Last spring, the student body passed a referendum requiring that USG members not solicit or accept recommendations from high-level University administrators.
The internet represents a distinctly harsh brand of meritocracy.
Members of the faculty express dissapointment by Ordiway ’81’s dismissal.
In a lot of ways, though, the crisis over the cost of public higher education shouldn’t be surprising. Contrary to popular orthodoxy, it has much less to do with the recession and much more to do with the popular conception of public universities in the U.S. — a conception that may not be sustainable.
We have all been told to be careful about what we post on our Facebooks and that the internet can be dangerous. What we never expected was that we would have to start being careful about what we do in our everyday life.
I see now that my plan was a product of freshman idealism; I got very little actual work done and ended up having to pull several all-nighters when I returned to campus.
The American Philosophical Association (APA) took a small but important step last week toward promoting non-discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in higher education when it announced it would censure universities that use sexual orientation as a basis for hiring decisions.
My initial reaction was to think: “What’s the point of studying that?” This was followed a split second later by the realization that as an astrophysicist, I was not exactly in a position to pass judgment on the practical utility of other people’s research.
Last year, I ended up with not one, not two, but three copies of “Chemical Principles: Sixth Edition” by Steven S. Zumdahl, the textbook for my chemistry course. Now I loved CHM 207, but that’s taking it too far.
While I was forming these ideas and calling myself a vegetarian, my actions didn’t exactly follow suit. In truth, I began the process of becoming a vegetarian at the age of 8, but I did not give up all meat overnight.
Why doesn’t Princeton, which even offers Swahili and Sanskrit courses, offer some kind of for-credit class in ASL?
In some sense, we all came to Princeton dumber than we’d like, and the only way to fix this is by asking for help.
Last week, many juniors and seniors arose before 7:30 a.m. to make the perennial mad rush to sign up for classes. It is understandable that the online system opens so early to give students an equal opportunity to enroll in courses when there are no other activities or classes scheduled and to reward those students who are committed enough to their courses to rise early. But for high-demand, competitive classes, the “early bird gets the worm” mantra does not apply.
Almost all desirable goods and services in an economy must be rationed somehow — either through the market or by government. One can have a lively debate on which of these approaches to rationing is “better.” It would be a highly subjective assessment, driven in good part by one’s ideology or position in the nation’s income distribution, or both.
This paper ran two articles last week covering certain controversies surrounding the Conflict of Interest Reduction (CIR) referendum. As the original sponsor of the referendum, I wish to voice my thoughts on this matter.
