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.
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.
Prior to leaving Princeton, every student should be exposed to another culture, region or country.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A bit of the controversy that has shaken Columbia for the past year reached Princeton this week with the confirmation of Rashid Khalidi's candidacy for a newly endowed faculty chair here at the University.
Intellectual conversation at Princeton can take some truly odd turns.A few days ago at brunch, one of my friends was ribbing another for his vegetarianism.
The serious problem of eating disorders among college students has recently received considerable attention in The Daily Princetonian, with an April 22 front-page article on a survey by the Eating Concerns Peer Educators (ECPE) student group and an April 25 editorial by the 'Prince' that the "University should focus attention on eating disorders."The entire staff of University Health Services (UHS) would like to commend the members of the ECPE for their efforts to raise awareness of this issue, as we share their strong concern about the prevalence of eating and body image problems among Princeton students.
When I was in eighth grade, I voted in my first election. A few of my peers stood before us and then we voted.
Vulvography column objectifies womenRegarding 'Vulvography' (Thursday, April 21, 2005):After the 'Prince' column "Vulvagraphy" angered me, it saddened me even more ? the two young women who wrote the piece mistake their objectification of women's bodies for humor.If one were to remove the painfully sophomoric puns running throughout the piece (the writers are sophomores, so we'll have to forgive them these), it would be an anatomy lesson.
In an interview with The New York Times on April 18, University spokesman Eric Qui
Let's talk about race.Thanks to the persistence of Leslie-Bernard Joseph '06, President Tilghman and others, this suggestion is not as shocking as it might once have been.
