U. should do more than pay lip service to grad housing needsRegarding "Cost, space issues burden GS housing," (Wednesday, April 30, 2008)Speculation about how the Housing Master Plan will affect graduate students has been widespread.
It's the first weekend in May and I'm in Philadelphia, doing one of the things professors do when not in class (rumors that we live in our offices are greatly exaggerated). Four times a year, the University of Pennsylvania Press publishes "The Journal of the History of Ideas" - a scholarly journal that draws contributions from classicists, historians, historians of science, literary scholars and philosophers.
The highlight of our spring has come and gone. I'm talking about Lawnparties: I Pledge Allegiance to the Preppiness Spring '08.
After a long summer away from Princeton, many students are eager to return to school. This year, they will have to wait an extra three days.
As an alumna, a former Orange Key chair and now, a University employee, I read Adam Bradlow '11's column on the names of Princeton buildings ("What's in a Name?", April 17) with some interest.
The campus elections these past two weeks have been quite an eye-opener. At times, I've wondered whether the national campaign and international scene were being played out on smaller scale within the Orange Bubble.
Princeton is renowned as a research university that is also committed to educating undergraduates. The University demonstrates this commitment by requiring all professors to teach and partially basing tenure decisions on teaching ability.
You know how I know that Princeton students are actually as dorky as our reputation suggests? The only thing that can rouse us from our sleep at 7 a.m.
I?m a big fan of words. I mean, that?s kind of obvious; I?m about to write 800 of them right here.
The student-initiated referendum on the USG 2008 spring elections ballot addressed several key issues: student approval of the administration, the effects of key initiatives on student life and the role of student input.
Though there are many tasks facing the USG, none are as fundamental to its legitimacy as its ability to conduct fair, transparent elections.
Over the course of the last year, nearly all of my old undergraduate classmates have asked me the same question: Just what could I have been thinking when I made the decision to return to Princeton for graduate school?
Because Malik Little '11, until recently a freshman at this university, has been charged with numerous felonies, it is proper for - one might say incumbent upon - the administration to ban him from this campus.
Ahhh, the last week of classes. Faces all around us shine from the bounteous promise of sun and summer.
When my college friends ask me, "How's grad school?" I can tell from their hopeful looks and upbeat tone that they want me to tell them how much fun I'm having.
As the Fed and the Treasury once again staff the shovel brigade behind one of Wall Street's periodic asset-bubble parades - lest the foul economic odor in its wake seep too deeply into the rest of the economy - my mind wanders back to spring 2002, when the previous asset bubble had burst.
