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IN PRINT: Sotomayor’s Princeton Awakening
Friday, 31 July 2009
by Brian No
Bet you can’t get enough of Sotomayor coverage. I mean, did you know that she went to Princeton?!?! How cool is that?!?! Here’s a piece in the National Journal‘s The Ninth Justice blog on her time at Old Nassau, just in case you’re interested. An excerpt: The sense of otherness had a profound impact on Sotomayor.
- Published in Alumni, In Print, Politics, Princeton in the News
Emergency alert: “Possible report” of student with weapon on campus
Monday, 27 July 2009
by Angela Wu
Update: All clear issued at 8:48 am. A few minutes after 8 am, Public Safety sent an email to students about a possible threat on campus (Again?! To all the high school students running around terrified on campus right now: We’re really, really not as bad as Yale.) : “There is a possible report of
- Published in Goings On
Week in Review: July 20 – 26
Sunday, 26 July 2009
by Will Saborio
Slow week here at the Ink desk, but we’ve scrounged around some bits for you. This week’s theme is “disappointment.” Princeton gets beat out in two things it holds most dearly: being compared to Hogwarts and making money. There’s a band called Princeton, but not at all related to the university. Also, we reconsider the
- Published in Princeton in the News, Week in Review
Week in Review: July 13 – 19
Sunday, 19 July 2009
by Will Saborio
If a tree falls in Princeton during the summer, and no students are there to hear it, yes, still, nothing ever happens in Princeton. In this week’s edition: Sotomayor yada yada yada, Jeff Peek won’t be attending reunions anytime soon, moving walkways are a moving farce, the Wall Street Journal backs us up on the
- Published in Alumni, Faculty, Goings On, Politics, Princeton in the News, Week in Review
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Amazon, Bill Tierney, Bill Tierney cries, Jeff Peek, Kindle, moving walkways, Sonia Sotomayor, Stan Katz, Stan Katz is kind of boring
Marie Claire thinks you’re pretty.
Thursday, 16 July 2009
by Angela Wu
Find the “brainy beauties” of Princeton in the August 2009 issue of Marie Claire, on stands now. The magazine stopped by campus last semester as part of its “What I Love About Me” feature.
- Published in Princeton in the News
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Marie Claire
21 Questions with… Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux ’11
Wednesday, 15 July 2009
by Brian No
FEMINIST BLOGGER WILL PROBABLY BECOME A HOUSEWIFE WITH FOUR KIDS IN 25 YEARS Name: Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux Age: 20 Major: English Hometown: Charlottesville, VA Eating club/residential college/affiliation: Terrace [Editors note: interview was conducted in April 2009] Who’s your favorite Princetonian, living or dead, real or fictional? Galway Kinnell—he’s one of my favorite poets. What’s the best
- Published in 21 Questions
Sotomayor is a SOCIALIST!
Tuesday, 14 July 2009
by Brian No
Just kidding. No, but seriously, check out her yearbook page from the Nassau Herald. She quotes six-time socialist presidential candidate Norman Thomas, Princeton class of 1905! Did you hear what I said? SOCIALIST. Sotomayor’s yearbook page and Pyne Prize photo after the jump:
Tagged under:
confirmation hearing, photography, Pyne Prize, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, wise Latina
IN PRINT: The Education of Sonia Sotomayor
Monday, 13 July 2009
by Brian No
“My days at Princeton … were the single most transforming experience I have had.” — Sonia Sotomayor in a 1996 speech at the Third World Center (now known as the Carl Fields Center). Read more about Princeton’s impact on Sotomayor’s life and career in this week’s issue of Newsweek.
- Published in Alumni, In Print, Politics, Princeton in the News
Week in Review: July 5 – 12
Sunday, 12 July 2009
by Will Saborio
Since summer’s in full swing and you’ve got better things to do than catch up on Princeton news, we round it up here for you on The Ink. In this week’s edition: Some people talk about Sonia Sotomayor ’76, and some Princeton climate researchers serve up some obvious. Our financial troubles aren’t as bad as
- Published in Alumni, Faculty, Goings On, Politics, Princeton in the News, Week in Review
New Dean Paxson Out in First Round of Woody Woo Spelling Bee
Thursday, 09 July 2009
by Spencer Gaffney
Kavya Shivashankar, she ain’t. Christina Paxson, the somewhat recently crowned Queen of the Tools, is off to a rough start, spelling wise. Granted, as Dean of Woody Woo, you’re probably called upon to spell and pronounce some tricky words: obscure central Asian nations, the names of Russian diplomats, etc. So normally we’d be willing to
- Published in Faculty