The tables turned on me last year. I attended graduate school at the University of Arizona, and there, after 16 years as a student, my financial-aid deal thrust me to the other side of the classroom.
Last Thursday afternoon, I felt like a groundskeeper at the baseball All-Star Game. I was the microphone guy at the April 27 panel discussion entitled "How Can Values Be Taught in the University?"At a star-studded event with so much potential for rich debate, what the McCosh audience received was actually more show than substance.
It's such an age-old ritual that it's almost cultish. Like robots, every year we flock to open bars, tuxedo rental shops and candle-lit tables ? all in the name of Houseparties.
Commentary on U-Council was unfairI am writing in response to the April 27 Daily Princetonian commentary concerning the gender composition of the newly elected undergraduate U-Council.
A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of having dinner at the house of professor Steve Slaby. A modest, unassuming man in his late seventies, Slaby seems like a typical emeritus professor.
Formal dress? Check. Semiformal dress? Got it. Boutonniere? Yup. Date? Yes. Sundress in case we actually get spring weather for Lawnparties on Sunday?
You've seen them around before.They sit next to you in class. They find ways to cross their legs even while sitting in the McCosh 50 desks.
Graduate Student Government is racially diverse and gender-balancedIn response to the April 25 article "Diversity Deficiency" on the lack of diversity among undergraduate U-Councilors, I am happy to report that graduate students just elected a very diverse group of graduate U-Councilors at Tuesday night's Graduate Student Government meeting.For the first time, graduate students directly voted for their U-Councilor representatives.
My life has been lived in the shadow of my grandfather's experience as a survivor of the Armenian genocide.
Wealthy can be valuable contributors to charityI would never discourage anyone from active volunteer work, yet I strongly objected to Stella Daily's characterization of "wealthy people of the future" as potential "lazy activists" in the April 25 issue of The Daily Princetonian.
For the last few days, pre-frosh have swarmed the campus. Equipped with maps, '04 buttons and awed gazes, they are hard to miss.On tours, at receptions and at panel discussions, pre-frosh are barraged with facts and figures about what makes Princeton unique.
As we think about the painful images of Elian Gonzalez being carried from his home by FBI agents, we should also recall the other high-profile international custody battle that has escalated during the past week.In New York in March 1998, Gehan Mohamed Fathi Ali Ahmed, a 23-year-old Egyptian woman, married Yiannis Diamandis, a 29-year-old Greek man.
You heard it last week: Donate your meal to Oxfam to feed the hungry. You're hearing it again: Give up your dinner to save the Earth.
IMF protests part of democratic processAs someone who was in Washington, D.C., for the protests against the IMF and the World Bank, I would like to respond to the April 21 opinion pieces by Melissa Waage '01 and Kushanava Choudhury '00.Waage suggested that, instead of practicing direct action in the streets, we should "lobby" the World Bank and IMF, "suggest alternative policies" and "develop grassroots support" in the countries affected.
Three cheers for the trustees, who unanimously approved the Wythes Committee proposal to increase the size of the student body by 500.
Apparently, college students are not the only ones who use libraries and meeting rooms as locations to put in some serious time working off sleep deprivation.Two weeks ago, the venerable New York Times ran a cover story not on wars or famine or Internet billionaires suddenly unable to pay their phone bills, but on the best spots for U.N.
Should the World Bank propose policies that hurt basket weavers in Bangladesh? Should foreign aid be tied to balanced budgets?
They chained themselves together on Pennsylvania Avenue. They bared their chests to deliver their message.
'Liberal' doesn't equal 'left'Twice in the April 18 IMF article, the word "liberal" was used to describe Princeton's Democratic Left.
During a cab ride on the way to the airport for a recent summer job interview, my traveling companion and I began to discuss the dreaded subject of career possibilities.
