Opinion

Alcohol laws teach good students to break the law

Alcohol laws teach good students to break the law

Princeton students are some of the most law-abiding in the world, but when they head out to Prospect Avenue to celebrate Dean's Date, the majority of them will be breaking the law.In all my studies of democratic government, I have been taught that in most cases laws must have the support of the people they are affecting in order to be legitimate.

OPINION | 01/15/2004

Letters to the Editor

'Porn exchange' is truly progressiveRegarding "Drug users need clean needles" (Oct.

OPINION | 01/13/2004

WOMANIFESTO!

I've had enough! It's time to rise up! It's time for the green-haired women on this campus to take it back!Yesterday afternoon, I stood on McCosh Walk just before 4 p.m.

OPINION | 01/13/2004

Words, words, words

Something has to change. We're not sure what, exactly, but take our word for it ? there's a critically important issue that we, the Opinion Board of The Daily Princetonian, need to comment upon.

OPINION | 01/13/2004

Discussing Western Imperialism with Foreign Youth

I spent my New Year's in a convention center in Singapore, sipping champagne amidst a sea of 18 to 25-five-year-olds gathered together for the World Universities Debate Championships.

OPINION | 01/11/2004

Letters to the Editor

Race relations start with the individualIn response to Sam Todd's article on Friday (Jan.

OPINION | 01/11/2004

Challenging the Image of the Physically Challenged

Imagine this situation. You're in your car, prowling an enormous, crowded parking lot ? WalMart when the students return, or the mall on Dec.

OPINION | 01/11/2004

An Invitation from the 'Prince'

This year, the 'Prince' will unveil a new editorial board to express the paper's official position on campus issues.

OPINION | 01/11/2004

'What's a nice girl like you doing in a big city like this?'

Be nice. Play nice. Nice shoes . . . For years, "nice" has been the battle cry of mothers everywhere.

OPINION | 01/08/2004

Student body is ultimately responsible for minority relations

We often hear complaints of the ineffectiveness of the undergraduate student government when addressing specific interpersonal issues, such as those surrounding race and other majority-minority relationships.

OPINION | 01/08/2004

Musharraf's dance spells trouble for America

The capture of Saddam Hussein made headlines over the holidays but, for my money, the reappearance of Iraq's former leader is old news.

OPINION | 01/06/2004

Seven Years in Princeton, or: Why your preceptor is so bitter

In the catalog of Princeton archetypes, somewhere between the beer-stained Lacrosse jock and the caffeine-enhanced premed, lies the humanities graduate student.

OPINION | 01/06/2004

USG should listen to the student body

The Princeton student body has a new president today. It took nearly two weeks of campaigning, innumerable posters, a candidate forum, a debate, and a runoff election for us to make our selection.

OPINION | 12/11/2003

Women's family roles would not be hurt by gay marriage

"All you need is love," said the Beatles."Yeah, right," said the Federal Marriage Amendment.Well, actually it says the following: "Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman.

OPINION | 12/11/2003

The Brits could learn something from American education

A correspondent writes with reference to my recent columns: "What's with the geniality? You endanger your hard-won reputation as an old fart neocon!" Well, we can't have that, can we?

OPINION | 12/10/2003

A 'Snow Belt' girl experiencing winter for the first time

For the first time in my life, I have finally encountered winter. I have seen snow before and made snowmen and snow angels in the fluffy but wet substance.

OPINION | 12/10/2003

Letters to the editor

Religious debate, above all, requires objectivityRegarding 'Framing Religious Debates' (Tue., Dec.

OPINION | 12/10/2003

Letters to the Editor

Vote for effective USG leaders, take active roleIn Carlos Ramos-Mrosovsky's editorial (Dec.

OPINION | 12/09/2003

A senior rants on Princeton

Inspired by my favorite publication, I have decided to pen some observations of mine since my time at Princeton into a thread, that I call the RANT. Why is it that the columnists of The Daily Princetonian are chained by the shackles of negligence?

OPINION | 12/09/2003

What Princeton can learn from reality television

If television can be considered an authority ? and since the average American watches more than a seminar's worth each day, how can it not be ? then the country is deep in one of the most spastic fits of its love/hate relationship with the rich.

OPINION | 12/09/2003

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