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.
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.
President Tilghman and Dean of Admission Rapelye have started to explore future admissions options.
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
American studies has diversified its offeringsRegarding 'Cultural Programs See Growth' (Feb.
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.
College students, for all their reputation for political activism, are without a doubt the least courted of voters.
Now that my candidate of choice has dropped out of the presidential race, I feel compelled to respond to the 'Prince's condemnation of Princeton students' political apathy ("Princeton Politics," Feb.
Editor's Note: Last Thursday, the 'Prince' argued the Crystal Tiger Award couldn't claim to be from the undergraduates because only a committee of three undergraduates had input in choosing its recipient.Regarding: Whose Award?
So Secretary of State Colin Powell came to Princeton, but for most of the student body, he may as well have been speaking 10,000 miles away.
One typical, crowded late meal, my good friend Andrew Perlmutter '06 was sitting next to me at a table with a group of my friends.
Seniors, is this all you need to know about young alumni trustee candidates before voting?* *Last Wednesday, young alumni trustee candidates voted against even allowing candidate statements available to first-round voters.
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.
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.
Dramatization:"I'm sorry," said the card swiper, a thin smirk playing across her face.
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.
