While the eating clubs of Prospect Avenue and the soon-to-be redesigned residential college dining halls have dominated campus discussion of dining options, a significant percentage of upperclassman (over 20 percent) do not eat at either.
COLUMN HIGHLIGHTS- CNN.com now offers bulleted "story highlights" that sum up articles in three sentences.- People who hate to read and lazy people everywhere rejoice.- Your grandpa's rant about how lazy kids are today sees a 20 percent increase in validity.CNN.com, in its ongoing battle against the International Reading Association, has added "story highlights" to the beginning of all of its news stories, which sum up the story for the reader in three short sentences.
Princeton Pro-Choice Vox would like to call attention to executive power gone awry. The day President Bush took office, he reimposed the Global Gag Rule, which was initiated by Reagan and revoked by Clinton soon after his inauguration.The Gag Rule, formally known as the Mexico City Policy, requires "nongovernmental organizations [NGOs] to agree as a condition of their receipt of Federal funds that such organizations would neither perform nor actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other nations." In practice, the Global Gag Rule forces NGOs receiving money from the United States Agency for International Development to cease mentioning abortion, cease referring women seeking abortions to abortion providers and cease providing abortion services with private funding.
Silver's response was hypocritcalRegarding 'Letters to the Editor' (Tuesday, Feb.
Three recent campus incidents left me thinking about journalism at Princeton. The first was the fiasco that erupted around the faux column The Daily Princetonian wrote mocking rejectee Jian Li, whose feelings of entitlement were rivaled only by the outrage sparked by this article's unintentional racism.
Committee recognizes both student and faculty inputRegarding 'Choosing a new calendar' (Friday, March 2, 2007):Let me try to respond to some of the questions raised in the editorial about the academic calendar.What happened to Calendar C?
This is the time of year when our department begins to interview faculty candidates. Every week we see one or two bright young things (relatively speaking ? they are usually in their late-20s or even mid- 30s) who want to join the academic rat race.
A sense of accomplishment following the recent announcement that 106 freshmen have been slated for Whitman College is tempered by an important caveat.
Walking down Prospect Avenue is something most upperclassmen do multiple times everyday. If we're not walking to meals, we're walking to class.
In the spring of 2006, I was invited to partake in a series of meetings between black student group leaders on campus in order to discuss the possible reformation of Black Leaders on Campus (BLOC). Scheduling conflicts often arose between the black groups on campus, serving to starve most of these organizations of the strong turnout they hungered for, and BLOC was to be a means of coordinating this mash of events.Under the umbrella of the Black Student Union (BSU), BLOC had existed in years past, but for one reason or another it became dormant after a short amount of time.
Change comes slowly and cautiously at Princeton, a University known for holding fast to its traditions.
Grade deflation work was done mainly 'behind the scenes'Regarding 'USG solicits grading complaints' (Wednesday, Feb.
"I would have gone to Tulane, if it weren't for Katrina," I often tell people. That sentence follows the shrug, the uncomfortable glance downward, the cultivated modesty of, "Oh ... um, I go to school at Princeton." I visited New Orleans twice before the flood.
With all the temerity most have for the treatment of a topic so uniquely inspirational for irrational lunatics of all persuasions, I would like to discuss abortion.
The federal Department of Education (DOE) has been considering mandating standardized testing for college students.
