‘It’s been good to interact with faculty and really share our opinions on each topic
— surprisingly, we don’t disagree that much.’
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dition to four subcommittees chaired by faculty with two student representatives each. Half of the students were selected by the Graduate School, and the other half were selected by the Graduate Student Government.
“I think the idea was to have this more formal avenue — to have more regular, periodic ways to communicate between the grad school and admin,” Taniparti added.
Reed believes that student input has enhanced the quality of the subcommittees, which used to be composed exclusively of faculty members.
A part of the Curriculum Subcommittee, Reed explained that integrating more student voices has been “incredibly effective,” given that students are the ones directly engaging with the course material and syllabus.
“I truly appreciate the Grad School for including grad student voices in early stages of thinking about different solutions, or different initiatives,” Reed continued.
“In these challenging times, we have found the subcommittees to be very productive sounding boards for issues that are impacting our community,” Schreyer wrote. “Having students in these conversations is invaluable.”
“It’s been good to interact with faculty and really share our opinions on each topic — surprisingly, we don’t disagree that much,” Nivedita Kanrar GS, who sits on the Student Life and Discipline Subcommittee, told the ‘Prince.’
However, students also acknowledged that the shared governance model is still in its first year and highlighted areas that could be improved.
For one, Kanrar explained that coordination as a broader Graduate Student Committee is sometimes difficult, as members are focused on each of their own subcommittees. “If we wanted to make proposals ourselves, we would have to meet outside and independently coordinate, which is really very difficult,” she said. Such proposals would move through the Policy Subcommittee, which reviews and makes recommendations on policy issues.
“I would like to see more communication between grad students and the larger Faculty Committee of the Graduate School,” Reed added. “Those committees are still very much separate.” Reed explained that he proposed increasing opportunities for dialogue between the faculty and student committees, which “would be truly where I see more room for growth and effectivity.”
Anne Lheem, the University Administrative Fellow for the Office of the Dean of the Graduate School, said in an email to the ‘Prince’ that she is helping conduct “a preliminary review of how the shared governance model is going at the Graduate School.” Lheem’s role is not tied to any single committee, but rather is seeking to collect insights on how the shared governance model more broadly has operated in the past year.
“We’re still defining the roles,” Kanrar said. “I think this is an active work between us and members of the Graduate School administration, and they’ve been flexible in this and open to discussions.”
Sena Chang is a senior News writer for the ‘Prince.’ She typically covers campus and community activism, the state of higher education, and alumni news.
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Senior lecturers, University lecturers, professors of the practice now eligible for emeritus status
By Nikki Han Assistant News editor
Certain kinds of non-tenured faculty can now receive emeritus status when they retire following a vote at last week’s faculty meeting, a change that allows them to maintain access to certain University benefits and funding opportunities.
The change was intended to “honor the contributions of longserving faculty” and “enhance the recognition of valuable faculty members who reinforce Princeton’s commitment to its teaching community,” according to the proposal made by Dean of the Faculty Gene Jarrett. The move is also intended to “align Princeton’s policies with those of Ivy+ peer institutions,” some of which have expanded recently.
Currently, only tenured professors and associate professors are granted emeritus status when they retire. Senior lecturers, University lecturers, and professors of the practice do not receive tenure and are considered “non-ladder teaching faculty,” according to the proposal. These positions are staffed across a number of departments, including languages, computer science, and economics.
“When I first assumed this role, I was told, quite frankly, that the Senior Lecturer position was a ‘dead-end,’” Senior Lecturer in Korean Language Ho Jung Choi wrote in a statement to The Daily Princetonian. “There were no opportunities for promotion, nor a clear pathway to maintain a professional connection with the University after retirement, despite years of full-time teaching and service.”
When emeritus faculty retire, they maintain certain benefits that non-emeritus retirees do not. These include retaining computing privileges like maintaining their existing University email address; having access to the library, athletic facilities, and
dining facilities; being assigned office or laboratory space if available and needed; and being able to take on postdocs and other research staff.
Faculty members who receive emeritus status must voluntarily resign from their current position of employment. Those who are dismissed for cause or leave the University not in good standing are not eligible for emeritus status, according to the proposal. The University also reserves the right to deny or rescind emeritus status if it feels a faculty member’s conduct is “inconsistent” with the “ethical standards currently expected from all Princeton faculty.” This is not customarily the case, according to the Office of the Dean of the Faculty.
The Dean of the Faculty’s proposal comes after several other institutions have approved the transfer of emeritus status for non-ladder teaching faculty. In March 2023, Yale expanded their policies on emeritus status to include several non-ladder instructional and research faculty positions. Stanford’s retirement policies similarly include giving emeritus status to professors ranked in their non-tenure lines.
The proposed amendment will be made to Provision IV.N of the Rules and Procedures of the Faculty, which outlines rules for retirement.
Following this proposal’s passage, the Dean of the Faculty will approve the transfer to emeritus status for senior lecturers, University lecturers, and professors of the practice. Emeritus status for tenured professors and associate professors is currently approved by the University’s Board of Trustees, according to the Office of the Dean of the Faculty.
Senior lecturers, University lecturers, and professors of the practice will be transferred to emeritus status if they fulfill three set criteria. First, they must have completed a minimum of 10 years of consecutive full-time
work at the rank of senior lecturer or higher. “University lecturer” and “professor of the practice” are considered higher ranks than “senior lecturer.” Secondly, they must meet retirement eligibilityrequirements already set by the University, including being at least 55 years old. Additionally, they must formally retire.
The proposal will also codify the current processes by which emeritus status is transferred to tenured faculty members, stating that “The Board of Trustees approves the transfer to emeritus status of retirement benefits-eligible faculty who formally retire.” Previously, the provision did not specify that faculty members must be “benefits-eligible” or that they must “formally retire.”
