Butler, once the ugly duckling of dorm life, is officially the University’s newest swan. But for all its pizzazz and the obvious cosmetic improvement from the old Butler quad, the University made several errors in judgment in the process.
I made the unfortunate mistake of listing “Syria” as last on my list of countries visited, so the immigration official spent extra time perusing my passport, and he finally asked me, in a low voice, “You didn’t receive any ‘training’ while you were in Syria, did you? Like, ‘military’ training?”
Seminars usually demand a greater depth of understanding and require more hours of work from students than do lecture courses. As a result, they are often among the most rewarding classes undergraduates take at Princeton and environments in which the highest-quality learning occurs.
Our media environment is immensely rich: global in coverage and swift to respond to real or apparent crises. But our individual media are mostly thin … When a real debate erupts, active participants’ knowledge of the globe is often as flat and inauthentic as the cuisine in “global” restaurants.
Before you know it, your days are spent plotting your anonymous campaign of terror, just to spite the person who wanted to read the same book as you, at the same time as you.
What good is it if a dean in ODUS abstains from using unethical plagiarism detection software if professors use it? Currently, the University lacks any consistent policy on plagiarism detection software.
Its new building is a chance for the Carl A. Fields Center to move into a more visible place in campus life - and to remedy the fact that few students know what the Center does and fewer still have been there.
Mornings: At 8 a.m., I will be jolted from sleep by metallic dumpster thunder and terse cries of Brown Hall parking lot garbage collectors. It is like setting your EarlyRiser Ocean Soundscape alarm-clock to the setting: Din of Battle. Or Imminent Destruction. Or This is What Hell Sounds Like.
Expressed as genre, the 2008 election campaign — even if our new president should prove himself exceptional — was once again only a parody of democracy.
If we are to confront the bad behavior rampant on campus and in the public sphere, we must be comfortable with making moral arguments.
I suggest that the option be made available to conduct one piece of independent research – be it a junior paper or a senior thesis – in pairs.
For Princeton to be successful in preventing or containing a serious outbreak of H1N1, students must recognize and act on the fact that personal responsibility is the most important factor in protecting themselves and others.
Breaking it down, that means that each course at Princeton costs somewhere into the thousands of dollars. A little sobering when you think about the most boring class you’ve taken here.
Lawnparties fall flat for freshman; Gray squirrels must be stopped; A proposal for the naming of new Butler buildings
Shopping and packing for college is stressful, and despite these noble ambitions, I still skipped a few things. But I feel that this year, returning as an accomplished and well-acclimatized sophomore, I am now equipped to offer some additions to this list that will hopefully be useful.
