Princeton requires you to live in a residential college for your first two years. Then, the meal plan is a convenient way to buy meals in bulk and is commonly portrayed by the administration as an essential component of student life.
There's not really that much to get excited about in Princeton, N.J., over the summer. So it was probably the highlight of my June afternoon to find a rousing article by Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker in a month-old copy of "The New Republic." Titled "The Stupidity of Dignity," the article describes the ways in which the ambiguous concept of dignity has become a guiding principle in Bush policy.
Hey, remember that exciting Batman movie that came out this summer? No? OK, let me rephrase that. Remember that exciting Heath Ledger movie that came out this summer?
Spelman article completely misses the pointRegarding "For University, Spelman 8 a great success," (Thursday, Sept.
Even though the U.S. economy has not collapsed, Princeton students may feel like we have front row seats to impending doom as bank after bank cancels its recruiting session this fall.
Last week, a commission led by Harvard Dean of Admission William Fitzsimmons published a report suggesting college admission committees rely less on SAT and ACT scores in making admissions decisions.
The world is going down the drain. Somewhere below the Swiss border, large hadrons lie dormant, waiting to collide and destroy the planet.
As every good pseudo-intellectual knows, the actor Edward Keane (apocryphally) used his final breaths to utter the phrase, "Dying is easy; comedy is hard"; the Princeton University Band, in a much-flamed-about incident, attempted both this past Saturday at The Citadel, and by almost all measures, it failed miserably at each: The cadets were not particularly amused by the band's shtick, and the only casualty was a fallen clarinet.
In President Tilghman's opening address to the Class of 2012, she challenged the freshmen to "take as [their] first class project the goal of registering every single eligible voter and ensuring that he or she votes on Election Day." Tilghman's ambitious and laudable goal will no doubt be made more achievable by the work being done by the University and student groups like P-Votes to facilitate the registration process and educate first-time voters.
Five cups flour, three cups sugar, four sticks of butter, four eggs, vanilla, a pinch of salt, baking powder and a smile.
Citadel cadets also elite, overpriveleged Regarding ?Letters to the Editor,' (Tuesday, Sept.
The Wall Street collapse has left Princeton at a critical juncture. Many business-minded Princetonians, who until recently savored the riches to come after graduation, are desperately concerned about what is now an uncertain labor market.
The culture wars are raging, and now Princeton has been implicated in them. As the fallout from the Princeton University Band's (PUB) clash with Citadel cadets last weekend further attests, "The War between the States" did not end with the surrender at Appomattox.
Band was inflamatory and not very goodRegarding "University band harassed by cadets at Citadel," (Monday, Sept.
