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.
This spring, it is one year since I completed that most dreaded of all Princeton rites of passage: the freshman writing seminar.
The administration has been on a roll the past few months. The friendly folks in West College lowered our grades (but don't worry, there's an explanation on the back of our transcripts) and are convinced that we do not know how to pick a major.
Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye announced Tuesday that the University had received a record number of undergraduate applications this year.
I was feeling a little under the weather on Wednesday and actually went home in the afternoon and went to bed.
I'm going to confess a guilty little secret: I enjoy reading the Tory. I'm pro-choice, pro-affirmative action and gay, but there's something about their infuriating little publication that fills a hole in my life.
On Sunday night, as students returned from intersession, sophomores plunged into an age-old tradition: joining an eating club.Though the vast majority of students join a club in the spring of their sophomore year, a number of other Princetonians are unable to join, not for lack of will, but for lack of money.
Senator Harry Reid set the right tone on Wednesday night when he said in the Democratic response to the State of the Union: "When we believe the president is on the right track, we won't let partisan interests get in the way of what's good for our country . . . But when he gets off track, we will be there to hold him accountable."There were several unifying moments during President Bush's speech that all Americans, regardless of party, should applaud.
