To put it mildly, Princeton's academic calendar is idiosyncratic. Some students think our calendar, with its five annual recesses and a first semester that stretches from early September to late January, is a piece of tradition worth preserving.
I started 15 months ago. Fifteen months to research, write and edit a senior thesis. With that kind of luxury, I was bound to create a masterpiece.
As my powers wane I begin to look around for a less strenuous line of work, one that doesn't demand too much in the way of thought, and perhaps goes a bit lighter on the Latin and the footnotes.
Prior to students' arrival on campus in fall 2004, the University sent out a letter warning the parents of incoming freshmen of the dangers of students joining fraternities or sororities.
I was grinning like John Kerry on Botox when I stepped off the Dinky, adorned in my brand-new Princeton sweatshirt and rolling a suitcase behind me.
Hodan had bright eyes that smiled despite her weariness. At 28, she was the mother of six ? and a refugee.
Since the campus controversy over ROTC began, we have heard repeated assertions that the harm done to gay students under current University policy must be weighed against the harm done to straight students under the proposed change.
Sacrifice of ROTC cadets should not be undervaluedI am a graduate of Princeton and Princeton Army ROTC, and served on active duty.
It has been three months since Harvard President Larry Summers presented his remarks on sexual diversity and behavioral genetics, and the nation is still reeling from the resulting trauma.
The USG voted Sunday to table a proposed nondiscrimination amendment to its constitution. The proposed amendment will, after revision, be reintroduced at a later Senate meeting for further discussion.
In any business, leaders are judged, evaluated and ultimately rewarded or penalized by objective measures of performance.
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.
