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Free Kindles At Princeton?
Tuesday, 05 May 2009
by Angela Wu
You might not have to make your way to Labyrinth to pick up your 30 pounds of textbooks next semester. Princeton is joining the likes of Yale, Oxford and Berkeley in publishing its textbooks on Kindle, which weighs a hefty… 10.2 ounces. Meanwhile, Engadget has acquired leaks of the new Kindle, which has a larger
- Published in Goings On, Princeton in the News
Nassoons featured on new Ben Folds compilation; Schwartz a popular guy
Saturday, 02 May 2009
by Will Saborio
Remember when Ben Folds came and played Richardson McCarter a while back? Remember getting there all excited, finding an a cappella group, and wondering exactly why? Well, those were the Nassoons and they joined Folds on stage because they’re featured on his new compilation album, Ben Folds Presents: University A Cappella!, released on Tuesday. The
- Published in Goings On
Students Choose Service, We Think (Thanks for the Clarity, USG!)
Thursday, 30 April 2009
by Spencer Gaffney
Princeton students have voted to donate both the Fall 2009 Lawnparties main act and USG Senate Pilot Program funds to “Student-initiated service projects” over not donating the money at all or donating the funds to Annual Giving. At least, that’s according to a PDF released by the USG earlier today. The catch, however, is that
Happy 5th Birthday, Grade Deflation!
Thursday, 30 April 2009
by Brian No
Did you forget? April 26th was grade deflation policy’s birthday! Yes, it’s five years-old already! Parents Malkiel and Tilghman are so proud. Just look at the results!: Average GPAs: Brown: 3.61 Stanford: 3.55 Yale: 3.51 Harvard: 3.45 Penn: 3.44 Dartmouth: 3.42 Columbia: 3.42 Cornell: 3.36 Princeton: 3.28 (source: gradeinflation.com)
- Published in Goings On
Princeton HS sends precautionary letter, parent freaks out
Wednesday, 29 April 2009
by Angela Wu
After the Princeton Regional Schools District sent out a letter about swine flu, a worried parent “panicked” and sent out an e-mail that sent parents all across this quaint little hamlet of Princeton scurrying to pull their children out of class. From the Trenton Times: The parent allegedly became worried about the potential for swine flu
- Published in Goings On, Princeton in the News
Swine flu! No, pertussis! No, swine flu! Pertussis!
Wednesday, 29 April 2009
by Angela Wu
Thanks, all of you who didn’t get the Tdap booster before coming to college. “When we actually look at our student records, (we) found that not all of our students received the booster,” Cliatt said. The Times of Trenton reports that nine students at Princeton — not four — have been diagnosed with whooping cough
- Published in Goings On, Princeton in the News
Angry taxpayers want to put Princeton on “the Jon Stewart Show”
Tuesday, 28 April 2009
by Angela Wu
Princeton Citizens for Tax Fairness, a group that has been supported by both local Democrats and Republicans, is mad. Because they have to pay taxes, and Princeton has a lot of money, so why can’t they just pay and make all of our problems go away? They’re organizing to move Princeton to pay its “fair share
- Published in Goings On, Princeton in the News
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Economy, Endowment, Princeton, Princeton Borough, Princeton Citizens for Tax Fairness, Princeton University, taxes, Tea Party
Poetry Rocks! Or, How I Learned that Princeton is Better with Poets than Bands
Tuesday, 28 April 2009
by Spencer Gaffney
Yeah, we’re probably going to have to drink more than we otherwise would have to “enjoy” Gym Class Heroes, and yeah, it seems like a lot of money to spend when the student body probably would have responded better to a Journey cover band. But if you need to restore your faith in Princeton’s ability
- Published in Goings On
Princeton in the New Yorker
Tuesday, 28 April 2009
by Brian No
This cartoon from the ’80s is particularly fitting because Class of 2010 President Aditya Panda ’10 recently sent an electronic missive to all rising seniors informing them about free membership to the Princeton Club in NYC for an entire year starting this summer. Score! (We’ll just ignore the unfortunate fact that the Princeton Club is
Tagged under:
Cartoon, class government, Henry Martin, New Yorker, Princeton Club, Princeton University
Meet a pre-frosh: That annoying kid in precept next year!
Sunday, 26 April 2009
by Will Saborio
As the tide of overeager pre-frosh recedes, we’ve come across this story of a Princeton-bound Michigan girl who aced the ACT, the SAT and the PSAT. To make things worse, Willa Chen, the trifecta tool, is quoted as saying, “I wouldn’t say I studied a lot.” Well, someone’s going to make a lot of friends
- Published in Goings On, Princeton in the News
Coincidence? I think not.
Friday, 24 April 2009
by Will Saborio
No, Mr. Newman, it is no coincidence: Drunk kids do stupid things. And on this fine Newman’s Day, let us sober ones enjoy the hijinks. For instance: 4:00 PM, Frist third floor men’s bathroom: An obviously drunk upperclassman stumbles into the bathroom wearing a backpack from which clinking can be heard. He stands at the
- Published in Goings On
Alienating the sickly since 1746
Friday, 24 April 2009
by Will Saborio
In light of the recent whooping cough outbreak on campus and the fact that we have a bunch of lanyard-sporting seventeen year-olds stumbling around, University Health Services sent out an email to the University community today urging… …anyone with a cough or other symptoms of illness avoid circulating in public. Pertussis could be a threat
- Published in Goings On