If, Virginia, you believed what you read in the 'Prince,' you'd think the undergrads here were animals.On March 26, Cullen Newton praised Prospect Avenue's safety record.
Regarding 'If you have court vision, is college really necessary?' (April 5):Call me idealistic, but I think Thad Hartmann is dead wrong.This university is the gift of thousands and thousands of people who donated their working lives, their creative energy and, yes, their money, to make it all possible.
It's Friday, my deadline day, and I haven't so much as begun to think about a topic for this column.
Regarding 'An election, sort of' (April 2):Your editorial is based on a misconception of the role of Young Alumni Trustees.
It's safe to assume the next Young Alumni Trustee won't be a waffler. The candidates are sending a clear message: They don't want to campaign for one of the most important positions a student can run for.Students campaign for academic chair, U-councilor, even social chair of a residential college.
Housing shortage! Not enough beds for everyone on campus! Later draw groups must split up to accommodate everyone!It's room draw time, when the stakes are high, and the losses ever so real.
This month Princeton gained a new student group. In a landscape that includes not one but two Indian dance troupes, the nation's oldest political society and a juggling club, you wouldn't think such a development would attract much notice.But Students for Academic Freedom isn't an ordinary group.
I hope everyone read Cullen Newton's article last week ('Let's be Honest,' March 26).As Cullen, quite rightly said, "There is no safer party environment in the United States than Prospect Avenue." He justified this claim by pointing out that on the Street there is no driving and there are officers and bouncers in charge of keeping clubs incident free, as well as a set standard for no hard alcohol allowed when the club is on tap.But picking up the paper on Monday, I and many other Princeton males read with some disbelief a disparaging letter by graduate student Jonathan Eastvold.
Throughout this week, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students have been illuminating themselves through arch sings, multimedia displays, discussion groups, and ice cream socials."Pride Week," as LGBT calls it, is different from the annual fall "Awareness Week" in that it is not noted as an educational week, but rather a celebration.
Regarding 'Hi-tech tools are needed to safeguard clubs' (John Lombardini GS, Susan McWilliams GS and Andy Rachlin '04, March 31):I am shocked and surprised to find that Lombardini and McWilliams felt I was considering the presence of Graduate Students at the Street to be a nuisance of any type.
Regarding 'Isenberg case reveals discord, controversy' (Monday, March 29, 2004):I am distressed at the Prince's misrepresentation of at least one of the reviews of Andrew Isenberg's first book in the context of his tenure case.
"I think I'm going to stop drinking," said a slightly drunken friend of mine. "It's bad for me, and I need to get my life together.""Okay," I said.
My personal history with the Pledge of Allegiance goes back to 1946. When I was a kid growing up in Pennsylvania we said the Lord's Prayer in public school every day followed by a recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance standing with hands over hearts facing the flag.
In "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," Jim Carrey's character has his ex-girlfriend, played by Kate Winslet, expunged from his memory through a procedure on his brain.First to go are his most recent memories ? a bitter breakup, a painfully dull dinner ? with which he readily parts, followed by others ? an amorous tryst, running along the beach ? which he realizes, too late, he wants to keep.
Regarding 'Let's really be honest about the Street' (Jonathan C.
A key part of any editorial page is the cartoons that run on it. The cartoon to the right by Henry Payne '84, now the editorial cartoonist at The Detroit News, has become a 'Prince' classic, running every year in the freshman issue.Today begins the 2004 Daily Princetonian Cartoon Contest.
I swear (or affirm) I had no intention of soon returning to a religious theme, but emergent occasion ? all the kafuffle about the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance ? is forcing my hand.
We're hoping Professor Lawrence Rosen's column in last Monday's 'Prince' about revising the University calendar is turning some heads.
Regarding 'Let's be honest' (Cullen Newton, March 26):If it is true that "there is no safer college party environment in the United States than Prospect Avenue," then we have a serious problem.Newton's latest column is an insult not only to journalistic integrity but to his readers' credulity.
After attending the recent town hall meeting with President Tilghman, where where she outlined Princeton's future, I imagined how an editorial might read in an edition of the 'Prince' twenty years henceforth, considering the changes hinted at during the discussion:"As I traverse the grassy planes of Whitman College, the envy of every non-Whitman undergrad, I wonder what this campus was like 20 years ago.