The amendment also states that emeritus status faculty members who “retain a professional connection with Princeton” are expected to “conduct their future research and professional activities in accordance with University policy” and can also teach on an “occasional and part-time basis.”
“I’m very pleased that the new policy granting emeritus status to retiring Senior Lecturers, University Lecturers, and Professors of the Practice was approved at the last faculty meeting,” Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Portuguese Anna Alsina Naudi wrote in a statement to the ‘Prince.’ “It’s a meaningful recognition of their contributions and ensures continued connection and engagement with the University community.”
“This is a meaningful and necessary step, one that can strengthen the sense of belonging, continuity, and mutual respect within Princeton’s faculty community,” Choi wrote.
Nikki Han is an assistant News editor and a contributing Features writer. She runs the Faculty, Graduate Students, and Alumni coverage area.
It all comes down to this: 2025 upperclass draw
By Vincent Etherton & Alexa Wingate Head Data editors
Upperclass students, do you have a draw time at the 95th percentile of all draw groups where you can score one of the most spacious singles or a quad with private bedrooms? If not, you might want to read on to prepare yourself for upperclass room draw.
Upperclass student room draw will begin at 9:30 a.m. on April 11 with a two-person group taking their pick, and will end April 17. It is the last cohort of a several-week-long room draw process that began with independent students on April 1, followed by residential college draw, which takes place from April 2 to April 10. We categorized each upperclass room currently on the available rooms list by specific room type, square footage, access to laundry, and a relative popularity score. For the popularity score, we used last year’s available rooms lists to estimate the percentile of each room, calculated as the fraction of all available upperclass rooms that were picked after the room at hand. Unlike last year, drawing into Walker Hall is again an option for undergraduates. In a statement to The Daily Princetonian, the University wrote, “There will be no graduate students residing in Walker Hall during the 2025-26 Academic Year.”
While rooms won’t leave the official housing list, rooms definitely have the potential to be added. In a comment to the ‘Prince’, the University stated that the available rooms list undergoes “near-constant change as students accept or decline room contracts,” providing merit to last-minute research prior to a group’s draw time.
The ‘Prince’ found 16 different types of rooms available to upperclass residents this year.
Aside from the 423 singles available to upperclass students this year, the most prevalent room type was for two residents, with 136 doubles listed on the available rooms list. Doubles are also the most diverse of the upperclass housing options, with 20 percent having one room, 16 percent having two private bedrooms, 32 percent having three rooms, and 32 percent having a common room and a double bedroom.
Three-room doubles were the earliest-chosen rooms in the 2024 upperclass draw, with rooms chosen at the 74th percentile of room draw participants on average. In other words, these rooms were on average selected in the first 26 percent of all room selections. Singles and quingles — quads with four private bedrooms and a common room — were chosen on average at the 63rd percentile.
In the 2024 upperclass draw, groups wholly avoided both normal quads — quads with two double bedrooms and a common room — and triples, each being in the 12th and 19th percentile on average respectively. This may suggest that upperclassmen desire their own living space as they move into their second half of undergraduate residence.
Singles consistently offer the largest square footage per resident on average. 19 of the 20 largest rooms sorted by square footage per resident are singles. However, singles can also offer residents some of the smallest living areas with 16 of the 20 smallest rooms being singles.
The largest room of three or more occupants in terms of square footage per occupant is 1901 Hall 411, a three-room triple with around 280 square feet per person. The smallest is Walker Hall 312, with 119 square feet per resident — less than half of 1901 Hall 411. Interestingly, a single around this size would be at the 6th percentile of all single rooms in last year’s draw.
1901 Hall has the highest diversity of room types, with nine types of rooms available. Feinberg Hall has the least unique room types with eight quads and one six-person room available.
About a quarter of the total number of singles are in Scully Hall, the only upperclass residence hall south of Butler College and the future site of Hobson College. While less centrally located, Scully was the first hall to run out of rooms during last year’s draw, providing more evidence for a high preference towards single rooms.
Little Hall has the most sizable singles with an average of 214 square feet across its four singles. 1903 and Brown Halls have the smallest quads with an average square footage of around 520 and 530 square feet, respectively. Quads in Dod and Lockhart Halls are over 700 square feet on average.
Overall, each upperclass residence hall has its own considerations depending on an individual’s preferences on square footage, privacy among roommates, location, or laundry services. While a Dod quad or Scully single might be drawn within the first 10 percent of rooms, draw groups lower on the list can plan realistically to maximize their housing experience next year.
Vincent Etherton is a head Data editor for the ‘Prince.’
Alexa Wingate is a head Data editor for the ‘Prince.’
Analyzing new class times and the Fall 2025 course offerings list
By Caden Kang Data Contributor
Reset your alarms for next semester. Your first class is most likely being offered at 10:40 a.m., not 11. You have a little bit longer to get to class, though.
Course offerings were officially released on Thursday, March 27, with 134 new offerings among a total of 1,070 courses.
The School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) and Department of History offer the most courses of any department, with 48 courses listed by the Registrar for next semester. The Department of Economics follows, offering 41 courses for the upcoming semester.
Literature and the Arts is the most popular distribution requirement for available courses with 282 courses fulfilling the requirement — a 45 course increase from last semester. QCR and SA also saw a surge in offerings.
Continuing a trend noted by an analysis of Spring 2025’s new course offerings, the visual arts, anthropology, African American studies, and history departments have expanded their course rosters. The Program in Visual Arts is offering seven new courses this upcoming semester, while the latter three each have six new courses.
New course start and end times reflect the University’s decision last year to extend passing times between classes to 15 minutes. Morning and afternoon classes are most impacted by this shift, as 10:40 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. is the most common time for classes to be in session.
In a written comment to the ‘Prince,’ University spokesperson Jennifer Morrill wrote that “the additional passing time between classes will help students in a number of ways, most importantly by ensuring that students can get from one end of campus to the other without leaving one class early or arriving to another class late.” Courses are no longer required to start in strict
30-minute intervals. The most common course start times were 10:40 a.m. and 1:20 p.m.
