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A family reunion

This past weekend, you may have noticed slightly more people of color wandering the campus, sipping cocktails behind Frist Campus Center and clogging the halls of McCosh ? all decked out in orange and black and sporting natty nametags.

OPINION | 10/04/2006

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Breaking the mold

For most Princeton students, fall break is a chance to relax after midterm exams. Some of us will use the time to travel or do thesis research, and others will gloat to friends at Yale or Harvard about our extra free time.

OPINION | 10/03/2006

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The future is now

The future, as it turns out, is a lot like the present but with slightly better robots. If the crowd gathered at the Javits Center this weekend for Wired Magazine's "NextFest" futurist convention was any indication, the future is also much, much nerdier.As if to say "get ready for boredom," NextFest planners placed a "kitchen of the future" exhibit at the front of the hall.

OPINION | 10/03/2006

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How I eat now

I gave up eating meat 16 months ago. At the time it was an easy choice. I was living in Rishikesh, India, a religious town on the banks of the Ganges in the foothills of the Himalayas that is a magnet for millions of Hindu pilgrims and one of the few places on earth where you can be arrested for eating a hamburger.My initial anxiety about adopting a meatless diet quickly gave way to gratefulness for the opportunity to live out a set of values that I had held for some time but never had the courage to substantiate.

OPINION | 10/02/2006

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Good reform

After the passage last year of two student referenda that called for the USG to sign on to a Princeton Justice Project amicus brief on gay marriage and the Student Bill of Rights, this Board repeatedly endorsed a USG constitutional amendment that would raise the bar for petitioners seeking referenda and give the USG Senate limited power to veto such referenda before their presentation to the student body.

OPINION | 10/01/2006

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Stumping instead of serving

Republican candidates wary of associating themselves with an unpopular president are finding lower-profile ways to raise money through the Fundraiser-in-Chief.One strategy has been to close President Bush's fundraisers off from the press: Before May 2006, when Bush's approval ratings hadn't yet reached the Fahrenheit freezing point, 34 percent of his fundraisers were closed.

OPINION | 09/28/2006

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Grading the PDF

Don't you have a final that you should be studying for?" "Nah, it's okay ? I got a B+ on the midterm and I'm PDF-ing the class." Such is the typical attitude of students toward the current pass/D/fail system.As this dialogue shows, the current rules encourage students who PDF a class to invest the least amount of effort possible.

OPINION | 09/28/2006