As the deadline for spring admissions approaches, we anticipate yet another diverse class, filled with some of the very brightest and most talented students in the country.
Many of my friends ? too many in my opinion ? will be showered with thousands of dollars this summer, despite the fact that our hours are likely to be the same.
I know it's pretty. I know it makes our campus look awfully beautiful. I know it provides millions of children with endless entertainment.
A Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup poll conducted last fall on community attitudes toward public schools reveals that 77 percent of Americans blame the academic achievement gap between poor students and their higher-income peers on factors unrelated to the quality of their schools.
Violent and sexually deviant movies appeal to me. Having been tricked into watching ghastly and innovative films involving torture and scatology ? all carefully eviscerated from the marvelous Language Resource Center ? it comes as no surprise that my friends seldom accept my movie recommendations with alacrity.
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The University's recent commendable achievements in instituting green practices have been recognized by the Sustainable Endowments Institute, which ranked Princeton among the top-25 "Campus Sustainability Leaders" out of 100 schools surveyed in a recent report.
What, you may ask, are "The Vagina Monologues"? They seem to turn up on this campus every February like clockwork, but if you haven't seen the show, the sudden proliferation of this often shushed word may be quite perplexing."The Vagina Monologues" was written based on hundreds of interviews compiled by Eve Ensler and is now is now performed annually by women around the world as a part of the global V-Day campaign to end violence against women and girls (V for Valentine or Vagina ... ). Violence in this context means a lot of different things: rape, rape as a war crime, assault/battery, sexual harassment, stalking, female genital mutilation, female infanticide, honor killing, acid attacks, dowry deaths and bride burnings, incest and sexual slavery.
Test yourself, 'Prince' readers: What's the one crime that causes a student to automatically lose federal financial aid?
Everything changed the moment my roommates were hosed.As the sounds of foreign voices in the other half of my quad woke me at 7:30 a.m.
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From the start of freshman year, students are encouraged to take courses in small departments, to expand our horizons and to take risks.
So as I was saying ? before the vacation and exams interrupted me ? I have been thinking for some time about Princeton's, among other universities, money and responsibilities, and I haven't been getting very far.
On Friday, as my roommates and I observed the bicker club pickups from the comfort of our suite in Butler, we noticed that each group passing through the quad was joined by a stiff-looking Public Safety officer (or two, in the case of Tiger Inn). The officers looked out of place, being the only ones in the group who didn't look festive.
