The New York Times published a story on Monday, Sept. 25, detailing the Iraqi custom of the "generator man," a term for the men who run makeshift power grids from home generators to provide energy during the daily power outages in Iraq.
Before football was played in State College, Pa., South Bend, Ind. or Ann Arbor, Mich., the game was played not too far from here.
Miriam Marian was a student at Princeton University. A bright young girl, brimming with intellectual curiosity and compassion for humanity, she came armed with a stellar resume, practically perfect grades, spelling bee awards and a letter of recommendation from Kofi Annan.
I was in Whole Foods last week, looking for canned chicken. After many minutes of searching I asked an employee if he knew where it was.
Folks need to stop complaining and start fixing club sportsRegarding 'For club sports, challenges that spoil the fun' (Friday, Oct.
Professor of psychology Daniel Oppenheimer is a hero. He has finally confirmed our lingering suspicion that many of the students using big words in precept are, in fact, pretentious twits.As reported in The Daily Princetonian last week, Oppenheimer was recently awarded an Ig Nobel prize for his paper "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly."Oppenheimer substituted complex words with shorter synonyms in graduate school applications.
Today's West is by far the most heterogeneous society the world has ever seen. Yet despite the crossing of ethnic boundaries and progress toward cultural integration, there is still one enclave of reactionary separatism that holds a great deal of global influence: the Vatican.Pope Benedict XVI's Sept.
Sadly, the design for the new Butler College is here to stay. Though it will doubtless be an improvement over its pest-ridden and pessimism-breeding predecessor, surely Princeton can do better.The current Butler College website is a masterwork of architectural propaganda that euphemizes Butler's most egregious structural and aesthetic flaws of which no Princetonian is unaware: "Made of brown brick over reinforced concrete, the tight scale and undulating surfaces and bays create a modern interpretation of the Gothic look." The part about brick and concrete is true, but "tight scale" is really just code for cramped and congested.
I have always been in vehement opposition to the war in Iraq, until about a month ago when I started vehemently supporting it.
In the past month, you may have noticed individuals running around campus wearing light blue T-shirts with bright red writing emblazoned on the back, bearing a simple request: "Ask me how to vote on November 7th." We, the co-chairs of Princeton Votes 2006 ? Princeton's nonpartisan voter registration and education organization ? hope that by now you have chosen to register to vote and that you are planning on voting on Election Day.Since the founding of P-Votes three years ago, we have registered nearly 1,900 Princeton students, faculty and staff to vote in all 50 states.
On Thursday, the University announced a partnership with Nike to outfit all of Princeton's varsity athletes with the swoosh. Senior Associate Director of Athletics Jaime Zaninovich gushed that not only would the deal equip the University's athletes with gear of the highest quality, but also that Nike would be the "most appropriate partner" for Princeton because of its membership in the Fair Labor Association (FLA).Nike is not an appropriate partner for Princeton.
On Wednesday, Oct. 4, demonstrators from two Columbia student groups ? the International Socialist Organization and the Chicano Caucus ? stormed the stage at a College Republicans-sponsored event featuring the founder of the Minuteman Project, a controversial group which patrols the United States-Mexico border for illegal immigrants.
Inquiring into its past is often a good way to find out why something is the curious way it is now.
There are lots of things I will miss about college when I start working next year: Uwe Reinhardt lectures, beirut tournaments and seeing every single person I know walking on Prospect Avenue after meals to name a few.
While talented recruited athletes get the best training that money can buy, the rest of us get club sports ? and at Princeton that does not seem to count for much.
