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CASHMERE! THIS IS CASHMERE! from telegraph.co.uk.

Earlier this year, as USG campaigns raged on and the campus discovered its newest way to procrastinate (Ok, this is before Robot Unicorn Attack.), we realized that, well, Princeton’s needs are humble.

Two-ply. Or even, maybe, softer one ply? I don’t know, I’m just tossing out ideas here.

But why should our demands be so humble? Think of our futures–earlier this week the Daily Princetonian reported that a full third of Princeton students go on to work in finance. (But not for the money–because they’re “genuinely interested!”)

And so today, I introduce to you: cashmere toilet paper. That’s right, future Masters of the Universe. That’s for you.

The supermarket won’t reveal quite how much cashmere goes into each roll, but insists it is a “significant” amount. No cashmere fibres themselves are included in the manufacturing process. Rather, the paper is covered in oil extracted from the hairs of the cashmere goat.

Carla Smith, buyer for Waitrose, said: “Cashmere provides that stamp of quality to any fashion garment from a designer suit to the finest luxury knitwear. It’s indulgent, it’s stylish and it’s helping provide that extra softness to our new premium bathroom tissue collection.”

New Jersey Supreme Court Justice Stuart Rabner spoke about the effects of the Great Recession on New Jersey’s judicial system in a public talk on March 3. Rabner said that the justice system can help alleviate the suffering of residents, though he added that layoffs make this task trickier.

Rabner, a 1982 graduate of the Woodrow Wilson School, gave the School’s annual John Marshall Harlan ’20 Lecture in Robertson Hall.

Rabner explained that a statewide mandatory mediation program was implemented in response to the staggering increase in the number of contested foreclosure cases. In the past year, the number of foreclosure cases has tripled with nearly five thousand cases being filed per month, he said. Now, judges require a mediation session before a foreclosure case can come to court.

“The goal is to get borrowers and lenders to sit together at a table to try to work through the problem that exists in their contractual relationship and see if we can stave off foreclosures,” Rabner said. “The role of the court system is to ensure that there is a neutral forum where individual rights of both sides are respected and protected.”

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If you want to get on Facebook, Tigers, you're gonna have to get through this guy first. (source: wikipedia.org)

If you want to get on Facebook, Tigers, you're gonna have to get through this guy first. (source: wikipedia.org)

It’s common knowledge that midterm week is conspiring to kill our souls (while maiming cute puppies and taunting us with beautiful weather, of course).  But lo and behold, the internet can save us, Tigers!  Steve Lambert (picture at left) has created a program called “Self Control” that will block you from Facebook, Twitter, your email, or any other sites that provide procrastinating pleasure. It works for up to twelve hours, and here’s the catch: once you’ve pressed “Start,” there’s no way to stop the clock. You can quit out of the application, restart your computer, scream profanities at it at the top of your lungs… nothing doing. It’s iron-clad. And, as the week’s slogged on, I have become an increasingly devoted fan, despite the sadness of seeing this screen every five minutes:

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So go ahead and try it. If you dare…

On Jan. 12 Miriam Camara ’10 was surfing the Web when she stumbled upon news of the Haiti earthquake on Professor Melissa Harris-Lacewell’s Twitter account. Although Camara was raised in New York, her mother is from Haiti and has strong ties to the many members of her family in Port-au-Prince. “I called my mother immediately and she was in tears,” Camara said.

Camara, who lost two uncles in the disaster, worked with two other Haitian-American students, Astrid Rousseau ’10 and Emmanuelle Pierre ’10, to help plan a series of campus activities in support of Haitian relief efforts. A bake sale in Frist Campus Center raised $1,200 in three days immediately following the earthquake, and fundraising by the Undergraduate Student Government to support Partners in Health reached nearly $8,000.

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In a 2003 interview for the documentary Noam Chomsky: Rebel Without a Pause, Chomsky said: “I’m a boring speaker and I like it that way.” The swarm of people who flooded McCosh 50 (and the simulcast room in McCosh 46) to hear Chomsky speak tonight might attest to the contrary. During his speech entitled “I am Kinda: Reflections on the Culture of Imperialism” Chomsky ruminated on how the media “manufactures consent” and how historical memory is often lost.

Chomsky had a couple of things to say, however, about aspects of life that you might find especially pertinent:

On the intellectual: “ ‘Intellectual’ is the terminology we use about people with a certain amount of privilege, who write the history that is to be read.” So much for believing in the inherent worth of our ideas. It might be helpful to repeat this like a mantra as you crank out 80 pages of your “intellectual” thesis.

On your college debt: Chomsky said that the aftermath of the ‘60s left many worried about “unruly teenagers,” whom he believes were actually “civilizing the country.” Many spoke of the “excesses of democracy” and proposed  ways of subduing radicals and restoring the obedience of pre-war times. One such “disciplinary measure”: ensure that students come out of college with an enormous amount of debt. That’ll teach ‘em.

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It smelled. A little.

