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TRUMAN SCHOLAR HALEY WHITE ‘12 FIGHTS GLOBAL FOOD INSECURITY AND ROCKS OUT TO COLBERT’S COVER OF ‘FRIDAY’

Name: Haley White
Age: 21
Major: Woody Woo
Hometown: Chatham, NJ
Eating club/residential college affiliation: Charter/Wilson

What was your immediate response upon finding out you had won the Truman Scholarship?
I started to cry. Then, I called my mom, then my dad, then my stepmom, then my boyfriend, then some friends, then my brother. I think that my ex-stepfather was mixed in there too somewhere. I have a pretty complicated family tree. It’s like what the Brady Brunch’s would be if it took performance-enhancing drugs.

Who’s your favorite Princetonian, living or dead, real or fictional?
Sally Frank ‘80. She sued the eating clubs so that they would admit women. I admire her because she had the courage to stand up for her values at the risk of being ostracized and she did not give up after she graduated. She kept on fighting for more than ten years. I hope that in my best moments I am at least half as ballsy as her.

Apr 4, 2011

21 Questions with … Haley White ‘12

By Abby Greene

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ZIMBABWEAN RHODES SCHOLAR KHAM KIDIA ‘11 REFLECTS ON DISEASE, AFRICAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS, AND THE INHERENT DANGERS OF PRINCETON REUNIONS.

Name: Khameer Kishore Kidia
Age: 22
Major: French and Italian
Hometown: Harare, Zimabwe
Eating Club/Residential College/Affiliation: Tower/Forbes

What was your initial reaction when you found out about the scholarship? I felt a little dazed but deeply privileged and honored. The Zimbabwean Committee is a little more humane than the American one. They send you home and wait five to six hours, during which your family sits in silence with you in a room (as though there has been a death), and then they call.

Who’s your favorite Princetonian, living or dead, real or fictional? Jack Donaghy

What’s the best meal you’ve eaten in Princeton? Two words: Tomo. Sushi.

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day? I think probably more than anything, I listen to people repeat the things I say to them; either in what they assume is a correct imitation of my voice or in a purposefully melodramatic affectation that sounds something akin to a cross between a dying old lady and a mule.

What is your greatest guilty pleasure? Whatever I happen to walk out of the Wa with after 3am.

What are your plans for the Rhodes? To read for an M.Phil in Medical Anthropology for two years at Oxford, likely focusing on the institution of systems of health care and medical education in Zimbabwe.

Do you know all the words to Old Nassau? No, but I vow to learn them before I graduate.

What is your biggest fear? Catheterization. Don’t ask.

Dec 16, 2010

21 Questions with… Khameer Kidia ‘11

By University Press Club

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STUDENTS FOR EDUCATION REFORM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CATHARINE BELLINGER ‘12 IS A NEWLY-MINTED CLASSICS MAJOR WHO DRIVES TO THE WA AND WANTS TO FIX THE AMERICAN EDUCATION SYSTEM.

Name: Catharine Bellinger
Age: 20
Major: Woodrow Wilson School as of now, but I’m switching to Classics with Woody Woo Certificate
Hometown: Washington, DC
Eating Club/Residential College/Affiliation: Tower

In 10 words or less, what is SFER? A non-profit mobilizing the next generation of education reform leaders.

In 10 words or less, what’s up with the American education system? Unequal access to great teachers; but everywhere, pockets of success.

What is the best thing you’ve ever done at Princeton? Cheered on the senior class in the P-rade.

What makes a great teacher? A great teacher sets very specific goals for what students will actually be able to do (by the end of the lesson, the unit, the year…), then constantly checks for understanding and adjusts instruction. In practice, that means if students fail a math test, the teacher doesn’t say, “well, my students didn’t try very hard.” She says, “how can I teach these concepts better?”

What is the most promising area of education reform? Innovations in teacher preparation. Check out “Building a Better Teacher” in the New York Times. The related videos will blow your mind.

What was your favorite academic subject in third grade? Reading. My teacher used to find me under her desk with a book, hiding. I think I was probably avoiding math.

Do you believe in Santa? Of course.

Dec 15, 2010

21 Questions with…Catharine Bellinger ‘12

By Angela Wu

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BUSINESS TODAY PRESIDENT AMIRA POLACK ‘12 LIKES GREEN EGGS, HATES WAITING IN LINE AT WUCOX–AND CALLS IT “BOBA,” NOT “BUBBLE” TEA.

