Last week, the University Board of Trustees decided to commit endowment income to increasing grants by $2,000 for all juniors and seniors on financial aid in order to provide financial support for those wishing to join eating clubs.
How many Princeton students are aware that Vice President Dick Cheney, who so eagerly marketed the invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003 on TV talk shows as something like cakewalk, had only a decade earlier predicted that such a venture would engender precisely the mayhem and bloodbath we see in Iraq today?
I'm from New Jersey, and I love this state. Many of my fellow peers, however, love to rip on New Jersey, quickly dismissing my home state as "the armpit of America." They constantly whine about the fact that Jersey drivers are incompetent and are so lazy that they don't even pump their own gas.
The United Nations General Assembly passed its first resolution in 1946. In the shadow of the American atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the highest priority of the new body was a call for plans "for the elimination from national armaments of atomic weapons and of all other major weapons adaptable to mass destruction." On Tuesday, U.N.
Two strong candidatesRegarding 'USG debate takes personal turn' (Thursday, Nov.
This year's USG election may prove to be the most important one in recent years.
Last week, The Daily Princetonian published a sneak preview article for the upcoming USG elections.
Fatma Omar an-Najar was a 64-year-old mother of nine and grandmother of 41 from the Gaza Strip who blew herself up at an Israeli checkpoint a week ago.
Diversity policies have no impact on whitesRegarding: 'Rejected applicant alleges bias against Asians' (Monday, Nov.
After fighting for more than a century for the right to vote, women are now seizing the right to be elected: Chancellor Angela Merkel in Germany, President Michelle Bachelet in Chile and Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) are likely to be followed by Segolene Royal in France.
As this past April slid by and the deadline for my final college choice approached, the intensity of the decision that faced me only increased.
Much has been written in these pages about Jian Li, the Yale freshman who filed a lawsuit against Princeton for not admitting him despite his excellent academic qualifications.
With less than three weeks left until the end of the first semester, students have already begun to receive those dreaded end-of-term paper topics.
I guess I'm the kind of professor The Daily Princetonian Editorial Board called for in "Requiring Religion?" since I "integrate religious topics" into my courses instead of "ghettoizing" them.
I was always excited to go to college and get away from Dallas, Texas, and what I saw as its close-mindedness and paternalistic Southern racism masquerading as good ole' southern values.
