Many of us awoke yesterday to see an image stranger than many dreams and more horrific than any nightmare.
After all of the cardboard boxes are thrown away and the Public Safety officers end their week-long hiatus from ticketing cars parked on campus, much of Freshman Week and the activities associated with it will be long forgotten.
I cried on the first day of my Outdoor Action trip freshman year. But you couldn't tell because it was raining so hard.
"Save America ? Abolish Government Schools." That's the latest conservative-activist slogan I came across the other day while perusing one of my favorite Internet forums.
On the night of Saturday, April 22, thanks in part to the Trustees Alcohol Initiative, I had a transcendent experience staring at a seventeen-year-old's perfect navel.
For the Supremely Motivated Self-Starting Student, the senior thesis is an opportunity to shine ? a chance to show the world what comes of four years of training at Princeton University, a chance to contribute to the academic body of knowledge, a chance to learn something about life.For me, it has been an intimidating and lethal obstacle that has shown me how to empathize with Dubya.I have to say, this is a slightly uncomfortable feeling for me, as I'm not especially a fan of Dubya.
Our days are just packed with serious stuff. Independent research, the pressure of upholding the reputation of a long standing academic institution, the dilemma of whether to pursue our happiness or our duties.Doesn't it look boring even just reading it?
...So you decided to come to Princeton. It's a decision that will change the rest of your life. And one that will change Princeton, too....With the choice to attend Old Nassau comes the chance to challenge previous conceptions you have had about yourself, and about the University.
The spirit of honorThe word "honor" occasionally floats down into everyday speech like the ghost that someone saw on the staircase.
What would you do if you could not remember the last time your country was at peace? Would you start an international movement for peace?
The Princeton Evangelical Fellowship was the reason I came to Princeton. When researching colleges as an anxious high school senior, I'd come across its website, and, once admitted, I came down to Princeton to check out the campus as a bona fide pre-frosh.
PRIDE Alliance encourages campus to ignore Fred PhelpsOn Monday morning the campus will receive a visit from members of the Westboro Baptist Church and their leader Fred Phelps.
Crossing Nassau Street tonight in a crosswalk, I was shouted at by an undergraduate in an SUV, whom I had the misfortune of stepping in front of and causing to slow down ever so slightly: "Out of the way, fat-ass!"I wonder if he gave it a second thought.
Prospects are bright for Tilghman presidencyWe are overjoyed by the appointment of Shirley Tilghman to president of Princeton.
Like any celebration, the true success of the Graduate School Centennial will be gauged by the work of its participants ? Princeton's current Master's and Ph.D.
Over the past few months, the Institute for Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia has brought in a number of speakers who have discussed the current situation between Israelis and Palestinians.
I am writing in response to concerns that have been communicated to me, in e-mail and in person, about the decision to restructure SHARE.After an extensive review that included suggestions from students, faculty, staff and members of Health Services as well as the SHARE office, it was decided to integrate SHARE more fully into the University Health Services.Our primary goal in restructuring SHARE is to ensure the health and safety of the University community.
Unlike most students who will be leaving Princeton this June, I will not be graduating. Like many of my graduate student peers, I will enter into a year of "post-enrollment" status, a limbo state in which I am neither a Princeton student nor an alumnus of the University.
SHARE cutbacks will quiet rape, harassment victimsI am deeply dismayed by the planned cutbacks in Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education; it makes a parody out of the administration's token support of events such as the Take Back the Night march.
The 'Prince' congratulates professor Shirley Tilghman on her election as the University's 19th president.
