Lewis Library — The cavalcade of chairs continues!
To recap: Insurance magnate gives $60 million, Princeton builds library. Princeton must choose what to put in said library. Chairs or books, books or chairs? Decision time! Chairs. Totally chairs. No wait — super sexy expensive futuristic chairs! $5000 never felt so good to sit on.
But there’s more. So much more.
(source: boston.com)
Sometimes, it’s hard for Princetonians to relate to the average college experience. Phrases like “credit hours,” “middle class,” and “Abercrombie & Fitch” are foreign to our ears. Thank God for Eric Vreeland ‘10, who has taken upon himself to reinterpret the state school experience for us.
You see, Vreeland has performed an act of community service–a random act of kindness, if you will–by remaking Asher Roth’s terrible/amazing frat-tastic “I Love College.” With shout-outs to Old Nassau and, thank goodness, fewer public school references, Vreeland’s version is entitled “I Love Princeton.”
Or maybe you’ll have a different opinion. Maybe you’ll think that–kind of like the swine flu pandemic–the national scourge that is the suburban white boy rap has finally hit Princeton.
Take a listen. You will (not) regret it:
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Here’s the original song:
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[This is part one of two. See part two here!]
Global economic crisis got you down? For my money, there’s no better place to lose those meltdown blues than Princeton’s Lewis Library.
Lewis Science Library is a delirious pre-recession architectural funhouse, a gaudy relic of the University’s freewheeling, freespending salad days. Dedicated only six months ago, Lewis Library brims with the sunny energy of a time before this don’t-call-it-a-depression cast its pall over the Princeton campus.
Insurance magnate Peter Lewis donated $60 million for the library’s construction, and the investment shows in ways beyond Princeton’s choice of renowned architect Frank Gehry as the designer. Everything in “Louie Lib” is crazy expensive.
The chairs alone – my God, the chairs! These chairs are a safe haven for wannabe investment bankers jangled by volatile markets; these chairs are big money converted into safer, more immutable forms.
I’ll admit to being a little obsessed. I’ll admit to spending an entire afternoon taking a census of all the chairs in the building. I’ll admit to entering this data into an Excel spreadsheet, along with price quotes for each piece of seating. I’ll admit to calling a furniture store in Illinois to get some of these price quotes.
The fruits of my labor, Part 1, after the jump:
Yale recently launched an entire website to street safety in response to a string of traffic accidents and a year after a pedestrian Yale student was killed by a car.
Apparently New Haven drivers are so barbaric that walking Yalies, when not dodging knives wielded by crackheads, are keeping a wary eye out for their lives.
Sure, nothing ever happens in Princeton, but I’m glad to know my body won’t be meeting a fast-moving vehicle between classes.
Last week, a friend sent us this review of one of Princeton’s many bakeries, The Little Chef, with the note, “??? How have you not been here?”
How, indeed.
This week, we’ve visited Pouchon and his macarons et croissants four times.
Glamorized depictions of the new Butler dorms often leave out these more seedy images:
From a survey of 21 undergraduate Princeton sons, Princeton psych professor Susan Fiske has concluded that… men view half-naked women as objects.
That might just be the best Prince headline we’ve ever seen.
This has been all over the news, from One India (“Sensual Women Viewed as ‘Objects’“) to National Geographic (“Bikinis Make Men See Women as Objects, Scans Confirm”).
But the best article so far? Probably from The Independent (“University of the bleedin’ obvious”).
But the real question is, why is this obvious, obvious story so popular?
Probably for the accompanying photos and page views:
From National Geographic:
(image source: nationalgeographic.com)
From the Daily Telegraph:
(image source: telegraph.co.uk)
