Opinion

Three cheers for the axis of evil

Three cheers for the axis of evil

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.

OPINION | 09/30/2002

Slipping Between the Headlines

"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.

OPINION | 09/30/2002

U.C. Berkeley is unjustified in punishing protesters

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.

OPINION | 09/29/2002

The First Amendment and Brother Stephen's right to speak

I wish to briefly correct a small misstatement by the Rev. Dr. Stephen L. White with regards to Brother Stephen's rights.

OPINION | 09/29/2002

Repairing the reparations debate in the United States

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.

OPINION | 09/29/2002

Should the US and Princeton divest from Israel?

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.

OPINION | 09/26/2002

Should the US and Princeton divest from Israel?

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.

OPINION | 09/26/2002

Independence is viable, even preferable

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.

OPINION | 09/26/2002

Ketchup and its discontents: A study in cultural imperialism

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.

OPINION | 09/25/2002

The Clash of Swimming Civilizations

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.

OPINION | 09/25/2002

Letters to the Editor

New opportunity for alcohol educationIn response to the article on Alcoholedu, I would like to express my wholehearted support for this new program.

OPINION | 09/24/2002

What's in a Name?

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.

OPINION | 09/24/2002

Today's civil rights leaders betray African-Americans

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.

OPINION | 09/24/2002

A new social scene

In high school I thought a lot about college. I imagined taking atypical classes, meeting articulate peers and dating fascinating women.

OPINION | 09/23/2002

Letters to the Editor

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.

OPINION | 09/23/2002

Remembering the forgotten

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.

OPINION | 09/23/2002

Accepting, and distinguishing between, the Brother Stephens

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.

OPINION | 09/22/2002

All by myself: The trials of independence

Independence. By the very definition of the word, it is not requiring or relying on something else for assistance.After sophomore year at Princeton, students move out of their residential colleges and into "upperclassmen" status.

OPINION | 09/22/2002

Removing terrorism from pervasive Muslim stereotyping

On the morning of Sept. 11, the first comment of one of my colleagues on the terrorist attacks was "I hope they are not the Palestinians." As a Muslim, this sentence, which was another example of the common habit of associating any terrorist activity with Muslims from whatever nation they may be, hurt me as much as the tragic event that was taking place.

OPINION | 09/22/2002

Understanding the history of the anti-sweatshop campaign

We read the Prince's profile of Bob Durkee with great interest. As leaders of the anti-sweatshop campaign started by Students for Progressive Education and Action, we spent many hours in his office trying to promote our cause, and are gratified to hear that he came to agree with much of our platform.Unfortunately, a factual error in the article misrepresented the extent to which we came to be in agreement.

OPINION | 09/22/2002

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