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Michelle Obama ’85 hearts UC-Merced :(
Friday, 15 May 2009
by Brian No
Oh, Michelle. How long will you scorn our love? We name drop “Michelle LaVaughn Robinson ’85” in every conversation and press release possible. We’ve enshrined your image in the sacred Yankee Doodle Tap Room. We’ve appointed you to the sociology department’s advisory board. We’ve hired Cornel West and started the Center for African American Studies…
- Published in Alumni, Open Letter, Politics, Princeton in the News
Sotomayor ’76 & Biederman ’08: Two Degrees of Separation
Friday, 15 May 2009
by Brian No
In the short time since Sonia Sotomayor ’76 emerged as a frontrunner to be President Obama’s first Supreme Court nominee, the pundits have already begun slicing and dicing her record and qualifications: First, there was the New Republic piece that said Sotomayor was a “bully,” “not that smart,” and “has an inflated opinion of herself.”
- Published in Alumni, Politics, Princeton in the News
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Star-studded Princeton
Tuesday, 12 May 2009
by Will Saborio
We all know the feeling. That giddy little spark of recognition when watching House (“That’s Frist!”) or A Beautiful Mind (“That’s in front of Nassau Hall!”), and pretty soon, Transformers 2 (“That’s… not Penn.”) With Princeton making it to the silver screen so often, it’s no surprise that a recent story on the AP newswire
- Published in Musings, Princeton in the News
DON’T EAT THE VIRGIN MARY!! Wait, you’re supposed to eat her?
Tuesday, 12 May 2009
by Samantha Pergadia
Students of ATL498: Bodies in Evidence, a class co-taught by novelist Toni Morrison and installation artist Christian Tomaszewski, took over the Lucas Gallery this week to produce a maze-like exhibit called Middle End Beginning. Poet Paul Muldoon was spotted at the opening reception yesterday, taking a walk through the rooms and talking to the students
Oh, how the mighty have fallen
Tuesday, 12 May 2009
by Angela Wu
Thought the Holder Howl was something special? It’s not. It’s just a crappier version of the 20th century Poler’s Recess. The Class of 1947 will tell you how it’s really done: In January, 1949, the Daily Princetonian published a letter from an outraged alumnus from the class of 1947, which read: “It has come to
- Published in History
Jack Bauer will headbutt you to defend Brooke Shields’ honor
Tuesday, 12 May 2009
by Angela Wu
After Jack Bauer headbutted Proenza Schouler designer Jack McCollough at an afterparty for the Met Costume Institute Gala last week, Brooke Shields ’87 came to his defense– Wait. Can we repeat that? Jack Bauer headbutted someone. And broke his nose. McCollough needed surgery.
- Published in Alumni, Princeton in the News
Bill Bradley ’65: Pretty Fly for a White Guy
Monday, 11 May 2009
by Brian No
If you can’t get enough of the good old days of the Princeton Men’s Basketball team, here are some pictures (via Ivy-Style) of the team’s most famous member, Bill Bradley ’65, before he became a Rhodes Scholar, US Senator, loser to Gore, all around badass, etc.
Townies want universities, even students, to pay up
Saturday, 09 May 2009
by Angela Wu
Since local residents called for Princeton to give its money away in April, more townies have been demanding greater (monetary) contributions from private universities to support their communities, according to an article in the New York Times. You guys, it’s the economy! And it’s not just that the locals want tax-exempt universities to make “voluntary
- Published in Goings On, Politics, Princeton in the News
IN PRINT: EPA Head Lisa Jackson Calls for Environmental Justice
Saturday, 09 May 2009
by Spencer Gaffney
Princeton alum and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson spoke at Woody Woo Friday afternoon, calling for an environmentalism beyond the tree-hugging traditional to include all sectors of America that need environmental change. Jackson especially noted the sort of “broken windows” effect that unchecked polution can have on America’s urban poor. “Think about the people who get
- Published in In Print
Oopz, my lolcat just pinged me on mah crackberry
Saturday, 09 May 2009
by Claire Abramowitz
Please excuse this meta-blog post about blog posts, unless you’re a hairy comp. lit. grad student, in which case, enjoy: it’s the latest from McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern. For those of you not in the know, it’s a literary journal founded by the magnificently meta Dave Eggers, author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and
- Published in Musings
Princeton: the great white hope?
Friday, 08 May 2009
by Samantha Pergadia
Have diversity initiatives helped Princeton shed its image as an elite bastion of exclusivity for white, upper-class Americans? Jon Stewart thinks so. Watch Princeton Professor of Sociology Angel Harris talk to Daily Show correspondent Larry Wilmore about how times are a-changing: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M – Th 11p / 10c White in
- Published in Faculty
Princeton in The New Yorker
Thursday, 07 May 2009
by Brian No
By Michael Crawford From the April 26, 1999 issue of The New Yorker (source: cartoonbank.com)
- Published in History, Princeton in the News