Opinion

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

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

Letters to the Editor

Overall financial picture must include workersThere are numerous factual mistakes in Brad Simmons '03's column on WROC appearing in the March 14 'Prince' ? too many to cover in a short letter.

OPINION | 03/15/2001

Giving twenty-one-year olds their due

Last week, the eating clubs took a step towards responsible drinking on campus by testing out the proposal of wristbands.

OPINION | 03/15/2001

Extremism to the Extreme

"Moderation is a fatal thing; nothing succeeds like excess," wrote Oscar Wilde. Wilde would have loved Princeton.

OPINION | 03/14/2001

Deomcratic development

When the Graduate Student Government enfranchised its constituents last week and held the first student body elections of the GSG executive board, it simultaneously strengthened its visibility, legitimacy and relevance for all graduate students.

OPINION | 03/14/2001

Letters to the Editor

Magazine article exhibits ignorance toward religious beliefs and practicesAs someone who is neither Christian nor Hindu, I still found the article in the 'Prince' Magazine on Mother Teresa deeply disturbing.

OPINION | 03/14/2001

Could the XFL become NFL training ground?

Last week, an article in the New York Times sports section brought up an interesting question about the World Wrestling Federation's good-for-nothing new football league, the XFL: Might it, in fact, be good for something?Specifically, the XFL is considering a plan to allow 18- and 19-year olds who have finished high school but have not met the academic requirements to attend college (or have no desire to attend) the opportunity to turn pro and join the new league.

OPINION | 03/13/2001

Looking for meaning behind the WROC button

The recently formed Workers' Rights Organizing Committee (WROC) has effectively divided students into two groups: those that 'support Princeton's workers' and those that are 'anti-workers' rights.' Such a black-and-white depiction of this particularly complex issue is disturbing ? for its neglect of a wide range of people standing on common ground, and for its tendency to shun skepticism, however reasonable, from members of the University community.This supposed dichotomy of the issue is particularly unwarranted, in fact, because WROC has failed to provide critical pieces of information that students need before they can assess the movement.My first question: what exactly are the wages and benefits entailed in employment at Princeton?

OPINION | 03/13/2001

Letters to the Editor

Low wages force worker-parents to choose between working for and raising familyIn the aftermath of the recent school shooting, I have heard numerous Princeton students say that the solution to school violence is to have parents that are in touch with their children.

OPINION | 03/12/2001

The road not taken

Although I am removed from the culture of die-hard gym-goers, I admit that exercise is very important to me ? for both my mental and physical health.

OPINION | 03/12/2001

On the value of light in civilized society

Socrates: Be full of joy, O Stankophon (for such is the best way I know to address friends).Stankophon: Why hello, Socrates.

OPINION | 03/12/2001

What it means to drop the 'T-bomb'

The senior thesis is perhaps the greatest task faced by Princeton undergraduates, but it is also the greatest excuse ever invented.

OPINION | 03/11/2001

Let the locusts descend

Here is what you should know about me: I like Bob Dylan. I mean, I really, really like him, and not just because he has the soul of a poet.

OPINION | 03/11/2001

Students have no excuse for not involving themselves in activism

Where has Jeff Wolf '02 been? In the last two years Princeton has seen a virtual renaissance in accessible and smart political activism: the Workers' Rights effort, anti-Sweatshop activism, critiques of corporate globalization, a prison reform working group, renewed discourse on race, an active anti-hunger movement and the ever-enduring good works of the SVC.Somehow philosopher Wolf has been meandering in the illusion that a) Princeton is an inactive campus and b) that political problems are either intractable, out of one's hands or too taxing on one's fun-loving schedule.While Wolf wallows in Winston Churchill-isms, injustice and suffering persist.

OPINION | 03/11/2001

Letters to the Editor

Business and economic interests not in conflictI am dismayed by the views expressed in the article "Slick Money: The Controversial Role of Corporate Funds in University Labs" in the March 5th issue of the Prince Magazine.The article notes the danger that corporations will "use Princeton research not only in the interest of profit but profit at the expense of the global climate." Nonsense.

OPINION | 03/08/2001

Discussion of finance reform nothing new

Adam Frankel's March 7th column, "Post a guard at the revolving door," reads like the day-before-yesterday's New York Times.

OPINION | 03/08/2001

A higher education at Princeton may cost a student his belief in politics and in the nature of its human subjects

Princeton has never felt like a politically charged campus to me (with the grand exception of the appointment of Peter Singer), and I have enjoyed this since I have never been much of a politico.

OPINION | 03/08/2001

Before the house burns down . . .

The only regret I have about being in an eating club is that I'm not in every eating club. Truly, this serves as an endless source of personal anguish, as, let me tell you, eating club life is decadent and, as we all know, decadent times 11 equals much more decadent.

OPINION | 03/07/2001

Peter Singer's 'Heavy Petting'

Peter Singer has a nasty way of pushing everything to the extreme. His arguments on abortion try to induce the reader to believe that unless you think all contraception is immoral, you should support abortion up to the time of birth and then infanticide for 30 days afterwards, just for good measure.But Princeton's favorite ethicist has gotten tired of defending killing disabled babies and has now started defending something completely different: bestiality.Yes.

OPINION | 03/07/2001

Post a guard at the revolving door

Remember Carol Shia? She was the New York City police officer fired after posing for Playboy in uniform: the NYPD thought it was inappropriate to use a police uniform for personal gain ? and in such a questionable manner.

OPINION | 03/06/2001

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