Opinion

Washington needs a new strategy

Washington needs a new strategy

In a recent Ivy newsletter, former lecturer and former inspector general of the CIA Frederick Hitz '61 described a "nationwide calamity facing federal government recruiters in elite colleges." If Princeton students are to pursue public service, he wrote, then "they want to be assured that their efforts will make a difference, and they believe that is more likely in a nongovernmental organization like Doctors Without Borders or Care."However, as Hitz explains, this coming generation of Princetonians in the post-9/11 world have shown a much stronger inkling for government service.

OPINION | 09/16/2004

In politics, religious zeal can be blinding

One must tiptoe through the tulips of religion with twinkle toes. Recently, a colleague and I discussed the French ban on conspicuous religious displays.

OPINION | 09/15/2004

The other activist cause

Before this past Sunday, I had never been to a political rally in New York, so my expectations of what one should look like were largely shaped by TV news coverage of the Republican National Convention.

OPINION | 09/15/2004

Don't leap to change your registration

It's hard not to admire the students working for Princeton Votes. Seeing a record of abysmal student election turnout, the group has stepped in to get Princeton students registered and get them to the polls.

OPINION | 09/15/2004

First thoughts of a frosh

Maybe it's just the way my lips form around the word "trowel." Maybe it's the fact that I had never been on a camping trip before in my life.

OPINION | 09/14/2004

A humbling summer

For my summer internship in broadcast journalism, I wore crisp shirts, pressed skirts, and high heels to do all sorts of things Princeton has prepared me for, such as photocopying, making phone calls and scampering between cars at red lights."Excuse me, sir," I said, pointing my microphone at a driver eating wonton soup.

OPINION | 09/14/2004

Readers respond to Princetonians' donations

[Editor's note: Yesterday, reporter Melisa Gao's article 'Professors fund liberal candidates' was linked on the online news site drudgereport.com. Below are some of the letters the 'Prince' received from across the United States.] Look here!

OPINION | 09/13/2004

Bad situation yields hope

The resignation of Jim McGreevey was a mix of the familiar and the sensational. Rumors floated over the Internet for hours, first that he would resign, then that he would acknowledge an affair with a man.

OPINION | 09/13/2004

Culture shock abroad and at home

When I was little, my dream was to be the equivalent of Dr. Doolittle with people, able to converse with and understand individuals from all over the globe.

OPINION | 09/12/2004

Longing for tradition

As usual, in the summer the campus has been a chaos of construction, renovation and repair, with several projects almost, but not quite completed before the return of the students.

OPINION | 09/12/2004

Talking about sex doesn't need to be so vulgar

Though we lament the recent explosion of young, female sex columnists all attempting to follow lamely in the wake of Carrie Bradshaw, we do understand that Rachel Axelbank's job as a 'Prince' columnist is to cover sex.

OPINION | 09/12/2004

Don't stand there, do something!

The drive to bring about major change in the way the United States collects, analyzes and disseminates intelligence information became inevitable this summer with the completion of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence study of intelligence failings surrounding the onset of the Iraq war, and the publication of the 9/11 Commission report.

OPINION | 09/09/2004

Solo in the city

This summer I left the Princeton bubble for a relative adventure in the concrete jungle: New York City.

OPINION | 09/09/2004

You can be a columnist

Can you write? Do you have opinions? Do friends hang on every word you say? Why not put that talent to use by becoming a 'Prince' columnist?

OPINION | 09/09/2004

Stepping out into the unknown

It's surprising how fast the summer goes by every year. One minute you're trying hard not to die of a heat stroke in the middle of a final spring exam held in McCosh Hall, by keeping yourself alive with hazy thoughts of the summer barely ahead of you.

OPINION | 09/08/2004

We're number one!*

"I have always believed," Dean of the College Nancy Weiss Malkiel told the 'Prince,' "that the U.S.

OPINION | 09/08/2004

In search of a center

Yale has its Old Campus, Stanford the Old Quad; Harvard has its Yard. These venerated spaces do more than anchor their campuses as geographic crossroads; they are centers of campus life, indispensable sentimental, historical, ceremonial and functional terrain.

OPINION | 09/08/2004

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