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Professor couples at Princeton Harriet Flower & Michael Flower JENNIFER SHYUE COURTESY OF PROFESSOR HARRIET FLOWER
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n harriet dealtry’s second day at Oxford University, she was at a cocktail party when Michael Flower, a graduate student in her department, arrived and caused a small commotion. “I noticed him because everyone was saying, ‘You weren’t invited! Why are you here?’ ” she recalled during a recent joint interview. “I guess when we met at the cocktail party, you were also struck because I was wearing a red plaid shirt. It was a very sort of un-English thing to wear,” he added. “So maybe the outlandish piece of clothing is what gets the girl!” That Dealtry noticed Flower at all was remarkable. She was part of the inaugural class of women at Oxford. In that first year, she was one of 29 women on a campus with over 450 men. Harriet Dealtry is now Harriet Flower,
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professor of classics and master of Mathey College. Michael Flower, her husband, is also a classics professor. After hitting it off at the cocktail party, they began dating and stayed together even after Michael Flower left England to begin working toward his Ph.D. at Brown. At times, the distance made maintaining the relationship a challenge. “Before Skype, before email, it was letters. It was the occasional telephone call, which was expensive,” Michael Flower said. “It’s a very different experience.” He later added, “I think a lot of our friends thought that we would eventually probably not stay together because of the distance, those two years, and the difficulties of bridging that.” The couple did stay together, however, and they were married at Oxford once Harriet Flower completed her B.A. In fact, Michael Flower recalled, his wife was organizing the wedding while studying for her
final exams at Oxford. After Harriet Flower received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, the couple began job-sharing at Franklin & Marshall College, dividing between them the responsibilities of Michael Flower’s existing position at the school. Harriet Flower, who specializes in Greek history, began teaching the Greek history courses that her husband had previously taught, while Michael Flower continued teaching the courses in Roman history, which is his area of expertise. They were one of the first couples at Franklin & Marshall to job-share, though Harriet Flower noted that now professors who are not married sometimes job-share in order to spend more time at home. Some of their colleagues questioned their choice, but for the Flowers, balancing their academic duties and the job of raising a family has always been a priority.
“It was always trading off,” Harriet Flower said. “Our kids didn’t go to daycare until they were 18 months old; we didn’t even have nannies. We just kept switching off.” Their older daughter, who was a sophomore in Mathey College when Harriet Flower first became master, graduated from the University last spring. Their younger daughter is currently studying at Bard College. Though the Flowers have never officially collaborated on a project, they read each other’s work and enjoy bouncing their ideas off of one another. As Michael Flower put it, “One of our friends said to me, ‘You’re so fortunate because when you’re at home over the dinner table, you can discuss ancient history with someone!’” “I think it’s really worked out,” Harriet Flower said. “We love having a relationship that has so many different facets to it and where we can share everything.”
Adele Goldberg & Ali Yazdani GRACE LIN Senior Writer
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n the surface, University professors Adele Goldberg and Ali Yazdani seem like an unlikely pair. Goldberg, a professor of linguistics, spends most of her time upcampus in Green Hall, the home of the psychology department. Her husband, Yazdani, can usually be found a long way down Washington Road in Jadwin Hall with the rest of the physics department. Goldberg and Yazdani’s relationship is the story of two worlds collided. The professors met at the University of California at Berkeley, when Goldberg was a first-year doctoral student focusing on linguistics and Yazdani was in his last year studying physics as an undergraduate student. Although they faced their first minor bout of physical separation when Yazdani began his doctoral program at Stanford, they managed to keep their relationship strong. “The advice we give other couples is always to get the best training you can early on, even if you have to live apart for a
while,” Goldberg said. After receiving Ph.Ds in their respective fields, Goldberg and Yazdani were separated again, this time moving farther apart than just across the San Francisco Bay, to pursue different career paths. Goldberg began working as an assistant professor at University of California, San Diego, while Yazdani conducted research in the Bay Area at IBM. “We’re grateful to Southwest Airlines for the cheap tickets that allowed us to meet every weekend during those years,” Goldberg said. After both worked at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for several years, Goldberg and Yazdani moved to Princeton together. Next year marks their ten-year anniversary working at the University. In each professor’s opinion, there are only benefits to working on the same campus. “We feel very lucky to have positions at the same University doing what we love … and shar[ing] the same general schedules and pleasures,” Yazdani explained. “There are actually a fair number of cou-
ples on campus, many of whom we’ve become friends with. It’s hard to think of a downside to being part of the same larger community”. Though working at the same university ensures that Goldberg and her husband usually share enough common experiences to substantively discuss community matters related to the school and the township, she admits there isn’t much collaboration between the two in terms of work. “We don’t have any background in each other’s areas, so we only talk about our ideas or new findings in our fields in a very general way. But, we spend a lot of time talking about the sociology of our respective fields together,” Goldberg said. Indeed, it would be quite difficult to think of two more strikingly different academic fields than those of Goldberg and Yazdani. However, these two professors prove that a humanities and science major can surely find love in each other — maybe even at Princeton.
