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Kathy Kiely: The Real Story Behind Obama’s NH Primary Speech
Sunday, 15 February 2009
by Spencer Gaffney
On a recent Wednesday evening Kathy Kiely, USA Today writer and current Mathey College Faculty Member in Residence (she lives in Blair Arch!) had dinner with a group of about a dozen students to talk about the rapidly deteriorating state of print journalism and her own coverage of the November election. While Kiely spent most
- Published in Politics
Squash Is No Joke
Sunday, 15 February 2009
by Angela Wu
Trinity College’s men’s squash team defeated Princeton men’s squash yesterday in a close 5-4 squash game that gave the No. 1 ranked squash team its 11th perfect season of squash in a row, with a 16-0 record of squash wins. Trinity men’s squash team’s last loss was in a game of squash against Harvard in
- Published in Goings On, Princeton in the News
Feinberg Hall Architect to Design New Campus Building
Sunday, 15 February 2009
by Brian No
The couple who brought you Wilson College’s Feinberg Hall (1986) has been hired by the university to design the building for the newAndlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. The firm, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, is most famous for designing the American Folk Art Museum in New York. (image source: princeton.edu)
- Published in Goings On, Princeton in the News
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Andlinger Center, Architecture, Energy and Environment, Feinberg Hall, Tod Williams Billie Tsien
Provost Eisgruber: We’re Screwed
Sunday, 15 February 2009
by Brian No
At the monthly CPUC (Council of the Princeton University Community) meeting last week, Provost Eisgruber presented on the university’s financial health. It was, not surprisingly, very depressing. We’ve all heard about plummeting university endowments across the country in recent months. PRINCO (which manages Princeton’s endowment) predicts our $16 billion endowment will fall 25% this fiscal
- Published in Princeton in the News
“Let Me Tell Y’all What It’s Like…”
Wednesday, 11 February 2009
by Brian No
Singer-songwriter Ben Folds kicked off his winter tour here at Princeton tonight to a packed McCarter Theatre. The audience appeared to be a mix of Princeton students and area residents, including a fair number of middle-aged people (this is Princeton, after all). Folds played a raucous two-hour set list that had the audience often singing
- Published in Goings On
Has the Population of Green-Haired Students Plateaued?
Wednesday, 11 February 2009
by Brian No
Has the population of “green haired” high school students plateaued? Shirley Tilghman’s now-infamous desire to attract students with a penchant for hairdye may be backfiring! Princeton has suffered a second major blow to its ego in less than six months! In August, the university dropped down an entire spot to number two in the annual US
- Published in Princeton in the News
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