Autumn is the season of college admissions. Just as the leaves are sure to fall, so too are crowds of high school students sure to descend on campus, littering the walkways like the fallen foliage whose season they share.
As Gay Awareness Week unfolded on this campus last week, several guest writers, regular columnists and letters to the editor addressed important gay rights issues on this page; we published pieces on topics ranging from gay marriage to the Queer Radicals' "Love-In" to one writer's experience at the Toronto Pride Parade.The Opinion Board shares a very strong belief in the importance of gay rights.
I don't remember much about the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was a snow day; I was in my room, humming along to the radio, when my father came in to get me.
The book that most fascinated me last year was not by Plato or Machiavelli, but a big gilt-edged volume in a display case in Frist Campus Center.
Queer Radicals hosted 'Love-In' at FristRegarding 'All you need is love: LGBT has "Love In" at Frist' (Thursday, Oct.
Like Rodney Dangerfield, even at the height of his mid-eighties "Back to School" fame, Princeton grad students don't get no respect.
Ordinarily the advantages of not keeping an accurate calendar outweigh the disadvantages, but now and again one gets caught out badly.
Israeli, Palestinian comparison is wrongRegarding 'Letters to the editor' (Wednesday, Oct.
Ah, the Career Fair. Where else can one find a bunch of depressed recent Princeton grads trying to make their jobs sound great?
Everything I ever learned I don't want to do, I learned during an internship. Over the past several summers, I've explored a variety of interests and career opportunities and have walked away from each with valuable lessons learned, namely what I can and cannot do for the rest of my life.I began studying to be a gymnast, a world-renowned queen of the balance beam and floor routine.
Use of quote marks not intended to deny campus group legitimacyRegarding 'Students lobby for Indigenous Peoples day' (Oct.
They're here. I can see them. I can smell them. They're in my inbox. They're in my mailbox. They're on my voicemail.
Many people say that activism on campus is nonexistent. Without a doubt the Princeton climate does not provoke the kind of activism that is seen on other campuses like Harvard or Berkeley.
For the past eighteen years of my life, I have lived a blissfully "job-free" life. Before coming to Princeton, I had never filled out a tax form or received a paycheck.
Few things are designed as shoddily as the latest round of CD copy-protection technology, which Princeton grad student Alex Halderman pointed out last week can be defeated by holding down the "shift" key.
How does one explain the Princeton social scene? When trying to describe it to an outsider it seems but a parody of 1920s American society: "We spend our evenings in 19th century gothic mansions with libraries and antique pool rooms." While Prospect Street does fly the flag for much of the Princeton social life, freshman and sophomores pre-bicker/sign-in are lucky to have the added camaraderie of their own residential colleges.
When a community of intravenous drug users has no access to clean, sterile syringes HIV, Hepatitis and other blood borne pathogens will spread like wildfire (i.e.: New Jersey) On the other hand, if "IDUs" have access to sterile syringes, the spread of disease is greatly reduced (i.e.: the rest of the country).Nationally, drug use accounts for 25 percent of new HIV infections, but in New Jersey this number is over 50 percent, according to the 2002 New Jersey HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report.
This summer, Senator Bill Frist announced his support for a constitutional ban on gay marriage. Watching him on television, I would have liked to react calmly and coolly, citing the Fourteenth Amendment, which guarantees equal protection under the law, and denying that the Senator's Christian values should be imposed upon the rest of the country.
New stress in collegeRegarding the Wednesday, Oct. 8, article on suicide prevention: I am writing to clarify a misunderstanding of my remarks about stress at Princeton.
One of the highlights of my summer was attending the Pride Parade in Toronto, Canada. However, when I mention to Princetonians that I took part, I am often met with questions of why I would attend, given that I myself am heterosexual.
