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Preppy Princeton?
Sunday, 15 April 2012
by Dana Bernstein
Spotted Friday afternoon: Princeton male students sporting blazers and khaki shorts while their female counterparts were clad in preppy sundresses. They were playing croquet near Dillon gym on the lawn outside some dorm rooms. And blasting classical music. While drinking. Another one of your What in the world?! musings of the day. It’s not Lawnparties
- Published in Goings On
IN PRINT: On prefrosh impressions, and undocumented students at Princeton
Wednesday, 12 May 2010
by Angela Wu
The most recent issue of the Princeton Alumni Weekly has two articles that shed some light on what life at Princeton is like. According to some pre-frosh, the world outside Fitzrandolph Gate thinks we are “squares,” with “windswept hair,” “weird shorts,” and “boat shoes and everything.” This may in fact be true. More serious, but
- Published in In Print
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admissions, Alumni, DREAM Act, Princeton Alumni Weekly, Princeton Preview, Princeton University, stereotypes
COMBO II: Princeton Stereotypes All Completely True
Monday, 16 November 2009
by Brian No
Stereotypes tend to be nasty conjectures, and Princeton has plenty of them. But recently released survey results from the USG seem to indicate that many campus stereotypes are more or less true. The COMBO II survey was administered in spring 2009 (the first COMBO was administered in 2007), an anonymous survey that looks at the
- Published in Goings On
Ivy League Reality Handbook
Saturday, 24 October 2009
by David Walter
Part 2: Choose Your Ivy Type So you’ve decided to give up on the job search and try out for a Reality TV show. Congratulations! Like I said before, you’re a total shoo-in. Why, again? America, as you probably know, has a love-hate relationship with the Ivy League. Wealth! Power! Privilege! Great stuff. When push
- Published in Student Guides