For those of you who may be dismayed by the recent losses of the Princeton University men's basketball team, fear not!
If there is one idea that Princetonians subscribe to most, it is prestige. In nearly all aspects of our lives ? in our selection of courses, activities, social environments and career decisions ? prestige can be a crucial and often decisive factor in the choices we make.This phenomenon is hardly surprising.
Regarding 'Dorm smoking ban goes too far, sacrifices privacy' (Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2005):I would be sorely remiss in my duties as Chief Medical Officer if I failed to offer a vigorous or at least, "healthy" response to this editorial.
It has now been a month since fall semester Dean's Date and several weeks since final grades were due, but we are willing to bet that many students have yet to receive all of their graded work back from their professors and preceptors.
It's Saint Valentine's Day. The chocolate is flying off the shelves at CVS, and the florists are striking a bonanza.
What was it we were supposed to learn from "A Beautiful Mind"? That there's nothing wrong with being crazy if you're brilliant?
When I was a young, naïve high school senior, I assumed that an early decision "Yes!" from Dean Fred meant that I was done with applications for a long time to come.
Yesterday, President Shirley Tilghman, along with Susan Hockfield, the President of MIT and John Hennessy, the President of Stanford University, released a statement responding to Harvard President Lawrence Summers' controversial remarks on women and the sciences.
Princeton University operates at full tilt for roughly nine months of the year. In the summer months, when students flock to Washington, New York, and the cosmopolitan corners of Europe for glamorous internships, some of Princeton's hardest working Tigers find themselves in a less desirable circumstance: homeless.That's right.
To the rest of the world, when people "bicker" they are engaged in a mini-quarrel, a squabble, if you will.
Earlier this week, the 'Prince' Editorial Board complained that the University's decision to accept the common application compromises the "essential personality and spirit" of Princeton.I do not doubt that there are special features of a Princeton education that distinguish us from our peer institutions.
Recently I was reading yet another newsflash on the troubled lives of college students.Not one of those drunken-orgying-lifestyle pieces but one that actually resembled a real college environment.
If you will allow me, I would like to bring your imaginations back to early December, 2004. The ground was hard, the wind biting, and activism was in the air.
Every few weeks, members of our University community find new reasons to attack the eating club system.
Janet Dickerson, vice president for campus life, approved a smoking ban in all undergraduate dormitories last week that will take effect next fall.
Common application lacks personalityRegarding 'University should keep its personality as it expands' (Monday, Feb.
