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.
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?
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.
If anyone has noticed the greening efforts at school since coming back this year, they've probably noticed it in the bathroom.
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.
We're often told that the University has such deep trust and faith in its students that it is willing to allow unproctored exams.
During the fall, posters advertising job information sessions seem as ubiquitous on the Princeton campus as colorful autumn leaves.
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?
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.
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.
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?
Spelman article completely misses the pointRegarding "For University, Spelman 8 a great success," (Thursday, Sept.
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.
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.
The world is going down the drain. Somewhere below the Swiss border, large hadrons lie dormant, waiting to collide and destroy the planet.
