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Street speaks to five students about the inspiration behind their tattoos and the stories that followed Jennifer Shyue Senior Writer
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mily Burr ’15, Max Crawford ’15 and Josh Morrison ’17 have had theirs for a little over a year. Maxson Jarecki ’16 and Jane Pritchard ’15 have had theirs for three. Yet long before a tattoo artist ever set needle to skin, however, all five students had been carrying the words and images now etched on their bodies in the back of their minds. Burr has the words “However improbable” inked in black on her right rib. They are taken from the wellknown Sherlock Holmes maxim: “When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” In fact, even the design of the tattoo is taken from a photocopied page of “The Strand,” the magazine in which Conan Doyle originally published his Sherlock Holmes stories. “Basically, since seventh grade, I’ve been obsessed with Sherlock Holmes — the books and the good movies that are made,” Burr said. She later added that she thought about the tattoo for “a solid two years” before actually getting it. The intended meaning of the quotation is clearly a commentary on the nature of deduction, Burr said. For her, however, having the tattoo also serves as a reminder that “improbable” is not “impossible.” “People mistake improbable things for impossible things a lot, and it’s sort of a reminder to not do that,” she explained. Crawford has the letters “S O P A A D” and “U T I U A D” in all caps on
the inside of his left forearm. The letters run vertically down toward his wrist, six letters on either side of a dividing line, and they make up initialisms that stand for three phrases: “Shadows of perfection,” “Awake and dreaming,” and “Until time itself unravels and dissipates.” “It’s been in the making since freshman year of high school,” Crawford said. That is when he wrote the first phrase, “Shadows of perfection,” and began writing it on himself in pen. “They’re three phrases that embody certain ideals I want to live by,” he said. “The first one, in a word, is about history. It represents my struggle with depression and also my family’s struggle — so staying in touch with your past and your blood and knowing who you are.” He later added: “ ‘Shadows of perfection’ means that nothing is perfect.” “The second one, ‘Awake and dreaming,’ stands for hope — keep trying to be better, live better, do better, because you can be better,” Crawford said. “And the last phrase, ‘Until time itself unravels and dissipates,’ just means some things are eternal, including the previous two phrases.” Morrison has three tattoos. The first one he got was the phrase “Que Será, Será.” with the words, in Garamond, stacked three-high on his right rib. “Que será, será” is Spanish for “Whatever will be, will be” and was popularized as a saying by the 1956 song of the same name. The second one is the words “Live fast die young be wild and have fun” connected by jagged lines that mimic
the waveforms of an electrocardiogram. The sentence, a line from Lana Del Rey’s “Ride,” runs from just beneath Morrison’s right shoulder to the back of his upper arm. The third is a compass that sits on his back, right below his neck. “I always knew that I wanted a tattoo most definitely,” Morrison said. “My dad has 18 — so he’s going crazy with it — but from that I knew that I definitely wanted one.” “Que será, será” is something one of his best friends always said to him during his difficult senior year of high school, according to Morrison, and when he saw a tattoo of the phrase while browsing online one day, the idea of adding the ink to his own body clicked. Morrison sees the meaning of his second tattoo as this: “Life is only so long, and you’re only going to have so many chances and so many opportunities, and so the ‘Live fast, die young’ part is sort of like, take the chances you get because you may not get them again,” he said. “And then the ‘Be wild, have fun’ part, that’s just all about doing what you want to do and not being guided by forced standards or forced guidelines, just being your own individual person and whatever you want that to be. He noted that some people see “Die young” and are taken aback. For him, however, it is the overall message and not the literal directive that is important. Morrison’s most recent tattoo is a compass rose complete with letters representing the four cardinal direc-
