Princeton has traditionally staked its reputation on the most studious among us, but that whole boy-genius routine is passe. What Princeton needs now is some ridiculous bar fights, love affairs and fake tans. We need a Snooki.
Tori Jueds and Cole Crittenden elaborate on University policy in the aftermath of the Tyler Clementi tragedy and Scott Fountain criticizes Borough Police practices.
Limiting the number of people in the know helps to keep situations contained. The bomb scare at Palmer Square was practically a non-event.
This doesn’t mean that as women we need to aggressively claw our way through the patriarchy until we get our due, but if we want a change, sometimes we need to be bold.
Although our countless programs, superior academics and admirable collegiate atmosphere make us one of the most highly ranked schools in the world, it simply cannot be overlooked that Princeton has a culture of stress.
Even if globalization has made it somewhat impossible to remain an isolated society in today’s world, modern politics and culture are creating new forms of cultural separation.
To improve the current selection process, a separate election should be held at the beginning of the fall semester to select Honor Committee members from the sophomore, junior and senior classes.
Cheating is definitely not something limited to large public schools like UCF. That is why it is foolish to have an honor code based on our sense of “morality” as Princeton students. Being a Princeton student doesn’t make us any more moral or less prone to cheating than other college students.
The University's change has eliminated one aspect of the old P/D/F policy that should be reinstated: rescinding the P/D/F grading option.
By giving legacies a slight advantage in admissions, the University is allowing a reasonable advantage to students who already have an emotional connection with Princeton.
We could all use a little better advice before plunging into the Princeton Jungle.
Think about the last time you ran into a member of a prestigious campus group or exclusive eating club. Were you not nicer, warmer and faker to him or her than you would have been to someone who had no such affiliations? How often do you spend precious Princetonian minutes reaching out to someone new, truly without ulterior motives?
A decade after Brooks visited here, it’s worth asking if the essential characteristics of Generation Y have changed. Assuredly to his disappointment, I don’t think they have.
After a year working on the Steering Committee on Undergraduate Women’s Leadership, we are both convinced that leadership is an issue that we all need to talk about, because it’s about far more than just getting more women to become eating club officers, or convincing men to join the Pace Council for Civic Values.
Moving beyond turnout, the underlying problem that must be addressed is disenchantment with electoral politics.
Our turnout should not make us proud. It means that the majority of us sat this Election Day out.
