Four weeks into the second semester, the campus has settled into its most normal mode. The novelty of the year has worn off, and there will be no reading period anxiety for another three months.
Having a moral conscience is harmful to your wallet; it urges you to fight for social justice, often at the expense of a lucrative career.
The following is the full text of a letter, sent Monday night, from Black Student Union president Candace Lee '06 to the editor and staff of The Princeton Tiger. Copies will be sent to the Tiger's graduate board and President Tilghman; Janet Dickerson, vice president of campus life; Kathleen Deignan, dean of undergraduate students; Makeba Clay, director of the Fields Center; Rachel Baldwin, assistant dean of undergraduate students; and Tom Dunne, associate director of undergraduate students.Dear Mark Daniels and writers for The Princeton Tiger,It is with a great feeling of disappointment that I am writing this letter.
Your temples are pounding and your heart is about to explode from your chest. Throngs of people surround you and suddenly you realize that you are about to engage in one of the most extreme tests of physical endurance in existence today.
While the administration's plan to increase class size has been much debated, little has been said about the proposal's other half, currently under review through Dean of the College Nancy Weiss Malkiel's office: the establishment of four-year residential colleges.
Not all is well at Dag Hammarskjöld hall. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the head honcho of the world's best known super-bureaucracy, has called the last 12 months an annus horribilis, and rightly so.
The following is the unedited full text of a statement issued by the editorial staff of the Princeton Tiger to a letter from Black Student Union President Candace Lee '06.We at Tiger Magazine greatly value the opinions of the student body, and so were disappointed to hear how grossly the BSU chose to misinterpret an article in our publication.Maybe we should follow the BSU's lead and confront such real Facebook groups as "Woman?
When I was recently asked by 'Prince' editors to prepare a column on something to do with "race relations" on campus, in conjunction with Black History Month or the recent student survey, I was initially uninspired.
Race survey takes wrong approachRegarding "Joseph's email to student body takes wrong tone (Monday, Feb.
I don't think anyone enjoys doing laundry, especially not us college kids. However, at least in theory, laundering one's clothes does not have to be a painful process.
We are optimistic that new USG president Leslie-Bernard Joseph '06 will succeed in achieving his vision of a more civic-minded student body.
I am occasionally asked how it was that, more than a decade ago now, I came to start writing a column for the "Princetonian." The answer is that an enterprising editor cajoled me into writing with the argument that a faculty columnist might help reanimate the kinds of informal student-faculty interchange that in my early years were a treasured part of the Princeton undergraduate experience.
I find it hard to believe that the editors of the Nassau Weekly actually thought that an article titled the "Top 10 Holocaust movies I've never seen but would like to" would be received, out of all things, as funny.
I work in a place called Hunts Point in the southeast Bronx, where literacy and mortality rates rival those from some of the world's developing nations.
Embroiled in the recent controversy over the Nassau Weekly's publication of the "Top 10 Holocaust movies I've never seen but would like to" list are several issues of extreme importance to the Princeton community ? in particular, the role of the University in funding campus publications and monitoring their content.We can certainly understand why people would be offended by the content of the article in question.
I wanted Howard Dean to be president. To admit this in November would have been a sin, a break in Democratic unity tantamount to voting for President Bush.
