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damatoSTUDENT SINGER-SONGWRITER SPITS OUT SOME SNARK

Name: Anthony D’Amato
Age: 21
Major: English
Hometown: Blairstown, NJ
Eating club/residential college/affiliation: Terrace Club, Rockefeller College

Who’s your favorite Princetonian, living or dead, real or fictional?
Jonathan Ames (writer)

What’s the best meal you’ve eaten in Princeton?
Old World Pizza

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day?
I look for ways to put things off until tomorrow.

What is your greatest guilty pleasure?
I steal from my roommates. Constantly.

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Mar 25, 2009

21 Questions with… Anthony D’Amato ‘10

By Brian No
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Princeton University president Shirley Tilghman appeared on the Charlie Rose show last night.

Shirley discussed the Bush administration’s political repression of science, bragged about Alex Barnard and his “mohawk up to here” and used the word “periodicity” when discussing how often the University rejects the idea of a Princeton Medical School (every 20 years or so). Charlie was much impressed.

See the video after the jump.

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Mar 17, 2009

Shirley Tilghman Uses Big Words

By Angela Wu
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A Princeton University student touched off a campus-wide security alert over the weekend by running across the campus carrying an “imitation” AK-4 assault rifle, police said.

Princeton Borough police confiscated the weapon and charged Steven Shonts, 18, of Eden Prairie, MN, with “possession of a weapon for unlawful purpose” and “possession of an imitation firearm on university grounds.” He was released on his own recognizance.

Another student, Erica Greil, said in an e-mail that she had contacted the university’s public safety department at 11:30 p.m. Friday after seeing a male running with a gun near University Place.

Read the full article at the Princeton Packet.

AW and SJP

Mar 10, 2009

IN PRINT: Update — Fake rifle prompts campus alert at PU

By Angela Wu
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Reports of a male student carrying a firearm prompted a campus security alert at Princeton University overnight, which ended after an investigation determined that the gun was “non-functional” and the student posed no threat to public safety.

University spokesperson Cass Cliatt said in an email Saturday that campus public safety officers and Princeton Borough police “were immediately on the scene interviewing witnesses and searching the area –within minutes.”

The first alert to the campus community went out at 12:42 a.m. via e-mail, text messages and voice mail.

“This is an actual emergency and not a test,” the alert said. Public Safety has recommended that all students remain inside until further notice. Do not go outside to travel to another building. Close and lock the doors and windows. Check e-mail and/or the University’s home page at www.princeton.edu for further information and updates.”

Read complete article at the Princeton Packet here.

AW and SJP

Mar 8, 2009

IN PRINT: Gun Sighting Prompts Safety Alerts

By Angela Wu
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Well, that was exciting… Now, we’re going to sleep. Thanks for reading our beta blog!

2:55 am –Cliatt told the Prince that it took that period of time for an alert to be sent because investigators were interviewing witnesses to establish whether there was a “credible threat.”

2:42 am –Oh, and the University is offering counseling for “individuals stressed by the incident,” the Prince says. We’re curious as to how many postponed midterms this is going to lead to.

2:35 am– The real story tonight: Why did it take 80 minutes for Public Safety to send out an alert? If this had been a real criminal with a real gun, it would have been bad news bears.

2:15 am– The Prince is reporting that some dude is under custody of Borough Police. He was carrying a “permanently disabled and nonfunctional firearm” that he was planning to show to a friend.

1:52 am– “I was watching Milk in the Frist theater, where there was a bit of an uproar when everyone received the first message on their iPhones, and the ‘all is clear’ text actually happened as the end credits were rolling.” – SJP

1:46 am– Quote of the night: “So that’s what it’s like, going to Yale.”

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Mar 7, 2009

Liveblogging the Emergency: “So that’s what it’s like, going to Yale.”

By Angela Wu
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Late Sunday evening, Rutgers canceled all classes on its New Brunswick and Piscataway campuses.

Then The College of New Jersey closed its campus at 5 am this morning.

Then all local school districts declared it a snow day.

After we’d hoped all night for the expected “8-14 inches of snow” to bury Princeton’s Gothic buildings and cancel –or at least delay!– classes, imagine our disappointment when we woke up to a measly 6-7 inches and…a full day of classes. Beginning at 8 am.

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Mar 2, 2009

IN PRINT: Princetonians go to class, everyone else in New Jersey stays inside

By Angela Wu
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A University of Minnesota student is dropping out of a race for a City Council position after the university’s daily found that he lied about attending Princeton.

Charles Carlson, who also faked a British accent and, actually, a British life, apparently falsified a transcript from Princeton and Phillips Exeter, but was found out when the bullshit mounted too high (ref.: “[Hillary] Clinton shared a crème brûlée torte with him [in England]“).

Sure it seems ridiculous, but Carlson joins a number of other fakes that love the Princeton name. Remember Nava? And maybe you’ve heard of Princeton’s biggest gaffe – admitting con-man James Hogue, a.k.a. Alexi Santana.

Additionally, the article reports that Carlson said he has “schizophrenia affective disorder, which impacts an individual’s ability to accurately judge reality.” Guess he should’ve just said he worked for the Prince.

Mar 2, 2009

Guy fakes Princeton degree – doesn’t get away with it

By Will Saborio
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From a survey of 21 undergraduate Princeton sons, Princeton psych professor Susan Fiske has concluded that… men view half-naked women as objects.

That might just be the best Prince headline we’ve ever seen.

This has been all over the news, from One India (“Sensual Women Viewed as ‘Objects’“) to National Geographic (“Bikinis Make Men See Women as Objects, Scans Confirm”).

But the best article so far? Probably from The Independent (“University of the bleedin’ obvious”).

But the real question is, why is this obvious, obvious story so popular?

Probably for the accompanying photos and page views:

From National Geographic:

(image source: nationalgeographic.com)

(image source: nationalgeographic.com)

From the Daily Telegraph:

(image source: telegraph.co.uk)

(image source: telegraph.co.uk)

Feb 17, 2009

Breaking news: Men objectify women, editors love bikini stories.

By Angela Wu
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INCOMING USG PRESIDENT & BATMAN SHARE COMMON ENEMY

Name: Connor Lawrence Diemand-Yauman ‘10
Age: 20
Major: Psychology
Hometown: Chesterland, Ohio
Eating club/residential college/affiliation: Tower/Rocky

Who’s your favorite Princetonian, living or dead, real or fictional?
Cornel West

What’s the best meal you’ve eaten in Princeton?
Thanksgiving Dinner in Whitman.

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day?
Think about everything that I have to do.

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Jan 10, 2009

21 Questions With… Connor Diemand-Yauman

By Brian No
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