Looking back on the columns that I penned over the past year, the overwhelming majority of them contain significant criticism, usually directed at individuals in places of authority.
Hardly a day goes by on this campus without someone lauding the value of a "broad liberal arts education." From opening exercises to commencement, the speeches our administrators deliver encourage us to expand our horizons by taking courses and actively seeking out knowledge beyond our comfort zone.To encourage this sort of exploration, Princeton has instituted two separate and strikingly different policies.
As the door opened, a cloud of smoke billowed from the room, and I knew I had made a terrible mistake.
Moral values may reign supreme in some circles, but blogs across the country are gushing about a new way to legitimize pornography.
Leaders of the antiwar movement have wasted no time in adding Katrina to the list of reasons we shouldn't be in Iraq.The protests in Washington this past weekend featured Katrina-themed wordplays such as, "Make Levees, Not War." The Washington Post quoted one protester who claimed that the hurricane had helped solidify her opposition to President Bush's agenda: "[Hurricane Katrina] made clear that while we spend all this money trying to impose our will on other countries, here at home in our own country, we can't take care of each other."Sen.
Public Safety plays vital role on campusRegarding 'Public Safety should protect, not party-crash' (Wednesday, Sept.
When I asked a friend how to begin a column on dating at Princeton, his response was simple: "Good luck." Those who have seen freshman week's most popular program, "Sex on a Saturday Night," will remember the various representations of dating on campus.
Living and working in a tranquil environment like Princeton can cause us to forget that crime and other problems can plague us just as they do communities outside the gates of the University."So begins the message from the Director of Public Safety, Steven J.
I walked out of "March of the Penguins" this past July and couldn't help but marvel at the fact that for two excruciating months during which they did not eat, the male penguins ? the fathers ? guarded their eggs from the extreme cold until they hatched, while the female penguins went out to replenish their own exhausted and malnourished bodies.
As soon as freshmen set foot on campus, they are inundated with a flood of mandatory activities, speakers and flyers.
Perhaps I do not deserve the privilege of eulogizing Campus Club. I did not belong to it; yet, I felt that Campus belonged to me.
Having been Beverage Chair of Campus Club for the past year, I have had the uncommon experience of watching from the inside as an eating club died.
Eating clubs give alumni a continued sense of belongingRegarding 'Valuing the eating club system' (Thursday, Sept.
Wednesday evening found me sitting in Lahiere's, eating dinner and chatting with two close friends, several Nobel laureates, Princeton professors, President Tilghman and the man we had been waiting half a year to see: Elie Wiesel, the author of "Night," survivor of the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, teacher, writer and defender of the oppressed.
Evidence of the progress of learning at Princeton is abundant but also ambiguous. For example I might cite the relationship between the efflorescence of the life sciences and the decline of the wild mushroom omelet.
On Friday, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will deliver the keynote address for the Wilson School's 75th anniversary celebration.
