Regarding 'Bioethics class visits neonatal facility' (Nov. 15):In 1914, my grandmother gave birth to two little girls, my Aunt Ernesting and Aunt Christine.
Not so very long ago, the idea of "Romance" centered upon the basics: your age when you were betrothed, your rank in the family business and how much wrist you got to see while dancing in parallel lines.
My father died on Saturday, Nov. 6, in Philadelphia, a city in which he did not live. He was 52 years old.I could write many more than seven hundred words about my father.
Differences between Singer and Hiatt exaggerated Regarding 'Bioethics class visits neonatal facility' (Nov.
How ironic that the authors of a recent editorial wrote of Palestinian olive trees being uprooted by Israelis.
Election night a few weeks ago was an exciting time to be from Ohio. The country's fate was left to the Buckeye State, and while I regret the way my fellow Ohioans voted, I still enjoyed the national attention we received.
Some time last year, a friend of mine said something that really struck a chord. In the middle of a discussion on the tendencies of Princetonians, my companion summarized, "Princeton students are very good at working but not very good at thinking."I have had some time to process these words and have realized that the more I ponder them, the more revealing they seem to be in describing how we conduct our education here at Princeton.Critiquing the lack of intellectualism at Princeton is certainly nothing new.
Regarding 'Tilghman to address stem cell symposium' (April 22):President Tilghman says, "We have to weigh the rights and privileges of a ball of cells versus those of a child with juvenile diabetes and judge between them.
Two weeks ago, on the eve of the election, I told you that I knew who would win the election and why ? without, of course, telling you either thing.
While Yasser Arafat languished for the last three years of his life as a virtual prisoner in his crumbling Ramallah compound, the Israeli government and the American punditocracy embarked upon a sustained smear campaign to portray him as a rejectionist and an irrelevant partner in the peace process.
Regarding 'Contention over Ivy football rules' (Nov. 11):Sometimes it seems as though I am speaking to a grammar school class, rather than the presidents of the Ivies.
Emily Stolzenberg (A look at major constraints, Nov. 11) contrasts the attractively "broad scope" of big departments such as English and history with the "narrower scope" of what she calls "language majors." This characterization overlooks the fact that the latter already offer a great degree of interdisciplinarity and flexibility.The curriculum in French and Italian, for example, incorporates not just one or two, but up to three "cognate" courses chosen from other humanities or social sciences departments.
It's Saturday night, 1:30 a.m. Instead of chugging the rest of my plastic cup filled with Beast, popping my collar and heading to the dance floor, I'm dead sober in what looks like a miniature eating club watching the last few people file out.
During our own Adlai Stevenson '21's 1956 presidential campaign, a woman called out to him, "You have the vote of every thinking person!" Stevenson replied with typical wit: "That's not enough, madam, we need a majority!" He went on to lose to Dwight Eisenhower in a landslide.Stevenson would have felt right at home in my dinner table conversions.
I, like other Princeton students, returned to campus after Fall Break to find most of the leaves fallen, cold weather seemingly settled for the duration and an overflowing mailbox.
I've been looking through my miraculous see-into-the-future goggles lately (they're redonkulous) and been thinking about life as a sophomore.
Your article on the results of the CPUC's Princeton Experience Survey ('Students report undergraduate satisfaction,' Nov.
We offer two key clarifications regarding 'MPAA begins filing lawsuits against movie downloaders' (Nov.
On Nov. 2, while the rest of the country watched their blue and red colored states on national television and continued to debate the bigger issues of abortion, Iraq, Vietnam, health care and education, the citizens of Alabama were on the edge of their seats.
There has already been a glut of post-election analysis, and I add to the excess only because there is an elephant in the corner that nobody is talking about.There is a disconnect between the sentiments expressed in John Kerry's concession speech and the feelings expressed by Kerry supporters over the past week.
