Opinion

Move Fall Break so students can vote

In the best of all possible worlds, colleges and universities would give students a break in the middle of the fall semester so that students could have the option of voting at home.We can easily imagine the benefits of such an "election break." First, students would not be compelled to choose between voting by absentee ballot and registering outside their home state.

Whew!

Thank God it's over.Midterms are hard enough and studying is already unpleasant, but the drama of the New York Yankees-Boston Red Sox series might be enough to deflate grades well beyond Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel's wildest dreams.

Fall Break: Don't move it, just lose it

Transport yourself, if you will, back to a time when hippies roamed the earth, Richard Nixon occupied the Oval Office, and perhaps most impossibly, our parents were our age.

Bush has shown innovation

The history of the American national security establishment is marked by a procession of changing paradigms.

Local races count, too

For the past couple of months in lectures, professors have been slyly dropping hints about their views on the presidential candidates and the electoral process.

Hath hell frozen over?

The email came in from an aghast libertarian. "Hath hell frozen over" she inquired? After all, it seemed that Professor Robert "Robbie" George, part-hero, part-idol and assuredly the source of much of the conservative momentum here on campus, had declared his support for Senator Kerry in the race for the presidency.

Kerry will bring improved security

The difference between the two candidates' plans to win the war on terrorism in this election is simple: Kerry's plan makes sense, and Bush's doesn't.The first part of Bush's strategy seems to be getting in the way of reform.

Even if Kerry wins, he's still a loser

I'm voting for Ralph Nader in a swing state come November, and it has nothing to do with disliking the two-party (a.k.a.

Just under the shell of adulthood

When I was six, my classmates tormented me for looking like a "Chink" and having a "lollipop head." One evening I tiptoed barefoot across the kitchen floor in my Pound Puppies nightgown and slowly removed the scissors, the ones too sharp for homework, from the drawer.

Quintile quandary

In late September, Registrar Joseph Greenberg sent students an email to students letting them know that each student's quintile rank for academic performance within their class would become available alongside other information on the "My Academic Record" feature of the registrar's webpage.

What's in a poll?

In this year's presidential race, polls reported in the news can be very confusing. Every day we hear about national and state polls showing Bush ahead, Kerry ahead or one candidate surging and overtaking the other.

Editorial Cartoon

Interdisciplinary Writing

These days I hear but infrequently the sourly euphonic maxim that was ubiquitous in my early days in the academic profession: "Publish or perish!" This meant, of course, that for a young professor scholarly publication was the single absolute prerequisite for achieving a permanent academic appointment, alias "getting tenure." The reason I hear it less frequently these days is not that there has been a measurable relaxation of professional expectations.

There's much more to voting than just showing up

I don't mean to namedrop, but P. Diddy is after me.In NYC last weekend, all the midtown buildings were rimed with portraits of Mr. Combs demanding that I, on penalty of death, vote.The ubiquitous "VOTE OR DIE!" ultimatum is part of Mr. Combs's "Citizen Change" campaign.

Elyse's Pieces

Progressives would do best to vote for Kerry this November

Regarding Nader '55 discusses flaws of two-party system (Oct.

Bogle's example is one for all Princetonians to follow

Regarding 'Bogle '51 led Vanguard Group to success based on principles developed in his senior thesis' (Oct.

To remain special , Princeton needs to consider radical revisions

The traditions that supposedly make Princeton special have been institutionalized to within an inch of their life, if they haven't aleady been shut down.Cane Spree is on a respirator, its attendance sustained artificially by a PUDS smorgasbord.The Nude Olympics ? too raunchy for the University to claim as its own, too unpredictable to be left alone ? is a thing of the past.Even the once-spontaneous and euphoric gatherings on Dean's Date have been claimed by the acquisitive administrators of West College.

System solves problem of overburdened MAAs

From seniors Jeff Bozman and Lily Johnston, student co-chairs of the Residential Advising Review and Recommendation Committee:While we on the RARRC appreciate the sentiment behind the editorial of Oct.

Elyse's Pieces

The good, the bad... ...and the Ernie