This fall, Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel and I met with several hundred students in 10 different information sessions to answer questions about the launch of the four-year residential college system in September 2007.
Do you know what a liquid is?" This was a legitimate question posed to me and a friend as we stepped up to have our bags x-rayed before we checked them at the Bermuda airport.
Let the shameful wall of exclusion [between the disabled and those without disability] finally come tumbling down," said former President George H.W.
I've learned from conversations with other seniors that many of us have had a similar experience: the infuriating conversation with a well-meaning adult who, in the course of making small talk, reduces our majors to their economic exchange values and inquires into our (potentially as yet nonexistent) plans for next year.
Whoever could attend the address in the Wilson School's Dodds Auditorium of Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz last Thursday experienced public (relations) diplomacy at its very best.Unfortunately, this polished version of PR-diplomacy to portray Pakistan as the economically rapidly expanding soon-to-be-more democratic ally of the United States and the West represents wishful imagery (or deliberate policy), especially in a time when British Intelligence and MI5 warns about many more potential terror threats ? like the one last August ? perhaps emanating from Pakistan and when Washington gets increasingly troubled about the possible continuous hideouts of Osama bin Laden and Mular Omar supposedly in Pakistan's NorthWestern territories, which seem also to serve for the Taliban for fall-back and recruiting.
Last Tuesday saw a lot of voting problems.News coverage of the poll problems mostly implied that the problems were minimal, brushing them aside with trivializing labels.
As recently reported by The Daily Princetonian, the Committee on the Course of Study drafted two possible calendars ? "Calendar B" and "Calendar C" ? as alternatives to our current calendar. In December, the committee will make its final recommendation to the faculty, who will then vote to approve a calendar.
Bad news, Princetonians: According to early reports, it appears that Harvard will take over the lone spot atop the rankings next year.
Student opinion can influence calendarRegarding 'Malkiel proposes new calendar' (Thursday, Nov.
So, America has turned blue, the color of Democratic victory. Meanwhile Iraq is turning a pallid green, the color of Shiite fundamentalism and dead civilians.
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.
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.
This fall, I'm on leave. What does that actually mean? Am I lying about, enjoying the golden fall?
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.
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.
