Clubs and Activities
Student-run publications at Princeton Day School include the Spokesman, an award-winning Upper School newspaper published eight times a year, which uses a staff of 19 editors and two faculty advisors, and its Middle School sister publication, the Spokeskid. A yearly literary and arts magazine called Cymbals is also published, along with the annual yearbook, the Link. Recently, students from the 2011-2012 Media Arts Major have started Princeton Day School's first news network, Channel 12 News, which provides monthly news in through an alternate medium.
The wide array of clubs offered in the Upper School at PDS (many of which are created by a student's or group of students' initiative) include the Outdoors Club, the Four Square Club, a Model United Nations team, the Mock trial team, the Debate Club, Amnesty International, The Mo'adon, the International Affairs club, the Nigerian Culture Club, AWARE club (Allies Working towards Awareness Respect and Equality), the Science Olympiad Team, the Science Club, the EnAct (Environmental Action) club, Garden Club, the Cricket Club, the Conservative Club, Princeton Friends of Freedom (PFoF), the Hippie Resurgence, the InterAct Club, the India Club, the French Club, the Gay-Straight Alliance, the Harry Potter Club, Anime Club, the Mountain Appreciation Club, the Junior State of America, the Spanish Club (which holds a popular annual Salsa Cook-off in March) and the Science League Team. The Lower and Middle schools offer, among others, Destination Imagination and FIRST Lego League teams.
Students also participate in Peer Group, and Tour Guide programs, serve on the Community Council, Student Ambassadors Committee, and Judiciary Committee, and become SysOps (student administrators for the computer and email systems).
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“As night returns bringing doubts
That swarm around the sleeper’s head
But are fended off with clubs and knives ...”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
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“As life developed, I faced each problem as it came along. As my activities and work broadened and reached out, I never tried to shirk. I tried never to evade an issue. When I found I had something to do—I just did it.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)