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New Year’s Blues
Wednesday, 30 December 2009
by David Walter
2009 was, on reflection, an imperfect year. I can’t say I’m sad to see it go. But to the extent that New Year’s signals an impending return to Princeton after a too-short break — oh, what I wouldn’t give to make this cruel decade last just a few days longer! And of course it
- Published in Musings
So you’re driving home in the snow
Saturday, 19 December 2009
by Angela Wu
Maybe you’ve heard about the snow storm moving up the northeast corrider–the one that made Obama race home dramatically from Copenhagen! From the Times: Winter storm warnings were in effect from Tennessee and North Carolina to the southern New England states, and the storm was expected to affect Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and other cities. A
- Published in Student Guides
Robbie George Hits The Big Time
Saturday, 19 December 2009
by David Walter
When we last checked in with Robbie George, our McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence was busy leading the fight to keep Obama’s openly-gay “Safe Schools Czar” Kevin Jennings from advancing “pro-homosexualist propaganda” in our nation’s classrooms. As of this posting, Jennings has kept his job in the Education Department, and Professor George has moved on to
- Published in Princeton in the News
All Your Princeton Gift-Buying Dilemmas, Solved
Saturday, 19 December 2009
by David Walter
Year in and year out, my strategy for gift-giving (holiday, birthday, or otherwise) can be boiled down to one word: scarves. Whenever I’m traveling, I make sure to visit a local market and buy up a dozen or so pieces of the inexpensive local neckwear. Come December, I pass them out like candy. You just
- Published in Student Guides
World leaders can B.S. too
Friday, 18 December 2009
by Miriam Geronimus
Princeton students know how to procrastinate. We’re also very familiar with the art of b.s. — especially when it’s almost break, and we just want to be done and go home. Apparently, world leaders know how to do this too. Today marked the end of the Copenhagen climate talks. Though some had speculated that the
- Published in Politics, Princeton in the News
Chi Phi Pledges Show Some Skin in ECO 101
Friday, 18 December 2009
by Abby Greene
Well hello, Chi Phi Class of 2013. We see you. All of you. Or at least ECO 101 does, along with the countless non-Econ students who decided to join lecture today to watch Chi Phi’s pledges run through the aisles wearing nothing but Santa hats (it is, after all, the holiday season). And hey, it’s no
- Published in Goings On
All I Want For Christmas is You, Tiger…
Friday, 18 December 2009
by Julia Bumke
Ah, the wonders of the holiday season: a tree in Palmer Square that’s approximately ten trillion feet tall, a barrage of simply lovely end-of-term assignments, and, of course, the eternal quest for some cute Inkblot to kiss under the mistletoe. Never fear, Tigers! Former USG President Josh Weinstein ’09 has the site for you. Goodcrush.com,
- Published in Goings On, Student Guides, Week in Review
LIVE BLOGGING: Duking it out with Dean Malkiel, Whig-Clio style
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
by Giri Nathan
[Update 2/7/10: Here’s a write-up of the event in the PAW –BKN] For the first time since 2006, Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel– architect of the ever-popular grade deflation policy– will be gracing the Whig-Clio Senate Debate to defend her brainchild. Hordes of deflatees await their chance to duke it out in a public
- Published in Goings On
IN PRINT: Ambassador Cretz Discusses Libyan Politics in the Wilson school’s first live video stream.
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
by Samantha Pergadia
United States ambassador to Libya Gene Cretz said that “continued engagement with Libya is in our long-term national interest,” during an afternoon speech at the Woodrow Wilson School Dec. 4. A unique aspect of the event was that it was streamed live to Tripoli, where students from six Libyan universities gathered at the U.S. embassy
Funny/Awkward Things Shirley Tilghman Says
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
by Brian No
At yesterday afternoon’s CPUC meeting, USG Treasurer Trevor Martin ’11 presented to the Council the COMBO II survey results. Remember those depressing survey results? Midway through the presentation, President Shirley Tilghman suddenly exclaimed in horror. What had upset her? Martin had been explaining a bar graph that showed social sciences, the most popular category of
Of Bruce and Men
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
by Ellen Shakespear
By now it’s obvious that Princeton professors have a big old crush on Bruce Springsteen. First there was this fall’s course on the sociological implications of the Boss. Next up: AMS401: At Home in New Jersey, a spring seminar that promises to investigate Bruce’s first studio album Greetings From Asbury Park “at a more sophisticated and advanced level.”
- Published in Musings, Politics, Princeton in the News
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