Opinion

Quiet intellectualism does exist on campus, despite loud debate

Quiet intellectualism does exist on campus, despite loud debate

ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM! OK, that was cheap, but I'm glad I got it out of the way. Now you know what I'm going to write about.I've been somewhat infamous since an editorial I wrote last year, criticizing people who I thought spent too much time pursuing mindless activities rather than those somewhat more thought-related.

OPINION | 02/19/2003

American aspirations for pesky European nations

As I have told countless Princeton students over the years, I have looked down on Europeans ever since I came to this country.

OPINION | 02/19/2003

I 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 | 02/18/2003

Iraq: Wrong time, wrong plan

No one doubts that Saddam Hussein is bad for the Iraqi people. He has squandered his country's relative wealth, and enforced his rule with brutality that mocks any defensible conception of human rights.

OPINION | 02/18/2003

Defending PriCom's spending habits

The Priorities Committee offers an efficient, fair, and proven means of setting the University's operating budget.

OPINION | 02/18/2003

A surprising choice

It seems the most common reaction to Dean Fred Hargadon's selection as baccalaureate speaker is a combination of surprise and puzzlement.

OPINION | 02/18/2003

Iraq: War is the best option

In 50 years, only two states have actively pursued nuclear weapons, brutally repressed their citizens and repeatedly committed acts of aggression against other sovereigns.

OPINION | 02/18/2003

Student athletics are important to a cohesive campus

If you haven't noticed from the general bent of my columns, then I will be the first to tell you that I am an avowed supporter of the ongoing debate on campus intellectualism.

OPINION | 02/17/2003

Finding a place for Chicano students, their culture

Adrian Rosales '02, a politics major from Texas, took a student-initiated seminar last spring with the assumption that he could use it toward his graduation requirements.

OPINION | 02/17/2003

Letters to the Editor

OWL's version of feminism is unpredictable, inconsistentIn her recent letter to the Editor, Jessica Brondo says: "It is upsetting how willing people are to disparage OWL without actually speaking to an officer to learn the exact intentions of our event." What is so distressing about researching the merits of an event by investigating its host organization (i.e.

OPINION | 02/17/2003

Good intentions up in smoke: environmentalism's accidents

Forget six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke, Forget the spreading of the hideous town . . .And William Morris never even saw a Jersey strip!

OPINION | 02/16/2003

SCORE's missing pieces

The first semester of SCORE-selected classes is well underway, and by most accounts the online system works about as well as the much-maligned course cards it replaced.

OPINION | 02/16/2003

Evaluating Bush's AIDS plan

I n all human history, there have been few events that affected humanity so profoundly as AIDS. Now, 20 years into the epidemic, it appears the U.S.

OPINION | 02/16/2003

'Relationship protocol'

For many a Princeton student, Valentine's Day has been looming ominously on the horizon for some time now, remembered occasionally with a slight shudder.

OPINION | 02/13/2003

Recalling Valentine's Days past, confused by the present

Long ago, in the time of troll dolls, slap bracelets and pogs, Valentine's Day was a celebration for all.

OPINION | 02/13/2003

Letters to the Editor

OWL workshop is truly feministHere we go again . . . another criticism of the Organization of Women Leaders with absolutely no valid information to back it up.

OPINION | 02/13/2003

Bush, Saddam and Dr. Evil

Last fall, in the Congressional debate over authorizing President Bush to attack Iraq, one Congressman explained his support for a war with a nightmare scenario: supposing the Iraqi leader were to send a nuclear bomb to a U.S.

OPINION | 02/13/2003

Reevaluating notions of feminism and erotic culture

This past week's focus on the Organization of Women Leaders and their sponsorship of CAKE has led many students on campus to debate the value of open sexuality and eroticism.

OPINION | 02/12/2003

Letters to the Editor

Students should resist police harassment with the voteUndercover prohibition agents?

OPINION | 02/12/2003

The real reason for war: Control of precious territory

In a recent column I questioned the "moral clarity" now used as a cloak for a preemptive strike on Iraq.

OPINION | 02/12/2003

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