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Friday February 14, 2014
“You are now chatting with...”
tigers anonymous MARGOT YALE Staff Writer
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t happens to all of us. You meet someone, anyone — maybe by sitting in on a different section of one of your precepts or perhaps by bumping into someone while scooping ice cream in the servery. After introducing yourself, you enjoy a brief, but far too fleeting, conversation. For the next few weeks, you’ll smile in passing but soon even that minimal interaction fades. You may never suspect you had much in common, but at this rate, you’ll never found out that the two of you share a favorite word or have a similar childhood memory or serendipitously thought out nearly identical plans to dispose of a dead body in case of ... an emergency. These haunting possibilities inspired Akshay Kumar ’14 and Dan Kang ’15 to create Tigers Anonymous, an online chat forum for Princeton students that went live over Intersession. “There are a lot of students that once they become upperclassmen or once they get involved in their extracurricular activities tend to form very rigid social groups and often complain that they find it difficult to branch out. So we wanted to make a way for people to branch out and meet people who they wouldn’t otherwise,” Kumar explained. For those who haven’t tried us-
ing the website yet, getting started is simple. Students just click the go button on the website, and the service matches them with another student. Tigers Anonymous provides a prompt for the two anonymous chatters to discuss in the form of a question ranging from “What was the last thing you thought about last night?” to “If you only had one day left to live, what would you do?” After chatting for a certain amount of time, the option to reveal oneself appears, and if the two chatting mutually agree to swap information, their Facebook profiles are exchanged. On the first day alone, the site hosted over 600 conversations and after the second the site had hosted 1,500. So far, Kumar and Kang have found that 33 percent of conversations result in the pair of anonymous students revealing their identities — far more than they had anticipated. “We thought people would be more reluctant to reveal who they are,” Kang said. The creators of the site have implemented an algorithm that learns which questions produce the best conversations. As more Princeton students use the site, the algorithm will be able to curate questions that foster the most interesting and successful conversations. When asked for their favor-
ite question on the site, Kumar named, “Do you believe in destiny or free will?” while Kang thought the best conversation started with the question, “How would you dispose of a dead body?” “There are some morbid people here. I remember there was someone who was like, ‘I would eat it,’ ” Kumar remarked. So far, the two have been surprised to hear how many people have discovered that they had more in common with their casual acquaintances than they had imagined through conversations facilitated by the site. “That was probably my most unexpected thing from using the site. I’d be talking to somebody … and be like, ‘Oh wow, I met you maybe a couple of months ago, and we’ve said hi a couple of times, but I didn’t know this about you,’” Kang explained. After a successful start, Kumar and Kang are looking forward. They hope to expand the website to include students from other schools and add more features to complement the basic chat functions the site currently hosts. The pair have no immediate plans to change the website though. Right now, they’ve said their focus lies on getting more hits on Tigers Anonymous. They urge every student to log on. “Once they’ve given it one try, they’re hooked,” Kumar said.
