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For Richard Golden ’60, the small envelope addressed to his daughter was an unconscionable insult. “My daughter got her rejection letter from Princeton yesterday,” Golden fumed in a letter to Princeton Alumni Weekly in April 2003. It was not right for alumni to be “blindly loyal to the university,” while Princeton merely “[paid] lip-service to the values of Tradition and Loyalty” in its “mindless drive towards social engineering,” he wrote.

NEWS | 05/13/2010

Rush Holt: The congressional physicist

Rush Holt: The congressional physicist

Though he left the University’s physics laboratory 12 years ago, Rush Holt’s connection to Princeton is still critical in his new career — as a congressman.Employees of the University constitute his top group of campaign contributors, and students have been summer interns at his office. With a potentially contentious reelection campaign shaping up for 2010, Holt would benefit from further support from members of the University. Over his political career, he said, there have been “students and faculty and staff very involved in my campaigns as volunteers, canvassers and advisers.”

NEWS | 05/13/2010

Brian Smith: A quarter-century behind the presses at the ‘Prince’

When the last copy of this issue of The Daily Princetonian left the press at The Princeton Packet’s office on Witherspoon Street this morning, it marked the end of an era. Brian Smith, the production manager and only non-student currently employed by the ‘Prince,’ is leaving his position after 24 years of service.Smith was hired from the Packet in 1986 to take over for the legendary Larry DuPraz, who had spent 40 years in various positions with the newspaper. After a six-month trial period, Smith began working full-time in what he called a very “hands-on” job.

NEWS | 05/13/2010

From Wall Street to writing

In 1980, best-selling nonfiction writer Michael Lewis ’82 and his friend were almost arrested by Borough police for speeding in a golf cart. Driving down Washington Road in the middle of the night, Lewis and his friend aimed for the boat house, speeding so quickly that police cars couldn’t keep up — until they hit an uphill turn on Faculty Road. The two were caught by police officers and Public Safety and were assigned odd jobs on campus as punishment.

NEWS | 05/11/2010

Obama nominates Kagan ’81 to Supreme Court

President Barack Obama nominated Elena Kagan ’81 to the Supreme Court on Monday morning, confirming month-long speculation that the current solicitor general was a leading candidate to replace retiring Associate Justice John Paul Stevens.

NEWS | 05/11/2010

The trodden path: Applying as a legacy

On June 1, 1958, the Alumni Council of Princeton University distributed a pamphlet to dispel a rampant misconception among Princeton men of the era: that their sons received no priority in admission. “The Princeton son does not have to compete against non-Princeton sons,” the Alumni Council assured. “No matter how many other boys apply, the Princeton son is judged from an academic standpoint solely on this one question: Can he be expected to graduate? If so, he’s admitted. If not, he’s not admitted. It’s as simple as that.”

NEWS | 05/11/2010

Student environmental group organizes Carrotmob of Twist

Jenny Jin ’13 stopped by Twist last Monday to celebrate the end of classes, while Haley White ’12 went for a year’s-end gathering of the Pace Council for Civic Values. But they didn’t choose the Nassau Street shop just for its frozen yogurt: They were also boycotting, in reverse.As part of a Carrotmob — a mob of people providing the incentivizing carrot of patronage — they were supporting Twist’s promise to spend 100 percent of that night’s revenue on environmentally friendly investments in the store.

NEWS | 05/11/2010

Chaos Theory recognized as student organization

Chaos Theory, a new hip-hop dance group, will arrive on the campus dance scene next fall. Started by Brian Jeong ’11, Seung Nam ’12 and Henry Moss ’12, the group was recently recognized by the University as a student organization. Jeong is a member of diSiac, Moss is a member of BodyHype and Sympoh, and Nam is a member of Black Arts Company: Dance. Despite having danced for groups with different styles, the three saw a void on campus that a new hip-hop troupe could fill.

NEWS | 05/11/2010

Students attend casting session for reality TV show depicting life in the Ivy League

Roughly 60 students attended an open casting session at Nassau Inn on Saturday morning to audition for a new reality television show, which plans to shoot its pilot on the University’s campus this fall and document the Ivy League college lifestyle.

NEWS | 05/09/2010

For music lovers, something for everyone

The town of Princeton may be best known as home to the University, but a store just off of Nassau Street has garnered fame of its own. The Princeton Record Exchange, a local icon since Barry Weisfeld founded the shop in 1980, was rated the top record store in the country by GQ magazine in 2009.

