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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
In the wake of the tragedy at Virginia Tech, universities and colleges across the country must now reevaluate their campus safety measures.
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.
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.
Most undergraduates will tell you that there are problems with Princeton's disciplinary system. Hundreds of students are put on probation every year.
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.
This is my last column of the year, and I feel pressure to talk about something important. John Milton's final work was a long, fractious religious tract outlining his heretical views on Christianity; Geoffrey Chaucer died while trying to create The Canterbury Tales, one of the greatest works in the English language.
In a recent edition of The Daily Princetonian, we came across a column entitled "True Confessions of an Obamaniac." In it, columnist Catherine Rampell '07, a self-professed supporter of Sen.