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Princeton Film Productions premiere on campus ANNIE HADLEY Contributor
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t Princeton, students do pretty much everything — they write novels, record albums, create viral webpages and more. While some feats can be achieved individually, others require more experience or prohibitively expensive equipment. Filmmaking is one such activity. However, about 100 students have joined forces to expand the presence of film production on campus by forming a new club, Princeton Film Productions, to take advantage of their collective experience and University support. Princeton Film Productions (PFP) was an idea that was conceived in the last academic year, but was finally brought to life in September of 2013. Through the leadership of copresidents Dalia Katan ’15 and Mary Landon Funk ’15, the group has created two short films over the last semester. The two films, “Ganondorf” and “Child of God,” are currently in the final steps of production. Though the final release dates have yet to be determined, trailers are set to debut in the coming weeks. The organization currently has around 100 members, and the core crew of each production consist of 10 to 15 people, according to Katan. Although each production had its own chief screenwriter, up to 25 other members contributed to the writing process of each. However, Katan also noted that PFP “[hopes] to expand [its] production teams to both make them more efficient and get more students involved — whether hands-on or just shadowing — so that more students can learn about stages of the filmmaking process.” In future semesters, PFP hopes to give students more exposure to production by bringing professionals from the entertainment industry to campus as guest speakers. Furthermore, a
new shadowing program will be implemented so that beginners can explore different aspects of filmmaking under the guidance of more experienced peers. This is all part of an effort to ensure that everyone who wants to learn more about film production can do so. By creating the shadowing program, PFP is expanding their activities to be more accessible to a larger student population, since the short films they produce only require relatively small crews. Prior to the founding of PFP, students had the option of studying film with the Lewis Center of the Arts’ film certificate program. However, the film studies certificate requires five classes: one in film production, two in film history and two additional courses representing either category. In this way, the academic focus lies on film history rather than on the process of filmmaking. This is where PFP comes into play. It has created an environment in which students can gain hands-on experience on set and throughout the entire production process. In the words of Katan, PFP has “created a community of filmmakers and students interested in film, bringing together various
talents, experiences and resources and giving students the chance to complement one another’s talents and collaborate on film productions.” The organization is still in its early days. Though no projects have been released yet, the group is optimistic about their future. “This group has a lot of potential to become a well-respected and renowned college production company,” creative director Cameron Johanning ’16 said. “But it is also a very ambitious project, especially given the severe lack of time that many Princeton students face.” As a young organization, PFP is still in the process of establishing themselves logistically. However, the leadership team aims to form a group culture wherein more members can be active in production. Although the future identity of the group remains unclear, the members of PFP are committed to creating films that allow them to start “saying what needs to be said,” Funk explained. Trailers for “Child of God” and “Ganondorf” will both be released sometime in the coming weeks on the group’s Youtube page. For more information on the organization, visit the group’s Facebook page.
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Two actors captured in a still from one of PFP’s upcoming short films.
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Friday February 14, 2014
Inaugural inter-Ivy
BALLET EXCHANGE KATIE BAUMAN Street Editor
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espite the snow and sleet that have invaded New York, thirty students will be heading to the Big Apple this weekend — in pointe shoes, nonetheless. For the first time, Princeton, Harvard and Columbia’s ballet companies will come together to perform. The three groups are the only student-run ballet troupes in the Ivy League. This collaboration has been long in the making, and what began as Columbia graduate student Elysia Dawn’s initial vision has grown into a full-fledged production. “She [Elysia Dawn] had for a very long time wanted to do this collaboration between Ivy League schools that do have ballet companies,” Princeton University Ballet president Caroline Hearst ’14 said. “That process began probably in fall of 2012 when I first heard from her so it’s been a really long time coming ... since we’ve been able to put foundations under her vision.” These foundations have set the stage for the Columbia Ballet Collaborative, Harvard Ballet Company and PUB to each perform four pieces at the Miller Theatre at Columbia this weekend. The three companies have spent the past two years planning the event and delegating the responsibilities involved in producing the inaugural performance. Naturally, bringing together three groups to develop a performance brings together an abundance of creativity and talent. Dancers within each company had individual visions of what the collaboration would look like and reached a consensus on the specifics of their performances
largely through communication by Skype, emails and conference calls. “I can quickly text, call or meet in-person with PUB officers to organize our shows on campus,” PUB artistic director Chloe Cheney-Rice ’15 explained. “The distance between Princeton, Harvard and Columbia make this planning process unlike anything PUB has experienced before, which makes it all the more exciting.” Logistically, the planning was especially difficult for the Harvard Ballet Company and Princeton University Ballet because both groups will perform in an unfamiliar space — the Miller Theatre. Hearst mentioned that in planning the performance, Columbia was often “the rock” that communicated what was actually feasible for the stage. In preparation for the performance, the groups divided responsibilities. Princeton received the task of developing a visual identity for the collaboration. “It was really fun to work with everyone but also really difficult because there are so many brilliant and different ideas about what the show should look like on paper,” Hearst said. “We have an emblem we think will last for many years. It has interchangeable stars at the top that we can add and remove as companies join, and the performance evolves over the years.” Beyond their collective efforts, each company also had to prepare pieces to feature in the performance. Initially, the groups hoped they might be able to perform together and intersperse their separate pieces with
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PUB developed the visual identity of the collaborative performance.
