Opinion

Owning up to our prestige addiction

Owning up to our prestige addiction

If there is one idea that Princetonians subscribe to most, it is prestige. In nearly all aspects of our lives ? in our selection of courses, activities, social environments and career decisions ? prestige can be a crucial and often decisive factor in the choices we make.This phenomenon is hardly surprising.

OPINION | 02/14/2005

Letters to the Editor: Smoking ban protects students from secondhand smoke

Regarding 'Dorm smoking ban goes too far, sacrifices privacy' (Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2005):I would be sorely remiss in my duties as Chief Medical Officer if I failed to offer a vigorous or at least, "healthy" response to this editorial.

OPINION | 02/14/2005

Op-Art by Stephen Hsia

OPINION | 02/14/2005

Students left hanging

It has now been a month since fall semester Dean's Date and several weeks since final grades were due, but we are willing to bet that many students have yet to receive all of their graded work back from their professors and preceptors.

OPINION | 02/13/2005

A scarcity of sanctity on Valentine's Day

It's Saint Valentine's Day. The chocolate is flying off the shelves at CVS, and the florists are striking a bonanza.

OPINION | 02/13/2005

Maxi-min your love life

What was it we were supposed to learn from "A Beautiful Mind"? That there's nothing wrong with being crazy if you're brilliant?

OPINION | 02/13/2005

Op-Art by Wren Yang

OPINION | 02/13/2005

Op-Art by Stephen Hsia

OPINION | 02/10/2005

Getting in is the hard part

When I was a young, naïve high school senior, I assumed that an early decision "Yes!" from Dean Fred meant that I was done with applications for a long time to come.

OPINION | 02/10/2005

Tilghman speaks out

Yesterday, President Shirley Tilghman, along with Susan Hockfield, the President of MIT and John Hennessy, the President of Stanford University, released a statement responding to Harvard President Lawrence Summers' controversial remarks on women and the sciences.

OPINION | 02/10/2005

Homeless Tigers

Princeton University operates at full tilt for roughly nine months of the year. In the summer months, when students flock to Washington, New York, and the cosmopolitan corners of Europe for glamorous internships, some of Princeton's hardest working Tigers find themselves in a less desirable circumstance: homeless.That's right.

OPINION | 02/10/2005

On language, Princeton-style: Bicker

To the rest of the world, when people "bicker" they are engaged in a mini-quarrel, a squabble, if you will.

OPINION | 02/09/2005

Nothing wrong with being common

Earlier this week, the 'Prince' Editorial Board complained that the University's decision to accept the common application compromises the "essential personality and spirit" of Princeton.I do not doubt that there are special features of a Princeton education that distinguish us from our peer institutions.

OPINION | 02/09/2005

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