Election night a few weeks ago was an exciting time to be from Ohio. The country's fate was left to the Buckeye State, and while I regret the way my fellow Ohioans voted, I still enjoyed the national attention we received.
Some time last year, a friend of mine said something that really struck a chord. In the middle of a discussion on the tendencies of Princetonians, my companion summarized, "Princeton students are very good at working but not very good at thinking."I have had some time to process these words and have realized that the more I ponder them, the more revealing they seem to be in describing how we conduct our education here at Princeton.Critiquing the lack of intellectualism at Princeton is certainly nothing new.
Regarding 'Tilghman to address stem cell symposium' (April 22):President Tilghman says, "We have to weigh the rights and privileges of a ball of cells versus those of a child with juvenile diabetes and judge between them.
Two weeks ago, on the eve of the election, I told you that I knew who would win the election and why ? without, of course, telling you either thing.
While Yasser Arafat languished for the last three years of his life as a virtual prisoner in his crumbling Ramallah compound, the Israeli government and the American punditocracy embarked upon a sustained smear campaign to portray him as a rejectionist and an irrelevant partner in the peace process.
Regarding 'Contention over Ivy football rules' (Nov. 11):Sometimes it seems as though I am speaking to a grammar school class, rather than the presidents of the Ivies.
Emily Stolzenberg (A look at major constraints, Nov. 11) contrasts the attractively "broad scope" of big departments such as English and history with the "narrower scope" of what she calls "language majors." This characterization overlooks the fact that the latter already offer a great degree of interdisciplinarity and flexibility.The curriculum in French and Italian, for example, incorporates not just one or two, but up to three "cognate" courses chosen from other humanities or social sciences departments.
It's Saturday night, 1:30 a.m. Instead of chugging the rest of my plastic cup filled with Beast, popping my collar and heading to the dance floor, I'm dead sober in what looks like a miniature eating club watching the last few people file out.
During our own Adlai Stevenson '21's 1956 presidential campaign, a woman called out to him, "You have the vote of every thinking person!" Stevenson replied with typical wit: "That's not enough, madam, we need a majority!" He went on to lose to Dwight Eisenhower in a landslide.Stevenson would have felt right at home in my dinner table conversions.
I've been looking through my miraculous see-into-the-future goggles lately (they're redonkulous) and been thinking about life as a sophomore.
I, like other Princeton students, returned to campus after Fall Break to find most of the leaves fallen, cold weather seemingly settled for the duration and an overflowing mailbox.
Your article on the results of the CPUC's Princeton Experience Survey ('Students report undergraduate satisfaction,' Nov.
We offer two key clarifications regarding 'MPAA begins filing lawsuits against movie downloaders' (Nov.
On Nov. 2, while the rest of the country watched their blue and red colored states on national television and continued to debate the bigger issues of abortion, Iraq, Vietnam, health care and education, the citizens of Alabama were on the edge of their seats.
There has already been a glut of post-election analysis, and I add to the excess only because there is an elephant in the corner that nobody is talking about.There is a disconnect between the sentiments expressed in John Kerry's concession speech and the feelings expressed by Kerry supporters over the past week.
Insults aren't what our country needsI was disappointed with the opinion presented by my former hallmate, Steven Sucharski '06 in Friday's paper (''Prince' article shows paper's liberal bias,' Letter, Nov.
By my estimation, 1984 witnessed three truly epic events: my birth, the reelection of Ronald Reagan and the release of the American film classic "Revenge of the Nerds." Which of these three cultural milestones will have the greatest impact on Western civilization has yet to be determined, but I must say, the film (which saw Anthony Edwards as a geek before he became Tom Cruise's wingman Goose in 1986) is losing ground every day.
I fear deeply for Princeton. I fear that our sons and daughters, reading the annals of Princeton in 2004, will, after deep reflection, have only one thing to say of us: we were boring.
With the dust settled on what was my college election and the acrimonious political landscape looking more and more like a hate-filled chapter from the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry, I want to take a moment to point out some of the sad lessons and realities that I learned from what were frankly two disappointing campaigns.
The presidential campaign is mercifully complete. Whether or not it was your side that won, it is time to bring our focus back to making this place better.Princeton University is home to some of the world's greatest thinkers, poring over issues of war and peace and of poverty and prosperity.
