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Princeton means washing dishes

Princeton means washing dishes

Bennett McIntosh

This month, while everyone was returning to the quintessentially Princeton setting of ivy-covered castles (or, in the case of Wilson, ivy-covered bomb shelters), I was also returning, along with a number of others, to a setting that holds little in common with everything ivy: the Wilcox/Wu dish room. Three-and-a-half hours a night, two nights a week, I join my fellow student workers in a deceptively simple task— cleaning the dishes that hundreds of our classmates have used, so that they can be returned to the servery to be used by hundreds more.

OPINION | 09/25/2013

Religion isn't stupid

Guest Contributor

By David Hammer We do not pretend to understand the occult forces that drive student group advertisement.

OPINION | 09/25/2013

Finding meaning in vocation

Susannah Sharpless

During my internship program this summer, my fellow interns and I gathered in The Huffington Post offices, talking to former Princeton Dean of Religious Life (and current HuffPo Religion editor) Paul Raushenbush.

OPINION | 09/25/2013

Privacy in the Internet age

David Will

Edward Snowden’s leaks, and subsequent quest for asylum, transfixed people around the world. America’s response has been, at best, muddled.

OPINION | 09/24/2013

It's not how hard you try

Barbara Zhan

Life was easy in elementary school. As long as we paid attention, didn’t fight other kids and dutifully recited our ABCs, we were good.

OPINION | 09/24/2013

Avoiding the academic bottleneck

Spencer Shen

This semester, the computer science department decided to officially rescind the non-pass/D/fail designation for COS 126: General Computer Science, after instituting it for 126, COS 217: Introduction to Programming Systems and COS 226: Algorithms and Data Structures last semester.

OPINION | 09/23/2013

The equal of two evils

Lea Trusty

This past Saturday, as I was getting dressed to go out, I heard indecipherable shouts coming from outside (call it luck of the first floor). I was waiting for my own pickups, so naturally my roommates and I dashed to the common room window to get a better look.

OPINION | 09/23/2013

Divided attention

Divided attention

Shruthi Deivasigamani

It was around midnight one Saturday over the summer, and I was piled in a friend’s living room with about five other people.

OPINION | 09/23/2013

Lancing the bubble

James Di Palma-Grisi

In sufficiently complex economies (i.e., anything but a colonial "cottage industry"), the essential element is specialization — an electrician might not know how to cultivate plants, but this doesn’t practically worsen the quality of the person as an electrician.

OPINION | 09/22/2013

Privacy through transparency

Privacy through transparency

Benjamin Dinovelli

The summer before freshman year, I was excited to receive my email address andsee my name placed beside the email subdomain “@princeton.edu”: a confirmation that my acceptance wasn’t some mistake by the Office of Admission.

OPINION | 09/22/2013

Honor

Benjamin Dinovelli

"I pledge my honor that I have not violated the Honor Code during this examination." Since the beginning of my short Princeton career, I have written these words on every single examination I have ever taken.

OPINION | 09/19/2013

Outside the Bubble: A practical take on Syria

Aaron Applbaum

In these pages, we aim to print pieces that engage with and comment on our campus, our community and our lives as students.

OPINION | 09/19/2013

Veterans add to 'diversity'

Guest Contributor

By Uwe Reinhardt Princeton University’s Ad Hoc Committee on Diversitydelivered its final report to the public a few days ago.

OPINION | 09/18/2013

The merits of fresh blood

Spencer Shen

Toward the end of last year, as most of us were trying to figure out which classes to take this semester, the subject of good and bad professors often came up when my friends and I were trying to choose courses.

OPINION | 09/18/2013

Merging extremes: “Nuevo” East Asia

Merging extremes: “Nuevo” East Asia

Ye Eun Charlotte Chun

If there’s one thing studying in Beijing this summer has taught me, if not the fact that toilet paper is a luxury and that walking with your caged bird is apparently a thing, it’s that Asian Tiger nations have a distinctly unique way of reconciling traditional with modern, the East with the West.

OPINION | 09/18/2013

What we can learn from MOOCs

Lauren Davis

During many mornings this past summer, I wandered into the kitchen to see my father, a retired investment banker, hunched intentlyover his laptop, headphones on and scribbling notes.

OPINION | 09/17/2013

Taking notice

Taking notice

Rebecca Kreutter

You know how, when you meet someone you’ve never seen before, you end up seeing her all over campus?

OPINION | 09/17/2013

Planned authenticity

Planned authenticity

Isabella Gomes

Before we even entered college, many advisers told us that if we had the opportunity to study abroad, take it, regardless of when or where it was.

OPINION | 09/17/2013

Our forgotten radical

James Di Palma-Grisi

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OPINION | 09/16/2013

Personal politics and the death star

Kinnari Shah

“Randal Graves on the construction of the second Death Star: “All right, look— you're a roofer, and some juicy government contract comes your way; you got the wife and kids and the two-story in suburbia— this is a government contract, which means all sorts of benefits.

OPINION | 09/16/2013

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