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Nov. 17, 2010

Vol. 111, No. 4

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THE WEEKLY BLOG

East Wing a cappella: Tigertones visit the White House
Not many college students can say they have performed on the main stage of Carnegie Hall or on the field at a San Diego Chargers football game. Even fewer could say they performed at a party thrown by First Lady Michelle Obama ’85 at the White House. The Tigertones can now say they’ve done all three... READ MORE

Game Day

By Brett Tomlinson; photographs by Ricardo Barros

This year’s Princeton-Harvard game kicked off at 1 p.m., but for loyal contingent of Class of 1956 graduates, family, and friends on lawn behind Cloister Inn, festivities started nearly three hours earlier. The group has been perfecting...

A 14.7% investment return as Princo 'stays the course'

Published in the Nov. 17, 2010, issue

Princeton’s investments grew 14.7 percent in the year ending June 30, rebounding from the heavy losses suffered during the financial crisis and outpacing all but one Ivy League school. The endowment stood on June 30 at $14.4 billion, which is $1.9 billion...Read more

Brave new world

At the Center for Information Technology Policy, dismembered voting machines are just the beginning

Published in the Nov. 17, 2010, issue

Just before the fall semester began, Alex Halderman ’03 *09, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Michigan, learned that one of his research collaborators had been arrested. In the spring, Halderman, Hari K. Prasad, and...Read more

Lessons learned at Nassau Hall

In a new book, William G. Bowen *58 reflects on his years as Princeton’s president

Published in the Nov. 17, 2010, issue

In a life dedicated to higher education, William G. Bowen *58 has served in many capacities: as Princeton’s president from 1972 to 1988; a trustee at his undergraduate alma mater, Denison University; and president of the Mellon Foundation. Now 77, Bowen...Read more

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Slide show: Princeton-Harvard
Football was just one of the day's events for alumni and students on a near-perfect autumn day.

Video: Sketching a superhero
Watch comic book illustrator and publisher Jim Lee ’86 draw the character Gambit.

Video: Inside the Cyclab
Volunteer mechanics staff Princeton's student-run bicycle co-op, and bikes rent for $15 a semester.

Video: "Il Postino," the opera
Excerpts from Daniel Catan *77's new work, plus a podcast interview with Catan.

Searching for big ideas
How the engineering school used a Web-based survey tool developed by an assistant sociology professor and two grad students to ask what innovation the world needs most.

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Gregg Lange's 70's Rally 'Round the Cannon
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