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The scene: Wednesday, 12:30 pm, outside of Frist.

The crimes: Assaulting passerby’s with ‘toilet paper,’ false advertising, and generating general mayhem.

The perpetrator: Chou Chou ’13

Your not-so-friendly neighborhood TP distributor

Your not-so-friendly neighborhood TP distributor

People mingling outside of Frist on Wednesday were surprised when one student began setting up his table just under the North arches, arranging a display of rolled up paper pyramid-style. He began chucking the paper at bystanders, yelling, “Free toilet paper! You look like you want some free toilet paper!” And, off to the side, “Sir, madam, may I interest you in some toilet paper?”

When asked about his behavior, Chou explained, “The university is giving out free toilet paper! It’s double ply, just the way we want it!”

When pressed for more details, Chou glanced side to side, and muttered, “I can’t say that much. The people making me do this, well … let’s just say it starts with a ‘T’ and ends in an ‘-errace.’”

The perpetrator remained on scene for 30 minutes.

Experts believe the bizarre event was one of a series of pranks associated with eating club initiations; rumors abound of other students distributing Spanx and cigarettes throughout the week. Keep your eyes peeled for additional offerings happening today!

The piece de resistance? "Hey! Is that Daily Pr - ... could it be?!"

The pièce de résistance? "Hey! Is that Daily Pr - ... could it be?!"

Feb 11, 2011

Toilet paper distribution confuses students

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gabeNEWLY-MINTED DAILY PRINCETONIAN EDITOR-IN-CHIEF GABRIEL DEBENEDETTI ’12 MAKES A NEWSPAPER ON THE REG, LAUGHS/CRIES IN THE FACE OF DEADLINES, AND, YES, READS THE INK(!)

Name: Gabriel A. Debenedetti
Age: 20
Major: Politics, with a certificate in American Studies
Hometown: Princeton, NJ
Eating Club/Residential College/Affiliation: Ivy Club / Rockefeller College

What was your initial reaction when you found out about the position? I was thrilled, of course! Then, quite quickly, that turned into confusion when my glasses were knocked off in the celebratory mob and I couldn’t see a thing.

Who’s your favorite Princetonian, living or dead, real or fictional? F. Scott Fitzgerald ’17 is most certainly up there, and Hobey Baker ’14 is as well.

What’s the best meal you’ve eaten in Princeton? This is difficult, because I’ve lived in Princeton for essentially my entire life. But let’s go with the first time I had the filet mignon at the Witherspoon Grill while celebrating my birthday with my family — I’m not sure how many years ago that was. At least five.

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day? On a given day, I wake up, think about making a newspaper, do reading, go to class, work on making a newspaper, go to lunch, go to more class, work more on making a newspaper, go to dinner and make a newspaper (not always in that order).

What is your greatest guilty pleasure? Reading The Ink in the Prince office.

What are your plans for the Prince? Of course, I have many long-term and short-term plans for the Prince, but one of the overarching themes of these plans is pushing the paper into a new and exciting age of comprehensive, high-quality journalism of, for and about the Princeton community. This needs to happen both online and on paper. Let me know how we do.

Do you know all the words to Old Nassau? I think so, but don’t test me.

What is your biggest fear? That this town ceases to have newsworthy things occurring every day.

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Dec 17, 2010

21 Questions with… Gabriel Debenedetti ’12

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http://susty.com

http://susty.com

Hello Princeton student. Did you think you went to the apathetic, relatively conservative Ivy? Well, shhhhhh. I’ll let you in on a little secret. Princeton’s actually commie.

What am I referring to? Why, this comment, among many others, from the Prince’s comment sections on the recent and controversial appointment of Van Jones to be a visiting fellow next year:

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Mar 6, 2010

Oh Princeton, you commie, you…

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I mean, I know that if I ran the Daily Princetonian there’d be a policy requiring editors to occasionally insert delightfully nonsensical sentences into otherwise truthful articles.  Just to see if people were paying attention, you know?

But I always figured that Prince editor-in-chief Matthews Westmoreland was a more responsible fellow than me.  So I was very surprised to see the following pop up in what had been a straightforward, innocuous profile of outgoing USG president Connor Diemand-Yauman:

Diemand-Yauman said he “hopes to run” for Young Alumni Trustee and intends to volunteer next year with the Global Literacy Project in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. He said he then plans to write and act on his own show on Korean PBS through the same educational content provider that employed him two summers ago.

Unless… do you think this is actually true?  Princeton’s own CDY is really going to become a Korean Kiddie Television star?  If so, that’s awesome.  Just awesome.  Totally awesome.  Basically as awesome as this video of the Teletubbies dancing to “Ring Ding Dong” by Korean Boy Band Shinee:

POST-SCRIPT! CDY writes in to let us know what’s up…

Yes, [this] is indeed true. A couple years ago, I spent the summer working for a content provider to Korean PBS. I started off doing some simple voice acting. After a while, I started pitching some concept ideas to the CEO of the business. She liked my ideas and my stuff was relatively popular so she started giving me more and more creative control until by the end of it I was writing and acting in my own sketches.

I have been communicating with the company since my return to the USA and my boss has told me that if I come back, she could get me my own show with the network.

In that case, might we suggest a collaboration with the Teletubbies and/or Shinee?

Jan 11, 2010

CDY TV

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this used to be the poster in my bedroom

this used to be the poster in my bedroom

Among the things that Princetonians will get their panties in a bunch about are gender-neutral housing, misprints of our selectivity rate, and firearms for public safety. It seems that the comments section of the Daily Princetonian, however, is no longer a space set aside for Princeton students to espouse these residual precept thoughts. The comments section is being infiltrated by the most dangerous species of our population: the boy-band-loving teenybopper.

Kiran Gollakota’s scathing review of the Backstreet Boys’ new album has created quite an uproar — it’s one of the most highly-commented stories of the week. With over 83 posts to date, the comments section is riddled with rebuttals such as this:

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Oct 24, 2009

Teenyboppers Strike Back

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