tions. He got it with one of his best friends, who also got a compass tattooed on her upper back, though hers is of a different design. “It sort of has two different meanings for me,” Morrison explained. The first, which has to do with the fact that he and his friend have matching tattoos, is a reminder that “regardless of where we are or what’s going on in our lives or the people we’re surrounded with, we’ll always find our way back to each other, as cheesy as that may sound.” The second, more individual meaning, Morrison said, is “about having your own compass. It’s sort of similar to my second one — to let your own desires and passions and interests be what guide you and to let that be your compass and give you the direction you need.” Jarecki has a loon floating in water inked on the instep of his right foot. Every summer for the past 12 years, he has spent two months traveling via wood canvas canoe through northwest Ontario with Keewaydin Canoe Camp. He spent eight years as a camper, and next summer will be his fifth year leading a trip. The design is taken from the picture of a loon in the bottom-right corner of the map that campers use when they’re canoeing and portaging through the Canadian wilderness. “The loon is an animal that’s up there, and it’s kind of the soundtrack to these trips and to the way of life up there,” Jarecki said. “The kind of person I am when I’m existing in the natural world — that’s the most im-
portant thing for me.” Pritchard has a rose on her left wrist. It is no ordinary rose, however; tucked away in its folds is the number 65, and in one of the gaps between petals is the name of her sister, Nell. Pritchard’s sister has cystic fibrosis. Pritchard recounted how the phrase “65 Roses,” a nickname for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, was born after a young patient who with the disease misheard his doctor’s diagnosis as “65 roses.” The Foundation’s nickname formed the basis of a design drawn up by a local artist. “Back in high school, my sister started getting sick. We do a lot of fundraising, so one thing we did was we had this local artist design these necklaces,” Pritchard said. “The artist came up with this design that I now have on my wrist. It’s a rose with a 65 in the middle.” Some of the students intend to get more tattoos. Morrison is planning to get a matching tattoo with his sister on her 18th birthday. Crawford has four tattoo ideas on the “back burner” and said that he thinks he’ll end up getting at least two of them. Jarecki, on the other hand, firmly believes that his loon is the first and last tattoo he will ever get. Many of them cited ease in covering their tattoos with clothing as a factor in their decisions regarding the placement of their ink. “Definitely I thought a lot about location, in terms of both how it’d look as I got older and also just how easy
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it’d be to hide,” Burr said. “[Location] is something I’ve been very conscious of with getting them,” Morrison said. “I’m pre-med, and I don’t think that tattoos should make a difference, but I know that in some people’s eyes they do. And with how things are right now, I don’t want to put myself in that position where I can’t get the job I want simply because I have a tattoo.” Pritchard was the only one who said she did not give much weight to the opinions of future employers when making a decision about where she would have her tattoo. “It definitely came up, mostly from my dad, but I just don’t want to work anywhere that would not let me have a tattoo,” she said. “It’s just not important to me.” She also noted, however, that visibility in general was one of her considerations. Many parents had a lot to say on the topic of tattoos. Pritchard and her mother got theirs together, and, though her father was unhappy about it, the fact that it was a family affair “sort of made him shut his mouth,” she said. Burr told her younger brother
but not her parents after she got inked. Burr recalled how they found out while out to dinner during the winter break after she got her tattoo: Her father remarked on the prominent arm tattoos of their waitress and turned to ask Burr, “‘Do you have any tattoos?’” “I thought my little brother had snitched on me, and so I was like, ‘Yes.’” And he hadn’t. So that’s when it came out,” she said. “My parents were actually even a lot cooler about it than I thought they would be.” Crawford also did not expect his family to be happy about his tattoo, and he was right. “My parents hated it. They hated it a lot,” Crawford said. “My grandparents hate it — my grandparents have never acknowledged it. They’ve never asked me what it meant, but they know I have it. My sister’s not very happy with it, but she laughs a little more than my parents, obviously.” Morrison’s father, who has many of his own tattoos, OKed his decision to get his first tattoo. His mother was a little hesitant when he first brought up the idea of a tattoo, he said, but recently also got her own first tattoo.