“For afternoon courses that meet for 50 or 80 minutes, the 1:20 start time ensures adequate time after the end of the course meeting for students to travel across campus to a course at 2:25 or 2:55, respectively. Instructors who are teaching a three-hour lab or seminar can elect to start at either 1:20 or 1:30, whichever better suits their pedagogical and curricular needs,” Morrill wrote.
There are three courses offering international travel in Fall 2025: JRN 449: International News — Migration Reporting, ANT 455: Visible Evidence — Wildlife Films and Multispecies Documentary, and FRE 388: Theater Making in the Age of Climate Change. They are traveling to Germany, Kenya, and France, respectively. These courses were found by searching “travel” or “trip” on the Registrar’s course offerings page.
Professor Deborah Amos, whose course JRN 449 will be traveling to Berlin, Germany, wrote to the ‘Prince’ that students will have the “experience of an international correspondent.” The class is centered around pitching a journalistic piece that will be developed during fall break. Amos writes that she “[serves] as an editor rather than a professor,” leading to a “very hands-on experience.”
Professor Florent Masse wrote that FRE 388’s travel opportunity to France “[augments] understanding of the course work, while perfecting one’s language skills since French is spoken throughout the trip.” Interested students must apply by Friday, April 18.
Junior course selection will be on Wednesday, April 16, sophomore course selection will be on Thursday, April 17, and first-years will select their classes on Friday, April 18. Add/drop for Fall 2025 courses will begin on Monday, April 28, and end on Friday, May 2.
Caden Kang is a Data contributor for the ‘Prince.’
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The real outside agitators
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What if I told you that Princeton is under investigation by the federal government for antisemitism, not because students, staff or faculty have filed a complaint, but because one man who is not affiliated with the University sent a complaint to the Department of Justice (DOJ)?
What if I told you that this complaint and its overblown rhetoric is what led to the suspension of millions of dollars of federal funding to Princeton University?
For starters, it’s weird that the investigation spurring Trump’s rationale for the funding cuts was initiated by Zachary Marschall — a far-right blogger who has no connection to Princeton’s campus or community. Marschall made the jump from a few online videos of chants to the illogical and incorrect conclusion that they made Jewish students unsafe. If campus community members are feeling unsafe, allow them to make the complaint themselves.
What’s really ironic, though, is that this same man, utterly external to the Princeton community, bashed encampments and proPalestine protests for supposed “outside agitators” joining in — an overused trope that has been used to stifle protest for decades.
He is the outside agitator that he fears. The people meddling in campus life and making students less safe are Marschall and his coconspirators.
Who is Marschall, anyway? He’s the editor of Campus Reform, a publication that describes itself as a “conservative watchdog” of college campuses. In the past two years, he has taken it upon himself to submit at least a dozen antisemitism complaints to the DOJ against universities that he hasn’t attended or taught at.
Marschall’s logic about “outside agitators” — that they coopt movements to the point that they can no longer be considered legitimate — is false and historically uninformed at best. The idea of a so-called “outside agitator” has been used to debase protest movements since the Civil Rights Movement of the mid-20th century.
sympathetic,” he said.
Classifying protesters as “outside agitators” is a part of a larger strategy to characterize them as dangerous radicals with little knowledge of the issue at hand, delegitimizing ultimately genuine concerns that many have.
You can see where I’m going here.
By nature of filing these complaints where he very well may talk about “outside agitators,” Marschall becomes, himself, the outside agitator. I’m not saying that we should respond to Marschall with increased aggression or violence. But Marschall
“is” an activist with zero knowledge of our campus culture who weaponizes his outsized influence to inflict harm on universities.
Antisemitism — and all other forms of hate, including against Muslims and Palestinians — is indeed a real problem and should be fought vigorously, as I wrote in this section last month. But like University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 said in his Wednesday appearance on The New York Times’ The Daily podcast, the University has taken tangible steps to fight hate, and it is Jewish students who have the highest levels of satisfaction about our campus experience.
It’s important to address that there are “outside agitators” on both sides of the political spectrum. Exhibit A is Monday’s protest against ex-Israeli PM Naftali Bennett: There were reports of protesters who are not University affiliates yelling “go back to Europe” towards people leaving Bennett’s event, indicating all Jews should leave Israel. But while the “outside agitators” participating in hate speech are well on the fringes of pro-Palestine activism, individuals like Marschall — also an agitator whose affiliations with the University are laughably nonexistent — have wielded a disproportionate voice against the University and encouraged punitive federal action. Marschall drives the mainstream on education in Trumpworld. The few instances of antisemitism on the part of pro-Palestinian agitators — while egregious — are not endemic to the movement.
Marschall’s not the only outside agitator talking about Princeton.
called on Princeton and President Eisgruber to take strong action against protesters who disrupted Bennett’s Monday event on campus. “[H]ow about some academic suspensions?” the board questioned.
Internal pathways for accountability do exist here and are currently being explored by the University for the most egregious offenders. Perhaps the Journal did not care to find this out, or perhaps they wrote the piece to drum up controversy. A piece like this from the Editorial Board of a national newspaper — one that perilously misconstrues the nature of Princeton’s community atmosphere by virtue of the acts of an unaffiliated few — is exactly what allows charlatans like Marschall to get their way, leading to the funding cuts that make campus life worse and more contentious for all.
Marschall and people like him, because of their authoritarian tendencies, will continue to prod at universities for as long as they continue to exist. It’s important to call out their contradictory rhetoric when we can, and it is incumbent upon Universities and their students to fight back against the mischaracterization of campus events.
That is how we make sure that universities do, in fact, continue to exist, especially during the administration of President Donald Trump, whose hatred of institutions of higher education cannot be overstated. We must retain the right to determine our own campus narrative — it shouldn’t be defined by a Wall Street Journal editorial or Zachary Marschall’s complaint.