a goal of blending the different schools and highlighting ballet as a link and the focus of the collaboration. Although the logistics of the long-distance partnership prevented that vision, the heart of the collaboration remains to be the desire to bring together a group of people who, despite being in different schools, share a passion for ballet. Through that commitment and the amount of time the dancers have dedicated to perfecting art, the participants have found many shared experiences between the companies and dance itself. “I met with the Elysia over the summer, and it was so cool how much we could relate on even though we went to different schools and had different experiences,” Hearst said. “We are different ages, but there was just so much we had in common having gone through all that ballet training together.” PUB will take four pieces to the Ivy Ballet Exchange. Three were choreographed previously by Colby Hyland ’16, Maria Katarina Rafael ’15 and PUB vice president Jiae Azad ’15, and have been performed in past shows. The company believes these pieces represent the group’s best work and will transition well to the Miller Theatre. The fourth piece is a longer one, which was created specifically for the Ivy Ballet Exchange. Choreographed by PUB artistic directors Cheney-Rice and Sarah Howells ’16, the piece includes themes of friendship and love and incorporate a range of musical styles, including jazz. The Ivy Ballet Exchange will be the first time PUB has performed off-campus. PUB is taking 30 dancers who will join another 55 from Harvard and Columbia in this inaugural collaboration. “It’s still hard for me to believe that I get to participate in such an exciting event my freshman year here at Princeton,” PUB member Ellen Roop ’17 said. While the companies hope for a large audience, ultimately, collaboration and friendship lie at the heart of the Ivy Ballet Exchange. “I can’t stress enough how important it is for us to interpersonally connect and meet each other,” Hearst said. “We hope too that peoples’ impressions of ballet and what they think it is about or looks like will be changed by the show. We can share what we do on our own campus to take ballet to new places and bring that back.”
ASK THE SEXPERT
This week, she discusses apathy toward sex. Dear Sexpert, I don’t really enjoy sex. I thought I just had a bad experience with my first partner, but I’ve had other sexual partners since, and I still feel pretty underwhelmed by the experience. Am I asexual or frigid or something?
— Apathetic
Dear Apathetic, There are a lot of reasons why you might not enjoy sex that have little to do with being asexual or apathetic to sex. Generally speaking, there are a number of factors (psychological, physiological, chemical or some combination of these) that contribute to sexual arousal. For instance, you might be taking prescription medication that negatively impacts your libido, or you may have had an upbringing that made sex and sexual pleasure taboo. You might be experiencing hormonal changes, insomnia, depression or some other illness. Consuming alcohol and/or drugs before engaging in sexual activity may also decrease libido or enjoyment. You might be fearful of pregnancy, contracting
an STI or being vulnerable with another person. You might just be insufficiently aroused by the setting, your partner or the foreplay. It is also possible that you may be able to become aroused but are unable to achieve orgasm because of any of these factors. Since it can be frustrating to determine the cause on your own, start by talking to a clinician at Sexual Health and Wellness Services. They may be able to help figure out what is impacting your sexual satisfaction. There are also people who are asexual, meaning they do not experience sexual attraction or have no desire for sexual intimacy. These individuals may have been sexual at some point in their lives and may still have sexual urges, but do not desire to have sex with other people. This does not mean they abstain from relationships, since they may still experience romantic attraction and have emotional needs. As such, they might enter into romantic relationships with partners, both asexual and not. As long as there is an understanding between partners, these relationships can work with good communication and compromise. For more information about
asexuality, visit www.asexuality. org. Sexual apathy (aka hypogyneismus, sexual aversion, hypoactive sexual desire, frigidity or inhibited sexual desire) is characterized by a low level of interest in sex. A person may never have had sexual desire or interest (primary sexual apathy) or may have had sexual desire in the past, but not currently (secondary sexual apathy).
You should also know that sexual arousal and expression vary from person to person. It may also vary for one person over time, so what you are feeling now may be temporary. In addition to talking to a clinician, you might try communicating your concerns to your partner and exploring steps to improve intimacy.