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“The first thing she said after she was done was, ‘This will not be my only one,’ ” he said. “They’re definitely addicting.” Jarecki’s mother fully endorsed his decision, supporting him during the painful process of getting the tattoo inked on the thin skin of his foot, and even paid the bill, he said. “I was holding my mom’s hand the whole time while she was videotaping it,” he said. “It seems like a lot of people get tattoos, and part of it is kind of like a rebellion against their parents or like a counter-cultural move, and I really didn’t feel that way about what I was doing. It was important for me that my parents understand the reasons why I wanted to have it.” In general, there seems to be a generational gap in reactions to these five students’ tattoos. All of them said that their peers thought their tattoos were cool. A 2010 Pew Research report noted that nearly 40 percent of Millennials have at least one tattoo. The report defines Millennials as “the American teens and twentysomethings who are making the passage into adulthood at
the start of a new millennium.” “In the generations above us, there’s generally a trend of a bit of prejudice against people, especially with a lot of tattoos, so I did consider that when I was thinking about how easy do I want this to be to cover up,” Burr said. Morrison agreed that there was a generational shift and noted that the general consensus on tattoos has changed as they become more prevalent. “In the society that we live in now, it’s not really a big deal to have a tattoo anymore; it’s become much more acceptable just because so many people have them,” he said. “People don’t really care that much, and I don’t think people should care that much, because it’s literally just a part of their body.” All five students said that their tattoos have meaning for them that goes beyond decoration or art. They recognized that significant personal value is not a priority for everyone who gets a tattoo, but they felt it was an important part of their own decisions. “It is very much a personal thing, and I know people do tattoos for the sake of body art, which is definitely fine, but for
me, I just kind of want it to be about something related to my family,” Pritchard said. “Tattoos are cool because you can say something that you want about yourself. But I feel like it’s one of those things that, for me, I would never get something that I hadn’t thought really long and hard about,” Burr said. Morrison, on the other hand, disagrees with the notion that tattoos must always have significance. “Part of the reason I get tattoos is for the meaning, obviously. But then the other part is that I get to change my body in the way I want; I get to make my own body look a certain way,” he said. “Even if there isn’t a story behind it, it still means something. I just don’t think that it has to have the meaning so many people believe it needs to have.” “I think they can just have an aesthetic value,” Crawford said. “I kind of look at skin as a blank canvas — you could put something on it or not; both have their own beauty to it. Personally I don’t think they need that kind of value, but I think it helps you to be happier with it long term … For me,
it’s like I need something that kind of gives it a little more weight.” Some of the students said they have thought about how their tattoos will look as they get older. Most have received only positive feedback on their tattoos, but Morrison has had the question raised to him by other people. “[People] ask me, ‘Do you think you’ll regret it?’ And I hate that question more than anything. The obvious answer is ‘Would I have gotten it if I think I was going to regret it? Obviously not,’ ” he said. That is not to say that Morrison has not thought about where he — and his tattoo — will be a few decades down the line. He acknowledges that it is possible one day he will not love his tattoos as much as he does now. “But that’s not even the point, though,” he said. “The point is even when I’m old and I’m like, ‘I don’t really like this tattoo anymore,’ there’s still something behind it. At one point it was exactly what I wanted, so it’s still a part of me. So I don’t think I could ever regret it. Even if I dislike it, I don’t think I would regret it.”
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ou probably saw them at the Activities Fair: dancers dressed in colorful, backless dresses or tuxedos, urging freshman to add their netIDs to their sign-up sheet. That apparently worked, because the Princeton Ballroom Club has nearly quadrupled in size since the beginning of the school year. The Ballroom Club is a sport club that not only has practice every day, but also hosts a dance competition on campus and travels across the country to attend others. The club started the year with about 15 members. Now, they have over 50. “I put a lot of effort into trying to make sure people know we existed, and I think it’s turned out really well,” publicity chair Michael Li ’16 said. Practices generally begin with a one-hour technical session for the veterans, followed by a more general session for beginners. On Mondays they practice Standard dances, which include the waltz, tango, quickstep, fox-trot and Viennese waltz. On Tuesdays the group focuses on the five Latin styles danced in competitions,
which include the cha cha, jive, samba, paso doble and rumba. “This is a great year for us. We’re trying to establish relationships with the new members that will make them feel welcome,” Ballroom vice president Shannon Julian ’16 said. “I hope the new members will all really discover that ballroom dancing is something special.” Most of the veterans are pleased with the increase in participation, saying the new members keep the club going and growing. Julian says the club has implemented a number of new measures designed to retain new members, such as hosting a dance camp at the beginning of the academic year and having hosting more social events. In the past, members were attracted by the colorful outfits — but stayed for their friends. “I saw someone in a nice dress, and she signed me up, and I joined. One practice turned into another, and I became a member of Ballroom,” Steven Tsai ’17 explained of how he initially became involved in the club. Tsai currently serves as Rookie Team Captain, a role which enables him to help the new members
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Vice president Shannon Julian ’16 and Francois Charpentier ’15 compete at the 2014 MIT Open Ballroom Dance Competition.
