Opinion

The band and the culture war

The culture wars are raging, and now Princeton has been implicated in them. As the fallout from the Princeton University Band's (PUB) clash with Citadel cadets last weekend further attests, "The War between the States" did not end with the surrender at Appomattox.

Op Art: Chain of events

Letters to the editor: Sept. 24, 2008

Band was inflamatory and not very goodRegarding "University band harassed by cadets at Citadel," (Monday, Sept.

Shop till you drop

Rejoice, for the end of shopping period is upon us! Now we have one fewer thing to stress over, and let's face it, shopping period can be monumentally stressful.

All projects great and small

USG president Josh Weinstein '09 faced a challenge when he came into office last February, taking the reins of a USG that needed to convince both students and administrators that it was an institution worth working with.

Op Art: Too big to fail

Wanted: a job

Have you noticed? The world is imploding. Britney makes a comeback, military cadets attack our school band - what's next, cloning?

The precept lie

Princeton thinks it's special and is very good at coming up with weird ways to show it. We start school later than almost everyone else.

Let's get (less) drunk!

The first weeks of freshman year invariably involve far too much alcohol. A desire to drink combines with the opportunity to do so in a perfect storm of excess with serious consequences.

Open house on Prospect

Fall Lawnparties is at once a celebration of Princeton's great eating club tradition and a rebuke of the eating clubs' more elitist and exclusive past.

Op Art: Crossword confusion

Finding my gratitude again

During the first day of my freshman seminar three years ago, my professor asked our class what made us grateful to be at Princeton.

Our moral obligation to bail out bankers

In the wake of the Bush administration's announced $700 billion bailout of the banking industry - which has already enhanced the banking executives' personal stock portfolios by multiple millions - we must ask who got the bankers into the deep doo-doo in which they now find themselves.To blame the bankers themselves implies that free markets do not work as advertised by The Wall Street Journal's editorialists and by the economics profession, whose hallowed doctrines are incompatible with that thesis.

Op Art: Trust fall

Want to cartoon for the 'Prince'?

Let's talk 'diversity'

For the past few years of my undergraduate experience, I have returned from summer vacation bombarded with statistics on how great Princeton is.

Back to (leading) the future

Last week, physicists in Switzerland activated the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the most powerful particle accelerator in the world, which many hope will yield unprecedented insights into the fundamental laws of our universe.

Pay it forward

Once upon a time, the economy was awesome. Really - just super. People lazed about in swimming pools full of hundred-dollar bills, and everything was made of gold.

And now for something completely different

It was one of the most beautiful rooms I had ever seen. The hall was somber yet triumphant, dimly lit by hundreds if not thousands of flickering votive candles gathered in several thematic stations: for families, for the church, for the stricken, each illuminating an image of Saint Joseph.

Dry on a Saturday night

The freshmen at this university get an excessive amount of information and advice - of varying quality - thrown at them in their first few weeks on campus.

Op Art: How crass!