This year, Princeton and other universities are expected to receive a record number of applications, as the nation's population of college-bound high school seniors reaches a demographic peak.
"Barack Obama is my n?-a," was the way one Iowan voiced his support for the Democratic Illinois senator to a campaign volunteer, a friend of mine, before flashing a genuine smile and thumbs-up.
For five days, Manchester, N.H. felt like the center of the universe. Because open-seat races in both parties frame the presidential race in 2008, New Hampshire was the perfect political storm.
As I've watched the political coverage of the first caucus and first primary, I've been struck by what I consider the fundamental weakness of the coverage.
Editorial misinformed readers on LabyrinthRegarding 'Lost in the Labyrinth,' (Friday, Dec.
Last month, Harvard made headlines for revamping its financial aid policy in order to make the school more affordable to students from middle-class families.
It was on a Wednesday night in mid-November when Francisco Nava '09 first told me that his life had been threatened.
At OIT cluster printers across campus, the pages pile up like leaves in the fall: essay drafts, half-completed problem sets, course readings and surplus flyers.
Update: Francisco Nava '09 has since admitted that he fabricated the threat messages described in this article.
Princeton students are brilliant.This at least is what we are told, and since it benefits my ego, let's assume that it is true.What we aren't ? at least not always ? is well-informed.
Professors' responseRegarding 'Standards of Intolerance' (Thursday, Dec.
So our obvious rivals are Harvard and Yale, the other two of the HYP tradition. Standing at number two and number three on the U.S.
I'm a free speech absolutist. I believe that entirely free discourse and the ability to say things that are offensive, idiotic and insulting is one of the cornerstones of American Democracy and a free society.
Generalizations of Hudson are incorrectRegarding 'Hudson Valley' (Thursday, Nov.
Most Princetonians treat the Anscombe Society with a sort of bemused indifference. We see Anscombers as anachronistic and perhaps a bit quixotic, longing for the days before the crass commercialization of sexuality.