Opinion

Tilghman has support for social objectives, challenging status quoIn response to Tuesday's letter to the editor: "Tilghman should not use presidency as a forum to advocate social policy."Dear President Tilghman (let's use some respect, boys): DON'T STOP!You have the full support of a large majority of Princeton students.

OPINION | 02/26/2003

Alcohol the British way

Alcohol the British way

We laugh at their monarchy, their backwards driving, the pretentious way they talk, but even Americans have to admit the Brits have got one thing right: alcohol.

OPINION | 02/26/2003

'Alumni princetonis'

Let's be honest; the alumni are weird. This was made abundantly clear last weekend when Princeton welcomed the old-timers back for Alumni/Parent Weekend, a nostalgia-soaked Saturday of lectures, awards and dinners.

OPINION | 02/26/2003

Parking in Princeton

As any student who keeps a car at school is well aware, parking around the University and in downtown Princeton is often an impossible chore.

OPINION | 02/25/2003

Attack on Brantl should not go unpunished

It seems that the state of Pennsylvania has failed to answer the tough questions raised by some of its most promising citizens.

OPINION | 02/25/2003

Taking stock of our blessings

Sometimes, I just don't get it. I simply do not see what I have, and what others don't have. In the midst of mounting deadlines for papers and exams, the strain of extracurricular activities, and the youthful ponderings of my life's problems, I lose sight of the bigger picture: I am one of the luckiest people on this Earth.

OPINION | 02/25/2003

Letters to the editor

Tilghman should not use presidency as a forum to advocate social policyDear Shirley: STOP!President Tilghman is at it again.

OPINION | 02/24/2003

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

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