Printing

Harrison Blackman

Princeton 3D Printing is a student organization that aims to make 3D printing technology available to the Princeton community.

FEATURES | 12/16/2015

Magic School Trips: ART 367 in Peru

Andie Ayala

Most travel bucket lists might be considered incomplete if they neglect to include Peru’s Machu Picchu and the ancient Incan capital of Cusco, but if these places are on your list, here’s your chance!

FEATURES | 12/02/2015

Magic School Trips: LAT 333 in Italy

Danielle Taylor

While most students may see Latin as a dead language, one course this spring is bringing it back to life by immersing students in Roman terrain.

FEATURES | 12/02/2015

Magic School Trips: ART 466 in Havana

Angela Wang

President Barack Obama announced the restoration of diplomatic relations with Cuba last December, but if you’d like to visit Cuba before the embargo potentially ends, then take ART 466: Havana: Architecture, Literature and the Arts.

FEATURES | 12/02/2015

Magic School Trips: SPA 327 in Puerto Rico

Danielle Taylor

Unlike many of the other trip-based classes offered next semester, SPA 327: Latino Global Cities isn’t going abroad, but to another corner of the United States: Puerto Rico.

FEATURES | 12/02/2015

Q&A with author, veteran and Hodder Fellow Phil Klay

Angela Wang

Phil Klay is a veteran of the Iraq War, having served as an officer in the Marine Corps.

FEATURES | 11/18/2015

SPEAR pursues prison and education reform

Catherine Wang

For 23 hours between Oct. 22 and 23, many students crowded curiously around the outside of Frist Campus Center, watching a University student sit motionless and alone inside of a 7x9 foot box.

FEATURES | 11/18/2015

SOC 250, The Western Way of War: Conflict and society through the centuries

Victoria Scott and Harrison Blackman

Sociology professor Miguel Centeno’s course, SOC 250: The Western Way of War, is an iconic course on campus.

FEATURES | 11/11/2015

Breakout: More than short-term community service

Danielle Taylor

Although community service is often associated with direct volunteer-based service, Breakout Princeton is a Pace Center for Civic Engagement program offering an alternative break that allows students to engage in issues through service learning, a hybrid of community service and learning from policy stakeholders.

FEATURES | 10/21/2015

How you met your roommate: Room assignment at Princeton

Catherine Wang

At first glance, Anna Leader ’18 and Alexandra Mendelsohn ’18 might seem like practically the same person.

FEATURES | 10/07/2015

Q&A: Gyan Prakash, History Professor and screenwriter of "Bombay Velvet"

Victoria Scott

Last week, “Bombay Velvet” showed at Princeton Garden Theatre as a Prof Picks movie.

FEATURES | 10/07/2015

PUP’s ‘The Fantasticks’ revamps nostalgic classic with nuanced twists

PUP’s ‘The Fantasticks’ revamps nostalgic classic with nuanced twists

Lin King

A musical that reimagines romantic tropes as age-old as Pyramus and Thisbe with the music of the 1960s and runs almost uninterruptedly for over 50 years is, quite literally, timeless.

FEATURES | 05/29/2015

Theatre Intime’s ‘How the Other Half Loves’ showcases class divisions through set design

Theatre Intime’s ‘How the Other Half Loves’ showcases class divisions through set design

Harrison Blackman

In Theatre Intime’s production of Alan Ayckbourn’s 1969 play “How the Other Half Loves,” the stage is literally divided in two halves. “One half [of the set] is painted blue and gray; it’s got nice molding, nice wainscoting, nice furniture and it’s supposed to be for the wealthier family in this play,” production manager Rachel Xu ’17 said.

FEATURES | 05/29/2015

Funny People: Quipfire!

Danielle Taylor

Founded in November 1992, Quipfire!, Princeton'soldest improv comedy group, has developed its particular style of improv over the past two decades. “They started off predominately doing short-form improv,” artistic director Jake Robertson ’15 said.

FEATURES | 04/01/2015

Student Cultural Groups: Princeton Latinos y Amigos

Jennifer Shyue

In some ways, Princeton Latinos y Amigos can trace its roots back to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Acción Puertorriqueña, the group she co-chaired while a student at the University.

FEATURES | 02/18/2015

Student Cultural Groups: Pehchaan

Jennifer Shyue

“Pehchaan” means “identity” in Urdu, and an on-campus sense of Pakistani and Pakistani-American identity is precisely what the student group Pehchaan seeks to build. “Pehchaan represents Pakistani and Pakistani-American students on campus,” treasurer Haider Abbas ’17 said.

FEATURES | 02/18/2015

Black History Month: Misty Copeland

Joy Dartey

Last summer, African American ballet dancer Misty Copeland starred in an Under Armour commercial that stunned the athletic clothing industry.

FEATURES | 02/11/2015

Q&A: The Princeton Footnotes

Sheon Han

The Princeton Footnotes are one of Princeton’s four all-male a cappella groups.

FEATURES | 02/11/2015

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