In her oped column "Finding a Place for Chicano Students, Their Culture" (Feb. 18, 2003), Vanessa de la Torre raises an important concern about the lack of Chicano studies courses at Princeton.
ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM! OK, that was cheap, but I'm glad I got it out of the way. Now you know what I'm going to write about.I've been somewhat infamous since an editorial I wrote last year, criticizing people who I thought spent too much time pursuing mindless activities rather than those somewhat more thought-related.
As I have told countless Princeton students over the years, I have looked down on Europeans ever since I came to this country.
My suite is packed with stereotypes. Then again, seven college female twenty-somethings with backgrounds as comfortable as D.C., exotic as China, and backwards as Alabama rewriting the college experience allow for a fair amount of material.Together we're vocal, democratic, religious, athletic, conservative, quiet, studious, artistic, prox-biting, creative, and relatively insane.
No one doubts that Saddam Hussein is bad for the Iraqi people. He has squandered his country's relative wealth, and enforced his rule with brutality that mocks any defensible conception of human rights.
The Priorities Committee offers an efficient, fair, and proven means of setting the University's operating budget.
It seems the most common reaction to Dean Fred Hargadon's selection as baccalaureate speaker is a combination of surprise and puzzlement.
In 50 years, only two states have actively pursued nuclear weapons, brutally repressed their citizens and repeatedly committed acts of aggression against other sovereigns.
If you haven't noticed from the general bent of my columns, then I will be the first to tell you that I am an avowed supporter of the ongoing debate on campus intellectualism.
Adrian Rosales '02, a politics major from Texas, took a student-initiated seminar last spring with the assumption that he could use it toward his graduation requirements.
OWL's version of feminism is unpredictable, inconsistentIn her recent letter to the Editor, Jessica Brondo says: "It is upsetting how willing people are to disparage OWL without actually speaking to an officer to learn the exact intentions of our event." What is so distressing about researching the merits of an event by investigating its host organization (i.e.
Forget six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke, Forget the spreading of the hideous town . . .And William Morris never even saw a Jersey strip!
The first semester of SCORE-selected classes is well underway, and by most accounts the online system works about as well as the much-maligned course cards it replaced.
I n all human history, there have been few events that affected humanity so profoundly as AIDS. Now, 20 years into the epidemic, it appears the U.S.
For many a Princeton student, Valentine's Day has been looming ominously on the horizon for some time now, remembered occasionally with a slight shudder.
Long ago, in the time of troll dolls, slap bracelets and pogs, Valentine's Day was a celebration for all.
OWL workshop is truly feministHere we go again . . . another criticism of the Organization of Women Leaders with absolutely no valid information to back it up.
Last fall, in the Congressional debate over authorizing President Bush to attack Iraq, one Congressman explained his support for a war with a nightmare scenario: supposing the Iraqi leader were to send a nuclear bomb to a U.S.
This past week's focus on the Organization of Women Leaders and their sponsorship of CAKE has led many students on campus to debate the value of open sexuality and eroticism.
Students should resist police harassment with the voteUndercover prohibition agents?
