Students at Princeton are missing a major opportunity. Whether or not there is validity behind a parent’s desire to hire college students to help their kids in school, there is undoubtedly a market out there that we have not yet accessed.
If Cannon is to survive longer than a few years, it has to provide a unique experience not found elsewhere. To have a unique experience, Cannon needs the right membership.
What was that? You didn’t cheat? Well, here’s the thing. You don’t have to cheat to violate the Honor Code. The Honor Committee only looks at your intent after it’s determined that you’re guilty. Guilty of what? Violating the Honor Code, of course.
All departments should create positions in which certain undergraduates can serve as liaisons between the concentrators and the faculty.
Bob Bernstein has been a champion for human rights his whole life, but this is a step in the wrong direction. Rather than expanding human rights, he is seeking to limit them by refusing to focus on transgressions by nations generally thought to be democratic.
Military engagement is inherently complicated, all the more so in Libya. The least we can do is define and defend the mission publicly.
Japan is a relatively wealthy developed country well-equipped for emergency response and thus not even in dire need of financial support. Consequently, there are few things that outside organizations can actually do to help on top of the local response.
One day last winter I was walking toward East Pyne, when a blotch of red caught my eye. Sure enough, the freshly fallen snow around our cannon was stained with the scarlet blood of a long-held rivalry. I felt a strange sense of excitement as I walked over to find that strewn around the cannon and covered in red paint were bumper stickers that said “Rutgers: Global Reach, Jersey Roots.”
The NCAA men’s basketball tournament, known to most people by its most common moniker March Madness, started last Sunday with the announcement of the bracket for the tournament. As bracket-mania quickly overtook the problems in Japan as the hottest news story, I found myself reluctantly persuaded to fill out my own bracket and promised to watch some of the opening second round games with my dad and brother, the college basketball fanatics of the family.
If we can send Princeton students to Johannesburg or La Paz, why not to this state’s beleaguered cities, where problems of poverty, lousy schools and shrinking tax base still persist? In short, why not bring back the “Semester in the Cities” program?
Princeton Preview is a well-run program that does an excellent job of exposing the University to prospective students. Nonetheless, the Editorial Board suggests several changes to further improve the program.
In a place where there can be a lack of general cohesiveness and genuine togetherness, the events of this past week have been a breath of fresh air. The basketball games represent what I hope will be a renewal of the Princeton spirit that burns inside all of us.
Please join us in protest to acknowledge that this is a critical matter of civil rights and not what Rep. King has characterized as a "Muslim problem."
The cost of educating a student is always more than the student pays, and there are some smaller schools whose savings would dwindle if they didn’t keep the number of students on financial aid at a certain level.
Fortunately, now is the best time ever for both America and the international students who forge a bridge between the United States and their home counties to take advantage of this cultural mixing to educate foreign policy.
In spite of the sterility of the gay community’s image, we are still absorbing the radicalism that began the gay rights movement and the more moderate radicalism of today’s gay community.