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acclimate to Ballroom. Newcomer Peter Chen ’17 said he is pleased with his experience in the club thus far, citing the friends he has made through the club, the overall atmosphere of the events and the prospect of learning a new dance as the three reasons he remained a member. “I like how patient they are; they’re very patient. With so many beginners and so many veterans, I imagine it must be hard to teach,” Chen said. “Because we’re mostly an undergrad team we don’t have a lot of people who have done ballroom for more than two or three years,” Megan Dare ‘16 said. At competitions, however, many of the student dancers participating from other schools are near the professional level, which Dare cited as inspirational. “It’s a good exchange of dancing knowledge and dancing style,” Dare said. Despite the relative inexperience of the team’s membership, the Princeton Ballroom Club generally fares well in competition, which Tsai explained is due to the “information integration” of the team — older members passing their knowledge on to new members. The club also hosts its own dance competition every year, with over 200 competitors from 15 different schools. The competition serves as its main source of revenue. This year’s will take place on Oct. 18 in Dillon Gymnasium. At competitions, each couple has the opportunity to dance in each of the 10 categories, Dare explained. If a pair receives a callback in a particular style — which Dare added most do — they can dance in that style again. There are several experience levels from which pairs can choose to enter during competition, including newcomer, bronze, silver, gold and champ. Many of the veterans this year said their goal is to compete at a higher level than they did previously. “Once you start placing at silver, then you know you can take gold [level],” Julian said. She and her partner Francois Charpentier ’15 have competed together for over a year and placed at the silver level several times. “[Ballroom dancing] is a great combination of a bunch of different things,” Li noted. “It’s creative; it’s good exercise; it’s teamwork and personal growth, so a lot all in one.”
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he writers studio is a mysterious piece of Princetoniana about which most students have never heard. No one seems to quite know what it is, but it has quietly served as a secluded nook for those in the know to study and work quietly, with a cozier atmosphere than a typical library. Hidden away on the third floor of Blair Hall, the Writers Studio serves as an enclave for writers and poets, as well as any student seeking an alternative study space. Mathey College subsidizes the organization, which means it is consistently stocked with coffee, tea, snacks and literary magazines from The Atlantic to The New Yorker. The studio is furnished with standard desks and chairs as well as a cozy nook — complete with a recliner, plenty of pillows and a plush white area rug. “Everyone thinks you have to be a writer to come to the Writers Studio, but it’s really not a space that’s reserved for poets or novel writers. It’s just a study space,” Studio co-director Luke Hamel ’16 said. The Writers Studio was founded in 2010 by Amelia Worsley GS, Maria Cury ’12 and Mirabella Mitchell ’13, according to its Facebook page. Although the exact history of the space remains unknown, the current directors speculate that the room was originally a single within the dorm when the tower of Blair Hall still housed undergraduate students. While most of the rooms in the tower were converted into offices or classrooms, the room the Writers Studio now occupies remained unchanged. Currently, co-student directors Hamel and Terry O’Shea ’16 manage the studio space. Orlando Reade GS also helps supervise the operations of the group in his capacity as a resident graduate student at Mathey College. The Studio depends on student volunteers to staff the room and serve as custodians of the space—essentially librarians—while students are studying inside. O’Shea is associate opinion editor for cartoons for The Daily Princetonian.
