Opinion

Band on the run

As every good pseudo-intellectual knows, the actor Edward Keane (apocryphally) used his final breaths to utter the phrase, "Dying is easy; comedy is hard"; the Princeton University Band, in a much-flamed-about incident, attempted both this past Saturday at The Citadel, and by almost all measures, it failed miserably at each: The cadets were not particularly amused by the band's shtick, and the only casualty was a fallen clarinet.

Think you can vote on Nov. 4?

In President Tilghman's opening address to the Class of 2012, she challenged the freshmen to "take as [their] first class project the goal of registering every single eligible voter and ensuring that he or she votes on Election Day." Tilghman's ambitious and laudable goal will no doubt be made more achievable by the work being done by the University and student groups like P-Votes to facilitate the registration process and educate first-time voters.

Op Art: Are we sure that's real?

A good recipe gone sour

Five cups flour, three cups sugar, four sticks of butter, four eggs, vanilla, a pinch of salt, baking powder and a smile.

Letter to the Editor: Sept. 25, 2008

Citadel cadets also elite, overpriveleged Regarding ?Letters to the Editor,' (Tuesday, Sept.

Princeton makes its move

The Wall Street collapse has left Princeton at a critical juncture. Many business-minded Princetonians, who until recently savored the riches to come after graduation, are desperately concerned about what is now an uncertain labor market.

Op Art: The last brokerage

The band and the culture war

The culture wars are raging, and now Princeton has been implicated in them. As the fallout from the Princeton University Band's (PUB) clash with Citadel cadets last weekend further attests, "The War between the States" did not end with the surrender at Appomattox.

Op Art: Chain of events

Letters to the editor: Sept. 24, 2008

Band was inflamatory and not very goodRegarding "University band harassed by cadets at Citadel," (Monday, Sept.

Shop till you drop

Rejoice, for the end of shopping period is upon us! Now we have one fewer thing to stress over, and let's face it, shopping period can be monumentally stressful.

All projects great and small

USG president Josh Weinstein '09 faced a challenge when he came into office last February, taking the reins of a USG that needed to convince both students and administrators that it was an institution worth working with.

Op Art: Too big to fail

Wanted: a job

Have you noticed? The world is imploding. Britney makes a comeback, military cadets attack our school band - what's next, cloning?

The precept lie

Princeton thinks it's special and is very good at coming up with weird ways to show it. We start school later than almost everyone else.

Let's get (less) drunk!

The first weeks of freshman year invariably involve far too much alcohol. A desire to drink combines with the opportunity to do so in a perfect storm of excess with serious consequences.

Open house on Prospect

Fall Lawnparties is at once a celebration of Princeton's great eating club tradition and a rebuke of the eating clubs' more elitist and exclusive past.

Op Art: Crossword confusion

Finding my gratitude again

During the first day of my freshman seminar three years ago, my professor asked our class what made us grateful to be at Princeton.

Our moral obligation to bail out bankers

In the wake of the Bush administration's announced $700 billion bailout of the banking industry - which has already enhanced the banking executives' personal stock portfolios by multiple millions - we must ask who got the bankers into the deep doo-doo in which they now find themselves.To blame the bankers themselves implies that free markets do not work as advertised by The Wall Street Journal's editorialists and by the economics profession, whose hallowed doctrines are incompatible with that thesis.