Opinion

Editorial: Escaping McCosh 50

Seminars usually demand a greater depth of understanding and require more hours of work from students than do lecture courses. As a result, they are often among the most rewarding classes undergraduates take at Princeton and environments in which the highest-quality learning occurs.

Glib global gobbledygook

Our media environment is immensely rich: global in coverage and swift to respond to real or apparent crises. But our individual media are mostly thin … When a real debate erupts, active participants’ knowledge of the globe is often as flat and inauthentic as the cuisine in “global” restaurants.

A more civil library recall

Before you know it, your days are spent plotting your anonymous campaign of terror, just to spite the person who wanted to read the same book as you, at the same time as you.

Copy rites

What good is it if a dean in ODUS abstains from using unethical plagiarism detection software if professors use it? Currently, the University lacks any consistent policy on plagiarism detection software.

Editorial: Leaving the Third World behind

Its new building is a chance for the Carl A. Fields Center to move into a more visible place in campus life - and to remedy the fact that few students know what the Center does and fewer still have been there.

Cartoon: Side effects include hysterics, depression and delusions

My square foot

Mornings: At 8 a.m., I will be jolted from sleep by metallic dumpster thunder and terse cries of Brown Hall parking lot garbage collectors. It is like setting your EarlyRiser Ocean Soundscape alarm-clock to the setting: Din of Battle. Or Imminent Destruction. Or This is What Hell Sounds Like.

Cartoon: Princeton Scheduling

Reinvigorating a wasteland

Expressed as genre, the 2008 election campaign — even if our new president should prove himself exceptional — was once again only a parody of democracy.

The good life

If we are to confront the bad behavior rampant on campus and in the public sphere, we must be comfortable with making moral arguments.

In(ter)dependent work

I suggest that the option be made available to conduct one piece of independent research – be it a junior paper or a senior thesis – in pairs.

Editorial: The flu and you

For Princeton to be successful in preventing or containing a serious outbreak of H1N1, students must recognize and act on the fact that personal responsibility is the most important factor in protecting themselves and others.

Cartoon: The last Saturday brunch

Deflation we can all love

Breaking it down, that means that each course at Princeton costs somewhere into the thousands of dollars. A little sobering when you think about the most boring class you’ve taken here.

Letters to the Editor: Sept. 23, 2009

Lawnparties fall flat for freshman; Gray squirrels must be stopped; A proposal for the naming of new Butler buildings

Dorm room essentials

Shopping and packing for college is stressful, and despite these noble ambitions, I still skipped a few things. But I feel that this year, returning as an accomplished and well-acclimatized sophomore, I am now equipped to offer some additions to this list that will hopefully be useful.

Cartoon: Water goggles

On Public Unsafety

I think that is more than reasonable that this administration, Public Safety representatives and the USG agree on certain rights that students maintain in the interrogation room. Let’s call it Miranda for P-Safe.

New Butler — an architectural review

For the record, Princeton’s own architectural guidebook refers to Wilson as “Jersey Motel Modern.” One expects to see a hooker and a broken vending machine around every corner.

The Vietnamese miracle

In a lot of ways, what was most startling to me about my time in Vietnam was how much the country’s current state challenges conventional Western ways of thinking about the world, many of which I seriously bought into before I left.