Ask The Sexpert — April 16, 2009
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These students, many of whom are from Princeton High School (PHS) and the nearby Lawrenceville School, come to the University to play a wide variety of sports. Though all come from central New Jersey, their experiences have been fairly varied.
What does an average, healthy human adult need to survive?
Regarding “Some graduate schools, employers still unfamiliar with grade deflation” (Wednesday, March 25, 2009):
Don’t get me wrong: I have nothing against prospective applicants and students coming to visit campus. The school needs these applicants to compensate for the seniors graduating this spring, and we, the students, thrive upon a constant supply of fresh meat that we can teach, haze and otherwise manipulate. It’s a mutual concern.
Recently I was having lunch with some of my usual mealtime acquaintances when the conversation turned to the content of that day’s Daily Princetonian, as often happens when someone leaves a copy of it lying open on the table next to where we’re sitting and there’s nothing else to talk about. This particular edition contained a well-known feature of the Street section called “Ask the Sexpert,” which, if you’re not familiar, is an advice column featuring completely normal and not-made-up letters from students looking for guidance in their romantic lives. Interestingly, one of my fellow lunchers pointed out that the Sexpert often answers queries from students who aren’t necessarily asking about sex, dating or relationships, but merely need help dealing with an awkward situation in their lives.
After 19 months, the Butler complex, which at this point is roughly 80 percent complete, boasts spacious dormitory areas and well-equipped common spaces wrapped in an exterior that is in harmony with its red-bricked neighbors.
Just as Wednesday’s sunny skies and balmy temperatures held the promise of spring ascendant, this Saturday will provide baseball fans with the promise of a new season. Feb. 14 marks the beginning of the eight-and-a-half-month marathon that will be the 2009 baseball season.
Over the past four years, Princeton seniors have had little to complain about in terms of material well-being. Even though some of us lived in Butler housing and ate Wilcox food, at least the housing and food was all paid for — either by our parents or by Princeton. The grants-only program frees us from the burden of student loans. Out-of-state Princetonians on financial aid have obligatory summer savings, but the financial aid office often waived requirements for those who couldn’t meet them. This meant that while I, like many of my friends, held various part-time jobs, I was able to spend most of my earnings as I wished. Even the fiscally responsible could go out to dinners on Nassau Street and indulge in Bent Spoon and Twist. At Princeton, students don’t need to choose between comfortable housing and pricey dessert; the choice is usually which pricey dessert.
Leach, a Wilson School professor and Republican who represented Iowa in the U.S. Congress for 30 years before losing re-election in 2006, was a member of a faculty panel that discussed its expectations for the inauguration Tuesday. Wilson School Dean Anne-Marie Slaughter ’80 introduced the panel, which included Leach, Wilson School associate dean Nolan McCarty and politics professor Brandice Canes-Wrone.
“We’ve been turning the thermostat down day and night and freezing, even though we’re from tropical climates,” Nicole Quah ’12, a Mathey resident, said of her and her roommate.
Goheen claimed that interview had been off the record, but later that month he formally asked economics professor Gardener Patterson to conduct a study on coeducation and its likely consequences for Princeton. Two years later, in a Princeton Alumni Weekly (PAW) article titled "Anatomy of a Decision," Patterson said that he was undecided on the issue of coeducation at the start of the study. Had someone pressed him to take a position, however, he "probably would have answered ‘No!' Princeton was doing all right - why change it?"
But I owe someone in the Housing Department a big thank you. Somehow, that person read between the lines and figured out that a future math major who enjoys filling out forms, who is so compulsively organized that she single-handedly organized her brother's medical school applications and who aspires to one day rule a small country would make the perfect roommate for a future comparative literature major who has been known to sleep under her pile of clean laundry to avoid having to fold it and put it away and who has been known to start important applications the night before they're due. In spite of being polar opposites, we each ended up with exactly what we needed: I got someone to shepherd me through college, and she got someone to take care of.
Princeton attempts to justify the use of distribution requirements by the following introduction on its "General Education" website. This was also printed in the 2007-08 Undergraduate Announcement: "Princeton is committed to offering an academic program that allows each student to achieve a truly liberal education ... [The]University requirements for graduation transcend the boundaries of specialization and provide all students with a common language and common skills."
Crime around campus
As one of more than 100 Princetonian Princetonians, I came into freshman year thinking I knew exactly what to expect. After all, I had lived in Princeton nearly all my life. I thought the black squirrels all knew me, and, as a toddler, I even had the gall to stroll through FitzRandolph Gate once (shh ... don't tell anyone).
Last week, Tigers returning to campus saw the new buildings finally taking shape, with many of the 250,000 separate pieces of brick and limestone and 800 windows already set into place.
But you know, I've always been a little bit skeptical about Nietzsche's famous declaration. After all, something might not kill us, but that doesn't necessarily bar the possibility that it might maim us horribly. And even if something doesn't maim us horribly, is it really true that hardship only makes us stronger? I suppose, to give Nietzsche and my nifty new XL T-shirt credit, that if I hadn't had to write a 30-page JP, I wouldn't have been able to crank out 30 pages for Dean's Date as quickly as I did. But it's also true that if I hadn't been so utterly exhausted from finishing up my JP, I would have had the strength to work on my Dean's Date papers much sooner, and I wouldn't have needed that really-fast-writing superpower. And of course, if I weren't so exhausted from writing my Dean's Date papers, I would be able to study much more efficiently for finals.
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The men’s team (9-11 overall, 1-6 Ivy League) lost at Columbia (10-6, 5-2) by a score of 5-2. The Tigers then put up quite a fight on Sunday but eventually fell to Cornell (8-11, 3-4) in a 4-3 match that was decided by the final singles matchup. The women’s team defeated Columbia (2-15, 0-7) by a 6-1 final score at home and continued rolling on Sunday against Cornell (9-7, 2-5) with a 5-2 victory in Ithaca.