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UPC Weekly Roundup: Midterms, Vertical Farming and Pittsburgh Vigil
Monday, 12 November 2018
by Ethan Sterenfeld
Weekly briefing: what we’ve been up to for the past few weeks Students Gather To Follow Midterm Election Results | Princeton Alumni Weekly Jimin Kang ’21 spent election night in Whig-Clio, asking students for their thoughts on the midterms and a student campaign to increase voting rates among students. Hopewell Elementary School Goes Hydroponic, Wins
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UPC weekly roundup: Darren Aronofsky, Rowing Special Olympics, Hopewell Valley Green Team
Monday, 09 April 2018
by Francesca Billington
Weekly briefing: what we’ve been up to in the past week Aronofsky Screens New Documentary Featuring Beauty of Our ‘Strange Rock’ by Ezra Austin | Princeton Alumni Weekly Ezra Austin ’19 talks with director Darren Aronofsky — best known for feature films such as Mother!, Black Swan, and Requiem for a Dream– about an advance screening of the
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UPC weekly roundup: Black Panthers, E.J. Dionne, Sarah Walzer ’82,
Monday, 12 March 2018
by Francesca Billington
Weekly briefing: what we’ve been up to in the past week Black Panthers Encourage Students to Continue Their Mission by Ellie Schwartz | Princeton Alumni Weekly “But when students asked the pair for advice, Sutton and Johnson said they couldn’t be specific on ways to organize because the world has changed so much. ‘Some
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UPC weekly roundup: Patrice Nganang, Michelle Alexander, and Student Protests
Monday, 05 March 2018
by Ezra Austin
Your weekly briefing: here’s what we’ve been writing Q&A with writer Patrice Nganang of Hopewell by Brillian Bao| Planet Princeton Brillian Bao ’20 interviews Patrice Nganang, a writer, teacher, and poet who was detained in Cameroon for 21 days on allegations that he threatened Cameroonian President Paul Biya. “Because my arrest was everywhere, people started
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UPC weekly roundup: armed officers patrol NJ school, interview with N. Korean defector, featured alumni
Sunday, 25 February 2018
by Francesca Billington
Your weekly briefing: Press Club’s activity over the past week Armed Officers Will Patrol New Jersey Town’s Schools | The New York Times Ethan Sterenfeld ’20 reports on changes in school safety after the recent school shooting in Florida. One New Jersey town has decided to station armed police officers at every school entrance. “It’s
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UPC weekly roundup: North Korean human rights, deer of Princeton, free speech controversy
Monday, 19 February 2018
by Somi Jun
Your Monday evening briefing: Press Club’s activity over the past week Times of Trenton, NJ.com Experts examine North Korean puzzle at Princeton human rights conference | Asian Correspondent Sophia Cai ‘21 reports on “The North Korean Puzzle: Putting the Pieces Together,” a conference organized by a Princeton student group advocating North Korean human rights.
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The Weekly Roundup April 6 – April 13
Monday, 13 April 2015
by Rebeccah Barger
In this week’s edition: Princeton Alumni Weekly – ACLU’s Romero ’87: Working Through Tough Civil Liberties Challenges Defines the U.S. – Tammy Tseng ’18 What defines us as a nation is our willingness to struggle through tough circumstances, said Anthony Romero ’87, director of the American Civil Liberties Union, during an Apr. 8 lecture at the Friend
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The Weekly Roundup March 20 – 31
Tuesday, 31 March 2015
by Spencer Parts
In this week’s edition: Liberty U. students forced to attend Cruz announcement… NBA Commish talks race and activism… historic Pton Women’s Basketball… the football team goes to Japan Washington Post – Liberty University students say they were required to attend Ted Cruz speech – Ally Markovich ’17 Ted Cruz announced his presidential campaign to 11,000 students
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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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Sound, Fury as James Franco Visits Campus
Tuesday, 25 March 2014
by Matthew Silberman
James Franco, the actor and director known for roles in the Spider-Man trilogy and the TV show Freaks and Geeks, visited campus Monday. Along with 40 or 50 cast and crew members, Franco filmed key scenes from The Sound and Fury, an adaptation of William Faulkner’s 1929 novel in which Franco directs and stars. Franco spent most of
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Week In Review: By the Numbers Edition (August 7-13)
Monday, 13 August 2012
by Lauren Zumbach
The Olympics are now over, but one more Tiger managed to take home a medal: Diana Matheson ’08, who scored Canada’s only goal in the bronze medal women’s soccer match against France for a 1-0 shutout win. That means Princeton had seven medalists, which, as @PrincetonBetch points out, beats the country that invented the Olympics.
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Alumpics, college rankings, Diana Matheson, Forbes, gmail, Newsweek, Olympics, US News and World Report, Week in Review
Week in Review: Tigers vs. Ralph Lauren Crew (July 30-August 6)
Monday, 06 August 2012
by Abby Klionsky
This week has been a big one for Tiger athletes, least of all because of some impostor-Princeton rowers hitting the boats at Lake Carnegie. The much-anticipated Ralph Lauren fall collection photoshoot, which took place on campus in early May, is finally online, so if you’re missing the Dinky or Blair Arch or the courtyard outside
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Cecilia Rouse, crew, Donn Cabral, Endowment, Fencing, gold medal, Nike, Olympics, orientation, Ralph DeNunzio, ralph lauren, Susannah Scanlan, Women's Soccer, woody woo