What is Green Light?

Green Light Magazine, produced entirely by Princeton undergraduates, will encourage reflection on the unique Princeton experience. Moving conversation out of precepts and taprooms, out of stereotypes and complacency, Green Light will provoke campus-wide dialogue and invigorate a more active engagement with the important issues facing the Princeton community.

Why another Princeton publication?

Existing campus publications report daily events at Princeton or offer political insights on the world at large, but Princeton life deserves a more thoughtful and critical examination. Green Light will explore the components of Princeton life in a fresh, incisive, and personal way.

How will Green Light accomplish this goal?

Green Light will accomplish its goals by weaving together five types of writing: introspective op-ed articles, perceptive investigative journalism, faculty/alumni essays, creative writing, and critical reviews of cultural activities at Princeton. Green Light will also accept art and poetry by submission. See “table of contents” for how these elements are structured together.

Editorial Opinion Pieces

“Up-Campus, Down-Campus” will include a series of opinion pieces written by undergraduates that focus on topical campus issues. Ranging from the serious to the comic in tone, these articles will highlight each writer’s unique perspective, while aiming to initiate campus-wide discussion.

Investigative Journalism

Investigative journalism, written by Green Light’s staff writers and other undergraduates, will explore the history and inner-workings of various clubs, people, and organizations that play major roles in the campus community. By striving to challenge many of the campus’ most commonly-held stereotypes and assumptions, these articles will offer a more dynamic look at some of Princeton’s most famous (and infamous) groups and institutions.

Faculty and Alumni Articles

Green Light will include articles and essays for both faculty and alumni contributors. This feature not only taps into the rich insights of the men and women who have shaped Princeton’s unique culture, but it also provides the current Princeton student body with a sense of its own participation in the ever-evolving legacy of the University.

Creative Writing, Poetry, and Art Submission

By publishing creative writing, art, and poetry, Green Light brings the voices of Princeton’s talented writers and artists into our examination of Princeton culture.

Printing and Distribution

Green Light will be thirty to thirty-five pages in length, printed in full color, and issued four times during its inaugural year.

Approximately 10,000 copies of each issue will be printed: enough to reach every dorm room and faculty mailbox on Princeton’s campus as well as the residences of over 4,000 alumni.

In the long run, paid subscriptions will be mailed to all interested alumni.

Green Light will also be available in its entirety on the internet.

Financials

To ensure the first full year of production, we are looking for $45,000 of start-up capital.

Green Light will solicit advertisements from both local businesses and national corporations.

Advertising

With guidance from Shape magazine’s publisher Diane Newman, New York Magazine’s former Editor-in-Chief Caroline Miller, and New York Magazine’s deputy editor Jonathan Gluck, Green Light is currently creating a start-up Media Kit in order to solicit advertisements.

Contributing Faculty Members

Su Friedrich: Filmmaker; Member of the Council of the Humanities; Professor of Visual Arts.

Carol Sanger: Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy Visiting Research Scholar; Barbara Aronstein Black Professor of Law at Columbia Law School.

Jordan Ellenberg: Assistant Professor of Mathematics; contributor for Slate Magazine.

Robert George: Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions; Professor of Politics.

Deborah Nord: Member of the Women and Gender Studies Committee; Professor of English.

Evan Thomas: Visiting Professor of Journalism; Assistant Managing Editor of Newsweek.

Cornel West: Class of 1943 University Professor of Religion.

Fred Hitz: Lecturer of Public and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy; Director of the Project on International Intelligence.

Patricia Fernandez-Kelley: Professor of Sociology; appointment in the Office of Population Research.

Demographics

Prestige

For the past 4 years, Princeton University has been ranked the #1 undergraduate university in the country by US News and World Report. As such, advertisement in, or sponsorship of a Princeton University publication immediately connects you to that legacy of academic excellence.

Faculty

With 9 Nobel Lauraetes and 19 Macarthur fellows, the Princeton University faculty is one of the most highly revered and well- respected University faculty in the nation.

Alumni

Princeton alumni gave $36 million to the University. Leading the country with 61% participation, they are dedicated to their alma mater.

Famous Alumni

Initially, Green Light Magazine will be mailed to a select group of 5,000 alumni, all of whom possess a significant amount of power, prestige, and influence in their communities. Included among these are:

Elected politicians