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What, exactly, was director Sngmoo Lee’s motivation for making “The Warrior’s Way”? A simple answer would be to cash in on the star power of Jang Dong-geon, a heart-throb sensation in his home country of South Korea. Or perhaps Lee — a first-time director — was channeling Sergio Leone in an effort to cram the Western genre with martial arts and spin the spaghetti western into something more palatable for our modern generation — a bulgogi western, if you will.
The emissions reduction came alongside the addition of 363,630 square feet of building space, including the new Frick Chemistry Laboratory, the new Fields Center, Lewis Library and the new Butler College buildings.
But while these traditions are just plain silly, junior Solomon Braun’s are far more serious. During games, the midfielder on the men’s soccer team follows Jewish traditional customs by wearing a yarmulke on his head. A black stocking cap prevents the yarmulke from falling off. Under his uniform, he also dresses in a special undershirt, called a tallis katan, with white twisted threads, called tzitzit, falling from the four corners.
The challenge facing the University when it comes to sustainability is “both institutional and individual,” Weber said as she described the University’s progress on sustainability efforts in greenhouse gas reduction; resource conservation; and research, education and civic engagement.
Though always admissive of an inside view of my social life (clear from my minimalist privacy settings), I was beginning to feel a bit scrutinized when my family started trying to calculate the percentage of pictures in which I was holding a red solo cup. Formerly a place for my friends, older siblings and me to celebrate the memories of some of the best times of our high school and college years, Facebook has become a reservoir for town gossip topics and judgment sessions. It is a forum for adolescents to post excessive statuses regarding their play-by-play class schedules, and for elders attempting to catch up with their web-addicted offspring. In other words, MySpace five years ago.
Instead of paying attention to perhaps-pertinent material or hopefully unimportant slides, I passed my time scrolling through the hundreds of posts whining about grade deflation, JPs, theses, quartiles and smelly vaginas, hoping to find the occasional knee-slapper or the elusive “Anna.” The noteworthy posts were as rare as first-round Colonial sign-ins, but that made PrincetonFML all the more fun — it was the satisfaction of finding the gem among the swaths of patheticness that brought me those little, evanescent bits of satisfaction that we all crave.
Princeton has taken some promising baby steps in integrating new technology into campus life. But sometimes, its tentative efforts to be on the cutting edge have been met with difficulty and disapproval.
I am standing here, in my towel, with your underwear in my hands.
The Awkward Turtle
It's Monday morning. I'm up early, and I'm not expecting to see anyone else. So after my shower, I see no problem skipping down the stairs to the laundry room in my towel to grab a clean pair of underwear from the clothes I've just dried. I prance off to the dryer singing Taylor Swift and jump about half a foot.
2. My dog and I like to play fetch; she deposits a ball at my feet, I hoist, aim and let fly. Hazel tears off in blind joy, and I scan the skies proudly for the ball I must have put into the air … somewhere. After a few moments, man and beast become aware that something is off. Hazel slows, I look down. The ball is sitting, as if my magic, at my feet. Ah. I let go too late again and threw it, effectively, straight into the ground. Hazel trots back. Wise master, she seems to say. How did you fetch that ball before I did?
Initially, I was relieved that the lecture was canceled for the sake of integrity of scholarly discourse at Princeton. I have to admit sympathizing with the leaders of the campus Muslim Student Association (MSA): Debunking misinformation about Islam for acquaintances whose views are saturated by far-right-wing contributors is tiresome! On the other hand, Darwish’s perspective is precisely one that students at Princeton might benefit from engaging in a different context.
It was the last afternoon of camp, and we were playing a huge game of “Capture the Flag,” campers against counselors. One caveat to being a member of the counselor team was that you had to put aside your competitive tendencies for 45 minutes and inevitably lose the game, preferably in style.
They call him Doug. They call him Burnstick. They call him J-Burn. They also call him Dougie Fresh, Burnwall and Bernard, but that’s not his name. He is a junior defender who has quickly transitioned to help out on the offensive end of the pitch as the leading scorer this season for the men’s soccer team. His name is Joshua Doug Walburn.
Shopping and packing for college is stressful, and despite these noble ambitions, I still skipped a few things. But I feel that this year, returning as an accomplished and well-acclimatized sophomore, I am now equipped to offer some additions to this list that will hopefully be useful to those who have, in their desperation, turned to even campus newspapers as a source of guidance. There’s still time to buy them!
Try telling that to a group of Type-A high school juniors with their hearts set on the Ivy League and see how well they take it.
One of the few schools to focus on undergraduate education and the undergraduate experience, Princeton allows our academic exploration to seem almost unhindered by our ability to pay. If you don’t have the grades to study abroad, your department might stop you. If you don’t have the money, they’ll do what they can with the financial aid office to find some way to pay for you. And undergraduates doing research in the E-Quad or Lewis Thomas Lab is more than commonplace; we get to spend individual time with advisers with large grants and gain access to advanced equipment.
According to Princeton’s early financial aid estimator, a family of four with an annual household income of $180,000 and above-average investments should be able to pay $32,000. In contrast, America College Testing’s financial aid estimator says that this same family is expected to contribute $46,000 a year. To get a sense of how generous Princeton is, understand that this family is in the top 5 percent of all American households. In other words, Princeton’s annual grant to a family in the top 5 percent of American earners almost equals the earnings of a family in the bottom fifth of American households.