Opinion

Underwhelmed by 'The Gates' in New York

A week ago Saturday I visited Central Park to see Christo and Jeanne-Claude's "The Gates," a long-awaited public art event consisting of 7,500 vinyl gates with saffron-colored fabric panels?in the artists' words, "a visual golden river." In search of a gorgeous reddish-gold suggesting a child's mirth or an unexpected kiss, I instead found a drab orange evoking prison garb.

In service of the Nation's Service

The administration should be commended for its support of the United States Armed Services and its refusal to follow the trend set by our "peer" institutions in preventing the military from recruiting on campus (See "Defying Trend U.

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Going beyond what your advisers can tell you

Four weeks into the second semester, the campus has settled into its most normal mode. The novelty of the year has worn off, and there will be no reading period anxiety for another three months.

Assessing our responsibilities outside the Ivory Tower

Having a moral conscience is harmful to your wallet; it urges you to fight for social justice, often at the expense of a lucrative career.

Full text of BSU letter to the Tiger

The following is the full text of a letter, sent Monday night, from Black Student Union president Candace Lee '06 to the editor and staff of The Princeton Tiger. Copies will be sent to the Tiger's graduate board and President Tilghman; Janet Dickerson, vice president of campus life; Kathleen Deignan, dean of undergraduate students; Makeba Clay, director of the Fields Center; Rachel Baldwin, assistant dean of undergraduate students; and Tom Dunne, associate director of undergraduate students.Dear Mark Daniels and writers for The Princeton Tiger,It is with a great feeling of disappointment that I am writing this letter.

In the midst of stress, seek relief through simple pleasures

Your temples are pounding and your heart is about to explode from your chest. Throngs of people surround you and suddenly you realize that you are about to engage in one of the most extreme tests of physical endurance in existence today.

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Finding community in the colleges

While the administration's plan to increase class size has been much debated, little has been said about the proposal's other half, currently under review through Dean of the College Nancy Weiss Malkiel's office: the establishment of four-year residential colleges.

Something's amiss at the United Nations

Not all is well at Dag Hammarskjöld hall. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the head honcho of the world's best known super-bureaucracy, has called the last 12 months an annus horribilis, and rightly so.

Full text of Tiger response to BSU letter

The following is the unedited full text of a statement issued by the editorial staff of the Princeton Tiger to a letter from Black Student Union President Candace Lee '06.We at Tiger Magazine greatly value the opinions of the student body, and so were disappointed to hear how grossly the BSU chose to misinterpret an article in our publication.Maybe we should follow the BSU's lead and confront such real Facebook groups as "Woman?

Much left to be done: U. must rededicate itself to reaching minority students

When I was recently asked by 'Prince' editors to prepare a column on something to do with "race relations" on campus, in conjunction with Black History Month or the recent student survey, I was initially uninspired.

Letters to the editor

Race survey takes wrong approachRegarding "Joseph's email to student body takes wrong tone (Monday, Feb.

When it comes to laundry, etiquette matters

I don't think anyone enjoys doing laundry, especially not us college kids. However, at least in theory, laundering one's clothes does not have to be a painful process.

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Joseph's e-mail to student body takes wrong tone

We are optimistic that new USG president Leslie-Bernard Joseph '06 will succeed in achieving his vision of a more civic-minded student body.

Alumni can be found in all sorts of places

I am occasionally asked how it was that, more than a decade ago now, I came to start writing a column for the "Princetonian." The answer is that an enterprising editor cajoled me into writing with the argument that a faculty columnist might help reanimate the kinds of informal student-faculty interchange that in my early years were a treasured part of the Princeton undergraduate experience.

Nass 'Top 10' goes too far

I find it hard to believe that the editors of the Nassau Weekly actually thought that an article titled the "Top 10 Holocaust movies I've never seen but would like to" would be received, out of all things, as funny.

A Princetonian in the nation's service

I work in a place called Hunts Point in the southeast Bronx, where literacy and mortality rates rival those from some of the world's developing nations.

Op-Art by Elyse Graham