Opinion

It's going to be a Stage 4 kind of week

Midterms are upon us. Yes indeed, it's that notorious point in the semester when the weather gets just a little warmer, the sun gets just a little sunnier and the students become just a little more oblivious to both of these facts as they adopt strange nocturnal patterns and a frightening dependence on Red Bull.

USG Agenda: Twofold, not two-ply

Brandon McGinley '10's column last Thursday and this Monday's Daily Princetonian editorial highlight several key issues the USG faces.

Wag the pet project

In the recent past, the USG has in general sought to better campus life through pragmatic, small-scale initiatives as opposed to pursuing broader, more sweeping change.

Apologia pro studio suo

My roommate will hate me for writing this, but it really should be said. Every student on this campus ought to take the four-course Humanities Sequence (HUM 216-219), Princeton's best method of introducing its undergraduates to 26 centuries of the Western canon.The Humanities Sequence is easily the most efficient and thorough way to obtain a liberal education.

Watching the baby boomers in action: Do students think?

As I see our students walk across campus, many of them transported worlds away by an iPod plugged into their ears, I wonder what they are thinking about the world their parents' generation, the famous Baby Boomers, is concocting for them now.

Op Art: Best thesis ever

Op Art: Freedom of thought

Drama and rumors in the invisible institution

I got my first lesson on the joys and perils of rumors as a second grader. As we lined up outside the building, preparing for another day of school, I felt an inexplicable impulse take over my entire being, as I blurted to a friend standing next to me, "Did you know that my first-grade teacher is on drugs?" Incredulously, he turned to me in a mixture of awe and disbelief.

Cheer on every team

On a typical day, the University's website contains announcements of upcoming lectures by important speakers and performances by a variety of culturally diverse arts groups as well as news stories about compelling research and student awards.

You shouldn't have to bicker your major

"The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs." When we hear that phrase what should come to mind is the embodiment of Princeton's motto to serve this nation and all nations.

True change from the USG: Yes we can?

During my three semesters at Princeton, I have paid very little attention to the USG.

Op Art: Money in the bank

Letters to the Editor: March 6, 2008

?Thesis buddies' not about hazing freshmen

Stranger in my own political land

"Ouch! Sorry, Hillary!" my neighbor's message board declared sarcastically after Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.)'s losses in Maryland and Virginia last month.

The 40-year residential college

I'm not very good at staying informed about current events. For example, only recently did I learn that "Super Tuesday" is not, in fact, a limited-time special at Taco Bell.

Op Art: Whitman's volunteer program

Let's talk about sex ed

Between Jamie Lynn Spears and "Juno," teen pregnancy gets a lot of press these days. The discussion - or really, gossip - that stems from this tends to focus on the future: Will she keep the baby?

Voting for a smile

In the past few days, posters have appeared around campus with pictures of this year's candidates for Young Alumni Trustee (YAT).

Op Art: Lab Partners

Slouching toward Whitmania

My grandfather has a neat reformulation of Lord Acton's dictum that "power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." His idea is that power does not corrupt but instead reveals; having power doesn't make you evil as much as having power gives you the ability to do what you want and therefore reveals your true feelings.