Opinion

Students should envy squirrel simplicity

Students should envy squirrel simplicity

A new revelation formulated by Mark Burrish '02, and brought to my attention by his roommate, Nate Allard '02, goes as follows: On the University campus, it is better to be a squirrel than a student.Absolute truth is nonexistent, so why keep searching?

OPINION | 02/20/2000

Letters to the Editor

On poorly written reviewsFor the love of all that is good, will someone please instruct the Arts Editors and/or their "reviewers" how to write a legitimate theater review?

OPINION | 02/20/2000

Exercising the grad student voice

At the Feb. 14 U-Council meeting, graduate and undergraduate students joined together in opposing the planned closing of Chancellor Green Cafe.

OPINION | 02/17/2000

Letters to the Editor

Chancellor Green already an academic spaceI am writing to express my skepticism about the administration's current plans to "change" Chancellor Green into an academic space.

OPINION | 02/17/2000

Close quarters prevent privacy

I do not generally consider myself an antisocial person, but I find myself infected with a growing obsession to get away from people.Personal space is an elusive, often impossible goal at Princeton, unless one lives in a single.

OPINION | 02/17/2000

Letters to the Editor

Alum agrees on 'architectural degradation'I applaud the recent comments of Ryan Salvatore '02 in his Feb.

OPINION | 02/16/2000

Get on the patch.com: Internet addiction is just a few clicks away

A specter is haunting Princeton ? the specter of Internet Addiction Disorder. A countless number of students spend too many hours online, often with adverse consequences.My addiction began before I got to Princeton.

OPINION | 02/16/2000

Indo-Pak rivalry ignores deep cultural similarities

On a gentle hilltop at the Press Club in Lahore, the din of the early Saturday evening traffic wafted in gently through the trees like the last lazy rays of sunlight.

OPINION | 02/16/2000

Third World Center would benefit from relocation to heart of campus

What should happen to Chancellor Green? We have heard several solutions, including the highly unpopular proposal by the administration to convert it into a non-circulating library.

OPINION | 02/15/2000

University fails to solicit student opinion on rotunda

While the uproar over the fate of the Chancellor Green Cafe is almost as loud as the cafe itself, the administration's disregard for student input in matters regarding space allocation at the University is especially disturbing ? as disturbing as the potential cafe conversion.The University's proposal to convert the cafe into a humanities library beginning in 2001 is premature given Frist's unknown future as a social space on campus and the cafe's well-known success.

OPINION | 02/15/2000

Letters to the Editor

Clarifying FLA's methodsI want to join Laura Kaplan '02 in inviting anyone interested in sweatshop labor issues to attend this afternoon's open forum sponsored by the Resources Committee of the U-Council.

OPINION | 02/15/2000

There's no shame in being elite

The only thing worse than an elitist Ivy Leaguer is an Ivy Leaguer who's trying too hard not to be elitist.

OPINION | 02/14/2000

University's sweatshop labor policy 'FLA'wed

Last week, Penn students held a sit-in in their president's office to urge their administration to sign onto the Workers' Rights Consortium, a non-profit organization that would verify that apparel bearing the Penn logo is not produced under sweatshop conditions.

OPINION | 02/14/2000

Letters to the Editor

Lurz has 'naive' perception of RAsAs a second-year resident adviser in Forbes College and as someone who has participated in the RA and MAA selection process, I feel it is important to respond to John Lurz '02's rather naive, or at the very least incomplete, discussion of what makes a good RA.RAs and MAAs are supposed to serve as more than simple resources for their freshmen.

OPINION | 02/14/2000

Williams' tuition freeze

Williams College recently announced its plans to freeze the rate of tuition for the 2000-01 school year at $31,520 per student.

OPINION | 02/13/2000

Average Joe revolted by Scully, other new architectural 'masterpieces'

With Princeton in the midst of one of the largest building booms in its history, we can now cite such famous architects as I.M.

OPINION | 02/13/2000

Self-reliance is a sham: the flu will have you bumbling for Mommy

It's Valentine's Day today, but I'm not thinking about romance. Oh here we go, you think, another anti-romantic diatribe against Valentine's Day written by some guy who hasn't gotten any in six months and wants to inflict his deep inner pain upon the rest of the world.

OPINION | 02/13/2000

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