Princeton is a strange place. For decades, thousands of people ? graduates and undergraduates, staff and faculty, American and foreign ? have descended upon this patch of land to learn and teach about themselves and the world.
You know, Suzy, I was very skeptical of writing a piece in response to your open letter to all the schools that rejected you.
Last week, in a rare display of bipartisanship, eight senators introduced the most comprehensive immigration reform in a quarter-century.
It was the quintessential act of terror, meant to tear apart and shake the foundations of one of America?s oldest cities.
?Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me."As a victim of sometimes cruel and relentless childhood bullying, like many children were, I always thought of that phrase as preposterous.
When you are surrounded by the same thing your entire life, you remain unaware of it until you are dishabituated; until you are removed from that environment of sameness and forced to see the differences of those around you.
I have a confession to make: Until the day he was declared the University?s next president, I did not know anything about Christopher Eisgruber ?83.
If I made enough money that I would need to pay the sticker price tuition of a private university ? $56,750 in 2013-14 for Princeton ? I would think twice about footing the bill for my high school senior.
As a first-semester freshman, I knew our incoming president, Christopher Eisgruber, not as the provost of the University, but as "professor." I took his freshman seminar, FRS 139: The Supreme Court and Constitutional Democracy, a class about constitutional interpretation theory and the role of the Supreme Court.
There are many reasons why I like to teach. I take pleasure in the company of college-age students, for one thing because their ways allow me to relive my own undergraduate years, which were mostly terrific.
Yesterday the Princeton community learned that the University?s search for a president had culminated in the selection of University Provost Christopher Eisgruber ?83.
Regarding ?Support group PINS offers discussion forum for kinky sex and BDSM? (Tuesday, April 16, 2013):While the new BDSM group doesn?t sound particularly menacing, it is nonetheless ridiculous.
As the current youth of America, Generation Y, the Millenial Generation, we face a whole multitude of first world problems that didn?t exist just a decade ago.
In his April 8 column, ?On internet slacktivism,? Benjamin Dinovelli criticized Internet activism as ?fleeting? and more likely to be ineffective than change-making.
On April 2, Princeton?s Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education program hosted focus groups to discuss a new online orientation program about sexual assault issues for incoming freshmen.
My weary roommate shut her laptop with a peremptory clap at 4:30 a.m. ?I?m done,? she said.
First, let me sincerely echo your parents, teachers, administrators and friends in giving you a big congratulations on getting into Princeton!
Most of March of my senior year of high school consisted of waiting: waiting for weeks to go by until college admissions, days to go by until I had an idea of what college?s apparel to order in bulk, minutes to go by until the online portal would let me click ?View Decision.? Time seemed to move like an IV drip: infuriatingly and tantalizingly slow.
By THE DAILY PRINCETONIAN OPINION STAFF Recently, the Editorial Board suggested that the punishment for taking extra time on exams is too severe and that the punishment should be reduced to a zero on the exam and academic probation.Are there other aspects of the Honor Code that could use revision? Kinnari: The biggest problem seems to be that we don’t know the Honor Code well enough.
Senior alert: The following contains idyllic depictions of life after handing in a senior thesis. If you are in one of those departments with tragically late due dates, you have been warned.A week or so ago, I was talking to a history major and an English major about what we were going to do after we handed in our theses.
