By giving legacies a slight advantage in admissions, the University is allowing a reasonable advantage to students who already have an emotional connection with Princeton.
We could all use a little better advice before plunging into the Princeton Jungle.
Think about the last time you ran into a member of a prestigious campus group or exclusive eating club. Were you not nicer, warmer and faker to him or her than you would have been to someone who had no such affiliations? How often do you spend precious Princetonian minutes reaching out to someone new, truly without ulterior motives?
A decade after Brooks visited here, it’s worth asking if the essential characteristics of Generation Y have changed. Assuredly to his disappointment, I don’t think they have.
After a year working on the Steering Committee on Undergraduate Women’s Leadership, we are both convinced that leadership is an issue that we all need to talk about, because it’s about far more than just getting more women to become eating club officers, or convincing men to join the Pace Council for Civic Values.
Moving beyond turnout, the underlying problem that must be addressed is disenchantment with electoral politics.
Our turnout should not make us proud. It means that the majority of us sat this Election Day out.
Given the importance of fostering comfortable learning environments in high schools and colleges alike, the Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights deserves the support of the New Jersey state legislature.
We ought to have demanded more of the ‘Prince,’ as the article published failed to address the fundamental question of whether Gawker’s piece ought to have seen the light of day in the first place.
We get so caught up in the rush of school that the amount of focus and energy we reserve for our family necessarily diminishes.
To what extent should we subject religious views to critique and analysis? On the one hand, religion is a private and personal matter. It seems wrong to tell someone his or her beliefs are misguided. But on the other hand, religion plays a huge role in the day-to-day existence of people and communities.
Although there are a number of reasons why some clubs would choose to remain open only to undergraduates, it would be beneficial to both the clubs and the student community for the sign-in clubs to accept graduate student members, conditional on the support of the current membership.
When I idealize Princeton, I think about “Mad Men.” I am Don Draper, every other woman in the world is fabulously good-looking; talk and alcohol flow freely. We work hard among beautiful architecture, working important and glamorous jobs dressed in the best New York fashions. Everyone parties hard and goes home happy.The Princeton I am actually in is not like this. People are much too serious. Not in terms of studies; we all got here by seriously working hard in school. I mean that people are too serious when it comes to other people. They are nice, they are polite, and they are distant.
I write to solicit nominations for the Pyne Prize, the highest general distinction the University confers upon an undergraduate, which will be awarded on Alumni Day, Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011.
Earlier this year, Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel announced that she would step down from her post at the end of the academic year. The University is searching for a new dean of the college. And I have found myself wondering less about who will take on this demanding and important job than about the structure of the University — especially that of the college. More particularly, I have found myself wondering about parachutists and truffle-hunters.
Considering the effectiveness of the meal plan system in place during fall break, Intersession and spring break, this system ought to be extended to another period when many students are left without an effective dining option: early September.