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“Most nights I’m in there, it’s just me. But some nights, a small group of two or three other people will come in, and I’ve seen nights where five or six people pack themselves in there. That’s about capacity for us,” Hamel said. One of the custodians opens the Studio every night at 8 p.m. and closes the space a few hours later — the earliest the Studio will ever close is 10:30 p.m., but closing time usually varies from 11 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. depending on the night and the occupants. During intensive study periods, such as the days immediately preceding Dean’s Date, the Studio is open almost all night. While the Writers Studio is open to students of all fields, it lives up to its name by hosting various literary events — journal launch parties, book signings and writing workshops. On Oct. 14, the Studio will partner with the University’s Council of the Humanities, the Peter S. Firestone Society and the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies to host a dinner discussion on creative writing and social justice. The discussion will feature guest speakers Adrianne Kalfopoulou, a poet and cultural and political blogger, as well as Eliza Griswold ’95. Griswold’s non-fiction book, “The Tenth Parallel,” received recognition as a New York Times Bestseller and the recipient of the Anthony J. Lukas prize after its publication in 2010. Her most recent work, “I am the Beggar of the World,” is a collection of Afghan folk poems, known as landays that have per-
sisted through oral tradition, that she has translated into English. “[We’re interested in] involving creative writers and hearing about their work,” Reade said of the upcoming events the Studio is planning. “I’m hoping that we’ll be able to bring some exciting young and unfamiliar names to campus—people that might not have been invited otherwise.” While the Studio’s obscurity and small attendance are conducive to a productive study environment, they do limit accessibility for new students to discover the space. For now, the directors largely publicize open hours and events through mass emails sent to residential college listservs. “Once we have real events and a regular schedule, I want to start advertising us with posters, but we’re not there yet,” Hamel said. The Studio is an often overlooked study space that is a great option for students seeking a more private environment to study, or to come and relax by browsing the bookshelves and enjoying a mug of tea. Regardless of future events or publicity campaigns, the Writers Studio currently remains a cozy study space just waiting to be found by students wandering through the area. “I found out about the Studio because I lived on the third floor of Blair during my freshman year,” O’Shea said. “One night, I meandered over to the end of the hallway, through a door, up a few steps, through a door, through another door, and there it was — like a mirage.”
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Arts Company seeks to innovate in the realm of theater. “At Grind, we want to put up shows that need to be done,” company’s founder Eamon Foley ’15 said. “They have to have a reason for existing.” And part of Foley’s mission at Grind is to always search for newer, more relevant, more radical reasons to make theater. “We don’t ever want to do a carbon copy,” he said. “We don’t ever want to do a show simply because it will sell, simply because an actor is very fond of it and wants to do it. It has to forward the piece in some way. That can mean digging into new themes, or turning the original show on its head — but as long as a concept forwards the piece in some way, then we are fascinated with doing it.” Having a conversation about art with someone as artistically rapacious and insatiable as Foley can be over whelming, but here’s where we find common ground — and indeed, here is where he finds common ground with all lovers of the stage: Foley harbors a
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lose your eyes, and imagine you’re walking into a Broadway theater. What comes to mind? Neat rows of padded chairs. A luxurious curtain, probably. A glossy playbill, screaming the name of a Broadway classic — maybe Phantom — which has been performed faithfully the same way for years. Grind Arts Company, an avantgarde theater troupe born last year on campus, is interested in precisely none of those things. You might know them as the company who produced Stephen Sondheim’s gruesome, challenging musical “Sweeney Todd” outside on the Jadwin Loading Dock last spring. No, you read that right. Jadwin Loading Dock. Site-specific performance in unconventional venues such as this is just one way that Grind
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fierce and undying faith in the power of theater. He is profoundly certain that theater matters. Doesn’t the humanity of that make you smile? This weekend, Grind’s newest production opens at New South: a difficult space to work in, no doubt about that — but their scrappiness is a point of pride for the Grind family. The show in question is an innovation production of “The Last Five Years,” an unconventional two-person musical written and composed by Jason Robert Brown that follows the failed five-year relationship between Jamie Wellerstein, a rising novelist, and Cathy Hiatt, a struggling actress. What makes this show unique is the non-traditional way in which the story is told. Cathy tells her story in reverse chronological order beginning the show at the end of the marriage, while Jamie tells his story in chronological order beginning the show at the couple’s first encounter. How does Grind plan to forward this piece? Foley, who’s directing the production, didn’t want to give everything away, but he did give me a few hints. “When I was mulling this show over,” Foley tells me, “I had just gone through a break-up. And I was decimated. And I found myself making
this person up to be someone that he really was not. In my memories, I made him up to be a god — this person that was not real. It took me about a year to realize that I was putting this guy on a pedestal. That was dangerous. But love is a reality-altering drug, and it really skews your vision. And that’s how the concept was born.” Foley turns to me, his tone suddenly more urgent. “This is a show about two people learning to see each other.” The numerous and inventive ways in which Grind’s production of “The Last Five Years” plans to foreground this theme of seeing and not seeing are impressive. The production works with projection, silhouette and dance to create hyper-realities of the on-stage characters. Foley has expanded the two-person cast to a four-person cast by adding two dancers to play the heightened, non-real versions of Jamie and Cathy. Foley stressed the necessity of dance in his production because he sees it as the way to communicate the nonpedestrian quality of love. “Dance is where I bring in the love, the passion,” Foley said. “Love is not something that lives in our civilian world. Love is something extra-daily.”
