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USG ELECTION DAY BOMBSHELL…
Monday, 07 December 2009
by David Walter
… is actually kinda boring, right? I mean, considering what we’ve come to expect. C’mon, USG — time to step it up in the scandal department. Let’s hope the re-vote’s more exciting. (source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/theresasthompson/ / CC BY 2.0)
- Published in Princeton in the News
P/D/F Reform Passes Faculty Vote; to be Enacted Fall 2010
Monday, 07 December 2009
by Spencer Gaffney
The Princeton Faculty voted late Monday afternoon to approve substantial reforms to the P/D/F policy. Ben Lund ’10, the USG Academics Chair, called the reform “a huge win for the student body.” Lund and Helen Chen ’10 wrote the new policy and then presented it last spring to the USG Senate and Deans Malkiel (Dean
21 Questions with… USG Presidential Candidates!
Thursday, 03 December 2009
by Brian No
ALTMAN ’11 MISTAKES CDY FOR ICE CREAM, YAROSHEFSKY ’12 HATES SPONGEBOB, & LINDEMAN ’11 REALLY LIKES CLOISTER INN Name: Jack Altman ’11 / Michael Yaroshefsky ’12 / Jack Lindeman ’11 Age: 20 / 20 / 21 Major: Economics / ORFE / English Hometown: St. Louis / Wayne, NJ / Cape May, NJ Eating club/residential college/affiliation:
- Published in 21 Questions
Opinion: Why referendum banning USG-ers from asking administrators for recs is silly
Wednesday, 02 December 2009
by Brian No
A new week. A new USG-related brouhaha. The Prince breathlessly reported this morning that the USG had failed to follow through with a recently passed referendum—that all USG members publicly declare whether they’ve signed a pledge to never solicit recommendations from University administrators. If the Prince comments are any indication, a handful of students have
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
BREAKING: Spelman to be Gender-Neutral Next Year
Wednesday, 14 October 2009
by Brian No
[Updated 8 PM] Princeton will allow gender-neutral housing for undergraduate students in Spelman Hall next year, making the University the last Ivy League school to consider a gender-neutral option. Students drawing into Spelman will no longer be required to be in groups of four of the same gender. The proposal was written by the Undergraduate
- Published in Goings On
We’re All Going to Be Fine! Budget Edition
Monday, 12 October 2009
by Spencer Gaffney
Tonight’s Budget Town Hall with Provost Chris Eisgruber and Executive Vice President Mark Burstein (who CDY described as the two highest ranking administrators in the University under President Tilghman, making us wonder about all sorts of questions about presidential succession at Princeton) reaffirmed two things we’ve been pretty much thinking all year: 1.) Even though
- Published in Goings On
Tagged under:
budget, Christopher Eisgruber, Connor Diemand-Yauman, Endowment, Mark Burstein, No More Cookies, USG
UPDATE: Becca Lee’s Vacated Senate Post to be Filled by… Becca Lee
Sunday, 31 May 2009
by Spencer Gaffney
You’ve no doubt been consumed by speculation over who will fill the empty 2012 Senate seat since last Sunday’s announcement of “erroneous results” in the fall election. Well, one week later, we finally have our answer: after interviews and deliberations, Connor Diemand-Yauman (whose name I can now spell from memory! The trick is to remember
Why We’re Paying $15,000 Dollars to Have Our Vote Count; also, Why We Hate the USG and Love Yaro
Sunday, 24 May 2009
by Spencer Gaffney
We’re done with USG elections. You’d have thought that a year of gross incompetence (with a near-revote of the fall VP election that landed us on IvyGate), a false start to the spring voting, and complete misreporting of the approval polls would have conditioned us to be cautious. You’d think we open all CDY emails
Former USG Prez Runs for Office
Sunday, 17 May 2009
by Brian No
No, not Eliot Spitzer ’81. He’s forever disgraced, remember? Spending $80,000 over 10 years on “high-end” prostitutes? Spitzer’s legacy, however, hasn’t stopped former USG President PJ Kim ’01 from pursuing public office in New York. Kim is running for New York City Council, trying to unseat incumbent councilman Alan Gerson in District 1. Kim is
- Published in Alumni, Politics, Princeton in the News
Tagged under:
campaigns, elections, Eliot Spitzer, New York City, New York City Council, PJ Kim, USG, USG President
Sotomayor ’76 & Biederman ’08: Two Degrees of Separation
Friday, 15 May 2009
by Brian No
In the short time since Sonia Sotomayor ’76 emerged as a frontrunner to be President Obama’s first Supreme Court nominee, the pundits have already begun slicing and dicing her record and qualifications: First, there was the New Republic piece that said Sotomayor was a “bully,” “not that smart,” and “has an inflated opinion of herself.”
- Published in Alumni, Politics, Princeton in the News
Tagged under:
34th Street Partnership, Bryant Park Corporation, Dan Biederman, Rob Biederman, Sonia Sotomayor, USG
Democracy: It works sometimes
Tuesday, 28 April 2009
by Will Saborio
While USG elections are almost over, I’d like to take the opportunity to urge students to vote for Referenda 4 and 5. Everyone’s heard the all the financial arguments against the proposals, so I won’t waste anyone’s time repeating them. But realize this proposal isn’t a fiscally strategic move, or an administrative plan to end
- Published in Open Letter