Opinion

Meeting our responsibility to low-wage workers

Meeting our responsibility to low-wage workers

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.

OPINION | 03/31/2002

Dude, where's my grandma?

Great-grandmother Pearlie Rucker is hardly the kind of person who one would expect to find on the wrong side of the law.

OPINION | 03/28/2002

Letters to the Editor

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.

OPINION | 03/28/2002

Ignoring information in the information age

This past Tuesday was an important day. It was the day when OIT's change in the e-mail server took place.

OPINION | 03/28/2002

The image of feminism

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.

OPINION | 03/27/2002

Princeton students embody more than the books they read

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.

OPINION | 03/27/2002

Little thoughts from a courtyard window view

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.

OPINION | 03/27/2002

Criticism of Frank Gehry's designs is still premature

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.

OPINION | 03/27/2002

Celebrating Passover, freedom and peace in Israel

Tonight marks the start of Passover, a holiday which derives its meaning from the remembrance of the Israelites' exodus from slavery in Egypt.

OPINION | 03/26/2002

Universal education: A dollar spent can be $6.90 earned

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?

OPINION | 03/26/2002

Anti-intellectual pursuits: Too much play or too little work?

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.

OPINION | 03/25/2002

Voluntary labor and the irony of pumping iron

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.

OPINION | 03/25/2002

Pakistan: Terrorist in a sheep's clothing?

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.

OPINION | 03/24/2002

Letters to the Editor

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.

OPINION | 03/24/2002

A not-so beautiful mind: The realities of mental illness

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.

OPINION | 03/14/2002

2002: The Odyssey continues . . . so does the Iliad

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.

OPINION | 03/14/2002

The fluff and puff of the Princeton experience bubble

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.

OPINION | 03/13/2002

Disjunctive Architecture and a Lack of Space

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.

OPINION | 03/13/2002

Discussing the diversity of class

There isn't much people don't talk about at Princeton. Even if we're not as "liberal" as other universities, you can usually find someone to talk to about anything, no matter how inane or controversial (or both). Hell, I was at an hour-long talk last week about the Harry Potter series and The Vagina Monologues played here a few months ago.

OPINION | 03/12/2002

Letters to the Editor

Rethinking Israeli withdrawal and championing free societiesNicholas Guyatt's editorial from March 11, "Participants in the Slaughter," offers the standard, unconvincing argument for a full Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza without the promise of Arab reciprocation in the form of peace.Not only is a total Israeli withdrawal from all of the territories not mandated by the relevant UN Security Council Resolutions, 242 and 338, but what Guyatt proposes is in fact inimical to the spirit of the resolutions in their demands for a termination of all states of belligerency and the holding of negotiations between the parties to establish a just and durable peace in the Middle East.While an Israeli move, such as the one that Guyatt advocates, is unlikely to result in the establishment of peaceful relations between the Israelis and Palestinians, it is more than likely to embolden radical Arab forces in the region, just as Israel's unilateral withdrawal from Lebanon in May 2000 may have been a factor in instigating the most recent intifada and its maximalist territorial demands.Israel's relinquishing of territory should be contingent upon Palestinian fulfillment of its security obligations towards Israel enshrined in the Oslo Accords, such as the prevention of terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians, by both Islamic groups and factions associated with Arafat's Fatah movement, and the imprisonment of known militants.

OPINION | 03/12/2002

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