Opinion

Transparent investing practices needed at University

Complicity. It is in the clothes we wear, the food we eat and the investments we make. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in his 1860 essay, "Fate," "You have just dined, and, however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity." And yet even today, as more and more investors and companies recognize the value of Socially Responsible Investing (SRI), the slaughterhouse is still very much hidden carefully out of sight of consumers and investors alike.The admirable goal of PCAIR (Princeton Coalition Advocating Investor Responsibility) is to educate the University community about the implications of its endowment investments and ensure that our values as a community, whatever they may be, are at least taken into consideration when endowment managers decide investment strategy.Why shouldn't we attempt to know more about how the University's endowment is being spent?

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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.

A tarnished reputation

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

Alma matters: Being the loyal opposition

In my last column, I took some (easy) jabs at Bill Frist '74. In response, my father, Sen. Frist's classmate and fellow Cottager, laid on the Jewish guilt pretty doggone thick.

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Cultural studies course need not be required

Prior to leaving Princeton, every student should be exposed to another culture, region or country.

On the joy of truly trivial internships

Trying to find an internship in New York City as a freshman was like walking around the greatest amusement park in the world before I was tall enough to ride the roller coasters.

Battlefield report from the War on Fun

This is Powell Fraser, reporting from the front lines of the War on Fun. I'm on assignment for The Daily Princetonian, sent to cover the war in my own Hunter S.

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Letters to the Editor

University welcomes scholars with a range of viewsRegarding 'Khalidi candidacy for new chair draws fire' (Friday, April 22):While I am Chair of the Board of the Center for Jewish Life (CJL), the views I present here are my own.

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'One-state solution' prejudiced

I don't know all that much about Rashid Khalidi or his academic output. I understand, however, that he is a vocal advocate of the one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, i.e.

Scholarship, not politics, is the measure of a professor

A bit of the controversy that has shaken Columbia for the past year reached Princeton this week with the confirmation of Rashid Khalidi's candidacy for a newly endowed faculty chair here at the University.

Why ducks float: a frank discussion

Intellectual conversation at Princeton can take some truly odd turns.A few days ago at brunch, one of my friends was ribbing another for his vegetarianism.

UHS eating disorder program is strong

The serious problem of eating disorders among college students has recently received considerable attention in The Daily Princetonian, with an April 22 front-page article on a survey by the Eating Concerns Peer Educators (ECPE) student group and an April 25 editorial by the 'Prince' that the "University should focus attention on eating disorders."The entire staff of University Health Services (UHS) would like to commend the members of the ECPE for their efforts to raise awareness of this issue, as we share their strong concern about the prevalence of eating and body image problems among Princeton students.

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The return of the popularity contest election

When I was in eighth grade, I voted in my first election. A few of my peers stood before us and then we voted.

Letters to the Editor

Vulvography column objectifies womenRegarding 'Vulvography' (Thursday, April 21, 2005):After the 'Prince' column "Vulvagraphy" angered me, it saddened me even more ? the two young women who wrote the piece mistake their objectification of women's bodies for humor.If one were to remove the painfully sophomoric puns running throughout the piece (the writers are sophomores, so we'll have to forgive them these), it would be an anatomy lesson.