Ultimately, it is not Marschall who bothers me most, although he certainly bothers me quite a bit. It’s the conditions that allow for Marschall to cause great harm and strain to the University — including the Trump administration and the right-wing media machine — even though he is not affiliated with it.
Until those conditions change, though, I’ll call him what he is: The real outside agitator.
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Antagonists like Marschall appreciate the term because of its vagueness and adaptability. This is on show in the attempt to describe protesters as “outsiders” — the same words used by conservatives to characterize Martin Luther King Jr. because he was acting outside of his home state can be applied to protesters on college campuses in 2025. But it’s not just the rhetoric of “outside.” Quoted in NPR last spring, Justin Hansford, a law professor at Howard University, explained that the word “agitator” is integral because it convinces people to accept a more aggressive response to protests: “People look to the righteous outrage of folks who see these terrible images … and there’s a certain level of sympathy. So it becomes a political risk to be seen as cracking down really harshly on folks who are
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Assistant Opinion Editor Charlie Yale is a first-year from Omaha, Neb. Charlie was glad to close all of the “Campus Reform” and “Canary Mission” tabs open on his browser after submitting this column.
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college to an Ivy League University.”
Gonzalez realized that at Princeton transfer students could enter as first-years, allowing them to experience the four-year college experience. “I could start over,” Gonzalez said at the time.
When Gonzalez and his family visited, they were quickly sold. Gonzalez, who was also weighing Columbia, met with transfer program staff members who explained that Princeton would provide full financial support and housing for his family. “They treated me like a full student,” Gonzalez said.
“I was sold,” Capriles said. “If Columbia was one of the guys I was dating and Princeton was the other guy I was dating, Columbia would be sent packing and Princeton would win,” Capriles said. “I’d be like, ‘Yes, you can have my hand in marriage.’ That’s how you woo someone.”
The allure of starting over has been a common theme among transfer students.
Like Gonzalez, Jaco also served in the military. After five years as an avionics technician, Jaco moved back home to Tennessee and continued working in aviation, but he didn’t love it. “I was sort of in it for the money, and I was realizing the money wasn’t worth it,” he said. He also used the GI Bill for a Tennessee program that allowed him to attend community college, where he studied philosophy and psychology.
Once Jaco graduated with an associate’s degree, he enrolled at a state university, hoping to eventually obtain a master’s or doctorate in psychology. One day, he received an email from Princeton with application information. “I thought it was fake,” he said. “I’d never heard from an Ivy League school in my life.”
Some other transfer students hail from outside of the United States. Allenza grew up in a working-class family in Costa Rica and could not afford to continue her education after high school. She came to the United States when she was 24 and decided to stay after meeting her husband. After the two married in 2018, Allenza enrolled in Middlesex College in Edison, N.J. to study psychology. There, she excelled in her classes, and her professors encouraged her to apply to Princeton.
Darden, meanwhile, dropped out of college twice. Growing up in New York City, she was
the only girl in her family to graduate high school without becoming a teenage mother. Her mother had her at age 16, and her father was in and out of prison for drug charges throughout her childhood.
“I had all this focus on me to be the first in my family to go to school and do everything right,” she recalled. When it came time to apply to college, her mom forced her to apply to Virginia Union, a historically Black, Baptist university. “They accepted me, so I had no choice but to go,” she said.
She went, and she was miserable. She didn’t go to class or join any clubs, and she was robbed one day walking home after getting school supplies. After one semester, she dropped out. She returned home, but her mother again forced her to enroll in community college. “I went to class one day and never returned,” Darden said, adding, “I wasn’t ready. It was forced on me.”
Darden worked job to job, sometimes struggling with housing insecurity. She and her partner, Paul, were repeatedly denied from the New York shelter system because they didn’t have a domestic violence or child protective services case. Her daughter Tamia was born in 2012 and her son Zaiden in 2019. Finally, in 2021, a life coach suggested that she go back to school — this time on her own terms.
In 2022, she enrolled at Bronx Community College, the same college she dropped out of in 2007.
This time, Darden was accepted into the honor society and invited to join a leadership program that helped her apply to four-year colleges for social work. Her advisor suggested Princeton.
“Why would you put Princeton on here?” Darden asked.
“Why wouldn’t I?” her advisor said. “You can do that.”
“I look like a trespasser”: Navigating Belonging
Landing at Princeton, however, was just the beginning of these students’ journeys toward belonging.
Since moving to Princeton last August, Gonzalez’s life has been a whirlwind of classes, readings, papers, and
spending time with his family. Still, Gonzalez continues to experience bouts of imposter syndrome. At orientation events, he was mistaken for a non-student and considered buying a lanyard so he could wear his ID around his neck — but he ultimately decided that he should not need to prove to others that he belongs.
Though he has now found friendships in the transfer community and student veteran clubs, Gonzalez still sometimes feels out of place. “I look like a trespasser,” he said.
Meanwhile, Capriles spends her days with Cataleia as she completes online school, taking care of household chores, and going to lectures with Gonzalez. “I can sit there, knowing I couldn’t go to these schools, and can have these conversations I’ve always dreamt of having. This is a dream for me,” Capriles said.
At Princeton, Capriles feels that she can finally relax. “It’s so laid back, so it’s perfect for me, because I’m sick,” she said, referring to her life-long struggles with lupus. She has worked hard to find a community, befriending both students and non-students and hosting watch parties for wrestling matches.
Each year, the partners of current students host a dinner for the partners of the incoming students to help them get to know each other and form their own community. Capriles has been able to take advantage of these opportunities and forge her own Princeton experience, despite not being a student herself.
