Opinion

Editorial: Finding fellowships

Last Thursday, The Daily Princetonian reported that the employment of Associate Dean of the College Frank Ordiway ’81, whose responsibilities include oversight of postgraduate fellowship advising, will be terminated this June. We see no reason, based on performance and a thorough knowledge of the system, that Ordiway should have been fired.

OPINION | 12/13/2009

Falling off the Rhodes

Whenever someone asks me why I think I was selected as a Rhodes Scholar, I give the same response: luck, declining standards and my advisers. Were it not, I believe, for the many hours I spent at 406 West College conferring with Dean Frank Ordiway ’81 on applying for major postgraduate fellowships, I wouldn’t have had a chance.

OPINION | 12/13/2009

Cartoon: Not a girl, not yet a woman

OPINION | 12/13/2009

Editorial and Dissent: On the USG pledge

Last spring, the student body passed a referendum requiring that USG members not solicit or accept recommendations from high-level University administrators.

OPINION | 12/10/2009

Reflections on the revolution on the web

The internet represents a distinctly harsh brand of meritocracy.

OPINION | 12/10/2009

Cartoon: Electric elections

OPINION | 12/10/2009

Letters to the Editor: Dec. 11, 2009

Members of the faculty express dissapointment by Ordiway ’81’s dismissal.

OPINION | 12/10/2009

The anarchy that’s already here

In a lot of ways, though, the crisis over the cost of public higher education shouldn’t be surprising. Contrary to popular orthodoxy, it has much less to do with the recession and much more to do with the popular conception of public universities in the U.S. — a conception that may not be sustainable.

OPINION | 12/09/2009

Cartoon: Princeton diversity

OPINION | 12/09/2009

Living carefully

We have all been told to be careful about what we post on our Facebooks and that the internet can be dangerous. What we never expected was that we would have to start being careful about what we do in our everyday life.

OPINION | 12/09/2009

Tradition has gotta go

I see now that my plan was a product of freshman idealism; I got very little actual work done and ended up having to pull several all-nighters when I returned to campus.

OPINION | 12/09/2009

Cartoon: Losing the game

OPINION | 12/08/2009

Editorial: In support of the APA

The American Philosophical Association (APA) took a small but important step last week toward promoting non-discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in higher education when it announced it would censure universities that use sexual orientation as a basis for hiring decisions.

OPINION | 12/08/2009

The wonder of blue skies

My initial reaction was to think: “What’s the point of studying that?” This was followed a split second later by the realization that as an astrophysicist, I was not exactly in a position to pass judgment on the practical utility of other people’s research.

OPINION | 12/08/2009

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