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Graham Phillips ’16 stars as Jamie, a rising novelist.
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‘The Last Five Years’ will take place in New South from Oct. 10 to Oct. 12 at 8 p.m. with an additional 3 p.m. matinee on the 12th. The show will move to the Fields Center for performances from Oct. 16-18.
Princeton Arts Weekends is here, and the lineup will not disappoint. Student group performances include Princeton South Asian Theatrics, and the Princeton Tigerlilies and the Nassoons, who will be hosting guest a cappella groups from the University of Virginia and the College of William and Mary. Other events include the three-day Tango Festival and Comedy Night at Richardson Auditorium on Friday. In addition, the University Art Museum will be hosting an Art Safari for the adventurous crowd, and the Friend Center will feature an Art of Motorcycle Design exhibit for the badasses among you. No matter their artistic interests, all Princetonians can find something worth applauding this weekend.
THEATER THE 24-HOUR PLAY FESTIVAL THEATRE INTIME Saturday, 12 a.m.
Legend has it Jack Kerouac penned his defining work of the Beat Generation, “On the Road,” in just three weeks. That seems impressive enough, but how about in just one day? Theatre Intime awaits daring writers, directors and actors to pull an all-nighter and conjure up original plays starting Friday at midnight. Eight hours of playwriting are immediately followed by a one-day rehearsal to bring the play to life. On Saturday night, the first and the last performances of the shows will take place. BEN KOGER :: PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Director Eamon Foley ’15 incorporates dance, projection and silhouettes into the show to create heightened realities.
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‘The Last Five Years’ will star Deirdre Ricaurte ’16 as Cathy and Graham Phillips ’16 as Jamie as well as Sophia Andreassi ’16 and Trent Kowalik ’17 as their dancing shadow selves.
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DISCUSSION ‘THE BUSINESS OF MAKING ART’ WITH DANIEL GLASS PROSPECT HOUSE, GARDEN ROOM Friday, 4:30 p.m.
What is a career trajectory for a pre-med student working as a DJ at a college radio station? Founding what Rolling Stone named in 2011 the “Best Indie Label.” This, however, is just one of Daniel Glass’ many achievements as the music industry executive behind Grammy Award-winning bands such as Mumford & Sons and Phoenix. Glass has rocked the music industry, so pick up on his tunes as he mixes his insights on growing emerging musical trends, the impact of technology on the music industry and the creative processes behind stardom into an enlightening conversation with entertainment attorney Jeff Leven ’00.
TALK SHOW SEASON 3 PREMIERE OF ALL-NIGHTER WITH ELIOT LINTON FRIST FILM AND PERFORMANCE THEATRE Friday, 10:45 p.m.
With midterms approaching, most students cringe at the thought of the oncoming allnighters, hoarding snacks from late meal and ordering pounds of gummy worms off Amazon. However, with the Season 3 premiere of Princeton’s only late-night talk show, there is still reason to rejoice. The show, with new host Eliot Linton ’15, features guests including former University president and current professor Shirley Tilghman, Friendsy co-founders Mike Pinsky ’15 and Vaidhy Murti ’15, as well as musical performances by Cameron Johanning ’16 and Uma (Pam Soffer ’15).