But the fact that Gonzalez, Darden, and other students can be married is a bit of a historical anomaly for Princeton. Until 1970, Princeton students were not allowed to be married. “We were all told that if you got married before you graduated, you were out,” Knox Little, a Princeton student who graduated in 1950, told the Princeton Alumni Weekly nine years ago. “Of course, there were some who never told the University they were married, and kept their wives hidden.”
After Pearl Harbor, many Princeton students dropped out and joined the military.
Facing a record-low budget and enrollment levels, Princeton decided to host several military training schools. In 1943, nearly 20,000 people were trained for the military on campus.
After the war, Princeton promised to educate students who entered the military before graduating. The newly instated
GI Bill provided educational benefits to World War II veterans, encouraging thousands of veterans to return to campus, oftentimes bringing their wives and children with granted permission.
“Chaos reigned for some weeks while the University tried to settle in us ‘regular freshmen’ along with a huge number of returning military veterans of all classes,” Little reflected. With a lack of housing, Princeton converted Baker Rink into housing for students.
In the 1970s, Princeton began to allow married students to enroll. A handful of these students had children, though the University would not provide them with housing.
Records of Princeton’s transfer program date back to the 1920s, but in 1990, due to a housing shortage and large class size of incoming first-year class, the University decided to stop accepting transfer applications, according to the ‘Prince.’
In 2016, the University began to consider reinstating the transfer program to help diversify the student population by including perspectives not present on campus. In 2018, Princeton admitted 13 transfer students. Over the past seven years, the number of transfer students has continued to increase, bringing more students with partners and children to campus.
Today, programs for the families of the students are growing, according to Reda. “As a mom, one of my focuses is these little ones, and how we can make their experience on campus equally as positive as their parents,” Reda said.
Now, the apartments south of campus are the center of a small but thriving transfer family.
On a crisp fall day in late October, around 20 transfer students and family members gathered on the patio at Lakeside Apartments for the Transfer and Veteran Fall Festival, painting pumpkins and enjoying pizza, pie, and apple cider.
Jaco helped plan the festival as part of his role as a transfer student mentor. He wanted to create an event that would inspire the children to interact with each other.
Jaco’s daughter, Paxton, rode around on a scooter with Darden’s daughter, Tamia. Jaco’s younger daughter, Aspen, ran around playing tag with two younger boys.
Tamia ran up to the patio, which was decorated with fake leaves and orange tablecloths, complementing the red and yel-
low leaves on the trees above. She grabbed two slices of pumpkin pie, and Darden shouted, “Save one for grandma!” — who was visiting Princeton for the weekend.
Because Tamia will be in high school when Darden graduates, they are planning to stay in Princeton until Tamia graduates. “The education system has been so good out here, I do not want to take her back to New York,” Darden said. “I haven’t had one bout of anxiety since we got here. I’m stressed, but I’m not anxious, and there’s a total difference.”
Still, Princeton is still just one step on the path of these transfer students. They have dreams that extend beyond the Orange Bubble.
Darden is planning on majoring in either Sociology or African American Studies. She wants to get a master’s degree in social work and eventually open a holistic shelter that includes therapy and resources for entering schools, including trade schools. She is inspired by her mother, who is the director of social services at a shelter in the Bronx.
Now a senior, Allenza is a Sociology major and plans to obtain a master’s degree. While in community college, she conducted research on the challenges that students with children face. “I think there are a lot of misconceptions about students who have children. It is interesting to me that there is such a small space for us,” she said.
Jaco plans to work in education one day, in a job like Reed’s, to help first-generation and low-income students obtain an education.
Gonzalez hopes to one day become a history professor at a community college to give back to students with similar backgrounds to him. “My plan is to take full advantage of the education I can get here and turn that into community college success for others,” he said.
Capriles is on board, as long as Gonzalez teaches in Hawaii. “I already looked at the apartments that they have for the teachers. I loved it,” she said. “I take such pride in him. I don’t need the spotlight. You take it all.”
Hannah Gabelnick is a senior News writer for the ‘Prince.’ She is from Buffalo, N.Y. and typically covers academic policy, institutional legacy, and health.
COURTESY OF NATHALIA ALLENZA ’25 Nathalia Allenza ’25, her husband, Paul, and their daughter Julieta.
COURTESY OF SHAQUANA DARDEN ’28 Shaquana Darden ’28, her husband, Paul, and their children Tamia and Zaiden.
‘It’s the Princeton Way’: The award-winning bakery behind Princeton’s sweet treats
Between 7:30 each morning and eight at night, Princeton students flood the campus’s seven dining halls. Whether grabbing a pastry on the way to an early morning lecture, enjoying well-deserved cookies with their closest friends, or simply taking a quiet moment to recharge with a slice of cake, students consume around 6,000 desserts daily. While this big number may lead to assumptions that these desserts are mass imported by a faraway dessert company, this couldn’t be farther from the truth.
Hidden below the RockefellerMathey dining hall lies a magical workshop of sweets called the RoMA bakery. Within this bakeshop, 100% of the residential college menus and around 90% of campus’s retail menus are made from scratch daily and shipped to residential dining halls and special events.
Powered by a tight-knit group of five bakers and two delivery people, the RoMa bakery is much akin to Princeton’s Area 51, except instead of possible aliens, it possesses a much more dangerous secret: over 60-yearold chocolate chip cookie recipes.
Marked only by an 8x11 inch piece of paper taped to a pipe above the basement entrance that reads “BAKESHOP,” the RoMa bakeshop is at first unassuming: a medium-sized room perpetually buzzing with the sounds of baking machinery and filled with heavenly smells of cookie dough and freshly baked brownies. The room has a large central wooden table, where bakers pour sheets of brownies, and baking machinery large enough to hold stacks of baked goods the height of an NBA player line the room’s perimeter. Except for a small test table in a corner, everything within the bakeshop feels massive compared to our kitchens at home.
The grand size of everything makes sense when considering the bakery’s immense production. The shop uses roughly 150 pounds of King Arthur flour each shift. The flour arrives in sealed bags that seem more appropriate for a Home Depot.
