Follow us on Instagram
Try our daily mini crossword
Subscribe to the newsletter
Download the app

Opinion

The Daily Princetonian

Letters to the Editor

Diversity: Strictly a minority affair?In his Oct. 17 letter entitled "Minority Issues and Student Responsibility," Nathan Arrington '02 stated that the USG report on "Minority Issues" unknowingly "reveals an underlying problem facing diversification at Princeton: the failure of many minority students to accept personal responsibility for solving the problems." I argue that this statement of Arrington's reveals the true problem facing diversity at Princeton: the belief that diversity is strictly a minority concern.

OPINION | 11/08/2001

ADVERTISEMENT
The Daily Princetonian

Letters to the Editor

Fanatic terrorists not simply the spawn of IslamOn Oct. 18, professor John Fleming wrote a piece about the nature of the current Islamic world, as he sees it, and several readers have responded subsequent to that date.

OPINION | 11/07/2001

The Daily Princetonian

Where to stand

If there's one thing to remember in the War on Terrorism, it's this: Our ground war in Afghanistan is only a short-term solution to terrorism, at best.

OPINION | 11/04/2001

The Daily Princetonian

'Ne sutor ultra crepidam'

English version: "Cobbler, stick to thy last," meaning "Do not presume to address matters beyond your competence." Though no credentialed Islamicist, I did presume in my last column to make two claims: that by normal standards of political and economic reckoning the contemporary West is superior to the Islamic world and that terrorism committed in the name of Islam does actually have something to do with Islam.

OPINION | 11/04/2001

The Daily Princetonian

Letters to the Editor

Students should take advantage of Middle East expertsIn his Oct. 18 column, "War's first several casualties," professor John Fleming has raised serious issues on the contrast between Islam and the West.

OPINION | 10/30/2001

The Daily Princetonian

Letters to the Editor

America on the side of goodWhile reading Karen Bauer GS's Oct. 22 letter to the editor, I was deeply disturbed by one of her comments, and I feel obliged to respond in defense of American values.

OPINION | 10/24/2001

The Daily Princetonian

Utterly overwhelming

In the preface of his work "The Genealogy of Morals," Friedrich Nietzsche writes, "To be sure, one thing is necessary above all if one is to practice reading as an art . . . one thing that has been unlearned most thoroughly nowadays ? and therefore it will be some time before my writings are 'readable' ? something for which one has almost to be a cow and in any case not a 'modern man': rumination."This quotation has much to tell us about our education in general.

OPINION | 10/24/2001