The primary reason I chose to study abroad in Hong Kong was that I wanted to live in a place with as different a culture from the United States as possible.
Series on race raises issues of equity, equality and definitions of minority statusWe compliment the work of the reporters at The Daily Princetonian for pursuing the goal of chronicling the way race is lived at Princeton.
Fifty years ago, I arrived in America as an Asian undergraduate student, speaking very little English.
This isn't Palm Beach or Miami-Dade. It's Princeton. As students go to the polls today ? their laptops ? to vote for their USG representatives, they have the luxury of using some of the nation's most high-tech voting equipment.
Fifty years into the aftermath of the civil rights movement, and less than a decade since the start of the dismantling of affirmative action, race is still the central motif in the American drama.
I am white ? pale, pasty, milky, translucent, whatever you want to call it. My heritage goes back to some of Europe's most pallid fathers.
Articles on race should tackle systems, not individualsLet me preface this letter with a little background information about myself.
Of interest to the study of race relations is the decision of a Christian minority group to segregate itself from other Christian associations by creating a separate student organization.It all began during the spring semester of 1999 when several members of the Gospel Choir decided to found a chapter of Impact ? a national Christian organization geared toward blacks ? at Princeton.
I am multiracial. Or rather, I have no race. My father is a black immigrant ? his family is originally from Jamaica ? and my mother is a white native-born American.
Clarifying letter on how Israel should approach negotiationsThe following is a revised version of Matt Frazier '02's letter that appeared in the Nov.
Is there a race problem on this campus? At first glance, the answer seems to be no. Enrollment of minority students is on par with other Ivy League institutions, and members of different ethnic groups have created various organizations for cultural identification and self-expression on campus.
As the academic dean for the junior class, my conversations with students can be wide-ranging. Distress, however, is a common theme.
Why devote two weeks to the subject of race?Because it is one of the most difficult issues we face as a society, and as a university.
I have this amazing gift. I have the ability to tell if someone is racist. It's just something that I stumbled upon when I arrived on campus three years ago.
Ostrow's Israeli strategy reminiscent of 1930s fascist tacticsI was bemused and bewildered by Dan Ostrow '02's editorial in the Nov.
I didn't want to write about the Florida recount. Really, I didn't. In an ideal world, I would be regaling all of you right now with my take on the true spirit of Thanksgiving ? a spirit that calls, curiously enough, for the giving of thanks.
Last week was, to say the least, a very rough week for me. The running and planning of Senior Week, not to mention that whole "academics" thing that keeps getting in my way, have very nearly killed me and the other class officers.
My freshman year, I stepped foot on the Princeton campus prepared to encounter a sea of Caucasian, upper-class, preppy faces only to be pleasantly surprised by students from many ethnic, racial and financial backgrounds.The University continuously works on eliminating its non-diverse stereotype, and most members of the community applaud moves in this direction.
As 'Prince' columnist Jeff Wolf '02 rightly pointed out in the Nov. 15 issue, Princeton students should learn to write well.
There are few groups of people I rank as abysmally as telemarketers, those incessantly harassing individuals who phone me with a poorly written sales pitch for some product I have no need for.Confronted with the unfortunate reality of being rudely awakened by one of these individuals, I utter a prayer that the conniving businessman who dreamt up the idea of telemarketing spends eternity in the sixth circle of hell ? along with the Baha Men, authors of the current pop song, "Who Let the Dogs Out?"While procrastinating on my JP the other day, I griped to my father about the increasing incidence of these phone calls at Princeton.
