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MUDD This week, Street Editor LIN KING takes you behind the scenes of the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library.
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hen thinking of “historical Princeton,” it is often images of Nassau Hall and Blair Arch that come to mind — it is, certainly, not the brick-tiled, rectangular building lodged between the Engineering Quadrangle and the Friend Center that represents campus for most people. Yet within this unassuming exterior stands the Mudd Library, responsible for housing just about all of the University’s illustrious history. The Mudd Library was established in 1976 as the first building designed under Princeton’s energy conservation program. As part of Firestone Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections department, Mudd contains two lines of collections: the University archives and public policy papers from the 20th century. According to Sara Logue, assistant University archivist for public services, the library now has over 400 archives collections, including Princeton
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memorabilia, Board of Trustees minutes, Office of the President papers, historical photographs, all senior theses and all graduate dissertations. “A lot of times people like to do research on famous alum — [the thesis of] Ted Cruz [’92] is very popular right now,” Logue said. In addition, Mudd also houses student files for all alumni. While these files are unavailable for 75 years after the student’s graduation, due to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, they are open for request and viewing afterward. This makes the library a popular source for researchers both within and without the University looking into an individual’s history, as well as those researching their personal family history. “A lot of genealogical research is done using the student files,” Logue said. “It’s really like a treasure trove for people. If you think about it, your application is in there, and they’re great for just getting a sense of what [people] were like as a teenager, com-
ing into college.” She added that the library has about 2,000 patrons a year and over 3,000 email requests for files and photograph duplications. In recent years, one of Mudd Library’s most frequently received requests has been calls by recent graduates to see their own student files, including their applications and the Office of Admission’s comments. According to Yankia Ned ’17, a student employee at the library who worked as an assistant archivist there this past summer, there were approximately 20 requests per week over the vacation. Another sect of Mudd’s frequent visitors are seniors, who often make the trek there to view the theses of their predecessors for reference. “A lot of seniors come in in order to get an idea of what their advisers have advised on before and to see what the expectations are of a thesis,” Logue explained. “We’re doing more work to expand our libguides offerings — they’re ba-
sically guides that librarians make online that can lead you to more niche topics for research, so we made one for the senior theses,” Logue added. All libguides are available at libguides.princeton.edu. In addition, Mudd recently also hosted its first senior thesis open house to COUTESY OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES teach seniors how to access This floppy disk containing Toni Morrison’s personal typed the theses in copy of “Beloved” was recently digitized at Mudd Library. the collections. Being renowned for its collection who looked into primary sources of of senior theses also has its pitfalls, the eating clubs’ histories, as well according to Special Collections as- as a novelist who spent time in the sistant April Armstrong ’14. “People archives to research Princeton as the who do come here and know what we backdrop for her book. For students, are, they know us as the senior thesis requests to see materials can be made library, and while we do have all the online after registering once on the theses, there’s a lot more here.” Princeton University Libraries webAnd there is, indeed, much, much site. more. Ned, when she first began “It seems limiting, but it’s for the working at the library, was shocked protection of materials,” Logue said. by its sheer size. “It’s a very unassum- “We have things from 1746 and earing building, but it’s actually four lier, and we want the things from f loors,” she said. “There are three today to still be available hundreds floors full of closed stacks, and it’s of years into the future, so that’s why expansive. It’s anything you could we take such care.” ever want to learn about Princeton.” In the meantime, the library has For instance, over the summer, been working toward digitizing its Ned was asked to scan some corre- materials to be made available onspondence between President Wood- line. Currently, all Board of Trustees row Wilson, Class of 1879, and his minutes are available online; they wife, which she discovered to be love serve as useful overviews of the Uniletters, complete with pet names. versity’s activities and concerns at Meanwhile, one of her fellow student any given point in its history. employees worked on digitizing the “While we are making great strides John Foster Dulles in trying to get things digitized, papers. there are a lot of materials here — we “Closed stacks” have over 40,000 linear feet of matemeans that the li- rials,” Logue explained. brary’s materials The library also collects some are available to be “born-digital” materials, such as viewed in-house, all of University President Emerita in Mudd’s read- Shirley Tilghman’s emails during her ing room. Since term, which will be made public folthis is the case, lowing the time period dictated by many researchers FERPA law. Mudd Digital Archivist physically come Jarrett Drake also worked on extractto Princeton just ing files from professor emerita Toni to use the library’s Morrison’s f loppy discs, including resources. Logue a typed copy of “Beloved,” when her recalled projects papers were brought into Firestone. such as a researcher writing on dinCONTINUED ON S3 ing in universities
