The act of strolling to class was replaced with leaping, climbing, hoisting and crawling. That is, leaping over ice banks, ice-climbing up snow-mountains, hoisting myself up slip-and-slide staircases and, finally, crawling when there were no other options.
The truth is that we reap the benefits of Facebook's combination of an assumed level of privacy and a de facto lack of privacy.
Effective consent is informed, freely and actively given by all parties and mutually understandable in words or actions.
The editorial board’s criticism of the Young Alumni Trustee (YAT) elections process has become an annual tradition, and this year is no different.
What are we to do when the country’s premier newspapers and highly qualified authors of important books can’t get the numbers or the units right?
Imagine the following scenario: A girl goes to a frat party, drinks too much and has sex with a guy she just met.
This week, columnists Greg Burnham, Peter Zakin and Michael Medeiros discuss integrating graduate students into campus life and the evolution of what it means to be "quintessentially Princeton."You can now subscribe to the weekly PrinceCasts on iTunes.
My Cloister membership, however, does not make me any more of a "true Princetonian." And no eating club affiliation would.
While each department should tailor its training to its preceptors, adopting the model of some of the humanities departments and requiring semester-long training are appropriate measures to help regulate teaching and ensure more consistency among the precepts.
I still haven't gotten used to sharing a space smaller than my room at home with other people, but I think I have learned a lot about compromise.
Every two years, the Olympics display values and virtues that are universally recognized to be fundamentally, objectively good. It is not sport as such but the virtues that it instills in competitors and then presents to onlookers — who wish to see the best of which humanity is capable — that are universally attractive.
We usually think that “love” is a better subject for posters or poetry than for philosophy, more fit for sonnets than syllogisms. So it is surprising to find an overtly erotic element in many of the greatest philosophers of the West —and in particular, at the heart of one of the founding documents in Western philosophy.
Students may at times have some complaints about their program, their university or their homestay family, but, almost invariably, they write that the overall experience was well worth it and that they learned quite a bit about themselves and their own society in addition to that of their hosts.
