Even though I loved the movie Titanic, I will not waste space in the 'Prince' by defending its merits because whether you liked it or not, my 500-word column is surely not going to sway your opinion.
HARTFORD, Conn. ? Whoever said last night's match-up pitted uptight, stuffy Ivy League bookworms against carefree, wild Las Vegas gamblers certainly was not watching our fans.Shedding sleeping bags and tents in favor of orange face paint and fuzzy wigs, the entire town of Carmodyville, plus several dozen students who obtained tickets through other means, moved their brand of "March Madness" inside the Hartford Civic Center for yesterday's NCAA basketball game against UNLV.With the Tigers' student section chanting "Caesar's Palace," "sit down, you suck," and "Coach Bayno, why don't you put your showgirls in?" the UNLV players and coaching staff were constantly barraged.
"In the discipline of a prison, people can change. And with love, people can change." This was the message delivered by Sister Helen Prejean, author of the book "Dead Man Walking," last night in her speech criticizing the practice of capital punishment.At a time when just about every Princeton student was glued to his or her television watching the men's basketball team trounce UNLV, Prejean was able to attract a large crowd of University students and townspeople to fill the University Chapel to near-capacity.Prejean, co-screenwriter of the film based on her book, has visited inmates on death row for over a decade.
It is a problem that most nationally prominent Princeton teams face: weak, but mandatory Ivy League schedules.
With all the excitement focused on men's basketball, and with a dismal record in the second half of its season, the men's hockey team has fallen into relative obscurity.
Freshmen and sophomores who will be working on their independent work in two years will benefit from a unified library catalog, a project that began March 9."This is something that had to be done to bring the library into the 20th century and eventually into the 21st," Provost Jeremiah Ostriker said.The library card catalog is currently divided into two systems: post-1980 titles in the Online Catalog and pre-1980 titles in the card catalog, which have been scanned into bitmap images.
HARTFORD, Conn. ? With eight minutes, 52 seconds to go in the first half of the men's basketball team's 69-57 victory over UNLV last night, the No.
It is true that big surprises come in small packages.The women's hockey team's victory last week was a surprise.But don't call the Tigers a small package.
For alumni across the country, listening to Princeton athletics just got much cheaper.In recent years, listeners have been able to hear radio broadcasts of Tiger sports events by calling Teamline at a cost of more than $40 for a two-hour game.For today's NCAA tournament game in Hartford, however, Teamline will have high-tech competition ? from the Internet.The University has finalized arrangements with Audionet, a Dallas-based company, to broadcast today's first-round contest over the Internet, according to Associate Director of Athletics Kurt Kehl.Listeners will need to download RealAudio Player or Microsoft NetShow on to their computers to hear the game.
Chuck Close's artistic method transposes a photograph into a painting by filling in a blank graph paper canvas with black, white and gray marks, a technique he has employed since the mid-1960s.
Women's water polo has yet to gain the recognition of women's swimming or basketball in America. Many of us may remember Olympic swimmer Amy Van Dyken's "Got Milk" commercial or WNBA star Sheryl Swoopes' eponymous shoes.
In recent weeks, Mitch Henderson has been something of a walking advertisement for Blue Cross. His nose was broken in the men's basketball team's victory over Yale Feb.
Sure, the men's basketball team is the No. 5 seed in the East and UNLV is the No. 12 seed, but what about the other 14 teams in the Tigers' bracket?
In the student center, Princetonians assiduously smooth tin foil over the lids of their sodas. In Chancellor Green, others slip Snapples up their sleeves.
So what if you've been spending all of the men's basketball team's regular season locked in a Firestone carrel doing integral calculus?
"Hush little baby, don't say a word . . ."This quiet little lullaby describes a mother's undying devotion to her child and the extremes she is willing to go in order to satisfy his every delight.
They say that a leopard never changes its spots. Luckily for Princeton mascots, our tigers do change their stripes.
Not too long ago, I attended my first Princeton basketball game. It was the Friday the 13th serial killing of Brown.
Jeff DinskiNone of Philadelphia's Big Five qualified for the tournament this year, continuing a general trend of horrible Philadelphia sports teams.
Every year the Ivy League sends a representative to the NCAA basketball tournament. The presence of of an Ivy League team in the Final Four, however, comes along about as often as Haley's Comet.
