Since the campus controversy over ROTC began, we have heard repeated assertions that the harm done to gay students under current University policy must be weighed against the harm done to straight students under the proposed change.
Sacrifice of ROTC cadets should not be undervaluedI am a graduate of Princeton and Princeton Army ROTC, and served on active duty.
It has been three months since Harvard President Larry Summers presented his remarks on sexual diversity and behavioral genetics, and the nation is still reeling from the resulting trauma.
The USG voted Sunday to table a proposed nondiscrimination amendment to its constitution. The proposed amendment will, after revision, be reintroduced at a later Senate meeting for further discussion.
In any business, leaders are judged, evaluated and ultimately rewarded or penalized by objective measures of performance.
For all that I enjoy his columns in The New York Times, David Brooks' Organization Kid article back in 2001 always rubbed me the wrong way.
Terri Schiavo's story raises many important questions, but one rises above all others: Are some lives unworthy of being lived?
Terri Schiavo dies, reads the Washington Post's news alert on my desktop. After gradually starving her to death, in accordance with American law and our jurists' interpretation thereof, Schiavo finally has left us.
With her passing yesterday morning, Terri Schiavo's wishes have finally been honored. Since her husband first tried to cease life support more than seven years ago, the question of her fate has made its way through the judicial system, into the halls of Congress ? even to the desk of the president.
I'd planned to avoid the recent legacy admissions debate, since people usually ignore the opinion of a possible beneficiary.
David Horowitz's oped last Thursday argued that "intellectual pluralism" is sorely absent at Princeton and that an appropriate remedy would be the adoption of a "bill of rights" guaranteeing academic freedom to all students and faculty.I do not doubt that faculty members are sometimes pressured to conform to the preferred orthodoxy of their more senior colleagues.
Poker is as valid as any other passionI think it's interesting to note that if I was a diligent student, spending all of my hours studying and sacrificing social activities in the pursuit of academic glory, that most would consider this an honorable (though perhaps not desirable) endeavor.
In a classroom far, far away . . .Moderator: Hello and welcome to the first annual meeting of the Princeton Campus Publications.
Despite being armed with the Student Course Guide, learned words of academic advisers and stories from peers, students still encounter the occasional bad class.
Every time I awaken from a stupor on Firestone's B-floor, gorged on Kipling or Chesterton and inevitably several hours late for some crucial appointment, I pass several students assiduously tapping away at their laptops or bent over a text with furrowed brow and index cards.These students fill me with envy.
A few months back, I was lucky enough to have dinner with one of this year's fellows from the James Madison Program, which is considered by many to be the nexus of conservative academia on campus.
On Saturday afternoon I sat in front of a friend's television, absolutely spellbound. On the screen the announcers narrated rebounds, turnovers and fouls as the camera panned over crowds dressed in blue and gold.
