I want to thank you for taking the time to vote for Catherine Ettman, Bruce Easop or Shikha Uberoi. However, none of them is going to serve as your USG president for the upcoming term. I will.
Having more than one bed might mean that you have more space to sleep. Or, more likely, you are providing yourself with a vacant space begging to be filled next to you in those wintry Reading Period nights, when your skin is cold and lonely, comforted only by the warm breath of an individual whispering sweet nothings about the intricate beauty of your mid-sized armoire.
Today we shall write about a problem that truly plagues our fair campus: Princetonians do not walk quickly enough.
Perhaps you know about the current controversy over the University furniture policy. Our concerns particularly refer to the use of an additional bed. The intent of this op-ed is to offer arguments for compromise that will grant a grace period for the newly enforced policy until the end of the 2011-12 school year.
Occupy Princeton has done everything but allow for open political discourse.
I’m afraid of bad exam results and a poor GPA, and I want to lay the potential blame for such failings elsewhere. The more rational approach to this fear demands that we put our lives in perspective.
When he first ran for office in 2010, our chief concerns about his candidacy centered on his ability to delegate as a leader and provide a long-term vision to unify many of his goals. However, Yaroshefsky amply met that challenge with his outstanding accomplishments as president. Most notable are the changes he made in technology and the impact he had on student life at Princeton.
YouTube videos of chants might get media coverage, but it is a facade that works to assuage our guilt about Princeton student’s apathy. If we really want to make a difference, what ought to be on the forefront of everyone’s minds is the impending political race.
Some breaks are for having a good time and forgetting the worries and cares of a semester long gone. But other times, like last week, are for just the opposite. I was not trying to forget that this is a school; I was trying to forget that it is anything but.
The Editorial Board commends the University for this change because, if implemented correctly, this system holds immense promise in terms of preventing lockouts and making overall dormitory security more cost-effective. These keypads could drastically reduce the number of lockouts, both eliminating an enormous hassle from the lives of students and freeing Public Safety officers and financial resources for other allocations — like community policing. This system will also reduce the cost and labor associated with physically changing locks every time students permanently lose their keys; Building Services would only need to change the code through a simple electronic maneuver should a security issue arise.
The semester has finally ended, and my decision to study abroad in the fall is bearing many rewards — not the least of which is a two-month long winter break. In retrospect, I’m glad that I made that decision.
We would like to thank Morgan Jerkins ’14 for raising her concerns in her article “ ‘diStracted’ or dispirited?” The reaction that she experienced was obviously not the intention of the piece in question or of the diSiac show. As the choreographers of “Eyes Watching Unseeing,” we would like to offer some responses and explanations that may help readers understand where we were coming from.
Just as in the greater world, tactics for news dissemination on Princeton’s campus are changing. If the courts refuse to acknowledge or protect new forms of media, we risk losing an important alternative to established news sources.
Let us not be afraid to bring our interests, inclinations, feelings, whims, senses and impulses to the table of discussion, but let us also not fool ourselves into thinking that the pursuit of knowledge stops there.
Simple, smart and clear: This is exactly how protests should work — Occupy Princeton has much to learn from the Russians.
