It’s the final crunch. Tomorrow afternoon, students who rush to the McCosh courtyard to turn in their final papers will be greeted with free kettle corn, ice cream and music from a student band as a clock counts down the ...(back to the article)
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Getting a crap band is completely in line with expectations of Christian Hugsby's competence as a social chair. I am guessing he diverted most of the social budget to the Quad event (where he is a member) instead of to the rest of campus. Well done.
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And just think, you are one of the last classes that can say they know what Princeton was like before Whitman College!! That will provide hours upon hours of reminiscing and lecturing the youngsters.
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It's fun--not as fun as being at Princeton, obviously, but still a good time :)
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with graduation approaching i am looking forward to the seemingly inevitable day when i will be just as crusty and crotchety as all you other alums... how quickly that youthful orange glow fades...
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Alum>> Great job with the history, you beat me to it.
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@ Alum: I'm sure back in your day you had a spring concert, though? I'm sure everyone would have been thrilled if we'd had a spring concert two or three weeks ago.
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This whole thing is wrong. The Dean's Date McCosh celebration was started by Rakesh Saytal '02, and it was called Dean's Date Theater. We used to go to the Courtyard with a box of donuts and cheer as people were running to meet the deadline. They ruined it when they made it another USG "fest," the same way they killed the Nude Olympics. By the time I graduated you couldn't even hear people cheering for the runners. Here's a novel idea: how about NO BAND?!? There will be plenty of music later that night, I am certain, along with far more exciting options than kettle corn. Harrumph harrumph. See you whipper snappers at Reunions in a few weeks.
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Getting no band would have been better.
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wow... so the USG has for a long time now decided to focus solely on study breaks, parties, and bands, at the expense of real policy reforms. but they can't even do those tasks with competence or good results.
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where's effective student government?
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First New Found Glory at Lawnparties and then this at Dean's date. Gotta say, Weinstein and this Busby dude have given us the worst year of music at Princeton in recent memory.
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"Fifteen to 20"? What's with the awkward switch?
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dan berry is going to tear that shit up.
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“We’ve invited members of the English, history, classics and other departments to come out to McCosh,” Husby said, noting that the USG focused on inviting the professors for large classes. Great, so instead of ending Dean's Date with Guster and Ben Folds, I get to end it with Bogan and Gary Bass? Who is this christian husby guy and why did we vote for him?
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thanks christian husby for letting my princeton career go out with a whimper
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so christian husby spent $10,000 on kettle corn?
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I'm not overly upset about this. i'd rather see a student band then Joan Jett. I'd say Joan Jett's reception was a helluva lot worse than "lukewarm". I'm excited to see a student band and hope to see more bands spring up on campus. It would still be nice if they could bring in big acts like other Ivies do.
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Where's Waldo is a great band, but the downhill slope from headliners like Ben Folds, to Guster, to Joan Jett, and now to a student band it truly upsetting. More importantly though, there seems to be conflicting feelings coming from the administration (which backs the funds for USG and the concerts--the USG decides who comes in conference with Dean Dunne). The USG has spent more money for spring Lawnparties bands than for Dean's Date bands (New Found Glory vs. student band, Reel Big Fish + Less Than Jake vs. Joan Jette). For an administration that seems against the street, and certainly wouldn't want to be seen as condoning the drinking party fest that is lawnparites, you'd think they would focus their funds more on a dean's date band--which seems like a much more reasonable celebration and makes a whole lot more sense as a gift from the administration to students for finishing their work.
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I saw these guys play for the first time at Princetonpalooza. They're awesome, and they're certainly better than some shitty band like Joan Jett or even Guster. Props to USG for not wasting money...hopefully this means more Pub Nights.
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“Half the students can’t make it, and the band will only play for half an hour,” Husby said, explaining why he decided not to arrange for an outside band. Husby then goes on to say that he expects more than 1,000 students to come out to the event and the turnout to be comparable to those in previous years. So, even though he expects the turnout to be the same as previous bands, he somehow reached the conclusion that getting a mediocre band will be ok this year? His logic defies my understanding here! Secondly, $5k-$10k?? seriously, thats a truck load of money, I am familiar with booking agencies and trust me, for that much money, USG could have gotten a pretty awesome band.
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From Ben Folds to Guster to Where's Waldo???? Great work Weinstein and Husby!
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