While we mentioned this in yesterday’s RagTime, we had to say a little bit more on the Princeton students who really want you to know about how very hard they’re working for jobs in banking — and their altruistic reasons for doing so. Says future finance intern Sean Pi, whom the Princetonian writer introduces taking a $300 cab ride from JFK to Princeton:

It’s extremely stressful… It does become a very precarious balancing act, trying to go to all your classes and making sure you get to all the interviews. And being prepared for the interviews, too — that’s a big thing.

Yes, carrying a multitude of responsibilities is stressful! We appreciate Pi’s difficulties — and his race into his French classroom from the airport cab [seriously, $300, though? He could have used, like, NJ Transit or whatever...] Especially given that he is trying to convey a totally disparate reality than the one that exists in his job interviews:

‘[Money] is a very, very big reason’ for entering investment banking and consulting, Pi said. ‘But in interviews, [students] will try very hard to convey that they’re not in it for the money.’

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• Brown: Mayoral candidate banned from campus after “tossing pro-life video” — only in Providence, I guess?
• Columbia: Or maybe not only there: New York state politics — it just keeps getting better!
• Dartmouth: Senior starts his political career really early, hoping to become either Chris Young or Charles Rangel, depending.
• Harvard: Extra! Extra! Rich people, or students, or something, should spend more money, because that’s “honest”!
• Princeton: “This is the first in a three-part series on careers in investment banking and consulting.”

As with everything about Pyne Prize superstar Connor Diemand-Yauman, this just makes us say OMG: He’s going to be an Asian TV star! A tipster confirms the bizarre clause in this article to be true:

Next year, he hopes to volunteer with the Global Literacy Project in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. After that, he intends to accept an offer to write and act on his own children’s English educational show on Korean PBS.

Yep! Our tipster tells us that he’s going to star in the kids’ show after he graduates — anyone want to TiVo it for us? At least Connor obsession isn’t alone. We hear from our tipster:

My roommate and I currently have a Nassoons poster in our room (stolen from Frist, no less) with a large pink-sharpie heart around CDY’s head.

So many words in that sentence make so little sense to us. But the pink-sharpie heart — that is eternal. If you get lonely in Korea, Connor, at least you can get a few guest stars to join you on the show.

• Brown: “Brown Dining Services’ new Club Plan meal option, which allows seniors to enjoy gourmet food at the Faculty Club, kicked off this year and attracted four subscribers.”
• Columbia: This blurb on an Italian restaurant has — so far! — 51 comments. Welcome to the internet, Spectrum!
• Cornell: “Wind turbines. PRETTY WIND TURBINES.” -Cornell Daily Sun
• Harvard: Faust indicates that she is literally the opposite of Larry Summers — like, if they were in the same room, the room would explode.
• Princeton: The image accompanying this article, of a Princeton girl buying Cheerios at the supermarket in lieu of an eating club is poignant. Very penultimate-scene-of-Hurt Locker. It’s after the jump!

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Via Priceton Alumni Weekly: Yes, that’s General David Petraeus. And former Congressman James Leach. What kind of power does certified big man on campus Connor Diemand-Yauman POSSESS?! How many ridiculous pictures of powerful people can one college senior possibly have? Please email us everything you know, tipsters!

Watch out Bonnie and Clyde. Princeton Prez Shirley Tilghman and former USG head-honcho Connor Diemand-Yauman ‘10 are obviously a pair of unapologetic BAMFs. And matching ones at that.

The unlikely snapshot was taken just before the well-coiffed matriarch awarded young Connor the Pyne Prize, Princeton’s highest undergraduate honor. And don’t forget the scrilla: the prize comes with a year’s-worth of tuition, which we can only assume was paid out in unmarked Franklins.

This picture is just begging for a sassy caption. Commenters: Find us the perfect one and we’ll credit you. Eternal glory awaits.

