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Class Day, out of context!
Monday, 31 May 2010
by Angela Wu
“Really? Rainbows shooting out of unicorns? Really? And you have the nerve to blame Dean Malkiel for your grades.” — Shirley Tilghman, president of Princeton University “MLIG.” — Shirley Tilghman “I’m not sure how people enjoyed life before Lady Gaga, but I’m glad I don’t have to live in that world anymore.” — Zach Zimmerman
- Published in Goings On
CDY and Jonathan Schwartz ’10 are on the Amazing Race
Monday, 31 May 2010
by David Walter
Guess someone took our advice! CBS’s globe-trotting reality show The Amazing Race kicked off the filming of its 17th season on May 26. Among the 11 pairs of two vying for the show’s million-dollar prize is Team Nassoon: Former Student Body President – and Pyne Prize winner – Connor Diemand-Yauman ’10 and Fantasticks star Jonathan Schwartz
- Published in Alumni, Goings On, The INKternet
The Things They Carried
Saturday, 29 May 2010
by Giri Nathan
As the Class of 2010 barreled into Poe Field to conclude today’s epic P-rade, I noticed that few graduating seniors were running empty-handed. Here are some of the things they carried: beer. one another. beer. a dog, hoisted overhead. a baby, similarly held. I was genuinely concerned about the last two. (They were moving really,
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babies, beer, Class of 2010, dogs, P-Rade, terrifyingly cavalier handling of living things
IN PRINT: Dorm Rooms of the Stars
Thursday, 27 May 2010
by David Walter
Just in time for Reunions, a heaping dose of Princetoniana in the New York Times. Ever wonder where Elena Kagan lived while she was a Tiger? Sonia Sotomayor? Bill Bradley? The University doesn’t publicize any of that information, but it’s available in the school’s archives. Not all famous rooms have lasted into the 21st century,
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Bill Bradley, Brown Hall, Donald Rumsfeld, Dorm Rooms, Elena Kagan, Jimmy Stewart, John F. Kennedy, New York Times, Princetoniana, Sonia Sotomayor
IN PRINT: Speaking out for the Dinky
Thursday, 27 May 2010
by Will Saborio
This weekend, while you hop from tent to tent in the bizarre time machine that is Princeton Reunions, think about this: Probably everyone, at some point, rode the Dinky, or at least knows about it. Pretty crazy to think. Which is why some of the reactions to the train’s possible replacement have been so vocal.
- Published in In Print
This month’s GQ lays bare Princeton’s reunions secrets
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
by Will Saborio
We have a good thing going here at Princeton — even years after you graduate, you can come back and be an underclassman again for a weekend in May, reveling in all the debauchery that entails, at Princeton Reunions. But it’s relatively hush-hush, you know? Sure it’s a huge party, but we manage to keep
- Published in Goings On, Princeton in the News
Movin’ on Out: A sign-off from UPC
Saturday, 22 May 2010
by Will Saborio
If you’re wondering where that vague scent of trash is coming from, or why there are so many large people carrying heavy things around campus, you might want to snap out of your post-exam stupor and pack your stuff up: it’s move-out day. Everyone’s leaving! (Unless you have Reunions housing, in which case Angela Hodgeman
- Published in Goings On, Open Letter
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Angela Hodgeman, commencement, Dead Week, Housing, move out, Princeton, reunions, self-referential blogging
How’d You Like Your History Thesis to Undergo a Supreme Court Grilling?
Tuesday, 18 May 2010
by Julia Bumke
As discussions keep going strong about last week’s Elena Kagan ’81 nomination, the White House has announced that it will publish Kagan’s undergraduate thesis from Princeton’s Department of History. This announcement was made after the right-wing site RedState had illegally posted her “socialist thesis” last week; apparently, Kagan (and not ‘ole Nassau) holds the copyright
- Published in Goings On, Princeton in the News
SCORE: Round 2
Monday, 17 May 2010
by Samantha Pergadia
For those of you who set 7am alarms this morning to get an edge on SCORE’s reopening, here’s a look at some of the most sought-after classes for the fall of 2010. (Note: For our purposes, we’re omitting the six introductory/prerequisite courses with the highest enrollment, including CHM303, PSY207, ECO100, SOC101, PSY101 and PHI203. These
- Published in Student Guides
The Aftermath
Saturday, 15 May 2010
by Woody Hines
This is the aftermath of exam period. This is the carnage. Somewhere under this mound of everything is my room. A wad of papers and toiletries sit on my desk. My bed is just a sheet and a dirty pillow on it for sleeping during those 4 hour transitions between work and more work. The
- Published in Musings
IN PRINT: The Dinky Gets the NY Times Treatment
Saturday, 15 May 2010
by David Walter
PRINCETON, N.J. — The run of the train known as the Princeton Dinky is both impressively long and unusually short. For 145 years, this rail link in a college town has ferried students and commuters over the briefest of distances. But Year 146 has not been kind to the nation’s shortest regularly scheduled commuter route,
- Published in Goings On, In Print, Princeton in the News
We just don’t do commencement like we used to
Saturday, 15 May 2010
by Miriam Geronimus
We know that there’s still a week of finals, but since the year is almost over, we thought we’d share a silent video of Princeton commencement ca. 1928. Some of it you’ll recognize — like the hand motions to Old Nassau or the P-rade. But apparently there are some traditions we’ve lost in the past
- Published in History, The INKternet