Opinion

Pushing the envelope of Springer-style trash

Pushing the envelope of Springer-style trash

Trying to kill time before we headed out to the 'Street,' my friends and I borrowed our neighbor's copy of Jerry Springer's "Too Hot for TV" video special ? a collection of dozens of clips edited from his show because of their graphic nature.

OPINION | 02/12/1998

Selling the smarts of liberal arts

Do you ever think you'll be smarter than you are right now? I suppose the answer depends on how you define "smart," but my answer to the question would be a resounding "no."No matter what I do with the rest of my life, I'll most likely be forced to specialize in a single corporate or academic pursuit.

OPINION | 02/11/1998

Letters to the Editor

On changing careersTo the University community:Following your heart's desire is the most important issue in career planning and development in my view.

OPINION | 02/11/1998

A swirling, disco-dance trip into Proctorland

One never knows when the proctors will show up. We'd decided to have a party to celebrate the new semester, or alternately, the fact that it was Feb.

OPINION | 02/11/1998

A travel guide for the transportationally limited

Bored? Poor? When you talk about "my wheels," are you talking about the training wheels?

OPINION | 02/10/1998

Letters to the Editor

On defense, criticismAs I read Mr. Klein's "opinion" piece, entitled "Please, just the facts ma'am" in the Monday issue of the 'Prince,' I was saddened to learn that the current Managing Board had broken their fingers and thus were incapable of composing an editorial response to the recent criticisms aimed at The Daily Princetonian.

OPINION | 02/10/1998

Making the grade

Yesterday afternoon the Faculty Committee on Examinations and Standing presented a report to the Faculty-Student Course of Study Committee that examined trends in grade inflation at the University over the last 24 years.

OPINION | 02/10/1998

The State of the Union address that never was

Found on the floor by an alert member of Congress:Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of the 105th Congress, distinguished guests, my fellow Americans:I would like to start out by thanking America for showering me with a 60-plus percent approval rating, mostly because of an economic boom I had little to do with.

OPINION | 02/09/1998

Letters to the Editor

Committee defines roleThe Feb. 5 article entitled "Committee Supports Safe Bicker Amid Sexual Harassment Concerns" was misleading and represented a fundamental misunderstanding of the commitment that has been made by the eating clubs and the Standing Committee on the Status of Women.

OPINION | 02/09/1998

Ease of Travel

After years of inflexibility that often discouraged students from exploring study abroad opportunities, it appears that the Office of the Dean of Student Life and the majority of academic departments are not only allowing ? but actively encouraging ? students to experience foreign study.

OPINION | 02/08/1998

Dreaming of a white olympics?

Last week, most sophomores either signed into or bickered an eating club. Of those, the majority got into their club of choice.

OPINION | 02/08/1998

Letters to the Editor

Please, just the facts ma'amIt's been a tough couple of weeks for the media. Not just the national press, though two weeks of Monica Madness has turned the press against itself and made a potentially important journalistic endeavor into another opportunity to damn the media to hell.

OPINION | 02/08/1998

Letters to the Editor

On dry Bicker and minority students' social lifeThe decision by some eating clubs this week to conduct "Dry Bicker" was made solely by members of the undergraduate and graduate boards of those clubs.

OPINION | 02/05/1998

Finding America in Super Sunday

The Pope couldn't do it; the imminent war in the Gulf is struggling; only the Super Bowl has been able to wrest the attention of the American public, however temporarily, away from Monicagate.

OPINION | 02/05/1998

Letters to the Editor

On incomplete 'Street' coverageI am appalled at your poor coverage of Monday's decision by four clubs to hold "dry Bicker." This is the most interesting campus news since the Sovereign Bank robbery, and your reporter would have us believe that T.I.

OPINION | 02/04/1998

University-'Street' relations: Strange bedfellows?

We commend the increased level of communication between the University and eating clubs apparent in the Standing Committee on the Status of Women's commitment to a "safe, healthy atmosphere" on the 'Street' during Bicker week.

OPINION | 02/04/1998

All the president's women

I could write a solemn, factually accurate column in which I carefully explain why Bill Clinton has had almost nothing to do with the economy's recent strong performance and point out the numerous underpublicized foreign policy disasters he is responsible for and just in general say a lot of things that need to be said about a very disappointing presidency; but that doesn't sound like it would be much fun for anybody so instead I'm going to ridicule Bill's sex life.

OPINION | 02/04/1998

Letters to the Editor

On speaking out against CCC advertisementWe are writing in response to a full-page advertisement from the Campus Crusade for Christ, written by Margaret Bothner '98, which ran in the Friday, January16 issue of the 'Prince.' Starting from the premise that she need not "show what other religions or world views lack in order to illustrate why Christianity is so amazing," Ms. Bothner proceeds to describe what she considers some of the main and unique characteristics of Christianity.

OPINION | 02/03/1998

A Dose of Strong Coffee and the Chaos Theory

There is a verse from the Torah ? near the end of Numbers ? that my great-grandfather was fond of quoting whenever someone asked him why he didn't go to synagogue on Saturday mornings: "In any place that you remember me, I will come to you and bless you." He was a religious man, and he always devoted his Saturdays to prayer and study; but if he didn't have to leave his home ? which according to Jewish Law, he didn't ? then he stayed content within the walls of his apartment on Socrates St., Mexico City, Mexico, entirely oblivious to the goings on of the largest city in the world.I have always admired this: he lived simultaneously as a law unto himself and in strict accordance with another law ? Jewish law, which is not known for its flexibility.

OPINION | 02/03/1998

Rudolph the red-smelled reindeer

I am magic to say to you about a modern wonder of Internet technology what is intended to revolutionize the way that we use the Web.

OPINION | 02/02/1998

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