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Future of Food Writing with New York Times Restaurant Critic
Monday, 28 November 2011
by Lauren Zumbach
Whether you’re interested in fine dining and criticism or still have food on the brain after Thanksgiving break, join the University Press Club for the annual Louis R. Rukeyser ’54 Memorial Lecture Series featuring Pete Wells, the New York Times’ newly announced restaurant critic. Wells, the editor of the New York Times’ Dining & Wine
- Published in Goings On
Four Princetonians Named Rhodes Scholars
Monday, 21 November 2011
by Lauren Zumbach
Four Princetonians – Elizabeth Butterworth ’12, Miriam Rosenbaum ’12, Astrid Stuth ’12 and Mohit Agrawal ’11 – were among the 32 American Rhodes Scholarship winners announced today. Agrawal, a math major and former co-president of Engineers Without Borders, is currently getting his master’s in economic policy evaluation at the National University of Ireland on a
- Published in Princeton in the News
Occupy Princeton No Longer Remains Silent
Friday, 18 November 2011
by Miriam Geronimus
Last Friday, when the Occupy the Highway march came through Princeton, freshman Whitney Blodgett yelled four simple words:“We’re the 1 percent!” It was an almost painful caricature of the apathetic and elitist Princeton student. But as if on cue, Occupy Princeton held its first General Assembly this afternoon on Frist North Lawn. It turns out,
- Published in Goings On
Weekend Arts Roundup: See-It-All Edition, Part II
Thursday, 17 November 2011
by Julia Bumke
Another week, another arts roundup! As we mentioned in last week’s column, we’ve been faced with an embarrassment of riches on campus between now and Thanksgiving break. Follow our advice…and see it all! Thursday, November 17, 8pm:Fuente Ovejuna: A Disloyal Adaptation, produced by the Department of Theater at McCarter’s Berlind Theatre, takes the classic Lope
- Published in Weekend Arts Roundup
Why Cornel West Matters: On His Leaving Princeton
Thursday, 17 November 2011
by Vivienne Chen
Cornel West, African-American Studies/Religion professor and one of our many celebrity academics, recently announced that he will be leaving his Princeton post in 2012 to teach Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, the school where he first began his career in academia. For his time at Princeton, West will be remembered for more than
- Published in Faculty, Princeton in the News
Wonder What Princeton Thinks About OWS? (Or, “Ask a Freshman” with The Washington Post)
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
by Spencer Gaffney
Other than the occasional high-profile arrest of a professor, Princeton hasn’t seemed all that gripped by the “Occupy” movements. In Cambridge, Harvard has restricted access to the Yard over “security concerns” raised by Occupy Harvard; so far no tent cities have sprung up in front of Nassau Hall. There isn’t much immediacy to the movement here on
- Published in Musings, Princeton in the News
IN PRINT: Krugman Weighs in on Jobs Crisis
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
by Lauren Zumbach
Last weekend, Nobel prizewinning economics professor Paul Krugman took part in a panel discussion on the jobs crisis that’s hit Newark and other New Jersey cities particularly hard. Whether you agree with his views on the economy or not, you have to admit he’s pretty good with metaphors. A few favorites from his talk: On
- Published in In Print
3547 Early Action Applicants!
Saturday, 12 November 2011
by Miriam Geronimus
A whopping 3547 students applied Early Action to Princeton this year, according to the Prince. That’s up from 2,275 Early Decision applicants in 2006 (Though this is not a fair comparison since Early Action is not binding and the number of high school graduates has risen since 2006). As we all know from when we
- Published in Princeton in the News
Weekend Arts Roundup: See-It-All Edition!
Thursday, 10 November 2011
by Julia Bumke
This weekend and next always have the year’s largest number of arts events on campus…and here at The Ink, we want to help you to enjoy every bit of it! We’ve made a fancy-pants version of how to see it all between now and Thanksgiving break: Thursday, November 10: I might be slightly biased in
- Published in Weekend Arts Roundup