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UPDATED: Uh…Impending PR Disaster?
Tuesday, 31 March 2009
by Brian No
Updated: At exactly 7 PM, the University issued a press release that confirms Princeton was the only Ivy League school, aside from Penn (their acceptance rate increased by 0.1%), that saw a higher acceptance rate this year. Janet Rapelye admitted 9.79% of applicants, compared to 9.25% last year. An incredible 1,331 students were wait listed,
- Published in Princeton in the News
The Economy: Screwing High School Seniors Since ’08
Tuesday, 31 March 2009
by Will Saborio
The Times reported yesterday that in the face of shrinking endowments, universities are increasingly choosing wealthier applicants that can foot the full ticket of an education over students that would need financial aid if admitted. Coupled with the fact that Ivies’ (and other selective college’s) acceptance rates are dropping, high school juniors across the nation
- Published in Princeton in the News
IN PRINT: Chabad gets a New Torah, Hilarity Ensues
Monday, 30 March 2009
by Spencer Gaffney
If the celebration that traipsed its way through Mathey-Rocky this past Sunday afternoon is any indication, new Torahs are a big deal. Chabad, the Jewish center run by the Hassidic Lubavitz movement, got its first Torah on Sunday, and members of Chabad made their jubilation known. Highlights of the ceremony and subsequent parade: The strange
- Published in In Print
Just Plain Weird (and Stupid)
Monday, 30 March 2009
by Brian No
T-minus 18 hours until admissions decisions for the class of 2013 are released. To prospective students: everyone at Princeton is mute!
- Published in Uncategorized
Krugman: LOOK AT ME I’M SO MODEST!!!!!!!111
Monday, 30 March 2009
by Brian No
Princeton professor and Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman appears on this week’s cover of Newsweek, complete with an adorable (or “whimsical,” as one Press Clubber puts it) picture and a profile penned by visiting journalism professor Evan Thomas. Though the profile is an interesting look at Krugman’s role as a liberal critic of the Obama Administration,
- Published in Goings On
What’s March Madness?
Monday, 30 March 2009
by Brian No
Once upon a time, as recently as this decade, the Princeton Men’s Basketball team ruled the Ivy League. But then we started to suck hardcore, perhaps most notably when, in 2005, Princeton scored just 21 points in the entire game against something called Monmouth University. If that wasn’t embarrassing enough, it turned out that scoring
- Published in Uncategorized
21 Questions with… Anthony D’Amato ’10
Wednesday, 25 March 2009
by Brian No
STUDENT SINGER-SONGWRITER SPITS OUT SOME SNARK Name: Anthony D’Amato Age: 21 Major: English Hometown: Blairstown, NJ Eating club/residential college/affiliation: Terrace Club, Rockefeller College Who’s your favorite Princetonian, living or dead, real or fictional? Jonathan Ames (writer) What’s the best meal you’ve eaten in Princeton? Old World Pizza In one sentence, what do you actually do
- Published in 21 Questions, Uncategorized
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IN PRINT: Gen. Petraeus to be baccalaureate speaker
Monday, 23 March 2009
by Samantha Pergadia
Gen. David Petraeus, commander of the U.S. Central Command, will deliver the baccalaureate address to Princeton University seniors, at 2 p.m. May 31 in the University Chapel. The general’s selection follows that of CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric, who was announced earlier this year as the 2009 speaker for Class Day, a June 1
- Published in In Print
Newspapers matter!
Friday, 20 March 2009
by Samantha Pergadia
A study by economics professor Sam Schulhofer-Wohl and Miguel Garrido looked at the impact of closing a newspaper on elections and voting. The case they observed was the Cincinnati Post, which closed after New Years Eve in 2007. Their results found that there was decreased political involvement in the northern Kentucky counties after the Post
- Published in Princeton in the News
IN PRINT: Profile of Albert Einstein’s BFF 4E
Wednesday, 18 March 2009
by David Walter
John Nash gets a lot of the “Eccentric Princeton Genius” attention nowadays, but he was by no means the first world-famous superbrain to grace our campus. Albert Einstein, the Walter Matthau to Nash’s Russell Crowe, ably held down that position until his death in 1955. More than fifty years on, it’s hard to find authentic
- Published in In Print
Researcher: Obama’s policies should create security, not money
Wednesday, 18 March 2009
by Samantha Pergadia
A new study devised by Talya Miron-Shatz, a Ph.D associate researcher in the Wilson School, found that financial security affects happiness more than actual money for the modern American woman. “Even if you are making a hundred grand a year, if you are constantly worried that you are going to get fired, that you are
- Published in Goings On, Princeton in the News
Muldoon goes green with Obama
Tuesday, 17 March 2009
by Samantha Pergadia
Professor Paul Muldoon, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, will rediscover his Northern Ireland roots as he spends St. Patrick’s Day with President Obama and 400 other Irish guests for celebrations at the White House. Lets hope the green-dyed fountains and Irish whiskey provide Muldoon with all the poetic inspiration he needs for some more “Moy Sand