Name: Amira Polack
Age: 20
Major: WWS, Cert. SPA
Hometown: Glendale, CA
Eating club/residential college/affiliation: Ivy/Wilson/NA

What’s the first thing you do when you wake up? Hit snooze.

Do you see yourself ever deleting your Facebook? I have yet to delete my Myspace account, which has sat around unused for a couple years now. I’d have to say that at this rate, deleting my Facebook is unlikely.

What’s the coolest new start-up? Princeton’s Social Entrepreneurship Initiative – a start-up that will start up start-ups – or Prepidemic, even though I don’t wear men’s clothing.

Small World or Starbucks? Small World – their chai is like dynamite.

What magazines do you read? Uh. Business Today. Please.

What is your favorite cookie? Murray Dodge – the ever-changing cookie.

Dec 14, 2010

21 Questions with…Amira Polack ‘12

By Angela Wu

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LIVE.Moment_Dunne This is part three in a series of 21 Questions with administrators you’ll recognize from countless e-mails but probably don’t know so well [See part one here!]. This week Dean Dunne, our Associate Dean of Undergraduates, talks about his love for Small World and his soft spot for figure skaters.

Name: Thomas Dunne

Last book you managed to read for pleasure?

My two year old son is into Curious George right now, and “Curious George Goes to a Costume Party” is in heavy rotation. By the way, what is the back story on the man in the yellow hat? That guy is very unsettling. I keep waiting for Chris Hansen from Dateline: To Catch a Predator to show up in one of these stories and ask the man in the yellow hat to have a seat on the stool in the kitchen.

Oct 12, 2010

21 Questions With … Dean Dunne

By Ellen Shakespear

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QUAD PRESIDENT ERIC SALAZAR ‘11 — A MAN OF GOLF, GOD, AND QUAD (ESPECIALLY QUAD) — FEARS THE DEEP SLEEP, REFUSES TO DISCLOSE SECRET QUAD MEMES

Name: Eric Salazar
Age: 20
Major: Religion
Hometown: Carmichael, CA
Eating club/residential college/affiliation: I’ve been spoiled, Mathey then Quad.

Who’s your favorite Princetonian, living or dead, real or fictional?
The guy from Legally Blonde, you know, the one who had his fourth grade paper plagiarized by Stephen Hawking.

What’s the best meal you’ve eaten in Princeton?
Too easy, any Formal dinner at Quad.

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day?
Dream about playing better golf.

What is your greatest guilty pleasure?
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

What’s the last student performance you saw?
The Triangle Club’s Store Trek … A-Mazing.

Do you know all the words to Old Nassau?
Not yet … but I’ve been saying that since freshman year.

Biggest fear?

Apr 28, 2010

21 Questions With… Eric Salazar ‘11

By Giri Nathan

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RISKY BUSINESS: CHARTER PREZ JUSTIN KNUTSON ‘11 LIKES TO MASTICATE UNDER THE MAGNOLIAS

Name: Justin Knutson
Age: 20
Major: Chemistry
Hometown: Orting, Washington
Eating Club/Residential College/Affiliation: Charter Club

Who’s your favorite Princetonian, living or dead, real or fictional?
Either Joel Goodson, Tom Cruise’s character from the 1983 film Risky Business or General David Petraeus of the United States Army; I’d like to think my personality falls somewhere in between those two

What’s the best meal you’ve eaten in Princeton?
Formals dinner at Charter, Spring, 2009

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day?
Generally I sleep; nights are another story

What is your greatest guilty pleasure?
80s Music

What’s the last student performance you saw?
John Veras laying down phat beats at Terrace

Do you know all the words to Old Nassau?
Yes

What is your biggest fear?

Apr 26, 2010

21 Questions With… Justin Knutson ‘11

By David Walter

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2010 SACHS SCHOLAR JOSH GREHAN ‘10 WISHES MORE PEOPLE “GAVE A DAMN”

Name: Joshua Grehan
Department: Woody Woo
Hometown: Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada

Who’s your favorite Princetonian, living or dead, real or fictional? Snake from the Simpson’s. Although he never graduated.

What is your greatest guilty pleasure? Putting on warm laundry, it feels so damn good it’s got to be wrong.

What’s the best meal you’ve eaten in Princeton? Belgium beer and onion rings.

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day? Shower, eat, study, class, eat, study, workout, shower, eat, study, relax, eat, sleep.

Best place on campus? Anywhere when I am with friends.

Worst place on campus? Firestone B floor carrels, prison cells are bigger and better lit.

Apr 9, 2010

21 Questions with…Josh Grehan ‘10

By Samantha Pergadia

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TIGER MAGAZINE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF MYRA GUPTA WANTS TO KNOW–IS IT SEX?

