USG President Rob Biederman '08 recently told students that he hoped the USG could partner with current campus groups to make civic engagement activities a "365-day-a-year commitment" for Princeton students.
At first glance, Princeton may seem both academically and socially daunting to you, the visiting high school senior.
CJL enforces positive Jewish pluralismRegarding 'Letters to the Editor' (Tuesday, April 3, 2007):No doubt the pro-Chabad camp has proven itself successful at plastering The Daily Princetonian with its rhetoric.
Buenos Aires ? Article I of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights states, "All peoples have the right of self-determination.
Most of you have heard of Gary DeVercelly. The name may not sound familiar, but you've heard of him nonetheless.
Skloot '05 was overly attacked for his opinion about ChabadRegarding 'Letters to the Editor' (Tuesday, April 3, 2007):The Scharfs' letters might under other circumstances be ignorable, each just another sound bite from just another chronically angry Princetonian.
A few Sundays ago, my friend called with startling news. "Tessa!" she shrieked. "We're on the cover of The New York Times!" Now, the article wasn't exactly about us (though my friend's former high school was featured); but it was about a cosmic us ? or, rather, a demographic us: the Amazing Girls, as they were called, those up-and-coming youngsters who in this post-feminist age are expected to be athletes, intellectuals, humanitarians and ... hot.When I made it to the magazine, I was doubly surprised.
The Center for Jewish Life (CJL) has completed a joyful week-long Passover celebration. More than 300 students attended 12 different seders, participated in evening programs in all five residential colleges, consumed more than 1,500 kosher-for-Passover meals and joined religious services spanning the denominations.
Last Thursday, University officials met with town residents to discuss the future of Princeton. The town voiced many concerns, including problems with the Dinky, the Wawa and other town and University institutions.
Every now and then, one of my roommates plays a recording of a breathtaking rendition of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's symphonic suite "Scheherazade" taken from a performance at Carnegie Hall last spring.
It's Wednesday afternoon, and a group of Princeton students find themselves in a row house in the heart of Trenton, calling strangers.
There's been a lot of debate in this newspaper over whom Gary Walters '67 should choose as the next head coach of the men's basketball team; should it be an assistant coach at Princeton nobody has ever heard of, an assistant coach at Georgetown that no one has ever heard of or a coach somewhere else that no one has ever heard of?
Financial services and business portrayed as the same entityRegarding 'An enterprising move' (Monday, April 2, 2007):If The Daily Princetonian's Editorial Board wanted to help remedy the fact that "Many students think of financial services and business as being almost synonymous," it would help if they did not refer to the two as "that particular industry" (singular) later in the same sentence. Andy Brett '07 Chaplaincy decision was not anti-SemiticRegarding 'Letters to the Editor' (Tuesday, April 3, 2007):Though I disagree with President Tilghman's decision regarding a Chabad chaplaincy, reasonable people may disagree on this issue.
The conservative press, and reportedly the White House, are chomping at the bit to bomb Iran. A much better idea would be to bomb Iceland instead, in a "shock and awe" spectacular that could be staged as a win-win-win deal all around, even for Icelanders."Why Iceland of all places?" you might ask?
The decision made by the University to deny official independent chaplaincy status to Chabad Rabbi Eitan Webb was not as simple as recent critiques imply.
