Opinion

Whitman: A wise choiceAs your news story reported in the Feb. 18 issue of The Daily Princetonian, members of the senior class made the suggestion that Meg Whitman '77 be this year's Baccalaureate speaker, and when this suggestion was made the seniors had no knowledge of Ms. Whitman's gift for the new residential college.The suggestion reflected a desire to have a speaker whose internationally-recognized accomplishments were in a field that relates so immediately to students' own lives.

OPINION | 02/18/2002

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

Whitman as 2002 speakerThat Princeton would ask Meg Whitman to speak while sponsoring a new residential college is hardly surprising.

OPINION | 02/17/2002

I just flu in: Germs in the air

Like every other student here, I'm doing my best to prevent the spread of gastroenteritis. I try to get plenty of sleep, to wash my hands frequently, and to avoid people who are sneezing violently.

OPINION | 02/17/2002

Black hawk down and racism in cinema

Given Hollywood's chronic tendency to withhold good roles from African-American actors, we should celebrate last week's Oscar nominations for Halle Berry, Denzel Washington and Will Smith.

OPINION | 02/17/2002

Letters to the Editor

Abating the spread of boutique medical servicesI object to both opinion pieces published on so-called boutique medical services in the February 11th issue of The Daily Princetonian.

OPINION | 02/14/2002

Robert Nozick on Enron, 'Friends' and Wilt Chamberlain

Robert Nozick, the Harvard philosopher who passed away last month, was a thinker of remarkably diverse interests ? from free will to the Russian revolution.

OPINION | 02/14/2002

Rebuilding the face of Princeton

When a student thinking about applying to Princeton looks at a college guide, invariably the entry for Princeton University applauds our beautiful campus.

OPINION | 02/14/2002

The end of violence against women: A noble but unrealistic goal

By 2005, Eve Ensler is determined to eradicate violence against women. Ensler is the creator of "The Vagina Monologues," a collection of narratives about women's experiences with sex, their own sexuality and sexual abuse.

OPINION | 02/13/2002

Iraq, Iran and North Korea: Not one 'axis of evil'

In his State of the Union Address, President Bush described Iraq, Iran and North Korea as an "axis of evil." Yet despite the similarities one often sees between these three regimes, great differences exist between them and the circumstances surrounding them.

OPINION | 02/13/2002

Letters to the Editor

A liberal political bias in the Ivy League?Your excellent report on the allegations about liberal political bias in the Ivy League overlooked an important matter: the heavy conservative bias of the person who constructed the poll in question, Frank Luntz.Far from an objective polling researcher, Luntz is a well-known, long-time special interest Republican Party operative who, among other things, helped to cobble together Newt Gingrich's notorious "Contract With America" in 1994.It should also be noted that Luntz has worked for the Enron Corporation and the Christian Coalition as part of their respective political operations.In separate reports in 2000, two widely-respected, independent professional organizations, the American Association of Public Opinion Research and the National Council on Public Polls specifically criticized Luntz for "giving the public unreliable reports" and for designing surveys "more akin to a parlor game than to a public opinion poll."Even a brief study of the "Ivy League" poll results, as published on David Horowitz's web site, shows that this poll, too, is bogus, particularly in its use of loaded questions and false data on the question of reparations for slavery.It comes as no surprise that David Horowitz would uncritically rely on figures from a poll designed by Frank Luntz.The rest of us, including students and faculty, should be a good deal more skeptical, given Luntz's documented background of partisan calculation and manipulation and the glaring infirmities of the current poll. Sean Wilentz Dayton-Stockton Professor of History A liberal political bias in the Ivy League?Sean Wilentz is entitled to practice pop psychology on anyone he pleases, including me ("Is a liberal academia biased against conservative faculty?" article in the Feb.

OPINION | 02/12/2002

Disappointed in the democratic party

I am angry with the Democratic Party. This is not an easy thing for me to admit. I am the kind of Democrat who actually liked Al Gore, the type who got misty eyed during Bill Clinton's State of the Union speeches and misses him, flawed as he is, every time George W.

OPINION | 02/12/2002

Orange, black and asphalt gray

One of the truly great American university presidents of the last century defined his three major constituencies and their perennial concerns with the following memorable formulation.

OPINION | 02/12/2002

The end of the affair: Musings on the Enron Corporation

When I was a fledgling assistant professor at this university 30 years ago, the precarious standards of business accounting and auditing were much in the news.

OPINION | 02/11/2002

Television is useless for educational purposes

Hi, my name's Aileen, and I'm an addict. No, I've never used heroin, and the taste of alcohol doesn't do anything for me.

OPINION | 02/11/2002

The debate about boutique medical services

Imagine a world in which a Princeton education is illegal. The government, having paternalistically decided that all students should attend more affordable state-subsidized colleges, arrests and prosecutes those who attempt to pay top dollar for what they perceive as a better quality education.

OPINION | 02/10/2002

The debate about boutique medical services

"Boutique" or "concierge" medical practices are ethical violations and represent America's notorious greed for luxuries and special treatment, as well as this country's outrageous lack of compassion for the less fortunate.American health care is moving farther and farther away from the direction that it needs to move in ? a system that meets the basic medical needs of all citizens, rich or poor.Paying doctors thousands a year so that they can cater to your every medical whim is the latest in luxuries offered only to the richest of Americans.

OPINION | 02/10/2002

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