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Repairing the reparations debate in the United States

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

Yale admissions scandal shows poor judgement in New Haven

Now that President Tilghman has reprimanded a brace of well-respected deans and officers in the Department of Admissions, the supposed "victims" in New Haven are probably sitting smugly, snickering with each other over snifters of well-aged brandy.For years, everyone's known that Yale has played second fiddle to Princeton and, having now found its chance to stab back, has tattled pathetically to the news media over what was, essentially, a victimless and harmless act of simple curiosity.Top Bulldogs in Connecticut Hall should be grateful that quick-thinking Princetonians exposed the big-as-a-barn-door holes in their laughable computer security system.This could have been resolved with a handshake and a martini, but Yalies instead chose to blow it up, all because their University wants for both sympathy and attention.

OPINION | 09/22/2002

Racial problems will endure in America with or without reparations

Though I actually agree with Mr. Harkleroad that reparations in the form of money to African-Americans in our country are not necessarily a good idea, I found the reasoning in his column offensive and infuriating.

OPINION | 09/22/2002

Letters to the Editor

History of property deprivation should be considered in reparations debateI write in response to the diatribe against reparations that appeared in the Prince on Wednesday.

OPINION | 09/19/2002

Free glow-in-the dark footballs at what cost?

I learned a valuable lesson this August during OA leader refresher courses. I attended a session on "leave no trace," given by a traveling team sponsored by Subaru (and believe me, I think the irony of that situation cause for its own editorial). At one point during the presentation, one instructor asked for a volunteer to aid in a presentation.

OPINION | 09/19/2002

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