While most of the bakery’s machinery is remarkably vintage, with countless 50-year-old mixers, one clear exception is the bakery’s cookie machine. Purchased in 2023, the machine can make around 130 dozen cookies and store information on over 1,000 recipes.
Thanks to the machine, Executive Pastry Chef Michael DiLiberto shared in an interview with The Daily Princetonian, “Usually when we do a batch of cookies, it’s around 120 dozen, 130 dozen.”
To work it, a baker loads over 200 pounds of cookie dough into a large funnel on top, electronically sets the machine for the desired type of cookie, and then loads empty trays onto a conveyor belt below. Small balls are then dropped onto the pan under a giant metal vat of dough, which the machine spits out on the other end.
The bakers also use a dough shooter and two large, old mixers. Indeed, while the bakery’s new cookie machine represents an investment in increased productivity, this type of equipment change is rare.
“There’s not many moving parts on the inside,” DiLiberto said, referring to the over 50-year-old mixer. “If you fix them the right way, they will last a hundred years or so,” There is value in using the same old equipment “because it works,” he asserted.
However, beyond the bakery’s robust machinery and resources, the most impressive aspect of the RoMa Bake Shop is its people.
While Princeton students may grumble about getting out of bed for their 10 a.m., the five-person baking team, led by Executive Pastry Chef Michael DiLiberto, typically arrives
every morning at 3 a.m., finishing their shifts around noon.
The bakery’s early hours and highpressure environment could create a challenging work environment. Yet, the team is incredibly supportive of one another, with DiLiberto referring to the team as a ‘family.’ “The kitchen culture is a tight community. You have each other’s back because there’s no other way to get this type of production done. It’s something that keeps guys like us and women in the business for so long,” Gattis said.
Given the limited time and the massive volume of food required, the bakers are in a constant race against the clock. As Culinary Associate Director Michael Gattis puts it, “Dinner is at five. Lunch is at 11:30. There is no not getting [it] out on time.” In the end, their ability to consistently assemble quality goods all comes down to experience.
The high-quality result of the bakers’ work is a combination of science and instinct, balancing quality and quantity with experience. This experience is essential for many of the bakery’s 50-year-old and older recipes that often contain only a list of ingredients. The bakers simply have to know the method for mixing the dough and how to bake it.
The bakers also internalize the scientific nature of baking, adjusting their process as they bake to account for humidity and ingredient substitutions. Further, during Princeton’s summer downtime, the bakeshop experiments with new recipes and ingredients and modifies recipes for scale and new machinery.
“They’re tried, they’re tested, they’re approved, and then they go into our database,” Gattis explained.
While many of the bakeshop’s recipes rely on tried-and-tested methods, there is still room for innovation. For example, for Women’s History Month this year, the team pioneered baker Kayla Burg’s Chocolate Dirt Pudding
recipe, one of her family’s favorite recipes, inspired by the time she spent helping her parents in their garden growing up. As they do with all family recipes, the bake shop worked with Kayla to preserve the integrity of her family recipe, while adapting to serve the whole campus, balancing family tradition with innovation.
In many ways, the bakeshop is a direct continuation of the ideals Princeton represents, blending tradition, innovation, and community. This message remained constant throughout the tour, perfectly embodied by Gattis’s comment, “Part of the scratch cooking is the campus dining’s initiative to move away from processed foods … for the health and wellness of our students. There’s a cost involved with it, but … it’s the right thing to do … it’s the Princeton Way.”
Learning from the bakers at RoMa Bakery revealed one of Princeton’s largest not-so-hidden secrets and demonstrated how the “Princeton way” applies to far more than just academics. As each of RoMa’s bakers demonstrates day in and day out, the Princeton Way is about challenging yourself, working for others, and educating yourself about the past to better the future. Therefore, the next time you grab a perfectly golden brown danish on a rush across campus, take a moment to appreciate the “heart and soul” that goes into it. As Gattis expressed, “Every bite that you take … you take a piece of [the staff] with you. And that’s what food is all about.”
Gavin McLoughlin, a member of the class of 2028, is an associate editor for The Prospect. He can be reached at gm9041@ princeton.edu.
Annika Plunkett is a staff writer for The Prospect and a member of the Newsletter team. She can be reached at ap3616@ princeton.edu.
at RoMa Bakery pose for a picture.
The seven best outdoor study spots on campus
By Marley Hartnett-Cody ontributing writer
As spring approaches, the student body flocks outside, trading bitter nights in Chancellor Green for fresh air and warmth during end-of-semester study sessions. To provide an escape from the stuffy and solemn reading rooms of Firestone Library, here is a list of the best outdoor study spots on campus.
Cannon Green for a historic study spot
Cannon Green is by far the most congested outdoor lawn on campus on a sunny day. Set behind the picturesque Nassau Hall and decorated by the “Big Cannon,” Cannon Green puts the historical roots of the University on full display. The green offers students an expansive field with lawn chairs distributed throughout, where you can grab a seat before finishing a reading or double-checking a calculation.
One thing to keep in mind, though, is that as soon as the temperature rises, Cannon Green is guaranteed to be flooded with students gathering for picnics, playing spikeball, and completing coursework. While it offers an aesthetic and spacious study location, beware that your lock-in sessions may be disrupted by student revelers, tourists, and guided tour groups.
Alexander Beach for an alternative study spot
Not too far from the occasionally overcrowded Cannon Green, the lawns of Alexander Beach offer an alternative location. Situated between Richardson Auditorium and Blair Arch, Alexander Beach features close proximity to both Rockefeller and Mathey Colleges as well as the U-Store to satisfy all your snack breaks.
