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(04/20/08 10:00pm)
Senior elections manager Braeden Kepner-Kraus ’10 said that elections will not be “hypercompetitive” this year, with 13 competing for 10 spots on the U-Council, and two candidates, Nick Antoine ’11 and Julia Jacobson ’10, running for USG Social Chair.
(04/17/08 10:00pm)
The University's commitment to teaching undergraduates means you'll interact with top professors, even in introductory classes. One perennial favorite is Eric Wieschaus, a Nobel Laureate in medicine who teaches introductory molecular biology and is known to act out cellular processes during his lectures. (You have to see it to understand how that's possible.) And Joshua Katz, a professor of linguistics and classics, will tell you where you're from after listening to you speak just a few words. If you're in his class, he'll know your name and remember it years later. If you thought you missed the opportunity to take a class with Toni Morrison, fear not! She retired, but she's coming back next year by popular demand to teach a class on the literature of dispossession.
(04/14/08 10:00pm)
The activist in me was, er, activated when I was about 13. A vile gym class teacher had decided that the day's torture would entail all the boys sumo-wrestling each other shirtless. Naturally I objected to this humiliating ritual. I was a fat, prepubescent teenager, and the idea of having my swathes of fat ooze all over the floor in front of the class was like being commemorated in the Museum of Lard. So I decided to stage a protest. Finding a few other like-minded friends, we pretended to crucify ourselves against the back wall while loudly accusing the gym teacher of being a pedophile. It worked, and later that night as I ate my chocolate macaroons and cheesecake out of a tub of fried Mars bars, I decided that activism was the best thing since white bread (wrapped around a piece of fried chicken with a generous spoonful of mayonnaise on top).
(04/06/08 10:00pm)
8:10 a.m.: Sleep. Button.
(03/13/08 11:00pm)
Why, just this time last March, it took all my energy not to sprint to McCosh Health Center for some expert psychological counseling. Even thinking about the anxiety brought on by this demonic process makes me wish I could crawl into a fetal position on a couch in the Dod basement and call it a day. Lest you think I'm exaggerating, let's explore the hardships of the draw: Roommates. How many? Who? What to do about A and B, who hate each other but are fine drawing together? Throw in then C who will only room with A, but meanwhile D insists on a triple with A and B, while E storms out of the room after C says he snores like a water buffalo. But F is best friends with A, B ,C, D and E, though all of them secretly wish he'd just transfer to Penn like he threatened to last year.
(03/10/08 11:00pm)
It's really unfortunate for us that we can't measure stress quantitatively. Just think of the possibilities: "I'm sorry, Professor, I have three liters of stress right now, and I don't think it would be healthy for me to write that paper," or "Yes, McCosh health official, my stress level has shot up 53 degrees since enrolling in organic chemistry ... wait, no, make that 54 and counting ... it just hit 55 ..." We could even settle long-standing debates, like Princeton vs. Harvard: "The stress-per-student level at Harvard is 21 watts higher than at Princeton, causing Harvard's rank in the U.S. News College Rankings to plummet to sixth." Maybe you should try appointing a second Fun Czar, Harvard.
(03/05/08 11:00pm)
For both my freshman and sophomore years, spring break was a week when the Princeton infrastructure loosened its belt. Public Safety officers seemed friendlier and less stressed out. Administrators were entirely absent from view. Day blended into night, blended into day, blended back into night. The prime directive became a suitable way to waste time until you got hungry again.
(03/05/08 11:00pm)
(03/05/08 11:00pm)
Two years after the organization was brought under the aegis of the Admission Office, members of the formerly self-governing Orange Key Guide Service are saying that they have witnessed a marked erosion in their independence as administrators have sought to assert greater control over the content and organization of the group’s tours and in the administration of the group itself.
(03/02/08 11:00pm)
In an e-mail to residents of the college last week, Whitman College Director of Studies Cole Crittenden explained that participating underclassmen will be responsible for helping their senior buddies out with such things as “picking up a midnight snack, taking care of a load of laundry, picking up/dropping off some library books, or proofreading a chapter for spelling mistakes.”
(02/27/08 11:00pm)
Let me start by saying that I’ve had a less-than-illustrious basketball career. I reached my peak in the sport at the ripe age of 7, when I was arguably the best player in a Jewish Community Center basketball camp. Unfortunately, as the competition rose, I did not.
(02/26/08 11:00pm)
The ONE Campus Challenge (OCC) was launched last September by the ONE campaign and is the organization’s first initiative aimed at college students. ONE is a nonprofit organization that seeks to raise awareness of the issues surrounding global poverty and encourage U.S. political leaders to increase funding for poverty-fighting programs.
(02/21/08 11:00pm)
Mitosis is (Spellman 1996)… hmmmm… mitosis… is…
(02/07/08 11:00pm)
Correction Appended
(02/03/08 11:00pm)
The University Board of Trustees approved a 3.9 percent increase in undergraduate fees and a $1.2 billion budget for 2008-09, the University announced on Jan. 26.
(12/12/07 11:00pm)
These photographs are a collection of artistic responses by the Princeton University community to the question: What Is Family? Through images of a baby resting on a father's chest, an ill mother smiling with her son, and even laundry floating in the sky we recognized the powerful connective force that family holds in the life of each individual. Through these portraits we encounter various configurations and emotions that families illicit which range from trust, joy, sorrow, silliness, chaos, respect and love. We hope that you, the viewer, might be inspired by this exhibit to celebrate and be thankful for those people and communities who are family in your own life.
(12/10/07 11:00pm)
Regarding 'Letters to the Editor' (Thursday, Dec. 6, 2007):
(11/28/07 11:00pm)
Smoking seemed to work wonders for his phlegm problem. He certainly spit out of the window less after he lit up one of his Pall Malls. We could debate whether the cigarettes were also its cause, but at the moment I was quite grateful for this particular habit.
(11/28/07 11:00pm)
A recent guest column from Shana Weber, the University's sustainability manager, listed many longterm goals for the University to become a greener campus. Princeton is investing in new technologies and, over the next few years or decades, is converting the University's buildings into more environmentally friendly ones.
(11/26/07 11:00pm)
I have two rules for picking the right university.