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The reason we are using this potentially controversial meme is to pique your interest in an upcoming post by VC '14, re: yellow fever, Asians, etc. Yeah, STAY TUNED! Also, browsing the Princeton memes site actually makes us really homesick for campus. Aww. Also this comment is fiendishly long. I apologize.

First up, shout out to our incoming freshmen! Princeton 2016 is getting all worked up this week – with good reason, since they’ve received both their res college assignments and chance to flip through the fall frosh seminars catalogue. It includes the classic free trip (!) seminars with promises of fall breaks in Costa Rica or Cyprus – but also a range of gems like “Bad A$$ Asians” (the namesake of this Ink post), a Joyce Carol Oates fanfest, and the chance to literally spend $50,000, as long as it’s philanthropic and approved by Stan Katz. Protip: pay attention to the prof teaching your seminar, not just to the topic. Like, Nancy Malkiel’s “Coeducation” course sounds great, but incoming GPA-sensitive, grade-deflation-fearing premeds might want to do a little background check first…

In any case, we remember those overexcited, over-sharing-on-Facebook days. (Upperclassmen, bored at your internships? Go back and look at the posts your friends made in your class FB groups when you were prefrosh. GUARANTEED LAUGHS.) We think it’s cute! And we welcome you in all your enthusiastic, over-enrolled glory! Case in point, see The Princeton Tiger’s thoughtful suggestions for where to put all the extra frosh:

10. Re-purpose unused Firestone carrels
9. Quad
8. Build a Forbes Annex Annex
7. During Frosh Week, erect large fences around Cloister’s backyard
6. Charter boat, discover new continent
5. All CA groups now focused on building housing for themselves
4. Make OA year-round, Princeton-based
3. Lift the ban on the steam tunnels
2. Rutgers
1. University of Princeton® online

No really though, UPC loves frosh and wants you all to apply for journalistic futures with us. Check out our res college reviews, written last year but very much valid for your incoming lives. Of course you may be placed into what we used to know as Wilcox’s yoga studio and art room, or a Whitman study room, but whatever. Princeton is Princeton and you’ll love it.

Teaser! Click through for the full comic.

Jumping straight from pre- to post-Princeton, our endowment also made headlines this week with the announcement that Aspire, STilghz’ 5-year fundraising campaign, exceeded its $1.75 billion goal by raising $1.88 billion, the highest in Princeton history. Meanwhile, our 2011-12 Annual Giving campaign also broke Ol’ Nassau records by raising $57.2 million. Bad A$$ (more like, $$$$$$$$$$$$$$) indeed.

We leave you with two pieces of Princeton Internet Gold. From a still-undergraduate perspective, we love and identify with this comic from Willa Chen ’13. It was crafted in response to this much-forwarded article on elite education by William Deresiewicz. Agree? Disagree? Comment! Go!

And last, it’s good to see that our former USG president CDY and his Nassoon/Amazing Race BFF Jonathan Schwartz, both favorites of UPC coverage, are still alive and well and contributing great things to society:

Bad A$$. We rest our case.

Jul 17, 2012

Week in Review: Bad A$$ Edition (July 9 – 15)

By Alice Su

Posted in Alumni, Fun, Goings On, Internet, Week in Review Also tagged Annual Giving, Asians, Bad A$$, CDY, comics, elitism, Jonathan Schwartz, Joyce Carol Oates, Justin Bieber, ke$ha, prefrosh, Princeton is really rich Leave a comment

What’s your weapon of choice?

Next time that annoying kids pokes you on Facebook, you'll have just the thing to retaliate

1) Butterbeer Genuine Draft

2) The One Onion Ring to Rule Them All

3) Voldemort’s Nose

Wait … say what?

These are among the pop culture-related food items that you can chuck at online friends and enemies alike in Foodie Fight, a new Facebook game launched this month by Campusfood.com. Students accumulate points by inviting friends and hitting their targets with gastronomical items, and lose points by hitting bystanders. These virtual points can then be cashed in for Campusfood coupons.

UPenn-graduate Michael Saunders, the founder and president of Campusfood.com, has said of the game:

“We’re very excited to launch the new Facebook application – a perfect fit with our customer’s interests. The “Foodie Fight” is more than a form of entertainment, it’s a way to give back to our valued customers. With this new game, we expect to target our frequent users as well as engage those unfamiliar with the site.”

Campusfood.com allows students to browse online menus and order food from local restaurants, even allowing them to pay for the entire order and tip through credit card. Plus, they deliver orders straight to your dorm room in 30 minutes to an hour. It has expanded to over 390 colleges in the U.S., including Princeton, and is a division of the world’s largest restaurant network, Dotmenu, which recently celebrated its 16 millionth order.

So in short: Facebook procrastination, earning money, and eating well. Just what you needed for finals, right?