Alexander Beach is adjacent to Morrison Hall, which hosts an outdoor patio furnished with picnic tables overlooking the field. This spot is perfect for those who like the idea of studying outside but still need a physical desk space. I have witnessed peers sitting at these tables, laptops open, typing away. In this spot, you may still have trouble focusing, this time from a host of photoshoots.
Beware, though, that as soon as the weather heats up, large tents spring up for Princeton Preview, the series of admitted student days in April. This may put a damper on your dreams of sunsoaked afternoons studying.
Firestone Plaza for a central study spot
Firestone Plaza is often a campus favorite for study breaks from working in the library.
I’ve watched — and participated in — many snack breaks, phone calls, or quick loops through the plaza during my long nights at Firestone. But as the weather gets warmer, many students opt for the outdoor plaza over the cozy nooks of the Tiger Tea Room and the serene reading rooms.
Firestone Plaza not only allows for a study spot with proximity to any scholarly resources necessary within the library, but also provides an outdoor environment conducive to productivity. With several tables, chairs, and ledges dispersed throughout the area, it is an ideal study spot for those compiling independent research. Yet beware of the Orange Key tours that frequently stop on the steps of the sculpture “Song of the Values.”
Frist Lawn for a convenient study spot
While your memories of Frist Lawn may consist of the crowded concerts during Lawnparties, both the North and South Lawns are excellent study spaces with close proximity to countless academic buildings on campus. Decorated with lawn chairs, both fields strike a balance between lounging and locking-in.
The South Lawn features picnic tables with an extensive patio for students. This space is no longer just for eating your late meal, but also an option for snacking and studying.
Coffee Club backyard for an artistic study spot
chairs perfect for finishing an essay or writing an article. It’s also perfect for students wanting to grab a tasty pastry or invigorating beverage before getting in an aesthetically pleasing study session.
The backyard is an especially pleasant environment when a student artist is performing inside. With the doors ajar, the music provides a serene backdrop. No need for your noisecancelling headphones and meticulously curated Spotify playlists when there are talented student performers inside. But watch out for basketballs from the Tower backyard.
Poe Field for a south campus study spot
For those of us residing on lower campus, Poe Field is an opportune option for reading, recreation, or relaxing. While the field does lack furniture, I have witnessed many students
The spot’s proximity to New College West, Yeh, and Bloomberg Hall makes Poe Field an ideal study location for southern campus students — or those who love Choi Dining Hall.
Forbes Backyard for a hidden & friendly study spot
A final study spot that is off-the-beaten-path for some is Forbes College’s Backyard. While my bias as a Forbesian may influence my preference, the yard provides a beautiful environment overlooking the Springdale Golf Club and Graduate College.
The backyard has several red lawn chairs and picnic tables for a cozy study environment. On a warm day, you can witness countless team dinners, football rounds, and students studying under the sunlight. Additionally, the close-knit community of Forbes ensures this spot is a welcoming and friendly environment for all.
Marley Hartnett-Cody is a member of the Class of 2028, a contributing writer for The Prospect, and a print designer at the ‘Prince.’
My favorite outdoor study spot on campus is the Campus Club Coffee Club backyard, where you can be sure to see me on a warm day. The backyard offers a more hidden study space, with a few tables and
sprawled on blankets with laptops out on a warm day.
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MEN’S GOLF
First-year Reed Greyserman captures first collegiate title as men’s golf dominate Princeton Invitational
By Matthew Yi Assistant Sports Editor
The Princeton men’s golf team delivered a thrilling performance to secure a home victory in the 2025 Princeton Invitational this past weekend at Springdale Golf Club. Competing in a weathershortened, two-round event against 13 other schools — including the entire Ivy League — the Tigers overcame cold, wind, and a round one deficit to secure the team title and celebrate first-year Reed Greyserman’s first collegiate win.
Disruptive weather forced the cancellation of the first round, shortening the tournament to 18 holes on Saturday and a final 18 on Sunday. This weather proved to be troublesome as Princeton sat in second place behind Rutgers after round one.
“Honestly, the temperature was bad,” junior Riccardo Fantinelli told The Daily Princetonian. “I’m not very good in the cold. The course was definitely playing a little longer, and the ball wasn’t flying as far.”
In round one, Greyserman finished with a score of 69 (-2), and sophomores Charlie Palmer and Tommy Frist carded a round of 72 (+1) and 73 (+2), respectively. To round out a slow start, Fantinelli finished with a score of 75 (+4), putting the Tigers one shot behind
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Rutgers.
Needing a big Sunday, the Tigers delivered.
Greyserman continued his consistent play by scoring 68 (-3) and taking the top individual honors for this tournament. He finished the tournament with a total score of 137 (-5), three shots ahead of second place.
“It means a lot, obviously, to get the first collegiate win — it’s big — and to have it be at home is even more special in front of everybody, all my friends and teammates,” Greyserman told the ‘Prince’. “I drove the ball well yesterday. That was good. Today I didn’t drive it as well but chipped it really well, which carried me through to the end.”
Greyserman was one of five Tigers to finish inside the top 15. He was joined near the top by Fantinelli, who fired a second-round score of 66 (-5) and finished fourth overall at 141 (-1).
“Today was a little warmer, and my putts were falling, so it was good,” Fantinelli said. “I relied on the other boys to carry me yesterday.”
The team was resilient under challenging conditions.
“Golf is tough,” Fantinelli explained to the ‘Prince.’ “You can have as big an advantage as you want, but at the end of the day, everyone starts at par. The key is to just go out there and grind.”
Palmer, who made waves at last year’s Invitational with a hole-inone, turned in a strong final round of 71 (E) to place tied for sixth at even par. Frist also made a leap on Sunday with a 72 (+1), finishing tied for 15th at +3 overall.
“I think that being our home course, I knew that we could do it,” Frist said. “We all had a good mindset this morning, and we knew that we’re better than these guys and had the ability to win it.”
Princeton finished at the top of the leaderboard, 13 shots above Rutgers.
