Princeton can’t stop divorce or teach marriage — but it can teach us how to file a joint tax return.
Policy on precept size is not based on financial considerations; In defense of Peter Singer; Admissions should be merit-based, and should disregard other factors; Religion was an important part of graduate student experience
If you are attractive, spot the hardest-working and loneliest looking kid in the class and charm him or her. The Curve says, “Use others!” If you aren’t attractive, don’t worry. It’s good for you. Suck it up, lock yourself in the room, and study, says the Curve.
No matter how new and snazzy and modern a building looks, it will always get old. You can even find this in Lewis: Though it’s been open for little more than a year, it is already starting to decay.
Earlier this month, the administration announced a gender-neutral housing (GNH) pilot program to explore the possibility of allowing students to live with roommates of the opposite sex.
If you listen to the presidents of the great American private universities, follow their policy decisions and their big investment plans (now mostly on hold, but they’ll be back), Stanford — the Farm — looks like the model that the others are trying to emulate.
The sense of drift and lack of purpose that I had experienced over the past year is probably the worst part of my graduate school experience.
Columnists Molly Alarcon, Charlie Metzger and Peter Zakin discuss young graduate alumni trustees, library and RCA cuts, and atheism at Princeton.
The Board of Trustees should create two seats to be filled by young graduate student alumni.
The search for economic “value” in colleges has obscured the deeper discussion which needs to occur.
It’s hard to trust the stewards of baseball after they stomped all over it.
One of the most interesting pieces of advice this scientific guru had to offer was his golden rule: “If someone sounds crazy, usually it means you are not smart enough to figure it out.” With that I say, question everything.
Being at ease at Princeton is more about being able reassure myself of the persistence of a familiar world than about having the confidence to move into new ones. Relentless forward propulsion is as exhilarating for me as it was for my mother, but it also induces a kind of motion sickness.
And so we cannot relegate marriage to that growing box marked “private” where other people and the University cannot legitimately have their word. Indeed, quite the opposite. Marriage is of such social importance that, if the unofficial motto “Princeton in the nation’s service” is to have any value, then preparing young people for marriage and family life is crucial.
Fifteen years ago today — on Oct. 21, 1994 — the Clinton administration and the Kim Jong-il leadership reached the “Agreed Framework,” an understanding precipitated by Jimmy Carter’s trip to Pyongyang. Though it collapsed in October 2002, the framework has continued to shape thinking about how to deal with North Korea
