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Top Model: So how’d Jane do?
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
by David Walter
This week Jane – as in Randall ’12, as in SchwartzDY ain’t the only insta-celebs in town right now – dodged the bullet in more ways than one. A lot of reality television skeptics dismiss the genre as an exercise in tawdry public humiliation. Normally I counter such assertions with a disquisition on how reality
- Published in Goings On
Tagged under:
America's Next Top Model, Jane Randall, makeovers, prognostication, SchwartzDY, Tyra Banks
The Real Slim Shady
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
by Samantha Pergadia
The Huffington Post recently created a list entitled “If Rappers Were Colleges: Analogies You WON’T Find on the SAT,” which pairs universities with famous rappers. Comparing Princeton to Eminem, the rankings say that he (or we) are “The whitest of the truly elite.” Our friends at PrincetonFML are ambivalent about the comparison. One student writes,
- Published in Internet
Tagged under:
Eminem, Huffington Post, Jay-Z, Princeton, rap, rappers, stuff white people like, whiteness
21 Questions With…Stu Orefice
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
by Ellen Shakespear
Fall may have officially started yesterday, but we all know that summer unofficially ended when your Webmail suddenly had fifteen unread messages from Princeton director of this, coordinator of that, and person in charge of making sure you do that other thing. Here at The Ink we thought it was time to get to know
- Published in 21 Questions
Seth Priebatsch (formerly ’11), Teenage Vulcan
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
by Spencer Gaffney
Ever wonder if Seth Priebatsch, the 21-year-old entrepreneurial wunderkid who dropped out of Princeton his freshman year, misses kicking it with his peers on campus? Well, Priebatsch had this to offer in his Sunday New York Times profile (which described Priebatsch as a “teenage Vulcan): “I had friends at Princeton; I’m sure it’d be fun
- Published in Princeton in the News
The New True Prep
Tuesday, 21 September 2010
by Ellen Shakespear
In her 1980 bestseller “The Official Preppy Handbook,” Lisa Birnbach defined the prep as someone who had a classic outlook on life and a classic wardrobe to match. You might think that thirty years later, and with the economy in the tubes, a manual on all things preppy would be of no use to you.
- Published in Fun, Goings On, Princeton in the News
A word of advice: On coursebooks
Tuesday, 21 September 2010
by Will Saborio
Oh hey freshman carrying two very heavy-looking Labyrinth bags. What’s that? Oh, you like playing exorbitant prices for books that you’ll read ten pages of and never look at again? For those of you who don’t wallpaper their rooms with euros or enjoy shilling top-shelf prices for absorbing titles like “Fundamentals of Microeconomics, Fifth Edition,
- Published in Musings, Open Letter, Student Guides
Press Club Style Guide: So you missed Lawnparties?
Sunday, 19 September 2010
by Angela Wu
That’s OK. Since the whole point is really to see and be seen (Though I think we can agree that this year was unusually successful on the music side of things), we’ve got photos of some of the best-dressed (or just the preppiest) revelers. Click for larger images.
IN PRINT: So now the alumni know
Sunday, 19 September 2010
by Angela Wu
Think of this piece as an introduction to Princeton FML, your virtual window into the life of a Princeton undergraduate. It might not be the most graceful — or eloquent — way to complain, but it’s probably the easiest. “FML.” The last two letters stand for “my life,” and it shouldn’t be too hard to
Lawnparties: The Ink Stamp of Approval
Saturday, 18 September 2010
by Giri Nathan
Another Lawnparties, another round of pastels, champagne, and cringe-worthy cover bands. To be fair, this fall’s cover band count is comfortably low (I spot only two), and in any case, no amount of tight pants and frizzed out wigs could rain on my parade once I heard that this guy was coming to town. And
IN PRINT: How credit card reform affects you
Saturday, 18 September 2010
by Angela Wu
This Frosh week was different than most–but you might not have noticed. There were no credit card issuers tabled around campus trying to convince you to open an account. No free pizza or shot glasses for credit cards. That’s because of 2009’s Credit CARD Act, which went into effect in February. Provisions in the act
- Published in In Print
Princeton’s Next Top Model Speaks!
Tuesday, 14 September 2010
by David Walter
If you were following our blog these past few months, you know that The Amazing Race isn’t the only reality series with a Princeton connection this fall. This season (or, as the show’s creator/judge/host/resident eccentric Tyra Banks insists on calling it, “cycle”) of America’s Next Top Model features junior Jane Randall among its bevy of
- Published in Princeton in the News
Tagged under:
America's Next Top Model, awkward segues, fashion, horses, Jane Randall, modeling, reality television, reality tv, television, Tyra Banks, Vogue, Vogue Italia
Ladies and Gentlemen, Frankie Muniz…
Tuesday, 14 September 2010
by David Walter
Lawnparties headliners tend to come in two flavors. First, you’ve got your Popular Mid-Level Acts: your Lupes, your Roots, your pre-Umbrella Rihannas. And then you’ve got your Random Throwbacks, the Pat Benatars and the Everclears of the music world. (For while Everclear the alcohol is notoriously flavorless, Everclear the band tastes strongly and somewhat unpleasantly
- Published in Goings On
Tagged under:
Child Actors, Frankie Muniz, Lawnparties, Malcolm in the Middle, Music, Nostalgia, You Hang Up