What has my life come to? I am standing in the bathroom of Small World, staring into the toilet as intently as if it were a crystal ball.
Martindell is out of touch with realityRegarding "Will Scharf '08 will sue Borough," (Monday, March 24, 2008):
To provide a proper backdrop for my lecture on the government's role in the economy in ECO 100: Introduction to Microeconomics, I always preface it with the question: "Who in this class has a mother?" In a good year, as much as 25 percent of students raise their hands.
During this time of national political turmoil, periodic campus controversies and constant academic stress, it's nice to have an ever-present distraction: the world of sports.
Harvard's decision last year to align its academic calendar with other institutions' policies by moving fall-term final exams from January to December leaves Princeton alone in its adherence to its archaic current schedule.
In the days after my last column, "How to be a feminist without anyone knowing" appeared, I experienced dozens of pleasant surprises: I had no idea that Princeton was teeming with feminists, some of them keeping their feminism secret and some of them boldly using the f-word.
"There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers." - Walt Mossberg, The Wall Street JournalEvery year, a handful of students ask for advice about what they should buy to replace ailing computers.
University officials seem to sincerely want students to get on board with such initiatives as the new alcohol policy and the recently amended decision to add Spelman Hall 8 to Whitman College and an entryway of Little Hall to Mathey.
Each spring, as the crocuses bloom from nowhere and songbirds arrive anew, hope returns to Princeton.
The insurgents bet that they were thinking longer term than the sated masses. After all, they thought, the battle to reshape the Street would last decades: Students only stay for four years, and new freshmen would have no conception of what normal once was.
Alas, here we are at one of the toughest weeks of the semester, when students catch up on reading and prepare study guides.
Conservative center's critics are missing the pointRegarding ?Letters to the Editor,' (Tuesday, March 11, 2008):
For Princetonians, the takeaway from the still-unfolding scandal of Eliot Spitzer '81 should be a re-examination of the metrics by which society, and Princeton in particular, measures success.Before being humbled by the recent allegations, Spitzer sat perched atop the pinnacle of achievement, as he had done all his life.
Like many freshmen, I left the comfortable world of my quaint suburban hometown and came to Princeton ready for intense intellectual development.
