The student-initiated referendum on the USG 2008 spring elections ballot addressed several key issues: student approval of the administration, the effects of key initiatives on student life and the role of student input.
Though there are many tasks facing the USG, none are as fundamental to its legitimacy as its ability to conduct fair, transparent elections.
Over the course of the last year, nearly all of my old undergraduate classmates have asked me the same question: Just what could I have been thinking when I made the decision to return to Princeton for graduate school?
Because Malik Little '11, until recently a freshman at this university, has been charged with numerous felonies, it is proper for - one might say incumbent upon - the administration to ban him from this campus.
Ahhh, the last week of classes. Faces all around us shine from the bounteous promise of sun and summer.
When my college friends ask me, "How's grad school?" I can tell from their hopeful looks and upbeat tone that they want me to tell them how much fun I'm having.
As the Fed and the Treasury once again staff the shovel brigade behind one of Wall Street's periodic asset-bubble parades - lest the foul economic odor in its wake seep too deeply into the rest of the economy - my mind wanders back to spring 2002, when the previous asset bubble had burst.
Earlier this year I was walking around campus with a friend when we passed an acquaintance. We were invited to a small get together and entered a cozy common room.
It's the answers, not the questions, that are really inflammatoryRegarding ?Has the USG lost it?' (Friday, April 25, 2008)
The two places you are most likely to find me are East Pyne, where I have an office in the Department of Classics and a foot in the Program in Linguistics, and Firestone Library, where I don't have an office but whose floors feel the stamp of my feet every day.
Frist Campus Center, April 21, 8:40 p.m.A University student associated with the USG reported an amendment missing from constitution.
As many sophomores prepare for their first Houseparties as members of eating clubs, this is an appropriate time to suggest an improvement to the spring bicker and sign-in processes.
As a pre-frosh visiting during April Hosting three years ago, I was pleasantly surprised by the civic engagement I saw on campus.
Check out the 'Prince' opinion blog, The Prox, for pieces by the two candidates for Class of 2009 president on why they deserve your votes.
The events surrounding Kyle Smith '09's petition to place a referendum on the USG election ballot this spring demonstrate the need to broaden the criteria for excluding petitions from the ballot.
