Opinion

Identifying with mental illness

This fall Break, I took the train up to New York with seven other Princeton students on a Pace Center-sponsored Breakout Princeton trip to learn about the particular stigmas associated with mental illness. We spent nights in sleeping bags on the floor of a church and the days descending into subway cars that deposited us in neighborhoods all over the city — Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan.

Letters to the Editor: Nov. 10, 2009

Trayless dining is inconvenient; administrators did not sufficiently consult students before implementation; Equalize retirement contributions for all employees; A chance to submit nominations for Pyne Prize

Losing my (grade) virginity

Since we grade virgins have been taught to think of ourselves as unquantifiable and above grades, when confronted by them in higher education, we are left utterly bewildered by the mere concept.

Bring on the bathtubs

Every time I step into the shower in my dorm, I think longingly of my bathtub at home. I am a self-professed bath addict; there is almost nothing I like better than soaking out the day’s worries in a tub of steaming hot water. Unfortunately for me, there are very few bathtubs in the dorms at Princeton.

Cartoon: Modern art

Cartoon: Fall break realizations

Princeton mediocrity

I shamefacedly mumbled out my atrocious GPA, at which point he sat straight up, his shaggy eyebrows arched in outrage and with what appeared to me to be a look of disgust, and shouted, “Anything less than a B is unacceptable!”

Editorial: The urge to merge

What we should think about as the Borough and Township begin to explore merging.

Giving 'chutzpa' a bad name

To its critics, myself included, Fannie Mae represents a truly grotesque economic mongrel that allowed by Congress to seek private profits (an lush executive compensation) at taxpayers’ risk. It has thrived over the years mainly on the support of federal legislators whose affection it purchased with hundreds of millions of dollars of campaign financing.

Editorial: Firestone access for friends

Allowing Princeton students to register guests who are staying with them at the access office would be a simple compromise to make.

Cartoon: Halloween, college-girl style

Intelligent apathy

So, to those who say that college is an opportunity to become engaged with important issues, to those who point out all the problems of the world, I can only say: Yes, to be sure. But we’re also like 20. We don’t know what the important issues are.

A tale of two universities

If Oxford, on a much more limited budget, can offer students an hour or two of two-on-one or three-on-one teaching a week with a senior academic, in addition to a full lecture course, and all Princeton’s resources only let you have a 15-on-one precept, something’s drastically wrong.

Mid-term existentialism

For me, midterms have been a trial by fire, not merely in terms of my academic standing, but regarding the course choices I have made. The truth is that all my frustration this week hasn’t been the work itself, but what I’ve been working on.

Help for Halloween

I’d like to offer up a few uniquely Princetonian costume ideas. Hopefully this list will save some people the embarrassment that I faced. 

The law of unintended consequences

If the University should prepare us for married life, why not prepare us for all manner of other things as well — like having children?

Cartoon: Feeling the weight of history

Acclimatizing to fighting climate change

Climate change is the most important issue we face today.

Editorial: Opening to the pub-lic

University events with alcohol should be opened to all, not just those over 21.

Cartoon: Easy solutions to climate change