Editors' Note: Professor John Fleming's weekly column from last Monday ('A Free Ride at Princeton') drew sharp criticism from some graduate students, including leaders of the Graduate Student Government.
The upcoming Supreme Court decision over the University of Michigan's admission policy ? one that is dividing the Presidential cabinet, rousing zealous political debates and questioning the principles on which our society is grounded ? was recently the subject of an undergraduate-wide USG referendum.
Last weekend's referendum on Honor Code reform was a travesty. Officers of the University Student Government and Honor Committee blatantly sought to pervert the vote and depress voter participation, deliberately obscuring the substance of the issues at stake.
They look different. Black. Dark. Poor. Foreign. "Savages." They are Africans. 3,000 people die in New York City, and the whole world changes.
Those who have seen President Tilghman speak informally with students know she has the capacity for effective leadership.
Suing college students. Forcing ISPs to rat out customers. Petitioning Congress for unprecedented vigilante powers.
The creative arts are a weakness in Princeton's generally strong lineup of learning opportunities.
Recently, there have been several announcements of Honor Code reform. Two Sundays ago, the USG approved a set of procedural changes to the Honor Code Constitution.
This weekend the undergraduate student body will have our first chance to reform the Honor Code. When we vote in class elections, we will also vote on four amendments I've proposed to fix some problems in the Code.
Today's Opinion page presents detailed information both for and against the proposed Honor Code changes that appear on the online ballot as part of this weekend's class elections.The Opinion Board feels that one of the proposed Honor Code changes, if it were passed, would be harmful to students.
The announcement this past week of a new undergraduate dean of admission has provided a moment to reexamine the debate that gained so much momentum this fall over the roots of a perceived anti-intellectualism on the Princeton campus.
When the papers are replete with up-to-the-minute, in-your-face coverage of Iraq, Iraq, Iraq (it's alarming how normal it is already), sometimes with more than five articles on the same story; when the networks have made the war the most voyeuristic, sensationalistic, disturbing reality television ever; when suddenly, everyone from Oprah Winfrey to Steve Nash to your hairstylist is an expert on the Persian Gulf, I cannot help but wonder: have we forgotten about Korea?While the media battles it out for the most complete coverage of the war (and next year's Pulitzer for public service), largely relegating updates on the Korean peninsula to Reuters blurbs, the North Korean newspaper Rodong Sinmun has declared that the Iraqi war is the United States' most blatant act of terrorism yet.
Last week, the Recording Industry Assoication of America filed a lawsuit against Princeton sophomore Daniel Peng for copyright infringement, alleging that he facilitated the theft of illegal MP3's through his "Wake" search engine.
It appears that NBC and National Geographic have issued a joint statement against the reporter Peter Arnett and have fired him from his position after Mr. Arnett granted an interview to Iraqi television stations.
Taufiq Rahim, in his article In This War Debate, No Side Can Claim Moral Clarity (April 2), concludes his article with imagery of a Las Vegas roll of the dice.
The new Dean of Admission is a woman. Thirty years ago, when Princeton first adopted a system of coeducation, Halsie Bowen, a former law enforcement official, was the only female in the administration.
Valuing war debate"Undecided's [sic] are the only ones really wise enough to know that they have no good way of evaluating the truthfulness of either side's claims," writes Aileen Nielsen about the war in Iraq in her editorial.
Grades at Princeton are too high. According to a recent report by Dean of the College Nancy Weiss Malkiel, the median grade point average for the Class of 2002 was 3.46, or midway between an A- and a B+. That means half of all graduating seniors had a cumulative GPA in the A-range.With so many students clustered near the top of the scale, it's often hard for an individual student to truly gauge the quality of his or her work.
Two thousand years ago, a group of driven, self-absorbed men conspired to rid the world of one of the most megalomaniacal figures in history.
Media coverage of Israel-Palestine conflict 'limited,' 'evasive'Nicholas Guyatt's column (April 7, 2003) on the endless Israeli-Palestinian conflict is more candid, cogent and responsible than the limited, evasive recent reporting and commentary by the New York Times, Washington Post and TV pundits.
