The horrors of Princeton bureaucracy
Dramatization:"I'm sorry," said the card swiper, a thin smirk playing across her face.
Dramatization:"I'm sorry," said the card swiper, a thin smirk playing across her face.
With Dean of Admission Hargadon's recent departure, Dean Rapelye's new arrival and Stanford, Yale and Harvard's decisions to adopt early action admission policies, it's not surprising that the University is examining its own policies.
How has Princeton changed since Brown v. Board of Education was decided in 1954? So asked my good friend, 'Prince' Editorial Page Editor Jonathan Williams.
In 1870, Harvard's first black graduate received his degree. In 1874, Yale's first got his.In 1909, an African-American prospective was told it was "inadvisable" for him to attend Princeton.
Regarding 'Professor helps draft amendment' (Feb. 18):Words cannot express how horrified I am that Prof.
Slightly less colorful, slightly less collegiate. Those are my two impressions of Princeton in its cold season compared to Princeton during the warmth ? a warmth for which I am sure we all long for a return.Each year, when Princeton changes from the guardianship of Apollo to that of Old Man Winter, she experiences a simultaneous reduction of color.
W ould you ever learn about combat by only talking to deserters? Learn about marriage only through the divorced, dieting through the obese, justice through those on death row?
World's oldest profession, meet the world's newest technology. Sex has long been at the forefront of technological development.
Taufiq Rahim's racially tinged attack on Secretary of State Colin Powell assaults a distinguished public servant whose life embodies the American Dream in the fullest sense of the phrase.Born to Jamaican immigrants in the Bronx, Powell attended New York City public schools and the City College of New York, where he participated in R.O.T.C.
The semester started out great, so long as I was content to live vicariously. First, my daughter got tenure at a major university.
The University offers a variety of options to those in room draw, from smoke-free to independent.
Last week the FDA balked at making a real decision about whether to allow over the counter sales of the morning-after pill due to a firestorm of political pressure.The abortion debate always centers on one central question: Should a woman have the right to choose whether or not to have an abortion?
George Kennan, the great statesman and visionary, whose 100th birthday Princeton celebrates this week, was a miserable outcast as an undergraduate.
Colin Powell rose to international prominence after leading the United States to victory during the Gulf War as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
There are four things in life a person can't escape: death, chicken pox, zits and Instant Messenger.
If, as Clopin declares in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," "Good intentions are not enough; they've never put an onion in the soup yet," then Nassau Hall will not be serving potage d'oignon any time soon.Chanakya Sethi's article in Monday's 'Prince' ably showed the difficulties facing University officials as they search for minority candidates for high-level administrative positions.
When Secretary of State Colin Powell comes to campus tomorrow morning to make a speech at the centennial celebration of George Kennan, he'll also receive the first Crystal Tiger Award.
First things first: I want to thank President Tilghman and Matt Margolin. Tilghman's office confirmed Tuesday that she will hold a USG-organized open meeting with students, along the lines I suggested in my last column, some time soon ? the exact logistics are still being ironed out.This week, I want to suggest a new way of thinking about the administration's role in political debate.
Friday night's performance of the "Vagina Monologues" included more vibrators than you'd ever think you wold find in a theater.
I got through Princeton and the three decades that followed without seeing a Triangle show and its all-male kickline of repute ? or disrepute.