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...EVEN FREE Taco Bell coud lure students to a "town hall meeting" last night at Princeton to discuss the school's most aggressive effort to counter the influence of eating clubs on campus, according to the Daily Princetonian. (Perhaps the eating clubs had something better than fast food on the menu.) The 15 students who did show up expressed concern that the four-year residential colleges, set to debut next year, will isolate students who choose—whether for financial or social reasons—to distance themselves from "The Street," as Princeton's eating clubs are collectively known...
...this year’s speaker selection. Van Stolk-Riley added that he “would have preferred Bill Clinton.” But Clinton has already accepted an offer to serve as Princeton University’s Class Day speaker. According to the Daily Princetonian, Princeton had been working to bring Clinton to Class Day since the beginning of the school year. At the University of Pennsylvania, where two-time academy award winning actress Jodie Foster will serve as commencement speaker this year, several students expressed discontent with the choice. “Considering past speakers, we were...
...hard, post pictures on facebook.com. It isn’t unusual for many students, including those at Harvard, to post photographic evidence of themselves doing stupid and sometimes illegal things—but they may not realize just who is looking at these photos. An article in The Daily Princetonian on March 9 revealed that the Princeton Department of Public Safety has used facebook.com in investigating student-related incidents at the New Jersey school. Students who had posted pictures on Facebook of themselves climbing buildings were confronted by Public Safety officers, who said they had viewed the online photos, according...
...prepares to emulate Harvard’s House system, Princeton’s dining services is doing the Crimson one better. Princetonians will enjoy expanded dining hall hours starting next academic year, including a “late dinner” from 10 p.m. to 11:30 p.m., according to The Daily Princetonian. The change comes as part of a plan to create a new four-year residential college system at the New Jersey school, modeled after dorms at Harvard and Yale. The new hours are seen as a way to break down the social and culinary monopoly held...
...only into other colleges’ application pools, it can drive them into Early Decision pools” at schools like Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania, Fitzsimmons said. Early applications for both schools were up nine and 21 percent respectively from last year, according to The Daily Princetonian and The Daily Pennsylvanian. Bruce J. Breimer, director of college guidance at Collegiate High School in New York City, said he disagreed with Fitzsimmons’ reasoning.An increase in rejections the previous year is “not going to scare away someone for whom an application is appropriate...