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.
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.
Band was inflamatory and not very goodRegarding "University band harassed by cadets at Citadel," (Monday, Sept.
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.
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.
Have you noticed? The world is imploding. Britney makes a comeback, military cadets attack our school band - what's next, cloning?
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.
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.
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.
During the first day of my freshman seminar three years ago, my professor asked our class what made us grateful to be at Princeton.
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.
For the past few years of my undergraduate experience, I have returned from summer vacation bombarded with statistics on how great Princeton is.
Last week, physicists in Switzerland activated the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the most powerful particle accelerator in the world, which many hope will yield unprecedented insights into the fundamental laws of our universe.
Once upon a time, the economy was awesome. Really - just super. People lazed about in swimming pools full of hundred-dollar bills, and everything was made of gold.
It was one of the most beautiful rooms I had ever seen. The hall was somber yet triumphant, dimly lit by hundreds if not thousands of flickering votive candles gathered in several thematic stations: for families, for the church, for the stricken, each illuminating an image of Saint Joseph.
