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.
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?
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.
If I were a terrorist or terrorist sympathizer I would be delighted by events unfolding at Princeton.
For a long time I thought that Americans had a corner on the trade in conspiracy theories, but I now see that we command less market share than I had believed.
Patriotic spirit should not neglect domestic issuesHow will today's college students respond to the recent tragedies that have brought such enormous loss to our nation and its people?
The grand rotunda in the U.S. Capitol building is filled with contradictions. Each day, tourists armed with cameras and backpacks full of miniature Washington monuments stand in awe of the majesty of the room, thrilled at the connection between themselves and great lawmakers of the past.
Tocqueville on warfareIn his Oct. 1 column decrying American conformity, economics professor Uwe Reinhardt resorts to a long-beloved tactic among my fellow political theorists, namely the invocation of the name of Alexis de Tocqueville in support of a critical or even condemnatory view of American democracy.
There is probably no greater test of democracy than a sudden crisis and the resulting thirst for public security.
Kingston village defends itselfThe well-researched and balanced article of Sept. 18, "University Land Development and a Village's Battle," captures the struggle in which we Kingston village residents are now engaged.Seeking to preserve our heritage and our quality of life in the face of massive development that threatens to overwhelm us, we find ourselves confronting a most powerful neighbor, Princeton University ? a moneyed and mighty Goliath to our modest David of organized citizen, civic association and local government opposition.The hostile attitudes we face are evident in the comment from David Knights, marketing director of Princeton Forrestal Associates, the University's land development entity: "[Kingston] doesn't do a thing to help itself and it doesn't realize how valuable Princeton University is as a neighbor to it."In truth, the citizen advocacy "Kingston Initiative" launched by the people of the village five years ago has: 1) Produced a planning blueprint for the future of Kingston that's been lauded by experts for its comprehensive analysis and model recommendations; 2) Won praise from the New Jersey Planning Officials, who recognized these efforts with their Achievement in Planning Award for significant contributions to planning; 3) Secured the first multijurisdictional village center designation ? and the first to define protective surrounding greenspace ? under the State Development and Redevelopment Plan; 4) Established organizations dedicated to historic preservation, open space conservation and community beautification; 5) Worked with five municipalities ? including Princeton Township and Princeton Borough ? on the award-winning nomination of the Kings Highway to the National and State Historic Registers; 6) Collaborated with a wide range of municipalities, environmental groups and historical societies to protect the historic and recreational jewel of Central New Jersey ? the Delaware & Raritan Canal corridor ? for the enjoyment of future generations.Nor are the people of Kingston ? a number of whom work for the University ? unappreciative of the role the University plays, economically and culturally, in the region and that which it can play when it chooses to be a good neighbor.In stark contrast to the University's steamroller mindset, the Kingston Initiative has never opposed development of the Princeton Nurseries properties by Princeton Forrestal Associates.
