When Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, attempted to bring Oxford and Cambridge's residential college system to Princeton a hundred years ago, he envisioned a cohesive community of students who would live and dine together for four years.
The easy part of building a new system of campus life from scratch has now been completed. In a school as fabulously wealthy as Princeton with scores of gazillionaire alumni eager to donate to their alma mater, constructing Chateau Whitman or rebuilding Butler was never going to be a problem once the decision to do so was made.
On Sept. 27, the campus will celebrate and formally dedicate Whitman College. This day will be remembered as a critical moment in the history of the University, for Whitman represents far more than a new 250,000 sq.
Princeton University's admission office annually assembles an incoming class of astounding diversity, which confronts professors with the daunting challenge of finding the right intellectual pitch for their lectures.To illustrate, according to the Dean of the College, the Class of 2011 has the following breakdown:Geeks (11.2 percent),Policy Wonks (14.8 percent),Tigers (58.9 percent),Party Animals (15.1 percent).Each of these groups comes to class, if they do, for entirely different reasons.Geeks eagerly seek knowledge for its own sake, whether or not it relates to the human condition.
The newness of this academic year has already been diminished by tired rhetoric carried over from the last.
What's the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning? Head to the bathroom? Brush your teeth?
Renovated Campus Club will benefit all studentsRegarding 'Campus Club to reopen as study space' (Tuesday, May 1, 2007):As a former officer of Campus Club, I applaud the Council of the Princeton University Community for recognizing the benefits that a renovated Campus Club could bring to the University community.
Here, we can smell endings from miles away. Wood fences damp from the thick night air of May, freshly transplanted flowers, the cooking plastic of huge tents in the sun and fresh mulch and manure spread ironically to impress alumni perfume our final days.
The announced plans for a reopened Campus Club are encouraging. As it stands, the club will provide several social venues that are in short supply elsewhere on campus.
Two months ago, I wrote a column about how the University evaded much of its state-mandated obligation to provide affordable housing. Vice President and Secretary Robert Durkee '69 promptly replied to the column in a letter published on this page.I respond to Durkee today not to get in the last word ? he has been at Princeton for 40 years and will always have the last word on all things Princeton ? but because his letter encapsulates some of what has disappointed me most about the University over the past four years.
Helpful eating tipsRegarding 'Wash your hands clean' (Thursday, April 28, 2007):I commend The Daily Princetonian for running this piece criticizing something we take for granted everyday and seldom question: food.
This is the end. It was the deal since the beginning ? nine months at Princeton University.
Something's missing at Princeton: Something so important, so central to the whole undertaking that its absence is astonishing.
Now that theses are in and Houseparties are over, many seniors are reflecting on their times at Princeton.
