Opinion

The bleeding edge

"There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers." - Walt Mossberg, The Wall Street JournalEvery year, a handful of students ask for advice about what they should buy to replace ailing computers.

All aboard

University officials seem to sincerely want students to get on board with such initiatives as the new alcohol policy and the recently amended decision to add Spelman Hall 8 to Whitman College and an entryway of Little Hall to Mathey.

Op Art: Palm Sundays

Whitman here I come!

Each spring, as the crocuses bloom from nowhere and songbirds arrive anew, hope returns to Princeton.

Two steps forward, one step back

The insurgents bet that they were thinking longer term than the sated masses. After all, they thought, the battle to reshape the Street would last decades: Students only stay for four years, and new freshmen would have no conception of what normal once was.

Op Art: Chompsky

Procrastination and nocturnal marathons during midterm week

Alas, here we are at one of the toughest weeks of the semester, when students catch up on reading and prepare study guides.

Letters to the Editor: March 13, 2008

Conservative center's critics are missing the pointRegarding ?Letters to the Editor,' (Tuesday, March 11, 2008):

Learning from the fall

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.

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.

A scarlet letter

Op Art: Soo hard

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.

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.

Op Art: Classics precept

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.