Opinion

Will you marry me, Paul Krugman?

Will you marry me, Paul Krugman?

I was in the middle of one of those pretentious-yet-depressing conversations that can only be had by a bunch of liberal graduate students living under a Republican administration about to take us into an ill-advised war."You know," my computer scientist friend said, "I wouldn't be opposed to this war in principle if I just trusted Bush to get the job done right ? to rebuild Iraq afterwards, to establish real democracy there, that sort of thing.

OPINION | 02/24/2003

Colin Powell's metamorphosis and democratic implications

Who is Colin Powell? Defining himself as the "reluctant warrior" who claims "force should be a last resort, but it must be a resort," our Secretary of State has received much admiration at home and abroad for his diplomatic, multilateralist approach to foreign policy.

OPINION | 02/24/2003

Thinking about Iraq

Why so little debate about Iraq? Given how close we are to war, one might expect to see more of a conversation ? especially on a college campus.Some issues are easy to agree on.

OPINION | 02/23/2003

Debating the burning issues of our times

In my continuing if still fruitless attempt to come to terms with world madness I within the last week attended a couple of lectures offered by speakers with dramatically differing points of view.

OPINION | 02/23/2003

American blackness

Any population isolated and left to its own devices, no matter how homogeneous, will create a way to divide itself.

OPINION | 02/23/2003

Doors wide shut

Closed doors stop fires from spreading. That's why every dorm room door on campus falls shut when opened, and it's also why we aren't allowed to prop our doors open ? consequences of a fire code imposed from beyond Nassau Hall.In the newly renovated dorms, you can't leave your door unlocked when it's closed ? the doors don't have an "unlocked" setting.

OPINION | 02/20/2003

When Borking isn't enough

So it looks like this is going to be the Year of the Filibuster. With both the Presidency and the Senate safely in the hands of the Republican Party, conventional wisdom would hold that the judiciary is going to get a bit more conservative.

OPINION | 02/20/2003

Life with your own kind

A few nights ago, I had a revelation of grandiose proportions. I was finishing up a calculus assignment due the following morning, along with my roommate who is in the same class.

OPINION | 02/20/2003

Self-segregation, accusations only hurt campus minorities

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.

OPINION | 02/19/2003

Quiet intellectualism does exist on campus, despite loud debate

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.

OPINION | 02/19/2003

American aspirations for pesky European nations

As I have told countless Princeton students over the years, I have looked down on Europeans ever since I came to this country.

OPINION | 02/19/2003

I never thought I'd have six

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.

OPINION | 02/18/2003

Iraq: Wrong time, wrong plan

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.

OPINION | 02/18/2003

Defending PriCom's spending habits

The Priorities Committee offers an efficient, fair, and proven means of setting the University's operating budget.

OPINION | 02/18/2003

A surprising choice

It seems the most common reaction to Dean Fred Hargadon's selection as baccalaureate speaker is a combination of surprise and puzzlement.

OPINION | 02/18/2003

Iraq: War is the best option

In 50 years, only two states have actively pursued nuclear weapons, brutally repressed their citizens and repeatedly committed acts of aggression against other sovereigns.

OPINION | 02/18/2003

Student athletics are important to a cohesive campus

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.

OPINION | 02/17/2003

Finding a place for Chicano students, their culture

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.

OPINION | 02/17/2003

Letters to the Editor

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.

OPINION | 02/17/2003

Good intentions up in smoke: environmentalism's accidents

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!

OPINION | 02/16/2003

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