Opinion

The future is now

The future, as it turns out, is a lot like the present but with slightly better robots. If the crowd gathered at the Javits Center this weekend for Wired Magazine's "NextFest" futurist convention was any indication, the future is also much, much nerdier.As if to say "get ready for boredom," NextFest planners placed a "kitchen of the future" exhibit at the front of the hall.

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Portrait of the artist as a sleeping lifeguard

This summer, while the rest of you held internships, ran political campaigns and generally furthered your lives, I spent my fourth summer in a row working as a lifeguard in the great state of Georgia.

Letters to the Editor

Audience has right to express disapprovalRegarding 'Promote a safe culture' (Tuesday, Sept.

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How I eat now

I gave up eating meat 16 months ago. At the time it was an easy choice. I was living in Rishikesh, India, a religious town on the banks of the Ganges in the foothills of the Himalayas that is a magnet for millions of Hindu pilgrims and one of the few places on earth where you can be arrested for eating a hamburger.My initial anxiety about adopting a meatless diet quickly gave way to gratefulness for the opportunity to live out a set of values that I had held for some time but never had the courage to substantiate.

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Good reform

After the passage last year of two student referenda that called for the USG to sign on to a Princeton Justice Project amicus brief on gay marriage and the Student Bill of Rights, this Board repeatedly endorsed a USG constitutional amendment that would raise the bar for petitioners seeking referenda and give the USG Senate limited power to veto such referenda before their presentation to the student body.

Advise and consent

Shopping period is over, schedule conflicts are resolved (though not always in ideal ways) and everyone is settled into their courses.

The unknown "we" behind the editorials

On Sept. 18, less than a week after Harvard announced that it was ending its early admission program, the Editorial Board of this newspaper argued in a favor of similar reform at Princeton.

Stumping instead of serving

Republican candidates wary of associating themselves with an unpopular president are finding lower-profile ways to raise money through the Fundraiser-in-Chief.One strategy has been to close President Bush's fundraisers off from the press: Before May 2006, when Bush's approval ratings hadn't yet reached the Fahrenheit freezing point, 34 percent of his fundraisers were closed.

Grading the PDF

Don't you have a final that you should be studying for?" "Nah, it's okay ? I got a B+ on the midterm and I'm PDF-ing the class." Such is the typical attitude of students toward the current pass/D/fail system.As this dialogue shows, the current rules encourage students who PDF a class to invest the least amount of effort possible.

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The dill on jim: Get that pickle off him!

One thing I did not expect to find when I came to Princeton was the huge number of varsity athletes on campus.

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Letters to the Editor

Professors need not choose between Blackboard and blogsRegarding 'Profs choose blogs over Blackboard' (Tuesday, Sept.

Why morality hasn't declined

Where ages past spoke of two things ? ability and character ? we now speak of one: ability.

Patriot shell games

This past Monday, Professor Uwe Reinhardt wrote a column in which he branded all those who support armed intervention and "wax romantic about America's epic struggle against evil" but do not serve in the military as "chicken hawks." He especially singled out college students who choose not to volunteer for the armed forces.

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Casting aspersions in Virginia

In today's ultra-scrutinizing media world, most of what comes out of a politician's mouth during an election campaign is heavily censored, vetted by his advisors and approved by voter focus groups.