Opinion

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

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

Look Again

Dude, I hate that Britney Spears song.""Me too. But she's so hot."As a camp counselor, I learned that children can be astute social critics.

OPINION | 09/19/2000

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

Debate commission can't change rules for third-party candidates

The Green Party wants to see its candidate, Ralph Nader '55, participate in the presidential debates, which the Commission on Presidential Debates will host this fall.

OPINION | 09/18/2000

Bush must spin pro-life views as legislative, not judicial issue

If the presidential campaign were a Harry Potter book, abortion would be the Issue-Which-Must-Not-Be-Named.

OPINION | 09/18/2000

Letters to the Editor

Excessive Firestone security excludes some from academiaI'm one of those gray-haired old people who sit in the back of the lecture hall.

OPINION | 09/17/2000

Big money, year-round campaigning taint Hong Kong legislative politics

It is easy to bemoan the state of American politics when the candidates' artificially constructed images seem to determine so much.

OPINION | 09/17/2000

Opening Exercises: A time for Hal, not God, to welcome frosh

As a non-believer, I found the University's inter-faith Opening Exercises church service both off-putting and exclusionary.

OPINION | 09/14/2000

Number one in the nation, but students always the last to know

I think it's fair to have high standards for the number one school in the United States when it comes to really simple things like giving students enough information to live in their rooms.

OPINION | 09/14/2000

Letters to the Editor

Drinking ordinance would threaten personal libertiesAll members of the Princeton community should be aware of the extreme danger to personal liberty posed by the proposed new ordinance that would grant police vast new powers to invade private premises without warrants.

OPINION | 09/13/2000

Capital campaign's success merits more attention to human interests

This summer, the University concluded the most successful capital campaign in its history. It raised more than $1 billion in less than five years, far exceeding its initial expectation of $750 million.

OPINION | 09/13/2000

Potential alcohol ordinance

A local ordinance that would allow Princeton Borough Police to enter private residences and cite underage drinkers could change campus social life as much as . . . well, Frist.

OPINION | 09/13/2000

Coverage, not complacency

The major challenge of collegiate journalism is to break through the complacent self-satisfaction of life at a prestigious school ? and nowhere is this challenge more acute than at Princeton.Traditionally, editors-in-chief of the 'Prince' begin the school year by reaffirming their commitment to report the news in a fair, unbiased manner.

OPINION | 09/12/2000

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