Opinion

Kennan, the shy, sensitive outsider

This column originally ran in the Feb. 20, 2004 issue of the 'Prince,' during George Kennan's 100th birthday celebration.George Kennan '25, the great statesman and visionary, whose 100th birthday Princeton celebrates this week, was a miserable outcast as an undergraduate.

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A class of his own

It's hard for us to imagine the world of George F. Kennan '25 as anything but newsreel footage. The Long Telegram, the Marshall Plan, the vocabulary of "containment" and "rollback": these are the relics of the early Cold War, a historical moment long since incorporated into high-school history textbooks.

Princetonian ideals embodied in Kennan

George F. Kennan, '25 died on Thursday. He was a great Princetonian, a great American, a great world citizen.

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Improving late meals

In most of America, a bowl of salad and a cup of tea is considered one meal. But if the pricing in Frist is any indication, it must be two.Although the Frist salad bowls are deep and the mixed greens are hearty, they do not usually stave off the hunger of one person for more than one meal.

Princeton's richness only deepens with time

Coming back to Princeton as Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School was a jolt in many ways. It is quite different to be teaching and working in an environment where you were an undergraduate than where you were a graduate student (I was a law student at Harvard and spent many years teaching there). Your undergraduate years are years of discovery, of maturation, of learning through experience and sometimes embarrassment.

Breaking new ground: Princeton's war on fun

This aggression will not stand. I have long suspected the administration to be the perpetrators of a dark and sinister plan to bring an end to fun on campus.

In liberal arts world, profs want full dedication

Like a fermented grape, I know when it's time to let out a fine whine. And now is that time.What am I going to whine about, you ask?

Letters to the Editor

Democrat-rich faculty not fine for some . . .Regarding 'Democrat-rich faculty is just fine' (Wednesday, March 9, 2005):Until [Jon] Wiener has sat in a classroom, as a Democratic student,with a professor who is a Republican and vocal about his viewpoint, and a class full of other Republicans equally vocal and derogatory about Democratic viewpoints, he can't really claim to understand what the pressure is like within a classroom setting for conservative Republican students.

U. should make program to study genocide

The decision to introduce a new academic program or department must be among the most difficult for a university to make.

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Democrat-rich faculty is just fine

Is the Princeton faculty too liberal? Oped columnist (and Princeton Ph.D.) George F. Will complains that faculties like Princeton's are "intellectual versions of one-party nations;" David Horowitz of FrontPageMag.com has complained about what he calls "the atmosphere of intolerance and hate towards conservatives" at Princeton.How liberal is the Princeton faculty?

'Guess Who?' The college edition

For his graduation present, my friend Rob's parents gave him "Guess Who? ? Travel Edition". If the question was "Guess Who's getting a good graduation present," the answer was clearly "not you.""Guess Who?" is a detective board game in the tradition of twenty questions.

Final exam timing should be more flexible

The University's final exam scheduling system is in need of repair. Any student who has had four exams in five days or lost two weeks of vacation because of an exam on the very last day of finals period will tell you as much.

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Letters to the Editor

Legacies strengthen Princeton communityRegarding "Admissions should be blind to legacy status" (Friday, March 4):The author of the recent editorial who wishes that Princeton admissions be blind to legacy preferences is living in a world of youthful idealism.

The pay-off from women's rights

Long decried as too controversial for foreign policy, the promotion of women's rights is now acknowledged as critical to economic development and good governance, especially in developing countries.

Suffering the 'wit of the staircase'

I was horribly nervous for my interview for the Martin Dale award. My stomach churned, my hands shook, my voice trembled.

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