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.
With summer quickly approaching, University Building Services has announced that it will cease to offer free summer storage options to undergraduate students.
Students gathered in Richardson Auditorium last night for a service in memory of the victims of Monday's shooting at Virginia Tech," reported The Daily Princetonian on April 18.
After graduation from Old Nassau, Princeton students spread themselves across the country. We go to graduate schools, work at banks, pursue fellowships, do volunteer work and embark on an endless list of other pursuits.
It is truly amazing to see how friends and family members of the slain at Virginia Tech are doing everything in their power to provide each other comfort from the nightmare that has been realized.
The shooting at Virginia Tech serves as a tragic reminder of the importance of a strong campus community, one in which people know and look out for each other.
A helpful suggestion for B.S.E freshmenThe lackluster and poorly taught introductory courses required of freshmen engineers certainly paint a discouraging picture of the B.S.E.
As the epigraph for "The Brothers Karamazov," Fyodor Dostoevsky presented John 12:24:"Verily, verily, I say unto you, except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit."At first glance, the verse is difficult to decipher due to the vexing translation.
Spring has returned to Princeton, and with it, room draw. Though this process has its ups and downs, one of its definite strengths is its system of designated substance-free housing.
It is quite strange to me how in this country, Republicans have always been considered to be the party of "family values" and "morality." Republicans want to end social welfare programs, criminalize homosexuality and institute a system of forced-childbirth for our nation's women.
The University recently announced its new "Student Child Care Assistance Program" (SCCAP) along with a similar program for University employees (ECCAP). According to Graduate School dean William Russell, "the grants under the SCCAP are based on total household income not exceeding $130,000, are portable and can be used to pay for a wide range of possible arrangements, from in-home care to licensed day care centers." Providing financial aid for childcare is not new at Princeton.
I have a love-hate relationship with my cell phone. When it rings, I'm usually so startled that I jump five feet in the air, and I have an intense urge to throw it out the window.
In the world of politics and political activism, there are few true coincidences. The Bush administration "lost" millions of emails which would probably reveal whether or not eight U.S.