Opinion

Will work for a difference

As if returning seniors don't have enough to worry about with theses and forgotten graduation requirements, there looms the ever present question: "What am I doing with my life?" For some, internships, summer jobs or special programs have lined up the first step into the real world.

Op Art: Open season

Practically perfect in every way

I've never understood Mary Poppins - yes, Mary Poppins the infuriating nanny from that inscrutable Disney film of the same name.

Challenging campus culture

In a dimly lit bar flooded with warm light and cold stainless steel, a young, good looking Caucasian couple's eyes meet for a brief moment.

Amethyst’s time has come

Since last July, leaders of 130 U.S. colleges and universities, including Johns Hopkins, Middlebury, Duke, Pomona and Dartmouth, have signed the Amethyst Initiative.

Remembering Mike

On July 23, Michael Mahoney GS '67 died, a few days after he suffered cardiac arrest while swimming in Dillon pool.

From the editor-in-chief

The writer of an article Friday's issue of The Daily Princetonian dealing with the change in course enrollment schedule fabricated a statement regarding a student interviewed for the article.

The reading monopolies

The semester has begun. With it, the piles of required reading on every student's desk have begun to grow.

Op Art: Mortality

Helping frosh find a family

For many years, racial affinity organizations like the Black Student Union have helped students from diverse backgrounds adjust to life at Princeton through their mentoring programs.

The last summer

Our gray minivan hummed along the winding single-lane New Jersey roads and the air conditioning blazed as I watched tall, old trees whiz by my window.

Good dreams and bad beginnings

At the time of writing, it is Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008. It is the first day of classes for Princeton, and for me it is the first day of classes of the last year I will spend as an undergrad.

Op Art: Where have you been?

Missed frosh week connections

Right now, the primary goal of the residential colleges is make the Class of 2012 feel right at home on campus, and the University has its eyes firmly fixed on this overriding goal.

Op Art: First decision

A native guide to Princeton

Princeton is a different place in late summer. Students and faculty are for the most part enjoying their last few weeks of freedom before the treadmill starts again, so one might naively assume that the town is even quieter than it is earlier in the summer when sports camps and institutes for the (presumably not athletically) gifted fill the campus with kids who barely qualify as teenagers.But Princeton has become a tourist attraction.

The hidden scandal of Princeton's speech code

Over the past three years at Princeton, every time I saw another student publication at my door, a demonstration in front of Frist, or heard of our administration's continued support for the academic freedom of Peter Singer, I became more confident that our marketplace of ideas was alive and well.I was also impressed by the appropriately restrained reaction on the part of the administration during both of the major free speech controversies that have occurred while I have been a student.

Dear Class of 2012,

Before I say anything else, I want you to go into your facebook.com profiles and take out all of the things that sound silly and pretentious.

The CEO of Linguistics

I am a CEO. No, I don't drive to the Hamptons in my Bentley, have an American Express Centurion Card or wear bespoke shirts from Jermyn Street.

Dispatches from Denver

From the ground, the scene at the Democratic National Convention in Denver reminded me a little of Dennis Kucinich at a forum for presidential hopefuls: The attendees desperately wanted to get noticed.