Alumni participated enthusiastically in an interactive Q&A session to launch “Connect: A Black Alumni Leadership Initiative” at the recent Coming Back and Moving Forward conference on campus. Some 650 black alumni attended the conference to share experiences and plan future involvement with the University.
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The dynamic art of Odili Donald Odita in the entrance of Butler College’s 1967 Hall will greet class members when they gather Saturday, November 14, to celebrate the opening earlier this fall of the dormitory their generosity made possible.
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Football safety and rules have come a long way since the sport’s early days, but Princeton players are still known by their stripes. On November 14 the Tigers take on the Yale Bulldogs at Princeton Stadium for the latest match-up of the second-oldest rivalry in college football history.
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Tiger stripes are always welcome on campus, whatever the season. Butler College Director of Student Life Mindy Andino’s son, Aiden, came decked out early for Halloween at the September dedication ceremonies for the new college.
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These ghostly visitors added to the pre-Halloween aura created during the recent screening of the silent movie classic The Hunchback of Notre Dame in the University Chapel.
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Class of 2013 parents will be visiting campus this weekend, and may have images like this one in their minds of way back when, when they were college students… or maybe not…
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That’s Robert H. Young ’42 guarding buried treasure – a time capsule from his class outside the Class of 1942 Lounge. On October 3 representatives of the classes of 1922, 1940, 1941, and 1942 celebrated Memorial Court, which honors these classes in the new Butler College.
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Henry Cobb, design architect for Butler College, chatted with Butler resident Christine Prifti ’10 during the dedication ceremonies held on September 24. In her remarks, Prifti thanked the architect for the revitalized laundry rooms, which now encourage friendly conversation while folding clothes.
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Proof positive that a green roof can yield energy savings are in these thermograph readings recorded atop the new Butler College, which was dedicated September 24. In June, readings for the conventional roof, left, hit 107 degrees Fahrenheit while those for the green roof, right, topped out at 88 degrees. Photo courtesy of Princeton University Office of Communications and Jessica Hsu ’09
Politics lecturer Diane Snyder is leading The Rest of the Story: The Six O’Clock News, National Security, Intelligence, and You, a look at current events from conventional and unconventional sources, including comics’ monologues. The Freshman Seminar program introduces students to the excitement and rigors of Princeton academics. Topics range from hedge funds to art in Africa to climate change.
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Almost 800 members of the Class of 2013 are backpacking, canoeing, biking or digging into the rigors of sustainable farming on an Outdoor Action Frosh Trip before trading the wide-open spaces for a dorm room, participation in Opening Exercises on September 13, and the adventure of campus life.
Photo of Frosh Trip 2008 courtesy of Outdoor Action
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Comedian Chevy Chase took a brief break before addressing the Class of 2005 on Class Day. Maybe he contemplated where he fit in the line-up of laugh-makers and satirists who had stepped to the microphone on campus before him—vaudevillian Paul (Mousie) Garner, Chris Rock, Jon Stewart, Margaret Cho, Al Franken, Garrison Keillor, Bill Cosby, and Jerry Seinfeld.
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Cellist Yo-Yo Ma, no stranger to applause, happily received it when accepting an honorary degree from the University in 2005. Numerous artists of varied genres shared their work and vision at Princeton during the 2008–09 academic year, including author Jamaica Kincaid, Japanese filmmaker Hara Kazuo, choreographer Mark Morris, and actresses Glenn Close and Phylicia Rashad.
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First Ladies Lou Hoover, Bess Truman, Mamie Eisenhower, and Barbara Bush kept low profiles when accompanying their husbands on Princeton visits. But in 1944 Eleanor Roosevelt, above, came solo and addressed a student organization on how can the quality of our citizenship be improved and how can our active participation in government be stimulated? More recently, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has visited twice, as a First Lady and as a U.S. Senator. Will current First Lady Michelle Obama '85 make the trip, too?
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The confirmation of the Honorable Sonia M. Sotomayor ’76, a University trustee, to the U.S. Supreme Court as the first Latina justice elicits memories of a previous path breaker on the highest court. Before being named the first African American justice, Thurgood Marshall, center, received an honorary degree from Princeton. At Commencement in 1963 he talked with fellow degree recipients Robert McNamara, left, then U.S. Secretary of Defense, and Episcopalian Bishop Arthur Lichtenberger.
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