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CAP PRESIDENT ALEC EGAN SPENDS HIS DAYS RUNNING INTO THINGS, WISHES PRINCETON HAD MORE FAST FOOD, LIKED HIS JUNIOR SEMINAR, AND MIGHT END UP IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

Name: Alec C. Egan
Hometown: Abilene, Texas
Major: History
Club and Residential College Affiliation: The Illustrious Cap and Gown Club and The Woodrow Wilson College of Destiny

What did you do this past summer? Bench, Squat, Clean.

Who’s your favorite Princetonian, living or dead, real or fictional? Dr. Jon Osterman

What’s the best meal you’ve eaten in Princeton? Lamb BLT and an Oatmeal Cookie Stout from Triumph

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day? Run head first into things, sometimes school work, sometimes food, sometimes doors, but mostly people.

Favorite spot in Cap? Kegerator

What club did you think you’d be in as a freshman and why? Cottage

What is your greatest guilty pleasure? Restaurant Impossible

If you could change one thing about Princeton, what would it be? Proximity to fast food

What’s hanging above your desk and/or bed? Texas Flag

What is your biggest fear? Global shortage of steak

Favorite class you’ve taken? Toss up between SOC 250: Western Way of War and HIS 400: Winston Churchill, Anglo-America and the Special Relationship

What’s your drink? Whiskey-Dr. Pepper

What’s your personal anthem? Fat-Bottomed Girls

Who is your mortal enemy? Walter Snook

When’s bedtime? I’ll sleep when I’m dead

Best memory in your club? Kitchen Parties

Worst memory in your club? Well if I remembered it, it wouldn’t be the worst

Which club do you frequent the most besides your own? Cottage, Cloister and Cannon.

In 25 years, you will be… either in the white house or a white castle

What makes someone a Cap member? Food obsession, conversation proliferation, and love of relaxation

What makes someone a Princetonian? “We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us” – Winston Churchill

Nov 23, 2012

21Questions with…Alec Egan ’13

By Abby Klionsky

Also posted in 21 Questions Tagged Cap & Gown, Texas, The Kegerator, White Castle, Winston Churchill Leave a comment

TI PRESIDENT BEN BARRON WON’T SLEEP UNTIL JUNE, LOVES BANJOS, IS TERRIFIED OF SARAH PALIN, AND HAS A VERY HIGH TOLERANCE FOR CARLY RAE JEPSEN.

Name: Ben Barron
Hometown: Boulder, CO
Major: Comparative Literature
Club and Residential College Affiliation: Tiger Inn, Butler College

What did you do this past summer? Studied Spanish at Middlebury and convinced Comp Lit to fly me to Morocco.

Who’s your favorite Princetonian, living or dead, real or fictional? T.A. Barron ’74

What’s the best meal you’ve eaten in Princeton? Burgers and beers every Wednesday night

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day? Wonder what the phrase “free time” means.

Favorite spot in TI: Behind the bar.

What club did you think you’d be in as a freshman and why? The Glorious Tiger Inn. It’s full of people who like to have fun for the right reasons.

What is your greatest guilty pleasure? Playing folk music, especially if there’s a banjo involved.

If you could change one thing about Princeton, what would it be? Mountains. Big mountains.

What’s hanging above your desk and/or bed? Colorado flag, Montreux Jazz Festival poster, respectively.

What is your biggest fear? Sarah Palin.

Favorite class you’ve taken? Performance Studies.

What’s your drink? Fat Tire.

What’s your personal anthem? Dispatch’s “The General”.

Who is your mortal enemy? Jason Ramirez

When’s bedtime? June 2013.

Best memory in your club? Pickups weekend as a sophomore.

Worst memory in your club? Cleaning up after Lawnparties.

Which club do you frequent the most besides your own? I try to keep it an even spread, but I find myself at Cap and Terrace a lot.

In 25 years, you will be… Hopefully backpacking, traveling, and raising a family.

What makes someone a TI member? Let’s just say it’s self-selecting.

What makes someone a Princetonian? An unfathomable tolerance for songs like “Call Me Maybe” and “Party in the USA”

Nov 5, 2012

21 Questions with…Ben Barron ’13

By Abby Klionsky

Also posted in 21 Questions, The Street Tagged banjos, Ben Barron, Comp Lit, Sarah Palin, Tiger Inn Leave a comment

For those of you who missed the email, and the text, and the automated phone message, and every weather report for the last week (basically, anyone who has been under a rock for the past week): yes, Hurricane Sandy is scheduled to hit Princeton pretty soon (updates on the Princeton homepage).

