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.
Rhetoric is a difficult art. The Roman statesman Cicero writes at length about the three styles: grand, middle, and plain, which are pretty much like they sound.
The votes from this weekend's Honor Code referendum are in, and they make several things clear.First, a majority of undergraduates value the distinctive trust, responsibility and ownership of a fully student-run Honor Code.
Occasionally I get emails questioning my ideas, my facts and especially my topics. They laugh about my quest to fulfill every southern stereotype, just so I can win those awkward moments of "Hey, you're from Alabama?
Anyone who has followed the debate surrounding President Tilghman's fourth high-profile female appointment knows that deep down this is not a debate about gender.
It's been over a week since I turned in my thesis. Leaving the English department, I had visions of long afternoons in the sun, road trips, movies, staying out late and getting up even later.
Editors' Note: Professor John Fleming's weekly column from last Monday ('A Free Ride at Princeton') drew sharp criticism from some graduate students, including leaders of the Graduate Student Government.
The upcoming Supreme Court decision over the University of Michigan's admission policy ? one that is dividing the Presidential cabinet, rousing zealous political debates and questioning the principles on which our society is grounded ? was recently the subject of an undergraduate-wide USG referendum.
Last weekend's referendum on Honor Code reform was a travesty. Officers of the University Student Government and Honor Committee blatantly sought to pervert the vote and depress voter participation, deliberately obscuring the substance of the issues at stake.
They look different. Black. Dark. Poor. Foreign. "Savages." They are Africans. 3,000 people die in New York City, and the whole world changes.
Those who have seen President Tilghman speak informally with students know she has the capacity for effective leadership.
Suing college students. Forcing ISPs to rat out customers. Petitioning Congress for unprecedented vigilante powers.
The creative arts are a weakness in Princeton's generally strong lineup of learning opportunities.
Recently, there have been several announcements of Honor Code reform. Two Sundays ago, the USG approved a set of procedural changes to the Honor Code Constitution.
This weekend the undergraduate student body will have our first chance to reform the Honor Code. When we vote in class elections, we will also vote on four amendments I've proposed to fix some problems in the Code.
Today's Opinion page presents detailed information both for and against the proposed Honor Code changes that appear on the online ballot as part of this weekend's class elections.The Opinion Board feels that one of the proposed Honor Code changes, if it were passed, would be harmful to students.
