Opinion

I still haven't seen the "Passion According to Mel Gibson." I share that indistinction with several of the members of the excellent panel that met in McCosh 50 last Tuesday to lead a disussion that truly advanced the "diversity" and "community" that are more often on our lips than in our lives.

OPINION | 03/07/2004

Strange bedfellows

Strange bedfellows

In the last week, it's come to light that the Princeton Tory received a grant from the University's Bildner Fund for Diversity to help bring conservative Washington Post columnist George Will GS '68 to campus.To say it strikes us as somewhat ironic that campus' leading conservative voice, which often condemns University diversity programs, is now the beneficiary of those programs would be to put it mildly.

OPINION | 03/07/2004

Reasonable reservations about gay marriage

Reading Robin Williams' column Friday, I came to a startling realization: Apparently, the definition of "bigot" has now been broadened to include me.

OPINION | 03/07/2004

Lessons learned from life abroad

When people learn that I lived my entire life in the Third World until coming to Princeton four years ago, I am met with looks of amazement and disbelief.How do I know the "Full House" theme song, they ask?

OPINION | 03/04/2004

Advising first

When Dean of the College Nancy Weiss Malkiel went looking for the biggest problem facing undergraduate education, she came up with the so-called major majors.Forty-five percent of juniors and seniors major in only five departments, overburdening the five and leaving the stellar faculty of the smaller ones underused.Malkiel's goal to encourage students to join a wider variety of departments seems appropriate.

OPINION | 03/04/2004

Bush's hate crime legislation

President Bush finally called for the quick passage of an amendment to ban gay marriage last week.

OPINION | 03/04/2004

Needle exchange programs don't promote drug abuse

Regarding 'PJP doesn't help addicts by giving them needles' (Mar. 1):Evan Baehr's letter echoes the classic objection that many uninformed people espouse.

OPINION | 03/03/2004

'Passion's innovations lack authenticity

If you were at the panel on "The Passion of the Christ" the other day, you might have noticed that I was the guy in the back who asked Professor Cornel West the question along these lines, "Do you think it is dangerous for this movie to be marketed as nonfiction when, in fact, it is simply one interpretation of the story?"I would like here to explain the impetus behind my question.

OPINION | 03/03/2004

Bon voyage?

Many students who manage to weave study abroad into their time at Princeton look back on this decision as one of their wisest while at college.

OPINION | 03/03/2004

A major decision

A sophomore friend and I recently talked about his thoughts and concerns with selecting a major here at Princeton.

OPINION | 03/03/2004

Working against eating disorders

Eating disorders are always lurking under the surface at Princeton. The vast majority of students I've encountered will readily admit that it's a common problem many Princeton girls and, to a much smaller extent, Princeton guys, suffer from.

OPINION | 03/02/2004

Searching for inspiration

It's said that the only things sure in life are death and taxes. Not having experienced the afterlife or the IRS, I can't yet attest to this statement's truth.Instead, I believe in a different pessimistic eventuality: When I have most need of a brilliant idea is when my mind remains most blank.

OPINION | 03/02/2004

Vegeterians should stop in-fighting

One rarely dwells too long upon topics like animal cruelty, inefficient food production, and unsanitary processing conditions, but these are just a few of the considerations that drive many people to a lifetime of vegetarianism.For a vegetarian though, a diet without steak and chicken wings usually comprises less than half the problem.

OPINION | 03/02/2004

A step too far

An intimidating lecture hall, like those in McCosh or McDonnell, can easily overwhelm a wide-eyed visitor with its sheer size and number of students.

OPINION | 03/01/2004

New and improved: the Oscars

Each year the same collection of Hollywood names and faces gathers to elect one of themselves to fill the everyday, typical, "give yourself a pat on the back" categories of best something-or-other.

OPINION | 03/01/2004

Exit strategies

You've been there. It's the hour-long precept, the ninety-minute lecture, the three-hour seminar, the indefinitely-long conversation where you realize, five minutes in, that hell really is other people.

OPINION | 03/01/2004

A recommendation for Dean Rapelye

President Tilghman and Dean of Admission Rapelye have started to explore future admissions options.

OPINION | 02/29/2004

Passionate reflections

The artistic responses to the gospel accounts of the Passion of Jesus Christ, especially that in Matthew, include such works of transcendent genius as the poetic "Stabat Mater," Grnewald's painted "Crucifixion," Michelangelo's sculpted Piet

OPINION | 02/29/2004

Letters to the Editor

American studies has diversified its offeringsRegarding 'Cultural Programs See Growth' (Feb.

OPINION | 02/29/2004

50 years later, Brown remains unfulfilled

Could you imagine the excitement of black communities across America on May 17, 1954, the day the Supreme Court handed down the Brown decision and declared the doctrine of "separate but equal" unconstitutional?Imagine the euphoria of black parents across the country who dreamed of something better for their children and insisted that education was the best way to improve their circumstances.Imagine their joy as they realized that their children would no longer have to attend dilapidated schools and read from second and third hand books.Imagine the excitement of those whose lives had been defined by the humiliating insistence that they were less than, and having this view structured in the very order of things.Imagine their joy at the possibility that the Court's decision constituted a death sentence to Jim and Jane Crow.But we know what followed.

OPINION | 02/26/2004

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