— The Sexpert
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 factchecking 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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Fourth annual RUBIK’S CUBE competition comes to Princeton SETH MERKIN MOROKOFF Associate Street Editor
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hink rubik’s cubes were buried in the 80s alongside neon legwarmers and mix tapes? Think again. The Cube lives on — both as a hobby and a competitive sport. This weekend, about 100 competitors from around the Northeast will flock to the University to compete in the fourth annual cube competition hosted by the Princeton Cube Club. Don’t assume they’ll spend the day quietly solving standard cubes, though. Just like Prancercise revolutionized your grandmother’s standard Jazzercise regimen, a new arsenal of puzzles and props has added some dynamism to classic cube solving competitions in recent years. Besides, with so many veteran cubers in a single room, you know things are going to get rubik-ulous. “Everyone is competing for time against everyone else. We do have different kinds of events. There’s three-by-three; three-by-three, one-handed; three-by-three, blindfolded. That one’s really cool,” Alan Chang ’14, president of Princeton Cube Club, said. “The competitors memorize the cube and then put the blindfold on to solve it. The memorization time also counts towards the total time. We have some people coming who can do it in under a minute.” Besides adding handicaps to make solving standard three by three cubes more challenging, competition events also include solving cubes of other sizes and even different shapes. However, standard three-by-three solves retain some of the fiercest competition. “A lot of people are well known for just being really fast. The former world record holder can solve the cube on average in six seconds,” Chang said. “We’ve definitely had nine-second solves
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before. I’m sure there are faster ones; I just don’t quite remember. I think we’ve even had nine-second averages, so I’m sure people got nine-second solves.” Last year, the U.S. National OneHanded Cubing Champion — who can solve the cube in 16 seconds using only one hand — attended the Princeton competition, according to Matthew Smith ’16, another one of the event’s organizers. If prepping for a cube competition sounds like all fun and games, you’ve probably never even managed to solve one of the puzzles on your own time, let alone under the regulations of the World Cube Association—a governing body created in 2004 to ensure fairness across all competitions. “People do a lot to prepare their own cubes. There are certain brands that people prefer over others. The cubes that really fast people use are ordered from specialty Rubik cube stores,” Chang explained. “People sand the sides and lubricate them — anything to cut down even half of a second, because that’s a really big deal.” Organizing the competition involves some work too, according to Smith. The Rubik’s Cube Club had to coordinate with the World Cube Association in order to receive billing as an official cube competition, and the group
is still in the process of recruiting volunteers to judge various rounds of the competition. Judging is one of many ways that amateurs can partake in the cubing community. Anyone can volunteer at the competition this Saturday, regardless of experience level, simply by contacting Chang. The club also host occasional cube tables (think language tables with even a bit more of a challenge) in dining halls around campus throughout the school year. In addition, cubers at any skill level are welcome to join the club. “Anyone who wants to learn can bring a cube over, and we’ll teach them,” Chang explained. “People might think that they can’t join the cube club because they can’t solve a cube or aren’t very fast, but we’re open to anybody who wants to join and anyone who is interested in Rubik’s cubes. If you know how to follow directions, you can solve a Rubik’s cube.” If you want to catch a bit of the action this Saturday, the completion will be hosted in the Frist Campus Center Multipurpose Room from 8:30 a.m. until 6 p.m., with the three-by-three final round featuring the fastest eight cubers starting at 5 p.m. — and probably ending a few seconds later.
