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It’s Been Over 24 Hours and the Prince Still Hasn’t Reported on Their Own Election [Update]
Sunday, 04 December 2016
by Spencer Parts
Sarah Sakha ’18 is the new Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Princetonian. She was elected yesterday evening in a meeting of the paper’s staff. You wouldn’t know it from their Facebook page. Or their newspaper website. The paper has not reported on the election. Last we heard, the paper was “in the midst” of making the
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Follow These Five Princeton Professors on Twitter
Monday, 03 October 2016
by Spencer Parts
Going on Twitter is risky business in 2016. If you’re a private citizen of the United States, you might wake up to find yourself personally attacked by the Republican nominee for President. But Princeton professors also take to Twitter to share what they’re thinking about, on and off campus. Don’t count on their 140-character insights to
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Four Princetonians Win Rhodes Scholarship
Sunday, 22 November 2015
by Spencer Parts
The Rhodes Trust announced this year’s class of scholarship awardees yesterday, and it includes three Princeton seniors and one recent graduate. Evan Soltas ’16, Richard Lu ’16, Cameron Platt ’16 and Katherine Clifton ’15 won the scholarship. The announcements were made after the committee conducted interviews with the finalists from each region all day
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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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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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Join the University Press Club
Thursday, 24 September 2015
by Spencer Parts
Come hang out with us at our open houses — 4:30 this afternoon (Thursday) and 8:30 pm on Monday, in Frist 228. In the past year, members have written for the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Jewish Daily Forward, and the Washington Post. Swing by and we’ll tell you more about what we do. If
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Divestment Referendum Narrowly Defeated
Friday, 24 April 2015
by Spencer Parts
After a week of furious postering, tabling, and Facebook status-ing, the dust has settled on the USG Referendum to divest from companies “that maintain the infrastructure of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank.” It was defeated by just over a hundred votes. 52.5% voted in favor and 47.5% voted against, according to an email
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The Weekly Roundup March 20 – 31
Tuesday, 31 March 2015
by Spencer Parts
In this week’s edition: Liberty U. students forced to attend Cruz announcement… NBA Commish talks race and activism… historic Pton Women’s Basketball… the football team goes to Japan Washington Post – Liberty University students say they were required to attend Ted Cruz speech – Ally Markovich ’17 Ted Cruz announced his presidential campaign to 11,000 students
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Women’s Basketball Coach Courtney Banghart Named World’s 43rd Greatest Leader
Thursday, 26 March 2015
by Spencer Parts
What do Jimmy Fallon, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, and NBA Commissioner Adam Silver have in common? They’re all worse leaders than Princeton women’s basketball Head Coach Courtney Banghart, according to Fortune Magazine’s list of the 50 “World’s Greatest Leaders.” Banghart was ranked #43. The Princeton women had their undefeated season spoiled on Monday in a
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S/O to President Obama, who is Cheering on the Women’s Team Right Now
Saturday, 21 March 2015
by Spencer Parts
Barack Obama has made his support of the Princeton Women’s Basketball team known – he picked the team to go to the Final Four in the famous Presidential Bracket. Today, he came out in person. Right now, he is cheering on the Tigers, the only undefeated in women’s college basketball, in College Park, Maryland, where they
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Princeton Women Ripped Off by NCAA Selection Committee
Monday, 16 March 2015
by Spencer Parts
The Princeton women’s basketball team received a no. 8 seed in the NCAA Women’s Tournament this year. That means the selection committee thought them to be roughly the 32nd best team overall, and it’s a shock, given the team finished the season ranked no. 13 in the A.P. poll. The team will face off with
Art You Can Buy
Friday, 06 March 2015
by Spencer Parts
Ben Denzer ’15 knows that if he wants to keep doing art, he’s going to have to sell it. He also has a lot of books (and sweatshirts and glass blown Tito’s bottles) to get rid of. Denzer is the artist behind S-T-O-R-E-D, a pop-up art store, and the latest student exhibition in the Lucas
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