Spotted in a PHI 202 moral philosophy lecture on Hobbes and game theory, two minutes ago:
A young man with a jock-like appearance, wearing a heavy green backpack, stands up and runs down the aisle of McCosh 10, shredding his notes in the air above his head as he shrieks:
“It’s all lies! It’s all lies! It’s all lies!”
Trinity College’s men’s squash team defeated Princeton men’s squash yesterday in a close 5-4 squash game that gave the No. 1 ranked squash team its 11th perfect season of squash in a row, with a 16-0 record of squash wins. Trinity men’s squash team’s last loss was in a game of squash against Harvard in the College Squash Association National Team Championship in February 1998.
Squash squash squash.
Trinity’s men’s squash team has now had 199 victories in a row. No. 2-ranked Princeton ended the season with a 11-1 record. As No. 1 and No. 2, the two teams are favored to face off again next Saturday at Jadwin Squash Courts for this year’s National Team Championship game.
But does anyone remember that gem from the New York Times published about a year ago? We do. It’s another article about how “anxious parents are looking for some edge, any edge, to help their child gain entry through the back door of the nation’s most selective universities,” but it’s an article about squash. Because that’s how you get into Princeton. Squash.
Capitalizing on the tense economic climate, SmartMoney unveiled its“Best Colleges for Making Money” ranking (slideshow here) yesterday, compiling tuition costs and salaries to find the schools that offer the largest payback, and trying to convince us to transfer to the University of Georgia.
Princeton University came in first out of the Ivy League schools with an “average payback” of 132%…
