Opinion

'Misprisons': Inspired misreadings, creative mistakes

'Misprisons': Inspired misreadings, creative mistakes

Not long ago, wandering around the vast Englishtown flea market, I effected a misprision. In the old days, before I got hip to modern critical theory, I would have said simply that I made a mistake, but I now see that misprisions are much to be preferred to vulgar mistakes.

OPINION | 09/18/2002

Transition back to college is never easy

When my sister left for her first year of college last fall, I told her that the first two months would be the worst.

OPINION | 09/18/2002

Letters to the Editor

Hatred not tolerated on campusLast week, a student discovered a hateful epithet written on the inside of her dormitory room door.

OPINION | 09/17/2002

The reparations movement: Racist and anti-american

Walking on the National Mall in Washington D.C. several weeks ago, I encountered one of the few things that come close to making me feel ashamed to be an American.

OPINION | 09/17/2002

Bush's new welfare policies: A step in the wrong direction

On President Bush's wishlist for the remainder of this Congress are an energy bill that would increase domestic production of oil and gas, a ban on human cloning, and legislation that would make governmental social services grants available to religious groups.All of those wishes are, quite frankly, terrifying to anyone who cares about the environment, health care or the separation of church and state, but the more concerning item on the agenda is a nasty version of welfare reform that would make harsher work requirements necessary for recipients.Bush wants beneficiaries to work 40 hours a week now, instead of the 30 currently required.

OPINION | 09/16/2002

Unpopular Bush/Blair alliance

If George W. Bush, who's on the cover of the latest issue of Runner's World magazine, were to go running around his ranch with another world leader, which would it be?

OPINION | 09/16/2002

Not simply going through the motions of remembrance

What I was most concerned about with the approach of Sept. 11 this year was the normalization and perhaps even commercialization that I suspected was bound to occur on the anniversary.

OPINION | 09/15/2002

Why we are going to Washington to pray

This summer we arrived at our public policy internships in D.C. determined to go beyond filing papers and to make some difference in the world.

OPINION | 09/15/2002

A sense of place: Special spots and memories on campus

My favorite thing about coming back to campus in the fall is seeing all of "my places." I'm sure you know what I'm talking about: There are those places on campus that you walked by all the time in past years, places where you always hung out, places that really remind you of certain times in your Princeton career.I realized how important these places were during this past summer away from Princeton.

OPINION | 09/12/2002

War with Iraq: A bear in the woods, part two

"There is a bear in the woods. For some people, the bear is easy to see. Others don't see it at all.

OPINION | 09/12/2002

Letters to the Editor

OIT's rudeness in password protectionThough I thoroughly understand the University's need to maintain electronic security, a recent development at OIT has called into question the wisdom of how this is currently being pursued.

OPINION | 09/12/2002

Time to end Cuban embargo

After forty-two years of Cold War era relations with Cuba, it is time for the United States to recognize its hypocritical Cuban policy and lift the archaic sanctions and travel ban on the Caribbean nation.Restricting the exportation and sale of medicine and food is a violation of international humanitarian law and has been condemned by almost every international body, including Organization of American States, which normally backs U.S.

OPINION | 09/11/2002

You don't deserve to be here: Merit and admissions

One glorious September, not so many years ago, I was among the fortunate few freshmen to arrive at an Ivy League campus, one very much like our own here today.

OPINION | 09/11/2002

The role of academia

One year ago a small group of men committed a terrorist attack of unprecedented barbarity. Today we prepare to commemorate the first anniversary of the carnage we witnessed one year ago.

OPINION | 09/10/2002

Our spirit must not fade

When it comes to Sept. 11, we all have a story to tell. The details have become vital. Who we were with, what we were doing, how the day played out.

OPINION | 09/10/2002

Finding the right words

Succumbing as much to the political risks as to his own lack of imagination, Gov. Pataki has opted not to say anything original on the one-year anniversary of September 11.

OPINION | 09/10/2002

Remembering Sept. 11th

With today's issue of The Daily Princetonian, our first of the year, we bring you the thoughts, feelings and reflections of your fellow Princetonians.In the following four pages of the newspaper, you will find a collection of 10 essays and an in-depth look at the events of this solemn commemoration on campus, in New York and throughout the nation.It is the beginning of another school year.

OPINION | 09/10/2002

Letters to the Editor

Interpretations, OWL and the ToryEre I had read six words of Katherine Reilly's editorial, I suspected that it was critically flawed.

OPINION | 07/14/2002

A stifling constitution

In the second annual Murphy Lecture, Professor Stanley Katz took on the daunting task of explaining how America's reluctance to dive head-first into the United Nations human rights covenant system is rooted in its constitutional tradition.

OPINION | 07/14/2002

The freedom to choose our rights

Is the American ideal our culture or our Constitution?Is our refusal to sign on to economic and social international human rights agreements a result of our cultural norms or our Constitutional bounds?How many times have you heard the horror stories of human rights violations?

OPINION | 07/14/2002

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