The Daily Princetonian
Thursday march 30, 2017
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PAGES DESIGNED BY ANDIE AYALA, CATHERINE WANG, AND JIANING ZHAO: STREET EDITORS
NEW BEGINNINGS
This week Street looks at the new beginnings that spring has to offer. From a change of seasons to upcoming photo campaigns, campus always provides new opportunities for growth.
Student walks towards Frist Campus Center through the path between Prospect Garden and Prospect Tea Room on a snowy day.
The evergreen trees in Prospect Garden stood tall, covered in sheets of snow.
Hints of bright color in a grim world covered in snow. .
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pring: the season of new beginnings. When warmth comes back from hibernation, sunbeams emerge from dark clouds, and birds sing from the twigs of blossoming trees... at least that’s what it used to be like. But we now seem to face the ugly truth: spring is not the promise of a new beginning anymore — no, spring is the promise of apocalypse. Does that sound too cynical to be true? Or do you just refuse to believe it? Just take a look outside your window — it is likely that instead of blossoms, illuminated by bright sunlight, there are still remains of dirty snow on the ground, reminding us of the most recent snow storm. In the last few decades, spring has arrived later and later in the year, not only confusing poor local plants and animals trying to get through their seasonal cycles, but also Princeton students, who face the challenge of deWhen the snow is finally melting, the leaves sparkle like jewels.
See PHOTO ESSAY page S2
Even without much warmth, this year’s spring has its own form of crystalized, breathtaking beauty.
Flurry snow blurs the view into the courtyard on a casual spring morning in March.
Cold sunlight shines on Blair Arch and the path through it that has been previously covered in snow.