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CEZANNE AND THE MODERN INSIDE THE EXHIBIT CATHERINE WANG Contributor
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hen October arrives, the seemingly nondescript brick and glass building lying next to Prospect Garden will begin hosting exhibitions of works from the twisting paths of the Chinese Silk Road and 1,000 year-old illuminated manuscripts from the Persian Empire. But before we make the trip into the ancient past, the “Cézanne and the Modern” exhibition takes us on the beginnings of a journey into the modern art world, showing the works of the man who Picasso and Matisse called “the father of us all.” “Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection,” is an exhibition currently showing at the University Art Museum. It opened on Sept. 19 and will run until Jan. 3, 2016. According to museum Director
James Steward, the initial concept for this exhibition was “to make the [Pearlman] collection better known and to share it with four different museums in four separate countries … Work on the project began almost seven years ago, so it’s been a long time coming.” This exhibition serves more as a homecoming of sorts, as the collection has technically resided with the Art Museum since its original collector, Henry Pearlman, donated his collection to the University. For the past 18 months, the exhibition has been on the road, traveling to the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology at the University of Oxford in England, the Musée Granet in Aix-en-Provence, France (Paul Cézanne’s hometown), the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Ga., and finally the Vancouver Art Gallery in Canada.
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Vincent van Gogh’s “Tarascon Stagecoach” (1888) from the collection.
The return of this exhibition brings a unique experience for all the Art Museum visitors. Many of these pieces are so fragile that they spend much of their time in the dark for preservation. After January, “some of the collection will go back into storage, because the Cézanne watercolors for example, are so sensitive that they can only be exhibited once every ten years,” Steward explained. According to Steward, Pearlman was initially interested in exploring painter Chaïm Soutine’s artistic origins. That line of inquiry led him toward Cézanne, who himself had taken inspiration from fellow French painters Edgar Degas and Gustave Courbet. “There is kind of a threegeneration narrative in the exhibition that talks about the rise of the avant garde from the 1850s to the 1920s,” Stewart said. Cézanne, a French artist who lived in the time period during which avant garde was rising in prominence, is most notable for serving as the bridge between the popular 19th century Impressionist movement and the 20th century post-Impressionist explorative movement that would evolve into Cubism. His works serve as the centerpiece here. Landscapes and still lifes dominate, and all of Cézanne’s pieces retain the stylistic qualities of Impressionism featuring loose, small strokes combined with vibrant, pure colors layered on top of one another. The watercolor sketches, which are
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mostly composed of sheer pastel yellows and purples coloring paper on which pencil lines remain visible, are the highlights of the exhibition; examples of those on display include “House in Provence” and “Mont Sainte-Victoire.” As Steward said, “This is probably the best single collection of watercolors by Paul Cézanne under one roof anywhere.” When walking around the exhibition, however, it does not seem so much like “Cézanne and the Modern,” simply because while there are many Cézanne pieces in the exhibition, his works do not overpower the works of the other artists also represented. All of the works seem to balance out one another with their similarities and differences, flowing like a conversation between equals. This feeling the exhibition provokes is quite fitting, as the familiar names appearing on the walls alongside Cézanne’s are those of his contemporaries, such as Degas, Manet and Van Gogh, who are all wellknown names in the modern art world. In fact, two of the pieces which Steward cited as the most striking to him were pieces made by other artists, the Van Gogh painting of a stagecoach and the stone head by Modigliani. The painting “was the only time in [Van Gogh’s] whole career that he ever explored that subject matter, and it’s shockingly fresh as a work of art,” Steward said. As for the stone head by Modigliani, he added, “it’s towards the end of the exhibition, but it’s
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Paul Cézanne’s “Mont Sainte-Victoire” (1904-06), one of the exhibition’s centerpieces and the image shown in its promotional poster.
very mysterious and it appears almost ancient and modern at the same time … It doesn’t reveal its meaning easily.” With the depth of consideration and technique put into all of these pieces, it is easy to walk around the exhibition and simply stand and breathe in the pieces. This Cézanne exhibition is the biggest exhibition in the fall, and some University students may have seen glimpses of it if they went to the Nassau Street Sampler earlier in September. Choosing to open the exhibition on the first weekend after classes started was a purposeful decision that the
museum staff made. “One of my hopes for this Cézanne exhibition, is that because so many people do love Cézanne and this generation of artists … it will become a lure for visitors who maybe don’t know this museum already to discover this museum for the first time and hopefully, while they’re here, to discover the whole range of what we collect,” said Steward. “I hope it brings more tourists [and] students, and that it will help people realize that Princeton has, over the centuries, built one of the great art collections in the world.”
