As Princeton chooses its next president, future challenges replace past accomplishments. President Shapiro's successor will be charged with giving Princeton's "human infrastructure" the focus and attention paid to physical projects, such as the campus center.
USG president PJ Kim '01 criticizes 'Prince' for presidential search editorialMost of you don't care about what you see as petty disputes between a handful of 'Prince' editors and the USG.
So you're back on campus and you've noticed they made a few changes while you were away: Your phone number has been changed, you have no idea where to have your mail sent ? and you couldn't get into your mailbox even if you did ? and the U-Store looks like the lovechild of Wal-Mart and Barnes & Noble.
In these first weeks back on campus, I have lied ? often. New classes begin, we suddenly reside with hundreds of strangers, and one of the most frequent questions becomes: "Where are you from?"I lie.
Through USG election, students entrusted Kim to make political choicesYesterday's staff editorial attacking PJ Kim '01 was not only malicious, but downright offensive.In a democracy, the electorate does not and cannot make every decision on its own.
Do you have a slip? No. Did you get an e-mail? No. No package for you! The "Seinfeld"-esque Package Nazi at Frist has once again foiled my attempts at correspondence with the outside world.
Lazarus pledges to be open to suggestions and ideas for presidential search processI am writing in response to yesterday's article in the 'Prince' about my selection to the presidential search committee.
USG president PJ Kim '01 said of his decision to appoint Lisa Lazarus '02 to the presidential search committee: "It was really a lot of work ? reading almost 100 applications.
Princeton police chief clarifies proposed alcohol ordinanceAfter reading the news article and 'Prince' Commentary in the Sept.
As we sat on our couches in front of the TV, most of us could but dream of achieving the unbelievable feats of speed, skill and strength displayed by the Olympians in Sydney.
I wasn't surprised to read that rock-icon Bono, an Irish nationalist and lead singer of U2, was in Prague during this week's World Bank meetings in that city.After all, the musicians of the last 100 years have created a tradition of social advocacy: Shostakovich hawked revolution, Lennon suggested we give peace a chance, Paul McCartney still lends his name to animal-rights causes, Thom York of Radiohead pushes debt relief for the Third World, John Mellancamp sings on behalf of American farmers and even Bob Dylan eventually got involved in the fight to free boxer Rubin Carter.In light of this legacy, it seems natural enough that Bono might lend support to the few thousand protestors who thought that pillaging a magnificent European capital would earn a moment of notoriety and stop Monsanto from producing genetically engineered 37-pound tomatoes.But Bono wasn't in Prague to spur on the rioting masses.
Ever since President Woodrow Wilson 1879 outlined his Fourteen Points for peace in the aftermath of World War I, the United States has championed the cause of worldwide democracy.
It's easy to miss the forest for the trees, particularly when the trees stand tall, and that has been the problem with most of the commentary about Harold Shapiro's presidency.
Music videos are terrible. This is a well-known fact to anyone with a brain in his head and an ounce of taste in his body.
Vast political and ideological differences separate Rush Holt and Dick ZimmerIn the Sept.
If President Shapiro's departure is, in the words of University Vice President and Secretary Thomas Wright '62, like "losing a parent," then the presidential search committee will have to look long and hard for his replacement.
Wow! You're a grad student? You seem so . . . normal!"So begins yet another introductory conversation between grad and undergrad, whether it be in one of the residential dining halls, at an ethnic study break, during a night at the 'Street' or in the new Frist Campus Center.
Debate commission's partisan politics destructive to democracyI want to expand on Andrew Frisbie '01's letter on the Commission on Presidential Debates in the Sept.
There are times when efforts at political correctness become patently incorrect. Case in point: Last week at the University of Wisconsin, a student discovered that the admissions office had initiated and approved the doctoring of the cover photo for its 2001 undergraduate application.The photo depicted a group of students ? all of whom happened to be white ? at a Wisconsin football game.
The Class of 2004 has arrived, and I am still the only one from my high school at Princeton. Ever.Attempting to change these statistics and recruit more students to apply to Princeton, I drove down to Muncie, Ind., this August to the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics and the Humanities ? my state's only public residential school.
