For most of you, this day, March 22, 2000, is nothing more than just another fleeting day of classes, nothing special.
Last year, before I'd ever eaten a meal at one of Princeton's dining halls, my OA leader informed my OA group that if dining hall food was ever to improve, a sophomore class ? despite the fact that it would be joining eating clubs ? would need to push for it.
Occasionally an issue surfaces that provides insight into how a country wants to see itself. Mandatory sentencing is that hot issue right now in Australia.Shortly before I arrived in Melbourne, a 15-year-old Aboriginal boy in the Northern Territory was sentenced to 28 days in jail for stealing a few dollars worth of goods.
Celebrating its 30th anniversary, the Program in African-American Studies has made tremendous progress since its fragile beginnings in 1969.
This letter comes to you as part of the ongoing battle over the proposed smoking ban in Princeton Borough and Township.
It was the middle of Spring Break, maybe a Tuesday night, and we were lounging in my common room at 2 a.m., surfing through channels, trying to find something to distract us from the chilly Jersey weather and the eerily quiet Princeton campus.
In eighth grade, my history teacher said that the United States inevitably will have a black president, though not during our lifetime.
In its March 8 issue, the 'Prince' reported that the University is considering using the Graduate College as the site for the new undergraduate residential college recommended by the Wythes committee.
Two weeks ago, I was talking politics with a conservative lawyer from New York. A staunchly partisan Republican who had even attended a $1,000-per-plate fundraiser for Gov.
Here's what Ralph Nader '55 is concerned about these days: Bottled water. Hard-to-read phone bills.
Last year, when the board of trustees was crafting its alcohol initiative, it must have been working off the assumption that "more non-alcoholic events = less drinking = healthier students." Surprisingly enough, that equation doesn't hold true on the Princeton campus.Consider the Feb.
Defending Public SafetyI am a freshman this year, and my roommate is African American.
Last week, 50 graduate students marched on Nassau Hall to make sure the D-Bar would remain open to all graduate students.
After graduation, most of my classmates will enter the labor force with an advantage over our peers.
Public Safety regrets wording of flyerI appreciate that the incident reported in the March 6 issue of the 'Prince' has raised concerns about the treatment of African-American students by Public Safety.
Shame on all of us for not giving Mason Rocca '00 a better send-off in his last game at Jadwin Gym.
Two weeks ago, I visited a friend at the University of Chicago. A renowned research institution, Chicago's undergraduate program is better known as the school "where fun goes to die." With a quarter system, Chicago students endure three sets of finals per year.
It's second semester senior year. I have no job prospects. I am not going to graduate school. I don't even know what country I'm going to be in.
All I can say is that if this were the Middle Ages and a pack of unkempt Germans had their sights on us, we'd be screwed.
Diallo verdict newsworthyOn Feb. 25, the American judicial system acquitted the police officers allegedly involved in the killing of African immigrant, Amadou Diallo.
