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Asking questions and receiving thoughtful answers is the fastest way to learn. This week, Street sat down with some campus leaders and artists to ask some big questions. Here are their answers.
JILL DOLAN
DEAN OF THE COLLEGE Interviewed by
KRISTEN COKE Senior Writer
Jill Dolan is a professor of English and Theater, director of the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies and, since July of this year, Dean of the College. In this interview, Dean Dolan talks about the importance of arts in academia and the recent activism on campus and gives advice to undergraduate students at Princeton. Daily Princetonian: To start things off, what inspired you to join academia? Jill Dolan: I never intended to be an academic. I wanted to be an actor, so when I went to college, it was to be an actor in this professional theater training program I enrolled in at Boston University. But, that changed very quickly for various reasons, and I became a critic instead. And then after I graduated I spent two years writing theater criticism and then I decide to go to graduate school because what I was really interested in was feminist theater criticism. I just wanted to learn more about it and how to do it, but I was going to be a writer, not a professor. But it turned out when I finished my Ph.D., colleges and universities were actually looking for people in my field. So, I decided to apply to jobs and I got a position at the University of Wisconsin-Madison teaching in the theater and drama department. So it was kind of serendipitous. I never really expected to be an academic, but it turned out it’s everything I love, really. DP: How has the undergraduate experience changed since you were at school? JD: That’s such a good question because I was an undergrad so long ago, and I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately in relation to the activism on campus. When I was in college, we couldn’t get close to the president of the university. It was just this real sense of him being up here and us being down here. I didn’t even know where his office was, and I feel like now students are more handson in terms of their education and the expectation is universities will be more hands-on with them. It used to be more of a transactional relationship I think, except of course for professors and students. But in terms of how the administration relates to students, I think that has changed a lot and, of course, at a place like Princeton that is pretty small, I think it’s
easier to form more personal relationships. DP: What defines your style of teaching, or what do you go into a classroom trying to accomplish? JD: I like to go into a classroom with questions rather than answers and with a great deal of curiosity for my subject that I hope to inspire in my students. As a critic, I try to only write about things I like and want to recommend. As a teacher, I like to teach things that excite me and that interest me and that I think students might not find on their own. So for me it becomes about sharing things that I care about and believe in and want other people to experience. Of course I can do that because I teach primarily in the arts. I teach theater courses and performance studies courses. But that sense of trying to inspire people in a way they haven’t thought about before — which I’m sure lots of teachers do — is really my way of teaching.
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It’s always been to me that the arts are really kind of an interesting emotional and political laboratory that literally lets us rehearse things together that other aspects of life don’t.
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DP: Why do you feel that the arts are so important? JD: I think the arts are so important because they tell us stories about who we are and who we might be. And they give us a place to imagine worlds that we are not experiencing right now, worlds that don’t exist right now, they give us a way to imagine other sets of social relations. They let us think about pleasure and beauty and pain and grief. It’s always been to me that the arts are really kind of an interesting emotional and political laboratory that literally lets us rehearse things
together that other aspects of life don’t. DP: How have the arts and your career within them prepared or inspired what you hope to accomplish as dean of the college? JD: I think that being a theater person all those many years and being a critic and someone who has taught in theater departments, I’ve never stopped being around the process of doing theater. You just have to learn collaboration in any art form really. The arts are so much … about seeing yourself in relation to other people and having a common project that isn’t going to succeed unless everyone is doing their best and allowing everyone else to do their best too. That’s what I feel like I bring to this very large portfolio of the Office of the Dean of the College, is trying to bring everyone together to do our best work for the students who are the people who are constituents. DP: Speaking of which, for students who might not have a complete understanding of what the dean of college does, what’s a quick description of your work? JD: (Laughs) Very few people do know what my job is actually, or what I do! The elevator speech would be that my office is responsible for the whole undergraduate curriculum, so we have some responsibility for vetting new courses, for putting together the course schedule, for approving certificate programs, working with departmental representatives, anything that touches the undergraduate curriculum. International programs, the Writing Center, McGraw Center are all under the dean of the college, as well as undergraduate research. It’s all about the undergrads and their curricular experience. DP: What has been your favorite moment and one of your toughest moments so far as dean? JD: Well thinking off the top of my head, one of my favor-
