Opinion

In case you haven't noticed, I'm studying abroad this year. As a service to underclassmen who are curious about the possibilities for "expanding your horizons" and "being old enough to buy beer," I would like to share a few of my foreign experiences.In many ways my life in England is similar to my life in the States.

OPINION | 03/29/2001

How dare you call me a power tool

How dare you call me a power tool

May I vent? I would just like to say for the record that I am not "a power tool." I do not appreciate being informed by a man with a skewed impression of the typical Princeton student that my "workaholic" habits are the product of my need to build a perfect resume.

OPINION | 03/28/2001

Letters to the Editor

Students should value reading assignments, however longWhile Ryan Salvatore '02's column of March 26 probably demonstrates the plight of some unfortunate Princeton students, I would be loathe to apply his opinion to the majority of the student body.

OPINION | 03/28/2001

Bush's chilly foreign policy hearkens to Cold War

Spring break is about patriotism, sort of. It's a time to join other Americans in the party pilgrimage to places like Cancun, Puerto Rico or Ibiza.

OPINION | 03/28/2001

Letters to the Editor

Defense shield will precipitate arms build-upMelissa Waage '01's March 26 column deriding national missile defense proposals parallels most critical writing on the subject in its tendency to portray unsupported assertions as truth.

OPINION | 03/27/2001

On musical — and audience — appreciation

Over Spring Break I heard the Philadelphia Orchestra perform at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia.

OPINION | 03/27/2001

Family planning requires taking a hard look at reality

After only a few weeks in Hanoi, I walked into a small family-planning clinic in rural Viet Nam, stepped over some bloody instruments resting in a dirty basin and sat near a women lying on a straw mat on a mud floor of the 'Recovery Room,' and asked her questions about the abortion she had just had.

OPINION | 03/27/2001

In defense of the Bobo

The sourdough is spectacular, and, at $1.29 for a bottomless cup, the gourmet coffee is a relative bargain.

OPINION | 03/26/2001

Letters to the Editor

Shortening assignments will heighten intellectual growthRyan Salvatore '02's column on the overwhelming amount of class reading was on the mark.

OPINION | 03/26/2001

The importance of being tolerant

Several years ago, a friend came back from an interfaith discussion on campus. I asked him how it went, and he replied that everyone basically sat around carping about how terrible Christians were, apparently because Christianity espoused the view that it is the only true religion, the only path to salvation.

OPINION | 03/26/2001

Brownlee clarifies statement concerning GSG elections

I appreciate the detailed coverage the 'Prince' gave to graduate student elections in its March 9 article "GSG holds first popular elections."One of the quotes attributed to me, however, did not convey the point I had intended.

OPINION | 03/25/2001

Bhatt '03 demonstrates the same intolerance he scorns

I am compelled to respond to Niraj Bhatt '03's piece that appeared in the March 12 issue of the Prince Magazine.

OPINION | 03/25/2001

Bound to be bookworms

Since we all have so many academic and extra-curricular commitments, it is not infrequent that students do not finish assigned readings, particularly in social science or humanities courses.

OPINION | 03/25/2001

Nuclear shield may create more problems than solutions

The Bush administration is looking to pick a fight with Russia.The administration has already decided to build a national missile defense system: a virtual "shield" protecting the U.S.

OPINION | 03/25/2001

The supposedly tried and true preceptorial system founders in the inexperience of its instructors

Princeton University gets a lot of public relations mileage out of its preceptorial system. The school's tour guides, its admissions interviewers and its official web site all make a point of telling prospective students exactly what preceptorials are and why they are a such a unique, important feature of the undergraduate academic program.Unfortunately, however, the usefulness of the preceptorial system does not extend very far beyond the realm of advertising.

OPINION | 03/15/2001

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