Last December I scored for the first time ever. I am, of course, referring to the Student Course Online Registration Engine, the University's attempt to bring course registration into the 21st Century.
My suite is packed with stereotypes. Then again, seven college female twenty-somethings with backgrounds as comfortable as D.C., exotic as China and backwards as Alabama rewriting the college experience allow for a fair amount of material.Together we're vocal, democratic, religious, athletic, conservative, quiet, studious, artistic, prox-biting, creative, and relatively insane.
With this issue, the 'Prince' closes up shop for the summer. We can't believe how quickly the semester has flown past ? February, with its headlong dive into the intense world of daily editing and production, seems only a few weeks ago.When we began editing this page, we had a few simple goals: Keep regular columns short and relevant; give readers a voice by printing lots of letters and viewpoint pieces; and contribute our own thoughts to the campus conversation through staff editorials.We'd like to think we've succeeded, to some extent, in each of these areas ? but in the end, your verdict matters more than ours.
Summer is almost here. Many Princeton students will be using this time to travel. When students here speak of travelling they often mean to places like Florida or California.
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.
