When I took my seat in McCosh 50 last Friday night to hear Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, I knew that he has become the most prominent symbol of an increasingly conservative Court, but I knew very little about what he actually believes.
Student workers can ease situation of casualsI found it somewhat ironic that in a publication presumably distributed by the WROC, the organization articulated that the terrible working conditions faced by Princeton's casual dining hall workers were due to a shortage of student workers.
"Well, looks like you just messed up Princeton's four-year graduation rate," my dad sarcastically quipped to me when I decided to take a year off last spring.
I read with interest and bemusement that the University is planning a four-year college that in a newspaper report Anne Gordon '01 observes, "brings together graduate students and undergraduates in the same living space" and is "a very positive thing." University Vice-President Thomas Wright '62 commented, "We heard voices that one of the problems in undergraduate life is that they don't have ways to interact with one another."This is, in part, coming full circle, for that's the way it was.
I appreciate the concern Student Volunteers Council alumna Melissa Schettini '96 expressed about the content of recent SVC Hunger Awareness Weeks in a letter to the editor last Thursday.
As one of the members of the Workers' Rights Organizing Committee who met with Vice-President Richard Spies GS '72 on Feb.
Dan Wachtell can support any type of "challenging," "difficult" or "offensive" art he wants; he can spend his $5.50 at the Hamilton Multiplex, his $15.50 at the Sam Goody or his $25.50 at the local XXX video store.
Race, gender committees will seek diverse viewpointsIt has been very exciting over the past few days to hear both in person and via e-mail just how important many undergraduates believe that my proposed initiatives on race and gender will be.
Princeton is a multi-faceted institution, but more than anything else it is a very human community in which students, faculty and members of the staff work together to pursue the University's missions of teaching, learning and service to others.
It all started Saturday night when we arrived at the Hamilton Multi-Plex to find that "O Brother, Where Art Thou" was sold out and the only movie with tickets available was "Requiem for a Dream," of which we knew only two things: one of us had a friend from home who said it was good ? and that it was rated NC-17.What followed was possibly the most intense two hours I have ever spent in a movie theater: a cross between "Snatch," "The Cell," "Kids" and the most upsetting parts of "Traffic." I left feeling drained, a bit disturbed ? but not offended or angry ? and convinced that the NC-17 rating was well-deserved.It's not every day that one sees an NC-17 rated movie, so I got to thinking.
New faces needed on race, gender committeesDiscussion of the human environment at Princeton sounds like a good idea.
Abraham Lincoln, whose birthday we celebrated last weekend, loved telling stories ? but even he could not have conceived a story as fanciful as the Bush tax plan.
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.
