Opinion

The trappings of solidarity

Let's face it: being a freshman is not easy. Between trying to find your niche in a completely new environment and coping with the physical and emotional separation from home, it's a wonder that (most) of the incoming students manage to keep their sanity.You deal with the same questions all and every day: "Hi, what's your name?

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Letters to the Editor

University maintains its confidence in Robertson lawsuitRegarding 'Slaughter unfazed by family's suit' (Thursday, Oct.

Stop and look around

Through the haze of job interviews, thesis reading and grad school applications, seniors may feel like graduation cannot come soon enough.

Tiger? Bulldog? Tiger?

So here I am at Yale, one of the twin Colossi of the North, sitting in the incredible marble and granite tower that is the Beinecke rare book library and procrastinating.

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A mark of separation or veiled bigotry?

Last week, British courts upheld a state primary school's decision to suspend a Muslim teaching assistant because she refused to take off her veil in the presence of men.

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Renewing our commitment to renewables

New York University's recent decision to purchase 118,000,000 kWh of wind power (equivalent to 100 percent of their annual electricity consumption) has highlighted for us all the pivotal role of academic communities as torchbearers in the global movement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Generating the wrong man in Iraq

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.

Let the games begin!

Before football was played in State College, Pa., South Bend, Ind. or Ann Arbor, Mich., the game was played not too far from here.

In memoriam: Miriam Marian

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.

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Looking for canned chicken

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.

Letters to the Editor

Folks need to stop complaining and start fixing club sportsRegarding 'For club sports, challenges that spoil the fun' (Friday, Oct.

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On erudite vernacular, i.e. big words

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.

Benedict XVI: Undoing past progress?

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.

Butler blunders

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.

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