It's sad when someone who's only 24 years old spends most of his day drowning in intense nostalgia.
Well, my friends, despite the freak snow flurries and cool breezes of late, I think it is safe to say that spring has finally sprung at Princeton University!
Since the start of the war in Iraq, the U.S. led coalition forces have advanced on Baghdad at a speed unparalleled in military history.
Last Friday, I followed my dream of writing into what I thought would be the hardest hour of my life: the internship interview.
Recently, there has been fervent discussion of the possibility of the USG taking political or partisan stands.
I've started several different versions of this editorial ? well, not so much versions as introductory paragraphs for editorials on all sorts of issues not relating to the war.
LeMenager decision shows integrityI am writing to stongly disagree with your editorial regarding Steve LeMenager's appointment.
Those of us who questioned the administration's rationale for this war and opposed the manner in which it came about must now reckon with the awful truth that soldiers fighting in our stead are being tortured and killed ? and we must answer a hard question: how can we support the troops and stay faithful to our own beliefs about the wrongheadedness of the Bush approach to world affairs?Young men and women overseas, many of them younger than I, have decided to risk their lives for my safety ? and yours.
With last Friday's announcement that Janet Rapelye will serve as Princeton's new dean of admission, positive attention has been focused on the office's future.
So we're now over a week into this war. And it's bringing America closer together by the day. No, I don't mean its creating political consensus or ideological harmony.
Many academics and political theorists claim democracy is impossible in Iraq because competing factions are simply incapable of coming to terms with each other.
Defending Robertson and his achievementsI didn't plan on writing anything in defense of Pat Robertson, but some of the recent Prince articles have made me aware of the fact that most people have an inaccurate perception of him.
As the war endures, we all try to determine where we stand. Many people around the world have chosen the road of protest and opposition.
Tomorrow evening, Whig-Clio will host a visit by Pat Robertson, the televangelist, political activist, and former Presidential candidate.There doesn't seem to be any noncontroversial way of describing Robertson.
Gender 'not a minus'While I appreciate the vote of confidence in your March 28 editorial, it is simply not true that gender has been a "plus factor" in any of my recent appointments ? the appointments of women or the appointments of men (which have occurred in about equal number). What is true, and what I believe is truly important, is that we have gone into all of our searches intentionally looking for both excellent women and excellent men.
My early morning walk to work can include the whole length of Prospect between Harrison and Washington Road, and this morning I found myself relapsing into a habit suspended for some half century.
As a senior in his second semester, I am frequently asked on what I am writing my thesis. After I explain that I am analyzing the implementation of campaign finance laws, those considerate enough to feign interest almost invariably produce the same response: "Oh, campaign finance?
The rather comfortable looking antiwar protestors staging "die-ins" on the grass in front of the Frist Campus Center earlier this week should have called their event "Sunbathing for Saddam." It seems that some students are so caught up in their self-righteous opposition to Operation Iraqi Freedom that they have lost touch with basic realities about the war.The sunbathers are right, of course, that war is a tragedy.
Janet Rapelye, Princeton's newly named dean of admission, is an excellent choice by any measure. Her experience leading Wellesley's admission office will likely help her succeed here.
In thinking about war, remember historyThe 'Prince' editorial on the Iraq "war" obviously wasn't written by a Princeton undergraduate history major.