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Route S21 in San Diego County HARRISON BLACKMAN Assistant Street Editor
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The Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, designed by architect Louis Kahn.
‘Unfamiliar Street’ is a new column series in which we take you around the world and introduce you to a cool STREET far from the well-trod gravel of Prospect Avenue. s summer faded and the sup e r-bl o o d-m o o n emerged to haunt our dreams, we yearned for summer days, those times for lazy driving through surfobsessed towns, places where the distinction between waves and zen converge into one. Just imagine that kind of lifestyle, and then juxtapose it with the high-end, upper-crust flavor of Princeton and Lawrenceville, N.J., and then you’ll get something altogether unexpected but nonetheless enticing, idyllic, like the island of the preppy lotus. It all can be found along the roads that make up County Route S21 in San Diego County, Calif., where I ended up cruising for a couple days this past summer. The 25-mile S21 starts in San Diego around the I-5 and connects the coastal communities of La Jolla, Del Mar, Solana Beach, Encinitas, Carlsbad (the home of Legoland, thank you very much!) and Camp Pendleton. The road changes names, from Genesee Avenue, to Torrey Pines Road, to Camino Del Mar, and is even known by the legendary “Coast Highway 101” tag at points, but its magic does not change — in California the beaches are revered, but the road is worshipped. La Jolla stands out as a grand, high-end suburban metropolis among the coastal communities served by the S21. Stories differ on the origin of the name, either referring to the local caves or, better for marketing, “the jewel.” La Jolla is equipped with outdoor escalators, pricey retailers and cliffside bars reminiscent of the epic cliffside bars of the Greek island of Santorini. Off S21 in this stretch you
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CONTINUED FROM S1: INSIDE MUDD MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY To better share its many resources with the Princeton community, particularly the students, Mudd has made efforts to expand its online presence via social media. The library not only has two WordPress blogs but also Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr accounts. Armstrong, who is responsible for pioneering and managing much of the social media content, explained that each platform has a slightly different audience. The library blog is more traditional, with more in-depth written pieces, while the Reel Mudd blog has audiovisual materials, including a video of American Hall of Fame basketball player and former New Jersey senator Bill Bradley ’65 playing basketball while at Princeton. Meanwhile, Twitter is generally used for sharing with other libraries and special collections archives across the world, Facebook for connecting with alumni and Tumblr for current and prospective students. Armstrong runs various regular series on the different platforms: “This Week in Princeton,” with four things that occurred that week in the past; “Menu Mondays,” records of old menus from the University; “Tiger Tuesdays,” with pictures of tigers on campus throughout time; blog posts by staff and students on Wednesdays; and “Throwback Thursdays,” with a photograph or piece of memorabilia from the collections. Most recently, Mudd hosted the “#Princethen” campaign
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on Twitter in September, asking students and locals to tweet pictures of the current campus, which Armstrong would then match with an old image of the same site for comparison. The campaign was inspired by a similar one done at the University of Missouri last year. “I was hoping that by doing the campaign, we would get people to know more about the campus, but also get to know us,” Armstrong explained. “I just think that the history of a place is important to know. What was it like before? Who was here? Why did this get this way?” “One of the frustrating things about working at a place with so much material is, we have people who come through the doors and say, ‘What is this place?’ Part of it
is because we are nestled here in the sciences … although we were here first!” Armstrong said. In spite of its low-key status and the relatively long trek from central campus, Mudd Library does offer answers for just about any question one can ask about Princeton’s past. “I think it’s an underused resource for sure,” Ned said. “We go to such an old institution and … it’s good to actually go into the history and see everything behind it. So much research and knowledge can be gained from it — and not just the quote-unquote serious stuff; it can be fun things, like old P-rades and Pre-rades, a bunch of scrap books.” “Anything you want to know about Princeton is there. Everything is so old, it’s amazing,” she added.
