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July 16, 2008

Vol. 108, No. 16
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Cover Story
Perry LeBlanc '88 and daughter Peri. More images below.

Reunions 2008


By Brett Tomlinson. Photographs by Beverly Schaefer and Frank Wojciechowski.

The P-rade is an event for Tigers of many stripes — and for many patterns, prints, and plaids, too. But this year, viewers perched on the banks of Elm Drive likely experienced sense of déjà vu from two large contingents of alumni donning jackets that featured alternating, finger-width vertical slats of orange...

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Sara Prescott '08, left, and Tommy Curry '08. More images below.

Commencement 2008

By Katherine Federici Greenwood

Relief, pride, joy, sadness, exhaustion — graduates felt all these emotions as they completed their journeys through Princeton. After surviving finals and the writing of their theses and dissertations, 1,125 undergraduates and 743 graduate students...

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Princeton Spring


For the Class of 1968, senior year was a time like no other


By Christopher Connell ’71

The rites of Princeton University’s 221st Commencement played out on the sun-swept lawn of Nassau Hall on June 11, 1968, after a semester of national torment and heartbreak. Former Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg received an honorary degree, along with the poet...

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Loads of characters, plenty of plot


What class reunion books can tell us


By Landon Y. Jones ’66

When the men of Princeton’s Class of 1885 prepared to gather for their 25th reunion, they decided to publish a book reporting the latest doings of classmates “in anticipation of the reunion in June, 1910.” The 116 pages of the resulting hardcover volume did that and more: They...

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Data crusader


Josh Tauberer ’04 is someone a policy wonk could love


By Brett Tomlinson

Since graduating from Princeton in 2004, Josh Tauberer has led a double life. By day, he’s a mild-mannered graduate student in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. By night, he commands a legion of computer programs, trolling the Internet for data about congressional...

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Students, singing “Old Nassau” at Epidaurus in Greece, traveled to the ancient theater to inspire their work on a Greek tragedy to be performed next fall in the Berlind Theatre.

Staging the Greeks


A new course marries literary analysis and dramatic performance


By Deborah Yaffe

After six weeks’ intensive study of ancient Greek drama, a group of Princeton students stood in the 2,400-year-old amphitheater of the Greek city of Epidaurus, a space renowned for its acoustics. One by one, they mounted the stage to sing, declaim, or chant in tones destined to...

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THE WEEKLY BLOG

Sept. 17, 2008


READY TO RUN – The Princeton football team, shown here in an Aug. 27 practice, opens its 2008 season Sept. 20 in Charleston, S.C., facing The Citadel for the first time in school history. (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
   
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Supernova video
A video re-creation of the supernova seen "live" by Princeton researchers.
Sankofa: Looking back as we move forward
In his Pan-African graduation address, Robert J. Rivers Jr. '53 recounts the events that led to Princeton's opening the doors to African-Americans.
The DOE’s view of the future of Princeton’s fusion-energy lab
A Q&A with federal fusion-energy official Raymond J. Fonck *74
Web Exclusives
A conservative think tank with Princeton ties
The low-profile Witherspoon Institute has strong links to the Madison Program
Remembering George Garrett ’52 *56 *85, writer and professor
A Pulitzer Prize-winning poet offers a tribute to Garrett’s humor, storytelling, encouragement, and commitment to the art of writing.
Rally 'Round the Cannon
Gregg Lange '70 tells how Robert Goheen ’40 *48 passed on the true meaning of Princeton and Reunions
On the Campus: Final days for seniors
Before graduation is a "Dead Week" vacation, Jocelyn Hanamarian '08 writes.
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