ite moments was interviewing Laverne Cox … I felt very keenly that as the person that was interviewing her publicly, I was playing that role [as dean] in terms of trying to facilitate that experience for the undergrads for whom the event was meant. But it just felt great to be in that community of people and hear her talk in such an inspiring way and hear her be really academically, socially and politically acute was wonderful. One of the more challenging moments was being in the president’s office with the activists and really trying to be productive and generative, and make things that would be good for the whole entire campus happen. DP: What are your general thoughts about activism on campus, especially the recent activism related to the Black Justice League? JD: I think the fact that we are having conversations about race, history and belonging on
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campus is all really important. And we are inspired to do this with a certain kind of urgency because of students making this visible and important and also because of what is happening nationally. I think we are part of a national conversation about all of these issues and it translates in very specific ways at Princeton. We have this myth that Princeton is an Orange Bubble and that we are all insulated by ourselves here, and it’s so not true. This semester has demonstrated the ways in which we are connected to
history and how we are connected to what is happening in the rest of the world in really important ways. So that’s I think the good part of it. DP: Have there been other instances of activism over your eight years at Princeton? JD: I guess not to the extent that has happened this year if we count starting last spring, but there has been a lot of agitation. There is an ongoing need for Asian American studies, and students and alumni have been very activist in their desire to see an Asian American studies program be established. I think there has been a lot of activism on the part of LGBT students, especially trans students, about gender pronouns and those types of issues. This is the first time during my experience at Princeton where the activism has been so visible and so public, but I think there is a lot of student agitation on campus. When I came here, people said to me “Princeton is so apathetic, the students there aren’t terribly political,” and I honestly haven’t found that to be true. I think students have a variety of strongly held political opinions and they feel comfortable expressing them. DP: What do you wish students understood better about the administration? JD: I wish one of the things students understood is that academic institutions are very complicated. I’ve never worked anywhere else [other than academic institutions], so I can’t compare it with corporations. But I think because we touch on so many aspects of people’s lives and futures, because we work with faculty and staff and students, because students are here for four years and then we get new students all the time, I think the transmission of information about how things work is really challenging. I
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Q&A WITH DEAN JILL DOLAN CONTINUED FROM S1 think I want students to know that the administration has a lot of good will and they really want to do the right thing and be as transparent as possible. People aren’t trying to mystify anything, it’s just an elaborate institution that has its ways of doing things. DP: Shifting gears, as a woman in academia, what are some of the things you have observed or seen change in terms of women in academia? JD: I think partially because I’ve always been in theater studies and women’s studies, I’ve felt gender and race and ethnicity differences a little differently than peers in, for instance, the STEM fields, because the arts historically have been more gender-balanced and also more generous about differences in general. But in my experience as an administrator, there is still a lot of gender and racial imbalance in terms of who really holds these administrative roles. I know it’s changing incrementally so there are relatively speaking more women and more people of color in administrative roles
than there were when I started out as a student, but I’m still amazed by how imbalanced it is even though people are working so hard to shift that balance. DP: What are some of your goals as Dean? JD: One of my goals is to get more people to take a sense of
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One of my goals is to get more people to take a sense of agency over their education. Not just their grades, not just their plans for the future, but really how they experience themselves as students.
