Opinion

March Madness vs. the orange bubble

The NCAA men’s basketball tournament, known to most people by its most common moniker March Madness, started last Sunday with the announcement of the bracket for the tournament. As bracket-mania quickly overtook the problems in Japan as the hottest news story, I found myself reluctantly persuaded to fill out my own bracket and promised to watch some of the opening second round games with my dad and brother, the college basketball fanatics of the family.

Princeton in New Jersey

If we can send Princeton students to Johannesburg or La Paz, why not to this state’s beleaguered cities, where problems of poverty, lousy schools and shrinking tax base still persist? In short, why not bring back the “Semester in the Cities” program?

Editorial: Improving Princeton Preview

Princeton Preview is a well-run program that does an excellent job of exposing the University to prospective students. Nonetheless, the Editorial Board suggests several changes to further improve the program.

Cartoon: High on math

Hope through hoops

In a place where there can be a lack of general cohesiveness and genuine togetherness, the events of this past week have been a breath of fresh air. The basketball games represent what I hope will be a renewal of the Princeton spirit that burns inside all of us.

Letter to the Editor: March 11, 2011

Please join us in protest to acknowledge that this is a critical matter of civil rights and not what Rep. King has characterized as a "Muslim problem."

Cartoon: Two more days

Your mom pays for college

The cost of educating a student is always more than the student pays, and there are some smaller schools whose savings would dwindle if they didn’t keep the number of students on financial aid at a certain level.

Starbucks and foreign policy

Fortunately, now is the best time ever for both America and the international students who forge a bridge between the United States and their home counties to take advantage of this cultural mixing to educate foreign policy.

Sexual freedom

In spite of the sterility of the gay community’s image, we are still absorbing the radicalism that began the gay rights movement and the more moderate radicalism of today’s gay community.

COLLEGE?

The envy of the world, the argument goes, our colleges and universities will preserve American primacy for decades to come, as they churn out top-notch research, technological innovations and graduates well prepared for the global marketplace. 2011 has been a bad year for that cohort.

Letters to the Editor: March 9, 2011

Russ Nieli GS '79 calls for Public Safety to be armed.

Quizzical pursuit

Want to be a centrist, but still hold strong opinions? Be against social welfare, but for corporate welfare. Oppose a social safety net, but make up for it with high protectionist tariffs. Support both gun control and gun ownership. PoliticalQuiz.net thus provided me with crucial insight: Centrists must either be apathetic or completely schizophrenic.

Editorial: More places to eat lunch

Dining Services should begin to provide some means by which students can use meal plans to purchase lunch closer to where many classes are held.

Editorial: Funding for the summer

Adopting rolling deadlines would enable students to better take advantage of the outstanding opportunities for summer funding that Princeton provides.

Admission madness

Does anyone really know how to sift these masses of talented, intelligent 18-year-olds for the ones who will flourish at a particular school?

Cartoon: The media is too violent

Exercise as a requirement

There should be some form of University-mandated physical activity.

Editorial: On arming public safety

There exists a compromise position that takes what is best from each side: Public Safety officers should be given limited access to firearms by allowing them to keep firearms in safe lockboxes installed inside Public Safety patrol cars.

Wine a little more

In the context of room parties, we ought to encourage “classier” drinking. Not just fine wines, but also good beers and cocktails. Not only are such drinks more fitting with the snobby, elitist image Princeton already has (as exemplified by the Princeton version of the light bulb), but this style of drinking also enables people to drink for reasons other than to get smashed.