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Carlsbad’s section of Route S21 features a main shopping thoroughfare.
can visit the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, one of the premier oceanographic research stations in the world, UC San Diego’s main campus and the famous Torrey Pines Golf Course, a mainstay stop of the PGA Tour. There’s also the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, a laboratory built in 1960 by legendary architect Louis Kahn. The Institute’s main courtyard resembles a classical temple built on a cliff, overlooking the sea — truly a modern temple dedicated to science and medicine. Further north on the S21 you’ll find the charming restaurants and surf shops of the San Diego coast, all lining up with alluring proximity to the Pacific and its beaches. Del Mar boasts a horse racetrack among its attractions (ref lective of the wealth and “sport-of-kings” mentality of the area), while Encinitas is known for its waves and solid surfing. It’s to the north, on the last section of S21 before it reconnects to the I-5, where I spent the most of my time, in the city of Carlsbad. A jogging path on the seawall that follows the S21
allows Carlsbad dwellers a picturesque fitness experience. I witnessed many an RV of high school cross country runners camping on the cliffs and running like fury in the mornings, training, no doubt, for a competitive season. Moreover, excellent dining and shopping abound in Carlsbad — from stylish boardshops and independent bookstores to alarmingly good sushi, Tex-Mex, breakfast food and the like, Carlsbad is for all intents and purposes Princeton on the water, sans college and homework. Mild weather and clear days abound. I think the S21 is Nassau Street’s distant, lengthier relative. Whereas Nassau first existed in colonial days as the “King’s Highway” to connect New York and Philly with a little religious college in the middle, S21 was established in 1968 to connect the seaside communities. A picturesque road on the other end of this great big continent of ours, County Route S21 is a street where dreams are made and waves come crashing in like small reminders of how beautiful this world can be.
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Yankia Ned ’17, who works at Mudd Library, was the first participant of its twitter campaign #Princethen.
ASK THE SEXPERT This week, we discuss safe sex. Dear Sexpert, I just met someone and I feel like we really click. We’ve been hooking up for the past couple of weeks, and even though our relationship is relatively new, I really like the person. We haven’t “done it” yet, but I think we will soon. The person’s a lot more experienced than I am and says that using the pill is enough for safe sex. I just want to make sure that I don’t get anything. What should I do?
— Apprehensive Dear Apprehensive,
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Del Mar, Calif., is home to Torrey Pines State Reserve, a state-protected park just north of La Jolla.
It’s great to hear that you’re conscious of your own sexual health and concerned, not only about the risk of pregnancy, but also the risk of sexually transmitted infections. There are many types of contraception available — but remember, not all reduce the risk of STIs. Birth control pills, shots, patches, intrauterine devices and a few others can be used only to prevent pregnancy and do not protect against STIs. The only methods of contraception that also protect against STIs are abstinence and condoms. Because some STIs some-
times have no symptoms, it’s hard to know how many students have an STI, but even at Princeton, there have been cases of almost every STI diagnosed. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the most common STIs for Americans ages 1524 are genital warts (human papillomavirus), chlamydia, trichomoniasis, gonorrhea and herpes, so it’s always a good thing to be proactive and safe! The most effective method to 100 percent prevent contracting an STI is abstinence. If you choose to engage in sexual activity, barrier methods like the external (male) and internal (female) condom are the only types of contraception that reduce the risk of both STIs and pregnancies — that is, if they are used properly. These barrier methods can be used for both penetrative and oral sex. That being said, communicating with your partner is also crucial, since anything regarding your sexual health is a two-way street. Talk to your partner about your feelings about sex and using contraception methods that prevent STIs (and pregnancy, if you are in a heterosexual relationship). If you take part in a monogamous relationship, and you both have tested negative for STIs, a barrier method is not as necessary for STI
prevention. You can get tested for STIs at Sexual Health and Wellness on the 1st f loor of McCosh Health Center. HIV testing is free and gonorrhea/ chlamydia testing is $14. On campus, you can get condoms free of charge from your residential college adviser, the LGBT Center, peer health advisers, and from University Health Services’ front desk. Consult with your personal doctor or a professional clinician at SHAW to figure out which method of contraception works for you! More information about sexual health and contraception can be found atbedsider.org or sexetc.org.
— The Sexpert
Information on STI prevention and birth control methods: http://bedsider.org/en/methods Helpful Q&A and information resource center for all things sex- and relationship-related: http://sexetc. org/sex-ed/info-center/stories/ Interested in Sexual Health? The Sexpert is always looking for members of the community to join the team of sexual health educators who, along with fact-checking from University health professionals, help write these columns. Email sexpert@ dailyprincetonian.com for more information and questions about sexual health. Don’t be shy!
