An inaccurate portrayal of Sharon and IDFTaufiq Rahim's recent (September 24) opinion piece inaccurately presents the role of Ariel Sharon and the Israel Defense Forces at Sabra and Shatilla.
For a week at the beginning of the semester, my television was broken. Until the OIT staff magically repaired it one afternoon while I was in class, I was completely out of touch.
Proclaiming Israel's right to defend itselfIn "Should the US and Princeton Divest from Israel?," Vincent Lloyd mentions a long list of grievances he has with the actions of the state of Israel and uses them as reasons to divest.
I am tired of hearing snide remarks about President Bush's "Axis of Evil" speech. Every time I begin to feel sluggish in precept I am jarred out of my reverie by someone's comment about US arrogance or about how unsophisticated or unproductive it is to label our enemies as making up an "Axis of Evil." Of course the problem is larger than that ? these criticisms are being heard around the world.This evening Princetonians will gather in Frist to discuss the seemingly inevitable war with Iraq.
"Good evening; this is CNN Headline News. Tonight, our top story is that a suicide bomber in Jerusalem has killed two people in the second attack in as many days.
Since the 1960s, the University of California at Berkeley has been a symbol of student protest and counterculture, the home of the Free Speech Movement, a beacon to which young protesters across the nation look for new ideas on how to inspire change.
I wish to briefly correct a small misstatement by the Rev. Dr. Stephen L. White with regards to Brother Stephen's rights.
Sigh. I didn't really want to get into this, but here I sit. First of all, I would like to say, as Projects Chair of the Black Student Union, that we would have loved for Mr. Harkleroad to attend our discussion on Saturday about reparations.
Universities have ethical responsibilities. This principle is generally acknowledged: it was unethical for Princeton to be paying dining hall employees wages so low they qualified for food stamps; it was unethical for Princeton to discriminate on the basis of race or gender; and it was unethical for Princeton to be indirectly supporting the apartheid regime in South Africa through endowment investments.
The recent comments by Harvard President Lawrence Summers about an anti-Israel campaign on his campus have brought the divestment issue back into the news.
Steven Caldwell's editorial criticizing his own choice to be independent raises some interesting points about independent life but fails to consider its many advantages.
Hip-hop and I were both born in the Bronx in the late seventies. Yet while I have achieved little more than a masters' degree, hip-hop has successfully conquered the world.For certain of the globe's player-haters, this has not been a welcome development.
When I was a child I spake as a child; and in my salad days I used to be something of an "all around athlete," as the term was then, playing energetically and not without competence several sudoriferous team sports involving the propulsion of leather balls of differing sizes and shapes from one place to another.
New opportunity for alcohol educationIn response to the article on Alcoholedu, I would like to express my wholehearted support for this new program.
On page three of The Daily Princetonian on Thursday, Professor Robert George wrote an extremely well-reasoned and lucid column weighing the moral arguments for and against a pre-emptive strike on Iraq.
Attendance at the recent "Millions for Reparations" rally in Washington, D.C., fell short of the event's name by an embarrassing four powers of 10.
In high school I thought a lot about college. I imagined taking atypical classes, meeting articulate peers and dating fascinating women.
Reparations: Obsession with race and white guilt are counterproductiveContrary to what Ms. Donnelly and others seem to believe, many of those like myself who oppose reparations, racial preferences and other "progressive" causes do not do so out of ignorance of the facts.
Sabra and Shatila. Kigali. Srebrenica. Ask Princeton students to point to these places on a map, and only a few will be able to do it.
It is my singular misfortune ? and perhaps evidence that God has a sense of humor ? that I am a member of the Christian clergy with the exact same name as Brother Stephen White, the infamous fundamentalist preacher, whose interpretation and understanding of the message of Jesus Christ could not be more different from my own and that of the Episcopal Church.It is exactly because of this odd coincidence that I feel compelled to decry in the strongest possible terms Brother Stephen's treatment at the hands of outraged students at the College of New Jersey earlier this week where he was pelted by stones and garbage.
