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Princeton Ranked #1 in Sexual Health
Wednesday, 06 November 2013
by Vivienne Chen
Not only did Old Nassau take the top spot in the academic rankings this year, but apparently we’re number one in sexual health and safety too! According to Trojan Brand Condom’s annual Sexual Health Report Card, tigers and tiger admirers have access to the best sexual health resources of any campus. Harvard and Yale don’t even
- Published in Health
Pub Night Verbatims
Tuesday, 08 October 2013
by Vivienne Chen
Last evening, the senior class of 2014 had their first “Pub Night,” a recurring social event where the class government rents out the local Triumph brewery so that of-age seniors can be fed with an endless amount of free beer and bar snacks (of the crostini, steak cube, chips, and mini pizza variety, which to
- Published in Goings On, Nassau Street
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butt shimmy, class of 2014, finance bros, hook up, meningitis, overheard, pub night, seniors, triumph brewing company, verbatim
People You Meet in Every Precept
Monday, 23 September 2013
by Vivienne Chen
It’s hard to remember everyone’s names in your first discussion-based class at Princeton, and you’ll eventually resort to gesturing to them vaguely whenever you respond to their points (“I disagree with that one“). But with this handy guide from The Ink, you’ll at least remember the horrible stereotype they fit under. (Note: This applies to seminars
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annoying people, engineers, freshman, hipster grad student, people you meet, philosophy bro, precept, seminars
The Death of the Dinky
Thursday, 19 September 2013
by Vivienne Chen
Update: For a quick recap of the Dinky controversy, check out the Ink’s previous coverage: Video: The Dinky Controversy Explained David Walter ’10 and his Dinky piece for the New York Times When we almost thought the Arts and Transit neighborhood was done for Around 4:30pm, the canopy overhanging the old Princeton train station (aka
- Published in Princeton in the News
Princeton Prof Makes Awesome Intro Syllabus
Wednesday, 18 September 2013
by Vivienne Chen
Creating a class syllabus is sort of a work of academic art. Some may fancy David Foster Wallace’s course handouts, but Professor Gayle Salamon, who teaches Intro to Gender Studies and a course in Queer Theory, has her own flair for explaining to newcomers the expectations on her assigned essays. An excerpt: Questions that Professor
- Published in Academics
Welcome Back To The Top of College Rankings, Princeton
Thursday, 12 September 2013
by Vivienne Chen
No better way to start the brand new semester than to come in at #1 in US News & World Report’s Big Important List of College Rankings That May Or May Not Mean Anything— and for once, we’re not tied with Harvard! The methodology of the US News & World Report Rankings is something as
- Published in Princeton in the News
Tagged under:
cheating, college rankings, Harvard, Malcolm Gladwell, methodology, Princeton, sex, US News & World Report, We're #1
Dean’s Date 2013 Timelapse Video
Tuesday, 14 May 2013
by Vivienne Chen
The last hour of Dean’s Date celebrations, in less than 1/30th the time!
- Published in Goings On
21 Questions with David Remnick ’81
Friday, 05 April 2013
by Vivienne Chen
2013 CLASS DAY SPEAKER, PULITZER PRIZE WINNER, AND NEW YORKER EDITOR DAVID REMNICK ’81 LOVES UMLAUTS, PJ’S WAFFLES, AND THINKS TINA BROWN COULD BEAT ZOMBIE LENIN IN A FIGHT. ALSO A HOMEBOY. Name:
David Remnick Major: Comparative Literature Hometown: Hillsdale, NJ Residential college/eating club affiliation: Wilson College For those seniors who may have never
- Published in 21 Questions
Honor Code Fail
Wednesday, 03 April 2013
by Vivienne Chen
Sometimes you have to proofread carefully to make sure you haven’t any words out. (Yes, that was intentional.) Especially when it’s the operative word in the illustrious Princeton Honor Code: That said, the student (name redacted to protect dignity) for all we know could have been telling the truth! (Quick! Someone call the Honor Committee! No
- Published in Academics
‘Find a Husband’ Princeton Alum is Your Jewish Mother
Saturday, 30 March 2013
by Vivienne Chen
Enough has already been said all over the Internet about the letter to the ‘Prince’ editor that Susan A. Patton ’77 wrote imploring us Princeton women to “find a husband on campus before [we] graduate,” because: “the cornerstone of your future and happiness will be inextricably linked to the man you marry, and you will never
- Published in Alumni
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Alumni, chutzpah, husband hunting, jewish mother, laws of feminism, marriage, Princeton women, shame
Teach for America Founder Gets Called Out for Princeton Tory Masthead
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
by Vivienne Chen
Lest I forget that my undergraduate writing career may come back to haunt me, Corey Robin ’89 just called out his classmate Wendy Kopp ’89, the founder of nationwide educational program Teach For America, for writing for the conservative Princeton Tory as an undergrad, and allegedly, being a self-proclaimed “corporate tool.” I have no idea what
- Published in Alumni
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Corey Robin, corporate tools, neoliberalism, polemics, Princeton Tory, shade, Teach for America, UPC, Wendy Kopp
Men of Thesis Beard
Friday, 22 February 2013
by Vivienne Chen
What’s harder: writing a senior thesis or growing a nice beard? Since early February, seniors Will Harrel (whom you might know as the guy who put President Shirley Tilghman in a snuggie) and Daniel Song have been on a mission to chronicle the day-to-day progress of their senior independent work and their facial hair with ThesisBeard.com. As
- Published in Fun
Tagged under:
Beard, Daniel Song, disapproving girlfriends, mustache, Senior Thesis, seniors, Unruly Facial Hair, Will Harrel