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Offering a few simple recipes for PUDS perfection

Offering a few simple recipes for PUDS perfection

Last year, before I'd ever eaten a meal at one of Princeton's dining halls, my OA leader informed my OA group that if dining hall food was ever to improve, a sophomore class ? despite the fact that it would be joining eating clubs ? would need to push for it.

OPINION | 03/21/2000

Australia's mandatory sentencing laws too quick to incarcerate juveniles

Occasionally an issue surfaces that provides insight into how a country wants to see itself. Mandatory sentencing is that hot issue right now in Australia.Shortly before I arrived in Melbourne, a 15-year-old Aboriginal boy in the Northern Territory was sentenced to 28 days in jail for stealing a few dollars worth of goods.

OPINION | 03/20/2000

African-American studies

Celebrating its 30th anniversary, the Program in African-American Studies has made tremendous progress since its fragile beginnings in 1969.

OPINION | 03/20/2000

Smoking ban infringes on free will, choice

This letter comes to you as part of the ongoing battle over the proposed smoking ban in Princeton Borough and Township.

OPINION | 03/20/2000

Staying cool during Spring Break with VH1 stars Wyclef and Bono

It was the middle of Spring Break, maybe a Tuesday night, and we were lounging in my common room at 2 a.m., surfing through channels, trying to find something to distract us from the chilly Jersey weather and the eerily quiet Princeton campus.

OPINION | 03/19/2000

Campaign 2004: Air Jordan's final destination is the White House

In eighth grade, my history teacher said that the United States inevitably will have a black president, though not during our lifetime.

OPINION | 03/19/2000

Reasons for grad college conversion a joke

In its March 8 issue, the 'Prince' reported that the University is considering using the Graduate College as the site for the new undergraduate residential college recommended by the Wythes committee.

OPINION | 03/09/2000

Bush's right-wing swing dashes hopes

Two weeks ago, I was talking politics with a conservative lawyer from New York. A staunchly partisan Republican who had even attended a $1,000-per-plate fundraiser for Gov.

OPINION | 03/09/2000

Nader's speech tarnishes hopes of progressives

Here's what Ralph Nader '55 is concerned about these days: Bottled water. Hard-to-read phone bills.

OPINION | 03/09/2000

Non-alcoholic social events shouldn't send three to McCosh

Last year, when the board of trustees was crafting its alcohol initiative, it must have been working off the assumption that "more non-alcoholic events = less drinking = healthier students." Surprisingly enough, that equation doesn't hold true on the Princeton campus.Consider the Feb.

OPINION | 03/08/2000

Letters to the Editor

Defending Public SafetyI am a freshman this year, and my roommate is African American.

OPINION | 03/08/2000

Administration's undergraduates-first philosophy ostracizes grad students

Last week, 50 graduate students marched on Nassau Hall to make sure the D-Bar would remain open to all graduate students.

OPINION | 03/08/2000

Leveling the playing field of public education with vouchers

After graduation, most of my classmates will enter the labor force with an advantage over our peers.

OPINION | 03/07/2000

Letters to the Editor

Public Safety regrets wording of flyerI appreciate that the incident reported in the March 6 issue of the 'Prince' has raised concerns about the treatment of African-American students by Public Safety.

OPINION | 03/07/2000

Fans didn't give Rocca a proper send-off

Shame on all of us for not giving Mason Rocca '00 a better send-off in his last game at Jadwin Gym.

OPINION | 03/06/2000

Think we've got it bad? U. Chicago has it worse

Two weeks ago, I visited a friend at the University of Chicago. A renowned research institution, Chicago's undergraduate program is better known as the school "where fun goes to die." With a quarter system, Chicago students endure three sets of finals per year.

OPINION | 03/06/2000

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