No one who knows me would consider me a coward. I'm not afraid to speak my mind, to bullies or to my betters.
Regarding 'Old argument, old ploy' (Katherine Reilly, April 2):Reilly calls "absurd" the Students for Academic Freedom's (SAF) investigation of the faculty on the suspicion that professors might be biased against conservative students.
When one senior asks another when his friend must turn in his thesis, he often phrases the question as "when are you due." The reference to pregnancy is done jokingly, but is quite revealing.
"Crap. I left my iPod in Frist." A girl in my a cappella group did a forehead smack as she realized she had forgotten her treasured, not to mention extremely expensive, gizmo in the student center on her way to rehearsal."Damn it.
The ensuing controversy over the University's denial of assistant professor of history Drew Isenberg's bid for tenure suggests that it is time for a thoughtful examination and reconsideration of the University's tenure process and policy.The current tenure process, though, rests behind a cloak of mystery, keeping both students and, much more importantly, the junior faculty who are most directly affected by it in the dark.
The modern American university is asked to carry out a strange amalgam of functions which, by any reasonable standard of organizational design, ought rightly to be performed by separate institutions.
Evan Baehr has a point. There is too little intellectual diversity in academia, even at Princeton.In too many classes, little of the fierce intellectual give and take that characterizes a rigorous academic climate exists.
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.
