David Walter

Is this the last call for the Princeton conservative?

In architecture, designing to reduce sprawl and increase resilience

At school and in film, this superhero director has forged her own path

When is a toy more than a toy? When it’s 2017, and you’ve got half an hour on your lunch break to run to the store and buy a birthday present for your niece Emma ... and Emma, meanwhile, has only 10 short years to ready her application to college ... and Emma’s parents have hinted that she can use all the help she can get.

Have you heard the one about JFK’s gay best friend? Lem Billings ’39, confidant to the Kennedys, was always present — in the background.

Should a group of (mostly) straight men dance in drag? At 125, Triangle Club is celebrating its history — and considering whether its cherished kickline needs to be changed.

In 2012, Nikki Muller had a moment. Her rap video “The Ivy League Hustle” became a viral sensation, racking up hundreds of thousands of views on Muller’s YouTube channel. Since then? “There’s just been so many brushes with what seems like a career — hah!"

In an age when formerly obscure sports like lacrosse have grown in popularity on American campuses, the United States Polo Association is counting on newly formed college teams like Alfred State’s to expand the sport beyond its traditional moneyed enclaves.

When the Princeton and Yale men’s polo teams faced each other in New Haven in February, it would have been natural to cast Princeton as the lovable underdogs: the Bad News Tigers, a plucky gang of orange-and-black longshots.

The run of the train known as the Princeton Dinky is both impressively long and unusually short. For 145 years, this rail link in a college town has ferried students and commuters over the briefest of distances.