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Being, becoming and senior year

I've learned from conversations with other seniors that many of us have had a similar experience: the infuriating conversation with a well-meaning adult who, in the course of making small talk, reduces our majors to their economic exchange values and inquires into our (potentially as yet nonexistent) plans for next year.

OPINION | 11/14/2006

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Reflections on the emerging Pakistan

Whoever could attend the address in the Wilson School's Dodds Auditorium of Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz last Thursday experienced public (relations) diplomacy at its very best.Unfortunately, this polished version of PR-diplomacy to portray Pakistan as the economically rapidly expanding soon-to-be-more democratic ally of the United States and the West represents wishful imagery (or deliberate policy), especially in a time when British Intelligence and MI5 warns about many more potential terror threats ? like the one last August ? perhaps emanating from Pakistan and when Washington gets increasingly troubled about the possible continuous hideouts of Osama bin Laden and Mular Omar supposedly in Pakistan's NorthWestern territories, which seem also to serve for the Taliban for fall-back and recruiting.

OPINION | 11/14/2006

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Pick Calendar C

As recently reported by The Daily Princetonian, the Committee on the Course of Study drafted two possible calendars ? "Calendar B" and "Calendar C" ? as alternatives to our current calendar. In December, the committee will make its final recommendation to the faculty, who will then vote to approve a calendar.

OPINION | 11/14/2006

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Green enough?

Last week's "Planning in Progress" presentation highlighted several examples of Princeton's commitment to an environmentally friendly campus, including a plan to plant grass on the roof of the soon-to-be constructed Butler dorms.

OPINION | 11/12/2006

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Requiring religion?

Recently, Harvard's Task Force on General Education ? charged with revising that university's core curriculum ? proposed the establishment of a "Reason and Faith" distribution requirement for all undergraduates. According to the task force, if the proposal is implemented, the courses that fulfill this requirement will focus on "the interplay between religious and secular institutions, practices and ideas."Our administration should follow Harvard's lead in promoting the study of religion, but it should not do so by ghettoizing the study of religion and creating more requirements for student to fulfill as Harvard's plan will do.

OPINION | 11/09/2006

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Lip service

A beautiful Tuesday morning during Fall Break, while the squirrels merrily hoarded their nuts and the leaves rustled in the crisp breeze, I dragged myself out of bed and hauled myself off to work at Frist Campus Center.

OPINION | 11/08/2006