Opinion

In mastering Dante and college, the first try is just practice

In mastering Dante and college, the first try is just practice

I'm excited about the start of my second semester at Princeton for many reasons. One of these is my freshman seminar on Dante's "Divine Comedy." Though it's a requisite for every student of Italian, I didn't read the "Comedy" during my exchange year because of the challenge 13th century Florentine poses to a nonnative speaker.

OPINION | 02/03/2004

Selectivity of Bicker mirrors the real world

Ah, February, that magical time of year when sophomores' apprehensions about leaving their residential colleges develop into outright worries over how they will find nourishment next year.

OPINION | 02/03/2004

Bicker keeps us from accessing Princeton's diverse student body

Princeton has taken great strides in recent years to shed its traditional elitist image. Providing financial aid through grants along with the admission's increasing emphasis on diversity and nonacademic experiences are both indicators of the administration's intent to changing Princeton's reputation as a predominantly white-upper-middle-class institution.

OPINION | 02/02/2004

A new way for Woody-Woo to woo prospectives

I have a few suggestions for the Woodrow Wilson School's admissions committee. Professor Katz? Dr. Scovronick?

OPINION | 02/02/2004

Letters to the Editor

Is Prof. Fleming simply being naughty?Regarding 'The mad ABCs of BSE' (Jan. 19):Professor Fleming is usually one of the most lucid and clear writer on the campus, but would he please explain what he meant by "BSE was sufficiently repellant when it meant 'Bachelor of Science in Engineering.?' " Does he mean that he found one fifth of the undergraduates at Princeton are personally repellent.

OPINION | 02/02/2004

Replacing Gutmann

Provost Amy Gutmann's appointment to the presidency of the University of Pennsylvania should come as little surprise.

OPINION | 02/02/2004

Get ready

We need your help.Today 25 new editors publish our first issue of The Daily Princetonian. After a term's hiatus, we just returned to our home at 48 University Place, where for decades student journalists used this newspaper to attack such injustices as the Vietnam War and discrimination against African-Americans and women.We enter our 128th year today, but it seems that the wrongs of former eras may have been more obvious.

OPINION | 02/01/2004

Reporters ought to be reporting, not making the news

Newsmakers are again making the news, and the British Left is in a state of consternation. They had hoped that the report of Lord Hutton, a British judge who has been conducting an independent inquiry into certain aspects of the run-up to the Iraqi invasion, would expose Tony Blair as a scoundrel.

OPINION | 02/01/2004

Make your voice heard in Princeton's public square

This page is a bit different from the rest of the paper. That's not just because it's where the 'Prince's pages shed their neutrality.

OPINION | 02/01/2004

Farewell and thanks

An old 'Prince' editor couldn't have been more correct when he told me that only after 135 issues did he finally feel as though he had hit his stride.And now, 135 printings after our first a year ago, we, the 127th Managing Board of The Daily Princetonian, only now feel as though we are coming into our own.

OPINION | 01/18/2004

'Ask Amory' — ageless advice

Our regular columnist was unavailable this week, due to a busy exam schedule. The celebrated advice columnist Amory Blaine '17 has agreed to answer your letters in his stead.Dear Amory,There's this guy who just seems to want to stay near me.

OPINION | 01/18/2004

The mad ABCs of BSE

An alphabetical specter is haunting the American supermarket, the specter of BSE. You probably thought that BSE was sufficiently repellent when it meant "Bachelor of Science in Engineering." Now that it means Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy it scarcely bears contemplation, which is one of the reasons, though only one, that everybody calls it "Mad Cow Disease" instead.The question ? "Where does Mad Cow Disease come from?" ? has a short answer and a longer one.

OPINION | 01/18/2004

It's time for tenure process to change

I think by most accounts President Tilghman has done a good job thus far. She has a very difficult job that involves appeasing numerous personalities ? trustees, students, faculty, and staff all come to her.

OPINION | 01/15/2004

An Invitation from the 'Prince'

This year, the 'Prince' will unveil a new editorial board to express the paper's official position on campus issues.

OPINION | 01/15/2004

Alcohol laws teach good students to break the law

Princeton students are some of the most law-abiding in the world, but when they head out to Prospect Avenue to celebrate Dean's Date, the majority of them will be breaking the law.In all my studies of democratic government, I have been taught that in most cases laws must have the support of the people they are affecting in order to be legitimate.

OPINION | 01/15/2004

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