Any scholarship over $4,500 for any given year is worthless, for all the scholarship does is cancel out any money offered by Princeton, unless it exceeds the school’s financial aid offer.
I went down last week to McCosh Hall with some friends from my church to hear professors Robert George and Cornel West GS ’80 discuss what it means to be a Christian in today’s world.
There is one particular industry facing ramped-up government regulation that is relevant to Princeton students: the for-profit college industry.
By ensuring that all future theses are digitized and that past prize-winning theses are made available online, the University can enable students to quickly and easily gain access to a valuable research tool.
We believe that, almost without exception, increasing the available amount of information and the number of different perspectives serves as a positive influence on public discourse. If climate change skeptics truly are as easily refuted as Geronimus claims, then supporters of the theory should have no cause to fear engagement with them.
It seems that media attention itself has become the primary — if not the only — source of legitimization in American politics. Whether the attention is good or bad barely seems to matter, and may in fact be an irrelevant dichotomy.
Technological safety nets are only helpful if we use them as guides to discovering answers, rather than as search engines for answers.
We would like to use this space today to explain the editorial process and invite interested freshmen, sophomores and juniors to apply to join the board.
In all of the recent ranting about religion and politics, the third Abrahamic faith is flying under the radar.
I am a blonde, female freshman from an all-girls Catholic school. Needless to say, Lord help me.
It’s hard to explain why anti-Muslim sentiment is on the rise, but I suspect it has to do with our new definition of “politically correct.” Slowly, the boundaries of political correctness have expanded to include anti-Muslim comments.
Tyler King defends the Princeton tailgate and Cyclab explains how they promote the Princeton cycling community.
The point is that if there is a good reason that this University exists as an institution of higher education and not a poverty-relief fund, then it seems highly questionable that it has any business using its means to create a warm glow of charity which makes the ivory tower of learning look a little more like a soup kitchen.
Some types of research enrich academia with humor and insight, bringing fun to the stacks in Firestone and making it sometimes just as important as more somber research.
Not everyone is lucky enough to attend this university, but that does not mean that those who do not study here cannot be given the opportunity to take advantage of some of Princeton’s intellectual wealth. Providing online access to lectures and course materials for a small fee would allow the University to provide this public good in a budget-neutral way. The University should initiate this program with all reasonable haste and make available as many lectures as is practical.
