Opinion

The work going into next week's "Take Back the Night" event proves that many Princeton students and staff members are anything but passive when it comes to confronting the issue of sexual assault on campus.But the University's continued failure to guarantee that student victims of sexual assault have ready access to a "rape kit" ? the specialized equipment and health services necessary for collecting physical evidence after an assault ? shows a lesser degree of resolve.We do not take lightly the cost of maintaining a rape kit capacity, which requires $30,000 of equipment and 24-hour availability of trained personnel.

OPINION | 04/08/2004

Letters are a reader's best friend

Letters are a reader's best friend

Few issues get readers riled up like the Street and alcohol. Cullen Newton's column two weeks ago and a graduate student's letter set off a letters and columnist war that has only just now died down.I wasn't surpised that an argument over the Street produced such strong responses.

OPINION | 04/08/2004

A college education's worth

With two Yalies and a Princetonian duking it out for the White House this year, the nature of an Ivy-League education could arguably be considered a matter of national importance and security with significant geopolitical implications.

OPINION | 04/07/2004

Hargadon legacy is one of weakened alumni input

Regarding 'Contentious Hargadon deanship colors admissions' past and future' (April 5):This lengthy article does not raise the question of the importance of Alumni School Committee nonacademic evaluation.

OPINION | 04/07/2004

Stem cell research's future looks bright

Dick Seaberg, according to The Wall Street Journal, is a 70 year-old antiabortion Republican who lives near Los Angeles in one of California's most conservative districts.

OPINION | 04/07/2004

Hiding from choices

No one who knows me would consider me a coward. I'm not afraid to speak my mind, to bullies or to my betters.

OPINION | 04/06/2004

Students should support SAF despite politics

Regarding 'Old argument, old ploy' (Katherine Reilly, April 2):Reilly calls "absurd" the Students for Academic Freedom's (SAF) investigation of the faculty on the suspicion that professors might be biased against conservative students.

OPINION | 04/06/2004

Giving birth to the thesis

When one senior asks another when his friend must turn in his thesis, he often phrases the question as "when are you due." The reference to pregnancy is done jokingly, but is quite revealing.

OPINION | 04/06/2004

Princeton: A nest in a tree of understanding?

"Crap. I left my iPod in Frist." A girl in my a cappella group did a forehead smack as she realized she had forgotten her treasured, not to mention extremely expensive, gizmo in the student center on her way to rehearsal."Damn it.

OPINION | 04/05/2004

Isenberg's wake

The ensuing controversy over the University's denial of assistant professor of history Drew Isenberg's bid for tenure suggests that it is time for a thoughtful examination and reconsideration of the University's tenure process and policy.The current tenure process, though, rests behind a cloak of mystery, keeping both students and, much more importantly, the junior faculty who are most directly affected by it in the dark.

OPINION | 04/05/2004

The end of Princeton as we know it

The modern American university is asked to carry out a strange amalgam of functions which, by any reasonable standard of organizational design, ought rightly to be performed by separate institutions.

OPINION | 04/05/2004

Ideology check

Evan Baehr has a point. There is too little intellectual diversity in academia, even at Princeton.In too many classes, little of the fierce intellectual give and take that characterizes a rigorous academic climate exists.

OPINION | 04/05/2004

Beast(s) at Princeton

If, Virginia, you believed what you read in the 'Prince,' you'd think the undergrads here were animals.On March 26, Cullen Newton praised Prospect Avenue's safety record.

OPINION | 04/05/2004

Princeton education is more than a resume item

Regarding 'If you have court vision, is college really necessary?' (April 5):Call me idealistic, but I think Thad Hartmann is dead wrong.This university is the gift of thousands and thousands of people who donated their working lives, their creative energy and, yes, their money, to make it all possible.

OPINION | 04/05/2004

Senior Thesis

It's Friday, my deadline day, and I haven't so much as begun to think about a topic for this column.

OPINION | 04/04/2004

'Prince' wrong on Young Alumni Trustees' role

Regarding 'An election, sort of' (April 2):Your editorial is based on a misconception of the role of Young Alumni Trustees.

OPINION | 04/04/2004

An election, sort of

It's safe to assume the next Young Alumni Trustee won't be a waffler. The candidates are sending a clear message: They don't want to campaign for one of the most important positions a student can run for.Students campaign for academic chair, U-councilor, even social chair of a residential college.

OPINION | 04/01/2004

The other worries of room draw

Housing shortage! Not enough beds for everyone on campus! Later draw groups must split up to accommodate everyone!It's room draw time, when the stakes are high, and the losses ever so real.

OPINION | 04/01/2004

Old argument, old ploy

This month Princeton gained a new student group. In a landscape that includes not one but two Indian dance troupes, the nation's oldest political society and a juggling club, you wouldn't think such a development would attract much notice.But Students for Academic Freedom isn't an ordinary group.

OPINION | 04/01/2004

Street's fine on its own

I hope everyone read Cullen Newton's article last week ('Let's be Honest,' March 26).As Cullen, quite rightly said, "There is no safer party environment in the United States than Prospect Avenue." He justified this claim by pointing out that on the Street there is no driving and there are officers and bouncers in charge of keeping clubs incident free, as well as a set standard for no hard alcohol allowed when the club is on tap.But picking up the paper on Monday, I and many other Princeton males read with some disbelief a disparaging letter by graduate student Jonathan Eastvold.

OPINION | 03/31/2004

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