Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Summer Transformations

By Claire Murray, Staff Columnist

In the world of comic book heroes, robots and missions to save the Earth from evil aliens, all eyes are on Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania this summer. As “The Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” is being jointly filmed on the two campuses, UPenn students have joined a Facebook group to protest the fact that, despite the split filming locales, the movie’s plot is set exclusively at Princeton. For those of you who don’t know (and I admit to my own cultural ignorance),”Revenge” is the sequel to the 2007 film “The Transformers,” based on the popular children’s action figures. The question arises, then: will more students apply to Princeton than to UPenn next year — or in 10 years when the eight year-old “Transformers” fans grow up? More »

Losing Harvard

By Mark Davenport, Guest Columnist and co-chair of the Dartmouth Mountaineering Club

I met an administrator from Reed College on a rock climb in Nevada this past spring break. It turned out he was the director of Reed’s Outing Club. When he discovered that I was part of a group of thirty undergrads managing our own trip without direct administrative oversight, he was flabbergasted. “That just doesn’t happen,” he said. More »