I love to write. It's fun, it's therapeutic, it lets me escape my own life and live vicariously through someone else, and it lets me sort out my problems on the page.
A university's decision to invite a controversial speaker to campus involves a delicate calculus.
Seven months ago, in a column about books at Princeton, I suggested (parenthetically) that the Harvey S.
"This is America at its best," Columbia president Lee Bollinger concluded his statement regarding the visit of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
On Sept. 5, Christian Sahner '07 published an editorial in the Wall Street Journal ("Sexed-Up Sex Ed") criticizing the representation of sex in the University-sponsored "Sex on a Saturday Night" (SoSN) production.
I must confess that, over the relaxing months of summer, I spent considerably more time and effort following the trivialities of the world of sports rather than the changing state of domestic politics and international affairs.
On behalf of the Pace Council for Civic Values, I write in response to The Daily Princetonian editorial of Tuesday, Sept.
A culture of serviceRegarding 'Civic disengagement, please' (Tuesday, Sept.
Something is rotten in Washington. When I left school back in May, I never would have guessed that the political quagmire would worsen.
How can the world's best undergraduate university get even better? By abolishing tuition for all of its students.
Princeton is not paradise. Its students, faculty, staff, alumni and neighbors are not saints, and the members of this community are not insulated from the temptations that plague all human beings.
Last spring, the University hosted a conference entitled "Breaking Apart the Monolith: The Many Ways of Being a Muslim." Brought to Princeton by the American Moroccan Institute, this conference seemed to me to be exactly what Princeton needs ? an academic forum which matches faces to the elusive "Muslim" logos lurking behind newspaper headlines and government documents.When I went to the opening reception at Palmer House, the Muslim Princetonians at the reception were Somalian, Kenyan, Turkish, Iranian, Moroccan and Egyptian.
A changed stance on gun control?Regarding 'Letters to the Editor' (Friday, May 18, 2007):After reading the letter written by Terry Wintroub '69, I feel that I must publicly retract my previous comments about the necessity of gun control.
News of my acceptance to Princeton University delivered me from a middling life of insipidity. I came from a distinctly undistinguished background in an authoritarian country in Southeast Asia, and had fought tooth and nail to emerge at the top of an elitist education system that, like most others, inherently privileged the rich and powerful (though, unfortunately and by definition, not the most fashionable). Most people with the resources I had would have had to sign away six years of their life to obtain a meager tertiary education funded by the government, but the University's financial aid package offered me an opportunity to be in control.
