Opinion

University's green standards defy easy comparisons

Princeton's commitment to sustainability is both longstanding and distinctive. Our success is built on being proactive in developing approaches that are specifically tailored to the buildings, design and energy infrastructure of our campus.

Green enough?

Last week's "Planning in Progress" presentation highlighted several examples of Princeton's commitment to an environmentally friendly campus, including a plan to plant grass on the roof of the soon-to-be constructed Butler dorms.

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What profs do when not teaching

This fall, I'm on leave. What does that actually mean? Am I lying about, enjoying the golden fall?

Casey and DeWine: A shift in politics

Amid the hubbub about whether the Republican majority in Congress would collapse, the ideological significance of one of the key Democratic Senate victories has been overlooked, simply because Pennsylvania's Bob Casey will bear a D next to his name when he takes office next January.

Requiring religion?

Recently, Harvard's Task Force on General Education ? charged with revising that university's core curriculum ? proposed the establishment of a "Reason and Faith" distribution requirement for all undergraduates. According to the task force, if the proposal is implemented, the courses that fulfill this requirement will focus on "the interplay between religious and secular institutions, practices and ideas."Our administration should follow Harvard's lead in promoting the study of religion, but it should not do so by ghettoizing the study of religion and creating more requirements for student to fulfill as Harvard's plan will do.

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Disturbing images force thought

I'll admit it. The blown-up images of mangled fetuses on Washington Road on Oct. 23 disturbed me.

Lip service

A beautiful Tuesday morning during Fall Break, while the squirrels merrily hoarded their nuts and the leaves rustled in the crisp breeze, I dragged myself out of bed and hauled myself off to work at Frist Campus Center.

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On Princeton gear

Looking around at the people in my anthropology course, I saw that about 25 percent of the class was wearing "Princeton" clothes.

Letters to the Editor

Denial of appalling acts against Israel does no serviceRegarding 'The fakes that made a hundred martyrs' (Thursday, Oct.

The public meaning of marriage

To discuss marriage adequately, we must ask what business the state has with it anyway. Why does it not regulate friendships or intentionally temporary unions?

On yesterday, Election Day

Yesterday, Nov. 7, was a momentous day. It was the National Day of Northern Catalonia, Leon Trotsky's birthday and the day that the Foo Fighters released "Skin and Bones," their sixth studio album.Oh, yes, and the midterm elections were yesterday, too.I must apologize.

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The coming heat wave

Winter means many things for us at Princeton: the first snow, a good excuse to skip class and, above all else, the bone-chilling, teeth-chattering ... heat of our older dorm buildings.

From the Right

This year's New Jersey Senate race has a lot of political analysts scratching their heads. Bob Menendez, the Democratic incumbent has out-raised state Sen.

A culture of life?

President Bush recently distanced himself from the sex scandals plaguing his fellow Republicans. People go to the polls, he remarked, to strengthen the economy and national defense.

Vote in the nation's service

Today's midterm elections bring into high relief the urgent policy challenges facing America, and indeed, the pressing need for strong and principled leadership in the federal government.

Setting slaves free v. decrying slavery

A couple of weeks ago Brown University released a report detailing the historical relationship of that institution to the transatlantic slave trade.