Opinion

Devotion shows through

January marks both the end of the fall semester and the twilight of the USG presidential term. In what has become an annual tradition, the Editorial Board of The Daily Princetonian offers a performance review at the end of each USG president's tenure.A number of issues have captured the attention of the student body over the past year, including the plans surrounding the four year residential colleges, the decision to increase eating club financial aid, the continuing policy to combat grade inflation and the reorganization of Campus Club. As our USG President, Alex Lenahan '07 has had a hand in shaping the student body's response in every one of these issues.Like past presidents, Lenahan excelled in some respects and fell short in others.One of Lenahan's chief weakness lies in his difficulties in communicating to the public.

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Letters to the Editor

Abortion oped uses widely discredited partisan scienceRegarding 'Pro-choice and women's health' (Thursday, Dec.

Shooting yourself in the foot for finals

As students brace themselves for final examinations, I would like to leak to the press the professoriate's most closely held trade secret: Multiple choice questions aside, grading papers and examinations can be subject to human error and, worse still, to personal bias.As the further away an exam moves from answers expressed in mathematical symbols toward written prose, the room for error and bias increases.

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Letters to the Editor

Ruckus discriminates against students and musical artistsRegarding 'Quite a Ruckus' (Wednesday, Jan.

One death, a travesty. Three thousand, a statistic.

Both sides of the American war debate recently observed macabre milestones from Iraq. The news of Saddam Hussein's execution for crimes against humanity, dramatized through video montages tracing his decline from defiant dictator, to lousy POW, to corpse, was received with delight and no shortage of smug satisfaction.

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Quite a Ruckus

Despite the ruckus that has been caused by the vocal frustration some students have expressed toward Ruckus ? the software which allows Princeton students to electronically access over 2.1 million songs free of charge ? the service makes a positive contribution to student life and should not be suspended.

Letters to the Editor

Princeton Project will hopefully inspire ideasRegarding 'Dean lays out foreign policy vision' (Friday, Dec.

Thank you Larry DuPraz

Hearing that Larry DuPraz recently passed away hit me with a great sense of sadness.

Keep Firestone open

When students return from winter break next month, all of us will face the usual gloom of papers and exams.

Before you go home, pull the plug

This week, all around campus, you'll see bright green posters asking you to "Pull the Plug on Global Warming." It's been a long semester, you're busy and you're ready to go home.

Doing something about being pimp-slapped

The University's latest financial aid announcement took the student population by storm. The funny thing is that the night before the announcement, as a continuation of my griping about the University's stinging indifference towards the plight of low-income students, I held my roommate hostage by complaining how certain clubs are less financially accessible than others.

Letters to the Editor

Ebanks' oped misses Girgis' point entirelyRegarding 'Marriage matters' (Friday, Dec.

The ethical implications of fairy tales

Christmas magic does not only consist of people trying to be a little nicer than usual, pine trees, sparkly decorations or holiday songs.

Helping you legally download

In 1999, Shawn Fanning made history when he launched Napster, the first peer-to-peer music sharing program on the web.

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You can't handle the truth

The most explosive and far-reaching news story of the year has nothing to do with underage pages and a certain Republican ex-Congressman.

Pro-choice and women's health

I know what you're thinking: "Cripes, another piece on abortion." To be honest, I can sympathize.