Category: Campus

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Cigarettes come with a Surgeon General’s warning on the carton. There is a disclaimer at the end of every Cialis ad. The honorable Miller, Budweiser, and Absolut Vodka companies remind us to only drink responsibly. But men, look into your closets.

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Things That Are Not a Meal 101

Remember when you were a kid, and, when you were hungry, you ate, either food that you liked or food that your mom forced you to eat, and, when you weren’t hungry, you didn’t eat?

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The Battle of McCormick Hill

Perceptive students returning last week might have noticed something new in front of the University Art Museum; the three rows of super-sized bronzed figurines, headless and armless, in regimental formation were installed over the summer. These large outdoor sculptures, titled … Read More

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Whitman College: The College Years

So apparently they’re making a TV show about Whitman College, the new four-year residential college projected to open in 2006.

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Ten Rules to Live by in the Trustees Room of Firestone Library

1. Always substitute the uncomfortable wooden chair at your table for one of the more comfortable computer chairs.

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To Be Held in Place

Two test panels, perhaps six feet tall by four feet wide, one of argillite, one of Wissahickon schist, stare blankly over the rubble of the torn up tennis courts just south of Dillon Gym. They prefigure the coming radical transformation of this open space, which, before it was covered with tennis clay, was landscaped as football and then baseball fields, but which has never before been built upon.

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Failed Experiment?

There’s nothing like a good smoothie. When made the right way, a smoothie is at once sweet and sour, liquid and solid, exciting and relaxing.

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The Fristification Kid

In April 2001, David Brooks published “The Organization Kid,” in which he typified Princeton students as absurdly busy with “self-improvement, résumé-building, and enrichment.” Brooks conceived of the whole process by which the students had become hard-working and career-oriented as organization, but this authoress’s significantly more extensive fieldwork reveals the even more interesting process of subjectification through which Organization Kids become fristified.

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Fristification

Frist is a place, of course. It is a campus center, opened in 2000 and enthusiastically directed by Paul Breitman, who describes Frist on its website as a “hub of activity and interactive learning at Princeton,” “an inviting, inclusive, and exciting gathering place for the entire campus community” which “takes the concept of community building to the next level.” Well, okay.

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What Would Peter Singer Do?

Peter Singer recast in the role of the ethical organization kid.

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Reduce, Re-use, Recycle

The Nass asks Frist administrators why some of the campus center’s recyclables have been going into the trash.

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Digital One-Way Mirror

Princeton’s Blackboard website is not just a useful academic tool; it’s also a means of surveillance.

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