Opinion

Shortly after a column of mine was printed in these pages last month, I received an e-mail from a high school student in California who was considering Princeton but was a bit taken aback by my descriptions of "elitism" and other problems which, in my opinion, detract from the University environment.She asked, "Is Princeton really a place that would narrow my views rather than broaden them?

OPINION | 02/11/2001

Community service provision as a 'radicalizing' force

Community service provision as a 'radicalizing' force

In a letter to the editor last week, David Tannenbaum incorrectly asserts that involvement in service provision cannot change society in a systematic way.

OPINION | 02/11/2001

Questioning Wolf's solution for improving Bicker process

In Friday's 'Prince,' Jeff Wolf '02 offers us a picture of club selection, modeled after room draw, which he calls "utopian." Such a system would treat all applicants equally and thus be "indisputably fair." This inference is unwarranted.

OPINION | 02/11/2001

Blackballing Bicker

Every year as it begins in earnest, Bicker swims in an aura of praise and criticism. At the risk of beating a dead elephant, I want to join the fray, not because I think I have anything original or significant to say, but because everyone ? including me ? has an opinion about it.To avoid any suspicions, I will admit upfront that I'm a happy victim of the process.

OPINION | 02/08/2001

Letters to the Editor

Societal change depends on collective action, organizationIn his recent column, "The future of student activism," Adam Frankel mistakenly assumes that the effects of participation in "community service programs and interest in careers as teachers" are equivalent to those of political movements.

OPINION | 02/08/2001

Terms and resolutions

Although most universities end their first semesters at the end of the year, Princeton remains defiant of the Gregorian calendar and rolls its academic calendar over in February.

OPINION | 02/08/2001

Portrait of a columnist

In the spirit of Kramer's coffee table book about coffee tables, I thought I would write an editorial about editorials, or rather, what not to write editorials about.There are a few stock editorials which The Daily Princetonian runs every year and I implore all of you, regular columnists, guest columnists, aspiring columnists or infrequent letter writers, NOT to write about the following subjects:1) The Thesis.

OPINION | 02/07/2001

Letters to the Editor

Overwhelming majority of Teach for America teachers have positive experiencesWe enthusiastically read your Jan.

OPINION | 02/07/2001

Accentuate the Positive

I wanted to be teed off in a major way when I was unable to eat in the GC dining hall the final Friday before intersession break.

OPINION | 02/07/2001

Letters to the Editor

In praise of intellectual humility, not Republican hypocrisyFor someone supposedly obsessed enough with the purity of academia to hole himself away in the Grad College for half of a decade, Michael Frazer GS seems to get quite a hoot out of spouting off liberal buzzwords and mantras without doing any original thinking for himself.

OPINION | 02/06/2001

The future of Student Activism

The challenge for 21st century student activists is to define their role in a time of peace and prosperity.

OPINION | 02/06/2001

Financial aid changes will benefit University life

As the first semester broke for intersession last Saturday morning, Princeton's Board of Trustees, bolstered by a record capital campaign and an ever-growing endowment, made an unprecedented series of changes to the financial aid program.

OPINION | 02/05/2001

The Making of a Movement

A few days ago, I was thinking of a metaphor for the way the University has regarded its service-related staff during the past decade, and the following image popped into my head: the three monkeys, with their eyes, ears and mouths covered.However, the message for Princeton workers is not that of "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil." What it indicates instead is the inability of the University to open its eyes and ears to the needs of its lowest-paid workers, as well as its unwillingness to speak about improving wages and benefits.Even as the endowment soars to over $8 billion, the University has remained myopic to the needs of its human capital ? the hundreds of Princetonians who work for this University.

OPINION | 02/05/2001

We try to act ethically, but we often are unwilling to go to the extreme

"Are you a vegetarian?" the person across the table asks, eyeing my garden burger, rice and beans, and salad topped with a mountain of cottage cheese."How'd you guess?" I answer with a smile.I've had countless conversations that began like this.

OPINION | 02/04/2001

The New Board Looking forward

It was a Wednesday afternoon, the last day of February, 1900, when Walter Ewing Hope 1901 walked into The Daily Princetonian offices for the first time as the paper's 25th Editor-in-Chief.

OPINION | 02/04/2001

In the end . . .

One year ago, as my board took the helm of The Daily Princetonian, I wrote that I hoped during the coming year to fulfill the promise of J.F.

OPINION | 01/21/2001

Letters to the Editor

Alumnus finds students' lack of civility at basketball games dishearteningA lot has changed at Princeton since I played and was a fan during basketball games when fans on both sides kept quiet for foul shooters.

OPINION | 01/21/2001

No way out

One of the most notable things about Princeton, especially to outsiders, is the tradition associated with the school's name.

OPINION | 01/21/2001

Airport Hilton is likely to be home of sixth residential college

University officials' top choice for the location of the sixth residential college is now the Airport Hilton in Newark, trustee Paul Wythes '55 said yesterday."We've been having a lot of trouble finding a place in Princeton where we can construct a full-sized residential college without impacting the aesthetic of the University campus," Wythes said.

OPINION | 01/18/2001

Tory exposes liberals, selves

Borough Police arrested three members of The Princeton Tory yesterday for allegedly exposing themselves behind the First Campus Center.

OPINION | 01/18/2001

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