The roar of the crowd ... and the motorcycle

By Angela Wu ’12

Posted on Mar. 15, 2011

The band calls them “the hecklers”: two students who go to as many home men’s basketball games as the plaid-clad band itself does — which is to say, all of them.   They stand, dressed in orange and black, at the front of the student...

Banging out a thesis; blocking out the noise

By Isabel Pike ’11

Posted on Feb. 23, 2011

During intersession, 57 seniors participated in a five-day boot camp that involved no push-ups but lots of thesis writing. “The basic idea is to create a structured working environment for writers where distractions, like noise and the...

Running out of time; singing calendar blues

By Angela Wu ’12

Posted on Feb. 4, 2011

“Those are the lazy people,” said Sean Chen ’13, gesturing to two students who had decided to lean out of their third-story dorm-room window rather than join the crowd in the snowy courtyard. He, like the pair, was waiting for the...

Taking aim at comedy; grad students at Terrace

By David C. Walter ’11

Posted on Jan. 11, 2011

“We’re crazy tonight!” exclaimed senior Willie Myers at the start of a late-November rehearsal for the Quipfire! comedy team. But there’s a method to the madness. Visits with several Princeton comedy groups suggested that there’s no such...

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Posted on Nov. 28, 2010