Pretty good timing, Princeton.

Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll run into if you try to do some hurricane stock-up at the U-Store. The bread is out, the peanut butter supply is low, and some kid walked out with cases and cases of bottled water. At 3:30, there were 25+ people in line. Among the things people were buying: cereal, water, pasta, water, salad, water, plastic utensils, water, sandwiches, water, applesauce, water, chips, water, crackers. Don’t worry, Princeton has generators. And a call to Public Safety clarified that the dining hall (Rocky-Mathey) is considered “critical and essential staff,” and will be opened.

Rolling 25 deep

But as of this posting, not a drop of rain had fallen. Come on, Sandy, we’re ready for you!

Oct 28, 2012

Still waiting on Sandy…

By Abby Klionsky

Also posted in Goings On Tagged even if town electricity goes out our generators will save us, fall break, Hurricane Sandy, more water than you could ever drink, people freaking out Leave a comment

Over the next few weeks, and in no particular order, The Ink will be taking you on a journey down Prospect Ave., colloquially known as The Street . Check back for 21Qs with all eleven eating club presidents.

TERRACE PRESIDENT DIMITRIS PAPACONSTANTINOU HATES SHOWERS, LOVES HAIR DYE, LOATHES 2-YEAR OLD BUFFOONS, AND SWEARS BY TERRACE 4TH COURSE.

Name: Dimitris Papaconstantinou
Hometown: Athens, Greece
Major: Philosophy
Club and Residential College Affiliation: Terrace F. Club; Rockefeller

What did you do this past summer? Worked at a law-firm in Singapore, visited Greece and helped renovate TFC.

Who’s your favorite Princetonian, living or dead, real or fictional? At tie between Jeff Nunokawa and Kwame Appiah (and Stanley Jordan).

What’s the best meal you’ve eaten in Princeton? Every meal at Terrace is like a blissful melody to my stomach. (Thanks Olin. Thanks Ben. Thanks 4^th Course)

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day? Everything every other college student does, always grateful for the amazing people I get to interact with, sharing in Food and Love and appreciation for our shared mother.

Favorite spot in Terrace. The newly remade pool-room (also known as the Willard Room).

What club did you think you’d be in as a freshman and why? Terrace, because it was the only place on campus that felt like home.

What is your greatest guilty pleasure? P. Adams Sitney.

If you could change one thing about Princeton, what would it be? More people with green, pink, blue and orange hair. (Yes, I just read Joshua Katz’s article and I love it).

What’s hanging above your desk and/or bed? Curtains.

What is your biggest fear? Any and all fundamentalists.

Favorite class you’ve taken? I’d have to say my junior seminar on Freedom and Responsibility.

What’s your drink? Masticha. Good Greek drink.

What’s your personal anthem? Hard Rock Hallelujah by Lordi. Quality stuff right there.

Who is your mortal enemy? Showers.

Oct 22, 2012

21 Questions with…Dimitris Papaconstantinou ’13

By Abby Klionsky

Also posted in 21 Questions, The Street Tagged 4th course, Eating Clubs, Food=Love, really long last name, spawning new generations of Terrans, Terrace F Club, The Street Leave a comment

Spotted: this little guy, hanging out by the food/non-food/utensils collection bins at the Mathey Dining Hall this morning.

Materials used: part of a banana, some Cracklin’ Oats, two Apple Jacks.

Unfortunately, he fell down shortly after I saw him, and one of the dining staff came and wiped him into the food collection bin.

Apr 24, 2012

Banana Man in Mathey DHall

By Abby Klionsky

Also posted in Musings Leave a comment

Ricky Silberman ‘13 mobilized a significant proportion of the student body at Princeton to vote for him last month. He wasn’t in any of the contests that students typically spam listservs about: start-up ideas, USG elections, filmmaking competitions. Instead, Ricky needed votes to become the fifth and final contestant in the 6th Annual Man-o-Manischewitz Cook-Off. He got them, sending him to the competition in New York Wednesday, where he took away the $25,000 prize package.

To listen to University President–and Ricky’s thesis advisor–Shirley Tilghman respond to Ricky’s win, click here.

