Opinion

In memoriam: Miriam Marian

Miriam Marian was a student at Princeton University. A bright young girl, brimming with intellectual curiosity and compassion for humanity, she came armed with a stellar resume, practically perfect grades, spelling bee awards and a letter of recommendation from Kofi Annan.

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Looking for canned chicken

I was in Whole Foods last week, looking for canned chicken. After many minutes of searching I asked an employee if he knew where it was.

Letters to the Editor

Folks need to stop complaining and start fixing club sportsRegarding 'For club sports, challenges that spoil the fun' (Friday, Oct.

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On erudite vernacular, i.e. big words

Professor of psychology Daniel Oppenheimer is a hero. He has finally confirmed our lingering suspicion that many of the students using big words in precept are, in fact, pretentious twits.As reported in The Daily Princetonian last week, Oppenheimer was recently awarded an Ig Nobel prize for his paper "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly."Oppenheimer substituted complex words with shorter synonyms in graduate school applications.

Benedict XVI: Undoing past progress?

Today's West is by far the most heterogeneous society the world has ever seen. Yet despite the crossing of ethnic boundaries and progress toward cultural integration, there is still one enclave of reactionary separatism that holds a great deal of global influence: the Vatican.Pope Benedict XVI's Sept.

Butler blunders

Sadly, the design for the new Butler College is here to stay. Though it will doubtless be an improvement over its pest-ridden and pessimism-breeding predecessor, surely Princeton can do better.The current Butler College website is a masterwork of architectural propaganda that euphemizes Butler's most egregious structural and aesthetic flaws of which no Princetonian is unaware: "Made of brown brick over reinforced concrete, the tight scale and undulating surfaces and bays create a modern interpretation of the Gothic look." The part about brick and concrete is true, but "tight scale" is really just code for cramped and congested.

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The flip-flop symposium

I have always been in vehement opposition to the war in Iraq, until about a month ago when I started vehemently supporting it.

Letters to the Editor

T-shirts give students chance to talkRegarding ''gay?

Ask me how to vote today

In the past month, you may have noticed individuals running around campus wearing light blue T-shirts with bright red writing emblazoned on the back, bearing a simple request: "Ask me how to vote on November 7th." We, the co-chairs of Princeton Votes 2006 ? Princeton's nonpartisan voter registration and education organization ? hope that by now you have chosen to register to vote and that you are planning on voting on Election Day.Since the founding of P-Votes three years ago, we have registered nearly 1,900 Princeton students, faculty and staff to vote in all 50 states.

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Just don't do it

On Thursday, the University announced a partnership with Nike to outfit all of Princeton's varsity athletes with the swoosh. Senior Associate Director of Athletics Jaime Zaninovich gushed that not only would the deal equip the University's athletes with gear of the highest quality, but also that Nike would be the "most appropriate partner" for Princeton because of its membership in the Fair Labor Association (FLA).Nike is not an appropriate partner for Princeton.

Keep free speech civil

On Wednesday, Oct. 4, demonstrators from two Columbia student groups ? the International Socialist Organization and the Chicano Caucus ? stormed the stage at a College Republicans-sponsored event featuring the founder of the Minuteman Project, a controversial group which patrols the United States-Mexico border for illegal immigrants.

Digging into Princeton

Inquiring into its past is often a good way to find out why something is the curious way it is now.

Thank goodness for the three-day weekend

There are lots of things I will miss about college when I start working next year: Uwe Reinhardt lectures, beirut tournaments and seeing every single person I know walking on Prospect Avenue after meals to name a few.

Bad sports

While talented recruited athletes get the best training that money can buy, the rest of us get club sports ? and at Princeton that does not seem to count for much.

Even at Princeton, a plebian dilemma

Word around the campfire is that many black '09ers, outside of the usual athletes, intend on bickering Cap & Gown this upcoming spring.

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