Opinion

McCain's campaign finance reform nothing more than political rhetoric

McCain's campaign finance reform nothing more than political rhetoric

As presidential candidate Bill Bradley '65's cerebral presidential campaign stumbles toward the South Carolina primary, lagging in polls behind Vice President Al Gore, expect political moderates around Princeton to begin rallying behind the next best alternative to the Class of '65's basketball star ? Republican anti-establishment candidate ? Sen.

OPINION | 02/08/2000

Furnishing a dream dorm with curbside couches, leftover lamps

When I drew a single last year for the first time, I realized there were a lot of things I'd taken for granted my first three years at Princeton that I would now have to start thinking about.

OPINION | 02/08/2000

Who wants to be a sourpuss? The Princeton diss is not the final answer

Regis Philbin: All right, if you get this question, you will be going home with one million dollars!

OPINION | 02/07/2000

Letters to the Editor

Network concerns led to CIT 'sweep'This is in response to Jason Brownlee's Feb. 3 column, "CIT's Big Brother Cybersweep Compromises Students' Privacy."I am the employee who said CIT would not seek out unauthorized MP3 files, and I sent the late November messages regarding Napster software.

OPINION | 02/07/2000

Can eating clubs survive?

Many students have been waiting for the Frist Campus Center to open since their tender pre-frosh years.

OPINION | 02/07/2000

Harry Potter: A fantastic escape from academic mumbo-jumbo

I was one of those geeky kids who would stay up late at night reading by flashlight under the covers in case my mother checked in to see if I was staying up past my bedtime.

OPINION | 02/06/2000

Steer clear of high-brow humor by taking the low road to laughter

More than once, I've left a precept wondering how many Princeton students really think of themselves as being "clever" or "witty." I suppose it's natural to try to be imaginative and original.

OPINION | 02/06/2000

Letters to the Editor

Kerr's elitism unsettlingAs a freshman, the entire bicker process is still foreign and seemingly distant.

OPINION | 02/06/2000

An inclusive system that would minimize hosing and hazing

Under the current Bicker system, a person can either win the lottery (obtain acceptance into Cap/Cottage/Ivy/T.I./Tower) or have everything they own, including their self-worth, stripped from them (hosed). So why must our system be so extreme?

OPINION | 02/03/2000

Letters to the Editor

Behave cautiously at club initiationsWe are writing to encourage students to be mindful of the risks associated with drinking alcohol during Bicker and sign-ins.

OPINION | 02/03/2000

Let's not make Bicker more burdensome and superficial

This December, a handful of Bicker club presidents and grad boards voiced support for allowing students the option of bickering more than one club.

OPINION | 02/03/2000

Coming home

"I had a breakdown Sunday night because I was ready to go back [to London]. It seems insular here at Princeton.""The theater in London is cheaper than renting a movie, and four of the seven plays we read in my Shakespeare class at University College showed in the theater.

OPINION | 02/02/2000

Slurp 'n burp: classroom munchies recreate grade school comfort zone

Why does my preceptor eat a croissant every precept? Don't get me wrong, I'm excited that my preceptor never experiences hunger pains in class.

OPINION | 02/02/2000

CIT's Big Brother cybersweep compromises students' privacy

In late November, just days after a CIT employee was quoted in the 'Prince' as saying that it would not follow Carnegie Mellon's footsteps in monitoring student network use, CIT conducted an unannounced "sampling of campus network activity." We learned about this server sweep when CIT e-mailed students who had been found "uploading MP3s." The e-mail warned them to uninstall the program Napster if they had it on their computers.

OPINION | 02/02/2000

Two years after infanticide, society still missing message

To very little fanfare outside the North Jersey area he calls home, 21-year-old Brian Peterson was released from a Delaware penitentiary Jan.

OPINION | 02/01/2000

Sophomores should bend the rules for the right to bare arms (and butts)

Female member of the Class of 2002: Administration, my bathroom is down the hall and sometimes I want to walk there topless.

OPINION | 02/01/2000

Letters to the Editor

Bradley playing same political gameI wonder whether some of Bill Bradley's emotional potency, palpable air of electricity, and majestic honesty that Alex Rawson '01 and Dana Satir '01 described is due more to the feelings of impressionable college kids who got to mix with the political elite than to the traits of Bradley himself.

OPINION | 02/01/2000

Appreciating the value of 'Dollar' Bill

At 3:26 A.M. on Tuesday, January 25, Senator Bill Bradley and his key supporters marched into the hangar at the Manchester Airport to announce his return to New Hampshire for the final week before the Democratic primary.We had already been in the state for two days, cold-calling strangers, canvassing with campaign literature, and putting up signs, but this was our first glimpse of the man for whom we were working so tirelessly.

OPINION | 01/31/2000

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