The housing office should reevaluate its fire safety policies and make changes that improve the quality of student life without seriously increasing the risk of accidents.
Though Republicans came close to using the so-called “nuclear option” in 2005, the last time it was actually done was in 1975. The Senate must take action, and it must do so now.
When it comes to unique thinking and creativity, it really is a matter of “use it or lose it.” Many students — and I count myself as one of their number — have all but lost the ability to express themselves creatively.
Buildings are now efficiently protected from nonresident interlopers by the prox system, which has enabled dorms to be locked 24 hours a day since the fall of 1999. Therefore, the locks are not fulfilling the role for which they were originally intended, but rather an entirely different role: protecting women from other students.
The 21st century did not start 10 years ago. History regularly fails to line up with the arbitrary lines we draw, marking off measures in time from the birth of Christ.This column provides a look at the most recent era.
Four years is as long as our collective undergraduate memory. A columnist looks back on the trends of the past four years.
Though my conception of life here is biased by some of my own experiences, I still like to think of this second home as a cohesive unit, a “we,” a network of people who have the feeling that we are all on the same team.
In this week's PrinceCast, Michael Medeiros '11 sits down with Opinion columnist and Eating Concerns Advisor Sophia LeMaire '11 to discuss her column on No Fat Talk Week.
No Fat Talk Week was not about putting tape over our mouths, it was not about talking people out of eating disorders, and it definitely was not about consoling people who have abused their bodies. It was meant to encourage ostensibly average people to reflect on how they speak about others’ bodies or view their own bodies.
Every now and then, when I think about PrincetonFML.com, the odd Tiger magazine prank and (dare I say it) Robot Unicorn Attack, I am reminded that behind all the harsh politics, competitiveness and grade deflation lies a community that is willing to have a laugh together. And while campus issues will often get us riled up, we can all chill a little. Things don’t need to be too extreme.
Tainting the economic purity of Christmas transactions reduces them to a shallow recall of formulaic niceties that say nothing whatsoever about the amount of thought devoted to another individual on a regular basis.
I think that students voted against the hummus referendum because PCP made two mistakes:First, it let the referendum turn into a political question instead of a moral one. “Yes” votes became votes for Palestine, and “No” votes became votes for Israel. Second, PCP members behaved like activists. They used words like “boycott,” which one peer told me was extremely offensive, and printed posters with images of hummus containers covered with big red X’s.
Sustainability inspections are justified and the University should consider expanding this program to include inspections during the academic year.
WikiLeaks forces us to reevaluate whether anyone is entitled to secrets.
The “no fat talk” campaign has nothing to do with making fat people feel better, because, to put it bluntly, there aren’t that many fat people to console. Instead, it is intended to reduce the anxiety anorexics have from fear of being fat.
