While enjoying the fine Springtime weather of the past weekend, you may have noticed the throng of people gathered outside the Princeton Record Exchange (Prex, as the cool kids say) at around 10 in the morning.
Turns out these intrepid earlyish risers (for college) were waiting to get their hands on some limited edition vinyl, in celebration of the second annual Record Store Day. Said one enthustiastic record store owner when we called him up on Saturday: “It’s a national frickin’ holiday!” Not yet, good sir, but dare to dream.
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Dorit Beinisch, the equivalent of the Chief Justice on the Israeli Supreme Court, talked about balancing security and human rights in the age of terror.
If the celebration that traipsed its way through Mathey-Rocky this past Sunday afternoon is any indication, new Torahs are a big deal. Chabad, the Jewish center run by the Hassidic Lubavitz movement, got its first Torah on Sunday, and members of Chabad made their jubilation known.
After Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School, bolted Princeton for the State Department back in February, we’ve been waiting to see who the school will pick to replace her as caretaker of the tool shed.
It’s a cold Friday night in the dead of winter, and none of the major basketball conferences have games. What’s an addictive professional gambler to do? Well, according to 
Today’s New York Times ran an article heralding the new Dartmouth College president, Dr. Jim Yong Kim (full story 
On a recent Wednesday evening Kathy Kiely, USA Today writer and current Mathey College Faculty Member in Residence (she lives in Blair Arch!) had dinner with a group of about a dozen students to talk about the rapidly deteriorating state of print journalism and her own coverage of the November election.
After Obama’s victory in the Iowa caucus, Kiely’s editors at USA Today assumed that Obama would win the New Hampshire primary easily and go on to win the nomination (pretty much all the polling data and public opinion was predicting a big Obama victory in New Hampshire). So her editors assigned Kiely to a big profile on Obama that would run after his victory.