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.
There is no safer college party environment in the United States than Prospect Avenue.Not only is there no hard alcohol available in the clubs, but students go out with friends who look out for one another.
I was looking forward to writing today's column. It was all planned out. In fact, I was probably going to pen some thoughts regarding the War on Terrorism, or perhaps the recurring troubles in Iraq.
One year ago, as the war in Iraq raged, I was studying abroad in Cape Town, South Africa. Living with 20 other foreign students certainly made for vigorous debates.
Barillari misunderstands the Prospect InitiativeRegarding 'This one's doomed from the start' (March 23):The key component of the Prospect Initiative isn't the money given by the University, or just having more alcohol free events, as the 'Prince' editorial on March 10 claimed.
Why do people become columnists? The stock answer is something about how opinion writing is a public service, and it's partly correct.
Today the Supreme Court will hear arguments regarding the constitutionality of the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Rosen's revisions deserve to be carefully exploredRegarding 'Rethinking the calendar at Princeton' (March 22):I commend Professor Rosen for thinking outside the box.
In the last two years, I've passed by airport security checkpoints more often than I've sat behind the wheel of a car.
The latest salvo in the University's crusade against underage drinking graced the front page of the 'Prince' earlier this month.
The March 11 Spanish train bombing marks the lowest point yet of the war on terrorism. Two-hundred and two innocent civilians were murdered in Europe's worst terrorist attack since the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 by Libyan agents in 1988.
As the goals of an educational system change it becomes crucial to integrate them into a consistent whole.
For the first time in President Tilghman's administration, students will have a public forum set up to let her know what they think.Tilghman will take questions during this afternoon's CPUC meeting in a format similar to the one 'Prince' columnist David Robinson urged her to adopt last month with brief opening remarks and questions slated to take an hour.Tilghman is not entirely new to this: She has addressed students concerns on issues before ? most notably a forum sponsored by OWL where she defended her female appointees and during the debate over the athletics moratorium.
Most people believe that when Eliot famously wrote that "April is the cruelest month" he was thinking of the IRS, but he may have had the Princeton faculty in mind.
Within a Dec. 3, 1809 missive written by an elder statesman to his grandson, the following intimation appears: "Letter writing is an hors d'oeuvre.
One of the best things about studying in Britain is getting to observe a country that's similar to ours grappling with the same problems we face.Currently, British intellectuals are fixated on a piece in "Prospect" by David Goodhart.
