Harvard has installed a plaque honoring four slaves who worked in the households of two university presidents in the 1700s and, more broadly, recognizing the school’s history with slavery.
Before Michelle Obama was the First Lady, a position defined by partnership and parenting, she was a career woman with twenty successful years under her belt before her husband dreamed of running the country. In fact, when Barack pitched her the idea, he had to enlist her family to convince her. Peter Slevin, author…
Susan Patton, Princeton class of 1977 and noted Troll Mom, thinks a little rape in college is just a "learning experience," a view she's happy to air on any and every morning show in existence. In response, her classmates have issued a lengthy statement begging Princeton Mom to shut up and go away, calling her views…
This likely won't surprise anybody who spent 2009 studiously ignoring the remaining balance on their ATM receipts, but the birth rate takes a noticeable hit during a recession. It's not simply that everybody puts childbearing off a couple of years — there are fewer babies born overall.
The New York Princeton University alumni listserve got some hot Princeton Mom action Thursday, after an alum of the college sent out an email touting her new documentary on young women who have entered into sugar daddy relationships. But the mere fact that such women exist enraged Susan Patton aka Princeton Mom aka…
It's not just future grandparents who're very keen to know the minute you've got a bun in the oven. Corporations want a heads-up so they can bombard you with ads; for marketers, all babies are royal babies. No surprise there! What is startling is just how hard it is to fly under their radar these days.
When college women are free to do what they want, some of them are going to want to behave like college jackasses. They're going to drink, swear, hook up sloppily and indiscriminately, barf in the streets, and generally act like boorish male characters in straight-to-DVD sex comedies. Oh, and one more thing: despite…
The Princeton University alumna and all-knowing sage who warned female students to trap a husband before senior year or face certain doom landed a book deal, in which she will share "uncomfortable truths" about "having it all" (impossible, unless your husband went to Princeton).
The Daily Princetonian published a letter to the editor today from alumna Susan A. Patton, who wants "the daughters [she] never had" to know that they're screwed for life if they don't snag a Princeton prince by first semester freshman year.
One in six female Princeton undergraduates said they experienced "non-consensual vaginal penetration" during their time at the University, according to an unpublished survey from 2008 — as in five years ago — that was recently leaked to The Daily Princetonian. The numbers suggest that rates of sexual assault and…
From the annual Harvard-Yale football game to the charming "Penetrate The Puss" t-shirts worn by Penn basketball enthusiasts (Princeton's mascot is a tiger), here's the latest in that whole thing that nobody cares about except about 2% of actual Ivy Leaguers: "The Ivy League Hustle (I Went To Princeton, Bitch)" a…
Take a US Foreign Service member, his two buddies from Princeton, a yacht, and a contest to have sex with the most women. The result: the most sexist, racist, and frankly disturbing email chain we’ve read in a long time.
Above the Law wouldn't reveal the name of the Harvard Law School student who made waves with her racist email. But people talk, and they name names. Turns out, Stephanie Grace has a history of interest in race.
This week in victim-blaming, a Princeton student explains why it's a drunk girl's fault if she gets raped. Luckily, students and non-students alike are on hand to rebut her.
So this ridiculously expensive Ivy League university of which I'm sure you've heard is offering a class in model memoirs.
• American journalist Roxana Saberi arrived in Austria today and reunited with her parents after being released from prison in Iran. Her jail term was reduced to a two-year suspended sentence. •
While a senior at Princeton University, Michelle Obama wrote her thesis on "Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community." That thesis was, for months, the subject of speculation until the campaign released it in February, after which it was lambasted by many on the right (I'm only going to link to one article…
Michelle Obama's senior thesis from Princeton has been the subject of more speculation than...uh... those secret Enron Cheney energy task force papers and Tyra and Scarlett Johansson's noses and Hillary Clinton's sealed White House papers combined. Because it's about race and could provide valuable insight into…
From a Newsweek essay by Princeton writing professor Evan Thomas on "assessing how boys and girls influence each other": "After Dartmouth went coed in the '70s, said [a] dean, she had hoped that the women would civilize the men. Instead, the opposite happened: the men made ruffians of the women...The women [in my…
