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