It is the precept of my African-American studies class. A fellow student has just confessed that he doesn't know how to act around black people.
With the recent events in the Middle East quickly spiraling towards war, many Americans and citizens of other nations have taken to protesting in the name of peace.
Too often when controversial issues come up, or even not so controversial issues, I hear my peers resorting to arguments of, "Well I just believe what I believe, and I think everyone else should do the same.
The Housing Department doesn't want us to be stressed. "I sometimes hear that "Draw" can be a troublesome or stressful experience, even though it REALLY doesn't have to be!" reads this year's letter to undergraduates about 2003 room draw.
It seems we almost did it, once again. The capture of Khalid Sheik Mohhamed unearthed a "treasure trove" of information about the inner workings of al-Qaeda, exposing possible plots and pinpointing the location of high-ranking terrorists.
In the early months of 2002, the nation's capital was teeming with politicians and pundits alike extolling the United States as the arbiter of justice and the emancipator of the repressed.
Everyone who is against Bush's planned war in Iraq ? a group which seems to include almost the entire population of the earth at this point, including an ever-growing percentage of Americans ? has his or her own reasons for this conviction.
I am enjoying some extended and uninterrupted time in Firestone Library, and reacquainting myself with old familiar nooks and crannies, such as 3-7-J, the locked "Philosophy Graduate Study Room," surprising home to a viable non-circulating set of the Patrologia Latina.
Soon after the terrorist attacks of September 11, President Bush signed into law a sweeping list of additions and updates to earlier intelligence statutes.
Baraka should speakI was surprised to read Wednesday's staff editorial, which praised Princeton University for declining to invite New Jersey Poet Laureate Amiri Baraka to campus.
Since the Nixon-Reagan era, America has been scaring its people shirtless about "drug" users and their cracked-out violence.
In response to Professor John Fleming's editorial ("Questions for the AIDS Campaign," March 3, 2003), we would like to explain why the Princeton chapter of Student Global AIDS Campaign ? a nationwide student organization with over eighty participating chapters ? decided to protest outside Sen.
It hasn't been the best couple of weeks for Ivy League administrative competence. Last Wednesday, the Big Red got a bit redder when staff in Cornell's admissions office managed to send a cheery "welcome to Cornell" email to 1,700 students ? 550 of whom it rejected in December.
The ghosts of Vietnam are being stirred. A recent congressional bill proposed by Charles Rangel, the Democratic Representative from Harlem, calls for the reinstitution of military conscription.
As a faculty member still haunted by memories of the turbulent 1970s, I am alarmed by the ongoing efforts to kindle more intellectual curiosity among Princeton students.
For several months now our president has been telling us that, other nations unwilling, our armed forces are prepared to unilaterally invade Iraq in order to remove Saddam Hussein from power.
If you enjoyed watching election lawyers squirm in 2000, I guarantee you the Presidential contest of 2004 will not fail to disappoint.
The buzzword du jour on campus is "self-segregation" so I too will add my two cents. Although the recent discussions have centered on self-segregation by Asian Americans on campus, I hope to speak to a larger audience.
Thanking gankGoogle, MapQuest, Citysearch . . . People use search engines and web services without giving it a second thought.
A man named Amiri Baraka occupies the post of poet laureate in New Jersey. Appointed last August to a two-year term, Mr. Baraka might have finished out his tenure in quiet poetic reflection, if not for a particular poem he wrote after the Sept.
