We tend to deny to ourselves that for the most part, we are pretty crummy believers; we are only willing to accept the parts of our faith we are think others will accept, and not ourselves.
Allowing students to charge their U-Store purchases to their student accounts will help both the student body and the U-Store itself.
Given our isolation on this campus from the rest of the world, it’s much easier for us to embrace our overextension and simply avoid dealing with issues external to our campus — to go that day without reading The New York Times, to skip that public lecture about the Arab revolutions and catch a mid-afternoon nap after spending a late night on a problem set.
You’ve got to ask yourself, how important is a social scene? Most students tend to meet their friends through extracurriculars, classes or residential groups. People are meeting all over campus for all sorts of reasons, and all of it is social. Just because you don’t call something social doesn’t mean that it isn’t, and just because you call something social doesn’t mean that it is.
Rohit Gawande criticizes the USG Senate's decision to bar Aparajita Das '12 from running for Class of 2012 social chair.
The current system seems to purposely remove intent from the equation because such a removal is necessary for the function of a binary system: a violation occurred or it did not, and punishment is assessed accordingly. Instead, there must be a differentiation of types of violations so that intent can matter in disciplinary hearings.
In this postcolonial world, we must recognize the sovereignty of other states not only in self-government but also in the management of their cultural patrimonies.
Eventually we will have to accept that the cuts will impact us all, directly and sometimes painfully, in ways that easily dwarf something as trivial as an attachment to spaceflight.
Finals are clearly a difficult time for everybody involved, and we credit the University for the job it has done in making this stressful period as painless as possible. Of the relevant policies, however, three stand out in need of change.
My main issue is that I do not think it should be the role of the USG to take an opinion about a national political debate. The text of the referendum says that the USG will make a formal request to the Board of Trustees to officially endorse ENDA. This is made under the pretense of “preparing the next generation of leaders in the workforce,” but the fact is that this referendum requests the University to take a political stance.
Princeton alumni are currently working in all 50 states, but their prestigious degrees are worthless when they — along with many other qualified, hard-working individuals — are denied job opportunities, fired or otherwise discriminated against because of who they are.
Many online commenters have criticized Princeton’s failure to admit the best and brightest students based on intrinsic potential rather than on the kind of experiences and educational merit that are not fully available to the financially constrained. I argue that these criticisms are unreasonable, because they are based on an unfounded conception of the admission office’s priorities.
As we debate war and peace in safety, we owe it to ourselves and to our country to learn more about the troops we send to war and about what happens to them both when they get there and when — if — they come back home. “Support the Troops Week” is above all a chance to learn.
I would encourage social science and humanities departments to seriously reevaluate the standards they place on precept participation.