Opinion

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.

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On corn dogs and other things

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.

Students for Barack Obama

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.

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University should improve storage

With summer quickly approaching, University Building Services has announced that it will cease to offer free summer storage options to undergraduate students.

The narrow reach of 'community'

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.

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The Manhattan migration

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.

Courage under fire

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.

A call for community

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.