Within the space of about a week, the University campus witnessed three political-correctness scandals: the infamous Nassau Weekly Holocaust list, the "Love = Love" Pride Alliance posters and Tiger Magazine's KKK references.
Diversity must be justified as goalRegarding "Joseph's e-mail to student body takes wrong tone" (Monday, Feb.
From Friday, Feb. 18 to Sunday, Feb. 20, hundreds of students at Penn State danced ? or at the very least stayed awake and on their feet ? for 48 straight hours.
It's 2 a.m. on a Sunday, and you're heading back to your dorm from a night at the Street. A friend suggests a stop at U-2 to stock up on post-Street snacks and you eagerly agree ? that is until you reach the U-Store and realize you only have your University ID on you.
In a country where nearly 40 million men, women and children live in poverty, it is almost impossible for us to conceive of an America free of destitution.
Among the maxims of La Rochefoucauld is one that claims that there is something in the misfortunes of even our friends that is not entirely displeasing to us.
I wanted my first column as USG president to discuss civic engagement, but right now other matters have become central.
We were somewhere around 1879 Arch, on the corner of Prospect, when the drinks began to take hold.The ringing in my ears rose to a shrill pitch, and suddenly I was surrounded by what looked like a choir caught in a maelstrom, their voices mixing into some frightening harmony, and a voice was screaming, "Holy Jesus, we've stumbled into A Chorus Line!" The voice, I discovered, was my own, and the singers were no hallucination but rather a group of perturbed a cappella vocalists whose performance I had ruined.
The following is the unedited full text of a statement released to The Daily Princetonian by the editorial staff of the Tiger Magazine.
Being a graduate student at Princeton University is a mixed blessing. On the upside, you're at a topnotch research institution with relatively few other grad students vying for a share of the faculty's time and grants.
Anscombe Society to promote chastity, not exclusionRegarding "Chastity group to get University funding" (Tuesday, Feb.
One week ago, Katherine Reilly used this space to celebrate the election of Howard Dean to the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Her column deserves a response from a Democrat who is less than thrilled by Governor Dean's most recent rise to prominence.The premise of Reilly's argument is that Dean was a candidate whom Democrats could actually admire ? not some bland equivocator (read: John Kerry) who could scarcely be distinguished from his opponent.
For the sake of my school, my country, and my faith in humankind, I hope the entire Pride Alliance had the flu.This source of debilitation is the only way I can explain the group's apparent impotence when, as the 'Prince' reported, its gay-themed Valentine's Day fliers were pulled last week.
A week ago Saturday I visited Central Park to see Christo and Jeanne-Claude's "The Gates," a long-awaited public art event consisting of 7,500 vinyl gates with saffron-colored fabric panels?in the artists' words, "a visual golden river." In search of a gorgeous reddish-gold suggesting a child's mirth or an unexpected kiss, I instead found a drab orange evoking prison garb.
The administration should be commended for its support of the United States Armed Services and its refusal to follow the trend set by our "peer" institutions in preventing the military from recruiting on campus (See "Defying Trend U.
