Last week I wrote an essay that claimed that American democracy is a religious experience. According to the essay, it is based on "sacred" beliefs and rituals and has a "church" of citizens with faith in our system.
Arriving as freshmen at Princeton, my classmates and I believed the path to career services was paved with gold.
I was dismayed to see your article on the front page of April 16th Prince. Brian Henn has misinterpreted and misunderstood the spirit of the "changes" of policy in the Adviser Manual concerning advisers, advisees and alcohol.
The world is, fundamentally, a horrible place to live. From cancer and genocide to psoriasis and reality television, human existence is beset by a plenitude of evils ? natural and artificial, great and small ? from which the only escape is death.
Some people think I aspire to be a failure. I have halted conversations, created gossip, and drawn quizzical, snide, or condescending looks ? simply by admitting my career plans.Princeton is more than a school.
If last year a left-wing politician had called for hundreds of millions to fight AIDS, most conservatives would have balked.
Princeton students have never been accustomed to sitting on their hands and passively waiting for something to resolve itself.
Rebutting WilliamsThe usual arguments against capital punishment are familiar and wholly unconvincing.
Tomorrow is Newman's Day. As a holiday to be observed, Newman's Day presents would-be revelers with a plain physical challenge: consume 24 beers, in 24 hours.
We're surrounded by it. We depend upon it. We're losing it steadily and irreversibly. But we ignore it.Biodiversity: the sum of life on Earth.
Before I launch into the subject of this week's column, I feel compelled to report my outrage of the month: After the Associated Press reported last week that 966 people were massacred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, I called the New York Times and The Washington Post to see whether those papers had correspondents in the country.
Like many of my fellow citizens I found myself caught up in the drama of Jessica Lynch, the young American prisoner of war thrillingly rescued from an Iraqi hospital.
As of this writing, there are 4,098,614 users signed on to the KaZaa network, sharing 889,946,455 files.
Juan Chavez is going to be murdered tomorrow. I am not a prophet, but I know that tomorrow he will be killed by the state of Texas.
The Dixie Chicks were never particularly beloved among the intellectual and academic elite, but since making recent remarks that were critical of President Bush leading up to the war in Iraq, many leading figures on the Left have decried efforts to remove their music from the airwaves.
If you've been to the airport in the past year or so, you've probably been impressed at the skill and efficiency of the new Transportation Security Administration ? the folks who screen passengers on the way to the gate.
As juniors, we have often found class officer elections predictable, even boring. The officers elected during our first weeks on campus have easily won reelection up through the ranks.However, the aura of inevitability that usually surrounds class elections was shattered last night when Azalea Kim '05 and Christopher Lloyd '06 both beat out incumbent candidates for their class' presidencies.
One unique feature of being a college newspaper editor is that it sometimes gives you the chance to wake up in the morning and be amazed at the mistakes you made the night before ? even in the middle of the week.
Imagine this. One night Dean Malkiel is sitting in her office trying to think of a solution to grade inflation.
Everyone who knows me has heard the recitation of my computer woes. They began shortly after I started at Princeton ? my computer just stopped working.
