Opinion

Airport Hilton is likely to be home of sixth residential college

Airport Hilton is likely to be home of sixth residential college

University officials' top choice for the location of the sixth residential college is now the Airport Hilton in Newark, trustee Paul Wythes '55 said yesterday."We've been having a lot of trouble finding a place in Princeton where we can construct a full-sized residential college without impacting the aesthetic of the University campus," Wythes said.

OPINION | 01/18/2001

Poll overturns admission

Following an overwhelming response to a Daily Princetonian online poll, newly admitted member of the Class of 2005 Tarleton Cowen's acceptance has been rescinded, Acting Dean of Admission Stephen LeMenager said yesterday.Approximately 87 percent of University students responded negatively to the poll question: "Should Tarleton Cowen have been admitted to Princeton?"LeMenager explained his office's decision in an interview conducted via e-mail.

OPINION | 01/18/2001

Business Today has no point

Sources close to Business Today said yesterday that though the publication has an enormous staff and a significant endowment, it also finds itself lacking a point."Putting out a magazine twice a year is a lot of hard work, so it's understandable that they need a staff of about 50 people to work for them," the student, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said.

OPINION | 01/18/2001

Spectator prompts change

It was a crisp, clear Monday morning. A glint of sun spiraled through the West College window of Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel and landed on her desk.It was the beginning of another fortnight.

OPINION | 01/18/2001

Letters to the Editor

Dude, where's my 'Prince'? Seriously!I subscribe to the 'Prince' ? not once, not twice ? but five days per week.

OPINION | 01/18/2001

Complacency wins: War on apathy comes to apathetic close

When 'Prince' Editor 'n Chief Richard Just '01 declared a war on complacency at the beginning of this semester, we knew there would be casualties, grotesque disfigurations of the truth.

OPINION | 01/18/2001

Just, Tucker different people

The Daily Princetonian's editor-in-chief, Richard Just '01, and its co-managing editor, Rich Tucker '01, are, in fact, two different people, sources close to the newspaper said last week.

OPINION | 01/18/2001

Random Acts hits new high

The Random Acts of Kindness club is at it again, this time setting up a make-shift opium den in the soon-to-be-closed Chancellor Green cafe."Opium addiction is a horrible thing," said one club member, smiling inanely.

OPINION | 01/18/2001

Ingraditude

Sunday is National Hugging Day, a day for everyone throughout this great nation to lock in one collective platonic embrace.

OPINION | 01/18/2001

The pass/D/fail game: One tough crapshoot

Most Princeton students cannot gamble in Atlantic City because of the over-21 age restriction (in theory, at least). But the University's pass/D/fail system forces all undergraduates to play a game that's riskier and more potentially damaging than any at Caesar's Palace.Here's how the p/D/f system currently works.

OPINION | 01/16/2001

In praise of Republican hypocrisy

I've always preferred hypocrisy to radical evil. At least a hypocrite understands what he's doing is wrong.

OPINION | 01/16/2001

Letters to the Editor

Ashcroft's extremist right-wing politics too radical for attorney general postLaura Vanderkam '01 is correct in her Jan.

OPINION | 01/14/2001

Missile not impossible

With George W. Bush set to take office, threats from all over the globe endanger Americans, and it is his job to identify and combat them.

OPINION | 01/14/2001

A plan that goes too far

Once upon a time there was an alcohol ordinance. No one liked it very much. Some people ? especially students under the age of 21 ? were even afraid of it.

OPINION | 01/14/2001

Share the wealth

Since coming to Princeton, I have been impressed by two things: how rich the University is, and how seriously ethics is taken here.

OPINION | 01/11/2001

Palestinian group takes reasonable route to peace

Despite the dismal forecasts for President Clinton's last-ditch efforts at Middle East peace, there was a constructive but little-noted move toward resolution of the conflict recently.

OPINION | 01/11/2001

Major mythology: How not to waste your parents' $125,000

We've all heard the mantra that a Princeton degree is valuable anywhere, and that it's important to take classes that interest you and expand your mind.

OPINION | 01/09/2001

A conservative, not a zealot

When a coalition of liberal groups including People for the American Way and Planned Parenthood unite to declare war on a man, and The New York Times cheers them on, it can mean only one thing: Someone is about to get Borked.To "Bork" someone is to smear him as a racist, misogynistic monster on the fringes of the political spectrum in order to derail a nomination.

OPINION | 01/09/2001

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