The Tigers also had standout performances from their individual entries, most notably senior William Huang, who tied for sixth, adding another top-10 finish to his collegiate career.
Coming up next for the Tigers is the Ivy League Championships, where the Tigers just fell short last year. This year, it will take place
from April 25–27 in Springfield, Pennsylvania, and the Tigers will look to ride their momentum and secure an automatic bid into NCAA regionals.
“This gives us some momentum going to Ivies,” Greyserman said. “I think we got a good chance in it.”
Matthew Yi is an assistant Sports editor for the ‘Prince.’
No. 19 men’s volleyball caps off season sweep of Harvard on senior night
By Lucas Nor Sports Contributor
After five straight wins, including four in the Ivy League, No. 19 men’s volleyball (13–9 overall, 9–1 EIVA) achieved a critical season sweep over Harvard (9–12, 5–5) with wins on Friday and Saturday at Dillon Gym.
The Tigers are now one win away from cementing the No. 1 seed in the EIVA Tournament and earning home court advantage for the conference tournament. After the win on Saturday against Harvard on senior night, Princeton took the lead in the all–time series 16–15.
“It feels absolutely electric to get the wins we did in front of friends and family,” senior outside hitter Nyherowo Omene told The Daily Princetonian. “It means even more because it means we’re one step closer to hosting and eventually winning the conference.”
On a high-stakes Friday night at Dillon Gym, Princeton delivered a tone-setting win, overcoming Harvard in a tricky home matchup.
Princeton and Harvard went toe–to–toe in set one, with the Tigers barely edging the Crimson to win 25–23. The second set was just as entertaining. In a back and forth affair, the Orange and Black fended off four
set points from Harvard, with junior middle blocker Ryan Vena providing two kills in the final three points to squeak out a 31–29 win. Having found their groove, the third and final set was all Tigers as they sealed a match sweep over the Crimson.
The Tigers and Crimson took to the court for a rematch on Saturday afternoon, providing a blockbuster contest in front of a packed Dillon Gym crowd. Despite a slow start and a roller coaster of emotions, the Orange and Black were able to pull out a gritty 3–2 win.
After having failed to win a set on Friday night, Harvard started quickly in the second game of the series. Although both squads traded points early, the Crimson took a 7–6 lead that they did not surrender for the remainder of the set. Harvard took the first set 25–23.
The second set, a crucial opportunity for Princeton to tie the score instead of going down 2–0, was just as tight. From the beginning, it was a back and forth affair, with both teams taking the lead multiple times. Princeton won four straight points, capped off by an electrifying service ace from Omene and followed by a kill from senior setter Henry Wedbush.
Dillon Gym was on its feet, and the Tigers took advantage of
this energy late in the set when they needed it most. Omene and sophomore outside hitter Jameson Vaccaro combined for three kills to deliver Princeton a set point at 24–22. A pair of detrimental Crimson errors at 24–24 gave the Tigers the second set 26–24.
“[Winning the second set] was very important for morale,” said Omene. “It also tested us in a high pressure situation that we’re likely to be in later on in the season.”
Riding a wave of momentum after the nail biting finish to the second set, Princeton looked to settle down and play a consistent, clean brand of volleyball to take a 2–1 lead. The Orange and Black trailed early in the set at 6–5, but it was the last time Harvard led in the frame. Princeton took a 13–11 lead behind more magic from Omene and three Crimson service errors.
From there on out, Princeton maintained a lead that they refused to give up. The Tigers sealed a 25–21 third set win and took a 2–1 advantage.
Harvard had other plans. Holding a tight 14–13 lead midway through the fourth set, the Crimson went on a decisive six-point run. With little to no immediate response, the Tigers lost the set 25–16, setting up an enormous fifth set.
The race to 15 against Harvard in the final frame lived up to all the hype. Junior middle blocker Ryan Vena ignited the home crowd early on with a kill, but Harvard took early control of the set with a 5–2 lead. Although Omene answered back for the Tigers, the Crimson extended their lead to 7–3, leaving Princeton anxious on senior day.
With a four point deficit heading into the final stages of the final set, Princeton refused to quit. An ace from sophomore middle blocker Tristan Whitefield, another kill from Omene, and two Harvard errors cut the lead to just one at 8–7. Then, Dillon Gym erupted when a service ace leveled the score for the Tigers.
“We buckled down, looked around and saw that we had our entire support system there in the gym with us,” Omene told the ’Prince.’
“I don’t think I’ve ever experienced a sports atmosphere like that here in my career,” added Wedbush.
Harvard once again responded, taking a 13–10 advantage. However, Princeton’s seniors came up huge. Omene’s crucial kill, followed by a Harvard error, and a clutch service ace from Wedbush tied the score at 13–13. After Omene’s 18th kill of the game and an attack er-
ror from the Crimson on match point, the Tigers pulled off a milestone victory in a gutsy, 3–2 win over Harvard on senior night.
“Winning the second match was great, both for morale and for senior night magic,” Wedbush told the ’Prince.’ “I’m sure our parents, friends, and fans left just as exhausted as we did.” Princeton’s two seniors capped off their final night at Dillon Gym with a marquee victory but still have much more to prove. Wedbush sits at 94 matches played for the Orange and Black, leading the Tigers with a whopping career 2,747 assists. Omene has played 97 matches, notching 1,032 kills and counting.
“[Princeton volleyball] is very special for me, I feel like I just got here and I’m already on the way out,” Omene told the ‘Prince.’ “I’ve absolutely cherished my time here at Princeton and I’m going to miss it.”
The Tigers travel to Happy Valley for their final conference games against Penn State (10–14, 7–3) next weekend as they vie to lock up the top seed and the right to host the EIVA confer-
Lucas Nor is a Sports contributor for the ‘Prince.’
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Sophomore attacker Colin Burns recorded three goals and three assists on Saturday, including two diving shots.
