The most visited posts in
the past two weeks:

Article Tags

“Jon Corzine”

Not impressed by your thesis (image via wonkette.com)

Not impressed by your thesis (image via wonkette.com)

A university press release from this afternoon states Jon Corzine, New Jersey governor from ‘06 to ‘10, former co-CEO of Goldman Sachs and today named chairman and CEO of brokerage MF Global, will lead a public lecture series on financial market regulation in the fall and teach a graduate course on state policy in the spring.

Note, this is the same former New Jersey governor who underhandedly called his opponent fat in a 2009 election ad:

An important guy in public service with i-banking experience and a smug sense of humor? If this isn’t a Woody Woo major’s wet dream, I seriously don’t know what is.

Read the story at the Princeton news site.

Mar 23, 2010

Former U.S. senator, NJ governor, and Goldman exec Jon Corzine to join WWS faculty next year

By Will Saborio
Posted in Faculty, Goings On, Politics Also tagged Leave a comment
source: backstreets.com

source: backstreets.com

By now it’s obvious that Princeton professors have a big old crush on Bruce Springsteen.  First there was this fall’s course on the sociological implications of the Boss.  Next up: AMS401: At Home in New Jersey, a spring seminar that promises to investigate Bruce’s first studio album Greetings From Asbury Park “at a more sophisticated and advanced level.”

But elsewhere, (less sophisticated?) Bruce-watchers seem to have grown weary of the Jersey Shore troubadour.  Hipster collective Pitchfork Media gave Springsteen’s latest  effort, Working on a Dream, a lackluster 5.8 out of 10 and called the track Queen of the Supermarket “Maybe the worst thing he’s ever written.” (Ouch.)  They also named the album’s cover art the absolute Worst of 2009.  (Ouch again.  Also: true.)

So who wins–Indies or Eggheads?

Continue reading…

Dec 15, 2009

Of Bruce and Men

By Ellen Shakespear
Posted in In the news, Musings, Politics Also tagged , , , , One comment