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A word of advice: On coursebooks
Tuesday, 21 September 2010
by Will Saborio
Oh hey freshman carrying two very heavy-looking Labyrinth bags. What’s that? Oh, you like playing exorbitant prices for books that you’ll read ten pages of and never look at again? For those of you who don’t wallpaper their rooms with euros or enjoy shilling top-shelf prices for absorbing titles like “Fundamentals of Microeconomics, Fifth Edition,
- Published in Musings, Open Letter, Student Guides
Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos ’86 to be Baccalaureate Speaker
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
by Brian No
Class of 2010 president Aditya Panda announced this afternoon that Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos ’86 will deliver the Baccalaureate address this spring. The ceremony will take place Sunday, May 30, 2010, in the University Chapel. The last two speakers have been Gen. David Petraeus GS ’85 in 2009 and famed Harvard physician/anthropologist Paul
- Published in Goings On
Week in Review: July 27 – August 2 (Law and Order Edition)
Sunday, 02 August 2009
by Will Saborio
During summer, when there are no parties to break, or drunk students to catch urinating, what exactly does PSafe do? Catch criminals, that’s what. In this week’s edition: Water guns? Public lewdness? Princeton quickly becomes the next possible locale of a CSI spin-off. Meanwhile, The New Yorker is all like, “You guys were so right
- Published in Princeton in the News, Week in Review
Week in Review: July 13 – 19
Sunday, 19 July 2009
by Will Saborio
If a tree falls in Princeton during the summer, and no students are there to hear it, yes, still, nothing ever happens in Princeton. In this week’s edition: Sotomayor yada yada yada, Jeff Peek won’t be attending reunions anytime soon, moving walkways are a moving farce, the Wall Street Journal backs us up on the
- Published in Alumni, Faculty, Goings On, Politics, Princeton in the News, Week in Review
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Amazon, Bill Tierney, Bill Tierney cries, Jeff Peek, Kindle, moving walkways, Sonia Sotomayor, Stan Katz, Stan Katz is kind of boring
Saving paper and wasting money, the Princeton way
Wednesday, 06 May 2009
by Will Saborio
TechRadar reported today on Princeton’s pilot project for cutting down on paper usage by using Kindle e-books for course readings. Looks like we were right in our predictions earlier this week, but mistaken about one thing: the hardware. The project plans to use the new Kindle DX, released by Amazon today. The awkwardly-titled “Toward Print-Less
- Published in Goings On, Musings, Princeton in the News
Free Kindles At Princeton?
Tuesday, 05 May 2009
by Angela Wu
You might not have to make your way to Labyrinth to pick up your 30 pounds of textbooks next semester. Princeton is joining the likes of Yale, Oxford and Berkeley in publishing its textbooks on Kindle, which weighs a hefty… 10.2 ounces. Meanwhile, Engadget has acquired leaks of the new Kindle, which has a larger
- Published in Goings On, Princeton in the News