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Ivy League Reality Handbook
Saturday, 24 October 2009
by David Walter
Part 2: Choose Your Ivy Type So you’ve decided to give up on the job search and try out for a Reality TV show. Congratulations! Like I said before, you’re a total shoo-in. Why, again? America, as you probably know, has a love-hate relationship with the Ivy League. Wealth! Power! Privilege! Great stuff. When push
- Published in Student Guides
PU Football Supports Running Back Culbreath
Saturday, 24 October 2009
by Angela Wu
Yesterday, the Times of Trenton published a feature about senior Jordan Culbreath, Princeton’s All-Ivy running back–and it’s worth a read. After he was injured in the second game of the season against Lehigh, Culbreath, Princeton’s first Ivy League rushing champion since 2002, was diagnosed with aplastic anemia and bone marrow failure. I don’t really know
- Published in Goings On, Princeton in the News
Exciting Job Opportunity
Friday, 23 October 2009
by David Walter
Remember how once upon a time there was this thing called Investment Banking that would basically employ anyone with a Princeton diploma? Not so much, anymore. But listen up, luckless seniors: What if I were to tell you that there’s a profitable industry still willing to hire you just for your Ivy degree? You’d be
- Published in Uncategorized
Say it ain’t so, Sonia!
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
by Brian No
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor ’76 attended her 30th reunion at Yale Law School over the weekend. She gave a talk about her experience there, but there was one thing that jumped out at us from the Yale Daily News article on the event: Of her education, Sotomayor said “learning was fun at Yale” —
- Published in Alumni
Letting Your Geek Flag Fly
Monday, 19 October 2009
by Spencer Gaffney
Princeton’s a big town. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. Case in point – if you weren’t at Trinity Church Monday evening, like we were, you never would have heard this comment: Man: Yeah, I really need to put some sleeves on my chain mail. Maybe
- Published in Goings On
Harvard can’t stop losing money
Monday, 19 October 2009
by Brian No
Poor Harvard. It can’t seem to catch a break. After seeing its endowment plummet 27.3 percent last fiscal year (compared with 22.7 percent at Princeton), Harvard revealed over the weekend that it lost a lot more money than just the decline in endowment (which amounts to an $11 billion loss). The Cambridge school lost an
- Published in Goings On
A Crimson Key To Nassau Hall?
Monday, 19 October 2009
by David Walter
FOUND in the Harvard Graduate’s Magazine of 1917: James Hibben, Princeton’s 14th President, was in Cambridge to receive an honorary degree from our rival up north. During his acceptance speech he tells this awful story… “In the year 1802, Nassau Hall, the oldest of our college buildings, and at the time the only college building,
- Published in History
Cornel West on Obama’s Peace Prize
Sunday, 18 October 2009
by Samantha Pergadia
LeBeouf Stretches outside Firestone, Woman is Angered
Saturday, 17 October 2009
by Samantha Pergadia
The newest addition to the repertoire of popular entertainment that has been filmed at Princeton–which includes such noteworthy pieces as A Beautiful Mind, Across the Universe, and House–is Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen. Apparently the shoot was not all fun and games. Watch the below footage of Shia LeBeouf stretching in the Firestone Plaza
- Published in Goings On
21 Questions with… VP Janet Dickerson
Saturday, 17 October 2009
by Brian No
Name: Janet Dickerson Occupation on Campus: Vice President for Campus Life Who’s your favorite Princetonian, living or dead, real or fictional? Princeton President Bob Goheen…he steered the University through the tumultuous and monumental changes of the sixties and early seventies, enhanced the minority presence, introduced coeducation, created the modern Princeton What is your greatest guilty
- Published in 21 Questions, Faculty
IN PRINT: Bryan House hails student’s artistic gift
Saturday, 17 October 2009
by Angela Wu
When Princeton University senior Julia Neufeld first saw a photograph of the lobby at Harriet Bryan House, she saw a long, blank wall—a very large blank wall. ”It looked like a big wall!” she said. “It’s about 8 feet by 30 feet, approximately. It was even hard to get the whole thing in there.” Over
- Published in In Print
When Princetonians stop being polite and start getting real