Opinion

"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.

OPINION | 12/04/2002

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

University should stop funding The Tory, ending biased 'Rant'I met with President Tilghman over a week ago to discuss what could be done about the callously homophobic and neo-colonialist statements made in the November issue of The Princeton Tory.

OPINION | 12/03/2002

Visions of the Impossible: Truth, Falkhood and International Relations

Professor Richard Falk's lecture Monday evening on the topic of "Force, Violence and Terrorism: Israel v.

OPINION | 12/03/2002

Minority issues on the 'Street': A place to find the funk

A few weeks ago, I attended a dinner at the Fields Center, at which Cornel West discussed his thoughts on social progress in American society.

OPINION | 12/03/2002

Letters to the Editor

Taking time to 'do the reading': Improving the 'intellectualism' of the editorial pageI am writing in response to the two Op-Ed pieces that appeared in the Nov.

OPINION | 12/02/2002

Christmas in November

Something's been bothering me for quite a number of weeks now, but I've kept my mouth shut. I felt there were more relevant issues to write about, but now I find myself with nothing to rant about except the general state of the world.

OPINION | 12/02/2002

When words are not enough

Being 22, I don't think about death very often. This past month, however, I feel like I've encountered it wherever I turn.

OPINION | 12/02/2002

The power of unionized labor

Amidst the holiday celebrations of last week came some surprising news: The longshoremen of California, the folks who handle the mighty flow of cargo that passes into the U.S.

OPINION | 12/01/2002

AIDS awareness: Raising the red flag

Yesterday was World AIDS Day, and this week the Princeton chapter of Student Global AIDS Campaign (www.fightglobalaids.org) is cosponsoring World AIDS Week.

OPINION | 12/01/2002

Welcome to life at college!

I wonder how many of us, the freshmen class, truly feel like college students. It seems like a ridiculous question to ask, but when you think about it, college students are so different from high school students that the change might not happen overnight.

OPINION | 11/26/2002

Reflections on the Pamphleteer

Today, most of us will leave the campus to join family and friends in a day of thanksgiving. This is one of the few holidays that has survived the swamp of commercialization and the convenience of long weekends, retaining its core purpose year after year.

OPINION | 11/26/2002

Examining the role of Christianity in social action

I would like to issue an apology to Mr. Elliot Ratzman and the rest of the Princeton University campus.

OPINION | 11/26/2002

Letters to the Editor

Response to an evaluation of campus intellectualism debateThis Monday marks the beginning of a dialogue about intellectualism on campus.

OPINION | 11/26/2002

Stats exaggerate U.S. gun violence

Firearm homicides: Germany ? 381, France ? 255, Canada ? 165, U.K. ? 68, Australia ? 65, Japan ? 39 and U.S.

OPINION | 11/25/2002

Letters to the Editor

Misplaced attack against Whig-ClioCarlos Ramos-Mrosovsky's blast of criticism against Whig-Clio last Wednesday, Nov.

OPINION | 11/25/2002

Protecting freedom of the press

I was dismayed last week to hear about a group of students organizing to confront President Tilghman and demand that the University cut off funding to the Tory.

OPINION | 11/25/2002

The ethics of writing on ethics

Question: Is it ethical for faculty to write columns about ethical questions?Like a number of faculty members, I have been asked by editors of this newspaper to contribute to a fortnightly feature in which members of the faculty and University community respond to ethical problems and quandaries.

OPINION | 11/24/2002

Letters to the Editor

University does not plan to reroute Washington RoadContrary to what was reported in Thursday's The Daily Princetonian, the University has no plans to reroute Washington Road, nor is it cooperating with the Borough on a plan to reroute Washington Road traffic from Route 1.

OPINION | 11/24/2002

'Outraged' athletes decry new Ivy League rule on participation

(The following was written by the Varsity Student-Athlete Advisory Committee as an open letter to the University community)Late last spring the Ivy League Presidents voted unanimously to institute a seven-week moratorium on varsity athletics participation.

OPINION | 11/24/2002

An Eastern European's take on NATO's largest expansion in history

As a Princeton student and as a Romanian, I would like to share with you some of my thoughts about today's NATO enlargement.

OPINION | 11/21/2002

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