?The window for a two-state solution is shutting. We have some period of time ? a year to a year-and-a-half to two years ? or it?s over,? Secretary of State John Kerry warned last week when testifying before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
?If you are what you eat, does that make you a vegetable?? my friend asks.?Only if it makes you a pig,? I quip.
My state of habituation does not concern forced allegiance to the majority culture or denial of my race; rather, it is a journey of cultural understanding as I travel through life.Oftentimes, we minorities exclude ourselves, self-segregate and try and gain pity over our inability to integrate with other social groups.
Inspired by Street?s series on Princeton?s favorite eateries, I figured I would give my opinion on Princeton?s less frequented non-Street places to drink.
Of all the things I miss of home, eye contact with passersby is one of the biggest things. Despite what my Facebook profile says, I?m not from New Orleans ? I?m actually from a tiny town right outside of it.
In the wake of the recent acts of terror in Boston and the vote on gun control in Congress, the Board feels that it is important to discuss the University?s policy of not arming Public Safety officers.
A university president?s life is not a happy one. True, it comes with a high salary, a splendid residence and even a really good cook ? the latter, perhaps, more of a rarity in Princeton than the other advantages.
With the release of Princeton?s course offerings for the fall semester and this past week?s course selection process, the Editorial Board believes it timely to discuss the practices surrounding course deadlines.
?When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons.
Princeton is a strange place. For decades, thousands of people ? graduates and undergraduates, staff and faculty, American and foreign ? have descended upon this patch of land to learn and teach about themselves and the world.
You know, Suzy, I was very skeptical of writing a piece in response to your open letter to all the schools that rejected you.
Last week, in a rare display of bipartisanship, eight senators introduced the most comprehensive immigration reform in a quarter-century.
It was the quintessential act of terror, meant to tear apart and shake the foundations of one of America?s oldest cities.
?Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me."As a victim of sometimes cruel and relentless childhood bullying, like many children were, I always thought of that phrase as preposterous.
When you are surrounded by the same thing your entire life, you remain unaware of it until you are dishabituated; until you are removed from that environment of sameness and forced to see the differences of those around you.
I have a confession to make: Until the day he was declared the University?s next president, I did not know anything about Christopher Eisgruber ?83.
If I made enough money that I would need to pay the sticker price tuition of a private university ? $56,750 in 2013-14 for Princeton ? I would think twice about footing the bill for my high school senior.
As a first-semester freshman, I knew our incoming president, Christopher Eisgruber, not as the provost of the University, but as "professor." I took his freshman seminar, FRS 139: The Supreme Court and Constitutional Democracy, a class about constitutional interpretation theory and the role of the Supreme Court.
