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Meet Ty Ger: Christine Hu ‘22
Sunday, 14 April 2019
by Jimin Kang
Since it was created in October, Tiger Confessions has made its way into the intricate fabric of day-to-day Princeton life, slipping into conversations, adding punchlines to jokes and serving as an emotional outlet when there is nowhere else to go. Considered therapeutic by some and toxic by others, the page has undoubtedly made Princeton’s campus
- Published in Internet, People, Students, The INKternet
Following Hotovely talk, AJP publishes statement on free speech
Tuesday, 07 November 2017
by Francesca Billington
The Alliance for Jewish Progressives (AJP) has just released a statement regarding the CJL’s postponement of Tzipi Hotovely’s talk, which continued after Princeton Chabad decided to sponsor the event. You can read our live coverage of yesterday’s protest and speech. The press release reads as follows: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 11/7/2017 Alliance of Jewish Progressives’ Statement Regarding the Equal Protection of Free
- Published in Internet, Politics, The INKternet
The Unapologetically Princeton-Crazed, Sex-Driven, and Grade-Deflated Alums of the New York Times Wedding Announcements
Friday, 13 October 2017
by Ellie Schwartz
Princeton: home to the best academics, most knowledgeable professors and, now, “the greatest white person wedding announcement of all time,” according to gossipy Australian news sources. The New York Times wedding announcement of alumni Grace du Pont and Conor Sutherland went viral after White House reporter Josh Dawsey (which said gossipy Australian news source miswrote
- Published in Alumni, Internet, People, Princeton in the News, The INKternet
Robert George tells all (On Twitter!): Gay sex, Hugh Hefner, and more
Friday, 06 October 2017
by Ethan Sterenfeld
Princeton’s very own Robert George has a very active Twitter feed (handle @McCormickProf), which I find to be very entertaining. The genius political theorist, who argues that the constitutional separation of church and state does not apply to the 50 states, has set his cover photo as a perfectly-framed snapshot of him bro-hugging Cornel West.
- Published in Faculty, Internet, People, The INKternet
The “economic sense” of Princeton’s $30 million solar fields
Saturday, 29 April 2017
by Somi Jun
Just south of Lake Carnegie, 27 acres of photovoltaic panels collect and convert enough solar energy to account for about 6% of Princeton University’s energy usage every year. These panels cost about $30 million to install in 2012. According to Gina Talt, a Campus as Lab fellow at Princeton’s Office of Sustainability, the university contracted
- Published in Internet
So much head: tour of campus art
Monday, 13 February 2017
by Somi Jun
Princeton University’s campus art collection features over 60 works scattered around the residential colleges, academic buildings, and graduate college housing. As with most aspects of Princeton, this collection has a strange fixation on brainpower / symbolism of the head. Here are three pieces that reinterpret this central body part. Head of a Woman Executed by Carl
What’s the Deal with Fake Facebook Events?
Friday, 18 December 2015
by Layla Malamut
Most online users are familiar with the dangers of the ‘Social Media Time Suck’. You go on Facebook with the intention of browsing casually through your newsfeed as a short study break, and next thing you know you’re stalking your ex’s girlfriend’s mother’s wedding pictures and two hours have flown by. But no need to
Princeton’s Funkiest Gargoyles: A Photographic Tour
Wednesday, 25 February 2015
by Gabriel Fisher
Princeton has a lot of gargoyles. As students we don’t notice much, staring at our phones while we walk to class, but we are surrounded by stone animals doing crazy shit. Technically, Princeton’s gargoyles aren’t really gargoyles. Gargoyles in its literal sense refers solely to sculptures that sprout from gutters and are used to convey
- Published in The INKternet, Uncategorized
The Princeton Footnotes, BodyHype, and diSiac Drop Some Collaborative Funk
Wednesday, 04 February 2015
by Gabriel Fisher
Princeton University is famous for many reasons, but its funk scene has never been one of them. But today the Princeton Footnotes may have changed that with the release of their music video cover of the hit song Uptown Funk. The video features the singing Footnotes—decked out in colorful, albeit somewhat stereotypically Princeton, outfits—dancing around
- Published in Arts, Fun, Goings On, Internet, Style, The INKternet, Uncategorized
Princeton Freshman Tal Fortgang Appears on Fox News
Thursday, 01 May 2014
by Gabriel Fisher
Freshman Tal Fortgang was interviewed on Fox News Thursday night about the issue of privilege. Fortgang appeared on the show “On The Record With Greta Van Susternen” to discuss an article he wrote for the April edition of The Princeton Tory, Princeton’s conservative publication. Fortgang has received significant publicity after his article, “Checking My Privilege: Character
- Published in Internet, Princeton in the News, Uncategorized
An Introduction to Princeton’s Virtual Bubble
Sunday, 06 April 2014
by Louise Connelly
Are you a post-thesis senior with little to do but scour the Internet for amusing Princeton-related tidbits during your last two months on campus? A recently-admitted pre-frosh who is already running out of online material to fuel your imagination as you dream about your arrival on campus? Don’t worry, we’ve done all the work for
- Published in Fun, Goings On, Internet, The INKternet
Students can now easily trade late meal for club passes
Wednesday, 02 April 2014
by Matthew Silberman
“Underclassmen have late meal. Upperclassmen have passes. Sounds like an easy fix to us,” reads the About page for Passes For Late Meal, a website where students can exchange late meal swipes for eating club passes. The website, “made with love by hungry upperclassmen,” allows underclassmen to request Cap, Cannon, Cottage, Ivy, TI, or Tower
- Published in Internet, The Street