Opinion

A sense of place: Special campus spots and memories

A sense of place: Special campus spots and memories

My favorite thing about coming back to campus in the fall is seeing all of "my places." I'm sure you know what I'm talking about: There are those places on campus that you walked by all the time in past years, places where you always hung out, places that really remind you of certain times in your Princeton career.I realized how important these places were during this past summer away from Princeton.

OPINION | 05/28/2003

An education by reading

One of my subjects of alleged scholarly expertise, Christopher Columbus, poignantly exemplifies the feeble tendency of the human mind, when faced with what is unknown and unfamiliar, to attempt to force it into the categories of the known and the familiar.

OPINION | 05/28/2003

SCOREing for the first time as a Princeton student

Last December I scored for the first time ever. I am, of course, referring to the Student Course Online Registration Engine, the University's attempt to bring course registration into the 21st Century.

OPINION | 05/28/2003

'A few kids, yes — I just never thought I'd have six'

My suite is packed with stereotypes. Then again, seven college female twenty-somethings with backgrounds as comfortable as D.C., exotic as China and backwards as Alabama rewriting the college experience allow for a fair amount of material.Together we're vocal, democratic, religious, athletic, conservative, quiet, studious, artistic, prox-biting, creative, and relatively insane.

OPINION | 05/28/2003

A semester come and gone

With this issue, the 'Prince' closes up shop for the summer. We can't believe how quickly the semester has flown past ? February, with its headlong dive into the intense world of daily editing and production, seems only a few weeks ago.When we began editing this page, we had a few simple goals: Keep regular columns short and relevant; give readers a voice by printing lots of letters and viewpoint pieces; and contribute our own thoughts to the campus conversation through staff editorials.We'd like to think we've succeeded, to some extent, in each of these areas ? but in the end, your verdict matters more than ours.

OPINION | 05/15/2003

Travel outside your comfort zone

Summer is almost here. Many Princeton students will be using this time to travel. When students here speak of travelling they often mean to places like Florida or California.

OPINION | 05/15/2003

Three cheers for Old Nassau

In a 'Prince' interview several years ago, a Student Volunteers Council leader remarked that Princeton, though far from the activist ideal, was slowly becoming a more "socially-conscious" school.

OPINION | 05/15/2003

Club's choice reflects our drive to exclude

I'm taking advantage of my iron grip on the 187 square inches of newsprint glory that is the 'Prince' opinion page to record some thoughts on what now appears to me, in my post-Dean's Date haze of caffeine and sleep deprivation, to be the single most revealing news development that has occurred on campus this semester.Local news took a turn for the surreal Monday, with the announcement that Campus Club will be going bicker next spring.

OPINION | 05/13/2003

Serving our nation from the Princeton bubble

Writing columns for this page can be an incredibly rewarding experience. Some of the words I have submitted to this publication have given rise to great debates and conversations with friends, classmates and professors.

OPINION | 05/13/2003

As with 'Smith' and 'Lee,' stereotypes can be useful

The deadline for this column snuck up on me unawares while I was putting the final touches on a very long essay about medieval monasticism, an essay that, while undoubtedly deathless, would not in any event win the approval of the 'Prince' editors even were it not already promised to a competing journal.

OPINION | 05/11/2003

Grading in the 'good old days'

There has been a lot of discussion at Princeton this spring about so-called "grade inflation." I thought it might interest students to have some concrete sense of what grading was like in an earlier time ? at least in my area of the University, namely the humanities.

OPINION | 05/11/2003

Eight hours a year

A group of U-Councilors has proposed that an hour be set aside once a month on Tuesday evenings for dinner and socialization across the whole campus.

OPINION | 05/11/2003

Changing views on climate change

On April 23rd, the 'Prince' devoted an entire page to two opposing viewpoints on climate change policy, allowing an important debate to emerge in this very newspaper.

OPINION | 05/08/2003

No excuses

On April 21st, we wrote that a price tag of zero isn't the only reason people share music online.

OPINION | 05/08/2003

Letters to the Editor

Be thankful for the 'wealth' ? not 'glut' ? of campus publicationsI write on behalf of the USG Student Groups Projects Board.

OPINION | 05/08/2003

With no place to hide, roommates see our reality

Before coming to college, I didn't want a roommate. Sure, based on answers to deeply personal questions such as "What kind of music do you listen to?" the Housing Department thinks we'd get along.

OPINION | 05/08/2003

Leaving home for good, daunted by real independence

The well-known American novelist Thomas Wolfe has often been quoted as writing, "You can't go home again." As I look to my last days on Princeton's campus, I begin to understand the truth of those words.Over dinner the other night, in fact, I was talking to a friend of mine who shared Wolfe's sentiments.

OPINION | 05/06/2003

Most Popular