May 4, 2011

Virtual food fight feeds the hungry

By Shirley Gao

Posted in Fun Also tagged Butterbeer, Campusfood.com, coupons, Dotmenu, food fight, LOTR Leave a comment

Bummed that you didn’t snatch up a ticket for the midnight showing of Harry Potter at the Garden Theater before they all disappeared? Don’t worry! There’s still hope for some entertainment next week.

71733_jay-z-rocks-the-mic-in-switzerland dnews cornel west

On Monday Cornel West is scheduled to meet rapper Jay-Z at The New York Public Library to talk politics, rap, and general bad-assery. The conversation comes one day before Hova’s autobiography Decoded is set to be released. The last time the two made headlines together was in February when West had this to say about Jay-Z’s artistry:

“Guys like Talib Kweli and Lupe Fiasco rap messages and have something to stay. Now Jay-Z is on the radio and he’s talented, but he’s just not at the level he used to be at on ‘Reasonable Doubt’ and ‘The Blueprint’. The genius is still there, but there’s no more motivation.”

Nov 10, 2010

Cornel West Moves On To Jay-Z

By Ellen Shakespear

Posted in Goings On Also tagged Cornel West, Jay-Z, New York Public Library One comment

via ivysport.com

Congratulations, Princeton Class of 2014. You’re better than 91.82% of everyone who decided to apply to Princeton this year! (Makes you sound smarter than you probably are, right? But so does saying we go to Princeton.)

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to navigate and survive this insane place that is exciting and great and awful and grade-deflating all at the same time. It’s a wild ride! (To be honest though, we bitch and moan about it but there’s nowhere we’d rather be.)

So in order to make this whole daunting thing a bit easier to swallow right now, we thought we’d offer some advice for you in this time of heady excitement (college!). You’re not here just yet, so be sure to watch yourself. Check out these rookie mistakes:

Don’t do stupid things that will get you noticed on the Internets.

Don’t do stupid things on the Internets that will get you noticed on the Internets. (Facebook groups? Prime place to do stupid things. Don’t add everyone. Makes everyone uncomfortable.)

Don’t forget to generally steer away from stupid things.

Don’t forget to read this blog (this one).

Congrats again. (Oh, and it’s not like Harry Potter. Sorry.)

Apr 2, 2010

Princeton 2014!: A word of advice

By Will Saborio

Posted in Goings On, Open Letter Also tagged class of 2014, onrushing feelings of superiority, stupid things, the internet One comment

image source: summer.about.com

Many Princeton students are dying to unravel the incestuous subtext of their favorite children’s stories. After SCORE opened to seniors this week, over 200 members of the class of 2010 signed up for ENG335: Children’s literature. Professor William Gleason has taken on this course, last taught in the fall of 2006 by Professor Emeritus Ulrich C. Knoepflmacher. As of now, there are 369—the sexual subtext of that number is curious, given the content of the course—upperclassmen signed up, making it the course with the highest enrollment so far (ITA319: The Literature of Gastronomy lags behind with an unremarkable 150 students). We expect many sophomores and freshmen will join the bandwagon next week. If the spring class is anything like its predecessor, it will corrupt the innocence of most classical children’s stories by positioning them as tales of incest, pedophilia, etc. One reviewer on Point said of the course, “The only drawback is that it could ruin some of your favorite childhood stories as apparently most of these tales are all about repressed incestuous desires.”

If this doesn’t concern you, join what is sure to be a major source of Princeton academic culture.

Dec 5, 2009

Children’s literature enrollment up the wazoo!

By Samantha Pergadia

Posted in Goings On Also tagged Children's Literature, William Gleason Leave a comment

Slow week here at the Ink desk, but we’ve scrounged around some bits for you. This week’s theme is “disappointment.” Princeton gets beat out in two things it holds most dearly: being compared to Hogwarts and making money. There’s a band called Princeton, but not at all related to the university. Also, we reconsider the Derek Zoolander Center for Ants.

You can tell this is Cornell because Harry is about to jump out that window

IvyGate brings us our first disappointment of the week, a list of the “5 Campuses if you want the Harry Potter Experience.” Katherine Cohen, one of those newfangled college application counselors, compiled the list, and seems to have used no method or reason to make the choices she did. Yale made the list (alright), and so did Cornell (what?). Cohen’s reasoning: “Like competitors in the TriwizardChallenge, Cornellians wear their red scarves when they compete against their Ivy League rivals.” Uh, cool, I guess. This might outrage Whitman kids, what with their Harry Potter nights and all, but come on guys, this is a blessing in disguise. We hope high school students don’t seriously consider “the Harry Potter experience” when applying to colleges. Oh, wait, what’s that Ms. Cohen?

Although none of my students have listed being a “muggle” on their resumes, many students have wanted to attend a campus that is reminiscent of what they have read or seen in Rowling’s books.

Alright, Cornell, you can have those.