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Jonathan Safran Foer ’99 Denounces the Sense of Taste
Wednesday, 03 March 2010
by Giri Nathan
For someone who makes such a big deal about food, author-turned-activist Jonathan Safran Foer ’99 sure has a fairly low opinion of gustation. I don’t quite agree with his hierarchy: “Look, taste is clearly the crudest of our senses: this is scientifically, objectively factual. It is less nuanced. Eyesight is extraordinary – hearing, touch. I
- Published in Musings, Princeton in the News
On Civic Knowledge and Badmouthing that Freshman in Your POL Precept
Sunday, 28 February 2010
by Abby Greene
Hey Princeton, think you’re learning useful things in those history classes? Think again, says the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI). The institute administered civic engagement quizzes in 2007 and 2008 to individuals across the country (click here to try your hand at the quiz). Reaching a grand total of 16,508 adults and students at 50 colleges,
- Published in Goings On, Princeton in the News
Street Signs Not Classy Enough for Princeton Borough
Friday, 26 February 2010
by Angela Wu
Princeton’s biggest crisis since concrete curbs has hit our dear Nassau Street. You know that sign in front of Zorba that lists the specials of the day–the one that always seems to include steak for breakfast? Or the really colorful blackboard-y one in front of Twist with the health benefits of yogurt written on it?
- Published in Goings On, Princeton in the News
IN PRINT: Halftime at Princeton
Thursday, 25 February 2010
by Angela Wu
Not all students traveled home for intersession at the end of January: Sixteen sophomores spent time reflecting on their Princeton experience during the third annual Halftime Retreat, while about 180 students volunteered in Princeton and Trenton as part of a new community-service program. To read more, see the Princeton Alumni Weekly.
- Published in In Print
IN PRINT: Zach and Willie create a thesis on the fly
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
by Angela Wu
“This is Zach –” “— and this is Willie, and to get started, can we have a suggestion of anything, anything at all!” So began Zach & Willie, the theater-program thesis production of Zach Zimmerman ’10. For the first half of the show, Zimmerman and Willie Myers ’11 performed a series of improvised scenes based
- Published in In Print
Daily Princetonian opinion piece has media up in arms
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
by Will Saborio
On Monday, freshman Iulia Neagu contributed an opinion column in The Daily Princetonian entitled “The real ‘Sex on a Saturday Night.'” It’s sparked a nationwide controversy and the story has been picked up by popular news site Gawker and its sister site, Jezebel. The piece has blogs and their commenters foaming at the mouth with
- Published in Princeton in the News
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Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux, EqualWrites, Gawker, Iulia Neagu, Jezebel, media, Mendy Fisch, The Daily Princetonian
Thank God This Isn’t Your Professor
Tuesday, 23 February 2010
by Samantha Pergadia
Have you ever spent shopping period class hopping (i.e. sitting in on multiple classes that occur simultaneously)? One student at NYU’s Stern Business School employed such a strategy during their add/drop period to devastating ends. As he attempted to walk into the middle of Professor Scott Galloway’s course, he was kicked out and informed that
- Published in Goings On, Princeton in the News
How P-Krug Gets His Groove Back
Monday, 22 February 2010
by David Walter
From a profile of Economics Professor Paul (“Nobel Laureate”) Krugman in this week’s New Yorker: When it is cold at home, or he has a couple of weeks with nothing to do but write his Times column [but what about WWS 543?], or when something unexpectedly stressful happens, like winning the Nobel Prize, the Princeton economist
- Published in Princeton in the News
IN PRINT: Academic Neighborhoods and Budget Qualms
Monday, 22 February 2010
by Julia Bumke
Despite this year’s tighter budget and a slightly worse-for-wear endowment, President Tilghman is still thinking ahead towards breaking ground on new Neuroscience and Psychology buildings as part of an innovative Natural Sciences neighborhood (as The Ink reported earlier this week). While the natural sciences project is has been deemed “shovel-ready” by the powers-that-be, plans for
- Published in In Print
David Remnick ’81 to publish “pimped out” biography of Barack Obama
Monday, 22 February 2010
by Will Saborio
David Remnick ’81, editor-in-chief of The New Yorker (and former Press Clubber aw yeah!), has a biography of Barack Obama in the works. The Alfred A. Knopf imprint of Random House said it plans to publish the bio on April 6. Remnick’s written about Obama in the past, and he promises the book would not
- Published in Alumni, Princeton in the News
It’s a Beautiful day in the (Science) Neighborhood
Sunday, 21 February 2010
by Ellen Shakespear
Way over on east campus, basically on Route 1, Princeton is putting the finishing touches on The. Biggest. Campus. Building. Ever. The 265,000 square foot steel and glass giant will be the new home for the university’s chemistry department. Last friday, Senior Project Manager James Wallace estimated that the chemistry facility is about 80 percent
- Published in Goings On, Princeton in the News
IN PRINT: Salinger trove in Firestone
Friday, 19 February 2010
by Samantha Pergadia
With the announcement of his death, fans of The Catcher in the Rye anxiously await the fate of J.D. Salinger’s literary estate. Firestone’s Department of Rare Books holds a small portion of the writer’s unpublished works: The collection includes seven short stories from the 1940s, the most well-known of which is “The Ocean Full of
- Published in In Print