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The importance of being tolerant

The importance of being tolerant

Several years ago, a friend came back from an interfaith discussion on campus. I asked him how it went, and he replied that everyone basically sat around carping about how terrible Christians were, apparently because Christianity espoused the view that it is the only true religion, the only path to salvation.

OPINION | 03/26/2001

Brownlee clarifies statement concerning GSG elections

I appreciate the detailed coverage the 'Prince' gave to graduate student elections in its March 9 article "GSG holds first popular elections."One of the quotes attributed to me, however, did not convey the point I had intended.

OPINION | 03/25/2001

Bhatt '03 demonstrates the same intolerance he scorns

I am compelled to respond to Niraj Bhatt '03's piece that appeared in the March 12 issue of the Prince Magazine.

OPINION | 03/25/2001

Bound to be bookworms

Since we all have so many academic and extra-curricular commitments, it is not infrequent that students do not finish assigned readings, particularly in social science or humanities courses.

OPINION | 03/25/2001

Nuclear shield may create more problems than solutions

The Bush administration is looking to pick a fight with Russia.The administration has already decided to build a national missile defense system: a virtual "shield" protecting the U.S.

OPINION | 03/25/2001

The supposedly tried and true preceptorial system founders in the inexperience of its instructors

Princeton University gets a lot of public relations mileage out of its preceptorial system. The school's tour guides, its admissions interviewers and its official web site all make a point of telling prospective students exactly what preceptorials are and why they are a such a unique, important feature of the undergraduate academic program.Unfortunately, however, the usefulness of the preceptorial system does not extend very far beyond the realm of advertising.

OPINION | 03/15/2001

Letters to the Editor

Overall financial picture must include workersThere are numerous factual mistakes in Brad Simmons '03's column on WROC appearing in the March 14 'Prince' ? too many to cover in a short letter.

OPINION | 03/15/2001

Giving twenty-one-year olds their due

Last week, the eating clubs took a step towards responsible drinking on campus by testing out the proposal of wristbands.

OPINION | 03/15/2001

Extremism to the Extreme

"Moderation is a fatal thing; nothing succeeds like excess," wrote Oscar Wilde. Wilde would have loved Princeton.

OPINION | 03/14/2001

Deomcratic development

When the Graduate Student Government enfranchised its constituents last week and held the first student body elections of the GSG executive board, it simultaneously strengthened its visibility, legitimacy and relevance for all graduate students.

OPINION | 03/14/2001

Letters to the Editor

Magazine article exhibits ignorance toward religious beliefs and practicesAs someone who is neither Christian nor Hindu, I still found the article in the 'Prince' Magazine on Mother Teresa deeply disturbing.

OPINION | 03/14/2001

Could the XFL become NFL training ground?

Last week, an article in the New York Times sports section brought up an interesting question about the World Wrestling Federation's good-for-nothing new football league, the XFL: Might it, in fact, be good for something?Specifically, the XFL is considering a plan to allow 18- and 19-year olds who have finished high school but have not met the academic requirements to attend college (or have no desire to attend) the opportunity to turn pro and join the new league.

OPINION | 03/13/2001

Looking for meaning behind the WROC button

The recently formed Workers' Rights Organizing Committee (WROC) has effectively divided students into two groups: those that 'support Princeton's workers' and those that are 'anti-workers' rights.' Such a black-and-white depiction of this particularly complex issue is disturbing ? for its neglect of a wide range of people standing on common ground, and for its tendency to shun skepticism, however reasonable, from members of the University community.This supposed dichotomy of the issue is particularly unwarranted, in fact, because WROC has failed to provide critical pieces of information that students need before they can assess the movement.My first question: what exactly are the wages and benefits entailed in employment at Princeton?

OPINION | 03/13/2001

The road not taken

Although I am removed from the culture of die-hard gym-goers, I admit that exercise is very important to me ? for both my mental and physical health.

OPINION | 03/12/2001

On the value of light in civilized society

Socrates: Be full of joy, O Stankophon (for such is the best way I know to address friends).Stankophon: Why hello, Socrates.

OPINION | 03/12/2001

Letters to the Editor

Low wages force worker-parents to choose between working for and raising familyIn the aftermath of the recent school shooting, I have heard numerous Princeton students say that the solution to school violence is to have parents that are in touch with their children.

OPINION | 03/12/2001

What it means to drop the 'T-bomb'

The senior thesis is perhaps the greatest task faced by Princeton undergraduates, but it is also the greatest excuse ever invented.

OPINION | 03/11/2001

Let the locusts descend

Here is what you should know about me: I like Bob Dylan. I mean, I really, really like him, and not just because he has the soul of a poet.

OPINION | 03/11/2001

Students have no excuse for not involving themselves in activism

Where has Jeff Wolf '02 been? In the last two years Princeton has seen a virtual renaissance in accessible and smart political activism: the Workers' Rights effort, anti-Sweatshop activism, critiques of corporate globalization, a prison reform working group, renewed discourse on race, an active anti-hunger movement and the ever-enduring good works of the SVC.Somehow philosopher Wolf has been meandering in the illusion that a) Princeton is an inactive campus and b) that political problems are either intractable, out of one's hands or too taxing on one's fun-loving schedule.While Wolf wallows in Winston Churchill-isms, injustice and suffering persist.

OPINION | 03/11/2001

Letters to the Editor

Business and economic interests not in conflictI am dismayed by the views expressed in the article "Slick Money: The Controversial Role of Corporate Funds in University Labs" in the March 5th issue of the Prince Magazine.The article notes the danger that corporations will "use Princeton research not only in the interest of profit but profit at the expense of the global climate." Nonsense.

OPINION | 03/08/2001

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