Opinion

An open letter to the department of housing

Dear Undergraduate Housing Department:First of all, I just want to say thank you. I really appreciate that you took me off the wait list and gave me such a lovely room, even if I only found out about it several weeks after all the freshmen had their housing assignments (and had found themselves several hundred "friends" on thefacebook.com). But it's nice, it really is, and it definitely beats that tent my draw group and I were planning on pitching in the middle of the junior slums.But even though all my friends are now saying "I told you so" (meaning "I told you that being on the wait list is a sweet deal and I wish you would have shut up with your talking about pitching a tent in the middle of the junior slums"), and even though I know I shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth, I need to express some lingering concerns regarding how you guys treat Princeton students.I'm not going to rant about the general pitfalls of moving; I'm sure you've all moved houses, apartments or perhaps even yurts in your life.

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How Roberts might save Roe

Being pro-choice in America has become synonymous with being pro-Roe. Activists have spent the last 30 years convincing themselves ? and the American public ? that if Roe goes, the fight for reproductive freedom is lost.

In the aftermath of Katrina, a call to service

The joyful start of this new school year comes on the heels of great sorrow and woe, as the disaster of Hurricane Katrina has profoundly touched many members of the Princeton community.

Attention politics professors: I'm single

I've spent the better part of the last month working up the nerve to ask someone out. So who's the object of my affection?Get your mind out of the gutter ? I'm talking about finding a senior thesis adviser.Look, I know I'm not the only one who has made the connection: Securing an adviser for your thesis is a lot like finding a Houseparties date.

Admissions should be blind to legacy status

We all know how difficult it is to get into Princeton. Of the 13,695 prospective members of the Class of 2008 who applied to Princeton last year, only about 12 percent were offered admission.

A tarnished reputation

Earlier this month, dozens of Princetonians stood outside Frist Campus Center reading from their favorite texts to protest the use of the so-called "nuclear option" by Senate Republicans.

Kennan in 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.

Academic year, we hardly knew ye

VH1 would call it "The Best Academic Year Ever," or perhaps "I Love 2004/05." Nassau Hall's admissions pamphlets probably refer to it as "Princeton's glorious year of liberty, diversity and no fraternities." (They'd be lying, of course). And those of you who have followed my exploits during this academic year know it as "a year that will live in infamy," marking the beginning of open hostilities in the War on Fun.

The (alumni) ties that bind

Like many other faculty, I travel out in the country once or twice a year visiting alumni clubs, clubs organized on the curious principle that their members once did something.

Joke is on Harvard with Summers at the helm

Among the maxims of La Rochefoucauld is one that claims that there is something in the misfortunes of even our friends that is not entirely displeasing to us.

Academic year, we hardly knew ye

VH1 would call it "The Best Academic Year Ever," or perhaps "I Love 2004/05." Nassau Hall's admissions pamphlets probably refer to it as "Princeton's glorious year of liberty, diversity and no fraternities." (They'd be lying, of course). And those of you who have followed my exploits during this academic year know it as "a year that will live in infamy," marking the beginning of open hostilities in the War on Fun.

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Speech and action: The power of protest

Passing the Frist filibuster in its second night, a friend told me he had decided that the event's critics were right.

To the graduating Class of 2005

The world that we are about to enter is gravely different from the one which we left four years ago.

Letters to the Editor

Frats and sororities not the only exclusive groups aroundRegarding 'University confronts Greek life' (Monday, May 9):The school seems to be after fraternities and sororities only because they are symbolically more associated with drinking and exclusivity than anything else.

As summer approaches, looking ahead to the fall

Summer will soon be here and Princeton students are preparing to spread out to the four corners of the earth.

Protesting the mob mentality

Careful personal reflection has revealed that I have only two major pet peeves in life: people who waste their money on personalized license plates that are never worth what they say (e.g.

Perils and pitfulls of academic puppy love

The fall of my freshman year, I made the mistake my mother had warned me against. I got involved with an older man.