On Feb. 15, members of the Workers' Rights Organizing Committee met with Vice President of Finance and Administration Richard Spies GS '75 and other administrators who manage Princeton's lowest-paid workers.
Students need passion and the will to act against povertyOn Feb. 11, Peter Bell GS '64 gave an insightful and important lecture to the Princeton community entitled "Affirming Dignity and Ending Poverty: The Search for a Better World." Calling on his experience from his days at Princeton to his days as the president of CARE (one of the world's largest private international relief and development organizations, which has received two Nobel Peace Prize nominations), he spoke of the ongoing fight to end poverty throughout the world.
Hollywood invaded Jersey last week, and ? like the eager natives of 1492 that I was taught about in my pre-PC elementary school ? many of us couldn't wait to be discovered.
I must admit I am somewhat perplexed by the recent controversy about our 'Street.' As an avowed fan of the eating clubs, I cannot understand why anyone would propose bulldozing them, or even weakening their position as Princeton's primary source of entertainment.
Most television programs that claim to depict some type of reality ? an evening newscast, for example, or an emergency room documentary ? should not be held morallly responsible for the events that they portray.
Dining plan restricts students' optionsThe increasing restrictions on Dining Services meal plans are indicative of gross inefficiency, which might be better tolerated if the food were more edible.
Throughout the fall semester, I had the pleasure of serving on the Sixth Residential College Programming Committee with three other undergraduates, as well as several deans, administrators and faculty members.
So there was this seven-part series about race that the 'Prince' ran in December. It was modeled after the acclaimed New York Times series that searched for new levels of racial honesty ? or at least tried to.
I write to clarify a comment attributed to me in the the article entitled "Police, administration respond to initiation weekend hospitalizations" in Thursday's issue of The Daily Princetonian, in which I was quoted as having said that the "this was no different from other initiation weekends." By that I did not mean to imply that the extent of the abuse was comparable to past years but that the process we use in following up with students about these behaviors is the same process we would use were they to engage in similar behavior at any other time of the year.
The 'Street' isn't elite ? only people are"Bulldozing the 'Street'" is possibly the worst thing I've ever read.
When I first came here as a graduate student, I hated it. The undergrads all seemed very homogeneous and blissfully privileged in their pre-professional romp through Princeton.
Let's talk about self-indulgence. A man who orders a seven course meal is self-indulgent. A woman who shops in designer boutiques is self-indulgent.
Saturday night, I found myself listening to thousands of women moaning in simultaneous feigned orgasm in Madison Square Garden.The occasion was "V-Day," a celebrity-packed production of Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues." Since 1998, V-Day has become an international movement, with the monologues being performed at over 400 colleges (including Princeton) around Valentine's Day.
The eating clubs ushered in their sign-ins and bickerees last week. The successful students partied with their new clubs, and the hosees were met with quiet visits of rejection.
Oh, Cupid's Holiday! Hearts and flowers and champagne and chocolate! Couples strolling across campus hand in hand, gazing eye into eye, smiles beaming on their faces!
We are a community of many cultures. On campus there are several clubs representing some of these cultures.
Princeton researchers' discovery nothing newThe recent announcement that Princeton researchers have discovered that Gutenberg perhaps did not invent true movable type is already well known.
A large proportion ? 72 percent ? of presently-employed 2000 Princeton Baccalaureates entered the world of "services": either "financial" (34 percent) ? including investment banking ? or "other" (38 percent) ? including consulting.
I am writing in response to Sun Jung Kim's Feb. 9 article "Campus split on impact of Sharon victory." The tone of this article reflected much of the coverage by the 'Prince,' and local opinion, of the Israeli-Arab issue since the beginning of the most recent violence.The image that is projected is that all the Jews on campus are unified in opposition to the Arab students on campus.
Shortly after a column of mine was printed in these pages last month, I received an e-mail from a high school student in California who was considering Princeton but was a bit taken aback by my descriptions of "elitism" and other problems which, in my opinion, detract from the University environment.She asked, "Is Princeton really a place that would narrow my views rather than broaden them?
