21 Questions with... Shirley Tilghman

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Name: Shirley Tilghman
Occupation on Campus: President
Major: Molecular Biology
Hometown: Princeton

Who's your favorite Princetonian, living or dead, real or fictional?
My daughter Becca '03

What is your greatest guilty pleasure?
Ice cream.

What's the best meal you've eaten in Princeton?
Any meal cooked by Sally Lewis Lamonica, the chef at Lowrie House

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day?
I work to ensure that in the future, including tomorrow, Princeton University is fulfilling to the greatest extent possible its potential to transform the lives of its students, and discover new knowledge.

Best place on campus?
Icahn Lab

Worst place on campus?
My daughter's former dorm room in Wilson College

What are your favorite ways to relax?
Ski

What's the last student performance you saw?
Orpheus Waking - Friday night

What's hanging above your desk and/or bed?
Icahn Lab water color by Rafael Vinoly, the architect of Icahn Lab

Where do you do your best thinking?
Walking

Do you know all the words to Old Nassau?
Yes

If you could change something about Princeton, what would it be?
I would move the entire campus, lock, stock and barrel, to the site of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. This would combine the most beautiful campus architecture (Princeton) with the most stunning natural setting (UBC).

What's your drink?
Diet Coke

What's your top vacation destination?
Colorado

How often do you cook?
Christmas and Thanksgiving

When's bedtime?
11:30 pm

New Butler or Old Butler?
New Butler!

Who is your mortal enemy?
Complacency

When's the last time you used cash?
Today

In 10 years, I will be…
doing something else

What makes someone a Princetonian?
Life long intellectual curiosity, and a commitment to use one's education to make the world a better place


CEA

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21 Questions with... Cat Tully '10

PROFESSIONAL VIOLINIST IS HISTORY MAJOR, TAKES PRIVATE LESSONS WITH ITZHAK PERLMAN(!)

Name: Caitlin (Cat) Tully
Age: 21
Major: History
Hometown: Vancouver/Austin/New York
Eating club/residential college/affiliation: Whitman/ Potentially 2D…
Activities on campus: Firestone. Good conversation. Spontaneous hijinks when opportunity arises.

Who's your favorite Princetonian, living or dead, real or fictional?
Tony Grafton, for starting the HUM sequence.

What's the best meal you've eaten in Princeton?
On campus, probably challah French toast with fresh whipped cream a friend and I made for a bunch of people last year.

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day?
Try to deserve to be here.

What is your greatest guilty pleasure?
Depends on the context and when you ask.

What's the last student performance you saw?
King Lear, Laura Fletcher’s production. And Angels in America.

Do you know all the words to Old Nassau?
If I say no is that going to come back to haunt me? I know the actions…

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What do you hate most about Princeton?
Depends on the context and when you ask.

What's your drink?
Coffee. Whiskey on the rocks. Coffee.

How often do you cook?
Less than I’d like, i.e almost never.

What's your favorite medication?
Coffee. And late night runs.

What's hanging above your desk and/or bed?
Flower string lights.

Where do you do your best thinking?
Trustees Room, early in the morning, or when it’s raining. And while running.

When's bedtime?
Not regular.

New Butler or Old Butler?
Old Butler.

What do you think of Dean Malkiel?
I’ve never met Dean Malkiel, so I think I’ll pass.

Where is the worst place on campus?
Wherever you are when life sucks. Geography never seems to help too much then. Or Firestone, with a walk back to Whitman in December at closing.

Who is your mortal enemy?
For me to know and them to find out.

When's the last time you used cash?
Today.

In 25 years, I will be...
Hopefully alive, interesting, interested, without too many regrets, and having done some things I don’t foresee now.

Where do you go to study alone?
Why would I give that up?

What makes someone a Princetonian?
Last I heard, a sticker on a piece of paper. I think what qualities that represents probably changes over time….and I’m too young to know yet what our generation will turn into.

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21 Questions with... Mona Zhang '12

Update 4/12: Zhang and Smashcraft Heroes have also been profiled by the NYTimes.
TRAILBLAZING FEMALE PRESIDENT OF SMASHCRAFT HEROES GAMING CLUB PWNS N00BS (W00T W00T!)

