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IN PRINT: Mario Vargas Llosa keeps his eye on teaching
Saturday, 30 October 2010
by Will Saborio
You might have heard Mario Vargas Llosa, Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing for the Lewis Center, won the Nobel Prize in Literature a few weeks ago. So you’d think, hey, guy’s a big deal, probably wants to get out a place like Princeton. Nope. Vargas Llosa still happily gets up at 5:30 a.m., boards NJTransit
Thought you had a bad week?
Thursday, 28 October 2010
by Will Saborio
Yeah, midterms have come and gone, and they hit some of us hard (I currently am watching a passed out underclassman drool on a table littered with sheets of math in Frist). Can you imagine what it’s like in the real world, though? More specifically, in the political world? Take note all you Woody Woo
- Published in Alumni
Tagged under:
Eliot Spitzer, Gawker, Governor, Griff Harsh, Harvard Club, Ken Buck, Meg Whitman, Michael Bloomberg, midterms, Mitch Daniels, Politics, Princeton Club, woody woo
So you’re planning on surviving midterms…
Thursday, 28 October 2010
by Sarah Vitali
…guess you’ll need a plan for after graduation! An option to consider: There’s also a law school version, if you’re so inclined. P.S. For those of a creative bent, this site is great for making videos out of awkward e-mails from your professors. P.P.S. Especially if they’re a little ESL…
- Published in Fun
Two Days Down, Three To Go
Tuesday, 26 October 2010
by Ellen Shakespear
We’ve found a slightly more inspirational pumpkin than last time for you as you slug through the remaining days…
- Published in Fun
Spotted: Saving you from Damnation, If Not from Midterms
Tuesday, 26 October 2010
by Julia Bumke
Looking for a way to survive midterms? Maybe Eternal Salvation’s your best bet…at least to hear the evangelicals out by Woody Woo Fountain with their boxes of free Scripture talk about it this morning. Apparently they’ve also been politely prosthelytizing to Forbesians out by the Dinky this week. I’ll give them this: their lime green pocket-sized
- Published in Goings On
21 Questions With … Luchi Mmegwa
Monday, 25 October 2010
by Giri Nathan
NEW FRESHMAN CLASS PREZ LUCHI MMEGWA ’14 WANTS TO MAKE FROSH HAPPY, YEARNS FOR A TROPICAL ESCAPE, SEEKS A BETTER AFRICA Name: Luchi Mmegwa Age: 17 Major: Undecided, maybe politics/economics? Hometown: Lagos, Nigeria (But I’ve lived in Accra, Toronto, Pittsburgh, and Atlanta) Eating Club/Residential College/Affiliation: Rocky!!! What was your initial reaction after winning the election?
- Published in 21 Questions
IN PRINT: What’s the difference between the township and borough?
Monday, 25 October 2010
by Angela Wu
Have no idea? Well, here’s a map. Princeton Township and Princeton Borough are one of New Jersey’s many “doughnut and hole” communities, where the smaller town is inside the larger one. It’s a consequence of 19th-century laws that allowed boroughs to incorporate with no more than a majority vote from its citiziens. It’s also one
- Published in In Print
Popping the Bubble: Extreme Sports Edition
Sunday, 24 October 2010
by Abby Greene
So you may have thought that competing with your classmates for those prized A’s was an extreme sport, but here’s a secret: while that may be a sport, it’s just not really extreme. If it’s extreme you’re looking for, Princeton and the surrounding towns have a surprising amount of it. Sure, Mercer may seem like
- Published in Fun, Student Guides
Tagged under:
adrenaline, biking, delaware river, dying, extreme sports, popping the bubble, rapids, skydiving, trails
Gourds Gone Wild
Saturday, 23 October 2010
by Giri Nathan
At least it’s not Beast. Poor guy had a little too much to drink. (Spotted outside Whitman)
- Published in Fun
Let’s Kill Those Cancer Cells!
Saturday, 23 October 2010
by Miriam Geronimus
Enter any molecular biology department and you’re bound to find someone working on cancer. Various treatments exist and many cancers are no longer considered fatal, but there are still plenty of questions. There’s one less question as of last Tuesday (well, ignoring the fact that this answer brings lots of new questions with it). A
- Published in Faculty, Princeton in the News
Big Numbers for Colonial?
Saturday, 23 October 2010
by Giri Nathan
Things are looking up at Colonial Club. Despite last year’s low turnout — only 13 sophomores signed in first-round — the officers have high hopes for the class of 2013. Last Tuesday, the club organized a dinner for prospective sophomores, and they had the opposite problem: there were just too many! Anyone who RSVP’d late
- Published in The Street
What did your senior thesis ever do: CDY edition
Saturday, 23 October 2010
by Angela Wu
Comic Sans gets a lot of crap. But hard-to-read fonts like Comic Sans and Bodoni may help students learn more, according to a new study in Cognition. By “a new study in Cognition,” we mean Connor Diemand-Yauman’s senior thesis. He may have been eliminated from the Amazing Race, but his senior thesis is starting to