Name: Myra Gupta
Age: 19
Major: Anthropology…?
Hometown: Greenwich, CT
Eating club/residential college/affiliation: Tower/Whitman/Pi Sigma Alpha Tao (PSAT)

What’s your favorite newspaper? The New York Times

What’s the funniest joke you’ve ever heard? Okay, so there’s this great one I have, but it’s mostly funny because it’s about weasels. So these two weasels are unwinding at a local bar after a tough day, they’re having a few drinks, chatting, eating some nuts, typical weasel behavior. But one of the weasels isn’t holding his liquor well, and turns to the other and says: “I slept with your mother.” The other weasel ignores him, trying not to make a scene, but he repeats: “I slept with your mother!” The whole bar goes quiet, things get really tense. The other weasel turns to him and says, “Dad, go home, you’re drunk.” Endjoke.

What’s your favorite Tiger Mag article? Difficult to say, I love all my children equally, but I’m going to have to go with “Is It Sex?” (Warning: It is definitely rated NC-17)

Feb 18, 2010

21 Questions With…Myra Gupta ‘12

By Angela Wu

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UNKNOWN AND ADORED, HLIG… BUT WHO IS (S)HE REALLY???

Mr(s). Anonymous

Name: Moderator ‘11
Age: 21
Major: FML
Hometown: “Chicagoland”
Eating club/residential college/affiliation: Campus Club
Activities on campus: The 61 Club

Who’s your favorite Princetonian, living or dead, real or fictional?
Bruce Wayne, as portrayed by Christian Bale.

What’s the best meal you’ve eaten in Princeton?
On-campus: Pan-seared scallops at Charter. Off-campus: Breaded veal cutlets at Sotto.

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day?
Eat lunch, attend precept, take a nap, eat dinner, FML, FML, FML.

What is your greatest guilty pleasure?
Lady Gaga. (RAH)² (AH)³ + [ROMA (1+MA)] + (GA)² + (OOH)(LA)²

Jan 21, 2010

21 Questions With… The Princeton FML Moderator

By David Walter

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CAMPUS RADICAL EMILY RUTHERFORD ‘12 WISHES WHITMAN DINING HALL WOULD SERVE A STROGANOFF AS GOOD AS HER OWN

Name: Emily Rutherford

Age: 19

Major: History (American studies certificate)

Hometown: San Diego, CA, but I claim dual allegiance to Saturna Island, British Columbia, Canada.

Eating club/residential college/affiliation: All my loyalty is to Rocky.

Who’s your favorite Princetonian, living or dead, real or fictional?

Shirley Tilghman has done more than anyone else in Princeton’s history to make this university a place in which a great many different kinds of people from a wide variety of backgrounds can feel wanted and welcome.

What’s the best meal you’ve eaten in Princeton?

Prospect House hors d’oeuvres and desserts at history professor Margot Canaday’s book talk. Three words: chocolate-covered strawberries.

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day?

I sit in the Rocky dining hall drinking lots of coffee and reading, blogging, or talking at people; also, I go to class.

What’s the worst place on campus?

The Whitman dining hall. The acoustics there are terrible—it’s impossible to have a conversation. Plus, I heard a rumor that it was named “Community Hall” after the eBay community, and that’s just fucked up.

Dec 15, 2009

21 Questions With… Emily Rutherford ‘12

By David Walter

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PROFESSIONAL VIOLINIST IS HISTORY MAJOR, TAKES PRIVATE LESSONS WITH ITZHAK PERLMAN(!)

Name: Caitlin (Cat) Tully
Age: 21
Major: History
Hometown: Vancouver/Austin/New York
Eating club/residential college/affiliation: Whitman/ Potentially 2D…
Activities on campus: Firestone. Good conversation. Spontaneous hijinks when opportunity arises.

Who’s your favorite Princetonian, living or dead, real or fictional?
Tony Grafton, for starting the HUM sequence.

What’s the best meal you’ve eaten in Princeton?
On campus, probably challah French toast with fresh whipped cream a friend and I made for a bunch of people last year.

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day?
Try to deserve to be here.

What is your greatest guilty pleasure?
Depends on the context and when you ask.

What’s the last student performance you saw?
King Lear, Laura Fletcher’s production. And Angels in America.

Do you know all the words to Old Nassau?
If I say no is that going to come back to haunt me? I know the actions…

Apr 19, 2009

21 Questions with… Cat Tully ‘10

By Brian No

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