Name: Mona Zhang
Age: 19
Major: undecided
Hometown: Gaithersburg, Maryland
Eating club/residential college/affiliation: Forbes College

Who's your favorite Princetonian, living or dead, real or fictional?
Princeton from Avenue Q, but I don't suppose he's actually a Princetonian

What's the best meal you've eaten in Princeton?
Dumplings made from scratch and random ramen at three in the morning

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day?
I answer emails

What is your greatest guilty pleasure?
Gossip Girl and chasing squirrels

What's the last student performance you saw?
Various snippets of performances at the CSA banquet from Triple 8, the Juggling Club, and more

Do you know all the words to Old Nassau?
Three cheers for Old Nassau, la la la la lassau

What do you hate most about Princeton?
The sewage and maybe the cobblestone when I'm wearing girl-shoes

What's your drink?
Coke
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How often do you cook?
Random holidays here and there

What's your favorite medication?
Caffeine

What's hanging above your desk and/or bed?
An outdated Harry Potter calendar that I haven't bothered to replace--that and a quill

Where do you do your best thinking?
On the floor

When's bedtime?
3am, but 7am when OSL finals are on

New Butler or Old Butler?
FORBES.

What do you think of Dean Malkiel?
Who?

Where is the worst place on campus?
I think parking lots are really ugly. The one behind New South isn't very pleasant.

Who is your mortal enemy?
Sida Huang '12

When's the last time you used cash?
Today at Witherspoon for a large cafe mocha with whipped cream :)

In 25 years, I will be…
unemployed or a pro-gamer

Where do you go to study alone?
I bring all my books to the hammock on the Forbes terrace, but then I just fall asleep.

What makes someone a Princetonian?
The requisite genius and laziness behind every Princetonian's intellectual facade

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21 Questions with... Anthony D'Amato '10

STUDENT SINGER-SONGWRITER SPITS OUT SOME SNARK

Name: Anthony D'Amato
Age: 21
Major: English
Hometown: Blairstown, NJ
Eating club/residential college/affiliation: Terrace Club, Rockefeller College

Who's your favorite Princetonian, living or dead, real or fictional?
Jonathan Ames (writer)

What's the best meal you've eaten in Princeton?
Old World Pizza

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day?
I look for ways to put things off until tomorrow.

What is your greatest guilty pleasure?
I steal from my roommates. Constantly.
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What's the last student performance you saw?
Triangle Show

Do you know all the words to Old Nassau?
I did not know it was a song until you told me this summer. [Ed.: A Press Clubber unfortunately roomed with Anthony over the summer]

What do you hate most about Princeton?
I keep a running list on the wall in my room.

What's your drink?
Blood--it's the purest form of recycling.

How often do you cook?
Rarely.

What's your favorite medication?
I don't know…my allergy pills? This is a retarded question.

What's hanging above your desk and/or bed?
A picture of Joe Strummer and a picture of Bob Dylan.

Where do you do your best thinking?
Late night.

When's bedtime?
Later at night.

New Butler or Old Butler?
Don't care.

What do you think of Dean Malkiel?
I know nothing about this person.

Where is the worst place on campus?
The bathroom down the hall after the swim team vomits all over it twice a week.

Who is your mortal enemy?
Anyone who vomits where I want to walk barefoot.

When's the last time you used cash?
Today.

In 25 years, I will be…
46 years old.

Where do you go to study alone?
My room.

What makes someone a Princetonian?
Attending Princeton University.

Anthony will be performing this Friday at the Sidewalk Café in the East Village (Ave A & E. 6th St.) from 10-11 PM. You can download his EP free from his Myspace page.

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21 Questions with... Alex Barnard '09

SACHS SCHOLAR DUMPSTER DIVES, FIGHTS SCARY CITADEL CADETS, & SCREAMS LIKE A GIRL (refer to video after the jump)

Name: Alexander Vosick Barnard
Age: 21
Major: Sociology
Hometown: Flagstaff, Arizona
Eating club/residential college/affiliation: One man Spelman vegan cooperative.

Who's your favorite Princetonian, living or dead, real or fictional?
Sean Gleason.

