This week, key officials from John F. Kennedy's White House are gathering in Cuba to celebrate with Fidel Castro the 40th anniversary of the peaceful resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Civic Values Initiative teaches social responsibilitesThe most intriguing aspect of Brian Henn's "Page 3" article on Wednesday (Oct.
Recently, various high-placed officials in the University have recommended that our students, particularly first-year students, need to become more cosmopolitan and explore the new and untried, the unfamiliar and the distant.
There are worse things in life than Dean's warnings, probation and getting hosed. I just had no idea that the OIT-gurus controlled them.It all started very simply.
Two years ago when President Bush was elected to the presidency, he was ridiculed by the mainstream press and viewed as a young cocaine-snorting puppet of an aging Dick Cheney.
Bob Torricelli's reelection bid had been in free-fall since this summer, spiraling down almost 30 points in the opinion polls before he withdrew from the race Monday afternoon.
A masterpiece of American short fiction, Ring Lardner's "Haircut," is one of the finest examples in our literature of na
One-and-a-half cheers for the Gorebot. Al Gore, who's been lost these past two years within the tangled mazes of academia and facial-hair experimentation, returned to the public stage last week with a scathing attack on George W.
An inaccurate portrayal of Sharon and IDFTaufiq Rahim's recent (September 24) opinion piece inaccurately presents the role of Ariel Sharon and the Israel Defense Forces at Sabra and Shatilla.
For a week at the beginning of the semester, my television was broken. Until the OIT staff magically repaired it one afternoon while I was in class, I was completely out of touch.
Proclaiming Israel's right to defend itselfIn "Should the US and Princeton Divest from Israel?," Vincent Lloyd mentions a long list of grievances he has with the actions of the state of Israel and uses them as reasons to divest.
I am tired of hearing snide remarks about President Bush's "Axis of Evil" speech. Every time I begin to feel sluggish in precept I am jarred out of my reverie by someone's comment about US arrogance or about how unsophisticated or unproductive it is to label our enemies as making up an "Axis of Evil." Of course the problem is larger than that ? these criticisms are being heard around the world.This evening Princetonians will gather in Frist to discuss the seemingly inevitable war with Iraq.
"Good evening; this is CNN Headline News. Tonight, our top story is that a suicide bomber in Jerusalem has killed two people in the second attack in as many days.
Since the 1960s, the University of California at Berkeley has been a symbol of student protest and counterculture, the home of the Free Speech Movement, a beacon to which young protesters across the nation look for new ideas on how to inspire change.
I wish to briefly correct a small misstatement by the Rev. Dr. Stephen L. White with regards to Brother Stephen's rights.
Sigh. I didn't really want to get into this, but here I sit. First of all, I would like to say, as Projects Chair of the Black Student Union, that we would have loved for Mr. Harkleroad to attend our discussion on Saturday about reparations.
Universities have ethical responsibilities. This principle is generally acknowledged: it was unethical for Princeton to be paying dining hall employees wages so low they qualified for food stamps; it was unethical for Princeton to discriminate on the basis of race or gender; and it was unethical for Princeton to be indirectly supporting the apartheid regime in South Africa through endowment investments.
The recent comments by Harvard President Lawrence Summers about an anti-Israel campaign on his campus have brought the divestment issue back into the news.
Steven Caldwell's editorial criticizing his own choice to be independent raises some interesting points about independent life but fails to consider its many advantages.
Hip-hop and I were both born in the Bronx in the late seventies. Yet while I have achieved little more than a masters' degree, hip-hop has successfully conquered the world.For certain of the globe's player-haters, this has not been a welcome development.
