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The Great Jewish Food Debate: Moderated by Shirley Tilghman
Tuesday, 12 February 2013
by Bina Peltz
The Center for Jewish Life and Whig-Clio hosted the annual Latke-Hamentaschen Debate this afternoon in the quest of answering the noble, eternal question of, you guessed it: Latkes or Hamentaschen? Two traditional Jewish foods: fried potato pancakes vs. triangular pastries made with sweet fillings. Originating in 1946 at UChicago, The Latke-Hamentaschen Debate is an academic, yet
SOCIAL MEDIA ROUNDUP: Panda Buttsex
Sunday, 10 February 2013
by Ellis Liang
First week of classes, lost gloves, and bicker. Here’s what Princeton has been up to on the interwebs this week: Res college listservs: From: XXXXXX Subject: Panda buttsex gloves Date: February 5, 2013 10:51:50 PM EST Hey Forbes, I apologize for the disruption, but I seem to have misplaced a pair of gloves. The gloves depict twopandas having buttsex, and they were
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bicker, first week, harlem shake, PFML, Princeton, social media roundup, Tiger Admirers, who designed those gloves wtf
21 Questions With… The Anonymous Dean’s Date Poster Maker
Thursday, 10 January 2013
by Vivienne Chen
YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED THESE AGGRESSIVE, STRESS-INDUCING DEAN’S DATE POSTERS AROUND CAMPUS. THE INK’S INSIDER INFORMATION TEAM HAS CORNERED THE CREATOR(S) OF THIS PROPAGANDA AND ASKED THEM THE REAL HARD-HITTING QUESTIONS. Name: The Committee to Motivate Students to Do Dean’s Date Work (CMSDDDW) Hometown: Grover’s Corners Major: General Club and Residential College Affiliation: Club Foot
- Published in 21 Questions, Fun
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21 Questions, Anonymous, Dean's Date, demotivational, impact font, papers, procrastination, these are the jokes
Princeton’s 2013 In/Out List
Tuesday, 01 January 2013
by Ellis Liang
Shake off your New Year’s Eve hangover and say hello to 2013… and end-of-break panic. But don’t worry. Although you forgot a semester’s worth of material, breathe easy knowing that UPC’s got you covered on what’s trending in 2013. When your thesis adviser starts hunting you down or someone mentions “fiscal cliff” again, distract them
- Published in Fun
Pton Compliments Spreads Happiness
Saturday, 17 November 2012
by Dana Bernstein
There’s nothing like a compliment to brighten up your day, right? A new project called Pton Compliments hopes to “spread some love” via Facebook compliments, according to its Facebook page (“Pton Compliments”), which was created on Thursday. Pton Compliments was inspired by a similar project started at Queen’s University, and the phenomenon has spread to
Bonfire In Our Near Future!
Friday, 16 November 2012
by Louise Connelly
Although rumor has it a few Yale pranksters snuck onto campus a week ago to spread some Bulldog mischief the night before the football game (see evidence below), it didn’t stop us from destroying their team 29-7, a victory that secured for the Tigers the almost mythic celebratory Bonfire, unknown to Princeton students of the
Bonfire in our Near Future?
Friday, 09 November 2012
by Dana Bernstein
Whether you’ll be attending the Yale game or not, hopefully you’re excited about the (very real) possibility of having a Bonfire (yes capital b) next week. Here’s a brief history of the Bonfire, according to the Princetoniana website: The Bonfire used to celebrate baseball, not football, victories. And if you were a freshman, well, you
Princeton University: Where Every Building Has The Same Name
Friday, 19 October 2012
by Vivienne Chen
Princeton’s known for being a bit confusing for a freshman or any first-time visitor. When you’re at orientation, no one bothers to tell you “Richardson Auditorium” is labeled on a map as “Alexander Hall.”* Can you blame me for also mixing up “Pyne” and “East Pyne”? And who decided it was a good idea to
- Published in Fun, Musings, Princeton in the News
Jam Session in Woody Woo Fountain
Saturday, 13 October 2012
by Abby Klionsky
Apparently, today was a good day for Princeton’s football team. The team, which shut out Brown 19-0 today, “Remains Perfect in Ivies.” Despite the rivalry between the teams, however, our bands are pretty good friends. It’s become tradition that following the Princeton-Brown game each year, the two bands join together for a jam session in
- Published in Fun, Goings On, Uncategorized
JOIN THE UNIVERSITY PRESS CLUB
Sunday, 30 September 2012
by Nathan Serota
University Press Club is the only organization on campus to offer you the chance to work for real newspapers and magazines, to get paid for your writing, and to make connections with the “who’s who” of the journalism world. This week, we’re kicking off our annual Candidates Period, a three-month application process to join the
Quidditch: The Real Clash of the Colleges
Wednesday, 12 September 2012
by Abby Klionsky
Welcome back to the land of the Weather Machine! Good thing the Machine was working, since it’s the last of the great outdoors many of us will get to enjoy once classes start and we start holing up in the depths of Firestone. And what a perfect day for the sixth annual Campus Rec Quidditch
- Published in Contests, Fun, Uncategorized
Week in Review: Bad A$$ Edition (July 9 – 15)
Tuesday, 17 July 2012
by Alice Su
First up, shout out to our incoming freshmen! Princeton 2016 is getting all worked up this week – with good reason, since they’ve received both their res college assignments and chance to flip through the fall frosh seminars catalogue. It includes the classic free trip (!) seminars with promises of fall breaks in Costa Rica
- Published in Alumni, Fun, Goings On, Internet, Week in Review
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Annual Giving, Asians, Bad A$$, CDY, comics, elitism, Harry Potter, Jonathan Schwartz, Joyce Carol Oates, Justin Bieber, ke$ha, prefrosh, Princeton is really rich