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agency over their education. Not just their grades, not just their plans for the future, but really how they experience themselves as students on campus. I would love to see us be less about benchmarks of success and more about the pleasure of thinking — of ex-
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periencing new things and with the courses that you for any reason that has to do thinking about how you grow choose to take or what you with your future career, but as a person through what you choose to major in, but what because you are interested in study in the classroom. If I you choose to do on campus. what it means to be thinking could accomplish a little piece My friends at the Lewis Cen- that way. If I had my educaof that, I think I would be very, ter always said, “Don’t feel tion to do over again, I would very happy. I’m also excited like you have to know any- really try to branch out and about the General Education thing about dance or theater experience as many different Task Force work and what we or photography, but give your- things as I could. I would push can accomplish in terms of re- self the experience of trying against this notion that you envisioning that process and something that is completely have to specialize and encourwhat it means. To me, being out of your wheelhouse.” Take age students to have a broader, involved in what it means to a computer science class not more varied and more experibe an educated person in the 21st century is really exciting, and if I can contribute anything to that process on campus I would be delighted. DP: What advice would you give to undergraduates at Princeton? JD: I would really encourage people to think of their undergraduate education as COURTEST OF PRINCETON.EDU a place to take risk and experi- Dean of the College Jill Dolan talks to Laverne Cox about transgender rights. ment. Not only
LILY GELLMAN ’17 CO-PRESIDENT OF PRIDE ALLIANCE Interviewed by
CATHERINE WANG Staff Writer
Pride Alliance is a community-building organization for LGBTQA+ people on campus. Street spoke to co-president Lily Gellman ’17 about the group’s initiatives and what’s next. Daily Princetonian: Can you describe the Pride Alliance and what it does on Princeton’s campus? Lily Gellman ’17: I would describe it as a community building organization for LGBTQA+ people on campus. We mostly do social events, and we say that we’re not explicitly a political group, but we do take sides on things on campus that are important to our community as long as we discuss them as a board and we agree on them. Right now we’re revising a letter of solidarity we’ve written to the Black Justice League and their actions. DP: What are some of the major events for Pride Alliance? LG: In terms of our own events, some of the regular events we put on are CafeQs, which are just informal gatherings that we put on every two weeks with a theme, and we have snacks and play games. We put on a faculty dinner series with professors called “Being LGBTQA in Academia,” where we invite professors to have dinner with us in the private dining rooms and have fun conversations with them. This past Friday, we had our second Queer Formal, which was a huge success. The biggest event we do every year is Pride Month, which used to be Pride Week actually, but under the administration of Diana Li ’16 and myself, we’ve expanded that to Pride
Month because we found that we jam-packed the week with so many events in the past that people got overwhelmed. Last year’s Pride Month had a Queer Artistry theme, which ran from April 3-25, with events like an exHOTic other Burlesque Workshop and Performance, a Better Than Sex* (*to asexuals) Series and Queer Yoga and Karaoke. One of our more successful Pride Month events was a spoken word performance by Kit Yan, a transgender, queer, Asian American slam poet from Hawaii who explores being transgender and poor in the medical and social services systems and working through heartache in queer identity.
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It’s very meaningful to me to make spaces for people where they can be themselves and also talk to a huge diversity of people who identify in similar ways.
