Opinion

For Princetonians, the takeaway from the still-unfolding scandal of Eliot Spitzer '81 should be a re-examination of the metrics by which society, and Princeton in particular, measures success.Before being humbled by the recent allegations, Spitzer sat perched atop the pinnacle of achievement, as he had done all his life.

OPINION | 03/12/2008

In search of conservatism

In search of conservatism

Like many freshmen, I left the comfortable world of my quaint suburban hometown and came to Princeton ready for intense intellectual development.

OPINION | 03/11/2008

A scarlet letter

OPINION | 03/11/2008

Op Art: Soo hard

OPINION | 03/11/2008

Late-night love from Frist

There is perhaps nothing that dominates the mind of the college undergraduate more than food. (All right, maybe I can think of one thing.) I suppose that this is a truth about humanity as a whole that simply displays itself most virulently among the college-age population.

OPINION | 03/11/2008

Letters to the Editor: March 10, 2008

Don't expect too much from the USGRegarding ?Wag the pet project,' (Monday, March 10, 2008):You know, I nearly laughed out loud when I read the editorial over breakfast.

OPINION | 03/10/2008

Op Art: Classics precept

OPINION | 03/10/2008

It's going to be a Stage 4 kind of week

Midterms are upon us. Yes indeed, it's that notorious point in the semester when the weather gets just a little warmer, the sun gets just a little sunnier and the students become just a little more oblivious to both of these facts as they adopt strange nocturnal patterns and a frightening dependence on Red Bull.

OPINION | 03/10/2008

USG Agenda: Twofold, not two-ply

Brandon McGinley '10's column last Thursday and this Monday's Daily Princetonian editorial highlight several key issues the USG faces.

OPINION | 03/10/2008

Wag the pet project

In the recent past, the USG has in general sought to better campus life through pragmatic, small-scale initiatives as opposed to pursuing broader, more sweeping change.

OPINION | 03/09/2008

Apologia pro studio suo

My roommate will hate me for writing this, but it really should be said. Every student on this campus ought to take the four-course Humanities Sequence (HUM 216-219), Princeton's best method of introducing its undergraduates to 26 centuries of the Western canon.The Humanities Sequence is easily the most efficient and thorough way to obtain a liberal education.

OPINION | 03/09/2008

Watching the baby boomers in action: Do students think?

As I see our students walk across campus, many of them transported worlds away by an iPod plugged into their ears, I wonder what they are thinking about the world their parents' generation, the famous Baby Boomers, is concocting for them now.

OPINION | 03/09/2008

Op Art: Best thesis ever

OPINION | 03/09/2008

Op Art: Freedom of thought

OPINION | 03/06/2008

Drama and rumors in the invisible institution

I got my first lesson on the joys and perils of rumors as a second grader. As we lined up outside the building, preparing for another day of school, I felt an inexplicable impulse take over my entire being, as I blurted to a friend standing next to me, "Did you know that my first-grade teacher is on drugs?" Incredulously, he turned to me in a mixture of awe and disbelief.

OPINION | 03/06/2008

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