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University aims to help those with gambling addictionRegarding 'The future of Princetonian poker' (Thursday, March 24):While the University administration does have a policy of upholding the laws of the state of New Jersey, its response to gambling on campus reflects our commitment to supporting the health and progress of Princeton's students.Like having a social drink or working out in the gym, playing poker can be fun, recreational and healthy.

Let the campaign begin

Next month, members of the classes of 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 will elect a graduating senior to serve as Young Alumni Trustee, a full-fledged member of the University's Board of Trustees.

Paradigm shifters and paradigm resisters

This is not just another fluffy, feel-good column, and you will need to put your thinking cap on to follow the technicalities.In the part of Dillon Gym where, since time immemorial, I have been assigned "space" at roughly a hundred dollars per cubic foot, the lockers are arranged along corridors 22 feet long and 5.5 feet wide.

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Gen Y: The poker generation

I guarantee that if you went around and randomly asked 20 Princeton students what Doyle Brunsen, Pocket Rockets and "the flop" have in common, everyone would know.

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Congress oversteps with Schiavo case

Terri Schiavo's heart stopped beating when she was 26 years old. Revived by doctors, her brain was severely damaged.

So what are you doing next year?

The first time I got the question in that particular form was the first day of OA ? one of my freshmen asked me, and all I could do was say something vague while trying to sound reassured and excited.

Wise investments

Having taken such careful pains to educate and encourage students about the need for social and environmental change, it seems odd that the University itself has not implemented social change in a more obvious and direct way: proxy voting.

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Kennan was true Princeton treasureTo the many memories of George Kennan in the March 21 issue of the Princetonian, I would like to add my own.

The future of Princetonian poker

It all began innocently enough. I was nine years old, and my father and I had just settled in for a several hour-long train ride.

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Academic freedom at Princeton

I am the author of an Academic Bill of Rights (text available at www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org) that was designed to foster intellectual pluralism in universities like Princeton, where it is sorely absent, and to remind faculty of their professional responsibility to students, which is to educate students, not to recruit them to their political causes.I never intended to take my Bill of Rights to legislatures, but did so after I found when I approached university administrators their response was universally to blow me off: "We have no problem here, David," I was told by Elizabeth Hoffman, the recently departed President of the University of Colorado.

Honoring the decision to serve

Affixed outside many of the windows of the older dormitories at Princeton are bronze stars inscribed with a name and a year, marking the identities of Princetonians fallen in the twentieth century's wars.

Student pub would offer real 'Street' alternative

It is no secret that, beloved as 'the Street' may be, many Princeton students wish campus social options were more numerous and social spaces more varied.

Taking a step toward responsible investing

The University prides itself on being "in the nation's service and in the service of all nations." This slogan is usually taken to mean that Princeton should educate its students to spend their lives after Princeton in service.

Confessions of a fashion show hopeful

Ladies, please bring a [sic] heels to walk in," said the email announcing auditions for Princeton's 4th Annual 'Service in Style' Fashion Show.

Tradition fails to justify legacy admits

In the back of my mind, I was hoping that my previous column on ending the legacy preference at Princeton would bring forth a George Soros-like figure who would pledge a billion dollars to the University if it would end its 3-to-1 advantage for legacies in admissions.

On language, Princeton-style: 'So'

I was sitting in class, running on two hours of sleep and just about to be lulled into a Power Point-induced stupor, when I was shaken back to reality by two consecutive blurbs on the first lecture slide that began with the same word.

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.