Opinion

Madness

I considered writing about something important this week. I thought about describing how giving the Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (quite a mouthful) all but eliminated the small amount of credibility the once-illustrious award had retained after squandering it on such unworthy recipients as Palestinian terrorist Yasser Arafat in 1994 and the wonderfully vague 2001 prize to the entire organization of the United Nations "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world." What exactly organization has to do with peace I will let the reader decide.

Hook me up with your digits

Recent outbreaks of violence on college campuses around the country have prompted administrators nationwide to reevaluate the safety measures in place to protect their faculty and students.

Letters to the Editor

Lecture failed to address real issuesRegarding 'Horowitz decries 'Islamo-fascism' ' (Wednesday, Oct.

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A response to Princeton Pro-Life

Sherif Girgis '08's attempt to clarify the abortion debate only highlights the many differences in first principles between the two sides.First, it is important to point out that abortion has nothing to do with embryonic stem cell research.

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Exhibit was intended to provoke thoughtRegarding 'Demonstrators compare meat-eating to genocide' (Tuesday, Oct.

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Barriers to peace

What do al Qaeda, Hamas, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim Students Association (MSA) all have in common?

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Viewbook deception

When I first arrived at Princeton a few short weeks ago, I felt more than mere excitement: I felt a sense of fulfillment.

Safety and the Street

The charges filed against the presidents of Tiger Inn, Cottage Club and Cloister Inn for serving alcohol to a minor and maintaining a nuisance have caused student indignation and some Borough satisfaction that they represent the beginnings of a "longterm solution to the problem [of alcohol abuse in the clubs]." As the three clubs consider going off tap indefinitely and the threat of closure to the public hangs over them, there are a few things that University students and the Borough should keep in mind.First, the Borough has both the right and the duty to enforce underage drinking laws when it has the evidence to bring cases against organizations which may have violated those laws.

You've gotta serve somebody

As high school seniors begin to fill out Princeton's college applications, at least a few members of the class of 2012 are busy deciding how best to use 500 words to suck up to admissions officers, detail their many accomplishments and explain the meaning of "in the nation's service and the service of all nations." Perhaps we too should join them in reflecting on our informal motto.

Letters to the Editor

The joys of skateboardingRegarding 'Community involvement' (Wednesday, Oct.

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Honesty and abortion

In today's bioethical debates, three assumptions prevail: First, supporters of embryo-destructive research have science on their side; second, supporters of legalized abortion are defending women's reproductive health and reproductive freedom against those hostile to them; and finally, supporters of legalized abortion can appeal to the value of choice.But these assumptions, worse than false, are irrelevant roadblocks to genuine debate about the hard questions they obscure.

Death in the era of facebook.com

Last spring, a day like any other. Lecture, lab, then hours of reading in the library. But I came home that day to an email I'll never forget.It was an automated invitation to a facebook.com group.

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Building on excellence

Last week, the University turned over the records of how it uses its endowment to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee.

The day the music didn't die

Can music save your mortal soul? Not likely ? sorry Don McLean. But can music transform lives and transcend differences?

By the dawn's early light

Most mornings I walk to the Wa to get a paper. The campus is usually quiet and deserted, although during big party weekends or Reunions there are sometimes groups of boisterous guys on the Street, barely able to stand upright but full of bonhomie if they know me.