Opinion

With this issue, the 'Prince' closes up shop for the summer. We can't believe how quickly the semester has flown past ? February, with its headlong dive into the intense world of daily editing and production, seems only a few weeks ago.When we began editing this page, we had a few simple goals: Keep regular columns short and relevant; give readers a voice by printing lots of letters and viewpoint pieces; and contribute our own thoughts to the campus conversation through staff editorials.We'd like to think we've succeeded, to some extent, in each of these areas ? but in the end, your verdict matters more than ours.

OPINION | 05/15/2003

Travel outside your comfort zone

Travel outside your comfort zone

Summer is almost here. Many Princeton students will be using this time to travel. When students here speak of travelling they often mean to places like Florida or California.

OPINION | 05/15/2003

Three cheers for Old Nassau

In a 'Prince' interview several years ago, a Student Volunteers Council leader remarked that Princeton, though far from the activist ideal, was slowly becoming a more "socially-conscious" school.

OPINION | 05/15/2003

Club's choice reflects our drive to exclude

I'm taking advantage of my iron grip on the 187 square inches of newsprint glory that is the 'Prince' opinion page to record some thoughts on what now appears to me, in my post-Dean's Date haze of caffeine and sleep deprivation, to be the single most revealing news development that has occurred on campus this semester.Local news took a turn for the surreal Monday, with the announcement that Campus Club will be going bicker next spring.

OPINION | 05/13/2003

Serving our nation from the Princeton bubble

Writing columns for this page can be an incredibly rewarding experience. Some of the words I have submitted to this publication have given rise to great debates and conversations with friends, classmates and professors.

OPINION | 05/13/2003

As with 'Smith' and 'Lee,' stereotypes can be useful

The deadline for this column snuck up on me unawares while I was putting the final touches on a very long essay about medieval monasticism, an essay that, while undoubtedly deathless, would not in any event win the approval of the 'Prince' editors even were it not already promised to a competing journal.

OPINION | 05/11/2003

Grading in the 'good old days'

There has been a lot of discussion at Princeton this spring about so-called "grade inflation." I thought it might interest students to have some concrete sense of what grading was like in an earlier time ? at least in my area of the University, namely the humanities.

OPINION | 05/11/2003

Eight hours a year

A group of U-Councilors has proposed that an hour be set aside once a month on Tuesday evenings for dinner and socialization across the whole campus.

OPINION | 05/11/2003

Changing views on climate change

On April 23rd, the 'Prince' devoted an entire page to two opposing viewpoints on climate change policy, allowing an important debate to emerge in this very newspaper.

OPINION | 05/08/2003

No excuses

On April 21st, we wrote that a price tag of zero isn't the only reason people share music online.

OPINION | 05/08/2003

Letters to the Editor

Be thankful for the 'wealth' ? not 'glut' ? of campus publicationsI write on behalf of the USG Student Groups Projects Board.

OPINION | 05/08/2003

With no place to hide, roommates see our reality

Before coming to college, I didn't want a roommate. Sure, based on answers to deeply personal questions such as "What kind of music do you listen to?" the Housing Department thinks we'd get along.

OPINION | 05/08/2003

Leaving home for good, daunted by real independence

The well-known American novelist Thomas Wolfe has often been quoted as writing, "You can't go home again." As I look to my last days on Princeton's campus, I begin to understand the truth of those words.Over dinner the other night, in fact, I was talking to a friend of mine who shared Wolfe's sentiments.

OPINION | 05/06/2003

The tasks and responsibilities of our generation

Conclusions are supposed to signify resolution ? and so it seems inappropriate somehow to write my concluding column for the Daily Princetonian at a time when so many of the issues I have written about persist unresolved around the world.

OPINION | 05/06/2003

'Interplay of ideas' is the best reason to attend Princeton

With reading period upon us and the inescapable fear of losing my freshman year of college, I am reminded of the very first piece of Princeton propaganda that I ever received on the shores of England.

OPINION | 05/06/2003

Escaping the colon: A paper title pitfall

Before you hand in your JP, take the time to be a rebel. Fight the power. Defy convention. Whatever you're writing about, whatever your department, do not use a colon in your title.

OPINION | 05/04/2003

Great Princeton teachers remain with us over time

So the old guard is changing, as the Opinion Board rightly pointed out on Friday. But does that have to mean it is exiting the golden gates of Princeton?

OPINION | 05/04/2003

An elite class of professors

As the spring semester closes today, we are all reminded just how fleeting our time here at Princeton is.

OPINION | 05/01/2003

Isenberg tenure denial should spark debate, study

The University's surprising decision to deny tenure to history professor Andrew Isenberg has rekindled an old debate on campus: What's the deal with tenure?

OPINION | 05/01/2003

The importance of remembering

I was pulling the colorful flags out of the grass at the conclusion of Yom Hashoah, the Holocaust Memorial Day, when two people approached the sign explaining the significance of the flags and of the day.Yom Hashoah commemorates the more than 11 million victims who lost their lives due to a systematic effort to eliminate specific ethnicities, religions and lifestyles between 1939 and 1945 ? Jews, Soviets, Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, Poles, homosexuals.

OPINION | 05/01/2003

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