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Princeton University stories: 12 news summaries

 The 10 Douchiest  
 Colleges in the US 

From Brown to Bob Jones, 'what kind of douche do you want to be'?

Aug 29, 09 7:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - In college, acting insufferable is pretty much a given. “The question for America's youth is: What kind of douche bag do you aspire to be?” asks GQ. The mag helpfully offers the top options.
  1. Brown University: Peace Sign on My Mom's 7 Series Douches are limo liberals
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Duke University • Princeton University • list • college • university • University of Colorado • Brown University • Bob Jones University • Harvard University • Amherst College • Charter College • Rollins College • Deep Springs College

(Newser) - The US Military Academy tops the new Forbes list of top colleges, leapfrogging five places to bump Princeton out of the top spot. In the second annual ranking, another service academy, the Air Force's, lands in seventh place on a list that places schools according to "the quality of... More »

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Princeton University • Yale University • college rankings • Stanford University • college • Caltech • Wellesley • West Point • Harvard University • US Military Academy • California Institute of Technology • Williams College • Wellesley College • US Air Force Academy • Amherst College

Princeton Adviser Recalls Sotomayor's Grade-A Thesis

Not 'best student', but the 'most transformed'

Jul 12, 09 9:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - Count Sonia Sotomayor's Princeton thesis adviser among her strongest supporters to reach the Supreme Court. Peter Winn, writing in the Washington Post, recalls that her judicial skills were evident even as an undergrad. "After conquering Princeton, she is unlikely to be fazed by another institution legendary for its... More »

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Princeton University • thesis • US Supreme Court • Sonia Sotomayor

 10 Most-Buzzed-About Schools 

Harvard beats out Columbia for most internet references

Sep 30, 08 3:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Institutions of higher learning care about their brand as much as any business, so the Global Language Monitor has ranked universities and colleges for the amount of buzz they command on the internet. The winners:
  1. Harvard University
  2. Columbia University
  3. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  4. University of California, Berkeley
  5. Stanford
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Internet • Columbia University • Princeton University • Yale University • college rankings • Stanford University • University of Chicago • UC Berkeley • college • publicity • Cornell University • University of Michigan • Harvard • University of Wisconsin Madison

Colbert to Princeton Grads: 'Don't Change the World'

TV personality bestows singular words of wisdom on Ivy Leaguers

Jun 3, 08 3:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - As every college speaker does, Stephen Colbert reminded Princeton’s seniors at today's Class Day ceremony that they have the power to “change the world,” the Daily Princetonian reports. But unlike other speakers, Colbert added: please don’t do that. “Some of us like it the way... More »

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Princeton University • higher education • college • Stephen Colbert • Princeton • college seniors

Michelle Obama College Thesis Muses on Race

Studies void between blacks and whites at Princeton and beyond

Feb 23, 08 7:46 AM CST
(Newser) - Michelle Obama’s 1985 Princeton thesis—whose unavailability at the university has prompted blogger suspicions—discusses the concerns of a black woman in a sphere dominated by whites. In the 96-page document, scored by Politico from the Obama campaign, Mrs. Obama writes that to white students, it seems “I... More »

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Barack Obama • African Americans • Princeton University • Michelle Obama • thesis • racial inequality • college student • African-Americans • white people

Data Encryption Isn't So Secure, After All

Researchers find
easy method to steal protected information

Feb 22, 08 1:29 PM CST
(Newser) - Accessing encrypted data can be as simple as chilling a computer memory chip, according to a Princeton research group. The researchers were able to break through encryption in Windows, Macintosh, and Linux operating systems, reports the New York Times, calling into question the security methods that companies, government agencies,... More »

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Princeton University • data theft • Internet security • computer security • encryption • memory chips • computer memory

OPINION

Tax Harvard
to Help Fund Poorer Colleges

Banker urges taxing investment earnings to close education gap

Dec 21, 07 4:17 PM CST
(Newser) - The growing disparity between the richest universities and their more modest counterparts is not as often discussed as other aspects of America's wealth gap, prominent investment banker Herbert Allen writes in the New York Times—but it should be. The nation’s wealthiest colleges have endowments topping $1 million per... More »

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Princeton University • Yale University • Harvard • income disparity • endowment

Princeton Student Faked Own Beating

Sent death threats to himself and other campus conservatives

Dec 18, 07 4:07 AM CST
(Newser) - A Princeton student who claimed his views on morality and membership in a conservative organization triggered death threats against him and a beating has confessed that the threats and attack were self-delivered, the Daily Princetonian reports. Four others on campus, including a prominent conservative professor, were also threatened as part... More »

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Princeton University • crime • hoax • universities

In Higher Education, the Rich Get Richer

Funding gap widens breach between Ivies, public schools

Dec 3, 07 1:08 PM CST
(Newser) - As Ivy League schools upgrade dorms, financial aid, and student-faculty ratios, America’s public universities are losing out, BusinessWeek reports. The "Ivy Plus" schools, which include Stanford and MIT, represent 1% of the US student population but are the richest by far. "We can add resources in... More »

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Princeton University • Yale University • Ivy League • Stanford University • Harvard • brain drain

Princeton Wins
College Rankings
for 8th Year

Annual survey comes under increasing fire for favoring the rich

Aug 17, 07 6:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Facing a barrage of criticism, the latest college rankings from U.S. News and World Report were released today, and Princeton is still No.1, followed by Harvard and Yale. The editors have tried to address complaints about the survey's bias toward schools that educate the well-to-do and the well-prepared.... More »

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education • Princeton University • Yale University • college admissions • college rankings • school • college • university • Harvard

Valedictorians Halted At
Ivy Gates

Rejections hit 90%
at most prestigious schools

Apr 5, 07 8:07 AM CDT
(Newser) -  With competition at top colleges more ferocious than ever, most Ivy League schools accepted under 10% of applicants for the first time, the Times reports. Tony schools like Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Princeton turned away valedictorians and students with perfect SAT scores and GPAs, much to the shock of... More »

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high school • Columbia University • Princeton University • Yale University • SAT • Ivy League • college • admission • university • Harvard

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