Opinion

How should we remember Columbus?

How should we remember Columbus?

Many will celebrate Christopher Columbus today, five hundred and eleven years after his arrival Some of us are told his arrival marked the "discovery" of a new continent and a new nation without mention of Columbus' legacy of colonization and exploitation.

OPINION | 10/12/2003

Lonely at the top? No, we're just fine, thanks

U.S. News and World Report allows Harvard to share Princeton's supremacy for a year? I demand a recount!

OPINION | 10/09/2003

Club Scarlet

I am a senior, and I have a hiding place. It's not near any of my favorite haunts: the Chapel, Caf

OPINION | 10/09/2003

Letters to the editor

Career Services works to offer job varietyRegarding 'Seniors in Suits' (Oct. 9, 2003):One of the most rewarding aspects of being a career counselor at Princeton is the opportunity to talk to, work with and advise students with such a diverse array of talents, experiences and interests.

OPINION | 10/09/2003

Leaks and the lackluster lackeys who leak them

Is it my bitter fate to remain forever an obscure columnist for an obscure publication? What is it that the big guys have that I lack?

OPINION | 10/08/2003

Seniors in suits

It's hard these days to walk across campus without encountering impeccably groomed seniors, wearing their Sunday best and fixed expressions of concentration.

OPINION | 10/08/2003

Hot bods and gym gods

Running innocently on an elliptical machine in Dillon, my attention broke momentarily from a surprisingly engrossing soap opera to find the girl next to me staring at the flashing numbers on my machine.

OPINION | 10/08/2003

Letters to the Editor

Not another codeThe 'Prince' rightfully acknowledged ("Nurturing campus diversity," Oct.

OPINION | 10/07/2003

Finding Omertà during a year abroad in Italy

This summer I discovered an unexpected passion for the macho, criminal bloodfest otherwise known as the "Godfather" series.

OPINION | 10/07/2003

University is already supporting mental heatlh

As Chief Medical Officer of Princeton University, I am pleased that Fernando Delgado chose to shed light on a mental health issue that concerns us all deeply here, that of suicidality in the college aged population.

OPINION | 10/07/2003

As year begins, finding old comforts in a new place

I wish I weren't here. By here, I mean Princeton University.It's not that I hate the place.

OPINION | 10/06/2003

Letters to the Editor

Not another codeIf the proposed "social honor code" is anything like the academic honor code, it is an extremely bad idea.The honor code is not just a statement of support for academic integrity.

OPINION | 10/06/2003

Personal observation where terror's flags fly

"My Summer Vacation." Like clockwork year after year I can remember the elementary school teachers giving this assignment, as we, their little charges, returned from months of mental sloth and academic apathy.

OPINION | 10/06/2003

Helping Africa overcome

The standard reaction to the word "Africa" in the West is a sense of overwhelming frustration.

OPINION | 10/05/2003

Nurturing campus diversity

Several campus groups have recently proposed that the University issue a statement of support for minorities, or consider asking freshmen to sign a pledge of support for diversity.

OPINION | 10/05/2003

Suicide on a Saturday night

Some nights ago I was playing chess with a suicidal man. Hurricane Isabel had turned out largely disappointing for most of the campus, but I certainly felt like I was in the eye of a storm.

OPINION | 10/05/2003

Making history of our own — with cell phones

I consider myself a pretty easygoing guy; there are precious few things in life I really dislike.

OPINION | 10/02/2003

Forget kids, here comes the organization professor

If F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel 'This Side of Paradise' captured life at Princeton at the outset of the twentieth century, then Princeton may have as astute, if less literary a chronicler at the dawn of the twenty-first century in David Brooks.

OPINION | 10/02/2003

Women in the sciences

According to this week's report on women in the sciences and engineering at Princeton, female faculty in these fields are among students' favorite thesis and JP advisors.

OPINION | 10/01/2003

An intelligent Princetonian, unable to open her mailbox

I can't open my mailbox. For years I've thought myself to be a moderately intelligent, fairly observant and at least mostly commonsensical girl who could handle the basics.

OPINION | 10/01/2003

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