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IN PRINT: Gansa, Cheng USG Presidential Election in The New York Times
Friday, 05 December 2014
by Gabriel Fisher
“He ran on a platform of bringing waffle fries, ripe fruit and the nebulous ‘bike reform’ to campus. He pledged to change the worn metaphorical tires of Princeton’s student government, one potato at a time,” write Liz Robbins and Press Club member Spencer Parts in The New York Times. The article, which will appear in print
- Published in Fun, In Print, Princeton in the News, Satire
IN PRINT: University Carillon – Learning to Play, High in the Sky
Sunday, 09 November 2014
by Dana Bernstein
Alec Payne ’16 was dizzy by the time he arrived at his first music lesson of the academic year. It was hot and humid, and he had climbed 137 narrow, spiraling steps to the top of Cleveland Tower at the Graduate College. Awaiting him was Princeton’s 36.5-ton carillon: As Payne’s teacher, University carillonneur Lisa Lonie,
IN PRINT: What I Be Project in the New York Times
Friday, 31 October 2014
by Oren Fliegelman
Steve Rosenfield, a California-based photographer, has visited over a dozen universities for the What I Be Project, a photography exhibit where students write fears and anxieties on their skin. In addition to two trips to Princeton, he’s visited schools like Duke, Columbia, and Washington University in St. Louis. To learn more, check out the latest
- Published in Arts, In Print, Princeton in the News
IN PRINT: Monks create mandala of sand ahead of Dalai Lama’s visit to Princeton
Friday, 24 October 2014
by Gabriel Fisher
In preparation for the visit this coming week of the 14th Dalai Lama to Princeton University, Tibetan monks created a sand mandala in Princeton University this week. Click here to read Spencer Parts’ front page story in the Times of Trenton on the sand mandala and the Dalai Lama’s upcoming visit to The University.
- Published in Goings On, In Print, Princeton in the News, Uncategorized
IN PRINT: Tal Fortgang ’17 on Privilege
Saturday, 03 May 2014
by Gabriel Fisher
Princeton’s Tal Fortgang ’17 continues to garner public attention for his controversial opinion piece on privilege published in The Tory this April. What do the rest of Princeton students think? Read more by Press Club’s Gabe Fisher in the New York Times here.
- Published in Goings On, In Print, Princeton in the News
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IN PRINT: Student Advocates at Princeton Launch Prison Reform Conference
Friday, 04 April 2014
by Bina Peltz
Students at Princeton University have mentored inmates at New Jersey correctional facilities and worked to advocate prison reform throughout the state. This weekend they are launching their first conference on prison reform. “This is the biggest civil rights issue that I can think of at this time, and we want to give students the tools
- Published in Goings On, In Print, Politics, Princeton in the News
IN PRINT: The Bernanke Talk
Thursday, 03 April 2014
by Spencer Parts
Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke reflected on his experience to a packed McCosh 50 yesterday. The talk was a conversation with Econ Professor Alan Blinder, and the Press Club covered it for the Trenton Times. You can check out the front-page story here.
IN PRINT: Professor Emeritus and Nobel Prize Winner Daniel Kahneman Lectures on Intuition
Tuesday, 18 February 2014
by Gabriel Fisher
A bat and a ball cost $1.10. The bat costs a dollar more than the ball. How much does the ball cost? It turns out that 50% of Princeton students get this question wrong. Last Monday, Daniel Kahneman, professor emeritus of psychology and public policy at the Woodrow Wilson School, gave the Stafford Little Lecture,
IN PRINT: Princeton’s Monuments Men
Tuesday, 11 February 2014
by Gabriel Fisher
The Monuments Men, a new movie directed by and starring George Clooney along with a host of other Hollywood celebrities, has a surprising connection to Princeton University. The movie tells the tale of a ragtag group of art historians and scholars who enlisted in the U.S. Army in order to recover famous art stolen by
IN PRINT: Eisgruber looks to the future
Thursday, 26 December 2013
by Oren Fliegelman
As Christopher Eisgruber finishes up his first academic semester as Princeton’s president, he is still looking to students and alumni to help shape his presidency’s goals. In an hour-long interview with the Press Club, Eisgruber spoke broadly about himself, the university, and the next few years ahead. Some highlights: He wants to hear from
- Published in Academics, Alumni, In Print, Uncategorized
IN PRINT: Bad job market spurs undergrads to concentrate in pre-professional majors
Tuesday, 17 September 2013
by Oren Fliegelman
It’s become an almost endless refrain repeated by the news and countless parents to college students across the country: good luck trying to find a job in this terrible economy. Interviews with officials and concentration data from four New Jersey universities show that in order to improve their chances of finding jobs in today’s lackluster
- Published in Academics, In Print, Politics, Uncategorized
IN PRINT: Insecurities of Princeton University students become photographer’s art
Monday, 04 March 2013
by Ellis Liang
Zhan Okuda-Lim is only a college sophomore, but already he’s spearheaded an education reform campaign in his home state of Nevada and won a position in Princeton University’s student government. But while his classmates may consider him a charismatic student leader, few knew that last spring he contemplated taking his own life — at least
- Published in In Print