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Week In Review: By the Numbers Edition (August 7-13)
Monday, 13 August 2012
by Lauren Zumbach
The Olympics are now over, but one more Tiger managed to take home a medal: Diana Matheson ’08, who scored Canada’s only goal in the bronze medal women’s soccer match against France for a 1-0 shutout win. That means Princeton had seven medalists, which, as @PrincetonBetch points out, beats the country that invented the Olympics.
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It’s (Almost) Reunions Time
Thursday, 03 May 2012
by Lauren Zumbach
For Steven Liss ’10, Reunions is an orange and black Christmas, and even harder to wait for than the original. While checking his calendar last night, Liss got the inspiration for the Reunions Advent Calendar – similar to countdowntoreunions.com, but with a daily bonus – videos, cartoons, funny quotes, “anything exalting Princeton, really,” Liss said. It
- Published in Goings On
Brooks Brothers Hits Nassau
Wednesday, 07 March 2012
by Lauren Zumbach
Apparently the U Store’s selection of Princeton-themed Brooks Brothers sweaters and ties wasn’t enough to fill our insatiable, stereotype-fulfilling demand for all things preppy. Coming soon to Palmer Square: an entire Brooks Brothers store, scheduled to open September 1st – just in time for Lawnparties. (Coincidence? I think not.) Of course, given Princeton’s sartorial reputation,
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COMBO III: Princeton Will Drive You Crazy. Literally.
Tuesday, 13 December 2011
by Lauren Zumbach
If you noticed more focus on mental health initiatives in the run-up to this year’s USG elections, there’s a good reason, according to results from the third USG Committee on Background and Opportunity (COMBO). 35.3% of students surveyed report having mental health challenges that they did not experience before coming to Princeton, and certain groups
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Fashion hack takes Facebook’s top prize
Wednesday, 07 December 2011
by Lauren Zumbach
Still working on the perfect look for formals? Computer science students Daniel Chyan ’14, Angela Dai ’13, Tiantian Zha ’13 and Amy Zhou ’13 might be able to offer some advice. They took first place at the Facebook Camp Hackathon last weekend, beating teams that qualified at earlier competitions throughout the country. Their creation? Color
- Published in Goings On
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
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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
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
CSI: Princeton
Wednesday, 05 October 2011
by Lauren Zumbach
Remember when you visited Yale? The Gothic architecture (not as nice as here, of course) made you wonder if you hadn’t received your Hogwarts owl after all, just a few years late. Except then you peeked beyond the iron gates, remembered you were in America’s fourth most dangerous city, and chose our quiet suburban idyll
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Information Wants to be Free
Wednesday, 28 September 2011
by Lauren Zumbach
Princeton University joined MIT and Harvard in adopting an open access policy for all scholarly publications. At the most recent meeting of the Faculty of Princeton University, members voted unanimously to grant “The Trustees of Princeton University a nonexclusive, irrevocable, worldwide license to exercise any and all copyrights in his or her scholarly articles published
Genius Jackpot
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
by Lauren Zumbach
There are probably a lot of Princetonians who fall on the genius spectrum, but not all of them get official recognition, much less official recognition and a no-strings-attached $500,000 grant. Then there’s Peter Hessler ’92, one of 22 MacArthur Fellows for 2011. Hessler is a long form journalist who drew on his experience as an
- Published in Princeton in the News
Cannon to Join Most Selective Clubs – If It Ever Opens
Wednesday, 14 September 2011
by Lauren Zumbach
All of the eating clubs will be up and running for Lawnparties this weekend – all except Cannon Dial Elm Club, whose long-awaited return has been getting just a little longer since its first planned reopening in the spring of 2008. But, slowly yet surely, Cannon is prepping for its revival (and praying it will
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