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Your Monthly Amazing Race Update, Part 1; Or, What We Talk About When We Talk About CDY
Saturday, 10 July 2010
by David Walter
Even with the outcome potentially spoiled, CDY on the Amazing Race is just so fascinating to me. In my pre-Princeton life I followed The Amazing Race as fanatically as some people follow football or baseball or the Academy Awards. I would flip out at the announcement of a new destination (“We’ve never been to Ethiopia
- Published in Musings, Princeton in the News
Tagged under:
Amazing Race, CDY, Connor Diemand-Yauman, Jonathan Schwartz, mystique, Princeton, reality television, reality tv, tl;dr
Week In Review: Minor Medical Incident Edition (June 14 – June 20)
Tuesday, 22 June 2010
by Giri Nathan
If you are one of the poor phantoms haunting this ghost campus right now, craving some marginally-Princeton-related excitement, this might be the fix you need. We’ve got our mainstays– Whitman’s gubernatorial race, Bradley’s World Cup squad — but this was also a week of broken ankles, bloody noses, and fainting spells. Oh, and heinous refereeing.
- Published in Alumni, Goings On, Politics, Princeton in the News, Sports, Week in Review
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bloody nose, Bob Bradley, broken ankle, fainting, Griff Harsh, Jared Polis, Meg Whitman, Petraeus, roughhousing, Will Harsh, World Cup
IN PRINT: University to Consider Banning Frats & Sororities, Tilghman says
Saturday, 05 June 2010
by Brian No
The administration will consider over the summer banning fraternities and sororities outright from campus, President Shirley Tilghman said in an interview. Tilghman said she was considering three options: 1) keeping the University’s current policy of non-recognition, 2) recognizing fraternities and sororities in the hopes of increasing regulation and University oversight, and 3) banning Greek life
- Published in In Print
IN PRINT: Dorm Rooms of the Stars
Thursday, 27 May 2010
by David Walter
Just in time for Reunions, a heaping dose of Princetoniana in the New York Times. Ever wonder where Elena Kagan lived while she was a Tiger? Sonia Sotomayor? Bill Bradley? The University doesn’t publicize any of that information, but it’s available in the school’s archives. Not all famous rooms have lasted into the 21st century,
Tagged under:
Bill Bradley, Brown Hall, Donald Rumsfeld, Dorm Rooms, Elena Kagan, Jimmy Stewart, John F. Kennedy, New York Times, Princetoniana, Sonia Sotomayor
IN PRINT: Speaking out for the Dinky
Thursday, 27 May 2010
by Will Saborio
This weekend, while you hop from tent to tent in the bizarre time machine that is Princeton Reunions, think about this: Probably everyone, at some point, rode the Dinky, or at least knows about it. Pretty crazy to think. Which is why some of the reactions to the train’s possible replacement have been so vocal.
- Published in In Print
This month’s GQ lays bare Princeton’s reunions secrets
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
by Will Saborio
We have a good thing going here at Princeton — even years after you graduate, you can come back and be an underclassman again for a weekend in May, reveling in all the debauchery that entails, at Princeton Reunions. But it’s relatively hush-hush, you know? Sure it’s a huge party, but we manage to keep
- Published in Goings On, Princeton in the News
How’d You Like Your History Thesis to Undergo a Supreme Court Grilling?
Tuesday, 18 May 2010
by Julia Bumke
As discussions keep going strong about last week’s Elena Kagan ’81 nomination, the White House has announced that it will publish Kagan’s undergraduate thesis from Princeton’s Department of History. This announcement was made after the right-wing site RedState had illegally posted her “socialist thesis” last week; apparently, Kagan (and not ‘ole Nassau) holds the copyright
- Published in Goings On, Princeton in the News
IN PRINT: The Dinky Gets the NY Times Treatment
Saturday, 15 May 2010
by David Walter
PRINCETON, N.J. — The run of the train known as the Princeton Dinky is both impressively long and unusually short. For 145 years, this rail link in a college town has ferried students and commuters over the briefest of distances. But Year 146 has not been kind to the nation’s shortest regularly scheduled commuter route,
- Published in Goings On, In Print, Princeton in the News
IN PRINT: On prefrosh impressions, and undocumented students at Princeton
Wednesday, 12 May 2010
by Angela Wu
The most recent issue of the Princeton Alumni Weekly has two articles that shed some light on what life at Princeton is like. According to some pre-frosh, the world outside Fitzrandolph Gate thinks we are “squares,” with “windswept hair,” “weird shorts,” and “boat shoes and everything.” This may in fact be true. More serious, but
- Published in In Print
Tagged under:
admissions, Alumni, DREAM Act, Princeton Alumni Weekly, Princeton Preview, Princeton University, stereotypes
It’s official: Kagan ’81 makes it three in a row
Sunday, 09 May 2010
by Brian No
All of us are in a state of despair, with Dean’s Date looming over us, but let’s just take a quick moment to engage in some “school spirit” (I hear it’s a real thing): President Obama will nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan ’81 to the Supreme Court, NBC’s Pete Williams is reporting tonight. And the
- Published in Alumni, Politics, Princeton in the News
To text or not to text
Saturday, 01 May 2010
by Miriam Geronimus
While enjoying Lawnparties tomorrow you might text a friend at another school about the good time you’re having. Chances are you’ll also be texting Princeton friends listening to other bands. You’ll pull out your phone without a second thought. We all know we text but have you ever thought about the numbers? A recent Pew
- Published in Goings On, Princeton in the News
IN PRINT: Not too preachy about the planet
Friday, 30 April 2010
by Miriam Geronimus
PRINCETON BOROUGH — Though he had been concerned about the environment since his childhood, Derek Gideon, now a sophomore at Princeton University, never thought he could have an impact on it. “I read a lot about environmental issues but I always thought about it as something scientists and engineers would need to worry about,” he
- Published in In Print