Yesterday, Barack Obama announced that he had tapped two Princeton alumni to join his White House staff. Come January, Christopher Lu ’88 and Lisa Brown ’82 will serve as the 44th president’s cabinet secretary and staff secretary, respectively.

According to the Daily Princetonian, Brown previously worked as Al Gore’s legal counsel from 1999 until 2001 before becoming the executive director of the American Constitution Society.

Lu, on the other hand, was a classmate of Obama’s at Harvard Law, but for the Princetonian, that’s a negligible footnote.

The only thing they really want everyone to know is this:

Lu was a classmate of Obama’s at Harvard Law School and has been working for him ever since he became a U.S. senator in 2005. Lu, a Wilson School major and former news editor for The Daily Princetonian, was a ‘Prince’ trustee until last year, when he decided to take time off for the Obama campaign.

Did you catch that not-so-stealthy namedrop?

That’s right – Lu was a news editor for the Daily Princetonian, the smuggest news rag in the Ivies.

You can rest assured that the current editors at the Princetonian are all giving each other self-congratulatory back pats whilst imagining themselves in Lu’s shoes in twenty years.

To them, I say, “Dare to dream.”