Opinion

Not exactly a profile in courage

Apparently, our campus leaders never heard that honesty is the best policy. The USG's white lies regarding the Committee on Background and Opportunity (COMBO) survey have further eroded whatever small level of trust the study body has in our student government.

Op Art: Quit posing

How sure can we be about COMBO results?

The topic of the USG's recently released Committee on Background and Opportunity (COMBO) survey is certainly important and timely, coming in the wake of the recent improvement in Princeton's financial aid program.

PrinceCast #2: Cloak and dagger edition

Adam Bradlow '11, Cindy Hong '09 and Mike Shapiro '09 discuss the COMBO survey ? why it took so long to be released and what it means about Princeton; the Nass-WPRB merger ? what's in it for the radio station?; and the career fair ? why was the spread of offerings so homogeneous?

An ocean of blazers at 5 a.m.

The world is a dark and lonely place at 5:41 a.m. in Metuchen, N.J. Last week I rode up and down NJ Transit with a friend, taking pictures of calm and quiet commuters going to work.

Op Art: The indestructible orange bubble

A dare: Go carbon neutral

If anyone has noticed the greening efforts at school since coming back this year, they've probably noticed it in the bathroom.

Pope wanted

Where is Pope Gregory when you need him?This University has a calendar problem. We start later than almost every other university in the country, we end later, and our fall term exams are separated from the end of classes by a month and several major holidays.

How to change Princeton's dishonest Honor Code

We're often told that the University has such deep trust and faith in its students that it is willing to allow unproctored exams.

Doing the job right

During the fall, posters advertising job information sessions seem as ubiquitous on the Princeton campus as colorful autumn leaves.

Are CEOs as bad as Paulson says they are?

Did anyone notice that, in his frantic effort to cram his preferred version of a Wall Street bailout down the throats of Congress, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson smeared his former colleagues on Wall Street as unconscionably greedy, unpatriotic louts?

Op Art: Security blanket

Upperclass meal plans a meal deal?

Princeton requires you to live in a residential college for your first two years. Then, the meal plan is a convenient way to buy meals in bulk and is commonly portrayed by the administration as an essential component of student life.

Op Art: Butterfingers

Thinking like the Others

There's not really that much to get excited about in Princeton, N.J., over the summer. So it was probably the highlight of my June afternoon to find a rousing article by Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker in a month-old copy of "The New Republic." Titled "The Stupidity of Dignity," the article describes the ways in which the ambiguous concept of dignity has become a guiding principle in Bush policy.

Why so studious, Batman?

Hey, remember that exciting Batman movie that came out this summer? No? OK, let me rephrase that. Remember that exciting Heath Ledger movie that came out this summer?

Letters to the editor: Sept. 29, 2008

Spelman article completely misses the pointRegarding "For University, Spelman 8 a great success," (Thursday, Sept.

The silver lining to the financial apocalypse

Even though the U.S. economy has not collapsed, Princeton students may feel like we have front row seats to impending doom as bank after bank cancels its recruiting session this fall.

Op Art: Ron Paul was right!

Setting a standard

Last week, a commission led by Harvard Dean of Admission William Fitzsimmons published a report suggesting college admission committees rely less on SAT and ACT scores in making admissions decisions.