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DP: Why did you initially decide to join the Pride Alliance? LG: I wanted to get involved ever since I first visited Princeton. Seeing that there was a strong LGBT Center and small surrounding communities was a factor in my coming because I didn’t want to go to a school that had everything al-
most figured out already, and else read them, read it them- plication out soon through a I did see that there was room selves or speak more extempo- Google Form, and if you aren’t for improvement at Princeton. raneously from the heart. We signed up for the listserv you It’s very meaningful to me to held it in Cafe Vivian last year, can always shoot me or Diana make spaces for people where and that was a really powerful an email. We also recently inthey can be themselves and event that was part of Pride troduced associate memberalso talk to a huge diversity of Month. I was proud that we ship, so besides the Pride expeople who identify in similar could facilitate that as a group. ecutive board that does stuff, ways. It’s also just fun to plan DP: Is there anything that you can sign up to be an asthe events that I would want you would like to say to those sociate member to show your to go to, while also redistrib- who are interested in becom- support. Ultimately, I think uting our university’s capital ing more involved with Pride that the more we have student into the hands of guest speak- Alliance? involvement and a robust comers and performers who are LG: Regardless of your pre- munity through student orgatrans, queer, people of color vious level of involvement, if nizations, the more it will also ... who we can invite to spread you have any interest in orga- happen naturally outside of their knowledge. nizing events for and by the the auspices of those organiDP: Is there a particularly community, then you should zations. It’ll just help people memorable or meaningful apply to be a part of the board. feel like they can find affinity experience that you have had We’re going to have the ap- and have a sense of place here. while in Pride Alliance? LG: For the past couple of years, as part of Pride Month, we have done something called Queer Monologues. It’s not as performative in nature as something that Ellipses does, but in people write and submit their own stories and ex per iences. They could do it anonyCOURTEST OF PRINCETON PRIDE ALLIANCE mously and Pride Alliance members and students at a performance with poet Kit Yan. have someone
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RICHARD HU ’16 & CADEE QIU ’18 ON PRINCETON CHINESE THEATRE’S ‘TIMELESS LOVE’ Interviewed by
OLIVER SUN Senior Writer
Princeton Chinese Theatre’s “Timeless Love” is a time-traveling love story that straddles the present and a world on the cusp of World War II. Before the show’s opening this weekend, Street spoke to PCT’s president Richard Hu ’16 and the show’s director Cadee Qiu ’18. Daily Princetonian: When was Princeton Chinese Theatre founded and what are its goals? Richard Hu ‘16: PCT was founded in 2008. We had seen a lot of theater groups on campus such as Triangle Club and Theatre Intime, but we didn’t have a group that could represent Chinese students in particular. We felt that even though there was a large presence of Chinese students on campus, we did not have a platform to showcase our performances. This provided the initial motive for forming the group. We also wanted to encourage students taking Chinese courses at Princeton to have an opportunity to express what they had learned and to interact with other students. We put up one performance every semester. Besides the pro-
ductions every semester, we also put up some small acts, such as a small skit during the Chinese New Year’s presentation. DP: Is this small skit an original PCT production? RH: Sometimes we write our own scripts, and sometimes we borrow from scripts online. The same goes for our productions. For this show, “Timeless Love,” we found the script online and contacted the producers for permission to perform it at Princeton. DP: Can you tell us more about why you chose “Timeless Love” for this semester’s production and any adaptations you made to bring it to the stage? RH: The theme of time travel is very popular right now, and it is also something that we have never done before. It is set during
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World War II, and it is a mix of romance and time travel, which makes us think it will be a great show to put on in Frist [Film/Performance Theatre.] Some of our shows we perform in Frist, and others [in the Class of 1970 Theatre] in Whitman [College.] The shows in Whitman are for more interactive settings between the cast members and the audience, while Frist allows us to exploit the larger stage setting. Frist is therefore a better place for shows that require more cast members. As to why PCT wanted to put on this show, Cadee can provide a good explanation. Cadee Qiu ‘18: I just feel like “Timeless Love,” the love presented in it, is very pure. It is so ideal that it is almost non-existent in real life. It makes you think, “Wow, that’s a lot,” but I feel like in normal life we get so bogged down by reality and things like schoolwork and job-finding and other practical implications for love that we don’t consider the pure form of it. In addition, it’s not just a play about love and time travel. It’s also about a love for nation, a love for friends and sacrifice. It’s not just a love story. There are a lot of surprisingly complex emotions that come from these simple characters. These characters are actually very emotionally pure. They’re not trying to engage in mischief or sabotage each other. RH: Also, one thing I want to add one is that for most of the cast members, their role in the show is college students, just like ourselves. I feel that the audience can resonate with the emotions in the show. DP: In what other ways do you