• Cornell: “I feel that an event that cost $27,000 and took 11 months to plan speaks for itself.” Um, right!
• Dartmouth: SO IT BEGINS. (Student Council, we mean!) Life is about to get sooo much more irritating, you guys.
• Harvard: There’s a new Egyptology professor — does this mean Indiana Jones is like real life now?
• Princeton: Ivy Council to meet at Princeton, will accomplish a great deal, probably.
• Yale: Student scores $666 on Jeopardy!, the real version for adults even! (Your IvyGate blogger feels a bit amateur now.)

• Columbia: Winter Olympics ongoing; less than a week until your IvyGate blogger gets his Parks and Recreation back.
• Dartmouth: This is all well and good, but what does ZAC Posen think about Iran?
• Penn: Shrug, um, we’re not sure how to feel about this. “Good”!
• Princeton: OMG ARE WE STILL TALKING ABOUT THAT HORRIBLE COLUMN AND INSANE HYPOTHETICALS?!?! Thank god Princeton kids are confined to Princeton where they can’t infect us.
• Yale: Yale Law alum tapped for court seat. This could be taught in j-school as an example of a “dog-bites-man” story.

This is the sixth installment of a series studying the persona of each Ivy League president—their bank accounts, their haircuts, and the extent to which they’re known and loved. Here’s Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman, who overcame the odds to become a highly successful scientist and Ivy president despite having been born in Canada.

Meet Shirley Tilghman, not to be confused with Wild West gunslinger Bill Tilghman. You can distinguish her by her Meryl Streep circa Devil Wears Prada hairdo, though she is also partial to green hair and sky-high mohawks. Tilghman can be spotted in “lucky orange shoes,” complemented by an orange blazer.

Tilghman knows what she likes: the movie All About Eve, and the jazzy jams of Duke Ellington. She knows, too, what she doesn’t like: improper word usage—including the use of “impact” as a verb—and when students Bicker (not the argument kind, the eating club exclusivity kind). Despite the resolute tenacity of club officers who hold their tradition of weeding out Princeton’s apparently existent lamebrains by a process too elite to go by the name of rush, Tilghman said :

I think the Bicker process is one that divides the student body, that it causes a lot of pain for students who are unsuccessful. If we could evolve into a system where there is a less divisive way for students to become members of eating clubs, that’s what I would like to see…

She may sometimes take a controversial stance, but Tilghman is full of ideas. To confront binge drinking on campus, she wrote in the Daily Princetonian:

I have often thought that the single most effective thing we could do to discourage high-risk drinking is to film students while they are drunk and then force them to watch the videos when they are cold sober the next day. It is not pretty.

And though some students found her approach to be “out of touch,” she has at least one vote: “I think it would be hilarious if we filmed drunk people and made them watch their videos. What a sick idea.”

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The Princetonian, somehow, published an op-ed blaming women for getting raped. Buckle your seatbelts, here comes a long quote:

Therefore, the girl willingly got herself into a state in which she could not act rationally. This, in my opinion, is equivalent to agreeing to anything that might happen to her while in this state. In the case of our girl, this happened to be sex with a stranger.

This brings up another question: Why is the guy always to blame? Since the beginning of time, society has taught us that whenever a situation like this arises, the fault belongs almost entirely to the male participant.

And thus women ought not accuse men of rape, to correct the balance. Okay! Well. There are so many things to say — first of which is that the article is written by a freshman. Oh, Iulia Neagu, so much to learn about not starting controversies with your incredibly retrograde opinions! Also enraging: how she frames her argument as “logical” simply by using the phrases “common sense” and “therefore” repeatedly.

Other things to say are said by the 166 comments on the Prince site. One of them reads:

I’m very disappointed the Prince staff allowed this to be published. They’re obviously just using a poor freshman as a sacrifice to the publicity gods. Now, everyone will talk about this tomorrow, read their Princes, and post here. It’s really not okay to publish something like this, and the only reason it would be is for readership.

Hey, don’t get too mad at the editors, though. Little Iulia said it best: you’re not capable of making wise decisions when you’re drunk.