It smelled. A little.

We’ve heard of people not showering for a few days, which is disgusting, but this mound of bioterrorism in Frist’s cramped McGraw is a special kind of sick. Just wait until the apples go.

Also: too bad about those notes under the banana peels.

Steve Forbes, Boxer. Not a graduate of Princeton University.

Steve Forbes, Boxer. Not a graduate of Princeton University.

Forbes Magazine recently named Princeton one of the world’s most beautiful college campuses. And, frankly, we’re inclined to agree with them. It is really pretty here, especially now that the weather’s getting nice and the snow is melting. So, thanks for the shout out Forbes!

Here’s what the mag had to say:

This classic American campus is “straight out of central casting,” says architect Natalie Shivers, who has been guiding the prestige Ivy Leaguer through an ambitious expansion plan. Princeton’s style is pure Collegiate Gothic; most of it executed in gray stone covered in, yes, ivy. As imposing as these old stone structures are, the campus keeps life on a “human scale” by preserving green spaces and “walkability,” says Shivers. “Everything on campus is within a 10-minute walk.” Sinuous footpaths, archways, plazas–all are designed to inspire spontaneous discussion and learning.

What’s this? You have a video for us? Aww, you shouldn’t have!

(Note: after watching the video, they actually shouldn’t have. The music is super cheesy and the thesis seems to be that Princeton is special because we have arches and courtyards. But watch it anyways after the jump!)

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n768420491_7924MOLLY BREAN ‘13, TRIANGLE CLUB’S NEW BUSINESS MANAGER, LOVES BENT SPOON CUPCAKES, DRINKS HER DR. PEPPER IN AN IV, AND REALLY, REALLY WANTS TO MAIM THOSE BOZOS WHO PRACTICE THEIR INSTRUMENTS IN THE DORMS…

Name: Molly Brean
Age: 18
Major: Undeclared, but probably Slavic Languages and Literatures
Hometown: Pittsburgh
Eating club/residential college/affiliation: Rockefeller
Name: Molly Brean
Age: 18
Major: Undeclared, but probably Slavic Languages and Literatures
Hometown: Pittsburgh
Eating club/residential college/affiliation: Rockefeller

Who’s your favorite Princeton alum, real or fictional? White House Budget Nerd/Sex Bomb Peter Orszag.

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Your time has passed, my friend. (image source: http://en.wikipedia.org)
Your time has passed, my friend. (image source: wikipedia.org)

So we all stopped believing in ghosts and witches around the time that we didn’t receive our Hogwarts letters of admission (and don’t pretend you didn’t check the mailbox every day for a year). And we’re all pretty sure that it’s impossible to predict the future, that paranormal investigation is a load of hooey, and that even the Princeton psychic can’t save our love lives.

But it seems that there are professors right here at Princeton who are challenging some of those very assumptions through their work on the Global Consciousness Project, an endeavor spearheaded by engineering anomalies researcher Dr. Roger Nelson.

The project is centered around a small black box located in a library in Edinburgh that, through the process of churning out random numbers, appears to reflect global human sentiments and to predict tragedies such as the September 11 attacks and the tsunami that ravaged Asia last December.

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fIf you’re not already in love with the women’s basketball team, you really should be now – they’re the 2010 Ivy League Champions!

The Tigers are going to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history. The team boasts a 25-2 overall record and chalked up a perfect 13-0 record in the Ivy League. Oh, and they haven’t lost in 20 games. Talk about a streak.

You can still catch the team serving it up this Tuesday when the Tigers face Penn at Jadwin @ 5 p.m. If they win (which seems to be the trend) the ladies will complete the first perfect Ivy League season since Harvard’s in 2002-03.

(image and statistics courtesy of goprincetontigers.com)

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Hello Princeton student. Did you think you went to the apathetic, relatively conservative Ivy? Well, shhhhhh. I’ll let you in on a little secret. Princeton’s actually commie.

What am I referring to? Why, this comment, among many others, from the Prince’s comment sections on the recent and controversial appointment of Van Jones to be a visiting fellow next year:

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Flawlessly clad Princeton Students back in the day

Flawlessly clad Princeton students back in the day

Yesterday, blogger Mister Crew posted that an American publisher is reissuing Take Ivy, a classic photobook that captures the celebrated Ivy League look through pictures of students on several Ivy League campuses — including Princeton.  The book is now available for pre-order on Amazon for $24.95, almost a hundredth of what many have been paying for hardcopies of the original.

The book, by Japanese photographer Teruyoshi Hayashida, was first released in 1965 and the few remaining copies now sell for over $2,000 online and elsewhere. Its re-release is huge news to prepsters and fashionista/o’s everywhere; the book is the authority on that classic prep look — best typified by a crewneck sweater, an oxford shirt, tapered chinos, and Bass Weejuns — that so many revere today. This is the look that current brands like Band of Outsiders and Thom Browne are celebrating in almost all of their collections, not to mention the look that seems to be sweeping through campus.

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