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“No Experience Required”
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Auditioning for Raks Odalisque DANIELLE TAYLOR Staff Writer
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he last time I was in a formal dance studio was before I turned 13. It was my 10th and final year of dance lessons when I inevitably shifted into the musical world, playing bassoon in the pit orchestra with dancers onstage. Still, I like to think that I have a basic knowledge of dance. However, as I walked into the dance studio of Dillon Gymnasium, I reminded myself that belly dancing is very different from ballet. I had decided to audition for Raks Odalisque, the University’s only belly dancing troupe. I knew I was in the right place when I spotted some girls wearing gray tank tops saying “Shimmies.” After all the girls auditioning signed in, the Raks girls went around, starting with president Angela Wang ’16, and introduced themselves. I was delighted to see that all the girls in Raks had different shapes and body types, replacing the original idea of a belly dancer I had in my head. Wang is a former associate news editor for The Daily Princetonian. Next, it was finally time to learn the choreography for the audition. While artistic director Michelle Park ’16 taught the choreo step-by-step, other Raks girls walked around to assist us if we had any questions with the details of the individual movements. When first watching Park perform the choreo, I couldn’t help thinking: “How did she move her hips like that?” “Are they not connected to the rest of her body?” “Oh, THAT looks amazing,” and finally, “Hey,
she’s winding!” Now, although I have not had any experience belly dancing, because I am of Caribbean blood, I have had many experiences doing the Dutty Wine, or “winding.” From winding, I vaguely knew how to isolate my hips from other parts of my body, so somehow, I found all the moves taught at the audition understandable. Even when I did not know how to do a move at first, it was exciting to figure it out and see my body twist in new, cool ways in the mirror. After learning the choreography, those auditioning were given some time to go over the routine before performing it in groups of five. I loved this part of the audition because we got to bond over our inexperience with belly dancing through the process of learning the dance. We had practiced for a couple of minutes before it was time for us to audition in our groups. Mercifully, we got to
perform the dance twice in a row, and only the second time was recorded. I had a blast watching myself in the mirror, dancing and winding to the music. Belly dancing allows your body to move with the music, following the rhythm and the melodies exactly, while still allowing for some degree of artistic interpretation. Moreover, the different forms of belly dancing, including Egyptian and Turkish, have different styles that emphasize lyricism and accentuated, sharp movements, respectively. In this way, you can learn more about Egyp-
tian and Turkish cultures through belly dancing. All in all, I had an amazing time auditioning for Raks Odalisque. Although I didn’t get into the troupe, I loved every minute of the audition, and will definitely be back next year after taking belly dancing classes. This was an amazing and enjoyable time not only because of the welcoming nature of the girls, but also because there is truly no experience needed to audition and have a good time; the only things necessary are a willingness to smile, move your body and have fun.
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A screenshot of the welcome page of Piazza, the least photogenic website of all time.
slightly delayed — while everyone else is still doing “Hello world.” (As you can see, if there’s one thing I took away from my mercifully short experience with COS 126, it’s knowing when to smile grimly and ask, “N-body?”) 2. The “average response time” counter, which also tells you who answered what student question most recently, is a good way to keep tabs on when your instructors were last active on their computers — and by extension, when they last checked their emails and didn’t respond to that email you sent them. It’s the classroom equivalent of getting definitive proof that the person you messaged five days ago — who hasn’t viewed your message on Facebook but has posted multiple statuses and commented on even more photos — is ignoring you. 3. Not content to keep within just the arena of the classroom message board, Piazza has now made inroads into the industry of getting jobs for college students. They’ve clearly got a good read on the types of students who use their original product, because they post a lot of opportunities for tech roles. Which I’m sure is very helpful for the students who aren’t already getting their fill of of-
fers from the recruiters who descend on campus every fall to plug their companies at career fairs and info sessions. Did you say you’re only in this class because you need a QR, and you want to ultimately work in something other than tech (or i-banking)? Uh, sorry — Piazza Careers can’t help you there. 4. Real talk: Sometimes it’s nice to be able to post really, really, really dumb questions — and then select “Anonymous to everyone” from the dropdown list next to “Show my name as” and know that no one will ever know it was you who posted it. It’s the classroom equivalent of Yik Yak. Basically Piazza is the classroom equivalent of every form of social media ever. (We double dog dare you to post the poop emoji at spaced-out intervals throughout the day.) All in all, Piazza is a fine piece of technology. Next step: Getting humanities departments to adopt it. And then conduct seminars on it. Then, how much you’re able to contribute in class won’t be limited by how much you can get in before that kid who likes to interrupt people cuts you off, but rather by how fast you’re able to type. Which seems much more egalitarian. Technology: the great equalizer — are we right?
