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

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

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

Nixon's grandson aims for House

After graduating with a law degree from New York University and co-founding an international consulting firm — OC Global Partners, LLC — Christopher Cox ’01 has set his sights on a different career: congressman.The grandson of former president Richard Nixon, Cox is running in the Republican primary this September and hopes to represent New York’s first congressional district, on eastern Long Island.

NEWS | 05/06/2010

Change through a former president's eyes: Harold Shapiro GS '64

Nine years after clearing out his office at 1 Nassau Hall, University president emeritus Harold Shapiro GS ’64 isn’t thinking about retirement just yet.“It had always been my stated objective that I did not want to retire as president; I wanted to retire as a faculty member,” Shapiro said in an interview at his only slightly smaller office in Wallace Hall, which he occupies as a Wilson School professor. “When I turned 65, I thought to myself, ‘You better get on with it.’ In my judgment, the University was in good shape at the time, so I thought it was the right moment to go back to teaching.”

NEWS | 05/06/2010

Outdoor Action moves to campus

After more than a decade operating on the outskirts of campus, Outdoor Action has moved its offices to a more central location at Dillon Court West. OA will also move administratively under the purview of the Office of the Vice President for Campus Life, leaving the Princeton Blairstown Center after 14 years.

NEWS | 05/06/2010

Eating clubs wary of task force recommendations

Eating club officials expressed mixed feelings about the report released this week by the Task Force on Relationships between the University and the Eating Clubs. The report praised the clubs as distinctive and integral parts of students’ social lives at the University, but also offered suggestions ranging from the mundane, such as joint purchasing for waste removal, to a proposal to establish an eating club match system that would replace current Bicker and sign-in processes.

NEWS | 05/06/2010

National leaders of SAE deny hazing allegations

The Sigma Alpha Epsilon national organization has completed an investigation of its Princeton chapter, concluding that members of the chapter deny that hazing took place as part of its pledge process, the organization announced in an April 27 statement on its website.

NEWS | 05/06/2010

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