When, in the fall of 2009, Harvard students take their final exams before winter recess, Princeton students will be the only undergraduates enrolled at one of the country's top institutions of higher education who will return home with the end of the semester still looming more than a month in the future.
This is a column about columns; if you were trying to impress a comp-lit preceptor, or have a philosophy preceptor toss you out a Marx Hall window, you might even call it a "meta" column.
Last week, science gave this country and the world a wonderful reason to give thanks. As reported in these pages two days ago, biologists in Japan and the United States have developed a method for morphing adult human stem cells into units capable of replicating the capabilities of their embryonic counterparts.Stem cell research lies at the always perilous intersection of science and politics.
An effective USG president must balance several considerations, including responsiveness to student concerns and constructive engagement with the University administration.
Farm subsidies in the United States and the European Union benefit few and hurt many. These are government payments that increase the income of some farmers.
A recent guest column from Shana Weber, the University's sustainability manager, listed many longterm goals for the University to become a greener campus.
Shameful use of moneyRegarding '"Public urination citations increase over 50 percent" (Monday, Oct.
The Democratic Party's willingness to embrace anyone and everyone who both wore a uniform and disagrees with American strategy in Iraq reached its apogee of absurdity with the embrace of retired Lt.
The notion that several hundred members of the Class of 2012 may be admitted off the waitlist raises some serious concerns regarding new admissions policies.
It's that glorious time of year again ? most students are getting excited about their classes for the upcoming semester without fully realizing how much work is coming their way.
Apple's new "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" commercials are hilarious ? particularly because they target all that is wrong with Windows Vista ? and well, there's a lot of that.
Over the past year, Princeton has been rocked by two alcohol-related deaths at nearby Rider University.
In January of this year, the New Jersey Death Penalty Study Commission recommended that the "death penalty in New Jersey be abolished and replaced with life imprisonment without the possibility of parole." The bipartisan group, which was created in 2005 at the request of New Jersey Gov.
An admirable argumentRegarding 'Princeton's latex lies' (Friday, Nov.
One is dark-haired, from Egypt (by way of Delaware) and former president of the Anscombe Society; he is a fearless public speaker, likes to invoke Aristotle and copy-edited the Witherspoon Institute's pamphlet "Marriage and the Public Good: Ten Principles" (first principle: "Marriage is a personal union, intended for the whole of life, of husband and wife").The other is blond, from Michigan and a summer-analyst at a hedge fund in New York; he is a brilliant writer, likes to invoke Lacan and has worked for the Gay Family Rights Project (basic right: Homosexuals should have the same legal protections as heterosexuals, in particular as regards marriage and children).This past week, these two gentlemen, Sherif Girgis '08 and Brett Masters '08, each won a Rhodes Scholarship, which funds two or three years of study at Oxford and is arguably the most prestigious postgraduate award around.More remarkable, though, is that they are best friends.To some extent it's probably because Girgis and Masters both love Italian.
