A political leader, by virtue of the office, must mediate between two dichotomous personas that determine the nature of policy enacted.
Despite my recent acceptance into the Woodrow Wilson School, with which, I admit I am rather pleased, I cannot help feeling uncomfortable that many qualified and ambitious fellow students were rejected.
This month marks the one-year anniversary of the Harvard Sit-In, the daring occupation of Harvard's Mass Hall perpetrated by students protesting Harvard's "poverty wages." In April 2001, Harvard (like Princeton) was paying very low wages to some of its workers in spite of the high cost of living in the Cambridge area.
Great-grandmother Pearlie Rucker is hardly the kind of person who one would expect to find on the wrong side of the law.
Arafat regime blamed for povertyIn "Celebrating Passover, freedom and peace in Israel," authors Laura Kaplan and Julia Salzman decry the conditions in which Palestinians live and call for Princeton to "divest" itself from Israel.
This past Tuesday was an important day. It was the day when OIT's change in the e-mail server took place.
Gloria Steinem is no supermodel. Though she is over sixty years old, complete with the wrinkles and hips of average women, Steinem appears on the cover of this month's Ms. Magazine, celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the publication she helped to found.
After reading Aileen Nielsen's March 26th article "Anti-intellectual pursuits: Too much play or too little work," I would like to voice my displeasure with her obviously myopic interpretation of the term "learning" as well as her refusal to see value in anything beyond the academic.
Gazing outside my window overlooking the Little Hall courtyard over the past seven months has changed my outlook more than I could have imagined when I returned this past September as a Princeton senior.
Dan Wachtell's column of March 14, "Disjunctive Architecture and a Lack of Space," raises many valid observations that University administrators would be well served to consider at length when planning future development.
Tonight marks the start of Passover, a holiday which derives its meaning from the remembrance of the Israelites' exodus from slavery in Egypt.
Amidst all the current talk of budget cuts and the need for belt-tightening, a group of academics, community groups and unions from across the country have hit on a bold idea: What if the federal government were to make access to higher education in America available to all students, free of tuition fees?
We've had some beautiful weather lately. Not maybe in the past week or so, but early March was full of days with people walking around in T-shirts and some even in shorts.
What would slaves think of weight training? A person forced to perform backbreaking labor would probably have trouble understanding why someone would do it voluntarily.Though strength training is an important part of a fitness regimen, I can't help finding it just a little bizarre.
On Dec. 13, five Pakistani terrorists stormed the seat of Indian democracy, the Parliament, shouting "Pakistan Zindabad" (Long live Pakistan) as they killed 14 people, including themselves.
Responding to student drug use on campusWhile it is difficult to respond to specific allegations of unidentified students cited in The Daily Princetonian's story about drug use (March 14), I want to emphasize how the University deals with reported drug violations.
It seems America has had a very short love affair with schizophrenia. Like Professor Nash, Andrea Yates suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, a mental condition which causes her to hear imaginary voices that are impossible to distinguish from real ones.
Six months and a day after Sept. 11, as air strikes continued over the caves of Eastern Afghanistan, and as closer to home ? all too painfully close to home ? two beams of light rose over lower Manhattan in memory of the thousands murdered, I was safe and warm in the Pyne Tower suite of the Graduate College, glass of Merlot in hand, listening to Professor Robert Fagles give a reading from his dazzling translation of Homer.
Walking along the storied pathways of Princeton University, where intellectuals such as Albert Einstein, Adlai Stevenson, Woodrow Wilson and others once roamed, one cannot help but be imbued with that sense of intellectual consciousness that characterizes such a venerated institution of higher learning.
Like most, I wear numerous hats as a member of this community. I am philosophy major, art history major wannabe, "Prince" columnist, club sports athlete (soccer), and (thanks to my friends at the "Tory") infamous "campus lefty." At least two of those metaphorical hats were ruffled (metaphorically) by last week's lecture by world-renowned architect Frank Gehry.You know Gehry ? he designed the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, and his buildings are easily recognizable for their signature facades of wavy, curvilinear sheets of steel.
