One of the differences between being a history student and being a historian is that the historian does not really have the luxury of being able to take anything for granted.
The recent announcement of a "grandiose" Gatsby-themed party to be coordinated by the Forbes College Director of Student Life (DSL) highlights the growing importance of this new kind of administrator.
When class ended at the end of October, I was more than ready to go home for fall break. A week of midterms and writing papers had left me stressed out, sleep-deprived, mentally drained and in desperate need to unwind from the busy life I had been leading at Princeton.
The real barriers to peaceRegarding 'Barriers to peace' (Thursday, Oct.
At a recent Princeton Borough Council meeting, Councilman Roger Martindell proclaimed that the Borough Police were among the most "underworked and overpaid" in the country. This statement came one day after the arrest of three Borough and Township residents in connection with 10 recent Borough break-ins, including ones that occurred on-campus. The three men in question are suspected members of the Salvadoran gang Mara Salvatrucha, otherwise known as MS-13.To the great fortune of all Princeton residents, the incidents in question only involved the theft of laptops, credit cards and jewelry.
Our generation is apathetic, American campuses are dead, and we're more interested in career fairs and free T-shirts than poverty or politics.
Does Princeton spend enough of its endowment every year? Do other rich schools? Outside the bubble, a lot of people loudly insist that we don't.
The continuing expansion of the undergraduate student body creates the need to expand facilities as well.
When I write columns, even ones I think are especially provocative, I receive few written responses.
I first learned the term "male chauvinist pig" when I was four. I was watching Beauty and the Beast, and my mom told me that that was what Gaston was, a male chauvinist pig.
Preventing cancer in thousands of Americans every year is a good thing, right? When one examines the case of the new HPV vaccine in the United States, the unexpected answer appears to be, "not yet, maybe later." If you are unlucky enough to be a woman over the age of 26 or even unluckier to be a man, you are currently most likely missing out on getting this vaccine.
There is a sort of intellectual tradition that one might charitably call the chamber pot of history, in which all sorts of slimy loud things are congealed.
College reminds me of high school. Well, not exactly ? the lectures are much bigger, the assignments are tougher, etc.
Everyone grew up with a childhood sports hero to look up to. Mine was Michael Jordan. I loved the way he graced the basketball court with his extraordinary talent, the way he sometimes singlehandedly took over games to lead his team to victory and the way he always managed to perform in the clutch when it seemed as if the entire city of Chicago had throw its weight onto his shoulders.
