Opinion

I have never considered Governor Jim McGreevey to be a particularly astute politician. When he spoke at my high school five years ago, he made fun of the sweater I was wearing, somehow failing to realize that insulting an 11th grader before an all-school assembly might not be a wise thing for a gubernatorial candidate to do.Things haven't changed much since then.

OPINION | 04/29/2003

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

Isenberg's scholarly research is 'fresh, exciting and inspiring'On behalf of eighteen graduate students in the History Department, I'm writing to thank the 'Prince' for covering the University's surprising decision to deny tenure to Professor Andrew Isenberg, and the efforts of undergraduates to reverse this decision.

OPINION | 04/28/2003

With age, confidence grows but simple lessons remain

Maturation sure is a funny thing. As my freshman year of college draws to a close, and I likewise close in on my twentieth year, I am shocked at how old I am.

OPINION | 04/28/2003

PCACP flags near Frist are not protected 'free speech'

The article in last Tuesday's 'Prince' reporting possible "vandalism" of the death penalty awareness flag displays outside the Frist building throughout the week is a dramatization almost as deserving of applause as was the recent production of "The Fix." The uprooting of a certain percentage of the 846 flags with a death penalty message on them was reported on in a way befitting of a felony offense.The truth is, the act performed on the flags was not a crime or tort in any sense, and its treatment as such is indicative of a campus that luckily flourishes virtually free from the fetters of criminality.

OPINION | 04/28/2003

A better, longer term

Princeton's semesters are remarkably brief. At a mere twelve weeks, they're shorter than the terms at Yale or Harvard.

OPINION | 04/27/2003

L'affaire Isenberg, or, the trouble with tenure

In denying tenure to Professor Andrew Isenberg, Nassau Hall's "Committee of Three" has betrayed the administration's frequent promises that Princeton University is an institution centered on undergraduate education.

OPINION | 04/27/2003

Grades may not be inflated

The concept of the "communications revolution" until recently remained fairly abstract to me, but all that has changed with the electronic edition of the Daily Princetonian.

OPINION | 04/27/2003

The real Princeton?

This weekend, hundreds of high school seniors, with maps in hand and Princeton sweatshirts displaying early pride, will descend upon campus.

OPINION | 04/24/2003

'The power of our own voices'

Ten years ago, the Princeton Take Back the Night March was preceded by a rash of graffiti ? faculty members who supported the cause had "FemiNazi" scrawled across their office doors.

OPINION | 04/24/2003

Keeping the 'faith' in democratic government

Last week I wrote an essay that claimed that American democracy is a religious experience. According to the essay, it is based on "sacred" beliefs and rituals and has a "church" of citizens with faith in our system.

OPINION | 04/24/2003

Courage to buck a system that has served us so well

Arriving as freshmen at Princeton, my classmates and I believed the path to career services was paved with gold.

OPINION | 04/23/2003

'New' RA policy really just codifies old protocol

I was dismayed to see your article on the front page of April 16th Prince. Brian Henn has misinterpreted and misunderstood the spirit of the "changes" of policy in the Adviser Manual concerning advisers, advisees and alcohol.

OPINION | 04/23/2003

Fountain 'triumph' makes for happier, tanner students

The world is, fundamentally, a horrible place to live. From cancer and genocide to psoriasis and reality television, human existence is beset by a plenitude of evils ? natural and artificial, great and small ? from which the only escape is death.

OPINION | 04/23/2003

White House should address climate problem

If last year a left-wing politician had called for hundreds of millions to fight AIDS, most conservatives would have balked.

OPINION | 04/22/2003

A time to swill

Tomorrow is Newman's Day. As a holiday to be observed, Newman's Day presents would-be revelers with a plain physical challenge: consume 24 beers, in 24 hours.

OPINION | 04/22/2003

Letters to the Editor

Rebutting WilliamsThe usual arguments against capital punishment are familiar and wholly unconvincing.

OPINION | 04/22/2003

Bush is right to wait on climate change

Princeton students have never been accustomed to sitting on their hands and passively waiting for something to resolve itself.

OPINION | 04/22/2003

The courage to do what you love: I'll play by my own rules, thanks

Some people think I aspire to be a failure. I have halted conversations, created gossip, and drawn quizzical, snide, or condescending looks ? simply by admitting my career plans.Princeton is more than a school.

OPINION | 04/22/2003

30 million reasons to go out and do something wild

We're surrounded by it. We depend upon it. We're losing it steadily and irreversibly. But we ignore it.Biodiversity: the sum of life on Earth.

OPINION | 04/21/2003

China must respond to AIDS in the way it has to SARS

Before I launch into the subject of this week's column, I feel compelled to report my outrage of the month: After the Associated Press reported last week that 966 people were massacred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, I called the New York Times and The Washington Post to see whether those papers had correspondents in the country.

OPINION | 04/21/2003

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