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(01/08/12 11:00pm)
It is very easy to understand why people want to be on campus during freshman week, Intersession and Reunions. People love these times because, without the daunting stress of classes, papers and finals, they can hang out with their friends and party at their eating clubs or inside fenced paddocks (this will make more sense to my freshman readers in a few months). In short, you get to be at school without school, and really, what could be better than that?
(12/14/11 11:00pm)
In her recent column, Tehila Wenger lamented the proliferation of “verbal vagueness” in precept. And though I do wholeheartedly agree that our precepts are often seriously lacking in intellectual rigor and substantive discussion, I disagree with her analysis of where this comes from. For Wenger, the problem lies in how we preface what we say: She objects to starting a comment with “I find it interesting that” or “I feel like” because they inherently prevent counterarguments — there’s no way to say “no, that’s not interesting” or “no, you don’t really feel that way.” However, in my opinion, the problem doesn’t lie in how we preface our statements, but in what we say in the meat of our comment, a problem that needs to be solved by students and preceptors alike.
(11/30/11 11:00pm)
Last Sunday, millions of Catholics in the English-speaking world found themselves saying “consubstantial” for what might have been the first time in their life. This was in accordance with the Roman Missal, Third Edition, the biggest change in the English-language Mass since the beginning of the English-language Mass in the 1960s. While the official liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church continues to be in Latin, the translation into English has been updated to be truer to the original Latin. “I believe,” for example, was considered a more accurate rendering of “credo” than was the older “we believe.” Why the Catholic Church waited more than 40 years to correct what any first year Latin student could point out is indeed an intriguing topic. However, this language update has something else to teach us, something about the differences between modern and classical languages that may lead us to rethink Princeton’s language requirement.
(11/22/11 11:00pm)
One day when I was in ninth grade, my English teacher gave us all index cards on top of which we were to write “Be Here Now.” She had noticed a lot of people not paying attention, so the idea was that by putting tallies on the card whenever we caught ourselves not paying attention, we would see the error in our ways and learn to stay focused. Of course, like practically everything when you’re 15, this turned into a joke for us. People would make grand interruptions in class to mark their index cards, they were ironically “forgotten,” etc. But looking back now, I wonder if my English teacher had a point, one that resonates much more than just an ill-conceived teaching exercise.
(09/29/11 10:00pm)
We are busy people. And with a sense of pride in this busyness, we often engage in competitions with our friends and acquaintances over who has more work than whom and who has slept less than whom.
(09/21/11 10:00pm)
As a residential college adviser, I was well prepared for most of the questions my advisees and other freshmen I interact with ask me. I knew to tell them that yes, the fire safety presentation is mandatory, to explain how they go about signing up for classes, and, for my ’zees in particular, to inform them of the sad news about just how far the closest printer and laundry room are. But by far the most commonly asked question by every freshman I’ve talked to is one I am not quite sure how to answer: “Is the drinking culture on campus always like this?”
(09/10/11 10:00pm)
“Here we were taught by men and gothic towers