What's the best meal you've eaten in Princeton?
Full Eggplant Parmesean (minus the Parmesean) from Hoagie Haven. By merit of being from Hoagie Haven, it's probably 80% meat by osmosis, but we all have indulgences.

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day?
Sit around and read about people who are trying to change the world, and try to figure out why everything still sucks.

What is your greatest guilty pleasure?
Tormenting librarians. There's nothing that I get more of a kick out of than wandering into a university at library at 10:00 a.m. on a Saturday and joining the band in a serenade of "Tequila." We were definitely not planning to do that at the Citadel before our plans were derailed by the cadets attacking us.

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What's the last student performance you saw?
"Boy Gets Girl." Jordan Bubin ’09 was playing a porn producer so there was no way I was missing it.

Do you know all the words to Old Nassau?
Being from the band, I've sung and played Old Nassau after more Princeton sports losses than you can possibly imagine, so yes, I know the words.

What do you hate most about Princeton?
Entitlement and apathy.

What's your drink?
Beast. I'm a philistine.

How often do you cook?
A few times a week, depending on how strict the meal checkers at the eating clubs are feeling.

What's your favorite medication?
Running in the Institute woods.

What's hanging above your desk and/or bed?
An "Anti-Flag" (it's a band...) poster on which the lead singer has written "Fuck Printston" [sic]. I also have a picture of Steve Prefontaine and the seal for my cult that reads "Elk Kicks Ass" in Latin (long story).

Where do you do your best thinking?
Eating thrown away fruit salad at the Whole Foods on Houston St. in NYC with my freegan friends.

When's bedtime?
Midnight.

New Butler or Old Butler?
Old Butler. Making you walk through the bathroom to get anywhere was a masterstroke.

What do you think of Dean Malkiel?
Seems like a nice lady.

Where is the worst place on campus?
While I'm tempted to name an eating club, I'm going to go with Wu Library. I've been traumatized ever since I wrote my final for Robbie George's Civil Liberties there.

Who is your mortal enemy?
Whomever is in charge.

When's the last time you used cash?
Too recently.

In 25 years, I will be…
Hiding from the CIA in a Bolivian Rainforest (hopefully), or maybe writing books about obscure anarchist movements at whatever university will take me, contemplating whether I'm so old I ought to shave my mohawk.

Where do you go to study alone?
The train to New York.

What makes someone a Princetonian?
Bad taste in clothing. Madras pants? I find better things in the trash.

[Also, here's a video of Barnard screaming...?]:



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21 QUESTIONS WITH... CONNOR DIEMAND-YAUMAN

INCOMING USG PRESIDENT & BATMAN SHARE COMMON ENEMY

Name: Connor Lawrence Diemand-Yauman '10
Age: 20
Major: Psychology
Hometown: Chesterland, Ohio
Eating club/residential college/affiliation: Tower/Rocky

Who's your favorite Princetonian, living or dead, real or fictional?
Cornel West

What's the best meal you've eaten in Princeton?
Thanksgiving Dinner in Whitman.

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day?
Think about everything that I have to do.

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What is your greatest guilty pleasure?
Turkey Bowls from the Wa.

What's the last student performance you saw?
eXpressions "Kaleidoscope"

Do you know all the words to Old Nassau?
Yes—the Nassoons would kill me if I forgot.

What do you hate most about Princeton?
The lack of eating options...I just need more choices.

What's your drink?
Gin and tonic.

How often do you cook?
If buying a turkey bowl counts as cooking then I cook a few times a week.

What's your favorite medication?
Dimetapp.

What's hanging above your desk and/or bed?
Woman's underwear.

Where do you do your best thinking?
In the shower.

When's bedtime?
2 am

New Butler or Old Butler?
Old—it always had a way of putting things into perspective.

What do you think of Dean Malkiel?
Misunderstood.

Where is the worst place on campus?
Wilcox pre-renovation.

Who is your mortal enemy?
Ra's al Ghul


When's the last time you used cash?
The last election...running unopposed is apparently very expensive.

In 25 years, I will be…
Still trying to think of funny answers to these questions.

Where do you go to study alone?
My room.

What makes someone a Princetonian?
Whatever makes a Yalie + 1.