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A Look Back at 2010
Friday, 31 December 2010
by Angela Wu
2010. A year of the same old Princeton happenings–bitching about Dean’s Date, bitching about grade deflation, bitching about bad FML posts. But there were a few things that we think set Oh-Ten apart: Robot Unicorn Attack, Supreme Court dominance, and the demise of Four Loko. Here’s what happened in 2010: January: There were exams. There
Thought you had a bad week?
Thursday, 28 October 2010
by Will Saborio
Yeah, midterms have come and gone, and they hit some of us hard (I currently am watching a passed out underclassman drool on a table littered with sheets of math in Frist). Can you imagine what it’s like in the real world, though? More specifically, in the political world? Take note all you Woody Woo
- Published in Alumni
Tagged under:
Eliot Spitzer, Gawker, Governor, Griff Harsh, Harvard Club, Ken Buck, Meg Whitman, Michael Bloomberg, midterms, Mitch Daniels, Politics, Princeton Club, woody woo
Whitman calls someone “Dracula” in first gubernatorial debate
Wednesday, 29 September 2010
by Ellen Shakespear
With a little over a month until election day in California, former CEO and President of eBay Meg Whitman ’78 and Democratic nominee Jerry Brown met to swap insults at the first gubernatorial debate. The showdown was held at the University of California at Davis and was the first of three scheduled in the race
- Published in Alumni, Princeton in the News
Week In Review: Who’s On The Rise, Who’s Falling Down Edition (June 21 – June 27)
Monday, 28 June 2010
by Spencer Gaffney
Top of the agenda this past week: Gen. David Petraeus *85 *87 is tapped to replace Gen. McChrystal as the Commander of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan. Which got us to thinking – what other Tigers found themselves on the rise this week? And, since we believe in a strictly zero-sum world, which Princetonians have seen
- Published in Week in Review
Tagged under:
Ben Huh, Bob Bradley, David Petraeus, Elena Kagan, Ellie Kemper, Failblog, Heidi Miller, Jamie Dimon, Jerry Brown, Meg Whitman, Petraeus, soccer, Sonia Sotomayor, WASPs, World Cup
Week In Review: Minor Medical Incident Edition (June 14 – June 20)
Tuesday, 22 June 2010
by Giri Nathan
If you are one of the poor phantoms haunting this ghost campus right now, craving some marginally-Princeton-related excitement, this might be the fix you need. We’ve got our mainstays– Whitman’s gubernatorial race, Bradley’s World Cup squad — but this was also a week of broken ankles, bloody noses, and fainting spells. Oh, and heinous refereeing.
- Published in Alumni, Goings On, Politics, Princeton in the News, Sports, Week in Review
Tagged under:
bloody nose, Bob Bradley, broken ankle, fainting, Griff Harsh, Jared Polis, Meg Whitman, Petraeus, roughhousing, Will Harsh, World Cup
Week in Review: World Cup Edition (June 7 – June 13)
Monday, 14 June 2010
by Will Saborio
Top of the agenda this past week: World Cup. Princeton alums had a hand on all sides in the run-up to the tournament, from coaching, to hosting, to lambasting on Comedy Central. More sports on the docket too, as some Tigers got picked in the MLB drafts this past week. And other stuff: Paul Krugman
- Published in Week in Review
Tagged under:
Bob Bradley, Dan Barnes, John Oliver, Marc Fisher, Meg Whitman, MLB, Paul Krugman, Scott Bradley, Sports, Stephen Colbert, US Men's Soccer Team, World Cup
Meg Whitman ’78 wins California Republican primary
Wednesday, 09 June 2010
by Will Saborio
In her quiet plot to take over the world, former CEO and President of eBay Meg Whitman ’78 won yesterday the Republican candidacy in California’s gubernatorial election this fall. Whitman defeated state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner with 64% of the vote compared to his 26%. Some news sources call this a landslide. To me it
- Published in Alumni
Ranking Residential Colleges By Their Namesakes’ Political Aspirations
Sunday, 03 May 2009
by Spencer Gaffney
Meg Whitman ’77 has had a bumpy start to her gubernatorial campaign since she announced her decision in February. First, it turned out she was a lot more conservative than many thought–including her former gay employees at eBay–when she came out in favor of Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in California. Then, fellow Silicon
- Published in Alumni, Politics, Princeton in the News
Whitman to Spend $150M on Gubernatorial Run
Sunday, 22 February 2009
by Brian No
vs. Meg Whitman ’77, who has announced her intention to run for governor of California, has predicted that her campaign could cost $150 million, much of it self-financed. The $150 million figure is about the same amount of money it took Princeton to build Whitman College ($136 million). But Whitman didn’t finance the entire cost
- Published in Alumni, Politics, Princeton in the News
Meg Whitman: The Historical Precedent?
Tuesday, 17 February 2009
by Spencer Gaffney
About a week ago Meg Whitman ’77 threw her hat into the ring for the California Gubernatorial race (info here). And while the rest of the world may know her as the former Ebay CEO, we of course think of her first and foremost as a Princeton alum. But did you know that, if elected, Whitman