Opinion

Course selection schedule should be reconsidered

As a University committee reconsiders the academic calendar over the next several months, we urge the administration to address a scheduling issue that may well be overlooked: the timing of student course selection.We are hard-pressed to conceive of any compelling reason why course selection must always occur so early; indeed, we don't see why course selection needs to occur during the semester at all.

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Democrats' stance on filibuster hypocritical

Bill Frist '74 recently proposed to end the Democrats' obstruction of judicial confirmation procedures by changing the Senate rules that allow a mere 40 senators to block a confirmation vote indefinitely.

The song that took us there

The first time I heard Bon Jovi's "Living on a Prayer," I stopped dancing during the OA Welcome Dance and nearly laughed out loud.

Time at college is just what you make of it

As most alumni do, I visited my "alma mater" while at home on winter break. I strutted about the halls of my high school, having mature conversations with old teachers about the status of their lives and shrieking wildly when catching sight of an old friend.

The joys of adding insects to your daily diet

The food options at Princeton are rather threadbare: The dining halls serve the same things day after day; Frist is simply atrocious; and the so-called eating clubs are places where I shudder to dine ? but I'm happy to mooch a meal there if you care to invite me.

Transparent investing practices needed at University

Complicity. It is in the clothes we wear, the food we eat and the investments we make. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in his 1860 essay, "Fate," "You have just dined, and, however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity." And yet even today, as more and more investors and companies recognize the value of Socially Responsible Investing (SRI), the slaughterhouse is still very much hidden carefully out of sight of consumers and investors alike.The admirable goal of PCAIR (Princeton Coalition Advocating Investor Responsibility) is to educate the University community about the implications of its endowment investments and ensure that our values as a community, whatever they may be, are at least taken into consideration when endowment managers decide investment strategy.Why shouldn't we attempt to know more about how the University's endowment is being spent?

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The (alumni) ties that bind

Like many other faculty, I travel out in the country once or twice a year visiting alumni clubs, clubs organized on the curious principle that their members once did something.

A tarnished reputation

For the past week, dozens of Princetonians have stood outside Frist Campus Center reading from their favorite texts to protest the use of the so-called "nuclear option" by Senate Republicans.

Alma matters: Being the loyal opposition

In my last column, I took some (easy) jabs at Bill Frist '74. In response, my father, Sen. Frist's classmate and fellow Cottager, laid on the Jewish guilt pretty doggone thick.

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Cultural studies course need not be required

Prior to leaving Princeton, every student should be exposed to another culture, region or country.

On the joy of truly trivial internships

Trying to find an internship in New York City as a freshman was like walking around the greatest amusement park in the world before I was tall enough to ride the roller coasters.

Battlefield report from the War on Fun

This is Powell Fraser, reporting from the front lines of the War on Fun. I'm on assignment for The Daily Princetonian, sent to cover the war in my own Hunter S.

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Letters to the Editor

University welcomes scholars with a range of viewsRegarding 'Khalidi candidacy for new chair draws fire' (Friday, April 22):While I am Chair of the Board of the Center for Jewish Life (CJL), the views I present here are my own.

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'One-state solution' prejudiced

I don't know all that much about Rashid Khalidi or his academic output. I understand, however, that he is a vocal advocate of the one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, i.e.