think Princeton students in particular may resonate with “Timeless Love?” CQ: A lot of them are either in love, or have never been in love or have never dated. A lot of our cast members, through team bonding, have discovered much about each others’ romantic histories, and they’re very diverse. There are a lot of messy things that we get tangled up in in real-life relationships that we have to be tangled up in, but “Timeless Love” takes those all away and shows us the real, pure human emotions here. RH: And also, as Cadee just mentioned, this is not just love as in romance, but also love for your friends and the projects that you are working on. So in many ways, it resembles what students have at Princeton. I feel that the audience can really feel that this is very close to what they encounter in their daily lives. DP: Can you walk us through the production process? RH: The initial stage of selecting proposals started at the end of the previous semester. Over the summer we looked over scripts selected by directors, and we ultimately chose “Timeless Love” as the show for this semester. After that, we started recruiting cast and crew members through an auditions process. After casting, we started weekly rehearsals. We usually have three or four rehearsals every week, and the total time ranges from five to eight hours per week. This week, the last week before our actual production, we move into the stage, and every day the crew members, actors and director stay here to run through different scenes, and we also have
full dress rehearsals every day. DP: Did you adapt it at all, or are you presenting it largely as written? CQ: It’s mostly originally as written. Most of the adaptations were scenic in nature. There were parts of the script that saw minor changes. Sometimes we saw a character as too flat so we modified some lines. We also took away some of the repetitive dialogue. Another thing is that I’ve never seen a production of “Timeless Love” itself; I just read through the script and really liked it. So I imagine that our production will be very different from the original one, since we didn’t really have a reference point. DP: Is there anything else you’d like the students to know? CQ: I think this is a really emotional roller coaster ride. There’s comedy, and there’s romance, but it’s definitely not a rom-com. In “Timeless Love,” the love is very simple. It’s the little things between the characters, the things that they do, that matter. There are some dramatic effects that we do, but afterward you see how deep these friendships are and how devoted they are to each other, and their dreams, and their projects. And I don’t want to give away the ending, but it is very, very moving. When I read it the first time, I cried. RH: It’s not a show that you can guess what the ending is. There are a lot of plot developments that you would never expect. PCT presents “Timeless Love” this Friday, Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. in Frist Film/Performance Theatre.
ASK THE SEXPERT
This week, we discuss starting out with sex. Dear Sexpert, My partner and I are starting to get pretty serious. We’ve been together for quite a while. I don’t think I’m ready to have sex, but do I need to be doing anything to stop Sexually Transmitted Diseases if I’m not having normal sex?
— Keepin’ it Clean
Dear Keepin’ it Clean, To make sure we are speaking a common language, let’s think about the expression “normal sex.” In this context, you seem to refer to penetrative sex (i.e., penetration of a vagina or anus by a penis). Technically, there is no “normal sex” because there is a wide range of sexual activities, behaviors and preferences. What is “normal” or right for you may be very different from someone else’s experience. Ultimately, what’s right for you and your partner is what matters most! Consider what you want to do before you find yourself in a situation that you aren’t comfortable with. Practice expressing your desires and boundaries with your partner. If you need help, you can talk to your
residential college adviser or a friend about their experiences. You can also talk to a peer health adviser, a resource trained to listen, talk with you and help you make personalized decisions about health and wellness, including sexual health. From your question, I gather that your experience involves engaging in sexual activities other than penetrative sex (e.g., oral sex, manual sex, etc.) If that is correct, please know that there is a risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections through skin-to-skin contact or the exchange of bodily f luids. If engaging in penile-vaginal sex, appropriate protection, like an external (male) or internal (female) condom, will reduce the risk of transmitting STIs. Alternatively, if one partner is performing oral sex on a penis, an external condom on the penis will reduce risk. Condoms are available in many f lavors for this purpose. If one partner is performing oral sex on a vagina, a dental dam should be used. Dental dams are thin sheets of latex that provide a barrier between the mouth and vagina, or the mouth and anus (if performing oral sex on an
anus) and also come in many f lavors. Furthermore, if engaging in penile-anal sex, an external condom should always be used. If performing manual sex, using finger cots or gloves reduces risk. All of these methods separate bodily f luids from areas in which they could transmit infection. If you need sexual health supplies, like condoms or dental dams, you can get them from PHAs and RCAs, or the LGBT Center. PHAs also have other protection supplies you might be interested in, like f lavored lube and condoms in different colors and f lavors. You can also get 10 free condoms from the front desk of McCosh Health Center on weekdays. Just remember: keep yourself protected, whatever activities you decide are right for you!
