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Breaking News: Evidence of Aliens Not Found
Thursday, 03 May 2012
by Nellie Peyton
Two Princeton astrophysics professors have concluded from their studies that the expectation of extraterrestrial life “might be based more on optimism than scientific evidence,” announced a press release last Thursday. Edwin Turner and David Spiegel, who conducted the research, used Bayes’s Theorem of probability to mathematically test the assumption that life exists on other planets.
- Published in Princeton in the News
IN PRINT: ‘Student Colony’ a Classroom Experiment in Living
Monday, 30 April 2012
by Shirley Gao
The orange and blue tent itself is not that unusual. Made of all-weather canvas and measuring 20 feet in diameter, its geodesic design makes it one of the strongest tents on the market. Scattered around the door flap are sandals and sneakers, assorted metal cooking utensils, tree branches and flannel shirts. The setup wouldn’t be
- Published in In Print
Tagged under:
Architecture, art, classes these days, daily life, ecology, giant tent, Student Colony
Ricky Silberman, Matzo Ball King
Friday, 30 March 2012
by Abby Klionsky
Ricky Silberman ‘13 mobilized a significant proportion of the student body at Princeton to vote for him last month. He wasn’t in any of the contests that students typically spam listservs about: start-up ideas, USG elections, filmmaking competitions. Instead, Ricky needed votes to become the fifth and final contestant in the 6th Annual Man-o-Manischewitz Cook-Off.
- Published in Contests, Dining, Princeton in the News, Uncategorized
Tagged under:
Challah for Hunger, Cook-off, Food Network, Jewish Iron Chef, Manischewitz, Matzo Ball soup, Shirley Tilghman
Occupy Forbes Dining Hall: PRINCO stops investment in HEI
Sunday, 04 March 2012
by Ellis Liang
With no more Goldman Sachs info sessions left to mic check, Occupy Princeton has turned to occupying dining halls. Last Thursday, members of Occupy Princeton sat in on a talk held in the Forbes dining room by Andrew Golden, who has been president of the Princeton University Investment Company (PRINCO) for 17 years. Golden, who
- Published in Goings On, Princeton in the News
Occupy Princeton Supports TigerTransit Drivers in Unionization Debate
Tuesday, 14 February 2012
by Abby Greene
“Where’s Al?” has been the refrain of the day within the Occupy Princeton movement. Al has driven a TigerTransit bus for almost three years, and was suspended for two days without pay by FirstTransit, which runs the bus system, for running a yellow light. Occupy, however, pointed out that Al had been organizing a vote
- Published in Goings On, Princeton in the News, Uncategorized
Occupy Princeton Mic Checks JP Morgan/Chase and Goldman Sachs
Friday, 09 December 2011
by Miriam Geronimus
Update Dec 14, 2011: I apologize for not disclosing my involvement with Occupy Princeton in this post. In the interest of full disclosure, I have been attending the General Assemblies and support the movement but was not a part of these mic checks. As a blog, not a newspaper, there is room for some opinion
- Published in Princeton in the News
Four Princetonians Named Rhodes Scholars
Monday, 21 November 2011
by Lauren Zumbach
Four Princetonians – Elizabeth Butterworth ’12, Miriam Rosenbaum ’12, Astrid Stuth ’12 and Mohit Agrawal ’11 – were among the 32 American Rhodes Scholarship winners announced today. Agrawal, a math major and former co-president of Engineers Without Borders, is currently getting his master’s in economic policy evaluation at the National University of Ireland on a
- Published in Princeton in the News
Why Cornel West Matters: On His Leaving Princeton
Thursday, 17 November 2011
by Vivienne Chen
Cornel West, African-American Studies/Religion professor and one of our many celebrity academics, recently announced that he will be leaving his Princeton post in 2012 to teach Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, the school where he first began his career in academia. For his time at Princeton, West will be remembered for more than
- Published in Faculty, Princeton in the News
Wonder What Princeton Thinks About OWS? (Or, “Ask a Freshman” with The Washington Post)
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
by Spencer Gaffney
Other than the occasional high-profile arrest of a professor, Princeton hasn’t seemed all that gripped by the “Occupy” movements. In Cambridge, Harvard has restricted access to the Yard over “security concerns” raised by Occupy Harvard; so far no tent cities have sprung up in front of Nassau Hall. There isn’t much immediacy to the movement here on
- Published in Musings, Princeton in the News
IN PRINT: Krugman Weighs in on Jobs Crisis
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
by Lauren Zumbach
Last weekend, Nobel prizewinning economics professor Paul Krugman took part in a panel discussion on the jobs crisis that’s hit Newark and other New Jersey cities particularly hard. Whether you agree with his views on the economy or not, you have to admit he’s pretty good with metaphors. A few favorites from his talk: On
- Published in In Print
3547 Early Action Applicants!
Saturday, 12 November 2011
by Miriam Geronimus
A whopping 3547 students applied Early Action to Princeton this year, according to the Prince. That’s up from 2,275 Early Decision applicants in 2006 (Though this is not a fair comparison since Early Action is not binding and the number of high school graduates has risen since 2006). As we all know from when we
- Published in Princeton in the News
IN PRINT: For students, blazing-fast lab work
Sunday, 16 October 2011
by Angela Wu
Consider a device the size of a grain of salt that can process information a billion times faster than the human brain. Inspired by animal nervous systems, the “photonic neuron” uses light instead of electrochemical impulses to process information at lightning-quick speeds. And in the lab of electrical engineering professor Paul Prucnal, it’s becoming a
- Published in In Print