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There’s a ‘Magic Bus’ to Take You Home from the Street Tonight (and every night after that)
Thursday, 29 October 2015
by Ally Markovich
Something to think about when planning your Princetoween costume: you may be riding home in a well-lit, University sponsored bus. Tonight, Princeton’s UMatter initiative will inaugurate a late-night bus that will run every Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 12:30 to 3 A.M. It will pick up students waiting all along on Prospect (on the north
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Why We Didn’t Take the AAU Survey, and What’s Next
Tuesday, 27 October 2015
by Spencer Parts
Princeton decided not to take the AAU sexual misconduct survey because of a Title IX deadline and concerns about customization. Students were opposed. While the survey was customized to Princeton’s specifications, administrators haven’t planned specific action based on the results, and it didn’t seem to make much of a splash on campus. Attendance has been
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Daily Princetonian publishes, immediately retracts, slanderous op-ed about the Princeton Committee on Palestine
Monday, 26 October 2015
by Gabriel Fisher
Sunday night, the Daily Princetonian published an op-ed with the headline “Princeton Committee on Palestine: Apologists for jihad.” The op-ed, written by a guest contributor Richard L. Cravatts argued that the Princeton Committee on Palestine (PCP) is a “campus group of anti-Israel activists who have help [sic] lead a campaign of libel and delegitimization against the Jewish state,
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Breaking a sweat in the art museum
Wednesday, 21 October 2015
by Anna Windemuth
If you visited The Princeton University Art Museum in the last two weeks, you may have seen a group of joggers in workout clothes led by two dazzling dancers. They may have pranced by a Monet, or done squats in front of rare artifacts. And there may have been Elton John music. No, this was
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Who Put A Hat on John Witherspoon’s Head, 18 Feet Off the Ground?
Monday, 19 October 2015
by Mary Hui
Here’s a Monday Morning Mystery: who put the orange traffic cone atop John Witherspoon’s head? The 2,750-pound bronze statue is 10 feet 2 inches tall, and sits atop a 7 -foot-7-inch plinth. That places Witherspoon’s head at almost 18 feet above the ground. Who climbed it? We will be investigating. Stay tuned. -MH
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Live Blog: Angus Deaton Nobel Prize in Economics – Press Conference
Monday, 12 October 2015
by Mary Hui
Princeton professor of economics Angus Deaton is awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics “for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare.” The University Press Club will be providing live updates from this afternoon’s press conference. 6:30am – Angus Deaton receives a phone call from the Nobel Committee “If you’re my age and you’ve been working for a
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Angus Deaton, Economics, economics professors, Liveblog, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize in economics
A ($32,853?) Lawn Chair Affair
Monday, 12 October 2015
by Mary Hui
We here at the University Press Club love all the new lawn chairs on campus. But we were also curious. How many were bought? How much did they cost? Have any been stolen? We did a little digging… On-campus squirrel numbers appear to be down this fall, but one metric is experiencing a significant uptick:
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Black Justice League Calls Out Woodrow Wilson
Friday, 09 October 2015
by Ally Markovich
One hundred years after Woodrow Wilson screened Birth of a Nation in the White House, Princeton’s Black Justice League projected it on the campus building that is his namesake. Wilson loved the film, which is a racist depiction of reconstruction in the American south, featuring the KKK and white actors in blackface. He was, after
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Why didn’t Princeton take the AAU Survey on Sexual Assault?
Wednesday, 07 October 2015
by Spencer Parts
Last week, President Eisgruber emailed the student body with results of the We Speak survey on sexual misconduct. More than a quarter of undergraduate women reported nonconsensual sexual contact or an attempt. “As is the case at other universities that recently released the results of similar surveys, the findings at Princeton are heartbreaking,” Eisgruber wrote.
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