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.
Authors of top 10 list will not be punishedRegarding "Editors of Nass to Apologize" (Monday, Feb.
At Princeton, I've grown used to meeting guys who play varsity sports, write for national newspapers, win Intel Science awards and who spit large amounts of phlegm on the sidewalk as I approach them.
Due to the the USG's race relations survey, Princeton now has more data about the current state of diversity on campus than it has ever had before.
Now that the magical room draw season is approaching again, I wanted to share a few of my heartwarming experiences, and use them to semicoherently suggest some reforms in our process.The summer before coming to Princeton, when I was basking in the same sense of blatant superiority that we all felt, I actually took note of one of the thousand windbag letters I received from the University.
The Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2004, article "NES dept. faces warring factions" depicts the field of Near Eastern Studies as divided between "Lewisian" and "Saidian" camps.
While the USG should be commended for its efforts in completing the campus-wide race survey, many of the survey's questions were misleading and some truly fundamental points were not addressed at all.Administrators and USG members were troubled by aspects of the race survey focusing on self-segregation, as 94 percent of respondents believed that "exclusive socializing exists at Princeton." This result, however, has absolutely nothing to do with race, the topic of the survey; often, students group together not based on race but on common interests ? varsity or club sports, for example.
Responsibility for club pickups belongs to the clubs themselvesRegarding 'Forbes vandalized in pickups' (Friday, Feb.
For those of you who may be dismayed by the recent losses of the Princeton University men's basketball team, fear not!
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.
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.
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.
It's Saint Valentine's Day. The chocolate is flying off the shelves at CVS, and the florists are striking a bonanza.
