Let's face it, America's not always the nicest neighbor to have lurking around. From an expansionist McDonald's to environmental walkouts to the missile shield, all coupled with a certain American hubris, the rest of the world has cause to grumble a bit.
Attackers not motivated by anti-consumerismI would like to point out that in Mike Long's September 14 letter about American consumerism and his inferences that the Americans' wealth was cause of the terrorism in the World Trade Center, that the people being suspected of this atrocity are not the poor, oppressed people under the yoke of Western capitalism, but rather the suspects are well-financed zealots waging war under the banner of a religious Jihad.I truly doubt that the "oppression of capitalism and Western consumerism" was a motive in this case, and it was more a case of a severe misinterpretation of a religious text.
Religious leaders encourage goodwill toward all innocentsWe are appalled and saddened by the events of September 11 as all people of good will are.
Coming back to campus in the fall is a surreal ? and somewhat disheartening ? experience.
Horrible attack calls for compassion instead of hatredAs a concerned Muslim and Arab-American student, I stand in deepest sympathy with the students and other members of the campus community who have relatives and friends who have suffered in the senseless attacks in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.As an anti-racist student at Princeton University, I call on all members of this diverse and multicultural community to oppose and stand against anti-Arab and anti-Muslim hysteria in response to the attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon.Remembering the attacks on Arab Americans in the wake of the Oklahoma city bombing, I urge all of us not to resort to anger or hatred in this time of crisis.
The contemporary landscape of most European cities is shaped as much by what is gone as by what remains.
Every year, the publication of U.S. News and World Report's top college rankings never goes unnoticed.
Many of us awoke yesterday to see an image stranger than many dreams and more horrific than any nightmare.
After all of the cardboard boxes are thrown away and the Public Safety officers end their week-long hiatus from ticketing cars parked on campus, much of Freshman Week and the activities associated with it will be long forgotten.
I cried on the first day of my Outdoor Action trip freshman year. But you couldn't tell because it was raining so hard.
"Save America ? Abolish Government Schools." That's the latest conservative-activist slogan I came across the other day while perusing one of my favorite Internet forums.
On the night of Saturday, April 22, thanks in part to the Trustees Alcohol Initiative, I had a transcendent experience staring at a seventeen-year-old's perfect navel.
For the Supremely Motivated Self-Starting Student, the senior thesis is an opportunity to shine ? a chance to show the world what comes of four years of training at Princeton University, a chance to contribute to the academic body of knowledge, a chance to learn something about life.For me, it has been an intimidating and lethal obstacle that has shown me how to empathize with Dubya.I have to say, this is a slightly uncomfortable feeling for me, as I'm not especially a fan of Dubya.
Our days are just packed with serious stuff. Independent research, the pressure of upholding the reputation of a long standing academic institution, the dilemma of whether to pursue our happiness or our duties.Doesn't it look boring even just reading it?
...So you decided to come to Princeton. It's a decision that will change the rest of your life. And one that will change Princeton, too....With the choice to attend Old Nassau comes the chance to challenge previous conceptions you have had about yourself, and about the University.
The spirit of honorThe word "honor" occasionally floats down into everyday speech like the ghost that someone saw on the staircase.
What would you do if you could not remember the last time your country was at peace? Would you start an international movement for peace?
The Princeton Evangelical Fellowship was the reason I came to Princeton. When researching colleges as an anxious high school senior, I'd come across its website, and, once admitted, I came down to Princeton to check out the campus as a bona fide pre-frosh.
PRIDE Alliance encourages campus to ignore Fred PhelpsOn Monday morning the campus will receive a visit from members of the Westboro Baptist Church and their leader Fred Phelps.
Crossing Nassau Street tonight in a crosswalk, I was shouted at by an undergraduate in an SUV, whom I had the misfortune of stepping in front of and causing to slow down ever so slightly: "Out of the way, fat-ass!"I wonder if he gave it a second thought.
