In this week’s installment of our recurring series bringing you the history of Princeton University and its faculty, students, and alumni, a ban on pizza delivery is enforced, a release party is held for a new book, and more.
March 2, 1960—Princeton University is enforcing a ban on pizza delivery on campus.
March 4, 1913—2,000 undergraduates attend the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, as president of the United States, bringing a sea of orange and black to the usual red, white, and blue on display.
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March 6, 1947—Martin Niemoeller, said to be “still gaunt from his years of imprisonment,” opens the first in a series of community Lenten services in Princeton University Chapel.
March 7, 1999—The Princeton Arts Council hosts a release party for Latin American Princeton/Princeton Latinoamericano, a compilation of student research projects for SOC/LAS 338: The Sociology of Latinos in the United States and oral histories conducted by the students of Apoyo/Princeton Immigrant Rights League. The book focuses on the town’s immigrant Latinx community.
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