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Just how boring are lectures, exactly?
Thursday, 11 March 2010
by Will Saborio
Boring enough to make Princeton students play poker against each other. Via the Times: Allan Rubin, a professor of geosciences at Princeton University, banned laptops in his 120-strong class on natural disasters after discovering that some of the students were playing online poker during his lectures. “What I found, and it was getting worse over
- Published in Princeton in the News
New York Times columnist/Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists to give talk at Woody Woo tomorrow
Wednesday, 03 February 2010
by Will Saborio
Do you like the New York Times? Do you like hearing really, really interesting people speak? Well have we got the lecture for you. The University Press Club is excited to bring New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn M.P.A. ’88 to Princeton. They’ll give a lecture titled “Half the Sky” at 4:30
- Published in Goings On, Princeton in the News