The envelope, please ...

Inspired by the Oscars, PAW has searched out Princetonians of screen, stage, and television who have captured awards, nominations, and our affections.

Published in the Mar. 4, 2009, issue

Here's our list, complete with as many campus-era photos as we could find: Wentworth Miller ’95: Actor  •  Mark Feuerstein ’93: Actor  •  Eugene Jarecki ’91: Filmmaker Dean Cain ’88: Actor  •  Brooke Shields ’87: Actor, producer  •  Andrew Jarecki ’85:...Read more

A sobering view from Nassau Hall

Published in the Mar. 4, 2009, issue

With a 25 percent drop projected for 2008–09, Princeton’s endowment may need more than a decade of steady gains to return to its June 2008 value of $16.3 billion, according to Provost Christopher Eisgruber ’83. Fewer resources will mean significant changes in...Read more

Hating Uncle Sam

A Princeton class dissects the causes of anti-Americanism and what can be done about them.

Published in the Mar. 4, 2009, issue

Why do they hate us? Americans have asked that question about the world at least since the beginning of the Cold War, sometimes plaintively and sometimes peevishly, but never more pointedly than since the opening of the war in Iraq.   “Why do they hate us?”...Read more

Skating toward Vancouver

Keady ’08 and Van Beusekom ’04 vie for Olympic spots

Published in the Mar. 4, 2009, issue

Lizzie Keady ’08 has been close to playing in the Olympics before. Keady, a star on the women’s ice hockey team during her years at Princeton, played 16 games with the U.S. national team in 2005, during a one-year break from Princeton. Nearing Christmas that...Read more