On a typical day, the University's website contains announcements of upcoming lectures by important speakers and performances by a variety of culturally diverse arts groups as well as news stories about compelling research and student awards.
"The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs." When we hear that phrase what should come to mind is the embodiment of Princeton's motto to serve this nation and all nations.
During my three semesters at Princeton, I have paid very little attention to the USG.
?Thesis buddies' not about hazing freshmen
"Ouch! Sorry, Hillary!" my neighbor's message board declared sarcastically after Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.)'s losses in Maryland and Virginia last month.
I'm not very good at staying informed about current events. For example, only recently did I learn that "Super Tuesday" is not, in fact, a limited-time special at Taco Bell.
Between Jamie Lynn Spears and "Juno," teen pregnancy gets a lot of press these days. The discussion - or really, gossip - that stems from this tends to focus on the future: Will she keep the baby?
In the past few days, posters have appeared around campus with pictures of this year's candidates for Young Alumni Trustee (YAT).
My grandfather has a neat reformulation of Lord Acton's dictum that "power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." His idea is that power does not corrupt but instead reveals; having power doesn't make you evil as much as having power gives you the ability to do what you want and therefore reveals your true feelings.
Our lead is still strongRegarding ?Fiddling while our lead burns,' (Wednesday, Feb.
This week, Pro-Choice Vox chapters across the country are raising awareness about the national birth control availability crisis, which is felt particularly on college campuses.
The University's recently announced "bridge year" program to provide need-based financial assistance to admitted students who defer for one year to undertake service projects abroad is a bold step that deserves much praise.
The events at Northern Illinois University (NIU) earlier last month remind us of the tragic reality and possibility of violence in educational communities.
A student just sent me a piece that Witold Rybczynski posted on slate.com last Wednesday. The author, a brilliant architecture scholar who teaches at Penn, begins by asking "How do you build a public library in the age of Google?" Then he answers his own question, but not with an old-fashioned article or an op-ed piece.
The Wilson School has done well by inviting Jordan's King Abdullah II to speak about the Middle East.
