Opinion

Fear and Loathing in Princeton

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.

Op-Art

Full Tiger Magazine response to BSU letter

The following is the unedited full text of a statement released to The Daily Princetonian by the editorial staff of the Tiger Magazine.

Changes needed to fix post-enrollment problem

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.

A shortage of righteous indignation

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.

Op-Art by Stephen Hsia

Democrats miss the boat with Dean

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.

Letters to the Editor

Anscombe Society to promote chastity, not exclusionRegarding "Chastity group to get University funding" (Tuesday, Feb.

Underwhelmed by 'The Gates' in New York

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.

In service of the Nation's Service

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.

Op-Art

Going beyond what your advisers can tell you

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.

Assessing our responsibilities outside the Ivory Tower

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.

Full text of BSU letter to the Tiger

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.

In the midst of stress, seek relief through simple pleasures

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.

Op-Art by Helen Yu

Finding community in the colleges

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.

Something's amiss at the United Nations

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.

Full text of Tiger response to BSU letter

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?

Much left to be done: U. must rededicate itself to reaching minority students

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.