In a 'Prince' interview several years ago, a Student Volunteers Council leader remarked that Princeton, though far from the activist ideal, was slowly becoming a more "socially-conscious" school.
I'm taking advantage of my iron grip on the 187 square inches of newsprint glory that is the 'Prince' opinion page to record some thoughts on what now appears to me, in my post-Dean's Date haze of caffeine and sleep deprivation, to be the single most revealing news development that has occurred on campus this semester.Local news took a turn for the surreal Monday, with the announcement that Campus Club will be going bicker next spring.
Writing columns for this page can be an incredibly rewarding experience. Some of the words I have submitted to this publication have given rise to great debates and conversations with friends, classmates and professors.
The deadline for this column snuck up on me unawares while I was putting the final touches on a very long essay about medieval monasticism, an essay that, while undoubtedly deathless, would not in any event win the approval of the 'Prince' editors even were it not already promised to a competing journal.
There has been a lot of discussion at Princeton this spring about so-called "grade inflation." I thought it might interest students to have some concrete sense of what grading was like in an earlier time ? at least in my area of the University, namely the humanities.
A group of U-Councilors has proposed that an hour be set aside once a month on Tuesday evenings for dinner and socialization across the whole campus.
On April 23rd, the 'Prince' devoted an entire page to two opposing viewpoints on climate change policy, allowing an important debate to emerge in this very newspaper.
On April 21st, we wrote that a price tag of zero isn't the only reason people share music online.
Be thankful for the 'wealth' ? not 'glut' ? of campus publicationsI write on behalf of the USG Student Groups Projects Board.
Before coming to college, I didn't want a roommate. Sure, based on answers to deeply personal questions such as "What kind of music do you listen to?" the Housing Department thinks we'd get along.
The well-known American novelist Thomas Wolfe has often been quoted as writing, "You can't go home again." As I look to my last days on Princeton's campus, I begin to understand the truth of those words.Over dinner the other night, in fact, I was talking to a friend of mine who shared Wolfe's sentiments.
Conclusions are supposed to signify resolution ? and so it seems inappropriate somehow to write my concluding column for the Daily Princetonian at a time when so many of the issues I have written about persist unresolved around the world.
With reading period upon us and the inescapable fear of losing my freshman year of college, I am reminded of the very first piece of Princeton propaganda that I ever received on the shores of England.
Before you hand in your JP, take the time to be a rebel. Fight the power. Defy convention. Whatever you're writing about, whatever your department, do not use a colon in your title.
So the old guard is changing, as the Opinion Board rightly pointed out on Friday. But does that have to mean it is exiting the golden gates of Princeton?
As the spring semester closes today, we are all reminded just how fleeting our time here at Princeton is.
The University's surprising decision to deny tenure to history professor Andrew Isenberg has rekindled an old debate on campus: What's the deal with tenure?
I was pulling the colorful flags out of the grass at the conclusion of Yom Hashoah, the Holocaust Memorial Day, when two people approached the sign explaining the significance of the flags and of the day.Yom Hashoah commemorates the more than 11 million victims who lost their lives due to a systematic effort to eliminate specific ethnicities, religions and lifestyles between 1939 and 1945 ? Jews, Soviets, Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, Poles, homosexuals.
Houseparties is simultaneously the closest to and the furthest from traditional dating that most Princetonians ever get.This year, Houseparties comes on the heels of Take Back the Night, in which 75 students marched to support victims of sexual violence and to protest the unhealthy sexual atmosphere at Princeton that fosters sexual assault.The motives of the marchers are commendable; their means, however, are largely misdirected.
A few months ago, a freshman who lives in Blair Hall asked if I would put him in an editorial. He particularly wanted me to mention the "substance friendly" nature of his living quarters, though he also added "but don't mention my name." He knows who he is.You probably think I am now going to crusade against any and all forms of recreational substance use, but you're wrong.
