My first encounter with Princeton?s American Studies program came while I was standing outside a classroom in Frist one afternoon last week, waiting for the previous class to end.
At the end of January, a Princeton resident named David Keddie submitted a letter to the editor of Planet Princeton titled ?Princeton Needs More Apartment Buildings.? Planet Princeton operates somewhere between a newsletter and a blog and describes itself as the ?central place on the Internet where [Princeton residents] can share news, events and community concerns.? Keddie?s letter received 88 ?likes? and 82 comments on Facebook, which, according to my browsing through other such letters to the editor, is about four times the average amount in either category.The letter made a simple claim: Keddie believes there is an unmet demand for increased housing in the Princeton Borough area.
On December 12, 2012, Katy Perry won Billboard?s Woman of the Year award. In her acceptance speech, she thanked whomever she needed to thank and was charming while flipping her electric blue hair and then, suddenly, seemingly out of the blue, she said, ?I am not a feminist, but I do believe in the power of women.?Two weeks ago, I overheard a conversation between two girls sipping their matching double-shot macchiatos on Nassau Street: ?No, but like, this girl was like a crazy feminazi bitch.
Lately there has been a lot of talk about love and lust in the Orange Bubble. While I hadn?t yet been inclined to join the discussion, reading a quasi-spin-off by fellow columnist Tehila Wenger on the normality of the word ?slut? got me intrigued.
One of the reasons I chose to attend Princeton was its precept system. This seems hilarious to anyone who has ever sat through a precept.Having never visited any of the universities I applied to and being completely unaware of the stereotypes, idiosyncrasies and characters of each university, I made my decision quite blindly and rather randomly based on a thorough yet helpless rereading of the short Fiske Guide summaries.
STEM. Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. This acronym has become a buzzword for education policymakers across the country and around the world.
It is an easy enough question.I am sitting in a bakery in my hometown, digging into a salted caramel brownie, when a friend asks me.
This past week marked a transition in the USG?s administration from Bruce Easop ?13 to Shawon Jackson ?15.
The blogosphere is alive with the sound, not of music, but of fury. Everywhere from ?The Chronicle of Higher Education? to the blog ?100 Reasons,? the digerati insist that you have to be insane to enter a doctoral program in the humanities.Doctorates in the humanities take too long too finish: The median time has passed nine years, during which degree candidates live on a pittance and often postpone important life decisions (such as having children). Around 50 percent drop out.
Since coming to Princeton, I?ve become an expert at that game where you name a country, then the next person names a country that starts with the last letter of the first country and so on.
Beneath the foreclosures, layoffs and market crashes of 2008 and beyond, a moral bankruptcy festers on Wall Street.
Last week, one of Princeton?s most controversial traditions consumed the campus as students signed into or bickered one or more of our 11 eating clubs.
As a sophomore, I?ve just experienced the most intimate contact I?ll have with the process of joining an eating club in my time here at Princeton.
In early February, I met with a dozen students over a dinner organized by Princelink.com, a new forum for student debate.
?Got so drunk last night man ? Dude, he was booting all over the club ? Bro, I don?t even remember who I was hooking up with ? You see her totally wasted last weekend??
To my freshman self, here is a list of some things that I would like to have known three years ago:
The pennants flew in the wind as we crossed the pathway lined with alumni keeping tempo with their ?rahs? and ?sisses? while we marched, our parents sending us off into the distance with a teary wave.Thus began freshman week, when every night was a chance to have an unforgettable moment.
Until a few weeks ago, terms like ?Bicker? and ?hosing? were vague, shadowy elements of a college experience that I neither understood nor cared about.
The Princeton Alcohol and Drug Alliance announced in a meeting on Thursday that it will form a task force to review an ordinance that would prohibit underage drinking on private property. Among other implications, this new ordinance would enable Borough police officers to search the eating clubs, as long as they have probable cause.
