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This Week in Princeton University History for November 3-9
By April C. Armstrong *14 In this week’s installment of our recurring series, undergraduates are distributing questionnaires for a computerized dating service, students give literal stump speeches, and more. November 3, 1942—Republican Congressman D. Lane Powers decries criticism from some of Princeton’s faculty, calling the professors “paid patriots.” “I know,” he says, that there are…
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This Week in Princeton University History for May 26-June 1
In this week’s installment in our recurring series, campus protests are deemed “refined,” rumors are circulating in town, and more.
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This Week in Princeton University History for May 5-11
Add Post By April C. Armstrong *14 In this week’s installment in our recurring series, a professor’s creative use of technology draws press attention, computer dating is a new way students can find relationships, and more. May 7, 1982—Princeton’s Minority Affairs Subcommittee releases a controversial report on campus race relations.
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A Look Into Asian American Writing at Princeton and Its Focus on Interracial Dating: Racial Preferences of Campus Couples in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s (Part 2)
By Christina Cho ’24 This is a continuation of a two-part series that broadly explores how discussions of “Asian American” identity and interracial dating overlap in student publications found in the University Archives. In Part 1, I examined a magazine called The Seedling and attempted to contextualize its underlying motive and somewhat ambiguous language. Here,…
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A Look Into Asian American Writing at Princeton and Its Focus on Interracial Dating: The Seedling (Part I)
By Christina Cho ’24 This is a two-part series that broadly explores how discussions of “Asian American” identity and interracial dating overlap in student publications found in the University Archives. In Part 1, I examine a magazine called The Seedling and attempt to contextualize its underlying motive and somewhat ambiguous language. Finding The Seedling After…
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