The first few weeks of school were warm for September, and as I sat in my furnace-like room I was reminded of the thousands of French citizens ? predominantly the elderly ? in homes without air-conditioning, who died in the heat wave this past summer.
I have never been raped. I cannot know what it would be like to find myself alone with a man, to realize he is forcing himself upon me.
Racial reality ignored by racial neutralityRe: 'Should summer programs go race-blind?' (Wednesday, Sept.
It has come. We've had our freshman week ? which, of course, is really not just for freshman, but for everyone.
Porn screenings in the classroom? A field trip to a local eroticwear store? It's not a high school male's fantasy ? it's the reality for Brown University students, where "Femsex" arrived from the West Coast last semester.
My summer journey seemed to stop before it even started. The Woodrow Wilson School and Princeton University did not want to fund a trip to such a "dangerous" place, agreeing to do so only a few days before my departure.
According to ancient received wisdom there are three kinds of official untruths: lies, damned lies and statistics.
Despite the isolated incidents of racial discrimination and hate crimes that occur even today, one would be hard-pressed, especially in the context of college admissions, to point to an overtly racist conspiracy to keep minorities down in society.
For the Supreme Court, the summer was about race. In the humid heat of late June, the justices ruled that affirmative action was constitutional.
Needless to say, America's occupation of Iraq has taken a turn for the worse. Our soldiers continue to be attacked daily, and many Iraqis have gone from supporting our cause to joining the chorus of violent anti-American protests.
Maintaining a narrowly defined Honor Code is tough, but criticalRegarding 'A code we can honor?' (Monday, September 22, 2003):I believe Article V of the Constitution of the Honor System is the relevant section for purposes of understanding the code.I would probably amend the code, by striking "but not limited to" from point 1, and more narrowly define specific conduct in which students pledge not to engage.As to significantly modifying the code because students exhibit a diversity of views as to what constitutes academic honesty . . .Grade inflation has already diminished the impact of exceptional performance on GPAs and class ranking, thus blurring the line between top students and everyone else.
Princeton University has an eating disorder. Unlike bulimia, anorexia or obesity, our sickness is not a function of quantity.
If the person next to you cheated on an exam, would you turn him in? Yes you would ? or at least that's what you had to say, in a signed statement, in order to enroll as a freshman.
Since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, the U.S. has been facing unprecedented challenges in Iraq, greater than those of the war itself.
Last week, the Bolshoi Theater fired one of Russia's premier ballerinas for being, at 5'6" and 109 pounds, too fat.
It seems that more and more, audience members are abdicating their minds during movies. They sit, they watch, they become offended, and they question how on earth a producer could make such an offensive, scary, it-could-happen-tome film and dare to label it art.
With all the bad news emerging from North Korea over the past year, China's apparent cooperation with Washington to resolve the nuclear standoff has been both positive and even surprising to some.
My last week was made memorable by two experiences. The first was meeting with my twelve freshman advisees to discuss their academic programs.
As the south part of campus undergoes massive bricklaying and earth-pummeling construction, I ask whether or not the University's itch for expansion is good for the school or not.
You could be forgiven for missing an anniversary that slipped by this past weekend: it's been exactly ten years since Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, flanked by a beaming Bill Clinton, shook hands on the White House lawn and embarked on what became know as the Oslo peace process.
