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This Week In Weather Graphics
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
by David Walter
“HURRICANE-LIKE SNOW STORM COULD DUMP 15 INCHES OF SNOW IN NORTHERN N.J.!” Star-Ledger: “Expected to hit tonight and continue into Friday… Mercer and Ocean counties should see about a foot of snow on the ground.”
- Published in Goings On
Daily Princetonian opinion piece has media up in arms
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
by Will Saborio
On Monday, freshman Iulia Neagu contributed an opinion column in The Daily Princetonian entitled “The real ‘Sex on a Saturday Night.'” It’s sparked a nationwide controversy and the story has been picked up by popular news site Gawker and its sister site, Jezebel. The piece has blogs and their commenters foaming at the mouth with
- Published in Princeton in the News
Tagged under:
Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux, EqualWrites, Gawker, Iulia Neagu, Jezebel, media, Mendy Fisch, The Daily Princetonian
This Week In Smug
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
by David Walter
From the Daily Pennsylvanian: With job opportunities becoming more and more competitive, students are getting ready to face the world outside of college with the best GPAs they can get. Princeton students, however, might have more trouble staying competitive with students from other peer schools because of the grade inflation policy that began at the
- Published in Goings On
Thank God This Isn’t Your Professor
Tuesday, 23 February 2010
by Samantha Pergadia
Have you ever spent shopping period class hopping (i.e. sitting in on multiple classes that occur simultaneously)? One student at NYU’s Stern Business School employed such a strategy during their add/drop period to devastating ends. As he attempted to walk into the middle of Professor Scott Galloway’s course, he was kicked out and informed that
- Published in Goings On, Princeton in the News
Former Pres. Goheen: Greatest Man in the United States of America?
Tuesday, 23 February 2010
by Angela Wu
President Tilghman might need to step it up. Former Iowa Rep. James Leach ’64, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, received the Woodrow Wilson Award on Alumni Day last weekend. In his speech, he remembered former University president Robert Goheen ’40 as the Best President Ever. Ever ever. From the PAW: Before delivering
- Published in Alumni
How P-Krug Gets His Groove Back
Monday, 22 February 2010
by David Walter
From a profile of Economics Professor Paul (“Nobel Laureate”) Krugman in this week’s New Yorker: When it is cold at home, or he has a couple of weeks with nothing to do but write his Times column [but what about WWS 543?], or when something unexpectedly stressful happens, like winning the Nobel Prize, the Princeton economist
- Published in Princeton in the News
IN PRINT: Academic Neighborhoods and Budget Qualms
Monday, 22 February 2010
by Julia Bumke
Despite this year’s tighter budget and a slightly worse-for-wear endowment, President Tilghman is still thinking ahead towards breaking ground on new Neuroscience and Psychology buildings as part of an innovative Natural Sciences neighborhood (as The Ink reported earlier this week). While the natural sciences project is has been deemed “shovel-ready” by the powers-that-be, plans for
- Published in In Print
Are You Ready For Some Quizboooowwwl?
Monday, 22 February 2010
by David Walter
Nerds: It’s time. Time to dust off those swords and shields. Time to say those final prayers. Time to kiss those families goodbye. ‘Cause ResCol Quiz Bowl? It’s a-comin’. First up in this intramural Battle of the Brains? Mathey v. Whitman, 10 pm Tuesday in the Mathey Common Room. This is just the opening salvo,
- Published in Goings On
Tagged under:
Forbes, Mathey, mnemonic devices, Quiz Bowl, residential colleges, trash-talk, Whitman
David Remnick ’81 to publish “pimped out” biography of Barack Obama
Monday, 22 February 2010
by Will Saborio
David Remnick ’81, editor-in-chief of The New Yorker (and former Press Clubber aw yeah!), has a biography of Barack Obama in the works. The Alfred A. Knopf imprint of Random House said it plans to publish the bio on April 6. Remnick’s written about Obama in the past, and he promises the book would not
- Published in Alumni, Princeton in the News
Facebook Tells of Secret Scholarships
Monday, 22 February 2010
by Giri Nathan
The sketchy Facebook ad — everyone’s favorite source of financial guidance — has risen to splendid new heights of sketchiness. When it’s not advertising Christian/Jewish/Asian singles (variety is the spice of life?), offering jobs for which I am patently unqualified (Diesel technician for CAT dealerships in North Dakota?), or telling me about Alicia Silverstone’s vegan
- Published in History
Lady Tigers Really, Really Good at Basketball
Monday, 22 February 2010
by Spencer Gaffney
Well, after all the excitement around the Princeton men’s basketball team possibly going undefeated in the Ivy League, we lost to Cornell and Brown in a span of three short games. There are still a few games left in the season, but Princeton has been all but eliminated from winning the Ivy League title. But
- Published in Goings On
Latest Campus Club Lure
Monday, 22 February 2010
by Samantha Pergadia
Although the free coffee and abundance of comfortable couch space hasn’t been enough to put Campus Club on your list of pre-class (or post-street) stops, here’s an announcement from the Taproom Café that just might change that: FRESHLY BAKED CINNAMON ROLLS AND POPCORN!! Starting Monday at the Taproom Café (Campus Club Basement) Mornings—Money to Friday
- Published in Goings On