Divestment is once again in the news ? and not just at Princeton. Recent proposals by Princeton faculty and students to have the University sell its investments in gun companies and major fossil-fuel producers mirror similar efforts across the country.
The University of Pennsylvania College Republicans recently promoted an Ivy League-wide effort to advocate support for a statement in favor of gay marriage.
During a press briefing in 2002, Donald Rumsfeld (Class of 1954 ? a fact I would assume is not often brought up during Orange Key tours) spoke more like a professor of epistemology than a secretary of defense when he ruminated on the subject of ?unknown unknowns.? According to Rumsfeld, there are ?known knowns,? things we know we know, and ?known unknowns,? things we know we don?t know, but also ?unknown unknowns,? things we don?t know we don?t know.
This semester, a large Princeton course will integrate online lectures for the first time. Students in COS 226: Algorithms and Data Structures will experience some of their lectures through Coursera, the platform through which the University offers several free online courses.
It seems especially relevant, at the close of Black History Month, to return to the question ?Why do race studies matter??In some ways, this is a legitimate question.
According to the Academic Life Total Assessment Survey, students cite the Office of the Registrar/SCORE course evaluations as one of their most important resources when making course choices.
One of the greatest fears for incoming freshmen centers on the roommate assignments we received months before setting foot on Princeton?s campus.
No matter how many times I visit Princeton, as I step off the Dinky I?m always struck by the dazzling, vertiginous onslaught of orange and black draped around everyone?s necks and seemingly sewn into everyone?s hearts.
Truth is, I think, inherently linked to good: Everything that is good stems from institutions, ideas or innovations rooted in truth.
This Monday afternoon, joined by a handful of my fellow Terrans, I enjoyed the hilarity that was an offering titled ?The Penis Parables: A Response to ?The Vagina Monologues.? ? Generally inoffensive and completely hysterical, the Penis Parables detailed the discomforts of premature ejaculation and boxer-brief underwear.However, at the risk of sounding like a male apologist, I could not help but wonder what a true Penis Parables at Princeton would look like.
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.
