Alas, here we are at one of the toughest weeks of the semester, when students catch up on reading and prepare study guides.
Conservative center's critics are missing the pointRegarding ?Letters to the Editor,' (Tuesday, March 11, 2008):
For Princetonians, the takeaway from the still-unfolding scandal of Eliot Spitzer '81 should be a re-examination of the metrics by which society, and Princeton in particular, measures success.Before being humbled by the recent allegations, Spitzer sat perched atop the pinnacle of achievement, as he had done all his life.
Like many freshmen, I left the comfortable world of my quaint suburban hometown and came to Princeton ready for intense intellectual development.
There is perhaps nothing that dominates the mind of the college undergraduate more than food. (All right, maybe I can think of one thing.) I suppose that this is a truth about humanity as a whole that simply displays itself most virulently among the college-age population.
Don't expect too much from the USGRegarding ?Wag the pet project,' (Monday, March 10, 2008):You know, I nearly laughed out loud when I read the editorial over breakfast.
Midterms are upon us. Yes indeed, it's that notorious point in the semester when the weather gets just a little warmer, the sun gets just a little sunnier and the students become just a little more oblivious to both of these facts as they adopt strange nocturnal patterns and a frightening dependence on Red Bull.
Brandon McGinley '10's column last Thursday and this Monday's Daily Princetonian editorial highlight several key issues the USG faces.
In the recent past, the USG has in general sought to better campus life through pragmatic, small-scale initiatives as opposed to pursuing broader, more sweeping change.
My roommate will hate me for writing this, but it really should be said. Every student on this campus ought to take the four-course Humanities Sequence (HUM 216-219), Princeton's best method of introducing its undergraduates to 26 centuries of the Western canon.The Humanities Sequence is easily the most efficient and thorough way to obtain a liberal education.
As I see our students walk across campus, many of them transported worlds away by an iPod plugged into their ears, I wonder what they are thinking about the world their parents' generation, the famous Baby Boomers, is concocting for them now.
I got my first lesson on the joys and perils of rumors as a second grader. As we lined up outside the building, preparing for another day of school, I felt an inexplicable impulse take over my entire being, as I blurted to a friend standing next to me, "Did you know that my first-grade teacher is on drugs?" Incredulously, he turned to me in a mixture of awe and disbelief.
On a typical day, the University's website contains announcements of upcoming lectures by important speakers and performances by a variety of culturally diverse arts groups as well as news stories about compelling research and student awards.
"The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs." When we hear that phrase what should come to mind is the embodiment of Princeton's motto to serve this nation and all nations.