Photo by Sara Rich

Manischewitz is the icon of staple Jewish food, and sells Passover matzo, gefilte fish, and sweet Shabbat wine, among other traditional Jewish delicacies. Each year the company holds a cook-off, and this year Ricky entered. He was one of five finalists to compete in the final round at the JCC on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Ricky’s competition was stiff: a mother and educator, a dad and accountant, and two women who are “professional cooking competition-istas.” Ricky was by far the youngest competitor, with his “mod” matzo ball soup.

Mar 30, 2012

Ricky Silberman, Matzo Ball King

By Abby Klionsky

Also posted in Contests, In the news, Uncategorized Tagged Challah for Hunger, Cook-off, Food Network, Jewish Iron Chef, Manischewitz, Matzo Ball soup, Shirley Tilghman One comment

The highlight of tonight’s U-Store run was uncovering the following artifact from the future:

"Fettuccine Summer 2088," confoundingly, expires in early 2012

For a mere $3.99, D’Angelo’s offers you a taste of the late 21st century. Their distinctive medley of pasta, roasted peppers, and grilled chicken is prophesied to dominate Summer 2088. Perhaps I’ll enjoy some at my 75th Reunion.

But given the average American lifespan, you might not live to taste it again; this might be your only chance. Go get it before someone sprints out of a white DeLorean to reclaim it, or before that drunk dude haphazardly snags it while staggering past the refrigerated section, oblivious to the 76-year sneak preview he’s been granted.

Mar 6, 2012

Fettuccine from the Future

By Giri Nathan

Also posted in Fun Tagged D'Angelo's, fettuccine, label humor, the future, U-Store, U-Store surrealism Leave a comment

Hey Princeton! Guess what?? I had a date on Tuesday! Intrigued? Curious? Want to hear all the deets? Well, before you get too excited, I should clarify—I had a PrincetonLunch date on Tuesday. Never heard of the program? According to its website, PrincetonLunch “gives you the opportunity to meet new people over friendly lunches.” In other words, it’s a blind date to make friends. But unlike an actual blind date, you don’t have to dissect every detail of the date afterwards with your friends, you don’t have to feel dejected because he/she wasn’t “the one,” and you don’t have to pay for the meal. Sounds pretty good to me.

How it works is that you enter your name and netID into the form on the website’s homepage, and then you get randomly paired up with another undergraduate student at Princeton. Grad students have a separate form to fill out. No worries.

I was randomly paired with another freshman. She lives in Rocky. I live in Forbes. For what it’s worth, those are two different universes, so having the PrincetonLunch program in place definitely cut the time frame of our meeting by about, well, ten years. After jokingly confirming that neither of us was a creep, we began chatting about classes, summer plans, people we knew. It turned out that we actually had a lot of connections to each other: one of the other students from my high school here at Princeton is in her zee group; she’s in a freshman seminar with one of my good friends; my lab partner is on her sports team; and she’s in the same writing seminar that two of my good friends took last semester. Six degrees of separation?

A portal for friendship!

All in all, it turned out to be a very nice lunch! I made a new friend, realized how small the Princeton community actually is, and learned about the IRC. Not too shabby. So if you want to meet someone new, I’d definitely give this program a shot. 1,970 students would not have had the opportunity to meet otherwise, according to the website. Will you add to that statistic?

Mar 2, 2012

PrincetonLunch: Befriending Your Blind Date

By Dana Bernstein

Also posted in Fun, Goings On, HEY PRINCETON! Tagged imnotcreepyimnotcreepy, Lunch, make new friends, PrincetonLunch Leave a comment

If any of the rest of you have gotten into the habit of frequenting the residential dining hall grills at lunch and dinner to add some protein to your pasta, salad, what have you… chances are you have realized some time over the past few weeks that these formerly tender, sometimes-too-dry, but otherwise tasty chicken breasts:

have been replaced by this darker, oddly shapen, somewhat suspect alternative:

After holding out for a while, I concluded that this was not simply a “we ran out of white meat,” temporary solution, but could actually be a permanent switch.

Director of Dining Services Stu Orefice vaguely confirmed this, saying:

Mar 1, 2012

“Culinary Trends” Say Breasts Are Out, Thighs Are In

By Nellie Peyton

Also posted in Goings On Tagged body parts, chicken, cost-cutting, dark meat, Dining Services Leave a comment

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