Some types of research enrich academia with humor and insight, bringing fun to the stacks in Firestone and making it sometimes just as important as more somber research.
Not everyone is lucky enough to attend this university, but that does not mean that those who do not study here cannot be given the opportunity to take advantage of some of Princeton’s intellectual wealth. Providing online access to lectures and course materials for a small fee would allow the University to provide this public good in a budget-neutral way. The University should initiate this program with all reasonable haste and make available as many lectures as is practical.
Please, bear these rules in mind, and remember that a junior professor who meets these criteria will write a much more effective letter than a famous person who doesn’t. You’ll get the recommendations you deserve, and I’ll be able to spend a little less time rounding up the usual suspect adjectives — and a little more doing justice to the people for whom I should be writing.
Michael Medeiros and Charlie Metzger sit down to discuss whether the tea party could thrive at Princeton and recent news regarding the Princeton dinky's survival under New Jersey Transit.
In terms of reducing both energy use and waste, the University and its students have made great progress. However, there is still room for several easy, low-cost changes that could have a big impact on the University community’s use of resources.
Our malaise of the mouth is best cured when focusing on the back-and-forth, not just the forth.
A true discussion does not get derailed by uncertainty and does not conclude that an entire field of science is false because of occasional errors.
Rather than the tax-and-spend Democrats, we shall have the spend-but-don’t-tax Republicans.
The fear that we can’t measure up to those shining beacons — our classmates, our friends — can shake our highest aspirations to the core.
As much as I love Lawnparties, I believe that the USG spends far too much money on them by bringing a big-name act to campus.
Students who are locked out of their room during normal business hours must now borrow a temporary key from the housing office. If the key is not returned in 24 hours, they will be charged a $75 fee to change the lock. Beginning in the spring semester, the Undergraduate Housing Office plans to implement a fee schedule for lockouts. The new policy is misguided, and the University should seriously consider alternatives.
Prox-access rooms will allow for a more efficient lockout system, which will increase the speed with which rooms will be unlocked in the future. As enticing as this prospect is, it’s important that the Facilities Department takes a number of precautions and carefully explores implementation options before making this switch.
While for some people choosing a major is an agonizing decision filled with multiple “changed-my-mind”s, for me, it was more a realization that I had known what I wanted to do all along. In retrospect, I had really been leaning towards comparative literature for quite some time. My mom, however, was still hoping in her heart of hearts for a last-minute change to something practical like electrical engineering or operations research and financial engineering. She was not exactly thrilled.
Linda Dowling defends the dinky and Chris Schlegal adds to Tim Nunan's column, "Avoiding navel-gazing and idolization."
