The United States fails to appeaseTruth be told, most of us are entirely unsure about how America should respond to the Sept.
Having lived within ivy-covered walls for almost six years, I possess a strong sense that academic events demand a certain level of decorum ? ask questions when called upon, don't raise your voice and address the speaker with respect and appropriate honorifics.
I know most recent 'Prince' columns have discussed rather serious problems: politics, international diplomacy and the ethics of dealing with terrorism and conflict.
I am starting to hear something somewhat disturbing about the Sept. 11 attack on the United States.
Fighting the brigades of bigotryAs the federal government preoccupies itself with fighting the war against terror, it must not neglect the terror that Americans can inflict on one another at home.
If you were on campus last year, you probably heard about the Workers' Rights Organizing Committee, the group of students, faculty and staff who have been fighting to get a better deal for Princeton's low-wage workers.
Whether bombing Afghanistan is right or wrong ? whether by freeing the country the West is once again imposing its culture on a nation or is actually doing what the majority of Afghan citizens want ? why did no country, no organization decide that Afghanistan needed more than humanitarian help all these years while the Taliban was gaining power and structuring its regime?
For several years, and most recently in this month's U-Council and Graduate Inter-Club Council meetings, the University community has spent a lot of time talking about reducing alcohol use and abuse on campus.
Seeking alternative policies against terrorismMichael Frazer GS's Oct. 10 column "Empire Strikes Back" unfairly caricatures the premises and aims of the antiwar movement.
I'm glad that our Tomahawk cruise missiles and B-2 bombers are reducing the terrorist bases and military infrastructure of Afghanistan to piles of ash and rubble.
America benefits the rest of the worldI extend my sympathies to those readers who were puzzled by the mixture of academic jargon and random pedantic references to philosophers in professor Arno Mayer's Oct.
Since the horrific terrorist attacks on New York and Washington by Osama bin Laden's Islamic radicals, it has become fashionable in Arab circles and among their Western supporters to blame it all on U.S.
Where our appeasement has led usFixation on short-term consequences often leads to long-term disasters.
For better or worse, most people would agree that alcohol use ? and more commonly, abuse ? has become part of mainstream American college life.
Since the World Trade Center attack, a strain of thought has circulated around this country that the terrorists who committed this attack are evil and that their supporters, chiefly Osama bin Laden, are evil.
Gay? Lesbian? Bi? We've all seen these signs around campus and perhaps some of us have wondered what they are all about.
The importance of open debatePolitics professor Patrick Deneen's remarkably condescending recommendation in his Oct.
While it seems strange to talk of peace when our country has just yesterday commenced air strikes in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept.
Editor's Note: A shorter version of this column ran in Le Monde, September 27.This is a time to reject the temptation or superstition of fixing on a single cause for the loss of America's 'splendid' invulnerability and exceptionalism on Sept.
While the recent terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have caused millions of Americans pain, sorrow and grief, they have at the same time brought Americans closer together, forging new bonds of shared calamity and uniting millions in anticipation of a war against a common enemy.