NEWS | 05/09/2010

Feb. 8, 1980: Princeton and the First Amendment

The following is an unsigned editorial published by The Daily Princetonian on Feb. 8, 1980, during the tenure of Elena Kagan ’81 as editorial chairman.A university, more than any other type of institution, ought to promote and encourage the free exchange of ideas, whether intellectual, religious or political. Centers of higher learning should, after all, be distinguished by a spirit of inquiry and investigation, and this spirit can only thrive in an atmosphere of unfettered debate of dissenting opinions. Yet, in the Labor Party case now before the New Jersey Supreme Court, Princeton has asserted its right to control campus discussion of important issues by limiting the access of outsiders to the university. We find this position in blatant conflict with the ideal of free inquiry which should be central to Princeton’s being.

NEWS | 05/09/2010

Feb. 20, 1980: The University and the Ties That Bind

The following is an unsigned editorial published by The Daily Princetonian on Feb. 20, 1980, during the tenure of Elena Kagan ’81 as editorial chairman. The former confidence of high-level university officials over the outcome of Sally Frank’s sex discrimination complaint has apparently turned to anxiety. As reported yesterday, University Counsel Thomas Wright believes that the Frank complaint, filed against the university and the three all-male eating clubs, stands a good chance of being upheld. As well it should. If Cottage, Ivy and Tiger Inn wish to continue excluding women from their membership, they must act as fully private institutions, cutting the umbilical cord which currently allows them free access to university services.

NEWS | 05/09/2010

Kende '13 elected class vice president in runoff

Stefan Kende won the runoff election for Class of 2013 vice president with 81 votes, 10 more than Kevin Mantel received, USG president Michael Yaroshefsky ’12 announced in an e-mail to the Class of 2013 on Friday. Last Monday’s vote concluded three rounds of voting for the position.

NEWS | 05/09/2010

Corzine speaks about serving in public office

Former New Jersey governor Jon Corzine spoke to roughly 150 students about the challenges and rewards of his political career, in a lecture Friday afternoon in McCosh 50 titled “The Call to Public Service.”

NEWS | 05/09/2010

Web Update: Obama nominates Kagan ’81 to Supreme Court

At a White House press conference Monday morning, President Barack Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan ’81 to replace retiring Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens.

NEWS | 05/09/2010

U. initiative changes bike summer storage policy

You can store it, donate it or take it home. But if you leave your bike locked to a rack for the summer, it won’t be there come fall.

NEWS | 05/09/2010

Jan. 21, 1981: The Last Goodbye

The following piece, authored by editorial chairman Elena Kagan ’81 along with editorial editors Dave Hardison ’81 and Sally Swenson ’81, was published on Jan. 21, 1981, the last day of Kagan’s tenure at The Daily Princetonian.There are days when the three of us have trudged back to The Daily Princetonian edit office, tried futilely to turn off the heat that makes even the furniture sweat, breathed in the cigarette smoke that one of us insists on exhaling, and wondered why we were here. Days like Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday.

NEWS | 05/09/2010

Feb. 27, 1980: Women’s Studies Now

The following is an unsigned editorial published by The Daily Princetonian on Feb. 4, 1980, during the tenure of Elena Kagan ’81 as editorial chairman. Over the past few years, the field of women’s studies has gained ever-increasing recognition and acceptance at universities throughout the country. But at Princeton, little has been done to include this discipline in the mainstream of the university’s curriculum. While other Ivy League institutions have created women’s studies programs and while Princeton students themselves have shown a growing interest in the field, the university has steadfastly clung to an inadequate and outdated approach to this expanding discipline. Happily, there is now a way to change all this. If the recently formed advisory committee on women’s studies recommends the creation of a full-fledged women’s studies program, the university may be persuaded to close this gap in its curriculum.

NEWS | 05/09/2010

Following in their parents’ pawprints: The legacy path

As James Cole ’12 shook hands and slapped backs in the uproar of Ivy Club pickups, he thought of more than just the meals, parties and friends that his new home would offer: He remembered how his father, too, had been cheered on at Ivy pickups roughly three decades ago.

NEWS | 05/09/2010

Last Lectures series sends seniors off with practicality, pizazz

Classes may be over, but some seniors are still heading to lecture. The Last Lectures series, organized by the Class of 2010 commencement committee, packs more than a dozen speeches from some of the University’s most distinguished professors and other well-known speakers into a three-week period.

NEWS | 05/06/2010

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