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Board of Trustees to Announce Decision on Woodrow Wilson Name Changes Tomorrow
Sunday, 03 April 2016
by Ally Markovich
The Board of Trustees has come to a decision on the use of Woodrow Wilson’s name on campus buildings and programs. The University will announce the decision tomorrow. Following a 33-hour sit-in President Eisgruber’s office in November, the Board of Trustees appointed the Wilson Legacy Review Committee “to consider Woodrow Wilson’s legacy at Princeton, and, more specifically,
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21 Questions with Princeton Tonight Host, Jordan Salama
Monday, 08 February 2016
by Ally Markovich
Jordan Salama is a freshman from Pelham, NY and the co-founder and host of Princeton Tonight, Princeton’s first student-run broadcast television series. Princeton Tonight’s first episode features a studio performance and interview with Mike DelGuidice, Billy Joel band member. You can watch it on February 27th at 8pm on cable TV (Channel 7 in Princeton)
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Wilson’s Hallways Weren’t Built to Prevent Riots
Thursday, 17 December 2015
by Ally Markovich
By Francesca Billington There’s a rumor trapped in the winding hallways of Wilson’s ugly and inconvenient dorms–those hallways were built to prevent riots during civil unrest in the 60’s. Recently, student protests to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from the residential college prompted us to straighten things out. The idea behind the rumor is that the
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There’s a ‘Magic Bus’ to Take You Home from the Street Tonight (and every night after that)
Thursday, 29 October 2015
by Ally Markovich
Something to think about when planning your Princetoween costume: you may be riding home in a well-lit, University sponsored bus. Tonight, Princeton’s UMatter initiative will inaugurate a late-night bus that will run every Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 12:30 to 3 A.M. It will pick up students waiting all along on Prospect (on the north
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Black Justice League Calls Out Woodrow Wilson
Friday, 09 October 2015
by Ally Markovich
One hundred years after Woodrow Wilson screened Birth of a Nation in the White House, Princeton’s Black Justice League projected it on the campus building that is his namesake. Wilson loved the film, which is a racist depiction of reconstruction in the American south, featuring the KKK and white actors in blackface. He was, after
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Live Blog: Chapel Gathering on University Tensions
Sunday, 12 April 2015
by Ally Markovich
President Eisgruber invited the student body in an email to a chapel gathering at 2 pm today. Dean Alison Boden sent a follow-up email, writing that, “The intention for the gathering is both to acknowledge frankly our divisions and to reaffirm, together, the University’s guiding values of respect, dignity, honesty, and compassion.” 1:30 – Around
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Literary Map of Princeton, Google Streetview Edition
Monday, 23 February 2015
by Ally Markovich
This decade-old, illustrated map of literary Princeton shows exactly where in Princeton famous authors and poets had lived at some point in their lives. For privacy reasons, the map doesn’t contain any drawings or addresses of the homes of authors who were living in town at the time. Current faculty were represented by campus buildings.
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Weekly Roundup Feb 15 – 22
Sunday, 22 February 2015
by Ally Markovich
The Weekly Roundup, Edition 2 Feb 15 – Feb 22 This week in Press Club… New York Times: At Princeton, Women Make Strides at Clubs That Once Barred Them – Spencer Parts “But this week, Tiger Inn made news of a different sort: For the first time since the university began admitting women in 1969, it elected
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What on Earth is a Sexual Misconduct Tour?
Tuesday, 20 January 2015
by Ally Markovich
One junior’s final project for VIS 417: Extraordinary Processes was more than just a bit unusual. After a few ambiguous emails advertising the Sexual Misconduct Tours in Frist, I was confused and intrigued enough to learn more. I joined Kasturi Shah’s final tour on Monday night at 9:40 p.m. to find out for myself what
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