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INCOMING USG PRESIDENT BRUCE EASOP PROMISES TO IMPROVE MENTAL HEALTH, CLASS SCHEDULING, AND PEER-TO-PEER ADVISING ON CAMPUS…BUT YOU’VE ALREADY HEARD ALL OF THIS. NOW, HE SOUNDS OFF ON DANCING AND CLASSROOM DIPLOMACY, THE GLORIES OF HIS MONIKER, AND THE ONE THING THAT MAKES HIM CRY, “EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.”

Bruce PressClub PicName: Bruce Easop

Age: 20

Major: Politics (Political Theory)

Hometown: Flemington, NJ

Eating Club/Res College/Affiliation: Colonial/Butler College

Who’s your favorite Princetonian, living or dead, real or fictional? Bruce Wayne—can’t go wrong with the name!

What’s the best meal you’ve eaten in Princeton? Colonial Friday night dinner—great food, great people, what more could I want?

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day? Read emails, respond to emails, accidentally nap, keep up with reading for class, and tell myself I’ll go jogging more often like I did freshman year.

What is your greatest guilty pleasure? Way too much Hulu…and dancing enthusiastically

What is your weirdest story involving the USG office? It probably involves trying to hide from Frist employees at 2am when Frist closes…

What is your biggest fear? Spiders. Definitely spiders.

What’s your drink? Coffee

What makes you laugh? Any episode of Community and Modern Family (hence the guilty pleasure above…)

What makes you cry? Dobby dying in Harry Potter 7. Every. Single. Time.

When’s bedtime? At Princeton? Haha, good one!

What’s been playing on repeat recently? ‘We Found Love’ by Rihanna and ‘Levels’ by Avicii

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Recently, bloggers have gotten ahold of President John F. Kennedy’s old college application essays, and boy, were standards different back then.

EDIT: JFK’s Harvard essay reads like this: (Source)

“The reasons that I have for wishing to go to Harvard are several. I felt that Harvard can give me a better background and a better liberal education than any other university. I have always wanted to go there, as I have felt that it is not just another college but is a university with something definite to offer. Then too, I would like to go to the same college as my father. To be a “Harvard man” is an enviable distinction, and one that I sincerely hope I shall attain.”

But wait… they found his application essay to Princeton was nearly identical.

Hey now, cut the late Mr. President some slack. It’s not like we all didn’t do a little tweaking on our Common App. (”Sure, Yale’s my top choice…”) On the other hand, he only spent 6 weeks at Princeton before going to Harvard.

Critics argue that if Kennedy applied today, he would not have been admitted to an Ivy League school with these essays. But honestly, if JFK could reapply knowing everything we do today, wouldn’t his essay be entitled “How I’m Going to Become a Pimpin’ Ladykiller/President of the United States Before My Untimely Assassination That Will Go Down in History as a Government Conspiracy”?

That’s what I called mine.

Moral of the story to Princeton students aspiring for elected office: guard your college apps.

Princeton University Prez

Princeton University Prez

Name: Shirley Tilghman
Occupation on Campus: President
Major: Molecular Biology
Hometown: Princeton

Who’s your favorite Princetonian, living or dead, real or fictional?
My daughter Becca ‘03

What is your greatest guilty pleasure?
Ice cream.

What’s the best meal you’ve eaten in Princeton?
Any meal cooked by Sally Lewis Lamonica, the chef at Lowrie House

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day?
I work to ensure that in the future, including tomorrow, Princeton University is fulfilling to the greatest extent possible its potential to transform the lives of its students, and discover new knowledge.

Best place on campus?
Icahn Lab

Worst place on campus?
My daughter’s former dorm room in Wilson College

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As Barack Obama prepares to take the highest office in the United States, he has begun to build a team of accomplished and skillful men and women that will help the young president lead America in these most troubled times.

Indeed, America stands at a crossroads in history, and Obama’s star-studded team hopes to answer some of the nation’s most pressing questions. How does America weather the recession? How does the nation withdraw its troops from Iraq? Which Ivy League school is really the best?

Come on. You thought it wouldn’t be a competition?

People have already noted that Obama’s team is noticeably “Ivy-tinged”. This, of course, begs the question that burns constantly in the American public mind:

Which of the “Ancient Eight” comes out on top?

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