HEADLINERS AND HEADSHAKERS headlines you didn’t read this week DAILY PRINCETONIAN STAFF
President of South Africa Jacob Zu ma touts democracy in exclusive eating club 170 students offered sorority membership following rush, former U. President Tilghman plots her next move Neither News Nor Notes: Among top 20 schools, U. ranks first in war, first in peace and first in return on investment
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You’re not a future leader in “Physics for Future Leaders.” Class starts at 8:30 a.m.
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There are better ECs out there.
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IN DEFENSE OF PIAZZA are onto something. Piazza is a piece of … greatness. Here are just a few reasons we think it’s brilliant. 1. Want to know how far ahead of you your classmates are on the homework? Poke around the student questions on Piazza, and you will likely find out where at least one student is in their problem set/ exercises/assignment for the week. That is, you will find out that they started when you were still feverishly working on last week’s homework. Conversely, if you’d like to send your classmates into a cold sweat, all you have to do is casually post about how your planets are orbiting beautifully, but the only problem is the sound is
Reasons to still drop classes
You can just take five classes next semester instead.
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f, like me, you got through half of your Princeton career without ever posting to Piazza, I would hazard a guess that, like me, you are a humanities major who has been steadfastly ignoring her QR requirement. (It would be nice if the two seconds I was in COS 126 were enough to make that requirement go away, but alas, that’s not how Princeton rolls.) And you know what? Despite the fact that I start craving thin-crust every time a Piazza-generated email lands in my inbox (which is almost as often as I get emails from my college listserv), I think the professors of all these quantitative reasoning courses
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Neuroscience curriculum expresses concerns over neuroscience concentrators
LECTURE THE MULTISPECIES SALON PRESENTS: “SUBURBAN FORAGING: ACORN MUSH” Guyot 100 Acorn collecting at 10 a.m., lunch discussion at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday
Acorns are, believe it or not, embedded in cultural memory. This Thursday, join the Princeton Environmental Institute for an event that explores the culinary possibility of the acorn and its associations with the oppression of a people. The Pomo American Indians of Northern California consumed acorn mush, a dish that evokes “memories of massacres, forced marches, and internment.” The Multispecies Salon opens with an acorn gathering activity at 10 a.m., followed by a lunch discussion at 12:30 p.m., at which acorn mush will be sampled.
FILM PROF PICKS: “BOMBAY VELVET” Princeton Garden Theatre Thursday, 7:30 p.m.
The free student movies at Princeton’s Garden Theatre have generally skewed more popular blockbusters than foreign historical dramas. That’s about to change. For the inaugural Prof Picks (as in “picked by a professor”) film, history professor Gyan Prakash chose “Bombay Velvet,” an Indian period crime drama adapted from his book “Mumbai Fables.” The showing will be preceded by remarks from Prakash and director Anurag Kashyap.
EVENT PRINCETON EID UL ADHA BANQUET + BENEFIT FOR REFUGEES 2015 Fields Center Thursday, 7:30 p.m.
Who doesn’t love eating yummy food while also making small contributions toward making the world a better place? Eid ul Adha, also known as the Feast of Sacrifice, is the second-most important celebration for Muslims around the world, and the Muslim Students Association and MASJID will be commemorating the holiday with a banquet complete with poetry, art, henna and a photo booth. The suggested donation of $10 will benefit victims of the global refugee crisis.
READING: EMERGING WRITERS READING WITH SOPHIE MCMANUS Labyrinth Bookstore Friday, 6 p.m.
In 10 years, you’ll be able to say that you knew these writers before they hit it big: Emerging Writers is an annual series at Labyrinth featuring readings by established authors and the Princeton seniors selected every year to write creative writing theses. This year’s series is launching with Sophie McManus, first-time author of novel “The Unfortunates,” and creative writing certificate students Katharine Boyer ’16, Marta Cabral ’16, Isabel Henderson ’16 and Takim Williams ’16.