I witnessed something scary out on the Street on Saturday night. Standing in the crowd waiting by the open bar, I overheard two girls talking about eating club initiations.
A Princeton acceptance letter does not mark the end of competitive application processes. Indeed, there is plenty to compete for as soon as students first walk through the University's gates, including Wilson School admission, residential adviser spots, eating club membership, campus jobs and even a senior-year study carrel.
Evidence of favorable admission decisions definitely existsRegarding 'Reporter Golden blasts unfair legacy admissions' (Thursday, Nov.
Princeton Pro-Choice Vox is pleased that Plan B is now available over-the-counter to women 18 years of age or older as of Dec.
Though the eating clubs are part of University property, Prospect Avenue and the areas between the eating clubs' outer walls, is not.
Ask students if the Student Course Guide (SCG) has helped them choose classes for the upcoming term, and the responses will not be encouraging.
Recently, a Canadian scholar I know who teaches at a wealthy private university in the United States stunned a little group of his colleagues.
How closely are you following events on the ground in Iraq? Has the war influenced your actions in any way?
This week's USG elections more closely resembled the elections of a banana republic than of a mature democracy.
Bush calls it "the most fundamental institution of civilization." Sherif Girgis '08, the president of the Anscombe Society, calls it a "unique, irreplaceable contribution to real people's (especially children's) well being." Yet millions of people around the world are denied it in an ongoing struggle of grassroots protest and get-out-the-vote campaigns.
For a course in research methods, I recently found myself critiquing a study titled "Watching Sex on Television Predicts Adolescent Initiation of Sexual Behavior" from the journal Pediatrics. Conducted two years ago by researchers at the Rand Corporation, the study concluded that "watching sex on TV ... may hasten adolescent sexual initiation."Studies of this sort often have trouble separating cause from effect.
Sunday, Nov. 26 :Heathrow airport fades from view as I step onto my plane, clutching my boarding pass and passport.
Is this the best we can do as a University?Regarding 'Discipline is an issue for voters' (Monday, Dec.
We Americans now have another commission to advise on Iraq, but this one is also beside the point.
