This week, columnists Adam Bradlow '11 and Cindy Hong '09 join Executive Editor for Opinion Michael Juel-Larsen '09 to discuss whether the dire economic forecast will be bad news for life at Princeton, what the Princeton Committee on Palestine's checkpoint demonstration last week was all about and how awful new Webmail is.
Princetonians are constantly reminded that our experiences on campus would not be possible without the help of generous alumni.
Tap, tap.Huh? What's that? Oh, it's my Junior Paper. Hello, JP."Hello, Christine. I just wanted to say good morning and remind you that I'm supposed to be 25 pages long and that my due date is coming up.
After receiving a considerable amount of flak for the last column I wrote, it would have been tempting to retreat to the security of popular opinion.
It's pretty incredible when you think about it: As of this writing, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stands at about 8,600 points, compared to over 14,000 last October.
Remember the days of elementary school when a small group of kids started their own club on the playground?
Several weeks ago, I made the unfortunate mistake of revealing to a family member my true motivations behind attending Princeton.Shortly afterward, I received a phone call from an angry cousin, asking me "Is it true that you're going to school to become a Broadway actor?" Initially taken aback, I had to laugh it off as I reassured her, "Of course not?
I have to do jury duty over winter break. I know it's my civic duty; I know that it's part of being a good American, which since last Tuesday is something I suddenly really want to be.
University is fully committed to ?vitally important' grad. students' well-beingRegarding "Economic crisis may impact graduate student funding," (Tuesday, Nov.
The plethora of language, math and science courses offered at Princeton is a boon for the student body.
Princeton football got its national showcase Friday evening, with ESPNU broadcasting the team's 100th encounter with Penn.
When I was younger, I never guessed on tests; it was against my perhaps naive notion of intellectual integrity.
Dorm room windows don't get a lot of attention. We open them in warm months, slam them shut in the colder months and blame them when we enter our room to find a squirrel swimming in a pile of Doritos.
What are we here for? Readers of the Opinion section of this paper have in the past few weeks learned that one undergraduate, Sam Norton '12, believes that we (or at least you) should pay close attention to the fact (if it is a fact) that "the average starting salary of a computer science graduate is $67,000, while a comparative literature major can expect to earn about $37,000." "This," he continues, "is the kind of crucial information that students need to have available as they select their courses and aim toward a concentration." To this, another undergraduate, Brendan Carroll '11, retorts that "[i]t is emphatically not the purpose of Princeton University to teach its students how to make gobs of money." What does a member of the faculty think?The first thing to say is that it would be unfair to take a few words out of context and pretend that they epitomized the whole argument.