It seems that the state of Pennsylvania has failed to answer the tough questions raised by some of its most promising citizens.
Sometimes, I just don't get it. I simply do not see what I have, and what others don't have. In the midst of mounting deadlines for papers and exams, the strain of extracurricular activities, and the youthful ponderings of my life's problems, I lose sight of the bigger picture: I am one of the luckiest people on this Earth.
Tilghman should not use presidency as a forum to advocate social policyDear Shirley: STOP!President Tilghman is at it again.
I was in the middle of one of those pretentious-yet-depressing conversations that can only be had by a bunch of liberal graduate students living under a Republican administration about to take us into an ill-advised war."You know," my computer scientist friend said, "I wouldn't be opposed to this war in principle if I just trusted Bush to get the job done right ? to rebuild Iraq afterwards, to establish real democracy there, that sort of thing.
Who is Colin Powell? Defining himself as the "reluctant warrior" who claims "force should be a last resort, but it must be a resort," our Secretary of State has received much admiration at home and abroad for his diplomatic, multilateralist approach to foreign policy.
Why so little debate about Iraq? Given how close we are to war, one might expect to see more of a conversation ? especially on a college campus.Some issues are easy to agree on.
In my continuing if still fruitless attempt to come to terms with world madness I within the last week attended a couple of lectures offered by speakers with dramatically differing points of view.
Any population isolated and left to its own devices, no matter how homogeneous, will create a way to divide itself.
Closed doors stop fires from spreading. That's why every dorm room door on campus falls shut when opened, and it's also why we aren't allowed to prop our doors open ? consequences of a fire code imposed from beyond Nassau Hall.In the newly renovated dorms, you can't leave your door unlocked when it's closed ? the doors don't have an "unlocked" setting.
So it looks like this is going to be the Year of the Filibuster. With both the Presidency and the Senate safely in the hands of the Republican Party, conventional wisdom would hold that the judiciary is going to get a bit more conservative.
A few nights ago, I had a revelation of grandiose proportions. I was finishing up a calculus assignment due the following morning, along with my roommate who is in the same class.
In her oped column "Finding a Place for Chicano Students, Their Culture" (Feb. 18, 2003), Vanessa de la Torre raises an important concern about the lack of Chicano studies courses at Princeton.
ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM! OK, that was cheap, but I'm glad I got it out of the way. Now you know what I'm going to write about.I've been somewhat infamous since an editorial I wrote last year, criticizing people who I thought spent too much time pursuing mindless activities rather than those somewhat more thought-related.
As I have told countless Princeton students over the years, I have looked down on Europeans ever since I came to this country.
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.
No one doubts that Saddam Hussein is bad for the Iraqi people. He has squandered his country's relative wealth, and enforced his rule with brutality that mocks any defensible conception of human rights.
The Priorities Committee offers an efficient, fair, and proven means of setting the University's operating budget.
It seems the most common reaction to Dean Fred Hargadon's selection as baccalaureate speaker is a combination of surprise and puzzlement.
In 50 years, only two states have actively pursued nuclear weapons, brutally repressed their citizens and repeatedly committed acts of aggression against other sovereigns.
If you haven't noticed from the general bent of my columns, then I will be the first to tell you that I am an avowed supporter of the ongoing debate on campus intellectualism.
