Last spring, my parents spent a lot of time worrying. I was studying abroad in Cape Town, South Africa, the rape capital of the world and hotbed of many other violent crimes.
America on the side of goodWhile reading Karen Bauer GS's Oct. 22 letter to the editor, I was deeply disturbed by one of her comments, and I feel obliged to respond in defense of American values.
In the preface of his work "The Genealogy of Morals," Friedrich Nietzsche writes, "To be sure, one thing is necessary above all if one is to practice reading as an art . . . one thing that has been unlearned most thoroughly nowadays ? and therefore it will be some time before my writings are 'readable' ? something for which one has almost to be a cow and in any case not a 'modern man': rumination."This quotation has much to tell us about our education in general.
"Midterms." Simply this word ? along with "Finals" ? makes every student shudder.
For the past couple of weeks, my mood ring has been indicating a near-constant state of freak-out.
I must admit I was a skeptic. When I first heard that the United States would possibly participate in overthrowing the Taliban, I balked at the idea.
Unocal did not give $500 million to TalibanAfter a very helpful letter from Chris Karr '02 in response to my Oct.
Now more than ever, the American flag holds a special place in the hearts of U.S. citizens. In the weeks that have followed Sept.
Looking beyond the University for the spirit of AmericaOn Oct. 8, the Princeton Peace Network held a peace rally in Firestone Plaza in response to American bombing of select Taliban-sponsored military sites in Afghanistan.
In my Oct. 9 column, I rejected calling the terrorists evil since their action was really no different in principle from the actions taken by other states and political entities throughout history.
Just over two years ago I made my debut as a 'Prince' columnist with a piece entitled "Calling all cell users: Lose the prop." I argued that Princeton's campus was being overrun by the impersonality and superficiality of cellular telephone usage and users, and in the days that followed I was castigated in the pages of the 'Prince' for my opinions.
These are the times when we define ourselves ? as individuals and as nations. Are we confronters or evaders?
Fleming passes judgement too generallyI fear that in his Oct. 18 opinion piece "War's first several casualties," professor John Fleming has fallen into the trap of essentializing.
Proportionality. A catchword that, in light of the recent anthrax crisis, has not been quite so catchy.Take, for example, the Cipro craze.
Acknowledging U.S. involvement in the TalibanI am writing in response to a number of recent 'Prince' columns and letters that have attacked any viewpoint that questions whether the United States or its associates have any complicity in the attacks on the World Trade Center.
I have just read the 15th op-ed piece to remind me that "truth is the first casualty of war." What editorial writers generally mean by this is that the Pentagon ? or is it now the Quadrangle?
WROC uses unfair evidence for a fair wageLabor policy, particularly in developing countries, has always been one of the more intractable problems that development economists have tried to address in recent decades.
Despite the significance of Sept. 11, the defining event of our generation worldwide is still the AIDS epidemic.
The people in the World Trade Center and Pentagon were not the only casualties of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Last week the USG Committee on Minority Issues released its report that thoroughly summarizes the opinions of minority students at Princeton (www.princeton.edu/usg/minorityfullreport.html). It justifiably identifies and discusses several problem areas: the small number of minority professors, discrimination by University employees, the 'Street' and minority yield in admissions.
