Lujan attended the event with a friend from the Scholars Institute Fellows Program along with her roommates. Both students said they were glad to have gone to the dance. Though their previous experiences with dances differed greatly, they shared similar views on this year’s event. Lujan and Connelly both attended Redemption Prom. I guess I was lucky that my senior one was such a standout venue.” They were large spaces, wherever we could find them. “Most of the venues were nothing to write home about. “My senior year, they had it on top of the tallest building in Indianapolis You can see for miles,” he said. Other aspects don’t stand out in his memory as particularly impressive. Having taken a gap year, Orentlicher attended his senior prom before the pandemic.Ī native of Indianapolis, Ind., he said that the most important thing about prom at his high school was the location. Politics concentrator and ‘Prince’ senior copy editor Cy Orentlicher ’24 said he went to almost every dance at his high school. So it was at this really bougie, outside area that looks on the Long Island Sound.” “Whereas some of the people who are located closer to the school, including myself, we’re not like that. So there were a lot of rich kids at my high school,” he said. “A lot of the people who went to my high school were from a town that was far away, but really, really rich. He did, however, attend junior prom the year prior, which he described as an upscale event with formal dinner service. Like many other members of the Class of 2024, Connelly’s senior prom was canceled due to COVID-19. “It’s tangentially Harry Potter-related, but I think they just did it one year and it stuck maybe like a decade or so ago,” he explained. Get the best of ‘the Prince’ delivered straight to your inbox. “So I think she felt kind of bad afterward because she knew that she was the reason that I didn't go to anything before.” “I was basically waiting until the end of my senior year to do anything outside of going to class,” she said. She said her mother encouraged her to go. Redemption Prom was the first event that Lujan went to that resembled a high school dance. So, that was the only reason I was allowed to go,” she noted. “I went to a Valentine’s dance one time because it fell on my birthday. In addition to her eighth grade promotion dance, she was able to convince her parents to let her go to a Valentine’s Day event. She did, however, attend two events in middle school, which she described as typical dances that featured a mix of popular music and Spanish songs. Through interviews with The Daily Princetonian, members of the Class of 2024 reflected on past dances and shared their thoughts on Redemption Prom.įor some students, Redemption Prom was a profoundly new type of experience.Īriana Lujan ’24, a sociology major from Salinas, Calif., said her parents didn’t let her go to any dances at her public high school. The connection between the event and students’ high school experiences encouraged comparisons between the proms students expected and the dance they ultimately attended.
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