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I hate mom (and the government)

I hate mom (and the government)

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.

OPINION | 03/24/2008

Time for a sports break

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.

OPINION | 03/24/2008

Survey says: something

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.

OPINION | 03/23/2008

Op Art: Still in Cancún

OPINION | 03/23/2008

Boys aren't just allowed, they're needed

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.

OPINION | 03/23/2008

The bleeding edge

"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.

OPINION | 03/23/2008

All aboard

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.

OPINION | 03/13/2008

Op Art: Palm Sundays

OPINION | 03/13/2008

Whitman here I come!

Each spring, as the crocuses bloom from nowhere and songbirds arrive anew, hope returns to Princeton.

OPINION | 03/13/2008

Two steps forward, one step back

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.

OPINION | 03/13/2008

Op Art: Chompsky

OPINION | 03/12/2008

Procrastination and nocturnal marathons during midterm week

Alas, here we are at one of the toughest weeks of the semester, when students catch up on reading and prepare study guides.

OPINION | 03/12/2008

Letters to the Editor: March 13, 2008

Conservative center's critics are missing the pointRegarding ?Letters to the Editor,' (Tuesday, March 11, 2008):

OPINION | 03/12/2008

Learning from the fall

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.

OPINION | 03/12/2008

In search of conservatism

Like many freshmen, I left the comfortable world of my quaint suburban hometown and came to Princeton ready for intense intellectual development.

OPINION | 03/11/2008

A scarlet letter

OPINION | 03/11/2008

Op Art: Soo hard

OPINION | 03/11/2008

Late-night love from Frist

There is perhaps nothing that dominates the mind of the college undergraduate more than food. (All right, maybe I can think of one thing.) I suppose that this is a truth about humanity as a whole that simply displays itself most virulently among the college-age population.

OPINION | 03/11/2008

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