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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: Princeton Basketball Season Preview @ Ivy Hoops Online
Tuesday, 25 October 2011
by Spencer Gaffney
We’re only a couple weeks away from the start of the basketball season, sports fans! With Doug Davis’ buzzer beater now firmly in the rearview mirror, what’s the year going to look like for the Princeton Tigers? This season I’m going to be covering the Princeton basketball team for IvyHoopsOnline, and this week I take
- Published in Sports
Debatable: Top [Hot] Dog
Tuesday, 27 September 2011
by Spencer Gaffney
In today’s inaugural edition of Debatable (name subject to change if we come up with a better name), our man on the street tackles a burning question: what hot dog reigns supreme over Princeton University? The hot dog’s got a lot going for it. No really, it does. It’s portable. Wildly customizable (crazy Chicago with its celery salt and
- Published in Musings
Week in Review: Monkeys, Poker, and Prison Edition (June 12 – June 18)
Tuesday, 21 June 2011
by Spencer Gaffney
We tried to find a unifying theme for this Week in Review — really, we did! — but ultimately, summer’s here, and sometimes, a scattershot title’s all you got. Without further ado, let’s dive in to what happened last week. 1. MONKEYS! Princeton is in trouble again for its treatment of primates in lab research;
- Published in Week in Review
Best Class Government Application EVER!
Monday, 25 April 2011
by Spencer Gaffney
If you’ve been following the latest round of USG elections (here’s a refresher if you haven’t), you’ve been waiting with bated breath to find out who will be appointed to fill the vacant 2012 class secretary position. Well, while we don’t know who Lindy & Co. are going to choose, we recently heard about one
Why Sydney Johnson Left (And Why I Would Have, Too)
Tuesday, 12 April 2011
by Spencer Gaffney
I hate Lane Kiffin. I disliked him at Tennessee, but ever since he jumped ship after a year of SEC football and left for the greener pastures of USC and the PAC-10, I’ve loathed Lane Kiffin. To me, he symbolizes everything that’s wrong with coaches in NCAA sports — phony smiles, good haircuts, no loyalty,
- Published in Sports
xkcd Guy to Speak at Princeton April 11
Thursday, 31 March 2011
by Spencer Gaffney
If you are anything like a certain Ink blogger who will remain unnamed, you spend your computing hours (known colloquially around campus as “lectures”) playing Dog Fight 2 and checking if your favorite web comics have updated yet today. In which case, we heard some very exciting news! Randall Munroe, creator of xkcd, will be
NCAA Tournament(s) Preview!
Thursday, 17 March 2011
by Spencer Gaffney
Now that you’ve watched Doug Davis’ shot from a dozen different angles (instruct me in the Douglas!) and contemplated the cool name of Ian Hummer ’13 (objective view: fairly cool, but nothing to write home about), it’s time to get serious. NIT? Thanks, but no thanks. CBI? Don’t call us, we’ll call you. We’re talking
- Published in Sports, Uncategorized
Princeton’s Rival? This Season, Look No Further Than Harvard
Thursday, 10 March 2011
by Spencer Gaffney
Classic Ivy League sports debate that no one actually plans on answering: Who is Princeton’s rival? Some Tiger fans cling firmly to the geographical convenience of the supposed Penn-Princeton rivalry. Back in 2006, a columnist from the Daily Pennsylvanian noted that the rival stems almost exclusively from the two schools’ dominance of Ivy League basketball. But
- Published in Sports
Princeton Reinstates Early Admission Program
Thursday, 24 February 2011
by Spencer Gaffney
Princeton will reinstate its early admissions program, the school announced this morning. High school students next year will be able to apply “single-choice early action.” The application is non-binding — if accepted, the student has until the end of the regular admissions process to decide — but students who apply early to Princeton cannot apply
- Published in Goings On
The Great Gatsby – the Video Game?
Wednesday, 16 February 2011
by Spencer Gaffney
Certain books lend themselves to video game adaptation. (Lord of the Rings? Hell yes! Who doesn’t want to tromp around Middle Earth slaying orcs and what not?) Other literary classics? Like, say, The Great Gatsby? Not so much. Or so we thought. Turns out someone decided F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tale of high society in the
- Published in Internet
The Jadwin Effect
Wednesday, 09 February 2011
by Spencer Gaffney
Pop quiz, sports fans: What are the only three DI schools whose men’s and women’s basketball teams are still undefeated at home? 1. Duke (home of the reigning NCAA men’s champions and a damn good women’s program) 2. McNeese State University (the Cowboys and Cowgirls, terrors of the Southland conference, collegiate home of Joe Dumars)
- Published in Sports