Opinion

Closing the achievement gap

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.

A Clockwork Orange

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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Letters to the Editor

Abortion facts were not accurate in letterRegarding 'Letters to the Editor' (Tuesday, Feb.

Green Campus

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.

Why are vaginas talking?

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.

The War on Drugs hits the 'Orange Bubble'

Test yourself, 'Prince' readers: What's the one crime that causes a student to automatically lose federal financial aid?

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The sophomore schism

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.

Letters to the Editor

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Shop 'til you drop

From the start of freshman year, students are encouraged to take courses in small departments, to expand our horizons and to take risks.

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Unlearned privileges

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.

Eliminating redundancies

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.

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Edits to remember

Over the coming months, senior members of the Editorial Board will step down to make way for new members with fresh and diverse perspectives, but the Board will remain as ever a devoted and unyielding advocate for the Princeton student body and the University community as a whole.

On the art of politeness

"Manners maketh man" was the motto given by William of Wykeham to the New College of the University of Oxford.

Faculty should stand by its students

As I watched Duke University's men's basketball team fall to its arch-nemesis North Carolina Tar Heels on Wednesday night, I could not help but recall the sordid affair that unfolded at that gothic enclave in Durham just under a year ago.

Letters to the Editor

DuPraz tribute was well-deservedRegarding 'He was the Prince' (Wednesday, Jan.