In the past few days, posters have appeared around campus with pictures of this year's candidates for Young Alumni Trustee (YAT).
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.
Our lead is still strongRegarding ?Fiddling while our lead burns,' (Wednesday, Feb.
This week, Pro-Choice Vox chapters across the country are raising awareness about the national birth control availability crisis, which is felt particularly on college campuses.
The University's recently announced "bridge year" program to provide need-based financial assistance to admitted students who defer for one year to undertake service projects abroad is a bold step that deserves much praise.
The events at Northern Illinois University (NIU) earlier last month remind us of the tragic reality and possibility of violence in educational communities.
A student just sent me a piece that Witold Rybczynski posted on slate.com last Wednesday. The author, a brilliant architecture scholar who teaches at Penn, begins by asking "How do you build a public library in the age of Google?" Then he answers his own question, but not with an old-fashioned article or an op-ed piece.
The Wilson School has done well by inviting Jordan's King Abdullah II to speak about the Middle East.
A University center supporting the chaste lifestyle would be an important addition to our campus community.
Last week, Daily Princetonian Columnist Brandon McGinley '10 sparked fierce debate by advocating for the establishment of a University-supported center for "morally traditional" students.
I'm not a feminist, but..." is a phrase I hear women at Princeton say quite often. Speaking here last week, author Courtney Martin encouraged her audience to break out of that mindset and embrace a new f-word: feminism.
A goodly number of Princeton students plan to work on Wall Street. Virtually all of these students would attribute "the Street's" current wild ride to some usual configuration of purely economic factors.
Musical wisdom from an alumRegarding ?On tap with ... Brandon Denham,' (Wednesday, Feb.
Last week, Stanford University joined the growing number of universities that are increasing financial aid for students from lower- and middle-income families.
Now in the midst of our fourth week of the semester and nearly two weeks past the deadline for altering our schedules, most students are finally locked into their course selections.
