A year to ask questions
2003 is the year we will go to war with Iraq. Again. Asked recently by a reporter whether war was imminent, George W.
2003 is the year we will go to war with Iraq. Again. Asked recently by a reporter whether war was imminent, George W.
Since I've been at Princeton, I've forgotten that Christmas officially starts the day after Thanksgiving.
The United States will invade Iraq. It has become a fait accompli in the minds of most policymakers, whether they are in America or the Arab world.
Although advancing, er, maturity, although advancing maturity makes me feel increasingly distant from the lived undergraduate experience in many respects, there is at least one cause for which my sympathy with my students, already heartfelt and entire, only grows in its intensity as the years go by: the subject of writing deadlines.
It is fortunate, both for our nation and the world, that the United States is unlikely to pursue unilateral action against Iraq.
In the last year, the editors of the Tory have perfected the art of sparking campus controversy. As of late, they have even caused a new divestment campaign in which students are calling for the University to pull all funding from the magazine, as well as launched a heated face-off with the president of the USG.
'Tis the season ? for homecomings and wassail and shopping malls. And, of course, for "It's A Wonderful Life," the American classic which rightly ? if ceaselessly ? claims its place as a feature of our Christmas celebration.For most viewers, the film is a light and happy reflection of the holidays.
North Korea's public acknowledgement almost two months ago that it has been secretly developing nuclear weapons in violation of a 1994 agreement sent the Bush administration scurrying to respond.
Ours is a campus full of future I-Bankers. They flock to open houses at the Nassau Inn as if free Goldman Sachs t-shirts were a rare commodity.
Students address USG elections, run-off candidates for presidentWe all have gripes about this campus.
When I was in high school, I recall that probably the most annoying thing in the world was when teachers had the idea that because vacation was right around the corner, and it was the end of the semester, that it was somehow all right to drop all the work we hadn't done during the year thus far into our laps in the last week.
As students trek past Cannon Green each morning, they pass Whig Hall without a second thought. Few recognize that they are passing one of the most historic institutions on campus.
Support for Randall in USG run-offLate last week The Daily Princetonian endorsed Josh Anderson '04 for USG President ("Anderson, Perlman for USG," Dec.
Anyone who has read the letters page of the Princeton Alumni Weekly over the past year knows that Professor Cornel West's widely publicized arrival at Princeton has not been entirely well-received.
The importance of a constructive campus debateThe Tory supports free speech. Especially on this "diverse" Princeton campus.In Wednesday's 'Prince,' Arthur Dudney '05 described his attempts to end all University funding for the Tory.
Upon first glance, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and British Prime Minister Tony Blair have much in common.
AIDS is a beautiful killer. There is something romantic about tens of millions of people around the world united in death even though they speak different languages.
Few can argue that student government has the potential to achieve meaningful changes and benefit the entire campus.
His head tilted back, his nose pointing straight up at the ceiling. His eyes closed, and his mouth opened.
"Lives of great men all remind us / we can make our lives sublime, / and, departing, leave behind us / footprints on the sands of time." These mighty lines of our great and neglected Longfellow eloquently state a commonplace human longing for ethical role models, people we can look up to, people we can hope to follow in making our own difficult life choices.