Letter to the Editor: Questioning the question
I am writing in response to your March 10 editorial “Evaluating the ‘Admission Opportunity Campaign.’ ”
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I am writing in response to your March 10 editorial “Evaluating the ‘Admission Opportunity Campaign.’ ”
The better part of a century was spent in Boston bemoaning the Curse of the Bambino — the lingering ill effects of the trade of George Herman Ruth from the Red Sox to the Yankees. Balls headed right into Red Sox first basemen’s gloves miraculously evading trapping, and weak-hitting Yankee infielders were turned into one-time sluggers … all due to the Babe departing Beantown for pin-striped pastures.
To the Editors:
By Grace Li
In its Feb. 25 editorial “Enhance Tiger Tuesdays,” The Daily Princetonian writes that the Office of Admission’s Tiger Tuesday program does not effectively sell the University to early admitted students. The editorial suggests that the program should present more opportunities for interaction between admitted students and undergraduates, and that the roster of events generally should be expanded.
I write in response to the article of Feb. 19, “New TI membership almost 60 percent male,” by Ruby Shao. I commend The Daily Princetonian for paying attention to the important issue of gender dynamics in the eating clubs, which play a significant role in the social lives of most students. However, the article indirectly quotes the Cap & Gown president as describing “Cap as the first club to open up to women.” It should be corrected that Cap was not in fact the first club to admit women. While Cap played an important role in gender equality on the Street, its efforts were not as significant as those of the truly progressive clubs when it came to the early coeducation.
Each fall, hundreds of students venture over to the career fairs in Dillon Gymnasium, and this year, for the first time, I was among them. I spoke with some interesting representatives about interesting jobs, but the majority of the options presented there were not in line with my interests in arts, environmental advocacy and education reform. Many of the programs that were related to my interests were either Princeton programs (Princeton in Asia, Princeton in Africa, Project 55) or founded by Princeton alums (Teach for America). These are wonderful programs, with inspiring missions, and they offer opportunities to do great work. But it would be interesting to hear from organizations without this special connection to campus. After the career fair I attended, I started asking around and searching online, and I learned that a nonprofit career fair would be held separately, which perhaps explained the relative lack of diversity represented at the fall career fair. Unfortunately, the nonprofit career fair is held in February.
On Tuesday, Feb. 18, Richard Falk will be delivering the Edward Said Memorial Lecture. Publicity for the lecture lists the English department as one of three cosponsors of the event, along with the Said Memorial Lecture Committee and the Princeton Committee on Palestine. We, the undersigned, senior faculty members in the English department, dissent from our department’s cosponsorship of this lecture. The department automatically funds the Said lectures on a yearly, ongoing basis and, as a department, neither determines who is chosen by the autonomous Said committee nor approves the choice after it has been made. We find the choice of Falk, a tendentious critic of Israel and an inflammatory voice on Middle Eastern politics, to be an unfortunate one.
By Anne Waldron Neumann
By Andrew Hahm
By Jason Adleberg
By Zach Ogle
By Uchechi Kalu
By Kyle Berlin
To the sophomore boys of a division of Whig-Clio —
An actual guest submission to ‘the Prince’ - a guide for the public by a concerned Princetonian:
By Azza Cohen and Kemy Lin
I would like to clarify and correct some of the recent discussion in The Daily Princetonian about the University’s commitment to graduate student housing and the fate of the Butler Apartments. Providing graduate student housing is a priority for the University. (We provide much more than almost all of our peers.) When the University first announced plans to replace the Butler Apartments with the new Lakeside apartment complex, the news seemed to be welcomed by graduate students.
The headline and first paragraph of your article “Citing existing measures, U. declines to join higher education initiative by Obama ’85” are false. In fact, President Eisgruber has been in communication with the White House about the University’s support for efforts to educate more low-income students and about its own increasing efforts to attract more low-income students to Princeton and ensure that they flourish here.
by Claire Nuchtern