Opinion

Letters to the Editor

Community also hopes to bridge town and gown relationsRegarding 'Bridging town and gown' (Wednesday, April 11, 2007):On behalf of the Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce and the Borough Merchants for Princeton, we embrace the idea of providing more opportunities for the Princeton University community ? especially the student community ? to explore downtown Princeton, its shops, restaurants and galleries, the Arts Council, the Princeton Public Library and the YW and YMCAs.

The importance of being international

As the University's efforts to internationalize Princeton gain momentum, international students have in recent years made up an increasingly high percentage of each entering class, comprising an all-time high of 10.6 percent for the Class of 2011.

The Prox

Beginning today, Prince columnists debate everything from dodgeball to the French presidential elections to the new basketball coach on the Prince's new blog, The Prox. Stephen Hsia '08, Martha Vega '08, Stephanie Lee '11 and Lillian Zhou '11 will post about anything and everything that takes their fancy as they make their ways around campus.

Energy, security and the crusades?

On April 23, as most of the campus was basking in the sun, former CIA director James Woolsey spoke at a lecture titled "Energy, Security and the Long War of the 21st Century." Within the first five minutes of the lecture, my casual summer mood turned into shock and disbelief.

The academic life — as others live it

I'm at Cambridge, the one across the pond, spying on a different kind of academic life. It's not the first time I've had the chance to do this.

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Disturbing the reflection

For many people, college has the strange effect of changing their worldviews. So many students enroll in college, so firmly grounded in a belief system that nothing, in their minds, can change the way they see things.

Dodgeball: An AI success

Hoards of Princeton students flocked to Dillon Gym to participate in what was undoubtedly the most successful event funded by the Alcohol Initiative (AI) this academic year: The Dodgeball Tournament.

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The Princeton freedom

As freshmen quickly discover, freedom abounds at Princeton. We enjoy the freedom to live, love and learn as we pursue our interests to the fullest.

The art of open dialogue

Last week, I logged on to the website of my hometown newspaper and found an article with two words as the grim headline: "Mosque Burns." That mosque, located just an hour away from my home in Florida, had a room which was doused with gasoline and set ablaze by an unknown arsonist, leaving a community of Muslims without their local place of worship.Just one week before this event, our campus saw an incident in which an anti-Semitic sketch with a swastika was scrawled on a blackboard in Bloomberg Hall.Discrimination is an ugly thing, not merely because it attacks a people of a particular race or religion.

Wash your hands clean

Three hundred and forty-seven potential Class of 2010 students were aborted as fetuses.Those who did manage to make it to Prince throw out 90 cubic yards of recyclable waste each day. And the latest figure to hit the Frist Campus Center north lawn?

Letters to the Editor

Chabad accepts allRegarding 'Letters to the Editor' (Tuesday, April 17, 2007):Rabbi Marc Disick's concern regarding Chabad's commitment to diversity is decidedly misplaced.

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Emergency preparedness

In the wake of the tragedy at Virginia Tech, universities and colleges across the country must now reevaluate their campus safety measures.

Une victoire pour la democratie

A victory for democracy took place this weekend. Well, in France at least. 85 percent of all registered voters in France voted in the first round of the presidential election.

Do it for Dewey ...

We applaud The Daily Princetonian's Editorial Board for its recent attempt in "Do It for Cicero" to bring a critical perspective to campus efforts to engage students civically; at the same time, however, we regret its ill-crafted critique, which misrepresents civic engagement at Princeton and ultimately fails to deepen our understanding of the concept and the role that it can play on campus.Civic engagement is not an easy term to define, but it is incorrect to claim that its breadth and ambiguity are necessarily weaknesses.

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Living in the Inn does have its perks.

Discipline process needs necessary changes

Most undergraduates will tell you that there are problems with Princeton's disciplinary system. Hundreds of students are put on probation every year.

Letters to the Editor

Cicero, explainedRegarding 'Do it for Cicero' (Monday, April 16, 2007):I agree that learning how to think is at the core of a liberal arts education.