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I’m Writing This Post While Sitting In A $5,000 Chair
Tuesday, 28 April 2009
by David Walter
[This is part one of two. See part two here!] Global economic crisis got you down? For my money, there’s no better place to lose those meltdown blues than Princeton’s Lewis Library. Lewis Science Library is a delirious pre-recession architectural funhouse, a gaudy relic of the University’s freewheeling, freespending salad days. Dedicated only six months
- Published in Musings
Angry taxpayers want to put Princeton on “the Jon Stewart Show”
Tuesday, 28 April 2009
by Angela Wu
Princeton Citizens for Tax Fairness, a group that has been supported by both local Democrats and Republicans, is mad. Because they have to pay taxes, and Princeton has a lot of money, so why can’t they just pay and make all of our problems go away? They’re organizing to move Princeton to pay its “fair share
- Published in Goings On, Princeton in the News
Tagged under:
Economy, Endowment, Princeton, Princeton Borough, Princeton Citizens for Tax Fairness, Princeton University, taxes, Tea Party
Poetry Rocks! Or, How I Learned that Princeton is Better with Poets than Bands
Tuesday, 28 April 2009
by Spencer Gaffney
Yeah, we’re probably going to have to drink more than we otherwise would have to “enjoy” Gym Class Heroes, and yeah, it seems like a lot of money to spend when the student body probably would have responded better to a Journey cover band. But if you need to restore your faith in Princeton’s ability
- Published in Goings On
Princeton in the New Yorker
Tuesday, 28 April 2009
by Brian No
This cartoon from the ’80s is particularly fitting because Class of 2010 President Aditya Panda ’10 recently sent an electronic missive to all rising seniors informing them about free membership to the Princeton Club in NYC for an entire year starting this summer. Score! (We’ll just ignore the unfortunate fact that the Princeton Club is
Tagged under:
Cartoon, class government, Henry Martin, New Yorker, Princeton Club, Princeton University
What the…?
Monday, 27 April 2009
by Brian No
We already know that Professor Robert George–social conservative extraordinaire and archbishop of POL 315 & 316–loves fetuses at all stages of cellular development and isn’t very fond of the homosexuals. But a recent Youtube excursion uncovered another Robbie George factoid: he likes the banjo! No, seriously, watch:
- Published in Faculty
Aw come on, or, how I learned to stop believing in the USG
Monday, 27 April 2009
by Will Saborio
The Prince reported today that Gym Class Heroes will grace the Quadrangle Club with their awkward indie-hip hop presence to celebrate Lawnparties this Sunday. Damn it. While a bunch of Princetonians will inevitably be dancing to that kinda goofy song about cookies that’s actually about copulating, USG has once again dropped the proverbial Lawnparties ball.
- Published in Open Letter
21 Questions with… Shirley Tilghman
Monday, 27 April 2009
by Claire Abramowitz
Name: Shirley Tilghman Occupation on Campus: President Major: Molecular Biology Hometown: Princeton Who’s your favorite Princetonian, living or dead, real or fictional? My daughter Becca ’03 What is your greatest guilty pleasure? Ice cream. What’s the best meal you’ve eaten in Princeton? Any meal cooked by Sally Lewis Lamonica, the chef at Lowrie House In
- Published in 21 Questions
People who make us feel inadequate: Lauren Bush ’06
Sunday, 26 April 2009
by Brian No
Lauren Bush ’06, Dubya’s niece and model, has done a lot since graduating with an anthropology major three years ago. Last summer, she launched the FEED 100 Campaign, which sells stylish burlap bags to put food in the mouths of hungry Rwandan children. For instance, if you purchase a $30 bag, you will provide 100
- Published in Alumni
Meet a pre-frosh: That annoying kid in precept next year!
Sunday, 26 April 2009
by Will Saborio
As the tide of overeager pre-frosh recedes, we’ve come across this story of a Princeton-bound Michigan girl who aced the ACT, the SAT and the PSAT. To make things worse, Willa Chen, the trifecta tool, is quoted as saying, “I wouldn’t say I studied a lot.” Well, someone’s going to make a lot of friends
- Published in Goings On, Princeton in the News
Princeton vs. the Spanish Flu of 1918
Saturday, 25 April 2009
by Angela Wu
As the swine flu that emerged in Mexico began to make headlines, the quaint hamlet that is Princeton had its own worries: Whooping cough! …But now swine flu too, after students from Queens began exhibiting symptoms this week. All this talk of quarantines and masks and avoiding small children naturally got us thinking about the
- Published in History
Take Ivy: A Trip Down Nostalgia Lane
Saturday, 25 April 2009
by Brian No
A Japanese photographer traveled to Ivy League schools in the late 1960s to document the American Trad/Ivy League Preppy style of the era. Copies of the book are very hard to come by (a copy was just sold on eBay for $1500), and photos from the book have been circulating the blogosphere like crazy in
- Published in History
Coincidence? I think not.
Friday, 24 April 2009
by Will Saborio
No, Mr. Newman, it is no coincidence: Drunk kids do stupid things. And on this fine Newman’s Day, let us sober ones enjoy the hijinks. For instance: 4:00 PM, Frist third floor men’s bathroom: An obviously drunk upperclassman stumbles into the bathroom wearing a backpack from which clinking can be heard. He stands at the
- Published in Goings On