— The Sexpert
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ALEXANDRA LOH ’17 & EMILY WOHL ’16
STREET’S
TOP TEN
ON DISIAC’S ‘LEGEND’
Interviewed by
CATHERINE WANG Staff Writer
This weekend, the lights on diSiac’s fall semester show go up in Berlind Theatre. Street got the inside scoop on “Legend” from president Emily Wohl ’16 and publicity chair Alexandra Loh ’17, who came up with the show’s theme. Daily Princetonian: Why is the show called “Legend,” and what makes it unique? Alexandra Loh ’17: Our shows in the past have been: You pick a general word like “Heist” or “Rush” or “On the Edge” where there’s no real story that lends itself to it, even though you can still fit pieces under the theme. We went in the opposite direction this year. Emily Wohl ’16: Our last show was called “Novum,” which was a really general idea of “Something New,” and choreographers really went wild with that — but this year we wanted to try something new, something that diSiac has never really done, which is come up with a story that drives the entire show, instead of a general word that people kind of fit their piece to later when we have to come up with the program. So instead of coming up with a word first and thinking of what could fit into that, Alex came back from the summer suggesting that we look into doing a Greek mythology-themed show. Everyone jumped on board, and we liked the idea of being able to tell stories from the myths. From there, it was actually weeks later, that we realized we need a name because we can’t just call our show the Greek show, so we came up with “Legend” to say that this whole show will be based off of the Greek myths. I think the choreographers did a great job in being
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inspired by the different myths. AL: Also, the structure of our show is a little different. We really wanted to challenge ourselves to not just do 12 pieces that don’t connect, where there’s a blackout between every piece, because that’s what our pieces have been before. So we’re really trying to connect our pieces in ways that make sense visually — like one piece ends in a diagonal line and another starts in a diagonal line, so you put them next to each other to transition instead of putting a blackout in the middle. We’re also doing collaborative things, like we have a slam poet coming to introduce a piece, and there’s a violinist. EW: There’s also a guitarist coming, so there’ll be live music, which we’ve never done since I’ve been here. The transitions between the pieces really make it a production rather than a show that has separate mini-shows within it. DP: What was the process of creating this show? EW: In the beginning of the year, we came up with a theme, and then what happens is that the people who want to choreograph can come in and propose their pieces. Because our show was so specific this year, it meant that choreographers had to come in with an idea of what myths they wanted to use, and show a couple of phrases of choreography. Then the two artistic directors, Colby Hyland [’16] and Casey Ivanovich
[’17], worked together to pick which pieces will be in the show and who’s going to be in the pieces. We also did something new where we had all of the choreographers and officers meet to talk about the transitions between pieces, so it’s been more collaborative this year. In the past, we would see all the pieces for the first time in the theatre, whereas this year we’ve been trying to work on the transitions in our company rehearsal every week. DP: Is there a specific piece or anything else in particular that you are most excited for the audience to experience? EW: It’s interesting because you don’t get to see the pieces you’re in until we film them. All of my pieces are very different this year, [and] we’re both in one about the Underworld which is creepy and crazy, but I’m also in one that’s a battle, which is very technical and sharp. So I’d say that I don’t have a favorite right now. Also, we haven’t seen the whole show completely put together yet [Author’s Note: at the time of the interview], so that’ll be a whole new adventure with the costumes and the set. AL: I’m excited to hear what people have to say when they see it, because from our perspective it’s very different from what we usually do. It’s almost a little scary to put it out there because we don’t know how people are going to react. We tried to go a more artistic route this year instead of going for pure entertainment. Of course we’re still trying to keep it accessible, fun to watch and entertaining. EW: It’ll still lend itself to the students who come here looking for a fun time, but it’ll also hopefully be great for the artists on campus. The goal this year has been to focus on making this a production, something new for diSiac.
