Some weeks later, my undergraduate adviser told me I had pissed off faculty members at one of my prospective grad schools with my blog postings. Apparently some faculty at that school had found my blog, presumably while Googling me, and subsequently followed my updates with sufficient zeal to catch the perceived slight.
With so many universities cutting back, there are many excellent academics searching for limited, open faculty positions at top universities. The institutions that capitalize on this market will assure themselves a better future.
The Berlin Wall fell 20 years ago this week. It concretely divided East and West, and now it figuratively divides our generation from our parents’. Yet one suspects that many college-age American students remained unaware of the anniversary.
As members of the University community continue to adjust to the “new normal” after a severe economic downturn, it is more important than ever that we have debates over what is critical to Princeton and what is tangential. The recent staff layoffs raised this question.
We should look to institutions like Haverford and Wellesley for models of an honor system that reflects community values.
Columnists Charlie Metzger, Peter Zakin and Monica Greco discuss female eating club officers, the cost of college and minority members of the University administration.
Humanism can be as fundamental an aspect of one’s worldview as any religious belief.
In examining heinous criminal behavior, we uncover an intellectual and ethical obligation to draw a line in the sand, to say, at the very least, that there are some desires that ought not to be pursued and that are inherently, incorrigibly disordered.
Equalize retirement contributions for all employees; Public Safety should give students advance notice before confiscating bikes
A little more than two years ago, I was one of the eager travelers at the foot of this Orange Mountain.
The P/D/F option often does not serve as a safety net for students who seek to challenge themselves by taking an unusual course but do not want to waste one of their P/D/F options.
This fall Break, I took the train up to New York with seven other Princeton students on a Pace Center-sponsored Breakout Princeton trip to learn about the particular stigmas associated with mental illness. We spent nights in sleeping bags on the floor of a church and the days descending into subway cars that deposited us in neighborhoods all over the city — Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan.
Trayless dining is inconvenient; administrators did not sufficiently consult students before implementation; Equalize retirement contributions for all employees; A chance to submit nominations for Pyne Prize
Since we grade virgins have been taught to think of ourselves as unquantifiable and above grades, when confronted by them in higher education, we are left utterly bewildered by the mere concept.
Every time I step into the shower in my dorm, I think longingly of my bathtub at home. I am a self-professed bath addict; there is almost nothing I like better than soaking out the day’s worries in a tub of steaming hot water. Unfortunately for me, there are very few bathtubs in the dorms at Princeton.