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Whitman calls someone “Dracula” in first gubernatorial debate
Wednesday, 29 September 2010
by Ellen Shakespear
With a little over a month until election day in California, former CEO and President of eBay Meg Whitman ’78 and Democratic nominee Jerry Brown met to swap insults at the first gubernatorial debate. The showdown was held at the University of California at Davis and was the first of three scheduled in the race
- Published in Alumni, Princeton in the News
IN PRINT: Senior Citizens Battle to Preserve Community in East Windsor
Tuesday, 28 September 2010
by Spencer Gaffney
Ever wonder what’s going on outside the Orange Bubble(TM)? Well while you’ve been frittering your time away, studying and making merry, a mere twenty minutes in East Windsor away a battle rages on over the future of an age-restricted residential community (i.e. you’ve got to be 55 or over to live there, no exceptions). A
- Published in In Print
Recycling … CO2?
Saturday, 25 September 2010
by Miriam Geronimus
Is it possible? Could we actually make a carbon neutral fuel from carbon? For the past decade or so, scientists have been working on technology to capture carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and store the gas underground in order to avoid climate change. But what if we took that captured carbon dioxide and turned
- Published in Faculty, Princeton in the News
Seth Priebatsch (formerly ’11), Teenage Vulcan
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
by Spencer Gaffney
Ever wonder if Seth Priebatsch, the 21-year-old entrepreneurial wunderkid who dropped out of Princeton his freshman year, misses kicking it with his peers on campus? Well, Priebatsch had this to offer in his Sunday New York Times profile (which described Priebatsch as a “teenage Vulcan): “I had friends at Princeton; I’m sure it’d be fun
- Published in Princeton in the News
The New True Prep
Tuesday, 21 September 2010
by Ellen Shakespear
In her 1980 bestseller “The Official Preppy Handbook,” Lisa Birnbach defined the prep as someone who had a classic outlook on life and a classic wardrobe to match. You might think that thirty years later, and with the economy in the tubes, a manual on all things preppy would be of no use to you.
- Published in Fun, Goings On, Princeton in the News
IN PRINT: So now the alumni know
Sunday, 19 September 2010
by Angela Wu
Think of this piece as an introduction to Princeton FML, your virtual window into the life of a Princeton undergraduate. It might not be the most graceful — or eloquent — way to complain, but it’s probably the easiest. “FML.” The last two letters stand for “my life,” and it shouldn’t be too hard to
IN PRINT: How credit card reform affects you
Saturday, 18 September 2010
by Angela Wu
This Frosh week was different than most–but you might not have noticed. There were no credit card issuers tabled around campus trying to convince you to open an account. No free pizza or shot glasses for credit cards. That’s because of 2009’s Credit CARD Act, which went into effect in February. Provisions in the act
- Published in In Print
Princeton’s Next Top Model Speaks!
Tuesday, 14 September 2010
by David Walter
If you were following our blog these past few months, you know that The Amazing Race isn’t the only reality series with a Princeton connection this fall. This season (or, as the show’s creator/judge/host/resident eccentric Tyra Banks insists on calling it, “cycle”) of America’s Next Top Model features junior Jane Randall among its bevy of
- Published in Princeton in the News
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America's Next Top Model, awkward segues, fashion, horses, Jane Randall, modeling, reality television, reality tv, television, Tyra Banks, Vogue, Vogue Italia
Nancy Malkiel To Step Down As Dean
Wednesday, 08 September 2010
by David Walter
Princeton Dean of the College Nancy Weiss Malkiel will step down from her administrative role at the end of this academic year, the school announced in a Wednesday press release. In recent years, Dean Malkiel has become a lightning rod for debate over Princeton’s future due to her role in implementing the school’s grade deflation
- Published in Princeton in the News
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administration, Dean of the College, grade deflation, Malkiel, Nancy Malkiel, Princeton University, scapegoats
Of Hurricanes and Hovercraft Parents
Monday, 23 August 2010
by Julia Bumke
As New Jersey gets attacked by the mother lode of all rain storms this week (oh hey, Tropical Depression Danielle!), the start of hurricane season prompts every good Princetonian to start his or her annual late-summer countdown till move-in. (19 days, folks!) At this point, of course, all of our friends at normal schools have
- Published in Goings On, Princeton in the News
IN PRINT: ‘Cool Genes’ Program Draws HS Science Teachers to PU
Tuesday, 27 July 2010
by Abby Greene
If you’ve found yourself losing sleep this summer, spending long, agonizing hours wondering what your beloved Princeton is doing with itself in your absence, read on. Contrary to popular belief, Princeton doesn’t exist in a September-to-May time warp. Princeton lives on! In a big way. And no, I’m not just talking about the hordes of
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air conditioning, cool genes, high school teachers, molecular biology, Princeton lives!
Timelessness of Tigertown’s Prepster Chic
Sunday, 25 July 2010
by Julia Bumke
As we dredge hopelessly through the dog days of summer, with New York experiencing one of its hottest July weekends on record, it makes sense that we’re all getting a little back-to-school-fever. Case in point: the front page of today’s New York Times Sunday Style section, which featured a story on the timelessness of Ivy
- Published in Princeton in the News, Style