So we're now over a week into this war. And it's bringing America closer together by the day. No, I don't mean its creating political consensus or ideological harmony.
Many academics and political theorists claim democracy is impossible in Iraq because competing factions are simply incapable of coming to terms with each other.
Defending Robertson and his achievementsI didn't plan on writing anything in defense of Pat Robertson, but some of the recent Prince articles have made me aware of the fact that most people have an inaccurate perception of him.
As the war endures, we all try to determine where we stand. Many people around the world have chosen the road of protest and opposition.
Tomorrow evening, Whig-Clio will host a visit by Pat Robertson, the televangelist, political activist, and former Presidential candidate.There doesn't seem to be any noncontroversial way of describing Robertson.
Gender 'not a minus'While I appreciate the vote of confidence in your March 28 editorial, it is simply not true that gender has been a "plus factor" in any of my recent appointments ? the appointments of women or the appointments of men (which have occurred in about equal number). What is true, and what I believe is truly important, is that we have gone into all of our searches intentionally looking for both excellent women and excellent men.
My early morning walk to work can include the whole length of Prospect between Harrison and Washington Road, and this morning I found myself relapsing into a habit suspended for some half century.
As a senior in his second semester, I am frequently asked on what I am writing my thesis. After I explain that I am analyzing the implementation of campaign finance laws, those considerate enough to feign interest almost invariably produce the same response: "Oh, campaign finance?
The rather comfortable looking antiwar protestors staging "die-ins" on the grass in front of the Frist Campus Center earlier this week should have called their event "Sunbathing for Saddam." It seems that some students are so caught up in their self-righteous opposition to Operation Iraqi Freedom that they have lost touch with basic realities about the war.The sunbathers are right, of course, that war is a tragedy.
Janet Rapelye, Princeton's newly named dean of admission, is an excellent choice by any measure. Her experience leading Wellesley's admission office will likely help her succeed here.
In thinking about war, remember historyThe 'Prince' editorial on the Iraq "war" obviously wasn't written by a Princeton undergraduate history major.
The overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq will be good for the entire world. This is not to say that war is the only solution to our conflict with Iraq, but it is hard to argue that a post-Saddam Iraq will be worse off than it is now.
I am watching television and, of course, what is showing is coverage of the war. It seems that the military penetration moving toward the heart Iraq is more difficult than we, the U.S.
In Monday's Prince, Sasha Rao argued that Christian activist Pat Robertson's forthcoming remarks at Whig-Clio should be prohibited on the grounds that they constitute "hate speech," in accordance with the portion of "Rights, Rules and Responsibilities" that forbids "expressions of hatred directed against any individual or group."Resolving this debate is possible only if the emotional sensitivities of students are uniform ? specifically, if Rao's conception of hate resonates with every member of the Princeton community.
For some time Karl Rove has sought to compare the presidency of George W. Bush to that of William McKinley (interestingly, the first President to engage actively in the quest for overseas empire), but one wonders whether a more difficult war and reconstruction in Iraq will cause President Bush to begin thinking more about the presidency of Abraham Lincoln.
'Democratic' decision?In claiming that antiwar protests are inappropriate now that "the democratic decision to go to war" has been reached, David Robinson demonstrates a misunderstanding of the purpose of protests and the meaning of democracy.People who disagree with the decision to go to war should continue to voice their disapproval.
More than ever, I feel like a spoiled brat. In addition to the usual indications (eating food I don't prepare, using a bathroom I don't clean, getting an education I don't pay for), my I'm-in-a-bubble existence has remained largely undisturbed and unchanged while much of the world, with its not-in-your-bubble reality, has not.The Iraqi Republican Guard is using Iraqi women and children as human shields, and the number of American soldiers who will be brought back in body bags is rising.
Ever since its inception in 1883, the Honor Code has been distinguished by a single simple fact: It is completely student operated.
Back from Spring Break and here we seniors are, many of us with about two weeks to go until we hand in our magnum opus, the thesis.
Inspired by Barbara Ann Kipfer's "14,000 Things To Be Happy About:"A wall covered with books in a professor's office; professors who quote Madonna; arches; people walking to the Street in formal wear; way too much orange and black in one place; music wafting out an open window; squirrels everywhere; armfuls of library books; people at lectures they don't have to go to; new book smell; old book smell; professors who can make anything interesting; creative procrastination; ranting columnists; Insta-hots; renovated dorms; protestors who know the facts; Dylan in Dillon; lectures free and open to the public; study breaks; getting to study breaks within five minutes; newspapers slipped under your door in the morning; wine tastings; pub nights; scanner gates at library entrances; people who know stuff about computers; "the Princeton experience;" U-CALL; no one asking for your number because of U-CALL; Quipfire!; inconsistent room-numbering conventions; the Haven; walls covered with posters; future supreme court justices; pajamas at brunch in the dining hall; Forbes; Vanilla Ice on campus; van driver training; famous professors; non-famous professors who should be; cluster computers; covertly surfing while printing; movie nights with friends; "gangsta' registrar;" passport to the arts tickets you don't have time to use; columnists' hometowns; the dinky; reading old yearbooks upstairs at formals; passing a campus tour on your way to class; the bus to Rent; someone writing a song about you; Isabella; Medieval Times; suitcases rolling across campus in concert at the beginning of break; bunnies frolicking in prospect gardens; "Saint A's...premed...p/d/f...late meal...he had it comin'!;" the Wa of course; Lindt free samples; thrift store couches; the little door on the side of the chapel that sits in the middle of the wall and doesn't do anything or go anywhere except look out onto McCosh courtyard; fireplaces that don't do anything; recognizing the Wa workers; watching people run in their papers on dean's date; injuring yourself running in papers on dean's date; sitting on the battlefield at night; running through the Institute woods; playing on big piles of dirt on construction sites; having a construction worker give you a free board that you make into a shelf on your desk that you keep for three years; making four-course meals with an Insta-hot; coming down to the dryer and finding someone has folded your laundry; parents who want you to meet somebody in the laundry room; looking at big cool maps in the rare books collection; rolling those C-floor shelves around; bathrooms that get cleaned for you; facebooks; facebook games; little old professors with bowties; gargoyles; gargoyles in the shape of football players; people's class years listed after their names; an unconventionally painted automobile; professors who write columns for the Prince; feeling better after staying up until 6 a.m.; protecting a $10 coffee table; friends who send you email to cheer you up; ethernet ports in convenient locations; professors who teach "The Matrix;" late meals; emails saying you have a package; Sir Hawthorne the Hound; newspapers attempting to portray the Ivy League; professors missing lecture because they're needed in Washington; talking about bioethics one minute and soap operas the next; making pdf files with LaTeX; machine shop classes; a T-shirt with a Decepticon symbol; renewing library books online; the secret entrance to McCosh Hall; perspective"s" on Iraq outside the Frist cafe; printing double-sided; random acts of kindness; columns ranting about random acts of kindness; arch sings; doing the reading; not doing the reading; the mace bearer; class movie nights at the Garden Theater; drunken 4 a.m.
