A recent guest column from Shana Weber, the University's sustainability manager, listed many longterm goals for the University to become a greener campus.
Shameful use of moneyRegarding '"Public urination citations increase over 50 percent" (Monday, Oct.
The Democratic Party's willingness to embrace anyone and everyone who both wore a uniform and disagrees with American strategy in Iraq reached its apogee of absurdity with the embrace of retired Lt.
The notion that several hundred members of the Class of 2012 may be admitted off the waitlist raises some serious concerns regarding new admissions policies.
It's that glorious time of year again ? most students are getting excited about their classes for the upcoming semester without fully realizing how much work is coming their way.
Apple's new "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" commercials are hilarious ? particularly because they target all that is wrong with Windows Vista ? and well, there's a lot of that.
Over the past year, Princeton has been rocked by two alcohol-related deaths at nearby Rider University.
In January of this year, the New Jersey Death Penalty Study Commission recommended that the "death penalty in New Jersey be abolished and replaced with life imprisonment without the possibility of parole." The bipartisan group, which was created in 2005 at the request of New Jersey Gov.
An admirable argumentRegarding 'Princeton's latex lies' (Friday, Nov.
One is dark-haired, from Egypt (by way of Delaware) and former president of the Anscombe Society; he is a fearless public speaker, likes to invoke Aristotle and copy-edited the Witherspoon Institute's pamphlet "Marriage and the Public Good: Ten Principles" (first principle: "Marriage is a personal union, intended for the whole of life, of husband and wife").The other is blond, from Michigan and a summer-analyst at a hedge fund in New York; he is a brilliant writer, likes to invoke Lacan and has worked for the Gay Family Rights Project (basic right: Homosexuals should have the same legal protections as heterosexuals, in particular as regards marriage and children).This past week, these two gentlemen, Sherif Girgis '08 and Brett Masters '08, each won a Rhodes Scholarship, which funds two or three years of study at Oxford and is arguably the most prestigious postgraduate award around.More remarkable, though, is that they are best friends.To some extent it's probably because Girgis and Masters both love Italian.
A recent Sierra Club magazine ranking of greening efforts at colleges and universities, which Robert Givey '58 referred to in a recent letter to the editor in The Daily Princetonian, underscored the fact that there is great public misperception about the sustainability efforts at Princeton.Had we been contacted by the magazine, we would have been eager to contribute a wealth of information about our initiatives and progress.
As the University continues to dramatically alter the structure of residential life on campus, new and complex policy questions are constantly being posed to the administration.
Put students first Regarding 'Addressing the new alcohol policy' (Monday, Nov.
Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye recently finished a national recruiting tour with her counterparts from Harvard and the University of Virginia. The deans joined forces in the wake of their decisions to end early admissions programs and now aim to broaden their student applicant pools.When the University decided to end Early Decision last fall, admissions officials said they hoped to devote more time to student outreach.
Enough ink has been spilled on these pages over the new residential college adviser alcohol policies and Public Safety dorm patrols to make me fear that entering those debates will induce reader nausea, that most heinous of columnist sins.
On Friday, Nov. 9, the University hosted a banquet for over 700 alumni, parents, faculty, staff and friends in Jadwin Gym to kick off the $1.75 billion capital campaign.