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Thoughts on Winter Formals It’s “winter.”
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So dress “warmly.”
Like that ice sculpture will melt. But —
One week more.
Another day, another non-date. TThis never-ending road to winter break. These people who seem to know my work.
Will surely come back for a second twerk. Will we ever meet again? And yeah, still one week more.
CAMPUS PICKS MUSIC PRINCETON UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA PRESENTS “DECEMBER 2015 CONCERTS” Richardson Auditorium Thursday and Friday, 7:30 p.m.
Get your classical fix this Thursday and Friday with PUO, who will be playing Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 and Mahler’s “The Song of the Earth,” featuring mezzo-soprano Barbara Rearick and tenor Daniel Weeks. Passport to the Arts eligible.
EVENT PRINCETON STUDENT EVENTS COMMITTEE PRESENTS “WINTERFEST” Frist Campus Center 100 Level Friday, 3 p.m.
Still a child at heart? Don’t want to do your problem sets? Either way, join PSEC at WinterFest, where you can make your own stuffed animal, snow globe and winter-themed picture frames. There will also be cookies, a hot cocoa bar and bread pudding, as well as the ever-popular Winter Wonderland photo booth.
MUSIC ST. DANGER ALBUM RELEASE SHOW 2 Dickinson St. Co-op Friday, 8:30 p.m.
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St. Danger, a four-piece band featuring Conor McGrory ’16, our very own staff writer Doug Wallack ’16, Charlie Baker ’17 and Kenny Hulpach, dropped its debut EP, “July,” last Friday. This Friday, you’re invited to hear it live. Don’t miss out.
FILM ASIAN AMERICAN STUDENTS ASSOCIATION PRESENTS “THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO” SCREENING AND DISCUSSION Jones 100 Friday, 8:30 p.m.
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HEADLINERS AND HEADSHAKERS headlines you didn’t read this week DAILY PRINCETONIAN STAFF U. TO DEMOLISH BUTLER APARTMENTS FOLLOWING DE LAYS,
USTILGHMAN TO JOIN NEFARIO ESTIGIOUSSOUNDING BUT EQUALLY PR ORATION SOUNDING HARVARD CORP
Harvard Law professor Kennedy ’77 to speak at Baccalaureate, no word yet if Harvard will complete the swap and grab Robert George
Czulak ’17 wins USG presidency in runoff, passes ‘Go,’ collects $200
ERA OF LAKESIDE HAS BEGUN
U. to offer P/D/F reversal option for concentration requirements, wow that survey had a quick turnaround
Firestone begins fourth stage of renovation, two stages left until asbestos finally gone forever
Ever wondered why people from China have never heard of General Tso’s Chicken? Find out all about the iconic Chinese American dish and its transnational origins this Friday at AASA’s screening of this critically acclaimed, Sundance Selects documentary. Oh, and you’ll get to enjoy some General Tso’s Chicken and Tofu.
COMEDY QUIPFIRE! IMPROV COMEDY WINTER FORMALS SHOWS Frist Film/Performance Theatre Friday and Saturday, 11 p.m.
Follow up your winter formals with style this weekend by hopping on over to Quipfire’s winter shows. According to their Facebook page, there will be improvisation based on, uh, your Facebook pages. Do you still need more convincing?
EVENT WE ARE PRINCETON Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall Saturday, 8 p.m.
Celebrate diversity at Princeton with this multicultural concert, featuring performances by Latin dance group Más Flow, Bulgarian Undergraduate Society, Japanese drumming group Tora Taiko, Muslim Students Association, American Sign Language Club, Hibir EthioEritrean Dance Group, Asian American Students Association, Natives at Princeton and Chinese Music Ensemble.