Due to the the USG's race relations survey, Princeton now has more data about the current state of diversity on campus than it has ever had before.
Now that the magical room draw season is approaching again, I wanted to share a few of my heartwarming experiences, and use them to semicoherently suggest some reforms in our process.The summer before coming to Princeton, when I was basking in the same sense of blatant superiority that we all felt, I actually took note of one of the thousand windbag letters I received from the University.
The Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2004, article "NES dept. faces warring factions" depicts the field of Near Eastern Studies as divided between "Lewisian" and "Saidian" camps.
While the USG should be commended for its efforts in completing the campus-wide race survey, many of the survey's questions were misleading and some truly fundamental points were not addressed at all.Administrators and USG members were troubled by aspects of the race survey focusing on self-segregation, as 94 percent of respondents believed that "exclusive socializing exists at Princeton." This result, however, has absolutely nothing to do with race, the topic of the survey; often, students group together not based on race but on common interests ? varsity or club sports, for example.
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.
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.
Responsibility for club pickups belongs to the clubs themselvesRegarding 'Forbes vandalized in pickups' (Friday, Feb.
For those of you who may be dismayed by the recent losses of the Princeton University men's basketball team, fear not!
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?
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.
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.
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.
