Opinion

Prague protests won't solve struggling nations' economic woes

Prague protests won't solve struggling nations' economic woes

I wasn't surprised to read that rock-icon Bono, an Irish nationalist and lead singer of U2, was in Prague during this week's World Bank meetings in that city.After all, the musicians of the last 100 years have created a tradition of social advocacy: Shostakovich hawked revolution, Lennon suggested we give peace a chance, Paul McCartney still lends his name to animal-rights causes, Thom York of Radiohead pushes debt relief for the Third World, John Mellancamp sings on behalf of American farmers and even Bob Dylan eventually got involved in the fight to free boxer Rubin Carter.In light of this legacy, it seems natural enough that Bono might lend support to the few thousand protestors who thought that pillaging a magnificent European capital would earn a moment of notoriety and stop Monsanto from producing genetically engineered 37-pound tomatoes.But Bono wasn't in Prague to spur on the rioting masses.

OPINION | 10/01/2000

U.S.-Egypt relations focus on economic, not democratic, reforms

Ever since President Woodrow Wilson 1879 outlined his Fourteen Points for peace in the aftermath of World War I, the United States has championed the cause of worldwide democracy.

OPINION | 10/01/2000

Shapiro is more than just the sum of the endowment

It's easy to miss the forest for the trees, particularly when the trees stand tall, and that has been the problem with most of the commentary about Harold Shapiro's presidency.

OPINION | 09/28/2000

Fusing music and politics is all the Rage for Nader campaign

Music videos are terrible. This is a well-known fact to anyone with a brain in his head and an ounce of taste in his body.

OPINION | 09/28/2000

Letters to the Editor

Vast political and ideological differences separate Rush Holt and Dick ZimmerIn the Sept.

OPINION | 09/27/2000

Succeeding Shapiro

If President Shapiro's departure is, in the words of University Vice President and Secretary Thomas Wright '62, like "losing a parent," then the presidential search committee will have to look long and hard for his replacement.

OPINION | 09/27/2000

All in the Family

Wow! You're a grad student? You seem so . . . normal!"So begins yet another introductory conversation between grad and undergrad, whether it be in one of the residential dining halls, at an ethnic study break, during a night at the 'Street' or in the new Frist Campus Center.

OPINION | 09/27/2000

Letters to the Editor

Debate commission's partisan politics destructive to democracyI want to expand on Andrew Frisbie '01's letter on the Commission on Presidential Debates in the Sept.

OPINION | 09/26/2000

Striving for political correctness, Wisconsin enters a gray area

There are times when efforts at political correctness become patently incorrect. Case in point: Last week at the University of Wisconsin, a student discovered that the admissions office had initiated and approved the doctoring of the cover photo for its 2001 undergraduate application.The photo depicted a group of students ? all of whom happened to be white ? at a Wisconsin football game.

OPINION | 09/26/2000

Life after high school: Not all memory lanes lead to Princeton

The Class of 2004 has arrived, and I am still the only one from my high school at Princeton. Ever.Attempting to change these statistics and recruit more students to apply to Princeton, I drove down to Muncie, Ind., this August to the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics and the Humanities ? my state's only public residential school.

OPINION | 09/26/2000

Joseph Lieberman: Too much media hype, too little orthodoxy

The great fun of an election year is to quibble over issues ranging from the grave to the inconsequential.

OPINION | 09/25/2000

Political clones drive frustrated voters to third parties

It certainly is shaping up to be a thrilling House race here in New Jersey's 12th district. All around campus, political fever buzzes, with students wracking their minds as to whether Democratic incumbent Rush Holt will allay the brave onslaught waged on his Congressional seat by the venerable Republican Dick Zimmer.

OPINION | 09/25/2000

Proposed alcohol ordinance won't survive Council without revision

A proposed Princeton Borough ordinance allowing Borough Police to enforce underage drinking laws on private property seems to have struck a nerve in the University community.

OPINION | 09/24/2000

President Hal Shapiro: Thirteen years and $6 billion later, how will Princeton remember his tenure?

The announcement of President Shapiro's retirement cluttered our inboxes and doorsteps all weekend long.

OPINION | 09/24/2000

14 Things I Hate About School

I am not a hateful person. In fact, I am normally regarded as a pretty cheerful, optimistic and somewhat sarcastic person, but by no means hateful.

OPINION | 09/21/2000

Letters to the Editor

Can't equate lookism with other forms of discriminationZach Pincus-Roth '02's "Look Again" column in the Sept.

OPINION | 09/20/2000

One graduate student searches for his existential self in an unfamiliar Princeton landscape

As Michael Frazer awoke one night from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his GC bed into a graduate student."What has happened to me?" he thought.

OPINION | 09/20/2000

Future of Princeton Hoops

Most of the Class of 2001 came to Princeton thinking that a "backdoor pass" would secretly get you into the TI taproom.But after the magical 1997-98 men's basketball season that saw the Tigers routinely beat Ivy opponents by 30 points en route to a national Top 10 finish, the campus was united in a chorus of "Sit down, you suck."Jadwin Gym became more than just a haven for hardcore basketball fans that winter; it evolved into a common sanctuary for anyone donning orange and black, a place where sold-out crowds were as routine as wins over Yale.Who among us hasn't owned a wallet-size men's basketball schedule featuring a picture of Steve Goodrich '98?

OPINION | 09/19/2000

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