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Friday February 14, 2014
‘Henry V’gives Shakespeare modern spin OLIVER SUN
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illiam shakespeare wrote “Henry V,” the last of four plays about the kings of England from Richard II to Henry V, during a time of tension between England and Spain as well as Ireland. As such, “Henry V” is one part historical documentary and one part contemporary propaganda, celebrating the king’s victory at the 1415 Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years’ War. The Princeton Shakespeare Company presents a modern take on “Henry V” in the Class of 1970 Theatre in Whitman College, staying true to the original Shakespearean play, with a few modifications. One of the first aspects of the performance that the audience will notice is the use of current clothing trends. King Henry wears a modern officer’s uniform, as do some of his relatives and the English nobility, while other soldiers
wear camouflage fatigues. The male characters wear suits instead of the doublets more typical of Shakespeare’s time. While the play still takes place in 1415, the new take on the characters’ clothing by costume manager Kate Wadman ’16 adds an interesting twist. Another change made to the play is using female actresses to perform traditionally male roles. For instance, the Welsh captain Fluellen is played by Savannah Marquardt ’16, a page boy is played by Arianna Lanz ’17 (substituted by Rachel Wilson ’16 during the showing upon which this review is based) and various noblemen are played by Julia Peiperl ’17. This is not just a case of women playing male characters: These gender adjustments are communicated through the use of female pronouns in the script, modified from the original. Considering that the majority of the characters in this play are involved
somehow in the English military expedition to France, PSC’s modification once again emphasizes the modern overtones of its performance. In this case, the changes made are smooth and do not interfere with the broader messages and plot points of the play. “Henry V” is the pinnacle of the development of Henry’s character. Con-
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inforcements. King Henry V refutes Westmoreland by describing the ways that they will commemorate the brave feats of the English soldiers. Ranking among the most stirring of pre-battle speeches in literature, this speech sees Henry rousing his comrades, “We few, we happy few, we band of brothers,” to fight with honor and to prevail with glory. As Henry V, Lagan Trieschmann ’15 (who appeared as Victor Frankenstein’s father in Theatre Intime’s “Frankenstein”) inspires his men to bravery, even persuading the previously hesitant Westmoreland to lead the vanguard. Trieschmann’s delivery of the St. Crispin’s Day Speech is fantastic, transporting his audience to the English camps at Agincourt, as the audience feels the soldiers’ emotions grow from trepidation to confidence and courage as Trieschmann speaks. Typical of Elizabethan plays, “Henry V” has no scenery, and PSC’s version uses a minimalist set consisting of a table and chairs. The visual background is verbally painted by the Chorus (Kathleen Newman ’15), who speaks directly to the audience and encourages the use of imagination to fill in the blanks. However, the use of space was problematic. The Class of 1970 Theatre in Whitman College offers a small stage, and during some scenes of the play the actors were too closely packed together or got in the way of the audience, obstructing the view of the action. The performance would have benefited from a larger stage. Overall, PSC’s performance of Shakespeare’s “Henry V,” directed by David Cruikshank ’16, is a success. Although it is less dramatic than most other plays, especially during its first half, this play’s entertainment value comes from the character development of King Henry V and the excellent speeches. PSC has prevailed with its modern retelling of this classic historical drama.
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Date Spots on Campus
McCosh Infirmary.
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Fine Hall Tower. LockHART.
The old Dinky station.
The new Dinky station.
Einstein’s House.
That ambiguously shaped thing in Carl Icahn Laboratory. USG weekly meeting. The Forbes café.
Somewhere warm.
CAMPUS PICKS DANCE Tripe 8 Company Presents D8te Night FRIST FILM/PERFORMANCE THEATRE, Friday, 8:30 p.m. Saturday, 4 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.
Looking for post-dinner date plans this weekend? Trying to stop yourself from drowning your sorrows on Valentine’s Day with your own box of truffles? Check out D8te Night, a show by East Asian student dance company Triple 8. There will be great costumes, appealing music, fresh choreography and, if you’re lucky, maybe a stray “Dance with Azns” tank! Whether you’re a dance enthusiast or a leadfooted klutz, this will be a D8te Night to remember.included to constitute an array? There’s only one way to find out.
A D8TE WITH
TRIPLE 8 Photos by JENNY JIANG
PERFORMANCE The 2014 Juggolympics
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FRIST FILM/PERFORMANCE THEATRE, Friday, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
When we all closed our textbooks to watch the Sochi Olympics this weekend, it was inevitable that everyone felt a little pain in their hearts. This was because every child has at one point dreamt of a world in which juggling is actually recognized as a competitive sport. Don’t worry, though. The Princeton Juggling Club is about to make all of your dreams come true. Witness aerial alchemy this Valentine’s Day weekend with PJC’s ensemble of yo-yo tricks, musical juggling routines and glow in the dark props. This is an event you do not want to miss!
PERFORMANCE The Vagina Monologues
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FORBES BLACKBOX THEATER, Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m.
In this episodic play written by Eve Ensler in 1996, a cast of women share the various aspects of female experience through a series of monologues. These themes include sex, love, rape, masturbation, orgasm, female genital mutilation, birth and, of course, the vagina. The play aims to challenge and expose violence against women through the presentation of female empowerment and individuality. It is a powerful work that inspired a social movement known as “V-Day,” which raises awareness and money to support female victims of sexual abuse and violence. New monologues have been added to the original to reflect contemporary issues facing women and girls.
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