Sometime on Tuesday, the search engine gank.princeton.edu listed 21 Asian surnames, taken from draw groups posted that morning, with the following questions: "aZn self-segregation?
Drum beats and chants were audible across campus this Saturday morning. Alumni, returning to Princeton in orange and black ties and tiger print scarves, seemed mystified by the sounds.
Headline bias?I am grateful for last Thursday's article by Alyson Zureick on the lecture by Daniel Flynn that The Princeton Tory sponsored.
Harvard students are often accused of having inflated egos. We at the Prince are pleased to report, however, that they demonstrate a healthy humility in at least one important area.According to a recent story in the campus paper, which we are not making up, student government leaders in Cambridge have determined that Harvard's dating scene is "pretty poor." Not content to let loverless learners languish, they've resolved to take action in order to get more action.
Tilghman has support for social objectives, challenging status quoIn response to Tuesday's letter to the editor: "Tilghman should not use presidency as a forum to advocate social policy."Dear President Tilghman (let's use some respect, boys): DON'T STOP!You have the full support of a large majority of Princeton students.
We laugh at their monarchy, their backwards driving, the pretentious way they talk, but even Americans have to admit the Brits have got one thing right: alcohol.
Let's be honest; the alumni are weird. This was made abundantly clear last weekend when Princeton welcomed the old-timers back for Alumni/Parent Weekend, a nostalgia-soaked Saturday of lectures, awards and dinners.
As any student who keeps a car at school is well aware, parking around the University and in downtown Princeton is often an impossible chore.
It seems that the state of Pennsylvania has failed to answer the tough questions raised by some of its most promising citizens.
Sometimes, I just don't get it. I simply do not see what I have, and what others don't have. In the midst of mounting deadlines for papers and exams, the strain of extracurricular activities, and the youthful ponderings of my life's problems, I lose sight of the bigger picture: I am one of the luckiest people on this Earth.
Tilghman should not use presidency as a forum to advocate social policyDear Shirley: STOP!President Tilghman is at it again.
I was in the middle of one of those pretentious-yet-depressing conversations that can only be had by a bunch of liberal graduate students living under a Republican administration about to take us into an ill-advised war."You know," my computer scientist friend said, "I wouldn't be opposed to this war in principle if I just trusted Bush to get the job done right ? to rebuild Iraq afterwards, to establish real democracy there, that sort of thing.
Who is Colin Powell? Defining himself as the "reluctant warrior" who claims "force should be a last resort, but it must be a resort," our Secretary of State has received much admiration at home and abroad for his diplomatic, multilateralist approach to foreign policy.
Why so little debate about Iraq? Given how close we are to war, one might expect to see more of a conversation ? especially on a college campus.Some issues are easy to agree on.
In my continuing if still fruitless attempt to come to terms with world madness I within the last week attended a couple of lectures offered by speakers with dramatically differing points of view.
Any population isolated and left to its own devices, no matter how homogeneous, will create a way to divide itself.
Closed doors stop fires from spreading. That's why every dorm room door on campus falls shut when opened, and it's also why we aren't allowed to prop our doors open ? consequences of a fire code imposed from beyond Nassau Hall.In the newly renovated dorms, you can't leave your door unlocked when it's closed ? the doors don't have an "unlocked" setting.
So it looks like this is going to be the Year of the Filibuster. With both the Presidency and the Senate safely in the hands of the Republican Party, conventional wisdom would hold that the judiciary is going to get a bit more conservative.
A few nights ago, I had a revelation of grandiose proportions. I was finishing up a calculus assignment due the following morning, along with my roommate who is in the same class.
In her oped column "Finding a Place for Chicano Students, Their Culture" (Feb. 18, 2003), Vanessa de la Torre raises an important concern about the lack of Chicano studies courses at Princeton.
