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On Worms and Princeton Entrepreneurship
Sunday, 28 March 2010
by Abby Greene
Once upon a time, a 19-year-old Princeton student had a crazy idea: why not harvest worm poop, liquefy it, and package it in re-used soda bottles? In 2001, while visiting some friends in Montreal over the Fall Break of his freshman year, Tom Szaky watched as his friends fed scraps of food to red wiggler
- Published in Alumni, Princeton in the News
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Dream colleges and money woes
Saturday, 27 March 2010
by Miriam Geronimus
Remember when you were a high school senior, waiting nervously for that acceptance letter from Princeton? Well, it’s that time of year again. On April 1st (that’s this Thursday), at 5:00 p.m. EST, Ivy League applicants will receive their acceptances and rejections. So, what are high school students and their parents thinking about this admissions
- Published in Princeton in the News
IN PRINT: Snow Day Revisited
Tuesday, 23 March 2010
by David Walter
The Blizzard of Twenty-Ten, they’ll call it, The Day Princeton Stood Still. Classes: canceled. Precepts: canceled. Libraries: heroically kept open. But on Feb. 10, there was little time to study. Though snow days are rare here (the last was in 2003), students knew exactly what was expected of them… Read more in Princeton Alumni Weekly.
IN PRINT: The Secret Lives of Bees on Campus
Sunday, 21 March 2010
by Ellen Shakespear
Evidence of spring on campus usually takes the form of boat shoes and madras print shorts, but this year watch out for buzzing bees. Lots of them. But we can’t tell you exactly where they’ll be. The BEE Team, a new campus organization that was started last fall by Michael Smith ’10, offered free beekeeping
- Published in In Print
IN PRINT: Gates on Genetics
Friday, 12 March 2010
by Samantha Pergadia
Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. spoke to a packed audience in the Carl A. Fields Center March 5, explaining his current project on ancestry and his goal to implement genetics testing into history and science curricula for inner-city schools. He began his talk by showing clips of African American Lives 2, the second PBS
- Published in In Print
Just how boring are lectures, exactly?
Thursday, 11 March 2010
by Will Saborio
Boring enough to make Princeton students play poker against each other. Via the Times: Allan Rubin, a professor of geosciences at Princeton University, banned laptops in his 120-strong class on natural disasters after discovering that some of the students were playing online poker during his lectures. “What I found, and it was getting worse over
- Published in Princeton in the News
Why settle for two-ply? Think cashmere.
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
by Angela Wu
Earlier this year, as USG campaigns raged on and the campus discovered its newest way to procrastinate (Ok, this is before Robot Unicorn Attack.), we realized that, well, Princeton’s needs are humble. Two-ply. Or even, maybe, softer one ply? I don’t know, I’m just tossing out ideas here. But why should our demands be so
- Published in Princeton in the News
IN PRINT: NJ Supreme Court Justice on The Great Recession
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
by Miriam Geronimus
New Jersey Supreme Court Justice Stuart Rabner spoke about the effects of the Great Recession on New Jersey’s judicial system in a public talk on March 3. Rabner said that the justice system can help alleviate the suffering of residents, though he added that layoffs make this task trickier. Rabner, a 1982 graduate of the
- Published in In Print
IN PRINT: Student Efforts for Haiti
Tuesday, 09 March 2010
by Samantha Pergadia
On Jan. 12 Miriam Camara ’10 was surfing the Web when she stumbled upon news of the Haiti earthquake on Professor Melissa Harris-Lacewell’s Twitter account. Although Camara was raised in New York, her mother is from Haiti and has strong ties to the many members of her family in Port-au-Prince. “I called my mother immediately
- Published in In Print
Forbes (Magazine) Thinks We’re Pretty!
Monday, 08 March 2010
by Spencer Gaffney
Forbes Magazine recently named Princeton one of the world’s most beautiful college campuses. And, frankly, we’re inclined to agree with them. It is really pretty here, especially now that the weather’s getting nice and the snow is melting. So, thanks for the shout out Forbes! Here’s what the mag had to say: This classic American
- Published in Princeton in the News
Love & Princeton Women’s Basketball
Sunday, 07 March 2010
by Ellen Shakespear
If you’re not already in love with the women’s basketball team, you really should be now – they’re the 2010 Ivy League Champions! The Tigers are going to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history. The team boasts a 25-2 overall record and chalked up a perfect 13-0 record in the Ivy League.
- Published in Princeton in the News
Oh Princeton, you commie, you…