Great Moments in College Journalism: The Prince’s Sting Operation Against Tiger Foods
It’s a slow news day here at IvyGate. And on slow news days, we like to make fun of college dailies and the hilarious ways that they cope with slow news days.
The Daily Princetonian – apparently enthralled by the sensationalism of “To Catch a Predator” – has published an expose that might be better entitled “To Catch a Pizza.”
The Prince goes into hysterical detail about the fact that students, armed with nothing more than a computer and a telephone, can order and charge food to other students’ accounts:
“Elaine Bigelow '10 was studying in her room in 1915 Hall at 10:30 on Monday night. A few hundred yards away in Cuyler Hall, a large cheese pizza from Iano's Rosticceria was delivered to a room where four sophomores scarfed it down. None of them paid for the pie; they just charged it to Bigelow.”
The Prince, which, for the record, might be the Worst Newspaper in the World, wrote this article without finding a single student who had actually been victimized by the supposed recklessness of Tiger Foods. They received permission in advance from both the people whose accounts were charged and those who charged them - the only victim in this entire escapade is the reader. I can only imagine the next article in this series: the Prince sends hookers to students’ dorm rooms – with their permission, of course – and tells us that they simply charged them to Tiger Foods. Now that would be a story.
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October 4th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
Link goes to the drug article.
October 4th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
its more excitign than half the other stories out there why pick on this one? except for that picture…
October 4th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
it’s a pretty good catch by the Prince, but now more people will prob steal food
October 4th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
Still, though, it’s kind of a problem that it COULD happen. And if they thought of it, it’s more than likely that someone else has, too.
October 4th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
it’s more than anything the nass puts out
October 4th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
it’s a first…someone calling the prince worse than the spec
October 4th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
What’chu talkin’ ’bout, Columbia ‘10? The Spec is CLEARLY better than the Prince, although the Prince is still a great paper. At least they’re not as bad as the Sun, the BDH, or the D. The Sun is hardly fit for toilet paper.
October 4th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
from what i’ve seen the prince is a pretty terrible paper. people always ragged on the spec, but being at a non-ivy grade school now (although still theortically a good top twenty) the amount of drivel and crap in the undergraduate paper is uncanny.
October 4th, 2007 at 10:19 pm
The Prince is a very weak paper, but who cares? This Jacob Savage character is a whiny bitch and needs get over having graduated.
October 6th, 2007 at 3:44 am
c873t
October 7th, 2007 at 9:14 am
You too Avi, you too.
October 7th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
the prince has more journalistic integrity than either of hal parker’s testacles
October 7th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
learn to spell: you either meant ‘tentacle’ or ‘testicle’.
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