For all that I enjoy his columns in The New York Times, David Brooks' Organization Kid article back in 2001 always rubbed me the wrong way.
Terri Schiavo's story raises many important questions, but one rises above all others: Are some lives unworthy of being lived?
Terri Schiavo dies, reads the Washington Post's news alert on my desktop. After gradually starving her to death, in accordance with American law and our jurists' interpretation thereof, Schiavo finally has left us.
With her passing yesterday morning, Terri Schiavo's wishes have finally been honored. Since her husband first tried to cease life support more than seven years ago, the question of her fate has made its way through the judicial system, into the halls of Congress ? even to the desk of the president.
I'd planned to avoid the recent legacy admissions debate, since people usually ignore the opinion of a possible beneficiary.
David Horowitz's oped last Thursday argued that "intellectual pluralism" is sorely absent at Princeton and that an appropriate remedy would be the adoption of a "bill of rights" guaranteeing academic freedom to all students and faculty.I do not doubt that faculty members are sometimes pressured to conform to the preferred orthodoxy of their more senior colleagues.
Poker is as valid as any other passionI think it's interesting to note that if I was a diligent student, spending all of my hours studying and sacrificing social activities in the pursuit of academic glory, that most would consider this an honorable (though perhaps not desirable) endeavor.
In a classroom far, far away . . .Moderator: Hello and welcome to the first annual meeting of the Princeton Campus Publications.
Despite being armed with the Student Course Guide, learned words of academic advisers and stories from peers, students still encounter the occasional bad class.
Every time I awaken from a stupor on Firestone's B-floor, gorged on Kipling or Chesterton and inevitably several hours late for some crucial appointment, I pass several students assiduously tapping away at their laptops or bent over a text with furrowed brow and index cards.These students fill me with envy.
A few months back, I was lucky enough to have dinner with one of this year's fellows from the James Madison Program, which is considered by many to be the nexus of conservative academia on campus.
On Saturday afternoon I sat in front of a friend's television, absolutely spellbound. On the screen the announcers narrated rebounds, turnovers and fouls as the camera panned over crowds dressed in blue and gold.
University aims to help those with gambling addictionRegarding 'The future of Princetonian poker' (Thursday, March 24):While the University administration does have a policy of upholding the laws of the state of New Jersey, its response to gambling on campus reflects our commitment to supporting the health and progress of Princeton's students.Like having a social drink or working out in the gym, playing poker can be fun, recreational and healthy.
Next month, members of the classes of 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 will elect a graduating senior to serve as Young Alumni Trustee, a full-fledged member of the University's Board of Trustees.
This is not just another fluffy, feel-good column, and you will need to put your thinking cap on to follow the technicalities.In the part of Dillon Gym where, since time immemorial, I have been assigned "space" at roughly a hundred dollars per cubic foot, the lockers are arranged along corridors 22 feet long and 5.5 feet wide.
I guarantee that if you went around and randomly asked 20 Princeton students what Doyle Brunsen, Pocket Rockets and "the flop" have in common, everyone would know.
